| √ | Century of Experience | Evidence | Name of Reader / Listener / Reading Group | Author of Text | Title of Text | Form of Text | | |
| 1700-1799 | 'My father is now reading the Midnight Bell, which he has got from the library, and mother sitting by the fire.' | George Austen | Francis Lathom | Midnight Bell, a German Story, Founded on Incidents in Real Life | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Montalembert, it appears, kept a journal from his twelfth year to the end of his life, and I am tantalised with the s... | Madame de Montalembert | Montalembert | journals of Montalembert | Manuscript: Codex |
| 1700-1799
1800-1849 | 'Austen read especially novels by women, including Mary Brunton, Frances and Sarah Harriet Burney, Maria Edgeworth, Ch... | Jane Austen | Charlotte Smith | [novels] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799
1800-1849 | 'Austen read especially novels by women, including Mary Brunton, Frances and Sarah Harriet Burney, Maria Edgeworth, Ch... | Jane Austen | Hannah More | Coelebs in Search of a Wife | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Dr Delany read his wife an eclectic range of books from Eusebius' "Life of Constantine the Great" to "Peregrine Pickl... | Patrick Delany | Tobias Smollett | Peregrine Pickle | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799
1800-1849 | 'Susan Sibbald knew Scottish shepherd Wully Carruthers who was a fellow-subscriber to the circulating library at Melro... | Wully Carruthers | Alan Ramsay | The Gentle Shepherd | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Princess Charlotte wrote of reading as a "great passion"; in a poignant attempt to construct bourgeois domestic intim... | Princess Charlotte | Anne Plumptre | [novels] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Weeton's reading becomes important in communication with friends, but also a point of conflict: when she visits her b... | Ellen Weeton | Mary Wortley Montagu | [Letters] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Weeton's reading becomes important in communication with friends, but also a point of conflict: when she visits her b... | Ellen Weeton | Elizabeth Hamilton | The Cottagers of Glenburnie | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Yesterday my Elizabeth and I went to the most remarkable poets' Reading I have ever attended. It was held at Lord Byr... | Walter de la Mare | Walter de la Mare | [five poems] | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'Growing up in extreme poverty in East London, Crooks spent 2d. on a secondhand "Iliad" and was dazzled: "What a revel... | Will Crooks | Homer | The Iliad | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read in Milton: his account of his blindness is very pathetic & I am always affected to tears'. Makes reference to 'P... | John Clare | John Milton | | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | I Read the travels of Roderick Random, who had been into different Quarters and he Exposed the severaty of the Captain... | John Yeoman | Tobias Smollett | Roderick Random | Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'If Clynes needed a second lesson in the subversive power of print, it came when his foreman nearly sacked him for sne... | J.R. Clynes | John Milton | Paradise Lost | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Read the Second Part of Mr. Roderick Random | John Yeoman | Tobias Smollett | Roderick Random | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'Their Contents were Chiefly to perswade poor people to be satisfied in their situation an not to murmur at the dispen... | Joseph Mayett | Hannah More | The Shepherd of Salisbury Plain | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Sufferings of the post-horse... from Bloomfields 'the Farmers Boy'...Poplar 7th May 1832. T.W.M. | T.W.M. | Robert Bloomfield | The Farmers Boy | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'Evening [transcription of poem] James Montgomery. Weedon Nov 11th 1836. | | James Montgomery | Evening | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | From the 'West Indies' a Poem by Montgomery.Part 2 Page 22 'In These romantic regions[...] From the same, Part 3 'Ther... | John Warburton | James Montgomery | The West Indies | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Transcription of poem as 'The Song of Music'. 'Moore'. | Mary Groom | Thomas Moore | The Song Of Music | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'The Fickleness of Love'. 'Moore'. [Transcription of poem]. | Mary Groom | Thomas Moore | 'The Fickleness of Love' | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'A Reflection at Sea'. 'Moore'. [Transcription of poem]. | Mary Groom | Thomas Moore | A Reflection at Sea | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'Weep not for Those'. 'Moore'. [Transcription of poem]. | Mary Groom | Thomas Moore | Weep Not for Those | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'Stanzas'. 'Moore'. [Transcription of poem]'Go, let me weep there's bliss in tears /...'. | Mary Groom | Thomas Moore | Stanzas | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'Perpetual Adoration'. 'Moore'. [Transcription of poem] | Mary Groom | Thomas Moore | Perpetual Adoration | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'The Inspiartion of Love'. 'Moore'. | Mary Groom | Thomas Moore | The Inspiration of Love | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'The Meeting of the Waters'. 'Moore'. | Mary Groom | Thomas Moore | The Meeting of the Waters | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'The Tear / Moore' [transcription of text]. | Mary Groom | Thomas Moore | The Tear | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'The Wintery smile of Sorrow / Moore' [transcription of text]. | Mary Groom | Thomas Moore | The Wintery Smile of Sorrow | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | transcript of the poem headed 'battle of hohenlinden / campbell' | Mary Groom | Thomas Campbell | Hohenlinden | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | transcript of the poem headed 'battle of hohenlinden / campbell' | Mary Groom | Thomas Campbell | The dirge of wallace | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'death scene in gertrude of wyoming/ campbell'; there is also a footnote that gives the context of the scene in the tale. | Mary Groom | Thomas Campbell | Gertrude of Wyoming; a Pennsylvanian Tale | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'friendship, love & truth / montgomery' | Mary Groom | James Montgomery | Friendship, love and truth | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'stanzas. addressed to a friend on the birth of his first child. / montgomery' | Mary Groom | James Montgomery | Stanzas, Addressed to a friend on the birth of his first child | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'poet's address to twilight / montgomery' | Mary Groom | James Montgomery | Poet's address to twilight | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'coeurde lion at the bier of his father / new monthly magazine' [includes prose note] [transcription of poem] | Mary Groom | Felicia Dorothea Hemans | Coeur De Lion At The Bier Of His Father | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'happiness is a very common plant...' 'e. smith's fragments' 'greenock' | Elisabeth or Eliza Duncan | Miss Elizabeth Smith | Fragments of prose and verse: by a young lady | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'the christain life may be compared...' 'e. smith's fragments'. followed by extract ascribed to 'hannah more' 'those ... | Elisabeth or Eliza Duncan | Miss Elizabeth Smith | Fragments of prose and verse: by a young lady | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'the cause of all sin...' 'e.smith's fragments'. signed 'e.d.' | Elisabeth or Eliza Duncan | Miss Elizabeth Smith | Fragments of prose and verse: by a young lady | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'far less shall earth now hastening to decay...' 'world before the flood' 'isle of man June 15th 31'. | Elisabeth or Eliza Duncan | James Montgomery | The world before the flood; a poem in ten cantos | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'Highland Hospitality' 'I once resolved to leave London for a little time [...]' 'Hermit in London'. | E.E.R. | Felix MacDonogh | The Hermit in London; or Sketches in English Manne | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have cast up my reading account, and brought it to the end of the year 1835. [?] During the last thirteen months I ... | Thomas Babington Macaulay | Callimachus | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849
1850-1899 | 'Macaulay began with the frontispiece, if the book possessed one. "Said to be very like, and certainly full of the ch... | Thomas Babington Macaulay | Monk | Biography of Richard Bentley | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'The Last Man by T. Campbell esq' [transcribes text] 'All worldly shapes shall melt in gloom...' Signed 'Fanny' | Mary Dugdale | Thomas Campbell | The Last Man | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'Graves of a Household' [transcript of text] | Emma Bowly | F. D. Hemans | The Graves of a Household | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'My Ain Fire Side' 'O I hae seen great ones...'[transcript of text] 'from the Nithsdale and Galloway Songs' | Emma Bowly | Robert Hartley Cromek | Remains of Nithsdale and Galloway Song: with histo | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Milton's Sonnet on his Blindness / 'When I consider how my light is spent...'[transcript of text] | Emma Bowly | John Milton | Sonnet XIX When I consider how my light is spent | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'The Homes of England' [transcribes text] 'Mrs Hemans' | Augusta Browne | F.D. Hemans | The Homes of England | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'Mrs Hemans. Evening Prayer at a girls school' [transcribes text] | Augusta Browne | F.D. Hemans | Evening Prayer at a Girl's School | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'The Wings of the Dove. Mrs Hemans' [transcribes text] | Augusta Browne | F.D. Hemans | The Wings of the Dove | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | '"Forget Thee?" By the Rev John Moultrie [transcript of poem]. | Mary Groom | Rev. John Moultrie | Forget Thee? | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'Fairy Favours' [transcript of poem] 'Mrs Hemans'. | Mary Groom | Felicia Dorothea Hemans | Fairy Favours | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Engaged in a 2nd perusal of the Pursuits of Literature and the Monthly Magazine
| I.G. | Thomas James Mathias | The Pursuits of Literature; A Satirical Poem | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | In Lincoln, I now took up the Memorabilia of Xenophon, ran through the odes of Anacreon, and then commenced the Iliad.... | Thomas Cooper | Homer | The Iliad | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | "Under his instruction - while we read together part of Voltaire's 'Charles the Twelfth' and Moliere's 'Le Bourgeois G... | Thomas Cooper | Moliere | Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | I am reading "Maunders Treasury of Geography" a very entertaining work. | Albert Battiscombe | Samuel Maunder | The Treasury of Geography | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | "I have been reading lately "Natural Philosophy" by Tomlinson and Sir John Herschel, and am now reading the "Chemistry... | Albert Battiscombe | Charles Tomlinson | Introduction to the Study of Natural Philosophy | Print: Book |
| 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 and Mary Lamb | | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | I have been reading lately "Maunders Geography" and working a little at "Thompson's Natural Philosophy["] | Albert Battiscombe | Samuel Maunder | The Treasury of Geography | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | I have been reading lately "Maunders Geography" and working a little at "Thompson's Natural Philosophy["] | Albert Battiscombe | Benjamin Thompson | Philosophical Papers: being a collection of memoir | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Mary read to me a little before dinner, (which she does tolerable); 'Cyrus' a Romance. I wound silk. | Mary Stancliff | Andrew Michael Ramsay | Travels of Cyrus | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Lay till near 11. Mary read 'cyrus', I winding silk. | Mary Stancliff | Andrew Michael Ramsay | ['Cyrus'] OR Travels of Cyrus | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Supper alone. Read life of Mr Savage. | Gertrude Savile | Charles Beckingham | The Life of Mr Richard Savage | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Sup'd alone. Read 'The Sophy', a play of Sir J Deham's. | Gertrude Savile | (Sir) John Denham | The Sophy OR Poems and Translations | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Read 'Sesostris, a new Tragydy'; a so-so one. | Gertrude Savile | John Sturmy | Sesostris: Or, Royalty in Disguise. A Tragedy. | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Read 'The travells of Cyrus' after supper. | Gertrude Savile | Andrew Michael Ramsay | The Travels of Cyrus | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Home past 9. Supper alone, Read 'Cyrus', Bed 12. | Gertrude Savile | Andrew Michael Ramsay | The Travels of Cyrus | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Rise at 10. Mary read 'Cyrus'. Knited [knitted] till 7. | Mary Stancliff | Andrew Michael Ramsay | The Travels of Cyrus | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Took Phisick. Rise at 10. Mary read Cyrus. | Mary Stancliff | Andrew Michael Ramsay | The Travels of Cyrus | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Took phisick. Mary read Cyrus. | Mary Stancliff | Andrew Michael Ramsay | The Travels of Cyrus | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Read 'The Adventures of Six Days'. 1 hour. Bed 11. | Gertrude Savile | Madame de Gomez | La Belle Assemblee: or, The Adventures of Six Days | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Read 'Six Days Adventures' after supper. Bed 11. | Gertrude Savile | Madame de Gomez | La Belle Assemblee: or, The Adventures of Six Days | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Adventures of Six Days' 1 hour after supper. Bed 11. | Gertrude Savile | Madame de Gomez | La Belle Assemblee: or, The Adventures of Six Days | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Read 'Adventures of Six Days'. Bed 1. | Gertrude Savile | Madame de Gomez | La Belle Assemblee: or, The Adventures of Six Days | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849
1850-1899 | [Marginalia by Macaulay on Conyers Middleton's 'Free Enquiry into the Miraculous Powers of the Christian Church']: 'I ... | Thomas Babington Macaulay | Conyers Middleton | Free Enquiry into the Miraculous Powers of the Christian Church | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Writt till supper. Read 'Sesostris'. Bed near 12. | Gertrude Savile | John Sturmy | Sesostris: Or, Royalty in Disguise. A Tragedy... | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Masenger - Believe ye are to blame, much to blame Lady; [...] That Feel a Weight of Sorrow through their Souls. | Gertrude Savile | Philip Massinger | The Very Woman | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Read 'travells of Cyrus' alone 2 1/2 hours. A fine book. Bed near 12. | Gertrude Savile | Andrew Michael Ramsay | The Travels of Cyrus | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | I finished Allan Ramsay's "Gentle Shepherd", and with some parts have been much pleased - the Scotch is interesting to... | John Horrocks Ainsworth | Allan Ramsay | The Gentle Shepherd | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | [Editorial commentary by Annie Coghill, Mrs Oliphant's cousin] 'George Macdonald's first book, or at any rate his firs... | Margaret Oliphant | George MacDonald | David Elginbrod | Manuscript: MS of a book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Thank you very much for the "Life of George Eliot," and for the kind and flattering inscription. I am very glad to h... | Margaret Oliphant | John Morley | Life of George Eliot | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | I have been steadily & delightedly reading Mitford's History. First of all, he is an Historian after my own heart, an... | Sarah Harriet Burney | William Mitford | The History of Greece | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Contains a contents list, index to illustrations, index to maps and cross references to other texts in his library. | John Dawson | William Camden | Britannia: or, a Chorographical Description of Gre | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | To Jane Whene'er I see those smiling eyes... [the 'transcript' does not follow the original to the letter] | member of Carey/Maingay group | Thomas Moore | Whene'er I see Those Smiling Eyes | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'Extract from Murphy's Grecian Daughter' 'Filial Affection' | member of Carey/Maingay group | Arthur Murphy | The Grecian Daughter | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | May heavenly Angels their soft wings display And guide you safe thro' ev'ry dangerous way In every step may you most h... | Sophia | Mary Masters | To Marinda at Parting | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'I knew, I knew it could not last...' [transcript (exact) of lines 277-294] | member of Carey/Maingay group | Thomas Moore | Lalla Rookh | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'Oh! Had wenever met/...' [transcript of lines 384-387] | member of Carey/Maingay group | Thomas Moore | Lalla Rookh | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Charles Scudamore | A Chemical and Medical Report of the Properties of | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Thomas Amory | The Life of John Buncle | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | John and Michael Banim | Tales by the O'Hara Family | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Pietro Metastasio | Opere | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | John Haslam | Medical Jurisprudence as it relates to Insanity, a | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | George Samouelle | The Entomologist's Useful Compendium | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Joseph Beaumont | Some Observations upon the Apologie of Dr Henry More | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799
1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Oliver Cromwell | His Highnesse the Lord Protector's speeches to the Parliament in the Painted Chamber | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799
1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | James MacPherson | The Poems of Ossian, the Son of Fingal | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799
1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | John Milton | Paradise Lost: a poem in twelve books | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799
1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Hugh Farmer | A Dissertation on Miracles | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799
1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Heinrich Rimius | A Candid Narrative of the Rise and Progress of the Herrnhunters | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Henry Peter Brougham | A Speech on the Present State of the Law of the Country | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Thomas Amory | The Life of John Buncle, Esq | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Johann Albert Heinrich Reimarus | Ueber die Grunde der menschlichen Erkentniss und der nat?rlichen Religion | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Wilhelm Gottlieb Tennemann | Geschichte der Philosophie | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Publius Virgilius Maro | Georgica Publii Virgilii Maronis Hexaglotta | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Thomas Bateman | A Practical Synopsis of Cutaneous Diseases | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | I read some of Chrysostom's commentary on the Ephesians. I am getting tired of this commentary. Such underground dar... | Elizabeth Barrett | St John Chrysostom | Commentary on the Ephesians | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | We [Barrett and Hugh Stuart Boyd] talked comparatively about Homer, Aeschylus & Shakespeare: and positively about Aesc... | Elizabeth Barrett | Homer | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Went into the library to try to rationalize my mind about the deathwatch, - by reading the Cyclopaedia. Feel very unw... | Elizabeth Barrett | Lamartine | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Went into the library to try to rationalize my mind about the deathwatch, - by reading the Cyclopaedia. Feel very unw... | Elizabeth Barrett | Lamartine | Childe Harold | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Went into the library to try to rationalize my mind about the deathwatch, - by reading the Cyclopaedia. Feel very unw... | Elizabeth | Homer | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | At breakfast, my parcel of books from Eaton came up the road. Fresh from the carrier. Unpacked it eagerly, & read th... | Elizabeth Barrett | Callimachus | | Print: 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... | Molly Vivian | Richard Harris Barham | The Ingoldsby Legends | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'At age thirteen John Clare was shown The Seasons by a Methodist weaver and though he had no real experience of poetry... | John Clare | James Thomson | The Seasons | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Christopher Thomson was a "zealous" Methodist until he discovered Shakespeare, Miilton, Sterne and Dr Johnson at a ci... | Christopher Thomson | John Milton | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Shakespeare incited his appetite for poetry: Cowper, Pope, Dryden, Goldsmith, Thomson, Byron. Not only were they more... | Joseph Barker | Oliver Goldsmith | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Shakespeare incited his appetite for poetry: Cowper, Pope, Dryden, Goldsmith, Thomson, Byron. Not only were they more... | Joseph Barker | James Thomson | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Byron had intoxicated him "with the freedom of his style of writing, with the fervour or passionateness of his feelin... | Joseph Barker | John Milton | | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'While he read little but the Bible and religious periodicals, his son was working his way through the Rhymney Workmen... | Thomas Jones | Thomas Babington MacAulay | | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'While he read little but the Bible and religious periodicals, his son was working his way through the Rhymney Workmen... | Thomas Jones | Oliver Goldsmith | History of England | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'The Primitive Methodists may have been the most anti-intellectual of the Wesleyans, yet miners' MP John Johnson... "f... | John Johnson | Adam Smith | The Wealth of Nations | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'The Primitive Methodists may have been the most anti-intellectual of the Wesleyans, yet miners' MP John Johnson "foun... | John Johnson | John Stuart Mill | Principles of Political Economy | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'The Primitive Methodists may have been the most anti-intellectual of the Wesleyans, yet miners' MP John Johnson "foun... | John Johnson | Alfred Marshall | Principles of Economics | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'The propaganda of Robert Owen alone did not convert printer Thomas Frost to socialism: "The poetry of Coleridge and S... | Thomas Frost | Charles de Secondat, Baron Montesquieu | The Persian Letters | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | "'Within the last month I have read Tristram Shandy, Brydone's Sicily and Malta, and Moore's Travels in France,' D[oro... | Dorothy Wordsworth | John Moore | Travels in France | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799
1800-1849 | 'As a Manchester warehouse porter, Samuel Bamford found the same richness in Milton: "His 'L'Allegro' and 'Il Penseros... | Samuel Bamford | John Milton | L'Allegro | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799
1800-1849 | 'As a Manchester warehouse porter, Samuel Bamford found the same richness in Milton: "His 'L'Allegro' and 'Il Penseros... | Samuel Bamford | John Milton | Il Penseroso | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'In 1926 [Catherine McMullen] was herself a workhouse laundress, struggling to improve her mind by reading T.P. and Ca... | Catherine McMullen | Desiderius Erasmus Rotterdamus | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | '[Mary Smith] found emancipation in Shakespeare, Dryden, Goldsmith and other standard male authors, whom she extolled ... | Mary Smith | Oliver Goldsmith | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'by age twenty [Mary Smith] had read and understood George Payne's Elements of Mental and Moral Science, Thomas Brown'... | Mary Smith | Ralph Waldo Emerson | | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | "[in Aug. 1787 Dorothy Wordsworth] reported that 'I am at present [reading] the Iliad' ... " | Dorothy Wordsworth | Homer | Iliad | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have read only one play, the Bashful Lover and one or two of Plutarch's lives since we wrote last.' | Dorothy Wordsworth | Philip Massinger | Bashful Lover, The | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Dorothy Wordsworth describes to Lady Beaumont how she received a letter from her: 'A few minutes before your letter ar... | William and Dorothy Wordsworth | Lady Beaumont | [letter] | Manuscript: Letter |
| 1800-1849 | 'I often think of the happy evening when, by your fireside, my Brother read to us the first book of the Paradise lost ... | William Wordsworth | John Milton | Paradise Lost | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | William Wordsworth to Francis Wrangham: 'I have read your quondam Friend's, Dr. Symmonds' life of Milton, on some futu... | William Wordsworth | Symmonds | Life of John Milton, The | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | William Wordsworth to Francis Wrangham: 'I have read your sermon [Human Laws best supported by the Gospel] (which I la... | William Wordsworth | Francis Wrangham | Human Laws best supported by the Gospel | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | William Wordsworth to Francis Wrangham: 'Your sermon [The Gospel best promulgated by National Schools] did not reach m... | Wordsworth Family | Francis Wrangham | Gospel best promulgated in National Schools, The | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Henry Mayhew interviews a street author or street poet:
"I was very fond of reading poems in my youth, as soon as I... | anon | Oliver Goldsmith | Edwin and Angelina | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849
1850-1899 | Henry Mayhew interviews a penny mouse-trap maker (cripple):
"I found books often lull my pain... I can't afford the... | anon | John Milton | Paradise Lost | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Philip Inman conveyed a ... specific sense of the uses of literacy for an early Labour MP. The son of a widowed charw... | Philip Inman | Ralph Waldo Emerson | [Essays] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Philip Inman conveyed a ... specific sense of the uses of literacy for an early Labour MP. The son of a widowed charw... | Philip Inman | Oliver Wendell Holmes | Autocrat of the Breakfast Table | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Philip Inman conveyed a ... specific sense of the uses of literacy for an early Labour MP. The son of a widowed charw... | Philip Inman | Charles Lamb | Essays of Elia | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Philip Inman conveyed a ... specific sense of the uses of literacy for an early Labour MP. The son of a widowed charw... | Philip Inman | Thomas a Kempis | The Imitation of Christ | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'At the front of D[ove] C[ottage] MS 16, in use during 1798, D[orothy] W[ordsworth] copied Marlowe's Edward II V.v.55-... | Dorothy Wordsworth | Christopher Marlowe | Edward II | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | ' ... a short extract from [Philip] Massinger's The Picture (III.v.211-19) [was] copied by D[orothy] W[ordsworth] into... | Dorothy Wordsworth | Philip Massinger | Picture, The | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'During the spring or summer of 1789, W[ordsworth] translated Moschus' Lament for Bion [Idyllium III] ... ' | William Wordsworth | Moschus | Lament for Bion | Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'Percy Wall, jailed for defying draft notices in the First World War, was inspired in part by a copy of Queen Mab owne... | Percy Wall | Ralph Waldo Emerson | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Percy Wall, jailed for defying draft notices in the First World War, was inspired in part by a copy of Queen Mab owne... | Percy Wall | Thomas Babington Macaulay | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Percy Wall, jailed for defying draft notices in the First World War, was inspired in part by a copy of Queen Mab owne... | Percy Wall | Charles Lamb | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Emrys Daniel Hughes, [an] imprisoned CO and son of a Tonypandy miner, learned that the authorities were not unaware o... | Emrys Daniel Hughes | Thomas More | Utopia | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Emrys Daniel Hughes, [an] imprisoned CO and son of a Tonypandy miner, learned that the authorities were not unaware o... | Emrys Daniel Hughes | Walt Whitman | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '[Emrys Hughes] read the social history of Macaulay, Froude, and J.R. Green; Thorold Rogers's Six Centuries of Work an... | Emrys Daniel Hughes | Thomas Babington Macaulay | | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'On the rear flyleaf of his copy of [Charlotte Smith's] Elegiac Sonnets [5th edn, 1789]... W[ordsworth] copied two mor... | William Wordsworth | Charlotte Smith | [sonnets (two)] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | '[Francis] Wrangham was ... in the habit of reading MS verses to his friends: C[oleridge] heard his "Brutoniad" in Sep... | Francis Wrangham | Francis Wrangham | Brutoniad | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Dorothy Wordsworth to Thomas De Quincey, 1 August 1809: '... I took the pains when I was in Kendal of going to the Boo... | Dorothy Wordsworth | Thomas Campbell | Gertrude of Wyoming (extracts) | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | Dorothy Wordsworth writes to Catherine Clarkson (12 November 1810) with description of three nights' stay during Octob... | William Wordsworth | John Milton | Paradise Lost | Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'By age fourteen Durham collier Jack Lawson would find... emancipation at the Boldon Miners' Institute... "And didn't ... | Jack Lawson | James Thomson | The Seasons | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899
1900-1945 | 'The historical classics "came as a revelation"- Macaulay, J.R. Green, Gibbon, Motley's Dutch Republic, Prescott on Pe... | Jack Lawson | Thomas Babington Macaulay | | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899
1900-1945 | 'The historical classics "came as a revelation"- Macaulay, J.R. Green, Gibbon, Motley's Dutch Republic, Prescott on Pe... | Jack Lawson | John Lothrop Motley | The Rise of the Dutch Republic | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'At Ruskin College he was exposed to Marx, but he found a more compelling Utopian prophet when he read Lewis Carroll t... | Jack Lawson | Karl Marx | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [Alice Foley] read some Morris and less Marx, but for her a liberal education for the proletariat was not merely a mea... | Alice Foley | Karl Marx | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [Alice Foley] read some Morris and less Marx, but for her a liberal education for the proletariat was not merely a mea... | Alice Foley | William Morris | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '[Chaim Lewis] enthusiastically embraced the literature of an alien culture - "the daffodils of Herrick and Wordsworth... | Chaim Lewis | Charles Lamb | | Print: 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 | Oliver Wendell Holmes | | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Blatchford, once he read it carefully found [Samuel Smiles's Self Help] "one of the most delightful and invigorating ... | Robert Peel Glanville Blatchford | Samuel Smiles | Self Help | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'George Gregory offers a case study in the importance of Self-Help. His father was an illiterate Somsert miner, his mo... | George Gregory | Samuel Smiles | Self Help | Print: Book |
| | Dorothy Wordsworth to Catherine Clarkson, 14 August 1811: 'I have read nothing since I wrote to you except bits here a... | Dorothy Wordsworth | Thomas Amory | The Life of John Buncle | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | William Wordsworth to B. R. Haydon, 21 December 1815: 'Have you read the works of the Abbe [Johann Joachim] Winkelman ... | William Wordsworth | Johann Joachim Winkelman | Reflections concerning the imitation of the Grecian Artists in Painting and Sculpture, in a series of Letters' | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | William Wordsworth to Viscount Lowther, 22 September 1818: 'Your two interesting Letters, the Pamphlet, and Sun and Ch... | William Wordsworth | Henry Brougham | A Letter to Sir Samuel Romilly upon the Abuse of Charities | |
| 1800-1849 | William Wordsworth to Francis Wrangham, 19 February 1819:
'I ought to have thanked you before for your versions of V... | William Wordsworth | Francis Wrangham | translation of Virgil, Eclogues | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Dorothy Wordsworth to Joanna Hutchinson, 5 September 1819: 'We have been very comfortable and without the least bustle... | Thomas Monkhouse | J. G. Crump | | Manuscript: Letter, Sheet |
| 1800-1849 | William Wordsworth (visiting Paris) to Helen Maria Williams, [15 October 1820], 'I had the honour of receiving your le... | William Wordsworth | Helen Maria Williams | The Charter; addressed to my nephew Athanase C. L. Coquerel, on his wedding day, 1819 | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | '[Charles] Lamb copied ... [John Beaumont, Bart., the elder, "An Epitaph upon my dear Brother Francis Beaumont"] into... | Charles Lamb | John Beaumont | An Epitaph upon my dear Brother Francis Beaumont | Print: UnknownUnknown |
| 1800-1849 | '[Sir George] Beaumont wriote to W[ordsworth] on 10 Aug. 1806, saying: "I am sure you will be pleased with my ancestor... | Sir George Beaumont | John Beaumont | [poems] | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | S. T. Coleridge to James Tobin, 17 Sept 1800: 'What Wordsworth & I have seen of the Farmer's Boy (only a few short ext... | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Robert Bloomfield | Farmer's Boy, The | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | S. T. Coleridge to James Tobin, 17 Sept 1800: 'What Wordsworth & I have seen of the Farmer's Boy (only a few short ext... | William Wordsworth | Robert Bloomfield | Farmer's Boy, The | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | '[Samuel] Rogers reported W[ordsworth]'s reaction to Brougham's harsh review of Byron's first volume: "Wordsworth was ... | William Wordsworth | Henry Brougham | review of Byron, Hours of Idleness | Print: Serial / periodical |
| | Henry Crabb Robinson on Wordsworth's reading of Henry Brougham's review of Byron, Hours of Idleness: 'I was sitting wi... | William Wordsworth | Henry Brougham | review of Byron, Hours of Idleness | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'De Qunicey's letter of 27 Aug 1810 to D[orothy] W[ordsworth] contains the last two lines of [John] Byrom's epigram ..... | Thomas De Quincey | John Byrom | Epigram on the Feuds Between Handel and Bononcini | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'De Qunicey's letter of 27 Aug 1810 to D[orothy] W[ordsworth] contains the last two lines of [John] Byrom's epigram ..... | Dorothy Wordsworth | John Byrom | Epigram on the Feuds Between Handel and Bononcini | Manuscript: Letter |
| 1800-1849 | ' ... the first three stanzas and two concluding stanzas of [Thoms] Campbell's poem [The Exile of Erin] were copied an... | Sara Hutchinson | Thomas Campbell | Exile of Erin, The | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'On 7 Aug. 1805 the Wordsworths told Lady Beaumont that "We have just read a poem called the Sabbath written by a very... | Wordsworth Family | James Grahame | Sabbath, The | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'W[ordsworth] copied out seven lines of Grahame's poem [Birds of Scotland] in a letter to Lady Beaumont of Dec. 1806, ... | William Wordsworth | James Grahame | Birds of Scotland | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'Charles Lamb copied ... [Mary Anne Lamb, Dialogue Between a Mother and Child] for D[orothy] W[ordsworth] in a letter ... | Charles Lamb | Mary Anne Lamb | Dialogue Between a Mother and Child | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'Charles Lamb copied ... [Mary Anne Lamb, The Lady Blanch, regardless of her lovers' fears] for D[orothy] W[ordsworth]... | Charles Lamb | Mary Anne Lamb | Lady Blanch, regardless of her lovers' fears | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'Charles Lamb copied ... [Mary Anne Lamb, "Virgin and Child"] for D[orothy] W[ordsworth] in a letter of 2 June 1804.' | Charles Lamb | Mary Anne Lamb | Virgin and Child | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'Charles Lamb copied ... [Mary Anne Lamb, "On the Same" ("Virgin and Child")] for D[orothy] W[ordsworth] in a letter o... | Charles Lamb | Mary Anne Lamb | On the Same (Virgin and Child) | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Wu notes translated extract from Sir Bors' lament for Arthur (in the Morte D'Arthur of Thomas Malory) in the Wordswort... | Wordsworth Family | Thomas Malory | Morte D'Arthur | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | 'C[oleridge] had read the Essay [on the Principle of Population] shortly after its first appearance in 1798.' | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Thomas Robert Malthus | Essay on the Principle of Population, An | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'In late 1808 S[ara] H[utchinson] copied the description of the gawlin from [Martin] Martin, pp.71-2, into C[oleridge]... | Sara Hutchinson | Martin Martin | Description of the Western Islands of Scotland, A | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'C[oleridge]'s letter to S[ara] H[utchinson] of May 1807 contained a transcription of Marvell's "On a Drop of Dew".' | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Andrew Marvell | On a Drop of Dew | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'Prelude MS W [Dove Cottage MS 38)] contains a transcription of Marvell's Horatian Ode dating from late 1802.' | William Wordsworth | Andrew Marvell | Horatian Ode upon Cromwell's Return from Ireland, An | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Wordsworth in the Fenwick Note to Miscellaneous Sonnets: 'In the cottage of Town-End, one afternoon, in 1801, my Siste... | Dorothy Wordsworth | John Milton | [sonnets] | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'During his stay with the Beaumonts at Coleorton, 30 Oct. to 2 Nov. 1806, W[ordsworth] gave several readings from Para... | William Wordsworth | John Milton | Paradise Lost | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | '"In reading Lady Mary W Montagu's letters, whi[ch] we have had lately, I continually felt a want - I had not the leas... | Dorothy Wordsworth | Lady Mary Wortley Montagu | Letters | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | '[Thomas De Quincey] got round to reading ... [Hannah More, Coelebs in Search of a Wife] only in late June or early Ju... | Thomas De Quincey | Hannah More | Coelebs in Search of a Wife | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Lamb read ... [Hannah More, Coelebs in Search of a Wife] at around ... [June-July 1809] ... on 7 June he told C[oleri... | Charles Lamb | Hannah More | Coelebs in Search of a Wife | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'In the Fenwick Note to The Pet-lamb, W[ordsworth] recalled: "Within a few months after the publication of this poem, ... | William Wordsworth | Lindley Murray | Introduction to the English Reader | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'In [Ashington Mechanics' Institute] library [Chester Armstrong] discovered a "new world", a "larger environment" in D... | Chester Armstrong | Frederick Marryat | | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'In [Ashington Mechanics' Institute] library [Chester Armstrong] discovered a "new world", a "larger environment" in D... | Chester Armstrong | James Fenimore Cooper | | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'In 1898 Armstrong organised the Ashington Debating and Literary Improvement Society, and his reading broadened out to... | Chester Armstrong | Walt Whitman | | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'In 1898 Armstrong organised the Ashington Debating and Literary Improvement Society, and his reading broadened out to... | Chester Armstrong | George Meredith | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'A joiner's son in an early-nineteenth century Scottish village recalled [reading] his first novel, David Moir's The L... | a Scottish joiner's son | David Moir | The Life of Mansie Wauch | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Wu notes extracts from vol 1 of Volney, "Travels Through Syria and Egypt", in Dove Cottage MS 28.
| Wordsworth Family | Constantin Francois de Chasseboeuf comte de Volney | Travels through Syria and Egypt, in the years 1783, 1784, and 1785 | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'Writing to [Francis] Wrangham in late Feb. 1801, W[ordsworth] remarked: "I read with great pleasure a very elegant an... | William Wordsworth | Francis Wrangham | [poem] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | ' ... a most violent attack is preparing for me in the the next number of the Edinburgh Review, this I have from the a... | anon | Henry Brougham | review of Byron, Hours of Idleness | Print: proofManuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to Edward Ellice, 4 July 1810: 'I hear your friend Brougham is in the lower house mouthing at the ministry ... y... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Henry Brougham | [speech] | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'Soldier's son Joseph Barker... first read the Bible "chiefly as a work of history and was very greatly delighted with... | Joseph Barker | John Milton | Paradise Lost | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849
1850-1899 | 'When young, Frederick Rogers read not only the Bible as a thriller ("the men and women of the sacred books were as fa... | Frederick Rogers | Alexandre Dumas | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'As a child, William Heaton the Yorkshire weaver-poet, "rambled with Christian from his home in the wilderness to the ... | William Heaton | Tobias Smollett | Roderick Random | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to Francis Hodgson, 8 December 1811: 'I have gotten a book by Sir William Drummond (printed, but not published),... | George Gordon, Lord Byron | Sir William Drummond | Aedipus Judaicus | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to John Cam Hobhouse, 15 December 1811: 'I have been living quietly, reading Sir W. Drummond's book on the bible... | George Gordon, Lord Byron | Sir William Drummond | Aedipus Judaicus | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to Lady Caroline Lamb, 1 May 1812: 'I have read over the few poems of Miss Milbank with attention ... I like the... | George Gordon, Lord Byron | Annabella Milbanke | [lines on Dermody] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to Lady Caroline Lamb, 1 May 1812: 'I have read over the few poems of Miss Milbank with attention ... I like the... | George Gordon, Lord Byron | Annabella Milbanke | [lines in the cave at Seaham] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to Lady Caroline Lamb, 1 May 1812: 'I have read over the few poems of Miss Milbank with attention ... A friend o... | [friend of Byron's, probably Dallas] anon | Annabella Milbanke | [poems] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to Lady Melbourne, 18 October 1812, on writing by Annabella Milbanke that she has forwarded to him: '... the spe... | George Gordon, Lord Byron | Annabella Milbanke | [biography] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to John Murray, 20 January 1813; 'In "Horace in London" I perceive some stanzas on Ld. E[lgin] - in which ... I ... | George Gordon Lord Byron | James and Horace Smith | Horace in London; consisting of Imitations of the First Two Books of the Odes of Horace | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to Thomas Moore, 22 August 1813, in description of Newstead Abbey: 'I remember, when about fifteen, reading your... | George Gordon, Lord Byron | Thomas Moore | [poems] | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to Lady Melbourne, 21 September 1813, from Aston Hall, Rotherham (where staying with Sir James Wedderburn Webste... | George Gordon, Lord Byron | Grimm | unknown | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Byron thanks J. Thomson (unidentified) for volume of poems, 27 September 1813: 'I have derived considerable pleasure f... | George Gordon, Lord Byron | J. Thomson | unknown | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to Thomas Moore, 8 December 1813: 'I have met with an odd reflection in Grimm ... "Many people have the reputati... | George Gordon, Lord Byron | Friedrich Melchoir Grimm | Correspondance Litteraire | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | ...a desire for information which was by no means whollly neglected even whilst I was an apprentice, I always found so... | Francis Place | Tobias George Smollett | | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | ...a desire for information which was by no means whollly neglected even whilst I was an apprentice, I always found so... | Francis Place | David Hume | [Hume's Essays] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Byron's Journal (14 November 1813-19 April 1814), 5 December 1813: 'I showed ... [John Galt] Sligo's letter on the rep... | John Galt | Lord Sligo (2nd marquis of) | [letter on the punishment for adultery in Turkey] | Manuscript: Letter |
| 1800-1849 | Byron's Journal (14 November 1813-19 April 1814), 5 Deecmber 1813: 'I showed ... [John Galt] Sligo's letter on the rep... | Henry Fox, third Lord Holland | Lord Sligo (2nd marquis of) | [letter on punishment of adultery in Turkey] | Manuscript: Letter |
| 1800-1849 | Byron's Journal (14 November 1813-19 April 1814), 5 Deecmber 1813: 'I showed ... [John Galt] Sligo's letter on the rep... | Matthew Gregory Lewis | Lord Sligo (2nd marquis of) | [letter on punishment for adultery in Turkey] | Manuscript: Letter |
| 1800-1849 | Byron's Journal (14 November 1813-19 April 1814), 5 Deecmber 1813: 'I showed ... [John Galt] Sligo's letter on the rep... | Thomas Moore | Lord Sligo (2nd marquis of) | [letter on punishment of adultery in Turkey] | Manuscript: Letter |
| 1800-1849 | Byron's Journal (14 November 1813-19 April 1814), 5 Deecmber 1813: 'I showed ... [John Galt] Sligo's letter on the rep... | Samuel Rogers | Lord Sligo (2nd marquis of) | [letter on punishment of adultery in Turkey] | Manuscript: Letter |
| 1800-1849 | Byron's Journal (14 November 1813-19 April 1814), 5 Deecmber 1813: 'I showed ... [John Galt] Sligo's letter on the rep... | Lady Melbourne | Lord Sligo (2nd marquis of) | [letter on the punishment of adultery in Turkey] | Manuscript: Letter |
| 1800-1849 | Byron's Journal (14 November 1813-19 April 1814), 20 March 1814: 'Redde Machiavel, parts of Chardin, and Sismondi, and... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Leonard Simonde de Sismondi | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to John Herman Merivale, [January 1814]: 'I have redde Roncesvaux with very great pleasure ... You have written ... | George Gordon Lord Byron | John Herman Merivale | Orlando in Roncesvalles | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to Annabella Milbanke, 12 February 1814: 'In thanking you for your letter you will allow me to say that there is... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Annabella Milbanke | [letter] | Manuscript: Letter |
| 1700-1799 | The whole or nearly the whole of the eight months when I was not employed was not lost. I read many volumes in history... | Francis Place | David Hume | [Essays and Treatises] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | The whole or nearly the whole of the eight months when I was not employed was not lost. I read many volumes in history... | Francis Place | Adam Smith | Wealth of Nations | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | I readily got through a small school book of Geometry and having an odd volume of the 1st of Williamsons Euclid I atta... | Francis Place | Williamson | Euclid | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Byron in postscript of letter to Annabella Milbanke, 1 August 1814: 'I have read your letter once more -- and it appea... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Annabella Milbanke | [letter] | Manuscript: Letter |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to John Murray, 3 August 1814: 'I see advertisements of Lara & Jacqueline -- pray why? when I requested you to p... | George Gordon Lord Byron | John Murray | [advertisements for Byron, Lara, and Samuel Rogers, Jacqueline (joint publication)] | Print: AdvertisementManuscript: Letter |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to John Murray, 2 September 1814: ' ... [Thomas Campbell] has an unpublished (though printed) poem on a Scene in... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Thomas Campbell | Lines on Leaving a Scene in Bavaria | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to Annabella Milbanke, early in their engagement, 19 September 1814: 'When your letter arrived my sister was sit... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Annabella Milbanke | [letter] | Manuscript: Letter |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to Lady Melbourne, 23 September 1814: 'I am glad you liked Annabella [Milbanke]'s letter to you -- Augusta said ... | Augusta Leigh | Annabella Milbanke | [letter to Byron] | Manuscript: Letter |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to Annabella Milbanke, 16 October 1814: 'In arranging papers I have found the first letter you ever wrote to me ... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Annabella Milbanke | [letter] | Manuscript: Letter |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to Thomas Moore, 10 January 1815: 'I have redde thee upon the Fathers, and it is excellent well ... you must no... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Thomas Moore | article on Boyd's Select Passages from the Writings of St Chrysostom | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1600-1699 | he was required to answer to some of the articles, viz. the signing and subscribing the two opinions; but I thinck it ... | John Bramston | John Bramston | [untitled] | Unknown |
| 1600-1699 | Camden does credit this and repeates a tryal one made of forceing a Duck into one of those falls, which came out at th... | Celia Fiennes | William Camden | Britannia | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to the Rev. Charles Robert Maturin, 21 December 1815, regarding submission of MS [Bertram] to Drury Lane Theatre... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Charles Robert Maturin | Bertram | Manuscript: Unknown |
| | Byron to the Rev. Charles Robert Maturin, 21 December 1815, regarding submission of MS [Bertram] to Drury Lane Theatre... | George Lamb | Charles Robert Maturin | Bertram | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to Samuel Rogers, 29 July 1816: 'I have read "Glenarvon" ... & have also seen Ben. Constant's Adolphe ... a work... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Lady Caroline Lamb | Glenarvon | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to Augusta Leigh, 17 September 1816 ("Alpine Journal"), on General Ludlow's monument at Vevey: 'black marble -- ... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Margaret de Thomas | epitaph to Edmund Ludlow | Manuscript: tombstone epitaph |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to Thomas Moore, 6 November 1816: 'Among many things at Milan, one pleased me particularly, viz. the corresponde... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Cardinal; Lucretia Bembo; de Borgia | letters | Manuscript: Letter, Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | During this Spring read Shakspeare [sic] regularly through, and studied the characters of Hamlet, Douglas, Osman in 'Z... | John Cole | John Home | Douglas: A Tragedy | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to Thomas Moore, 17 November 1816: 'By the way, I suppose you have seen "Glenarvon". Madame de Stael lent it to... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Lady Caroline Lamb | Glenarvon | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | "Read my birthday book from Walter. 'Alec Forbes of Howglen' by Mac Donald." | Agnes Blanche Hemming | George MacDonald | Alec Forbes of Howglen | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | "Had a long morning to read 'Alec Forbes of Howglen'". | Agnes Blanche Hemming | George MacDonald | Alec Forbes of Howglen | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | "Read Lorna Doone in the evening and helped Mother in to bed." | Agnes Blanche Hemming | R.D. Blackmore | Lorna Doone | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | "Much interested in Lorna Doone. It is a truly romantic book." | Agnes Blanche Hemming | R.D. Blackmore | Lorna Doone | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | "Finished reading Lorna Doone and like it very much." | Agnes Blanche Hemming | R.D. Blackmore | Lorna Doone | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | "Read aloud to Maude from Lorna Doone. Very much taken with this little bit - 'the valley into which I gazed was fair... | Agnes Blanche Hemming | R.D. Blackmore | Lorna Doone | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | One of my many visitors this summer, - R.M. Milnes, made earnest enquiry for you. I do hope you like his poetry almos... | Harriet Martineau | R.M. Milnes | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to John Murray 9 July 1817: 'I have got the sketch & extracts from Lallah Rookh ... the plan as well as the extr... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Thomas Moore | Lallah Rookh | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to Thomas Moore, 10 July 1817: '[John] Murray ... has contrived to send me extracts from Lalla Rookh ... They ar... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Thomas Moore | Lallah Rookh (extracts) | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to John Murray, 15 July 1817: 'I lent [M. G.] Lewis who is at Venice ... your extracts from Lalla Rookh -- & Man... | Matthew Gregory Lewis | Thomas Moore | Lallah Rookh (extracts) | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to John Murray, 15 July 1817: 'I lent [M. G.] Lewis who is at Venice ... your extracts from Lalla Rookh -- & Man... | Matthew Gregory Lewis | Charles Robert Maturin | Manuel | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to John Murray, 15 September 1817: 'I have read 'Lallah Rookh' -- but not with sufficient attention yet -- for I... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Thomas Moore | Lallah Rookh | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to John Murray, 15 September 1817, on what he perceives to be inferiority of contemporary authors to Pope: 'I am... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Thomas Moore | [poems] | Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | For some reason we were never confronted with the famous animal books in childhood -neither "The Wind in the Willows" ... | Patricia Beer | Kenneth Grahame | The Wind in the Willows | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | For some reason we were never confronted with the famous animal books in childhood -neither "The Wind in the Willows" ... | Patricia Beer | A.A. Milne | Winnie the Pooh | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | After the age of ten, I turned to a series of works which were no less goody-goody, though the svaing blood of Jesus h... | Patricia Beer | L.M. Montgomery | Anne of Green Gables | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | After the age of ten, I turned to a series of works which were no less goody-goody, though the svaing blood of Jesus h... | Patricia Beer | L.M. Montgomery | Emily of New Moon | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to Charles, 8th Lord Kinnaird, 15 May 1819: 'Three years & some months ago when you were reding [sic] "Bertram" ... | Charles 8th Lord Kinnaird | Charles Robert Maturin | Bertram | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to Lady Byron, 20 July 1819: 'I tried to discover for Leigh Hunt some traces of Francesca [character in Dante's ... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Benvenuto da Imola | Commentary on Dante, Commedia | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'I quite agree with you about Leonidas &c. I have greatly enjoyed finding myself a child again over Macaulay's 'Lays'... | Harriet Martineau | Thomas Babington Macaulay | Lays of Ancient Rome | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | '[Balzac's] short works although not new are exquisite - La Recherche de L'Absolu- Eugenie Grandet- Modeste Mignon- Th... | Mary Russell Mitford | Mirabeau | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | '[Balzac's] short works although not new are exquisite - La Recherche de L'Absolu- Eugenie Grandet- Modeste Mignon- Th... | Mary Russell Mitford | Lucas Montigny | Memoires de Mirabeau sa famille et ses ecrits | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | '[Balzac's] short works although not new are exquisite - La Recherche de L'Absolu- Eugenie Grandet- Modeste Mignon- Th... | Mary Russell Mitford | Thomas Babington Macaulay | The History of England, from the Accession of James the Second | 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 | Frederick Marryat | Mr Midshipman Easy | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | '[Janet Hamilton] had a heavy literary diet as a child - history by Rollin and Plutarch, Ancient Universal History, Pi... | Janet Hamilton | Allan Ramsay | [poetry] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | '[Janet Hamilton] had a heavy literary diet as a child - history by Rollin and Plutarch, Ancient Universal History, Pi... | Janet Hamilton | John Milton | Paradise Lost | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Robert White... had somewhat more progressive tastes [than Robert Story], which extended to Shelley, Keats, Childe Ha... | Robert White | Tobias Smollett | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to Thomas Moore, 9 June 1820; 'Galignani has just sent me the Paris edition of your works (which I wrote to orde... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Thomas Moore | Works | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to Thomas Moore, 9 June 1820; 'I have just been turning over Little, which I knew by heart in 1803, being then i... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Thomas Moore | Poems of the Late Thomas Little | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to Thomas Moore, 9 June 1820; 'I have just been turning over Little, which I knew by heart in 1803, being then i... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Thomas Moore | Poems of the Late Thomas Little | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to John Murray, 17 July 1820, on books used in research for Marino Faliero, Doge of Venice: 'I have consulted Sa... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Jean Charles Sismondi | History of the Italian Republics in the Middle Ages | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to John Murray, 22 July 1820, about books received: 'the diary of an Invalid good and true bating a few mistakes... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Henry Matthews | Diary of an Invalid | Print: 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 | Tobias Smollett | | Print: 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 | Oliver Goldsmith | | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | '[Joseph Keating's] initiation into modern literature came when his brother introduced him to Jerome K. Jerome's Three... | Joseph Keating | Jerome K. Jerome | Three Men in a Boat | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'orphanage boy Thomas Burke... devoured books until "my mind became a lumber room". Inevitably, "criticism was beyond ... | Thomas Burke | Felicia Hemans | | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899
1900-1945 | 'As one participant recalled, "Many exceptional debates come back to mind on such subjects as Jane Austen, Charles Lam... | Ladies' Edinburgh Debating Society | Charles Lamb | unknown | Print: Book |
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1900-1945 | 'As one participant recalled, "Many exceptional debates come back to mind on such subjects as Jane Austen, Charles Lam... | Ladies' Edinburgh Debating Society | Meredith | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'As for Mona Maclean I am afraid I could not say more than that it is a cleverish very youthful book, the author of wh... | Margaret Oliphant | F Marion Crawford | | Print: Book, Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 5 January 1821: 'Read Mitford's History of Greece -- Xenophon's ... | George Gordon Lord Byron | William Mitford | History of Greece | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | " Read Betula (sic) Liberata to my beloved. Explained all the difficult passages." | Lady Eleanor Butler | Metastasio | Betulia Liberata | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 6 January 1821: Read Spence's Anecdotes ... Corrected blunders i... | George Gordon Lord Byron | William Mitford | History of Greece | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 6 January 1821: 'Came home [after going visiting at 8pm], and re... | George Gordon Lord Byron | William Mitford | History of Greece | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 8 January 1821: 'Came home [from ?Guicciolis', where visited at ... | George Gordon Lord Byron | William Mitford | History of Greece | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 10 January 1821: 'Looked over accounts. Read Campbell's Poets -... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Thomas Campbell | Specimens of the British Poets (including prefatory Essay on English Poetry) | Print: BookUnknown |
| 1800-1849 | Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 10 January 1821: '[after going out to hear music] Came home -- ... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Thomas Campbell | Specimens of the British Poets (including prefatory Essay on English Poetry) | Print: BookUnknown |
| 1800-1849 | Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 11 January 1821: 'In reading, I have just chanced upon an expres... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Thomas Campbell | Specimens of the British Poets (including prefatory Essay on English Poetry) | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 12 January 1821: 'Read the Poets -- English that is to say -- ou... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Thomas Campbell | Specimens of the British Poets (including prefatory Essay on English Poetry) | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 12 January 1821: 'How strange are my thoughts! -- The reading of... | George Gordon Lord Byron | John Milton | Sabrina Fair | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 12 January 1821, on memories of Cambridge life with friend Edwar... | George Gordon, Lord Byron, and Edward Noel Young. | Thomas Moore | Epistles, Odes and Other Poems | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 13 January 1821: 'Sketched the outline and Drams. Pers. of an in... | George Gordon Lord Byron | William Mitford | History of Greece | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 15 January 1821: '... dined -- dipped into a volume of Mitford's... | George Gordon Lord Byron | William Mitford | History of Greece | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 20 January 1821: 'Rode -- fired pistols. Read from Grimm's Corr... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Friedrich Melchior Grimm | Correspondence Litteraire | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 21 January 1821: 'Dined -- visited -- came home -- read. Remark... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Friedrich Melchior Grimm | Correspondence Litteraire | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 31 January 1821 entry: 'Midnight. I have been reading Grimm's Co... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Friedrich Melchior Grimm | Correspondence Litteraire | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 18 February 1821: 'In turning over Grimm's Correspondence to-day... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Friedrich Melchior Grimm | Correspondence Litteraire | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Byron's "Dictionary" (journal), 1 May 1821, on studies with tutor (Paterson): 'With him I began Latin in Ruddiman's Gr... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Ruddiman | Latin Grammar | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to Thomas Moore, 16 November 1821, on literary ambitions of an Irish visitor, John Taaffe: 'I read a letter of y... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Thomas Moore | [letter] | Manuscript: Letter |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to John Murray, 9 October 1822, on his recent illness (painfully and ineffectually treated by a local doctor): '... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Thompson | book of prescriptions | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to Madame Sergent-Marceau, 5 May 1823 (translated from Italian): 'no present you might give me would be more wel... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Antoine Francois Sergent-Marceau | Notices Historiques sur le General Marceau | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'In September and October [Grace Macaulay] is reading aloud to Margaret (ill with scarlet fever) Mrs Molesworth's The ... | Grace Macaulay | Mary Louisa Molesworth | The Cuckoo Clock | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | '[Grace Macaulay's diary] entry for 2 March 1890 records that she "read the boys parts of Settlers at Home and Otto Sp... | Grace Macaulay | Frederick Marryat | The Settlers in Canada | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Rose... remembers her father reading to them - Dickens, Scott, Robinson Crusoe, Shakespeare, Jane Austen, Meredith, T... | George Macaulay | George Meredith | | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Rose... remembers her father reading to them - Dickens, Scott, Robinson Crusoe, Shakespeare, Jane Austen, Meredith, T... | George Macaulay | Alexandre Dumas (pere) | The Three Musketeers | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'When old enough to read for herself, Rose Macaulay entered into other realms of fictitious brave adventure. She devou... | Rose Macaulay | Frederick Marryat | Masterman Ready | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'The neighbours and we have set up a book-club since the beginning of the year, & I want to beg you to tell me of some... | Caroline Clive | Lord Mahon | The Life of Louis, Prince of Conde, Surnamed the Great | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Rose Macaulay had a 'craze' 'for the ascetic Thomas a Kempis's meditations and rule of conduct, On The Imitation of Ch... | Rose Macaulay | Thomas a Kempis | On The Imitation of Christ | Print: Book |
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1900-1945 | 'She read Renan's Life of Jesus, which had proved so critical to George Eliot's subsitution of Duty for God. As a coro... | Rose Macaulay | John Stuart Mill | probably 'On Liberty' | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Working class readers continued to enjoy Macaulay's drama and accessibility long after professional historians had de... | Kathleen Woodward | Thomas Babington Macaulay | History of England | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | '[J.M. Dent's] reading was marked by the autodidact's characteristic enthusiasm and spottiness. He knew Pilgrim's Prog... | Joseph Malaby Dent | John Milton | | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | '[J.M. Dent's] reading was marked by the autodidact's characteristic enthusiasm and spottiness. He knew Pilgrim's Prog... | Joseph Malaby Dent | James Thomson | The Seasons | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | '[J.M. Dent's] cultural contacts broadened when he became an apprentice bookbinder in London, discovering the work of ... | Joseph Malaby Dent | William Morris | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'James Murray, a Glasgow woodcarver, represented the kind of reader Dent and Rhys were trying to reach. He credited Ev... | James Murray | Edward Bellamy | Looking Backward: 2000-1887 | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'In the Star [Philip] Ballard read the music criticism of Bernard Shaw, and Richard le Gallienne on books... He presse... | Philip Ballard | George Meredith | | Print: Book, Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'every day Spike Mays ran to his East Anglia school, where he studied "Robinson Crusoe", "Gulliver's Travels" and "Tal... | Spike Mays | Charles Lamb | Tales from Shakespeare | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '"One advantage of leaving school at an early age is that one can study subjects of your own choice", wrote Frank Arge... | Frank Argent | John Stuart Mill | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Lancashire weaver Elizabeth Blackburn... proceeded to an evening institute course in English literature and by the rh... | Elizabeth Blackburn | John Milton | Lycidas | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Saturday 4 October 1800: 'A ... rather showery and gusty, morning ... Read a pa... | Dorothy Wordsworth | Charles Lamb | Pride's Cure | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Sunday 15 November 1801: 'We sate by the fire and read Chaucer (Thomson, Mary r... | Mary Hutchinson | ?James Thomson | unknown | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Friday 29 January, 1802: 'William was very unwell. Worn out with his bad night... | Dorothy Wordsworth | John Milton | Paradise Lost (Book I) | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Monday 1 February, 1802: 'In the morning a Box of clothes with Books came from ... | Dorothy Wordsworth | Thomas Campbell | The Pleasures of Hope | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Tuesday 2 February, 1802: 'After tea I read aloud the eleventh book of Paradise... | Dorothy Wordsworth | John Milton | Paradise Lost (Book XI) | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Friday 21 May 1802, 'Wm. wrote two sonnets on Buonaparte, after I had read Milt... | Dorothy Wordsworth | John Milton | sonnets | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, in entry for Thursday 3 June 1802, 'A very affecting letter came from M[ary]. H... | Dorothy Wordsworth | John Milton | Il Penseroso | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, 24 December 1802: 'William is now sitting by me, at 1/2 past 10 o'clock. I hav... | Dorothy and William Wordsworth | John Milton | sonnets | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, 24 December 1802: 'William is now sitting by me, at 1/2 past 10 o'clock. I hav... | Dorothy and William Wordsworth | John Milton | L'Allegro | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, 24 December 1802: 'William is now sitting by me, at 1/2 past 10 o'clock. I hav... | Dorothy and William Wordsworth | John Milton | Il Penseroso | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, 24 December 1802: 'William is now sitting by me, at 1/2 past 10 o'clock. I hav... | William Wordsworth | Charlotte Smith | Elegiac Sonnets | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Tea between 9 and 10. I read aloud a little of 'The Pleasures of Hope'. Mrs Barlow [friend and lover] sat hemming one... | Anne Lister | Thomas Campbell | The Pleasures of Hope | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | ' Tea at 8. Read aloud to my aunt the first 31pp of Moore's Buxton and Castleton Guide.' | Anne Lister | Henry Moore | Buxton and Casleton Guide Picturesque Excursions i | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Extensive discusion of the text in a letter to Marianne Lawson 15/03/1823.] ...Throw in too, I grant, some fine poetr... | Anne Lister | Thomas Moore | The Loves of the Angels | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Letter dated 1823, to Miss Pickford]. Madame Marcet is a very good guide as far as she goes, but surely respecting t... | Anne Lister | Jane Marcet | Conversations on Natural Philosophy | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | The Grecian History has pleased me much you know Mr Trant made a present of the Roman History, what a brave people the... | Anne Lister | Oliver Goldsmith | The Grecian History | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | I was rather unwell for about an hour, but not very bad when I could go on reading The Vicar of Wakefield | Anne Lister | Oliver Goldsmith | The Vicar of Wakefield | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'The son of a barely literate Derbyshire collier recalled a sister, a worker in a hosiery factory, who was steeped in ... | | Alexandre Dumas (pere) | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'The son of a barely literate Derbyshire collier recalled a sister, a worker in a hosiery factory, who was steeped in ... | | George Meredith | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Dr Scudamore, recommended and has just sent me to look at Thomsons Conspectus of the Pharmacopeias, a nice little 42m... | Anne Lister | Anthony Todd Thomson | A Conspectus of the pharmacopeias of the London [e | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Read...Demosthenes +...Lelands translation. This is the 4th Greek work I have read thro' & I certainly feel considerab... | Anne Lister | Desmosthenes | All the Orations of Demosthenes | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Had no time for Eudid but looked into Emerson's mechanics for 1/4 hour, as I wish to prepare myself a little for Dalto... | Anne Lister | William Emerson | The principle of mechanics | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Just after ten read aloud to my aunt the very favourable review of Lallah Rookh; an Oriental romance by Thomas Moore..... | Anne Lister | Thomas Moore | Lallah Rookh or 'Review' | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'At 12 Marianna and I went upstairs. She sat sewing and I reading aloud to her the first 3 or 4 pages of the M.S. Lect... | Anne Lister | Dr Scudamore | Lectures on physiology | Manuscript: Sheet |
| 1800-1849 | had no time for Euclid but looked into Emerson's Mechanics for 1/4 hour as I wish to prepare myself a little for Dalto... | Anne Lister | William Emerson | Mechanics or The Principles of Mechanics | 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 | Rev. Richard H. Barham | The Ingoldsby Legends | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Frances Stevenson, born in 1888, recollected [in The years that Are Past, 1967] that she "read greedily [pre-1914] ..... | Frances Stevenson | Mrs Meek | Ellesmere | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | '[William Robertson] Nicoll's boyhood reading included Scott, Disraeli, the Brontes, Bulwer Lytton, Shelley, Johnson, ... | William Robertson Nicoll | Oliver Goldsmith | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | '[William Robertson] Nicoll's boyhood reading included Scott, Disraeli, the Brontes, Bulwer Lytton, Shelley, Johnson, ... | William Robertson Nicoll | Ralph Waldo Emerson | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899
1900-1945 | 'In A Young Man's Passage (1950), Mark Tellar recalls "confessing to his prep-school teacher that during the holidays ... | Mark Tellar | Fergus Hume | The Mystery of the Hansom Cab | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | "Robert Blatchford, growing up in Halifax in the 1860s, read from the penny library there Defoe's Robinson Crusoe, Sou... | Robert Blatchford | Captain Marryat | [novels] | Print: Book |
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1900-1945 | "[In Lark Rise to Candleford (1947)] Flora Thompson recollected young Willie, whose family were village carpenters, be... | Willie anon | Charles Mackay (ed) | A Thousand and One Gems of English Poetry | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | "[George Bernard] Shaw had read Marx's Das Kapital (in French translation) and he was converted to socialism ..." | George Bernard Shaw | Karl Marx | Das Kapital | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Philip Gibbs in The Pageant of the Years (1946), on work as writer of series of articles under name "Self-Help" in ear... | Philip Gibbs | John Milton | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | "As a teenager ... [Holbrook Jackson] had been transported from Merseyside to the South Sea Islands. The vessel that ... | Holbrook Jackson | Herman Melville | Typee | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | In the afternoon, read aloud the first 30pp. glenarvon, vol.2. Miss Goodricke called and sat a little while with us. ... | Anne Lister | Caroline Lamb | Glenarvon | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Dr Scudamore, recommended and has just sent me to look at Thomsons Conspectus of the Pharmacopeias, a nice little 42 m... | Anne Lister | Anthony Todd Thomson | A conspectus of the pharmacopeias of the London | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | '[George] Saintsbury [who became a Tory journalist] read Marx as an undergraduate ...' | George Saintsbury | Karl Marx | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'In 1917 ... [John Buchan] was treated for a duodenal ulcer. Recuperating after the operation, he read through a doze... | John Buchan | Alexandre Dumas | Valois cycle | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'In 1917 ... [John Buchan] was treated for a duodenal ulcer. Recuperating after the operation, he read through a doze... | John Buchan | Alexandre Dumas | D'Artagnan cycle | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | I procured a Greek grammar, and soon made considerable progress. I first read the New Testament almost throughout; the... | Anne Lutton | Homer | The Iliad | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | I procured a Greek grammar, and soon made considerable progress. I first read the New Testament almost throughout; the... | Anne Lutton | Homer | The Odyssey | Print: Book |
| | My father's large bookcase was stuffed with odd volumes of the Gentleman's Magazine and other miscellaneous matters. A... | Anne Lutton | John Adams | The History of Rome, from the Foundation of the Ci | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | My father's large bookcase was stuffed with odd volumes of the Gentleman's Magazine and other miscellaneous matters. A... | Anne Lutton | J.J. Barthelemy | Travels of Anacharsis the Younger in Greece, | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | My father's large bookcase was stuffed with odd volumes of the Gentleman's Magazine and other miscellaneous matters. A... | Anne Lutton | Oliver Goldsmith | The History of England from the Earliest Times... | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | How the young Alice Meynell gained her family's support for her writing: ' ... [in c. 1867 Alice Thompson] had shown .... | Thomas Thompson | Alice Thompson | unknown poems | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | [A Sheffield Survey organised by Arnold Freeman in 1918, assessing 816 manual workers, gives the following case:] 'Eng... | questionaire respondent | John Masefield | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [A Sheffield Survey organised by Arnold Freeman in 1918, assessing 816 manual workers, gives the following case:] 'Eng... | questionaire respondent | Ralph Waldo Emerson | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 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 | [analysis of a female respondent in Arnold Freeman's 1918 Sheffield Survey] 'Housewife, age twenty-eight... Has read "... | questionaire respondent | Richard Doddridge Blackmore | Lorna Doone | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899
1900-1945 | [analysis of a female respondent in Arnold Freeman's 1918 Sheffield Survey] 'Cutlery worker, age seventy-two...Fond of... | questionaire respondent | William Morris | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Harry Dorrell read his brother's copy of George Moore's "A Mummer's Wife", but "I could not understand wny the lady w... | Harry Dorrell | George Moore | A Mummer's Wife | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | '... Helena Swanwick recalled one exception from among the succession of inadequate domestic servants who passed throu... | | George Meredith | Novels | 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 Lamb | [unknown] | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'When Wilfrid Blunt joined [William] Morris and his daughter at Kelmscott in 1891, Morris "read us out several of his ... | William Morris | William Morris | The Haystack in the Floods (and other poems) | Unknown |
| | [Annotation NOT in Cunningham's hand (unidentified)]: above the sentence 'Jacob Tonson is the first bookseller of any ... | Anon | Peter Cunningham | Lives of the most Eminent Booksellers: Jacob Tonson | Manuscript: Pamphlet |
| 1900-1945 | 'At one poetical evening [at Wilfrid Blunt's home Crabbet Park], when the guests included A. E. Housman and Desmond Ma... | Wilfrid Meynell | George Meredith | Modern Love | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Elinor Glyn recalled "The Princess and the Goblin" (1872) being read to her as a child ...' | Elinor Glyn | George MacDonald | The Princess and the Goblin | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Letter 8/2/1863 - "For, as far as I remember - my sayings to you have been very nearly limited to Goldsmith's model of... | John Ruskin | Oliver Goldsmith | The Vicar of Wakefield | Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | Letter 8/2/1863 - "I'm afraid to speak like the wicked girl in the fairy tale - who let - not pearls fall from her lip... | John Ruskin | Oliver Goldsmith | The Vicar of Wakefield | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Constance Smedley on readings in American literature: 'Thoreau ... opened the door to a philosophy of life when I was ... | Constance Smedley | Ralph Waldo Emerson | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | " Finished reading that Emmeline, a Trumpery novel in four volumes. If I can answer for myself I will never again unde... | Lady Eleanor Butler | Charlotte Smith | Emmeline | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | " Began Les Memoires de Madame Maintenon. I doubt whether the vulgarity of stile (sic), absurd anecdotes and impertine... | Lady Eleanor Butler | Madame de Maintenon | Les Memoires de Madame de Maintenon | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | " Nine till twelve in the Dressing room reading-finished Les Memoires de Maintenon. Began her letters" | Lady Eleanor Butler | Madame de Maintenon | Les Memoires de Madame de Maintenon | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Listed under "Books read since April the first 1789" | Lady Eleanor Butler | Madame de Metterniche | Memoires | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Listed under "Books read since April the first 1789" | Lady Eleanor Butler | Jean Baptiste Poquelin Moliere | | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Listed under "Books read since April the first 1789" | Lady Eleanor Butler | Pietro Metastasio | opera (16 Tom) | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | ' ... in Egypt during the Great War [E. M.] Forster applied himself to read [Henry] James. Struggling with What Maisi... | Edward Morgan Forster | Henry James | What Maisie Knew | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Lloyd George, the Chancellor of the Exchequer ... liked to get away from political anxieties by devouring what he cal... | Lloyd George | John Milton | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'On learning that [Hall] Caine was to present twenty-four lectures in Liverpool on "Prose Fiction" ... [D. G. Rossetti... | Hall Caine | Tobias Smollett | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | "Back I went by Mr. Downing's order, and stayed there til 12 o'clock in expectation of one to come to read some writin... | Samuel Pepys | Dutch Ambassador | [a speech] | Manuscript: Letter |
| 1850-1899 | "I took in Mr Holmes' humorous poems & Davidson (a very jolly little friend of mine) another light work & we sat toget... | Leslie Stephen | Oliver Wendell Holmes | | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I have been reading the life of Mr Symonds, and it makes me almost laugh (though little laughing is in my heart) to t... | Margaret Oliphant | John Addington Symonds | Life of Symonds | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Robert Macpherson came down with us to Civita Vecchia to see us off, and, I remember, read to me all the way there a ... | Robert Macpherson | Robert Macpherson | | Manuscript: Sheet |
| 1850-1899 | "I think that Miss Thackeray and my wife have expressed to you their great pleasure in your article on their father." | Harriet Stephen | George Barnett Smith | The Works of Thackeray | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | "I think that Miss Thackeray and my wife have expressed to you their great pleasure in your article on their father." | Ann Thackeray | George Barnett Smith | The Works of Thackeray | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | "By an accidental combination of circumstances I only saw your article on my 'secularism' this afternoon. I have no co... | Leslie Stephen | Frederick Denison Maurice | | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | "Excuse all this; but though you may not easily give me credit I really admired Mr Maurice; I attended his lectures as... | Leslie Stephen | Frederick Denison Maurice | | Print: Book |
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1900-1945 | ?I always have a profound impression that human beings have been much more like each other than we fancy since they go... | Leslie Stephen | John Milton | | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'The table is heaped with picture-books, and Maggie, rather sentimental with a bad cold, is reading Mrs. Jameson's Leg... | Maggie Oliphant | A.B. Jameson | Legends of the Saints | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899
1900-1945 | 'It made me think of a poem that our german professor used to read us in class. Ja, das war zum letzenmal/ Das, wir b... | Katherine Mansfield | Edward Morike | Erinerung - an C.N. | Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'I got up at that moment to re-read your article on Leon Bloy. The memory of it suddenly rose in my mind, like a scent'. | Katherine Mansfield | John Middleton Murry | The Loneliness of Leon Bloy | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | 'I got up at that moment to re-read your article on Leon Bloy. The memory of it suddenly rose in my mind, like a scent'. | Katherine Mansfield | John Middleton Murry | The Loneliness of Leon Bloy | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | "[George] Meredtih's penultimate novel, Lord Ormont and his Aminta (1894), was, [Henry] James told Edmund Gosse [in le... | Henry James | George Meredith | Lord Ormont and his Aminta | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | '[R. L. Stevenson] ... nominated ["The Egoist"], together with a couple of Scott's novels, a Dumas, Shakespeare, Monta... | Robert Louis Stevenson | George Meredith | The Egoist | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | '[R. L. Stevenson] ... nominated ["The Egoist"], together with a couple of Scott's novels, a Dumas, Shakespeare, Monta... | Robert Louis Stevenson | Alexandre Dumas | [novel] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | '[R. L. Stevenson] ... nominated ["The Egoist"], together with a couple of Scott's novels, a Dumas, Shakespeare, Monta... | Robert Louis Stevenson | Michel de Montaigne | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | '[R. L. Stevenson] ... nominated ["The Egoist"], together with a couple of Scott's novels, a Dumas, Shakespeare, Monta... | Robert Louis Stevenson | Moliere [pseud] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | "[Wilfrid Scawen] Blunt was a great admirer of [Meredith's] Modern Love and, though he only read it thirty years after... | Wilfrid Scawen Blunt | George Meredith | Modern Love | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I bought a book by Henry James yesterday and read it, as they say, "until far into the night". It was not very inter... | Katherine Mansfield | Henry James | Confidence | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | "Lady Cynthia Asquith ... believed [as she recorded in her diary] that 'Meredith is very good for reading aloud.' On ... | Lady Cynthia Asquith | George Meredith | The Egoist | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | "... Lady Cynthia [Asquith] was gratified to learn that, found in his pocket when Billy Grenfell was killed in battle ... | Lady Desborough | George Meredith | poem | |
| 1900-1945 | "At the age of 18 Violet Asquith ... tackled The Egoist, which 'I thought brilliant. The first 3 pages made me so ang... | Violet Asquith | George Meredith | The Egoist | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | ' "When all is done human life is at its greatest and best but a little froward [sic] child to be played with, and hum... | Katherine Mansfield | William Temple | Miscellanea | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I have read - given way to reading - two books by Octave Mirbeau - and after them I see dreadfully and finally, (1) t... | Katherine Mansfield | Octave Mirbeau | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I have read - given way to reading - two books by Octave Mirbeau - and after them I see dreadfully and finally, (1) t... | Katherine Mansfield | Octave Mirbeau | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Britain was a mainly urban society...and soon an expanding range of sexual literature became available in the cities.... | Mark Grossek | Tobias Smollett | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Letter H.96 (Beginning of June 1861)
?The Defence of Guenevere by Morris is published by Bell & Daldy.?
