Reading Experience Database
1450-1945

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1800-1849'Autumn departs- but still his mantles fold...' [transcript of text] 'Introduction to the Lord of the Isles'Emma Bowly Walter ScottThe Lord of the IslesUnknown
1800-1849'Stranger! if e'er thine ardent...' [transcript of text] 'Lord of the Isles 14th Canto'Emma Bowly Walter ScottThe Lord of the IslesUnknown
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 Walter ScottPrint: Book
1800-1849Wholesome dinners produce haviness and ill humour commenced Peveril of the Peak.John Horrocks Ainsworth Walter ScottPeveril of the PeakPrint: Book
1800-1849Finished Peveril of the Peak.John Horrocks Ainsworth Walter ScottPeveril of the PeakPrint: Book
1800-1849'From Rokeby' 'The tear that down childhood's cheek...' [4lines]member of Carey/Maingay groupWalter ScottRokeby
1800-1849[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge Sir Walter ScottNovels and Tales of the Author of WaverleyPrint: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge Sir Walter ScottHistorical Romances of the Author of WaverleyPrint: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge Sir Walter ScottNovels and Romances of the Author of WaverleyPrint: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge Sir Walter ScottMinstrelsy of the Scottish BorderPrint: Book
1800-1849William Wordsworth to Walter Scott: 'Thank you for Marmion which I have read with lively pleasure ... 'William Wordsworth Walter ScottMarmionUnknown
1900-1945'When asked how books had shaped him, Labour M.P. F.W. Jowett ranged widely: Ivanhoe made him want to read, Unto this ...F.W. Jowett Walter ScottIvanhoePrint: Book
1800-1849Extract of letter from Thomas De Quincey to Mary Wordsworth, given in 30 December 1810 letter from Dorothy Wordsworth ...Thomas De Quincey Walter ScottThe Lady of the LakeUnknown
1850-1899'By age fourteen Durham collier Jack Lawson... would find... emancipation at the Boldon Miners' Institute... "And didn...Jack Lawson Walter ScottPrint: Book
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1900-1945		'The historical classics "came as a revelation"- Macaulay, J.R. Green, Gibbon, Motley's Dutch Republic, Prescott on Pe...Jack Lawson William Hickling PrescottThe Conquest of MexicoPrint: Book
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1900-1945		'The historical classics "came as a revelation"- Macaulay, J.R. Green, Gibbon, Motley's Dutch Republic, Prescott on Pe...Jack Lawson William Hickling PrescottThe Conquest of PeruPrint: Book
1800-1849William Wordsworth to R. P. Gillies, 25 April 1815: 'You mentioned Guy Mannering in your last. I have read it. I can...William Wordsworth Walter ScottGuy ManneringPrint: Book
1800-1849William Wordsworth to John Scott, 14 May 1815: 'Amid the hurry consequent upon a recent arrival, with a view to a shor...William Wordsworth John ScottVisit to Paris in 1814Print: Book
1800-1849William Wordsworth to John Scott, 22 February 1816: 'Your Paris Revisited has been in constant use since I received it...Wordsworth FamilyJohn ScottParis Revisited in 1815 by way of BrusselsPrint: BookManuscript: Unknown
1850-1899'In 1898 Armstrong organised the Ashington Debating and Literary Improvement Society, and his reading broadened out to...Chester Armstrong Walter ScottPrint: Book
1850-1899[According to Flora Thompson], "Modern writers who speak of the booklessness of the poor at that time must mean books ...Flora THompson Walter ScottWaverley NovelsPrint: Book
1800-1849'C[oleridge] was a reader of ... [The Lady of the Lake]: he read Southey's copy in Sept. 1810 ... ' Samuel Taylor Coleridge Walter ScottLady of the Lake, ThePrint: Book
Byron to John Murray, 24 July 1814: 'Waverley is the best & most interesting novel I have redde since -- I don't know ...George Gordon Lord Byron Walter ScottWaverleyPrint: Book
1800-1849Byron to John Murray, 3 March 1817, on review of his work in Quarterly Review received two days previously: '... I ......George Gordon Lord Byron Walter ScottReview of Byron, Childe Harold Canto III and The Prisoner of Chillon, a Dream, and other PoemsPrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849Byron to John Murray, 9 May 1817: 'The "Tales of my Landlord" I have read with great pleasure ...'George Gordon Lord Byron Walter ScottTales of my LandlordPrint: Book
1900-1945Either at school or at home I read all the classics considered necessary for children: 'Treasure Island', 'Kidnapped',...Patricia Beer Walter ScottIvanhoePrint: Book
1800-1849Byron to John Murray, 17 July 1818: 'I have seen one or two late English publications -- which are no great things --e...George Gordon Lord Byron Walter ScottRob RoyPrint: Book
1800-1849'[Janet Hamilton] had a heavy literary diet as a child - history by Rollin and Plutarch, Ancient Universal History, Pi...Janet Hamilton Robert Lindsay of PitscottieChronicles of ScotlandPrint: Book
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1800-1849		'When he was finally exposed to Scott's Lay of the Last Minstrel, [Robert Story] reeled from the shock of the new. Pop...Robert Story Walter ScottLay of the Last MinstrelPrint: Book
1800-1849'Robert White... had somewhat more progressive tastes [than Robert Story], which extended to Shelley, Keats, Childe Ha...Robert White Walter ScottThe Lady of the LakePrint: Book
1850-1899'Robert White... had somewhat more progressive tastes [than Robert Story], which extended to Shelley, Keats, Childe Ha...Robert White Walter ScottPrint: Book
1800-1849Byron to William Bankes, 26 February 1820: 'I have more of Scott's novels (for surely they are Scott's) since we met, ...George Gordon Lord Byron Walter Scott[novels]Print: BookManuscript: Letter
1800-1849Byron to William Bankes, 26 February 1820: 'I have more of Scott's novels (for surely they are Scott's) since we met, ...George Gordon Lord Byron Walter Scott[poems]Print: BookManuscript: Letter
1800-1849Byron to John Murray, 3 March 1820: 'Pray send me Walter Scott's new novels ... I read some of his former ones at leas...George Gordon Lord Byron Walter ScottThe Bride of LammermoorPrint: BookManuscript: Letter
1800-1849Byron to John Murray, 3 March 1820: 'Pray send me Walter Scott's new novels ... I read some of his former ones at leas...George Gordon Lord Byron Walter ScottA Legend of MontrosePrint: Book
1850-1899'[the father of C.H. Rolph] read diligently through a list of the "Hundred Best Books" compiled in 1886 by Sir John Lu...Walter Scott[novels]Print: Book
1800-1849Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 5 January 1821: 'Read the conclusion, for the fifitieth time (I ...George Gordon Lord Byron Walter ScottTales of my Landlord (3rd series)Print: Book
1800-1849Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 7 January 1821: 'Read the 4th. vol of W. Scott's second series o...George Gordon Lord Byron Walter ScottTales of my Landlord (2nd series)Print: Book
1800-1849Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 8 January 1821: 'Came home [from ?Guicciolis', where visited at ...George Gordon Lord Byron Walter ScottRob RoyPrint: Book
1800-1849Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 16 February 1821: 'At nine [pm] went out -- at eleven returned ....George Gordon Lord Byron Walter ScottTales of my LandlordPrint: Book
1800-1849Byron to John Murray, 1 March 1821: 'Give my love to Sir W. Scott -- & tell him to write more novels; -- pray send out...George Gordon Lord Byron Walter Scott[various novels]Print: BookManuscript: Letter
1850-1899'Rose... remembers her father reading to them - Dickens, Scott, Robinson Crusoe, Shakespeare, Jane Austen, Meredith, T...George Macaulay Walter ScottPrint: Book
1850-1899'When old enough to read for herself, Rose Macaulay entered into other realms of fictitious brave adventure. She devou...Rose Macaulay Walter ScottIvanhoePrint: Book
