√ | Century of Experience | Evidence | Name of Reader / Listener / Reading Group | Author of Text | Title of Text | Form of Text | |
| 1800-1849 | 'by age twenty [Mary Smith] had read and understood George Payne's Elements of Mental and Moral Science, Thomas Brown'... | Mary Smith | Thomas Brown | Moral Philosophy | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Philip Inman conveyed a ... specific sense of the uses of literacy for an early Labour MP. The son of a widowed charw... | Philip Inman | Robert Browning | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Her first WEA summer scool at the end of the First World War, was "a new and undreamt-of experience... We argued over... | Alice Foley | Robert Browning | 'Bishop Blougram's Apology' | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Her first WEA summer school at the end of the First World War, was "a new and undreamt-of experience... We argued ove... | Alice Foley | Robert Browning | 'The Ring and the Book' | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'In 1898 Armstrong organised the Ashington Debating and Literary Improvement Society, and his reading broadened out to... | Chester Armstrong | Robert Browning | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Nearly the best thing she has written is L[ady] Geraldine.' | Caroline Clive | Elizabeth Barrett Browning | Lady Geraldine | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Robert Browning] 'published a sort of poem called Bells & Pomegranates in wh. there is no meaning at all.' | Caroline Clive | Robert Browning | Bells and Pomegranates | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Geraldine Hodgson, The Life of James Elroy Flecker (1925), 'Reading aloud in the family circle was an established cust... | James Elroy Flecker | Robert Browning | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 1900-1945 | 'Sordello (1840) was undoubtedly the toughest assignment [of Browning's works]. When Douglas Jerrold venured on it wh... | Douglas Jerrold | Robert Browning | Sordello | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | In Retrospect of an Unimportant Life (1934), the Bishop of Durham Herbert Hensley Henson reminisced about Browning's "... | Herbert Hensley Henson | Robert Browning | A Death in the Desert | Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'Reading Mrs Browning's published letters in 1900, Wilfrid Blunt was reminded of how much he admired her and her husba... | Wilfrid Blunt | Elizabeth Barrett Browning | Letters | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | "In the early 1870s Browning frequently dined at the Chelsea home of the newly married Sir Charles Dilke. In 1872 he ... | Robert Browning | Robert Browning | Red Cotton Nightcap Country | Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | Letter H 25 - Late November 1855 - "It is so off ... that we all should like that poem of the Arab physician best. - F... | John Ruskin | Robert Browning | Men and Women | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 | Letter H 3 - 9/2/1855 - "I will not fail to quote Mrs Browning in the book I am now about. I think more highly of her ... | John Ruskin | Elizabeth Barrett Browning | Poems, including "Drama of Exile" | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | The editor's footnote quotes a letter from Dante Gabriel Rossetti to Ellen Heaton: 24/11/1855 - "Much of my time in Pa... | Dante Gabriel Rossetti | Robert Browning | Men and Women | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 1900-1945 | ?I always have a profound impression that human beings have been much more like each other than we fancy since they go... | Leslie Stephen | Robert Browning | | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Letter H 49 (late November 1856)
?Mrs Brownings poem is the finest in the English language ? poem I mean ? (not drama... | John Ruskin | Elizabeth Barrett Browning | Aurora Leigh | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | From the editor?s footnote to a letter sent in November 1856:
?In a letter to Miss Heaton, Rossetti was no less enthu... | Dante Gabriel Rossetti | Elizabeth Barrett Browning | Aurora Leigh | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Letter H 85 (Latter half of March 1860)
?Mrs Browning?s verse is capital, but would have been better in prose. It is ... | John Ruskin | Elizabeth Barrett Browning | Poems before Congress | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Letter H88 (?Mid-April 1860)
?Mrs B. is entirely good. In fact Magnificent (except her rhyme to Modena ? needlessly o... | John Ruskin | Elizabeth Barrett Browning | Poems before Congress | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | "I have been amusing myself down here with reading Browning - some of him for the first time; & I wonder more and more... | Leslie Stephen | Robert Browning | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'While his widowed mother... worked a market stall, Ralph Finn scrambled up the scholarship ladder to Oxford Universit... | Ralph Finn | Robert Browning | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '[Helen Crawfurd] derived lessons in socialism and feminism from Carlyle, Shaw, Wells, Galsworthy, Arnold Bennett, Ibs... | Helen Crawfurd | Elizabeth Barrett Browning | | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'A letter from Elizabeth Barrett