Reading Experience Database
1450-1945

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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 BrownMoral PhilosophyPrint: 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 BrowningPrint: 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 BrowningPrint: Book
1800-1849'Nearly the best thing she has written is L[ady] Geraldine.'Caroline Clive Elizabeth Barrett BrowningLady GeraldinePrint: Book
1800-1849[Robert Browning] 'published a sort of poem called Bells & Pomegranates in wh. there is no meaning at all.'Caroline Clive Robert BrowningBells and PomegranatesPrint: Book
1850-1899Geraldine Hodgson, The Life of James Elroy Flecker (1925), 'Reading aloud in the family circle was an established cust...James Elroy Flecker Robert BrowningunknownPrint: Book
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'Sordello (1840) was undoubtedly the toughest assignment [of Browning's works]. When Douglas Jerrold venured on it wh...Douglas Jerrold Robert BrowningSordelloPrint: Book
1850-1899In Retrospect of an Unimportant Life (1934), the Bishop of Durham Herbert Hensley Henson reminisced about Browning's "...Herbert Hensley Henson Robert BrowningA Death in the DesertUnknown
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 BrowningLettersPrint: 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 BrowningRed Cotton Nightcap CountryUnknown
1850-1899Letter 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 BrowningMen and WomenPrint: Book
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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 BrowningPoems, including "Drama of Exile"Print: Book
1850-1899The 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 BrowningMen and WomenPrint: Book
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?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 BrowningPrint: Book
1850-1899Letter H 49 (late November 1856) ?Mrs Brownings poem is the finest in the English language ? poem I mean ? (not drama...John Ruskin Elizabeth Barrett BrowningAurora LeighPrint: Book
1850-1899From 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 BrowningAurora LeighPrint: Book
1850-1899Letter 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 BrowningPoems before CongressPrint: Book
1850-1899Letter H88 (?Mid-April 1860) ?Mrs B. is entirely good. In fact Magnificent (except her rhyme to Modena ? needlessly o...John Ruskin Elizabeth Barrett BrowningPoems before CongressPrint: 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 BrowningPrint: Book
1900-1945'While his widowed mother... worked a market stall, Ralph Finn scrambled up the scholarship ladder to Oxford Universit...Ralph Finn Robert BrowningPrint: Book
1900-1945'[Helen Crawfurd] derived lessons in socialism and feminism from Carlyle, Shaw, Wells, Galsworthy, Arnold Bennett, Ibs...Helen Crawfurd Elizabeth Barrett BrowningPrint: 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 BrowningAurora LeighPrint: Book
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"Prior to ... [her] marriage [in 1911], [Marie Stopes's] only sexual knowledge came from reading Browning, Swinburne, ...Marie Stopes Robert BrowningPrint: 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 BrownePrint: Book
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''"My masters... in poetry, were Swinburne and Meredith among the living, Rossetti, Matthew Arnold and Robert Browning...John Masefield Robert BrowningPrint: 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 BrowningPrint: 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 BrowningPrint: Book
1900-1945'I learnt with interest all about David and read Browning's "Saul" with "an intelligent scripture mistess".'Gwen Raverat Robert BrowningSaulPrint: Book
1850-1899Henry 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 BrowningplaysPrint: Book
1850-1899Henry James to William James, 8 March 1870: "During the past month I have been ... reading among other things Browning...Henry James Robert BrowningThe Ring and the BookPrint: Book
1700-1799I 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 BrowneChristian MoralsPrint: Book
1900-1945'Finished "The Knightes Tale" and am now embarking on "Luria" - it's pretty awful."Hilary Spalding Robert BrowningLuriaPrint: Book
1850-1899Henry James to Edmund Gosse, 27 December 1894: "I have been reading with the liveliest -- and almost painful -- intere...Henry James Horatio BrownMemoir of John Addington SymondsPrint: Book
1850-1899Henry 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 BrowningpoemsUnknown
