Reading Experience Database
1450-1945

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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 DickensPrint: Book
1850-1899'After tea...[on a Sunday, my father]...liked to read aloud to us from books that sounded quite well, but afforded som...Mary Vivian (Molly) Hughes Charles DickensThe Pickwick PapersPrint: Book
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1850-1899
Henry Mayhew interviews a former London pickpocket, turned patterer; grew up in Shropshire, father a Wesleyan minister...anon Charles DickensPrint: Book, Serial / periodical
1900-1945'Even before [Chaim Lewis] discovered the English novelists, he was introduced to Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, Turgenev and Pu...a revolutionary Russian rag merchant Charles DickensPrint: Book
1850-1899'In a Sunday school library set up by a cotton mill fire-beater, [Thomas Thompson] read Dickens, Thackeray, Oliver Wen...Thomas Thompson Charles DickensPrint: Book
1850-1899'In [Ashington Mechanics' Institute] library [Chester Armstrong] discovered a "new world", a "larger environment" in D...Chester Armstrong Charles DickensPrint: Book
1850-1899[According to Flora Thompson], "Modern writers who speak of the booklessness of the poor at that time must mean books ...Flora Thompson Charles DickensPrint: Book
1900-1945Either at school or at home I read all the classics considered necessary for children: 'Treasure Island', 'Kidnapped',...Patricia Beer Charles DickensDavid CopperfieldPrint: Book
1850-1899
1900-1945
'"The words I didn't understand I just skipped over, yet managed to get a good idea of what the story was about", wrot...James Murray Charles Dickens[novels]Print: Book
1850-1899'George Acorn, growing up in extreme poverty in London's East End, scraped together 31/2 d to buy a used copy of David...George Acorn Charles DickensDavid CopperfieldPrint: Book
1900-1945'As a boy V.S. Pritchett read Oliver Twist "in a state of hot horror, It seized me because it was about London and the...Victor Sawdon Pritchett Charles DickensOliver TwistPrint: Book
1900-1945'At age sixteen, Neville Cardus (whose parents were launderers in turn of the century Manchester) read in the Athenaeu...Neville Cardus Charles Dickens[novels]Print: Book
1900-1945'During these early years [Daphne du Maurier] filled her head with tales of adventure, romances, histories and popular...Daphne du Maurier Charles DickensNicholas NicklebyPrint: Book
1900-1945'During these early years [Daphne du Maurier] filled her head with tales of adventure, romances, histories and popular...Daphne du Maurier Charles DickensBleak HousePrint: Book
1900-1945'In the depressed steelworks town of Merthyr Tydfil between the world wars, schoolboys were baffled by A Christmas Car...Welsh schoolboysCharles DickensA Christmas CarolPrint: Book
1900-1945'In the 1920s Janet Hitchman acquired her literary education among the derelict bookshelves of an orphanage, which inc...Janet Hitchman Charles DickensPrint: Book
1850-1899[due to the fact that books in working class communities were generally cheap out of copyright reprints, not new works...Joseph Keating Charles DickensPrint: Book
1850-1899'[the father of C.H. Rolph] read diligently through a list of the "Hundred Best Books" compiled in 1886 by Sir John Lu...Charles DickensThe Pickwick PapersPrint: Book
1850-1899'[the father of C.H. Rolph] read diligently through a list of the "Hundred Best Books" compiled in 1886 by Sir John Lu...Charles DickensDavid CopperfieldPrint: Book
1850-1899'Rose... remembers her father reading to them - Dickens, Scott, Robinson Crusoe, Shakespeare, Jane Austen, Meredith, T...George Macaulay Charles DickensPrint: Book
1850-1899'When old enough to read for herself, Rose Macaulay entered into other realms of fictitious brave adventure. She devou...Rose Macaulay Charles DickensA Tale of Two CitiesPrint: Book
1850-1899[Thackeray] 'Cd not endure Bulwer - no nature - nor Dickens - yet mentioned with greatest praise the Chap: before deat...William Makepeace Thackeray Charles DickensDombey and SonPrint: Book
1850-1899'[Philip Ballard] had no exposure to contemporary writers until the 1890s: "I gained a nodding acquaintance with the l...Philip Ballard Charles DickensPrint: Book
1900-1945'"Thinking back, I am amazed at the amount of English literature we absorbed in those four years", recalled Ethel Clar...Ethel Clark Charles DickensPrint: Book
1850-1899'The son of a barely literate Derbyshire collier recalled a sister, a worker in a hosiery factory, who was steeped in ...Charles Dickens[unknown]Print: Book
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1900-1945
'Frances Stevenson, born in 1888, recollected [in The years that Are Past, 1967] that she "read greedily [pre-1914] .....Frances Stevenson Charles DickensLittle DorritPrint: Book
1850-1899
1900-1945
'Frances Stevenson, born in 1888, recollected [in The years that Are Past, 1967] that she "read greedily [pre-1914] .....Frances Stevenson Charles DickensThe Old Curiosity ShopPrint: Book