Browning to Arabel Barrett tells of a sixty-year-old woman who believed that her mora... | | Elizabeth Barrett Browning | Aurora Leigh | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 1900-1945 | "Prior to ... [her] marriage [in 1911], [Marie Stopes's] only sexual knowledge came from reading Browning, Swinburne, ... | Marie Stopes | Robert Browning | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '[Neville] Cardus read only boys' papers until quite suddenly, in adolescence, he dove into Dickens and Mark Twain. "T... | Neville Cardus | Robert Browning | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | "By ... [January 1804 Coleridge] ... had probably ... begun to write brief notes, appreciative and explanatory, in cop... | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Thomas Browne | | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 1900-1945 | ''"My masters... in poetry, were Swinburne and Meredith among the living, Rossetti, Matthew Arnold and Robert Browning... | John Masefield | Robert Browning | | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'my mother arrived in England with a great respect for culture, and eager to learn all she could. We find her struggli... | Maud du Puy | Robert Browning | | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Uncle Richard had adored Ruskin, and worshipped Morris, and had slept for years with a copy of "In Memoriam" under hi... | Richard Litchfield | Robert Browning | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I learnt with interest all about David and read Browning's "Saul" with "an intelligent scripture mistess".' | Gwen Raverat | Robert Browning | Saul | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Henry James to Thomas Sergeant Perry, 18 April 1864: "I got Browning's plays from J[ohn].'s [La Farge] and have been r... | Henry James | Robert Browning | plays | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Henry James to William James, 8 March 1870: "During the past month I have been ... reading among other things Browning... | Henry James | Robert Browning | The Ring and the Book | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | I believe your Ladiship will be diverted with an Octavo book on the Writings and Genius of Pope; tho' you will not app... | Samuel Richardson | Thomas Browne | Christian Morals | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Finished "The Knightes Tale" and am now embarking on "Luria" - it's pretty awful." | Hilary Spalding | Robert Browning | Luria | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Henry James to Edmund Gosse, 27 December 1894: "I have been reading with the liveliest -- and almost painful -- intere... | Henry James | Horatio Brown | Memoir of John Addington Symonds | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Henry James to Grace Norton, 26 July 1880: "One of my latest sensations was going one day to Lady Airlie's to hear Bro... | Robert Browning | Robert Browning | poems | Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'We are reading Carlyle's "Cromwell" and "Aurora Leigh" again in the evenings. I am still in the "Oedipus Tyrannus", w... | George Eliot and G.H. Lewes | Elizabeth Barrett Browning | Aurora Leigh | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [List of books read in 1945]:
'For Whom the Bell Tolls; Henry Brocken; Doctor Faustus; Life of the Bee; The Screwtape... | Hilary Spalding | Robert Browning | Men and Women | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'As to what they read [at the Gower Street School in the 1880s] -- and [...] Lucy Harrison [headmistress] read aloud t... | Lucy Harrison, headmistress, Charlotte Mew, and other pupils at Gower Street school | Robert Browning | | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'As to what they read [at the Gower Street School in the 1880s] -- and [...] Lucy Harrison [headmistress] read aloud t... | Lucy Harrison, headmistress, Charlotte Mew, and other pupils at Gower Street school | Elizabeth Barrett Browning | | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 1900-1945 | 'On her deathbed Lucy [Harrison] asked Amy [Greener, her lover] to read to her from Elizabeth Barrett Browning's "Cate... | Amy Greener | Elizabeth Barrett Browning | Catarina to Camoens | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I have lately read again with great delight Mrs Browning's "Casa Guidi Windows". It contains amongst other admirable ... | George Eliot [pseud] | Elizabeth Barrett Browning | Casa Guidi Windows | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | '[in 1811] Reginald Heber reads and praises "War and Peace".' | Reginald Heber | Felicia Dorothea Browne | War and Peace -- A Poem. Written at the age of Fifteen | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Thomas Medwin, in his memoir of Shelley: 'In the beginning of [1808] I showed Shelley some poems to which I had subscr... | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Felicia Browne [later Hemans] | Poems | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | '[Henry Buckle's "History of the Civilisation in England"] will be my fireside book at night (the only time I can read... | Harriet Martineau | Sam Brown | Lectures on the Atomic Theory, and Essays, Scientific and Literary | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Shelley reads Edgar Huntley to