1850-1899'When old enough to read for herself, Rose Macaulay entered into other realms of fictitious brave adventure. She devou...Rose Macaulay Walter ScottThe TalismanPrint: Book
1850-1899'[Philip Ballard] had no exposure to contemporary writers until the 1890s: "I gained a nodding acquaintance with the l...Philip Ballard Walter ScottPrint: Book
1900-1945'"Thinking back, I am amazed at the amount of English literature we absorbed in those four years", recalled Ethel Clar...Ethel Clark Walter ScottPrint: Book
1850-1899'H.M. Tomlinson, a successful author and dockworker's son, credited his East End Board school with encouraging free ex...H.M. Tomlinson Walter ScottPrint: Book
1800-1849I was on the amoroso till M- made me read aloud the first 126pp, vol 2, of Sir walter Scott's(he has just been made a ...Anne Lister Sir Walter ScottThe Monastery. A romanceUnknown
1850-1899'The son of a barely literate Derbyshire collier recalled a sister, a worker in a hosiery factory, who was steeped in ...Walter Scott[unknown]Print: Book
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1900-1945		'Frances Stevenson, born in 1888, recollected [in The years that Are Past, 1967] that she "read greedily [pre-1914] .....Frances Stevenson Sir Walter ScottpoemsPrint: Book
1850-1899'[William Robertson] Nicoll's boyhood reading included Scott, Disraeli, the Brontes, Bulwer Lytton, Shelley, Johnson, ...William Robertson Nicoll Sir Walter ScottunknownPrint: Book
1850-1899Philip Gibbs in The Pageant of the Years (1946), on work as writer of series of articles under name "Self-Help" in ear...Philip Gibbs Sir Walter ScottunknownPrint: Book
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1900-1945		'Walt Whitman ... recalled in old age ... [having read The Heart of Midlothian] "a dozen times or more"'.Walt Whitman Walter ScottThe Heart of MidlothianPrint: Book
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1900-1945		'"I owe more to Scott than to any other writer," [William] Robertson Nicoll stated. "Every year even in the busiest t...William Robertson Nicoll Walter ScottunknownPrint: Book
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1900-1945		'[William] Robertson Nicoll ... reckoned he had read ... [Rob Roy] sixty times.'William Robertson Nicoll Walter ScottRob RoyPrint: Book
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1900-1945		'For Hugh Walpole ... Scott was a lifelong passion ... from a subscription library in Durham he proceeded to read all ...Hugh Walpole Walter ScottunknownPrint: Book
1900-1945'However many times [Hugh] Walpole read Scott, he never ceased to be moved, as in 1918, when he "read a little Heart o...Hugh Walpole Walter ScottThe Heart of MidlothianPrint: Book
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1900-1945		'Whatever little agues beset [Hugh] Walpole, there was always a cure in Scott: a cold would send him to bed, where he ...Hugh Walpole Walter ScottJournalPrint: Book
1900-1945'[Hugh] Walpole's last reading of Scott was in the month before his death, when he was endeavouring to finish Katherin...Hugh Walpole Walter ScottKatherine ChristianPrint: Book
1900-1945'In 1917 ... [John Buchan] was treated for a duodenal ulcer. Recuperating after the operation, he read through a doze...John Buchan Walter ScottWaverley Novels (12)Print: Book
1900-1945'In his Scrap Book in 1922 ... [George Saintsbury] recorded that he was 'reading for the hundredth time the Short Stor...George Saintsbury Walter ScottWandering Willie's Tale (in Redgauntlet)Print: Book
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1900-1945		'... [Walter Scott's] books captivated ... [Andrew Lang] as a boy and 'grow better on every fresh reading."'Andrew Lang Walter ScottunknownPrint: Book
1850-1899June Badeni on readings by 13-year-old Alice Thompson, as recorded in her notebook: 'She has been reading more of Scot...Alice Thompson Walter ScottnovelsPrint: Book
1900-1945[A Sheffield Survey organised by Arnold Freeman in 1918, assessing 816 manual workers, gives the following case:] 'Pri...questionaire respondent Walter ScottQuentin DurwardPrint: Book
1900-1945[A Sheffield Survey organised by Arnold Freeman in 1918, assessing 816 manual workers, gives the following case:] 'Pri...questionaire respondent Walter ScottIvanhoePrint: Book
1900-1945[A Sheffield Survey organised by Arnold Freeman in 1918, assessing 816 manual workers, gives the following case:] 'Pri...questionaire respondent Walter ScottWaverleyPrint: Book
1900-1945[A Sheffield Survey organised by Arnold Freeman in 1918, assessing 816 manual workers, gives the following case:] 'Pri...questionaire respondent Robert Falcon Scott[Travels in the Antarctic]Print: Book
1900-1945[analysis of a female respondent in Arnold Freeman's 1918 Sheffield Survey] 'Machinist in a shell factory, age twenty-...questionaire respondent Walter Scott[unknown]Print: Book
1850-1899'Just a little note of this night. I had been working very hard and came to my room very late and tired, but took up ...Margaret Oliphant Walter ScottFortunes of NigelPrint: Book
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1850-1899		Letter 16/8/1863 - Following a description of rural walk - "it was just like the beginning of a new novel of Sir Walte...John Ruskin Sir Walter ScottPrint: Book
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1850-1899		Letter H. 29 - (30/12/1855) - "and she is as proud as - Flora Mac Ivor."John Ruskin Walter ScottWaverleyPrint: Book
1850-1899'What a wonderful record is that journal of Sir Walter's which dear Annie Ritchie has sent me - and with what love one...Margaret Oliphant Walter ScottJournalPrint: Book
1850-1899'[R. L. Stevenson] ... nominated ["The Egoist"], together with a couple of Scott's novels, a Dumas, Shakespeare, Monta...Robert Louis Stevenson Walter Scott[novels]Print: Book
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1800-1849		?Of Sir Walter Scott I have heard Maturin speak in terms of rapture. He considered his extraordinary productions the g...Charles Robert Maturin Sir Walter Scottcomplete works to 1820Print: Book
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1800-1849		'The novels of Scott and Dickens had long been her favourite reading, but of late years she had become interested in t...Amelia Opie Walter Scott[novels]Print: Book
1900-1945[Communist activists often displayed hostility to literature, including Willie Gallacher. However his 'hostility to li...William Gallacher Walter Scott[unknown]Print: Book
1900-1945'[In The Saturday Review, 19 November 1904], "A Mother" records the books consumed since July by her sixteen-year-old ...Walter ScottOld MortalityPrint: Book
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1900-1945		Sybil Lubbock remembers ... the reading which prefaced Christmas: as she and her sister embroidered their father's sli...Walter ScottThe TalismanPrint: Book
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1900-1945		Sybil Lubbock remembers ... the reading which prefaced Christmas: as she and her sister embroidered their father's sli...Walter ScottQuentin DurwardPrint: Book
1850-1899'One of the daughters of Florence Barclay, a writer of popular fiction ... recounts how her mother used, in the 1880s,...Florence Barclay Walter ScottPrint: Book
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1850-1899		'Lucy Cavendish's diary, kept both before and after her marriage, provides one of the fullest accounts we have of the ...Lucy Lyttelton Walter ScottPrint: Unknown
1850-1899'Mary Paley Marshall ... one of Newnham's first students, recalls her father in the 1860s reading aloud "The Arabian N...Thomas Paley Walter ScottnovelsPrint: Book
1850-1899"Forbidden David Copperfield, Bleak House, The Heart of Midlothian, and The Vicar of Wakefield ... [H. M. Swanwick] re...H. M. Swanwick Walter ScottThe Heart of MidlothianPrint: Book
