Reading Experience Database
1450-1945

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1850-1899'Pray tell him [Mr Kinglake] that I have been an admirer of his for - Heaven knows how long! - since the days when I w...Margaret Oliphant Alexander William KinglakeEothenPrint: Book
1700-1799Supper alone. Read life of Mr Savage.Gertrude Savile Charles BeckinghamThe Life of Mr Richard SavagePrint: Book
1800-1849 William Wordsworth discusses reading habits of the local labouring classes in letter to Francis Wrangham, 5 June 180...William Wordsworth anon [working people]["half-penny Ballads"]Print: Book
1900-1945Either at school or at home I read all the classics considered necessary for children: 'Treasure Island', 'Kidnapped',...Patricia Beer Charles KingsleyWestward Ho!Print: Book
1900-1945Either at school or at home I read all the classics considered necessary for children: 'Treasure Island', 'Kidnapped',...Patricia Beer Charles KingsleyThe Water BabiesPrint: 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 William Henry Giles Kingston[novels]Print: Book
1850-1899'I am delighted with Kinglake: has he steered quite clear of action for libel, or is it not within the bounds of possi...Margaret Oliphant A.W. KinglakeInvasion of the CrimeaPrint: Book
1900-1945'[In The Saturday Review, 19 November 1904], "A Mother" records the books consumed since July by her sixteen-year-old ...Charles KingsleyHypatiaPrint: Book
1850-1899'Lucy Lyttelton ... continued reading as avidly as ever after her marriage to Lord Frederick Cavendish, although she s...Lord and Lady CavendishCharles KingsleyWestward Ho!Print: Book
1850-1899'For a boy in a Lancashire mining village around 1880, where there were few books to read (other than twenty volumes o...William Lax W.H.G. KingstonDick Onslow Among the Red IndiansPrint: Book
1850-1899Henry James to Thomas Sergeant Perry, 27 March 1860: "Have you ever read 'Eothen' a book of Eastern travels. I have j...Henry James A. W. KinglakeEothenPrint: Book
1850-1899'Read Kingsley's Greek Heroes'.George Eliot [pseud.] Charles KingsleyThe Greek HeroesPrint: Book
1700-1799'In the afternoon, Mrs M & I walked to the quay hotel etc. where we met Mrs Hening of Chichester who was staying in lo...Miss PilkingtonRosinaPrint: Book
1800-1849'Another book I read with much zest was the autobiography of Lackington, the bookseller, a copy of which amusing and i...James Glass Bertram James Lackington[autobiography]Print: Book
1800-1849
1850-1899
David Vincent notes how the nineteenth-century handloom weaver Wiliam Farish '"with Walkingham's arithmetic, and a sla...William Farish Walkinghamarithmetic textbookPrint: Book
1850-1899'... he devotes a whole serious and excellent essay to an exploration of the fame of Silas Hocking, who wrote novels c...Arnold Bennett Silas HockingunknownPrint: Book
1800-1849'During our readings at our lodgings, Dr Clarke's Lake of Riberias formed an interesting portion. King's Hymns too wer...John Cole KingHymnsPrint: Book
1700-1799'I went to Mr Gales to order two book which I saw at Birmingham [...] I brought the "Life of Lackington" from the Libr...Joseph Hunter James LackingtonMemoirs of the First Forty Five Years of the LifePrint: Book
1850-1899'Louis and I have begun reading "Westward Ho!" together [...] He reads to me every day out of "Westward Ho!" which I t...Alice Maud Mary or "Princess Alice" Charles KingsleyWestward Ho!Print: Book
1850-1899J. H. Ewing's diary entry: 'Boy read me Kingslake's account of the conflict [...] of the 2nd of Dec. Horribly interest...Alexander (Rex) Ewing Kingslake[unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'I sat down and read over the Bishop of Chichesters sermon upon the anniversary of the King's death - much cried up bu...Samuel Pepys Dr Henry KingA sermon preached the 30th of January...1664Print: Book
1900-1945'Friday 10th September Today my friend Pat bought Kingsley?s ?Heroes? for Monica. I am reading it myself and then...Gerald Moore Charles KingsleyThe HeroesPrint: Book
1900-1945'Monday 11th October ?Westward Ho!? (Charles Kingsley)'.Gerald Moore Charles KingsleyWestward Ho!Print: Book