us'. | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Charles Brockden Brown | Edgar Huntley; or, the Sleep-walker | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Shelley writes his critique & then reads Edgar Huntley to us all all day and all the evening'. | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Charles Brockden-Brown | Edgar Huntley; or, the Sleep-walker | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'read Philip Stanley - very stupid'. | Mary Godwin | Charles Brockden Brown | Philip Stanley; or, the Enthusiasm of Love | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Harriet Martineau on her first acquaintance with Robert Browning's poetry, 'a wonderful event': 'Mr. Macready put "Par... | Harriet Martineau | Robert Browning | Paracelsus | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'The unbounded expectation I [Harriet Martineau] formed from "Paracelsus"[...] was sadly disappointed when "Sordello" ... | Harriet Martineau | Robert Browning | Sordello | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Browne, in his "History of Jamaica" mentions three species whose roots, he says, are used to dye a brown colour; and ... | Joseph Banks | Patrick Browne | The Civil and Natural History of Jamaica | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | '[I] could not like the "Paradise of Coquettes"'. | Lady Caroline Lamb | Thomas Brown | Paradise of Coquettes | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia]
| Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Sir Thomas Browne | Pseudodoxia Epidemica: or Enquries into very many received tenets and commonly presumed truths | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia]
| Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Sir Thomas Browne | Religio Medici | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia]
| Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Sir Thomas Browne | Religio Medici | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I have been reading the Life of Mr Symond, and it makes me almost laugh (though there is little laughing in my heart)... | Margaret Oliphant | Horatio Forbes Brown | John Addington Symonds: A Biography Compiled from | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Relics' 'Oh! Wherefore, Lady dost thou price, ... M.A. Browne' | Bowly group | Mary Ann Browne | 'Relics' OR Winter's Wreath | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 1900-1945 | 'Then, when I was twelve we had a really good poetry book which contained extracts from "The Excursion", part of "Chil... | Edwin Muir | Robert Browning | The Pied Piper of Hamelin | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I devoured poetry and nothing but poetry until I became insensible to poetry. Take an example; I happened upon some f... | Thomas A. Jackson | [probably] Isaac Hawkins Browne | [poems complete works] | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'Thence home and to my office till night, reading over and consulting upon the book and Ruler that I bought this morni... | Samuel Pepys | John Brown | The use of the line of numbers, on a sliding (or glasiers) rule... for the measuring of timber, either round or square | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'I walked back again, all the way reading of my book of Timber measure, comparing it with my new Sliding rule, brought... | Samuel Pepys | John Brown | Description and use of the carpenter's rule | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Taking a book of Browning's poems from his pocket he showed Louis a verse which he said he could not understand...bend... | Robert Louis Stevenson | Robert Browning | | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Looked over Brown's "Essays on Satire", prefixed to Pope's "Moral Poems"; in which the nature and end of Satire is ha... | Thomas Green | John Brown | An essay on satire | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Read Brown's "Estimate of the Manners and Principles of the Times". The 2d Vol. is merely a supplementary comment on... | Thomas Green | John Brown | An estimate of the manners and principles of the times | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Have you read the fist Realistic Scotch Novel?The House with the Green Shutters? It is not first class but it is glo... | Arnold Bennett | George Douglas (pseud. of George Douglas Brown, 1869-1902) | The House with the Green Shutters | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Shelley reads Religio Medici aloud' | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Thomas Browne | Religio Medici | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Mary Shelley's Reading List for 1815. Only those titles not mentioned in journal entries are given separate database ... | Mary Godwin | Charles Brockden Brown | Wieland; or, the transformation | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Mary Shelley's Reading List for 1815. Only those titles not mentioned in journal entries are given separate database ... | Mary Godwin | Charles Brockden Brown | Ormond; or, The Secret Witness | |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Miss E[dgesworth]'s Harrington and ormond - Arthur Mervyn - S. reads the Agamemnon of Aeschylus' | Mary Shelley | Charles Brockden Brown | Arthur Mervyn | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Friday Sept. 1st. Read Ormond.'