1850-1899"Cicely Hamilton, who had read all of Scott by the time she was eleven, wrote that one of his short stories, 'The Tape...Cicely Hamilton Walter ScottWorks including The Tapestry ChamberPrint: Book
1800-1849" ... Elizabeth Sewell's consumption of 'modern' works in the late 1820s and 1830s, she records [in her autobiography]...Elizabeth Sewell Walter ScottPrint: Book
1800-1849Was engaged this forenoon sorting some lint yarn, and all the rest of my spare time reading [Guy] ManneringAdam Mackie Walter ScottGuy Mannering, or the AstrologerPrint: Book
1800-1849I have been in the shop all day and during the intervals of business reading Scott's novel of RedgauntletAdam Mackie Walter ScottRedgauntletPrint: Book
1800-1849I continue in the shop; am occupying my spare time reading Scott's novel of the Abbot. The subject is cheifly on the m...Adam Mackie Walter ScottThe AbbotPrint: Book
1800-1849I have been engaged this day posting my shop books etc. during my spare time reading a novel- The Pirate [Scott]Adam Mackie Walter ScottThe PiratePrint: Book
1800-1849Reading Scott's Tales of My Landlord. Consists of the prosecutions and slaughters by the Military [of] Covenanters in ...Adam Mackie Walter ScottTales of My LandlordPrint: Book
1850-1899'The celebrated singer Sir Harry Lauder, when he was still a mineworker, acquired a fair knowledge of American history...Harry Lauder Walter Scott[unknown]Print: Book
1850-1899'Though miners' MP Robert Smillie surreptitiously gorged on Dick Turpin and Three Fingered Jack as a boy, they... "led...Robert Smillie Walter Scott[unknown]Print: Book
1850-1899'Children's Papers could lead readers to great literature in more direct ways. As Willis noted, "Union Jack" serialise...Frederick Willis Walter Scott[various works, abridged]Print: Serial / periodical
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 William Hickling Prescott[Spanish history]Print: Book
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1900-1945		'East End socialist Walter Southgate remembered that Dick Turpin and Buffalo Bill stories "were condemned by our teach...Walter Southgate Walter Scott[Waverley Novels]Print: Book
1850-1899'[Edwin] Whitlock... borrowed books from a schoolmaster and from neighbours: "Most of them would now be considered ver...Edwin Whitlock Walter Scott[unknown]Print: Book
1900-1945'Growing up in Clapton during the Depression, Michael Stapleton needed a signature from his father (an Irish navvy) fo...Michael Stapleton William PrescottHIstory of the Conquest of PeruPrint: 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 Walter ScottPrint: 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 William PrescottConquest of Peru, ThePrint: 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 William PrescottConquest of Mexico, ThePrint: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Segel, in "'As the Twig is Bent ...': Gender and Childhood Reading," notes that Mary Ann Evans began reading...Mary Ann Evans Walter ScottPrint: Book
1900-1945'Stella Davies's father would read to his children from the Bible, "Pilgrim's Progress", Walter Scott, Longfellow, Ten...Stella Davies Walter ScottPrint: Book
1900-1945'George Howell, bricklayer and trade unionist..."read promiscuously. How could it be otherwise? I had no real guide, w...George Howell Walter ScottPrint: Book
1800-1849'Read Golownins Captivity in Japan, well told but he was a silly man, suspicious yet not cautious. Read Rob Roy.'Benjamin Newton Walter ScottRob Roy: By the author of WaverleyPrint: Book
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1850-1899		"How much a book gains by the appropriate surroundings of the person reading it, was forcibly impressed upon me [by th...John Bedford Leno Walter ScottThe Lady of the LakePrint: Book
1800-1849'I have been reading, and am enchanted with The Lady of the Lake. It has all the spirit of either of its predecessors,...Sarah Harriet Burney Walter ScottThe Lady of the LakePrint: Book
1800-1849'I immediately borrowed and sat down to a second perusal of Marmion. I like the brave villain much for being so wholly...Sarah Harriet Burney Walter ScottMarmion: a Tale of Flodden FieldPrint: Book
1800-1849" ... [S. T. Coleridge's] copy of Quentin Durward includes a note that reveals his sense of public duty as an annotato...Samuel Taylor Coleridge Walter ScottQuentin DurwardPrint: Book
1800-1849'He [Macaulay] was so fired up with reading Scott?s "Lay" and "Marmion", the former of which he got entirely, and the ...Thomas Babington Macaulay Walter ScottLay of the Last MinstrelPrint: Book
1800-1849'He [Macaulay] was so fired up with reading Scott?s "Lay" and "Marmion", the former of which he got entirely, and the ...Thomas Babington Macaulay Walter ScottMarmionPrint: Book
1800-1849[Shelley encouraged her to read] 'some key Romantic texts (Coleridge, Scott, Southey, Volney's "Les ruines"), radical ...Harriet Westbrook Walter Scott
1800-1849'Finished the last "Tales of My Landlord" of which the fourth volume is the worst. I think Walter Scott has the peculi...Benjamin Newton Walter ScottTales of my Landlord or Black Dwarf and old MortalPrint: Book
1900-1945'it was many, many years before any of us was able to look with unprejudiced eyes at anything Scotch again. Always exc...Gwen Raverat Walter Scott[novels]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 Walter Scott[novels]Print: Book
1850-1899'The books [Uncle George] read to us were all in the romantic vein: Shakespeare's "Histories", Chaucer, Percy's "Reliq...George Darwin Walter Scott[novels]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 Walter ScottGuy ManneringPrint: 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 Walter ScottGuy ManneringPrint: Book
1700-1799 'A bookseller made me a present of 2 vols of a piece intitled, "A Journey thro' Life." My wife and girls, and Miss C...Richardson's wife and daughtersSarah Scott (attrib)A Journey Thro' Every Stage of LifePrint: Book
1700-1799 'A bookseller made me a present of 2 vols of a piece intituled, A Journey thro' Life. My wife and girls, and Miss Co...Miss Collier Sarah Scott (attrib)A Journey Thro' Every Stage of LifePrint: Book
1900-1945'I read quite a lot of the "Antiquary" and felt quite virtuous.'Hilary Spalding Walter ScottAntiquary, ThePrint: Book
1900-1945[Three days after V.E. day] 'I finished the "Antiquary" at last. It's pretty awful, though quite exciting in patches.'Hilary Spalding Walter ScottAntiquary, ThePrint: Book
1800-1849'Nor must I omit to mention the obligations I owe to some essays written by the late Rev. Thomas Scott and which were ...Thomas Carter Rev. Thomas Scott[various essays]Print: Book
1850-1899'Despite his grandmother's strictures on reading, Davies read widely. His first attraction was to the penny dreadfuls ...William Henry Davies Walter Scott[from 'The Lady of the Lake']Print: Book
1850-1899March 16, 1884 [Lisbon] 'I am now reading to C.S. [Charles Schreiber] that charming book Rob Roy. Scott never palls. ...Lady Charlotte Schreiber Walter ScottRob RoyPrint: 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 Walter Scott[works]Print: Book
1800-1849'Much is being said and written now-a-days about the influence of books on the formation of character; let me therefor...James Glass Bertram Walter ScottGuy ManneringPrint: Book
1800-1849'Much is being said and written now-a-days about the influence of books on the formation of character; let me therefor...James Glass Bertram Walter ScottThe Heart of MidlothianPrint: Book
1800-1849'Much is being said and written now-a-days about the influence of books on the formation of character; let me therefor...James Glass Bertram Walter ScottThe Bride of LammermoorPrint: Book
1800-1849'Much is being said and written now-a-days about the influence of books on the formation of character; let me therefor...James Glass Bertram Walter ScottSt Ronan's WellPrint: Book
