Reading Experience Database
1450-1945

Listing for Author: Hall

 

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1850-1899'The Primitive Methodists may have been the most anti-intellectual of the Wesleyans, yet miners' MP John Johnson "foun...John Johnson Alfred MarshallPrinciples of EconomicsPrint: Unknown
1800-1849Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Sunday 15 November 1801: 'We sate by the fire and read Chaucer (Thomson, Mary r...Wordsworth FamilyBishop Joseph HallunknownPrint: Book
1800-1849Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Tuesday 23 February, 1802: 'Darkish when we reached home [from walk] ... Willia...William Wordsworth Bishop Joseph HallunknownPrint: Book
1800-1849Before breakfast + afterwards, from 11 to 1, making minutes + extracts from Hall's travels in France (it must go to th...Anne Lister Colonel Francis HallTravels in France in 1818Print: Newspaper
1900-1945[A Sheffield Survey organised by Arnold Freeman in 1918, assessing 816 manual workers, gives the following case:] 'Eng...questionaire respondent Alfred Marshall[unknown]Print: Book
1900-1945'Margaret Wharton's parents were highly literate, and with their encouragement she entered a teaching training college...Margaret Wharton Radclyffe HallThe Well of LonelinessPrint: Book
1900-1945'[Davies said] "Before I was twelve I had developed an appreciation of good prose, and the Bible created in me a zest ...D.R. Davies Alfred MarshallPrint: Book
1900-1945'Attending Oxford on a Cassel scholarship, John Allaway found that his WEA training, far from fitting him into a unive...John Allaway Alfred MarshallPrint: Book
1700-1799'I went to the Library; read Bramhall against Hobbes'John Byrom John BramhallCastigation of Mr Hobbes [with the appendix]The CaPrint: Book
1600-1699" ... [Edmond] Halley's paper on the causes of the Noachian deluge was finally printed in the Philosophical Transactio...Royal SocietyEdmond Halleypaper on the causes of the Noachian delugeUnknown
1600-1699Adrian Johns discusses John Flamsteed's (disapproving) reading of Edmond Halley, Catalogus Stellarum Australium.John Flamsteed Edmond HalleyCatalogus Stellarum Australium, sive Supplementum Catalogi Tychonici exhibens longitudines et latitudines stellarum fixarum ...Print: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia]: marginal marks (x, }, |) plus occasional comments, either single words or short notes eg: p. 74 after th...George Pitts James HallTravels in Scotland, by an unusual route: with a trip to the Orkneys and Hebrides: containing hints and improvements in agriculture and commerce...Print: Book
1850-1899'Read Hallam on the study of Roman law in the Middle Ages'.George Eliot [pseud] Henry Hallam[perhaps The View of the State of Europe during the Middle Ages]Print: BookManuscript: Unknown
1700-1799'In the Evening we had Mrs. Lambert, who brought us a Tale, called Edwy & Edilda by the sentimental Clergyman Mr. Whal...Frances Burney WhalleyEdwy and Edilda: A Tale in Five PartsPrint: Book
1850-1899'began Hallam's Middle Ages'.George Eliot [pseud.] Henry HallamThe View of the State of Europe during the Middle AgesPrint: Book
1700-1799Mary Berry to a friend, 14 December, 1798: 'During my illness I have finished the 2nd vol. of Wraxhall which I had jus...Mary Berry Wraxhallwork on period of Henry III (second volume)Print: Book
1700-1799Mary Berry to a friend, 14 December, 1798: 'During my illness I have finished the 2nd vol. of Wraxhall which I had jus...Mary Berry Wraxhallwork on period of Henry III (second volume)Print: Book
1700-1799To Miss Hunt, April 7 1794 'I am very rich in German books right now for Dr Randolph, who has a great many, has giv...Elizabeth Smith Hallen[poems]Print: Book
1800-1849Harriet Martineau, Journal, 6 December 1837: 'Read some of Hall in afternoon, till time to dress for ball.'Harriet Martineau HallPrint: Unknown
1800-1849[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge John HallAn Humble Motion to the Parliament of EnglandPrint: Book
1700-1799'transcript of passages from chapter 4 under the commonplce book heading "non jurors"'John Fortescue Aland Nathaniel MarshallA defence of our constitution in church and stateUnknown
1800-1849'I am reading Hall's book, but will read it through before I say a word about it, for I find my opinion changes so muc...Sydney Smith Basil HallTravels in North America 1827-8Print: Book
1800-1849'Have you read Hall's America? If you have, I hope you dislike it as much as I do. It is amusing but very unjust and u...Sydney Smith Basil HallTravels in North America 1827-8Print: Book
1800-1849'I recommend you to read Hall, Palmer, Fearon and Bradburys Travels in America, particularly "Fearon". There is nothin...Sydney Smith Francis HallJournal of Travels in the United States of North AmericaPrint: Book