1900-1945'I remember years ago reading the life of Charles Kingsley who has been called "a very perfect gentleman". Yet in that...Stuart Wood Frances KingsleyCharles Kingsley, his Letters and Memories of his LifePrint: 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 Kingsley[unknown]Print: Book
1850-1899From Elizabeth Missing Sewell's Journal, 19 February 1856: 'I came here [Bournemouth] for a fortnight and have stayed...Elizabeth Missing Sewell Charles KingsleyHypatiaPrint: Book
1800-1849'Read Travels in the East called Eothen, they are by a Mr Kinglake of Taunton a Chancery Barrister, and are written in...Sydney Smith Alexander William KinglakeEothen, or Traces of Travel brought home from the EastPrint: Book
1700-1799'Looked over King's "Origin of Evil"...'Thomas Green William KingDe origine maliPrint: Book
1850-1899'Do you know Henry Kingsley. Read Mademoiselle Mathilde by him, now coming out in the Gentleman's Magazine ...'Robert Louis Stevenson Henry KingsleyMademoiselle MathildePrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'I have written a little, and read a good deal, - the second volume of "Sir Charles Metcalfe's Life", which makes me l...Elizabeth Missing Sewell Charles KingsleyHypatia - or New Foes with an Old FacePrint: Book
1850-1899'I have written a little, and read a good deal, - the second volume of "Sir Charles Metcalfe's Life", which makes me l...Mrs Meyrick Charles KingsleyHypatia or New Foes with an Old FacePrint: Book
1800-1849'I mean to copy you out some lines of my [italics] hero [end italics], Mr Kingsley'Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell Charles KingsleyPrint: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Robert Browning, on childhood religious beliefs and practices, 15 January 1846: 'As to the [cl...Elizabeth Barrett Barrett William KingPolitical and Literary Anecdotes of His Own TimesPrint: Book
1700-1799'During my Stay in the Country, he wrote me a great many poetical Compliments, and subscrib'd himself, [italics] Amint...Laetitia van Lewen Matthew Pilkington[letters]Manuscript: Letter
1700-1799'During my Stay in the Country, he wrote me a great many poetical Compliments, and subscrib'd himself, [italics] Amint...Elizabeth van Lewen Matthew Pilkington[letters to her daughter]Manuscript: Letter
1700-1799[Pilkington tells how her poem on 'Paper' was seen by a 'Lady of Distinction'] 'She would examine what I had been scri...Laetitia Pilkington Laetitia PilkingtonPaperManuscript: Unknown
1700-1799[Pilkington tells how her poem on 'Paper' was seen by a 'Lady of Distinction'] 'She would examine what I had been scri...'a Lady of Distinction' Laetitia PilkingtonPaperManuscript: Unknown
1700-1799[Pilkington tells how her poem on 'Paper' was seen by a 'Lady of Distinction'] 'She would examine what I had been scri...Anne Wainwright Laetitia PilkingtonPaperManuscript: Unknown
1700-1799[Pilkington tells how her poem on 'Paper' was seen by a 'Lady of Distinction'] 'She would examine what I had been scri...John, Baron Wainwright Laetitia PilkingtonPaperManuscript: Unknown
1700-1799[Letter from Jonathan Swift, Pilkington having sent him her verses on paper - printed in a London newspaper, attribute...Jonathan Swift Laetitia PilkingtonPaperPrint: Newspaper
1700-1799[Letter from Jonathan Swift, Pilkington having sent him her verses on paper - printed in a London newspaper, attribute...Jonathan Swift Laetitia PilkingtonSent with a Quill to Dr SwiftManuscript: Unknown
1700-1799[Letter from Jonathan Swift, Pilkington having sent him her verses on paper - printed in a London newspaper, attribute...friends of SwiftLaetitia PilkingtonSent with a Quill to Dr SwiftManuscript: Unknown
1700-1799[Having written an ode in the manner of Horace, she showed it to her husband who had also written one and] 'who, contr...Matthew Pilkington Laetitia PilkingtonOde, AnManuscript: Unknown
1700-1799[Having written an ode in the manner of Horace, she showed it to her husband who had also written one and] 'who, contr...Laetitia Pilkington Matthew Pilkington[a Horatian Ode]Manuscript: Unknown
1700-1799[Matthew Pilkington was in England and was staying with Pope, upon Swift's recommendation. Having received a letter in...Jonathan Swift Matthew Pilkington[letter to Laetitia Pilkington, about Pope]Manuscript: Letter