1800-1849'Much is being said and written now-a-days about the influence of books on the formation of character; let me therefor...James Glass Bertram Walter ScottWaverleyPrint: Book
1800-1849'My father, who was in the employment of Mr Cadell, Sir Walter's publisher, brought home "The Monastery" and "The Fort...Walter ScottThe MonasteryPrint: Book
1800-1849'My father, who was in the employment of Mr Cadell, Sir Walter's publisher, brought home "The Monastery" and "The Fort...Walter ScottThe Fortunes of NigelPrint: Book
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1800-1849		'the diverse collection of literature that Christopher Thomson, a sometime shipwright, actor and housepainter, worked ...Christopher Thomson Walter ScottnovelsPrint: Book
1800-1849'I have heard, too, that several workmen in shops adjacent to Sutherland's library arranged with him for a reading of ...workmenWalter ScottHeart of MidlothianPrint: Book
1800-1849'I have heard, too, that several workmen in shops adjacent to Sutherland's library arranged with him for a reading of ...workmenWalter ScottRob RoyPrint: Book
1850-1899'I read Prescott again and made notes'George Eliot [pseud] [probably] William Prescott[unknown]Print: BookManuscript: Unknown
1800-1849'I cried over Meg Merrilies when she met Brown again--at a little Inn at Cumberland & my tears are not apt to flow'.Lady Caroline Lamb Walter ScottGuy ManneringPrint: Book
1800-1849'I entirely deprecate your opinion concerning Manwaring [sic--Mannering] or sooner the opinion you had borrowed for I ...Lady Caroline Lamb Walter ScottGuy ManneringPrint: Book
1800-1849'I entirely deprecate your opinion concerning Manwaring [sic--Mannering] or sooner the opinion you had borrowed for I ...Lady Caroline Lamb Walter ScottWaverlyPrint: Book
1800-1849'Do you remember when Jeannie Deans went to London for her sister the gentle Gertie [sic--Geordie] Robertson gave her ...Lady Caroline Lamb Walter ScottThe Heart of MidlothianPrint: Book
1850-1899'Began again Prescott's Ferdinand and Isabella'.George Eliot [pseud.] William Henry PrescottHistory of Ferdinand and Isabella, ThePrint: BookManuscript: Unknown
1800-1849Mary Berry, Journal, 9 March 1808: 'I went in the evening to Mrs. D[?amer]. Read "Marmion," just come out, to her.'Mary Berry Walter ScottMarmionPrint: Book
1800-1849Mary Berry, Journal, 10 March 1808: 'Read some more of "Marmion".'Mary Berry Walter ScottMarmionPrint: Book
1800-1849'they read books together and discussed them; Scott's "Lord of the Isles" was sent to Byron by Murray. It they did not...Anne Isabella (Annabella), Baroness Byron Walter ScottLord of the IslesPrint: Book
1800-1849'they read books together and discussed them; Scott's "Lord of the Isles" was sent to Byron by Murray. It they did not...George Gordon, Lord Byron Walter ScottLord of the IslesPrint: 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 Walter Scott[Waverley novels]Print: Book
1800-1849Mary Berry, Journal, 21 August 1814: 'I read "Swift's Life" in the new edition of his works by Walter Scott. It does ...Mary Berry ?Walter ?ScottLife of Jonathan SwiftPrint: Book
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1800-1849		Mary Berry, Journal, 28 August 1823: 'Loitered in the garden with Car. [Hon. Mrs Scott, novelist], and read the MS. wh...Mary Berry Hon Mrs C. ScottMSManuscript: Unknown
1850-1899The elderly Harriet Martineau reflects upon her altered reading capacity: 'I could not now read "Lalla Rookh" through ...Harriet Martineau Walter ScottnovelsPrint: Book
1850-1899Harriet Martineau, in postscript to letter written in the month before her death, to 'Mr. Atkinson', 19 May 1876: 'I a...Harriet Martineau Walter ScottThe Bride of LammermoorPrint: Book
1850-1899'In another house I found a tattered copy of Scott's "Kenilworth" and a quite new copy of "Cranford". Among some old b...Hannah Mitchell Sir Walter ScottKenilworthPrint: Book
1850-1899'I also found a small library, which meant that many copper really needed for food were spent on borrowing books. At t...Hannah Mitchell Sir Walter Scott[works]Print: Book
1800-1849?There are good characters I think in Guy [Mannering] ? the Scotch Lawyer ? the Farmer ? [...] the Gipsies[sic] & Brow...Lady Caroline Lamb Sir Walter ScottGuy ManneringPrint: Book
1800-1849?There are good characters I think in Guy [Mannering] ? the Scotch Lawyer ? the Farmer ? [...] the Gipsies[sic] & Brow...Lady Caroline Lamb Sir Walter ScottWaverleyPrint: Book
1800-1849'In 1823 I read in Scott?s novel of ?Quentin Durward? the prophetic words of Martivalle, ?Can I look forward without w...Charles Knight Sir Walter ScottQuentin DurwardPrint: Book
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1850-1899		[Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: [Untitled]; [Text]'There are those to whom a sense of religion/ has come i...Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine [Walter] [Scott][The monastery]Print: Unknown
1850-1899'"The Bride of Lammermoor" was one of the first books that Laura read with absorbed interest. She adored the Master of...Flora Thompson Sir Walter ScottThe Bride of LammermoorPrint: Book
1850-1899'Once Laura had the honour of choosing two passages for the father of one of her friends, who had been invited to read...Flora Thompson Walter ScottThe Heart of MidlothianPrint: Book
1800-1849'Ought I to be very much pleased with Marmion? - As yet I am not. James reads it aloud in the Eveng - the short Eveng...James Austen Walter ScottMarmion, or A Tale of Flodden FieldPrint: Book
1800-1849'We began Pease on Sunday, but our gatherings are very small - not at all like the gathering in the Lady of the Lake.'Jane Austen Walter ScottThe Lady of the LakePrint: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge John ScottThe Christian LifePrint: Book
1800-1849'You ask me (pertly enough- pardon the expression) whether I have read "The Lay of the Last Minstrel"- Alas only twice...Sarah H. Burney Walter ScottThe Lay of the Last MinstrelPrint: Book
1800-1849'Oh! Woman! In our hours of ease Uncertain, coy and hard to please...'[6 lines] 'Marmion'Carey/Maingay groupWalter ScottMarmion: A Tale of Flodden FieldPrint: Unknown
1800-1849'Read with Cecilia a good deal of "marmion" the new poem of Sir Walter Scott, which I like.'William Windham Walter ScottMarmionPrint: Book
1800-1849'Stranger! If e'er thine ardent... Lord of the Isles 4th canto'Bowly groupWalter ScottThe Lord of the IslesUnknown
1800-1849'Call it not vain - they do not err, To murmur dirges round the grave.'Bowly groupWalter ScottThe Lay of the Last MinstrelUnknown
1800-1849'Arthur's seat like a couchant lion of immense size - Salisbury crags, like a huge [belt or] girdle of granite, were d...Bowly groupWalter ScottThe Heart of Mid-LothianUnknown
1800-1849'"Call it not vain: - they do not err ... To murmur dirges round his grave". Scott.'Devereux Bowly Walter ScottThe Lay of the Last MinstrelUnknown
1800-1849'Harp of the North! that mouldering long hath hung, ..'Bowly groupWalter ScottThe Lady of the LakeUnknown
1800-1849'Autumn departs - but still his mantles fold...' 'Introduction to the Lord of the Isles'Bowly groupWalter ScottThe Lord of the Isles (Canto One)Unknown
1800-1849'Breathes there the man, with soul so dead, ... On a foreign strand! O Caledonia! Stern and wild, ...'Bowly groupWalter ScottThe Lay of the Last MinstrelUnknown
1850-1899'climbing to the top of a bookcase, [he] brought down a thick volume and presented it to me. "You'll find all about th...Edmund Gosse Michael ScottTom Cringle's LogPrint: Book
1850-1899'Prominent among these was a set of the poems of Walter Scott, and in his unwonted geniality and provisional spirit of...Philip Gosse Walter ScottThe Lady of the LakePrint: Book
1800-1849'neither had read a romance since, in childhood, they had dipped into the "Waverley Novels" as they appeared in succes...Philip and Emily GosseSir Walter ScottWaverley NovelsPrint: Book