| John Ruskin | William Morris | The Defence of Guenevere | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849
1850-1899 | Letter H. 114. Postmark 15 May 1863
Referring to a picture of Helen of Troy: ?She is the sweetest character in all Ho... | John Ruskin | Homer | Odyssey | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849
1850-1899 | Letter H. 114. Postmark 15 May 1863
Referring to a picture of Helen of Troy: ?She is the sweetest character in all Ho... | John Ruskin | Homer | Iliad | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | "I have read, too, or repeated, for I know him by heart, our old friend Omar Khyyam. He is grand in his way & if spiri... | Leslie Stephen | Omar Khayyam | | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | George Gissing, diary entry for 9 December 1894: 'Gloomy day. Read "Esther Waters". Some pathos and power in latter ... | George Gissing | George Moore | Esther Waters | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '"Why do you want to break men's spirits for?" Shaw asked Henry James after reading his one-act play "The Saloon" in 1... | George Bernard Shaw | Henry James | The Saloon | Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'When Wilfrid Blunt ... reread "Loss and Gain" he was struck how "Newman's mind ... seems never to have faced the real... | Wilfrid Scawen Blunt | John Henry Newman | Loss and Gain | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | "Morley has just published a book on 'Compromise'; out of the Fortnightly. I think his writing improves. It seems to m... | Leslie Stephen | John Morley | On Compromise | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'The books which I am at present employed in reading to myself are in English, Plutarch's Lives and Milner's Ecclesias... | Thomas Babington Macaulay | Milner | Ecclesiastical History | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | In my learning I do Xenophon every day and twice a week the Odyssey, in which I am classed with Wilberforce. | Thomas Babington Macaulay | Homer | The Odyssey | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | We have all read, by the way, The Poet at the breakfast table & sent him our sincere compliments on his performance." | Leslie Stephen | Sir Oliver Wendell Holmes | The Poet at the Breakfast Table | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | " But, when I was nearly sixteen, I made a purchase which brought me into sad trouble, and was the cause of a permanen... | Edmund Gosse | Christopher Marlowe | Hero and Leander | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | " When I reached home, tired out with enthusiasm and exercise, I must needs, so soon as I had eaten, search out my ste... | Edmund Gosse | Christopher Marlowe | Hero and Leander | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | "I have read your book with keen interest. I always read you with the pleasure of a literary critic recognising (and e... | Leslie Stephen | William James | The varieties of religious experience | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'The hero seems to me superior to the Rochester or the Louis Moore type, who are all rather lay-figures. Nor do I admi... | Leslie Stephen | G. B. Smith | The Brontes | Manuscript: article |
| 1850-1899 | 'I finished old Newman?s book coming down & as the book is too metaphysical to give you pleasure I will tell you what ... | Leslie Stephen | John Henry Newman | An essay in aid of a grammar of assent | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | ?I have read two books lately wh. interested me. One for wh. you will not care is a history of English law down to the... | Leslie Stephen | F. W. Maitland | History of English Law | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | ?I have read your history; and when I say ?read? I mean that I have turned over the pages and read all such parts as w... | Leslie Stephen | F W Maitland | History of English Law | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | "This minute I hear a carman is going to Navan, and I hasten to send you the Cottagers of Glenburnie, which I hope you... | Maria Edgeworth | Elizabeth Hamilton | The Cottages of Glenburnie | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799
1800-1849 | ?Cumberland attempted and failed to revive the classical English novel. We sit down in fact by Cumberlands? fireside a... | Charles Robert Maturin | Richard Cumberland | Arundel | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799
1800-1849 | ??the work of Mrs Hannah More called Coelebs in search of a wife, as not knowing well where to class it. It is too pur... | Charles Robert Maturin | Hannah More | Coelebs in search of a wife | Print: Book |
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1800-1849 | ?The transition from the vapid sentimentality of the novel of fifty years ago to the goblin horrors of the last twenty... | Charles Maturin | Charlotte Smith | The Old Manor House | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | ?I have been reading a power of good books; Montesquieu Sur la grandeur and d?cadence des Romains, which I recommend t... | Maria Edgeworth | Charles-Louis Montesquieu | Causes de la grandeur des Romains et de leur decadence | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | The seventeenth-century waterman-poet John Taylor had read More's Utopia, Plato's Republic, Montaigne, and Cervantes i... | John Taylor | Thomas More | Utopia | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | The seventeenth-century waterman-poet John Taylor had read More's Utopia, Plato's Republic, Montaigne, and Cervantes i... | John Taylor | Michel Eyquem de Montaigne | Essays | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | The parents of playwright Arnold Wesker were both immigrants, tailor's machinists, Communists and culturally Jewish at... | Arnold Wesker | Guy de Maupassant | | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799
1800-1849 | ??Moore, who is a poet of inspiration, could write in any circumstances. There is no man of the age labours harder tha... | Charles Robert Maturin | Thomas Moore | Complete Poems and Songs | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'While his widowed mother... worked a market stall, Ralph Finn scrambled up the scholarship ladder to Oxford Universit... | Ralph Finn | Francis Thompson | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'While his widowed mother... worked a market stall, Ralph Finn scrambled up the scholarship ladder to Oxford Universit... | Ralph Finn | Alfred Edward Housman | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [Bill Naughton was hurt that when he applied for conscientious objector status the tribunal was suspicious of his elev... | Bill Naughton | Karl Marx | | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899
1900-1945 | [D.R. Davies was inspired by his school teacher] 'to read Macaulay's History of England before his twelfth birthday' | D.R. Davies | Thomas Babington Macaulay | The History of England from the Accession of James II | Print: 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 Lamb | | Print: 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 | Karl Marx | | Print: 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 | Adam Smith | | Print: 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 | John Stuart Mill | | Print: 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 Marshall | | Print: 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 | George Meredith | | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799
1800-1849 | ?Have you seen Minor Morals by Mrs Smith ? There is in it a beautiful botanical poem called ?Calendar of Flora?.? | Maria Edgeworth | Charlotte Smith | Minor Morals: interspersed with sketches of National history and historical anecdotes and original stories | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | ?We saw today the residence of the Prince de Cond? - and of a long line of princes famous for virtue and talents ? the... | Maria Edgeworth | Stephanie Felicite de Genlis (Comtesse) | Mademoiselle de Clermont | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 8/1/1827 ? ?Finished M. R. Milford?s pretty book, and write out my new fable.? | Amelia Opie | M R Milford | | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'As a collier [Joseph Keating]... heard a co-worker sigh, "Heaven from all creatures hides the book of fate". Keating ... | Joseph Keating | Tobias Smollett | | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'As a collier [Joseph Keating]... heard a co-worker sigh, "Heaven from all creatures hides the book of fate". Keating ... | Joseph Keating | Oliver Goldsmith | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Nottinghamshire collier G.A.W. Tomlinson volunteered for repair shifts on weekends, when he could earn time-and-a-hal... | G.A.W. Tomlinson | Charles Lamb | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Nottinghamshire collier G.A.W. Tomlinson volunteered for repair shifts on weekends, when he could earn time-and-a-hal... | G.A.W. Tomlinson | Oliver Goldsmith | The Deserted Village | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Wil John Edwards...pursued Gibbon, Hardy, Swinburne and Meredith. His reading was suggested by the literary pages of ... | Wil John Edwards | George Meredith | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '[During the Great Depression] "Thousands used the Public Library for the first time", recalled itinerant labourer Joh... | John Brown | Karl Marx | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '[Jack Ashley] was less prepared for Ruskin [College] than most of the students, having read only two books since leav... | Jack Ashley | Karl Marx | | Print: 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 Marshall | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'For Dunfermline housepainter James Clunie, Das Kapital and the Wealth of Nations both demonstrated that industrialism... | James Clunie | Karl Marx | Das Kapital | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'For Dunfermline housepainter James Clunie, Das Kapital and the Wealth of Nations both demonstrated that industrialism... | James Clunie | Adam Smith | Wealth of Nations | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Taxi driver Herbert Hodge...knew that years on the dole only produced apathy, and that out-of-work men wanted practic... | Herbert Hodge | William McDougall | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Taxi driver Herbert Hodge...knew that years on the dole only produced apathy, and that out-of-work men wanted practic... | Herbert Hodge | Karl Marx | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'In 1925 Ifan Edwards was driven by unemployment to read Das Kapital in the public library. "It took him about four hu... | Ifan Edwards | Karl Marx | Das Kapital | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [George Scott disliked the Communism of fellow journalist, Stan] 'He had read Das Kapital (or parts of it) and could t... | Stan (acquaintance of George Scott) | Karl Marx | Das Kapital | 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 | Alexandre Dumas (pere) | The Three Musketeers | 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 | Thomas Babington Macaulay | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '[Helen Crawfurd] derived lessons in socialism and feminism from Carlyle, Shaw, Wells, Galsworthy, Arnold Bennett, Ibs... | Helen Crawfurd | Walt Whitman | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Charlotte Bronte postscript to letter to William Smith Williams, 12 May 1848: 'I find -- on glancing over yours, that ... | Charlotte Bronte | William Smith Williams | letter to Charlotte Bronte | Manuscript: Letter |
| 1800-1849 | Charlotte Bronte to William Smith Williams, 22 November 1848: 'I put your most friendly letter [recommending homeopath... | Charlotte Bronte | William Smith Williams | letter | Manuscript: Letter |
| 1800-1849 | Charlotte Bronte to William Smith Williams, 22 November 1848: 'I put your most friendly letter [recommending homeopath... | Emily Bronte | William Smith Williams | letter | Manuscript: Letter |
| 1850-1899 | Charlotte Bronte to Mrs Smith (mother of her publisher George Smith), 17 April 1851: 'Before I received your note, I w... | Charlotte Bronte | Mrs Smith | Note to Charlotte Bronte | Manuscript: Letter |
| 1850-1899 | Charlotte Bronte to James Taylor, 1 February 1851: 'Have you yet read Miss Martineau's and Mr Atkinson's new work "Let... | Charlotte Bronte | Harriet and H. G. Martineau and Atkinson | Letters on the Laws of Man's Nature and Development | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | I suppose I had read Hume's England when I wrote last; and I need not repeat my opinion of it. | Thomas Carlyle | David Hume | History of England | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | I suppose I had read Hume's England when I wrote last; and I need not repeat my opinion of it. My perusal of the cont... | Thomas Carlyle | Tobias Smollett | History of England | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | But too much of one thing - as it is in the adage. Therefore I reserve the account of Hume's essays till another oppo... | Thomas Carlyle | David Hume | Essays and Treatises on Several Subjects, 2 vols | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | I, who was the reader, had not seen it for several years, the rest did not know it at all. I am afraid I perceived a s... | Lady Louisa Stuart | Henry Mackenzie | The Man of Feeling | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | I remember so well its first publication, my mother and sisters crying over it, dwelling upon it with rapture! And whe... | Lady Louisa Stuart | Henry Mackenzie | The Man of Feeling | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Walter Citrine won, as a Sunday School prize, a volume of school stories from the Captain, including one by P.G. Wode... | Walter Citrine | Karl Marx | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'As a boy Percy Wall adored the "Magnet", the "Boy's Own Paper", and G.A. Henty novels... [Later] While he read Henty ... | Percy Wall | Richard Brinsley Sheridan (pen name? in any case, not the 18th c playwright) | The Filipino Martyrs | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'At the same time as she was entertaining herself with a variety of novels, [Frances] Burney was putting herself throu... | Frances Burney | Homer | | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'In 1768, Burney read in rapid succession Elizabeth and Richard Griffith's "A Series of Genuine Letters between Henry ... | Frances Burney | Oliver Goldsmith | The Vicar of Wakefield | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'In her teens [Frances] Burney was tackling on her own such works as Plutarch's "Lives" (in translation), Pope's "Ilia... | Frances Burney | Homer | Iliad | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'In her teens [Frances] Burney was tackling on her own such works as Plutarch's "Lives" (in translation), Pope's "Ilia... | Frances Burney | David Hume | The History of England | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'In her teens [Frances] Burney was tackling on her own such works as Plutarch's "Lives" (in translation), Pope's "Ilia... | Frances Burney | Conyers Middleton | Life of Cicero | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'It is equally possible for the same reader to adopt different frames for the same story, relishing it on one level wh... | Aneurin Bevan | Phillips Oppenheim | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'James Hanley's workmates laughed when he taught himself French by reading the Mercure de France...Working the night s... | James Hanley | Moliere | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'James Hanley's workmates laughed when he taught himself French by reading the Mercure de France...Working the night s... | James Hanley | Gerhart Hauptmann | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'James Hanley's workmates laughed when he taught himself French by reading the Mercure de France...Working the night s... | James Hanley | Hermann Sudermann | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '...he had read so much of de Maupassant, and had admired him for so many years, that probably his manner and his con... | Arnold Bennett | Guy de Maupassant | Bel-Ami | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'When he reread "Une Vie", in March 1908, he could find faults, but they were irrelevant to the work that had been don... | Arnold Bennett | Guy de Maupassant | Une Vie | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'A more recent influence was Huysmans' "Les Soeurs Vatards", a novel about artisan life in a lace-maker's atelier in P... | Arnold Bennett | Joris Karl Huysmans | Les Soeurs Vatards | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '. . . her short stories, 'The Little Karoo', all set in the South Africa of her childhood, were widely admired and ar... | Arnold Bennett | Pauline Smith | The Little Karoo | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Girls in the top forms [at Roedean] were allowed to read ... in a small school library ... but ... [Margaret Cole] fo... | Margaret Cole | Thomas Babington Macaulay | Essays | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '[In The Saturday Review, 19 November 1904], "A Mother" records the books consumed since July by her sixteen-year-old ... | | L. T. Meade | By Mutual Consent | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Elizabeth Sewell ... remembered her mother in the 1820s reading aloud Anson's "Voyages", Lempriere's "Tour to Morocco... | | William Lempriere | Tour to Morocco | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899
1900-1945 | 'When she was thirteen or fourteen, [Constance] Maynard's businessman father used to read Monier Williams on the relig... | Henry Maynard | Monier Williams | work/s on Eastern religions | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'When she was thirteen or fourteen, [Constance] Maynard's businessman father used to read Monier Williams on the relig... | Henry Maynard | Jacob Boehme | | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899
1900-1945 | ' ... [13-to-14-year-old Constance Maynard's] most intimate contact with reading .. took place ... in a secluded corne... | Constance Maynard | John Milton | Sonnets | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | '["In A Nursery in the Nineties" (1935)] Eleanor Farjeon (b.1881) ... recreates her identificatory enthusiam as she re... | Eleanor Farjeon | Alexandre Dumas | The Three Musketeers | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Mary Paley Marshall ... one of Newnham's first students, recalls her father in the 1860s reading aloud "The Arabian N... | Thomas Paley | Homer | The Iliad | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Mary Paley Marshall ... one of Newnham's first students, recalls her father in the 1860s reading aloud "The Arabian N... | Thomas Paley | Homer | The Odyssey | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899
1900-1945 | 'Yeats forbade his sisters to read George Moore's "A Mummer's Wife": a proscription which led Susan Mitchell, who live... | Susan Mitchell | George Moore | A Mummer's Wife | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | "Forbidden David Copperfield, Bleak House, The Heart of Midlothian, and The Vicar of Wakefield ... [H. M. Swanwick] re... | H. M. Swanwick | Oliver Goldsmith | The Vicar of Wakefield | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Deborah Epstein Nord, The Apprenticeship of Beatrice Webb (1985) noted as "especially interesting ... in its discussio... | Beatrice Webb | John Stuart Mill | Autobiography | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Deborah Epstein Nord, The Apprenticeship of Beatrice Webb (1985) noted as "especially interesting ... in its discussio... | Beatrice Webb | Harriet Martineau | Autobiography | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | " ... it was whilst at a frivolous, rote-learning girls' school that ... [Frances Power Cobbe] developed her determine... | Frances Power Cobbe | John Milton | Complete poetry | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | "Deist" and "heathen" authors studied by the young Frances Power Cobbe: "Gibbon, Hume, Tindal, Collins, and Voltaire .... | Frances Power Cobbe | David Hume | | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | "At home, after leaving school in 1857 ... [Louisa Martindale's] reading was, at first, chiefly the Bible. On 16 Septe... | Louisa Martindale | Symington | | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | "At home, after leaving school in 1857 ... [Louisa Martindale's] reading was, at first, chiefly the Bible. On 16 Septe... | Louisa Martindale | Mrs Jameson | Characteristics of Women | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849
1850-1899 | "Rocking her brother in his cradle ... [Marianne Farningham] was reading from the Sailor's Magazine and came across 't... | Marianne Farningham | Felicia Hemans | The Better Land | Print: Serial / periodical |
| | "Enid Starkie claimed that reading Francis Thompson's 'The Hound of Heaven' when she was ten made her feel as though s... | Enid Starkie | Francis Thompson | The Hound of Heaven | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | "Before she came into contact with Suffragism ... [Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence] felt her political outlook ... had been ... | Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence | William Morris | poetry | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | "Before she came into contact with Suffragism ... [Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence] felt her political outlook ... had been ... | Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence | Walt Whitman | poetry | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | "Harriet Shaw Weaver, as an adolescent, found Leaves of Grass 'a liberating influence and could even read it on Sunday... | Harriet Shaw Weaver | Walt Whitman | Leaves of Grass | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | "In Holloway ... ['General' Drummond] read Jane Porter's The Scottish Chiefs and Samuel Smiles's Life and Labour." | General Drummond | Samuel Smiles | LIfe and Labour | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | have been in the shop steadily this day (which has been cold and blowing), reading in Hume's History of England- the N... | Adam Mackie | David Hume | History of England | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Am in shop about steady this day doing little else but reading Humes' England | Adam Mackie | David Hume | History of England | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Mary Lakeman, a Cornish fisherman's daughter, confirmed what George Orwell had written in "Riding Down from Bangor": ... | Mary Lakeman | Lucy Maud Montgomery | Anne of Avonlea | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Growing up in a family that read newspapers only for sport and scandal, Vernon Scannell knew all the great prize figh... | Vernon Scannell | Ernest Hemingway | A Farewell to Arms | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799
1800-1849 | Letters on Mythology Addressed to a Lady by R. Morgan, 1 vol. A humourous and entertaining production, written in a li... | Ellen Weeton | R Morgan | Letters on Mythology | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799
1800-1849 | The Cottagers of Glenburnie. 1 vol. by Miss Hamilton. A little tale tending to shew the folly of adhering to old custo... | Ellen Weeton | Miss Elizabeth Hamilton | The Cottagers of Glenburnie: A Tale for the Farmer | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Barber John Paton remembered that the "Boys' Friend" "ran a serial which was an enormously exciting tale of Alba's op... | John Paton | John Lothrop Motley | The Rise of the Dutch Republic | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Barber John Paton remembered that the "Boys' Friend" "ran a serial which was an enormously exciting tale of Alba's op... | John Paton | Thomas Babington Macaulay | [probably The History of England from the Accession of James II] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Barber John Paton remembered that the "Boys' Friend" "ran a serial which was an enormously exciting tale of Alba's op... | John Paton | Christian Matthias Theodor Mommsen | History of Rome | 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 | Frederick Marryat | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | '"Blessings on his head said Sancho Panza who first invented sleep", But what shall we say of the character of the Fre... | Robert Sharp | John Moore | A View of Society and Manners in France, Switzerla | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'It must be labour that makes things valuable Princes & Lords may flourish and may fade But a bold Peasantry, the Coun... | Robert Sharp | Oliver Goldsmith | The Deserted Village | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have read over the "History of Chivalry", it really is true to the title page as nothing but Chivalry can befound i... | Robert Sharp | Charles Mills | The History of Chivalry; or Knighthood and Its Tim | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I know that Historians are very subject to give us their own views, instead of Facts. Hume is very partial to Royalty... | Robert Sharp | David Hume | The History of England from the Invasion | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Moore's Lallah Rookh & Byron's Childe Harold canto fourth formed an odd mixture with these speculations. It was fool... | Thomas Carlyle | Thomas Moore | Lalla Rookh | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | This is emphatic enough.- I need not speak of Dr Chalmers' boisterous treatise upon the causes & cure of pauperism in ... | Thomas Carlyle | Dr Chalmers | Title unknown | Print: Serial / periodical |
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1900-1945 | " ... a young compositor encounters Macaulay for the first time:
"'Bernard Shaw tells me how he could get more intox... | anon | Thomas Babington Macaulay | History of England | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have read most of Moore's Life of Sheridan, I see Mr Canning first came into notice in 1794...' | Robert Sharp | Thomas Moore | Memoirs of the Life of the Rt Hon R B Sheridan | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have begun to read Hill's history of Chivalry, the author seems to be delighted with his subject, and I have no dou... | Robert Sharp | Charles Mills | The History of Chivalry; or Knighthood and Its Times | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | "Henry Wotton recalled coming across Milton's A Mask Presented at Ludlow Castle 'in the very close of the late R's Poe... | Henry Wotton | John Milton | A Mask Presented at Ludlow Castle | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | "One of the copies [of Paradise Regain'd ... Samson Agonistes] I examined at the British Library, London (shelfmark C1... | anon | John Milton | Paradise Regain'd/Samson Agonistes | Print: Book |
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1850-1899 | Elizabeth Morrison, "Serial Fiction in Australian Colonial Newspapers": " ... the short novel A Woman's Friendship ...... | Ada Cambridge | George Meredith | [unknown] | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849
1850-1899 | Elizabeth Morrison, "Serial Fiction in Australian Colonial Newspapers": " ... the short novel A Woman's Friendship ...... | Ada Cambridge | Henry James | | Print: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'Growing up in Lyndhurst after the First World War, R.L. Wild regularly read aloud to his marginally literate grandmot... | R.L. Wild | Charles Lamb | Essays of Elia | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'George Howell, bricklayer and trade unionist..."read promiscuously. How could it be otherwise? I had no real guide, w... | George Howell | John Milton | | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899
1900-1945 | 'There was a lending library in town, but with no education or guidance in English literature, [Edwin Muir] wasted val... | Edwin Muir | Christopher Marlowe | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '[Neville] Cardus read only boys' papers until quite suddenly, in adolescence, he dove into Dickens and Mark Twain. "T... | Neville Cardus | Henry James | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '"Reading for me then was haphazard, unguided, practically uncritical", recalled boilermaker's daughter Marjory Todd. ... | Marjory Todd | Herman Melville | Moby Dick | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Charlie Chaplin was a classic autodidact, always struggling to make up for a dismally inadequate education, groping h... | Charles Spencer Chaplin | Ralph Waldo Emerson | Self Reliance | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Charlie Chaplin was a classic autodidact, always struggling to make up for a dismally inadequate education, groping h... | Charles Spencer Chaplin | Walt Whitman | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Buonaparte's Memorial to Sir Hudson Lowe, a poor performance and utterly unworthy his fallen greatness'. | Benjamin Newton | Charles Montholon | Bonaparte's memorial in a letter | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Walpoe's Turkey amd M'Cleod's Voyage of the Alceste to China.' | Benjamin Newton | John Macleod | Narrative of a voyage in his majesty's late ship A | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'Having lately read Chalmers Sermons on Astronomy in which he has expressed the highest admiration and respect for I. ... | Benjamin Newton | Thomas Chalmers | A series of discourses on the Christian recelation | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read M'cleod's Voyage of the Alceste, his account of the Island of Lewchew is an account of the most amiable pagans I... | Benjamin Newton | John Macleod | Voyage of the Alceste | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'Proceeded with Denham's "Physico-Theology". Read Hurd's sermon on "Every soul shall be salted with fire", an odd mode... | Benjamin Newton | William Derham | Physio Theology or a Demonstartion of the being | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [imaginative role play] 'One chauffeur's daughter alternated effortlessly between heroes and heroines: "I have plotted... | Margaret Wharton | Frederick Marryat | Masterman Ready, or the Wreck in the Pacific | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [imaginative role play] 'One chauffeur's daughter alternated effortlessly between heroes and heroines: "I have plotted... | Margaret Wharton | Richard Doddridge Blackmore | Lorna Doone | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | "Florence Nightingale's copy of Mrs. Trimmer's New and Comprehensive Lessons, Containing a General Outline of the Roma... | Florence Nightingale | Mrs Trimmer | New and Comprehensive Lessons, Containing a General Outline of the Roman HIstory | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | " ... [Alexander Pope's surviving books] allow us to be confident about his having read certain works, such as the ess... | Alexander Pope | Michel de Montaigne | essays | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | H. J. Jackson discusses copious annotations and commentary by unidentified, contemporary male reader in copy of Willia... | anon | William Mudford | Nubilia in Search of a Husband | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Finished Derham's "Physico Theology" and read Campbell's narrative of a voyage round the world'. | Benjamin Newton | William Derham | Physico Theology: or a Demonstration of the being | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Finished Derham's "Physico Theology" and read Campbell's narrative of a Voyage round the world'. | Benjamin Newton | Archibald Campbell | A Voyage Round the World, from 1806-1812 | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | "Take, for instance, his 'Lyrics of Love', so full of beauty and tenderness. Nor are his 'Songs of Progress' less ful... | Samuel Smiles | Gerald Massey | Lyrics of Love | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | "Take, for instance, his 'Lyrics of Love', so full of beauty and tenderness. Nor are his 'Songs of Progress' less ful... | Samuel Smiles | Gerald Massey | Songs of Progress | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'These drawings were placed on the hands of Mr C J Smith, with whom I had become acquainted through an advertisement.' | John Cole | J Smith | advertisement | Print: Advertisement |
| 1800-1849 | 'This summer (1825) the author of 'A Journal of a naturalist', states to have been, what it certainly was, 'hot and dr... | John Cole | Williamson | A Journal of a naturalist | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read W Trimmer's Sacred History.' | John Cole | W Trimmer | Sacred History | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Have you seen the little book, 'Cottage Dialogues', by Mrs Leadbetter. Edgeworth's notes are lively and [nationally] ... | Sarah Harriet Burney | Mary Leadbetter and Maria Edgeworth | Cottage Dialogues Amongst the Irish Peasantry | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | H. J. Jackson notes annotations by Macaulay made in 1836 in his copy of Joseph Milner, History of the Church of Christ... | Thomas Babington Macaulay | Joseph Milner | History of the Church of Christ | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | "Lady Mary [Wortley Montagu] used French for some of the (relatively few) notes in her Montaigne." | Lady Mary Wortley Montagu | Michel de Montaigne | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'On my return to Scarborough was busily employed in preparing for the season, & in editing the work called The Scarbor... | John Cole | Malvina [pseud.] | [poetry] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'I?m reading "Of Human Bondage" of Somerset Maugham & it?s terribly good ? some wonderful school stuff, & of course th... | Peter Pears | Somerset Maughan | Of Human Bondage | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '- have you ever read a book called "1066 & all that" ?i t's very funny, & one of the authors is on board.'
| Benjamin Britten | R J Yeatman | 1066 and all that | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have read the greater part of the History of James I and Mrs. Montagues?s essay on Shakespeare, and a great deal of... | Thomas Babington Macaulay | Elizabeth Montague | [essay on Shakespeare] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | "In January 1804 Coleridge annotated, heavily, in pencil, the first dozen or so pages of a copy of Thomas Malthus's Es... | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Thomas Malthus | Essay on the Principle of Population | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Rather like celibate life in Paris again. I dined at the club and read Macready's diary;. . .' | Arnold Bennett | William Charles Macready | [diary] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I am reading Martineau ["Types of Ethical Theory"] and like it, indeed I think I shall leave of writing this and go on.' | Sir Walter Raleigh | James Martineau | Types of Ethical Theory | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I spent the morning reading dramatists, to qualify myself to teach English Literature [...] while in the evening I re... | Sir Walter Raleigh | Walt Whitman | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'I went to the Library; read Bramhall against Hobbes' | John Byrom | John Bramhall | Castigation of Mr Hobbes [with the appendix]The Ca | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Marjory Todd read [the books of Hesba Stretton, Mrs O.F. Walton and Amy le Feuvre but felt later that] "I would not n... | Marjory Todd | Frederick Marryat | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Marjory Todd read [the books of Hesba Stretton, Mrs O.F. Walton and Amy le Feuvre but felt later that] "I would not n... | Marjory Todd | Kenneth Grahame | [probably The Wind in the Willows etc] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Robert Collyer grew up in a blacksmith's home with only a few books - "Pilgrim's Progress", "Robinson Crusoe", Goldsm... | Robert Collyer | Oliver Goldsmith | History of England | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Robert Collyer grew up in a blacksmith's home with only a few books - "Pilgrim's Progress", "Robinson Crusoe", Goldsm... | Robert Collyer | Oliver Goldsmith | History of Rome | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Gifford had read only some ballads, the black-letter romance Parismus and Parismenus, some odd loose magazines of his... | William Gifford | Thomas a Kempis | The Imitation of Christ | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849
1850-1899 | H. J. Jackson notes annotations by T. B. Macaulay in T. J. Mathias, Pursuits of Literature, including "'Bah!'" "'A con... | Thomas Babington Macaulay | T. J. Mathias | Pursuits of Literature | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'After a miserable Catholic school education...periodic unemployment allowed [Joseph Toole] to study in the Manchester... | Joseph Toole | Adam Smith | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'After a miserable Catholic school education...periodic unemployment allowed [Joseph Toole] to study in the Manchester... | Joseph Toole | John Stuart Mill | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | [Entry from Commonplace Book]: 'Mammon (figurative) description of, Paradise Lost, Book 1, line 680'. | Edward Davy Harrop | John Milton | Paradise Lost | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'After a miserable Catholic school education...periodic unemployment allowed [Joseph Toole] to study in the Manchester... | Joseph Toole | Ralph Waldo Emerson | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'After a miserable Catholic school education...periodic unemployment allowed [Joseph Toole] to study in the Manchester... | Joseph Toole | William Morris | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799
1800-1849 | H. J. Jackson discusses "sarcastic" marginal remarks by Samuel Parr in his copy of Poems by Mrs Pickering (1794), a vo... | Samuel Parr | John Morfitt | poems in poems including Lines on Hatton | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | H. J. Jackson discusses copy of Paradise Lost annotated by John Keats for Mrs Dilke, in which passages highlighted and... | John Keats | John Milton | Paradise Lost | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '[Patrick McGill] read virtually nothing, not even the daily papers until, working on the rail line, he happened to pi... | Patrick McGill | Karl Marx | Das Kapital | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849
1850-1899 | H. J. Jackson notes annotations made by John James Raven over period of around 40-50 years in copy of Macaulay's Lays ... | John James Raven | Thomas Babington Macaulay | Lays of Ancient Rome: with "Ivry" and "The Armada" | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | "Horatio Nelson's copy of Helen Maria Williams's Sketches of the State of Manners and Opinions in the French Republic ... | Horatio Nelson | Helen Maria Williams | Sketches of the State of Manners and Opinions in the French Republic Towrds the Close of the Eighteenth Century | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Lancashire journalist Allen Clarke (b.1863), the son of a Bolton textile worker, avidly read his father's paperback e... | Allen Clarke | Christopher Marlowe | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Lancashire journalist Allen Clarke (b.1863), the son of a Bolton textile worker, avidly read his father's paperback e... | Allen Clarke | John Milton | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Lancashire journalist Allen Clarke (b.1863), the son of a Bolton textile worker, avidly read his father's paperback e... | Allen Clarke | Oliver Goldsmith | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Lancashire journalist Allen Clarke (b.1863), the son of a Bolton textile worker, avidly read his father's paperback e... | Allen Clarke | Francis Beaumont | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'A.E. Coppard, a laundrywoman's son who grew up in dire poverty, left school at nine, ascended the ranks of clerkdom a... | Alfred Edgar Coppard | Henry James | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899
1900-1945 | 'A.E. Coppard, a laundrywoman's son who grew up in dire poverty, left school at nine, ascended the ranks of clerkdom a... | Alfred Edgar Coppard | Homer | Odyssey | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899
1900-1945 | 'A.E. Coppard, a laundrywoman's son who grew up in dire poverty, left school at nine, ascended the ranks of clerkdom a... | Alfred Edgar Coppard | William Morris | The Earthly Paradise | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'When the seventeen-year-old seaman entered Mr Pratt's bookstore on Sixth Avenue near Greenwich Avenue, he bought his ... | John Masefield | Thomas Malory | Morte d'Arthur | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Masefield habitually purchased a book each Friday evening and read it over the weekend. Among the first purchases was... | John Masefield | John Milton | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1500-1599 | Anthony Grafton, "Discitur ut agatur: How Gabriel Harvey Read His Livy": "In 1584 ... in Cambridge, Harvey read Livy .... | Gabriel Harvey and Thomas Preston | Niccolo Machiavelli | Discorsi sopra la prima deca di Tito Livio | Print: Book |
| 1500-1599
1600-1699 | Anthony Grafton, in "Discitur ut agatur: How Gabriel Harvey Read His Livy," notes Harvey's reading, and light annotati... | Gabriel Harvey | Niccolo Machiavelli | The Art of War | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The conception of this particular novel ["Riceyman Steps"] was probably sparked off by the discovery, in an old South... | Arnold Bennett | F. Sommer Merryweather | Lives and Anecdotes of Misers | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Intellectually, he seems to have been most concerned with the affairs of Middleton Murry's new periodical, the "Adelp... | Arnold Bennett | Mioddleton Murry | Adelphi, The | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1700-1799 | 'She was "surprised into tears" by "The Vicar of Wakefield", although she did not much like it.' | Frances Burney | Oliver Goldsmith | The Vicar of Wakefield | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | '[Mary Wortley] Montagu's Letters and accounts of the sexual freedom of Tahitian women were popular: Elizabeth Montagu... | Anna Seward | Mary Wortley Montagu | Letters | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | '[Mary Wortley] Montagu's Letters and accounts of the sexual freedom of Tahitian women were popular: Elizabeth Montagu... | Elizabeth Montagu | Mary Wortley Montagu | Letters | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'Robert Boyle being made to "read the state adventures of Amadis de Gaulle and other fabulous stories" which met a "re... | Robert Boyle | Garci Rodriguez de Montalvo | Amadis de Gaule | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | [Sedgwick read the 'Essay' twice in 1811] | Adam Sedgwick | Thomas Malthus | Essay on Population | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'During these twelve months [in prison] I read with deep interest and much profit Gibbon's "Decline and Fall of the Ro... | James Watson | Johann Lorenz von Mosheim | An Ecclesiastical History, ancient and modern | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'During these twelve months [in prison] I read with deep interest and much profit Gibbon's "Decline and Fall of the Ro... | James Watson | David Hume | The History of England | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have been reading Thompson's "History of the Late War in Britain"; Decrees Blockades.' | William Richard Grahame | David Thompson | History of the Late War Between Great Britain and | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | [Burney was] 'not impressed by Samuel James Arnold's "The Creole", Lady Morgan's "The Missionary", Edgeworth's "Patron... | Frances Burney | Hannah More | Coelebs in search of a wife | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | '[Burney was] 'not impressed by Samuel James Arnold's "The Creole", Lady Morgan's "The Missionary", Edgeworth's "Patro... | Frances Burney | Lady Morgan | The Missionary | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | '[Harriet Grove] enjoyed novels and plays: in 1809-10, she read with pleasure in a family group a number of popular be... | Harriet Grove | Lady Morgan | The Novice of Saint Dominick | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'In December 1810 a box of books arrived and the family began to read a novel which they "liked very much". This book ... | Harriet Grove | Elizabeth Hamilton | Memoirs of Modern Philosophers | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Janet Schaw and her cousin, sailing from Scotland to the Caribbean, try to keep calm in a terrifying storm by reading... | Janet Schaw | Lord Kames | | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | '[opinion of William Mason's play, "Caractacus", entered in diary]: 'My soul melted into every pleasing sensation, the... | Anna Larpent | William Mason | Caractacus | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'E- being called out for a few hours in the morning I attempted to amuse myself with Marmontel's Tales- it was but an ... | William Upcott | Jean Francois Marmontel | Moral Tales | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'In the evening I read the whole of "Love and Madness"- not on account of the amorous epistles of Hackman, but with a ... | William Upcott | James Hackman | Love and Madness; a Story Too True in a Series of... | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I took from my pocket the volume of "Love and Madness" which I had amused myself with a few evenings since- ...I read... | William Upcott | James Hackman | Love and Madness | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I got thro 6 chapters of Count Fathom- about an hours undertaking- and this has been the way thro my whole readings- ... | William Upcott | Tobias George Smollett | The Adventures of Ferdinand Count Fathom | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899
1900-1945 | 'Herman Melville's "The Green Hand" he had read but it "was not much use to me" - a phrase which suggests that already... | John Masefield | Herman Melville | The Green Hand | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Herman Melville's "The Green Hand" he had read but it "was not much use to me" - a phrase which suggests that already... | John Masefield | Herman Melville | Moby Dick | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'One book... stimulated the poet beyond all others; it became, in a way, a key to the rest of his reading for some tim... | John Masefield | George du Maurier | Trilby | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'One book... stimulated the poet beyond all others; it became, in a way, a key to the rest of his reading for some tim... | John Masefield | Alexandre Dumas (pere) | The Three Musketeers | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'After "Trilby" came the effect of "Peter Ibbetson". "It came to me", writes the poet of this book, "just when I neede... | John Masefield | George du Maurier | Peter Ibbetson | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'After "Trilby" came the effect of "Peter Ibbetson". "It came to me", writes the poet of this book, "just when I neede... | John Masefield | Alfred Louis Charles de Musset | | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899
1900-1945 | ''"My masters... in poetry, were Swinburne and Meredith among the living, Rossetti, Matthew Arnold and Robert Browning... | John Masefield | George Meredith | | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899
1900-1945 | ''"My masters... in poetry, were Swinburne and Meredith among the living, Rossetti, Matthew Arnold and Robert Browning... | John Masefield | Jean-Marie-Mathias-Philippe-Auguste comte de Villiers de l'Isle-Adam | | Print: Book |
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1900-1945 | ''"My masters... in poetry, were Swinburne and Meredith among the living, Rossetti, Matthew Arnold and Robert Browning... | John Masefield | Guy de Maupassant | | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899
1900-1945 | ''"My masters... in poetry, were Swinburne and Meredith among the living, Rossetti, Matthew Arnold and Robert Browning... | John Masefield | Prosper Merimee | | 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 | William Morris | | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | [opinion of Thomson's Edward and Elinora, entered in diary]: 'A most affecting tale, pleasingly tender - fraught with ... | Anna Larpent | James Thomson | Edward and Elinora | Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | [note in diary upon finishing Mackintosh's "Vindiciae Gallicae"]: 'As far as I am a Judge I think this work very well ... | Anna Larpent | James Mackintosh | Vindiciae Galliciae | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'I went through that extraordinary work of Lord Monboddo on the "Origin of Language". I was entertained and instructed... | Anna Larpent | Lord Monboddo | Of the origin and progress of language | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | [We then read aloud a dialogue on taste by Mr Ramsay, a lively original book with some entertaining and instructive re... | Anna Larpent | Ramsay | a dialogue on taste | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'In a ritual that was to be repeated throughout the holidays, Anna and John [her son] read passages from an instructiv... | John Larpent | Sarah Trimmer | Sacred history | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'In a ritual that was to be repeated throughout the holidays, Anna and John [her son] read passages from an instructiv... | Anna Larpent | Sarah Trimmer | Sacred history | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'While her friends were engaged in different sorts of women's work... she read them a great favourite, the sentimental... | Anna Larpent | Pierre Marivaux | Marienne | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The poet Clare Cameron, born Winifred Wells to a London blacksmith, was a 15s a week clerk given to artistic ecstasie... | Clare Cameron | Karl Marx | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The poet Clare Cameron, born Winifred Wells to a London blacksmith, was a 15s a week clerk given to artistic ecstasie... | Clare Cameron | Henri Murger | Scenes de la Boheme | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Soon Pritchett was reading Penny Poets editions of "Paradise Regained", Wordsworth's "Prelude", Cowper, and Coleridge... | Victor Sawdon Pritchett | John Milton | Paradise Regained | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'as an office boy, Pritchett tried to read widely and dreamt of an escape to Bohemia. But his knowledge of the Latin Q... | Victor Sawdon Pritchett | George du Maurier | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'When Middleton Murry attacked George Moore in an editorial of the "Adelphi" in April 1924, he [Arnold Bennett] wrote ... | Arnold Bennett | John Middleton Murry | Wrap me up in my Aubusson Carpet | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | 'With autodidact diligence [Leslie Paul] closed in on the avant-garde. He read "Prufrock" and "The Waste Land", though... | Leslie Paul | William MacDougall | Psychology | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'After Stalingrad, [Bernard Kops] immersed himself in Russian literature. A GI dating his sister introduced him to Wal... | Bernard Kops | Walt Whitman | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | "In 1617 the Countess [of Dorset, Pembroke, and Montgomery] noted recreational books that she was reading:
"'Began ... | | Michel de Montaigne | Essays | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'There is a pleasant story of how [Aunt Cara] once set a Jebb niece to read "Paradise Lost" aloud to herself and her s... | [unknown] Jebb | John Milton | Paradise Lost | Print: Book |
| 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 | William Morris | | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Lovely books she read to us...:"The Wide Wide World", with all the religion and deaths from consumption left out, and... | Henrietta Litchfield | Frederick Marryat | Masterman Ready | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Lovely books she read to us...:"The Wide Wide World", with all the religion and deaths from consumption left out, and... | Henrietta Litchfield | Harriet Martineau | Settlers at Home | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Lovely books she read to us...:"The Wide Wide World", with all the religion and deaths from consumption left out, and... | Henrietta Litchfield | Frederick Marryat | The Children of the New Forest | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Lovely books she read to us...:"The Wide Wide World", with all the religion and deaths from consumption left out, and... | Henrietta Litchfield | George Macdonald | The Princess and the Goblin | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'At home all day. In the even read the 9th book of "Paradise Lost".' | Thomas Turner | John Milton | Paradise Lost | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Read the 10th book of "Paradise Lost" in the even.' | Thomas Turner | John Milton | Paradise Lost | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'At home all day. In the even read the 11th and 12th books of "Paradise Regained", which I think is much inferior for ... | Thomas Turner | John Milton | Paradise Regained | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'He returned to London to . . . Somerset Maugham's "Cakes and Ale", which he admired . . .' | Arnold Bennett | W Somerset Maugham | Cakes and Ale | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'At home all day. Not at church all day. Read part of Boyle's lectures and Smart's poem on eternity and immensity.' | Thomas Turner | William Derham | Physico-Theology | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'At home all day. Not at church all day. Read part of Boyle's lectures and Smart's poem on eternity and immensity.' | Thomas Turner | Christopher Smart | On the eternity of the Supreme Being: a poetical essay | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'In the even read Derham's "Sermons at Boyle's Lectures", wherein I find a man evacuates as much in one day by insensi... | Thomas Turner | William Derham | Physico-Theology | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | [in April 1792 Larpent read] 'Smellie's "Philosophy of Nature" [sic] which she considered poorly organized but of suff... | Anna Larpent | William Smellie | Philosophy of Natural History | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'The story of Percy is simple, pathetic, distressing, this worked up to the most moving height of distress; the power ... | Anna Larpent | Hannah More | Percy | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'With a fine imagination and command of Language Charlotte Smith cannot write without Interest [.] this is an odd work... | Anna Larpent | Charlotte Smith | Desmond | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'At home all day. On reading Derham's notes on Boyle's lectures I find he says that Mr Boyle demonstrates that so slen... | Thomas Turner | William Derham | Physico-Theology | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'At home all day. On reading Derham's notes on Boyle's lectures I find he says that Mr Boyle demonstrates that so slen... | Thomas Turner | Christopher Smart | On the immensity of the Supreme Being: a poetical essay | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'In 1816, left alone in Bath by her husband, Mary Shelley records reading "The Solitary Wanderer", Charlotte Smith's "... | Mary Shelley | Charlotte Smith | Letters of a Solitary Wanderer | Print: Book |
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1850-1899 | [Marginalia]: a few pencil marginal marks (in form of bracketed lines of text eg p 79 has lines 203-7 bracketed), plus... | | James Thomson | Seasons, The | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'In reading the "Odyssey" last night among many curious passages these two lines I think applicable to the present tim... | Thomas Turner | Homer | Odyssey | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'in the Even Tho. Davy at our House to whom I read the 4th Book of Milton's "Paradise Lost".' | Thomas Turner | John Milton | Paradise Lost | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'In the even read 2 books of Homer's "Odyssey", translated by Pope.' | Thomas Turner | Homer | Odyssey | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Came home about 8.10. Read part of Homer's "Odyssey".' | Thomas Turner | Homer | Odyssey | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'After supper read the 13th book of Homer's "Odyssey", wherein I think the soliloquy which Ulysses makes when he finds... | Thomas Turner | Homer | Odyssey | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia]: one ms note at the end of the text: 'You are a story [?] teller I ... said Mr Joseph Emin'. Some of the ... | John Drummond Erskine | Joseph Emin | The life and adventures of Joseph Emin, an Armenian. Written in English by himself | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Carter and Talbot read fiction and corresponded about it, including "Roderick Random", the novels of Eliza Haywood, F... | Catherine Talbot | Tobias Smollett | Roderick Random | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | '[Carter] is sympathetic to women of different views, like Charlotte Smith or Helen Maria Williams whose books she fin... | Elizabeth Carter | Helen Maria Williams | various books | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'At home all day... In reading Homer's "Odyssey", I think the character which Menelaus gives Telemachus of Ulysses, wh... | Thomas Turner | Homer | Odyssey | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | [Marginalia]: p. 465 has a bookmark and marginal mark against item 'Regimen'; opposite the half-title there is referen... | Magdalene Sharpe Erskine | Alexander Macaulay | A dictionary of medicine, designed for popular use | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | [Maud Montgomery] 'wrote her first poem after reading "Seasons", a book of poems by James Thomson, written in blank ve... | Lucy Maud Montgomery | James Thomson | Seasons, The | Print: 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 | Ralph Waldo Emerson | [Essays] | Print: Book |
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1800-1849 | [Marginalia]: ms note on binding page appears to refer both to the battle of Flodden and to poems about it: '... The ... | | Robert Lambe | An exact and circumstantial history of the battle of Floddon in verse written about the time of Queen Elizabeth. In which are related many particular facts not to be found in the English history[...] | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | "When [Isaac] Newton arrived at Greenwich in September 1694, the astronomer [John Flamsteed] showed him 157 lunar posi... | Isaac Newton | John Flamsteed | astronomical calculations (lunar positions) | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | Adrian Johns discusses John Flamsteed's reading of sheets 1 and 3 of his star catalogue (submitted for printing withou... | John Flamsteed | John Flamsteed | sections of catalogue of stars | Print: sheets |
| 1700-1799 | Adrian Johns describes how "[Edmond] Halley ... [took] to 'correcting' the copy [of John Flamsteed's star catalogue] i... | Edmond Halley | John Flamsteed | catalogue of stars | |
| 1700-1799 | "As late as 1782 ... [Caroline Herschel] would employ a telescope to 'sweep' the sky for comets, with her brother Will... | Caroline and William Herschel | John Flamsteed | Atlas Coelestis | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'In the even read the 6th book of Milton's "Paradise Lost".' | Thomas Turner | John Milton | Paradise Lost | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'In the even read the 12th and last book of Milton's "Paradise Lost", which I have now read twice through and in my op... | Thomas Turner | John Milton | Paradise Lost | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Read part of Salmon "On Marriage".' | Thomas Turner | Thomas Salmon | A critical essay concerning marriage | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'In the even finished reading Salmon "On Marriage", which I think to be a very indifferent thing, for the author appea... | Thomas Turner | Thomas Salmon | A critical essay concerning marriage | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Noted by Leon Edel in "Brief Chronology" of Henry James: "1860: Returns to Newport ... Reads Balzac and Merimee." | Henry James | Prosper Merimee | unknown | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | Henry James to Thomas Sergeant Perry, from home of host family in Bonn, Sunday 5 August 1860: "[on Wednesday morning] ... | Henry James | Lady Mary Wortley Montagu | Letters | Print: Book |
| | [Marginalia]: ms annotations in form of numbers in margin from p.27- p.655 - as if reference system (they are in numer... | Henry Fox | William Camden | The history of the most renowned and victorious princess Elizabeth, late Queen of England | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Leon Edel notes re Henry James's unsigned review of Matthew Arnold, Essays in Criticism, in North American Review (Jul... | Matthew Arnold | Henry James | Review of Matthew Arnold, Essays in Criticism | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | Henry James to William James, 22 November 1867: "I recd. about a fortnight ago -- your letter with the review of Grimm... | Henry James | William James | Review of Herman Grimm, Unuberwundliche Machte | Manuscript: Letter |
| 1850-1899 | Henry James to Alice James, in letter begun 10 March 1869 (continued on 12 March), on evening spent at home of William... | William Morris | William Morris | The Earthly Paradise | Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | 'After the breakdown of her marriage in 1752, Sarah Scott read voraciously and eclectically, the "History of Florence"... | Sarah Scott | Michel de Montaigne | Essays | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'After the breakdown of her marriage in 1752, Sarah Scott read voraciously and eclectically, the "History of Florence"... | Sarah Scott | Niccolo Machiavelli | History of Florence | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Carter and Talbot read fiction and corresponded about it, including "Roderick Random", the novels of Eliza Haywood, F... | Elizabeth Carter | Tobias Smollet | Roderick Random | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'In December 1810 a box of books arrived and the family began to read a novel which they "liked very much". This book ... | Harriet Grove | Elizabeth Hamilton | Memoirs of modern philosophers | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'While I read [your letter], I have you before me in person: I converse with you and your dear Anna, as arm in arm you... | Samuel Richardson | Sophia Westcomb | [letter] | Manuscript: Letter, Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | '[Pennington] emphasises... that she "highly disapproved" the novels of Charlotte Smith, believing their morality "ver... | Elizabeth Carter | Charlotte Smith | Emmeline | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | '[Pennington] emphasises... that she "highly disapproved" the novels of Charlotte Smith, believing their morality "ver... | Elizabeth Carter | Charlotte Smith | Desmond | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Henry James to William James, 1 January 1870 (letter begun 27 December 1869): " ... I felt a most refreshing blast of ... | Henry James | Henry James Sr | "reply to a 'Swedenborgian'" | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1700-1799 | 'In the even read part of Wiseman's "Chyrurgery".' | Thomas Turner | Richard Wiseman | Several Chirurgical Treatises | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'In the even read part of Derham's "Physico-Theology".' | Thomas Turner | William Derham | Physico-Theology | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'I wish you would cannonade this N[ewto]n. I cannot bear, that another of Apollo's genuine Offspring should pass down ... | Samuel Richardson | John Milton | Paradise Lost | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | Henry James to Henry James Sr, 14 January 1870: "With your letter [of 22 December 1869] came two Nations, with your Sw... | Henry James | Henry James Sr | articles on Swedenborg | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | Henry James to Henry James Sr, 14 January 1870: "With your letter [of 22 December 1869] came two Nations, with your Sw... | Henry James | Henry James Sr | "Is Marriage Holy?" | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | Henry James, in letter to Charles Eliot Norton, 16 January 1871, mentions "just having read in the Fortnightly for Dec... | Henry James | J. Morley | article on Byron | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | Henry James to William James, 28 September 1872 (letter begun 22 September): "I read your Taine and admired, though bu... | Henry James | William James | Review of Hippolyte Taine, "On Intelligence" | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | Henry James to Mrs Henry James Sr, 24 March 1873: "Thank him [Henry James Sr] ... greatly for his story of Mr Webster.... | Henry James | Henry James Sr | anecdote/account ("story of Mr Webster") | Manuscript: Sheet |
| 1850-1899 | Henry James to William James, 9 April 1873: "Your letter was full of points of great interest. Your criticism on Midd... | Henry James | William James | "criticism of Middlemarch" | Manuscript: Letter |
| 1700-1799 | 'The fault of the great author, whose letters to his friend you have been reading, is, that Tully is wholly concerned ... | Samuel Richardson | Conyers Middleton | History of the Life of Marcus Tullius Cicero | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'His plan was to make use of me as a talking dictionary and grammar, confining my teachings exclusively to the answeri... | | Oliver Goldsmith | Vicar of Wakefield | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Henry James to William Dean Howells, 9 January 1874, regarding first half of "tale" (Eugene Pickering) being sent in s... | Henry James | Henry James | Eugene Pickering | Manuscript: Unknown |
| | [Marginalia]: pencil annotations on last binding page are in Latin and appear to be brief notes relating to 4 classes ... | | Robert Thomas | The modern practice of physic, exhibiting the characters, causes, symptoms, prognostic, morbid appearances, and improved method of treating, the diseases of all climates | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | ''When I was seven years old [...] I was kept from chapel one Sunday afternoon by some ailment or other. When the doo... | Harriet Martineau | John Milton | Paradise Lost | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Another lovely book called "The Story of San Michele".' | Hilary Spalding | Axel Munthe | Story of San Michele, The | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Read most of day. I am reading "Dandelion Days", and love it. I must get some more of the Henry Williamson books.' | Hilary Spalding | Henry Williamson | Dandelion Days | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [alone in the sick bay] 'Read "Old Man's Birthday". | Hilary Spalding | Richmal Crompton | Old Man's Birthday, The | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [alone in the sick bay] 'Read "Kidnapped". Not up to much... Dr came and said I couldn't go down [into lessons] until... | Hilary Spalding | Ernest Seton Thompson | Trail of the Sandhill Stag, The | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Read "Lorna Doone" and loved it. Must try to get it next hols.' | Hilary Spalding | R.D. Blackmore | Lorna Doone | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I read "The Man in Grey" which is simply glorious. I must ry and get it.' | Hilary Spalding | Eleanor Smith | Man in Grey, The | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [List of books read in 1943, in diary for 1943]:
'The Farthing Spinster; Guy Mannering; Whereas I was Blind; And So t... | Hilary Spalding | Eleanor Smith | Lover's Meeting | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [List of books read in 1943, in diary for 1943]:
'The Farthing Spinster; Guy Mannering; Whereas I was Blind; And So t... | Hilary Spalding | Dora Olive Thompson | That Girl Ginger | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [List of books read in 1943, in diary for 1943]:
'The Farthing Spinster; Guy Mannering; Whereas I was Blind; And So t... | Hilary Spalding | Anthony Armstrong | Ten Minute Alibi | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [List of books read in 1943, in diary for 1943]:
'The Farthing Spinster; Guy Mannering; Whereas I was Blind; And So t... | Hilary Spalding | Ngaio Marsh | Man Lay Dead, A | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [List of books read in 1943, in diary for 1943]:
'The Farthing Spinster; Guy Mannering; Whereas I was Blind; And So t... | Hilary Spalding | Alexandre Dumas | The Three Musketeers | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [List of books read in 1943, in diary for 1943]:
'The Farthing Spinster; Guy Mannering; Whereas I was Blind; And So t... | Hilary Spalding | "Bartimeus" | Tall Ship, A | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'With regard to reading, you would think I have enough of time upon my hands at present: yet the truth is, I have ofte... | Thomas Carlyle | Robert Jameson | Unknown | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'I heard the greatest part of the Gamester read by Mr Garrick, before it was brought upon the stage. On the whole, I m... | David Garrick | Edward Moore | The Gamester | Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | 'You did not tell me before, that you had read "the Hermit" and "Alfrida". There are charming Things in both. I read ... | Samuel Richardson | David Mallett | Amyntor and Theodora, or, The Hermit | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'You did not tell me before, that you had read the Hermit and Alfrida. There are charming Things in both. I read them... | Samuel Richardson | William Mason | Elfrida | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'You did not tell me before, that you had read the Hermit and Alfrida. There are charming Things in both. I read them ... | Lady Bradshaigh | William Mason | Elfrida | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'You did not tell me before, that you had read the Hermit and Alfrida. There are charming Things in both. I read them... | Lady Bradshaigh | David Mallett | Amyntor and Theodora, or, The Hermit | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Have you read Mad. Sevigne's Letters from the [French]? Fine passages and Sentiments there are in it, & a notion give... | Samuel Richardson | Marie de Rabutin-Chantal Marquise de Sevigne | Letters | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'At home all day. On reading Derham's notes on Boyle's lectures I find he says that Mr Boyle demonstrates that so slen... | Thomas Turner | Christopher Smart | On the omniscence of the Supreme Being: a poetical essay | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'At home all day. On reading Derham's notes on Boyle's lectures I find he says that Mr Boyle demonstrates that so slen... | Thomas Turner | Christopher Smart | On the power of the Supreme Being: a poetical essay | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [List of books read in 1943, in diary for 1943]:
'The Farthing Spinster; Guy Mannering; Whereas I was Blind; And So t... | Hilary Spalding | A.E.W. Mason | Ensign Knightley | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [List of books read in 1943, in diary for 1943]:
'The Farthing Spinster; Guy Mannering; Whereas I was Blind; And So t... | Hilary Spalding | Margaret Mitchell | Gone with the Wind | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [List of books read in 1943, in diary for 1943]:
'The Farthing Spinster; Guy Mannering; Whereas I was Blind; And So t... | Hilary Spalding | Henry Williamson | Beautiful Years, The | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [List of books read in 1943, in diary for 1943]:
'The Farthing Spinster; Guy Mannering; Whereas I was Blind; And So t... | Hilary Spalding | Henry Williamson | Salar the Salmon | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [List of books read in 1943, in diary for 1943]:
'The Farthing Spinster; Guy Mannering; Whereas I was Blind; And So t... | Hilary Spalding | Henry Williamson | Dream of Fair Women, The | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [List of books read in 1943, in diary for 1943]:
'The Farthing Spinster; Guy Mannering; Whereas I was Blind; And So t... | Hilary Spalding | Henry Williamson | Star-born, The | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [List of books read in 1943, in diary for 1943]:
'The Farthing Spinster; Guy Mannering; Whereas I was Blind; And So t... | Hilary Spalding | Arthur Ransome | Picts and the Martyrs, The | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [List of books read in 1943, in diary for 1943]:
'The Farthing Spinster; Guy Mannering; Whereas I was Blind; And So t... | Hilary Spalding | Kay Ambrose | Ballet Lover's Notebook | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [List of books read in 1943, in diary for 1943]:
'The Farthing Spinster; Guy Mannering; Whereas I was Blind; And So t... | Hilary Spalding | S.P.B. Mais | Writing of English, The | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [List of books read in 1943, in diary for 1943]:
'The Farthing Spinster; Guy Mannering; Whereas I was Blind; And So t... | Hilary Spalding | Laurence Housman | Happy and Glorious | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [List of books read in 1943, in diary for 1943]:
'The Farthing Spinster; Guy Mannering; Whereas I was Blind; And So t... | Hilary Spalding | R Brimley Johnson | Birth of Romance, The | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [List of books read in 1943, in diary for 1943]:
'The Farthing Spinster; Guy Mannering; Whereas I was Blind; And So t... | Hilary Spalding | R Brimley Johnson | Comedy of Life, The | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [List of books read in 1943, in diary for 1943]:
'The Farthing Spinster; Guy Mannering; Whereas I was Blind; And So t... | Hilary Spalding | R Brimley Johnson | Some Little Tales | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [List of books read in 1943, in diary for 1943]:
'The Farthing Spinster; Guy Mannering; Whereas I was Blind; And So t... | Hilary Spalding | Kenneth Grahame | Dream Days | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Read "The Count of Monte Cristo" (abridged) which is simply superb. Bought "Song of Bernadette" at last.' | Hilary Spalding | Alexandre Dumas | Count of Monte Cristo, The | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Spent the day reading Lamb [for Higher School Certificate Eng. Lit]. Have decided that if I read an author each fort... | Hilary Spalding | Charles Lamb | Some Essays of Elia | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Spent the day reading Lamb [for Higher School Certificate Eng. Lit]. Have decided that if I read an author each fort... | Hilary Spalding | Charles Lamb | The Best of Lamb | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '1944 My Favourite:
Books: "Peter Abelard". "The Story of San Michele"
Authors: Henry Williamson, B. Nichols
Poems... | Hilary Spalding | Axel Munthe | Story of San Michele, The | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '1944 My Favourite:
Books: "Peter Abelard". "The Story of San Michele"
Authors: Henry Williamson, B. Nichols
Poems... | Hilary Spalding | Henry Williamson | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '1944 My Favourite:
Books: "Peter Abelard". "The Story of San Michele"
Authors: Henry Williamson, B. Nichols
Poems... | Hilary Spalding | Walter de la Mare | Arabia | Print: 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 | Eleanor Smith | Life's a Circus | Print: 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 | Daphne Du Maurier | Gerald | Print: 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 | Caryl Brahms | Footnotes to the Ballet | Print: 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 | Daphne Du Maurier | Hungry Hill | Print: 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 | Daphne Du Maurier | Frenchman's Creek | Print: 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 | Daphne Du Maurier | Rebecca | Print: 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 | Walter de la Mare | Peacock Pie | Print: 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 | Alice Duer Miller | White Cliffs, The | Print: 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 | Jerome K. Jerome | Three Men in a Boat | Print: 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 | H.V. Morton | In Search of England | Print: 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 | Wilfred Massey | Crime at the Club | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'With my scanty pocket-money, high-priced books were beyond my reach; but I was lucky enough, when hunting, as was my ... | Thomas Burt | John Milton | Aeropagitica | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | ?The gentle Cowper was my earliest favourite, a small second-hand copy of his poems, which I bought for eighteen pence... | Thomas Burt | John Milton | [poems] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | ?Two or three years my senior, Sam, like myself, was acquiring a taste for books. Our tastes were not wholly dissimila... | Samuel Bailey | Alexander van Humboldt | Cosmos | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | ?Macaulay, who had recently died, was greatly in vogue. I had read with enjoyment and advantage his "History of Englan... | Thomas Burt | Thomas Babbington Macaulay | History of England | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'In the even read part of Homer's "Odyssey", translated by Alexander Pope, which I like very well, the language being ... | Thomas Turner | Homer | Odyssey | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Henry James to Thomas Seregant Perry, 25 November 1883: "I have just been reading the two last [sixth and seventh] vol... | Henry James | Countess Claire-Elisabeth de Remusat | Correspondence (vols 6 and 7) | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Henry James to Francis Parkman, 24 August 1884: " ... I cannot hold my hand from telling you ... with what high apprec... | Henry James | Francis Parkman | Montcalm and Wolfe | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Henry James to William James, 2 January 1885: "Three days ago ... came the two copies of Father's (and your) book ... ... | Henry James | Henry James Sr and William James | The Literary Remains of the Late Henry James | Print: Book, Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | Henry James to Theodore E. Child, 30 May 1885: "I ought already to have thanked you for your friendly thought and deli... | Henry James | Guy de Maupassant | Bel-Ami | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Robert Louis Stevenson to Henry James, November-early December 1887: "I must break out with the news that I can't bear... | Robert Louis Stevenson | Henry James | Portrait of a Lady | Print: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | 'In Dodsley's "Miscellanies" there are two or three pretty pieces of Mr Mason. Bacon's "Life by Mr Mallet" perhaps you... | Samuel Richardson | William Mason | [items in Dodsley's Miscellanies] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'In Dodsley's "Miscellanies" there are two or three pretty pieces of Mr Mason. Bacon's "Life" by Mr Mallet perhaps you... | Samuel Richardson | David Mallett | [Life of Bacon] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Rudie inspired in all his children a love of literature, reading aloud to them from his own favourites, the great Vic... | Rosamond Lehmann | Comtesse de Segur | Les Petites Filles Mod?les | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | ?There were other books which I then read and studied with care, including Adam Smith?s "Wealth of Nations" and Mill?s... | Thomas Burt | Adam Smith | Wealth of Nations | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | ?There were other books which I then read and studied with care, including Adam Smith?s "Wealth of Nations" and Mill?s... | Thomas Burt | John Stuart Mill | Political Economy | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I infinitely regret to say that having read the 2 vols of "Sinister Street", I don?t think it is permanent work; the ... | Arnold Bennett | Compton McKenzie | Sinister Street | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'While at Mitchelstown she brushed up on her French by reading Madame de Genlis's "Letters on Education", Louis Sebast... | Mary Wollstonecraft | Louis Sebastien Mercier | Mon Bonnet de Nuit | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'While at Mitchelstown she brushed up on her French by reading Madame de Genlis's "Letters on Education", Louis Sebast... | Mary Wollstonecraft | Baroness de Montoliere | Caroline de Litchfield | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Henry James to Henrietta Reubell, 7 July 1890: "I have read Notre Coeur but haven't looked at Bourget in the Figaro." | Henry James | Guy de Maupassant | Notre Coeur | Print: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | 'I am so fatigued with poring over a German book, I scarcely can collect my thoughts or even spell English words.' | Mary Wollstonecraft | [probably] Christian Gotthilf Salzmann | [probably] Moralisches Elementarbuch | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Whenever I read Milton's description of paradise - the happiness, which he so poetically describes fills me with bene... | Mary Wollstonecraft | John Milton | Paradise Lost | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Henry James to William James, 6 February 1891: " ... I blush to say I haven't had freedom of mind or cerebral freshnes... | Henry James | William James | Principles of Psychology | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'When the cigars came, Hoffmann was requested to read some of his poetry, and he gave us a bacchanalian poem with grea... | George Eliot (pseud) | August Heinrich Hoffmann von Fallersleben | [a bacchanalian poem] | Manuscript: Unknown, own poem |
| 1900-1945 | 'Read "Letters of People in Love". Quite good.' | Hilary Spalding | Donagh McDonagh | Letters of People in Love | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Read "Henry Brocken" all evening, as had finished prep. It's enchanting.' | Hilary Spalding | Walter de la Mare | Henry Brocken | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Spent evening dancing, and reading Maeterlinck's "Life of the Bee".' | Hilary Spalding | Maurice Maeterlinck | Life of the Bee, The | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'We read "Paradise Lost" in Gen. English & I tried to look enthusiastic, but I really can't appreciate Milton. He's s... | Hilary Spalding | John Milton | Paradise Lost | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Bad headache all day. Gross Cophta in the evening. Looked through Moore's Life of Sheridan in the morning - a firstra... | George Eliot [pseud] | Thomas Moore | Memoirs of the Life of Sheridan | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | [In bed recovering from gastro-enteritis] 'I read "Crowthers" all day, and loved it.' | Hilary Spalding | Thomas Armstrong | Crowthers of Bankdam | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I finished "The Conquered", and wrote to Uncle John, who sent me a really wizard book - 10/ - called "People and Plac... | Hilary Spalding | Naomi Michison | Conquered, The | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Spent afternoon reading "Twelfth Night"... read more of "England their England" which is a scream.' | Hilary Spalding | A.G. Macdonell | England their England | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Reading "The Jew of Malta", which in spite of critics is the most interesting of the plays I've read.' | Hilary Spalding | Christopher Marlowe | Jew of Malta, The | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Slept all morning, then read quite a lot of "Utopia" in afternoon, & really it is very interesting (once you get over... | Hilary Spalding | Thomas More | Utopia | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Settled down to 3 hours solid slogging at "Utopia", & got it read & notes begun. Spent evening finishing "England th... | Hilary Spalding | Thomas More | Utopia | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Settled down to 3 hours solid slogging at "Utopia", & got it read & notes begun. Spent evening finishing "England th... | Hilary Spalding | A.G. Macdonell | England their England | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Had a really wizard lecture from [Prof.] Renwick on Milton, in which he read a good lot of Milton and Shakespeare to ... | Hilary Spalding | John Milton | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Henry James to Robert Louis Stevenson, 15 April 1892: "I send you by this post the magnificent Memoires de Marbot, whi... | Henry James | Marcelin Marbot | Memoires | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Henry James, in letters to his brother, and sister-in-law, Mr and Mrs William James (25 May 1894; 28 May 1894) discuss... | Henry James | Alice James | The Diary of Alice James | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Henry James to Edmund Gosse, 22 August 1894: " ... I have vowed not to open Lourdes [by Zola] till I shall have closed... | Henry James | George Meredith | Lord Ormont and His Aminta | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Henry James to Mrs. Henry James Sr., 8 May 1876: "The other day I was at the house of a dreadful old lion huntress, Mm... | Mme. Blaze de Bury | Henry James | stories | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | Henry James to Mrs. Henry James Sr., 8 May 1876: "I have been reading Macaulay's Life with extreme interest and entert... | Henry James | Thomas Babington Macaulay | Life | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Henry James to Wiliam James, 28 February 1877: " ... [Henry Sidgwick] has read Roderick Hudson (!) and asked me to sto... | Henry Sidgwick | Henry James | Roderick Hudson | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | Henry James to Henry James Sr., 19 April 1878: "Two days since I dined with Frederick Macmillan to meet Mr Grove, the ... | Archibald Grove | Henry James | The American | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | Henry James to Henry James Sr., 29 May 1878: " ... Sir Charles Dilke ... appears to have found time ... to read and be... | Sir Charles Dilke | Henry James | "French essays" | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Gruppe read us a translation of one of the Homeric Hymns - Aphrodite - which is really beautiful. It is a sort of Geg... | [Professor] Gruppe | Homer | [hymn to Aphrodite] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'In the evening began Macaulay's History of England. Richard III and G's M.S. on Goethe's scientific labours'. | George Eliot [pseud] | Thomas Babington Macaulay | History of England | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Began... to read Cumming for article in Westminster'. | George Eliot [pseud.] | Cumming | unknown | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'We are reading in the evenings now, Sydney Smith's letters, Boswell, Whewell's History of Inductive Sciences, the Ody... | George Eliot and G.H. Lewes | Sydney Smith | [Letters] | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | Henry James to Mrs Henry James Sr., 18 January 1879: "I have just been reading ... [William James's] two articles -- t... | Henry James | William James | article on "Brute and Human Intellect" | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | Henry James to Mrs Henry James Sr., 18 January 1879: "I have just been reading ... [William James's] two articles -- t... | Henry James | William James | article | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | Henry James to Mrs F. H. Hill, 21 March 1879, on his characterisation of Lord Lambeth in Daisy Miller: "That he says '... | Henry James | Henry James | Daisy Miller | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Henry James to Mrs Henry James Sr., 8 April 1879: "I have received father's book from Trubner -- but really to read it... | Henry James | Henry James Sr | [book] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Henry James to Henry James Sr., 11 January 1880: "I know there are quite too many 'I's' in my Sainte-Beuve -- they sho... | Henry James | Henry James | review of Correspondence de C. A. Sainte-Beuve | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | Leon Edel notes: "In the weeks after his mother's death H[enry]J[ames] converted 'Daisy Miler' into a play, and before... | Henry James | Henry James | Daisy Miller | Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | Henry James to William James, 1 January 1883, on having received William's farewell letter to their father too late fo... | Henry James | William James | letter to Henry James Sr | Manuscript: Letter |
| 1850-1899 | Henry James to G. W. Smalley, 21 February 1883: "I have just been reading in the Tribune your letter of Jan. 25, in wh... | Henry James | G. W. Smalley | article on American novels | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | ?About this time I was delighted by the acquisition of two books, the existence of which, until then, had been unknown... | Samuel Bamford | Homer | Iliad | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | ?About this time I was delighted by the acquisition of two books, the existence of which, until then, had been unknown... | Samuel Bamford | John Milton | [miscellaneous poems] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | ?Whilst in Mr W?s employ, I combined my poetic readings at all leisure moments. I procured and read speedily a complet... | Samuel Bamford | Homer | Iliad | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | ?Milton?s miscellaneous works were still my favourites. I copied many of his poems into a writing book, and this I did... | Samuel Bamford | John Milton | [miscellaneous works] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'You are not to think that I am fretful. I have long accustomed my mind to look upon the future with a sedate aspect;... | Thomas Carlyle | Jean le Rond D'Alembert | Unknown | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | ?As spring and autumn were our only really busy seasons, I had occasionally , during other parts of the year, consider... | Samuel Bamford | Oliver Goldsmith | History of England | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | ?As spring and autumn were our only really busy seasons, I had occasionally , during other parts of the year, consider... | Samuel Bamford | David Hume | Decline and fall of the Roman empire | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | '... I also enlarged my acquaintance with English literature, read Johnson's "Lives of the Poets", and, as a consequen... | Samuel Bamford | James Macpherson | Ossian | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | '... I also enlarged my acquaintance with English literature, read Johnson's "Lives of the Poets", and, as a consequen... | Samuel Bamford | Lindley Murray | Murray's Grammar | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799
1800-1849 | [Marginalia]: Three entries (Perth, Haddington and Fife & Kinross) have been annotated with some extra information ex.... | Francis Wemyss | Mostyn John Armstrong | Scotch Atlas; or description of the kingdom of Scotland: divided into counties, with the subdivisions of sherifdoms; shewing their respective boundaries and extent, soil, produce, ... also their cities, chief towns, seaports, mountains, ... | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'It was about this time that I first met with Milton's "Paradise Lost", in a thick volume with engravings and copious ... | Thomas Carter | John Milton | Paradise Lost | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I had been made the more anxious to get some spare time, because several books which I had not before seen now fell i... | Thomas Carter | James Thomson | The Seasons | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I had been made the more anxious to get some spare time, because several books which I had not before seen now fell i... | Thomas Carter | Oliver Goldsmith | Citizen of the World, The | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I had been made the more anxious to get some spare time, because several books which I had not before seen now fell i... | Thomas Carter | Oliver Goldsmith | Vicar of Wakefield, The | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I pursued each of them with much interest, but especially the "Seasons". I found this to be just the book I had wante... | Thomas Carter | James Thomson | Seasons, The | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Somewhere about this time I met with a volume to which I am much indebted. This was a copy of Simpson's "Plea for Rel... | Thomas Carter | David Simpson | A Plea for Religion and the Sacred Writings | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read the Shaving of Shagpat'. | George Eliot [pseud.] | George Meredith | The Shaving of Shagpat: An Arabian Entertainment | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'In the evenings I have been reading Masson's Essays - "The Three Devils" and Chatterton's Life - and this evening I h... | George Eliot [pseud.] | David Masson | [essay on the Life of Chatterton] | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'In the evenings I have been reading Masson's Essays - "The Three Devils" and Chatterton's Life - and this evening I h... | George Eliot [pseud] | David Masson | 'The Three Devils' | Print: Unknown, probably inbook publ. 1856 |
| 1850-1899 | 'I am reading in the evenings the Memoirs of Beaumarchais and Milne Edwards's Zoology'. | George Eliot [pseud] | Pierre Beaumarchais | M?moires contre Goezman | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I am reading in the evenings the Memoirs of Beaumarchais and Milne Edwards's Zoology'. | George Eliot [pseud] | Henri Milne-Edwards | [work on Zoology] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I have continued reading Milne-Edwards aloud, and have also read Harriet Martineau's article on Missions in the "West... | George Eliot (pseud) | Henri Milne-Edwards | [work on Zoology] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I have continued reading Milne-Edwards aloud, and have also read Harriet Martineau's article on Missions in the "West... | George Eliot (pseud) | Harriet Martineau | [article on Missions in the Westminster Review] | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'Began the Ajax of Sophocles. Also Miss Martineau's History of the Peace' | George Eliot [pseud] | Harriet Martineau | History of the Peace: Being a History of England from 1816 to 1854 | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'In the evenings of late, we have been reading Harriet Martineau's sketch of "The British Empire in India", and are no... | | Harriet Martineau | The history of the British Empire in India | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'In the evenings of late, we have been reading Harriet Martineau's sketch of "The British Empire in India", and are no... | | Thomas Babington Macaulay | Essays on Lord Clive And Warren Hastings | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'In the evenings of late, we have been reading Harriet Martineau's sketch of "The British Empire in India", and are no... | | Harriet Martineau | The history of England during the thirty years' peace : 1816-1846 | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia]; Several pp of ms notes copied from another related work laid into v.1. Notes are entitled 'Extract from ... | John Drummond Erskine | Bernard de Montfaucon | Antiquity explained, and represented in sculptures, by the learned Father Montfaucon, translated into English by David Humphreys, | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia]: very brief annotations, bookmarks and marginal marks, indicating active use when on visit to Paris. Also... | Magdalene Erskine | Bernard de Montfaucon | Antiquity explained, and represented in sculptures, by the learned Father Montfaucon, translated into English by David Humphreys | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'It was at this time that I read the remaining seven volumes of the "Spectator"; to which I added the "Rambler", the "... | Thomas Carter | John Milton | [poems] | Print: Book |
| | [Marginalia]: 8 leaves of ms notes, in ink, in French, have been bound in at the beginning of the volume. They consist... | | Jeanne-Antoinette Poisson marquise de Pompadour | Suite d'estampes gravees par Madame la marquise de Pompadour d'apres les pierre gravees de Guay graveur du Roy | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'While walking to Hampstead, I strayed into a copse not far from my road, where I seated myself upon the trunk of a tr... | Thomas Carter | Christoph Christian Sturm | Reflections on the Works of God and of His Providence | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Gave up Miss Martineau's "History" last night after reading some hundred pages in the second volume. She has a sentim... | George Eliot (pseud) | Harriet Martineau | History of the Thirty Years Peace | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Henry James to Edward Holton James, 15 February 1896: 'For the two stories in the "Harvard Magazine" I am [...] gratef... | Henry James | Edward Holton James | two stories | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'I know not if there be a Goddess of Sloth - tho' considering that this of all our passions is the least turbulent and... | Thomas Carlyle | Lady Sidney Owenson Morgan | France | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I know not if there be a Goddess of Sloth - tho' considering that this of all our passions is the least turbulent and... | Thomas Carlyle | Lady Sidney Morgan | Roderick, the Last of the Goths | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'In the [italics]Autobiography[end italics] he tells us of the impact of Byron on him and his friend Dave: "His influe... | William Henry Davies | Christopher Marlowe | | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Henry James to Charles Eliot Norton, 28 November 1899 (in letter begun 24 November 1899): 'I gather [...] that you hav... | Henry James | J. W. Mackail | The Life of William Morris | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899
1900-1945 | Henry James to Katherine Prescott Wormeley, 8 February 1900, thanking her for sending him a proof copy of her preface ... | Henry James | Katherine Prescott Wormeley | MS notes to Balzac's Letters | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899
1900-1945 | Henry James to Katherine Prescott Wormeley, 8 February 1900, thanking her for sending him a proof copy of her preface ... | Henry James | Katherine Prescott Wormeley | Preface [on Balzac] | Print: proof |
| 1900-1945 | Henry James to Urbain Mengin, 1 January 1903: 'Your great handsome wide-margined large-printed, yellow-covered "Italie... | Henry James | Urbain Mengin | Italie des Romantiques | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'When at home I usually retired to my garret, where I employed myself in either reading or working... In reading I usu... | Thomas Carter | David Ramsay | History of the American Revolution, The | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'When at home I usually retired to my garret, where I employed myself in either reading or working... In reading I usu... | Thomas Carter | John Smith | Travels in Canada and the United States | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'We have just finished reading aloud "Pere Goriot" - a hateful book... I have been reading lately and have nearly fini... | George Eliot (pseud) | Auguste Comte | Catechism Of Positive Religion, The | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I am reading Thomas a Kempis.' | George Eliot (pseud) | Thomas a Kempis | Imitation of Christ, The (?) | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'At one of these sales I bought a copy of "Bloomfield's Poems", but not so cheaply as to encourage me to combine my bi... | Thomas Carter | Robert Bloomfield | [Poems] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'At one of these sales I bought a copy of "Bloomfield's Poems", but not so cheaply as to encourage me to combine my bi... | Thomas Carter | James Montgomery | Wanderer in Switzerland, and other Poems | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Henry James to William James, 23 November 1905: 'I can read [italics]you[end italics] with rapture -- having three wee... | Henry James | William James | [Unidentified recently published writings] | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899
1900-1945 | Leon Edel notes, regarding Henry James's letter to James B. Pinker of 14 October 1907: 'The eminent actor Johnston For... | Johnston Forbes-Robertson | Henry James | "Covering End" | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Henry James to William James, 17 October 1907: 'Why the devil I didn't write to you after reading your "Pragmatism" [.... | Henry James | William James | Pragmatism: A New Name for Some Old Ways of Thinking | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Henry James to William James, 17 October 1907: 'Why the devil I didn't write to you after reading your "Pragmatism" [.... | Henry James | William James | journal articles on psychology | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | Henry James to Edmund Gosse, 10 October 1912:
'I have received within a day or two dear old George Meredith's "Let... | Henry James | George Meredith | Letters | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'It was about this time that I first read that very beautiful poem, "The Pleasures of Hope". I also repersued a large ... | Thomas Carter | Thomas Campbell | The Pleasures of Hope | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'It was about this time that I first read that very beautiful poem, "The Pleasures of Hope". I also repersued a large ... | Thomas Carter | James Thomson | Liberty, a Poem | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'By courtesy of a friend I had the loan of Mr. Pope's poetical works together with his translations of Homer's "Iliad"... | Thomas Carter | Homer | Iliad | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'By courtesy of a friend I had the loan of Mr. Pope's poetical works together with his translations of Homer's "Iliad"... | Thomas Carter | Homer | Odyssey | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I was unable to work for a fortnight through lameness... While laid by from work, I read Mr. MacKenzie's "Man of Feel... | Thomas Carter | Henry Mackenzie | Man of Feeling and other tales | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'During this year I read an odd volume of that curious publication, the "Anti-Jacobin-Review", from which I gathered a... | Thomas Carter | Barry Edward O'Meara | Napoleon in Exile, or a Voice from St Helena | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'By favour of my friendly draper I also had the satisfaction of looking over the elegantly written and very entertaini... | Thomas Carter | J.-C.-L. Simonde de Sismondi | Historical View of the Literature of the South of Europe | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | ?While in this state I read the "Letters" of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, and some of Dr Beattie?s and Mr Hume?s ?Essays... | Thomas Carter | Mary Wortley, Lady Montagu | Letters | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | ?As to reading, I had neither time not strength for more than a very little, yet I did something; as I looked through ... | Thomas Carter | James Arminius | [works on theology and account of his life] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | ?As to reading, I had neither time not strength for more than a very little, yet I did something; as I looked through ... | Thomas Carter | James Montgomery | Lectures on poetry | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Henry James to Compton Mackenzie, 21 January 1914: 'When I wrote to [James B.] Pinker I had only read "S[inister].S[tr... | Henry James | Compton Mackenzie | Sinister Street (vol.1) | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Henry James to Compton Mackenzie, 21 January 1914: 'When I wrote to [James B.] Pinker I had only read "S[inister].S[tr... | Henry James | Compton Mackenzie | Carnival | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Henry James, in letter of 21 November 1914 to Hugh Walpole, writes of his bemusement at the second volume of Compton M... | Henry James | Compton Mackenzie | Sinister Street (vol 2) | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | [Marginalia]: brief ink additions to some 6 pp of the text e.g p.57 against XXXVIII is the note 'This act is ... to be... | Johannes [ie John] Chrystie | John Middleton | The laws and acts of the first Parliament | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | ?Macaulay, who had recently died, was greatly in vogue. I had read with enjoyment and advantage his "History of Englan... | Thomas Burt | Thomas Babbington Macaulay | [essays] | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'Without reluctance, I push aside the massy quarto of Millar on the English government, to perform ther more pelasing ... | Thomas Carlyle | John Millar | Historical View of the English Government, An | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have read Millar on the English government &c-' | Thomas Carlyle | John Millar | Historical View of the English Government, An | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'The title is, The Neighbours ? just a title for Miss Austen you see! ? And for Miss Austen, you shall praise her as m... | Elizabeth Barrett | Mary Russell Mitford | Our Village | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'The title is, The Neighbours ? just a title for Miss Austen you see! ? And for Miss Austen, you shall praise her as m... | Elizabeth Barrett | Mary Russell Mitford | Belford Regis | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Did you see ? what I am reading just too late (but we must be benighted sometimes) in the number before the last of t... | Elizabeth Barrett | Thomas Babington Macaulay | Diary and Letters of Madame d'Arblay | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'It is a long argument ? but I have been reading quite lately & for your sake & for the third time, her two best works... | Elizabeth Barrett | Felicia Hemans | [poems] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | November 19, 1880 [Paris] 'I have been reading with great interest Humphrey Clinker [sic], which I like much the best ... | Lady Charlotte Schreiber | Tobias Smollett | Humphry Clinker | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | November 19, 1880 [Paris] 'I have been reading with great interest Humphrey Clinker [sic], which I like much the best ... | Lady Charlotte Schreiber | Tobias Smollett | Roderick Random | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'In my hours of leisure I read the works of Mr Charles Lamb, Mr Holcroft's memoirs, and the "Life of General Washingto... | Thomas Carter | Charles Lamb | [works] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'From that time [summer 1840] to the present [1845] I have not read much. I have, however, looked through Lord Byron's... | Thomas Carter | Harriet Martineau | [works] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | ?With this proposal I of course readily closed and accordingly the next day my father gave me the 1st vol of the "Univ... | John Marsh | John Campbell | The Universal History | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | ?The day after this being the last of the year, I managed to finish reading Blackstone?s Commentaries and Goldsmith?s ... | John Marsh | Oliver Goldsmith | History of England from the earliest times to the death of George II | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I am glad you ha[ve] attacked Hume. Your remarks are just as far as I can determine'. | John A. Carlyle | Hume | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'With my scanty pocket-money, high-priced books were beyond my reach; but I was lucky enough, when hunting, as was my ... | Thomas Burt | John Milton | [various] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Tuesday the 4th being a very wet day we were obliged to keep pretty close to our miserably dull apartments the walls ... | John Marsh, Elizabeth Marsh and Miss White | Charlotte Smith | Celestina | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Tuesday the 4th being a very wet day we were obliged to keep pretty close to our miserably dull apartments the walls ... | John Marsh, Elizabeth Marsh and Miss White | Tobias Smollett | The expedition of Humphrey Clinker | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Fanny Kemble, 9 October 1832: 'I have begun Grahame's "History of America", and like it "mainly," as the old plays say'. | Fanny Kemble | Grahame | History of America | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Fanny Kemble, journal letter to Harriet St. Leger, 27 June 1835, listing 'the books just now lying on my table, all of... | Fanny Kemble | Dr Combe | Principles of Physiology | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Fanny Kemble, journal letter to Harriet St. Leger, 27 June 1835, listing 'the books just now lying on my table, all of... | Fanny Kemble | Christopher Marlowe | Doctor Faustus | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Fanny Kemble to Harriet St. Leger, letter composed between 29 October-3 November 1838: 'I have just finished the play ... | Harriet St. Leger | Fanny Kemble | English Tragedy | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | 'To amuse ourselves at the inns on this road we brought with us Jackson's "30 Letters" & Moritz's "Travels in England"... | John Marsh | Carl Philipp Moritz | Travels of a German through England in 1782 | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'To amuse ourselves at the inns on this road we brought with us Jackson's "30 Letters" & Moritz's "Travels in England"... | John Marsh | Carl Philipp Moritz | Travels of a German through England in 1782 | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'To amuse myself during this solitary journey I got Cumberland's "Henry" (then a new publication)... Wishing to reach ... | John Marsh | Richard Cumberland | Henry | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Having finish'd my business in this neighbourhood, I on the next day (Friday the 24th) return'd to London in the coac... | John Marsh | Charlotte Smith | The Young Philosopher | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | ?Milton?s miscellaneous works were still my favourites. I copied many of his poems into a writing book, and this I did... | Samuel Bamford | Homer | Odyssey | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I was reading to-day and I have since finished Miss Martineau's "Deerbrook", a capital novel though it is too full of... | Henry Crabb Robinson | Harriet Martineau | Deerbrook | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'When we were speaking of Dr. Moore?s Travels, I told her that the Character of Mr. C.?reminded me of our friend Mr. S... | Frances Burney | John Moore | View of Society and Manners in France, Switzerland, and Germany: With Anecdotes Relating to Some Eminent Characters | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Having heard much of Miss Hamilton's celebrated novel of the "Modern Philosopher" we on Wed'y the 14th got it from Hu... | Marsh family | Elizabeth Hamilton | Memoirs of modern philosophers | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'at this time there was a great many tracks Come out and their Contents were Chiefly to perswade poor people to be sat... | Joseph Mayett | Hannah More | Shepherd of Salisbury Plain | Print: Book, chapbooks |
| 1800-1849 | 'at this time there was a great many tracks Come out and their Contents were Chiefly to perswade poor people to be sat... | Joseph Mayett | Hannah More | Farmer's fireside | Print: Book, chapbook |
| 1800-1849 | 'at this time there was a great many tracks Come out and their Contents were Chiefly to perswade poor people to be sat... | Joseph Mayett | Hannah More | Discontented pendulum | Print: Book, chapbook |
| 1900-1945 | [List of favourite things of 1945]:
'My favourite Books: The Keys of the Kingdom. The Good Companions
Authors: Dap... | Hilary Spalding | Daphne du Maurier | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [List of favourite things of 1945]:
'My favourite Books: The Keys of the Kingdom. The Good Companions
Authors: Dap... | Hilary Spalding | Francis Thompson | Hound of Heaven, The | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [List of books read in 1945]:
'For Whom the Bell Tolls; Henry Brocken; Doctor Faustus; Life of the Bee; The Screwtape... | Hilary Spalding | Ernest Hemingway | For Whom the Bell Tolls | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [List of books read in 1945]:
'For Whom the Bell Tolls; Henry Brocken; Doctor Faustus; Life of the Bee; The Screwtape... | Hilary Spalding | Christopher Marlowe | Dr Faustus | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [List of books read in 1945]:
'For Whom the Bell Tolls; Henry Brocken; Doctor Faustus; Life of the Bee; The Screwtape... | Hilary Spalding | J. Patterson Milne | Adventures of Jig and Co | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [List of books read in 1945]:
'For Whom the Bell Tolls; Henry Brocken; Doctor Faustus; Life of the Bee; The Screwtape... | Hilary Spalding | Lady Eleanor Smith | Magic Lantern | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [List of books read in 1945]:
'For Whom the Bell Tolls; Henry Brocken; Doctor Faustus; Life of the Bee; The Screwtape... | Hilary Spalding | Lady Eleanor Smith | Spanish House, The | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [List of books read in 1945]:
'For Whom the Bell Tolls; Henry Brocken; Doctor Faustus; Life of the Bee; The Screwtape... | Hilary Spalding | D.A. Smith | O the Brave Music | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [List of books read in 1945]:
'For Whom the Bell Tolls; Henry Brocken; Doctor Faustus; Life of the Bee; The Screwtape... | Hilary Spalding | A.A. Milne | Winne-the-Pooh | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [List of books read in 1945]:
'For Whom the Bell Tolls; Henry Brocken; Doctor Faustus; Life of the Bee; The Screwtape... | Hilary Spalding | A.A. Milne | House at Pooh Corner, The | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [List of books read in 1945]:
'For Whom the Bell Tolls; Henry Brocken; Doctor Faustus; Life of the Bee; The Screwtape... | Hilary Spalding | Louis Bromfield | Mrs Parkinson | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [List of books read in 1945]:
'For Whom the Bell Tolls; Henry Brocken; Doctor Faustus; Life of the Bee; The Screwtape... | Hilary Spalding | E.M. Almedingen | Frossia | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [List of books read in 1945]:
'For Whom the Bell Tolls; Henry Brocken; Doctor Faustus; Life of the Bee; The Screwtape... | Hilary Spalding | Christopher Marlowe | Tambourlaine | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [List of books read in 1945]:
'For Whom the Bell Tolls; Henry Brocken; Doctor Faustus; Life of the Bee; The Screwtape... | Hilary Spalding | Nehemiah | Book of Nehemiah | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'For three years I continued a regular subscriber to the circulating library, during which time I read various works, ... | Christopher Thomson | John Milton | [various titles] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'As an apprentice I was a subscriber to the Mechanic's Library, from which I borrowed a great supply of books - my tas... | James Glass Bertram | Samuel Smiles | [biographies of men] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799
1800-1849 | 'the diverse collection of literature that Christopher Thomson, a sometime shipwright, actor and housepainter, worked ... | Christopher Thomson | John Milton | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Charles Shaw's dependance upon a small Sunday school library in Tunstall [...] imparted a magnificent if involuntary ... | Charles Shaw | John Milton | Paradise Lost | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'One Saturday afternoon in the summer of 1838, whilst crossing Brumsfield links on my way home to Morningside, endeavo... | James Glass Bertram | Robert Chambers | Chambers's Journal | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849
1850-1899 | David Vincent notes how the nineteenth-century handloom weaver Wiliam Farish '"with Walkingham's arithmetic, and a sla... | William Farish | Walkingham | arithmetic textbook | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | James Burn, on his first contact with literature after years of having seen none: '"In the latter end of the year of ... | James Dawson Burn | Chevalier Ramsay | Life of Cyrus | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849