1700-1799[Pilkington tells of how she wrote poems for a Mr Worsdale to pass off as his own and reproduces the Song 'Stella, Dar...Laetitia Pilkington Matthew Pilkington[alteration to her poem on 'Stella']Manuscript: Unknown
1700-1799[Pilkington tells of how she wrote poems for a Mr Worsdale to pass off as his own and reproduces the Song 'Stella, Dar...Matthew Pilkington Laetititia Pilkington[verses on 'Stella']Manuscript: Unknown
1700-1799[Pilkington tells of how she wrote poems for a Mr Worsdale to pass off as his own and reproduces the Song 'Stella, Dar...James Worsdale Laetititia Pilkington[verses on 'Stella']Manuscript: Unknown
1700-1799'I wrote the following Ballad [abusing Mr Callaghan], and pacquetted Mr [italics]Taafe [end italics] with it [...] and...Laetititia PilkingtonVerses on Counsellor CallaghanManuscript: Unknown
1700-1799'I wrote the following Ballad [abusing Mr Callaghan], and pacquetted Mr [italics]Taafe [end italics] with it [...] and...Laetititia PilkingtonVerses on Counsellor CallaghanManuscript: Unknown
1700-1799'as he [Mr Worsdale] was not willing that either of us shou'd believe him incapable of Writing, he used to shew Mr [it...Matthew Pilkington Laetititia Pilkington[poems claimed by James Worsdale as his own]Manuscript: Unknown
1700-1799'as he [Mr Worsdale] was not willing that either of us shou'd believe him incapable of Writing, he used to shew Mr [it...Laetitia Pilkington Matthew Pilkington[poems claimed by James Worsdale as his own]Manuscript: Unknown
1700-1799[LP reproduces her lengthy poem 'To Mr Cibber'] 'This met with a very favourable Reception, and Mr [italics] Cibber [e...Colley Cibber Laetitia PilkingtonTo Mr CibberManuscript: Unknown
1700-1799[LP reproduces her lengthy poem 'To Mr Cibber'] 'This met with a very favourable Reception, and Mr [italics] Cibber [e...gentlemen at White's ClubLaetitia PilkingtonTo Mr CibberManuscript: Unknown
1700-1799[LP reproduces her poem 'to the Hon. Colonel Duncombe', which she sent to Lord Augustus Fitz Roy] 'Lord Augustus did n...gentlemen at White's ClubLaetitia PilkingtonTo The Hon. Colonel DuncombeManuscript: Unknown
1700-1799[LP reproduces her poem 'to the Hon. Colonel Duncombe', which she sent to Lord Augustus Fitz Roy] 'Lord Augustus did n...Augustus, Lord Fitzroy Laetitia PilkingtonTo The Hon. Colonel DuncombeManuscript: Unknown
1700-1799'A short while after he went down Stairs, he sent his Compliments up, and begg'd I would lend him a Book to amuse hims...George Turnbull Laetitia Pilkington[Poems]Manuscript: Unknown
1700-1799[LP reproduces her poem 'To the Right Hon. Henry Pelham, Esq.] 'I shewed these lines to Mr [italics] Cibber [end itali...Colley Cibber Laetitia PilkingtonTo the Right Hon. Henry Pelham, Esq.Manuscript: Unknown
1700-1799[LP reproduces her poem 'To the Right Hon. Henry Pelham, Esq.] 'I shewed these lines to Mr [italics] Cibber [end itali...Henry Pelham Laetitia PilkingtonTo the Right Hon. Henry Pelham, Esq.Manuscript: Unknown
1700-1799[LP reproduces her poem 'To Colley Cibber, Esq.] 'Mr [italics] Cibber [end italics] received these Lines with his usua...Colley Cibber Laetitia PilkingtonTo Colley Cibber, EsqManuscript: Unknown
1700-1799[LP recounts her first meeting with Colley Cibber] '"Sit down", said he, "be less ceremonious to be better bred; come,...Colley Cibber Laetitia PilkingtonSorrowManuscript: Unknown
1700-1799'Every Poem, as I occasionally introduced them, he [Colley Cibber] made me give him a Copy of, and communicated them t...Colley Cibber Laetitia Pilkington[Poems]Manuscript: Unknown
1700-1799'Every Poem, as I occasionally introduced them, he [Colley Cibber] made me give him a Copy of, and communicated them t...Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield Laetitia Pilkington[Poems]Manuscript: Unknown
1700-1799'I ingenuously told him [Mr Parkinson], I had no other Fortune than my Pen, and, at his request, shewed him some of my...Mr Parkinson Laetitia Pilkington[Poems]Manuscript: Unknown
1700-1799[Mr Rooke tells LP] 'as I had, in the Shop, read your [italics] Apology for the Minister [end italics], I was greatly ...George Rooke Laetitia PilkingtonApology for the Minister, An
1700-1799'Mr E-e, seeing my Table covered with written Papers, told me, my Room resembled that of a Lawyer, and asked me Leave ...Mr E-e Laetitia Pilkington[Poems]Manuscript: Unknown