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. LewesElizabeth Barrett BrowningAurora LeighPrint: 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 BrowningMen and WomenPrint: 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 schoolRobert BrowningPrint: 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 schoolElizabeth Barrett BrowningPrint: Book
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'On her deathbed Lucy [Harrison] asked Amy [Greener, her lover] to read to her from Elizabeth Barrett Browning's "Cate...Amy Greener Elizabeth Barrett BrowningCatarina to CamoensPrint: 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 BrowningCasa Guidi WindowsPrint: BookManuscript: Unknown
1800-1849'[in 1811] Reginald Heber reads and praises "War and Peace".'Reginald Heber Felicia Dorothea BrowneWar and Peace -- A Poem. Written at the age of FifteenUnknown
1800-1849Thomas 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]PoemsPrint: 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 BrownLectures on the Atomic Theory, and Essays, Scientific and LiteraryPrint: Book
1800-1849'Shelley reads Edgar Huntley to us'.Percy Bysshe Shelley Charles Brockden BrownEdgar Huntley; or, the Sleep-walkerPrint: 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-BrownEdgar Huntley; or, the Sleep-walkerPrint: Book
1800-1849'read Philip Stanley - very stupid'.Mary Godwin Charles Brockden BrownPhilip Stanley; or, the Enthusiasm of LovePrint: Book
1800-1849Harriet Martineau on her first acquaintance with Robert Browning's poetry, 'a wonderful event': 'Mr. Macready put "Par...Harriet Martineau Robert BrowningParacelsusPrint: Book
1800-1849'The unbounded expectation I [Harriet Martineau] formed from "Paracelsus"[...] was sadly disappointed when "Sordello" ...Harriet Martineau Robert BrowningSordelloPrint: 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 BrowneThe Civil and Natural History of JamaicaPrint: Book
1800-1849'[I] could not like the "Paradise of Coquettes"'.Lady Caroline Lamb Thomas BrownParadise of CoquettesUnknown
1800-1849[Marginalia] Samuel Taylor Coleridge Sir Thomas BrownePseudodoxia Epidemica: or Enquries into very many received tenets and commonly presumed truthsPrint: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia] Samuel Taylor Coleridge Sir Thomas BrowneReligio MediciPrint: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia] Samuel Taylor Coleridge Sir Thomas BrowneReligio MediciPrint: 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 BrownJohn Addington Symonds: A Biography Compiled fromPrint: Book
1800-1849'Relics' 'Oh! Wherefore, Lady dost thou price, ... M.A. Browne'Bowly groupMary Ann Browne'Relics' OR Winter's WreathPrint: Serial / periodical
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'Then, when I was twelve we had a really good poetry book which contained extracts from "The Excursion", part of "Chil...Edwin Muir Robert BrowningThe Pied Piper of HamelinPrint: 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 BrownThe use of the line of numbers, on a sliding (or glasiers) rule... for the measuring of timber, either round or squarePrint: 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 BrownDescription and use of the carpenter's rulePrint: Book
1850-1899Taking 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 BrowningPrint: 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 BrownAn essay on satirePrint: 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 BrownAn estimate of the manners and principles of the timesPrint: 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 ShuttersPrint: Book
1800-1849'Shelley reads Religio Medici aloud'Percy Bysshe Shelley Thomas BrowneReligio MediciPrint: 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 BrownWieland; or, the transformationPrint: 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 BrownOrmond; 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 BrownArthur MervynPrint: Book
1800-1849'Friday Sept. 1st. Read Ormond.' Claire Clairmont Charles Brockden BrownOrmond; or, the Secret WitnessPrint: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, 24 June 1835: 'I am reading Dr Brown's Philosophy -- shall have [italics]rea...Elizabeth Barrett Thomas BrownLectures on the Philosophy of the Human MindPrint: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Lady Margaret Cocks, ?4 November 1835: 'Dr Brown's philosophy! No philosophy is like it. Poet...Elizabeth Barrett Thomas BrownLectures on the Philosophy of the Human MindPrint: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 10 August 1836: 'I can tell you [...] of [John Kenyon's] having given hi...Elizabeth Barrett Robert BrowningParacelsusPrint: Book
1800-1849John 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 BrowningPaulinePrint: Book
1800-1849Walter Savage Landor to Robert Browning, c.18 March 1840: 'Three days have nearly slipped by me since I received yo...Walter Savage Landor Robert BrowningParacelsusPrint: Book