1850-1899 | 'Thomas Carter [a nineteenth-century Colchester and London tailor] wrote of "The Seasons" that, "With the exception of... | Thomas Carter | James Thomson | The Seasons | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'When William Lovett arrived in London [from Newlyn, in the 1820s] he possessed a Cornish accent but no useful knowled... | William Lovett | Lindley Murray | Grammar | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Finished reading the four last volumes of the "Histoire des Ordres Religieux". Began "La Beata", a story of Florentin... | George Eliot [pseud.] | Henri Marc-Bonnet | "Histoire des Ordres Religieux" | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Finished reading the four last volumes of the "Histoire des Ordres Religieux". Began "La Beata", a story of Florentin... | George Eliot [pseud.] | Jean Charles L?onard de Sismondi | History of the Italian Republics | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Desultory morning, from feebleness of head. Osservatore Fiorentino and Tenneman's Manual of Philosophy'. | George Eliot [pseud.] | W.G. Tenneman | Manual of the History of Philosophy | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read, in the Athenaeum, an interesting article on Bishop Colenso's (of Natal), Letter to the Archbishop of Canterbury... | George Eliot [pseud.] | Charles Montalambert | The Monks of the West | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read Comte on the Middle Ages' | George Eliot [pseud] | Auguste Comte | [on the Middle Ages] | 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 |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read again Burlamacchi's Life of Savonarola'. | George Eliot | Burlamacchi | Life of Savonarola | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read Mrs Jameson's "Legendary Art".' | George Eliot [pseud.] | Anna Jameson | Sacred and Legendary Art | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'began Marullus. In the evening read Pettigrew on Medical Superstitions.' | George Eliot [pseud.] | Marullus | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read... Manni's Life of Burchiello, copying extracts'. | George Eliot [pseud.] | Manni | [Life of Burchiello] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'copied out the Lives of some saints from Mrs Jameson'. | George Eliot [pseud.] | Anna Jameson | Sacred and Legendary Art | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'During our stay [in Malvern] I read Mrs Jameson's book on the Legends of the Monastic orders... and began Marchese's ... | George Eliot [pseud.] | Anna Jameson | Legends Of The Monastic Orders As Represented In The Fine Arts | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'During our stay [in Malvern] I read Mrs Jameson's book on the Legends of the Monastic orders... and began Marchese's ... | George Eliot [pseud.] | Marchese | Storia di San Marco | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Looked through Machiavelli's works'. | George Eliot [pseud.] | Niccolo Machiavelli | The Prince (probably) | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read Villari, making chronological notes. Then Muratori on Proper Names'. | George Eliot [pseud.] | Ludovico Antonio Muratori | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'In the evening read Monteil - a marvellous book: crammed with erudition, yet not dull or tiresome' | George Eliot [pseud] | Amans-Alexis Monteil | [presumably one of his works on history of French civilisation] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'This week I have read a satire of Juvenal, some of Cicero's "De Officiis", part of Epictetus' Enchiridion, two cantos... | George Eliot [pseud] | Manni | Veglie Piacevole | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'In the evening read Goldwin Smith's answer to Mansel' | George Eliot [pseud] | Goldwin Smith | [answer to Mansel] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Went to the British Museum. Found some details in Ammirato's Famiglie Nobili Fiorentini... In the evening I read Mura... | George Eliot [pseud] | Scipioni Ammirato | Famiglie Nobili Fiorentini | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Went to the British Museum. Found some details in Ammirato's "Famiglie Nobili Fiorentini"... In the evening I read Mu... | George Eliot [pseud] | Ludovico Antonio Muratori | [unknown, on the Confraternita] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read through Middleton's Letter from Rome' | George Eliot [pseud] | Conyers Middleton | Dr. Middleton's Letter From Rome, Showing an Exact Conformity Between Popery and Paganism | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read the Malmantile' | George Eliot [pseud] | Malmantile | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read passage from Du Bois Reymond's book on Johannes Mueller, a propos of visions. Finished Libro 1 of Machiavelli's ... | George Eliot [pseud] | Emile Du Bois Reymond | [book on Johannes Mueler] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read passage from Du Bois Reymond's book on Johannes Mueller, a propos of visions. Finished Libro 1 of Machiavelli's ... | George Eliot [pseud] | Niccolo Machiavelli | Istorie fiorentine | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Charlotte [Mew] used to read [...] [lines from her 1912 poem "The Changeling", in which a child speaker ponders reaso... | Charlotte Mew | Charlotte Mew | 'The Changeling' | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'As to what they read [at the Gower Street School in the 1880s] -- and [...] Lucy Harrison [headmistress] read aloud t... | Lucy Harrison, headmistress, Charlotte Mew, and other pupils at Gower Street school | Coventry Patmore | | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'As to what they read [at the Gower Street School in the 1880s] -- and [...] Lucy Harrison [headmistress] read aloud t... | Lucy Harrison, headmistress, Charlotte Mew, and other pupils at Gower Street school | Alice Meynell | Preludes | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'As to what they read [at the Gower Street School in the 1880s] -- and [...] Lucy Harrison [headmistress] read aloud t... | Lucy Harrison, headmistress, Charlotte Mew, and other pupils at Gower Street school | Alice Meynell | "To A Daisy" | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Charlotte Mew to Mrs Catherine Dawson Scott, 12 May 1914: '"Looking through some of Ella [D'Arcy]'s old letters [...] ... | Ella D'Arcy | Charlotte Mew | "Requiescat" | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | 'In the early spring of 1913 Sappho [i.e. Mrs Catherine Dawson Scott, nicknamed after a poem she had authored] wrote i... | Charlotte Mew | Charlotte Mew | "The Farmer's Bride" | Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | '[Charlotte Mew's poem] "The Forest Road" is almost impossible to follow; Dr Scott [husband of Mew's friend Mrs Cather... | Dr Scott | Charlotte Mew | "The Forest Road" | Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'Alida [Klementaski], like Mrs [Catherine] Dawson Scott, had read "The Farmer's Bride" in 1912, and had not forgotten ... | Alida Klementaski | Charlotte Mew | "The Farmer's Bride" | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | 'Alida [Klementaski], like Mrs [Catherine] Dawson Scott, had read "The Farmer's Bride" in 1912, and had not forgotten ... | Catherine Dawson Scott | Charlotte Mew | "The Farmer's Bride" | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | 'In the July of 1918 a copy of "The Farmer's Bride" arrived in [Sydney] Cockerell's vast daily post, with a stiff litt... | Sydney Cockerell | Charlotte Mew | The Farmer's Bride | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '[Sydney] Cockerell [...] busied himself with sending "The Farmer's Bride" to everyone he could think of [...] Wilfred... | Wilfred Scawen Blunt | Charlotte Mew | The Farmer's Bride | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '[Sydney] Cockerell [...] busied himself with sending "The Farmer's Bride" to everyone he could think of [...] Wilfred... | Siegfried Sassoon | Charlotte Mew | The Farmer's Bride | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '[Sydney] Cockerell [...] busied himself with sending "The Farmer's Bride" to everyone he could think of [...] Wilfred... | A. E. Housman | Charlotte Mew | The Farmer's Bride | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'In 1916 one of the tasks of the second Mrs Hardy was to read aloud in the evenings at their Dorchester home, Max Gate... | Florence Hardy | Charlotte Mew | The Farmer's Bride | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Penelope Fitzgerald relates how, during Charlotte Mew's stay at his home in December 1918, Thomas Hardy 'read some of ... | Charlotte Mew | Charlotte Mew | "Saturday Market" | Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'Siegfried Sassoon [...] bought [Sydney] Cockerell the first number of [Harold] Monro's new shilling magazine, "The Mo... | Siegfried Sassoon | Charlotte Mew | "Sea Love" | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | 'Siegfried Sassoon [...] bought [Sydney] Cockerell the first number of [Harold] Monro's new shilling magazine, "The Mo... | Sydney Cockerell | Charlotte Mew | "Sea Love" | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | 'Siegfried Sassoon [...] bought [Sydney] Cockerell the first number of [Harold] Monro's new shilling magazine, "The Mo... | Thomas Hardy | Charlotte Mew | "Sea Love" | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | 'Louis Untermeyer [an American poet] [...] had [...] been carried away by "Madeleine[in Church]" when Siegfried Sassoo... | Siegfried Sassoon | Charlotte Mew | "Madeleine in Church" | Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Finished "La Mandragola", second time reading for the sake of Florentine expressions, and began "La Calandra"' | George Eliot [pseud] | Niccolo Machiavelli | La Mandragola | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Today we have been to the London Library and I have read J. Mill's article on "The American Conquest".' | George Eliot [pseud] | John Stuart Mill | Conquest in America, The | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | [at Englefield Green] 'I have finished Pulci there, and read aloud the "Chateau D'If" to G.' | George Eliot [pseud] | Alexandre Dumas (pere) | The Count of Monte Cristo | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'today I have been reading a book often referred to by Hallam: Meiner's "Lives of Picus von Mirandola and Politian". T... | George Eliot [pseud] | Meiner | [lives of Politian and Pico della Mirandola] | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Began "Il Principe".' | George Eliot [pseud] | Niccolo Machiavelli | Il Principe | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Reading Mommsen and Story's "Roba di Roma". Also Liddell's "Rome", for a narrative to accompany Mommsen's analysis'. | George Eliot [pseud] | Theodor Mommsen | [one of his Roman history works] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Reading Gibbon Vol 1 in connection with Mosheim. Read about the Dionysia. Also Gieseler, on the condition of the worl... | George Eliot [pseud] | Johann Lorenz von Mosheim [possibly] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Reading Aeschlyus, "Theatre of the Greeks", Klein's "History of the Drama" etc.' | George Eliot [pseud] | Philip Wentworth Buckham | Theatre of the Greeks | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Finished Bamford's "Passages from the life of a Radical". Have just begun again Mill's "Political Economy", and Comte... | George Eliot [pseud] | Samuel Bamford | Passages in the Life of a Radical | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Finished Bamford's "Passages from the life of a Radical". Have just begun again Mill's "Political Economy", and Comte... | George Eliot [pseud] | John Stuart Mill | Principles of Political Economy | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Finished Bamford's "Passages from the life of a Radical". Have just begun again Mill's "Political Economy", and Comte... | George Eliot [pseud] | Auguste Comte | The Positive Philosophy of Auguste Comte | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'I have been reading Villemarque's "Contes populaires des Anciens Bretons".' | George Eliot [pseud.] | Th?odore Claude Henri vicomte Hersart de la Villemarqu | Contes populaires des anciens Bretons | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | After Thomas Hardy's death on 11 January 1928, his literary executor Sydney Cockerell 'found a piece of paper on which... | Thomas Hardy | Charlotte Mew | "Fin de Fete" | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'The first scene is the Lamentation of Sampson [sic] which possesses much pathos of sublimity ... I think this is beau... | Alfred Tennyson | John Milton | Samson Agonistes | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Felicia Hemans to Mary Russell Mitford, 10 November 1828: 'My dear Miss Mitford, Accept my late, though sincere and co... | Felicia Hemans | Mary Russell Mitford | Rienzi (excerpts) | Print: Newspaper, Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | Susan J. Wolfson notes Felicia Hemans's reading (probably some time after 1830) of Thomas Moore's "Life of Byron", 'wh... | Felicia Hemans | Thomas Moore | Life of Byron | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I am much obliged to you for the volume of Emerson Essays. I had heard of him before and I know that Carlyle rates hi... | Alfred Tennyson | Ralph Waldo Emerson | Essays | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Ps. Have you read Miss Martineau on Mesmerism in the Athenaeum (two of them). I have got them and if you like I will... | Alfred Tennyson | Harriet Martineau | Miss Martineau on Mesmerism | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'Finished reading Fathom [underlined].' | Alfred Tennyson | Tobias Smollett | Ferdinand Count Fathom | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I now thank you very much for your able inauguration essay on Architecture and live in expectation of its successors.' | Alfred Tennyson | Coventry Patmore | The aesthetics of gothic architecture | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Mr Moultrie's poem seems spirited but I have had no time to study it well.' | Alfred Tennyson | John Moultrie | The Black Fence | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'It was in one of those cheerful moods that I one day took up The Life of John Buncle; and it is impossible for my fri... | James Lackington | Thomas Amory | The life of John Buncle | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | ?After having read the great champions for Christianity, I next read the works of Lord Hesbert, Tindal, Chubb, Morgan,... | James Lackington | Morgan | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | ?After having read the great champions for Christianity, I next read the works of Lord Hesbert, Tindal, Chubb, Morgan,... | James Lackington | Mandeville | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | ?After having read the great champions for Christianity, I next read the works of Lord Hesbert, Tindal, Chubb, Morgan,... | James Lackington | Williams | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Another great source of amusement as well as knowledge, I have met with in reading almost all the best novels (Cervant... | James Lackington | Tobias Smollet | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Another great source of amusement as well as knowledge, I have met with in reading almost all the best novels (Cervant... | James Lackington | Goldsmith | Vicar of Wakefield | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | ?? in looking over the title pages, I met with Hobbes translation of Homer, I had some how or other heard that Homer w... | James Lackington | Homer | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have been keeping rather different hours--though the Priory is far from a late place [...] Wm. [Lady Caroline's hus... | Lady Caroline Lamb | David Hume | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'How pretty I think your verses they express so exactly what I felt but could not find words to speak [...]' | Lady Caroline Lamb | Lady Georgiana Morpeth | unknown | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have also read the Modern Philosophers, which in spight [sic] of a little vulgarity & too much sameness, I like ext... | Lady Caroline Lamb | Elizabeth Hamilton | Memoirs of Modern Philosophers | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Felicia Hemans to John Lodge, July 1831, on visit to Woodstock, Ireland: 'Amongst other persons of the party was Mr He... | Henry Tighe | Felicia Hemans | "The Graves of a Household" | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Thomas Medwin, in his memoir of Shelley: 'In the beginning of [1808] I showed Shelley some poems to which I had subscr... | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Felicia Browne [later Hemans] | Poems | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Joanna Baillie to Felicia Hemans, 11 May 1827: 'Yesterday your American volume from the Author was put into my hands, ... | Joanna Baillie | Felicia Hemans | American edition comprising two collections of poetical works | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | William Wordsworth to Felicia Hemans, 20 April 1834, thanking her for the gift of a copy of her "National Lyrics and S... | William Wordsworth | Felicia Hemans | uncollected poems | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | William Wordsworth to Felicia Hemans, 20 April 1834, thanking her for the gift of a copy of her "National Lyrics and S... | William Wordsworth | Felicia Hemans | National Lyrics and Songs for Music | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | William Wordsworth to Felicia Hemans, 20 April 1834, thanking her for the gift of a copy of her "National Lyrics and S... | William Wordsworth | Felicia Hemans | "Pilgrim's Song to the Evening Star" | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | William Wordsworth to Felicia Hemans, September 1834, praising her verse collection "Scenes and Hymns", of which he wa... | William Wordsworth | Felicia Hemans | Scenes and Hymns of Life &c | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | William Wordsworth to Felicia Hemans, September 1834, praising her verse collection "Scenes and Hymns", of which he wa... | William Wordsworth | Felicia Hemans | "Elysium" | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I began Sir John Mo[o]res letters again and am very much struck if the account is true with the bad management there ... | Lady Caroline Lamb | Sir John Moore | A Narrative of the Campaign of the British Army in Spain | Print: Book |
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1800-1849 | '[B]e not thrown into wild delight because his genius has shone forth--misfortune & rage have occasioned this & whenev... | Lady Caroline Lamb | Homer | unknown | |
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1800-1849 | '[B]e not thrown into wild delight because his genius has shone forth--misfortune & rage have occasioned this & whenev... | Lady Caroline Lamb | John Milton | unknown | Print: Book |
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1800-1849 | '[B]e not thrown into wild delight because his genius has shone forth--misfortune & rage have occasioned this & whenev... | Lady Caroline Lamb | Oliver Goldsmith | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I must tell you an act of kindness of William Lamb--he has been looking over and correcting Ada Reis for me'. | William Lamb | Lady Caroline Lamb | Ada Reis | Manuscript: Unknown, William Lamb would have read either fair copies or proofs from the printer. |
| 1800-1849 | 'Thank you for being pleased with your visit and not displeased with Graham [Hamilton]'. | William Godwin | Lady Caroline Lamb | Graham Hamilton | Manuscript: UnknownUnknown |
| 1800-1849 | '[A]sk Ld M[orpeth] to read you the lost Peri & see the lines about the boy kneeling & the man of crime are not passin... | Lady Caroline Lamb | Thomas Moore | Lalla Rookh | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I must tell you that Lord Byron said Mrs Lee [Augusta Leigh?] & Lady Byron had read all my letters [and] verses'. | Augusta Leigh | Lady Caroline Lamb | [letters and verses] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'I must tell you that Lord Byron said Mrs Lee [Augusta Leigh?] & Lady Byron had read all my letters [and] verses'. | Lady Annabella Byron (n?e Milbanke) | Lady Caroline Lamb | [letters and verses] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Bennett selected the things that interested him - notably novelists such as Henry James, Thomas Hardy, and his friend... | Arnold Bennett | Henry James | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899
1900-1945 | 'he claimed that he had not thought of using them [the Potteries] as fiction until he read another man's work of ficti... | Arnold Bennett | George Moore | A Mummer's Wife | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899
1900-1945 | 'A Mummer's Wife [title in italics] had impressed him very much with its power and its Staffordshire setting.' | Arnold Bennett | George Moore | A Mummer's Wife | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I have been reading Fawcett's Economic condition of the Working Classes, Mill's Liberty, looking into Strauss's Secon... | George Eliot [pseud.] | John Stuart Mill | On Liberty | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'began Hallam's Middle Ages'. | George Eliot [pseud.] | Henry Hallam | The View of the State of Europe during the Middle Ages | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'This evening read again Macaulay's Introduction'. | George Eliot [pseud.] | Thomas Babington Macaulay | [perhaps] History of England [?] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I am reading Mill's Logic again, Theocritus still, and English History and Law'. | George Eliot [pseud.] | John Stuart Mill | A System of Logic | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I have taken up the idea of my drama, "The Spanish Gipsy" again, and am reading on Spanish subjects - Bouterwek, Sism... | George Eliot [pseud.] | Jean Charles L?onard de Sismondi | [unknown - on Spain] | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Reading the Iliad, book III'. | George Eliot [pseud.] | Homer | Iliad | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Finished reading "Averroes and l'Averroisme", and "Les Medecins Juifs". Reading "First Principles".' | George Eliot [pseud.] | Eliakim Carmoly | Histoire des M?decins Juifs | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Reading Munk, Melanges de Philosophie juive et arabe'. | George Eliot [pseud.] | Salomon Munk | Melanges de Philosophie Juive et Arabe | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Finished Guillemin on the Heavens'. | George Eliot [pseud.] | unknown Guillemin | [presumably astronomy text] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Reading; First book of Lucretius, 6th book of the Iliad; Samson Agonistes, Warton's History of English Poetry; Grote ... | George Eliot [pseud.] | Homer | Iliad | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Reading; First book of Lucretius, 6th book of the Iliad; Samson Agonistes, Warton's History of English Poetry; Grote ... | George Eliot [pseud.] | John Milton | Samson Agonistes | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Reading; First book of Lucretius, 6th book of the Iliad; Samson Agonistes, Warton's History of English Poetry; Grote ... | George Eliot [pseud.] | Auguste Comte | Syst?me de politique positive | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Reading; First book of Lucretius, 6th book of the Iliad; Samson Agonistes, Warton's History of English Poetry; Grote ... | George Eliot [pseud.] | Frederick Denison Maurice | Conscience: Lectures On Casuistry | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'have been reading a little on philology, have finished the 24th book of the Iliad, the first book of the Faery Queene... | George Eliot [pseud.] | Homer | Iliad | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'In the evening read aloud Bright's 4th speech on India, and a story in Italian. In the spectator some interesting fac... | George Eliot [pseud.] | W Thomson | [essay in Revue des Cours] | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'Aloud [these past two days] I have read Bright's speeches and "I promessi sposi". To myself I have read Mommsen's Rome'. | George Eliot [pseud.] | Alessandro Manzoni | I Promessi Sposi | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Aloud [these past two days] I have read Bright's speeches and "I promessi sposi". To myself I have read Mommsen's Rome'. | George Eliot [pseud.] | Theodor Mommsen | History of Rome | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I am reading about plants, and Helmholtz on music' | George Eliot [pseud] | Hermann von Helmholtz | [book on music] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read the articles Phoenicia and Carthage in Ancient Geography. Looked into Smith's "Universal History" again for Cart... | George Eliot [pseud] | Smith | Universal History | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read the articles Phoenicia and Carthage in Ancient Geography. Looked into Smith's "Universal History" again for Cart... | George Eliot [pseud] | Jean Charles L?onard de Sismondi | Litt?rature du midi de l'Europe | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I am reading Maundeville's "Travels".' | George Eliot [pseud] | John Mandeville (pseud.) | Travels | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I have read rapidly through Max Muller's History of Sanskrit Literature and am now reading Lecky's "History of Morals... | George Eliot | Max Muller | History of Ancient Sanskrit Literature | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Mary Berry to a friend, 19 November 1798: 'Don't let me forget to advise you to to read the "Natural Son," or "Lovers'... | Mary Berry | Thomas Robert Malthus | Essay on the Principle of Population | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Mary Berry to a friend, 14 December, 1798: 'During my illness I have finished the 2nd vol. of Wraxhall which I had jus... | Mary Berry | Michel de Montaigne | Essays | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Mary Berry to a friend, 14 December, 1798: 'During my illness I have finished the 2nd vol. of Wraxhall which I had jus... | | Thomas Robert Malthus | Essay on the Principle of Population | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Mary Berry, in reflections on reading (1798): 'When I read "Paradise Lost," I am no more able to conceive the powers o... | Mary Berry | John Milton | Paradise Lost | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Mary Berry to Mrs Cholmeley, 12 January 1799: 'Somerville's "Anne" is, I think, more dry than his "William," but clear... | Mary Berry | Thomas Somerville | History of Great Britain During the Reign of Queen Anne; with a Dissertation concerning the Danger of the Protestant Succession | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Mary Berry to Mrs Cholmeley, 3 February 1799: 'I hope you have read the Irish debates on the Union. I think you will ... | Mary Berry | Colonel Mathew | letter | Manuscript: Letter |
| 1700-1799 | Mary Berry to Mrs Cholmeley, 3 February 1799: 'In compliance with your request and my own wishes, I have been and am r... | Mary Berry | Thomas Belsham | A Review of Mr. Wilberforce's Practical View of the Prevailing Religious Systems of Professed Christians | Print: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | Mary Berry to Mrs Cholmeley, 2 April 1799: 'In the many hours I have spent alone this week, I have been able, though b... | Mary Berry | Hannah More | Strictures on the Modern System of Female Education | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | The Dowager Lady Spencer to Mary Berry, from Nuneham (seat of George Simon, second Earl of Harcourt), 21 August 1799: ... | G., Dowager Lady Spencer | William Mason | Poems (third volume) | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Mary Berry, letter of 26 December 1799: 'What little I could read during two days and part of two nights has been Merc... | Mary Berry | Bartholomew Mercier | Le Nouveau Paris | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Mary Berry, letter of 26 December 1799: 'What little I could read during two days and part of two nights has been Merc... | Mary Berry | Bartholomew Mercier | Tableau de Paris | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Mary Berry, letter of 26 December 1799: 'What little I could read during two days and part of two nights has been Merc... | Mary Berry | Mackintosh | [unidentified "accounts of hs proposed lectures on the Law of Nature and Nations"] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The fresh-sounding work of the war generation, which began to appear in the late 1920s and early 1930s, provided him ... | Lawrence Durrell | Richard (pseud.) Aldington [real name] | Death of a Hero | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The fresh-sounding work of the war generation, which began to appear in the late 1920s and early 1930s, provided him ... | Lawrence Durrell | Richard (pseud.) Aldington [real name] | [poetry] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'He lapped up those French writers who kicked against those conventions - Rabelais, Villon, Baudelaire, Rimbaud' | Lawrence Durrell | Arthur Rimbaud | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Durrell's studies at the British Museum turned even further towards the Elizabethans. He took in Sidney, Marlowe, Nas... | Lawrence Durrell | Christopher Marlowe | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'He consumed works of western philosophy, from Rousseau to Wyndham Lewis. All this he added to his diet of sexology - ... | Lawrence Durrell | Remy de Gourmont | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Barclay Hudson, an American living near by, lent him a new novel to read. It was published in Paris by the Obelisk Pr... | Lawrence Durrell | Henry Miller | Tropic of Cancer | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Shelley reads a part of Comus aloud.' | Percy Bysshe Shelley | John Milton | Comus (A mask Presented at Ludlow Castle, 1634) | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Much of it [ie. ?the daily instruction I received?] consisted in the books I read by myself, and my father?s discours... | John Stuart Mill | David Hume | The History of England (presumably) | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'He [?my father?] also made me read, and give him a verbal account of, many books which would not have interested me s... | John Stuart Mill | John Millar | Historical View of the English Government | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'He [?my father?] also made me read, and give him a verbal account of, many books which would not have interested me s... | John Stuart Mill | Johann Lorenz von Mosheim | An Ecclesiastical History, Ancient and Modern, from the Birth of Christ, to the Beginning of the Present Century | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'He [?my father?] also made me read, and give him a verbal account of, many books which would not have interested me s... | John Stuart Mill | Thomas McCrie | Life of John Knox | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'About this period, Mr Tymms sent down for inspection the proof of his Acct. of Northamptonshire for the Family Topogr... | John Cole | Tymms | Family Topographer | Print: Proof |
| 1850-1899
1900-1945 | 'The house was behind the post office and below the town library, and in a few years not even the joys of guddling, gi... | Christopher Grieve | Ralph Waldo Emerson | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Aloud I read the concluding part of Walter Scott's "Life" which we had begun at Harrogate, two volumes of Froude's "H... | George Eliot [pseud] | Auguste Comte | [correspondence with Valat] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read J.S. Mill on Socialism' | George Eliot [pseud] | John Stuart Mill | [on socialism] | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read Magnus on the Farbensinn' | George Eliot [pseud] | Hugo Magnus | Die Geschichtliche Entwickelung des Farbensinnes | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'Mary, William and Emma commenced their readings of Thomson.' | Mary, William and Emma Cole | Thomson | The Seasons [probably] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | [Read] 'Iliad in Munro's edition'. | George Eliot [pseud] | Homer | Iliad | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Homer IV. Foster, Physiology'. | George Eliot [pseud] | Homer | [book IV - of Iliad?] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'It was at this time that I read the remaining seven volumes of the "Spectator"; to which I added the "Rambler", the "... | Thomas Carter | Oliver Goldsmith | [poems] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'It was at this time that I read the remaining seven volumes of the "Spectator"; to which I added the "Rambler", the "... | Thomas Carter | John Pomfret | [poems] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Mary Berry, Journal, 9 June 1808: 'Dined at Lady Donegal's with Agnes [Berry, her sister]. Philippa (Godfrey), Charle... | Mary Berry | Thomas Moore | 'Corruption' | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Mary Berry, Journal, 9 June 1808: 'Dined at Lady Donegal's with Agnes [Berry, her sister]. Philippa (Godfrey), Charle... | Mary Berry | Thomas Moore | 'Intolerance' | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Mary Berry, Journal, 11 June 1808: 'In the evening I read 'Corruption' and 'Intolerance' aloud.' | Mary Berry | Thomas Moore | 'Intolerance' | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Mary Berry, Journal, 11 June 1808: 'In the evening I read 'Corruption' and 'Intolerance' aloud.' | Mary Berry | Thomas Moore | 'Corruption' | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read [Mrs Merritt's] recollections of Mr Merritt.' | George Eliot [pseud] | Merritt (Mrs) | [recollections of her husband] | Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Finished Monier Williams' | George Eliot [pseud] | Monier Monier Williams | [presumably work on Sanskrit] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | [Read] 'Romanes, 'Theism'.
Tiele, History of Religions.
Odyssey.' | George Eliot [pseud] | George John Romanes | Candid Examination of Theism, A | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | [Read] 'Romanes, 'Theism'.
Tiele, History of Religions.
Odyssey.' | George Eliot [pseud] | Homer | Odyssey | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Finished Fanny Kemble's Records of a girlhood'. | George Eliot [pseud] | Frances Anne Kemble | Records of a Girlhood | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Finished Prose Edda, etc.
Akkadians.
Malthus.' | George Eliot [pseud] | Thomas Malthus | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | [Read] 'Sayce and Promessi Sposi'. | George Eliot [pseud] | Alessandro Manzoni | I Promessi Sposi | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Finished the Discours Preliminaire'. | George Eliot [pseud] | Jean Le Rond D'Alembert | Discours pr?liminaire de l'Encyclop?die | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read Comte and began Hermann and Dorothea'. | George Eliot [pseud] | Auguste Comte | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Having finished Spencer's Sociology we began Max Muller's Lectures on the Science of Language'. | George Eliot and John Cross | Friedrich Max Muller | Lectures on the Science of Language | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'after dinner began Duffield's translation of Don Quixote and Myers' Wordsworth'. | George Eliot [pseud] | Frederic William Henry Myers | Wordsworth | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'He also again freely supplied me with the loan of books. At this time he lent me several volumes of the "New Monthly ... | Thomas Carter | Thomas Campbell | Letters from Algiers | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849
1850-1899 | 'I do sometimes wish for my library here, where it costs trouble to other people to get books for me, and yet I have d... | Harriet Martineau | Michel de Montaigne | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849
1850-1899 | 'I do sometimes wish for my library here, where it costs trouble to other people to get books for me, and yet I have d... | Harriet Martineau | Moliere (pseud.) | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849
1850-1899 | 'I do sometimes wish for my library here, where it costs trouble to other people to get books for me, and yet I have d... | Harriet Martineau | Alessandro Manzoni | I Promessi Sposi | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Have you read Emerson's Essays? I suppose it is the first immortal Amern book. It has come to me like a visitation of... | Harriet Martineau | Ralph Waldo Emerson | Essays | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Mary Berry, Journal, 3 September 1808: 'In the evening Mr. Morritt read to us one of Massinger's plays ("The Duke of M... | John B. S. Morritt | Philip Massinger | The Duke of Milan | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Mary Berry, Journal, 5 September 1808: 'In the evening Mr. Morritt continued reading the "Duke of Milan." He reads ve... | John B. S. Morritt | Philip Massinger | The Duke of Milan | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Mary Berry, Journal, 6 September 1808: 'In the evening Mr. Morritt began reading another of Massinger's plays [having ... | John B. S. Morritt | Philip Massinger | The Fatal Dowry | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Mary Berry, Journal, 10 September 1808, during stay at Bothwell Castle, seat of Lord Douglas: 'Lord and Lady Rosslyn a... | Mary Berry | Captain Adam | Letter to father | Manuscript: Letter |
| 1800-1849 | Mary Berry, Journal, 8 June 1811: 'Went to Lady Cork's. A curious party, where, by way of something to do, she had [J... | John Thelwall | John Milton | 'Invocation to Light' | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'No doubt it is to you that I owe this pleasure, - of Buckle's 2d vol. Maria has been cutting and skimming, and she op... | Harriet Martineau | Oliver Wendell Holmes | Elsie Venner | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'We are reading Motley's last, - much surprised not to like it better. It is so diffuse and sinks so very low in its C... | Harriet Martineau | John Lothrop Motley | Causes of the Civil War in America [probably] | |
| 1800-1849 | ?While in this state I read the "Letters" of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, and some of Dr Beattie?s and Mr Hume?s ?Essays... | Thomas Carter | David Hume | [Essays] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799
1800-1849 | 'Seward had been reading a five-volume edition of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu's letters, and she had confessed her irrit... | Anna Seward | Mary Wortley Montagu | [Letters] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'As Catherine Talbot later remarked of the "Odyssey", "Mr Pope's verse can give dignity to a peg or a pig, and the div... | Catherine Talbot | Homer | Odyssey | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'After reading Pope's "Illiad", the sixteen-year-old Burney confided in her journal that "I was never so charm'd with ... | Frances Burney | Homer | Iliad | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799
1800-1849 | '[Anna Seward's] training was not necessarily less rigorous for being informal and solitary. Seward scoffed at a male ... | Anna Seward | John Milton | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Horace Walpole to Mary Berry, 10 July 1789: 'I enclose a most beautiful copy of verses which Miss H[annah]. More wrote... | Horace Walpole | Hannah More | [verses on opening of walk by Bishop of London] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'At ten the poor infant was reading Smollett's History... She summed up her impression with scornful lucidity: "There ... | Anne Isabella (Annabella) Milbanke | Tobias Smollett | Complete History of England | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'there was always poetry. Campbell, just then at the top of his short-lived vogue; Ossian, the unreadable of to-day; M... | Anne Isabella (Annabella) Milbanke | Thomas Campbell | [poetry] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 |
'there was always poetry. Campbell, just then at the top of his short-lived vogue; Ossian, the unreadable of to-day;... | Anne Isabella (Annabella) Milbanke and Captain Boothby | John Milton | Paradise Lost | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 |
'A Reverend Mr Darnell followed in this January of 1812. He too read Milton. This time it was Comus, and the whole p... | Anne Isabella (Annabella) Milbanke, Rev. Darnell and other house guests | John Milton | Comus | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Annabella was now reading Cowper's "Iliad" and annotating evey second line; she was studying Alfieri with the family-... | Anne Isabella (Annabella) Milbanke | Homer | Iliad | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'she asked [Byron] to recommend her some books of modern history. At present she was reading Sismondi's "Italian Repub... | Anne Isabella (Annabella) Milbanke | J.C. de Sismondi | history of the Italian republics;: Being a view of the origin, progress, and fall of Italian freedom, A | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Letter from Byron to Annabella Milbanke, Aug 25th 1814]. 'You can hardly have a better modern work than Sismondi's, b... | George Gordon, Lord Byron | J.C. de Sismondi | history of the Italian republics;: Being a view of the origin, progress, and fall of Italian freedom, A | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Letter from Byron to Annabella Milbanke, Aug 25th 1814]. 'You can hardly have a better modern work than Sismondi's, b... | George Gordon, Lord Byron | Jean Charles de Sismondi | Litt?rature du midi de l'Europe | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | '[Annabella] had been reading Harriet Martineau's "Five Years of Youth", and wrote to a friend: "it is very good - chi... | Anne Isabella (Annabella), Baroness Byron | Harriet Martineau | Five Years of Youth: or, Sense and Sentiment | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'It was through the reading of his narrative poem, "Within and Without" (published in 1855, but written a few years ea... | Anne Isabella (Annabella), Baroness Byron | George Macdonald | Within and Without | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'By the age of ten he had gone through E.W. Lane's three-volume translation of "The Book of the Thousand Nights and On... | William Somerset Maugham | Frederick Marryat | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Horace Walpole to Mary Berry, 23 November 1793, on meeting Edward Jerningham ('the Charming Man') at a gathering at th... | Horace Walpole | Edward Jerningham | Prologue to The Siege of Berwick | Print: Newspaper |
| 1700-1799 | Horace Walpole to Mary Berry, 22 November 1795: 'I will, while expecting Marchand [...] transcribe the wonderful Sansc... | Horace Walpole | [probably] James Murphy | [probably] Travels in Portugal ... in the Years 1789-90 | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Horace Walpole to Mary Berry, 22 November 1795: 'I will, while expecting Marchand [...] transcribe the wonderful Sansc... | Mary Berry | [probably] James Murphy | [probably] Travels in Portugal ... in the Years 1789-90 | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Mary Berry, Journal, 26 June 1812: 'We dined with the Princess [of Wales] at Kensington. The company: Lady C. Lindsay... | Thomas Campbell | Thomas Campbell | First discourse upon Poetry | Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Absorbed as always in books, Willie read seriously in both French and German literature. His favourites in French wer... | Somerset Maugham | Guy de Maupassant | [tales: short stories] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Brooks loved literature, and during their long walks together he introduced Willie to the most important contemporary... | John Ellingham Brooks | John Henry, Cardinal Newman | [theological works] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Brooks loved literature, and during their long walks together he introduced Willie to the most important contemporary... | John Ellingham Brooks | George Meredith | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Mary Berry, Journal, 9 March 1814: 'I dined with Madame de Stael; nobody but Campbell the poet, Rocca, and her own dau... | Thomas Campbell | Thomas Campbell | discourse on English poetry and poets | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Mary Berry, Journal, 27 March 1818: 'I went with the Comte Bardi to the Laurentian Library. Saw the travels (MSS.) of... | Mary Berry | Magalotti | Travels of Cosmo III in England | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Mary Berry, Journal, 19 December 1818: 'Sir James Mackintosh in my room this morning; hearing me read over and comment... | Sir James Mackintosh | John Milton | Paradise Regained | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'read Elements of Morality and Smellie'. | Mary Godwin | William Smellie | The Philosophy of Natural History | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Mary Berry to 'Mrs Somerville', from Bellevue, September 1834: 'I have just finished reading your book [apparently on ... | Mary Berry | Mrs Somerville | [work on astronomy] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Mary Berry to Thomas Babington Macaulay, 15 October 1834: 'Have they sent you among your books "Victor Jaquemont's Let... | Mary Berry | Victor Jaquemont | Letters describing a journey in India | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Mary Berry to a friend, [1841]: 'I have read every word of Mazzini, and agree entirely with him in his views of what c... | Mary Berry | Mazzini | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Lord Francis Jeffrey to Mary Berry, 23 April 1842 (in letter begun 22 April): 'I still read a good deal [...] I have j... | Lord Francis Jeffrey | Thomas Babington Macaulay | article on Frederick of Prussia | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | Mary Berry to the Countess of Morley, 24 December 1848: 'Talking of Macaulay, I hope you have got his book, as the [it... | Mary Berry | Thomas Babington Macaulay | The History of England from the Accession of James the Second | Print: Book |
| 1500-1599 | 'In ["Ciceronianus" (published 1577; delivered c.1575)] [...] Harvey says he has been for nearly twenty weeks in his T... | Gabriel Harvey | Sturm | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1500-1599 | '[Gabriel] Harvey no doubt has the incident [of Philip, Lord Surrey's 'attempts [...] on the virtue' of Harvey's siste... | Gabriel Harvey | Desiderius Erasmus | Parabolae | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Palm Sunday
Appropriate readings this week from Mant (?) [sic] &c.' | John Cole | Richard Mant | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1500-1599 | '[Erasmus's "Parabolae"] was acquired by [Gabriel] Harvey in 1566, read by him at some time thereafter, and was re-rea... | Gabriel Harvey | Desiderius Erasmus | Parabolae | Print: Book |
| 1500-1599 | '[Erasmus's "Parabolae"] was acquired by [Gabriel] Harvey in 1566, read by him at some time thereafter, and was re-rea... | Gabriel Harvey | Desiderius Erasmus | Parabolae | Print: Book |
| 1500-1599
1600-1699 | 'Throughout [Gabriel] Harvey's copy of [Lord Henry Howard's "A Defensative against the poyson of supposed prophesies"]... | Gabriel Harvey | Lord Henry Howard, Earl of Northampton | A Defensative against the poyson of supposed prophesies | Print: Book |
| 1500-1599 | '[Gabriel] Harvey's favourite books were read and annotated a number of times [...] at the conclusion of [his Erasmus]... | Gabriel Harvey | Desiderius Erasmus | Works | Print: Book |
| 1500-1599
1600-1699 | 'Lodovico Domenichi's "Facetie, motti, et burle" (1571) [an Italian collection of short miscellaneous observations and... | Gabriel Harvey | Lodovico Domenichi | Facetie, motti, et burle | Print: Book |
| 1500-1599 | 'Despite [Gabriel] Harvey's dissatisfaction with his progress in Italian, in 1580 he managed to read the "First Decade... | Gabriel Harvey | Niccolo Machiavelli | Discorsi ("First Decade") | Print: Book |
| 1500-1599 | '[One] branch of [Gabriel] Harvey's marginalia [...] has to do with his study of the techniques of warfare. Extensive... | Gabriel Harvey | Niccolo Machiavelli | The Arte of Warre | Print: Book |
| 1500-1599
1600-1699 | Gabriel Harvey's favourite authors on warfare, listed in his copy of Machiavelli, "The Arte of Warre", after 1595:
... | Gabriel Harvey | Sir Roger Williams | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'On looking over "The Penny magazine" I met with the following useful piece by my friend James' [?Edmeston]. | John Cole | James [?] Edmeston | The penny magazine | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'Mr. Perry tried upon us [at school in Norwich] the reading of L'Allegro and Il Penseroso; and it failed utterly [...... | Mr Perry | John Milton | Il Penseroso | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Mr. Perry tried upon us [at school in Norwich] the reading of L'Allegro and Il Penseroso; and it failed utterly [...... | Mr Perry | John Milton | L'Allegro | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Mr. Perry tried upon us [at school in Norwich] the reading of L'Allegro and Il Penseroso; and it failed utterly [...... | Harriet Martineau | John Milton | L'Allegro | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Mr. Perry tried upon us [at school in Norwich] the reading of L'Allegro and Il Penseroso; and it failed utterly [...... | Harriet Martineau | John Milton | Il Penseroso | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Harriet Martineau hears her first (pseudonymously) published work read by her unsuspecting eldest brother: 'After tea ... | | Harriet Martineau | article on "Female Writers on Practical Divinity" | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | Harriet Martineau on her early writings: 'I immediately after [the publication of her first periodical essay] began to... | | Harriet Martineau | Devotional Exercises | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Harriet Martineau on one of her early publications: 'A most excellent young servant of ours [...] went out to Madeira ... | Martineau family servant, and husband | Harriet Martineau | My Servant Rachel | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'It was in the autumn of 1827, I think, that a neighbour lent my [Harriet Martineau's] sister Mrs. Marcet's "Conversat... | Harriet Martineau | Mrs Marcet | Conversations on Political Economy | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Harriet Martineau on reading for research toward her series of 'Tales', during 1832: 'The scenery was furnished by boo... | Harriet Martineau | McCulloch | "Highlands and Islands of Scotland" | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Harriet Martineau on her concerns about the acceptability of some of her writings: 'While writing "Weal and Woe in Gar... | Harriet Martineau | Harriet Martineau | "Weal and Woe in Garveloch" | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Harriet Martineau, on a response to her series of "Tales", denounced as 'improper' in the Quarterly Review, by a woman... | anon | Harriet Martineau | volume containing "Garveloch" stories | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Harriet Martineau, on a response to her series of "Tales", denounced as 'improper' in the Quarterly Review, by a woman... | anon woman and husband | Harriet Martineau | Series of Tales | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'S. reads Prud'homme aloud to us'. | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Louis-Marie Prudhomme | [unknown, possibly one of his French revolutionary works] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read some of Miss Bailey's plays - Tahourdin calls in the evening Shelley reads Moores journal aloud'. | Percy Bysshe Shelley | John Moore | A Journal during a residence in France from August to December 1792 | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Drummond'. | Mary Godwin | William Drummond | Academical Questions | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'read Embassy to China. finish it in the evening.' | Mary Godwin | Lord Macartney | Journal of an Embassy to China | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'in the evening Miltons letter to Mr Hartlib on educations'. | Mary Godwin | John Milton | Of Education. To Master Samuel Hartlib | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | '[Elizabeth Fry] told me [Harriet Martineau] that her brother, J. J. Gurney, and other members of her family had becom... | J. J. Gurney | Harriet Martineau | Stories including "Cousin Marshall" | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | '[Elizabeth Fry] told me [Harriet Martineau] that her brother, J. J. Gurney, and other members of her family had becom... | Family of Elizabeth Fry | Harriet Martineau | Stories including "Cousin Marshall" | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Harriet Martineau, on research for a story on Bills of Exchange to be set either in Holland or South America: 'I thoug... | Harriet Martineau | Sir William Temple | [work on Holland] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Harriet Martineau, on her research for a story to be set in Ceylon: 'I gathered what I could from books, but really fe... | Harriet Martineau | Maria Graham | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Since reading "Cousin Marshall" and others of my Numbers, [Lord Henley] had dropped his subscriptions to some hurtful... | Lord Henley | Harriet Martineau | Stories including "Cousin Marshall" | Print: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | To Miss Hunt, Bath Sept 27, 1794
'I have the great store of Spanish lately; the "Teatro Critico Universale" by Feyj... | Elizabeth Smith | Juan de Mariana | History of Spain | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | To Lady Isabella King, Bath March 8th 1798
'Have you read "The Pursuits of Literature"? It is a satirical poem. I d... | Elizabeth Smith | Thomas James Mathias | The Pursuits of Literature | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'My [Harriet Martineau's] pleasure in [R. Monckton Milnes's poems] was greatest when I read them in my Tynemouth solit... | Harriet Martineau | R. Monckton Milnes | poems | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I [Harriet Martineau] saw much of Fanny [Kemble] in America [...] She showed me the proof-sheets of her clever "Journ... | Harriet Martineau | Fanny Kemble | Journal | Manuscript: proofs |
| 1800-1849 | 'I [Harriet Martineau] was spending a couple of days at Mrs. Marsh's, when she asked me whether I would let her read t... | Mrs Marsh | Mrs Marsh | The Admiral's Daughter | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'Mrs. Marsh asked me what I thought of getting her tales published. I offered to try if, on reading the manuscript at... | Harriet Martineau | Mrs Marsh | Two Old Men's Tales (including The Admiral's Daughter) | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | '[S. T. Coleridge] told me [Harriet Martineau] that he (the last person whom I should have suspected) read my tales as... | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Harriet Martineau | Tales | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'A neighbour lent me [Miss Bremer's] novel, "Brothers and Sisters," the first volume of which we thought admirable: bu... | Harriet Martineau and neighbour | Frederika Bremer | Brothers and Sisters | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | To Miss Hunt, December 12 1792
'The "Lusiad" I never read. It was Middleton's "Life of Cicero" that I meant. I was ... | Elizabeth Smith | Conyeds Middleton | History of the life of Marcus Tullius Cicero | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | To Miss Hunt, December 12 1792
'The "Lusiad" I never read. It was Middleton's "Life of Cicero" that I meant. I was ... | Elizabeth Smith | Tobias George Smolett | History of England | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | The elderly Harriet Martineau reflects upon her altered reading capacity: 'I could not now read "Lalla Rookh" through ... | Harriet Martineau | Thomas Moore | Lalla Rookh | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | To Miss Hunt, July 7, 1792
'At present I am engaged in an argument with my dear Miss Bowdlen concerning Ossian. I s... | Elizabeth Smith | Homer | [poetry] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | To Miss Hunt, July 7, 1792
'At present I am engaged in an argument with my dear Miss Bowdlen concerning Ossian. I s... | Elizabeth Smith | John Milton | [poems] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'At other times we studied Shakespeare, Milton and some other English poets as well as some of the Italians. We took l... | Elizabeth Smith | John Milton | [poems] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | To 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 | Zimmerman | Einsamkert | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Harriet Martineau, on plans for, and execution of, her work on Toussaint L'Ouverture: 'I went to my confidante, with a... | anon | Harriet Martineau | work on Toussaint L'Ouverture | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'At a concert at the Hanover Square Rooms, some time before [Queen Victoria's accession] (I forget what year it was) t... | Princess Victoria | Harriet Martineau | Stories including "Ella of Garveloch" | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | '[A friend] one day desired to be allowed to see and criticise the first chapter of my [Harriet Martineau's] "Retrospe... | anon | Harriet Martineau | Retrospect of Western Travel | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Harriet Martineau to 'Mr Atkinson', 21 November 1847: 'I saw a sort of scared smile on Mrs. ----'s face the other day,... | anon | Harriet Martineau | articles on Household Education | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Charlotte Bronte (writing as Currer Bell) to Harriet Martineau, 7 November 1849: 'When C.B. first read "Deerbrook" he ... | Charlotte Bronte | Harriet Martineau | Deerbrook | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | '"Currer Bell" [Charlotte Bronte] told me [Harriet Martineau] that she had read with astonishment those parts of "Hous... | Charlotte Bronte | Harriet Martineau | Household Education | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I [Harriet Martineau] wrote a letter [...] to an Assistant Poor-law Commissioner, who was earnest in his endeavours t... | Harriet Martineau | Harriet Martineau | Letter to Assistant poor-law Commissioner | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | Harriet Martineau on the death of a Town Missionary acquaintance of hers:
'A friend of his at Birmingham wrote to ... | anon | Harriet Martineau | Letter | Manuscript: Letter |
| 1850-1899 | Harriet Martineau on the death of a Town Missionary acquaintance of hers:
'A friend of his at Birmingham wrote to ... | anon | Harriet Martineau | Letter | Manuscript: Letter |
| 1850-1899 | Charlotte Bronte to Harriet Martineau, on Martineau's published correspondence with Atkinson: 'Having read your book, ... | Charlotte Bronte | Harriet Martineau and H.G. Atkinson | Letters on the Laws of Man's Nature and Development | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Harriet Martineau on the inspirations for her project of translating Comte: 'I obtained something like a clear prepara... | Harriet Martineau | Auguste Comte | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'On the 8th of May [1851], I [Harriet Martineau] went for a fortnight to stay with some friends, between whom and myse... | anon | Auguste Comte | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Maria Weston Chapman on Harriet Martineau's story 'Mary and her Grandmother': 'I found it in the [italics]mansarde[end... | Maria Weston Chapman | Harriet Martineau | Mary and her Grandmother | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Lord Durham to Harriet Martineau, 1 January 1834: 'I have read your excellent paper with great pleasure'. | Lord Durham | Harriet Martineau | article | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Harriet Martineau, Journal, 10 September 1837: 'Read to Mrs ---- my last chapters of my first volume of "Retrospect." ... | Harriet Martineau | Harriet Martineau | Retrospect | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Harriet Martineau, Journal, 24 September 1837: 'Revelled in Lamb's letters. What an exquisite specimen is that man of... | Harriet Martineau | Charles Lamb | Letters | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Harriet Martineau, Journal, 24 September 1837: '[italics]Evening[end italics] Read [...] to my mother [...] my Sedgwic... | Harriet Martineau | Harriet Martineau | article on Sedgwick | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Harriet Martineau, Journal, 12 October 1837: 'Read some of Beaumont's "Marie." Sentimental and un-American' | Harriet Martineau | Beaumont | Marie | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Harriet Martineau, Journal, 7 November 1837: 'Read Waldo Emerson's oration. Though fanciful, it has much truth and be... | Harriet Martineau | Ralph Waldo Emerson | oration | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Harriet Martineau, Journal, late November 1837: 'Read some of Brougham's education speech, but not all; so have no jud... | Harriet Martineau | Lord Brougham | speech on education | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Harriet Martineau, Journal, 16 December 1837: 'Morning, read one of my own stories, -- "Loom and Lugger." Was quite d... | Harriet Martineau | Harriet Martineau | Loom and Lugger | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Harriet Martineau, Journal, 10 January 1838: 'Read "Les Precieuses Ridicules," which did not amuse me very much; thoug... | Harriet Martineau | Moliere | Les Precieuses Ridicules | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Harriet Martineau, Journal, 6 February 1838: '[At Captain Beaufort's] Met [...] C. Darwin, Mr. F. Edgeworth, and Mr. H... | | Harriet Martineau | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849
1850-1899 | Sir Arthur Helps to the publisher Macmillan, 'I have lately re-read "Deerbrook" with exceeding delight.' | Sir Arthur Helps | Harriet Martineau | Deerbrook | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Trade very dull - weather very wet and rather windy as predicted by Murphy'. | Joseph Jenkinson | Patrick Murphy | The Weather Almanack, 1838-39 | Print: Book, almanac |
| 1800-1849 | Harriet Martineau, Journal, 4 January 1840: 'Read Mr. Thom's account of the Oxford theology, drawn from their own writ... | Harriet Martineau | Thom | account of "Oxford Movement" | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Lord Jeffrey to 'Mr. Empson', December 1840: 'I have read Harriet [Martineau]'s first volume [of "The Hour and the Man... | Francis Jeffrey | Harriet Martineau | The Hour and the Man (vol. I) | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Florence Nightingale to Jane Martineau, 29 June 1876: 'I have thought of "The Hour and the Man" as the finest historic... | Florence Nightingale | Harriet Martineau | The Hour and the Man | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849
1850-1899 | From letter of Elizabeth B. Ker, niece of Harriet Martineau: 'I regret infinitely that she desired all her letters to ... | Elizabeth B. Ker | Harriet Martineau | Life in the Sickroom | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Transcribed into a ms volume] Title 'Lines by Mrs Hemans'; Text 'Bring flowers, young flowers, for the festal board/ ... | Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine | Felicia Dorothea Browne Hemans | Bring flowers | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849
1850-1899 | [Item transcribed into commonplace book]: Title = 'The season of death' Text = 'Leaves have their time to fall/ And fl... | Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine | Anonymous | The season of death | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'One of them asked me if I was fond of reading and told me that she herself wrote books and was staying in the neighbo... | Hannah Mitchell | Mary Humphrey Ward | The History of David Grieve | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'The growth of the Rhizophora also pleased me much, although I had before a very good idea of it from Rumphius, who ha... | Joseph Banks | Georg Eberhard Rumphius | Herbarium Amboinensis | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'About a fortnight ago my gums swelled, and some small pimples rose on the inside of my mouth, which threatened to bec... | Joseph Banks | Hulme | [book with medical directions] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Browne, in his "History of Jamaica" mentions three species whose roots, he says, are used to dye a brown colour; and ... | Joseph Banks | Georg Eberhard Rumphius | Herbarium Amboinensis | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'He was covered with a fine cloth of a manufacture totally new to us; it was tied on exactly as represented in Mr. Dal... | Joseph Banks | Alexander Dalrymple | An Account of the Discoveries made in the South Pacifick Ocean, previous to 1764 | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'The men in these boats were dressed much as they are represented in Tasman's figure, that is, two corners of the clot... | Joseph Banks | Abel Jansen Tasman | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Fortunately for me, about this time I read two books by Joseph Macabe, an ex-Catholic priest, "The Religion of Women"... | Hannah Mitchell | Joseph Macabe | The Religion of Women | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Fortunately for me, about this time I read two books by Joseph Macabe, an ex-Catholic priest, "The Religion of Women"... | Hannah Mitchell | Joseph Macabe | Women in Political Evolution | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849
1850-1899 | [Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: Title = 'The Voice of Spring'; Text = 'I come, I come ! ye have call'd me ... | Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine | Felicia Hemans | The voice of spring | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849
1850-1899 | [Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: Untitled; Text = 'To sigh, yet feel no pain; /To weep - yet scarce know wh... | Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine | [Thomas] [Moore] | [The Blue Stocking] | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849
1850-1899 | [Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: Title = 'Night'; Text 'Night is the time for rest/ How sweet, when labors ... | Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine | [James?] Montgomery | Night | Print: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'Followed by the thought that, had I not been reading Ethel Mannin's "Green Willow", which gives a vivid description o... | | Ethel Mannin | Green Willow | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'She [Lady Caroline Lamb] wrote at length to defend herself to [Thomas] Medwin, whom she treats respectfully, though s... | Lady Caroline Lamb | Thomas Medwin | Journal of the Conversations of Lord Byron | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'With the most intense interest I have just finished your Book which does you credit as to the manner in which it is e... | Lady Caroline Lamb | Thomas Medwin | Journal of the Conversations of Lord Byron | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'pray have you read Medwin's Book--the part respecting me gives me much pain--this is strange--why need I care--I do h... | Lady Caroline Lamb | Thomas Medwin | ournal of the Conversations of Lord Byron | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Our own attitude and our feeling of amateur enterprise have been summed up by Professor Bronislaw Malinowski, who in ... | | Bronislaw Malinowski? | [unknown] | Manuscript: Sheet, Academic paper |
| 1800-1849 | 'Twould make a Paradise of Hell--
& fill even Heaven itself with woe[...]' | Lady Caroline Lamb | John Milton | Paradise Lost | Unknown |
| 1800-1849
1850-1899 | [Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: [Title] 'The grave of a poetess (Mrs` Tighe at Woodstock near Kilkenny)'; ... | Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine | [Felicia Dorothea Browne] [Hemans] | The grave of a poetess | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849
1850-1899 | [Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: [Title] 'Country and Town [by] H. Smith'; [Text] 'Horrid, in country shade... | Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine | H. Smith | Country and Town | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | [transcription of Moore's poem 'Gazel' in what seems to be Lady Caroline's Hand] | Lady Caroline Lamb | Thomas Moore | 'Gazel' | Unknown |
| 1800-1849
1850-1899 | [Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: Title 'Address to Lord Byron by Dr Lamartine'; [Text] 'Toi, dont le monde ... | Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine | Alphonse Marie Louis de Lamartine | [L'Homme] | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849
1850-1899 | [Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: [ Untitled]; [Text] 'In the morning of life when its cares are unknown/ a... | Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine | Thomas Moore | [unknown] | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849
1850-1899 | [Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: [Title] 'The Illuminated City' ; [Text] 'The hills all glow'd with a festi... | Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine | Felicia Dorothea Browne Hemans | The illuminated city | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849
1850-1899 | [Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: [Title] 'From the Forest Sanctuary'; [Text] 'But the dark hours wring fort... | Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine | Felicia Dorothea Browne Hemans | The forest sanctuary | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849
1850-1899 | [Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: [Title] 'My Birthday [by] Moore'; [Text] 'My Birthday! what a different so... | Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine | Thomas Moore | My Birthday | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849
1850-1899 | [Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: [Title] 'To my mother [by] Moore'; [Text] 'They tell us of an Indian tree/... | Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine | Thomas Moore | To my mother | Print: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | 'Having now, I believe, fairly passed through between New Holland and New Guinea, and having an open sea to the westwa... | Joseph Banks | William Dampier | "Voyage Round the World" or "Voyage to New Holland" | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'This I should suppose to be the gum mentioned by Dampier in his voyage round the world, and by him compared with "San... | Joseph Banks | William Dampier | "Voyage round the world" or "Voyage to New Holland" | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'This I should suppose to be the gum mentioned by Dampier in his voyage round the world, and by him compared with "San... | Joseph Banks | Abel Janszoon Tasman | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'When first we found the tree, we of course gathered the branches, and were surprised to find our hands instantly cove... | Joseph Banks | Georg Eberhard Rumphius | Herbarium Aboinense | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'The chief inconvenience in handling the roots came from the infinite number; myriads would come in an instant out of ... | Joseph Banks | Georg Eberhard Rumphius | Herbarium Aboinense | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'All the shoals that were dry at half ebb afforded plenty of fish, left dry in small hollows of the rocks, and a profu... | Joseph Banks | William Dampier | "Voyage round the world" or "Voyage to New Holland" | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'In the evening a small bird of the noddy (Sterna) kind hovered about the ship, and at night settled on the rigging, w... | Joseph Banks | William Dampier | "Voyage round the world" or "Voyage to New Holland" | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Authors tell strange stories about the immense size to which this fruit grows in some countries which are favourable ... | Joseph Banks | Georg Eberhard Rumphius | Herbrium Aboinensis | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | ' "Well, because I do like Ernest Raymond's books and I read all of them as far as I can." '
| | Ernest Raymond | [various titles] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'My life is serious enough without worrying over things like that, so I don't read the papers-only read d'Alroy and An... | | Ann Temple | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849
1850-1899 | [Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: [Untitled]; [Text]' ?Oh! ask not, hope not thou too much/ of sympathy belo... | Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine | [Felicia Dorothea Browne] [Hemans] | [Kindred hearts] | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849
1850-1899 | [Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: [Untitled]; [Text] 'Oh that I had the wings of a dove/ that I might flee a... | Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine | John Malcolm | [untitled] | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849
1850-1899 | [Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: [Untitled]; [Text]' ? Now I feel/ What high prerogatives belong to Death/ ... | Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine | Felicia Dorothea Browne Hemans | [untitled] | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849
1850-1899 | [Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: [Title] 'Adieu/ John Mackintosh/ The earnest student'; [Text] 'Adieu to Go... | Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine | John Mackintosh | Adieu | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849
1850-1899 | [Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: [Untitled]; [Text] 'Weep not, tho' lonely and wild be thy path/ And the st... | Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine | Anonymous | [untitled] | Print: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | Letter 271
4 July 1940
'Please forgive me not having written eight and a half days ago or more to thank you for your... | Peter Pears | Somerset Maughan | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'On the penult of the year 1819 I reached the last line of the "Iliad". To speak of the merits of the Maeonian Bard ... | Robert Mitchell | Homer | The Iliad | Print: BookManuscript: Letter |
| 1850-1899 | 'So in time she was able to read Grimms' "Fairy Tales", "Gulliver's Travels", "The Daisy Chain" and Mrs. Molesworth's ... | Flora Thompson | [Brothers] Grimm | [Fairy Tales] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'So in time she was able to read Grimms' "Fairy Tales", "Gulliver's Travels", "The Daisy Chain" and Mrs. Molesworth's ... | Flora Thompson | M.L. Molesworth | Cuckoo Clock | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'So in time she was able to read Grimms' "Fairy Tales", "Gulliver's Travels", "The Daisy Chain" and Mrs. Molesworth's ... | Flora Thompson | M.L. Molesworth | Carrots | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Besides their own Family we met Mr Jerningham, the Poet. I have lately been reading his poems,- if [italics] his [cl... | Frances Burney | Jerningham | 'Poems on Various Subjects' or 'Fugitive Poetical Pieces' or poems separately published. | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I would like you to read a little book called "The Forerunner", by Merejkowski, published by Constable. It is about ... | Donald William Alers Hankey | Dimitri Merejkowski | The Forerunner, the romance of Leonardo da Vinci | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Nothing material has occurred to me since I returned from Mainhill. I wrote the first half of "Hunsteen" and transla... | Thomas Carlyle | Friedrich Mohs | Crystalography | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Having just concluded the first volume of Sismondi's history, and the other not being yet arrived from Edinr, I think... | Thomas Carlyle | Jean Charles Leonard Simonde de Sismondi | unknown history | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I return to my Letter writing from calling on Miss Harriot Webb [...] She appears well pleased with her new Home - & ... | Harriot Webb | Hannah More | Practical Piety | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'When Wordsworth was then spoken of as a great poet, the ordinary question was, "Why is he not more popular?" The proc... | Charles Knight | Thomas Moore | Lalla Rookh | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Charles James Blomfield | A Charge Delivered to the Clergy of his Diocese | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Francis Beaumont | The Dramatic Works | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | August Heinrich Matthiae | A Copious Greek Grammar | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | William Camden | Institutio graecae grammatices compendiaria | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Moses Mendelssohn | Morgenstunden oder Vorlesungun uber das Daseyn Got | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Johann Gebbard Ehrenreich Maass | Versuch uber die Einbildungskraft | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Thomas Thomson | A System of Chemistry | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Moses Mendelssohn | Philosophische Schriften | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Nicola Francesco Haym | Notizia de' libri rari viella lingua italiana | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Mary Lamb | Mrs Leicester's School: or, the history of several young ladies, related by themselves | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Edward Williams | Poems, Lyric and Pastoral | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Francis Wrangham | The Life of Dr. Richard Bentley | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Francis Wrangham | Scraps | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Friedrich Daniel Ernst Schleiermacher | A Critical Essay on the Gospel of St Luke | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Friedrich Daniel Ernst Schleiermacher | Ueber den sogenannten ersten Brief des Paulos | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Antoine Desmoulins | Histoire naturelle des races humaines | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | John and Michael Banim | Tales by the O'Hara Family | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia]
| Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Thomas Adam | Private Thoughts on Religion | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia]
| Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Robert Chambre | Some Animadversions upon the Declaration | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia]
| Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Alexander Chalmers | The Works of the English Poets from Chaucer to Cowper | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia]
| Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Alexander Chalmers | The Works of the English Poets from Chaucer to Cowper | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia]
| Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Alexander Chalmers | The Works of the English Poets from Chaucer to Cowper | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia]
| Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Hendrik Brenkmann | Historia Pandectarum | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia]
| Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Jakob Bohme | Works | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia]
| Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Francis Beaumont | Fifty Comedies and Tragedies | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia]
| Samuel Taylor Coleridge | William Bartram | Travels Through North & South Carolina | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I was reading an article by a Labour M.P. who wants to harbour refugees. He's all wrong. Good job we haven't got dict... | | anon [A Labour MP] | article | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Ernst Theodor Amadeus Hoffmann | Fantasiestucke in Calloti Manier | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Philippe de la Clyle, sire de Commines | The History of Philip de Commines | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Thomas W Dymock | England's Dust and Ashes Raked up | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Johann Friedrich Blumenbach | Uber die naturlichen Verschiedenheiten im Menschen | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Johann Friedrich Blumenbach | Uber die naturlichen Verschiedenheiten im Menschen | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Moses Mendelssohn | Jerusalem oder uber religiose Macht und Judenthum | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Benedetto Menzini | Poesie di Benedetto Menzini Fiorentino divise in due tomi | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | John Milton | Poems upon Several Occasions, English, Italian, and Latin | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | John Milton | A Complete Collection of the Historical, Political and Miscellaneous Works of John Milton | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Henry More | The Theological Works of the most pious and learned Henry More, DD Sometime Fellow of Christ's College in Cambridge | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Henry More | Philosophical Poems, etc | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Henry More | Observations upon Anthroposophia Theomagica, and Anima Magica abscondita | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Cotton Mather | Magnalia Christi Americana | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Bernard de Mandeville | The Fable of the Bees: or, private vices, publick benefits | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Friedrich Von Matthisson | Gedichte | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Friedrich Von Matthisson | Gedichte | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | John Smith | Select Discourses | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Henry More | The Second Lash of Alazonomastix | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Johann Gottfried Jakob Hermann | De emendenda ratione graecae grammaticae pars prim | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Friedrich Anton Mesmer | Mesmerismus | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Cesare Mussolini | Italian Exercises | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Thomas Robert Malthus | An Essay on the Principle of Population | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | John Macdiarmid | Lives of British Statesmen, & c | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | John Miller | Sermons Intended to Show a Sober Application Of Scriptural Principles To The Realities Of Life | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Thomas Robert Malthus | The Grounds of an Opinion on the Policy of Restricting the importation of foreign corn | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Charles Smith | Seven Letters on National Religion | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Philip Massinger | The Plays of Philip Massinger... with notes critic | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | S. Maxwell [potential pseudonym] | The Battle of the Bridge; or Pisa Defended | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Johann Friedrich Meckel | System des vergleichenden Anatomie | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Adolph Carl August Eschenmayer | Psychologie in drei Theilen | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I well remember, and I sometimes think of it with tears, bringing to my lodgings Rollin's "Ancient History", in six v... | John B. Gough | Wiley and Putnam (eds) | Library of Choice Reading | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have been frightened from taking up Hannah More's last book which Fanny lent me, by the dread that it would more th... | Sarah H. Burney | Hannah More | Practical Piety | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'In the 9th mo. [1800] died Thos Rutter, of Bristol ... His amiable character is so ably pourtrayed [sic] in 142 & c o... | James Jenkins | John Tomkins | Piety Promoted in Brief Memorials ... Society of F | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Bought Mr Smith's "Sermon to the Odd Fellows", Professor Robinson's "Proof of a Conspiracy" seems to have made a deep... | Joseph Hunter | George Smith | A Sermon Delivered in the Parish Church of Sheffield | |
| 1700-1799 | 'Brought Donald Campbell's "Journey Over Land to India" [from the Library]. We had a very high character given of it &... | Joseph Hunter | Donald Campbell | A Journey Over Land to India | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'I finished D. Campbell's "Journey over land to India". It is divided into three parts ... the story of Mr [Alli?] who... | Joseph Hunter | Donald Campbell | A Journey Over Land to India | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Finished the "Whisperer or Tales & Speculations" by Gabriel Silvertongue. It was written by J. Montgomery and part o... | Joseph Hunter | James Montgomery | The Whisperer; or Tales & Speculations | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Wrote out of Zimmerman on "Solitude" the introduction to it. [Notes that it is a 1797 edn when borrowed on 26 Aug. 1... | Joseph Hunter | Johann Georg Zimmermann | Solitude, or the effect of Occasional Retirement | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Took Zimmermann to the library [In margin: 'vestry']. It consists for the most part of declamation, tho' it is very i... | Joseph Hunter | Johann Georg Zimmermann | Solitude, or the effect of Occasional Retirement | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Began to read Thomson's "Seasons".' | Joseph Hunter | James Thomson | The Seasons | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Thought the following remarks in Miss Williams was exceeding applicable to the manufacturers of Sheffield: "There is ... | Joseph Hunter | Helen Maria Williams | A Tour in Switzerland | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Brought Wolstonecraft's "View of the French Revolution", from the Chapel Library, for Miss Haynes to read. Read in Mi... | Joseph Hunter | Hannah More | Sacred Dramas: Chiefly intended for Young Persons | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Miss Williams "Tour" is very entertaining; besides describing the scenery (which she does in a masterly manner) she g... | Joseph Hunter | Helen Maria Williams | A Tour in Switzerland | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Lines written to the Memory of Sir G Campbell' 'To Him whose loyal, brave, and gentle heart/...' | Carey/Maingay group | Thomas Campbell | Lines Inscribed on the Monument Lately... Erected | Print: UnknownUnknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'Love's Wreath!' 'When Love was a Child and went rolling along/...' | Carey/Maingay group | [Thomas] [Moore?] | 'When Love was a Child' OR ['Loves Wreath'] | Print: UnknownUnknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'Lines written by Moore on Miss [Curria]' 'She is far from the Land, where her young Hero sleeps/...' | Carey/Maingay group | Thomas Moore | 'She is Far From the Land' [Irish Melodies] | Print: UnknownUnknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'The Tear' 'When the soft tear steals silently from the eye/...' | Carey/Maingay group | Susanna Blamire | 'When The Soft Tear Steals Silently' | Print: UnknownUnknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'Remember thee yes while there's life in this heart/...'[Thomas Moore, 'Remember Thee': first 8 lines of 12-line text.... | Carey/Maingay group | Thomas Moore | 'Remember Thee' [from Irish Melodies] | Print: UnknownUnknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'A Riddle/which every reader may solve for herself/but none to another'
'I know not who these lines may see/I know n... | Julia | James Montgomery | A Riddle | Print: UnknownUnknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'Battle of Hohenlinden' 'On Linden when the Sun was low/...' | Carey/Maingay group | Thomas Campbell | 'Hohenlinden' OR [The Pleasures of Hope] | Print: UnknownUnknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'Oh thou who driest the mourner's tear/...' 'Moore' [epigraph from Psalms not transcribed] | Carey/Maingay group | Thomas Moore | Oh Thou Who Dry'st the Mourner's Tear | Print: UnknownUnknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'Extract from Moore's Love of the Angels' [The Second Angels Story, ll. 1043-1066] | Carey/Maingay group | Thomas Moore | The Love of the Angels | Print: UnknownUnknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'They tell us of an Indian tree/...' | Margaret Maingay [?] | Thomas Moore | 'They Tell us of An Indian Tree' OR 'To My Mother' | Print: UnknownUnknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'A Fragment' 'And say when summoned from the world and thee/...' ['The Pleasures of Hope', part one, ll. 239-248. Some... | Carey/Maingay group | Thomas Campbell | The Pleasures of Hope | Print: UnknownUnknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'Lines written by Montgomery on Home' 'There is a spot of earth...' | Carey/Maingay group | James Montgomery | [The West Indies] OR 'Home' | Print: UnknownUnknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'There's a bliss beyond all the Minstrel has told/...' ['Light of the Haram' ll. 648-655] | Carey/Maingay group | Thomas Moore | Lalla Rookh | Print: UnknownUnknown |
| 1700-1799 | 'Took Beckman's "History of Inventions" to the Library; I have been very much entertained with it. Brought the "Gent. ... | Joseph Hunter | Johann Beckmann | A History of Inventions and Discoveries | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Home's "tragedy of Douglas", I was much pleased with it. I have seen it remarked, I believe in the "Memoirs of L... | Joseph Hunter | John Home | Douglas: A Tragedy | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I think Mrs Montague [sic] has fully vindicated Shakespeare from the objections of Voltaire [...] Her three dialogues... | Joseph Hunter | Elizabeth Robinson Montagu | An Essay on the Writings and Genius of Shakespeare | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Brought...a translation of the Greek, Latin, French and Italian quotations in the "Pursuits of Literature" which I ha... | Joseph Hunter | Thomas Mathias | A Translation of the Passages from Greek, Latin, French and Italian in the Pursuits of Literature | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'It being the Saturday previous to the annual meeting at the SS Library I was oblig[e]d to return, rather unwillingly,... | Joseph Hunter | James Thomas Kirkman | Memoirs of the Life of Charles Macklin Esq | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'She [Mrs Montagu] is characterised in this manner in the first part of the "Pursuits of Literature"; comparing the co... | Joseph Hunter | Thomas James Mathias | The Pursuits of Literature [...] A Satirical Poem | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read the first 3 parts of the "Pursuits of Literature", of these the first I admire the most. There are people who wi... | Joseph Hunter | Thomas James Mathias | The Pursuits of Literature [...] A Satirical Poem | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Finished the last vol of Beckmann's "History of Inventions"; I do not know the book that contains a greater variety o... | Joseph Hunter | Johann Beckmann | A History of Inventions and Discoveries | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'search Blackstone and Goldsmith's "History"; much struck with style of latter; deserving, I think, to be more talked of' | William Windham | Oliver Goldsmith | The History of England | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read papers, and last number but one of Cob. a little in the Milton. Licence for universal printing: and in Thucydides' | William Windham | John Milton | [poetry] | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'Afterwards, when upstairs, Mrs Montagu's "Letters" which I think very highly of.' | William Windham | Mary Wortley Montagu | Letters of the Right Hon. Lady Mary Wortley Montagu | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Found printed paper from Basil Montagu and sat up writing notes to detect its sophistry.' | William Windham | Basil Montagu | ['Printed Paper'] or [perhaps] Enquiries and observations | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'Went on with Basil Montagu, a most shallow reasoner' | William Windham | Basil Montagu | ['Printed Paper'] or [perhaps] Enquiries and observations | Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'I'm off reading this period, glance at Insanity Bir, and open Marjorie's British Commonwealth by Ramsay Muir, at the ... | | Ramsey Muir | A Short History of the British Commonwealth | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | '"Mary" At fond sixteen my roving Heart Was pierced by love's delightful Dart, ...' | Molineux group, including Mrs Molineux | James Montgomery | Hannah | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'Evening by Charlotte Smith Oh soothing hour, when glowing Day, ...' | Molineux group, including Mrs Molineux | Charlotte Smith | Evening | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'The Three Black Crows Two honest tradesmen meeting in the Strand' | Molineux group, including Mrs Molineux | John Byrom | The Three Black Crows | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'That Man, I trow, is doubly curs't, Who of the best doth make the worst, ...' | Molineux group, including Mrs Molineux | William Coombe | Dr Syntax in Search of the Picturesque | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'The Morning lark ascends on high And with its music greets the Sky... [6 lines]' | Molineux group, including Mrs Molineux | William Combe | The Tour of Dr Syntax in Search of the Picturesque | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'To Love thou blam'st me not; for love thou say'st/Leads up to Heaven/ is both the way and guide/...' 'Milton' | Molineux group, including Mrs Molineux | John Milton | Paradise Lost, Book VIII | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'O Thou for whom my lyre Istring/...' | Molineux group, including Mrs Molineux | Edward Moore | The Lover and the Friend | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'The Dying Christian' 'Christianity rears its trophies on the tomb, treasure up then these best of stanzas in the hear... | Molineux group, including Mrs Molineux | James Montgomery | Verses to the Memory of the Late Joseph Brown | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'An Evening contemplation in a College; in imitation of Greys Elegy in a country Churchyard "The curfew tolls the hour... | Molineux group, including Mrs Molineux | John Doncombe | An Evening Contemplation in a College | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'The Minstrel Boy' 'The Minstrel Boy to the war is gone, /... Moore. Benj. Beanlands, Otley, December 1831' | Benjamin Beanlands | Thomas Moore | The Minstrel Boy | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'To Fortune' 'I care not fortune what you deny me, ... J. Thompson' | Beanlands group | James Thomson | The Castle of Otranto OR To Fortune | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'My Ain Fire Side' 'O, I hae seen great ones...' >From the Nithsdale and Galloway Songs | Bowly group | Robert Hartley Cromek [editor of vol] | 'My Ain Fireside' OR Remains of Nithsdale and Gall | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'Elegy by Mr J. Hunter Sigh not ye winds as passing oer, The Chambers of the dead ye fly... J.H.' | Bowly group | Anne Home | 'Elegy' OR Poems by Mrs John Hunter | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'Lines by Mrs Siddons Say what's the brightest wreath of fame, ... >From Campbell's Life of Mrs Siddons Dec 1834' | Bowly group | Thomas Campbell | Life of Mrs Siddons | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'Lift up thine eyes afflicted soul, ... James Montgomery' | Bowly group | James Montgomery | 'In Bereavement' AND 'Forget-Me-Not' | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'Graves of a Household' 'They grew in beauty side by side, ...' 'Mrs Hemans' | Bowly group | Felicia Dorothea Hemans | The Graves of a Household | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'As a beam oer the face of the waters may glow, ...' | Bowly group | Thomas Moore | As a beam oer the face of the waters may glow | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'The Wish' 'Oh! Had we some bright little isle of our own,... S.W. 1821' | 'S.W.' | Thomas Moore | Oh had we some bright little isle | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'Thy chains are broken, Africa, be free!...' | Bowly group | James Montgomery | The West Indies OR 'Thy Chains Are Broken' | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'Milton's sonnet on his Blindness "When I consider howmy light is spent"' | Bowly group | John Milton | Sonnet OR When I consider how my light is spent | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'Much depends upon when and where you read a book. In the five or six impatient minutes, before the dinner is quite re... | Charles Lamb | John Milton | [poetry] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | '[Part of a description of his wife] very impatient of contradiction, Reproof She cannot Brook- Milton' [This is a mis... | Benjamin Shaw | John Milton | Paradise Lost | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'transcript of passages from chapter 4 under the commonplce book heading "non jurors"' | John Fortescue Aland | Nathaniel Marshall | A defence of our constitution in church and state | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'lookd into "Maddox on the culture of flowers" and the "Flora Domestica" which with a few improvments and additions wo... | John Clare | James Maddock | The Florist's Directory | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Lookd into Miltons "Paradise Lost" I once read it thro when I was a boy at the time I liked the "Death of Abel" bette... | John Clare | John Milton | Paradise Lost | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Lookd into Thompsons Winter there is a freshness about it I think superior to the others [...] the following minute d... | John Clare | James Thomson | The Seasons (Winter) | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Yesterday morning I received the enclosed note from that most conceited and not over-well-bred Mons. de Lamartine. I... | Maria Edgeworth | Alphonse-Marie-Louis Prat de Lamartine | Histoire des Girondins | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799
1800-1849 | [An account of the boy's secret reading, and how his parents only found out when he asked a question about his reading]. | [a boy known to Elizabeth Hamilton] | Homer | Iliad | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899
1900-1945 | Sir John Hammerton looking back on his early days in Glasgow when he left school and became a correspondence clerk, he... | Sir John Hammerton | Oliver Goldsmith | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899
1900-1945 | Sir John Hammerton looking back on his early days in Glasgow when he left school and became a correspondence clerk, he... | Sir John Hammerton | Charles Lamb | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799
1800-1849 | 'We might mention the Rambler, the Guardian, and Shakespeare, as her favourites among older writers; and, among modern... | Mary Birch | Hannah More | Memorials of a Departed friend, Private Life and o | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Letter from Aikin to her brother Edmund, dated March 1818: 'It is curious to observe the native eloquence of Humboldt ... | Lucy Aikin | Alexander von Humboldt | Personal Narrative of Travels | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Letter from Lucy Aikin to her niece Sue, dated Nov.17, 18..?: Aikin has been reading Mackintosh, and comments on the s... | Lucy Aikin | Sir J. Mackintosh | [a text on ethical philosophy] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Two very long quotations:
1. 'Speech is as subject to interpretation there is so great a difference between indescr... | Frances Hamilton | M. de Secondat, Baron de Montequieu | Spirit of Laws | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Remark that this publication was 'Abt the Test Act', so presumably read it. | Frances Hamilton | John Mead | [Sermon about Wakefield's Address to the Inhabitants of Nottingham] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 24 Oct 1788:
'Smith's version of Longinus on the Sublime, a translation with notes and observations - is a credit to ... | Frances Hamilton | Rev William Smith | Poetic Works including his version of Longinus on the Sublime | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 13 Dec 1788
Another long quotation from Smith's translation:
'The Sublime is a certain force in discourse... from th... | Frances Hamilton | Rev William Smith | Poetic Works including his version of Longinus on the Sublime | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'when I was eleven a school history-book containing biographies of Sir Thomas More, Sir Philip Sidney, and Sire John E... | Edwin Muir | Felicia Dorothea Hemans | Casabianca | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'when I was eleven a school history-book containing biographies of Sir Thomas More, Sir Philip Sidney, and Sire John E... | Edwin Muir | Thomas Campbell | Lord Ullin's Daughter | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899
1900-1945 | 'one day in Kirkwall my brother Johnnie, who had gone to work in a shop there, gave me three pennies to spend, and I w... | Edwin Muir | William Morris | The Earthly Paradise | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899
1900-1945 | 'Maybe to neutralise the Penny Dreadful, Cassells brought out the Penny Classics. These had a bluish-green cover and w... | Joseph Stamper | Homer | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I had not heard of "Wind in the Willows" until I read it during the summer holiday of my seventeenth year!' | Norman Nicholson | Kenneth Grahame | The Wind in the Willows | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Our syllabus was large, covering at least twelve set books: two plays of Shakespeare's, two volumes of Milton and two... | Norman Nicholson | John Milton | [unknown works] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Our syllabus was large, covering at least twelve set books: two plays of Shakespeare's, two volumes of Milton and two... | Norman Nicholson | Charles Lamb | [unknown works] | Print: 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 | Tobias Smollett | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 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 | Homer | Illiad | Print: Book |
| 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 | Tobias Smollett | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 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 | Captain Marryatt | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'We had read at school in our Reading Books, gorgeous bits from Macaulay's "History" -the Trial of the Seven Bishops a... | Thomas A. Jackson | Thomas Babington Macaulay | History of England | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'We had read at school in our Reading Books, gorgeous bits from Macaulay's "History" -the Trial of the Seven Bishops a... | Thomas A. Jackson | Thomas Babington Macaulay | Warren Hastings | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I devoured poetry and nothing but poetry until I became insensible to poetry. Take an example; I happened upon some f... | Thomas A. Jackson | William Drummond | [poems complete works] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I devoured poetry and nothing but poetry until I became insensible to poetry. Take an example; I happened upon some f... | Thomas A. Jackson | John Milton | [poems complete works] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Upon Mrs Digweed's mentioning that she had sent the Rejected Addresses to Mr Hinton, I began talking to her a little ... | Jane Austen | James and Horatio Smith | Rejected Addresses; or the new Theatrum Poetarum | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Upon Mrs Digweed's mentioning that she had sent the Rejected Addresses to Mr Hinton, I began talking to her a little ... | Mrs Digweed | James and Horatio Smith | Rejected Addresses; or the new Theatrum Poetarum | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'The Papillons have now got the Book [J & H Smith's "Rejected Addresses"] and like it very much; their niece Eleanor h... | Papillon Family | James and Horatio Smith | Rejected Addresses; or the new Theatrum Poetarum | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'The Papillons have now got the Book [J & H Smith's "Rejected Addresses"] and like it very much; their niece Eleanor h... | Eleanor Papillon | James and Horatio Smith | Rejected Addresses; or the new Theatrum Poetarum | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'And what are their Biglands & their Barrows, their Macartneys & Mackenzies, to Capt. Pasley's Essay on the Military P... | Jane Austen | Sir George Steuart Mackenzie | Travels in Iceland | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read a little of "Paradise lost"' | Albert Battiscombe | John Milton | Paradise Lost | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Worked for an hour to day at French and read some Grecian History, The latter is certainly rather dry.' | Albert Battiscombe | Leonhard Schmitz | A History of Greece, from the earliest times to the destruction of Corinth, B.C. 146 | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'learnt some French from "Allendorff" read some of "La petite Fadette" a novel by George Sand, and also some of Schmit... | Albert Battiscombe | Leonhard Schmitz | A History of Greece, from the earliest times to the destruction of Corinth, B.C. 146 | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Have been working at French & reading "History of Greece"' | Albert Battiscombe | Leonhard Schmitz | A History of Greece, from the earliest times to the destruction of Corinth, B.C. 146 | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I cannot work this weather it is too hot, I have read a chapter of the "History of Greece" to day and that is all.' | Albert Battiscombe | Leonhard Schmitz | A History of Greece, from the earliest times to the destruction of Corinth, B.C. 146 | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Finished the "Epicurean" by Moore, it is a sad story but very prettily written; began to read the play of "Julius Cae... | Albert Battiscombe | Thomas Moore | The Epicurean. A Tale | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Finished the "Epicurean" by Moore, it is a sad story but very prettily written; began to read the play of "Julius Cae... | Albert Battiscombe | Thomas Moore | Paradise and the Peri | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'These artless idealists had their favourite authors, which I now proceeded to read...Their piece de resistance was Si... | Joseph Stamper | Thomas More | Utopia | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'These artless idealists had their favourite authors, which I now proceeded to read...Their piece de resistance was Si... | Joseph Stamper | William Morris | [prose works] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'These artless idealists had their favourite authors, which I now proceeded to read...Their piece de resistance was Si... | Joseph Stamper | William Morris | The Story of the Unknown Church | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'These artless idealists had their favourite authors, which I now proceeded to read...Their piece de resistance was Si... | Joseph Stamper | Edward Bellamy | Looking Backwards | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Reading "Le Roi des Montagnes" by Ed About'
| Albert Battiscombe | About Edmond | Le roi des Montagnes | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Reading Macauleys "history of England" for the 2nd time'
| Albert Battiscombe | Thomas Babington Macaulay | The history of England from the accession of James the Second | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I have been reading Macauleys "history of England", and have got thro 5 volumes, it is very interesting'
| Albert Battiscombe | Thomas Babington Macaulay | The history of England from the accession of James the Second | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I am reading Macauleys "history of England", it is so interesting that it keeps me up at night, later than I ought to... | Albert Battiscombe | Thomas Babington Macaulay | The history of England from the accession of James the Second | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I have finished Macaulay's "history of England" and am now reading his speeches, they are interesting.' | Albert Battiscombe | Thomas Babington Macaulay | The history of England from the accession of James the Second | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I have finished Macaulay's "history of England" and am now reading his speeches, they are interesting.' | Albert Battiscombe | Thomas Babington Macaulay | Speeches of the Right Honorable T. B. Macaulay, M.P. corrected by himself .. | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Reading a book by Alexr Dumas fils called "Antonine", a stupid book in my opinion.' | Albert Battiscombe | Alexandre Dumas | Antonine | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Lady Lee's Widowhood by Captain Hamley R.A. it is not so good a book as I expected, it has been praised too much; so ... | Albert Battiscombe | Edward Hamley | Lady Lee's Widowhood | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Reading the "Les filles des platre" by M. Xavier de Montepin it is like the generality of French Novels, and does not... | Albert Battiscombe | Xavier Aymon de, Count Montepin | Les Filles de platre. Les trois debuts | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I am now reading a history of England by Douglas Hamilton, it seems to be very well written'
| Albert Battiscombe | William Douglas Hamilton | Outlines of the History of England | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'As I expect a heap of books from England, I am having two book shelves put up in my cabin. I am afraid it will darken... | Albert Battiscombe | William Douglas Hamilton | Outlines of the History of England | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Hobbies. Mentioned 10 times. Twice as normal, three times increased (walking, stamp collecting, reading). One "war ou... | | A.E. Housman | unknown | Unknown |
| 1600-1699 | 'Home and to bed, leaving my wife reading in "Polixandre".' | Elizabeth Pepys | Martin le Roy de Gomberville | Polexandre | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'So to Pauls churchyard and there bought "Montelion", which this yeardoth not prove so good as the last was; and so af... | Samuel Pepys | John Tatham | The Rump, or The mirror of the late times | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'earley up in the morning to read the "Seamans grammar and dictionary" I lately have got, which doth please me exceedi... | Samuel Pepys | John Smith | The sea-man's grammar | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'The afternoon, while Will is abroad, I spent in reading "The Spanish Gypsy", a play not very good, though commended m... | Samuel Pepys | Thomas Middleton | The Spanish Gypsy | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read B[isho]p Andrew's Devotions & various other prayers. Read Blair's Sermon 'On our ignorance of good & evil in thi... | John Cole | Edmaston | Sonnet | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Used B[isho]p Andrew's exct Prayers both mg & aftn - read one of Blair's sermons morng. Evg read one of B[isho]p Moor... | John Cole | Bishop Moore | Sermons | Print: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'Yes, I read more as have more time- but have gone onto novels and escapist literature- cannot read such books as The ... | | Phyllis Bottome | The Mortal Storm | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'and so I left them with him and went with Mr Moore to Grayes Inne to his chamber, and there he showed me his old Camb... | Samuel Pepys | William Camden | Britannia | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799
1800-1849 | 'My dear Caroline, I am very glad to have an opportunity of answering your agreable [sic] little Letter. You seem to ... | Jane Austen | Stephanie Felicite Ducrest de St Albin Comtesse de Genlis | Olympe et Theophile | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'Then we fell to reading of a book which I saw the other day at my Lord Sandwichs, entended for the late King, finely ... | Samuel Pepys | Tobias Gentleman | Englands way to win wealth... with a true relation of the inestimable wealth that is yearely taken out of His Majesties seas by the Hollanders | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'and so home and to supper. And after reading part of "Bussy D'Ambois", a good play I bought today - to bed.' | Samuel Pepys | George Chapman | Bussy D'Ambois | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Reading, MacNeice "Autumm Journal". I enjoyed it very much and think it good. A. Werth, "Moscow '41". Very good - cle... | | Louis MacNeice | Autumm Journal | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Reading H.V. Morton, "I James Blunt". I read it in half an hour. It is propaganda but first-class propaganda and inte... | | H V Morton | I James Blunt | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Just now I'm reading books [of] what I call Geography plus books that give great insight in [to] different places. I'... | | Gerald Samson | Warning Light of Asia | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'It appealed to me - I like books about the country and farms and country life in general. (Lost Fields: McLaverty)' | | Michael McLaverty | Lost Fields | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I read various types of novels. Some books give long involved descriptions. I don't mind a little of that, but in add... | | Bessie Myers | Escape | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Oh, I like funny books, like Thorne Smith, you know, nothing too serious. ("For whom the Bell Tolls", Hemingway, was ... | | Ernest Hemingway | For whom the Bell Tolls | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Oh, I like funny books, like Thorne Smith, you know, nothing too serious. ("For whom the Bell Tolls", Hemingway, was ... | | Thorne Smith | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I liked Rebecca and 'Gone with the Wind".' | | Daphne Du Maurier | Rebecca | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I liked Rebecca and 'Gone with the Wind".' | | Margaret Mitchell | Gone with the Wind | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I like anything good....something like "The Stars Looked Down" or "Gone with the Wind"...."Fame is the Spur" is a lov... | | Margaret Mitchell | Gone with the wind | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '"I don't read much - oh, a very mixed lot - "My Son Absalom" and "Fame is the Spur"' [then in response to question fr... | | Peter Fleming | News from Tartary | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I like Travel books - something uplifting - teaches you something. Of course, I like dirty books too....Have you read... | | Daphne Du Maurier | Rebecca | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I like Travel books - something uplifting - teaches you something. Of course, I like dirty books too....Have you read... | | Margaret Mitchell | Gone with the Wind | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'H. Williamson's "Norfolk Farm", for the detail making me feel I had lived those hard days myself.' | | H Williamson | Norfolk Farm | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'I went up vexed to my chamber and there fell examining my new "Concordance" that I have bought with Newmans, the best... | Samuel Pepys | [Samuel] [Newman] | A concordance to the Holy Scriptures | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | ?Dr Milligen?s paper, he must re-write the last half of it; it has cost me three hours this morning, and I can make no... | Charles Dickens | John Gideon Millingen | The Portrait Gallery | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'The favourite literary pabulum of us boys at school, however, was less classical: "penny bloods" and other Weeklies i... | Thomas Okey | Bracebridge Hemyng | Jack Harkaway | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'Mrs C read me part of Murray's Power of religion.' | [Mrs] Cole | Lindley Murray | Power of Religion | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read occasionally during my walk in Macdiarmid's "Sketches of nature".' | John Cole | Macdiarmid | Sketches of Nature | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have been reading a sweet work lately, and earnestly recommend it to you my dear, pray let me have your opinion whe... | Elizabeth Marshall | Isaac Ambrose | Looking into Jesus | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Mrs Hannah More's "Practical piety" is a very useful book I think, perhaps you have read it if you think of any [unde... | Elizabeth Marshall | Hannah More | Practical piety | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'In discussing Meredith's "Evan Harrington" (1861) in a letter to Campbell, Arthur reveals his Victorian-orientated in... | Arthur Symons | George Meredith | Evan Harrington | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | '. H. Ewing's diary entry: 'In the evening Boy read Milton to me and I worked'. | Alexander (Rex) Ewing | John Milton | Paradise Lost [?] | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'This day the first of the "Oxford Gazettes" came out, which is very pretty, full of news, and no folly in it - wrote ... | Samuel Pepys | Sir Joseph Williamson | Oxford Gazette | Print: Newspaper |
| 1700-1799 | 'Mr Jaegle makes us read an English book that is called "The Vicar of Wakefield" which is very pretty, interesting, we... | Elizabeth (Betsey) Wynne | Oliver Goldsmith | The Vicar of Wakefield | Print: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | '[Betsey Wynne:] We read this evening "Les Femmes Savantes" and "Les Precieuses Ridicules" of the Theatre of Moliere. ... | | Moliere [pseud.] | Les Femmes Savantes | Print: Serial / periodical, Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | '[Betsey Wynne:] We read this evening "Les Femmes Savantes" and "Les Precieuses Ridicules" of the Theatre of Moliere. ... | | Moliere [pseud.] | Les Precieuses Ridicules | Print: Serial / periodical, Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | [Betsey Wynne]'Our reading today was of Moliere, Mr de Regis read "Le Tartufe" which is his finest piece'. [Eugenia co... | | Moliere [pseud.] | Le Tartuffe | Print: Serial / periodical, Unknown |
| 1600-1699 | 'As long as your last [letter] was, I read it over thrice in less then an hower, though to say truth I skipt some on't... | Dorothy Osborne | William Temple | [letter] | Manuscript: Letter |
| 1700-1799 | 'Ten thousand thanks to you for Madame de Noyer's Letters; I wish Signor Roselli may be as diverting to you as [italic... | Lady Mary Wortley Montagu | Delarivier Manley | Secret memoirs and manners of several persons of quality of both sexes, from the new Atalantis, an island in the Mediterranean | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | '. . . I have just finished Guy de Maupassant?s Bel Ami. One of the most obviously truthful, British-matron-shocking,... | Arnold Bennett | Guy de Maupassant | Bel-Ami | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'we came back in the dark and read "L'Ecole des Maris" and after we played at 21' | Elizabeth (Betsey) Wynne | Moliere [pseud.] | L'Ecole des Maris | Print: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | [Betsey]:'The gazettes from France were read this evening there was nothing remarquable in them. We began again "Les P... | Eugenia Wynne | Moliere [pseud.] | Les Precieuses Ridicules | Print: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | 'As Mr de Regis was gone to St Gall today, M. l'Abbe read to us "Le Medecin Malgre lui" of Moliere a charming comedy t... | M. l'Abbe | Moliere [pseud.] | Le Medecin Malgre Lui | Print: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | 'I spent the evening reading with Mama "the Imitation of Jesus Christ" until supper' | Elizabeth (Betsey) Wynne | Thomas a Kempis | The Imitation of Jesus Christ | Print: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'Friday, 1st January,
Completed my paper on Mazzini.