1700-1799[Edmond Curll said to LP] 'I have received from [italics] Ireland [end italics], from your Husband, the Life of Alderm...Edmond Curll Matthew Pilkington[Life of Barber]Manuscript: Unknown
1700-1799'[Sir Hans Sloane] considered my Letter over, and finding, by the contents, Doctor [italics] Mead [end italics] recomm...Hans Sloane Laetitia Pilkington[Letter]Manuscript: Letter
1700-1799[bailiffs burst into her room to take her to the Marshalsea; one of them] 'who had employed himself in looking over my...Laetitia PilkingtonRoman Father, TheManuscript: Unknown
1700-1799[On New Year's Day, 1743, LP published verses in the 'Gazette' in honour of Colley Cibber] 'My dear old Friend was ple...Colley Cibber Laetitia PilkingtonTo Colley Cibber, esq.Print: Newspaper
1700-1799[LP gives the text of a poem 'To Mr Cibber'] 'I sent these Lines to my dear Gentleman, who presently came to me, as I ...Colley Cibber Laetitia PilkingtonTo Mr CibberManuscript: Unknown
1700-1799[a gentleman in her shop having paid the postage due on a packet from Edinburgh, LP] 'civilly entreated his Permission...Laetitia Pilkington Jack Pilkington[a letter]Manuscript: Letter
1700-1799'When Mr [italics] Brush [end italics] departed, I read my dear Child's Letter' [she gives the text of the letter]Laetitia Pilkington Jack Pilkington[a letter]Manuscript: Letter
1700-1799'However, at all Hazards, I'll venture to stand the Test of publishing the Following, because Mr [italics] Cibber [end...Colley Cibber Laetitia PilkingtonRoman Father, The; A TragedyManuscript: Unknown
1700-1799'One Day, as I was in my Shop, a Gentleman, very richly dressed, told me, he had a Letter for me; I received it very r...Laetitia Pilkington Laetitia Pilkington[a love letter]Manuscript: Letter
1700-1799[LP wrote a poem 'To his Excellency the Earl of Chesterfield'] 'just as I had finished this poem, [italics] Worsdale c...James Worsdale Laetitia PilkingtonTo his Excellency the Earl of ChesterfieldManuscript: Unknown
1700-1799[LP wrote a poem 'To his Excellency the Earl of Chesterfield'] 'just as I had finished this poem, [italics] Worsdale c...Colley Cibber Laetitia PilkingtonTo his Excellency the Earl of ChesterfieldManuscript: Unknown
1700-1799[Jack Pilkington gives an introduction to his now deceased mother's third volume of memoirs, relating how he wrote a p...Samuel Foote John Carteret PilkingtonTo Samuel Foote, Esq. on seeing his Englishman in ParisManuscript: Unknown
1700-1799'Amongst all the Letters I have yet seen published, I never saw any so truly elegant, learned, and polite, as those wi...Laetitia Pilkington Lord Kingsborough[letters]Manuscript: Letter
1700-1799'One day as I was sitting in my Shop, a Woman who though very badly drest, had a Dignity in her Air which distinguish'...Laetitia Pilkington[notice in her shop window]Manuscript: Sheet
1700-1799[Two gentlemen came in to LP's shop and saw her with an MS volume of her Memoirs open in front of her; they inquired a...an earl Laetitia Pilkington[Memoirs and Poems]Manuscript: volume
1700-1799[LP went to visit Colley Cibber] 'and met, according to Custom, a very kind Reception: For his Friendship to me was in...Colley Cibber Laetitia PilkingtonTo Mr CibberManuscript: Unknown
1700-1799[LP recounts, addressing Matthew Pilkington, how she was invited to a Dublin widower's house and in the parlour] 'a Ge...a gentleman Laetitia PilkingtonMemoirsPrint: Book
1700-1799[Having been told by a lady that Lord Kingsborough lived nearby, and expressed enthusiasm, the lady said] 'well, Madam...a lady Laetitia PilkingtonMemoirsPrint: Book
1700-1799'I wrote, in order to gain Relief, to a Prelate of [italics] Ireland [end italics], then resident in [italics] London ...Robert Clayton Laetitia Pilkington[letter asking for financial assistance]Manuscript: Letter
1700-1799[LP received a letter from Lord Kingsborough, in response to her Dedication to him] 'I return you my Thanks for the Fa...Robert, Lord Kingsborough Laetitia Pilkington[Dedication to her 'Memoirs']Manuscript: Unknown
1700-1799[LP having written to Lord Kingsborough in warm terms after he, having heard bad things of her, ordered her to destroy...Robert, Lord Kingsborough Laetitia Pilkington[letter]Manuscript: Letter