1850-1899Geraldine Hodgson, The Life of James Elroy Flecker (1925), 'Reading aloud in the family circle was an established cust...James Elroy Flecker Charles DickensunknownPrint: Book
1850-1899In Scaffolding in the Sky (1938), C[harles]. H. Reilly remembered Saturday evenings when 'we all assembled round the f...Charles H. Reilly Charles DickensThe Pickwick PapersPrint: Book
1850-1899"Robert Blatchford, growing up in Halifax in the 1860s, read from the penny library there Defoe's Robinson Crusoe, Sou...Robert Blatchford Charles DickensThe Old Curiosity ShopPrint: Book
1850-1899Philip Gibbs in The Pageant of the Years (1946), on work as writer of series of articles under name "Self-Help" in ear...Philip Gibbs Charles DickensunknownPrint: Book
1900-1945'In 1901 ... [Newman Flower] left his bed at four in the morning to travel from Croydon to watch the funeral processio...Newman Flower Charles DickensBleak HousePrint: Book
1900-1945'It was in ... 1901 ... that Ernest Raymond as a teenager first took a Dickens from the shelf: "By the grace and favou...Ernest Raymond Charles DickensThe Pickwick PapersPrint: Book
1850-1899'... Oliver Twist (1838), the first Dickens that A. A. Milne was exposed to, at 9, gave him nightmares.'Alan Alexander Milne Charles DickensOliver TwistPrint: Book
1850-1899Andrew Lang, in Adventures Among Books, on being introduced to Dickens: 'I had minded my lessons, and satisfied my tea...Andrew Lang Charles DickensThe Pickwick PapersPrint: Book
1850-1899'The first imaginative work by an Englishman ... [Joseph Conrad] read was Nicholas Nickleby (1839).'Joseph Conrad Charles DickensNicholas NicklebyPrint: Book
1850-1899
1900-1945
'Devoted ... was the ritual of Gordon Hewart, who rose to become Lord Chief Justice: he read Dickens every night of hi...Gordon Hewart Charles DickensunknownPrint: Book
1850-1899'Neville Cardus was born in 1889 in Rusholme, Manchester, the illegitimate son of a police constable's daughter and th...Neville Cardus Charles DickensDavid CopperfieldPrint: Book
1850-1899
1900-1945
'Lady Cynthia Asquith, daughter of the eleventh Earl [of Elcho] ... regularly reread her favourite [Dickens] stories ...'Lady Cynthia Asquith Charles DickensunknownPrint: Book
1900-1945Recorded in diary of Lady Cynthia Asquith, 15 January 1918: 'The Professor [of English Literature at Oxford, Sir Walte...Sir Walter Alexander Raleigh Charles DickensunknownPrint: Book
1850-1899'Both ... [Elizabeth and Alice Thompson] were reading voraciously at that time [1854-57] ... guided by ... [their fath...Thompson FamilyCharles DickensunknownPrint: Book
1850-1899June Badeni on readings by 13-year-old Alice Thompson, as recorded in her notebook: 'She has been reading more of Scot...Alice Thompson Charles DickensnovelsPrint: Book
1900-1945[A Sheffield Survey organised by Arnold Freeman in 1918, assessing 816 manual workers, gives the following case:] 'Pri...questionaire respondent Charles DickensThe Pickwick PapersPrint: Book
1900-1945[A Sheffield Survey organised by Arnold Freeman in 1918, assessing 816 manual workers, gives the following case:] 'Pri...questionaire respondent Charles DickensThe Old Curiosity ShopPrint: Book
1900-1945[A Sheffield Survey organised by Arnold Freeman in 1918, assessing 816 manual workers, gives the following case:] 'Pri...questionaire respondent Charles DickensDavid CopperfieldPrint: Book
1900-1945[A Sheffield Survey organised by Arnold Freeman in 1918, assessing 816 manual workers, gives the following case:] 'Eng...questionaire respondent Charles DickensNicholas NicklebyPrint: Book
1900-1945[A Sheffield Survey organised by Arnold Freeman in 1918, assessing 816 manual workers, gives the following case:] 'Eng...questionaire respondent Charles DickensDavid CopperfieldPrint: Book
1900-1945[A Sheffield Survey organised by Arnold Freeman in 1918, assessing 816 manual workers, gives the following case:] 'Eng...questionaire respondent Charles DickensOliver TwistPrint: Book
1900-1945[A Sheffield Survey organised by Arnold Freeman in 1918, assessing 816 manual workers, gives the following case:] 'Eng...questionaire respondent Charles DickensA Tale of Two CitiesPrint: Book
1900-1945[A Sheffield Survey organised by Arnold Freeman in 1918, assessing 816 manual workers, gives the following case:] 'Eng...questionaire respondent Charles DickensThe Old Curiosity ShopPrint: Book
1900-1945[A Sheffield Survey organised by Arnold Freeman in 1918, assessing 816 manual workers, gives the following case:] 'Eng...questionaire respondent Charles DickensA Christmas CarolPrint: Book
1900-1945[analysis of a female respondent in Arnold Freeman's 1918 Sheffield Survey] 'Machinist in a shell factory, age twenty-...questionaire respondent Charles Dickens[unknown]Print: Book
1900-1945[analysis of a female respondent in Arnold Freeman's 1918 Sheffield Survey] 'Machine file cutter, age twenty-five... H...questionaire respondent Charles DickensThe Old Curiosity ShopPrint: Book
1900-1945[analysis of a female respondent in Arnold Freeman's 1918 Sheffield Survey] 'Housewife, age twenty-eight... Has read "...questionaire respondent Charles DickensDavid CopperfieldPrint: Book