Read: ?One Act Plays of today? 2nd vol. (Harrap)
... | Gerald Moore | J.W. Marriott | One Act Plays of Today | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Thursday, 7th January,
Offered Pat 19th January or 16th March for his friend?s lecture.
Smith does not expect to le... | Gerald Moore | Niccolo Machiavelli | History of Florence | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Saturday, 16th January,
Left letter at Beechcroft for Milligan re continuance of Discussion Group through the summer... | Gerald Moore | J. Ramsay Macdonald | Socialism: Critical and Constructive | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Thursday,28th January,
?Peer Gynt? is good stuff. I hope the Beechcroft Players tackle it some time. Though I supp... | Gerald Moore | Leonard Merrick | A Chair on the Boulevard | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Monday, 8th February,
Gave the Anno Domini a miss. Tired. Reading Herrick.
Also Oppenheim ?The Great Impersonati... | Gerald Moore | E. Phillips Oppenheim | The Great Impersonation | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Wednesday, 10th February,
Wrote to Mr Robinson and to Mr. D. Paterson re lecture dates.
Read ?Omoo? (Melville)'
| Gerald Moore | Herman Melville | Omoo | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Saturday,13th February,
Read ?Notre Coeur? (Guy de Maupassant)' | Gerald Moore | Guy de Maupassant | Notre Coeur | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Sunday, 21st February,
Discussion group ? nothing doing ? arrived late. Members busy with a game in which, with th... | Gerald Moore | Henry James | The American | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Friday, 5th March,
I worked late tonight which allowed me to get in a nice little talk with Pat on the value of the ... | Gerald Moore | Oliver Wendell Holmes | The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Monday, 29th March,
A 21st birthday party at the Roberts?. Pleaded illness and got off. My clothes will hardly do... | Gerald Moore | Edmond Holmes | The Tragedy of Education | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Thursday 24th June.
?The Spanish Farm? ? (R.H. Mottram).
Our ?Robin Hood? Pageant tonight (250 present). I see th... | Gerald Moore | R.H. Mottram | The Spanish Farm | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Saturday 26th June
?At the Sign of the Black Moon? ? (Wyndham-Lewis)'. | Gerald Moore | Percy Wyndham Lewis | At the Sign of the Black Moon | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Wednesday 30th June.
?Orphan Island? ? (Rose Macaulay).
Looked after the infants today while Teddie went to work. ... | Gerald Moore | Rose Macaulay | Orphan Island | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Thursday 1st July
This has been one of those demoralising days when a late rising leaves one unable to make any use ... | Gerald Moore | Rose Macaulay | Orphan Island | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Saturday 7th August
?The Untilled Field? ? (George Moore)'. | Gerald Moore | George Moore | The Untilled Field | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Sunday 26th September
?The Long Trick?, - ?Bartimeus?
A delightfully quiet day at home. Reading and writing. ... | Gerald Moore | "Bartimeus" | The Long Trick | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Thursday 14th October
?Roderick Random? (T. Smolett)'. | Gerald Moore | Tobias Smollett | Roderick Random | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'We were told that a Bible and Testament were placed at the head of each bed; and we saw one convict reading "Recreati... | anon | Rev Lewis Tomlinson | Recreations in Astronomy | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Monday 13th December
?The Boost of the Golden Snail? ? (Macclure)'.
| Gerald Moore | Victor MacClure | The Boost of the Golden Snail: A Fantasy of London | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Saturday 25th December.
?Scrambles among the Alps? (Whymper)
Trying to get the proper atmosphere in a snow-less Ch... | Gerald Moore | Edward Whymper | Scrambles among the Alps | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '5th January ? Wednesday.
I have taken out a list of the books I read last year; they total 83. Not so bad, consider... | Gerald Moore | Gerald Moore | [list of books read in 1926] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '29th March, Tuesday.
?La Gar?onne? V. Marguerite.
30th March, Wednesday.
These last few days I have been readin... | Gerald Moore | V. Marguerite | La Gar?onne | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '14th March 1929.
I had the ?Open Road? in my pocket, and we [G.M. and a friend, Miss Mundel] read bits together, an... | Gerald Moore | Walt Whitman | Song of the Open Road | Print: 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 | Oliver Wendell Holmes | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'I read over your Homer here with an infinite pleasure, and find several little passages explained, that I did not bef... | Mary, Lady Wortley Montagu | Homer | Iliad | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Missing Sewell on being read to as a child by her mother, Jane Sewell (nee Edwards; married 1802):
'I can ... | Jane Sewell | Lemprier | Tour to Morocco | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Missing Sewell on her reading at school:
'At Miss Crooke's [school] [...] we learned Pinnock's Catechisms o... | Pupils at Miss Crooke's school, Newport, Isle of Wight. | Sarah Trimmer | 'Selections [from the Bible]' | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'My chief acquaintance with the writers of the eighteenth century is derived from reading to Aunt Lyddy papers in the ... | Elizabeth Sewell | Mason | Plays | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'I took my two lessons with Mr Jaegle, we began to read "Les Voyages du Jeune Anarchasis". The little that I heard tod... | Elizabeth (Betsey) Wynne | [Abbe] Barthelemy | Les Voyages du Jeune Anacharsis | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'I read today an English Tragedy by Thomson that pleased me much and made me like that author's works'. | Elizabeth (Betsey) Wynne | James Thomson | [a tragedy] | Print: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | 'Your whole letter is full of mistakes from one end to the other. I see you have taken your ideas of Turkey from that ... | Mary, Lady Wortley Montagu | Jean Dumont | A New Voyage to the Levant | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'I hope we shall have soon the Odyssey from your happy hand, and I think I shall follow with singular pleasure the tr... | Mary, Lady Wortley Montagu | Homer | Odyssey | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'It is true, the excellence of the Iliad does not depend upon his merit or dignity, but I wish, nevertheless, that Hom... | Mary, Lady Wortley Montagu | Homer | Iliad | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'But I cannot forbear takng notice to you of a mistake of Gemelli (though I honour him in a much higher degree than an... | Mary, Lady Wortley Montagu | Gemelli | unknown | Unknown |
| 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?] | George Meredith | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | From Elizabeth Missing Sewell's Journal, 20 June 1845:
'The Meyricks have been here today. Mr. Meyrick told Edward... | Elizabeth Missing Sewell | John Henry Newman | Obedience, the remedy for religious perplexity | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | From Elizabeth Missing Sewell's Journal, 26 November 1846:
'I read nothing scarcely [...] Miss Martineau's [italics... | Elizabeth Missing Sewell | Harriet Martineau | Tales on the Game Laws | Print: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | Second confinement in the Prison at Hull:
'I remember how when the light began to fail of evenings, I often risked pu... | Stuart Wood [pseud?] | Thomas Babbington Macaulay | [uknown] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'At Maidstone, both on this occasion and subsequently when I served several months in separate confinement as a convic... | Stuart Wood [pseud?] | David Hume | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Reading - for want of something better - "Macaulay's Essays". He is a born Edinburgh Reviewer, this Macaulay; and, in... | John Mitchel | Thomas Babington Macaulay | Essays | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'After breakfast, when the sun burned too fiercely on deck, went below, threw off coat and waistcoat for coolness, and... | John Mitchel | Thomas Babington Macaulay | Essays [on Bacon] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | ''4th-11th- Reading Homer and basking in the sun upon the sea side of the breakwater. Weather delicious. Have also bee... | John Mitchel | Homer | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Three weeks of sickness, sleepness nights, and dismal days: and the "light" reading that I have been devouring I find... | John Mitchel | Alexandre Dumas | Three Mousequetaires | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Three weeks of sickness, sleepness nights, and dismal days: and the "light" reading that I have been devouring I find... | John Mitchel | Alexandre Dumas | Marquis de Letoriere | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have omitted, of late, to set down the titles of - for want of a better name I must call them - books, that I have ... | John Mitchel | Dr Memes [pseud?] | [Life of William Cowper] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Have been reading in "Tait's Magazine" an elaborate review of a new book by the indefatigable Government literator, M... | John Mitchel | Thomas Babington Macaulay | History of England | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | From Elizabeth Missing Sewell's Journal, 28 January [?1865]:
'I am reading [italics]French Essays on Literature[end i... | Elizabeth Missing Sewell | Charles de Remusat | 'French Essays on Literature' | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'My favourite masters & models: 1. Turgenev, a royal first (you must read 'On the Eve'?flawless I tell you. Bring bac... | Arnold Bennett | Guy de Maupassant | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'My favourite masters & models: 1. Turgenev, a royal first (you must read 'On the Eve'?flawless I tell you. Bring ba... | Arnold Bennett | George Moore | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I couldn?t get her [?George Paston?] to give George Moore a good word. I have just been reading his first novel.'
| Arnold Bennett | George Moore | A Modern Lover | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Spent most of the day reading the "Paradise Lost"; I was quite delighted with it'. | Harriet Wynne | John Milton | Paradise Lost | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I have just returned from reading a chapter of your book to my wife and her daughter. There was not a dry eye at the ... | Robert Louis Stevenson | William Forbes-Mitchell | Reminiscences of the Great Mutiny 1857-9 | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'The individual...was a fellow-worker of mine for nigh two years in Dartmoor. He had, in his younger days, passed thro... | anon | Homer | Illiad | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I noticed, with pleasure, the insertion of your "Critique": but was very much mortified, - at seeing the pitiful conc... | Thomas Carlyle | Thomas Murray | [critique of William Nicholson's works in 'The Courier'] | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'I was greatly diverted by your specimen of Mr. Maclaurin's prose-run-mad. He seems to have imbibed, in the full sense... | Thomas Carlyle | Maclaurin | [writings quoted in a letter from Thomas Murray to Carlyle] | Manuscript: Letter |
| 1800-1849 | 'A-propos of Authors - This evening at tea, Miss Ramsay (our governess) inquired at me if I had read that affecting re... | Thomas Carlyle | Thomas Murray | [article entitled 'An Affecting Occurrence'] | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'I did not tell you that when I left Edinr for Dumfries, I put your paper in my pocket - and whilst my right worthy co... | Thomas Carlyle | Robert Mitchell | [a mathematical paper] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | '? I had a sight of ?Waverley? soon after I received your letter, and I cannot help saying that, in my opinion, it is ... | Thomas Carlyle | Moliere [pseud.] | [Comedies] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I have read the four PIL which we have had . They seem to give all the information required accurately and clearly, b... | | Ministry of Information | public information leaflets | |
| 1800-1849 | 'I am highly indebted to you for Hume. I like his essays better than any thing I have read these many days. He has pre... | Thomas Carlyle | David Hume | Essays Moral, Political and Literary | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Have you seen the last Edinr review? There are several promising articles in it - Scotts "Lord of the Isles," Standar... | Thomas Carlyle | Tobias Smollett | Peregrine Pickle | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'The best book I have read, since I wrote you, is Hume's "Essays, political and literary". It is indeed a most ingenio... | Thomas Carlyle | David Hume | Essays Moral, Political and Literary | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I was re[a]ding lately, Stewart's "life of Robertson", Smith's "wealth of nations", and Kames' "Essays on the princip... | Thomas Carlyle | Adam Smith | The Wealth of Nations | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I was re[a]ding lately, Stewart's "life of Robertson", Smith's "wealth of nations", and Kames' "Essays on the princip... | Thomas Carlyle | Henry Home, Lord Kames | Essays on the Principles of Morality and Natural Religion | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'When I returned to Annan, it occurred to me, that it would be proper to see what was become of my Hall discourses. It... | Thomas Carlyle | Benjamin Thomson Count Rumford | Essays, Political, Economical and Philosophical | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'When I returned to Annan, it occurred to me, that it would be proper to see what was become of my Hall discourses. It... | Thomas Carlyle | George Stewart Mackenzie | Travels in the Island of Iceland during the summer of 1810 | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'When I returned to Annan, it occurred to me, that it would be proper to see what was become of my Hall discourses. It... | Thomas Carlyle | Friedrich von Humboldt | Essai politique sur la royaume de nouvelle espagne | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'When I returned to Annan, it occurred to me, that it would be proper to see what was become of my Hall discourses. It... | Thomas Carlyle | Thomas Simpson | A Treatise of Fluxions | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'It is about ten days since I got rid of a severe inflam[m]ation-of the throat, which confined me to the house for two... | Thomas Carlyle | Thomas Mortimer | The British Plutarch | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I am glad to hear that you are getting forward so well with Homer. I know almost nothing about him - having never rea... | Thomas Carlyle | Homer | The Iliad / Odyssey | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'For the rest - I continued reading Newton's "Principia" with considerable perseverance & little success - till on arr... | Thomas Carlyle | Jean Baptiste Joseph Delambre | Abrege d'astronomie | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I return always to the study of Physics with more pleasure - after trying "The Philosophy of Mind". It is delightful,... | Thomas Carlyle | Thomas or William Belsham | [either Elements of the Philosophy of Mind or Essays in Philosophical Morality] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'You have no doubt seen the "Tales of my Landlord". Certainly "Waverl[e]y" and "Mannering" and "the Black Dwarf" were ... | Thomas Carlyle | Thomas M'Crie | Vindication of the Covenanters | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | [Having heard some lectures on Spurzheim's ideas] 'I have since looked into the Dr's book, and if possible the case is... | Thomas Carlyle | Johann Spurzheim | [work on phrenology] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'But Dr Chalmers, it would seem, is fearful lest these speculations [on the nature of the universe] lead us away from ... | Thomas Carlyle | Thomas Chalmers | A Series of Discourses on the Christian Revelation, Viewed in Connection with Modern Astronomy | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'This same Doctor [Chalmers], as you will know wr[i]tes the first article in the late "Edinr review" - on the causes &... | Thomas Carlyle | Thomas Chalmers | [article on paperism in Edinburgh Review] | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have read thro' that clear & candid but cold hearted narration of David Hume - and now seven of Toby Smollet[t]'s e... | Thomas Carlyle | David Hume | The History of England during the reigns of James I and Charles I | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have read thro' that clear & candid but cold hearted narration of David Hume - and now seven of Toby Smollet[t]'s e... | Thomas Carlyle | Tobias Smollett | History of England | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have been reading little except Coxe's travels in Switzerland, Poland, Russia &c, Humes history together with part ... | Thomas Carlyle | David Hume | The History of England During the Reigns of James I and Charles I | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Dear Mr Lane,
I must apologise for not returning 'King Noanett'. But I have been so awfully busy lately that I have... | Arnold Bennett | Frederic Jessup Stimson | King Noanett:A Story of Old Virginia and the Massachusetts Bay | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'My sole solaces have been Dumas, & Nolan?s delightful companionship at Brussels.' | Arnold Bennett | Alexandre Dumas | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | From Letter VIII, [italics]Letters on Daily Life[end italics]:
'In what spirit of self-denial, and with what noble mo... | Elizabeth Missing Sewell | Fanny Kemble | Autobiography | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Have you read de Maupassant?s '?tude sur Gustave Flaubert', preface to Bouvard et P?cuchet?from which I quote above? ... | Arnold Bennett | Guy de Maupassant | Etude sur Gustave Flaubert | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I reckon I can do something with Moore. . . I occupy the time of waiting in reading G.M. & making notes. The busin... | Arnold Bennett | George Moore | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I took up de Maupassant to inspire me into a new theme; got one in about 5 minutes, & in an hour had arrived at the d... | Arnold Bennett | Guy de Maupassant | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'As the writer of the recent article upon you in the 'Academy' I venture upon the intrusion of telling you personally... | Arnold Bennett | Allan Noble Monkhouse | A Deliverance | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Have you read Housman?s poems A Shropshire Lad? They are only immortal, that?s all. I take them as a tonic.'
| Arnold Bennett | A. E. Housman | A Shropshire Lad | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Have you read Moore? I come in, I see, for a little notice once or twice. I find the Peer and Poet (and I knew it onl... | Sydney Smith | Thomas Moore | Life of Byron | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'We have read "Zohrab the Hostage" with the greatest pleasure. If you have not read it, pray do. I was so pleased with... | Sydney Smith | James Justinian Morier | Zohrab the Hostage | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Hamilton';s "America", it is quite excellent'. | Sydney Smith | Thomas Hamilton | Men and Manners in America | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I think you will like Sir James Mackintosh's Life; it is full of his own thoughts upon men, books and events, and I d... | Sydney Smith | Robert James Mackintosh | Memoirs of the Life of the Right Honourable Sir James Mackintosh | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Get, and read, Macaulay's Papers upon the Indian courts and Indian Education. They are admirable for their talent and... | Sydney Smith | Thomas Babington Macaulay | [writings on Indian Courts and Education] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Have you read Macaulay's Lays? they are very much liked. I have read some but I abor all Grecian and Roman subjects'. | Sydney Smith | Thomas Babington Macaulay | Lays of Ancient Rome | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Tell William Murray, with my kindest regards, to get for you, when he comes to town, a book called "Arabiniana, or Re... | Sydney Smith | Theobald Mathew | Arabiniana, or Remains of Mr Serjeant Arabin | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have just read Miss Martineau's "Sick Room". I cannot understand it. It is so sublime, and mystical that I frequent... | Sydney Smith | Harriet Martineau | Life in the Sick Room | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I think "Ireland and its Leaders" worth reading and beg of you to tell me who wrote it if you happen to know, for you... | Sydney Smith | Daniel Owen-Madden [published anon.] | Ireland and its Rulers Since 1829 | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Captain Marryats Settlement in Canada'. | Sydney Smith | Frederick Marryat | The Settlers in Canada | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Read, in the evening, "Temple on the Origin of Government:" in which the source of political power is successfully tr... | Thomas Green | Sir William Temple | Essays | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Began, with a view of comparing notes, Macchiavel's "Historie Fiorentino"...' | Thomas Green | Niccolo Machiavelli | History of Florence | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Read the 1st Book of Macchievel's "Discorsi sopra Livio"...' | Thomas Green | Niccolo Machiavelli | Discourses on Livy | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Looked over Malone's "Enquiry into the Authenticity of Ireland's Shakesperian Papers"; a learned and decisive piece o... | Thomas Green | Edmond Malone | An inquiry into the authenticity of certain papers | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Read Adam Smith's "History of Astronomy", in his posthumous tracts, published by Dugald Stewart...' | Thomas Green | Adam Smith | Essays on philosophical subjects | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Finished, with much interest, the "Pursuits of Literature"...' | Thomas Green | Thomas James Mathias | Pursuits of Literature | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Read Macfarlane's "History of George III.": a strange amalgama of vulgarity, impudence, and scurrility, compounded i... | Thomas Green | Robert Macfarlane | History of George III | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Began Campbell's "Rhetoric"...' | Thomas Green | George Campbell | The Philosophy of Rhetoric | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Finished the "Memoirs of Grammont"; which exhibit, with less wit and spirit than I expected, a shameful picture of th... | Thomas Green | Anthony Hamilton | Memoires de la Vie du Comte de Gramont | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Finished Bertrand De Moleville's "Memoirs of the Last Year of the Reign of Louis the 16th". They contain much curiou... | Thomas Green | Bertrand de Moleville | Memoires secrets pour servir a l'histoire | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Began Dalrymple's "Memoirs of Great Britain and Ireland"; and read the two introductory sections, containing a master... | Thomas Green | Sir John Dalrymple | Memoirs of Great Britain and Ireland | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Read Haslam on Insanity....' | Thomas Green | John Haslam | Observations on Insanity | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Read Mandeville's "Fable of the Bees", and his "Enquiry into the Origin of Virtue"...' | Thomas Green | Bernard Mandeville | Fable of the Bees | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Read Mandeville's "Fable of the Bees", and his "Enquiry into the Origin of Virtue"...' | Thomas Green | Bernard Mandeville | Enquiry into the Origin of Virtue | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Read the first four Books of Montesquieu's "Esprit des Loix"...' | Thomas Green | Montesquieu | De l?esprit des loix | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Looked into Mitford's "History of Greece". The Athenian Democracy imparts no sort of relish for that sort of governm... | Thomas Green | William Mitford | History of Greece | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Finished the "Travels of Anacharsis". This work is ably executed, and must have cost prodigious pains; but it still ... | Thomas Green | J. J. Barth?lemy | Travels of Anacharsis the Younger in Greece | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Finished the "Paradise Regained". Milton has been most unhappy in the choice of his subject;--an inexplicable and su... | Thomas Green | John Milton | Paradise Regained | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Read Milton's "Samson Agonistes";--a noble Poem, but a miserable Drama...' | Thomas Green | John Milton | Samson Agonistes | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Perused, with delight and admiration, Mackintosh's "Preliminary Discourse on the Study of the Law of Nature and Natio... | Thomas Green | Sir James Mackintosh | A discourse on the study of the law of nature, and nations | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Read Mackinosh's "Vindiciae Gallicae". His style and manner in the Piece are magnificent, but uniformly cumbrous, an... | Thomas Green | Sir James Mackintosh | Vindiciae Gallicae | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Read the first 6 chapters of May's "History of the Long Parliament"; containing a retrospect of affairs, down to its ... | Thomas Green | Thomas May | The history of the Parliament of England | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Read Cambridge's "Scribleriad". The mock heroic is well sustained throughout; but the Poem is deficient in broad hum... | Thomas Green | Richard Owen Cambridge | The scribleriad: an heroic poem in six books | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Read the 1st Vol. of Sully's "Memoirs". They open a scene of manners, which, to modern conception, appears perfectly... | Thomas Green | Pierre Mathurin | The memoirs of the Duke of Sully | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Looked over the Introduction to Pemberton's "View of Sir Isaac Newton's Philosophy". He affirms (sec. 2.) that it is... | Thomas Green | Henry Pemberton | A view of Sir Isaac Newton?s philosophy | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Finished Moore's "Zeluco". The character is will contrived to purge the selfish and malignant passions, by exhibitin... | Thomas Green | John Moore | Zeluco. Various views of human nature | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Finished Moore's "Edward". The outset of this novel delighted me highly; but as it advances, the interest declines...' | Thomas Green | John Moore | Edward. Various views of human nature | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Brougham's pamphlet accidentally happens to be very dull. It is not of much importance but there was no absolute nece... | Sydney Smith | Henry Brougham | A Letter to SIR SAMUEL ROMILLY, MP from H. BROUGHAM, Esq. MPFRS upon the Abuse of Charities | |
| 1800-1849 | 'I recommend you to read Hall, Palmer, Fearon and Bradburys Travels in America, particularly "Fearon". There is nothin... | Sydney Smith | John Palmer | Journal of Travels in the United States of North America, and in Lower Canada, Performed in the Year 1817, &c. &c | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Finished the perusal of the first Six Books of Milton's "Paradise Lost". The scene betwixt Satan, Sin, and Death, in... | Thomas Green | John Milton | Paradise Lost | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Perused the "Farmer's Boy"; a rural Poem, by Robert Bloomfield; edited by Capel Lofft...' | Thomas Green | Robert Bloomfield | The farmer?s boy | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Looked into Marsh's "Michaelis"...' | Thomas Green | Johann David Michaelis | Introduction to the New Testament | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Finished Marsh's "Tract on the Politics of Great Britain and France"...' | Thomas Green | Herbert Marsh | The history of the politicks of Great Britain and France | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Looked into Prettyman's "Theology". The Dedication to Pitt is insufferably fulsome...' | Thomas Green | George Pretyman | Elements of Christian theology | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Finished Malone's "Life of Dryden", prefixed to an Edition of his Prose Works. By the drudgery of searching deeds, w... | Thomas Green | Edmond Malone | Critical and Miscellaneous Works of John Dryden | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Campbell's "Pleasures of Hope". Parts of this Poem are animated and fine...' | Thomas Green | Thomas Campbell | The Pleasures of Hope | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Looked into Kirkman's "Life of Macklin"...' | Thomas Green | James Thomas Kirkman | Memoirs of the life of Charles Macklin | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I received about a month ago the Revd Willm Thomson of Ochiltree's new translation of the Testament. Of course I am ... | Thomas Carlyle | William Thomson | The New Testament. Translated from the Greek, 3 vols | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I perused your theorems with some attention. They are well worthy of a place in the Courier - though not for the pur... | Thomas Carlyle | Robert Mitchell | 'theorems' | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have been reading little [since I last wrote to you] except Coxe's travels in Switzerland, Poland, Russia &c, Humes... | Thomas Carlyle | Tobias Smollett | History of England [probably] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Lord Grey will like that article in the Edinburgh Review upon Universal Suffrage; it is by Sir James McIntosh. There ... | Sydney Smith | James McIntosh | [Review in Edinburgh Review of Bentham's Plan of Parliamentary Refom] | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 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 Hallam | History Of Europe During The Middle Ages | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Elizabeth Missing Sewell, in letter to '_____', from Albano, April 1861 [re Remains of Roman theatre at Tusculum]:
'T... | | Thomas Babington Macaulay | Lay of the Battle of Lake Regillus | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Elizabeth Missing Sewell, describing travel from Pisa toward Spezzia in letter of 5 June 1861 to 'My Dear _____', head... | Elizabeth Missing Sewell | Mary Russell Mitford | Rienzi | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Have you read Mathilda? If you have, you will not tell me what you think of it, you are as cautious as Wishaw. I ment... | Sydney Smith | Constantine Henry Phipps, Lord Normanby | Matilda | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I can make nothing of Craniology, for this reason: [Smith then discusses why he is not convinced by the idea] But to ... | Sydney Smith | George Combe | [probably] A System of Phrenology | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'I am glad you were pleased with Clery. As I have succeeded in one recommendation, I will take the liberty of making a... | Sydney Smith | Benjamin Thomson, Count von Rumford | Essays, Political, Economical and Philosophical | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799
1800-1849 | '...Sir Joshua Reynolds's Lectures. Mitford's History of Greece. Orme's History of Hindoostan. Vertot's Revolutions of... | Sydney Smith | William Mitford | History of Greece | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799
1800-1849 | '...Sir Joshua Reynolds's Lectures. Mitford's History of Greece. Orme's History of Hindoostan. Vertot's Revolutions of... | Sydney Smith | Robert Orme | History of Hindustan | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799
1800-1849 | '...Sir Joshua Reynolds's Lectures. Mitford's History of Greece. Orme's History of Hindoostan. Vertot's Revolutions of... | Sydney Smith | Jean Baptiste Massillon | 'Petite Careme' | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have read since I saw you Burke's works, some books of Homer, Suetonius, a great deal of agricultural reading, Godw... | Sydney Smith | Homer | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have read since I saw you Burke's works, some books of Homer, Suetonius, a great deal of agricultural reading, Godw... | Sydney Smith | Adam Smith | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'after reading half thro' Porter's "Russian Campaign", I found it to be such an incorrigible mass of folly and stupidi... | Sydney Smith | Isaac Milner | [Controversy with Marsh on Auxiliary Bible Society] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | "And tho' I call them Mine, I know that they are not Mine, being of the Same opinion with Milton when he says 'That th... | William Blake | John Milton | Paradise Lost, vii, 29-30 | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | "What is it sets Homer, Virgil and Milton in so high a rank of Art? Why is the Bible more Entertaining and Instructive... | William Blake | Homer | unknown | Print: Book, Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'S. reads Livy - talk - in the evening S. read[s] Paradise Regained alloud and then goes to sleep'. | Percy Bysshe Shelley | John Milton | Paradise Regained | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I have read Bragelonne'. | Robert Louis Stevenson | Alexandre Dumas | Le Vicomte de Bragelonne | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'At present I am going for Macaulay's History and no novels at all.' | Robert Louis Stevenson | Thomas Babington Macaulay | History of England | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'All the reading up is Macaulay, p.530 to 535 and then p. 616 to 630'. [The context of the reference suggests the text... | Robert Louis Stevenson | Thomas Babington Macaulay | The History of England | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Reader makes several references to the work: V.1, p.9, p.15, p.25, p.142; V.2 p.200. eg.: V.1 p.9 'Well, now I was ver... | Anne Grant [nee MacVicar] | Homer | Odyssey | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'This enclosed article is the third of yours that I have read. The first (about modelling) was about the most imperso... | Arnold Bennett | Thomas Lloyd Humbertstone | [article] | Manuscript: Sheet |
| 1900-1945 | 'I think the article on Sir John Gorst is able & shows a sufficient grasp of the subject; the tone of it also seems to... | Arnold Bennett | Thomas Lloyd Humberstone | Coventry | Manuscript: Sheet |
| 1900-1945 | 'I think the article on Sir John Gorst is able & shows a sufficient grasp of the subject; the tone of it also seems to... | Arnold Bennett | Thomas Lloyd Humberstone | article on Sir John Gorst | Manuscript: Sheet |
| 1700-1799
1800-1849 | Quotes Milton throughout work:V.1 pp 25,75,90,101,169,190; V.2 pp118,206; V.3 p.87. Ex. Letter XI To Miss Reid, Glasg... | Anne Grant [nee MacVicar] | John Milton | [Works] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | "Now my lot in the Heavens is this, Milton lov'd me in/childhood & shew'd me his face./Ezra came with Isaiah the Proph... | William Blake | John Milton | unknown | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | "Blake and I read every Evening that copy of the Iliad which your namesake of St Paul's was so good as to send me, com... | William Blake | Homer | Iliad | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Mary Shelley's Reading List for 1815. Only those titles not mentioned in journal entries are given separate database ... | Mary Godwin | John Milton | Paradise Lost | |
| 1800-1849 | [Mary Shelley's Reading List for 1815. Only those titles not mentioned in journal entries are given separate database ... | Mary Godwin | John Milton | Areopagitica: A Speech of Mr. John Milton for the Liberty of Unlicenc'd Printing | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Mary Shelley's Reading List for 1815. Only those titles not mentioned in journal entries are given separate database ... | Mary Godwin | James Thomson | Castle of Indolence, The | |
| 1800-1849 | [Mary Shelley's Reading List for 1815. Only those titles not mentioned in journal entries are given separate database ... | Mary Godwin | John Milton | Lycidas | |
| 1800-1849 | [Mary Shelley's Reading List for 1815. Only those titles not mentioned in journal entries are given separate database ... | Mary Godwin | Eugene Labaume | Relation circonstanciee de la campagne de Russie | |
| 1700-1799 | [Betsey]:'The gazettes from France were read this evening there was nothing remarquable in them. We began again "Les P... | Elizabeth (Betsey) Wynne | Moliere [pseud.] | Les Precieuses Ridicules | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Mary Shelley's Reading List for 1815. Only those titles not mentioned in journal entries are given separate database ... | Percy Bysshe Shelley | John Milton | Paradise Lost | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Mary Shelley's Reading List for 1815. Only those titles not mentioned in journal entries are given separate database ... | Percy Bysshe Shelley | John Milton | Areopagitica: a Speech of Mr John Milton for the Liberty of Unlicenc'd Printing, to the Parliament of England | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Mary Shelley's Reading List for 1815. Only those titles not mentioned in journal entries are given separate database ... | Percy Bysshe Shelley | James Thomson | Castle of Indolence, The | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Mary Shelley's Reading List for 1815. Only those titles not mentioned in journal entries are given separate database ... | Percy Bysshe Shelley | John Milton | Paradise Regained | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Mary Shelley's Reading List for 1815. Only those titles not mentioned in journal entries are given separate database ... | Percy Bysshe Shelley | John Milton | Lycidas | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Mary Shelley's Reading List for 1815. Only those titles not mentioned in journal entries are given separate database ... | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Eugene Labaume | Relation circonstanci?e de la campagne de Russie | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Percy Shelley's Reading List for 1815, compiled by Mary Shelley. Only texts not referred to in journal entries are gi... | Percy Bysshe Shelley | James MacPherson | The Works of Ossian, the son of Fingal, translated from the Gaelic Language by James MacPherson | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Percy Shelley's Reading List for 1815, compiled by Mary Shelley. Only texts not referred to in journal entries are gi... | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Homer | [Iliad / Odyssey] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Percy Shelley's Reading List for 1815, compiled by Mary Shelley. Only texts not referred to in journal entries are gi... | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Louis Maimbourg | Histoire de l'arianisme depuis sa naissance, jusqu'a sa fin, avec l'origine et le progres de l'heresie des sociniens | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Mary Shelley's Reading List for 1816. The diary from May 1815-July 1816 is lost, so this list is our only record for ... | Mary Godwin | Carl Philipp Moritz | Reisen eines Deutschen in England im Jahr 1782 | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Mary Shelley's Reading List for 1816. The diary from May 1815-July 1816 is lost, so this list is our only record for ... | Mary Godwin | Elizabeth Hamilton | Memoirs of Modern Philosophers | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Mary Shelley's Reading List for 1816. The diary from May 1815-July 1816 is lost, so this list is our only record for ... | Mary Godwin | Basil Montagu (ed.) | The Opinions of different authors upon the punishment of Death, selected by Basil Montagu | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Mary Shelley's Reading List for 1816. The diary from May 1815-July 1816 is lost, so this list is our only record for ... | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Elizabeth Hamilton | Memoirs of Modern Philosophers | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Mary Shelley's Reading List for 1816. The diary from May 1815-July 1816 is lost, so this list is our only record for ... | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Carl Philipp Moritz | Reisen eines Deutschen in England im Jahr 1782 | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I think newspapers do a lot towards it, because one of the first things I do is to look at the women's page in the Ne... | | Jill Adams | News Chronicle | Print: Newspaper |
| 1700-1799 | Reader makes 4 references to the work V.1 pp 61,64; V.2 pp 4, 251. Eg. p. 61 'The sun shone on our social repast, but ... | Anne Grant [nee MacVicar] | James Thomson | The seasons | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Letter to Miss Ewing, November 14, 1778 '? the former [ie Highlanders] indeed are a people never to be known unless yo... | Anne Grant [nee MacVicar] | Tobias Smollett | The expedition of Humphrey Clinker | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Letter to Miss Reid May 17,1773 'As far as a mountain can resemble a man, it resembles the person Smollet has marked o... | Anne Grant [nee MacVicar] | Tobias Smollett | Roderick Random | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Letter to Mrs Macintosh September 9 1797 'The cheerfulness of our work-people, and the soft serenity of the air, durin... | Anne Grant [nee Macvicar] | James Thomson | The Seasons | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Letter to Miss Ewing June 10 1774 'Yet I should like none of these climates, where
?Winter lingering chills the lap ... | Anne Grant [nee MacVicar] | Oliver Goldsmith | [The traveller] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Letter to Collector MacVicar, June 20 1773 'In the mean time I hope the best, and endeavour to pursue Oliver Cromwell ... | Anne Grant [nee MacVicar] | Oliver Goldsmith | The vicar of Wakefield | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Letter to Miss Ourry March 27 1791 'I am very fond of the lower class of people; they have sentiment, serious habits, ... | Anne Grant [nee MacVicar] | Tobias Smollett | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Letter to Miss Ourry March 27 1791 'I am very fond of the lower class of people; they have sentiment, serious habits, ... | Anne Grant [nee MacVicar] | Oliver Goldsmith | The traveller | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Letter to Mrs F--R (formerly Miss Ourry) April 11 1795 ??Innovation disconcerts us; new lights blind us; we detest the... | Anne Grant [nee MacVicar] | Helen Maria Williams | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799
1800-1849 | Letter to Mrs Macintosh November 23 1800 'Nay, I find the relapse to calm sorrow, a relief from constant perturbation... | Anne Grant [nee MacVicar] | James Macpherson | The poems of Ossian | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799
1800-1849 | Letter to Miss Dunbar May 1802 [see note] 'Did I tell you I read "Campbell?s Pleasures of Hope" at Wells and was charm... | Anne Grant [nee MacVicar] | Thomas Campbell | Pleasures of hope | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I am anxious for the day when your English will be good enough for you to enjoy Meredith, Hardy, Locke and other grea... | Arthur Vanson | George Meredith | The Ordeal of Richard Feverel | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I am anxious for the day when your English will be good enough for you to enjoy Meredith, Hardy, Locke and other grea... | Arthur Vanson | George Meredith | Evan Harrington | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I am anxious for the day when your English will be good enough for you to enjoy Meredith, Hardy, Locke and other grea... | Arthur Vanson | George Meredith | Vittoria | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I am anxious for the day when your English will be good enough for you to enjoy Meredith, Hardy, Locke and other grea... | Arthur Vanson | George Meredith | Rhoda Fleming | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I am anxious for the day when your English will be good enough for you to enjoy Meredith, Hardy, Locke and other grea... | Arthur Vanson | George Meredith | Harry Richmans | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I am anxious for the day when your English will be good enough for you to enjoy Meredith, Hardy, Locke and other grea... | Arthur Vanson | George Meredith | The Egoist | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I am anxious for the day when your English will be good enough for you to enjoy Meredith, Hardy, Locke and other grea... | Arthur Vanson | George Meredith | Diana of the Crossways | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I am anxious for the day when your English will be good enough for you to enjoy Meredith, Hardy, Locke and other grea... | Arthur Vanson | Professor Seccombe | [articles in the "Bookman"] | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'finish Hermann d'Unna and write - Shelley reads Milton - After dinner Lord Byron comes down and Clare and Shelley go... | Percy Bysshe Shelley | [John] Milton | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'After dinner read some of Madme Genlis novels - Shelley reads Milton' | Percy Bysshe Shelley | [John] Milton | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'read "Contes moreaux de Marmotel - Shelley reads the Germania of Tacitus'. | Mary Godwin | Jean Francois Marmontel | Contes moraux | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Write & read "Contes Moreaux" - go down to the side of the lake to watch the waves - Lord Byron comes down - after di... | Mary Godwin | Jean Francois Marmontel | Contes Moreaux | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Curt. and Caroline of Litchfield. Hobhouse and Scroop Davis come to Diodati - Shelley spends the evening there &... | Mary Godwin | Elizabeth jeanne Isabelle Pauline, Baronne de Montolieu | Caroline de Lichtfield | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Finish "Caroline of Litchfield" and "Marmotel's tales". Read Bertram and Christabel and several articles of the quart... | Mary Godwin | Elizabeth Jeanne Isabelle Pauline, Baronne de Montolieu | Caroline de Lichtfield | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Finish "Caroline of Litchfield" and "Marmotel's tales". Read Bertram and Christabel and several articles of the quart... | Mary Godwin | Jean Francois Marmontel | Contes moraux | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Finish "Caroline of Litchfield" and "Marmotel's tales". Read Bertram and Christabel and several articles of the quart... | Mary Godwin | Charles R. Maturin | Bertram; or, the Castle of St. Aldobrand, a tragedy | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Letter to Collector MacVicar June 30 1773 'I will not tire you with the detail of all the little circumstances that gr... | Anne Grant [nee MacVicar] | John Milton | Paradise lost | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Fazio - Love and madness. & some of Rienzi - work - in the evening finish the antiquary' | Mary Godwin | Henry Hart Milman | Fazio: a tragedy | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'in the evening walk out - read the Solitary wanderer' | Mary Godwin | Charlotte Smith | Letters of a Solitary Wanderer | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'read the Rambler - S reads Montaigne's essays' | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Michel de Montaigne | Essais | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Letter to Miss Ourry Oct 14 1791 'This temporary triumph of irreligion and false philosophy will tear the mark off th... | Anne Grant [nee Macvicar] | David Hume | Essay concerning human understanding | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Clarendon - finish the life of Holcroft - read Glenarvon in the evening' | Mary Godwin | Caroline Lamb (anon.) | Glenarvon | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Not well - read Glenarvon all day and finish it'. | Mary Godwin | Caroline Lamb (anon.) | Glenarvon | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Patronage & the Milesian chief - finish 5th vol of Clarendon - Shelley reads life of Cromwell' | Mary Godwin | Charles R. Maturin | The Milesian Chief | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Finish Milesian & Patronage - read Holcrofts travels - S. reads life of Cromwell.' | Mary Godwin | Charles Maturin | Milesian Chief, The | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'S. reads Montaigne' | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Michel de Montaigne | Essais | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | '[Shelley] reads Montaigne - read Clarendon and O'Donnel' | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Michel de Montaigne | Essais | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'S. writes & reads Montaigne & Lucian & walks'. | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Michel de Montaigne | Essais | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Davy's Chemistry with Shelley - read Curt. and Ides travels. Shelley reads Montaigne and Don Quixote aloud in th... | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Michel de Montaigne | Essais | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'Here the Duke, among other things, did bring out a book, of great antiquity, of some of the customs of the Navy about... | Samuel Pepys | James Humphrey | [MS Collections] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'Yes I know Sudermann ? his play ?Magda? was one of Mrs Pat. Campbell?s great parts ? and I believe he was the author ... | Winifred Agnes Moore | C.E. Montague | Right off the Map | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Yes I know Sudermann ? his play ?Magda? was one of Mrs Pat. Campbell?s great parts ? and I believe he was the author ... | Winifred Agnes Moore | Rose Macauley | Keeping Up Appearances | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Yes I know Sudermann ? his play ?Magda? was one of Mrs Pat. Campbell?s great parts ? and I believe he was the author ... | Winifred Agnes Moore | Olwen Ward Campbell | Shelley and the Unromantics | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899
1900-1945 | 'Yes I know Sudermann ? his play ?Magda? was one of Mrs Pat. Campbell?s great parts ? and I believe he was the author ... | Winifred Agnes Moore | Hermann Sudermann | The Song of Songs | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I also have been reading ?All Quiet?. Stanley and I stood for an hour outside my hotel at midnight in Southampton Ro... | Winifred Agnes Moore | Erich Maria Remarque | All Quiet on the Western Front | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I am really appreciating all the books and seem at the moment to be reading only French. I have not by any means ex... | Winifred Agnes Moore | Katherine Mayo | Mother India | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I am busy also getting through the Keynes book, and chuckling over the fact that he wrote this book to make clear tha... | Winifred Agnes Moore | John Maynard Keynes | The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I?m so glad that ?D?senchantement? pleases you. Apart from the subject Montague writes so beautifully ? and to me i... | Winifred Agnes Moore | Montague | D?senchantement | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I have just read Gabouis ?Perfide Albion ? Entente Cordial?, quite good and informative ? this in English from the lo... | Winifred Agnes Moore | Francois Mauriac | Les Anges Noirs | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I have just read Gabouis ?Perfide Albion ? Entente Cordial?, quite good and informative ? this in English from the lo... | Winifred Agnes Moore | Paul Maraud | Rond Point des Champs Elys?es | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'To return to my reading at the moment ? I have another book of Ford Madox Ford?s ? oh ! a lovely one, called ?Provenc... | Winifred Agnes Moore | Ford Madox Ford | Provence | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'He and I have read the same books, and discuss Chaucer, Shakespeare, Marlowe, Fletcher, Webster, and all the old auth... | Robert Louis Stevenson | Christopher Marlowe | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have read since last October a good deal of the history relating to the East - [including] .. Timur's Institutes...' | Mounstuart Elphinstone | Timur | Institutes | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'When I first ventured to write a sentence for publication, having a deep sense of my profound ignorance of the rules ... | Elizabeth Missing Sewell | Lindley Murray | English grammar | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have read since last October a good deal of the history relating to the East - [including] .. Orme's Hindustan (a s... | Mountstuart Elphinstone | Orme | Hindustan | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'It had [...] been a favourite idea of my mother's that her girls should learn Latin, and she engaged an old schoolmas... | Elizabeth Missing Sewell | St Matthew | Matthew 2:1 | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Missing Sewell recalls studies at the second school she attended (to the age of 15):
'Our subjects of stu... | Elizabeth Missing Sewell | Mangall | Questions | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Missing Sewell recalls studies at the second school she attended (to the age of 15):
'Our subjects of stu... | Elizabeth Missing Sewell | Mrs Marcet | Conversations on Chemistry | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Missing Sewell recalls studies at the second school she attended (to the age of 15):
'Our subjects of stu... | Elizabeth Missing Sewell | Mrs Marcet | Conversations on Political Economy | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Write - read Davy - In the evening read Curt. and Les Incas'. | Mary Godwin | Jean Francois Marmontel | Les Incas | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'read Les Incas - Shelley reads Montaigne' | Mary Godwin | Jean Francois Marmontel | Les Incas | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'read Les Incas - Shelley reads Montaigne' | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Michel de Montaigne | Essais | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'read Grandison and Curt. Shelley reads and finishes Montainge [sic] to his great sorrow - he reads Lucian'. | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Michel de Montaigne | Essais | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'S. finishes Gulliver and begins P.[aradise] L.[ost]' | Percy Bysshe Shelley | John Milton | Paradise Lost | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'in the evening Shelley read[s] 2nd book of Paradise Lost. S. reads Locke' | Percy Bysshe Shelley | John Milton | Paradise Lost | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'write - read Locke and Curt. S. reads Plutarch and Locke. He reads Paradise Lost - aloud in the evening' | Percy Bysshe Shelley | John Milton | Paradise Lost | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'begin Pamela. Shelley reads Locke and in the evening Paradise Lost aloud to me'. | Percy Bysshe Shelley | John Milton | Paradise Lost | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'work in the evening - & read Les Incas' | Mary Godwin | Jean Francois Marmontel | Les Incas | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'I left them there and walked to Deptford, reading in Wallsinghams "manuall", a very good book.' | Samuel Pepys | Sir Francis Walsingham | Arcana aulica, or, Walsingham's manual of prudential maxims for the states-man and courtier : to which is added Fragmenta regalia, or, Observations on Queen Elizabeth, her times and favorites | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'and then down to Woolwich Deptford to look after things...All the way down and up, reading of "The Mayor of Quinborou... | Samuel Pepys | Thomas Middleton | The Mayor of Quinborough | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have read since last October a good deal of the history relating to the East ... : not much of books not connected ... | Mountstuart Elphinstone | Homer | Odyssey | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have read since last October a good deal of the history relating to the East ... : not much of books not connected ... | Mountstuart Elphinstone | [Niccolo] Machiavelli | [Works] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have read since last October a good deal of the history relating to the East...: not much of books not connected wi... | Mountstuart Elphinstone | [David] Hume | Dialogue on natural religion | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'and so home, I reading all the way to make an end of "The Bondman" (which the oftener I read, the more I like), and b... | Samuel Pepys | Philip Massinger | The Bondman | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have read since last October a good deal ot the history relating to the East ...: not much of books not connected w... | Mountstuart Elphinstone | [Conyers] Middleton | A free enquiry | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have read since last October a good deal of the history relating to the East ...: not much of books not connected w... | Mountstuart Elphinstone | [Conyers] Middleton | A letter from Rome | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have read since last October a good deal ot the history relating to the East ...: not much of books not connected w... | Mountstuart Elphinstone | [Conyers] Middleton | [Dissertations in Latin and English] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have read since last October a good deal of the history relating to the East ...: not much of books not connected w... | Mountstuart Elphinstone | [Conyers] Middleton | [Cicero] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Mary Shelley's Reading List for 1816. The diary from May 1815-July 1816 is lost, so this list is our only record for ... | Mary Godwin | Charles de Secondat, Baron de la Bred et de Montesquieu | Lettres persanes | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Mary Shelley's Reading List for 1816. The diary from May 1815-July 1816 is lost, so this list is our only record for ... | Mary Godwin | Henry Hart Milman | Fazio | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Mary Shelley's Reading List for 1816. The diary from May 1815-July 1816 is lost, so this list is our only record for ... | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Henry Hart Milman | Fazio | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Mary Shelley's Reading List for 1816. The diary from May 1815-July 1816 is lost, so this list is our only record for ... | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Charles de Secondat, Baron de la Brede et de Montesquieu | Lettres persanes | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Percy Shelley's Reading List for 1816. The diary from May 1815-July 1816 is lost, so this list is our only record of ... | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Moschus | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'read douglass [sic] & the Gamester' | Mary Shelley | John Home | Douglas: A Tragedy | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'read several papers in the Spectator - Locke - And Memoirs of Count Gramont' | Mary Shelley | Anthony Hamilton | M?moires de la vie du Comte de Grammont | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'read Somnium Scipionis & Roderick Random' | Mary Shelley | Tobias Smollett | Adventures of Roderick Random | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'finish Roderick Random' | Mary Shelley | Tobias Smollett | Adventures of Roderick Random | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'read Comus. Knight of the swan - 1st Vol of Goldth citizen of the world' | Mary Shelley | John Milton | Comus | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'read Comus. Knight of the swan - 1st Vol of Goldth citizen of the world' | Mary Shelley | Oliver Goldsmith | Citizen of the World, The | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have read since last October a good deal of the history relating to the East...: not much of books not connected wi... | Mountstuart Elphinstone | John Milton | Paradise Lost | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have read since last October a good deal of the history relating to the East...: not much of books not connected wi... | Mountstuart Elphinstone | John Milton | Paradise Regained | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have read since last October a good deal of the history relating to the East...: not much of books not connected wi... | Mountstuart Elphinstone | Denham | [Poems] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have read since last October a good deal of the history relating to the East...: not much of books not connected wi... | Mountstuart Elphinstone | [William] [Mason] | Caractacus | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have read since last October a good deal of the history relating to the East...: not much of books not connected wi... | Mountstuart Elphinstone | John Milton | [Latin poems] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have read since last October a good deal of the history relating to the East...: not much of books not connected wi... | Mountstuart Elphinstone | [David] Ramsay | Revolution of South Carolina [The history of the] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I am in Milton's prose works, Cromwell's life, George Fox's Wanderings &c day & night, when I have any leisure'. | Thomas Carlyle | John Milton | Prose works | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'So home to supper, and then to read a little in Moore's "Antidote against Atheisme", a pretty book; and so to bed.' | Samuel Pepys | Henry More | An antidote against atheism, or, An appeal to the naturall faculties of the minde of man, whether there be not a God | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'And a little to my Lord Chancellors, where the King and Cabinet met, and there met Mr Brisband, with whom good discou... | Samuel Pepys | Andrew Marvell | Third Advice to a paynter | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1600-1699 | 'so did not enlarge, but took leave and went down and sat in a low room reading Erasmus "de scribendis Epistolis", a v... | Samuel Pepys | Desiderius Erasmus | De conscribendis epistolis | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'and then up and to my chamber with a good fire and there spent an hour on Morly's "Introduction to Music", a very goo... | Samuel Pepys | Thomas Morely | A plaine and easie introduction to practicall musicke | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'and so back home again, all the way reading a little piece I lately bought, call[ed] "The Virtuoso or The Stoicke", p... | Samuel Pepys | George Mackenzie | Religio Stoici, with a friendly addresse to the phanaticks of all sects and sorts | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Cumberlands memoirs' | Mary Shelley | Richard Cumberland | Memoirs of Richard Cumberland. Written by himself. | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Finish the memoirs - of Cumberland - read the Rambler' | Mary Shelley | Richard Cumberland | Memoirs of Richard Cumberland. Written by himself. | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Beaumonts Hermophroditus [sic]' | Mary Shelley | Francis Beaumont | Salmasis and Hermaphroditus | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Not well - read the Martial Maid & the Wild goose chase of Beaumont and Fletcher' | Mary Shelley | Francis Beaumont | Love's Cure, or the Martial Maid | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Not well - read the Martial Maid & the Wild goose chase of Beaumont and Fletcher' | Mary Shelley | Francis Beaumont | Wild-goose Chase, The | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Waverly - Pliny's letters - Political Justice & Miltons Tenure of Kings and Magistrates. Shelley reads Waverly -... | Mary Shelley | John Milton | Tenure of Kings and Magistrates, The | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Lalla Rookh. Not well all day' | Mary Shelley | Thomas Moore | Lallah Rookh: an Oriental Romance | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'S. reads Homer and writes' | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Homer | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Julie - S reads Homer' | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Homer | Iliad | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Tacitus - The Persian letters - S. reads Homer & writes - reads a canto of Spencer and part of the gentle shephe... | Mary Shelley | Charles de Secondat, baron de la Brede et de Montesquieu | Lettres persanes | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Tacitus and Buffon. S. reads Homer and Plutarch' | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Homer | Illiad | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Shelley writes - reads Plato's Convivium - Gibbon aloud - Read several of Beaumont and Fletcher's plays' | Mary Shelley | Francis Beaumont | [Plays, with Fletcher] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read a little of Tacitus - Several of Beaumont and Fletchers Plays - S. reads Volpone and the Alchymist aloud and beg... | Mary Shelley | Francis Beaumont | [Plays] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read a little of Tacitus - Several of Beaumont and Fletchers Plays - S. reads Volpone and the Alchymist aloud and beg... | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Thomas Moore | Lalla Rookh: an oriental romance | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Finish the 11th book of Tacitus - Read some of Beaumont & X Fletchers plays - work - S. write - reads some of the pla... | Mary Shelley | Francis Beaumont | [Plays, with Fletcher] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I am confined Teusday 2nd. Read Rhoda - Pastors Fire Side - Missionary - Wild Irish Girls - The Anaconda. Glenarvon -... | Mary Shelley | Lady Morgan | The Missionary: An Indian Tale | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I am confined Teusday 2nd. Read Rhoda - Pastors Fire Side - Missionary - Wild Irish Girls - The Anaconda. Glenarvon -... | Mary Shelley | Lady Morgan | Wild Irish Girl, The | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I am confined Teusday 2nd. Read Rhoda - Pastors Fire Side - Missionary - Wild Irish Girls - The Anaconda. Glenarvon -... | Mary Shelley | Caroline Lamb | Glenarvon | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Fielding's Amelia - Sir Launcelot Greaves. a little of Tacitus - Twopenny post bag.' | Mary Shelley | Tobias Smollett | Adventures of Sir Launcelot Greaves, The | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Fielding's Amelia - Sir Launcelot Greaves. a little of Tacitus - Twopenny post bag.' | Mary Shelley | Thomas Moore | Intercepted Letters; or, Twopenny Post-Bag | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Lambs specimens.' | Mary Shelley | Charles Lamb | Specimens of English Dramatic Poets who lived about the time of Shakespeare, with notes | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'read Dante - finish Lambs specimens. walk to Mr Olliers. read Zapolya' | Mary Shelley | Charles Lamb | Specimens of English Dramatic Poets who lived about the time of Shakespeare, with notes | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'read George Dandin' | Mary Shelley | Moliere (pseud.) | George Dandin; ou le mari confondu | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'read Family of Montorio' | Mary Shelley | Charles R. Maturin | Fatal Revenge; or the Family of Montorio | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Finish the Family of Montorio' | Mary Shelley | Charles R. Maturin | Fatal Revenge; or the Family of Montorio | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I read Tacitus - 3 of Hume's essays VIII IX X - some of the German theatre - write - walk - Shelleys [sic] reads Poli... | Mary Shelley | David Hume | Essays and Treatises on Several subjects | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I read Tacitus - 3 of Hume's essays VIII IX X - some of the German theatre - write - walk - Shelleys [sic] reads Poli... | Mary Shelley | Benjamin Thompson [trans.] | German Theatre | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'S. finishes reading his poem aloud. - read from the German theatre' | Mary Shelley | Benjamin Thompson (trans.) | German Theatre | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'S. finishes Political Justice Read Tacitus & Hume - work in the evening read Mandeville.' | Mary Shelley | David Hume | Essays and Treatises on Several Subjects | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Finish the 1st part of Humes Essays' | Mary Shelley | David Hume | Essays and Treatises on Several Subjects | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'S. reads Hume' | Percy Bysshe Shelley | David Hume | Essays and treatises on several subjects | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'S reads Lady Morgans "France".' | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Lady Morgan | France | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read the little thief - walk. S reads "France".' | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Lady Morgan | France | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read the little thief - walk. S reads "France".' | Mary Shelley | Francis Beaumont | The Night Walker, [or, the little Thiefe] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read "France"' | Mary Shelley | Lady Morgan | France | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'S walks - & reads I book of Paradise Lost in the evening.' | Percy Bysshe Shelley | John Milton | Paradise Lost | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'S reads Gibbon a[nd] 2 book of Paradise Lost.' | Percy Bysshe Shelley | John Milton | Paradise Lost | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Mary Shelley's Reading List for 1817. As far as possible texts mentioned in journal entries are not given separate da... | Mary Shelley | Thomas Moore | Epistles, Odes and Other Poems | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'S finishes Homer's Hymns' | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Homer | Hymns | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Finish Humes dissertation on the passions' | Mary Shelley | David Hume | Four Dissertations | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read the merry beggars. Elvira' | Mary Shelley | Richard Brome | Jovial Crew, A; or the Merry Beggars | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Italian operas - Montaigne' | Mary Shelley | Michel de Montaigne | Essais | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Moliere's Plays' | Mary Shelley | Moliere [pseud.] | [Plays] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Clare reads the memoir of Madme Ma[n]son aloud to us' | Claire Clairmont | Francoise Clarisse Manson | M?moires de Madame Manson, explicatifs de sa conduite dans le proc?s de l'assassinat de M. Fuald | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'and so away presently very merry, and fell to reading of the several "Advices to a Painter", which made us good sport... | Samuel Pepys | Andrew Marvell | The second and third advice to a painter, for drawing the history of our navall actions, the last two years | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Shelley reads Manso's life of Tasso' | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Giovanni Battista Manso | La vita di Torquato Tasso | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Aristodemo with S. Walk out in the evening on the mole. Read the Adelphi of Terence' | Mary and Percy Shelley | Vincenzo Monti | Aristodemo | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Finish the Adelphi of Terence - read Aristodemo' | Mary Shelley | Vincenzo Monti | Aristodemo | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read 23 Canto of Ariosto & Gibbon - & the 3rd Ode of Horace - S. finishes the clouds - Reads Humes England aloud in t... | Percy Bysshe Shelley | David Hume | History of England from the Invasion of Julius Caesar to the Revolution in 1688 | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read 25 Canto of Ariosto - Gibbon & 6 & 7 odes of Horace - S. reads the Lysistratae of Aristophanes - finishes Gibbon... | Percy Bysshe Shelley | David Hume | History of England from the Invasion of Julius Caesar to the Revolution in 1688 | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'S. reads Aristophanes - & Anarcharsis [sic]' | Percy Bysshe Shelley | J-J Barthelemy | Voyage du jeune Anacharsis en Grece vers le milieu du quatrieme siecle avant l'ere vulgaire | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read 30th Canto of Ariosto - Livy - Horace - & Every Man in his humour. S. reads Aristophanes and Anacharsis' | Percy Bysshe Shelley | J-J Barthelemy | Voyage du jeune Anacharsis en Grece vers le milieu du quatrieme siecle avant l'ere vulgaire | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'Only, here I met with a fourth "Advice to the painter", upon the coming in of the Dutch to the River and end of the w... | Samuel Pepys | Andrew Marvell | Directions to a painter for describing our naval business ... by an unknown author | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'Thence homeward by coach, and stopped at Martins my bookseller, where I saw the French book which I did think to have... | Samuel Pepys | Michel Millot | L'escolle des filles, ou La philosophie des dames, divis?e en deux dialogues | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'Up, and at my chamber all the morning and the office, doing business and also reading a little of "L'escolle des Fill... | Samuel Pepys | Michel Millot | L'escolle des filles, ou La philosophie des dames, divis?e en deux dialogues | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'and then they parted and I to my chamber, where I did read through "L'escholle des Filles"; a lewd book, but what dot... | Samuel Pepys | Michel Millot | L'escolle des filles, ou La philosophie des dames, divis?e en deux dialogues | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'and then she to read a little book concerning Speech in general, a translation late out of French, a most excellent p... | Elizabeth Pepys | L.G. de Cordemoy | A philosophicall discourse concerning speech, conformable to the Cartesian principles ... Englished out of French | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'making the boy read to me the life of Julius Caesar and Des Cartes book of music - the latter of which I understand n... | | Clement Edmonds | 'Life' prefaced to 'The commentaries of C. Julius Caesar' | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'and after supper, and W. Battler gone, my wife begun another book I lately bought, a new book called "The State of En... | Elizabeth Pepys | Edward Chamberlayne | Angliae Notitia; or The present state of England: together with divers reflections upon the ancient state thereof | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'Up, and got my wife to read to me a copy of what the Surveyor offered to the Duke of York on Friday, he himself putti... | Elizabeth Pepys | Middleton | [Middleton's memorandum] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'I have already [read] The Song of Songs , and commented on it, a long time ago. As to the translation let me tell yo... | Arnold Bennett | Hermann Sudermann | The Song of Songs | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read 33rd Canto of Ariosto - Livy - Horace & The Magnetick lady - S reads Aristophanes & Anarcharsis - & Hume's Engla... | Percy Bysshe Shelley | David Hume | History of England from the Invasion of Julius Caesar to the Revolution in 1688 | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Anacharsis'. | Mary Shelley | J.-J. Barthelemy | Voyage du jeune Anacharsis en Grece vers le milieu quatrieme siecle avant le vulgaire | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'We read Anacharsis' | Mary and Percy Shelley | J.-J. Barthelemy | Voyage du jeune Anacharsis en Gr?ce vers le milieu du quatri?me si?cle avant l'?re vulgaire | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'S reads the Symposium and translates a part of it - he finishes Anacharsis & reads Hume's England aloud in the evening'. | Percy Bysshe Shelley | J.-J. Barthelemy | Voyage du jeune Anacharsis en Gr?ce vers le milieu du quatri?me si?cle avant l'?re vulgaire | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'S. translates the Symposium and reads the Maid's Tragedy of Beaumont' | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Francis Beaumont | The Maides Tragedy | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read 42nd Canto - Livy - Anacharsis. Horace - and Shakespears Coriolanus - S. translates the Symposium & reads Philas... | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Francis Beaumont | Philaster; or Love lyes a-bleeding | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'S. translates the Symposium - & reads a king and no king' | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Francis Beaumont | A King and No King | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'S. translates the Symposium - and reads a part of it to me - he reads the Laws of Candy' | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Francis Beaumont | Laws of Candy, The | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'S - translates the Symposium and Reads the wife for a Month - We ride out in the morning & after tea S. reads Hume's ... | Percy Bysshe Shelley | David Hume | History of England from the Invasion of Julius Caesar to the Revolution in 1688 | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read 2nd act of the Aminta - read Livy Finish Anacharsis - Transcribe the Symposium - S. reads Herodotus' | Mary Shelley | J.-J. Barthelemy | Voyage du jeune Anacharsis en Gr?ce vers le milieu du quatri?me si?cle avant l'?re vulgaire | Print: Book |
| 1450-1499
1500-1599 | 'Written by a scribe named Salthows between 1140 and 1450, probably in Norfolk, [British Library] MS Add. 61823 is con... | Carthusian monks of Mount Grace Priory | Margery Kempe | The Book of Margery Kempe | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1450-1499
1500-1599 | 'Written by a scribe named Salthows between 1140 and 1450, probably in Norfolk, [British Library] MS Add. 61823 is con... | | Margery Kempe | The Book of Margery Kempe | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'Saturday Sept. 24th. [...] Read Lewis Tales of Wonder and Delight. Shelley reads aloud
Thalaba in the Evening fini... | Claire Clairmont | William Smellie | The Philosophy of Natural History | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Sunday Sept. 25th. [...] Read Smellie Philosophy [o]f Natural History.'
| Claire Clairmont | William Smellie | The Philosophy of Natural History | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Monday Sept. 26th. Read the Empire of the Nairs & Smellie.'
| Claire Clairmont | William Smellie | The Philosophy of Natural History | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Tuesday Sept. 27th. Read Smellie. Pack up all morning. Remove about five o'clock to
Pancrass. Read Smellie i... | Claire Clairmont | William Smellie | The Philosophy of Natural History | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Tuesday Sept. 27th. Read Smellie. Pack up all morning. Remove about five o'clock to
Pancrass. Read Smellie i... | Claire Clairmont | William Smellie | The Philosophy of Natural History | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Wednesday Sept. 27th. Read Smellie.'
| Claire Clairmont | William Smellie | The Philosophy of Natural History | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Wednesday Sept. 29th. [...] Read Smellie.'
| Claire Clairmont | William Smellie | The Philosophy of Natural History | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Monday Oct. 24th. Rise at eight [...] M. reads aloud She stoops to [C]onquer -- She sets out to
see Shelley at ele... | Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin | Oliver Goldsmith | She Stoops to Conquer | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Friday Oct. 28th. [...] I walk out by myself about Kentish Town -- Read Comus.' | Claire Clairmont | John Milton | Comus | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Saturday -- 29th. [...] Read Comus. & Prince Alexy Haimatoff'. | Claire Clairmont | John Milton | Comus | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Sunday Oct 30th. [...] Dine at four. Read Comus. S[helley] & M[ary Wollstonecraft Godwin] go
away in a coach at 1... | Claire Clairmont | John Milton | Comus | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Thursday Jany. 23rd. Do an Italian exercise & read some of Moore's Anacreon [...] Read
Anarcharsis [...] Begin Gol... | Claire Clairmont | Thomas Moore | Odes of Anacreon, Translated into English Verse | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Thursday Jany. 23rd. Do an Italian exercise & read some of Moore's Anacreon [...] Read
Anarcharsis [...] Begin Gol... | Claire Clairmont | Oliver Goldsmith | The History of Greece, from the Earliest State, to the Death of Alexander the Great | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Thursday April 9th [...] Read [...] Le Tartuffe of Moliere'. | Claire Clairmont | Moliere | Le Tartuffe | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Friday April 10th. Read Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme, Le Mariage force, Le Festin de Pierre,
L'Amour Medecin, les Fourb... | Claire Clairmont | Moliere | Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Friday April 10th. Read Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme, Le Mariage force, Le Festin de Pierre,
L'Amour Medecin, les Fourb... | Claire Clairmont | Moliere | Le Mariage force | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Friday April 10th. Read Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme, Le Mariage force, Le Festin de Pierre,
L'Amour Medecin, les Fourb... | Claire Clairmont | Moliere | Le Festin de Pierre | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Friday April 10th. Read Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme, Le Mariage force, Le Festin de Pierre,
L'Amour Medecin, Les Fourb... | Claire Clairmont | Moliere | L'Amour Medecin | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Friday April 10th. Read Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme, Le Mariage force, Le Festin de Pierre,
L'Amour Medecin, Les Fourb... | Claire Clairmont | Moliere | Les Fourberies de Scapin | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Saturday April 11th. Read the Life of Tasso -- Read Le Malade Imaginaire, Le Medecin malgre
lui, La comtess D'Escar... | Claire Clairmont | Moliere | Le Malade imaginaire | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Saturday April 11th. Read the Life of Tasso -- Read Le Malade Imaginaire, Le Medecin malgre
lui, La comtess D'Escar... | Claire Clairmont | Moliere | Le Medecin malgre lui | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Saturday April 11th. Read the Life of Tasso -- Read Le Malade Imaginaire, Le Medecin malgre
lui, La comtess D'Escar... | Claire Clairmont | Moliere | La Comtesse D'Escarbagnas | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Monday April 13th. [...] Read L'Etourdi of Moliere.' | Claire Clairmont | Moliere | L'Etourdi | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Tuesday April 14th. Sit at home all day. Read the Life of Tasso and L'Etourdi of Moliere.' | Claire Clairmont | Moliere | L'Etourdi | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Wednesday April 15th. Read the Life of Tasso. Read Le Depit Amoureux of Moliere -- The plot
and intrigue of this ... | Claire Clairmont | Moliere | Le Depit Amoureux | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Thursday April 16. Finish the Depit Amoureux read Les precieuses ridicules. Also part of
Clarissa Harlowe.' | Claire Clairmont | Moliere | Le Depit Amoureux | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Friday April 17th. Read Clarissa Harlowe and Amphitryon of Moliere.' | Claire Clairmont | Moliere | Amphitryon | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Thursday March 11th [...] Read Vie de Mademoiselle de Montpensiers ecrite par elle meme.' | Claire Clairmont | Mademoiselle de Montpensier | Memoires de Mademoiselle de Montpensier, fille de M. Gaston d'Orleans, frere de Louis XIII | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Sunday May [...] 2nd Rainy -- Read Floris & Fleur Blanche [sic] -- Cleomades et Clarimonde et Pierre de Provence et ... | Claire Clairmont | Johann Joachim Winckelmann | Histoire de l'art chez les anciens | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Many thanks for your letter and the book. I read the book at once, d?un trait. This is praise, I think! It reminds... | Arnold Bennett | Eugene Fromentin | Dominique | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Saturday -- Jan. 8th. Read the Auto of La Vida es Sueno. Begin the Life of Romulus [...] Work in the Evening while S... | Percy Bysshe Shelley | St Matthew | Gospel | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Thursday March 16th. [...] Read the Life of Adam Smith [makes notes on this] [...] In Smith's
Treatise concerning t... | Claire Clairmont | Adam Smith | Treatise on the Imitative Arts | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Friday March 17th. [...] Read [...] the Play of Beggar's Bush.' | Claire Clairmont | Fletcher (?and Massinger) | The Beggar's Bush | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Saturday March 18th. [...] Read the Woman Hater of Beaumont & Fletcher. Excellent Spy
scene
which would apply to... | Claire Clairmont | Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher | The Woman Hater | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Wednesday April [...] 19 [...] Finish the fall of Sejanus by Ben Jonson begin the Woman's
prize or the Tamer tam'd... | Claire Clairmont | Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher | The Woman's Prize or The Tamer Tam'd | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Saturday April 22nd. Read Woman's Prize or Tamer tam'd Wit at several weapons also Wit
without money of Beaumont ... | Claire Clairmont | Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher | The Woman's Prize or The Tamer Tam'd | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Saturday April 22nd. Read Woman's Prize or Tamer tam'd Wit at several weapons also Wit
without money of Beaumont ... | Claire Clairmont | Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher | Wit at Several Weapons | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Saturday April 22nd. Read Woman's Prize or Tamer tam'd Wit at several weapons also Wit
without money of Beaumont ... | Claire Clairmont | Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher | Wit Without Money | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Thursday April 27th. [...] Read Noble Gentleman of Beaumont & Fletcher.'
| Claire Clairmont | Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher | The Noble Gentleman | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Sunday April 30th. [...] Read Elder Brother [quotes two lines from Act II scene 1]'.