1700-1799[LP having written to Lord Kingsborough in warm terms after he, having heard bad things of her, ordered her to destroy...Robert, Lord Kingsborough Laetitia PilkingtonTo the Right Hon. the Lord KingsboroughManuscript: Unknown
1700-1799'On Tuesday, July 18, I found tall Sir Thomas Robinson sitting with Johnson. Sir Thomas said, that the King of Prussia...Samuel Johnson Frederick II King of Prussia[unknown]Print: Book
1700-1799'On Tuesday, July 18, I found tall Sir Thomas Robinson sitting with Johnson. Sir Thomas said, that the King of Prussia...James Boswell Frederick II King of PrussiaMemoirs of the house of Brandenburg. From the earliest accounts, to the death of Frederick I.Print: Book
1700-1799'On Tuesday, July 18, I found tall Sir Thomas Robinson sitting with Johnson. Sir Thomas said, that the King of Prussia...James Boswell Frederick II King of Prussia[poems]Print: Book
1700-1799'The conversation now turned on critical subjects. Johnson. "Bayes, in 'The Rehearsal', is a mighty silly character. I...James Boswell George Villiers, Second Duke of BuckinghamRehearsal, ThePrint: Book
1700-1799'The conversation now turned on critical subjects. Johnson. "Bayes, in 'The Rehearsal', is a mighty silly character. I...Samuel Johnson George Villiers, Second Duke of BuckinghamRehearsal, ThePrint: Book
1850-1899'On the 21st February [1851] their [Alfred and Emily Tennyson's] diary reads: "We read Alton Locke"'.Alfred and Emily TennysonCharles KingsleyAlton LockePrint: Book
1850-1899Alfred Tennyson to Charles Kingsley (1853): 'Part of the conclusion [of Hypatia] seems to me particularly valuable....Alfred Tennyson Charles KingsleyHypatiaPrint: Book
'[Johnson said] "King James says in his 'Daemonology', 'Magicians command the devils: witches are their servants. The ...Samuel Johnson King James IDaemonologyPrint: Book
1900-1945'amongst all else she [Causley's mother] found a little time for reading from a two-penny library: novels by the Corni...Charles Causley Joseph Hocking[novels]Print: Book
1900-1945'amongst all else she [Causley's mother] found a little time for reading from a two-penny library: novels by the Corni...Mrs Causley Joseph Hocking[novels]Print: Book
1900-1945'amongst all else she [Causley's mother] found a little time for reading from a two-penny library: novels by the Corni...Mrs Causley Joseph HockingRosemary CarewPrint: Book
1900-1945'amongst all else she [Causley's mother] found a little time for reading from a two-penny library: novels by the Corni...Mrs Causley Silas Hocking[novels]Print: Book
1700-1799'We talked of Dryden - Buckingham's Play said I has hurt the Reputation of the Poet, great as he was; such is the forc...Hester Lynch Thrale George Villiers, 2nd Duke of BuckinghamRehearsal, ThePrint: Book
1700-1799'We talked of Dryden - Buckingham's Play said I has hurt the Reputation of the Poet, great as he was; such is the forc...Samuel Johnson George Villiers, 2nd Duke of BuckinghamRehearsal, ThePrint: Book
1850-1899'The programme of selections from and papers on Kingsley was then proceeded with, C.E. Stansfield reading a paper on K...Alfred Rawlings Charles KingsleyPrint: Book
1850-1899'The programme of selections from and papers on Kingsley was then proceeded with, C.E. Stansfield reading a paper on K...Pattie Stansfield Charles KingsleyPrint: Book
1850-1899'The programme of selections from and papers on Kingsley was then proceeded with, C.E. Stansfield reading a paper on K...Lilian Goadby Charles KingsleyPrint: Book
1850-1899'On board the steamer between Marseilles and Malta, besides reading "Hypatia", which was "too highly coloured" for his...Arthur Penrhyn Stanley Charles KingsleyHypatiaPrint: Book
1900-1945Transcript of interview: 'I don’t think there was anything that I wasn’t allowed to read. It was only when I went ...Hilary Spalding Charles KingsleyThe Water BabiesPrint: Book
1850-18998 February 1875: 'We had an agreeable journey to Folkestone where we took ship [for china-collecting expedition in ...Lady Charlotte Schreiber Charles KingsleyHerewardPrint: Book
1900-1945

Meeting held at Ashton Lodge :- 3. 7. 37.

Henry Marriage Wallis in the Chair.

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Dorothy Brain Charles KingsleyWestward Ho!Print: Book

 

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