1900-1945[analysis of a female respondent in Arnold Freeman's 1918 Sheffield Survey] 'Housewife, age twenty-eight... Has read "...questionaire respondent Charles DickensThe Old Curiosity ShopPrint: Book
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1900-1945
[analysis of a female respondent in Arnold Freeman's 1918 Sheffield Survey] 'Cutlery worker, age seventy-two...Fond of...questionaire respondent Charles Dickens[unknown]Print: Book
1850-1899'Theodore Watts-Dunton remembers Algernon Swinburne's fondness for reading aloud during his last years at Watts-Dunton...Algernon Swinburne Charles Dickens[unknown]Print: Unknown
1900-1945'Lloyd George, the Chancellor of the Exchequer ... liked to get away from political anxieties by devouring what he cal...Lloyd George Charles DickensunknownPrint: Book
1850-1899'On learning that [Hall] Caine was to present twenty-four lectures in Liverpool on "Prose Fiction" ... [D. G. Rossetti...Hall Caine Charles Dickens[unknown]Print: Book
1900-1945'I don't dare to work any more tonight. That is why I asked for another Dickens; if I read him in bed he diverts my m...Katherine Mansfield Charles DickensPrint: Book
1900-1945'Jinne Moore was awfully good at elocution. Was she better than I? I could make the girls cry when I read Dickens in ...Katherine Mansfield Charles DickensPrint: Book
1900-1945'When Florence Murray married in 1902, her husband, a Colne valley wool manufacturer, was a widower with a young son ....Florence Murray Charles DickensDavid CopperfieldPrint: Book
1900-1945'[Davies said] "Before I was twelve I had developed an appreciation of good prose, and the Bible created in me a zest ...D.R. Davies Charles DickensPrint: Book
1700-1799
1800-1849
'The novels of Scott and Dickens had long been her favourite reading, but of late years she had become interested in t...Amelia Opie Charles Dickens[novels]Print: Book
1850-1899'Next to Robinson Crusoe, Rider liked the Arabian Nights, The Three Musketeers and the poems of Edgar Allan Poe and Ma...Henry Rider Haggard Charles DickensA Tale of Two CitiesPrint: Book
1900-1945'[Helen Crawfurd] derived lessons in socialism and feminism from Carlyle, Shaw, Wells, Galsworthy, Arnold Bennett, Ibs...Helen Crawfurd Charles DickensPrint: Book
1900-1945[Communist activists often displayed hostility to literature, including Willie Gallacher. However his 'hostility to li...William Gallacher Charles DickensOliver TwistPrint: Book
1900-1945[Communist activists often displayed hostility to literature, including Willie Gallacher. However his 'hostility to li...William Gallacher Charles DickensLittle DorritPrint: Book
1900-1945'[In The Saturday Review, 19 November 1904], "A Mother" records the books consumed since July by her sixteen-year-old ...Charles DickensA Christmas CarolPrint: Book
1900-1945'[In The Saturday Review, 19 November 1904], "A Mother" records the books consumed since July by her sixteen-year-old ...Charles DickensThe Cricket on the HearthPrint: Book
1900-1945'[In The Saturday Review, 19 November 1904], "A Mother" records the books consumed since July by her sixteen-year-old ...Charles DickensA Tale of Two CitiesPrint: Book
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1850-1899
Phyllis Browne, "What Girls Can Do" (1880): '[Having agreed with her father that she would read only books approved by...Thomas DickChristian PhilosopherPrint: Book
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1850-1899
Phyllis Browne, "What Girls Can Do" (1880): '[Having agreed with her father that she would read only books approved by...Phyllis Browne Thomas DickChristian PhilosopherPrint: Book
1850-1899
1900-1945
Mary Paley Marshall, "What I Remember" (1947), on family ban on Dickens: 'I was grown up before I read "David Copperfi...Mary Paley Marshall Charles DickensDavid CopperfieldPrint: Book
1850-1899"Forbidden David Copperfield, Bleak House, The Heart of Midlothian, and The Vicar of Wakefield ... [H. M. Swanwick] re...H. M. Swanwick Charles DickensDavid CopperfieldPrint: Unknown
1850-1899"Forbidden David Copperfield, Bleak House, The Heart of Midlothian, and The Vicar of Wakefield ... [H. M. Swanwick] re...H. M. Swanwick Charles DickensBleak HousePrint: Unknown
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1900-1945
"Vera Brittain's far from bookish home contained, in addition to the yellow-back novels which formed the main staple o...Vera Brittain Charles DickensDavid CopperfieldPrint: Book
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1900-1945
"Alice Foley's father was an often drunk, sometimes violent Irish factory worker in Bolton, but when 'in sober mood, h...anon Charles DickensnovelsPrint: Book
1850-1899'Though miners' MP Robert Smillie surreptitiously gorged on Dick Turpin and Three Fingered Jack as a boy, they... "led...Robert Smillie Charles Dickens[unknown]Print: Book
1850-1899'"[Penny dreadfuls] were thrilling, absolutely without sex interest, and of a high moral standard", explained London h...Frederick Willis Charles DickensPrint: Book