... | Claire Clairmont | John Fletcher and Philip Massinger | The Elder Brother | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Wednesday May 10th. [...] Read Women Pleased [sic] and tragedy of Thierry & Theodoret of
Beaumont & Fletcher.' | Claire Clairmont | John Beaumont | Woman Pleased | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Thursday June 15th. [...] Go in a Calesse to Casa Ricci at Livorno. Read Vicar of Wakefield'.
... | Claire Clairmont | Oliver Goldsmith | The Vicar of Wakefield | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Sunday July 16th. [...] Read Barber of Seville & Jerome Pointu.'
... | Claire Clairmont | (probably) Beaumarchais | (probably) Le Barbier de Seville | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Tuesday July 18th. [...] Read Continuation of the Stories of Old Daniel.'
... | Claire Clairmont | Lady Mount Cashell | Continuation of the Stories of Old Daniel: Or Tales of Wonder and Delight. Containing Narratives of Foreign Countries and Manners, and Designed as an Introduction to the Study of Voyages, Travels, and History in General | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Friday July 21st. Finish Essay on Irish Bulls -- Begin Edward by Dr Moore.
[...]
'Saturday July 22nd. Finish... | Claire Clairmont | John Moore | Edward: Various Views of Human Nature, Taken from Life and Manners, Chiefly in England | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Sunday July 23rd. Read Florence Macarthy all day by Lady Morgan which I finish.'
... | Claire Clairmont | Sydney Owenson, Lady Morgan | Florence Macarthy: An Irish Tale | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Livy - and the Tale of the Tub of B. Jon[s]on - Transcribe the Symposium - S. reads Herodotus - and Hume in the ... | Percy Bysshe Shelley | David Hume | Histoiry of England from the Invasion of Julius Caesar to the Revolution in 1688 | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read a part of the 7 canto of Tasso - Livy - Montaigne and Eustace -S. reads Theocritus and Richard III aloud in the... | Mary Shelley | Michel de Montaigne | Essais | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read 7 Canto's of Dante - Begin to translate A.[lfieri] - Read Cajo Graccho of Monti & Measure for Measure' | Mary Shelley | Vincenzo Monti | Cajo Graccho | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Sunday August 13th. Read the Life of Castruccio by Nicalao Tegrimi [sic].'
| Claire Clairmont | Niccolo Tegrimi | Vita di Castruccio Castracani de gl'Antelmi nelli principe di Lucca | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Saturday Sept. 9th. Read Philosophical Survey of the South of Ireland written as it is said by
one Campbell.
'S... | Claire Clairmont | Thomas Campbell | A Philosophical Survey of the South of Ireland, in a Series of Letters to John Watkinson, M.D. | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Friday October 13 [...] Read Memoirs of O'Connor'.
| Claire Clairmont | Arthur O'Connor, T. A. Emmett, and W. J. McNevin | Memoir on the Objects of the Societies of United Irishmen | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Thursday Nov. 30th. [...] Read the [...] Novella of Belfegor da Macchivelli.' | Claire Clairmont | Belfegor da Machiavelli | Novella piacevolissima | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Monday Dec. 11th. Begin the Observations of Macchiavelli upon the Decades of Livy.' | Claire Clairmont | Niccolo Macchiavelli | Discorsi ... sopra la prima deca di Tito Livio | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Wednesday Jany 10th. [...] Read Sintram by Baron de la Motte Fouque.' | Claire Clairmont | Friedrich Heinrich Karl Baron de la Motte-Fouque | Sintram and his Companions: A Romance | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Monday Feb. 26th. [...] Read Prose Campestri da Pindemonte.'
[reading from this text also recorded in journal entr... | Claire Clairmont | Ippolito Pindemonte | Le Prose e poesie campaestri d'Ippolito Pindemonte | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | '[Tuesday] March 13th. [...] In the Evening read Das Lied von der Glocke [Schiller] and begin the
History of the Cru... | Claire Clairmont | Joseph Francois Michaud | Histoire des croisades | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Livy - Manfredi of Monti - Shelley writes - Read 8 Canto of Dante' | Mary Shelley | Vincenzo Monti | Galeotto Manfredi, principe di Faenza | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Livy - & the Virginia of Alfieri - walk out in the evening - after tea S. reads L'Allegro and il penseroso to me' | Percy Bysshe Shelley | John Milton | 'L'Allegro' | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Livy - & the Virginia of Alfieri - walk out in the evening - after tea S. reads L'Allegro and il penseroso to me' | Percy Bysshe Shelley | John Milton | 'Il Penseroso' | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'read Saul - S. reads Malthus.' | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Thomas Malthus | Essay on the Principle of Population | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Livy - Alfieri's Agide - S. reads Malthus' | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Thomas Malthus | Essay on the Principle of Population | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Spent a good deal of to day in reading "The Heir at Law" a Comedy proposed to be played by the Garrick Club. I have e... | John Buckley Castieau | George Coleman | The Heir at Law | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Went home with Messrs Reed & then got back to my quarters. Studied a little of my part in the Heir at Law, saw all wa... | John Buckley Castieau | George Coleman | Heir at Law | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Called upon Nield in the evening and after a walk we came to my quarters and read the Parts we have in The Heir at Law.' | John Buckley Castieau | George Coleman | The Heir at Law | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Called upon Nield in the evening and after a walk we came to my quarters and read the Parts we have in The Heir at Law.' | Mr Neild | George Coleman | The Heir at Law | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read a chapter or two of Zimmermann on Solitude, and with that & ordinary business employed myself till four o clock.' | John Buckley Castieau | Johann Georg Zimmermann | Solitude | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Livy - The Tempest & two gentlemen of Verona - S finishes Ma[l]thus - & reads Cymbeline aloud' | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Thomas Malthus | Essay on the Principle of Population, An | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Finish Vita di Tasso - Read Timon of Athens - work - S finishes the Winter's Tale' | Mary Shelley | Giovanni Battista Manso | La vita di Torquato Tasso | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read "Women" of Mathuerin [for Maturin] - the Fudge Family - Beppo &c. S. begins the Republic of Plato' | Mary Shelley | Charles Maturin | Women, ou Pour et Contre | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read "Women" of Mathuerin [for Maturin] - the Fudge Family - Beppo &c. S. begins the Republic of Plato' | Mary Shelley | Thomas Moore | Fudge Family in Paris, The. Edited by Thomas Brown the Younger | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Return to Este. read Mrs C. Smiths novel of Emmeline' | Mary Shelley | Charlotte Smith | Emmeline, or the Orphan of the Castle | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Finish Emmeline - S. reads Joseph Andrews' | Mary Shelley | Charlotte Smith | Emmeline, or the Orphan of the Castle | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Montaigne - S. reads Plato's republic' | Mary Shelley | Michel de Montaigne | Essais | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Finish 1st Book of the Georgics - S. begins reading Winkhelmann's Histoire de l'art to me in the evening' | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Johann Joachim Winckelmann | Geschichte der Kunst des Alterhums | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Dante - S. reads Winkhelmann aloud' | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Johann Joachim Winckelmann | Geschichte der Kunst des Alterthums | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'S reads Livy & Winkhelmann aloud - read Dante - And Sismondi' | Mary Shelley | Jean Charles Leonarde Simonde de Sismondi | Histoire des republiques italiennes du moyen age | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Finish the Inferno of Dante & the 9th book of Livy - S & I read Sismondi' | Mary and Percy Shelley | Jean Charles Leonard Simonde de Sismondi | Histoire des republiques italiennes du moyen age | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'finish Sismondi' | Mary Shelley | Jean Charles Leonard Simonde de Sismondi | Histoire des republiques italiennes du moyen age | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Montaigne - the Bible & Livy - Walk to the Coliseum - S. reads Winkhelmann' | Mary Shelley | Michel de Montaigne | Essais | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Montaigne - the Bible & Livy - Walk to the Coliseum - S. reads Winkhelmann' | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Johann Joachim Winckelmann | Geschichte der Kunst des Alterthums | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Sunday July 29th. [...] Read Tom Crib's Memorial to Congress.' | Claire Clairmont | Thomas Moore | Tom Crib's Memorial to Congress | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'After dinner S. reads the first Book of Paradise Lost to me' | Percy Bysshe Shelley | John Milton | Paradise Lost | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Metastasio - S. reads Paradise Lost aloud' | Percy Bysshe Shelley | John Milton | Paradise Lost | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Metastasio - S. reads Paradise Lost aloud' | Mary Shelley | Pietro Metastasio | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Metastasio - S. reads the Hist. P.[lay]s of Shakespeare' | Mary Shelley | Pietro Metastasio | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Livy - & Chrysostome' | Mary Shelley | Chrysostomus | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Saturday September 1st. [...] Finish Anastasius and begin Lady Morgan's Italy.
[...]
'Sunday Sept -- 2nd. [...]... | Claire Clairmont | Sydney Owenson, Lady Morgan | Italy (Volume I) | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Mary's reading list for Percy Shelley for 1818. Most volumes mentioned here are also mentioned in the journal so data... | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Malthus | Essay on Population | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Monday Dec. 10th. [...] Read Lady Morgan's Italy'.
[further readings in this text recorded in journal entries for ... | Claire Clairmont | Sydney Owenson, Lady Morgan | Italy | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Saturday Dec. 29th. [...] read Hypermnestre a tragedy by M. le Mierre and Rhadamiste et
Zenobie by I. Crebillon.' | Claire Clairmont | Antoine Marin Lemierre | Hypermnestre | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Friday May [...] 27th. [...] After dinner read Die Cypressenkranze de la Baronne la Motte
Fouque.' | Claire Clairmont | Friedrich Heinrich Karl Baron de la Motte Fouque | Die Cypressenkranze | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Monday May [...] 30th. [...] After dinner Mr. Gambs reads aloud his tale of Skold. It pleases me
very much -- Its ... | Claire Clairmont | Chretien-Hermann Gambs | Skold | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'Wednesday [...] June 1st. [...] After dinner M. Gambs reads aloud the 3, 4, 5, and 6th. Canto of
Moses [goes on to ... | Claire Clairmont | Chretien-Hermann Gambs | Moses (Cantos 3, 4, 5, 6) | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'Wednesday June [...] 29th. [...] Begin Mendelsohn's [sic] translation of Plato's Phaedon. and
Memoirs of Marmontel.... | Claire Clairmont | Marmontel | Memoirs | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Friday [...] August 4th. [...] Read Life of Gothe [sic], Lecture on Modern History by M. Gambs.' | Claire Clairmont | Chretien-Hermann Gambs | Lecture on Modern History | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'Sunday [...] Oct. 9th. [...] I pack up [for family's departure from holiday home, following death
of a child] & rea... | Claire Clairmont | Jeanne Louise Henriette Campan | Memoires sur la vie privee de Marie Antoinette, reine de France ... suivis de souvenirs et anecdotes historiques sur les regnes de Louis XIV, de Louis XV et de Louis XVI | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | '[Tuesday] Nov. [...] 22nd. [...] After dinner read with [...] Midge [i.e. Chretien-Hermann
Gambs] a little of 1st C... | Claire Clairmont | John Milton | Paradise Lost (Book I) | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Wednesday Nov. [...] 30th. [...] After tea [...] begin Mullner's Schuld with M. G[ambs]. We
are interrupted by M. ... | Claire Clairmont | Amand Gottfried Adolph Mullner | Die Schuld: Trauerspiel in vier Acten | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Wednesday Dec. [...] 14th. [...] Read [...] Milton's Paradise Lost.' | Claire Clairmont | John Milton | Paradise Lost | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Wednesday [...] January 11th. ...] read Ritter Gluck by Hoffman with Mr. Gambs.' | Claire Clairmont | E. T. W. Hoffmann | 'Ritter Gluck: Eine Erinnerung aus dem Jahre 1809' | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Thursday [...] January 12th. [...] read Hoffman (Kreussleriana [sic]) untill bed-time.' | Claire Clairmont | E. T. W. Hoffmann | 'Kreisleriana' | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Friday, January 28th [...] I read Medwin's book upon Lord Byron. -- My God, what lies that book
contained! Poor She... | Claire Clairmont | Thomas Medwin | Journal of the Conversations of Lord Byron: Noted during a Residence with His Lordship at Pisa, in the Years 1821 and 1822 | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to her uncle, Samuel Moulton-Barrett, c. December 1816:
'I have finished "Telemaque," and have re... | Elizabeth Barrett | Francois de Salignac de la Mothe-Fenelon | Les Aventures de Telemaque | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Uvedale Price, 30 December 1826, in response to his remarks on the description of a storm in Geor... | Elizabeth Barrett | William Chamberlayne | Pharonnida, an Heroic Poem | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Write - read Lucan & the Bible S. writes the Cenci & reads Plutarch's lives - the Gisbornes call in the evening - S.... | Percy Bysshe Shelley | John Milton | Paradise Lost | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Write. Read Lucan & the wife for a Month - & 2 Cantos of Purgatorio with S. - he reads Philaster - & copies his tragedy' | Mary Shelley | Francis Beaumont | Wife for a Month, The | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Write. Read Lucan & the wife for a Month - & 2 Cantos of Purgatorio with S. - he reads Philaster - & copies his tragedy' | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Francis Beaumont | Philaster, or Love Lies Bleeding | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'S. reads Beaumonts & Fletchers plays - and the Revolt of Islam aloud in the evening' | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Francis Beaumont | [Plays] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Beaumont & Fletcher - Dante and Lucan - S. reads the Greek tragedians and Boccacio [sic] [...] He reads Paradise... | Mary Shelley | Francis Beaumont | [Plays] | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Beaumont & Fletcher - Dante and Lucan - S. reads the Greek tragedians and Boccacio [sic] [...] He reads Paradise... | Percy Bysshe Shelley | John Milton | Paradise Lost | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Copy Shelleys Prometheus - work - read Beaumont & Fletcher's plays' | Mary Shelley | Francis Beaumont | [Plays] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'read Massinger' | Mary Shelley | Philip Massinger | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Arrive at Florence - Read Massinger - S. begins Clarendon - reads Massinger - & Plato's Republic' | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Philip Massinger | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Horace - work - S. reads B[eaumont] & F.[letcher] & Plato' | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Francis Beaumont | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Horace & the life of Gusman d'Alfarache - S reads Clarendon aloud' | Mary Shelley | Mateo Aleman | Guzman de Alfarache | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Finish Gusman d'A. - read Horace' | Mary Shelley | Mateo Aleman | Guzman de Alfarache | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read 2 book of Horace - Read Undine & c - S. finishes the 3 vol of Carendon aloud & reads Peter Bell - he reads Plato... | Mary Shelley | Friedich Heinrich Karl, Baron de la Motte Fouque | Undine, eine Erzahlung | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'At 7 [...] I read the History of England and Rome -- at 8 I perused the History of Greece and
it was at this age th... | Elizabeth Barrett | John Milton | Paradise Lost (extracts) | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Horace - Memoires du Comte Grammont - S. writes his letter concerning Carlile - & reads Mme de Staels account of... | Mary Shelley | Antoine Hamilton | M?moirs de la vie du comte de Grammont contenant particulierement histoire amoureuse de la cour d'Angleterre sous la r?gne de Charles II | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Mary Shelley's Reading List of texts read by both herself and Shelley in 1819. All texts are mentioned in journal ent... | Mary and Percy Shelley | John Milton | Paradise Lost | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'This year [when aged twelve] I read Milton for the first time [italics]thro[end italics] together
with Shakespeare ... | Elizabeth Barrett | John Milton | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Uvedale Price, c.15 April 1827:
'I have done reading your correspondence with Mr Commeline [..... | Elizabeth Barrett | Uvedale Price and James Commeline | correspondence on pronunciation of classical languages | Manuscript: Letter |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, 20-21 April 1828:
'I have been reading St Chrysostom in Greek & in your Engl... | Elizabeth Barrett | St Chrysostom | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, 20-21 April 1828:
'I have been reading St Chrysostom in Greek & in your Engl... | Elizabeth Barrett | St Chrysostom | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'S. reads the bible - and Muller's universal History' | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Johannes von Muller | Allgemeine Geschichte | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Finish Julie. Read the Fable of the Bees.' | Mary Shelley | Bernard Mandeville | Fable of the Bees: or, Private Vices Publick Benefits | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'S reads Las Casas & Jeremiah aloud. read the F. of the bees' | Mary Shelley | Bernard Mandeville | Fable of the Bees: or, Private Vices Publick Benefits | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Finish Fable of the Bees - Read Catiline's Conspiracy' | Mary Shelley | Bernard Mandeville | Fable of the Bees: or, Private Vices Publick Benefits | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read the Utopia - Write - S reads Henry VI aloud' | Mary Shelley | Thomas More | Libellus vere aureus de optimo reipublicae statu, deque nova insula Utopia | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Finish the Utopia' | Mary Shelley | Thomas More | Libellus vere aureus de optimo reipublicae statu, deque nova insula Utopia | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, 11 July 1828:
'I will [italics]not[end italics] keep Miss Muschett's poem, -... | Elizabeth Barrett | Henrietta Muschett | poem | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, 1829:
'I meant to have taken with me today the following extract from the le... | Elizabeth Barrett | Jean Jacques Barthelemy | Voyage du jeune Anarcharsis en Grece (introduction) | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, 'Thursday Morng.', October 1829:
'You will think me very idle when I tell yo... | Elizabeth Barrett | St Chrysostom | 'In Eutropium Eunuchum, Patrium et Consulem' | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, 'Friday Night,' December 1829:
'I have read the seven orations on Paul, & th... | Elizabeth Barrett | St Chrysostom | orations including (probably) Homily on 1 Corinthians | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799
1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, 16 January 1830:
'Chrysostom has been staggering me lately by his commentary... | Hugh Stuart Boyd | St Chrysostom | 'In Epistolarum primam ad Corinthos' | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799
1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, 16 January 1830:
'Chrysostom has been staggering me lately by his commentary... | Elizabeth Barrett | St Chrysostom | 'In Epistolarum primam ad Corinthos' | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Macchiavelli Hist. of Castruccio Castracani - Translate Sxxxxxa [Spinoza]. S. reads a part of 4th B. of the Aeni... | Mary Shelley | Niccolo Machiavelli | La vita di Castruccio Castracani da Lucca | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Translate Sxxxxxa - Read life of Voltaire. finish life of Castruccio. - S. reads Political Justice - finishes the 4th... | Mary Shelley | Niccolo Macchiavelli | La vita di Castruccio Castracani da Lucca | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'S reads Fletcher's Tragedy of Bonduca aloud to me in the evening' | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Francis Beaumont | Tragedy of Bonduca | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Robinson Crusoe. S. finishes the tragedy of Bonduca to me' | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Francis Beaumont | Tragedy of Bonduca | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Livy and R Crusoe - S. reads Phaedon having read Phaedrus - reads the tragedy of Thierry and Theodoret to me' | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Francis Beaumont | Tragedy of Thierry King of France and his Brother Theodoret | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'S finishes the Trajedy to me' | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Francis Beaumont | Tragedy of Thierry King of France and his Brother Theodoret | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'S. reads Paradise Regain[e]d aloud' | Percy Bysshe Shelley | John Milton | Paradise Regained | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'S. reads Paradise regained aloud.' | Percy Bysshe Shelley | John Milton | Paradise Regained | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Vicar of Wakefield' | Mary Shelley | Oliver Goldsmith | Vicar of Wakefield, The | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Livy - Mrs Macauly's hist. of England - Lucretius with S. - he reads Greek Romances & Ricciardetto aloud in the ... | Mary Shelley | Catherine Macaulay | History of England from the accession of James I to that of the Brunswick Line | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Middletons Cicero' | Mary Shelley | Conyers Middleton | History of the Life of marcus Tullius Cicero | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'S. finishes his translation of Homer's hymn to Mercury' | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Homer | 'Hymn to Mercury' | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Ciceros 2nd oration - Hist. of Engd' | Mary Shelley | Catherine Macaulay | History of England from the accession of James I to that of the Brunswick line | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'S. begins Hist of Engd' | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Catherine Macaulay | History of England from the accession of James I to that of the Brunswick line | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Ann Lowry Boyd, c. April 1831:
'For the last week I have not been at all well, & indeed was ob... | Elizabeth Barrett | Thomas Moore | Letters and Journals of Lord Byron: with Notices of His Life | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, July 1832:
'I have read Hebrew regularly every day since I told you of my be... | Elizabeth Barrett | Alessandro Manzoni | I Promessi Sposi | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, 10 July 1832:
'I have read Miss Fanny Kemble's tragedy [...] It seems to me ... | Elizabeth Barrett | Frances Anne Kemble | Francis the First, an Historical Drama | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, 16 April 1832:
'I believe I ought to have written to you before to thank you... | Elizabeth Barrett | Synesius Bishop of Ptolemais | Hymns | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, 28 July 1835:
'I have been reading [...] Lord Brougham's Natural Theology, -... | Elizabeth Barrett | Henry Peter Brougham, Lord Brougham | A Discourse upon Natural Theology | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, c.September 1835:
'I have been reading the Bridgewater treatises, -- and am ... | Elizabeth Barrett | Thomas Chalmers | On the Power, Wisdom and Goodness of God as Manifested in the Adaptation of External Nature to the Moral and Intellectual Constitution of Man | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 9 July 1836:
'You have not my dear kind friend thought me unkind and tha... | Elizabeth Barrett | Mary Russell Mitford | Dramatic Scenes, Sonnets and Other Poems | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 10 August 1836:
'Jesse Cliffe -- I have read it! [italics]Thank you for ... | Elizabeth Barrett | Mary Russell Mitford | 'Jesse Cliffe' | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 14 December 1836:
'How much ignorance I have to confess in sackcloth, wi... | Elizabeth Barrett | Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher | plays (extracts) | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, 1837:
'I will write out two passages from Justin Martyr, the only ones which... | Elizabeth Barrett | Justin Martyr | Apologia Prima Pro Christianis (LVXI,2) | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, 1837:
'I will write out two passages from Justin Martyr, the only ones which... | Elizabeth Barrett | Justin Martyr | Dialogus cum Tryphone Judaeo, 70 | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Robert Browning to William Charles Macready, January 1837:
'I have taken a cursory look at your [italics]addissions... | Robert Browning | William Charles Macready | annotations to Robert Browning, Strafford | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Julia Martin, 23 January 1837:
'I have read Coombs [sic] Phrenology [...] [It] is very clever,... | Elizabeth Barrett | George Combe | Elements of Phrenology | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, ?17 March 1837:
'I have read your play [Otto of Wittelsbach] my dearest ... | Elizabeth Barrett | Mary Russell Mitford | Otto of Wittelsbach | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Mary Hunter (aged 10) to Elizabeth Barrett, quoted in letter of Elizabeth Barrett to Mary
Russell Mitford, 2 May 183... | Mary Hunter | Mary Russell Mitford | "The Widow's Dog" | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'The Oration for Roscius the Comedian - Hist of Engd' | Mary Shelley | Catherine Macaulay | History of England from the Accession of James I to that of the Brunswick Line | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Muratori. Antichita d'Italia' | Mary Shelley | Lodovico Antonio Muratori | Dissertazioni sopra le Antichita Italiane, gia composte e publicato in Latino dal Proposto Lodovico Antonio Muratori e da esso poscia compendiate e transportate nell'Italiana favella | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Shelley writes an ode to Naples - Reads Mrs Macauly [sic]. finishes Appolonius [sic] Rhodius - Begins Swellfoot the T... | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Catherine Macaulay | History of England from the Accession of James I to that of the Brunswick Line | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 17 July 1837:
'Why should we [']'mere balladmongers" have so much to sa... | Elizabeth Barrett | Mary Russell Mitford | Country Stories | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'S. finishes Mrs Macauly [sic] - Reads the Republic of Plato' | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Catherine Macaulay | History of England from the Accession of James I to that of the Brunswick line | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrrett to Lady Margaret Cocks, 19 August 1837:
'Has your Ladyship seen Lamb's letters, in Mr Talfourd's... | Elizabeth Barrett | Charles Lamb | Letters of Charles Lamb, With a Sketch of His Life | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrrett to Lady Margaret Cocks, 29 September 1837:
'I confess to you that I utterly dislike Lady Mary! [... | Elizabeth Barrett | Lady Mary Wortley Montague | Letters | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 29 September 1837:
'You certainly shd write Dash [Mitford's dog]'s memo... | Elizabeth Barrett | Mary Russell Mitford | Letter to Elizabeth Barrett | Manuscript: Letter |
| 1800-1849 | 'Walk up the Mountain with S. - he reads aloud Lovers Progress' | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Philip Massinger | Lovers' Progress, The | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Finish Muratori - Greek - Travels of Rolando - S. reads Robertson's America - begins Bocaccio [sic] aloud' | Mary Shelley | Lodovico Antonio Muratori | Dissertazioni sopra le Antichit? italiane gia composte e publicato in Latino dal Proposto Lodovico Antonio Muratori e da esso poscia compendiate e transportate nell' Italiana favella | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'S. reads Antient Metaphysics' | Percy Bysshe Shelley | James Burnett, Lord Monboddo | Antient Metaphysics; or, the Science of Universals | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Sismondi - B.[occaccio] - S. reads A.[ntient] M.[etaphysics]' | Mary Shelley | Jean-Charles-L?onard Simonde de Sismondi | Histoire des r?publiques italiennes du moyen ?ge | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Sismondi - Ride to Pisa - Georgics - B.[occaccio]' | Mary Shelley | Jean Charles Leonard Simonde de Sismondi | Histoire des Republiques Italiennes du moyen age | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Lambs Specimens' | Mary Shelley | Charles Lamb | Specimens of English Dramatic Poets | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Medwin reads Dramatic scenes to us & a part of his journal in India'' | Thomas Medwin | Thomas Medwin | [journal of time in India] | Manuscript: diary |
| 1800-1849 | 'read Armata - read Homer' | Mary Shelley | Homer | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Mary Shelley's reading list for 1820, with texts also read by Percy Shelley marked with an x. Only texts not mentione... | Mary Shelley | Mandeville | Fable of the Bees | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Mary Shelley's reading list for 1820, with texts also read by Percy Shelley marked with an x. Only texts not mentione... | Mary Shelley | Niccolo Tegrimi | Vita Castruccio Castracani | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'All the while I am writing now my head is running about the Tropics: in the morning I go and gaze at Palm trees in th... | Charles Darwin | Humboldt | unknown | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'I hope you continue to fan your Canary ardor: I read & reread Humboldt, do you do the same, & I am sure nothing will ... | Charles Darwin | Humboldt | unknown | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, March 1838:
'I have been reading the "Exile," from Marion Campbell, with... | Elizabeth Barrett | Mary Russell Mitford | "The Exile" | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 16 April 1838:
'I had to thank [John Kenyon] for [...] lending me Mr Mil... | Elizabeth Barrett | Richard Monckton Milnes | Memorials of a Residence on the Continent, and Historical Poems | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I now first felt even moderately well, & I was picturing to myself all the delights of fresh fruit growing in beautif... | Charles Darwin | Humboldt | unknown | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'If you really want to have a [notion] of tropical countries, study Humboldt.? Skip th[e] scientific parts & commence ... | Charles Darwin | Alexander von Humboldt | unknown | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Arabella Moulton-Barrett, 4 June 1839:
''[Dr Barry] has been lending me his friend & patient D... | Elizabeth Barrett | William Fullerton Cumming, M.D. | Notes of a Wanderer in Search of Health, Through Italy, Egypt, Greece, Turkey; Up the Danube and Down the Rhine | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'This unfortunate O'Meara, It was the merest chance he was not sent to extend his localities in the Highlands. I woul... | Jane Baillie Welsh | Barry Edward O'Meara | Napoleon in Exile; or, A Voice from St Helena | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I liked Milman's books better than your scanty recommendation led me to expect- The gentleman is certainly a poet - h... | Jane Baillie Welsh | Henry Hart Milman | Samor, the Lord of the Bright City | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have read the 'bright city' and rejoiced to find your criticism of it so agreeable to my own. Milman is certainly ... | Thomas Carlyle | Henry Hart Milman | Samor, the Lord of the Bright City | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I remember that I had to learn, with another schoolfellow (Nesbet), an act from Home's tragedy of Douglas, and a long... | Samuel Smiles | John Home | Douglas | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I remember that I had to learn, with another schoolfellow (Nesbet), an act from Home's tragedy of Douglas, and a long... | Samuel Smiles | Campbell | The Wizard's Warning | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, late January 1840:
'Did you ever meet with an account partly translated ... | Elizabeth Barrett | Mary Ann Schimmelpenninck | Select Memoirs of Port Royal | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 20 February 1840:
'I never received Mr Merry's book until a very few day... | Elizabeth Barrett | William Merry | The Philosophy of a Happy Futurity est. on the Sure Evidence of the Bible | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Mary Russell Mitford to Elizabeth Barrett, 3 March 1840:
'I had a kind message from Captain Marryat once [...] but ... | Mary Russell Mitford | Captain Frederick Marryat, R.N. | novels | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have just this instant finished the O'Meara - and have no time to write. You quite distress me by sending me so ma... | Jane Baillie Welsh | Barry Edward O'Meara | Napoleon in Exile; or, A Voice from Saint-Helena | Print: Book, Volume 2 of 2Manuscript: Letter |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett, invalid, to Mary Russell Mitford, 10 December 1840:
'You cant guess what my business has been la... | Elizabeth Barrett | Mary Russell Mitford | Our Village | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'My dear Miss Mitford, Your good and kind father has just given Nancy a copy of a little volume of poems, in which I f... | William Cobbett | Mary Russell Mitford | Miscellaneous Poems | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'My dear sir [...] Your daughter's very amiable and interesting book is quite a refreshment to my spirit, wearied on t... | S.J. Pratt | Mary Russell Mitford | Miscellaneous Poems | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Sir, I beg leave to acknowledge the receipt of a volume of poems which Messrs. Longman transmitted to me a few days s... | J. Mitford | Mary Russell Mitford | Miscellaneous Poems | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'The story of "Blanch", when the poem becomes fashionable, will be dramatized... I cannot help thinking it would make ... | J.P. Smith | Mary Russell Mitford | Blanch of Castile and other poems | Manuscript: Sheet |
| 1800-1849 | 'Madam, I am really ashamed of not having answered your very obliging and interesting letter, and not hving acknowledg... | Lord Holland | Mary Russell Mitford | Poems on the Female Character | Manuscript: Sheet |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have just finished your poem of "The Sisters", and tell you truly and fairly that I read it with an interest and de... | Sir William Elford | Mary Russell Mitford | The Sisters | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [He wishes to express] 'the high gratification I have received from the perusal of "Foscari". I must frankly tell you ... | P. Bayley | Mary Russell Mitford | Foscari | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'I was much better pleased with it ["Foscari"] than I expected, though I can truly add that my expectations were somew... | Eleanor Anne Porden | Mary Russell Mitford | Foscari | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'I should think the first volume of his [Sismondi's] "Literature du Midi de l'Europe" would be of some use in collater... | Eleanor Anne Porden | Sismondi | Literature du Midi de l'Europe | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I think it ["Rienzi"] extremely clever; some scenes are very powerful, and capable of being wrought into a most effec... | W.C. Macready | Mary Russell Mitford | Rienzi | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'W. dines with us - walk with him - his play - S finishes Every Man in his Humour' | Mary Shelley | Edward Williams | Promise, The; or, a Year, a Month, and a Day | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'read Malthus' | Mary Shelley | Thomas Malthus | Essay on the Principle of Population, An | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'read & finish Malthus - Begin the Answer' | Mary Shelley | Thomas Malthus | Essay on the Principle of Population, An | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'read greek - read Mackenzies works' | Mary Shelley | Henry Mackenzie | [Works] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Homer - Old plays' | Mary Shelley | Homer | Odyssey | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Homer - Diary of an Invalid' | Mary Shelley | Henry Matthews | Diary of an Invalid; being the Journal of a Tour... in Portugal, Italy and France in the Years 1817-19 | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'finish the First book of the Odessey [sic] - read old plays' | Mary Shelley | Homer | Odyssey | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'The first thing which struck me in your essays was the exact accordance between your printed and epistolary style. A... | Eleanor Anne Franklin | Mary Russell Mitford | Our Village: Sketches of Rural Character and Scenery | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Thank you for it ["Cromwell"]. It is a strange, clever, absurd, lively, queer, farcical, indescribable production. It... | Dr Milman | Mary Russell Mitford | Cromwell | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'Madam, I can hardly feel that I am addressing an entire stranger in the author of "Our Village", and yet I know it is... | Felicia Hemans | Mary Russell Mitford | Our Village: Sketches of Rural Character and Scenery | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'We have not got a circulating library. It was too near Glasgow to thrive, and I am no ways acquainted in Glasgow. I a... | | Mary Russell Mitford | Fanny's Fairings | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | 'Dear Madam, Accept my best thanks for the copy of "Rienzi", and allow me to assure you that it has not been thrown aw... | Alexander Dyce | Mary Russell Mitford | Rienzi | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Let me tell you that I never see a paper professing to give literary news from England without anxiously looking for ... | Frances Trollope | Mary Russell Mitford | Our Village: Sketches of Rural Character and Scenery | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | 'Madam, Having understood from a friend that you wished to obtain the words of "The Bann of the Church of the German E... | G.E. Lynch Cotton | Mary Russell Mitford | Tragedies | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'In your delightful sketch of Grace Nugent I was much amused by the donkey messengers. Such mercuries are common in S... | Susanna Strickland | Mary Russell Mitford | Our Village: Sketches of Rural Character and Scenery | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'My dear Miss Mitford, I cannot employ the formal address of a stranger towards one who has inspired the vivid feeling... | Catharine M. Sedgwick | Mary Russell Mitford | Our Village: Sketches of Rural Character and Scenery | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'My dear Miss Mitford,I cannot miss the opportunity my aunt allows me of writing to the author of "Our Village," to ex... | Kate Sedgwick | Mary Russell Mitford | Our Village: Sketches of Rural Character and Scenery | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'She speaks of "Inez" as about to be produced. I have been long expecting to hear that it was out. Do you remember rea... | Fanny Trollope | Mary Russell Mitford | Inez | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'My dear Miss Mitford, May I be permitted to address thus familiarly a lady with whom, though not personally acquainte... | Emma Roberts | Mary Russell Mitford | works | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'It has made me extravagant, for I have ordered the four other volumes. the work is perfectly unique. I know nothing ... | Fanny Trollope | Mary Russell Mitford | Our Village: Sketches of Rural Character and Scenery | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I was reading your inimitable description of Dora Creswell the other day to a friend of mine who was confined to his ... | Catharine M. Sedgwick | Mary Russell Mitford | Our Village: Sketches of Rural Character and Scenery | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Dear Miss Mitford, I rejoice in finding an occasion to address you, that I may express the very great pleasure both m... | Mary Howitt | Mary Russell Mitford | Our Village: Sketches of Rural Character and Scenery | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Shall I confess to you that I have some dread of this wonderful lady [Harriet Martineau]...I agree with a good, simpl... | Catharine Sedgwick | Harriet Martineau | works on political economy | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'The most truly English sketches in the language are your country volumes. Well, through these volumes we have been we... | Mary and William Howitt | Mary Russell Mitford | Our Village: Sketches of Rural Character and Scenery | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have just finished Fanny Kemble's books, and when I say that I read them the next after your most charming volumes,... | Barbara Hofland | Mary Russell Mitford | Belford Regis, or, Sketches of a Country Town | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have just finished Fanny Kemble's books, and when I say that I read them the next after your most charming volumes,... | Barbara Hofland | Fanny Kemble | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Our little community have been delighting themselves with your "Belford Regis"; accept their untied thanks for it [..... | Catharine Sedgwick | Mary Russell Mitford | Belford Regis, or, Sketches of a Country Town | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Your last book still rolls on, gathering golden opinions, and I for one thank you, for I have been passing the last f... | N.P. Willis | Mary Russell Mitford | Belford Regis, or, Sketches of a Country Town | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'This new edition of "Our Village" I have been coveting ever since I saw the advertisement of it, and I will tell you ... | Alfred Howitt | Mary Russell Mitford | Our Village: Sketches of Rural Character and Scenery | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'This new edition of "Our Village" I have been coveting ever since I saw the advertisement of it, and I will tell you ... | Miss Howitt | Mary Russell Mitford | Our Village: Sketches of Rural Character and Scenery | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have read Bulwer's "Rienzi" and yours also. I always thought your tragedy the best of your works, and I think so st... | Mary Howitt | Mary Russell Mitford | Rienzi | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 9 August 1841:
'[Crow] is an excellent young woman -- intelligent bright... | Miss Crow | Mary Russell Mitford | Our Village | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 9 August 1841:
'How glad I was to see the graceful stanzas in the Athena... | Elizabeth Barrett | Mary Russell Mitford | 'On the Portrait of the Duchess of Burlington, Painted after her Death by Mr Lucas' | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899
1900-1945 | Some marginalia, mainly in French but some in English, throughout. | Vernon Lee | Jules Combarieu | Les rapports de la musique et de la po?sie: consid?r?es au point de vue de l?expression | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Some marginalia in English in pencil, especially on the following pages: 47, 51, 63, 177-8 | Vernon Lee | Theodor Dahmen | Die Theorie des sch?nen von dem bewegungsprincip abgeleitete ?sthetik | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'read 2 books of Homer' | Mary Shelley | Homer | Odyssey | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read - Tegrino' | Mary Shelley | Niccolo Tegrimi | Vita Castrucci Castracani | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Milton on divorce' | Mary Shelley | John Milton | Doctrine and Discipline of Divorce, The | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Homer - Tacitus - Emile & 1 Canto of Dante' | Mary Shelley | Homer | [probably] Odyssey | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'read Florence Macarthy' | Mary Shelley | Lady Morgan | Florence Macarthy: an Irish Tale | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'begin Macchiavelli's history.' | Mary Shelley | Niccolo Macchiavelli | Historie Fiorentine | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Homer - & Macchiavelli' | Mary Shelley | Niccolo Macchiavelli | Historie Fiorentine | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Homer - & Macchiavelli' | Mary Shelley | Homer | Odyssey | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'At Sarzana - read Memoirs of the court of Charles II - Attala' | Mary Shelley | Anthony Hamilton | Memoirs of the Life of the Count de Grammont | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Homer - 3rd Georgic - Geografica Fisica & Samson Agonistes' | Mary Shelley | John Milton | Samson Agonistes | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Geografica Fisica & Samson Agonistes' | Mary Shelley | John Milton | Samson Agonistes | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 6 December 1841:
'What a singular movement is this Puseyite one [...] Mr... | Elizabeth Barrett | R. M. Milnes | One Tract More, or, The System Illustrated by "The Tracts for the Times," Externally Regarded: by a Layman | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 23-25 December 1841:
'Mrs Jameson's early writings -- the Ennuyee for in... | Elizabeth Barrett | Anna Brownell Jameson | writings including Conversations on the State of Art and Literature in Germany (1837) | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have now finished [the 12th book, represented by a Greek character] of the Odyssey' | Mary Shelley | Homer | Odyssey | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have tried to read Mme de Genlis' memoirs, but they are one large capital I from beginning to end; this amuses at f... | Mary Shelley | Alessandro Manzoni | I Promessi Sposi | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | '[Merimee's] book has arrived yesterday. I have only begun reading it.'
[letter to Venceslas-Victor Jacquemont] | Mary Shelley | Prosper Merimee | La Jacquerie | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I am very much obliged to you for the books - I still keep the O'Hara Tales, not having quite finished them - I certa... | Mary Shelley | John Banim | Tales by the O'Hara Family | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Except the occupation of one or two annoyances, I have done nothing but read since I got Lord Byron's life -
I have... | Mary Shelley | Thomas Moore | Life of Lord Byron | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I saw my Father today who is quite delighted with Mr Moore's book - indeed who is not? - He thinks the whole sets Lor... | William Godwin | Thomas Moore | Life of Lord Byron | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Could you lend me any new publ. - you wd eternally oblige me - not the Contrast - I have read it - But the Fair of Ma... | Mary Shelley | Constantine Henry Phipps, 1st Marquis of Normanby | Contrast, The | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have just begun the Adone - & like it'
[letter to Maria Gisborne] | Mary Shelley | Giambattista Marino | L'Adone | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Two of your love poems are supremely beautiful -
O let not words, the callous shell of thought
& I will not say my... | Richard Monckton Milnes | Richard Monckton Milnes | Poetry for the People | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 16 March 1842:
'I [italics]have[end italics] read Marmontel's memoirs ..... | Elizabeth Barrett | Jean Francois Marmontel | Memoires | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 27-28 March 1842:
'Do you know how Mr Macready has been attacked for try... | Elizabeth Barrett | Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher | plays | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 27-28 March 1842:
'Do you know how Mr Macready has been attacked for try... | Elizabeth Barrett | Philip Massinger | plays | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Some marginal annotation in pencil in English and French throughout the volume. | Vernon Lee | Georges Dumas | La tristesse et la joie | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899
1900-1945 | Some marginal annotation in pencil in French throughout the volume. | Vernon Lee | Emile Durkheim | De la division du travail social: ?tude sur l?organisation des soci?t?s sup?rieures | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Brief notes in pencil on the front flyleaf, and some marginalia on the following pages only (all in English): 32, 34. | Vernon Lee | F.W. Gamble | The Animal World | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Brief summary of notes on inside front cover, and marginalia in pencil in English throughout the volume. | Vernon Lee | Charlotte Perkins Gilman | Human Work | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Some marginalia in pencil in English throughout the volume. | Vernon Lee | Charlotte Perkins Gilman | The Home: Its Work and Influence | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to George Goodin Moulton-Barrett, 30 March 1842:
'I have been reading Emerson -- He does away wit... | Elizabeth Barrett | Ralph Waldo Emerson | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 25 April 1842:
'Of course you know Mademoiselle de Monpensier's [sic] Me... | Elizabeth Barrett | Anne Marie Louise d'Orleans, Duchesse de Montpensier | Memoires | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 25 April 1842:
'Of course you know Mademoiselle de Monpensier's [sic] Memo... | Elizabeth Barrett | Louis de Rouvroy, Duc de Saint-Simon | Memoires | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 14 May 1842:
'I cdnt help reading to Crow your beautiful story of your Flu... | Elizabeth Barrett | Mary Russell Mitford | letter to Elizabeth Barrett | Manuscript: Letter |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 3 June 1841:
'Yes [...] to [having read] Emerson's letters [sic]. Or ra... | Elizabeth Barrett | Ralph Waldo Emerson | Essays: First Series | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 30 August 1842:
'Romilly's memoirs have interest [...] Not that I am an ... | Elizabeth Barrett | Samuel Romilly | Memoirs of the Life of Sir Samuel Romilly, Written by Himself | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'E[lizabeth] B[arrett] B[arrett] had read Marryat's [...] A Diary in America, With Remarks on
its Institutions (1839... | Elizabeth Barrett | Frederick Marryat | A Diary in America, With Remarks on its Institutions | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 21 November 1842:
'Keep my secret -- but I have been reading a good deal... | Elizabeth Barrett | Louis de Maynard de Queilhe | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 3 December 1842:
'My thoughts have lately been of Frederica Bremer?s "Ne... | Elizabeth Barrett | Frederika Bremer | The Neighbours: A Story of Everyday Life | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Headmistress takes Evensong in school because the church could not be blacked out. Instead of a sermon she read from... | | Frank Morrison | Who Moved the Stone | Print: Book |
| | 'Headmistress takes Evensong in school because the church could not be blacked out. Instead of a sermon she read from... | | H.V. Morton | In the Steps of the Master | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Robert Browning to Alfred Domett, 13 December 1842:
'The only novelty we have had in books as yet, has been Macaula... | Robert Browning | Thomas Babington Macaulay | Lays of Ancient Rome (extracts) | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 30 December 1842:
'I remember [...] reading in the curious Memoires d'un... | Elizabeth Barrett | Etienne Leon de Lamothe-Langon | Memoires d'une Femme de Qualite sur Louis XVIII, sa Cour et son Regne | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, 5 January 1843:
'It is many years since I looked at Ossian; & I never did mu... | Elizabeth Barrett | James Macpherson (as 'Ossian') | 'Carthon' | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Hugh Stuart Boyd to Elizabeth Barrett, 10 January 1843:
'I have read only a small part of Ossian [...] I have been ... | Hugh Stuart Boyd | James Macpherson (as 'Ossian') | Ossian poems | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Hugh Stuart Boyd to Elizabeth Barrett, in hand of an amanuensis, letter postmarked 19
January 1843:
'Since I last... | Hugh Stuart Boyd | James Macpherson (as 'translator' of Ossian) | Poems of Darthula | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Hugh Stuart Boyd to Elizabeth Barrett, in hand of amanuensis, letter postmarked 3 March
1843:
'Since I last wrote... | Harriet Holmes | James Macpherson (as 'translator' of Ossian) | The Death of Cuchullin | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'How good of you to send me these books. I am ashamed to say that I forget whether I thanked you for the last - but I ... | Mary Shelley | Harriet Martineau | Forest and Game-law Tales | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, 31 March 1843:
'I feel guilty before you, since your last letter has remaine... | Elizabeth Barrett | James Macpherson (as 'translator' of Ossian) | The Death of Cuchullin | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'we learned Pinnock's Catechisms of History and Geography, and parsed sentences grammatically. For religious instructi... | Elizabeth Missing Sewell | Sarah Trimmer | Abridgement of Scripture History, consisting of Lessons selected from the Old Testament, for the Use of Schools and Families | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'when we went to bed she [Sewell's mother] would go upstairs with us and read to us whilst we were being undressed, be... | Jane Sewell | William Lempriere | Tour from Gibraltar to Tangier, Sallee, Mogodore, Santa Cruz, and Taruant ; and thence over Mount Atlas to Morocco | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'My chief acquaintance with the writers of the eighteenth century is derived from reading to Aunt Lyddy papers in the ... | Elizabeth Missing Sewell | Mason | [Plays] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 24 May 1843:
'Mary Howitt's last translation from Frederika Bremer's swe... | Elizabeth Barrett | Frederika Bremer | The Home: or, Family Cares and Family Joys | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 13 July 1843:
'I like the spirit & courteous goodness of Mr James's book... | Elizabeth Barrett | George Payne Rainsford James | novels | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 13 July 1843:
'You must remember Mademoiselle de Montpensier's delightfu... | Elizabeth Barrett | Anne Marie Louise d'Orleans, Duchesse de Montpensier | Memoires | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I had seen some numbers of "Tracts for the Times" lying on the counter in a bookseller's shop in Newport, and they ha... | Elizabeth Missing Sewell | John Henry Newman | Tracts for the Times | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'In 1840 Miss Yonge was a bright attractive girl, at least ten years younger than myself and very like her own Ethel i... | Charlotte Yonge and her mother | Mrs Mozley | Fairy Bower, The | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'The Church though may mean the Catholic or Universal Church and so Rome may be included. It is a horrid, startling no... | Elizabeth Missing Sewell | John Henry Newman | [a sermon] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I read nothing scarcely, all my spare time being given to German exercises. Miss Martineau's "Tales on the Game Laws"... | Elizabeth Missing Sewell | Harriet Martineau | Forest and Game-Law Tales | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Cornelius Mathews, 31 August 1843:
'I wrote immediately upon receiving your works in their rep... | Elizabeth Barrett | Cornelius Mathews | Motley Book | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Cornelius Mathews, 31 August 1843:
'I wrote immediately upon receiving your works in their rep... | Elizabeth Barrett | Cornelius Mathews | Behemoth, a Legend of the Moundbuilders | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett, invalid, to Richard Hengist Horne, 5 October 1843:
'I very much admire Mr Macaulay -- & could sc... | Elizabeth Barrett | Thomas Babington Macaulay | Lays of Ancient Rome | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I can?t be more satisfactory [= about his travel plans]. I think I must be a relative of a man who advertises near he... | Robert Louis Stevenson | D.V. Thomas | advertisement | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to William Merry, 2 November 1843:
'Your book [...] is written in a spirit so amiable & concilia... | Elizabeth Barrett | William Merry | Predestination and Election, Considered Scripturally | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Richard Hengist Horne, 13 December 1843:
'I admired [Richard Monckton Milne's] first volume ve... | Elizabeth Barrett | Richard Monckton Milnes | 'Lay of the Humble' | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The subject of "La Maison Tellier" is the licensed brothel and its inmates'. | Arnold Bennett | Guy de Maupassant | La Maison Tellier | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Richard Hengist Horne, 5-6 January 1844:
'[George Payne Rainsford James] is a picturesque writ... | Elizabeth Barrett | George Payne Rainsford James | novels | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Richard Hengist Horne, 22 December 1843:
'I never saw [John Sterling']s book, although I have ... | Elizabeth Barrett | Bartholomew Simmons | poems | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Joseph Arnould to Alfred Domett, c.8 November 1843:
'Browning & Sister[,] Dowson & wife dined with us a week back, ... | Robert Browning | Alfred Domett | letter to Robert Browning | Manuscript: Letter |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 9-10 August 1844:
'Do you remember, by the glance you had, my lovely lit... | Lizzie Barrett | Mary Russell Mitford | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to John Kenyon, 29 October 1844:
'There is an excellent refutation of Puseyism in the Edinburgh R... | Elizabeth Barrett | Thomas Babington Macaulay | 'Early Administrations of George the Third: The Earl of Chatham' | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Edward Moxon, 25 November 1844:
'I am grateful to you for the gift you have sent me [...] I ha... | Elizabeth Barrett | Edward Moxon | Sonnets | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I have read aloud my death-cycles from Walt Whitman this evening. I was very much affected myself, never so much befo... | Robert Louis Stevenson | Walt Whitman | probably Leaves of Grass | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Also I have been hearing ?Adelaide? many times; O! That is all I can say..' | Robert Louis Stevenson | Friedrich von Matthisson | Adelaide | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia in Keats' annotated copy of "Paradise Lost"]: 'The Genius of Milton, more particularly in respect to its s... | John Keats | John Milton | Paradise Lost | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia in Keats's annotated copy of "Paradise Lost" on "The Argument"]: There is a greatness which the "Paradise ... | John Keats | John Milton | Paradise Lost | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia in Keats's annotated copy of "Paradise Lost" on the opening]: 'There is always a great charm in the openin... | John Keats | John Milton | Paradise Lost | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia in Keats's annotated copy of "Paradise Lost" in Book 1, lines 53-75]. Keats underlines the following phras... | John Keats | John Milton | Paradise Lost | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia in Keats's annotated copy of "Paradise Lost" in Book 1, lines 318-21]: Keats underlines the line 'To slumb... | John Keats | John Milton | Paradise Lost | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia in Keats's annotated copy of "Paradise Lost" in Book 1, lines 527-67]: Keats underlines the lines from 'th... | John Keats | John Milton | Paradise Lost | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia in Keats's annotated copy of "Paradise Lost" in Book 1, lines 591-9]: Keats underlines the lines from 'his... | John Keats | John Milton | Paradise Lost | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia in Keats's annotated copy of "Paradise Lost" in Book 1, lines 710-30]: Keats underlines the lines from 'An... | John Keats | John Milton | Paradise Lost | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia in Keats's annotated copy of "Paradise Lost" in Book 2, lines 546-61]: Keats underlines the following: the... | John Keats | John Milton | Paradise Lost | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Mary Russell Mitford to Elizabeth Barrett, 4 December 1844:
'Ah! dearest love, Frederika Bremer! I did read half "T... | Mary Russell Mitford | Frederika Bremer | The Neighbours: A Story of Every-Day Life | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Moreover I have been reading Meredith's letters - undoubtedly one of the masterpieces of English literature -especial... | Arnold Bennett | George Meredith | Letters vol 1 | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'You shock me. Not by liking "The Way of all Flesh", but by liking "The Devil?s Garden" and "Fortitude" . . . . it ... | Arnold Bennett | W.B. Maxwell | The Devil's Garden | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I have nearly finished "Confession d?un homme d?aujourd?hui". It is very good and helped me to pass a difficult Sund... | Arnold Bennett | Abel Hermant | Confessions d'un homme d'aujourdhui | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | '... I find I have nothing to say that has not been already perfectly said and perfectly sung in Adelaide.' | Robert Louis Stevenson | Friedrich von Matthison | Adelaide | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'Metastatio is improving I finish Themistocles and the second book of Annals today also - what tempted you to send me ... | Jane Baillie Welsh | Pietro Antonio Domenico Bonvantura Trapassi (AKA Metastatio) | Unknown | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I am busy with the fourth volume of Gibbon and Machiavelli's discourses on Livy. He is the only Italian that has int... | Jane Baillie Welsh | Niccolo Macchiavelli | Discourses on Livy | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I finished your Musaeus ten days ago: it is a nice little book and will do very well. You shall have it at Had[dingt... | Thomas Carlyle | Johann Karl August Musaeus | Volksmahrchen der Deutschen | Print: BookManuscript: Letter |
| 1850-1899 | '?Miss Griffin? is capital stuff; not the least dull, a little ragged and loquacious, of course. Go on. Give me more t... | Robert Louis Stevenson | Katharine de Mattos | unknown | Manuscript: UnknownUnknown |
| 1700-1799 | 'I have seen nothing new, & have been reading the Memoirs of Mde de Maintenon in French, which are exceedingly enterta... | Sarah Harriet Burney | Laurent Angliviel de la Beaumelle | Memoires pour servir a l'histoire de Madame de Maintenon | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799
1800-1849 | '[underlined] My [end underlining] favorite passage in [underlined] Il Paradiso Perduto [end underlining] is this - Wh... | Sarah Harriet Burney | John Milton | Paradise Lost | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799
1800-1849 | '[underlined] My [end underlining] favorite passage in [underlined] Il Paradiso Perduto [end underlining] is this - Wh... | Sarah Harriet Burney | John Milton | Paradise Regained | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799
1800-1849 | '[underlined] My [end underlining] favorite passage in [underlined] Il Paradiso Perduto [end underlining] is this - Wh... | [Miss] Wilbraham | John Milton | Paradise Regained | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799
1800-1849 | '[underlined] My [end underlining] favorite passage in [underlined] Il Paradiso Perduto [end underlining] is this - Wh... | [Miss] Wilbraham | John Milton | Paradise Lost | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799
1800-1849 | '[underlined] My [end underlining] favorite passage in [underlined] Il Paradiso Perduto [end underlining] is this - Wh... | Elizabeth Wilbraham | John Milton | Paradise Lost | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799
1800-1849 | '[underlined] My [end underlining] favorite passage in [underlined] Il Paradiso Perduto [end underlining] is this - Wh... | Elizabeth Wilbraham | John Milton | Paradise Regained | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'You ask me (pertly enough - pardon the expression) Whether I have read The Lay of the Last Minstrel - alas, only twic... | Sarah Harriet Burney | Pietro Metastasio | L'Olimpiade | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'You ask me (pertly enough - pardon the expression) Whether I have read The Lay of the Last Minstrel - alas, only twic... | Sarah Harriet Burney | Pietro Metastasio | Demofoonte | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'You ask me (pertly enough - pardon the expression) Whether I have read The Lay of the Last Minstrel - alas, only twic... | Sarah Harriet Burney | Pietro Metastasio | Giuseppe riconosciuto | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'You ask me (pertly enough - pardon the expression) Whether I have read The Lay of the Last Minstrel - alas, only twic... | Sarah Harriet Burney | Pietro Metastasio | Gioas re de Giuda | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'You ask me (pertly enough - pardon the expression) Whether I have read The Lay of the Last Minstrel - alas, only twic... | Sarah Harriet Burney | Pietro Metastasio | La Clemenza di Tito | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'You ask me (pertly enough - pardon the expression) Whether I have read The Lay of the Last Minstrel - alas, only twic... | Sarah Harriet Burney | Pietro Metastasio | Catone in Utica | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'You ask me (pertly enough - pardon the expression) Whether I have read The Lay of the Last Minstrel - alas, only twic... | Sarah Harriet Burney | Pietro Metastasio | Attilio Regolo | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'You ask me (pertly enough - pardon the expression) Whether I have read The Lay of the Last Minstrel - alas, only twic... | Sarah Harriet Burney | Pietro Metastasio | Ciro riconosciuto | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'You ask me (pertly enough - pardon the expression) Whether I have read The Lay of the Last Minstrel - alas, only twic... | Sarah Harriet Burney | Pietro Metastasio | Zenobia | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'You ask me (pertly enough - pardon the expression) Whether I have read The Lay of the Last Minstrel - alas, only twic... | Sarah Harriet Burney | Scipione Maffei | La Merope | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'I hate to be tantalized in such a way [referring to erratic correspondence]. - It is like being condemned to eat gree... | Sarah Harriet Burney | Benjamin Thompson, Count Rumford | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 16 December 1844:
'I saw the sonnet [of Wordsworth] [...] which gave me ... | Elizabeth Barrett | Richard Monckton Milnes | 'Projected Railways in Westmoreland. An Answer to Mr Wordsworth's Late Sonnet' | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 24 December 1844:
'If you do not remember the memoires of "La Grande Mad... | Elizabeth Barrett | Anne Marie Louise Henriette d'Orleans Duchesse de Montpensier | Memoires | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 30 December 1844:
'With regard to "La Confession Generale," I am in just... | Elizabeth Barrett | Alexandre Dumas | Fernande | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'My dear Katharine, I have gone over your paper at last (I would have done it sooner, had I found the time) [?].' | Robert Louis Stevenson | Katharine de Mattos | Included "Miss Griffin"? | Manuscript: Sheet, RLS calls it "your paper". |
| 1850-1899 | 'Then your simile about the spider and the King?s palace is very grim and good; like a sort of Quarles emblem; and tha... | Robert Louis Stevenson | Katharine de Mattos | unknown | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett Browning to Arabella and Henrietta Moulton-Barrett (sisters), 2 October
1846, on receiving her fat... | Elizabeth Barrett Browning | George Moulton-Barrett | letter to Elizabeth Barrett Browning | Manuscript: Letter |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett Browning to Arabella and Henrietta Moulton-Barrett (sisters), 2 October
1846, on receiving her fat... | Elizabeth Barrett Browning | Arabella and Henrietta Moulton-Barrett | letter to Elizabeth Barrett Browning | Manuscript: Letter |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett Browning to Arabella and Henrietta Moulton-Barrett (sisters), 2 October
1846, on receiving her fat... | Robert Browning | Arabella and Henrietta Moulton-Barrett | letter to Elizabeth Barrett Browning | Manuscript: Letter |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett Browning to James and Julia Martin, 1 February 1847:
'We are reading (much at the latest) Custine... | Robert and Elizabeth Barrett Browning | Adolphe Marquis de Custine | La Russie en 1839 | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Mary Russell Mitford to Elizabeth Barrett Browning, letter postmarked 2 October 1847:
'The most interesting [book] ... | Mary Russell Mitford | Alphonse Lamartine | Histoire des Girondins | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Mary Russell Mitford to Elizabeth Barrett Browning, letter postmarked 2 October 1847:
'The most interesting [book] ... | Queen Victoria and Royal Household | Alphonse Lamartine | Histoire des Girondins | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Mary Russell Mitford to Elizabeth Barrett Browning, letter postmarked 2 October 1847:
'The most interesting [book] ... | Mary Russell Mitford | Alexandre Dumas | Les Deux Diane | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Mary Russell Mitford to Elizabeth Barrett Browning, letter postmarked 2 October 1847:
'The most interesting [book] ... | Mary Russell Mitford | Alexandre Dumas | Memoires d'un Medecin: Joseph Balsamo | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Mary Russell Mitford to Elizabeth Barrett Browning, letter postmarked 2 October 1847:
'The most interesting [book] ... | Mary Russell Mitford | Alexandre Dumas and Auguste Maquet | Le Batard de Mauleon | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett Browning to Mary Russell Mitford, 30 April 1847:
'At Pisa, Robert read to me while I was ill [fol... | Robert and Elizabeth Barrett Browning | Alexandre Dumas | Le Speronare | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have been steadily & delightedly reading Mitford's History. First of all, he is an Historian after my own heart, & ... | Sarah Harriet Burney | William Mitford | History of Greece, The | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have been frightened from taking up Hannah More's last book which fanny lent me, by the dread that it would more th... | Sarah Harriet Burney | Hannah More | Practical Piety | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I am also reading with great veneration, but some degree of despondency, Practical Piety. The Chapter on "Comparative... | Sarah Harriet Burney | Hannah More | Practical Piety | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I am reading Bartelemi's Anacharsis. which forms a sort of Appendix or rather comentary to the Grecian History I was ... | Sarah Harriet Burney | Jean-Jacques Barthelemy | Voyage du jeune Anacharsis en Grece | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have read both Scott's visits, and Mrs Hulse has just lent me the life of John Sobieski, K. of poland. I have only ... | Sarah Harriet Burney | Alicia Tindal Palmer | Authentic Memoirs of the Life of John Sobieski | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I somehow could not think the gulph so impassable and read him some notes on the Duke of Argyll.' | Robert Louis Stevenson | George Campbell, 8th Duke of Argyll | The Reign of Law | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I have been out reading Hallam in the garden ...' | Robert Louis Stevenson | Henry Hallam | Constitutional History of England [?] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I have read Morley's second article on Education today' | Robert Louis Stevenson | John Morley | The Struggle for National Education | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'Last night, after reading Walt Whitman a long while for my attempt to write about him, I got the tete-montee, rushed ... | Robert Louis Stevenson | Walt Whitman | Leaves of Grass | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read, read, read M.Leod's Narrative of the Voyage of the Alceste to China, & her wreck in coming home. Ellis's Accoun... | Sarah Harriet Burney | John McLeod | Narrative of a Voyage in His Majesty's late ship the Alceste to the Yellow Sea | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Tor Hill, I have read - and was amused to find myself [underlined] en pays de connaissance [end underlining]. Many ye... | Sarah Harriet Burney | Horatio Smith | Tor Hill | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I have meditated also a large work, on the Plan of ... Campbell's Chancellors ...' | Robert Louis Stevenson | John Lord Campbell | Lives of the Lord Chancellors etc | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Virginia Stephen to Thoby Stephen, 2 November 1901:
'I have been reading Marlow [sic], and I was so much more impre... | Virginia Stephen | Christopher Marlowe | Doctor Faustus | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Virginia Stephen to Thoby Stephen, 2 November 1901:
'I have been reading Marlow [sic], and I was so much more impre... | Virginia Stephen | Christopher Marlowe | Edward II | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Virginia Stephen to Clive Bell, 18 August 1907:
'I am reading Henry James on America; and feel myself as one embalm... | Virginia Stephen | Henry James | The American Scene | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Virginia Stephen to Clive Bell, 19 August 1908:
'I split my head over Moore every night, feeling ideas travelling t... | Virginia Stephen | G. E. Moore | Principia Ethica | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I am alone in the house, and so I allowed myself, at dinner, the first light reading I have indulged in since my retu... | Robert Louis Stevenson | Michel Eyquem de Montaigne | Les Essais | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'As Montaigne says, talking of something quite different:"Pour se laisser tomber a plomb, et de si haut, il faut que s... | Robert Louis Stevenson | Michel Eyquem de Montaigne | Les Essais, Livre III, Ch XII, De la physionomie | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I had almost as soon have it in the Portfolio, as the Saturday; the P. is so nicely printed and I am gourmet in type.' | Robert Louis Stevenson | Philip Gilbert Hamerton (editor) | The Portfolio: An Artistic Periodical | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | Virginia Woolf to Violet Dickinson, 11 April 1913:
'[italics]I've[end italics] never met a writer who didn't nurse ... | Virginia Woolf | George Meredith | letters | Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | Virginia Woolf to Lytton Strachey, 22 October 1915:
'I should think I had read 600 books since we met. Please tell ... | Virginia Woolf | Henry James | 'works' | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Virginia Woolf to Saxon Sydney-Turner, 25 February 1918:
'Asheham is very lovely at the moment. I started upon Soph... | Virginia Woolf | Leonard Merrick | | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899
1900-1945 | Virginia Woolf to Lytton Strachey, 12 October 1918:
'I read the Greeks, but I am extremely doubtful whether I under... | Virginia Woolf | John Milton | complete works | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899
1900-1945 | Virginia Woolf to Lytton Strachey, 30 November 1919:
'I'm in the 2nd vol. of Ethel Smyth. I think she shows up triu... | Virginia Woolf | Ethel Smyth | Impressions that Remained (vol. 2) | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Virginia Woolf to Janet Case, 20 March 1922:
'Literature still survives. I've not read K. Mansfield [The Garden Pa... | Virginia Woolf | Katherine Mansfield | Bliss | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Virginia Woolf to Ottoline Morrell, 18 August 1922:
'Poor Rebecca West's novel bursts like an over stuffed sausage.... | Virginia Woolf | Henry James | The Wings of a Dove | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Virginia Woolf to Vita Sackville-West, 30 August 1928:
'I am happy because it is the loveliest August [...] I read ... | Virginia Woolf | Henry James | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Virginia Woolf to Vanessa Bell, 8 November 1930:
'We had a terrific visitation from Hugh Walpole. If you want a boo... | Hugh Walpole | Somerset Maugham | Cakes and Ale | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Virginia Woolf to Ethel Smyth, c.28 December 1932:
'D'you know I get such a passion for reading sometimes its like ... | Virginia Woolf | Axel Munthe | The Story of San Michele | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'MacMahon's address is pasted up everywhere and political pictures fill the windows.' | Robert Louis Stevenson | Patrice de MacMahon | unknown | Print: Poster |
| 1800-1849 | 'I am reading Michaud's Histoire des Croisades, well written and entertaining; and I have just finished Monti's fine T... | Sarah Harriet Burney | Joseph-Francois Michaud | Histoire des Croisades | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I am reading Michaud's Histoire des Croisades, well written and entertaining; and I have just finished Monti's fine T... | Sarah Harriet Burney | Vincenzo Monti | Aristodemo | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I am reading Michaud's Histoire des Croisades, well written and entertaining; and I have just finished Monti's fine T... | Sarah Harriet Burney | Vincenzo Monti | Galeotto Manfredi | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I am reading Michaud's Histoire des Croisades, well written and entertaining; and I have just finished Monti's fine T... | Sarah Harriet Burney | Vincenzo Monti | Caio Gracco | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Another book of a very different character has amused me mightily; it is entitled "Tablettes Romaines", and is full o... | Sarah Harriet Burney | J.H., Count de Santo Domingo | Tablettes romaines; contenant des faits, des anecdotes et des observations sure les moeurs, les usages, les ceremonies, le gouvernement de Rome | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Virginia Woolf to Leonard Woolf, 14 July 1936:
'A very good, though very dull day. No headache this morning, brain ... | Virginia Woolf | Thomas Babington Macaulay | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Virginia Woolf to Vita Sackville-West, 3 May 1938:
'I am reading for the first time a book which I think a very goo... | Virginia Woolf | Bernard Mandeville | The Fable of the Bees; or, Private Vices, Publick Benefits | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Virginia Woolf to Shena, Lady Simon, 22 January 1940:
'I've had too many distractions to write [...] But not too ma... | Virginia Woolf | Shena, Lady Simon | paper on women and war | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'By the way, have you read Mr Morier's Hohrab, or the Hostage? And if you have, do you (as I hope) like it? And if you... | Sarah Harriet Burney | James Justinian Morier | Zohrab the Hostage | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'would you like, Ma'am, to know what I have been doing all alone and at home this winter? - I have, 'an please you, fo... | Sarah Harriet Burney | Andre Morellet | Memoires | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'would you like, Ma'am, to know what I have been doing all alone and at home this winter? - I have, 'an please you, fo... | Sarah Harriet Burney | Baron E.L. de la Mothe - Houdancourt | Memoires de Madame la comtesse de Barri | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'That reminds me of Mallock?s New Republic in Belgravia; it is decidedly clever ? Jowett especially. If you have the k... | Oscar Wilde | William Hurrell Mallock | The New Republic, or Culture, Faith and Philosophy in an English Country House | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'I am now off to bed after reading a chapter of S. Thomas ? Kempis. I think half-an-hour's warping of the inner man da... | Oscar Wilde | Thomas ? Kempis | The Imitation of Christ | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'All I can say at all likely to give you any pleasure is, that I read poor dear Charles Lamb's Memoirs and Letters wit... | Sarah Harriet Burney | Charles Lamb | Letters of Charles Lamb, with a sketch of his Life | Print: 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 | Anne Mathews | Memoirs of Charles Mathews, comedian | Print: 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 | Thomas Campbell | Life of Mrs Siddons | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I think I said in one of myy recent scrawls all I had to say concerning Mr Macauley's Review: every part of which I l... | Sarah Harriet Burney | Thomas Babington Macaulay | [Review of Madame d'Arblay's "Diary and Letters" in the "Edinburgh Review"] | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | Tuesday 19 January 1915:
'I'm reading The Idiot. I cant bear the style of it very often; at the same time, he seem... | Virginia Woolf | Jules Michelet | Histoire de France | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Tuesday 19 January 1915:
'I'm reading The Idiot. I cant bear the style of it very often; at the same time, he seem... | Virginia Woolf | Fanny Kemble | 'Life' | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Thursday 21 January 1915: 'I went to the London Library [...] Here I read Gilbert Murray on
Immortality, got a book ... | Virginia Woolf | Gilbert Murray | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Saturday 13 February 1915: 'After luncheon [...] I went to a concert at the Queen's Hall [...] I
was annoyed by a yo... | 'young man and woman' | A. E. Housman | A Shropshire Lad | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Sunday 14 February 1915: 'I am now reading a later volume of Michelet, which is superb, &
the only tolerable history... | Virginia Woolf | Jules Michelet | Histoire de France | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Monday 12 November 1917: 'I went to Mudies, & got The Leading Note, in order to examine
into R.T. more closely [...]... | Virginia Woolf | Rosalind Murray | The Leading Note | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Thursday 22 November 1917: 'Ottoline keeps me [...] devoted to her "inner life"; which made
me reflect that I haven'... | Ottoline Morrell | Ottoline Morrell | journal | Manuscript: Codex |
| 1850-1899 | 'Mahaffy's book of Travels in Greece will soon be out. I have been correcting his proofs and like it immensely.' | Oscar Wilde | John Pentland Mahaffy | Rambles and Studies in Greece | Manuscript: Codex, publisher's proofs |
| 1850-1899 | 'I am deep in a review of Symonds's last book whenever I can get time.' | Oscar Wilde | John Addington Symonds | Studies of the Greek Poets | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | '[?] it was that paper of yours that made me think of the book[Baudelaire's "Petits Poemes en Prose"]' (see RED ID18015) | Robert Louis Stevenson | Katharine de Mattos | unknown | Manuscript: Sheet, Referred to here by RLS as "that paper of yours". |
| 1900-1945 | 2 March 1918: '[On 19 February] we went to Asheham [...] I saw no-one; for 5 days I wasn't in a state for reading [due... | Virginia Woolf | John, Viscount Morley | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 29 July: 'I'm paralysed by the task of describing a week end at Garsington. I suppose we spoke some million words betw... | Philip Morrell | John Middleton Murry | Review of Siegfried Sassoon, Counter-attack, and Other Poems | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | 29 July: 'I'm paralysed by the task of describing a week end at Garsington. I suppose we
spoke some million words be... | Philip Morrell | Philip Morell | Letter to John Middleton Murry regarding his review of Siegfried Sassoon, Counter-attack, and Other Poems, in The Nation 13 July 1918 | Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 7 August 1918: 'Our excitement [has been] the return of the servants from Lewes last night,
with [...] the English r... | Virginia Woolf | Katherine Mansfield | 'Bliss' | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | 6 March 1920: 'On Thursday, dine with the MacCarthys, & the first Memoir Club meeting [hosted by MacCarthys]. A highly... | Molly MacCarthy | Molly MacCarthy | autobiographical essay | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | Tuesday 25 January 1921: 'K. M. (as the papers call her) swims from triumph to triumph in the reviews; save that [J. C... | Virginia Woolf | Katherine Mansfield | unknown | Print: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | Friday 15 April 1921: 'I have been lying recumbent all day reading Carlyle, and now Macaulay, first to see if Carlyle ... | Virginia Woolf | Thomas Babington Macaulay | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Monday 12 September 1921: 'I have finished the Wings of the Dove, & make this comment. His [Henry James's] manipulatio... | Virginia Woolf | Henry James | The Wings of a Dove | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Thursday 15 September 1921: 'I have been dabbling in K.M.'s stories, & have to rinse my mind -- in Dryden? Still, if s... | Virginia Woolf | Katherine Mansfield | stories | Print: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | Tuesday 14 February 1922: 'I am reading [in convalescence, following week of illness] Moby Dick: Princesse de Cleves; ... | Virginia Woolf | Herman Melville | Moby Dick | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Then again, I have nice books to read. The new French poets. Prudhomme is adorable − I shall have a lot of Sull... | Robert Louis Stevenson | Rene-Francois-Armand Sully-Prudhomme | unknown poetry | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [her governess Helen Roothman] 'introduced Edith to the works of Verlaine, Rimbaud and Mallarme. Though Edith had had ... | Edith Sitwell | Stephane Mallarme | [poems] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [her governess Helen Roothman] 'introduced Edith to the works of Verlaine, Rimbaud and Mallarme. Though Edith had had ... | Edith Sitwell | Arthur Rimbaud | [poems] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Edith, though a great reader, did not consume all and any poetry as a child; she was kept in regularly on Saturday af... | Edith Sitwell | Felicia Hemans | 'Casabianca' | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899
1900-1945 | [Helen Roothman] 'brought Edith new poetry too - the French symbolists, Verlaine, Rimbaud, Baudelaire - to enlarge her... | Edith Sitwell | William Morris | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Tuesday 22 August 1922: ''Boen [Hawkesford] came to tea on Sunday [...] She is changing; reading Bliss under [Edward] ... | Boen Hawkesford | Katherine Mansfield | Bliss | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Friday 15 August 1924: 'When I was 20 I liked 18th Century prose; I liked Hakluyt, Merimee. I read masses of Carlyle, ... | Virginia Stephen | Prosper Merimee | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Monday 2 September 1929: 'I have just read a page or two out of Samuel Butler's notebooks to take the taste of Alice M... | Virginia Woolf | Viola Meynell | Alice Meynell. A Memoir | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Wednesday 23 October 1929: 'Since I have been back [apparently to London, from Sussex home] I have read Virginia Water... | Virginia Woolf | John Middleton Murry | God: an Introduction to the Science of Metabiology | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'V[irginia] W[oolf] made notes (see Holograph Reading Notes, vols XI and XII in the Berg Collection) on George Puttenh... | Virginia Woolf | George Puttenham | The Arte of English Poesie | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Monday 3 March 1930: 'Molly Hamilton writes a d----d bad novel. She has the wits to construct a method of telling a st... | Virginia Woolf | Molly Hamilton | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Thursday 28 August 1930: 'I am reading R. Lehmann, with some interest & admiration -- she has a clear hard mind, beati... | Virginia Woolf | Rosamund Lehmann | A Note in Music | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I send you some verses which I read in the Examiner; I think them very witty, although very abominable'. [What follow... | Matthew Lewis | Charles Lamb | 'The Triumph of the Whale' | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'Since I have been in London I have read nothing but Miss Seward's letters and Miss Owenson's Missionary. Of Miss Sewa... | Charles Kirkpatrick Sharpe | James Somerville Somerville | Memorie of the Somervilles being a history of the baronial House of Somerville | Manuscript: MS book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I am glad to hear you are giving Macaulay a turn. I believe, though it sounds rude and foolish, nothing will do you m... | Sidney Colvin | Thomas Babington Macaulay | unknown | Print: Book, Articles in the Edinburgh Review? |
| 1900-1945 | Sunday 8 May 1932: 'Here it is, the last evening [of holiday in Greece]; very hot, very dusty. The loudspeaker is bray... | Leonard Woolf | Ethel Smyth | A Three-Legged Tour in Greece | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Sunday 8 May 1932: 'I've scarcely read [on holiday in Greece] [...] only Roger's Eastman, & Wells, & Murry.' | Virginia Woolf | Max Eastman | The Literary Mind: Its Place in an Age of Science | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Sunday 8 May 1932: 'I've scarcely read [on holiday in Greece] [...] only Roger's Eastman, & Wells, & Murry.' | Virginia Woolf | John Middleton Murry | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Thursday 2 June 1932: 'Lord David [Cecil]'s party last night. Half across London [...] Edwardes Sq[a]re very large lea... | Virginia Woolf | Naomi Mitchison | Review of W. H. Auden, The Orators | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'Took notes from Miss Plumtre. Finished the first volume' | Charlotte Bury | Miss Plumtre or Plumptre | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I read Montaigne and Metastasio'. | Charlotte Bury | Michel de Montaigne | Essais | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I read Montaigne and Metastasio'. | Charlotte Bury | Metastasio [pseud.] | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Sunday 14 May 1933: 'I am reading -- skipping -- the Sacred Fount [by Henry James] -- about the most inappropriate of ... | Virginia Woolf | Henry James | The Sacred Fount | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'But instead of learning to sail, I read Edward Whymper's "Travels among the Great Andes of the Equator". The author i... | Eric Shipton | Edward Whymper | Travels among the Great Andes of the Equator | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'My early reading had been confined to the work of the pioneers, and in consequence it never occurred to me that big m... | Eric Shipton | George D. Abraham | Swiss Mountain Climbs | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 23 September 1933: 'I am reading Margot [Oxford] -- "V W our greatest English authoress;" Molly Hamilton on Webbs: & T... | Virginia Woolf | Mary Agnes Hamilton | Sidney and Beatrice Webb | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I read Lady Morgan's Florence Macarthy. There is originality and genius in all she writes'. | Charlotte Bury | Sydney, Lady Morgan | Florence Macarthy: An Irish Tale | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Mr North has been reading Lady Morgan's "O'Donnel", and is delighted with it. He says he never read a book that amuse... | Mr North | Sydney, Lady Morgan | O'Donnel: A National Tale | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Adam Smith, Sir [-] informed me, was no admirer of the Rambler or the Idler, but was pleased with the pamphlet respec... | Adam Smith | John Milton | [poems] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Adam Smith, Sir [-] informed me, was no admirer of the Rambler or the Idler, but was pleased with the pamphlet respec... | Adam Smith | Allan Ramsay | Gentle Shepherd, The | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Our library too was a weighty affair. Shipton had the longest novel that had been published in recent years, Warren ... | Eric Shipton | Margaret Mitchell | Gone with the Wind | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Our library too was a weighty affair. Shipton had the longest novel that had been published in recent years, Warren ... | Charles B.M. Warren | Michel Eyquem (de) Montaigne | Essays | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | His reading this summer included much Browning, Turgenev's Smoke and Kenneth Grahame's Golden Age ('which surely is th... | John Buchan | Kenneth Grahame | Golden Age | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have become acquainted with a Mr Cumberland, who must be agreeable, for he has an hereditary right to it. I have be... | | Richard Cumberland | Memoirs of Richard Cumberland: written by Himself | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have become acquainted with a Mr Cumberland, who must be agreeable, for he has an hereditary right to it. I have be... | | Richard Cumberland | Observer, The: Being a Collection of Moral, Literary and Familiar Essays | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | '[Lady Caroline Lamb's] novel of Glenarvon showed much genius, but of an erratic kind; and false statements are so min... | Charlotte Bury | Caroline Lamb | Glenarvon | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Amongst various verses, which she insisted on my accepting, she gave me the following lines, which she said she had w... | Charlotte Bury | Caroline Lamb | 'Winter Amusements' | Manuscript: Sheet |
| 1800-1849 | 'Letters bring Lady M. W. M[ontagu] into my head, which I now do not confess in public ever to have read, for they are... | Mr Sharpe | Mary Wortley Montagu | Letters and Works of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'You seem so much interested with the translation of "Pastor Fido" that I shall take the liberty of sending it to you,... | Miss V[-] | Homer | Odyssey and Iliad | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'You seem so much interested with the translation of "Pastor Fido" that I shall take the liberty of sending it to you,... | Miss V[-] | John Milton | Paradise Lost | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I am reading on Sundays "Morehead's Discourses on the Principle of Religious Belief", which are greatly admired, thou... | Miss V[-] | Robert Morehead | A Series Of Discourses On The Principles of Religious Belief | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I received yours yesternight with the poem of [italics] the Sabbath [end italics], a good part of which I have alread... | James Hogg | James Grahame | Sabbath, The | Print: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | Tuesday 16 January: 'I have let all this time -- 3 weeks at Monks [House, Sussex residence] -- slip because I was ther... | Virginia Woolf | Andrew Marvell | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Tuesday 21 August 1934: 'I read Une Vie last night, & it seemed to me rather marking time & watery -- heaven help me -... | Virginia Woolf | Guy de Maupassant | Une Vie | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Thursday 30 August 1934: 'No letters at all this summer. But there will be many next year, I predict. And I dont mind;... | Virginia Woolf | Saint-Simon | Memoirs | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Thursday 30 August 1934: 'No letters at all this summer. But there will be many next year, I predict. And I dont mind;... | Virginia Woolf | Henry James | Preface, Portrait of a Lady | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Tuesday 2 October 1934:
'Books read or in reading [over summer 1934]:
Sh[akespea]re. Troilus.