1800-1849'Last night, I was listening to music and the voice of song amid dandy clerks and sparkling females - laughing at time...Thomas Carlyle John Scott'Blackwood's Magazine' [ARTICLE TITLE] in 'The London Magazine'Print: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'Your common student wrote to me about Blackwood's Magazine, shewing who wrote in it and who spoke of it; he talks abo...[unknown student] anon Walter ScottKenilworthPrint: BookManuscript: Letter
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 Sir Walter ScottOld MortalityPrint: 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 Walter Scott[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 ...Walter ScottWaverley NovelsPrint: 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 Walter ScottWaverley NovelsPrint: Book
1800-1849'Walter Scott has no business to write novels, especially good ones. - it is not fair. - He has Fame & Profit enough a...Jane Austen Walter Scott[Poetry]Print: Book
1800-1849'I return you the Quarterly Reveiw [sic] with many Thanks. The Authoress of "Emma" has no reason I think to complain o...Jane Austen Walter Scott [anon]review of EmmaPrint: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'I'm afraid I just pick any books. I go in for light reading mostly. I've get two detective books for light reading, o...Walter ScottunknownPrint: Book
1900-1945[I read] 'Good books - Dickens, and Scott, and all that, but I don't believe I've opened a book since I got married, a...Walter ScottunknownPrint: Book
1850-1899'Readers of my generation owe a great debt of gratitude to the enterprise of Messrs. Dicks. My first introduction to g...Thomas Okey Sir Walter ScottWaverleyPrint: Book
1850-1899'Coming upon a copy of "Don Quixote" in a warder's house, he thought it was "the most wonderful book [he] had ever see...Arthur Symons Walter ScottunknownPrint: Book
1900-1945'Thursday 2nd September ?Fortunes of Nigel? (Walter Scott)' Gerald Moore Walter ScottThe Fortunes of NigelPrint: Book
1900-1945'Thursday 30th September ?Ivanhoe? (Walter Scott) Late work still the order of the ? night. All is still confusi...Gerald Moore Walter ScottIvanhoePrint: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Missing Sewell on reading at her Bath boarding school: 'We learned passages from the best authors, and my d...Elizabeth Sewell Walter ScottThe Lady of the LakePrint: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Missing Sewell on her reading at home in the Isle of Wight, after leaving her Bath boarding school in 1830: ...Elizabeth Sewell Walter ScottnovelsPrint: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Missing Sewell on her reading at home in the Isle of Wight, after leaving her Bath boarding school in 1830: ...Elizabeth Sewell Walter Scott[poetry and novels]Print: Book
1800-1849'In 1835, [James] Edwards [Sewell, reader's brother] [...] had the curacy of Hursley. Mr. Gilbert Heathcote held the ...Elizabeth Sewell Walter ScottPaul's Letters to his KinsfolkPrint: Book
1800-1849'Tired to death of reading books - at least all books of an instructive sort - and have now been devouring (for about ...John Mitchel Walter ScottIvanhoePrint: Book
1800-1849'Tired to death of reading books - at least all books of an instructive sort - and have now been devouring (for about ...John Mitchel Walter ScottThe Heart of the Mid-LothianPrint: Book
1800-1849'What Books have you been perusing - and how did you like Sha[ke]spea[re]? - Since I saw you I have toil'd thro' many ...Thomas Carlyle Walter Scott[Poems]Print: Book
1800-1849'What Books have you been perusing - and how did you like Sha[ke]spea[re]? - Since I saw you I have toil'd thro' many ...Thomas Carlyle Walter ScottWaverleyPrint: Book
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 Walter ScottWaverleyPrint: Book
1800-1849'I saw Scott's "Waterloo" and "Guy Mannering" when I was in Edinr[.] The former has been so dreadfully abused already ...Thomas Carlyle Walter ScottGuy Mannering, or The AstrologerPrint: Book
1800-1849'I saw Scott's "Waterloo" and "Guy Mannering" when I was in Edinr[.] The former has been so dreadfully abused already ...Thomas Carlyle Walter ScottThe Field of Waterloo, A PoemPrint: 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 Walter ScottTales of My LandlordPrint: Book
1800-1849'I am very deep in Lord Stowell's "Reports", and if it were wartime I should officiate as Judge of the Admiralty Court...Sydney Smith William, Baron Stowell Scott[reports of cases in the Admiralty Court]Print: Unknown
1800-1849'There is a grat difference of opinion about Scott's new novel. At Holland House it is much run down: I dare not oppos...Sydney Smith Walter ScottThe Heart of MidlothianPrint: Book
1800-1849'I am very desirous to hear what your Vote is about Walter Scott; I think it excellent, quite as good as any of his no...Sydney Smith Walter ScottThe Heart of MidlothianPrint: Book
1800-1849'I am truly obliged by your kindness in sendng me the last novel of Walter Scott. It would be profanation to call him ...Sydney Smith Walter ScottThe Bride of LammermoorPrint: Book
1800-1849'Walter Scott seems to me the same sort of thing laboured in a very inferior way, and more careless, with many repetit...Sydney Smith Walter ScottThe Bride of LammermoorPrint: Book
1800-1849'I waited to thank you until I had read the novel. There is [italics] no doubt [end italics] of its success. There is ...Sydney Smith Walter ScottIvanhoePrint: Book
1800-1849'Have you read "Ivanhoe"? It is the least dull, and the most easily read through, of all Scott's novels; but there are...Sydney Smith Walter ScottIvanhoePrint: Book
1800-1849'I am much obliged by your present of The Monastery, which I have read, and which I must frankly confess I admire less...Sydney Smith Walter ScottThe MonasteryPrint: Book
1800-1849'I have just read "The Abbot"; it is far above common novels, but of very inferior execution to his others, and hardly...Sydney Smith Walter ScottThe AbbotPrint: Book
1800-1849'I am much obliged by your kindness in sending me The Pirate. You know how much I admire the genius of the author, but...Sydney Smith Walter ScottThe PiratePrint: Book
1800-1849'Many thanks for Nigel; a far better novel than The Pirate, though not of the highest order of Scott's novels. It is t...Sydney Smith Walter ScottThe Fortunes of NigelPrint: Book
1800-1849'A good novel, but not so good as either of the two last, and not good enough for such a writer. The next must be bett...Sydney Smith Walter ScottPeveril of the PeakPrint: Book
1800-1849'You have read Peveril, a middling production between his best and worst - rather agreeable than not'.[Lady] Grey Walter ScottPeveril of the PeakPrint: Book
1800-1849'Many thanks for St Ronan, by far the best that has appeared for some time,?I mean the best of Sir Walter?s, and there...Sydney Smith Walter ScottSt Ronan's WellPrint: Book
1800-1849'read man as he is - Hogg comes and reads Rokeby to me'.Thomas Jefferson Hogg Walter ScottRokeby; a poemPrint: Book
1800-1849'go to the British Museum - see all the fine things - ores, fossils, statues, divine &c &c. - return - read Rokeby - g...Mary Godwin Walter ScottRokeby; a poemPrint: Book
1800-1849'read 3 Canto's of the Lord of the Isles'.Mary Godwin Walter ScottThe Lord of the Isles: a poemPrint: Book
1800-1849[Mary Shelley's Reading List for 1815. Only those titles not mentioned in journal entries are given separate database ...Mary Godwin Walter ScottWaverley; or 'Tis Sixty Years Since
1800-1849[Mary Shelley's Reading List for 1815. Only those titles not mentioned in journal entries are given separate database ...Mary Godwin Walter ScottGuy Mannering; or, The Astrologer
1700-1799Letter to Miss Ourry June 4 1791 'My dear, you will excuse this digressive tribute to departed excellence. What havoc ...Anne Grant [nee MacVicar] Walter Scott[Elegy 1]Print: Book