1850-1899'[Edwin] Whitlock... borrowed books from a schoolmaster and from neighbours: "Most of them would now be considered ver...Edwin Whitlock Charles Dickens[unknown]Print: Book
1900-1945'James Williams admitted that, growing up in rural Wales, "I'd read anything rather than not read at all. I read a gre...James Williams Charles DickensPrint: Book
1800-1849I am glad you like The Black Veil. I think that the title is a good one, because it is uncommon, and does not impair t...John Macrone Charles DickensThe Black VeilPrint: Unknown
1800-1849Marginal comments throughout the text, generally of the format of a key word within the text being indicated with a cr...John Drummond Erskine Adam DicksonAn essay on the causes of the present high price of provisions, as connected with the luxury, currency, taxes, and national debtPrint: Book
1850-1899Jonathan Rose, "How Historians Study Reader Response: or, What did Jo Think of Bleak House?": "George Acorn recalled t...George Acorn Charles DickensDavid CopperfieldPrint: Book
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Jonathan Rose, "How Historians Study Reader Response: or, What did Jo Think of Bleak House?": "Arthur Harding, a profe...Arthur Harding Charles DickensA Tale of Two CitiesPrint: Book
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1900-1945
Jonathan Rose, "How Historians Study Reader Response: or, What did Jo Think of Bleak House?": "Arthur Harding, a profe...Arthur Harding Charles DickensDombey and SonPrint: Book
1900-1945Jonathan Rose, "How Historians Study Reader Response: or, What did Jo Think of Bleak House?": " ... some of ... [Dicke...Charles DickensA Christmas CarolPrint: Book
1900-1945'Stella Davies's father would read to his children from the Bible, "Pilgrim's Progress", Walter Scott, Longfellow, Ten...Stella Davies Charles DickensPrint: Book
1900-1945'[Neville] Cardus read only boys' papers until quite suddenly, in adolescence, he dove into Dickens and Mark Twain. "T...Neville Cardus Charles Dickens[unknown]Print: Book
1900-1945'After a miserable Catholic school education...periodic unemployment allowed [Joseph Toole] to study in the Manchester...Joseph Toole Charles Dickens[unknown]Print: Book
1850-1899'Before his departure for his native land he had read some of Dickens and Stevenson... and William Morris. John Masefi...John Masefield Charles DickensPrint: Book
1850-1899'[Howard] Spring was the son of a Cardiff gardener who bought his children secondhand copies of "Tom Jones" and "Swiss...Charles Dickens[unknown]Print: Book
1900-1945'After Stalingrad, [Bernard Kops] immersed himself in Russian literature. A GI dating his sister introduced him to Wal...Bernard Kops Emily Dickinson[unknown]Print: Book
1850-1899
1900-1945
'David Copperfield was puzzling, too. He was a 'posthumous child' and was born with a 'caul'. The French dictionary, t...Gwen Raverat Charles DickensDavid CopperfieldPrint: Book
1850-1899'Along with her old school books [Maud Montgomery] read whatever she could find both for pleasure and to learn from th...Lucy Maud Montgomery Charles DickensPickwick Papers, ThePrint: Book
1900-1945[List of books read during 1944]: 'The Specialist; All This and Heaven Too; Antony; Uncle Tom's Cabin; Roper's Row; T...Hilary Spalding Charles DickensChristmas Carol, APrint: Book
1900-1945'Rudie inspired in all his children a love of literature, reading aloud to them from his own favourites, the great Vic...Rudolph Lehmann Charles DickensPrint: Book
1850-1899?This period gave me unnumbered hours for reading, and I devoured everything that came in my way, novels, histories, t...Thomas Catling Charles DickensBleak HousePrint: Book
1850-1899?There were no free libraries, so the younger hands joined with me in starting a "Literary Fund" of our own, towards w...Printers and compositors at Thomas Catling's place of work, Edward Lloyd's publishing houseCharles Dickens[works]Print: Book, Serial / periodical, presumably Dickens's fiction and journals
1850-1899?We even formed a magazine club ? purchasing periodicals, reading them in turn, and then distributing them among the m...William Adams and colleagues at the office of the 'Illustrated Times'Charles DickensLittle DorrittPrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'We have been reading the last two evenings, the Christmas number of Household Words - "Perils of Certain English Pris...George Eliot and G.H. LewesCharles DickensHousehold Words - "Perils of certain English Prisoners"Print: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'G. returned from Vernon Hill, and I read to him, after the review of my book in the "Times", the delicious scenes at ...George Eliot (pseud) Charles DickensThe Haunted ManPrint: Unknown, could have been book or serial
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1900-1945
Henry James to Grace Norton, 13 December 1903: 'Lowes Dickinson, whom you [...] mention [in her most recent letter to ...Henry James Goldsworthy Lowes Dickinson[book on Greek history]Print: Book