... | Virginia Woolf | Guy de Maupassant | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Tuesday 2 October 1934:
'Books read or in reading [over summer 1934]:
Sh[akespea]re. Troilus.
... | Virginia Woolf | Saint-Simon | Memoirs | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Tuesday 2 October 1934:
'Books read or in reading [over summer 1934]:
Sh[akespea]re. Troilus.
... | Virginia Woolf | Alice James | Alice James: Her Brothers -- Her Journal | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Sunday 14 October 1934: 'I cant write. When will my brain revive? in 10 days I think. And it can read admirably. I beg... | Virginia Woolf | James Thomson | The Seasons | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I am reading Maupassant with delight. I have just finished "Le Lys rouge" by Anatole France. it means nothing to me.... | Joseph Conrad | Guy de Maupassant | unknown | Print: Book, see additional comments |
| 1850-1899 | 'I fear I may be too much under the influence of Maupassant. I have studied "Pierre et Jean" - thought, method and all... | Joseph Conrad | Guy de Maupassant | Pierre et Jean | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I had this morning a charming surprise in the shape of the "Spoils of Poynton" sent me by H. James with a very charac... | Joseph Conrad | Henry James | The Spoils of Poynton | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I've just finished reading "Lisa of Lambeth" It is certainly worth reading--but whether it's worth talking about is a... | Joseph Conrad | W.Someret Maugham | Liza of Lambeth | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Humphry James is good. Is he very deep or very simple? And by the bye R.Bridges is a poet I'm damned if he ain't! The... | Joseph Conrad | Humphry James | Paddy's Woman and Other Storiesries | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Sunday 14 April 1935: 'Now for Alfieri & Nash & other notables: so happy I was reading alone last night [...] I read A... | Virginia Woolf | John Summerson | John Nash, Architect to King George IV | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Sunday 26 May 1935: 'I'm writing at Aix-en-Provence on a Sunday evening [...] I'm dipping into K.M.'s letters, Stendha... | Virginia Woolf | Katherine Mansfield | The Letters of Katherine Mansfield | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Saturday 31 August 1935: 'Read Hind & Panther. D.H.L. by E. (good) & slept.' | Virginia Woolf | Jessie Chambers | D. H. Lawrence: A Personal Record | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Friday 13 September 1935: 'Reading Love for Love, Life of Anthony Hope, &c.' | Virginia Woolf | Sir Charles Mallett | Anthony Hope and His Books | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'A gentleman who deems himself libelled at in the Wake has sent a long poem to Edin. to be printed [italics] in quarto... | James Hogg | John Morrison | Hoggiad, The | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Yesterday I finfished the "Life" [the biography of Saint Teresa of Avila by Cunninghame Grahames's wife Gabriela.] Ca... | Joseph Conrad | Gabriela Cunninghame Graham | Santa Teresa: Her Life and Times | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'The "Impenitent Thief" has been read more than once. I've read it several times alone and I've read it aloud to my w... | Joseph Conrad | R. (Robert) B.(Bontine) Cunninghame Graham | The Impenitent Thief | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | 'In the issue for December 23rd, 1915 of the NewYork "Nation" there is an extremely fine article on me by Stuart P. Sh... | Arnold Bennett | Stuart P. Sherman | [article on Arnold Bennett] | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | Tuesday 10 September 1918: 'My intellectual snobbishness was chastened this morning by hearing from Janet [Case] that ... | Janet Case | John Milton | Paradise Lost | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Tuesday 10 September 1918: 'Though I am not the only person in Sussex who reads Milton, I mean to write down my impres... | Virginia Woolf | John Milton | Paradise Lost | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Now the first sensation of oppression has worn off a little what remains with one after reading the Life of Santa Te... | Joseph Conrad | Gabriela Cunninghame Graham | Santa Teresa: Her Life and Times | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | '[Arthur] Symons reviewing "Trionfo della Morte" (trans:) [Gabriele d'Annunzio's 1894 novel] in the last "Sat. Rev" we... | Joseph Conrad | Arthur Symons | [article in Saturday Review] | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'The "Bristol Fashion" business is excellently well put. You seem to know a lot about every part of the world and what... | Joseph Conrad | R. (Robert) B.(Bontine) Cunninghame Graham | Bristol Fashion Pt.2 in Saturday Review | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'The Guide book simply magnificent Everlastingly good! [sic].I've read it last night having only then returned home.' | Joseph Conrad | R. (Robert) B.(Bontine) Cunninghame Graham | Notes on the District of Menteith | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'This morning I had the "Aurora" from Smithers, No.2 of the 500 copies. C'est tout simplement magnifique yet I do not ... | Joseph Conrad | R.(Robert) B.(Bontine) Cunninghame Graham | Aurora la Cujini: A Realistic sketch in Seville | Print: Book, see additional comments |
| 1850-1899 | 'I return the pages "To Wayfaring Men". I read them before I read your letter and have been deeply touched.' | Joseph Conrad | R.(Robert) B.(Bontine) Cunninghame Graham | Preface to: Mogreb-el-Aksa: A Journey in Morocco | Manuscript: Sheet, Presumably typewritten pages |
| 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 | George Macdonald | [probably] Princess and Curdie, The | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I think MacGill has written one or two excellent things on the Push. [Patrick MacGill, The Great Push , 1916] I do ... | Arnold Bennett | Patrick MacGill | The Great Push | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Tuesday 25 May 1937, in account of travels in France, 7-23 May 1937: 'Reading Beckford by [Guy] Chapman [1937] -- but ... | Virginia Woolf | Guy Chapman | Beckford | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Monday 1 June 1937: 'I should make a note of Desmond [MacCarthy]'s queer burst of intimacy the other evening [...] las... | Desmond MacCarthy | Desmond MacCarthy | lecture on Sir Leslie Stephen | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'The "Melodies" bear a few striking marks of the master's hand but there are some of them feeble and I think they must... | James Hogg | Thomas Moore | Irish Melodies | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I love the Warder as much as I detest these radicals and the general harping spirit of the Whigs Pray is my dear frie... | James Hogg | Allan Cunningham | 'Recollections No. I. - The Cameronians' [in Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine] | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | 'In 1937 she was having "a heavenly time" reading Montherlant, and writing a piece on him for the "New Statesman".' | Elizabeth Bowen | Henry Millon de Montherlant | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Maupassant never meant as much to her as Flaubert, or as Proust. She was reading collections of Maupassant's stories ... | Elizabeth Bowen | Guy de Maupassant | 'Yvette' [and other short stories] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'the short stories she did know, from Downe days, were Richard Middleton's colection "The Ghost Ship" and E.M. Forster... | Elizabeth Bowen | Richard Middleton | Ghost Ship, The | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Melville is a terribly dull book: I do not think it will take so well as Knox'. | James Hogg | Thomas McCrie | Life of Andrew Melville, The | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Melville is a terribly dull book: I do not think it will take so well as Knox'. | James Hogg | Thomas McCrie | Life of John Knox, The | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I like some things in the last Mag. very well but there is a grievious [sic] falling off in Cunningham's Cameronian T... | James Hogg | Allan Cunningham | 'Recollections of Mark Macrabin the Cameronian' | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'When ever I saw your Cameronians I knew the hand but I do not like your last ideal picture half so well as the one yo... | James Hogg | Allan Cunningham | 'Recollections of Mark Macrabin, the Cameronian' | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have not got all the Mag. read but think it is an exceedingly good one. I only wish the term [italics] Galloway Sto... | James Hogg | Allan Cunningham | 'Cameronian Song' | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'At one o'clock [Neil] Munro and I went into the street.We talked. I had read up "The Lost Pibroch" which I do think w... | Joseph Conrad | Neil Munro | The Lost Pibroch and Other Sheiling Stories | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | '"Higginson's Dream" is super-excellent. It is much too good to remind me of any of my work, but I am immensely flatte... | Joseph Conrad | R. (Robert) B.(Bontine) Cunninghame Graham | Higginson's Dream | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'PS I've read "Two Magics" Henry James's last. The first story ["The Turn of the Screw"] is all there. He extracts an ... | Joseph Conrad | Henry James | The Two Magics | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Your photograph came yesterday (It's good!) and the book [Mogreb-el-Acksa] arrived by this evening's post. I dropped ... | Joseph Conrad | R.(Robert) B.(Bontine) Cunninghame Graham | Mogreb-el-Acksa | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Just a word or two about Robert's book. It is a glorious performance.Much as we expected of him. [...] Nothing approa... | Joseph Conrad | R.(Robert) B.(Bontine) Cunninghame Graham | Mogreb-el-Acksa | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Today, from your kindness, I received the "Chronicle" with Robert's [Cunninghame Graham] letter. C'est bien ca -- c'e... | Joseph Conrad | R. (Robert) B.(Bontine) Cunninghame Graham | letter in Daily Chronicle "Pax Britannica" | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'The thing ["A Paheka" ] in "West.Gaz." is excellent, excellent.' | Joseph Conrad | R. (Robert) B.(Bontine) Cunninghame Graham | 'A Paheka' | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'Piercy Mallory is an extraordinary work. In character it is inimitable not in original design but in amazing strength... | James Hogg | William Maginn | 'Letters of Timothy Tickler Esq. to Eminent Literary Characters. No XII. To Christopher North, Esq.' in Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have only got about half through Cyral Thornton as yet and cannot therefore be decided on its merits. But I suspect... | James Hogg | Thomas Hamilton | Youth and Manhood of Cyril Thornton, The | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have recieved Maga with the inclosures safe to night but have only as yet got her looked over. For one thing I perc... | James Hogg | More | 'Hymn to Hesperus' | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'I have just read "Family Portraits". I am a bad critic: it is difficult for me to express with the right words the pl... | Joseph Conrad | Gabriela Cunninghame Graham | Family Portraits | Print: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | Thursday 24 June 1937: 'A letter from Ott. [...] She has been [italics]very[end italics] ill [following stroke] [...] ... | Lady Ottoline Morrell | Henry James | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Tuesday 30 November 1937: 'Reading Chateaubriand now, bought in 6 fine vols for one guinea at Cambridge'. | Virginia Woolf | Francois-Rene Vicomte de Chateaubriand | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Wednesday 22 March 1939: 'Reading Eddie Marsh.' | Virginia Woolf | Sir Edward Marsh | A Number of People | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have just finished Miss Martineau's new romance. Toussaint the hero is a magnificent character, - and all connected... | Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell | Harriet Martineau | Hour and the Man, The | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have just finished Miss Martineau's new romance. Toussaint the hero is a magnificent character, - and all connected... | Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell | Harriet Martineau | Deerbrook | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Wednesday 3 January 1940: 'I have just put down Mill's autobiography, after copying certain sentences in the volume I ... | Virginia Woolf | John Stuart Mill | Autobiography | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Saturday 14 September 1940: 'I am reading Sevigne: how recuperative last week [during heavy air raids]; gone stale a l... | Virginia Woolf | Henry Williamson | Goodbye West Country | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Monday 16 September 1940: 'Have been dallying with Mr Williamson's Confessions, appalled by his ego centricity [...] H... | Virginia Woolf | Henry Williamson | Goodbye West Country | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Saturday 21 September 1940: 'I have forced myself to overcome my rage at being beaten at Bowls & my fulminations again... | Virginia Woolf | Jules Michelet | Histoire de France | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Saturday 26 October 1940: '"The complete Insider" -- I have just coined this title to express my feeling towards Georg... | Virginia Woolf | Jules Michelet | Histoire de France vol.15 | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Thursday 9 January 1941: 'Desmond's book has come. Dipping I find it small beer. Too Irish, too confidential, too slop... | Virginia Woolf | Desmond MacCarthy | Drama | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'The dead lights [shutters used to protect ships' interiors during storms at sea]were no sooner up and a candle made f... | Fanny Rutherfurd | Henry Home, Lord Kames | Elements of Criticism | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'The dead lights [shutters used to protect ships' interiors during storms at sea]were no sooner up and a candle made f... | Fanny Rutherfurd | Henry Home, Lord Kames | Elements of Criticism | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | '[After sighting land believed by captain and crew of Jamaica Packet to be Graciosa, island in the Azores] the next th... | Janet Schaw and other passengers on board Jamaica Packet | Thomas Salmon | A New Geographical and Historical Grammar | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'I was yesterday at Belleim, the winter palace of the King [of Portugal] [...] The house is by no means fine, and did ... | Janet Schaw | Sir William Chambers | A Dissertation on Oriental Gardening | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to John Kenyon, 3 January 1845: 'I send back your "Vestiges of Creation" [...] it appears to me that... | Elizabeth Barrett | Robert Chalmers | Vestiges of the Natural HIstory of Creation | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Mary Russell Mitford to Elizabeth Barrett, 7 January 1845:
'It is true that posterity remembers the good; but how ... | Mary Russell Mitford | Alphonse de Lamartine | La Chute d'un ange | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Mary Russell Mitford to Elizabeth Barrett, 7 January 1845:
'It is true that posterity remembers the good; but how ... | Mary Russell Mitford | Alphonse de Lamartine | Jocelyn | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Julia Martin, 11 January 1845: 'Mr Kenyon has read to me an extract from a private letter -- addr... | John Kenyon | Harriet Martineau | extract from letter to Edward Moxon, reporting seance | Manuscript: Letter |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 14 January 1845:
'Did I say anything to you of "Fernande" -- Dumases --... | Elizabeth Barrett | Alexandre Dumas | Fernande | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Tomorrow I go on to Ben Jonson, but I shan't like him as much as Marlow. I read Dr Faustus...' | Virginia Stephen | Christopher Marlowe | Dr Faustus | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Tomorrow I go on to Ben Jonson, but I shan't like him as much as Marlow. I read Dr Faustus, and Edward II...' | Virginia Stephen | Christopher Marlowe | Edward II | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Suffice it to say that its who can revere Mr Newman most with Mr Darbishire, the Winkworths and myself, the book is a... | Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell | John Henry Newman | [possibly] Discourses to Mixed Congregations | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I am going through a course of John Henry Newman's Sermons.' | Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell | John Henry Newman | [Sermons] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'But I think you are probably seeing more of what has never fallen in my way exactly, but of what I read of in that st... | Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell | Frederick Denison Maurice | [Sermon on 'Religion versus God'] | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Wm brought me Bernard Palissy, but it so happened I had not a moment of time for reading except one day, when I got v... | Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell | H. Morley | Palissy the Potter | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I have a friend who was educated at Nieuwied, - & who is just crazy about 'Brother Mieth'. First she made me write to... | Miss Patterson | Henry Morley | 'Brother Mieth and his Brothers' | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'I have a friend who was educated at Nieuwied, - & who is just crazy about 'Brother Mieth'. First she made me write to... | Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell | Henry Morley | 'Brother Mieth and his Brothers' | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'Here is the beautiful Commonplace book awaiting me on my return home! And I give it a great welcome you may be sure; ... | Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell | Anna Jameson | Commonplace Book of Thoughts, A | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Friday 6 October 1939: 'I compose articles on Lewis Carroll & read a great variety of books -- Flaubert's life, R[oger... | Virginia Woolf | Francis Steegmuller | Flaubert and Madame Bovary. A Double Portrait | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 26 February 1845:
'Do you know the "Napoleon et Marie Louise" of M. de ... | Elizabeth Barrett | Claude Francois de Meneval | Napoleon et Marie Louise: souvenirs historiques | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'we, as a family, are going through a whole course of Indian literature - Kaye and Malcolm to wit; but I am afraid I r... | Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell | John Malcolm | [possibly] Government of India, The | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Thanks for telling me about the articles. I always like to read anything of your writing, even when it is not of such... | Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell | Richard Monckton Milnes | 'Lucknow' | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | Referring to criticism of Henry James by John Galsworthy that James did not 'write from the heart':
'To me even "R.T... | Joseph Conrad | Henry James | The Real Thing | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | Referring to criticism of Henry James by John Galsworthy that James did not 'write from the heart':
'To me even "R.T... | Joseph Conrad | Henry James | The Pupil | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | ''I hold "Ipane". Hoch! Hurra! Vivat! May you live! And now I know I am virtuous because I read and had no pang of jea... | Joseph Conrad | R. (Robert) B.(Bontine) Cunninghame Graham | The Ipane | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Reading your Domestic Annals of Scotland, warms up all my old Scottish blood, - and makes me wish heartily that our f... | Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell | Robert Chambers | Domestic Annals of Scotland: from the reformation to the revolution | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'after reading the dedication of your Essay on Liberty I can understand how any word expressing a meaning only conject... | Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell | John Stuart Mill | On Liberty | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'To go back to books. H. Martineau's is, I think, the best guide book [to the Lakes].' | Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell | Harriet Martineau | Complete Guide to the English Lakes | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'thanks [...] most especially for those brilliant lines of Father Prout's; how we did delight in them, and how I shoul... | Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell | Francis Mahoney | [Inaugural Ode for the Cornhill Magazine in the persona of 'Father Prout'] | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'thanks [...] most especially for those brilliant lines of Father Prout's; how we did delight in them, and how I shoul... | Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell | Francis Mahoney | [Saturday Review - review of the play 'Dead Heart'] | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'I ought to have told you that my dear Madame Mohl was the author of that Recamier article, - stay, I'll put her lette... | Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell | Madame Mohl | [review of Mme Lenorment's 'Souvenirs et Correspondance de Madame Recamier] | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'we are reading with [Florence] Macaulay's Biographies and Milman's Latin Xtianity and I don't think it is a bad thing... | Elizabeth Gaskell and her daughters Marianne, 'Meta' and Florence | Thomas, Lord Macaulay | Biographies | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'we are reading with [Florence] Macaulay's Biographies and Milman's Latin Xtianity and I don't think it is a bad thing... | Elizabeth Gaskell and her daughters Marianne, 'Meta' and Florence | Henry Hart Milman | History of Latin Christianity | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I suspect that Meta has taken up either the 5th vol. of Modern Painters, or Tyndall on Glaciers, both of which books ... | Florence Elizabeth Gaskell | Wilhelm Meinhold | Amber Witch, The | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'we have just been reading Elsie Venner & we were altogether [italics] very [end italics] American yesterday' | Elizabeth Gaskell and her daughter 'Meta' or Margaret | Oliver Wendell Holmes | Elsie Venner | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '[...] but now since I've received the "Sat. Review" I've something to write about. The "german Tramp" is not only exc... | Joseph Conrad | R.(Robert) B.(Bontine) Cunninghame Graham | In a German Tramp | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'I am reading Michelet's French Revolution.' | Robert Louis Stevenson | Jules Michelet | French Revolution | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'But as to "Buta" it is altogether and fundamentally good, good in matter--that's of course--but good wonderfully good... | Joseph Conrad | R.(Robert) B.(Bontine) Cunninghame Graham | Buta | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'I was so sorry to see that Dr Wendell Holmes called England "The Lost Leader". - I went & read the poem to Meta, who ... | Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell | Oliver Wendell Holmes | [poem] | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'on their wedding journey they [John Symonds and Catherine North] have been writing a paper on Christmas, - which look... | Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell | John Addington Symonds | Thoughts on Xmas. In Florence, 1863 | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'I've read "Cruz Alta" four days ago. c'est tout simplement magnifique. I know most of the sketches, in fact nearly al... | Joseph Conrad | R. (Robert) B.(Bontine) Cunninghame Graham | Cruz Alta | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'As to "Charlotte" the genuineness of its conception the honesty of its feeling make that work as welcome as a breath ... | Joseph Conrad | David Meldrum | The Conquest of Charlotte | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | 'I am altogether under the charm of that book ["The Vanished Arcadia"] in accord with its spirit and full of admiratio... | Joseph Conrad | R. (Robert) B.(Bontine) Cunninghame Graham | Vanished Arcadia | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I am reading, ... "Life" of William Morris.' | Virginia Woolf | J.W. Mackail | Life of William Morris | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '...- I spend 5 days of precious time toiling through Henry James' subtleties for Mrs Lyttleton, and write a very hard... | Virginia Woolf | Henry James | The Golden Bowl | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'However I forgave him, and read him that bit of Walt Whitman about the widowed bird, which I thank God affected him q... | Robert Louis Stevenson | Walt Whitman | Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'It's wonderful how well sustained is the excellence of "Charlotte".I've just read the last instalment [...]' | Joseph Conrad | David Meldrum | (An episode of ) The Conquest of Charlotte | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | 'I'm sorry I kept the MS so long.[...] However I've read it more than once; the difficulty was to say something useful... | Joseph Conrad | Elizabeth Martindale | Margaret Hever | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'I've lazed-- though I must say I did look through all the stories. It was the first look and I have done no actual un... | Joseph Conrad | Guy de Maupassant | [Stories] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'I feel so dull and muddle-headed that I daren't even attempt to give you now an idea of the effect the little volume ... | Joseph Conrad | R.(Robert) B.(Bontine) Cunninghame Graham | Success | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Excellent, the last number of "Maga".'
Conrad then very briefly mentions two stories, one by Neil Munro. | Joseph Conrad | Neil Munro | Children of the Tempest | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'Miss Jewsbury lay on the floor and read half through the Essays of Elia and called our drawing room "such an ugly roo... | Miss Jewsbury | Charles Lamb | Essays of Elia | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'All evening that I have been reading Lord Mahon aloud I have been thinking how I could rush home via Strasbourg & Par... | Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell | Philip Henry Stanhope, 5th Earl Stanhope, Lord Mahon | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I know I shall never be wise enough in a tete a tete with a girl who does not read poetry & novels but Adam Smith, Ni... | Miss Thompson | Adam Smith | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to John Kenyon, 3 January 1845:
'I send back your "Vestiges of Creation". The writer has a certai... | Elizabeth Barrett Barrett | Robert Chambers | Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 18 March 1845:
'Do you know "Le macon" by Michel Raymond --? It is not a... | Elizabeth Barrett Barrett | Raymond Brucker and Michel Masson | Le macon | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 5 April 1845:
'For Mr Horne's storybook, I like some of the stories & t... | Elizabeth Barrett | Richard Hengist Horne and Mary Gillies | A Story Book of Country Scenes | 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 Marshall | Rural Economy of the Midland Counties, The; Including the Management of Livestock in Leicestershire and its Environs' | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 26 May 1845:
'I know Bamford's "Life of a Radical," which contains some ... | Elizabeth Barrett | Samuel Bamford | Passages in the Life of a Radical | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have a present of the poetical Register no 7 as a testimony of respect & therein I find [italics] Horace in London ... | George Crabbe | Horace Smith | Horace in London | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have a present of the poetical Register no 7 as a testimony of respect & therein I find [italics] Horace in London ... | George Crabbe | Horace Smith | Rejected Addresses | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 1 December 1845:
'I have been loitering over "Le monde comme il est" & t... | Elizabeth Barrett Barrett | Astolphe Louis Leonard Marquis de Custine | Le Monde comme il est | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Robert Browning, 13-14 January 1846:
'Will you have Miss Martineau's books when I can lend the... | Moulton-Barrett family | Harriet Martineau | Forest and Game Law Tales | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Robert Browning, 15 January 1846:
'Papa used to say .. "Dont read Gibbon's history -- it's not... | Elizabeth Barrett Barrett | David Hume | Essays | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have now read the remainder [underlined twice] nearly [end underlining] of Glenarvon! & should not give th[e Wr]ite... | George Crabbe | Caroline Lamb | Glenarvon | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'my dear father told thee that Goldsmith's would now be the [italics] deserted village [end italics]; perhaps thou dos... | Richard Shackleton | Oliver Goldsmith | Deserted Village, The | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Mr Boswell the younger. Malone's papers.' | George Crabbe | Edmund Malone | [unknown] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | [present at dinner at Mr Murray's was] 'The Mrs Graham who wrote the lively India Journal, a delightful woman!' | George Crabbe | Maria Graham | Journal of A Residence in India | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Here is Mr Mackensie - with the Surprise I heard it - the Author of "the Man of Feeling" & indeed he is so called.' | George Crabbe | Henry Mackenzie | Man of Feeling, The | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have been engaged by Spurzheims new Edition of his Phrenology: he does not write English Accurately & even where I ... | George Crabbe | Johann C. Spurzheim | Phrenology | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'How are you supplied with Books; I have some from Bath, but I begin to be weary of toil & Humour. yet Mr Reynolds was... | George Crabbe | Horace Smith | Gaieties and Gravities; A Series of Sketches, Comic Tales, and Fugitive Vagaries | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett Browning to Anna Brownell Jameson, 1 October 1849:
'We have had much quiet enjoyment here [...] r... | Robert and Elizabeth Barrett Browning | Alexandre Dumas | | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Elizabeth Barrett Browning to Isa Blagden, ?27 July 1850:
'I return the "Confidences" with thanks upon thanks. Both... | Robert and Elizabeth Barrett Browning | Alphonse Marie Louis de Prat de Lamartine | Les Confidences | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Elizabeth Barrett Browning to Isa Blagden, ?27 July 1850:
'I am finishing the "Memoires d'un medecin"'. | Elizabeth Barrett Browning | Alexandre Dumas (pere) | Memoires d'un medecin: Joseph Balsamo | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Elizabeth Barrett Browning to Thomas Westwood, 12-13 December 1850:
'If you had not sent me the Athenaeum article I... | Robert Browning | John Westland Marston | Review of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Poems (1850) | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | Elizabeth Barrett Browning to Thomas Westwood, 12-13 December 1850:
'If you had not sent me the Athenaeum article I... | Elizabeth Barrett Browning | John Westland Marston | Review of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Poems (1850) | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'I think you do not mean the Treatise of Copplestone that I do, for I see nothing in his Discourses of Necessity and C... | George Crabbe | Joseph Milner | History of the Church of Christ | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '(Florence MacCunn. [italics] Sir Walter Scott's Friends [end italics] Wm. Blackwood 1909) I have just finished this e... | Antonia White | Florence MacCunn | Sir Walter Scott's Friends | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '(Florence MacCunn. [italics] Sir Walter Scott's Friends [end italics] Wm. Blackwood 1909) I have just finished this e... | Antonia White | J. Soames | [article on Lawrence in 'Life and Letters] | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | Leonard Woolf to Lytton Strachey, 9 April 1901:
'I have been in the wilderness to-day but before I end I must tell ... | Leonard Woolf | Charles Marriott | The Column | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Leonard Woolf to Lytton Strachey, 13 July 1902:
'[italics]I[end italics] dribble on among Aristotle, golf & Byron. ... | Leonard Woolf | Joris Karl Huysmans | A Rebours | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Leonard Woolf to Lytton Strachey, 27 January 1905:
'I sit in the Kachcheri [a government office] most of the day & ... | Leonard Woolf | Henry James | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Leonard Woolf to Lytton Strachey, 23 July 1905:
'I have just finished The Golden Bowl & am astounded. Did he invent... | Leonard Woolf | Henry James | The Golden Bowl | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Leonard Woolf to Lytton Strachey, 3 September 1905:
'Euphrosne arrived. It is a queer medley. There are only 3 thin... | Leonard Woolf | Clive Bell, Walter Lamb, Lytton Strachey, Saxon Sydney-Turner, Leonard Woolf et al | Euphrosne | Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | Leonard Woolf to Lytton Strachey, 13 January 1906:
'I have practically settled down for two weeks here [...] it is ... | Leonard Woolf | Joris Karl Huysmans | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Leonard Woolf to Lytton Strachey, 13 January 1906:
'I have practically settled down for two weeks here [...] it is ... | Leonard Woolf | Henry James | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'At present sunk deep in Harriet Martineau: very much attracted in spite of her complacent priggishness and self-right... | Antonia White | Harriet Martineau | [works] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'On my First Communion day, November 21st 1914, I felt nothing at the actual receiving of the sacrament but in reading... | Antonia White | Francis Thompson | [poems] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '[a young Quaker] has made me read Woolman's journal which I found very genuine and moving but not so [italics] boulev... | Antonia White | John Woolman | Journal of John Woolman | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '[in journal entry] from E.O. S[iepmann]'s notebook
Free spirit liable to possession or obsession...
Debauchery is t... | Antonia White | Eric Siepmann | [notebook] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'I love Emily and am too much afraid of hurting her. Her book ['The Tigron' - unpublished] is so very personal to her.... | Antonia White | Emily Coleman | Tigron, The | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | '[Basil Nicholson] loves Marvell's poems and Durer's drawings. He has a great admiration for Keats but won't read the ... | Basil Nicholson | Andrew Marvell | [Poems] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I feel a curious kinship with, dislike of, yet pity for Katherine Mansfield, whose letters I am reading again. I see ... | Antonia White | Katherine Mansfield | [letters] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I am reading Michelet's French Revolution with much interest.' | Robert Louis Stevenson | Jules Michelet | French Revolution/Histoire de la Revolution francaise | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I had hoped to have a clear head here - to get on with German, Italian, etc. and to read some history. But I have bee... | Antonia White | Emily Coleman | [unknown] | Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'I am nearly done with McCrie's Knox.' | Robert Louis Stevenson | Thomas McCrie | Life of John Knox | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Leonard Woolf to G. E. Moore, 4 January 1909:
'I don't think you realize how pleased I was to get your letter & pap... | Leonard Woolf | G. E. Moore | 'Professor James' "Pragmatism"' | Print: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | Leonard Woolf to Lytton Strachey, postscript to letter postmarked 1 February 1909:
'I never thanked you for the boo... | Leonard Woolf | Guy de Maupassant | 'tale' | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Leonard Woolf to Lytton Strachey, postscript to letter postmarked 1 February 1909:
'I never thanked you for the boo... | Leonard Woolf | Earl of Cromer | Modern Egypt | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Leonard Woolf to Lytton Strachey, 2 August 1911:
'Les Freres Karamazov is one of the greatest of novels [...] Have ... | Edgar Woolf | George Meredith | The Ordeal of Richard Feverel | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Leonard Woolf to Virginia Woolf, 13 March 1914:
'Another amusing book I looked at here is Hurrell Froude's Remains.... | Leonard Woolf | John Henry Newman | Apologia pro vita sua | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Whoever reads the Part of the Fairies in the [italics] Midsummer Night's Dream [end italics] may easily perceive how ... | Laetitia Pilkington | John Milton | Comus: A Masque | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Yesterday Badams wrote me (from admist the 'wild beasts of Ephesus,' as he calls the new Mining Companies, with whom ... | Thomas Carlyle | Badams | Letter | Manuscript: Letter |
| 1800-1849 | 'He has written to me twice since his departure; he insists that I shall take a little pony of his with all its furnit... | Thomas Carlyle | Badams | Letter | Manuscript: Letter |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have had a letter from Mrs Montague and, (which is still more extraordinary) I have answered it. What on earth did ... | Jane Baillie Welsh | Mrs Montagu | Letter | Manuscript: Letter |
| 1800-1849 | 'I am very curious to see Mrs Montagu's catalogue of duties: so take care that you do not light your pipe with the let... | Jane Baillie Welsh | Mrs Montagu | Letter dated 13 June | Manuscript: Letter |
| 1800-1849 | I had two sheets from Mrs Montagu the other day trying to prove to me that I knew nothing at all of my own heart (Merc... | Jane Baillie Welsh | Mrs Montagu | Letter dated 3 July | Manuscript: Letter |
| 1800-1849 | 'My dearest
I thought to write to you from this place with joy; I write with shame and tears. The enclosed letter,... | Jane Baillie Welsh | Mrs Montagu | Letter dated 20 July | Manuscript: Letter |
| 1850-1899 | E. M. Forster to Alice Clara Forster, ?summer 1899:
'I hear much of Mr Dimbleby, and have tried to read his books. ... | Edward Morgan Forster | Jabez Bunting Dimbleby | | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | E. M. Forster to George Barger, 27 July 1899:
'I have had a good time in Scotland & here [Northumberland] & go home... | Edward Morgan Forster | Henry James | Portrait of a Lady | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899
1900-1945 | E. M. Forster to Edward Joseph Dent, 3 Ocotber 1906:
'You would hardly know me, so violently has Chartres gothicise... | Edward Morgan Forster | Joris-Karl Huysmans | La Cathedrale | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have had an answer from Mrs Montagu full of rhetoric, and kindness; but no matter for the rhetoric! She is good to... | Jane Baillie Welsh | Mrs Montagu | letter | Manuscript: Letter |
| 1700-1799 | 'Why sure every Person must acknowledge, that while [italics] he [Pope; end italics] is insulting [italics] his [end i... | Laetitia Pilkington | John Milton | Il Penseroso | Print: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | 'Why sure every Person must acknowledge, that while [italics] he [Pope; end italics] is insulting [italics] his [end i... | Laetitia Pilkington | John Denham | Cooper's Hill | Print: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | E. M. Forster to Malcolm Darling, 29 June 1910:
'I am reading Manucci's "Storia do Mogor" -- a most entertaining bo... | Edward Morgan Forster | Niccolo Manucci | Storia do Mogor; or Mogul India, 1653-1708 | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'E[dward]M[organ]F[orster] was reading, as well, Lyall's Asiatic Studies: Religious and Social (1882) and G. F. I. Gra... | Edward Morgan Forster | G. F. I. Graham | The Life and Works of Syed Ahmed Khan | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | E. M. Forster to Malcolm Darling, 29 July 1911:
'I have been reading Kipling's child's history of England with ming... | Edward Morgan Forster | Rosalind Murray | The Leading Note | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | E. M. Forster to Jessica Darling, 6 February 1912:
'Before I get off books, I will put down the names of one or two... | Edward Morgan Forster | George Moore | Ave | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | E. M. Forster to Jessica Darling, 6 February 1912:
'Before I get off books, I will put down the names of one or two... | Edward Morgan Forster | Lascelles Abercrombie | Emblems of Love | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | E. M. Forster to Jessica Darling, 6 February 1912:
'Before I get off books, I will put down the names of one or two... | Edward Morgan Forster | Max Beerbohm | Zuleika Dobson | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | E. M. Forster to Malcolm Darling, 12 March 1912:
'I seem to have read several good books -- William James's Memorie... | Edward Morgan Forster | William James | Memories and Studies | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | E. M. Forster to Malcolm Darling, 12 March 1912:
'I seem to have read several good books -- William James's Memorie... | Edward Morgan Forster | Walter de la Mare | The Return | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | E. M. Forster to Forrest Reid, 19 June 1912:
'The day before yesterday I read The Ghost Ship by R. Middleton [...] ... | Edward Morgan Forster | Richard Barham Middleton | 'The Ghost Ship' | |
| 1700-1799 | 'I was one Day exceedingly surprised when the Penny-post brought a Letter, directed to my Son; as it was marked [itali... | Laetitia Pilkington | Mrs Meade | [letter to LP's son, Jack] | Manuscript: Letter |
| 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 | A.A. Milne | unknown | Print: 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 | Kenneth Grahame | unknown | Print: 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 | George John Whyte-Melville | The Gladiators | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'From a tattered old volume of Grimm’s Fairy Tales passed around among us, we learned to read, even I, at long last,... | Rosemary Sutcliff | Grimm | Fairy Tales | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'And then one day I found a book.
It was a book called Emily of New Moon, about a little girl whose father died of c... | Rosemary Sutcliff | L.M. Montgomery | Emily of New Moon | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I think she thought I was French as I was reading the "Matin". But when I picked up Lamb which was obviously an Engl... | Harold Nicolson | Charles Lamb | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I read about your earlier dinner quite by accident in "Books" - & by the way I have never had the copy with your Step... | Esther Gwendolyn, 'Stella' Bowen | Ernest Hemingway | Sun Also Rises, The | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The Last Post has hitherto had rather a bad press. There were two most violent attacks - on that and N.Y.i. N. A. in ... | Ford Madox Ford | William McFee | New York Herald Tribune Books | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | 'Sydney [Larkin's father] gave him free run of his library and his appetite for books grew enormously. "Thanks to my f... | Sydney Larkin | Katherine Mansfield | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Sydney shaped Larkin's taste skilfully, leading him away from J.C. Powys and towards Llewelyn and T.F., towards James... | Philip Larkin | Alfred Edward Housman | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I have been reading again the "[A] Vanished Arcadia" - from the dedication, so full of charm,to the last paragraph wi... | Joseph Conrad | R. (Robert) B.(Bontine) Cunninghame Graham | A Vanished Arcadia: being some account of the Jesuits in Paraguay 1607-1767 | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I read J. H. A. Macdonald's speech with interest.' | Robert Louis Stevenson | John Hay Athole Macdonald | election speech | Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'Larkin later admitted that he spent most of his time straying from the path Bone [his tutor] intended him to follow. ... | Philip Larkin | George Moore | [unknown] | Print: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'This "new direction" [in literature], Larkin was beginning to realize, would depend on subtlety as well as candour - ... | Philip Larkin | Katherine Mansfield | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Your mention of Hawthorne puts me in mind to tell you what rabid [underlined] admirers we
are of his [...] There is... | Margaret De Quincey | Charles Lamb | unknown | Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'Your Saturday Review fling is first rate. Nothing I liked more since the gold-fish carrier story'. | Joseph Conrad | R. (Robert) B.(Bontine) Cunninghame Graham | A Convert (?) | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | Referring to Elsie Hueffer's translation of Maupassant: 'I've "suggested" on the proof numbered 2 everything that occ... | Joseph Conrad | Guy de Maupassant | Stories from De Maupassant [English title] | Manuscript: Proofs |
| 1700-1799
1800-1849 | 'She comments, with discrimination, on Shakespeare and Ben Jonson, Rousseau and Cervantes, "Tom Jones", "Emma", "A Man... | Louisa, Lady Stuart | Henry Mackenzie | Man of Feeling, The | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I have to thank you for Morel's pamphlet which reached me from L'pool a few days ago.There can be no doubt that his p... | Joseph Conrad | E.(Edward) D.(Dene) Morel | The Congo Slave State. | |
| 1900-1945 | 'Next to tell you that "H.[Hernando]de Soto" is most exquisitely excellent: your very mark and spirit upon a subject ... | Joseph Conrad | R. (Robert) B.(Bontine) Cunninghame Graham | Hernando de Soto: together with an account of one of his captains, Gonçalo Silvestre. | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Have you read your sister in laws Doges Farm? Well that describes much the same sort of country that this is; and yo... | Virginia Woolf | Margaret Symonds | Days Spent on a Doge's Farm | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'However, to make up, the Times has sent me two trashy books, about Thackeray and Dickens and I may write 1500 words o... | Virginia Woolf | Lewis Melville | The Thackeray Country | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'By the bye, I think I read your Mr Morritt's account of Hampton Court in Herefordshire, one of the oldest baronial se... | Louisa, Lady Stuart | Mr Morritt | [account of Hampton Court, Herefordshire] | Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | E. M. Forster to Laura Mary Forster, 19 February 1913:
'Do you know Sleeman's Rambles & Recollections of an Indian ... | Edward Morgan Forster | Sir William Sleeman | Rambles and Recollections of an Indian Official | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | E. M. Forster to Laura Mary Forster, 19 February 1913:
'Do you know Sleeman's Rambles and Recollections of an India... | E. M. Forster | Sir William Sleeman | Rambles and Recollections of an Indian Official | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | E. M. Forster to Malcolm Darling, 6 November 1914:
'I am not a Pro-German [...] I have read the White Paper, and Cr... | Edward Morgan Forster | John Adam Cramb | Germany and England | |
| 1800-1849 | 'Plato and tact sounds like Plato and puppy, an incongruous mixture of ancient and modern, such as only suits the lang... | Louisa, Lady Stuart | Sydney, Lady Morgan | Woman: or, Ida of Athens | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Have you read the "Martyr of Antioch"? I read it (aloud) at Ditton, and did not like it much - heavy and dragging, I ... | Louisa, Lady Stuart | Henry Hart Milman | Martyr of Antioch, The | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia]: several pencil and ink annotations (some fading to illegibility) throughout text, usually of the form of... | John Drummond Erskine | Niccolo Machiavelli | The works of Nicholas Machiavel, secretary of state to the republic of Florence. Newly Translated from the Originals; Illustrated with Notes, Anecdotes, Dissertations, and the Life of Machiavel, Never before published; And Several New Plans .... | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I take this opportunity of returning you A.K.'s fragments. I do believe it has been of material service... as for A.K... | Louisa, Lady Stuart | George Anne Bellamy | Memoirs of George Anne Bellamy | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'This moment I receive "Progress", or rather the moment (last night) occurred favorably to let me read before I sat do... | Joseph Conrad | R. (Robert) B.(Bontine) Cunninghame Graham | Progress and Other Stories | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | E. M. Forster to Malcolm Darling, 6 August 1916:
'I saw from the Hospital Lists that an officer from Lovats Scouts ... | Edward Morgan Forster | Bridget McLagan (i.e. Mary Borden Turner) | 'Bombardment' | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | E. M. Forster to Malcolm Darling, 6 August 1916:
'I saw from the Hospital Lists that an officer from Lovats Scouts ... | Edward Morgan Forster | Bridget McLagan (i.e. Mary Borden Turner) | 'Rousbrugge' | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | E. M. Forster to Laura Mary Forster (aunt), 25 August 1916:
'Your welcome letter to Darkest Africa has been followe... | Edward Morgan Forster | Henry James | What Maisie Knew | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | E. M. Forster to Laura Mary Forster (aunt), 25 August 1916:
'Your welcome letter to Darkest Africa has been followe... | Laura Mary Forster | Henry James | Portrait of a Lady | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | E. M. Forster to Laura Mary Forster (aunt), 1 January 1917:
'For the last hour I have occupied myself with copying ... | Edward Morgan Forster | John Milton | | Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | E. M. Forster to Robert Trevelyan, 29 January 1918:
'I am already deep in The Piddle Years [sic]. I never find Henr... | Edward Morgan Forster | Henry James | The Middle Years | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | E. M. Forster to Siegfried Sassoon, 2 May 1918:
'Have just finished The Sense of the Past, and though it's so obscu... | Edward Morgan Forster | Henry James | The Sense of the Past | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Will you remember us kindly to Mr Dumont, and tell him that I have received his letter; and, that since I wrote to hi... | Maria Edgeworth | Thomas Thomson | Annals of Philosophy | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'We have read the speech which you were so good as to send me, which I most truly consider as the effusion of honest f... | Richard Lovell Edgeworth | Samuel Romilly | [speech on the Slave Trade] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'We have read the speech which you were so good as to send me, which I most truly consider as the effusion of honest f... | Maria Edgeworth | Samuel Romilly | [speech on the Slave Trade] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'The review [by Maria Edgeworth] of "Les Peines et les Recompenses" [French edition by Dumont of Bentham's treatise] c... | Richard Lovell Edgeworth | James Mackintosh | Edinburgh Review [review of Madame de Stael's 'De l'Allemagne'] | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | Gone on with Comparetti Vergilio nel Medio Evo. Bourget’s Physiologie de l’Amour. [next unclear] Dumas Nouveaux En... | Vernon Lee | Domenico Comparetti | Vergileo nel Medio Evo | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Gone on with Comparetti Vergilio nel Medio Evo. Bourget’s Physiologie de l’Amour. [next unclear] Dumas Nouveaux En... | Vernon Lee | Alexandre Dumas | Nouveaux Entre'actes | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Gone on with Comparetti Vergilio nel Medio Evo. Bourget’s Physiologie de l’Amour. [next unclear] Dumas Nouveaux En... | Vernon Lee | Charles Arthur Mercier | Sanity and Insanity | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Goldsmiths description of the Appennines is exact - "Woods over Woods in [italics] gay theatric pride [end italics]".... | Anne Romilly | Oliver Goldsmith | Traveller, The; or, A Prospect of Society | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'I imagine "Glenarvon" has lost much of its merit in your eyes from not being acquainted with the different persons in... | Anne Romilly | Caroline Lamb | Glenarvon | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Do you not think the contrast of the manners between Melbourne House and Devonshire House [in "Glenarvon"] well drawn... | | Caroline Lamb | Glenarvon | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | '[Maria Edgeworth's brother] talked a great deal of you and of "Glenarvon". Have you read the preface of the second ed... | Anne Romilly | Caroline Lamb | Glenarvon | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | '[Maria Edgeworth's brother] talked a great deal of you and of "Glenarvon". Have you read the preface of the second ed... | Mr Edgeworth | Caroline Lamb | Glenarvon | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Have you not been delighted with Mrs Marcet? What an extraordinary work for a woman! Everybody who understands the su... | Anne Romilly | Jane Haldimand Marcet | Conversations on Political Economy | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Have you not been delighted with Mrs Marcet? What an extraordinary work for a woman! Everybody who understands the su... | James Mansfield | Jane Haldimand Marcet | Conversations on Political Economy | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'What a pity it is that Mr B[entham] carries this oddity of language [which AR has just been joking about] into his wo... | Anne Romilly | Jeremy Bentham | [works] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'What a pity it is that Mr B[entham] carries this oddity of language [which AR has just been joking about] into his wo... | Samuel Romilly | Jeremy Bentham | Papers Relative to Codification and Public Instruction | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Mr Mill's great work on India will soon be published in 3 vol. quarto. Sir Samuel saw the two first, and seems to thi... | Samuel Romilly | James Mill | History of British India, The | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'How merciless and ungentlemanlike the"Quarterly Review" is upon Lady Morgan! It is the only thing that could have mad... | Anne Romilly | Sydney Morgan | France | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Reggie Smith, also a producer at the BBC, was married to the novelist Olivia Manning. She was to draw him with exquis... | Ralph Glasser | Olivia Manning | Balkan Trilogy, The | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The music of "La Boheme" having taken special hold of me, I read the libretto in the Mitchell Library, and as much as... | Ralph Glasser | Henry Murger | Scenes de la Vie de Boheme | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'There is, in the British Museum, a letter from Bishop Warburton to Dr Birch, on the subject of biography; which, thou... | Dr Warburton | Pierre Desmaiseaux | La vie de Boileau-Despréaux | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Instead of melting down my materials into one mass, and constantly speaking in my own person, by which I might have a... | James Boswell | William Mason | Memoirs of Gray | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'That the conversation of a celebrated man, if his talents have been exerted in conversation, will best display his ch... | James Boswell | William Mason | [Memoir of William Whitehead] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'His figure and manner appeared strange to them [the company on the night of Johnson's arrival in Oxford]; but he beha... | Samuel Johnson | Ambrosius Theodosius Macrobius | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'More I reflect on the novel the higher I place it: attempts to read Swift, Miss Burney, Smollett, place it on a pinna... | Edward Morgan Forster | Tobias Smollett | | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Impossible to read a Meredith as simply and fairly as a Fielding, with one eye fixed on the author's interests and th... | Edward Morgan Forster | George Meredith | Evan Harrington | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Among texts discussed and quoted from at length in 1926 Commonplace Book of E. M. Forster is Henry James, The Ambassad... | Edward Morgan Forster | Henry James | The Ambassadors | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Among texts discussed and quoted from in 1926 Commonplace Book of E. M. Forster is Herman Melville, Billy Budd, with r... | Edward Morgan Forster | Herman Melville | Billy Budd | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Remarks in E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book of 1926 include 'Nearly all novels go off at the end,' with further commen... | Edward Morgan Forster | Oliver Goldsmith | The Vicar of Wakefield | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | '[editor's words] Previous to her arrival in Stirlingshire she had learnt to read with distinctness and propriety; and... | Elizabeth Hamilton | William Hamilton | Blind Harry's Wallace | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | '[editor's words] Previous to her arrival in Stirlingshire she had learnt to read with distinctness and propriety; and... | Elizabeth Hamilton | Homer | Iliad | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | '[editor's words] without literary pretensions, Mrs Marshall had a genuine love of reading, and when no other engageme... | Elizabeth Hamilton | Henry Home, Lord Kames | Elements of Criticism | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | '[according to Thomas Campbell] he begged of me that when I returned to Ireland, I would endeavour to procure for him ... | Samuel Johnson | Samuel Madden | Boulter's Monument | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | Transcribed in E. M. Forster, Commonplace Book (1927):
'What is principle to me? I am a Pitt. -- Lady Hester Stanho... | Edward Morgan Forster | Max Beerbohm | Letter to Lytton Strachey | Manuscript: Letter |
| 1900-1945 | In Commonplace Book for 1927 E. F. Forster transcribes passage on time from vol. I, ch.iv of Thomas Mann, The Magic Mo... | Edward Morgan Forster | Thomas Mann | The Magic Mountain | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Passages transcribed in E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book for 1927 include Oscar Browning's reflections, quoted in H. E... | Edward Morgan Forster | H. E. Wortham | Oscar Browning | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Passages transcribed into E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book (1928) include reflections on lovers' perceptions from Fran... | Edward Morgan Forster | Francois Mauriac | Le Desert de l'Amour | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Passages transcribed into E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book (1928) include reflections on lovers' perceptions from Fran... | Edward Morgan Forster | Francois Mauriac | La Pharisienne | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'L'Heroisme consiste a ne pas permettre au corps de renier les impudences de l'esprit
'runs an epigram of Maurois w... | Edward Morgan Forster | Andre Maurois | Byron | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | '"A little book we had in the house" led him, "Almost as early as I can remember", to develop an interest in astronomy... | Alfred Edward Housman | John Lempriere | Bibliotheca Classica | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'At home there were daily Bible-readings in the family circle for many years, but secular reading aloud happily also f... | Lucy Housman | Thomas Moore | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Sir, this book ("The Elements of Criticism", which he had taken up,) is a pretty essay, and deserves to be held in so... | Samuel Johnson | Henry Home, Lord Kames | Elements of Criticism | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'At this time the controversy concerning the pieces published by Mr James Macpherson as translations of [italics] Ossi... | Samuel Johnson | James Macpherson | Fragments of Ancient Poetry collected in the Highlands of Scotland | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'At this time the controversy concerning the pieces published by Mr James Macpherson as translations of [italics] Ossi... | Hugh Blair | James Macpherson | Fragments of Ancient Poetry collected in the Highlands of Scotland | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Dr John Campbell, the celebrated political and biographical writer, being mentioned, Johnson said, "Campbell is a man... | Samuel Johnson | John Campbell | Hermippus Redivivus: Or, the Sage's Triumph Over Old Age and the Grave. | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Passages transcribed in E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book (1930) include Poem LII ('Far in a western brookland') of A. ... | Edward Morgan Forster | A. E. Housman | Poem LII ('Far in a western brookland') | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [entered in E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book (1930), underneath quoted passage opening 'I wonder what morality is, whe... | Edward Morgan Forster | J. A. Symonds | | Manuscript: Unknown, Copied from earlier transcription in Forster's hand. |
| 1900-1945 | [entered in E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book (1930), underneath quoted passage opening 'I wonder what morality is, whe... | Edward Morgan Forster | J. A. Symonds | | Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | Texts quoted from at length in E. M. Forster, Commonplace Book (1931) include Henry James, Letters, passages from whic... | Edward Morgan Forster | Henry James | The Letters of Henry James (vol.I) | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'I at this time kept up a very frequent correspondence with Sir David [Dalrymple]; and I read to Dr. Johnson to-night ... | James Boswell | David Dalrymple | [letter to Boswell] | Manuscript: Letter |
| 1700-1799 | 'The conversation now turned upon Mr. David Hume's style. Johnson. "Why, Sir, his style is not English; the structure ... | Samuel Johnson | David Hume | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | ' [Johnson said] "Hume, and other sceptical innovators, are vain men, and will gratify themselves at any expence. Trut... | Samuel Johnson | David Hume | Enquiry concerning Human Understanding | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | ' [Johnson said] "Hume, and other sceptical innovators, are vain men, and will gratify themselves at any expence. Trut... | James Boswell | David Hume | Enquiry concerning Human Understanding | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'He told me, that his father had put Martin's account of those islands into his hands when he was very young, and that... | Samuel Johnson | Martin Martin | Description of the Western Islands of Scotland | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'He told me, that his father had put Martin's account of those islands into his hands when he was very young, and that... | Michael Johnson | Martin Martin | Description of the Western Islands of Scotland | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'On Thursday, July 28, we again supped in private at the Turk's Head coffee-house. Johnson. "Swift has a higher reputa... | Samuel Johnson | James Thomson | [poems] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'He had in his pocket, "Pomponius Mela de Situ Orbis," in which he read occasionally, and seemed very intent upon anci... | Samuel Johnson | Pomponius Mela | De situ orbis | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'He said of Goldsmith's "Traveller," which had been published in my absence, "There has not been so fine a poem since ... | Samuel Johnson | Oliver Goldsmith | Traveller, The | Print: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | '[EDITOR'S WORDS] The same enlightened judgment [of a friend] which had protected "The Rajah", gave its sanction to "T... | Mrs G- | Elizabeth Hamilton | Letters of a Hindoo Rajah | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | '[EDITOR'S WORDS] The same enlightened judgment [of a friend] which had protected "The Rajah", gave its sanction to "T... | Mrs G- | Elizabeth Hamilton | Memoirs of Modern Philosophers | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | '[EDITOR'S WORDS] In composing this work [her "Letters on Education"], she accustomed herself to read a few letters to... | Elizabeth Hamilton | Elizabeth Hamilton | Letters on Education | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'When the first proof came home, I did not like its look in print; so stopped the press, and wrote another first chapt... | Elizabeth Hamilton | Elizabeth Hamilton | Letters on Education | Print: proof |
| 1800-1849 | '[EDITOR'S WORDS] 'On reading the first sheets [of her "Cottagers of Glenburnie"] at her own fire-side, she was encour... | Elizabeth Hamilton | Elizabeth Hamilton | Cottagers of Glenburnie, The | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | '[EDITOR'S WORDS] She had, however, dwelt long enough on the idea [of aging] to make it the subject of a sportive poem... | Elizabeth Hamilton | Elizabeth Hamilton | [poem - 'Is that Auld Age'] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'I meant to inform you, that besides those books already mentioned, I sent for Bishop Horne's Sermons, 4 vols. Carr's ... | James Lackington | Augustin Calmet | Dictionary of the Bible | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I meant to inform you, that besides those books already mentioned, I sent for Bishop Horne's Sermons, 4 vols. Carr's ... | James Lackington | Hannah More | Works | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'He [Dr Johnson] said, "Macaulay, who writes the account of St. Kilda, set out with a prejudice against prejudice, and... | Samuel Johnson | Kenneth Macaulay | History of St Kilda | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'A Lady of Norfolk, by a letter to my friend Dr. Burney, has favoured me with the following solution [to the question ... | | Kenneth Macaulay | History of St Kilda | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'A Lady of Norfolk, by a letter to my friend Dr. Burney, has favoured me with the following solution [to the question ... | Reverend Christian | Kenneth Macaulay | History of St Kilda | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'When I talked of our [the Scots'] advancement in literature, "Sir, (said he,) you have learnt a little from us, and y... | Samuel Johnson | David Hume | History of England | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'When I talked of our [the Scots'] advancement in literature, "Sir, (said he,) you have learnt a little from us, and y... | Samuel Johnson | Henry Home, Lord Kames | Elements of Criticism | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'He allowed high praise to Thomson, as a poet; but when one of the company said he was also a very good man, our moral... | Samuel Johnson | James Thomson | [poetry] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'He allowed high praise to Thomson, as a poet; but when one of the company said he was also a very good man, our moral... | Samuel Johnson | James Thomson | [letters to his sisters and accounts by them of his character] | Manuscript: Letter |
| 1700-1799 | 'He allowed high praise to Thomson, as a poet; but when one of the company said he was also a very good man, our moral... | James Boswell | James Thomson | [letters to his sister and accounts by them of his character] | Manuscript: Letter |
| 1700-1799 | 'Mrs. Montague, a lady distinguished for having written an Essay on Shakspeare [sic], being mentioned:—Reynolds. "I ... | Samuel Johnson | Elizabeth Montagu | Essay on the Writings and Genius of Shakespear | Print: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | 'Mrs. Montague, a lady distinguished for having written an Essay on Shakspeare [sic], being mentioned:—Reynolds. "I ... | Joshua Reynolds | Elizabeth Montagu | Essay on the Writings and Genius of Shakespear | Print: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | 'Mrs. Montague, a lady distinguished for having written an Essay on Shakspeare [sic], being mentioned:—Reynolds. "I ... | David Garrick | Elizabeth Montagu | Essay on the Writings and Genius of Shakespear | Print: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | Passages transcribed in E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book (1935) include reflections on associations of placenames and ... | Edward Morgan Forster | Ernest Hemingway | A Farewell to Arms | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Passages transcribed in E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book (1935-6) include two quotations from Herman Melville, Mardi. | Edward Morgan Forster | Herman Melville | Mardi | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Passages transcribed in E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book (1935-6) include quotation from letter of Herman Melville to ... | Edward Morgan Forster | Herman Melville | Letter to Nathaniel Hawthorne, ?1 June 1851 | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Passages transcribed into E. M. Forster, Commonplace Book (1937) include part of Le Morte D'Arthur, XX.3, opening: ' "... | Edward Morgan Forster | Thomas Malory | Le Morte D'Arthur | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Johnson proceeded :— "The Scotchman has taken the right method in his 'Elements of Criticism.' I do not mean that h... | Mr Murphy | Henry Home, Lord Kames | Elements of Criticism | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Johnson proceeded :— "The Scotchman has taken the right method in his 'Elements of Criticism.' I do not mean that h... | Oliver Goldsmith | Henry Home, Lord Kames | Elements of Criticism | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Johnson proceeded :— "The Scotchman has taken the right method in his 'Elements of Criticism.' I do not mean that h... | Samuel Johnson | Henry Home, Lord Kames | Elements of Criticism | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | '[Boswell having expressed doubt about the power of prayer, Johnson] mentioned Dr. Clarke and Bishop Bramhall on "Libe... | Samuel Johnson | John Bramhall | Discourse of Liberty and Necessity | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'The poem of "Fingal", he said, was a mere unconnected rhapsody, a tiresome repetition of the same images. "In vain sh... | Samuel Johnson | James MacPherson | 'Fingal: An Ancient Epic Poem' [from Poems of Ossian] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Speaking of Arthur Murphy, whom he very much loved, "I don't know (said he) that Arthur can be classed with the very ... | Samuel Johnson | Arthur Murphy | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Speaking of Homer, whom he venerated as the prince of poets, Johnson remarked that the advice given to Diomed by his ... | Samuel Johnson | Homer | Iliad | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Passages transcribed in E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book (1940-41) under heading 'Eighteenth Centuriana' include repor... | Edward Morgan Forster | R. W. Ketton-Cremer | Horace Walpole: A Biography | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Passages transcribed into E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book (1941) include remarks on bigotry (opening 'Bigotry is an o... | Edward Morgan Forster | Ernest Hemingway | For Whom the Bell Tolls | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Passages transcribed in E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book (1941) include stanza 7 of Malherbe, 'Consolation a Monsieur ... | Edward Morgan Forster | Francois de Malherbe | 'Consolation a Monsieur du Perier, sur la Mort de sa Fille' | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Passages transcribed in E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book (1941) include stanza 32 of Malherbe, 'Pour le Roi, allant ch... | Edward Morgan Forster | Francois de Malherbe | 'Pour le Roi, allant chatier la Rebellion des Rochelois' | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | He had said in the morning that "Macaulay's 'History of St. Kilda' was very well written, except some foppery about li... | Samuel Johnson | Kenneth Macaulay | History of St Kilda | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'What philosophy suggests to us on this topick [the possibility of life after death] is probable: what Scripture tells... | Samuel Johnson | Henry More | [theological works] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'He [Dr Johnson] said, "Goldsmith's 'Life of Parnell' is poor; not that it is poorly written, but that he had poor mat... | Samuel Johnson | Oliver Goldsmith | Life of Parnell | 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 Buckingham | Rehearsal, The | Print: 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 Buckingham | Rehearsal, The | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'On Saturday, April 3, the day after my arrival in London this year, I went to his house late in the evening, and sat ... | Samuel Johnson | Oliver Goldsmith | [apology for beating a bookseller] | Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | 'I mentioned Sir John Dalrymple's "Memoirs of Great Britain and Ireland", and his discoveries to the prejudice of Lord... | Samuel Johnson | John Dalrymple | Memoirs of Great Britain and Ireland | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'I mentioned Sir John Dalrymple's "Memoirs of Great Britain and Ireland", and his discoveries to the prejudice of Lord... | James Boswell | John Dalrymple | Memoirs of Great Britain and Ireland | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'I spoke of Allan Ramsay's "Gentle Shepherd," in the Scottish dialect, as the best pastoral that had ever been written... | James Boswell | Allan Ramsay | Gentle Shepherd, The | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | ' [Johnson said of Goldsmith] "Take him as a poet, his 'Traveller' is a very fine performance; ay, and so is his 'Dese... | Samuel Johnson | Oliver Goldsmith | Traveller, The | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | ' [Johnson said of Goldsmith] "Take him as a poet, his 'Traveller' is a very fine performance; ay, and so is his 'Dese... | Samuel Johnson | Oliver Goldsmith | Deserted Village, The | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | ' [Johnson said of Goldsmith] "Take him as a poet, his 'Traveller' is a very fine performance; ay, and so is his 'Dese... | Samuel Johnson | Oliver Goldsmith | Roman History From The Foundation of The City of Rom | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | ' [Johnson said of Goldsmith] "Take him as a poet, his 'Traveller' is a very fine performance; ay, and so is his 'Dese... | Samuel Johnson | Oliver Goldsmith | History of England in a Series of Letters from a Nobleman to His Son | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | ' [Johnson said of Goldsmith] "Take him as a poet, his 'Traveller' is a very fine performance; ay, and so is his 'Dese... | Samuel Johnson | David Dalrymple | [books of history] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Talking of puns, Johnson, who had a great contempt for that species of wit, deigned to allow that there was one good ... | Samuel Johnson | Monsieur Menage | Menagiana Ou Les Bons Mots | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [Following notes on life and thought of Pelagius] 'From a good article in the Biographie Universelle.' | Edward Morgan Forster | Michaud | article on Pelagius | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Texts quoted from and discussed at length in E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book (1942) include St Jerome, Letters ('Loeb... | Edward Morgan Forster | St Jerome | Select Letters of St Jerome | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Passages in E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book (1944) include two short quotations, from Bede ('Two most wicked spirits ... | Edward Morgan Forster | Henri-Frederic Amiel | Fragments d'un Journal Intime | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Their [the Tennyson children's] imaginative natures gave them many sources of amusement. One of these lasted a long t... | Tennyson family | Tennyson (family members) | stories | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Alfred Tennyson, aged twelve, to his aunt Marianne Fytche:
'You used to tell me that you should be obliged to me if... | Alfred Tennyson | John Milton | Samson Agonistes | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'The [Tennyson] boys had one great advantage [as home-educated pupils], the run of their father's excellent library. A... | Tennyson children (boys) | John Milton | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'The [Tennyson] boys had one great advantage [as home-educated pupils], the run of their father's excellent library. A... | Tennyson children (boys) | Oliver Goldsmith | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [on the Apostles, Cambridge students' society to which Alfred Tennyson belonged]
'These friends not only debated on... | The Apostles | David Hume | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [on the Apostles, Cambridge students' society to which Alfred Tennyson belonged]
'These friends not only debated on... | The Apostles | Jeremy Bentham | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Many friends of Somersby days have told me of the exceeding consideration and love which my father showed his mother ... | Alfred Tennyson | John Milton | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Many friends of Somersby days have told me of the exceeding consideration and love which my father showed his mother ... | Alfred Tennyson | Campbell | | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'He [George Gissing] seems to have read Hardy's novels as they appeared and, impressed by "Diana of the Crossways", re... | George Gissing | George Meredith | Diana of the Crossways | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'He [George Gissing] seems to have read Hardy's novels as they appeared and, impressed by "Diana of the Crossways", re... | George Gissing | George Meredith | [novels] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'In the late 1880s Gissing immersed himself in contemporary European fiction, as he had during previous periods of his... | George Gissing | Henri Murger | Scenes de la Vie Boheme | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'In the late 1880s Gissing immersed himself in contemporary European fiction, as he had during previous periods of his... | George Gissing | Auguste Comte | Cours de Philosophie Positive | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'In the late 1880s Gissing immersed himself in contemporary European fiction, as he had during previous periods of his... | George Gissing | Moliere | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'In the late 1880s Gissing immersed himself in contemporary European fiction, as he had during previous periods of his... | George Gissing | Alfred de Musset | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'He [George Gissing] recommended [in letters to his siblings] books like Morris's "Earthly Paradise", a poem "aboundin... | George Gissing | William Morris | Earthly Paradise, The | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'He [George Gissing] recommended [in letters to his siblings] books like Morris's "Earthly Paradise", a poem "aboundin... | George Gissing | Johann Peter Eckerman | Conversations of Goethe | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Arthur Hallam to Alfred Tennyson:
'I have been reading Mrs Jameson's Characteristics, and I am so bewildered with s... | Arthur Hallam | Mrs Jameson | Characteristics | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Gissing, probably more than any of his contemporaries, knew well the main trends of European literature at that time,... | George Gissing | Guy de Maupassant | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Gissing read as widely as ever, with the same unbridled curiosity as during his youth but now with an intelligence te... | George Gissing | Frederika Bremer | Hertha | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'He [Johnson] attacked Lord Monboddo's strange speculation on the primitive state of human nature; observing, "Sir, it... | Samuel Johnson | James Burnett, Lord Monboddo | Of the Origin and Progress of Language | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'His disbelief of the authenticity of the poems ascribed to Ossian, a Highland bard, was confirmed in the course of hi... | James Boswell | James Macpherson | [Ossian poems, culminating in] Fingal, an Ancient Epic Poem in Six Books, together with Several Other Poems composed by Ossian, the Son of Fingal, translated from the Gaelic Language | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I have just made my will and am reading Aimard's novels.' | Robert Louis Stevenson | Gustave Aimard | unidentified novels | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I find here (of all places in the world) your Essays on Art, which I have read with signal interest.' | Robert Louis Stevenson | Philip Gilbert Hamerton | Art Essays | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'As for his private occupations [during 1834], my father was still reading his Racine, Moliere, and Victor Hugo among ... | Alfred Tennyson | Maurice | Eustace Conway | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Following Hallam Tennyson's description of his mother's attendance of her younger sister as bridesmaid in May 1836]
... | Emily Sellwood | John Milton | Comus | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'The "faithful Fitz" [Edward Fitzgerald] writes that as early as 1835, when he met my father in the Lake Country, at t... | Alfred Tennyson | John Milton | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | From Alfred Tennyson's journal of his tour in Cornwall, 1848:
'19th [June]. Finished reading Fathom.' | Alfred Tennyson | Tobias Smollett | The Adventures of Ferdinand, Count Fathom | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Sometimes he [Tennyson] read Grimm's Fairy Stories or repeated ballads to us.' | Alfred Tennyson | Grimm | Fairy Stories | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | [Aubrey De Vere writes] 'In 1854 I went [...] to Farringford, where the poet [Tennyson] then made abode with his wife ... | Alfred Tennyson and Aubrey De Vere | Coventry Patmore | The Angel in the House | 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 Tennyson | John Milton | | 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 Tennyson | Henry Hallam | 'History' | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Johnson. "Sheridan is a wonderful admirer of the tragedy of Douglas, and presented its author with a gold medal. Some... | Samuel Johnson | John Home | Douglas, A tragedy | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Johnson. "Sheridan is a wonderful admirer of the tragedy of Douglas, and presented its authour with a gold medal. Som... | Thomas Sheridan | John Home | Douglas, A tragedy | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'The "Odes to Obscurity and Oblivion," in ridicule of "cool Mason and warm Gray", being mentioned, Johnson said, "They... | Samuel Johnson | George Colman | Two Odes: To Obscurity and To Oblivion | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'The "Odes to Obscurity and Oblivion," in ridicule of "cool Mason and warm Gray", being mentioned, Johnson said, "They... | Samuel Johnson | William Mason | Elfrida | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'The "Odes to Obscurity and Oblivion," in ridicule of "cool Mason and warm Gray", being mentioned, Johnson said, "They... | James Boswell | William Mason | Elfrida | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'I often wondered at his [Johnson's] low estimation of the writings of Gray and Mason. Of Gray's poetry I have, in a f... | James Boswell | William Mason | Elfrida | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'I often wondered at his [Johnson's] low estimation of the writings of Gray and Mason. Of Gray's poetry I have, in a f... | James Boswell | William Mason | Caractacus: A Dramatic Poem | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'I often wondered at his [Johnson's] low estimation of the writings of Gray and Mason. Of Gray's poetry I have, in a f... | James Boswell | William Mason | [minor poems] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | '[Dr Thomas Campbell, who dined with Johnson on 3 April 1775] has since published "A Philosophical Survey of the South... | James Boswell | Thomas Campbell | Philosophical Survey of the South of Ireland, in a series of letters | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I've read your book ["His People"] with the usual delight and more than the usual admiration.[...] Three times I've g... | Joseph Conrad | R. (Robert) B.(Bontine) Cunninghame Graham | His People | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Years ago I looked into "Typee" and "Omoo" but as I didn't find there what I am looking for when I open a book I did g... | Joseph Conrad | Herman Melville | Moby Dick or The Whale | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Vol 7
On the Griphi and Impromptus
(quotation) 'I was very large at my birth and likeways in old age; but very small... | Frances Hamilton | Abbot Barthelemu | Travels of Anacherbis the Younger in Greece during the middle of the fourth century before the Christian Era | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | ' [Johnson said] "When Lord Lyttelton's 'Dialogues of the Dead' came out, one of which is between Apicius, an ancient ... | Samuel Johnson | John Campbell | Political Survey of Great Britain, A | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Johnson had with him upon this jaunt, "Il Palmerino d'Inghilterra", a romance praised by Cervantes; but did not like ... | Samuel Johnson | Francisco de Morais | Il Palmerino d'Inghilterra | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'I mentioned Mr. Maclaurin's uneasiness on account of a degree of ridicule carelessly thrown on his deceased father, i... | Mr Maclaurin | Oliver Goldsmith | History of the Earth and Animated Nature | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'He [Joseph Simpson] wrote a tragedy on the story of Leonidas, entitled "The Patriot". He read it to a company of lawy... | Joseph Simpson | Joseph Simpson | Patriot, The | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | 'We talked of Flatman's Poems; and Mrs. Thrale observed, that Pope had partly borrowed from him "The dying Christian t... | Samuel Johnson | Thomas Flatman | [Poems] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'We talked of Flatman's Poems; and Mrs. Thrale observed, that Pope had partly borrowed from him "The dying Christian t... | Hester Lynch Thrale | Thomas Flatman | [Poems] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Mr. Murphy said, that "The Memoirs of Gray's Life" set him much higher in his estimation than his poems did; "for you... | Samuel Johnson | William Mason | [Poems] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Dr. Johnson said, "Thomson had a true poetical genius, the power of viewing every thing in a poetical light. His faul... | Samuel Johnson | James Thomson | [Poems] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Sir Joshua [Reynolds] mentioned Mr. Cumberland's "Odes", which were just published. JOHNSON. "Why, Sir, they would ha... | Samuel Johnson | Richard Cumberland | [Odes] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'I asked him whether he would advise me to read the Bible with a commentary, and what commentaries he would recommend.... | Samuel Johnson | Henry Hammond | A Paraphrase and Annotations Upon All the Books of the New Testament | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | ' I have had the new edition of Sta. Teresa sent down for a leisurely re-reading. It seems no end of years since I rea... | Joseph Conrad | Gabriela Cunninghame Graham | Santa Teresa: Her Life and Times | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I have read M. Auguste.' | Robert Louis Stevenson | Joseph Mery | Monsieur Auguste | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I have read M. Auguste and the Crime Inconnu, being now abonne to a library.' | Robert Louis Stevenson | Joseph Mery | Un crime inconnu | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'The Damned Ones of the Hindies now occupy my attention.' | Robert Louis Stevenson | Joseph Mery | Les Damnes de Java | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | '[ letter from Boswell to Johnson, responding to the latter's contention that there existed no adequate 'Life' of Thom... | James Boswell | Patrick Murdoch | [Life of Thomson, prefixed to an edition of 'The Seasons'] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | ' [letter from Boswell to Johnson] Without doubt you have read what is called "The Life of David Hume", written by him... | James Boswell | David Hume | My Own Life | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'In the afternoon I tried to get Dr. Johnson to like the Poems of Mr. Hamilton of Bangour, which I had brought with me... | Samuel Johnson | William Hamilton | 'Ah the poor shepherd's mournful fate' | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'In the afternoon I tried to get Dr. Johnson to like the Poems of Mr. Hamilton of Bangour, which I had brought with me... | Samuel Johnson | William Hamilton | [imitations of Horace] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'In the afternoon I tried to get Dr. Johnson to like the Poems of Mr. Hamilton of Bangour, which I had brought with me... | Samuel Johnson | William Hamilton | 'Inscription in a Summer house' | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'In the afternoon I tried to get Dr. Johnson to like the Poems of Mr. Hamilton of Bangour, which I had brought with me... | Samuel Johnson | William Hamilton | [poem on Winter] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'In the afternoon I tried to get Dr. Johnson to like the Poems of Mr. Hamilton of Bangour, which I had brought with me... | James Boswell | William Hamilton | [poem on Winter] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'In the afternoon I tried to get Dr. Johnson to like the Poems of Mr. Hamilton of Bangour, which I had brought with me... | James Boswell | William Hamilton | [poems] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'In the afternoon I tried to get Dr. Johnson to like the Poems of Mr. Hamilton of Bangour, which I had brought with me... | Andrew Erskine | William Hamilton | [poems] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'He repeated a good many lines of Horace's "Odes", while we were in the chaise. I remember particularly the Ode [itali... | Samuel Johnson | Homer | Iliad and Odyssey | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Mallet's "Life of Bacon" has no inconsiderable merit as an acute and elegant dissertation relative to its subject; bu... | James Boswell | David Mallet | Life of Francis Bacon, The | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Mallet's "Life of Bacon" has no inconsiderable merit as an acute and elegant dissertation relative to its subject; bu... | William Warburton | David Mallet | Life of Francis Bacon, The | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Often, when my incompetent needle refused, as it has always refused throughout my life, to collaborate with my intent... | Vera Brittain | John Masefield | Gallipoli | Print: Serial / periodical, magazines |
| 1700-1799 | 'I had lent him "An Account of Scotland, in 1702," written by a man of various enquiry, an English chaplain to a regim... | Samuel Johnson | Martin Martin | Description of the Western Isles of Scotland | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'I had lent him "An Account of Scotland, in 1702," written by a man of various enquiry, an English chaplain to a regim... | Samuel Johnson | Thomas Morer | Short Account of Scotland | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'I looked into Lord Kaimes's "Sketches of the History of Man"; and mentioned to Dr. Johnson his censure of Charles th... | James Boswell | Henry Home, Lord Kames | Sketches of the History of Man | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Sir John Pringle had expressed a wish that I would ask Dr. Johnson's opinion what were the best English sermons for s... | Samuel Johnson | George Smallridge | [Sermons] | Print: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | 'Langton. "There is not one bad line in that poem [Goldsmith's 'The Traveller']— no one of Dryden's careless verses.... | Samuel Johnson | Oliver Goldsmith | Traveller, The | Print: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | 'Langton. "There is not one bad line in that poem [Goldsmith's 'The Traveller']— no one of Dryden's careless verses.... | Joshua Reynolds | Oliver Goldsmith | Traveller, The | Print: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | 'Langton. "There is not one bad line in that poem [Goldsmith's 'The Traveller']— no one of Dryden's careless verses.... | Bennet Langton | Oliver Goldsmith | Traveller, The | Print: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | 'Langton. "There is not one bad line in that poem [Goldsmith's 'The Traveller']— no one of Dryden's careless verses.... | Charles Fox | Oliver Goldsmith | Traveller, The | Print: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'Those 2 poems of Masefield's are very good....Poetry counteracts the deadening influence a good deal....I am reading ... | Edward Brittain | John Masefield | The Loom of Youth | Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'No − my “Burns” is not done yet, it has led me so far afield that I cannot finish it ; every time I think I... | Robert Louis Stevenson | Allan Ramsay | The Gentle Shepherd | Print: Book, Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | 'After wandering about in a kind of pleasing distraction for some time, I got into a corner, with Johnson, Garrick, an... | Samuel Johnson | Homer | Iliad and Odyssey | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'After wandering about in a kind of pleasing distraction for some time, I got into a corner, with Johnson, Garrick, an... | James Boswell | Homer | Iliad and Odyssey | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'After wandering about in a kind of pleasing distraction for some time, I got into a corner, with Johnson, Garrick, an... | James Boswell | Homer | Iliad and Odyssey | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'JOHNSON. "Sir William Temple was the first writer who gave cadence to English prose. Before his time they were carele... | David Garrick | Martial | Epigrams | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'JOHNSON. "Sir William Temple was the first writer who gave cadence to English prose. Before his time they were carele... | David Garrick | Martial | Epigrams | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'JOHNSON. "Sir William Temple was the first writer who gave cadence to English prose. Before his time they were carele... | Samuel Johnson | William Temple | | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | ' [Johnson said] "Sir, you know the notion of confinement may be extended, as in the song, "Every island is a prison."... | Samuel Johnson | Edmund Smith | 'Thales; a monody, sacred to the memory of Dr. Pococke. In imitation of Spenser' | Print: Unknown |
| 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 | John Milton | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'His [Wilfred Owen's] literary interests must always have been a mystery to her, although she admired them, for her ow... | Susan Owen | John Oxenham [pseud.] | [light novels] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Another, much less predictable [than that of Shelley] influence on Owen's thinking at Dunsden and much later began in... | Wilfred Owen | Harold Monro | Before Dawn: Poems and Impressions | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Not long afterwards I was reminded of this conversation by some lines from E. A. Mackintosh's "Cha Till Maccruimein,"... | Vera Brittain | E.A. Mackintosh | Cha Till Maccruimein | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Still sore and indignant, I happened one day to read some verses by Sir Owen Seaman which I found in a copy of "Punch... | Vera Brittain | Owen Seaman | The Soul of a Nation | Print: Serial / periodical, magazine |
| 1850-1899 | 'I read […] Martin’s "History of France"[…]' | Robert Louis Stevenson | Henri Martin | History of France | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I read […] Allan Ramsay […]' | Robert Louis Stevenson | Allan Ramsay | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I read […] Comines […]' | Robert Louis Stevenson | Philippe de Commines | Memoires | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '[Owen] bought [Harold] Monro's latest book, "Children of Love", and became a familiar visitor [at the Poetry Bookshop... | Wilfred Owen | Harold Monro | Children of Love | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Monro gave [Owen] access to new work that was to be invaluable to him in 1917-18 and may have drawn his attention to ... | Wilfred Owen | Alfred Edward Housman | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'the two poets [Owen and Sassoon] probably talked more about literature than anything else. Owen found that they had b... | Siegfried Sassoon | Alfred Edward Housman | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'He [Owen] bought Monro's latest collection "Strange Meetings" (1917), with its interesting title, and "Georgian Poetr... | Wilfred Owen | Harold Monro | Strange Meetings | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '[that civilians could believe soldiers were happy in the trenches] is evident from plenty of civilian verse, includin... | Wilfred Owen | John Oxenham [pseud.] | Vision Splendid, The | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Gen. Robertson called and presented me with Hamley's Operations of War in which I am now drowned a thousand fathoms d... | Robert Louis Stevenson | Edward Bruce Hamley | Operations of War | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'In December he read Lang's translation of the elegies by Bion and Moschus that had been Shelley's model for "Adonais".' | Wilfred Owen | Bion of Smyrna | 'Epitaph on Adonis' | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'In December he read Lang's translation of the elegies by Bion and Moschus that had been Shelley's model for "Adonais".' | Wilfred Owen | Moschus | 'Epitaph on Bion' | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'JOHNSON. "The fallacy of that book [Mandeville's "Fable of the Bees"] is, that Mandeville defines neither vices nor b... | Samuel Johnson | Bernard Mandeville | Fable of the Bees: or, Private Vices, Publick Benefits | 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 Marshall | Minutes of Agriculture | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'He begged of General Paoli to repeat one of the introductory stanzas of the first book of Tasso's "Jerusalem", which ... | Filippo Antonio Pasquale di Paoli | Homer | | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'He begged of General Paoli to repeat one of the introductory stanzas of the first book of Tasso's "Jerusalem", which ... | Samuel Johnson | Homer | | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Figure to yourself, I wrote a review of Lord Lorne for "Vanity Fair" − a few pages of scurrility that I wrote l... | Robert Louis Stevenson | John Douglas Sutherland Campbell, Marquess of Lorne | Guido and Lita: A Tale of the Riviera. | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I remember [...] [Tennyson's] reading with admiration this passage from Maurice's Friendship of Books. "If I do not g... | Alfred Tennyson | F. D. Maurice | Friendship of Books | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Oct 4th. [1858] "To-day," my mother says [in diary], "A. took a volume of the Morte d'Arthur and read a noble passage... | Alfred Tennyson | Thomas Malory | Morte d'Arthur | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Oct 4th. [1858] "To-day," my mother says [in diary], "A. took a volume of the Morte d'Arthur and read a noble passage... | Alfred Tennyson | John Milton | Paradise Lost | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'On Feb. 17th [1861] my father told my mother about his plan for a new poem, "The Northern Farmer."