1800-1849'Hallam's style does not appear to me so bad as it has been represented; indeed I am ashamed to say I rather think it ...Sydney Smith Arthur HallamHistory Of Europe During The Middle AgesPrint: Book
1800-1849'I did not write one syllable of Hall's book. When first he showed me his manuscript, I told him it would not do; it w...Sydney Smith Basil HallExtracts from a Journal Written on the Coasts of Chile, Peru, and MexicoPrint: Book
1800-1849'Read voyage to Corea'Mary Shelley Basil HallAccount of a Voyage of Discovery to the West Coast of Corea and the Great Loo-Choo Island; with an appendix... and a vocabulary of the Loo Choo language by H.I. CliffordPrint: Book
1800-1849'I think Mrs Hall's book beautiful, but am not in love with her dedicatory letter [to Mary Russell Mitford]. It is mea...Barbara Hofland Mrs S.C. HallSketches of Irish CharacterPrint: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Benjamin Robert Haydon, 21 April 1843: 'Mrs S. C. Hall is an agreeable & graceful writer, & I ...Elizabeth Barrett Mrs Samuel Carter HallunknownPrint: Unknown
1850-1899'I have been out reading Hallam in the garden ...'Robert Louis Stevenson Henry HallamConstitutional History of England [?]Print: Book
1700-1799'With this parcel we return Messrs Marshall and Young. some Observations from the former I lay by as matters to be inq...George Crabbe William MarshallRural Economy of the Midland Counties, The; Including the Management of Livestock in Leicestershire and its Environs'Print: Book
1900-1945'This "new direction" [in literature], Larkin was beginning to realize, would depend on subtlety as well as candour - ...Philip Larkin Julian HallSenior Commoner, ThePrint: Book
1700-1799'[Boswell having expressed doubt about the power of prayer, Johnson] mentioned Dr. Clarke and Bishop Bramhall on "Libe...Samuel Johnson John BramhallDiscourse of Liberty and Necessity Print: Book
1850-1899'On his [Tennyson's] return [to Farringford] the evening books were Milton, Shakespeare's Sonnets, Thackeray's Humouri...Alfred and Emily TennysonHenry Hallam'History'Print: Book
1700-1799'Mr. Allen, the printer, brought a book on agriculture, which was printed, and was soon to be published. It was a very...James Boswell William MarshallMinutes of AgriculturePrint: Book
1800-1849Aubrey De Vere, on how he 'first made acquaintance with Alfred Tennyson's poetry': 'Lord Houghton, then Richard Mon...Aubrey De Vere Arthur HallamEssay on Alfred Tennyson's Poems, Chiefly LyricalPrint: Serial / periodical
1600-1699'[I was] not constant in meditation, I was loath to begin, but if I once began I found it so sweet that I could scarce...Isaac Archer Joseph HallThe Art of Divine MeditationPrint: Book
1600-1699'September 2. I had bin grievously and causlessly defamed by one from whom I deserved it not; this day he came to quar...Isaac Archer Bishop HallSermon on Ephesians 4:30Print: Book
1700-1799Robert Southey to the Editor of the Monthly Magazine, 28 June 1796: 'THE story of the Mysterious Mother is of an earli...Robert Southey Joseph HallResolutions and Decisions of divers Practical Cases of Conscience, in continual Use amongst MenPrint: Book
1850-1899Books read by Oscar Wilde in Reading Gaol, December 1896 - March 1897, taken from his list of books requested and then...Oscar Wilde HallamHistory of the Middle AgesPrint: Book
1900-1945'At a meeting held at Grove House on Feb. 17 a discussion on the Soul of a People was opened by a paper by C. E. Stans...Charles Stansfield Harold Fielding HallSoul of a PeoplePrint: Book
1900-1945'I told Forster that I was prepared to stand absolutely for both the merits and the decency of the book.' [The Well o...Arnold Bennett Radclyffe HallThe Well of LonelinessPrint: Book
1900-1945On the conclusion of the 'Well of Loneliness' case, I propose to devote an article to it in the Evening Standard. I ...Arnold Bennett Radclyffe HallThe Well of LonelinessPrint: Book
1800-1849Harriet Countess Granville to her sister, Lady Georgiana Morpeth, from The Hague (June 1824): 'What a pretty book C...Harriet Countess Granville Basil HallJournal in South AmericaPrint: Book
1800-1849Harriet Countess Granville to her sister, Lady Georgiana Morpeth, from The Hague (June 1824): 'What a pretty book C...Harriet Countess Granville Basil HallJournal in South AmericaPrint: Book
1800-1849Wednesday, 13 April 1831: 'My nap [same afternoon] was a very short one and was agreeably replaced by Basil Hall's ...Walter Scott Captain Basil HallFragments of Voyages and TravelsPrint: Book
1800-1849Mr Lockhart to John Murray, 24 September 1839: 'Morritt has just finished "Hallam's Literature." He is in raptures ... Hallam'Literature'Print: Book
1900-1945'November brought a peculiar police-court case, which made literary history, after Radclyffe Hall's novel, "The Well o...Vera Brittain Radclyffe HallThe Well of LonelinessPrint: Book

 

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