1850-1899March 16, 1884 [Lisbon] 'I am now reading to C.S. [Charles Schreiber] that charming book Rob Roy. Scott never palls. ...Lady Charlotte Schreiber Charles DickensBarnaby RudgePrint: Book
1850-1899March 16, 1884 [Lisbon] 'I am now reading to C.S. [Charles Schreiber] that charming book Rob Roy. Scott never palls. ...Lady Charlotte Schreiber Charles DickensOld Curiosity Shop, ThePrint: Book
1850-1899March 16, 1884 [Lisbon] 'I am now reading to C.S. [Charles Schreiber] that charming book Rob Roy. Scott never palls. ...Lady Charlotte Schreiber Charles DickensPickwick Papers, ThePrint: Book
1900-1945[List of books read in 1945]: 'For Whom the Bell Tolls; Henry Brocken; Doctor Faustus; Life of the Bee; The Screwtape...Hilary Spalding Carter DicksonReader is Warned, ThePrint: Book
1800-1849'Charles Shaw's dependance upon a small Sunday school library in Tunstall [...] imparted a magnificent if involuntary ...Charles Shaw DickChristian PhilosopherPrint: Book
1850-1899'[in the past week I have read] part of 22nd Idyll of Theocritus, Sainte Beuve aloud to G. two evenings... Monday even...George Eliot [pseud] Samuel DicksonFallacies of the Faculty: With the Chrono-Thermal System of MedicinePrint: Book
1850-1899'I read aloud No. 3 of "Edwin Drood".'George Eliot [pseud.] Charles DickensEdwin DroodPrint: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'The only social event she goes to is the Sunday afternoon tea run by her chapel. Again she has not made many friends ...Molly Charles DickensA tale of two citiesPrint: Book
1900-1945'on his eighth birthday, 27 February 1920, an ox-cart drew up outside Everleas Lodge with a present for him - a huge p...Lawrence Durrell Charles DickensPickwick PapersPrint: Book
1900-1945'I will not tell you my exact state of health day by day, but will give you a diary of my reading, which is perhaps a ...Donald William Alers Hankey Charles DickensThe Pickwick PapersPrint: Book
1900-1945'In future I hope that instead of saying as the fat boy in "Pickwick" does "I wants to make yer flesh creep," when I h...Donald William Alers Hankey Charles DickensThe Pickwick PapersPrint: Book
1850-1899'When in years to come, I read "Dombey and Son", certain features of Mrs Pipchin did irresistibly remind me of my exce...Edmund Gosse Charles DickensDombey and SonPrint: Book
1850-1899'...but she procured for me a copy of "Pickwick", by which I was instantly and gloriously enslaved. My shouts of laugh...Edmund Gosse Charles DickensPickwick PapersPrint: Book
1900-1945'We had met Dickens before, but only "The Old Curiosity Shop" and "The Chimes", both of which, in their mean little sc...Norman Nicholson Charles DickensThe Old Curiosity ShopPrint: Book
1900-1945'We had met Dickens before, but only "The Old Curiosity Shop" and "The Chimes", both of which, in their mean little sc...Norman Nicholson Charles DickensThe ChimesPrint: Book
1900-1945'Mr Wilson had no more patience than we had with Little Nell and the atrocious Trotty Veck. He shovelled the sentiment...Walter Wilson Charles DickensThe Pickwick PapersPrint: Book
1900-1945'I do not know whether Mr Wilson read "Pickwick" right through, but I certainly did. My copy bears a plate inside the ...Walter Wilson Charles DickensGreat ExpectationsPrint: Book
1900-1945'I do not know whether Mr Wilson read "Pickwick" right through, but I certainly did. My copy bears a plate inside the ...Norman Nicholson Charles DickensThe Pickwick PapersPrint: Book
1900-1945'I do not know whether Mr Wilson read "Pickwick" right through, but I certainly did. My copy bears a plate inside the ...Norman Nicholson Charles DickensBarnaby RudgePrint: Book
1900-1945'I do not know whether Mr Wilson read "Pickwick" right through, but I certainly did. My copy bears a plate inside the ...Norman Nicholson Charles DickensDombey and SonPrint: Book
1900-1945'I do not know whether Mr Wilson read "Pickwick" right through, but I certainly did. My copy bears a plate inside the ...Norman Nicholson Charles DickensNicholas NicklebyPrint: Book
1900-1945'I do not know whether Mr Wilson read "Pickwick" right through, but I certainly did. My copy bears a plate inside the ...Norman Nicholson Charles DickensGreat ExpectationsPrint: 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 Charles DickensDavid CopperfieldPrint: Book
1850-1899'It [central London] was truly a wonder world, for I seeing it not merely with my eyes of flesh but with the eyes of h...Thomas A. Jackson Charles Dickens[unknown]Print: Book
1850-1899'Later on I found at the bottom of a cupboard some old volumes -Addison's "Spectator", Pope's "Homer", and a few other...Thomas A. Jackson Charles Dickens[novels]Print: Book, Serial / periodical, weekly parts collected by father and bound into four volumes
1850-1899'Later on I found at the bottom of a cupboard some of volumes -Addison's "Spectator", Pope's "Homer", and a few other ...Charles Dickens[novels]Print: Book, Serial / periodical, weekly parts collected and bound into four volumes
1850-1899'Later on I found at the bottom of a cupboard some of volumes -Addison's "Spectator", Pope's "Homer", and a few other ...Thomas A. Jackson Charles DickensDavid CopperfieldPrint: Book, Serial / periodical, weekly parts collected by father and bound into volumes