'By the evening... | Alfred and Emily Tennyson | Thomas Malory | Morte d'Arthur | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Aubrey De Vere, on how he 'first made acquaintance with Alfred Tennyson's poetry':
'Lord Houghton, then Richard Mon... | Aubrey De Vere | Arthur Hallam | Essay on Alfred Tennyson's Poems, Chiefly Lyrical | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849
1850-1899 | Edward Fitzgerald to Emily Tennyson [1862], in reponse to request for information on fishing and fishermen (as backgro... | Edward Fitzgerald | Dampier | Voyages | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'But at least, through my work at Oxford and my subsequent reading of F. S. Marvin and Gilbert Murray and H. G. Wells,... | Vera Brittain | F.S. Marvin | unknown | Print: Book |
| | 'RAMSAY. "I suppose Homer's 'Iliad' to be a collection of pieces which had been written before his time. I should like... | Allan Ramsay | Homer | Iliad | Print: Book |
| | 'He [Johnson] said, "I have been reading Lord Kames's 'Sketches of the History of Man'. In treating of severity of pun... | Samuel Johnson | Henry Home, Lord Kames | Sketches of the History of Man | Print: Book |
| | 'Looking at Messrs. Dilly's splendid edition of Lord Chesterfield's miscellaneous works, he laughed, and said, "Here n... | Samuel Johnson | Henry Home, Lord Kames | Sketches of the History of Man | Print: Book |
| | 'We had a quiet comfortable meeting at Mr. Dilly's; nobody there but ourselves. Mr. Dilly mentioned somebody having wi... | Samuel Johnson | John Milton | Tractate: Of Education | |
| | '[Johnson said] "I remember a passage in Goldsmith's "Vicar of Wakefield", which he was afterwards fool enough to expu... | Samuel Johnson | Oliver Goldsmith | Vicar of Wakefield | Manuscript: Unknown |
| | '[Johnson said] "King James says in his 'Daemonology', 'Magicians command the devils: witches are their servants. The ... | Samuel Johnson | King James I | Daemonology | Print: Book |
| | '[from the 1780 Johnsoniana passed to Boswell by Bennet Langton] 'Callimachus is a writer of little excellence. The ch... | Samuel Johnson | Callimachus | | Print: Book |
| | '[from the 1780 Johnsoniana passed to Boswell by Bennet Langton] 'Mattaire's account of the Stephani is a heavy book. ... | Samuel Johnson | Mattaire | [various works including Latin verses] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | '[from the Johnsoniana imparted by Bennet Langton to Boswell in 1780] Spanish plays, being wildly and improbably farci... | Samuel Johnson | Homer | | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | '[from the Johnsoniana imparted by Bennet Langton to Boswell in 1780] As I recollect, Hammond introduces a hag or witc... | Samuel Johnson | James Hammond | Love Elegies | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | '[from the Johnsoniana imparted by Bennet Langton to Boswell in 1780] In the latter part of his life, in order to sati... | Samuel Johnson | Thomas a Kempis | Imitation of Christ | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | '[Johnson said of Rev. Zacariah Mudge] The general course of his life was determined by his profession; he studied the... | Samuel Johnson | Zachariah Mudge | Sermons | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | '[Johnson said of Rev. Zacariah Mudge] The general course of his life was determined by his profession; he studied the... | Samuel Johnson | Zachariah Mudge | [notes on the Psalms] | Print: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | 'Sir Joshua Reynolds praised "Mudge's Sermons". JOHNSON. "'Mudge's Sermons' are good, but not practical. He grasps mor... | Joshua Reynolds | Zachariah Mudge | Sermons | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Sir Joshua Reynolds praised "Mudge's Sermons". JOHNSON. "'Mudge's Sermons' are good, but not practical. He grasps mor... | Samuel Johnson | Zachariah Mudge | Sermons | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Miss Hannah More has admirably described a [italics] Blue-stocking Club [end italics], in her "Bas Bleu", a poem in w... | James Boswell | Hannah More | Bas Bleu; or Conversation | Print: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | 'Johnson and Shebbeare were frequently named together, as having in former reigns had no predilection for the family o... | James Boswell | William Mason | Heroick Epistle to Sir William Chambers | Print: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | 'Johnson and Shebbeare were frequently named together, as having in former reigns had no predilection for the family o... | Oliver Goldsmith | William Mason | Heroick Epistle to Sir William Chambers | Print: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | 'Johnson thought the poems published as translations from Ossian had so little merit, that he said, 'Sir, a man might ... | Samuel Johnson | James Macpherson | [Ossian poems] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Sir William Chambers, that great Architect, whose works shew a sublimity of genius, and who is esteemed by all who kn... | Samuel Johnson | William Chambers | Designs of Chinese buildings, furniture, dresses, machines, and utensils : to which is annexed a description of their temples, houses, gardens, &c | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | 'BOSWELL. "Pray, Sir, is the 'Turkish Spy' a genuine book?" JOHNSON. "No, Sir. Mrs. Manley, in her 'Life', says that h... | Samuel Johnson | Delarivier Manley | Adventures of Rivella, or the History of the Author of The New Atalantis | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'BOSWELL. "Pray, Sir, is the 'Turkish Spy' a genuine book?" JOHNSON. "No, Sir. Mrs. Manley, in her 'Life', says that h... | James Boswell | Giovanni Paolo Marana | Letters written by a Turkish spy, who lived five and forty years undiscovered at Paris: giving an impartial account to the Divan at Constantinople, of the most remarkable transactions of Europe: and discovering several intrigues and secrets ... | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | '[Johnson said] There is in "Camden's Remains", an epitaph upon a very wicked man, who was killed by a fall from his h... | Samuel Johnson | William Camden | Remains Concerning Britain | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Lord Hailes had sent him a present of a curious little printed poem, on repairing the University of Aberdeen, by Davi... | Samuel Johnson | David Mallet | [a poem about Aberdeen] | Print: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | '[Johnson said] The books that we do read with pleasure are light compositions, which contain a quick succession of ev... | Samuel Johnson | Homer | odyssey | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'In this letter [to Boswell from Mr Mickle] he relates his having, while engaged in translating the "Lusiad", had a di... | Samuel Johnson | Luis Vaz de Camoens | Lusiads | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | '[william Mickle said] Dr. Johnson told me in 1772, that, about twenty years before that time, he himself had a design... | Samuel Johnson | Luis Vaz de Camoens | Lusiads | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Johnson was very quiescent to-day [17th May 1784] . Perhaps too I was indolent. I find nothing more of him in my note... | James Boswell | Thomas a Kempis | Imitation of Christ | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'He had dined that day [30th May 1784] at Mr. Hoole's, and Miss Helen Maria Williams being expected in the evening, Mr... | Samuel Johnson | Helen Maria Williams | Ode on the Peace, An | Print: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | 'Mrs. Kennicot related, in his [Johnson's] presence, a lively saying of Dr. Johnson to Miss Hannah More, who had expre... | Samuel Johnson | John Milton | | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Mrs. Kennicot related, in his [Johnson's] presence, a lively saying of Dr. Johnson to Miss Hannah More, who had expre... | Hannah More | John Milton | Paradise Lost | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Mrs. Kennicot related, in his [Johnson's] presence, a lively saying of Dr. Johnson to Miss Hannah More, who had expre... | Hannah More | John Milton | [Sonnets] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'I then read Mason on self knowledge till dinner, not with so much attention as I could wish; I seldom attend sufficie... | Elizabeth Gurney | John Mason | Self-knowledge: A Treatise | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'I had a quiet afternoon on the sofa in my room reading Mason on self knowledge, French, and Job Scott's journal, whic... | Elizabeth Gurney | John Mason | Self-knowledge: A Treatise | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | '[letter to Hector MacNeil - H.M.] 'it appears to me, that even in your slighter pieces, this illusion [hiding judgmen... | Elizabeth Hamilton | Hector Macneil | [poems] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | '[letter to Hector MacNeil - H.M.] [EH says she has received a note from 'Miss H.] along with your volume, of which sh... | Elizabeth Hamilton | Hector Macneil | Harp, The | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | '[letter to Hector MacNeil - H.M.] [EH says she has received a note from 'Miss H.] along with your volume, of which sh... | Miss H. | Hector Macneil | Harp, The | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | '[letter to Hector MacNeil - H.M.] [EH says she has received a note from 'Miss H'.] along with your volume, of which s... | Miss H. | Hector Macneil | The Waes of War or the Upshot of the History of Will and Jean | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | '[letter to Hector MacNeil - H.M.] In what you say with regard to the second volume of "Letters on Education" being, i... | Hector Macneil | Elizabeth Hamilton | Letters on Education | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | '[letter to Hector MacNeil - H.M.] Do I not well remember hiding "Kaims's Elements of Criticism", under the cover of a... | Elizabeth Hamilton | Henry Home, Lord Kames | Elements of Criticism | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | '[letter to Dr S.] I submitted my half finished manuscript [to my friend Mr D. S-], which he read over with critical a... | Mr D.S- | Elizabeth Hamilton | Memoirs of the Life of Aggrippina, the wife of Germanicus | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | '[letter to Miss J-B-] I have just been looking over the fifth volume of poor Burns. it contains much that he would ha... | Elizabeth Hamilton | R.H. Cromek | Reliques of Robert Burns | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'He censured a writer of entertaining Travels for assuming a feigned character, saying, (in his sense of the word,) "H... | Samuel Johnson | John Moore | [travels] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | '[letter from Johnson to Dr Brocklesby] Tell Dr. Heberden, that in the coach I read "Ciceronianus" which I concluded a... | Samuel Johnson | Desiderius Erasmus | Ciceronianus | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'A distinguished authour in "The Mirror", a periodical paper, published at Edinburgh, has imitated Johnson very closel... | James Boswell | Henry Mackenzie | [imitation of Johnson] | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | 'The poets John read at Highgate Junior School included Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Thomas Campbell and Edgar Allan Poe'. | John Betjeman | Thomas Campbell | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '[quotation from Maurice Bowra's Memoirs] The first time I met him [John Betjeman] he talked fluently about half forgo... | John Betjeman | Lewis Morris | | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Doctor Collier used to say that although Milton was so violent a Whig himself, he was obliged to write his poem upon ... | Dr Collier | John Milton | Paradise Lost | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Doctor Collier used to say that although Milton was so violent a Whig himself, he was obliged to write his poem upon ... | Hester Lynch Thrale | John Milton | Paradise Lost | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'the Verses written by Bentley upon Learning & publish'd in Dodsley's Miscellanies - how like they are to Evelyn's Ver... | Hester Lynch Thrale | Francis Beaumont | Bonduca | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'the Verses written by Bentley upon Learning & publish'd in Dodsley's Miscellanies - how like they are to Evelyn's Ver... | Hester Lynch Thrale | Francis Beaumont | [Plays] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I must let off a little steam. I am wroth beyond expression about Mr Kirkham’s cheek in publishing our letters. I... | Cornelia Sorabji | Kirkham (ed.) | Reminiscences of Tennyson extracted from Cornelia's letters home | Print: Newspaper |
| 1700-1799 | 'Doctor Marriott wrote the prettiest Verses in French of any Englishman I know'.[she then gives lengthy examples] | Hester Lynch Thrale | Dr Marriott | [French poems] | Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | 'Here is an odd Book come out to prove Falstaff was no Coward, when says Dr Johnson will one come forth to prove Iago ... | Hester Lynch Thrale | Maurice Morgan | Essay on the Dramatic Character of Sir John Falstaff | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | '[Mr Pepys] is admirably described by the same Words with which Menage describes Mr de Costar; C'est (dit il), le Gala... | Hester Lynch Thrale | Gilles Menage | Menagiana | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899
1900-1945 | Copious MS notes, some correcting translation, others commenting on world affairs or noting events in Trevelyan's own ... | George Otto Trevelyan | Conyers Middleton | The life and letters of Marcus Tullius Cicero | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | "This volume was being read by Sir George Trevelyan when his last illness came on him": MS note in the hand of Sir Cha... | George Otto Trevelyan | Elizabeth Von Arnim | Christopher and Columbus | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I had by this time [his mid-teens] also struck up a friendship with a young, unemployed, linotype operator, six or se... | Charles Causley | Louis MacNeice | | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | This book, originally owned and read by Lord Macaulay in June-Oct 1836, was given to his nephew who wrote on flyleaf: ... | George Otto Trevelyan | Martin Madan | A new and literal translation of Juvenal and Perseus | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | MS notes and marks throughout, including: "May 2 1919. Exquisite book! I seem to hear my dear friend [Henry James] tal... | George Otto Trevelyan | Henry James | Portraits of places | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899
1900-1945 | MS notes including various dates of reading from Feb 16, 1899 - March 25 1901. Final volume summarised as: "A fine, co... | George Otto Trevelyan | Jules Michelet | Histoire de France | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia in Keats's annotated copy of "Paradise Lost", Book 3, Lines 51-9]: The management of this Poem is Apolloni... | John Keats | John Milton | Paradise Lost | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia in Keats's annotated copy of "Paradise Lost", Book 3, lines 135-7]: 'Hell is finer than this'. | John Keats | John Milton | Paradise Lost | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia in Keats's annotated copy of "Paradise Lost", Book 3, lines 487-9]: 'This part in its sound is unaccountab... | John Keats | John Milton | Paradise Lost | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia in Keats's annotated copy of "Paradise Lost", Book 3, lines 606-17]: Keats underlines the phrases and line... | John Keats | John Milton | Paradise Lost | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia in Keats's annotated copy of "Paradise Lost", Book 4, lines 1-5] Keats underlines the lines: "O for that w... | John Keats | John Milton | Paradise Lost | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia in Keats's annotated copy of "Paradise Lost", Book 4, lines 268-72] Keats underlines the lines: "Not that ... | John Keats | John Milton | Paradise Lost | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia in Keats's annotated copy of "Paradise Lost", Book 6, lines 58-9] Keats underlines "reluctant flames, the ... | John Keats | John Milton | Paradise Lost | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia in Keats's annotated copy of "Paradise Lost", Book 7, lines 420-34] Keats underlines the phrase "With clan... | John Keats | John Milton | Paradise Lost | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia in Keats's annotated copy of "Paradise Lost", Book 9, 41-7]: 'Had not Shakespeare liv'd?' | John Keats | John Milton | Paradise Lost | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia in Keats's annotated copy of "Paradise Lost", Book 9, 179-91]. Keats underlines the whole passage, excludi... | John Keats | John Milton | Paradise Lost | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Copious MS notes and marginal marks, including some showing signs of irritation: v.5 p.96 "Oh do have done!"; v.4: "Oh... | George Otto Trevelyan | Oliver Cromwell | Oliver Cromwell's letters and speeches; with elucidations by Thomas Carlyle | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Various MS notes and marks including date of reading: June 23 1923 and a note on p.311 "The birthplace": "This was bas... | George Otto Trevelyan | Henry James | The better sort | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | From Emily Tennyson's Journal, 1869:
'Sept. 13th. [...] Read the "Idylls" through in their proper sequence during t... | Emily Tennyson | Martineau | Endeavours After a Christian Life | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | From Emily Tennyson's Journal, 1869:
'Dec. 11th. Farringford. A. read me some of Maurice's Social Morals; "a noble ... | Alfred Tennyson | Maurice | Social Morals | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | From Emily Tennyson's Journal, 1870:
'Nov. 8th. [...] A. read me Pepys' Diary [...] We read about starlings in Morr... | Alfred and Emily Tennyson | Morris | ?work on ornithology | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | From Emily Tennyson's Journal, 1872:
'June 22nd. Farringford. Every night A. has read Shakespeare, or Pascal, or Mo... | Alfred Tennyson | Montesquieu | Decadence des Romains | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | From Emily Tennyson's Journal, 1872:
'Aug. 7th. We went to Paris. A. [...] bought and read many volumes of Victor H... | Alfred Tennyson | Alfred de Musset | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Marginal marks and MS notes. Dates of reading on final page and the note: "What was the year when we saw so much of th... | George Otto Trevelyan | Henry James | The reverberator | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Various marginal marks and MS dates of reading including: "Welcombe. Read to C[Lady Caroline Trevelyan] and Anna [his ... | George Otto Trevelyan | Henry James | The Aspern Papers - Louisa Pallant - The modern warning | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'The other day I borrowed a volume of Symonds's poems from himself and returned it to him without a word of comment.' | Robert Louis Stevenson | John Addington Symonds | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | This book has copious notes and marginal marks, including many unrelated to the text written on pastedown and fly-leaf... | George Otto Trevelyan | Henry James | The ambassadors | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | MS annotations and marginal marks incl. v.1 p.503, in reply to the author's comment "we must now throw a glance to the... | George Otto Trevelyan | John Lothrop Motley | History of the United Netherlands | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | MS notes and marginal marks throughout the book, in the hand of Sir George Otto Trevelyan. Dates of reading include "S... | George Otto Trevelyan | John Lothrop Motley | The rise of the Dutch republic: a history | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Cumberland had written two Odes, what says Mrs Montagu to me do you think of them? I think said I they are as like Gr... | Hester Lynch Thrale | Richard Cumberland | [Odes] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Cumberland had written two Odes, what says Mrs Montagu to me do you think of them? I think said I they are as like Gr... | Elizabeth Montagu | Richard Cumberland | [Odes] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'I was told to-day that Joshua and Jesus are the very same Name. I never heard it before, and suppose it not commonly ... | Hester Lynch Thrale | John Milton | Paradise Lost | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'At the time when Owen Ruffhead was writing the "Contest" in opposition to Murphy's "Test"; Gilbert Cooper it seems th... | Gilbert Cooper | Arthur Murphy | Contest | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1600-1699
1700-1799 | Transcribed in Elizabeth Lyttelton's hand, "A Hymne to our Creator" by Dr Dillingham.
| Elizabeth Lyttelton | Dr Dillingham | A Hymne to our Creator | Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | 'It was on the 18: day of July 1773 that we were sitting in the blue Room at Streatham and were talking of Writers - S... | Samuel Johnson | William Mason | | 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 Buckingham | Rehearsal, The | 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... | Samuel Johnson | George Villiers, 2nd Duke of Buckingham | Rehearsal, The | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'He had in his Youth been a great Reader of Mandeville, and was very watchful for the Stains of original corruption bo... | Samuel Johnson | Bernard Mandeville | | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'He had however no Taste for Modern Poetry - Gray Mason &c - Modern Poetry says he one day at our house, is like Moder... | Samuel Johnson | William Mason | | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699
1700-1799 | Transcribed in Elizabeth Lyttelton's hand, Thomas Flatman, 'On Dr. Brown's Travels'.
| Elizabeth Lyttelton | Thomas Flatman | On Dr. Brown's Travels | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'He [Tennyson] had been reading Motley's Dutch Republic.' | Alfred Tennyson | Motley | Dutch Republic | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | James Martineau to Hallam Tennyson (1893), recalling meetings of the Metaphysical Society:
'I remember a special in... | Rev. F. D. Maurice | Rev. F. D. Maurice | paper on meanings of words 'nature,' 'natural,' 'supernatural.' | Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | James Martineau to Hallam Tennyson (1893), recalling meetings of the Metaphysical Society:
'I remember a special in... | James Martineau | James Martineau | 'Is there any Axiom of Causation?' | Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | 'of Elphinstone's specimen of Martial he [Johnson] said, there was too much Folly in them for Madness, and too much Ma... | Samuel Johnson | Martial | Epigrams | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Another favourite Passage too in the same Author [Metastasio's Adriano]; which Baretti made his Pupil - my eldest Da... | Hester Maria Thrale | Metastasio [pseud.] | Adriano | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'I myself like Smollet's Novels better than Fielding's; the perpetual Parody teizes one; - there is more Rapidity and ... | Hester Lynch Thrale | Tobias Smollett | | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Mr Murphy's Grecian Daughter is I think unquestionably the best of all our modern Tragedies, & all its Merit is the P... | Hester Lynch Thrale | Arthur Murphy | Grecian Daughter, the: A tragedy | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | '[when Mrs Thrale was a child] The Duchess of Leeds likewise took an odd Delight in my excellent company, used to send... | Hester Lynch Salusbury | John Milton | | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Was I to make a Scale of Novel Writers I should put Richardson first, then Rousseau; after them, but at an immeasurab... | Hester Lynch Thrale | Tobias Smollett | Ferdinand Count Fathom | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699
1700-1799 | [List of books read to Sir Thomas Browne by Elizabeth Lyttelton]. Headed in commonplace book: 'The books which my daug... | Elizabeth Lyttelton | S.J. Alvaro Semedo | The History of China | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699
1700-1799 | [List of books read to Sir Thomas Browne by Elizabeth Lyttelton]. Headed in commonplace book: 'The books which my daug... | Elizabeth Lyttelton | Mandelilo | Travels (unidentified) | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699
1700-1799 | [List of books read to Sir Thomas Browne by Elizabeth Lyttelton]. Headed in commonplace book: 'The books which my daug... | Elizabeth Lyttelton | William Camden | Historie of the Life and Reigne of Elizabeth | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699
1700-1799 | [List of books read to Sir Thomas Browne by Elizabeth Lyttelton]. Headed in commonplace book: 'The books which my daug... | Elizabeth Lyttelton | Olaus Magnus | History of the Northern People | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699
1700-1799 | [List of books read to Sir Thomas Browne by Elizabeth Lyttelton]. Headed in commonplace book: 'The books which my daug... | Elizabeth Lyttelton | Rudolf Jakob Camerarius | De sexu plantarum epistola | Print: Book |
| | 'I was reading today where Menage tells a story of a notable fellow in his native town Angers, who was such a bustler ... | Hester Lynch Thrale | Gilles Menage | Menagiana | Print: Book |
| | 'Lord Kaimes again tells us a wild Story of Savages who eat all their own children & have done so for six Hundred Year... | Hester Lynch Thrale | Henry Home, Lord Kames | Sketches of the History of Man | Print: Book |
| | 'Goldsmith talks of cows shedding their Horns, & Thompson makes his Hens and Chicks to be
Fed & defended by the fe... | Hester Lynch Thrale | Oliver Goldsmith | History of the Earth and Animated Nature | Print: Book |
| | 'Goldsmith talks of cows shedding their Horns, & Thompson makes his Hens and Chicks to be
Fed & defended by the fe... | Hester Lynch Thrale | James Thomson | Seasons, The - 'Spring' | Print: Book |
| | 'Goldsmith talks of cows shedding their Horns, & Thompson makes his Hens and Chicks to be
Fed & defended by the fe... | Hester Lynch Thrale | James Thomson | Seasons, The - 'Summer' | Print: Book |
| | 'I could not help thinking the other Day as I read the Epigram of Martial ending thus
Iam dic Posthume de tribus Ca... | Hester Lynch Thrale | Martial | Epigrams | Print: Book |
| | 'There was a very pleasant Copy of Verses ran about the Town that Year [1776], but I forgot to lay them up, & now I ha... | Hester Lynch Thrale | William Mason | 'Heroic Epistle to Sir William Chambers' | Print: Unknown |
| | '20: Jan: 1779.] My second Daughter Susanna Arabella who will not be nine Years old till next May, can at this Moment ... | Susanna Arabella Thrale | Moliere [pseud.] | Le Bourgeois gentilhomme | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'In respect of contemporary novels he [Tennyson] had a very catholic taste. Latterly he read Stevenson and George Mere... | Alfred Tennyson | George Meredith | | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'In respect of contemporary novels he [Tennyson] had a very catholic taste. Latterly he read Stevenson and George Mere... | Alfred Tennyson | Henry James | | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'In respect of contemporary novels he [Tennyson] had a very catholic taste. Latterly he read Stevenson and George Mere... | Alfred Tennyson | R. D. Blackmore | | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'In respect of contemporary novels he [Tennyson] had a very catholic taste. Latterly he read Stevenson and George Mere... | Alfred Tennyson | Lady Margaret Majendie | | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'Yesterday I went to the workhouse to spend the evening with the children; a prospect I have had in view for some time... | Elizabeth Fry | Frederick Smith | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'In the beginning of September [1892], though feeling very ill, my father looked over a book of poems at the earnest e... | Alfred Tennyson | Dalmon | poems | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | From Hallam Tennyson's accounts of 'Last Talks' with his father:
'"'L'Agonie' by Sully Prudhomme I have just been r... | Alfred Tennyson | Sully Prudhomme | L'Agonie | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | From Hallam Tennyson's accounts of 'Last Talks' with his father:
'"'L'Agonie' by Sully Prudhomme I have just been r... | Alfred Tennyson | Alfred de Musset | poems including 'Tristesse' | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'In 1885 he [Tennyson] came across Amiel's Journal Intime, and thought his criticisms on Hugo and literature in genera... | Alfred Tennyson | Amiel | Journal Intime | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | From Hallam Tennyson's account of his father's last days:
'On Sept. 3rd [1892] he complained of weakness and of pai... | Alfred Tennyson | St Matthew | Gospel | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | '"Ye Grots & Caverns shagg'd with horrid Thorn!" This Verse from Pope's Eloisa was originally Milton's - 'tis in Comus... | Hester Lynch Thrale | John Milton | Comus: A Masque | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'The Characters in the modern Comedies of Puff, Snake & Spatter are quite new, & peculiar to this age I think; it is t... | Hester Lynch Thrale | George Colman | Clandestine Marriage, The | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Johnson's newly written Lives are delightful, but he is too hard on Prior's Alma: he will be keenly reproached for hi... | Hester Lynch Thrale | Philip Massinger | Fatal Dowry, The | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Psalmanazar wrote the Cosmogony, and the History of the Jews after his Conversion; how odd that he shold quote the Fo... | Hester Lynch Thrale | George Psalmanazar | [articles contributed to the 'Universal History'] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I did not go out again but passed the time away in reading, amused the youngsters with some stories from Grimms Gobli... | John Buckley Castieau | Brothers Grimm | [fairy tales] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'After tea I read some goblin stories to the youngsters, then I went to the Mechanics & read the papers. "Touchstone"... | John Buckley Castieau | Brothers Grimm | [fairy tales] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'In the evening after tea I read a fairy tale to the Youngsters then went to the Mechanics & had a look at the Papers.' | John Buckley Castieau | Brothers Grimm | [fairy tales] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'After tea I read a fairy tale to the youngsters & then went to the Mechanics & read the papers.' | John Buckley Castieau | Brothers Grimm | [fairy tales] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Dotty's two little girls are on a visit to us they came either yesterday or on the day previous. This evening I read... | John Buckley Castieau | Brothers Grimm | [fairy tales] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Jean's friend lent her George Moore's "Heloise and Abelard" - "one of the loveliest; all that my Wyclif book should h... | Winifred Holtby | George Moore | Heloise and Abelard | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | From F. T. Palgrave's 'Personal Recollections' of Tennyson:
'I had put the scheme of my Golden Treasury before him ... | Alfred Tennyson | Andrew Marvell | 'The Emigrant's Song' | Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | From F. T. Palgrave's 'Personal Recollections' of Tennyson:
'I had put the scheme of my Golden Treasury before him ... | Alfred Tennyson | Andrew Marvell | 'To His Coy Mistress | Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | From F. T. Palgrave's 'Personal Recollections' of Tennyson:
'Shakespeare and Milton [...] he read aloud by preferen... | Alfred Tennyson | John Milton | Paradise Lost (book IV) | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | From F. T. Palgrave's 'Personal Recollections' of Tennyson:
'In G. Meredith's first little volume he was delighted ... | Alfred Tennyson | George Meredith | 'Love in a Valley' | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Here's a pretty Sonnet of Povoleri's; I must translate it. [the verse is given in Italian and English] over the Page ... | Hester Lynch Thrale | Abbate Buondelmonte | [a sonnet] | Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'In the afternoon I read a story out of Grimm's Goblins to the little girls & after Muster as the weather was wet I st... | John Buckley Castieau | Brothers Grimm | [fairy tales] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'What a strange Book is Burton's "Anatomy of Melancholy"! & how it has been plunder'd! Milton took his Allegro and Pen... | Hester Lynch Thrale | John Milton | 'L'Allegro' | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'What a strange Book is Burton's "Anatomy of Melancholy"! & how it has been plunder'd! Milton took his Allegro and Pen... | Hester Lynch Thrale | John Milton | 'Il Penseroso' | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Mustered this afternoon, then sat & read till tea time. After tea had more than an hour with the youngsters reading t... | John Buckley Castieau | Brothers Grimm | [fairy tales] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I worked in the Gaol in the morning for a time then lazily read ["Lalla Rookh"?] till dinner time' | John Buckley Castieau | Thomas Moore | Lalla Rookh: an oriental romance | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Was to-night reading Lemon's Story of "Wait for the End" and waited myself for the end which I did not reach until af... | John Buckley Castieau | Mark Lemon | Wait for the End | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Don't read noble old Fred's Pirate anyhow; it is written in sand with a salt spoon: arid, feeble, vain, tottering pro... | Robert Louis Stevenson | Frederick Marryat | The Pirate | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'I was reading to the Girls to day More's Acct of The King of Prussia's Severity to his favourite Valet who unable to ... | Hester Lynch Thrale | John Moore | View of Society and Manners in France, Switzerland and Germany | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'I was reading Derham's Astro, not his Astro, his Physico Theology; and can hardly help laughing when I see these simp... | Hester Lynch Thrale | William Derham | Physico-Theology, or, A Demonstration of the Being and Attributes of God, from His Works of Creation | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'While their [her daughters'] Father's Life preserv'd my Authority entire, I used it [italics] all & only [end italics... | Hester Lynch Thrale and her daughters Hester, Susanna and Sophia | John Milton | | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'While their [her daughters'] Father's Life preserv'd my Authority entire, I used it [italics] all & only [end italics... | Hester Lynch Thrale and her daughters Hester, Susanna and Sophia | Oliver Goldsmith | Vicar of Wakefield, The | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I wrote endless imitations, though I never thought them to be imitations but, rather wonderfully original things, lik... | Dylan Thomas | Christopher Marlowe | | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I stayed at home amusing the children by reading a fairy tale to them. They seemed to take great interest inn the nar... | John Buckley Castieau | Richard Harris Barham | Ingoldsby Legends | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Played Bezique with Polly in the evening after I had read aloud three Acts of "She stoops to conquer".' | John Buckley Castieau | Oliver Goldsmith | She stoops to conquer | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'In the evening took Polly out for a little walk after I had finished reading [aloud?] "She stoops to conquer".' | John Buckley Castieau | Oliver Goldsmith | She stoops to conquer | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Began to-night to read again "The Vicar of Wakefield" & was delighted with its quaint easy style, read two or three c... | John Buckley Castieau | Oliver Goldsmith | The Vicar of Wakefield | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'The ladies did not retire till after eleven & then I laid myself down on the sofa & tried to sleep. The mosquitoes ho... | John Buckley Castieau | Alexandre Dumas | Memoirs of a physician | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Harry this evening commenced reading McAuley's (sic) History of England. He is getting a great deal too fond of Plays... | Harry Castieau | Thomas Babington Macaulay | History of England | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'In the evening I read to the youngsters out of Peter [Parley?] & then heard Harry read a Page of Macauley. Went into ... | Harry Castieau | Thomas Babington Macaulay | History of England | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'It was while serving here [Willenslee at the farm of Mr Laidlaw] , in the eighteenth year of my age, that I first got... | James Hogg | Allan Ramsay | Gentle Shepherd: A Pastoral Comedy | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'It was while serving here [Willenslee at the farm of Mr Laidlaw] , in the eighteenth year of my age, that I first got... | James Hogg | Henry the Minstrel | Life and Adventures of Sir William Wallace | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I read a novel called the Guardian Angel to-day by the Author of "Elsie Vennor". It was quite up to the run of most n... | John Buckley Castieau | Oliver Wendell Holmes | Guardian Angel | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I return "The Moon and Sixpence" and your criticism. I agree with your criticism but I do not think that you have la... | Arnold Bennett | W. Somerset Maugham | The Moon and Sixpence | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Young as he [Allan Cunnigham] was, I had heard of his name, although slightly, and, I think, seen one or two of his j... | James Hogg | Allan Cunningham | | Print: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | 'Young as he [Allan Cunningham] was, I had heard of his name, although slightly, and, I think, seen one or two of his ... | James Hogg | Thomas Mouncey | | Print: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | 'I was astonished at the luxuriousness of his [Allan Cunningham's] fancy. it was boundless; but it was the luxury of a... | James Hogg | Allan Cunningham | [imitations of Ossian] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | 'I was astonished at the luxuriousness of his [Allan Cunningham's] fancy. it was boundless; but it was the luxury of a... | James Hogg | R.H. Cromek | Remains Of Nithsdale And Galloway Song | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'I was astonished at the luxuriousness of his [Allan Cunningham's] fancy. it was boundless; but it was the luxury of a... | Mr Morrison | Allan Cunningham | 'Mermaid of Galloway, The' | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'While Polly was away I read to Harry & Dotty one of the Ingoldsby's Legends' | John Buckley Castieau | Richard Harris Barham | Ingoldsby Legends | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'George Moore’s 'Avowals' is highly agreeable.' | Arnold Bennett | George Moore | Avowals | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '. . . There have been 2 supreme books since your regretted departure. G. Moore’s 'Avowals' and the letters of Ch... | Arnold Bennett | George Moore | Avowals | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Got home to tea & after tea listened to Polly who read a manuscript Miss McDermott wanted to get an opinion about. It... | Polly Castieau | Miss McDermott | [story] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'In the evening I sat down to read "the Vicar's Daughter" & got so interested in it that I began to read tit bits alou... | John Buckley Castieau | George MacDonald | The Vicar's Daughter | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'In the evening I played a game of bagatelle with Dotty & a game of Bezique with Sissy & with that & "Monte Christo" m... | John Buckley Castieau | Alexandre Dumas | The Count of Monte Cristo | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'it was during this year [1884] that she began her translation of Amiel's "Journal".' | Mary Ward | Henri Frederic Amiel | Journal Intime | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | '[letter from Mrs Ward's brother William Arnold] I served on a jury at the Assizes last week - two murder cases and ge... | Mr Amiel | Henri Frederic Amiel | Journal Intime | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Robert Southey to Thomas Davis Lamb, c. 18 June 1792: 'To see the manners of different countries is certainly of the u... | Robert Southey | Homer | Odyssey | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Robert Southey to Thomas Davis Lamb, c. 18 June 1792: 'To see the manners of different countries is certainly of the u... | Robert Southey | Homer | Iliad | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Robert Southey to Grosvenor Charles Bedford, 4 December 1792: 'I have already said too much. I have an old poem of the... | Robert Southey | William Chamberlayne | Pharonnida, a Heroick Poem | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'I have now one great satisfaction, which is reading Hume's "History". It entertains and instructs me. It elevates my ... | James Boswell | David Hume | History of England | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'David Hume and John Dryden are at present my companions' | James Boswell | David Hume | History of England | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'I employed the day in reading Hume's "History", which enlarged my views, filled me with great ideas, and rendered me ... | James Boswell | David Hume | History of England | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | '[letter from Mrs Ward to Gladstone] Thank you very much for the volume of "Gleanings" with its gracious inscription. ... | Mary Augusta Ward | Henri Frederic Amiel | Journal Intime | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Robert Southey to Charles Collins, 12-13 January 1793: 'Whether or not man has the stain of original sin I leave to th... | Robert Southey | Stéphanie Félicité Ducrest de St-Aubin (Madame de Genlis) | Theatre de l'Education | Print: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | Robert Southey to Charles Collins, 31 March 1793: 'On Wednesday morning about eight o clock we sallied forth. my trave... | Robert Southey | John Milton | Pro Populo Anglicano Defensio | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Robert Southey to Grosvenor Charles Bedford, 4-20 April 1793: 'I have lately read the Man of Feeling — if you have n... | Robert Southey | Henry Mackenzie | The Man of Feeling | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Robert Southey to Grosvenor Charles Bedford, 14-18 October 1793: 'I proceeded on sad & solitary to Hounslow & there ga... | Robert Southey | Tobias Smollett | The Adventures of Sir Lancelot Greaves | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Robert Southey to Grosvenor Charles Bedford, 14-18 October 1793: 'In the interim you shall have the remarks that occur... | Robert Southey | Tobias Smollett | The Adventures of Sir Lancelot Greaves | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Robert Southey to Grosvenor Charles Bedford, 14-18 October 1793: 'In the interim you shall have the remarks that occur... | Robert Southey | Tobias Smollett | The Adventures of Humphry Clinker | Print: Book |
| 1500-1599 | 'after I had supped, I reed of grenhame, and se went to bed' | Margaret Hoby | Richard Greenham | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1500-1599 | 'and reed of Granhame tell supper time' | Margaret Hoby | Richard Greenham | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | John Wilson Croker to his wife, 28 July 1850:
'After dinner I read some of the letters written by Charles Long and ... | John Wilson Croker | Charles Long and Lord Mulgrave | letters to Lord Lonsdale | Unknown |
| 1500-1599 | 'and then I hard Margaret Rhodes reed of Mr Grenhm' | Margaret Rhodes | Richard Greenham | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1500-1599 | 'after, I hard Mr Rhodes Read of Grenhame, and then I praied and so went to bed' | Richard Rhodes | Richard Greenham | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1500-1599 | 'after, I wrought, and hard Mr Rhodes read of Mr Grenhame, and so praied priuatly and then went to bed' | Richard Rhodes | Richard Greenham | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1500-1599 | 'and hard Auerill reed of Grenham, and then praied' | Euerill Aske | Richard Greenham | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | From John Wilson Croker's Note Book:
'On the 25th November 1825, I went by His Majesty's invitation to dine and sle... | King George IV and John Wilson Croker | Thomas Moore | Life of Sheridan | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | From John Wilson Croker's Note Books, 24 October 1825:
'The first time I ever saw [Germaine de Stael] was at dinner... | John Wilson Croker | Camille Desmoulins | journal | Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'She had been reading much of Chateaubriand and Mme de Beaumont during the winter, and had felt her imagination kindle... | Mary Augusta Ward | Jeanne Marie Le Prince de Beaumont | | Print: Book |
| 1500-1599 | 'and from thence came home and reed of Grenhame, and hard Megg Rhodes read' | Margaret Hoby | Richard Greenham | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'How they [Mrs Ward and her brother William Arnold] would talk, sometimes, about the details of her craft, about Jane ... | William Arnold | George Meredith | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'How they [Mrs Ward and her brother William Arnold] would talk, sometimes, about the details of her craft, about Jane ... | Mary Augusta Ward | George Meredith | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '[Letter from Mrs Ward to the Society of Authors when that body recommended Herbert Spencer not George Meredith for th... | Mary Augusta Ward | George Meredith | Richard Feverel | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '[Letter from Mrs Ward to the Society of Authors when that body recommended Herbert Spencer not George Meredith for th... | Mary Augusta Ward | George Meredith | Egoist, The | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '[Letter from Mrs Ward to the Society of Authors when that body recommended Herbert Spencer not George Meredith for th... | Mary Augusta Ward | George Meredith | Vittoria | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '[Letter from Mrs Ward to the Society of Authors when that body recommended Herbert Spencer not George Meredith for th... | Mary Augusta Ward | George Meredith | Beauchamp's Career | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '[report by Mrs Ward of the library at her Passmore Edwards Settlement] boys were sitting hunched up over "Masterman R... | boys at the Passmore Edwards Settlement | Frederick Marryat | Masterman Ready | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '[report by Mrs Ward of the library at her Passmore Edwards Settlement] boys were sitting hunched up over "Masterman R... | girls at the Passmore Edwards Settlement | M.L. Molesworth | Cuckoo Clock, The | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '[Mrs Ward's average day at Stocks began] at 5.30 a.m, with the reading of Greek, or writing of letters, or much readi... | Mary Augusta ward | Homer | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'She was deep in the writings of Father Tyrrel, of Bergson and of William James during these years'. | Mary Augusta Ward | Wlliam James | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '[Letter from Mrs Ward to her daughter Janet Trevelyan] It is good to be alive on spring days like this! I have been r... | Mary Augusta Ward | William James | | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Robert Southey to Charles Collins, 30 October -7 November 1793: 'In this interval however my baggage has arrived & no ... | Robert Southey | Adam Smith | An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Robert Southey to Horace Walpole Bedford, 3-4 November 1793: 'I am reading Adam Smith on the Wealth of Nations.' | Robert Southey | Adam Smith | An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Robert Southey to Grosvenor Charles Bedford, 12-15 November 1793: 'I have been reading Courtney Melmoths Liberal Opini... | Robert Southey | Courtney Melmoth [pseud.] | Liberal Opinions, upon Animals, Man, and Providence | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Robert Southey to Horace Walpole Bedford, 12-15 December 1793: 'Lucan & Beccaria dei delitti & delle pene are my pock... | Robert Southey | Cesare Marquis of Beccaria-Bonesana | Dei Delitti e Delle Pene (On Crimes and Punishments) | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Robert Southey to Horace Walpole Bedford, 12-15 December 1793: 'Lucan & Beccaria dei delitti & delle pene are my pock... | Robert Southey | Thomas May | continuation of Lucan's Pharsalia | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Robert Southey to Grosvenor Charles Bedford, c 26 December 1793: 'I take Milton to have introduced this kind of alcaic... | Robert Southey | John Milton | ‘The Fifth Ode of Horace. Lib. I’ | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Sir Robert Peel to John Wilson Croker, 29 September 1833:
'Strange as it may seem, I have not read nor have I seen ... | Sir Robert Peel | Lord Brougham and others | 'The Reformed Ministry and the Reformed Parliament' (extracts) | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | '. . . and I wish to tell you that it was the first chapters of 'A Mummer’s Wife' which opened my eyes to the romant... | Arnold Bennett | George Moore | A Mummer's Wife | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Pardon my forwardness, but I must tell you I think that 'Streaks' is another what-I-call-a-book. In fact I should say... | Arnold Bennett | Ethel Smyth | Streaks of Life | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Pardon my forwardness, but I must tell you I think that 'Streaks' is another what-I-call-a-book. In fact I should say... | Arnold Bennett | Ethel Smyth | Impressions that Remained | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | I have read 'Roasted Angels' and I now return it. It is a very unusual and even a very remarkable play. It is full ... | Arnold Bennett | H Hamer [anon] | Roasted Angels | |
| 1900-1945 | I have not read 'La Garçonne'. I got about half way through it and then I had to give up, not because of its indecen... | Arnold Bennett | Victor Margueritte | La Garconne | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | I have not read 'La Garçonne'. I got about half way through it and then I had to give up, not because of its indecen... | Arnold Bennett | Paul Margueritte | Le Désastre | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Mr Edminson then read a paper on Mrs Besant's autobiography. Some discussion folowed. Mr Morland gave a summary of Fa... | Frederick J. Edminson | Frederick J. Edminson | [paper on Annie Wood Besant's 'An Autobiography'] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Mr Burgess read an introductory paper on him [Matthew Arnold] as a man and a politician and Mr Edminson as an essayis... | Frederick Edminson | Frederick Edminson | [paper on Matthew Arnold as essayist] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Mr Burgess read an introductory paper on him [Matthew Arnold] as a man and a politician and Mr Edminson as an essayis... | Adelaide Morland | Adelaide Morland | [paper on Matthew Arnold as poet] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1600-1699 | 'then I wrought and hard Mr Rhodes read of Grenhame' | Richard Rhodes | Richard Greenham | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Charles Arbuthnot to John Wilson Croker, 7 December 1848:
'That I had the greatest regard and affection for my depa... | Charles Arbuthnot | C. W. Vane, Marquess of Londonderry, editor | Correspondence, Dispatches, and other papers of Viscount Castlereagh, vols 1 and 2 | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | John Gibson Lockhart to John Wilson Croker, 12 January 1849, on Macaulay's recently-published History of England:
'... | John Gibson Lockhart | Thomas Babington Macaulay | History of England, vols 1 and 2 | Print: Book |
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1800-1849 | The Earl of Lonsdale to John Wilson Croker, 4 September 1849:
'I am a [italics]worshipper[end italics] of Arthur Yo... | Earl of Lonsdale | Mechi | | Print: Book |
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1800-1849 | 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 | Charlotte Smith | | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Lord Lyndhurst to Lord Strangford [1854]:
'I never hear Disraeli speak in any way unfriendly of [John Wilson] Croke... | Lord Lyndhurst | Macknight | Benjamin Disraeli: A Biography | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'After priuat praers I made me readie, and then went to work and hard Mr Rhides read of Latimers sarmons and some othe... | Richard Rhodes | Hugh Latimer | Fruteful Sermons | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'after I Came home I hard Mr Ardington Read of Grenhame vnto me' | Mr Ardington | Richard Greenham | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'this day it pleased god to blesse my reading and medetation, and, in the afternone my hearinge of Mr Vrpith: after, I... | Mr Stillington | Richard Greenham | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'In H. James " Little Tour of France" (which I will send to Ada [Galsworthy] to take west with her for leisurely readi... | Joseph Conrad | Henry James | A Little Tour in France | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I wrote a fatherly letter to Hughie & told him the error of his ways & also that I didn’t like 'The Cath'. well eno... | Arnold Bennett | W.B. Maxwell | Spinster of this Parish | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | I am obliged for your letter and the enclosures. I return all the latter, together with my report and adjudication. ... | Arnold Bennett | Kate Simmonds | The Best Policy | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | The Lawrence is magnificent. Pity he is falling more & more into the trick of repeating a word or a phrase. It irrit... | Arnold Bennett | H.M. Tomlinson | The Estuary | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | The Lawrence is magnificent. Pity he is falling more & more into the trick of repeating a word or a phrase. It irrit... | Arnold Bennett | H.M. Tomlinson | The Estuary | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | The Lawrence is magnificent. Pity he is falling more & more into the trick of repeating a word or a phrase. It irrit... | Arnold Bennett | Katherine Mansfield | The Samuel Josephs | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1700-1799 | Robert Southey to Grosvenor Charles Bedford, c. 1 October 1795, 'Of Citoyenne Rolands appeal I have read the first | Robert Southey | Helen Maria Williams | Letters from France | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Robert Southey to Grosvenor Charles Bedford, c. 1-10 October 1795, 'I am obliged to Nares for a very handsome review. ... | Robert Southey | Richard Cumberland | The Observer | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1700-1799 | Robert Southey to Grosvenor Charles Bedford, c. 1-10 October 1795, 'I have got an old translation of Montaignes essay... | Robert Southey | Michel Eyquem de Montaigne | Essais | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Mr Morland then read a paper on Wm Morris & his writings & gave illustrative readings assisted by Mrs Morland'. | Harold J. Morland | Harold J. Morland | [paper on William Morris] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Mr Morland then read a paper on Wm Morris & his writings & gave illustrative readings assisted by Mrs Morland'. | Harold J. Morland | William Morris | | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Mr Morland then read a paper on Wm Morris & his writings & gave illustrative readings assisted by Mrs Morland'. | Adelaide Morland | William Morris | | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Robert Southey to Grosvenor Charles Bedford, 24 February - 2 March 1796 'Timothy Dwight an American publishd an heroic... | Robert Southey | David Humphreys | verses | Manuscript: Sheet |
| 1700-1799 | Robert Southey to Charles Watkin Williams Wynn, 23-27 April, 1796 'The Poetry of Spain & Portugal wants taste, & gener... | Robert Southey | Luis Vaz de Camoëns | The Lusiad | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Robert Southey to Charles Watkin Williams Wynn, 23-27 April, 1796 'The Poetry of Spain & Portugal wants taste, & gener... | Robert Southey | Luis Vaz de Camoëns | Sonnets | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | George Grote to George W. Norman, 26 June 1816:
'From England, in 1816, it is delightful to retire, even to Italy i... | George Grote | Sismondi | history of Italy (vol. 1) | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | George Grote to George W. Norman (April 1817):
'I send you down the best "Lucretius" I have [...] Though the reason... | George Grote | David Hume | Essays | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'The writings of this remarkable man [Jeremy Bentham] were now beginning to tell upon the thinking portion of young pu... | George Grote | Jeremy Bentham | works | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | From the diary kept by George Grote for his fiancee, Harriet Lewin (September 1818):
'Rose at 7 [...] Sat reading S... | George Grote | Adam Smith | An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | From the diary kept by George Grote for his fiancee, Harriet Lewin (autumn 1818):
'Rose at 8. Read once again the "... | George Grote | Adam Smith | An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations, volume 2 chapter 1 | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | From the diary kept by George Grote for his fiancee, Harriet Lewin (autumn 1818):
'Rose at 1/2 past 6 [...] Read Sa... | George Grote | Adam Smith | An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | From the diary kept by George Grote for his fiancee, Harriet Lewin (autumn 1818):
'Rose at 1/2 past 6 [...] Read Sa... | George Grote | Adam Smith | An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | From the diary kept by George Grote for his fiancee, Harriet Lewin (1819):
'January, 1819.
'Sunday -- Rose about 9... | George Grote | Melon | 'Essai sur le commerce' | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'F.J. Edminson read an able and interesting paper on "The Tempest".' | Frederick J. Edminson | Frederick J. Edminson | [paper on The Tempest] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'The programme of selections from and papers on Kingsley was then proceeded with, C.E. Stansfield reading a paper on K... | Frederick Edminson | Frederick Edminson | [paper on Kingsley] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'They have arrived--the 6 of them; I have felt them all in turn and all at one time as it were, and to celebrate the e... | Joseph Conrad | Henry James | The American | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'They have arrived--the 6 of them; I have felt them all in turn and all at one time as it were, and to celebrate the e... | Joseph Conrad | Henry James | The American | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'The programme on the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayham [sic] was as follows.
Reading of the poem by Mrs Edminson and Mrs Rawl... | Elizabeth Ann Smith | Elizabeth Ann Smith | [paper on Life of Edward Fitzgerald] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | Robert Southey to Horace Walpole Bedford, 29-30 August 1796: 'Somebody (a painter I believe — Tresham?) has [MS torn... | Robert Southey | Henry Tresham | The Sea-Sick Minstrel; or, Maritime Sorrows. A Poem, in Six Cantos | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Rondeau
On reading a work by M. Auguste Maquet entitled Les Vertes Feuilles.
See, "The Green Leaves", I leave them ... | Robert Louis Stevenson | Auguste Maquet | Les Feuilles Vertes | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Katherine Mansfield is a cunt, but I share a hell of a lot of common characteristics with her. I should like to read ... | Philip Larkin | Katherine Mansfield | Letters and diary | Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'We rowed past these [floating islands of the Dal Lake] on our way to the Shalimar Gardens, already so well known to m... | Zoe Procter | Thomas Moore | Lalla Rookh | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Robert Southey to Grosvenor Charles Bedford, 1-7 January, 1797: '...the view is bounded by the accursed smoke of Londo... | Robert Southey | Luis Vaz de Camoëns | ‘Babylon and Sion’ | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Another pilgrimage Mrs Cragie made was to see George Meredith at his house on Box Hill. To visit Meredith was a great... | Zoe Procter | George Meredith | [novels] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Another pilgrimage Mrs Cragie made was to see George Meredith at his house on Box Hill. To visit Meredith was a great... | Zoe Procter | George Meredith | [poetry] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I kept my hours conscientiously, but when I had no work to do I read continuously. I read parts of "The Times", the "... | Zoe Procter | Pierre Carlet de Chamblain de Marivaux | [plays] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Robert Southey to John May, 26 June, 1797: '...the French never can have a good epic poem till they have republicanize... | Robert Southey | François de Salignac de la Mothe-Fénelon | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Robert Southey to John May, 26 June, 1797: '...the French never can have a good epic poem till they have republicanize... | Robert Southey | Ossian [James Macpherson] | Poems | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Robert Southey to Joseph Cottle, 28 July 1797: 'Since you left me I have been reading the Saint Louis of Le Moyne: an ... | Robert Southey | Pierre Le Moyne | Saint Louis | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Robert Southey to Charles Watkin Williams Wynn, 9 August 1797: 'I have only seen the former parts of the Pursuits of L... | Robert Southey | Thomas James Mathias | The Pursuits of Literature, or What You Will. A Satirical Poem in Dialogue. With Notes. Part the Second | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | I will strive to let you have a note about André Maurois’s 'Ariel ou la vie de Shelley'. It is a very bright thing. | Arnold Bennett | André Maurois | Ariel: ou la vie de Shelley | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Robert Southey to Charles Watkin Williams Wynn, 12 November 1797: 'I know that our tastes differ much in poetry. & ye... | Robert Southey | Charles Lamb | 'Written Soon after the Preceding Poem’ | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Robert Southey to Joseph Cottle, 14 December 1797: 'Your parcel & its contents arrived safe. I found it on my return... | Robert Southey | Jean Masson | Histoire Memorable de la Vie de Jeanne d’Arc, Appelée la Pucelle d’Orleans | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Robert Southey to Joseph Cottle, 14 December 1797: 'Your parcel & its contents arrived safe. I found it on my return... | Robert Southey | Giacomo Filippo Foresti da Bergamo | De Claris Mulieribus | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Walter Scott quotes four lines from 'My Jo Janet' in Allan Ramsay's 'Tea-Table Miscellany'. | Walter Scott | Allan Ramsay | Tea-Table Miscellany: My Jo Janet | Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'From Axel Munthe's "San Michele": "Imprisoned monkeys, so long as they are in company, live on the whole a supportabl... | Thomas Kitching | Axel Munthe | San Michele | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | 'I read "My Greatest Adventure" by Malcolm Campbell. While treasure hunting on the Cocos, he mentions as typical of th... | Thomas Kitching | Malcolm Campbell | My Greatest Adventure | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I get "Lorna Doone". It is a good book so far.' | Thomas Kitching | Richard Doddridge Blackmore | Lorna Doone | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I finish reading "The Vicar of Wakefield". The world has changed more in the last 30 years than in the previous 150' | Thomas Kitching | Oliver Goldsmith | Vicar of Wakefield, The | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | From the 1806-1840 Commonplace book of an unknown reader. Transcription of two lines from 'On a Laurel, cut down by a ... | | Merivale | On a Laurel, cut down by a Hatchet | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | From the 1806-1840 Commonplace book of an unknown reader. 'Translation of Madame la Countess de Genlis invocation at t... | | Stéphanie Félicité Ducrest de St-Albin Comtesse de Genlis | Memoirs of the Countess of Genlis, Written by Herself | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | From the 1806-1840 Commonplace book of an unknown reader. 'March 1837'. Transcription of various of Madame de Sévign... | | Marie de Rabutin-Chantal marquise de Sévigné | The Letters of Madame de Sévigné, to her Daughter and her Friends | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | From George Grote's diary, kept for his fiancee Harriet Lewin (1819):
'Between 4 and 5 read Mr. Galton's "Chart on ... | George Grote | Hemsterhuis | De l'Homme et de ses Rapports | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | From George Grote's diary, kept for his fiancee Harriet Lewin (1819):
'[after 11pm] Read Hemsterhuis for an hour --... | George Grote | Hemsterhuis | (possibly) De l'Homme et de ses Rapports | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | From George Grote's diary, kept for his fiancee Harriet Lewin (1819):
'Rose at 9. Breakfasted and read some of Hems... | George Grote | Hemsterhuis | Sur la divinite | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | From the 1806-1840 Commonplace book of an unknown reader. 'Of M. De Glessir, Tutor to the young Marquis Grignan (Admir... | | Marie de Rabutin-Chantal marquise de Sévigné | The Letters of Madame de Sévigné, to her Daughter and her Friends | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | From George Grote's diary, kept for his fiancee Harriet Lewin, Saturday 13 March 1819:
'Rose at 1/2 past 7, after a... | George Grote | David Hume | Essay on the Academical Philosophy | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | From George Grote's diary, kept for his fiancee Harriet Lewin, Thursday 25 March 1819:
'Between 4 and 5 I read some... | George Grote and Charles Cameron | Jeremy Bentham | 'upon Legislation' | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | From the 1806-1840 Commonplace book of an unknown reader. Several pages are transcribed from the 'Diary of an Ennuyee'. | C.M.G. [anon] | Anna Brownell Jameson | Diary of an Ennuyee | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Mrs Edminson then read an interesting paper on Lecky's Map of Life' | Elizabeth Edminson | Elizabeth Edminson | [Paper on Lecky's 'Map of Life'] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'Mr W. H. Smith then read a paper on the life of John Ruskin'. | William Henry Smith | William Henry Smith | [Paper on Ruskin] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'The study of Metaphysics and Mental Philosophy in general had always been one of the
favourite pursuits of George G... | George Grote, J. S. Mill, Eyton Tooke, Charles Buller, J. A. Roebuck, G. J. Johnson and others | James Mill | Analysis of the Phenomena of the Human Mind | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | From the 1806-1840 Commonplace book of an unknown reader. 'Mrs Hannah More says in her "Essay on Saint Paul," that he ... | C.M.G. [anon] | Hannah More | Essay on Saint Paul | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | From the 1806-1840 Commonplace book of an unknown reader. 'Maxims of Bishop Middleton'. Various maxims follow, includi... | C.M.G. [anon] | Bishop Middleton | Maxims | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | George Grote to Sir William Molesworth (c.1838-40):
'Have you read Comte's "Traite de Philosophie Positive," of whi... | George Grote | Comte | Traite de Philosophie Positive (vol. 3) | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The consideration of the Life & work of Wm Morris was opened by the reading of a short account of the Life by Mrs Goa... | Elizabeth Edminson | William Morris | Earthly Paradise | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The consideration of the Life & work of Wm Morris was opened by the reading of a short account of the Life by Mrs Goa... | Blanche Ridges | William Morris | [political works] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The consideration of the Life & work of Wm Morris was opened by the reading of a short account of the Life by Mrs Goa... | Miss Goadby | William Morris | [poetry and prose] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Three papers were devoted to aspects of Burns & his works. Mrs Goadby read a biographical sketch. Mrs Smith read a pa... | Elizabeth Ann Smith | Elizabeth Ann Smith | [paper on Burns as song writer] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'Three papers were devoted to aspects of Burns & his works. Mrs Goadby read a biographical sketch. Mrs Smith read a pa... | Frederick Edminson | Frederick Edminson | [paper on Burns's personality] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'The meeting at Ingleside on May 20th was of a very pleasant character, in that among other reasons it was devoted to ... | Miss Pollard | Charles Lamb | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The meeting at Ingleside on May 20th was of a very pleasant character, in that among other reasons it was devoted to ... | Helen Rawlings | Charles Lamb | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The meeting at Ingleside on May 20th was of a very pleasant character, in that among other reasons it was devoted to ... | Alfred Rawlings | Charles Lamb | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The meeting at Ingleside on May 20th was of a very pleasant character, in that among other reasons it was devoted to ... | Charles Stansfield | Charles Lamb | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The meeting at Ingleside on May 20th was of a very pleasant character, in that among other reasons it was devoted to ... | Miss Goadby | Charles Lamb | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Mrs Ridges read an interesting paper on The Solitary Summer fully descriptive of the charm of the book.' | Blanche Ridges | Elizabeth von Arnim | Solitary Summer, The | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'F. Edminson read an able review of Morley's Life of Cromwell and A. Rawlings read a ['charming' inserted in another h... | Frederick Edminson | John Morley | Oliver Cromwell | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'F. Edminson read an able review of Morley's Life of Cromwell and A. Rawlings read a ['charming' inserted in another h... | Frederick Edminson | Frederick Edminson | [paper on Morley's life of Oliver Cromwell] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | I have a collection of 8 short stories of hers, [Pauline Smith] all, in my opinion, fine. Middleton Murry would hav... | Arnold Bennett | Pauline Smith | The Little Karoo | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | I have a collection of 8 short stories of hers, [Pauline Smith] all, in my opinion, fine. Middleton Murry would hav... | Arnold Bennett | Pauline Smith | The Beadle | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'I finish reading "Gone With the Wind" by Margaret Mitchell - A most remarkable book. I enjoyed it very much, but what... | Thomas Kitching | Margaret Mitchell | Gone with the wind | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Its really good of you to have sent "Faith". Your magic never grows less; each of your prefaces is a gem and my enthu... | Joseph Conrad | R.(Robert) B.(Bontine) Cunninghame Graham | Faith | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Reading "Forbidden Journey" written by Ella Maillart in 1936, I am interest in her remarks about our friend, the enem... | Thomas Kitching | Ella Maillart | Forbidden Journey | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | George Grote to Harriet Grote (wife), 14 October 1853:
'I immediately sent for the "Edinburgh Review," and have rea... | George Grote | John Stuart Mill | Article on George Grote's History of Greece | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'In the course of the summer of this year [1856] an article appeared in the pages of the
"Quarterly Review," upon Mr... | George Grote | William Smith | Article on George Grote's History of Greece | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | George Grote to John Stuart Mill (October 1857):
'I have looked at W. Humboldt's book: it is written in a very exce... | George Grote | W. Humboldt | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Began reading through the "Encyclopaedia Britannica" today. Another ten years project, at least. My odyssey through C... | William Soutar | Chambers | Twentieth Century Dictionary | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Mr M- along. I lay back and listened to all his plans for the regeneration of Scotland - including the one in which h... | William Soutar | M | [personal writings] | Manuscript: Sheet |
| 1900-1945 | 'An historical moment - completed my odyssey through Chambers's "Dictionary" - I began 8 years and 8 months ago. Have ... | William Soutar | Chambers | Twentieth Century Dictionary | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Finished "Capital" - the cenotaph of its subject.' | William Soutar | Karl Marx | Capital | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'About 3.30, C.M.G. came striding in, resplendent in full Highland rig-out ... He had a number of MSS with him and rea... | Christopher Murray Grieve | Hugh MacDiarmid [pseud.] | Red Scotland | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'Finished reading Murray's "Keats and Shakespeare" again. This work to me was, and still is, a critical masterpiece: I... | William Soutar | John Middleton Murray | Keats and Shakespeare | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Having read again Housman's "More Poems", one is forced to the conclusion that his philosophic attitude had been defi... | William Soutar | Alfred Edward Housman | More Poems | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'It was an exhilarating coincidence that my re-reading of H.T.'s "As It Was" should follow just after I had made my di... | William Soutar | H. Thomas | As It Was | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Such a shocked surprise came to me the pther day on opening T.F. Henderson's book on "Scottish Vernacular Literature"... | William Soutar | Alexander Hume | The Day Estivall | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Read a little book of verse entitled "Cage Without Grievance", by a "modern Scot", W.S. Graham. Montgomerie's gift; a... | William Soutar | W.S. Graham | Cage Without Grievance | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Finished reading Amiel's "Journal Intime" today. How easy for a critic to lapse into a patronising attitude towards t... | William Soutar | Henri-Frédéric Amiel | The Journal Intime of Henri-Frédéric Amiel | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Re-read MacDiarmid's "Scot's Unbound" - some fine lyrics; but the "thoct" in the lengthy poems confounds the poetry; ... | William Soutar | Hugh MacDiarmid [pseud.] | Scots Unbound | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'It is very difficult to assess the poetry of De la Mare. Compared with Davies and Housman (for example), he is the mo... | William Soutar | Walter De La Mare | [poems] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | George Grote to John Stuart Mill (January 1862):
'I have just been reading your three articles in "Fraser's Magazin... | George Grote | John Stuart Mill | articles 'upon the Principles of Utility' | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849
1850-1899 | 'Sir William Gomm served for some time in India, and indeed had been commander of the forces there. Being at Simla, he... | Harriet Grote | Sir William Gomm | Annotations to George Grote, A History of Greece (vols 1-5) | |
| 1800-1849
1850-1899 | 'Sir William Gomm served for some time in India, and indeed had been commander of the forces there. Being at Simla, he... | George Grote | Sir William Gomm | Annotations to George Grote, A History of Greece (vols 1-5) | |
| 1800-1849 | Lady Harriet Cavendish to her sister, Lady Georgiana Morpeth, 23 September 1802:
'I am now going, my dearest G. (de... | Lady Harriet Cavendish | George Lamb | 'John O'Thanet' | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Lady Harriet Cavendish to her former governess, Selina Trimmer, 13 November 1803:
'I have been reading M'Cormick's ... | Lady Harriet Cavendish | McCormick | Life of Burke | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Lady Harriet Cavendish to her former governess, Selina Trimmer, 16 November 1803:
'I have begun Belsham's History o... | Lady Harriet Cavendish | Belsham | History of England | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Lady Harriet Cavendish to her former governess, Selina Trimmer, 19 November 1803:
'I have only read 2 of Belsham's ... | Lady Harriet Cavendish | Belsham | Life of Charles II | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Lady Harriet Cavendish to her former governess, Selina Trimmer, 19 November 1803:
'I have only read 2 of Belsham's ... | Lady Harriet Cavendish | Belsham | Life of James II | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Lady Harriet Cavendish to her mother, Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire (December 1804):
'I have been reading a grea... | Lady Harriet Cavendish | Metastasio | Isacco | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Lady Harriet Cavendish to her grandmother, the Countess Dowager Spencer, 23 July 1807:
'This morning I got up betwe... | Lady Harriet Cavendish | John Milton | Paradise Lost | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'You know Marris--the man of the East who wrote the letter I read to you? Well he is going back to his Malay princess ... | Joseph Conrad | Carl Murrell Marris | | Manuscript: Letter |
| 1800-1849 | 'Looking at Sismondi's "Italian Republics" an odd fit of industry came over me in the morning.' | John Ruskin | Jean Charles Leonarde Simonde de Sismondi | Italian Republics | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Staid in all day for cold, but sketched some figures from window, and heard some of Sismondi's "Italian Republics", a... | John Ruskin | Jean Charles Leonarde Simonde de Sismondi | Italian Republics | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Books read by Oscar Wilde in Pentonville and Wandsworth Prisons, June - November 1895: St Augustine, "Confessions" and... | Oscar Wilde | T Mommsen | History of Rome | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Books read by Oscar Wilde in Pentonville and Wandsworth Prisons, June - November 1895: St Augustine, "Confessions" and... | Oscar Wilde | John Henry Newman | The Grammar of Ascent | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Books read by Oscar Wilde in Pentonville and Wandsworth Prisons, June - November 1895: St Augustine, "Confessions" and... | Oscar Wilde | John Henry Newman | Apologia Pro Vita Sua | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Books read by Oscar Wilde in Pentonville and Wandsworth Prisons, June - November 1895: St Augustine, "Confessions" and... | Oscar Wilde | John Henry Newman | Two Essays on Miracles | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Books read by Oscar Wilde in Pentonville and Wandsworth Prisons, June - November 1895: St Augustine, "Confessions" and... | Oscar Wilde | John Henry Newman | The Idea of a University | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Marryat's diary on Continent gives many interesting anecdotes of animals, but I am afraid to remember them, lest they... | John Ruskin | Captain Frederick Marryat | Diary in America | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Books read by Oscar Wilde in Reading Gaol, July 1896-December 1896, taken from his list of books requested and then se... | Oscar Wilde | Henry Hart Milman | History of the Jews | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Books read by Oscar Wilde in Reading Gaol, July 1896-December 1896, taken from his list of books requested and then se... | Oscar Wilde | Christopher Marlowe | Complete Works | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Books read by Oscar Wilde in Reading Gaol, July 1896-December 1896, taken from his list of books requested and then se... | Oscar Wilde | Thomas Henry Newman | Critical and Historical Essays | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Books read by Oscar Wilde in Reading Gaol, July 1896-December 1896, taken from his list of books requested and then se... | Oscar Wilde | Ralph Waldo Emerson | Essays | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Books read by Oscar Wilde in Reading Gaol, December 1896 - March 1897, taken from his list of books requested and then... | Oscar Wilde | Henry Hart Milman | History of Latin Christianity | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Books read by Oscar Wilde in Reading Gaol, December 1896 - March 1897, taken from his list of books requested and then... | Oscar Wilde | Hallam | History of the Middle Ages | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Curious essay of Newman's I read some pages of - about the ecclesiastical miracles; full of intellect but doubtful in... | John Ruskin | John Henry Newman | Essay on the miracles recorded in Ecclesiastical History | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Books read by Oscar Wilde in Reading Gaol, December 1896 - March 1897, taken from his list of books requested and then... | Oscar Wilde | John Addington Symonds | Introduction to Dante | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Dumas's "Essai de Statique Chimique" - clear but too short.' | John Ruskin | Jean-Baptiste Dumas | Essai de statique chimique des étres organisés | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read a little of the life of Baxter; very interesting, and apparently deserving Coleridge's recommendation. Dreadful ... | John Ruskin | W. Orme | Life and Times of Richard Baxter | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Note Baxter's opinion in describing George Lawson: "the ablest man of them all, or of almost any I know in England, e... | John Ruskin | W. Orme | Life and Times of Richard Baxter | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Much disappointed with Wilkie's life: he is a thoroughly low person and his biographer worse. I could not have imagin... | John Ruskin | Allan Cunningham | Life of Sir David Wilkie | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Much disappointed with Wilkie's life: he is a thoroughly low person and his biographer worse. I could not have imagin... | John Ruskin | Allan Cunningham | Lives of eminent British painters | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read a pamphlet by the Revd. George Smith, lent me by Macdonald: "Hints for the times", true and useful, but a painfu... | John Ruskin | George Smith | Hints for the times | |
| 1900-1945 | I do not know sufficient about Villiers de l’Isle Adam to advise you. His best known book is 'L’Eve Future'. I h... | Arnold Bennett | Philippe-August Villiers de L'Isle Adam | L'Eve Future | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Lady Harriet Cavendish to her sister, Lady Georgiana Morpeth, 16 December 1807:
'Lady Elizabeth is reading Semple's... | Lady Elizabeth Foster | Semple | 'travels through Spain' | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Lady Harriet Cavendish to her grandmother, the Countess Dowager Spencer, 7 November 1808:
'I am glad that I mention... | Lady Harriet Cavendish | James Thompson | The Castle of Indolence | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Lady Harriet Cavendish to her grandmother, the Countess Dowager Spencer, 7 November 1808:
'I am glad that I mention... | Lady Stafford | James Thompson | The Castle of Indolence | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read ".'Dame aux Camelias" | John Ruskin | Alexandre ` Dumas | La Dame aux Camélias | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | I do not know sufficient about Villiers de l’Isle Adam to advise you. His best known book is 'L’Eve Future'. I h... | Arnold Bennett | Philippe-August Villiers de L'Isle Adam | L'Eve Future | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | I do not know sufficient about Villiers de l’Isle Adam to advise you. His best known book is 'L’Eve Future'. I h... | Arnold Bennett | Philippe-August Villiers de L'Isle Adam | Contes Cruels | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | I do not know sufficient about Villiers de l’Isle Adam to advise you. His best known book is 'L’Eve Future'. I h... | Arnold Bennett | Philippe-August Villiers de L'Isle Adam | Nouveaux Contes Cruels | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The meeting at the Lawn on Dec 9 1901 was devoted to the life & works of Moore & Hood. F.J. Edminson read a paper on ... | Helen Rawlings | Thomas Moore | Lalla Rookh | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The meeting at the Lawn on Dec 9 1901 was devoted to the life & works of Moore & Hood. F.J. Edminson read a paper on ... | Frederick J. Edminson | Frederick Edminson | [Paper on Thomas Moore and Thomas Hood] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'The meeting at the Lawn on Dec 9 1901 was devoted to the life & works of Moore & Hood. F.J. Edminson read a paper on ... | Miss Goadby | Thomas Moore | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The meeting at the Lawn on Dec 9 1901 was devoted to the life & works of Moore & Hood. F.J. Edminson read a paper on ... | Frederick Edminson | Thomas Moore | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Everything seems to have been designed to develop the serious fold in her nature. At ten, the poor infant was reading... | Anne Isabella Milbanke | Tobias Smollett | History | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'We may suspect that the library was dearer to Papa and Annabella than to Mamma [...] She liked visiting the neighbour... | Sir Ralph and Anne Isabella Milbanke | John Milton | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'We may suspect that the library was dearer to Papa and Annabella than to Mamma [...] She liked visiting the neighbour... | Sir Ralph and Anne Isabella Milbanke | Thomas Campbell | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'In 1809 [Anne Isabella Milbanke] wrote the Lines supposed to be spoken at the Grave of Dermody. It is one of the earl... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Anne Isabella Milbanke | 'Lines Supposed to be Spoken at the Grave of Dermody' and other verses | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read Smith's "Wealth of Nations" in evening: the most naive assumption of Nature that ever was' | John Ruskin | Adam Smith | An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Mrs Edminson then read an appreciative article on the life and letters of J.S. [?] Brown which was much appreciated'. | Elizabeth Edminson | Elizabeth Edminson | [paper on [?] J.S. Brown] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'F.J. Edminson read a paper on Matthew Arnold with special reference to Literature & Dogma. Readings from both the pro... | Frederick J. Edminson | Frederick J. Edminson | [essay on Matthew Arnold] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'The meeting at Ingleside on April 29 1904 was devoted to the life & works of Emerson. Mrs Ridges read a paper on his ... | Alfred Rawlings | Ralph Waldo Emerson | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The meeting at Ingleside on April 29 1904 was devoted to the life & works of Emerson. Mrs Ridges read a paper on his ... | Miss Pollard | Ralph Waldo Emerson | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The meeting at Ingleside on April 29 1904 was devoted to the life & works of Emerson. Mrs Ridges read a paper on his ... | Edward Little | Ralph Waldo Emerson | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The meeting at Ingleside on April 29 1904 was devoted to the life & works of Emerson. Mrs Ridges read a paper on his ... | Charles Stansfield | Ralph Waldo Emerson | | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read also Cardinal Wiseman on Chartres and the Chemise - very wonderful and delightful.' | John Ruskin | Cardinal Wiseman | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read in Machiavelli's "Florence" Cosmo de' Medici's sad saying before his death: keeping his eyes shut, his wife aski... | John Ruskin | Machiavelli | Florence | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read Sir T. More in evening' | John Ruskin | Sir Thomas More | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read "Vicar of Wakefield" and "Citizen of World" at coffee, and was sick of both.' | John Ruskin | Oliver Goldsmith | Vicar of Wakefield, The | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read "Vicar of Wakefield" and "Citizen of World" at coffee, and was sick of both.' | John Ruskin | Oliver Goldsmith | Citizen of the World, The | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'One of the "golden books" of his childhood was J.W. Meinhold's 1847 Gothic historical novel "Sidonia the Sorceress". ... | Oscar Wilde | J.W. Meinhold | Sidonia the Sorceress | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Wilde praised "Melmoth" [the Wanderer] as a pioneering work of European Gothic fiction. He admitted, however, that it... | Oscar Wilde | Charles Maturin | Melmoth the Wanderer | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'The first volume of Symond's "Studies of the Greek Poets", issued in 1873, was "perpetually" in Wilde's "hands" at Tr... | Oscar Wilde | John Addington Symonds | Studies of the Greek Poets, vols 1 and 2 | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Once again, Wilde assisted his mentor [Classical scholar John Pentland Mahaffy], this time by proof-reading "Rambles ... | Oscar Wilde | John Pentland Mahaffy | Rambles and Studies | Manuscript: proofs |
| 1850-1899 | 'Wilde loved to curl up with a book in bed. In one letter he mischievously described himself as "lying in bed... with ... | Oscar Wilde | Thomas a Kempis | The Imitation of Christ | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Moby Dick'. The present vogue of Hermann Melville is mainly due to two English novelists, Frank Swinnerton and mysel... | Arnold Bennett | Herman Melville | Moby Dick | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Moby Dick'. The present vogue of Hermann Melville is mainly due to two English novelists, Frank Swinnerton and mysel... | Arnold Bennett | Herman Melville | The Piazza Tales | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Moby Dick'. The present vogue of Hermann Melville is mainly due to two English novelists, Frank Swinnerton and mysel... | Arnold Bennett | Herman Melville | Pierre: or the Ambiguities | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Moby Dick'. The present vogue of Hermann Melville is mainly due to two English novelists, Frank Swinnerton and mysel... | Arnold Bennett | Herman Melville | Typee | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Moby Dick'. The present vogue of Hermann Melville is mainly due to two English novelists, Frank Swinnerton and mysel... | Arnold Bennett | Herman Melville | Omoo | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Moby Dick'. The present vogue of Hermann Melville is mainly due to two English novelists, Frank Swinnerton and mysel... | Arnold Bennett | George Meredith | Evan Harrington | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Moby Dick'. The present vogue of Hermann Melville is mainly due to two English novelists, Frank Swinnerton and mysel... | Arnold Bennett | George Meredith | Beauchamp's Career | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | In the main, the reviews of I.P. [Imperial Palace] have been excellent. But it is curious that 2 out of 3 of Max’s... | Arnold Bennett | W. Somerset Maugham | Cakes and Ale | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'A meeting was held at Whinfield [?] on Dec 8 1904 devoted to H.G. Wells's Mankind in the Making. Howard R. Smith gave... | Howard R. Smith | Howard R. Smith | [paper on H. G. wells's 'Mankind in the Making'] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'Geo Meredith's Diana of the Crossways was the subject of the evening. H.M. Wallis read an essay on the work of Geo M... | Henry Marriage Wallis | George Meredith | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Geo Meredith's Diana of the Crossways was the subject of the evening. H.M. Wallis read an essay on the work of Geo M... | Walter Rowntree | George Meredith | Diana of the Crossways | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Geo Meredith's Diana of the Crossways was the subject of the evening. H.M. Wallis read an essay on the work of Geo M... | Walter Rowntree | George Meredith | Diana of the Crossways | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Geo Meredith's Diana of the Crossways was the subject of the evening. H.M. Wallis read an essay on the work of Geo M... | Henry Marriage Wallis | George Meredith | [two poems] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Geo Meredith's Diana of the Crossways was the subject of the evening. H.M. Wallis read an essay on the work of Geo M... | Members of the XII Book Club | George Meredith | [poetry and prose] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Mrs Smith then read an interesting biography of Keats which was followed by a reading of "I stood tiptoe upon a littl... | Elizabeth Ann Smith | Elizabeth Ann Smith | [a biography of Keats] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'Yesterday I had a letter from Murray in answer to one I had written in something of a determined stile for I had no i... | Walter Scott | John Murray | Letter | Manuscript: Letter |
| 1800-1849 | 'There was always poetry. Campbell, just then at the top of his short-lived vogue; Ossian, the unreadable of to-day; M... | Anne Isabella Milbanke and Captain Boothby | John Milton | Paradise Lost | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'At present [August 1814] she [Anne Isabella Milbanke] was reading Sismondi's Italian Republics. And she had read Lara.' | Anne Isabella Milbanke | Sismondi | Italian Republics | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'The girl [Ada Byron] was then [1831] seventeen; her mother had been reading Harriet Martineau's Five Years of Youth, ... | Anne Isabella Lady Byron | Harriet Martineau | Five Years of Youth | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Lady Byron was to [George] MacDonald the protectress, the adviser, and once at least the extremely rigorous critic.