1800-1849William Charles Macready, in diary entry for 3 August 1840: 'Read Browning's play [The Return of the Druses], and w...William Charles Macready Robert BrowningThe Return of the DrusesManuscript: Unknown
1800-1849Thomas Carlyle to Robert Browning, 21 June 1841: 'Many months ago you were kind enough to send me your Sordello; an...Thomas Carlyle Robert BrowningSordelloPrint: Book
1800-1849Thomas Carlyle to Robert Browning, 21 June 1841: 'Many months ago you were kind enough to send me your Sordello; an...Thomas Carlyle Robert BrowningPippa PassesPrint: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 15 July 1841: 'I have read the Bells & Pomegranates! -- "Pippa passes" ....Elizabeth Barrett Robert BrowningPippa Passes (Bells and Pomegranates, No. I)Print: Book
1800-1849William 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
1800-1849Joseph Arnould to Robert Browning, 27 November 1842: 'Finding it utterly impossible to express in prose the tumult ...Joseph and Maria ArnouldRobert BrowningBells and Pomegranates III (Dramatic Lyrics)Print: Book
1800-1849Joseph Arnould to Robert Browning, 27 November 1842: 'Finding it utterly impossible to express in prose the tumult ...Joseph Arnould Robert Browning'Waring'Print: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 14 December 1842: 'Mr Browning's last "Bells and Pomegranates" I sigh ov...Elizabeth Barrett Robert BrowningBells and Pomegranates III (Dramatic Lyrics)Print: Book
1800-1849Thomas Westwood to Elizabeth Barrett, 26 September 1843: 'Browning, I have read but little of -- indeed "Pippa pass...Thomas Westwood Robert BrowningPippa PassesPrint: Book
1800-1849Robert 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
1800-1849Robert Browning to Christopher Dowson, Jr., 10 March 1844: 'Yesterday I read my play to [Charles Kean] and his char...Robert Browning Robert BrowningColombe's BirthdayManuscript: Unknown
1800-1849Bryan 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 BrowningColombe's BirthdayPrint: In proof copy
1800-1849Joseph Arnould to Alfred Domett, c.8 November 1843: 'What a pity [Tennyson] has not the intense vigour of Robert Br...Joseph Arnould Robert BrowningParacelsusPrint: Book
1800-1849John Westland Marston to Thomas Powell, c. October 1844: 'Mrs Marston has just read "Sordello" through. She accompl...Mrs Marston Robert BrowningSordelloPrint: Book
1800-1849Dante 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 BrowningPauline, a Fragment of a ConfessionPrint: Book
1800-1849Joseph Arnould to Alfred Domett, 16 July 1847: 'I find myself reading Paracelsus and the Dramatic Lyrics more often...Joseph Arnould Robert BrowningParacelsusPrint: Book
1800-1849Joseph Arnould to Alfred Domett, 16 July 1847: 'I find myself reading Paracelsus and the Dramatic Lyrics more often...Joseph Arnould Robert BrowningDramatic LyricsPrint: 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 BrowningAurora LeighPrint: Book
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'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
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'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 BrowningSonnets from the PortuguesePrint: Book
1850-1899His reading this summer included much Browning, Turgenev's Smoke and Kenneth Grahame's Golden Age ('which surely is th...John Buchan Robert BrowningunknownPrint: Book
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Thursday 12 September 1919: 'Writing has been done under difficulties. I was making way with my new experiment, when I...Virginia Woolf Sir Thomas BrowneunknownPrint: Book
1900-1945Friday 27 November 1936: 'Dined alone, read Sir T. Browne's letters.'Virginia Woolf Sir Thomas BrownelettersPrint: 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. BrownArt of reading and conversing on the works of the living poets of Great BritainManuscript: Unknown
1800-1849Elizabeth 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
1800-1849Elizabeth 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
1800-1849Elizabeth 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
1800-1849Elizabeth 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
1800-1849Elizabeth 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
1800-1849Elizabeth 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
1800-1849Walter Savage Landor to Robert Browning, letter postmarked 10 November 1845: 'Before I have half re[a]d through you...Walter Savage Landor Robert BrowningDramatic Romances and LyricsPrint: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Robert Browning, 12 November 1845: 'I read Luria's first act twice through before I slept last...Elizabeth Barrett Barrett Robert BrowningLuria (Act I)Manuscript: Unknown