| Claire Clairmont | Charles Brockden Brown | Ormond; or, the Secret Witness | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, 24 June 1835:
'I am reading Dr Brown's Philosophy -- shall have [italics]rea... | Elizabeth Barrett | Thomas Brown | Lectures on the Philosophy of the Human Mind | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Lady Margaret Cocks, ?4 November 1835:
'Dr Brown's philosophy! No philosophy is like it. Poet... | Elizabeth Barrett | Thomas Brown | Lectures on the Philosophy of the Human Mind | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 10 August 1836:
'I can tell you [...] of [John Kenyon's] having given hi... | Elizabeth Barrett | Robert Browning | Paracelsus | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | John Stuart Mill to W. J. Fox, c.25 June 1833:
'I send "Pauline," having done all I could, which was to annotate co... | John Stuart Mill | Robert Browning | Pauline | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Walter Savage Landor to Robert Browning, c.18 March 1840:
'Three days have nearly slipped by me since I received yo... | Walter Savage Landor | Robert Browning | Paracelsus | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | William Charles Macready, in diary entry for 3 August 1840:
'Read Browning's play [The Return of the Druses], and w... | William Charles Macready | Robert Browning | The Return of the Druses | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Thomas Carlyle to Robert Browning, 21 June 1841:
'Many months ago you were kind enough to send me your Sordello; an... | Thomas Carlyle | Robert Browning | Sordello | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Thomas Carlyle to Robert Browning, 21 June 1841:
'Many months ago you were kind enough to send me your Sordello; an... | Thomas Carlyle | Robert Browning | Pippa Passes | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 15 July 1841:
'I have read the Bells & Pomegranates! -- "Pippa passes" .... | Elizabeth Barrett | Robert Browning | Pippa Passes (Bells and Pomegranates, No. I) | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | William Charles Macready, Jr. to Robert Browning, May 1842:
'My dear Mr Browning
'I was very much obliged to you, fo... | William Charles Macready | Robert Browning | 'The Cardinal and the Dog' | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Joseph Arnould to Robert Browning, 27 November 1842:
'Finding it utterly impossible to express in prose the tumult ... | Joseph and Maria Arnould | Robert Browning | Bells and Pomegranates III (Dramatic Lyrics) | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Joseph Arnould to Robert Browning, 27 November 1842:
'Finding it utterly impossible to express in prose the tumult ... | Joseph Arnould | Robert Browning | 'Waring' | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 14 December 1842:
'Mr Browning's last "Bells and Pomegranates" I sigh ov... | Elizabeth Barrett | Robert Browning | Bells and Pomegranates III (Dramatic Lyrics) | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Thomas Westwood to Elizabeth Barrett, 26 September 1843:
'Browning, I have read but little of -- indeed "Pippa pass... | Thomas Westwood | Robert Browning | Pippa Passes | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Robert Browning, Sr to Thomas Powell, 11 March 1843:
'I hope the enclosed may be acceptable as curiosities. They we... | Robert Browning, Sr | Robert Browning, Jr | 'On Bonaparte' | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Robert Browning to Christopher Dowson, Jr., 10 March 1844:
'Yesterday I read my play to [Charles Kean] and his char... | Robert Browning | Robert Browning | Colombe's Birthday | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Bryan Waller Procter to Robert Browning, ?26 March 1844:
'I got your play last night then read it with very great p... | Bryan Waller Procter | Robert Browning | Colombe's Birthday | Print: In proof copy |
| 1800-1849 | Joseph Arnould to Alfred Domett, c.8 November 1843:
'What a pity [Tennyson] has not the intense vigour of Robert Br... | Joseph Arnould | Robert Browning | Paracelsus | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | John Westland Marston to Thomas Powell, c. October 1844:
'Mrs Marston has just read "Sordello" through. She accompl... | Mrs Marston | Robert Browning | Sordello | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Dante Gabriel Rossetti to Robert Browning, 17 October 1847:
'It is now two or three months ago that I met, at the B... | Dante Gabriel Rossetti | Robert Browning | Pauline, a Fragment of a Confession | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Joseph Arnould to Alfred Domett, 16 July 1847:
'I find myself reading Paracelsus and the Dramatic Lyrics more often... | Joseph Arnould | Robert Browning | Paracelsus | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Joseph Arnould to Alfred Domett, 16 July 1847:
'I find myself reading Paracelsus and the Dramatic Lyrics more often... | Joseph Arnould | Robert Browning | Dramatic Lyrics | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Many thanks for your delightful letter. I am glad you are in the midst of delightful scenery and Aurora Leigh.' | Richard Reginald Harding | Elizabeth Barrett Browning | Aurora Leigh | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 1900-1945 | 'Browning was a little beyond her. Convinced that he was a great poet, she still found him a bore at times. Elizabeth ... | Edith Sitwell | Robert Browning | [poems] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 1900-1945 | 'Browning was a little beyond her. Convinced that he was a great poet, she still found him a bore at times. Elizabeth ... | Edith Sitwell | Elizabeth Barrett Browning | Sonnets from the Portuguese | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | His reading this summer included much Browning, Turgenev's Smoke and Kenneth Grahame's Golden Age ('which surely is th... | John Buchan | Robert Browning | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 1900-1945 | Thursday 12 September 1919: 'Writing has been done under difficulties. I was making way with my new experiment, when I... | Virginia Woolf | Sir Thomas Browne | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Friday 27 November 1936: 'Dined alone, read Sir T. Browne's letters.' | Virginia Woolf | Sir Thomas Browne | letters | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have had within these few days a curious MS. sent to me by an English gentleman a Dr T. Brown who intreats me to ta... | James Hogg | T. Brown | Art of reading and conversing on the works of the living poets of Great Britain | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Robert Browning, 15-17 July 1845:
'Yesterday you must have wondered at me for being in such a ... | Elizabeth Barrett | Robert Browning | 'Claret and Tokay' | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Robert Browning, letter postmarked 21 July 1845, following remarks on Browning's reading of her p... | Elizabeth Barrett Barrett | Robert Browning | 'Garden Fancies: I, The Flower's Name; II, Sibrandus Schafnaburgensis' | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Robert Browning, letter postmarked 21 July 1845, following remarks on Browning's reading of her p... | Elizabeth Barrett Barrett | Robert Browning | 'The Tomb at St. Praxed's (Rome, 15----.)' | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Robert Browning, letter postmarked 21 July 1845, following remarks on Browning's reading of her p... | Elizabeth Barrett | Robert Browning | 'The Boy and the Angel' | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Robert Browning, letter postmarked 21 July 1845, following remarks on Browning's reading of her p... | Elizabeth Barrett Barrett | Robert Browning | 'The Laboratory (Ancien Regime)' | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Robert Browning, 4 October 1845:
'Your spring-song is full of beauty as you know very well [..... | Elizabeth Barrett Barrett | Robert Browning | 'Oh to be in England' | Manuscript: Sheet |
| 1800-1849 | Walter Savage Landor to Robert Browning, letter postmarked 10 November 1845:
'Before I have half re[a]d through you... | Walter Savage Landor | Robert Browning | Dramatic Romances and Lyrics | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Robert Browning, 12 November 1845:
'I read Luria's first act twice through before I slept last... | Elizabeth Barrett Barrett | Robert Browning | Luria (Act I) | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | Joseph Arnould to Robert Browning, 25 April 1850:
'I have read re-read marked learned & [italics]]really[end italic... | Joseph Arnould | Robert Browning | Christmas-Eve and Easter-Day | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 | Elizabeth Barrett Browning to Arabella Moulton-Barrett [sister], 12 January 1851:
'Now I am going to speak to you a... | Robert Browning | Elizabeth Barrett Browning | sonnets ['from the Portugese'] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'L[eonard]W[oolf] had undertaken to write a play for the "X" Society, which had recently read Robert Browning's Parace... | The 'X' Society | Robert Browning | Paracelsus | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Leonard Woolf to Lytton Strachey, 2 January 1903:
'I don't think my December list of books read equals yours. It in... | Leonard Woolf | Robert Browning | | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'We are in the far west.