1900-1945[I read] 'Good books - Dickens, and Scott, and all that, but I don't believe I've opened a book since I got married, a...Charles DickensunknownPrint: Book
1900-1945 'Modern writers may not be up to the standard of the old writers, Dickens, Thackeray and Scott, but they're snappy-th...Charles DickensunknownPrint: Book
1800-1849?I regret to see one or two errors in the first Volume, though I have the consolation of believing that none but pract...Charles Dickens Charles DickensThe Black VeilPrint: Book
1800-1849'Reader, how is our family circle this evening? I will tell you. We are seated around a circular table. On my right is...WL Cole DickChristian philosopherPrint: Book
1900-1945'Saturday 31st July. ?Nicholas Nickleby? - (Charles Dickens)'. Gerald Moore Charles DickensNicholas NicklebyPrint: Book
1900-1945'15th March 1929 Miss M?ndel and I inspect my little library. We read some Brooks, Kipling, Holmes, Artemus Ward, ...Gerald Moore Charles DickensSketches by BozPrint: Book
1900-1945'My pal was a typical Cockney recidivist who sold fruit on a coster's barrow between convictions and went crook when s...anon Charles Dickens[works]Print: Book, Serial / periodical
1900-1945'I am not ashamed to confess that during those weeks of imprisonment I too wept both by day and by night; not loudly o...Stuart Wood [pseud?] Charles DickensDavid CopperfieldPrint: Book
1900-1945'As I began to mend, the Governor, to keep me from brooding too much, gave orders that I was to have all the reading m...Stuart Wood [pseud?] Charles Dickens[unknown]Print: Book
1850-1899'Of Dickens, dear friend, I know nothing. About a year ago, from idle curiosity, I picked up The Old Curiosity Shop, ...Arnold Bennett Charles DickensThe Old Curiosity ShopPrint: Book
1800-1849'Nickleby is very good. I stood out against Mr Dickens as long as I could, but he has conquered me'.Sydney Smith Charles DickensNicholas NicklebyPrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'You have been so used to these sort of impertinences, that I believe you will exuse me for saying how very much I am ...Sydney Smith Charles DickensMartin ChuzzlewitPrint: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'I have not even yet made up my mind about Dickens, & I am glad that so far I have never expressed an opinion about hi...Arnold Bennett Charles DickensDavid CopperfieldPrint: Book
1900-1945'I have not even yet made up my mind about Dickens, & I am glad that so far I have never expressed an opinion about hi...Arnold Bennett Charles DickensThe Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick ClubPrint: Book
1850-1899'I read aloud several pages of Martin Chuzzlewit & rather flattered myself I gave expression to the author's nicest s...John Buckley Castieau Charles DickensMartin ChuzzlewitPrint: Book
1850-1899'Read a little of Dombey & Son which I had lent me last evening by Mr Reed.'John Buckley Castieau Charles DickensDombey and SonPrint: Book
1850-1899'Read for an hour or so & then turned into bed'John Buckley Castieau Charles DickensDombey and SonPrint: Book
1850-1899'You may be interested to hear that the Miss Jaffrays are reading: having only eyes and not a 'pair of patent double m...Robert Louis Stevenson Charles DickensPickwick Papers Chapter 34Print: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 2 June 1837: 'I agree with you in thinking Pickwick admirable -- but I ...Elizabeth Barrett Charles DickensThe Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick ClubPrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'Before leaving the cotton mill I had the good fortune to make my first acquaintance with the earlier works of Charles...Benjamin Brierley Charles DickensPickwick PapersPrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to James Martin, 6 February 1843: 'Do you know that the royal Boz lives close to us -- three door...Elizabeth Barrett Charles DickensMartin ChuzzlewitPrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 27 December 1843: 'The Christmas Carol strikes me much as it does you. I...Elizabeth Barrett Charles DickensA Christmas CarolPrint: Book
1850-1899I' wonder if you ever read Dickens?s [italics] Christmas Books [end italics] ? I don?t know that I would recommend you...Robert Louis Stevenson Charles DickensChristmas Stories (2, unnamed)Print: Book
1800-1849Mary Russell Mitford to Elizabeth Barrett, 29 December 1844: 'I have read the "Chimes." I don't like it [...] Mr Di...Mary Russell Mitford Charles DickensThe ChimesPrint: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 30 December 1844: 'The "Chimes" touched me very much! I thought it & sti...Elizabeth Barrett Charles DickensThe ChimesPrint: Book
1900-1945Virginia Woolf to Hugh Walpole, 8 February 1936: 'I'm reading David Copperfield for the 6th time with almost comple...Virginia Woolf Charles DickensDavid CopperfieldPrint: Book