1850-1899Joseph Arnould to Robert Browning, 25 April 1850: 'I have read re-read marked learned & [italics]]really[end italic...Joseph Arnould Robert BrowningChristmas-Eve and Easter-DayPrint: Book
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Elizabeth Barrett Browning to Arabella Moulton-Barrett [sister], 12 January 1851: 'Now I am going to speak to you a...Robert Browning Elizabeth Barrett Browningsonnets ['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' SocietyRobert BrowningParacelsusPrint: Book
1900-1945Leonard Woolf to Lytton Strachey, 2 January 1903: 'I don't think my December list of books read equals yours. It in...Leonard Woolf Robert BrowningPrint: 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 BrowningunknownPrint: 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 BrowningChilde Roland to the Dark Tower CamePrint: 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 BrowningThe Inn AlbumPrint: Book, Unknown
1850-1899From Emily Tennyson's Journal, 1869: 'Before the end of February A. had read me all "The Coming of Arthur" finished...Alfred Tennyson Robert BrowningThe Ring and the BookPrint: Book
1850-1899From Emily Tennyson's Journal, 1871: 'Sept. 4th. We both read Browning's Balaustion. Heracles the free, the joyous,...Alfred and Emily TennysonRobert BrowningBalaustionPrint: Book
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Transcribed in Elizabeth Lyttelton's hand, Sir Thomas Browne, 'Of Consumptions'.Elizabeth Lyttelton Sir Thomas BrowneOf ConsumptionsUnknown
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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
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Transcription in Elizabeth Lyttelton's hand of Sir Thomas Browne, 'Fragment on meadowes'.Elizabeth Lyttelton Sir Thomas BrowneFragment on meadowesPrint: Book
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Transcription in Elizabeth Lyttelton's hand of Sir Thomas Browne, 'Seignor verdero in his proper habitt'. Elizabeth Lyttelton Sir Thomas BrowneSeignor verdero in his proper habitt,Print: Book
1850-1899From Alfred Tennyson's letter-diary to his family (1868): 'Nov. 21st. Browning read his Preface to us last night, f...Robert Browning Robert BrowningPreface, The Ring and the BookUnknown
1900-1945'I wrote endless imitations, though I never thought them to be imitations but, rather wonderfully original things, lik...Dylan Thomas Thomas BrownePrint: 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 BrowningPrint: 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 BrownletterUnknown
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 BrownGolden HornPrint: 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-BrownBengal LancerPrint: 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 BrowningAurora LeighPrint: 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 BrowningSordelloPrint: 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 BrowningSordelloPrint: 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 BrowningSordelloPrint: 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 BrowningEvelyn HopePrint: 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 BrowningSordelloPrint: 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 BrowningRing and the Book, ThePrint: 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 BrowningRing and the Book, ThePrint: 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 BrowningRing and the Book, ThePrint: 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 BrowningRing and the Book, ThePrint: 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 BrowningRing and the Book, ThePrint: 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 BrownMy GardenPrint: 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 BrownVenetian StudiesPrint: 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 BrowneChristian MoralsPrint: 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 BrowneReligio MediciPrint: 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 BrowningThe Letters of Robert Browning and Elizabeth BarrettPrint: 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 BrowningThe Letters of Robert Browning and Elizabeth BarrettPrint: 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 BrowningThe Letters of Robert Browning and Elizabeth BarrettPrint: 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 BrowningThe Letters of Robert Browning and Elizabeth BarrettPrint: 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 BrowningThe Letters of Robert Browning and Elizabeth BarrettPrint: 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

 

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