1800-1849'read the first vol. of the antiquary and work'Mary Godwin Walter ScottAntiquary, ThePrint: Book
1800-1849'read the Edinburgh Review and the second vol. of the antiquary'Mary Godwin Walter ScottAntiquary, ThePrint: Book
1800-1849'Read Fazio - Love and madness. & some of Rienzi - work - in the evening finish the antiquary'Mary Godwin Walter ScottAntiquary, ThePrint: Book
1800-1849'Read Tales of my Landlord'Mary Shelley Walter ScottTales of my Landlord, collected and arranged by Jedediah Cleishbotham (The Black Dwarf; Old Mortality)Print: Book
1800-1849'Finish Tales of my Landlord'Mary Shelley Walter ScottTales of my Landlord, collected and arranged by Jedediah Cleishbotham (The Black Dwarf; Old Mortality)Print: Book
1800-1849'Read Waverly - Pliny's letters - Political Justice & Miltons Tenure of Kings and Magistrates. Shelley reads Waverly -...Mary Shelley Walter ScottWaverley; or, 'Tis Sixty Years SincePrint: Book
1800-1849'Read Waverly - Pliny's letters - Political Justice & Miltons Tenure of Kings and Magistrates. Shelley reads Waverly -...Percy Bysshe Shelley Walter ScottWaverley; or, 'Tis Sixty Years SincePrint: Book
1800-1849'Read Waverly - Pliny's letters - Political Justice & Miltons Tenure of Kings and Magistrates. Shelley reads Waverly -...Percy Bysshe Shelley Walter ScottTales of my Landlord [First Series - The Black Dwarf; Old Mortality]Print: Book
1800-1849'Read Tacitus - Clarke's travels & Guy Mannering - S reads Gibbon'.Mary Shelley Walter ScottGuy Mannering; or, The AstrologerPrint: Book
1800-1849'Finish Annals of Tacitus - begin Terence - read Guy Mannering'Mary Shelley Walter ScottGuy Mannering; or, The AstrologerPrint: Book
1850-1899'Scott was the first great writer to draw me under his spell - the first to open for me the golden gates of poetry and...William Henry Hudson Sir Walter ScottIvanhoePrint: Book
1850-1899'Scott was the first great writer to draw me under his spell - the first to open for me the golden gates of poetry and...William Henry Hudson Sir Walter ScottThe Lay of the Last MinstrelPrint: Book
1800-1849'Read Clarke & 1st vol of Rob. Roy.'Mary Shelley Walter ScottRob RoyPrint: Book
1800-1849'Finish Rob. Roy'Mary Shelley Walter ScottRob RoyPrint: Book
1800-1849'read Aristippus of Wieland - Shelley read[s] Rob Roy'Percy Shelley Walter ScottRoby RoyPrint: Book
1800-1849'Friday. Feb 6th. Look at Work. Read Rob Roy.'Claire Clairmont Walter ScottRob RoyPrint: Book
1800-1849'Saturday. Feb 7th. [...] Finish Rob Roy.'Claire Clairmont Walter ScottRob RoyPrint: Book
1800-1849'Thursday June 10th. set out from Rome to Livorno [...] Arrive at Livorno Aquila Nera Thursday 17th. [June]. Stay the...Claire Clairmont Walter ScottThe Heart of MidlothianPrint: Book
1800-1849'Thursday June 8th. [...] Read 1st Vol of Ivanhoe by Walter Scott. [...] 'Friday June 9th. [...] Read Ivanhoe ...Claire Clairmont Walter ScottIvanhoePrint: Book
1800-1849'Friday June 16th. [...] Read Bride of Lammermoor.'Claire Clairmont Walter ScottThe Bride of LammermoorPrint: Book
1800-1849'Saturday June 17th. [...] Read A Legend of Montrose.' ...Claire Clairmont Walter ScottA Legend of MontrosePrint: Book
1800-1849'Read the Black dwarf'Mary Shelley Walter ScottTales of my Landlord, collected and arranged by Jedediah Cleishbotham (The Black Dwarf, Old Mortality)Print: Book
1800-1849'Sunday June 24th. [...] Read the Abbot by Walter Scott'.Claire Clairmont Walter ScottThe AbbotPrint: Book
1800-1849'[Tuesday] August 28th. Read Kenilworth -- [...] 'Wednesday August 29th. Read Kenilworth. [...] 'Thursda...Claire Clairmont Walter ScottKenilworthPrint: Book
1800-1849'Thursday Oct. 4th. [...] Finish Ivanhoe.'Claire Clairmont Walter ScottIvanhoePrint: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to her mother, Mary Moulton-Barrett, c.1817 (originally in French): 'I agree that Caroline [in Ed...Elizabeth Barrett Walter ScottRob RoyPrint: Book
1800-1849'Read Legend of Montrose - Indicators'Mary Shelley Walter ScottTales of My Landlord (3rd series: The Bride of Lammermoor, A Legend of Montrose)Print: Book
1800-1849'Read the Bride of Lammermoor'Mary Shelley Walter ScottTales of my Landlord (3rd series: The Bride of Lammermoor and A Legend of Montrose)Print: Book
1800-1849'Read Ivanhoe'Mary Shelley Walter ScottIvanhoePrint: Book
1800-1849'Finish Ivanhoe'Mary Shelley Walter ScottIvanhoePrint: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, July 1832: 'Poor Sir Walter Scott! You have heard that he is dying [...] Th...Edward Moulton-Barrett sr Walter ScottThe Lady of the LakePrint: Book
1800-1849Mary Russell Mitford to Elzabeth Barrett, 13 October 1836: 'I have just read your delightful ballad. My earliest b...Mary Russell Mitford Walter ScottMinstrelsy of the Scottish BordersPrint: Book
1800-1849'Read the Abbot'Mary Shelley Walter ScottAbbot, The: a romancePrint: Book
1800-1849'I remember, when a little boy, getting my first introduction to the novels of Walter Scott - then the "Great Unknown"...Samuel Smiles Walter ScottGuy ManneringPrint: Book
1800-1849'Old Plays'Mary Shelley Walter Scott (ed.)Ancient English DramaPrint: Book
1800-1849'Read Homer - Old plays'Mary Shelley Walter Scott (ed.)Ancient English DramaPrint: Book
1800-1849'finish Kenilworth'Mary Shelley Walter ScottKenilworth: a romancePrint: Book
1800-1849'Read Ivanhoe'Mary Shelley Walter ScottIvanhoePrint: Book
1800-1849'Read Homer and Waverly'Mary Shelley Walter ScottWaverley, or 'tis Sixty Years SincePrint: Book
1800-1849'Read Homer and the Antiquary'Mary Shelley Walter ScottAntiquary, ThePrint: Book
1800-1849'Read Rob Roy'Mary Shelley Walter ScottRob RoyPrint: Book
1800-1849'Read the 1st vol of the Pirate'Mary Shelley Walter ScottPirate, ThePrint: Book
1800-1849'Is Godolphin by Henry Bulwer? Pray tell me - Do you remember promising to lend me the letters of Horace Walpole when ...Mary Shelley Lady Caroline Lucy Scott [pseud.]Marriage in High Life, APrint: Book
1800-1849Mary Russell Mitford to Lucy Olivia Anderson, 12 January 1842: 'In reading "Tom Cringle's Log" to my father, the othe...Mary Russell Mitford Scott'Tom Cringle's Log'Print: Unknown
1800-1849'We learned passages from the best authors, and my delight in Walter Scott made me add to the regular lesson large por...Elizabeth Missing Sewell Walter ScottLady of the Lake, ThePrint: Book
1800-1849'The elements of botany on the Linnaean system was another of my attempted acquirements, but I am afraid my studies we...Elizabeth Missing Sewell Walter Scott[unknown]Print: Book
1800-1849'We were at the old vicarage, which had then only one sitting room, or at least only one which we could use, for the f...Elizabeth Missing Sewell Walter ScottPaul's Letters to his KinsfolkPrint: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, ?late July 1843: 'As you praise Charles O'Malley so much, I really must ...Elizabeth Barrett Michael ScottTom Cringle's LogPrint: Unknown
1850-1899'One gravestone was erected by Scott .. to the poor woman who served him as a heroine in the Heart of Mid-Lothian, and...Robert Louis Stevenson Walter ScottThe Heart of MidlothianPrint: gravestone
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 Walter ScottLay of the Last Minstrel, ThePrint: Unknown
1850-1899'Today we saw the cathedral at Chester; and, far more delightful, saw and heard a certain inimitable verger who took u...Robert Louis Stevenson Walter ScottunknownPrint: Book
1800-1849'I have been reading, and am enchanted by The Lady of the Lake! It has all the spirit of either of its predecessors, (...Sarah Harriet Burney Walter ScottLady of the Lake, ThePrint: Unknown
1800-1849'I have been reading, and am enchanted by The Lady of the Lake! It has all the spirit of either of its predecessors, (...Sarah Harriet Burney Walter ScottMarmionPrint: Unknown