The journey North was a long one – from 9 am till 6.30
I had a Browning & Thackeray, a C... | Cornelia Sorabji | Browning | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I remembered once, years before, when I was a child of thirteen, listening in half-fascinated terror to a mistress at... | Vera Brittain | Robert Browning | Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I have done rather an amusing paragraph or two for "Vanity Fair" on the "Inn Album". I have slated R.B. pretty handso... | Robert Louis Stevenson | Robert Browning | The Inn Album | Print: Book, Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | From Emily Tennyson's Journal, 1869:
'Before the end of February A. had read me all "The Coming of Arthur" finished... | Alfred Tennyson | Robert Browning | The Ring and the Book | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | From Emily Tennyson's Journal, 1871:
'Sept. 4th. We both read Browning's Balaustion. Heracles the free, the joyous,... | Alfred and Emily Tennyson | Robert Browning | Balaustion | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 1700-1799 | Transcribed in Elizabeth Lyttelton's hand, Sir Thomas Browne, 'Of Consumptions'. | Elizabeth Lyttelton | Sir Thomas Browne | Of Consumptions | Unknown |
| 1600-1699 1700-1799 | Transcription in Elizabeth Lyttelton's hand of lines attributed to Sir Thomas Browne, beginning, 'the Almond florishet... | Elizabeth Lyttelton | Sir Thomas Browne (attrib.) | Verses beginning 'the Almond florisheth ye Birch trees flowe' | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 1700-1799 | Transcription in Elizabeth Lyttelton's hand of Sir Thomas Browne, 'Fragment on meadowes'. | Elizabeth Lyttelton | Sir Thomas Browne | Fragment on meadowes | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 1700-1799 | Transcription in Elizabeth Lyttelton's hand of Sir Thomas Browne, 'Seignor verdero in his proper habitt'.
| Elizabeth Lyttelton | Sir Thomas Browne | Seignor verdero in his proper habitt, | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | From Alfred Tennyson's letter-diary to his family (1868):
'Nov. 21st. Browning read his Preface to us last night, f... | Robert Browning | Robert Browning | Preface, The Ring and the Book | Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'I wrote endless imitations, though I never thought them to be imitations but, rather wonderfully original things, lik... | Dylan Thomas | Thomas Browne | | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'A programme of the works of Robert Browning arranged by the committee appointed at the previous meeting was then ente... | Alfred Rawlings | Robert Browning | 'One Word More' | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'A programme of the works of Robert Browning arranged by the committee appointed at the previous meeting was then ente... | Elizabeth Ann Smith | Robert Browning | 'May and Death' | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'A programme of the works of Robert Browning arranged by the committee appointed at the previous meeting was then ente... | Elizabeth Ann Smith | Robert Browning | 'Prospice' | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'A programme of the works of Robert Browning arranged by the committee appointed at the previous meeting was then ente... | Frederick J. Edminson | Robert Browning | 'Phedippides' | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'A programme of the works of Robert Browning arranged by the committee appointed at the previous meeting was then ente... | Helen Rawlings | Robert Browning | 'Evelyn Hope' | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'A programme of the works of Robert Browning arranged by the committee appointed at the previous meeting was then ente... | Allan Goadby | Robert Browning | 'Garden Fancies' | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'A programme of the works of Robert Browning arranged by the committee appointed at the previous meeting was then ente... | Allan Goadby | Robert Browning | 'Master Hugues Of Saxe-Gotha' | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'A programme of the works of Robert Browning arranged by the committee appointed at the previous meeting was then ente... | Pattie Stansfield | Robert Browning | | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'You are quite right, according to me, in being dissatisfied with my work; but not right at all in expressing your dis... | Robert Louis Stevenson | Robert Glasgow Brown | letter | Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'I read "Golden Horn" by F. Yeats Brown. He was a prisoner in Turkish hands for two-and-a-half years. As in all these ... | Thomas Kitching | F Yeats Brown | Golden Horn | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Finished reading "Bengal Lancer" by F. Yeats-Brown. A pleasant book - by a likeable fellow. It's a pity he merely whe... | William Soutar | F Yeats-Brown | Bengal Lancer | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Looked at Mrs Browning's "last poems" in evening; not so good as I thought, depressing me with doubts of my own judge... | John Ruskin | Elizabeth Barret Browning | [poems] | Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'Mrs Edminson then read an appreciative article on the life and letters of J.S. [?] Brown which was much appreciated'. | Elizabeth Edminson | Brown | [letters of [?] J.S. Brown] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'So much do I love it that I hated the idea of