1800-1849'When you have time & spirits for it, pray read "Sketches by Boz" with Cruikshank's designs. Except ones daily Scriptu...Sarah Harriet Burney Charles DickensSketches by 'Boz'Print: Book
1800-1849'When you have time & spirits for it, pray read "Sketches by Boz" with Cruikshank's designs. Except ones daily Scriptu...Sarah Harriet Burney Charles DickensMemoirs of Joseph GrimaldiPrint: Book
1800-1849'Pray do you now and then read modern Biography? I have been highly entertained, & even interested by the Memoirs of M...Sarah Harriet Burney Charles DickensMemoirs of Joseph GrimaldiPrint: Book
1900-1945Sunday 17 May 1925: 'Yesterday we had tea with Margaret in her new house [...] She is severe to Lilian [Harris, her co...Margaret Caroline Llewelyn Davies Charles DickensunknownPrint: Book
1900-1945'I breakfasted luxuriously in my tent off porridge, fried ham and tea and afterwards read "Pickwick Papers", pausing n...Frank Smythe Charles DickensThe Pickwick PapersPrint: Book
1900-1945'I sat up late reading of Mr. Jingle's artifices, until at last I began to speculate drowsily as to that gentleman's p...Frank Smythe Charles DickensThe Pickwick PapersPrint: Book
1900-1945'Our library too was a weighty affair. Shipton had the longest novel that had been published in recent years, Warren a...Frank Smythe Charles DickensMartin ChuzzlewitPrint: Book
1900-1945Tuesday 25 February 1936: 'I've had headaches. Vanquish them by lying still & binding books & reading D. Copperfield.' Virginia Woolf Charles DickensDavid CopperfieldPrint: Book
1900-1945'Her reading as a child was voracious, although her late start in learning to read for herself left her with a cosy ta...Elizabeth Bowen Charles Dickens[Works]Print: Book
1900-1945Tuesday 11 April 1939: 'I am reading Dickens; by way of a refresher. how he lives; not writes: both a virtue & a fault...Virginia Woolf Charles DickensunknownPrint: Book
1900-1945Thursday 13 April 1939: 'I read about 100 pages of Dickens yesterday, & see something vague about the drama & fiction:...Virginia Woolf Charles DickensunknownPrint: Book
1800-1849'I think I have behaved most abominably in never taking any notice of your great kindness in sending me David Copperfi...Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell Charles DickensDavid CopperfieldPrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'in the 'bus I sate next to somebody, whose face I thought I knew, & then I made out it was only that he was very like...Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell Charles DickensLittle DorritPrint: Serial / periodical
1900-1945Wednesday 25 October 1939: 'As a journalist I'm in demand [...] To relax I read Little Dorrit [...] Gerald Heard's boo...Virginia Woolf Charles DickensLittle DorritPrint: Book
1850-1899'in the 'bus I sate next to somebody, whose face I thought I knew, & then I made out it was only that he was very like...Mr Seymour Charles DickensLittle DorritPrint: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'The weather is damnable, especially when one has neither car nor taxi. I read ΒΌ of "Nicholas Nickleby" yesterday be...Arnold Bennett Charles DickensNicholas NicklebyPrint: Book
1850-1899'In last week's No of All the Year Round is a repudiation (by Mr Dickens,) of having intended Leigh Hunt by Harrold Sk...Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell Charles DickensAll the Year Round [article]Print: Serial / periodical
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Elizabeth Barrett Browning to Mary Louisa Boyle, 5 December 1850: 'We live just as quietly as we used to do [...] O...Robert and Elizabeth Barrett BrowningCharles DickensDavid CopperfieldPrint: Serial / periodical
1900-1945Leonard Woolf to Saxon Sydney-Turner, 27 August 1906: 'I am camping out in a tent in the wilderness. I told you I b...Leonard Woolf Charles DickensPrint: Book
1900-1945'In odd moments when I am at a loose end (about eleven minutes in the day) I read Emily Dickinson.'Harold Nicolson Emily DickinsonpoemsPrint: Book
1900-1945'My mother started to read to me when I was very young indeed. She read aloud beautifully and never got tired, and she...Rosemary Sutcliff Charles DickensunknownPrint: Book
1900-1945'Father was well read in politics and in the nineteenth century novelists, Dickens and Trollope being his favourites. ...Mr Glasser Charles Dickens[unknown]Print: Book
1900-1945E. M. Forster to Florence Barger, 2 July 1916: 'I talk to patients [at Red Cross centre, Alexandria]; with one of t...Frank Vicary DickinsonPrint: Unknown
1900-1945E. M. Forster to Goldsworthy Lowes Dickinson, 28 July 1916: 'I still like my work [as Red Cross worker tracing miss...Frank Vicary Goldsworthy Lowes DickinsonThe Meaning of GoodPrint: Book
1900-1945E. M. Forster to Goldsworthy Lowes Dickinson, 28 July 1916: 'I still like my work [as Red Cross worker tracing miss...Frank Vicary Goldsworthy Lowes DickinsonLetters from John ChinamanPrint: Book
1900-1945'Great Expectations. Alliance between atmosphere and plot (the convicts) make it more solid and satisfactory than anyt...Edward Morgan Forster Charles DickensGreat ExpectationsPrint: Book