... | Anne Isabella Lady Noel Byron | George MacDonald | Within and Without | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Howard R. Smith then read a paper on the history of the House of Lords which was followed by considerablee discussion... | Howard R. Smith | Howard R Smith | [paper on the House of Lords] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'An excellent programme illustrative of R.L. Stevenson's work was then proceeded with. A biographical paper was read b... | Howard R Smith | Howard R Smith | [paper on life of RL Stevenson] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'Mr Smith read a paper on Shelley & Mrs Ridges selections from a paper by Dr Scott on the poet's literary characterist... | William Smith | William Smith | [paper on Shelley] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Harriet, Countess Granville, to her sister Lady Georgiana Morpeth (August 1812):
'La Princesse Wilhelmine is not as... | Harriet Countess Granville | Princess Wilhelmine | Memoirs (vol. 1) | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Harriet, Countess Granville, to her sister Lady Georgiana Morpeth, 29 September 1815:
'"Fazio,' the new tragedy, is... | Harriet Countess Granville | Milman | Fazio | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Harriet, Countess Granville, to her sister Lady Georgiana Morpeth, 29 September 1815:
'"Fazio,' the new tragedy, is... | Lord Lansdowne | Milman | Fazio | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Harriet, Countess Granville, to her sister Lady Georgiana Morpeth, 12 August 1818:
'Yesterday evening Granville [hu... | Duke of Devonshire and Lord and Lady Granville (his brother-in-law and sister) | Camoens | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Harriet, Countess Granville, to her sister Lady Georgiana Morpeth, 25 August 1820:
'I send you a list of new books.... | Harriet Countess Granville | Chalmers | sermon | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | The whole three are sitting sewing in the most peaceful manner at my hand: our Mother has been reading the Man of Feel... | Margaret Carlyle | Henry Mackenzie | The Man of Feeling | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Now the other morning Dr Irving shows me the last vol. of Constable's Miscellany, and a most magnificent passage in th... | Thomas Carlyle | George Moir | Preface to 'Constable's Miscellany' vol. 18, Schiller's Thirty Years War, I | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The other day I took up "Yvette". How well she [Ada Galsworthy] has done it all!' | Joseph Conrad | Guy de Maupassant | Yvette and Other Stories | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Harriet Countess Granville to her sister, Lady Georgiana Morpeth, from Paris, 5 December 1824:
'It amused me to ope... | Harriet Countess Granville | Madame Campan | Journal | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'A varied series of anonymous essays were then read - with the following titles
The Love of a Nation
The Tiger & the... | members of the XII Book Club | [a member of the XII Book Club] | Love of a Nation | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'A varied series of anonymous essays were then read - with the following titles
The Love of a Nation
The Tiger & the... | members of the XII Book Club | [a member of the XII Book Club] | Tiger & the Lady, The | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'A varied series of anonymous essays were then read - with the following titles
The Love of a Nation
The Tiger & the... | members of the XII Book Club | [a member of the XII Book Club] | Building | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'A varied series of anonymous essays were then read - with the following titles
The Love of a Nation
The Tiger & the... | members of the XII Book Club | [a member of the XII Book Club] | Quaker Stories | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'A varied series of anonymous essays were then read - with the following titles
The Love of a Nation
The Tiger & the... | members of the XII Book Club | [a member of the XII Book Club] | Henry Lawrence | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'A varied series of anonymous essays were then read - with the following titles
The Love of a Nation
The Tiger & the... | members of the XII Book Club | [a member of the XII Book Club] | Pleasure of Winter Bathing, The | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'A varied series of anonymous essays were then read - with the following titles
The Love of a Nation
The Tiger & the... | members of the XII Book Club | [a member of the XII Book Club] | On Washing Seldom & then not much | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'A varied series of anonymous essays were then read - with the following titles
The Love of a Nation
The Tiger & the... | members of the XII Book Club | [a member of the XII Book Club] | Poetry | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'The subject of the evening - 'English Ballads' - was then discussed in two papers, by F.J. Edminson & H.M. Wallis, an... | Frederick Edminson | Frederick Edminson | [paper on English ballads] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'The following was the programme for the evening
Viz a paper by W.S. Rowntree on W.W. Jacobs' works. C.E. Stansfield,... | Howard Smith | Howard Smith | [Paper on William Pett Ridge] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Monday, 5 December 1825: 'Dined at the Royal Society Club where as usual was a pleasant
meeting of from 20 to 25. It... | Henry Mackenzie | Henry Mackenzie | 'Essay on Dreams' (extract) | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Friday, 23 December 1825:
'Sir Gilbert [the first Earl Minto] was indeed a man among a thousand. I knew him very
... | Sir Gilbert Eliot, first Earl Minto | Sir Gilbert Eliot, first Earl Minto | poems | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Friday, 10 March 1826:
'Breakfasted with me Mr. Francks [...] and Captain Longmore of the Royal Staff. He has writt... | Walter Scott | Captain George Longmore | Tales of Chivalry and Romance | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Tuesday, 14 March 1826:
'I have amused myself occasionally very pleasantly during the few last days by reading over... | Walter Scott | Sydney Owenson, Lady Morgan | O'Donnel | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Thursday, 16 March 1826:
'In the evening after dinner read Mrs. Charlotte Smith's novel Desmond, decidedly the wors... | Walter Scott | Charlotte Smith | Desmond | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Wednesday, 5 April 1826:
'Read Clapperton's journey and Denman's [sic] into Bornou -- very entertaining and less
... | Walter Scott | Major Denham, Captain Clapperton, and Doctor Oudney | Narrative of Travels in Northern and Central Africa in 1822, 1823, and 1834 [sic in source] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Tuesday, 1 August 1826:
'Yesterday evening [...] I took to arranging the old plays of which Terry had brought me ab... | Walter Scott | Middleton | Michaelmas Term | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Tuesday, 1 August 1826:
'Yesterday evening [...] I took to arranging the old plays of which Terry had brought me ab... | Walter Scott | Wentworth Smith | The Hector of Germany, or The Palsgrave | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Tuesday, 17 October 1826:
'Read over Sir John Chiverton and Brambletye House, novels in what I may surely claim as ... | Walter Scott | John Smith | Brambletye House | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The subject of Occultism was introduced in a general & comprehensive way [by] C. Stansfield. H.R. Smith read a paper ... | Howard Smith | Howard Smith | [paper on Subliminal Consciousness] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'No end of thanks for the little vol: so charming inside and outside--in its slender body containing a gently melodiou... | Joseph Conrad | Arthur Symons | unidentified | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Thanks for the little book ["Light and Twilight"] so full of good things. You know I have a prediliction for your pro... | Joseph Conrad | Edward Thomas | Light and Twilight | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Miss Marriage explained fully with aid of diagrams, Dante's progress through the Inferno, selections from which were ... | Alfred Rawlings | E.H. Plumptre | Commedia and Canzoniere of Dante Alighieri | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Miss Marriage explained fully with aid of diagrams, Dante's progress through the Inferno, selections from which were ... | Frederick Edminson | Frederick Edminson | [paper on Dante's Purgatorio] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849
1850-1899 | From the Commonplace book of Mrs Austen of Ensbury: Transcription of '"Tell me thou Soul of her I love" - Thomson', be... | Catherine Austen | James Thomson | Ode: Tell me thou Soul of her I love | Unknown |
| 1800-1849
1850-1899 | From the Commonplace book of Mrs Austen of Ensbury: Transcription of ‘"A Devonshire Lane compared to Marriage" by M... | Catherine Austen | John Marriott | A Devonshire Lane | Unknown |
| 1800-1849
1850-1899 | From the Commonplace book of Mrs Austen of Ensbury: Transcription of four lines from Moore's Lalla Rookh [untitled an... | Catherine Austen | Thomas Moore | Lalla Rookh | Unknown |
| 1800-1849
1850-1899 | From the Commonplace book of Mrs Austen of Ensbury: Transcription of '“On the death of a friend” T. Moore.' | Catherine Austen | T Moore | Lines on the death of a dear friend | Unknown |
| 1800-1849
1850-1899 | From the Commonplace book of Mrs Austen of Ensbury: Transcription of '"Epitaph on Viscountess Palmerston written by h... | Catherine Austen | Lord Palmerston | Epitaph on Vicountess Palmerston | Print: tombstone |
| 1800-1849
1850-1899 | From the Commonplace book of Mrs Austen of Ensbury: Transcription of lines by Hannah More (“Mrs H. More”) beginnin... | Catherine Austen | Hannah More | Sensibility | Unknown |
| 1800-1849
1850-1899 | From the Commonplace book of Mrs Austen of Ensbury: Transcription of '“Lines by the Princess Amelia” beginning 'Un... | Catherine Austen | Princess Amelia | | Unknown |
| 1800-1849
1850-1899 | From the Commonplace book of Mrs Austen of Ensbury: Transcription of "My birthday" T Moore' beginning '"My Birthday”... | Catherine Austen | Thomas Moore | My Birthday | Unknown |
| 1800-1849
1850-1899 | From the Commonplace book of Mrs Austen of Ensbury: Transcription of “Friendship” by the Revd Francis Murray. | Catherine Austen | Rev. Francis Murray | Friendship | Unknown |
| 1800-1849
1850-1899 | From the Commonplace book of Mrs Austen of Ensbury: Transcription of '“A Search after Happiness H. More” beginning... | Catherine Austen | Hannah More | A Search after Happiness | Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'Thank you for the fine present.[...] While reading delightedly this little work which shines with so soft a brightnes... | Joseph Conrad | Henry James | The Outcry | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The book has arrived too. It was very kind of you to think of sending it to me. As everything that Professor [William... | Joseph Conrad | William James | Memories and Studies | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The volume is very emphatically all right. In many respects better than I expected.' Hence follows a page of strong ... | Joseph Conrad | Stephen Reynolds (and Bob and Tom Woolley) | Seems So! A Working Class View of Politics | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Saturday, 10 March 1827:
'About three o'clock I got to a meeting of the Bannatyne club [...] Thomson is superintend... | Walter Scott | Sir James Melville | Memoirs | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Sunday, 13 May 1827:
'Spent the day, which was delightful, wandering from place to place in the woods, sometimes re... | Walter Scott | Captain Thomas Hamilton | The Youth and Manhood of Cyril Thornton | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Friday, 8 June 1827:
'I was fatigued and sleepy when I go[t] home [from business meetings] and nodded, I think, ove... | Walter Scott | Sir James Melville | Memoirs | Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | Transcript of interview: 'I don’t think there was anything that I wasn’t allowed to read. It was only when I went ... | Hilary Spalding | Vicky Baum | Hotel Berlin | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Transcript of interview: 'We [Hilary and schoolfellows] used to recommend things to each other a lot, and we had craze... | Hilary Spalding | Axel Munter | [novels] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'A programme consisting of the following eight anonymous essays was then proceeded with. Viz A Theory of Language - Fu... | Members of the XII Book Club | [a member of the XII Book Club] | Theory of Language | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'A programme consisting of the following eight anonymous essays was then proceeded with. Viz A Theory of Language - Fu... | Members of the XII Book Club | [a member of the XII Book Club] | Further East | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'A programme consisting of the following eight anonymous essays was then proceeded with. Viz A Theory of Language - Fu... | Members of the XII Book Club | [a member of the XII Book Club] | Perpetual Motion | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'A programme consisting of the following eight anonymous essays was then proceeded with. Viz A Theory of Language - Fu... | Members of the XII Book Club | [a member of the XII Book Club] | Civilisation in the Nineteenth Century | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'A programme consisting of the following eight anonymous essays was then proceeded with. Viz A Theory of Language - Fu... | Members of the XII Book Club | [a member of the XII Book Club] | Court of Appeal, The | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'A programme consisting of the following eight anonymous essays was then proceeded with. Viz A Theory of Language - Fu... | Members of the XII Book Club | [a member of the XII Book Club] | Feat of Journalism, A | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'A programme consisting of the following eight anonymous essays was then proceeded with. Viz A Theory of Language - Fu... | Members of the XII Book Club | [members of the XII Book Club] | [two essays entitled 'A Vignette of Local History'] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'J.J. Cooper introduced the subject of the life and Work of Goldwin Smith in an interesting essay. F.J. Edminson dealt... | Alfred Rawlings | Goldwin Smith | William Lloyd Garrison | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'J.J. Cooper introduced the subject of the life and Work of Goldwin Smith in an interesting essay. F.J. Edminson dealt... | Frederick J. Edminson | Frederick J. Edminson | [Essay on Goldwin Smith as historian] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'J.J. Cooper introduced the subject of the life and Work of Goldwin Smith in an interesting essay. F.J. Edminson dealt... | Frederick J. Edminson | Goldwin Smith | [historical works] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'J.J. Cooper introduced the subject of the life and Work of Goldwin Smith in an interesting essay. F.J. Edminson dealt... | John James Cooper | Goldwin Smith | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The subject of this evening's discussion was The Philosophy of Henri Bergson. Interesting papers were given by C.E. S... | Howard R. Smith | Howard R. Smith | [paper on Henri Bergson] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Thursday, 15 November 1827:
'Met with Chambers and complimented him about his making a clever book of the 1745 for ... | Walter Scott | Robert Chambers | History of the Rebellion 1745-6 | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Friday, 28 March 1828:
'Read Tales of an Antiquary, one of the chime of bells which I have some hand in setting a r... | Walter Scott | James Thomson | Tales of an Antiquary | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Sunday, 15 February 1829:
'I wrought [i.e. worked at writing] to day but not much -- rather dawdled and took to rea... | Walter Scott | Robert Chambers | Picture of Scotland | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Monday. 16 February 1829:
'Went to the Royal Society. There Sir William Hamilton read an Essay, the result of some ... | Sir William Hamilton | Sir William Hamilton | 'On the size of the brain and the proportion of its parts, as affected by age, sex, or sexual mutilation.' | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'Now hating to deal with ladies when they are in an unreasonable humour I have got the goodhumoured Man of Feeling to ... | Walter Scott | Henry Mackenzie | The Man of Feeling | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Colonel R. told me that the European government had discoverd an ingenious mode of diminishing the number of burnings... | Walter Scott | T.R. Malthus | Principle of Population | |
| 1850-1899 | 'Observe in the same number, how Will. J. Sharman girds at your poor friend ...' | Robert Louis Stevenson | Will. J. Sharman | article in Young Folks | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'Talking of which, in Heaven's name, get the Bondage of Brandon (3 vols) by Bracebridge Hemming.' | Robert Louis Stevenson | Bracebridge Hemyng | Bondage of Brandon | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Morris's Sigurd is a grrrrreat poem; that is so.' | Robert Louis Stevenson | William Morris | translation of The Story of Sigurd the Volsung and the Fall of the Niblungs | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'A series of more or less five minutes essays or talks on various aspects of Browning by the folowing members were the... | Ernest E. Unwin | [a member of the XII Book Club] | [essay on Browning] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'A series of more or less five minutes essays or talks on various aspects of Browning by the folowing members were the... | Alfred Rawlings | [a member of the XII Book Club] | [essay on Browning] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'A series of more or less five minutes essays or talks on various aspects of Browning by the folowing members were the... | Charles Evans | [a member of the XII Book Club] | [essay on Browning] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'A series of more or less five minutes essays or talks on various aspects of Browning by the folowing members were the... | Walter Rowntree | [a member of the XII Book Club] | [essay on Browning] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'A series of more or less five minutes essays or talks on various aspects of Browning by the folowing members were the... | Elizabeth Ann Smith | [a member of the XII Book Club] | [essay on Browning] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'A series of more or less five minutes essays or talks on various aspects of Browning by the folowing members were the... | Howard Smith | [a member of the XII Book Club] | [essay on Browning] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'Some notes on the subject of Christian Science by E.A. Smith were read & C.E. Stansfield described some of the litera... | | Elizabeth Ann Smith | [notes on Christian Science] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'J.J. Cooper read a paper on Robert Bridges & some selections from his poetry. C.I. Evans dealt with Newbolt & E.E. Un... | Ernest E. Unwin | John Masefield | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'J.J. Cooper read a paper on Robert Bridges & some selections from his poetry. C.I. Evans dealt with Newbolt & E.E. Un... | Alfred Rawlings | Alice Meynell | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'A programme devoted to Shelley was arranged which included readings from Adonais, the Skylark & Francis Thompson's Es... | Members of XII Book Club | Francis Thompson | Shelley | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'A series of readings from Maeterlinck were given by various members' | Members of XII Book Club | Maurice, Count Maeterlinck | | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | It would not be very easy for me to give you any idea of the pleasure I found in your present….I can assure you, you... | Robert Louis Stevenson | Arthur Patchett Martin | Sweet Girl Graduate: A Christmas Story and Random Rhymes | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Wednesday, 10 June 1829:
'I have been reading over the Five Days of St. Albans [sic], very much [quotes Lucretius, ... | Walter Scott | William Mudford | The Five Nights of St Albans | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Friday, 12 June 1829:
'After dinner I wrote to Walter, Charles, Lockhart and John Murray and took a screed of my no... | Walter Scott | William Mudford | The Five Nights of St Albans | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Monday, 15 June 1829:
'I read Genl. Miller's account of the South American War. I liked it the better that Basil Ha... | Walter Scott | General Miller | Memoirs of General Miller, in the Service of the Republic of Peru | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The Life & Works of Oliver W. Holmes were then dealt with. John J. Cooper read an interesting biographical paper, con... | John J. Cooper | Oliver Wendell Holmes | 'Latter Day Warnings' | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The Life & Works of Oliver W. Holmes were then dealt with. John J. Cooper read an interesting biographical paper, con... | Mary Robson | Oliver Wendell Holmes | Poet at the Breakfast Table, The | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The Life & Works of Oliver W. Holmes were then dealt with. John J. Cooper read an interesting biographical paper, con... | Reginald Robson | Oliver Wendell Holmes | Professor at the Breakfast Table, The | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The Life & Works of Oliver W. Holmes were then dealt with. John J. Cooper read an interesting biographical paper, con... | K. Evans | Oliver Wendell Holmes | Elsie Venner | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The Life & Works of Oliver W. Holmes were then dealt with. John J. Cooper read an interesting biographical paper, con... | Charles Evans | Oliver Wendell Holmes | 'Chambered Nautilus, The' | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The Life & Works of Oliver W. Holmes were then dealt with. John J. Cooper read an interesting biographical paper, con... | Charles Evans | Oliver Wendell Holmes | 'Deacon's Masterpiece, Or, The Wonderful One-Hoss Shay: A Logical Story | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The rest of the evening was devoted to the reading of a number of short stories which were more or less anonymous. Mo... | Members of XII Book Club | [members of XII Book Club] | [short stories] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'The Meeting then considered the Life & Works of Alfred Russel Wallace. Walter S. Rowntree gave us an account of Walla... | Elizabeth Ann Smith | Elizabeth Ann Smith | [Paper on A.R. Wallace's psychical writings] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'He [Hoffman] had made some translations from the German which he does extremely [well], for give him ideas and he nev... | Walter Scott | E.T.A. Hoffman | The Devil's Elixirs | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Wednesday, 26 October 1831:
'Here we are [at Portsmouth] still fixd by the inexorable wind [...] I engaged in a new... | Walter Scott | Smith | New Forest | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Harriet, Countess Granville to her sister, Lady Carlisle, 25 November 1829:
'We have a quantity of leisure here, an... | Harriet Countess Granville | Sumner | Records of the Creation | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Harriet, Countess Granville to her sister, Lady Carlisle, 31 July 1832:
'I have the greatest pleasure in reading re... | Harriet Countess Granville | Adams | Private Thoughts | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Harriet, Countess Granville, to her sister, Lady Carlisle (April 1834):
'The anxiety of the last two months has giv... | Harriet Countess Granville | Adams | Private Thoughts | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Harriet, Countess Granville, to her brother, the Duke of Devonshire, 20 June 1835:
'Lord Fitzwilliam [...] and five... | Wentworth ?Fitzwilliam | Mary Russell Mitford | Belford Regis | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The evening was devoted to Meredith. H.M. Wallis read a most interesting paper upon Meredith's works. This gave rise ... | Henry Marriage Wallis | George Meredith | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The evening was devoted to Meredith. H.M. Wallis read a most interesting paper upon Meredith's works. This gave rise ... | Charles Stansfield | George Meredith | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The evening was devoted to Meredith. H.M. Wallis read a most interesting paper upon Meredith's works. This gave rise ... | Katherine Evans | George Meredith | Richard Feverel | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The evening was devoted to Meredith. H.M. Wallis read a most interesting paper upon Meredith's works. This gave rise ... | Mary Robson | George Meredith | Egoist, The | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The evening was devoted to Meredith. H.M. Wallis read a most interesting paper upon Meredith's works. This gave rise ... | Charles Evans | George Meredith | 'Juggling Jerry' | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Harriet, Countess Granville to her sister, Lady Carlisle, 10 January 1844:
'Tell me more about Miss Martineau's boo... | Harriet Countess Granville | Harriet Martineau | 'tales' | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Harriet, Countess Granville to her sister, Lady Carlisle, 10 January 1844:
'Tell me more about Miss Martineau's boo... | Harriet Countess Granville | Harriet Martineau | 'tales' | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Harriet, Countess Granville to her sister, Lady Carlisle (February 1844):
'I should like Miss Martineau, if somebod... | Harriet Countess Granville | Harriet Martineau | | Print: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | 'When a boy [William Gifford] had read the Bible left to him by his mother, together with her "Imitatio Christi," and ... | William Gifford | Thomas a Kempis | Imitatio Christi | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'C.I. Evans described the Earthly Paradise & Mrs Evans & R.H. Robson gave readings therefrom. H.M. Wallis read [supers... | Charles Evans | William Morris | Earthly Paradise, The | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'C.I. Evans described the Earthly Paradise & Mrs Evans & R.H. Robson gave readings therefrom. H.M. Wallis read [supers... | Henry Marriage Wallis | William Morris | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'C.I. Evans described the Earthly Paradise & Mrs Evans & R.H. Robson gave readings therefrom. H.M. Wallis read [supers... | Katherine Evans | William Morris | Earthly Paradise, The | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'C.I. Evans described the Earthly Paradise & Mrs Evans & R.H. Robson gave readings therefrom. H.M. Wallis read [supers... | Reginald Robson | William Morris | Earthly Paradise, The | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'C.I. Evans described the Earthly Paradise & Mrs Evans & R.H. Robson gave readings therefrom. H.M. Wallis read [supers... | Henry Marriage Wallis | William Morris | Sigurd the Volsung | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Gilbert Murray & his work was the subject for the evening & a paper was read by H.M. Wallis. This afforded an interes... | Henry Marriage Wallis | Gilbert Murray | Rise of the Greek Epic, The | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Gilbert Murray & his work was the subject for the evening & a paper was read by H.M. Wallis. This afforded an interes... | Helen Rawlings | Gilbert Murray | Rise of the Greek Epic, The | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Gilbert Murray & his work was the subject for the evening & a paper was read by H.M. Wallis. This afforded an interes... | Elizabeth Marriage | Gilbert Murray | [translations] | Print: Book |
| | 'Then followed the reading of 7 essays. They were supposed to be anonymous & were certainly read withot any author's n... | Members of XII book Club | [Members of XII Book Club] | [anonymous essays] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'Child- Study then claimed our attention. Three papers (or contributions) were given first of all by Mrs Smith, Mr Eva... | Elizabeth Ann Smith | Elizabeth Ann Smith | [paper on child study] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'The meeting then considered the work of H.G. Wells. The chief item of interest was undoubtedly a paper by Henry M. Wa... | Elizabeth Ann Smith | Elizabeth Ann Smith | [paper on 'Mankind in the Making' by Wells] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Isaac D'Israeli to John Murray (1815):
'I have just finished Miss Williams's narrative [...] I consider it a [itali... | Isaac D'Israeli | Helen Maria Williams | Narrative of Events in France in 1815 | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Isaac D'Israeli to John Murray (1815):
'I have just finished Miss Williams's narrative [...] I consider it a [itali... | Isaac D'Israeli | Helen Maria Williams | Narrative of Events in France in 1815 | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | John Murray to Walter Scott, 25 December 1815:
'I was with Lord Byron yesterday. He enquired after you, and bid me ... | George Gordon Lord Byron | C. R. Maturin | Bertram | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | John Murray to Walter Scott, 25 December 1815:
'I was with Lord Byron yesterday. He enquired after you, and bid me ... | The Hon. George Lamb | C. R. Maturin | Bertram | Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'The evening was then devoted to the subject of Psychical Phenomena. The Secretary (Ernest E. Unwin] read a brief intr... | Elizabeth Ann Smith | Elizabeth Ann Smith | [paper on the spirit world] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'In the absence of C.E. Stansfield Mrs Stansfield read extracts from Raymond chosen by C.E.S.' | Pattie Stansfield | Raymond | [a text on spiritualism] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Essays were then read. The Secretary does not feel able to do more than indicate the general nature of these essays.
... | Elizabeth Ann Smith | Elizabeth Ann Smith | [paper on the mind and its training] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'The Secretary read 'An Open Letter' to the XII Book Club. It was read without discussion - the discussion postponed u... | Ernest E. Unwin | [a member of the XII book Club] | [open letter to the XII Book Club] | Manuscript: Letter |
| 1900-1945 | 'The main business of the evening was then proceeded with - 5 mins essays upon some book read recently.
Mrs Evans rea... | Katherine Edwards | [a member of the XII Book Club] | [paper entitled 'An English Lumber Camp'] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'The main business of the evening was then proceeded with - 5 mins essays upon some book read recently.
Mrs Evans rea... | Elizabeth Ann Smith | [a member of the XII Book Club] | [paper on Blackwood's 'The Garden of Survival'] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | Books read by William Lygon, seventh Earl Beauchamp (politician, 1872-1938) to his daughters Lettice (1906-73) and Sib... | William Lygon, seventh Earl Beauchamp | Mrs Molesworth | The Tapestry Room | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Books read by William Lygon, seventh Earl Beauchamp (politician, 1872-1938) to his daughters Lettice (1906-73) and Sib... | William Lygon, seventh Earl Beauchamp | Eliza Meteyard | Lillian's Golden Hours | Print: 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 | Adam Bernard Mickiewicz de Poraj | Pan Tadeuz | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | A rare thing this literature or love of fame or notoriety which accompanies it. Here is Mr H.M. [Henry Mackenzie] on ... | Walter Scott | Henry Mackenzie | | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | John Barrow to John Murray, 1 September 1830:
'I sat up last night over Mr. Macleod's narrative till I had nearly g... | John Barrow | Macleod | Voyage of the Alceste to China | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | John Wilson Croker to John Murray, 22 December 1821:
'I am happy to tell you that your Review is abominably bad -- ... | John Wilson Croker | T. Mitchell | Review of Dalzell, Lectures on the Ancient Greeks | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | John Wilson Croker to John Murray, 22 December 1821:
'I am happy to tell you that your Review is abominably bad -- ... | John Wilson Croker | Col. Matthews | 'article on Hazlitt' | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | The Marchioness of Abercorn to John Murray, 4 December 1817, in reponse to a gift of books:
'[The Marquess of Aberc... | Marquess of Abercorn | John Malcolm, surgeon of the Alceste | Narrative of a Voyage in His Majesty's late ship Alceste to the Yellow Sea, along the Coast of Corea, and through its numerous hitherto undiscovered Islands to the Island of Lewchew, with an Account of her Shipwreck in the Straits of Gaspar | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | The Marchioness of Abercorn to John Murray, in reponse to a gift of books:
'Lord Abercorn says he thinks your condu... | Lord and Lady Abercorn | John Malcolm, surgeon of the Alceste | Narrative of a Voyage in His Majesty's late ship Alceste to the Yellow Sea, along the Coast of Corea, and through its numerous hitherto undiscovered Islands to the Island of Lewchew, with an Account of her Shipwreck in the Straits of Gaspar | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | William Lamb to John Murray, 20 December 1822:
'The incongruity of, and objections to, the story of "Ada Reis" can ... | The Hon. William Lamb | Lady Caroline Lamb | Ada Reis | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | '"Hajji Baba" was more read than any other of [James Morier's] works. Sir Walter Scott was especially pleased with it,... | Walter Scott | James Morier | Hajji Baba | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The evening was then given up to the subject Gilbert & Sullivan's operas. Mr R.B. Graham read an able paper dealing w... | R.B. Graham | R.B. Graham | [paper on Gilbert & Sullivan] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | John Gibson Lockhart to John Murray, 29 September 1829:
'Sir Walter [Scott] has just read the first 120 pages of Mo... | Walter Scott | Thomas Moore | Life of Byron | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'The first volume of "Lord Byron's Life and Letters," published on the 1st of January, 1830, was read with enthusiasm,... | Anne Isabella Lady Byron | Thomas Moore | Life of Byron | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Mary Shelley to John Murray, 19 January 1830:
'Except the occupation of one or two annoyances, I have done nothing ... | Mary Shelley | Thomas Moore | Life of Byron (vol 1) | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Mary Somerville to John Murray, 13 January 1831:
'You have kindly afforded me a source of very great interest and p... | Mary Somerville | Thomas Moore | Life of Byron (vol 1) | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Mary Somerville to John Murray, 13 January 1831:
'You have kindly afforded me a source of very great interest and p... | Mary Somerville | Thomas Moore | Life of Byron (vol 2) | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Colonel D'Aguilar to John Murray, 15 January 1831, on the second volume of Moore's Life of Byron:
'I have sat up al... | Colonel D'Aguilar | Thomas Moore | Life of Byron (vol 2) | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | John Wilson Croker to John Murray (1831), on the second volume of Moore's Life of Byron:
'No doubt there are longeu... | John Wilson Croker | Thomas Moore | Life of Byron (vol 2) | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Gally Knight to John Murray, 17 February 1831:
'I have seen the second volume of Moore's "Life of Byron," and thoug... | Gally Knight | Thomas Moore | Life of Byron | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Sir Alexander Burnes to John Murray, 'On the Nile,' 30 March 1835:
'The Quarterly is lying before me [...] I have b... | Sir Alexander Burnes | Sir John MacNeill | 'England, France, Russia, and Turkey' | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | Joanna Baillie to John Murray, 16 March 1832:
'I thank you very heartily for your great courtesy in sending me a co... | Joanna Baillie | Frances Kemble | Francis the First | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Fanny Kemble to John Murray (1832):
'The article in the Quarterly on my "Francis the First," more than satisfied me... | Fanny Kemble | Milman | Review of Fanny Kemble, Francis the First | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | Fanny Kemble Butler to John Murray, 26 March 1836:
'Surely Captain Marryat is not a man to be trifled with; he don'... | Fanny Kemble Butler | Captain Marryat | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The remainder of the evening was occupied by the reading of Dr Faustus. The various parts were read by the members - ... | Members of XII Book Club including Charles Evans and Reginald Robson | Christopher Marlowe | Dr Faustus | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Lord Mahon to John Murray, 11 December 1836:
'I am much obliged to you for the early copy of the [Quarterly] Review... | Lord Mahon | Sir George Murray | 'article on Napier' | Print: Serial / periodical, 'early copy' |
| 1800-1849 | Mr Lockhart to John Murray, 24 September 1839:
'Morritt has just finished "Hallam's Literature." He is in raptures ... | | Hallam | 'Literature' | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The following miscellaneous programme was then gone through. This change in the subject was caused by the imposibilit... | R.B. Graham | R.B. Graham | 'Pious Atrocity, The' | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'The following miscellaneous programme was then gone through. This change in the subject was caused by the imposibilit... | Rosamund Wallis | A.A. Milne | 'Man of the Evening, The' | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | 'The following miscellaneous programme was then gone through. This change in the subject was caused by the imposibilit... | Howard R. Smith | Howard R. Smith | 'Etaples & the Air raids' | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 2 July 1876, from Brussels:
'After I went to bed I read over that wonderful part of Macaulay's History, the death o... | Lady Charlotte Schreiber | Thomas Babington Macaulay | History | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 18 July 1876:
'Left Paris by tidal service at half-past nine, reaching London before seven... I am reading again, w... | Lady Charlotte Schreiber | Tobias Smollett | Peregrine Pickle | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 7 December 1879:
'I was a little chilly in the morning [...] and I feared I had taken cold, so I did not go out. Re... | Lady Charlotte Schreiber | Freeman | 'account of the Bayeux tapestry' | Print: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | '[...] the volume ["Charity"] which on my first visit to London in many months I carried off home. From the first word... | Joseph Conrad | R.(Robert) B.(Bontine) Cunninghame Graham | Charity | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I am delighted and honoured by your gift of an inscribed copy [presumably of "Voices of Tomorrow" but see additional ... | Joseph Conrad | E.(Edwin) A.(August) Bjorkman | Voices of Tomorrow:Critical Studies on the New Spirit of Literature | Print: Book, Serial / periodical, see additional comment |
| 1900-1945 | 'Thanks for the houseflags little book. I have marked in it all the ships I used to know--a good many of them.[...]. A... | Joseph Conrad | H.|Henry] M.[Major] Tomlinson | The Fog | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'Sunday morning, as I was out getting chocolate, I found two new manifestoes on the walls. One from a private person, ... | Robert Louis Stevenson | By or on behalf of Edme-Patrice-Maurice MacMahon | [political manifesto] | Print: Poster, election posters. |
| 1900-1945 | 'I was thoroughly charmed by the volumes of verse. I read them with the liveliest sympathy and sincere admiration. The... | Joseph Conrad | Jean Masbrenier (Mariel) | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I was thoroughly charmed by the volumes of verse. I read them with the liveliest sympathy and sincere admiration. The... | Joseph Conrad | Jean Masbrenier (Mariel) | Pierre Loti: Biographie-critique | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I was thoroughly charmed by the volumes of verse. I read them with the liveliest sympathy and sincere admiration. The... | Joseph Conrad | Jean Masbrenier (Mariel) | L'enseignement de Goethe | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I had hesitated, knowing that "The New Statesman" and "The Week-end Review" regarded each other as rivals; two days l... | Vera Brittain | Storm Jameson | No Time Like the Present | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Infinite thanks for the most precious and admirable volume [Knave of Hearts] [...] meanwhile I am as ever yours with ... | Joseph Conrad | Arthur Symons | Knave of Hearts | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'That's why [an attack of gout] I did not write to thank you for your book ["A Hatchment"] (and the Ranee's) ["My Life... | Joseph Conrad | R.(Robert) B.(Bontine) Cunninghame Graham | A Hatchment | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The rest of the evening was devoted to John Bunyan. H.R. Smith read a paper dealing with the main episodes of his lif... | Howard R. Smith | Howard R. Smith | [paper on Bunyan's life] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'Thanks too for the Chinese books. I have already looked at the introduction and certain sections of the "Lute [of Jad... | Joseph Conrad | L.[Lancelot] Cranmer-Byng | A Lute of Jade: Being Selections from the Classical Poets of China | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '5. The Club now considered the subject for the evening - Berkshire - & the opening paper was by H.M. Wallis who touch... | Rosamund Wallis | Thomas of Reading | [tale about murders in Reading] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The remainder of the evening was devoted to a play-reading from Oliver Goldsmith's 'The Goodnatured Man'. Although th... | members of XII Book Club | Oliver Goldsmith | Good-natured Man, The | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The remainder of the evening was devoted to a play-reading from Oliver Goldsmith's 'The Goodnatured Man'. Although th... | Ernest E. Unwin | Oliver Goldsmith | Good-natured Man, The | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The remainder of the evening was devoted to a play-reading from Oliver Goldsmith's 'The Goodnatured Man'. Although th... | Ernest E. Unwin | Oliver Goldsmith | She Stoops to Conquer | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The subject of the meeting was 'Gardens' & all members were asked to bring contributions [...] The following is a lis... | Charles Stansfield | John Milton | Paradise Lost | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | ' I've just finished "B[ernal] Diaz". The terminal pages of the preface are just lovely with their irresistable refer... | Joseph Conrad | R.(Robert) B.(Bontine) Cunninghame Graham | Bernal Diaz de Castillo:Being Some Account of Him Taken From His True History of the Conquest of New Spain | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The rest of the evening was spent in the company of Samuel Pepys (Peeps)
The Club was much indebted to H.M. Wallis a... | Howard R. Smith | Howard R. Smith | [essay on Pepys] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'The evening was then devoted to Samuel Johnson as seen through the biography of Boswell. Two papers were contributed.... | Howard R. Smith | Howard R. Smith | [paper on Boswell] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 19 November 1880, from Paris:
'I have been reading with great interest Humphrey Clinker, which I like much the best... | Lady Charlotte Schreiber | Tobias Smollett | Humphrey Clinker | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 19 November 1880, from Paris:
'I have been reading with great interest Humphrey Clinker, which I like much the best... | Lady Charlotte Schreiber | Tobias Smollett | Roderick Random | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 19 November 1880, from Paris:
'I have been reading with great interest Humphrey Clinker, which I like much the best... | Lady Charlotte Schreiber | Tobias Smollett | Peregrine Pickle | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'His [Henry James] autobiographical two books are admirable; but what makes them so wonderful are the very same qualit... | Joseph Conrad | Henry James | A Small Boy and Others | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'His [Henry James] autobiographical two books are admirable; but what makes them so wonderful are the very same qualit... | Joseph Conrad | Henry James | Notes of a Son and Brother | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Ever so many thanks for the honour of the dedication; and for the copy [of "Figures of Several Centuries"] which reac... | Joseph Conrad | Arthur Symons | Figures of Several Centuries | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The rest of the evening was devoted to the works of Laurence Housman. Most of the members had seen & heard Mr Housman... | R.B. Graham | R.B. Graham | [paper on Housman's 'Little Plays of St.Francis'] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'The rest of the evening was devoted to the works of Laurence Housman. Most of the members had seen & heard Mr Housman... | Elizabeth Marriage, Ernest Unwin & Alfred Rawlings | Laurence Housman | Queen, The! God Bless Her | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'The rest of the evening was devoted to the works of Laurence Housman. Most of the members had seen & heard Mr Housman... | Henry Marriage Wallis | Laurence Housman | Englishwoman's Love-letters, An | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'The rest of the evening was devoted to the works of Laurence Housman. Most of the members had seen & heard Mr Housman... | Katherine and Charles Evans | Laurence Housman | Sheepfold, The | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'The rest of the evening was devoted to the works of Laurence Housman. Most of the members had seen & heard Mr Housman... | R.B. Graham | Laurence Housman | Little Plays of St. Francis, The | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'The rest of the evening was devoted to the works of Laurence Housman. Most of the members had seen & heard Mr Housman... | Reginald Robson | Laurence Housman | New Child's Guide to Knowledge | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'I'll show you where I got the hint for it [his story "The Warriors' Soul"] in Philippe de Ségur. There's a hint for ... | Joseph Conrad | Philippe-Paule Ségur (Comte de) | Un Aide de Camp de Napoléon (de 1800 à 1812 | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 21 August 1886:
'It is a great effort to me to think of moving; my feeling of desolation makes it difficult for me ... | Lady Charlotte Schreiber | Thomas Babington Macauley | Essay on Atterbury | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 21 August 1886:
'It is a great effort to me to think of moving; my feeling of desolation makes it difficult for me ... | Lady Charlotte Schreiber | Thomas Babington Macauley | History | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The Minutes of the last meeting were read & approved' | Howard R. Smith | Howard R. Smith | [Minutes of XII Book Club] | Manuscript: book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The Minutes of last meeting were read & agreed' | Howard R. Smith | Howard R. Smith | [Minutes of XII Book Club] | Manuscript: book |
| 1900-1945 | 'C.I. Evans read Geoffrey Young's [?] poem 'Mountain Playmates' & Mary Hayward read Leslie Stephen's account of the fi... | Alfred Rawlings | Edward Whymper | [on mountaineering accidents] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Mr Burrow then introduced John Masefield's work setting out the little publicly known of his life following with a sh... | George Burrow | John Masefield | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Mr Burrow then introduced John Masefield's work setting out the little publicly known of his life following with a sh... | George Burrow | John Masefield | 'Everlasting Mercy, The' | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Mr Burrow then introduced John Masefield's work setting out the little publicly known of his life following with a sh... | Charles Evans | John Masefield | 'Sea Change' | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Mr Burrow then introduced John Masefield's work setting out the little publicly known of his life following with a sh... | Charles Evans | John Masefield | 'Cargoes' | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Mr Burrow then introduced John Masefield's work setting out the little publicly known of his life following with a sh... | Charles Evans | John Masefield | 'Ships' | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Mr Burrow then introduced John Masefield's work setting out the little publicly known of his life following with a sh... | Howard R. Smith | John Masefield | 'Reynard the Fox' | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Mr Burrow then introduced John Masefield's work setting out the little publicly known of his life following with a sh... | Henry Marriage Wallis | John Masefield | Gallipoli | |
| 1900-1945 | 'Mr Burrow then introduced John Masefield's work setting out the little publicly known of his life following with a sh... | Florence Reynolds | John Masefield | 'Tewkesbury Road' | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Mr Burrow then introduced John Masefield's work setting out the little publicly known of his life following with a sh... | Florence Reynolds | John Masefield | 'Beauty' | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Mr Burrow then introduced John Masefield's work setting out the little publicly known of his life following with a sh... | Florence Reynolds | John Masefield | 'I Went into the Fields' | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Mr Burrow then introduced John Masefield's work setting out the little publicly known of his life following with a sh... | Florence Reynolds | John Masefield | 'Laugh and be Merry' | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Mr Burrow then introduced John Masefield's work setting out the little publicly known of his life following with a sh... | Florence Reynolds | John Masefield | 'By a Bierside' | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'As soon as I had learned to read, my great delight was that of learning epitaphs and monumental inscriptions. A story... | Mary Darby | Mason | Elegy upon the death of the beautiful Countess of Coventry | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The evening's subject of William de Morgan was introduced by Geo Burrow who gave some account of his life drawing att... | Helen Rawlings | William de Morgan | Joseph Vance | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The evening's subject of William de Morgan was introduced by Geo Burrow who gave some account of his life drawing att... | Reginald Robson | William de Morgan | Alice for Short | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The evening's subject of William de Morgan was introduced by Geo Burrow who gave some account of his life drawing att... | Howard R. Smith | William de Morgan | Somehow Good | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The evening's subject of William de Morgan was introduced by Geo Burrow who gave some account of his life drawing att... | Francis Pollard | William de Morgan | [novels] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The evening's subject of William de Morgan was introduced by Geo Burrow who gave some account of his life drawing att... | Members of XII Book Club | William de Morgan | [novels] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'F.E. Pollard gave some account of Walt Whitman's Life indicating the variety of livelyhood [sic] & of expression whic... | Francis Pollard | Walt Whitman | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'F.E. Pollard gave some account of Walt Whitman's Life indicating the variety of livelyhood [sic] & of expression whic... | George Burrow | Walt Whitman | 'Memories of President Lincoln' | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'F.E. Pollard gave some account of Walt Whitman's Life indicating the variety of livelyhood [sic] & of expression whic... | R.B. Graham | Walt Whitman | 'O Captain! My Captain!' | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'F.E. Pollard gave some account of Walt Whitman's Life indicating the variety of livelyhood [sic] & of expression whic... | R.B. Graham | Walt Whitman | 'Manhattan Faces' | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'F.E. Pollard gave some account of Walt Whitman's Life indicating the variety of livelyhood [sic] & of expression whic... | Reginald Robson | Walt Whitman | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Various anonymous essays by members of the Club were then read with the following titles and at the conclusion of the... | members of XII Book Club | Mrs R.B. Graham | Lady of the Marsh, The | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'Various anonymous essays by members of the Club were then read with the following titles and at the conclusion of the... | members of XII Book Club | R.B. Graham | If Christianity had Won | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'Various anonymous essays by members of the Club were then read with the following titles and at the conclusion of the... | members of XII Book Club | [anon. member of XII Book Club] | Scandalous Affair, A | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'The Financial Statement was read & approved' | Howard R. Smith | Edith Smith | [financial statement of XII Book Club] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'The subject for the evening Herman Melville was then proceeded with & R.H. Robson gave a short account of his life fo... | Mary Robson | Herman Melville | Typee | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The subject for the evening Herman Melville was then proceeded with & R.H. Robson gave a short account of his life fo... | R.B. Graham | Herman Melville | Moby Dick | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The subject for the evening Herman Melville was then proceeded with & R.H. Robson gave a short account of his life fo... | Charles Evans | Herman Melville | Moby Dick | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The subject for the evening Herman Melville was then proceeded with & R.H. Robson gave a short account of his life fo... | Katherine Evans | Herman Melville | Moby Dick | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The subject for the evening Herman Melville was then proceeded with & R.H. Robson gave a short account of his life fo... | George Burrow | Herman Melville | Moby Dick | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The subject for the evening Herman Melville was then proceeded with & R.H. Robson gave a short account of his life fo... | Howard R. Smith | Herman Melville | Moby Dick | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I wish I could lay my hands on the numbers of the "Review", for I know I wished to say something on that head more pa... | Robert Louis Stevenson | Arthur Patchett Martin | Bret Harte in Relation to Modern Fiction. | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'Of your poems I have myself a kindness for ‘Noll and Nell’. Although I don’t think you have made it as good as ... | Robert Louis Stevenson | Arthur Patchett Martin | 'Noll and Nell'; 'England - 1877'. | Print: Book, Serial / periodical, Both (2 poems, one in a book, one in a periodical). |
| 1700-1799 | Aaron Hill to Samuel Richardson, 1 June 1730:
'It pleases me, but does not surprise me at all, that your sentiments... | Aaron Hill | John Milton | Prose writings | Print: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | J. Duncombe, of Benet College, Cambridge, to Samuel Richardson, 15 October 1751:
'Mr Graham is not in Cambridge; bu... | J. Duncombe and others in Cambridge | Graham | epigram | Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'I was in Paris during the elections for the Chamber, when a triumphant majority was returned, as of course you know, ... | Robert Louis Stevenson | Edmé-Patrice-Maurice MacMahon, comte de | | Print: Poster |
| 1700-1799 | Elizabeth Carter to Catherine Talbot, 12 August 1751:
'I have not seen the Oxford and Cambridge Verses. The only la... | Elizabeth Carter | Christopher Smart | On the Eternity of the Supreme Being | Print: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 24 October 1751:
'I am sick of all human greatness and activity, and so would... | Catherine Talbot | Bernard de Montfaucon | French Antiquities | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 22 April 1752:
'I thank you for your offer of sending me Miss Mulso's verses,... | Catherine Talbot | Hester Mulso | verses | Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 17 December 1752:
'Did I ever tell you I was reading Madame de Maintenon's Le... | Catherine Talbot | Françoise d'Aubigné de Maintenon | Letters | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 10 June 1754:
'I will send you a sonnet that I am extremely fond of, from no ... | Catherine Talbot | Carlo Maria Maggi | Sonnet 'Care dell'alma stanca Albengatrici...' | Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 10 June 1754:
'Your cousin [Richard Owen] Cambridge has writ many lively pape... | Catherine Talbot | Richard Owen Cambridge | papers (i.e. essays) | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1700-1799 | Elizabeth Carter to Catherine Talbot, 10 July 1754:
'I am beyond description charmed with the Italian sonnet you se... | Elizabeth Carter | Carlo Maria Maggi | Sonnet 'Care dell'alma stanca Albengatrici...' | Manuscript: Letter, Transcribed by Catherine Talbot in letter of 10 June 1754. |
| 1700-1799 | Elizabeth Carter to Catherine Talbot, 10 July 1754:
'After that exquisitely beautiful sonnet [by Carlo Maria Maggi,... | Elizabeth Carter | Metastasio | 'love song' opening 'Ecco qual fiero istante' | Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'At a P.E.N. dinner I sat beside him, and questioned him about the "lighted door" in his novel "Guy and Pauline".' | Vera Brittain | Compton Mackenzie | Guy and Pauline | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'In the "Sunday Times" for September 12th, a letter of protest from Dame Marie Tempest had coincided with another from... | Vera Brittain | Marie Tempest | [letter published in the "Sunday "Times"] | Print: Newspaper, Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'In the "Sunday Times" for September 12th, a letter of protest from Dame Marie Tempest had coincided with another from... | Vera Brittain | Marie Tempest | [Letter published in the "Sunday Times"] | Print: Newspaper, Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'K.S. Evans assisted [her husband's discussion of superstition] by reading from Walter Raymond's "The Book of Simple D... | Katherine Evans | Walter Raymond | The Book of Simple Delights | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'After refreshment Geo Burrow told us of Meinholt's [sic] book "The Amber Witch" & of witchcraft & Howard R. Smith re... | George Burrow | Johannes Wilhelm Meinhold | "The Amber Witch" | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'C.I. Evans read a short essay on W.H. Hudsons story Green Mansions H.R. Smith followed on Rates & Taxes & Geo Burrow ... | Howard R. Smith | Howard R. Smith | [paper on "Rates and taxes"] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'Letters & Letter writing were then proceeded with.
Mrs Burrow read three letters of William Cowper characteristica... | George Burrow | Charles Lamb | [letters] | Print: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'The treasurers report showing a balance in hand of 19/- was read' | Edith Smith | Edith Smith | [treasurer's report of XII Book Club] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | [Elizabeth Carter to Catherine Talbot, 16 June 1758:]
'Since I came home I have picked up [reading] at Mrs Gambieu'... | Elizabeth Carter | Françoise Langlois de Motteville | Memoirs for the History of Anne of Austria | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | [Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 15 August 1758, following Talbot's stepfather's appointment as Archbishop of Ca... | Catherine Talbot | Pierre de Marivaux | Le Spectateur Francois | Print: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'Four one act plays were then read:
"Windows by J. Galsworthy, "the Dear Departed" by Stanley Houghton, "The Boy Co... | Members of XII Book Club | Alan Alexander Milne | The Boy Comes Home | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The subject of the evening "Gardens" was then taken. Geo Burrow reminded us that the world began in the garden of Ede... | Rosamund Wallis | William Temple | [on gardens] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The subject of the evening "Gardens" was then taken. Geo Burrow reminded us that the world began in the garden of Ede... | Celia Burrow | Walter de la Mare | 'Sunken Garden' | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'After supper the Secretary read the Minutes of the last Meeting' | Howard R. Smith | Howard R. Smith | [Minutes of XII Book Club] | Manuscript: book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The Minutes of last Meeting were read & approved' | Howard R. Smith | Howard R. Smith | [Minutes of XII Book Club] | Manuscript: book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The financial statement was read showing a balance in hand of 11/ 3 1/2' | Edith Smith | Edith Smith | [financial statement of XII Book Club] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | [Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 26 April 1763:]
'Your Carlo Maggi, were he not such a horrible papist, is a ... | Catherine Talbot | Carlo Maggi | 'Prologue to a comedy of Plautus' | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | [Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 26 April 1763:]
'Your Carlo Maggi, were he not such a horrible papist, is a ... | Catherine Talbot | Carlo Maggi | Letters to Rosa | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | [Elizabeth Carter to Catherine Talbot, 10 May 1763:]
'Carlo Maggi is, indeed, a most excellent companion, and I agr... | Elizabeth Carter | Carlo Maggi | poems | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | [Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 14 May 1763:]
'Some of [Carlo Maggi's] prose is delightful. Pray do not read... | Catherine Talbot | Carlo Maggi | 'the Death of Adam' | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | [Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 14 May 1763:]
'Some of [Carlo Maggi's] prose is delightful. Pray do not read... | Catherine Talbot and family | Lady Mary Wortley Montagu | Turkish Embassy Letters | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 1 October 1763:
'Our after-supper book is Hume -- his English history however... | Catherine Talbot and family | David Hume | History of England | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | [Elizabeth Carter to Catherine Talbot, 15 October 1763:]
'It is more from the testimony of others than from any rec... | Elizabeth Carter | Desiderius Erasmus | 'Dialogues' | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | [Elizabeth Carter to Catherine Talbot, 5 December 1763:]
'Have you read Mrs Macaulay's history? I have seen only so... | Elizabeth Carter | Catherine Macaulay | 'History' [extracts] | Print: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | [Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, during stay in Canterbury, 12 February 1764:]
'I brought with me Hurd's Dial... | Catherine Talbot | Edward Kimber | Maria; The genuine memoirs of an admired lady of rank and fortune, and of some of her friends | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | [Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 12 June 1766:]
'I have been reading your third volume of Peruvians with plea... | Catherine Talbot | Charles Morrell | The Tales of the Genii | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | [Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 16 October 1768, during a visit to the Cornwall family:]
''We found them her... | Elizabeth Talbot and Cornwall family | Johann Lorenz von Mosheim | ?An Ecclesiastical History, ancient and modern, from the birth of Christ to the beginning of the present century | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | [Elizabeth Carter to Elizabeth Vesey, 29 April 1763:]
'I am rather scandalized that you should even ask how I like ... | Elizabeth Carter | Carlo Maggi | Malincolia d'Alicino | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | [Elizabeth Carter to Elizabeth Vesey, 6 August 1766:]
'Be so good as to tell Mrs Handcock that I do like the "Vicar... | Elizabeth Carter | Oliver Goldsmith | The Vicar of Wakefield | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | [Thomas Edwards to Samuel Richardson, 28 February 1752:]
'I often entertain myself with reading over those charming... | Thomas Edwards | Hester Mulso | 'Odes' | Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | [Thomas Edwards to Samuel Richardson, 5 March 1753:]
'I am much obliged to you for the sonnet; it is very pretty'. | Thomas Edwards | Hester Mulso | sonnet | Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | [Thomas Edwards to Samuel Richardson, 1 March 1754:]
'Who is that Miss Nanny Williams who has published a pretty co... | Thomas Edwards | Anna Williams | verses addressed to Samuel Richardson | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1700-1799 | [Thomas Edwards to Samuel Richardson, 29 May 1754:]
'I very much wonder, how it came to pass that I did not hear a ... | Thomas Edwards | John Duncombe | The Feminiad | Print: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | [Thomas Edwards to Samuel Richardson, 18 July 1754:]
'The verses from my fair [italics]Pupil[end italics], as she d... | Thomas Edwards | Miss Highmore | sonnet | Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'Thank you very much for sending me your contribution towards the solution of the great problem [Polish independence].... | Joseph Conrad | Roman Dmowski | Russian Realities and Problems (chapter) or Problems of Central and Eastern Europe | Print: Book, see additional comment, identity of text uncertain |
| 1900-1945 | 'Thank you very much for the books. Monahan I like. E[zra] P[ound] is certainly a poet but I am afraid I am too old an... | Joseph Conrad | Michael Monahan | New Adventures | Print: Book, Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | 'Here I read the three-year-old newspapers which described the unusual murder trial, and studied a "background" book, ... | Vera Brittain | Emanuel Miller | The Neuroses in War | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [From the diary of Elizabeth Firth, 22 April 1818:]
'Read Lalla Rookh.' | Elizabeth Firth | Thomas Moore | Lalla Rookh | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [From the diary of Elizabeth Firth, 6 January 1820:]
'Read Goldsmith's History of Rome.' | Elizabeth Firth | Oliver Goldsmith | History of Rome | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Charlotte Bronte to Ellen Nussey, on life as a teacher at Miss Wooler's school, Dewsbury Moor, June 1837:]
'My lif... | Charlotte Bronte | Thomas Sims | Brief Memorials of Jean Frédéric Oberlin | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Charlotte Bronte to Ellen Nussey, on life as a teacher at Miss Wooler's school, Dewsbury Moor, June 1837:]
'My lif... | Charlotte Bronte | Legh Richmond | Domestic Portraiture | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'My first real understanding of the "terrific sensation" came from an article published in the "Sunday Chronicle" on M... | Vera Brittain | Dorothy Thompson | [article in the "Sunday Chronicle"] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | 'To the "Evening Standard" Anne Matheson had contributed a later and similar description of Nuremberg.' | Vera Brittain | Anne Matheson | Article in the "Evening Standard" | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | 'More stimulating was the reading of Somerset Maugham's short novel, "A Christmas Holiday".' | Vera Brittain | Somerset Maugham | A Christmas Holiday | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'written in a bad American style, turgid, & obscurely fractious, but interesting from its matter' | G. W. F. Howard, Lord Morpeth | Thomas Farnham | Travels in the Great Western Prairies | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'fine imagery, but is too speculative' | G. W. F. Howard, Lord Morpeth | Henry Melvill | Sermon on the Ascension | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'Assure Mr Montagu, that his Book was the most delightful I have read for many days. Your hand also was visible in it... | Thomas Carlyle | Basil Montagu | Thoughts on Laughter By a Chancery Barrister | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have got old Ascham, and read a little of him, when I have done work, every evening.' | Thomas Carlyle | Roger Ascham | ?'Toxophilus' and 'The Scholemaster' | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'Did you read Sir W Hamilton on Cousin's Metaphysics in the last Edinburgh Review? And what inferences are we to draw... | Thomas Carlyle | Sir William Hamilton | Review of Victor Cousin's 'Cours de Philosophie' (Paris, 1828) in Edinburgh Review, XCIV (OCt 1829), 194-221 | Print: Serial / periodicalUnknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'That vol[ume]["Colour Studies in Paris"] is full of charm and contains many pages of rare distinction and luminous li... | Joseph Conrad | Arthur Symons | Colour Studies in Paris | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Charlotte Brontë to the grandson of Henry James Mercier, 1 June 1848:]
'I have read 2,500 with ple... | Charlotte Brontë | Henry James Mercier | Memoirs of the Year Two Thousand Five Hundred | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Charlotte Brontë, as Currer Bell, to her publisher, W. S. Williams, 15 June 1848:]
'I duly received Mirabeau ... | Charlotte Brontë | John Stores Smith | Mirabeau: A Life History | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I write to thank you for the book [...]. I have already seen most of the papers composing your new vol. ["Old Junk"]... | Joseph Conrad | Henry Major Tomlinson | Old Junk | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'This is a very interesting journal and I read it with a particular pleasure derived both from the matter and from the... | Joseph Conrad | Christopher Sandeman | [untitled] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'At the beginning I must say that I have not read the tales ["Tales of a Cruel Country"] through as yet'.
| Joseph Conrad | Gerald Cumberland (pseud.) | Tales of a Cruel Country | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I am just fresh from the second reading of your vol ["Brought Forward"]'.
Hence follow twelve lines of admiring comm... | Joseph Conrad | Robert Bontine Cunninghame Graham | Brought Forward | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I know the work of Paul Adam very little and all I have in the house is his "Lettres de Malaisie". | Joseph Conrad | Paul Adam | Lettres de Malaisie | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Thank you for the "Saint-Simon", which to my great joy arrived this morning. I finished the play the day before yeste... | Joseph Conrad | Louis de Rouvroy, Duc de Saint-Simon | Les Mémoires de Saint-Simon | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Ever so many thanks too for the "Life and Miracles" which I have just read for the second time.There is no one but yo... | Joseph Conrad | Robert Bontine Cunninghame Graham | A Brazilian Mystic, being the Life and Miracles of Antonio Conselheiro | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Warm thanks for the charming copy of "Wild Oranges" which it was a great pleasure to have in this interesting form. [... | Joseph Conrad | Joseph Hergesheimer | Wild Oranges | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The book ["The Rescue"] which has found favour in your eyes has been inspired in a great measure by the history of th... | Joseph Conrad | Rodney Mundy | Narrative of Events in Borneo and Celebes Down to the Occupation of Labuan, from the Journals of James Brooke | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899
1900-1945 | 'I do know the Mérimée story you speak of. It is "Tamango". A rather good piece of work. [...] I read it years ago.' | Joseph Conrad | Prosper Mérimée | Tamango | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'What to me [...] seems most wonderful in the Carthagena book is its inextinguishable vitality, the unchanged strength... | Joseph Conrad | Robert Bontine Cunninghame Graham | Cartagena and the Banks of the Sinu | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I have just read through the Zeromski novel you mean: "History of a Sin". I don't think it will do for translation. T... | Joseph Conrad | Stefan Zeromski | Dzieje grzechu | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I have just read through the Zeromski novel you mean: "History of a Sin". I don't think it will do for translation. T... | Joseph Conrad | Stefan Zeromski | Popioly | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Symonds, talking of cultshaw, has just written a book of sonnets, which I think really should interest and amuse a fe... | Robert Louis Stevenson | John Addington Symonds | Animi Figura | Manuscript: Proof copy |
| 1900-1945 | 'I would have written to you before about my delight in "The Conquest of Granada" if it had not been for the beastly s... | Joseph Conrad | Robert Bontine Cunninghame Graham | The Conquest of New Granada, being the Life of Gonzalo Jimenez de Quesada | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Thanks for the press cuttings. The accident on board that ship was an extraordinary one.' | Joseph Conrad | W. A. H. Mull | A True Story: Loss and Record of the Wreck of the Ship "Dalgonar" of Liverpool | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | 'Thank you for your little book of innermost thoughts.[...] And you have proved your excellent humanity by the manner ... | Joseph Conrad | Christopher Morley | Inward Ho! | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I read with the greatest pleasue what you say about Trollope. I made his acquaintance full thirty years ago and made... | Joseph Conrad | Allan Monkhouse | A Bookman's Notes | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | 'The play arrived yesterday and I read it in the evening (the proper time for plays) with the greatest appreciation.' ... | Joseph Conrad | Allan Monkhouse | | Print: Book, playscript |
| 1900-1945 | 'My warm thanks for the inscribed copy of "Bolshevik Persecution" you have been kind enough to send me. I have read wi... | Joseph Conrad | Francis McCullagh | The Bolshevik Persecution of Christianity | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Even H. Norman corroborates me out of his short experience. See his "Far East".' | Joseph Conrad | Henry Norman | The Peoples and Politics of the Far East:Travels and Studies in the British, French, Spanish and Portuguese Colonies, Siberia, China, Japan, Korea, Siam and Malaya | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Thanks for the copy of "Good Reading". It's a charming little book.' | Joseph Conrad | John Millar | Books: A Guide to Good Reading | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Many thanks for the copy of your book which I have read with the greatest of interest and pleasure.' | Joseph Conrad | James Johnston Abraham | A Surgeon's Log: Being Impressions of the Far East | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I have this moment received your very kind letter with the enclosure of verse for which I hasten to send you my warm ... | Joseph Conrad | David Morton | ?Old Ships | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'Throughout his career Conrad was haunted by the idea of writing a Napoleonic novel, for which he did a prodigious amo... | Joseph Conrad | Stendhal [pseud. i.e. Marie-Henri Beyle] | Vie de Napoléon | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'At the foot of the bed was an oak "library table" [...]. There were several piles of books on it, W. W. Jacobs for li... | Joseph Conrad | Guy De Maupassant | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'At the foot of the bed was an oak "library table" [...]. There were several piles of books on it, W. W. Jacobs for li... | Joseph Conrad | Robert Bontine Cunninghame Graham | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The tent flaps were laced over, the rain had ceased, the guns were silent and Jimmy Harding lay motionless. I ate slo... | Edwin Stephen Campion Vaughan | Alexander Smith | "Barbara" | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | A Meeting held at Mark Ash Tuesday May 8th 1928
C. J. Evans in the Chair
1 Minutes of last approved
| Howard Smith | Howard Smith | [Minutes of the meeting of the XII Book Club held 23 March 1928] | Manuscript: Notebook |
| 1900-1945 | The Club was then much impressed by a reading from Christopher Marlows Doctor Faustus parted as under
Thos. C Elliot... | Live dramatic reading featuring T. C. Elliott, R. H. Robson, and A. Rawling of XII Book Club | Christopher Marlowe | Doctor Faustus | Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | The Club was then much impressed by a reading from Christopher Marlows Doctor Faustus parted as under
Thos. C Elliot... | Reginald H. Robson | Christopher Marlowe | Doctor Faustus | Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | A Meeting held at 30 Northcourt Avenue [Oct 19/28]
Miss E. C. Stevens in the chair
1. Minutes of l... | Howard Smith | Howard Smith | [Minutes of the meeting held 8 May 1928] | Manuscript: Notebook |
| 1900-1945 | A Meeting held at 30 Northcourt Avenue [Oct 19/28]
Miss E. C. Stevens in the chair
1. Minutes of l... | Howard Smith | Howard Smith | [Minutes/report of the picnic meeting held 12 Jun 1928] | Manuscript: Notebook |
| 1900-1945 | 'A Meeting held at 9 Denmark Rd 13/11/1928 F. E. Pollard in the chair
1. Minutes of last read and approved<... | Howard Smith | Howard Smith | [Minutes of the meeting of the XII Book Club held 13 November 1928] | Manuscript: Notebook |
| 1900-1945 | 'A meeting held at School House 4/12/28 T. C. Elliott in the chair
1 Minutes of the last read and approved<... | Howard Smith | Howard Smith | [Minutes/report of the meeting held 13 November 1928] | Manuscript: Unknown, Notebook |
| 1900-1945 | 'A Meeting held at Whinfell 21/1/29 Alfred Rawlings in the chair
1. Minutes of last time read and approved<... | Howard Smith | Howard Smith | [Minutes of the meeting held 4 Dec 1928] | Manuscript: Notebook |
| 1900-1945 | 'A Meeting held at Oakdene 20/2/1929 S. A. Reynolds in the chair
1. Minutes of last Meeting read and approv... | Howard Smith | Howard Smith | [Minutes of the meeting of the XII Book Club held 21 Jan 1929] | Manuscript: Notebook |
| 1900-1945 | 'A Meeting held at Oakdene 20/2/1929 S. A. Reynolds in the chair
1. Minutes of last Meeting read and approv... | Howard Smith | Howard Smith | [A brief sketch of Victor Hugo's life] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'A. Meeting held at Frensham 19/3/1929 H. R. Smith in the chair
Min 1 Minutes of last read and approved ... | Howard Smith | Howard Smith | [Minutes of the meeting of the XII Book Club held 26 Feb 1929] | Manuscript: Notebook |
| 1900-1945 | 'A Meeting held at Grove House May 3rd H. B. Lawson in the chair
Min 1. Minutes of last Read and approved | Howard Smith | Howard Smith | [Minutes of the meeting of the XII Book Club held 19 Mar 1929] | Manuscript: Notebook |
| 1900-1945 | 'A Meeting held at Grove House May 3rd H. B. Lawson in the chair
Min 1. Minutes of last Read and approved | Alfred Rawlings | Charles Lamb | [a letter] | Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'A Meeting held at Grove House May 3rd H. B. Lawson in the chair
Min 1. Minutes of last Read and approved | Francis Pollard | Jerome K. Jerome | Three Men in a Boat | |
| 1900-1945 | 'A Meeting held at Broomfield June 6 1929
Geo H Burrow in the chair
Min 1. Minutes of last time rea... | Howard Smith | Howard Smith | [Minutes of XII Book Club meeting, 3 May 1929] | Manuscript: Notebook |
| 1900-1945 | 'A Meeting held at Broomfield June 6 1929
Geo H Burrow in the chair
Min 1. Minutes of last time rea... | Charles E. Stansfield | Edna St. Vincent Millay | Renascence and Other Poems | Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'A Meeting held at 70 Northcourt Avenue 25th September 1929 C. E Stansfield in the
chair
Min 1. Minutes o... | Howard Smith | Howard Smith | [Minutes of XII Book Club meeting, 6 June 1929] | Manuscript: Notebook |
| 1900-1945 | 'A Meeting held at 70 Northcourt Avenue 25th September 1929 C. E Stansfield in the
chair
Min 1. Minutes o... | Howard Smith | Muriel Bowman-Smith | [letter of resignation from the XII Book Club] | Manuscript: Letter |
| 1900-1945 | 'A Meeting held at 30 Northcourt Avenue 19/10/29 Miss E. C. Stevens in the chair
1. Minutes of last time re... | Howard Smith | Howard Smith | [Minutes of the meeting of the XII Book Club held 25 Sep 1929] | Manuscript: Notebook |
| 1900-1945 | 'A Meeting held at 30 Northcourt Avenue 19/10/29 Miss E. C. Stevens in the chair
1. Minutes of last time re... | Francis Pollard | Gilbert Murray | [Introduction to his translation of Euripides’ Alcestis] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Meeting held at Reckitt House 27/2/30
R. H. Robson in the chair
1. Minutes of last Meeting approved
5. The subje... | | Howard Smith | Minutes of the meeting of the XII Book Club held 3 Dec 1929 | Manuscript: Notebook |
| 1900-1945 | Meeting held at Ashton Lodge July 10th 1930
H. M. Wallis in the chair
Min 1. Minutes of last meeting approv... | Howard Smith | Howard Smith | Minutes of the meeting of the XII Book Club held 3 June 1930 | Manuscript: Notebook |
| 1900-1945 | Meeting held at Ashton Lodge July 10th 1930
H. M. Wallis in the chair
Min 1. Minutes of last meeting approv... | Celia Burrow | John Masefield | Beauty | Manuscript: UnknownUnknown |
| 1900-1945 | Meeting held at Ashton Lodge July 10th 1930
H. M. Wallis in the chair
Min 1. Minutes of last meeting approv... | Celia Burrow | John Masefield | Posted Missing | Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | Meeting held at Ashton Lodge July 10th 1930
H. M. Wallis in the chair
Min 1. Minutes of last meeting approv... | Henry Marriage Wallis | John Masefield | Sard Harker | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Meeting held at Ashton Lodge July 10th 1930
H. M. Wallis in the chair
Min 1. Minutes of last meeting approv... | Violet Clough | John Masefield | Midsummer Night | Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | Meeting held at Ashton Lodge July 10th 1930
H. M. Wallis in the chair
Min 1. Minutes of last meeting approv... | Edgar Castle | John Masefield | Philip the King | Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | Meeting held at Ashton Lodge July 10th 1930
H. M. Wallis in the chair
Min 1. Minutes of last meeting approv... | Mignon Castle | John Masefield | Philip the King | Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | Meeting held at Ashton Lodge July 10th 1930
H. M. Wallis in the chair
Min 1. Minutes of last meeting approv... | Mary Pollard | John Masefield | Philip the King | Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | Meeting held at Ashton Lodge July 10th 1930
H. M. Wallis in the chair
Min 1. Minutes of last meeting approv... | Howard Smith | John Masefield | Philip the King | Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | Meeting held at Ashton Lodge July 10th 1930
H. M. Wallis in the chair
Min 1. Minutes of last meeting approv... | Sylvanus A. Reynolds | John Masefield | Philip the King | Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'Meeting held at Fairlight: 9 Denmark Rd. 18th April 1932.
Francis Pollard in the Chair.
1. Minutes... | Howard Smith | Francis Thompson | ?"At Lords" | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Meeting held at Eynsham, Shinfield Rd, 31.5.32.
George Burrow in the Chair.
1. Minutes of last appr... | Charles E. Stansfield | Molière [pseud.] | The Misanthrope | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Meeting held at Eynsham, Shinfield Rd, 31.5.32.
George Burrow in the Chair.
1. Minutes of last appr... | Francis E. Pollard | Molière [pseud.] | The Misanthrope | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Meeting held at Eynsham, Shinfield Rd, 31.5.32.
George Burrow in the Chair.
1. Minutes of last appr... | George Burrow | Molière [pseud.] | The Misanthrope | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Meeting held at Eynsham, Shinfield Rd, 31.5.32.
George Burrow in the Chair.
1. Minutes of last appr... | Rosamund Wallis | Molière [pseud.] | The Misanthrope | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Meeting held at Eynsham, Shinfield Rd, 31.5.32.
George Burrow in the Chair.
1. Minutes of last appr... | Sylvanus A. Reynolds | Molière [pseud.] | The Misanthrope | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Meeting held at Eynsham, Shinfield Rd, 31.5.32.
George Burrow in the Chair.
1. Minutes of last appr... | Mary Pollard | Molière [pseud.] | The Misanthrope | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Meeting held at Eynsham, Shinfield Rd, 31.5.32.
George Burrow in the Chair.
1. Minutes of last appr... | Edgar Castle | Molière [pseud.] | The Misanthrope | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Meeting held at Eynsham, Shinfield Rd, 31.5.32.
George Burrow in the Chair.
1. Minutes of last appr... | Henry Marriage Wallis | Molière [pseud.] | The Misanthrope | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Meeting held at Eynsham, Shinfield Rd, 31.5.32.
George Burrow in the Chair.
1. Minutes of last appr... | Victor Alexander | Molière [pseud.] | The Misanthrope | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Meeting held at Eynsham, Shinfield Rd, 31.5.32.
George Burrow in the Chair.
1. Minutes of last appr... | Mary E. Robson | Molière [pseud.] | The Misanthrope | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Meeting held at Fairlight, Denmark Rd.: 21.iii.33
Francis E. Pollard in the Chair.
1. Minutes of l... | Reginald H. Robson | Howard Smith | [A paper on English justice] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | Meeting held at 70 Northcourt Avenue 28/4/1933
C. E. Stansfield in the chair
1 Minutes of l... | Mary Pollard | Mary Russell Mitford | 'The Gypsy', from Our Village | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Meeting held at 70 Northcourt Avenue 28/4/1933
C. E. Stansfield in the chair
1 Minutes of l... | Edgar Castle | H. V. Morton | In Search of England | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Meeting held at Oakdene, Northcourt Av, 20.3.34.
Sylvanus A. Reynolds in the Chair.
1. Minute... | Francis E. Pollard | Howard Smith | Newcomers to Reading | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | Meeting held at 9 Denmark Road, 20 IV. 1934
F. E. Pollard in the chair
1. Minutes of last read & a... | Howard Smith | Howard Smith | [An account of the life of William Morris] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | Meeting held at 9 Denmark Road, 20 IV. 1934
F. E. Pollard in the chair
1. Minutes of last read & a... | Reginald H. Robson | J. W. Mackail | The Life of William Morris | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Meeting held at 70 Northcourt Avenue: 18. 6. 35.
Charles E. Stansfield in the Chair
1. Minutes of... | Howard Smith | Howard Smith | [A paper on the early history of London] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'Meeting held at 70 Northcourt Avenue: 18. 6. 35.
Charles E. Stansfield in the Chair
1. Minutes of... | Henry Marriage Wallis | William Morris | | Unknown |
| 1850-1899
1900-1945 | 'Am reading Meredith's Egoist. C. [David Lloyd George] said he was afraid it would lessen my love for him, as he throw... | David Lloyd George | George Meredith | The Egoist | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Am reading Meredith's Egoist. C. [David Lloyd George] said he was afraid it would lessen my love for him, as he throw... | Frances Stevenson | George Meredith | The Egoist | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Meeting held 219 King’s Road: 27. 11. 37.
L. Dorothea Taylor in the Chair.
1. Minutes of last re... | Rosamund Wallis | Laurence Housman | Victoria Regina | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Meeting held 219 King’s Road: 27. 11. 37.
L. Dorothea Taylor in the Chair.
1. Minutes of last re... | Celia Burrow | Laurence Housman | Victoria Regina | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Meeting held 219 King’s Road: 27. 11. 37.
L. Dorothea Taylor in the Chair.
1. Minutes of last re... | Francis E. Pollard | Laurence Housman | Victoria Regina | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Meeting held 219 King’s Road: 27. 11. 37.
L. Dorothea Taylor in the Chair.
1. Minutes of last re... | Ethel C. Stevens | Laurence Housman | Victoria Regina | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Meeting held 219 King’s Road: 27. 11. 37.
L. Dorothea Taylor in the Chair.
1. Minutes of last re... | Un-named members of the XI Book Club | Laurence Housman | Victoria Regina | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Meeting held at 70 Northcourt Avenue: 14. 12. 37
[...]
6. The evening was completed by the reading of extra... | Howard Smith | Roger Martin du Gard | Les Thibault | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | February 15th was the date chosen for the next time and the subject “Books that people have
been reading” ... | Francis E. Pollard | Kurt Von Stutterheim | Those English! | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | February 15th was the date chosen for the next time and the subject “Books that people have
been reading” ... | Francis E. Pollard | Kurt Von Stutterheim | Those English! | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Meeting held at Ashton Lodge: 14.3.38.
1. Minutes of last read and approved.
[...]
4. Readings from Iri... | Charles E. Stansfield | George A. Birmingham | Spanish Gold | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Meeting held at Ashton Lodge: 14.3.38.
1. Minutes of last read and approved.
[...]
4. Readings from Iri... | Charles E. Stansfield | George A. Birmingham | Spanish Gold | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Meeting held at Ashton Lodge: 14.3.38.
1. Minutes of last read and approved.
[...]
4. Readings from Iri... | Victor Alexander | Ross and Somerville | An Irish R.M. | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Lunched with Ralph [Milbanke]. He has decided at last to publish the great Byron secret, and has drawn up the case ag... | Wilfrid Scawen Blunt | Ralph Milbanke | Astarte: A Fragment of Truth Concerning Lord Byron | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'I am wading through Emerson, as I really wanted to know what transcendentalism means, and I think that it is that int... | Emma Darwin | Ralph Waldo Emerson | Unknown | Print: 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 | Richard Weymouth | The Naval, Military and Village Hymn Book | Print: 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 | Student Christian Movement | A Book of Prayers for Students | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'B[reakfast] Herring, bread & butter, tea. Read "The Amazing Duke".' | John Frederick William Dunn | William Magnay | The Amazing Duke | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Read "Barbe of Grand Bayon". Wound dressed. Head finished. Bath, read, cut dressings. Read "Rhymes of a Red Cross Man".' | John Frederick William Dunn | John Oxenham | Barbe of Grand Bayon | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Read ... "Barlash [sic] of the Guard". Dressed & sat by the fire. Dominoes.' | John Frederick William Dunn | Henry Seton Merriman | Barlasch of the Guard | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Read - book "Gallipoli" from Rev. Robt. Overton by post. Parcel cake from Mrs Scales. Wrote Reg ... Crib[bage] & read... | John Frederick William Dunn | John Masefield | Gallipoli | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Read "Gallipoli" (John Masefield).' | John Frederick William Dunn | John Masefield | Gallipoli | Print: Book |