sending it to you without marking a few passages I felt you would well ... | Oscar Wilde | Elzabeth Barrett Browning | Aurora Leigh | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Browning's Sordello was introduced by some prefatory notes by H.M. Wallis read by E.E. Unwin. H.M. Wallis then read a... | Charles I. Evans | Robert Browning | Sordello | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Browning's Sordello was introduced by some prefatory notes by H.M. Wallis read by E.E. Unwin. H.M. Wallis then read a... | Miss Marriage | Robert Browning | Sordello | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Browning's Sordello was introduced by some prefatory notes by H.M. Wallis read by E.E. Unwin. H.M. Wallis then read a... | Henry Marriage Wallis | Robert Browning | Sordello | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'A series of more or less five minutes essays or talks on various aspects of Browning by the folowing members were the... | Margery Rawlings | Robert Browning | Evelyn Hope | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I have been trying to think how far I and my like, middle class schoolboys at the end of our pre-war education, were ... | Harold Edward Leslie Mellersh | Robert Browning | 'Epilogue to Asolando' | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'As for Sordello, I read it four times in youth, and never could make out who was speaking; yet I liked it - as one li... | Robert Louis Stevenson | Robert Browning | Sordello | Print: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'The following miscellaneous programme was then gone through. This change in the subject was caused by the imposibilit... | Muriel Bowman-Smith | Robert Browning | 'In a gondola' | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'the rest of the evening was devoted to Browning's The Ring & the Book. Henry M. Wallis read a masterly paper in intro... | Reginald Robson | Robert Browning | Ring and the Book, The | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'the rest of the evening was devoted to Browning's The Ring & the Book. Henry M. Wallis read a masterly paper in intro... | Alfred Rawlings | Robert Browning | Ring and the Book, The | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'the rest of the evening was devoted to Browning's The Ring & the Book. Henry M. Wallis read a masterly paper in intro... | Mr Gidham | Robert Browning | Ring and the Book, The | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'the rest of the evening was devoted to Browning's The Ring & the Book. Henry M. Wallis read a masterly paper in intro... | Katherine Evans | Robert Browning | Ring and the Book, The | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'the rest of the evening was devoted to Browning's The Ring & the Book. Henry M. Wallis read a masterly paper in intro... | Henry Marriage Wallis | Robert Browning | Ring and the Book, The | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The subject of the meeting was 'Gardens' & all members were asked to bring contributions [...] The following is a lis... | Charles Evans | Thomas Edward Brown | My Garden | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The subject of the meeting was 'Gardens' & all members were asked to bring contributions [...] The following is a lis... | Celia Cole | Robert Browning | 'Flower's Name, The' | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | [between Journal entries for 1 October 1887 and 6 January 1889]
'Horatio Brown, the well-known writer on Venetian h... | Lady Charlotte Schreiber | Horatio Brown | Venetian Studies | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | [Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 7 May 1756:]
'Has Mr Johnson sent you his new edition of Sir Thomas Browne's... | Catherine Talbot | Thomas Browne | Christian Morals | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | [Elizabeth Carter to Catherine Talbot, 26 May 1756:]
'I have not seen Sir Thomas Browne's Christian Morals, but you... | Elizabeth Carter | Thomas Browne | Religio Medici | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Dined with 'A' Company. Read the Browning Love Letters at night, in bed. Disappointed, though not displeased. Felt I ... | Robert Lindsay Mackay | Robert Browning | The Letters of Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Church parade. Cricket against Royal Scots. Did rather well. Won by 1 run. Reading the Browning Love letters in my sp... | Robert Lindsay Mackay | Robert Browning | The Letters of Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Sunday 12th. August. Church parade. New minister. Rather enjoyed the sermon. Easy afternoon. Finished Vol. 1 of the B... | Robert Lindsay Mackay | Robert Browning | The Letters of Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Meant to go to church, but couldn't find it, so had a fine lazy day instead. Read Browning.' | Robert Lindsay Mackay | Robert Browning | The Letters of Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett | Print: BookManuscript: Letter, Sheet |
| 1900-1945 | 'Finished the Browning Letters - one of the biggest feats of the war! It has taken a tremendous effort of will on my p... | Robert Lindsay Mackay | Robert Browning | The Letters of Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '... as we drifted gaily down the sparkling river [Tigris] in perfect autumnal weather, I thought of Browning's [itali... | William Collis Spackman | Robert Browning | "The Wanderers" | Print: Book |