1850-1899'At home there were daily Bible-readings in the family circle for many years, but secular reading aloud happily also f...Edward Housman Charles DickensPickwick Papers, ThePrint: Book
1900-1945'My mother did her conscientious best to remedy the deficiencies of our literary education by reading Dickens aloud to...Vera Brittain Charles DickensDavid Copperfield Print: Book
1900-1945'His books, over three hundred of which are preserved as he left them in 1918, show the range - and limitations - of h...Wilfred Owen Charles DickensPrint: Book
1850-1899Read for the fist time June 1865. Macaulay took this volume more than once on our Easter trips.George Otto Trevelyan Charles DickensPickwick PapersPrint: Book
1900-1945'It was at this time, too, in the 'silent' reading periods at school, that - conventionally enough, I suppose, for a b...Charles Causley Charles DickensDavid CopperfieldPrint: Book
1850-1899'Read nearly the whole of the day. Had four numbers of "Edwin Drood" & read them all, then in the evening went to the ...John Buckley Castieau Charles DickensEdwin DroodPrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'Read nearly the whole of the day. Had four numbers of "Edwin Drood" & read them all, then in the evening went to the ...John Buckley Castieau Charles DickensEdwin DroodPrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'Went to the Yorick in the evening & stayed there for some time reading the last number of Edwin Drood & some English...John Buckley Castieau Charles DickensEdwin DroodPrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'There was a little rain before I got back to the Gaol, then I had dinner & read the Pickwick Papers till about nine o...John Buckley Castieau Charles DickensPickwick PapersPrint: Book
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John Wilson Croker to Mr C. Phillips, 3 January 1854: 'As to my novel reading I confess that in my younger days I u...John Wilson Croker Charles Dickensshort fictionsPrint: Unknown
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John Wilson Croker to Mr C. Phillips, 3 January 1854: 'As to my novel reading I confess that in my younger days I u...John Wilson Croker Charles DickensnovelsPrint: Unknown
1850-1899Books read by Oscar Wilde in Reading Gaol, July 1896-December 1896, taken from his list of books requested and then se...Oscar Wilde Charles DickensComplete WorksPrint: Book
1850-1899'Read "Bleak House" in evening'John Ruskin Charles DickensBleak HousePrint: Book
1850-1899'Take Mr Lillyvick's "I don't think nothink at all of that langwidge" as an example of people's having "a right to the...John Ruskin Charles DickensNicholas NicklebyPrint: Book
1850-1899'Read end of Charles Dickens' "American Readings, &c; dreadful beyond words.'John Ruskin Charles DickensAmerican NotesPrint: Book
1850-1899'read a Dickens ghost story (the old nurse's) and so early to bed.'John Ruskin Charles Dickens[ghost story]Print: Book
1850-1899'A horribly faint despairing evening, giving up the ghost of myself in bed, and complicated by reading the horrible de...John Ruskin Charles DickensDombey and SonPrint: Book
1850-1899'His peers were surprised to hear him speak disparagingly of Dickens, the most popular novelist of the day. While Wild...Oscar Wilde Charles DickensnovelsPrint: Book
1900-1945Transcript 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 CarrPrint: Book
1850-1899'Since the age of five I have been a great reader [...]. At ten years of age I had read much of Victor Hugo and other ...Joseph Conrad Charles DickensNicholas NicklebyPrint: Book
1850-189918 July 1876: 'Left Paris by tidal service at half-past nine, reaching London before seven... I am reading again, w...Lady Charlotte Schreiber Charles DickensA Tale of Two CitiesPrint: Book
1850-1899'As Charles Schreiber's condition appeared to grow worse instead of better [following voyage to South Africa recommend...Lady Charlotte Schreiber Charles DickensThe Pickwick Papers Print: Book
1850-189916 March 1884, from Lisbon, en route home from South Africa: 'I am now reading to C. S. that charming book Rob Roy....Lady Charlotte Schreiber Charles DickensBarnaby RudgePrint: Book
1850-189916 March 1884, from Lisbon, en route home from South Africa: 'I am now reading to C. S. that charming book Rob Roy....Lady Charlotte Schreiber Charles DickensThe Old Curiosity ShopPrint: Book
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'A Meeting held at Grove House May 3rd H. B. Lawson in the chair

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George Burrow Charles DickensDavid CopperfieldPrint: Book
1900-1945'The sergeant of the guard one day asked me to lend him a book to read. I said I was afraid I'd nothing he'd care for,...Thomas Corder Pettifor Catchpool Harry Emerson FosdickThe Meaning of PrayerPrint: Book
1900-1945'The sergeant of the guard one day asked me to lend him a book to read. I said I was afraid I'd nothing he'd care for,...Thomas Corder Pettifor Catchpool Harry Emerson FosdickThe Manhood of the MasterPrint: Book

 

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