1800-1849'As I chose that my recent course of extravagance should die a melodious death [...] the last indulgence I gave it was...Sarah Harriet Burney Walter ScottLady of the Lake, ThePrint: Book
1800-1849'Have you seen Guy Mannering? I perfectly doat upon it. There is such skill in the management of the fable, & it is so...Sarah Harriet Burney Walter ScottGuy ManneringPrint: Book
1800-1849'I am [underlined] so [end underlining] glad you like what you have read of "Emma", and the dear old man's "Gentle sel...Sarah Harriet Burney Walter ScottWaverley; or, 'Tis Sixty years SincePrint: 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 John ScottVisit to Paris in 1814, APrint: 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 John ScottParis revisited in 1815 by way of BrusselsPrint: Book
1800-1849'Of course you have read Kenilworth Castle, and i trust, liked it. I greatly prefer it to the Monastery, & am almost a...Sarah Harriet Burney Walter ScottKenilworthPrint: Book
1800-1849'Of course you have read Kenilworth Castle, and i trust, liked it. I greatly prefer it to the Monastery, & am almost a...Sarah Harriet Burney Walter ScottMonastery, ThePrint: Book
1800-1849'Of course you have read Kenilworth Castle, and i trust, liked it. I greatly prefer it to the Monastery, & am almost a...Sarah Harriet Burney Walter ScottAbbot, ThePrint: Book
1800-1849'I have read the first volume of The Fortunes of Nigel, which I like much better than the Pirate. I never could feel p...Sarah Harriet Burney Walter ScottFortunes of Nigel, ThePrint: Book
1800-1849'I have read the first volume of The Fortunes of Nigel, which I like much better than the Pirate. I never could feel p...Sarah Harriet Burney Walter ScottPirate, ThePrint: Book
1800-1849'I have had the perseverance to read Sir W. Scotts Boney - and hackneyed as is the subject, I was lured on from page t...Sarah Harriet Burney Walter ScottLife of Napoleon BuonapartePrint: Book
1900-1945Virginia Woolf to Molly MacCarthy, 20 June 1921: 'I am reading the Bride of Lammermoor -- by that great man Scott: ...Virginia Woolf Walter ScottThe Bride of LammermoorPrint: Book
1900-1945Saturday 2 January 1915: 'I read Guy Mannering upstairs for 20 minutes'.Virginia Woolf Walter ScottGuy ManneringPrint: Book
1900-1945Tuesday 14 February 1922: 'I am reading [in convalescence, following week of illness] Moby Dick: Princesse de Cleves; ...Virginia Woolf Walter ScottOld MortalityPrint: Book
1900-1945Wednesday 15 February 1922: 'Of my reading I will now try to make some note. 'First Peacock; Nightmare Abbey, &...Virginia Woolf Walter ScottOld MortalityPrint: Book
1900-1945Friday 15 August 1924: 'When I was 20 I liked 18th Century prose; I liked Hakluyt, Merimee. I read masses of Carlyle, ...Virginia Stephen Walter ScottLettersPrint: Book
1900-1945Tuesday 28 September 1926: 'Intense depression: I have to confess that this has overcome me several times since Septem...Virginia Woolf Geoffrey ScottThe Architecture of Humanism. A Study in the History of TastePrint: Book
1800-1849'I received Walter Scott's Rokeby. I gazed at it with a transport of impatience, and began reading it in bed. I am alr...Charlotte Bury Walter ScottRokebyPrint: Unknown
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 Walter ScottVision of Don Roderick , ThePrint: Book
1900-1945Tuesday 1 September 1931: 'And so a few days of bed & headache & overpowering sleep, sleep descending inexorable as I ...Virginia Woolf Walter ScottIvanhoePrint: Book
1800-1849'I happened by chance when in this mood [melancholy], to open "The Lady of the Lake", and I thought, as I read it, so ...Charlotte Bury Walter ScottLady of the Lake, ThePrint: Book
1800-1849'I took a great pleasure in the "Antiquary", till I learnt who was the author. It is universally believed that it was ...Mrs [-] Walter ScottAntiquary, ThePrint: Book
1800-1849'I have been perusing your minstrelsy very diligently for a while past, and it being the first book I ever perused whi...James Hogg Walter ScottMinstrelsy of the Scottish Border, ThePrint: Book
1800-1849'I had a present of a very elegant copy of the "Lay" lately from a gentleman in Edin. to whom I was ashamed to confess...James Hogg Walter ScottLay of the Last Minstrel, ThePrint: Book, Unknown
1800-1849'either I am grossly mistaken or there are more [italics] natural [end italics] beauties in Marmion than all your othe...James Hogg Walter Scott'Glenfinlas; Or, Lord Ronald's Coronach'Print: Book
1800-1849'either I am grossly mistaken or there are more [italics] natural [end italics] beauties in Marmion than all your othe...James Hogg Walter ScottMarmionPrint: Book
1800-1849'either I am grossly mistaken or there are more [italics] natural [end italics] beauties in Marmion than all your othe...James Hogg Walter Scott'To Henry Erskine, Esq'Print: Book
1800-1849'[italics] The Bridal [end italics] of Triermain is published. It is quite a romance of a lady that lay enchanted 500 ...James Hogg Walter ScottBridal of Triermain, ThePrint: Unknown
1800-1849'I inclose you Roscoe's and Mr. Scott's letters of criticism but besides this Scott has written the margin from beginn...James Hogg Walter Scott[pre-publication comments and marginal notes on Hogg's 'The Hunting of Badlewe'Manuscript: presumably in MS
1800-1849'[Scott] denies "Waverly" [sic] which it behoves him to do for a while at least; indeed I do not think he will ever ac...James Hogg Walter ScottWaverley; or, 'Tis Sixty Years SincePrint: Book, Serial / periodical
1800-1849'[Scott] denies "Waverly" [sic] which it behoves him to do for a while at least; indeed I do not think he will ever ac...James Hogg Walter ScottBridal of Triermain, ThePrint: Book, Serial / periodical
1800-1849'[Scott] denies "Waverly" [sic] which it behoves him to do for a while at least; indeed I do not think he will ever ac...George Gordon, Lord Byron Walter ScottWaverley; or, 'Tis Sixty Years SincePrint: Book, Serial / periodical
1800-1849'Wordsworth and Southey have each published a new poem price of each /2:2. Southey's is a noble work the other is a ve...James Hogg Walter ScottLord of the Isles, TheManuscript: Unknown
'I have read "Ronald" with great care and much pleasure I think it is the most [italics] spirited [end italics] poem S...James Hogg Walter ScottLord of the Isles, ThePrint: Book
'I confess I was pleased with ['The Lord of the Isles'] save the plot and augured good of it but I have heard very dif...James Hogg Walter ScottLord of the Isles, ThePrint: Book
' I have got hold of the "Quarterly" but have not yet got far on with it. The review of Gibbon is certainly a first ra...James Hogg Walter ScottGuy ManneringPrint: Book
1800-1849'It is amazing how many clever things are written about the embarrassments of the country there has one appeared in Bl...James Hogg Walter Scott [letters in ] Edinburgh Weekly JournalPrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'I had the Sunday School girls here last Sunday, and Susanna came to help me, and I thought we went off gloriously, on...Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell Walter ScottKenilworthPrint: Book
1800-1849'We like you amuse ourselves with reading: we are familiar with the Scenery of the North & Court of King James: we cou...Crabbe familyWalter ScottLady of the Lake, ThePrint: Book
1800-1849'I derived a three fold Pleasure from the Receipt of Rokeby, first from the book itself, the Article, the thing sold a...George Crabbe Walter ScottRokebyPrint: Book
1800-1849'[Crabbe relates how he has had a letter from a Lady who] 'enjoins and adjures me to go instantly & climb the Mountain...George Crabbe Walter ScottLay of the Last Minstrel, ThePrint: Book
1800-1849'[Crabbe relates how he has had a letter from a Lady who] 'enjoins and adjures me to go instantly & climb the Mountain...George Crabbe Walter ScottMarmionPrint: Book
1800-1849'[Crabbe relates how he has had a letter from a Lady who] 'enjoins and adjures me to go instantly & climb the Mountain...George Crabbe Walter ScottLady of the Lake, ThePrint: Book
1800-1849'[Crabbe relates how he has had a letter from a Lady who] 'enjoins and adjures me to go instantly & climb the Mountain...George Crabbe Walter ScottRokebyPrint: Book
1800-1849'I will not mention my own nor my son's Judgment upon the Poem, which in spite of my Prohibition he stole for a solita...George Crabbe Walter ScottLord of the Isles, ThePrint: Book
1800-1849'I will not mention my own nor my son's Judgment upon the Poem, which in spite of my Prohibition he stole for a solita...John Crabbe Walter ScottLord of the Isles, ThePrint: Book
1800-1849'We talk of Waverly [sic] and Guy Mannering: Lady Jersey sent me the former [italics] as yours [end italics]. I vote w...George Crabbe Walter ScottWaverley; or, Tis Sixty Years SincePrint: Book
1800-1849'We talk of Waverly [sic] and Guy Mannering: Lady Jersey sent me the former [italics] as yours [end italics]. I vote w...George Crabbe Walter ScottGuy ManneringPrint: Book
1800-1849'I thank you for your Letter & Mr Scott's Treatise. True! I agree with him in his principal Idea, though even there I ...George Crabbe Abraham ScottCalvinistic Doctrines RefutedPrint: Book
1850-1899'Colvin has brought home Woodstock from Nice and we have started reading it aloud, which is a huge institution.'Robert Louis Stevenson Walter ScottWoodstockPrint: Book
1800-1849'Of his poem Waterloo she writes: "These are my honest opinions, just as I should give them to any third person: and ...Louisa, Lady Stuart Walter ScottField of Waterloo, ThePrint: Unknown
1800-1849'Mr Scott must have thought me very ungrateful in returning no acknowledgements for being [italics] entrusted [end ita...Louisa, Lady Stuart Walter ScottMarmionManuscript: Unknown
1800-1849'Mr Scott must have thought me very ungrateful in returning no acknowledgements for being [italics] entrusted [end ita...Louisa, Lady Stuart Walter ScottLay of the Last Minstrel, ThePrint: Book
1800-1849'With the same amusement [of secret knowledge about Scott's authorship] I now sit by the fire, sucking in the sagaciou...Walter ScottTales of my LandlordPrint: Book
1800-1849'In general the coterie here are disposed to think it not by the same author as "Waverley", etc., and to think it supe...acquaintances of Louisa StuartWalter ScottTales of my LandlordPrint: Book
1800-1849'In general the coterie here are disposed to think it not by the same author as "Waverley", etc., and to think it supe...acquaintances of Louisa StuartWalter ScottWaverleyPrint: Book
1800-1849'In general the coterie here are disposed to think it not by the same author as "Waverley", etc., and to think it supe...Louisa, Lady Stuart Walter ScottWaverleyPrint: Book
1800-1849'In general the coterie here are disposed to think it not by the same author as "Waverley", etc., and to think it supe...Louisa, Lady Stuart Walter ScottGuy ManneringPrint: Book
1800-1849'In general the coterie here are disposed to think it not by the same author as "Waverley", etc., and to think it supe...Louisa, Lady Stuart Walter ScottTales of my LandlordPrint: Book
1800-1849'In general the coterie here are disposed to think it not by the same author as "Waverley", etc., and to think it supe...Louisa, Lady Stuart Walter ScottAntiquary, ThePrint: Book
1800-1849'In general the coterie here are disposed to think it not by the same author as "Waverley", etc., and to think it supe...Mrs Weddell Walter ScottTales of my LandlordPrint: Book
1850-1899'I am still ... doing a pleasanter spell of work over the Waverley novels.'Robert Louis Stevenson Walter ScottWaverley novelsPrint: Book
1850-1899'I have read one after another ... The Fortunes of Nigel.'Robert Louis Stevenson Walter ScottThe Fortunes fo NigelPrint: Book
1850-1899'Waverley is so poor and dull.'Robert Louis Stevenson Walter ScottWaverleyPrint: Book
1800-1849'Do not suppose, however, that I am at present reading the ["Bride of Lammermoor" and "Legend of Montrose"] for the fi...Louisa, Lady Stuart Walter ScottBride of Lammermoor, ThePrint: Book
1800-1849'I believe most people would say of the four-and-twenty volumes, what I have known parents of large families do of the...Louisa, Lady Stuart Walter Scott[Works]Print: Book
1800-1849'Do not suppose, however, that I am at present reading the ["Bride of Lammermoor" and "Legend of Montrose"] for the fi...Louisa, Lady Stuart Walter ScottLegend of Montrose, APrint: Book
1800-1849'I am very glad you have enjoyed the court of Hayti, much the best part of the book in my opinion. I only barred your ...Louisa, Lady Stuart Walter ScottIvanhoePrint: Book
1800-1849'I am very glad you have enjoyed the court of Hayti, much the best part of the book in my opinion. I only barred your ...Louisa Clinton Walter ScottIvanhoePrint: Book
1800-1849'I know not what Prince Leopold will say to it [the character of Athelstane]. He had a bad cold and Sir Robert Gardine...Robert Gardiner Walter ScottIvanhoePrint: Book
1800-1849'Your observation on the Waverley novels is perfectly just; instead of misleading one concerning the true history, or ...Louisa, Lady Stuart Walter Scott[Waverley Novels]Print: Book
1800-1849'Your observation on the Waverley novels is perfectly just; instead of misleading one concerning the true history, or ...Louisa Clinton Walter Scott[Waverley Novels]Print: Book
1800-1849'This [talking about feuds between families] reminds me of "Ivanhoe". I take the introduction of Scripture phrases to ...Louisa, Lady Stuart Walter ScottIvanhoePrint: Book
1800-1849'Mrs Scott (here) is as thorough-paced a lover of those books [The Waverley Novels] as either of us. I have been looki...Mrs Scott Walter Scott[Waverley Novels]Print: Book
1800-1849'We have begun "Peveril", but not gone far in it. It is read aloud, and, [italics] entre nous [end italics], ill-read,...Louisa, Lady Stuart Walter ScottPeveril of the PeakPrint: Book
1800-1849'I ought to have thanked you for "Redgauntlet" a fortnight ago, but I stayed to read it, and then to read it again. It...Louisa, Lady Stuart Walter ScottRedgauntletPrint: Book
1800-1849'I read her [Miss Murray] the legend of Steenie Steenson the other night, and we agreed it was in the author's very be...Louisa, Lady Stuart Walter ScottWandering Willie's TalePrint: Book
1800-1849'I have been feasting upon the Demonology and Witchcraft; yet some stories freshly rung in my ears, and I am sure full...Louisa, Lady Stuart Walter ScottLetters on Demonology and WitchcraftPrint: Book
1800-1849'Yesterday I had a letter from [Mrs Scott] written with characteristic eagerness about "Trevelyan".'Mrs Scott Jane ScottTrevelyanPrint: Book
1800-1849'To return to "Trevelyan". I long to know what you will hear of it from Mary. I think Lady Augusta admirably drawn, he...Louisa, Lady Stuart Jane ScottTrevelyanPrint: Book
1800-1849'To return to "Trevelyan". I long to know what you will hear of it from Mary. I think Lady Augusta admirably drawn, he...Mrs Williams Jane ScottTrevelyanPrint: Book
1800-1849'To return to "Trevelyan". I long to know what you will hear of it from Mary. I think Lady Augusta admirably drawn, he...Jane ScottTrevelyanPrint: Book
1800-1849'I had a letter from Ly. -- on Tuesday that gave me great content, for I, like you, felt a little afraid that the Lady...Lady [anon] Jane ScottTrevelyanPrint: Book
1800-1849'I am afraid that we do not admire "Waverley" as much as it deserves. The praise you give it would almost induce me to...Anne Romilly Walter ScottWaverley; or, Tis Sixty Years SincePrint: Book
1800-1849'I am afraid that we do not admire "Waverley" as much as it deserves. The praise you give it would almost induce me to...Maria Edgeworth Walter ScottWaverley; or, Tis Sixty Years SincePrint: Book
1800-1849'The "Edinburgh Review" will have praised "Waverley" to your hearts content. I think however they left out one of the ...Anne Romilly Walter ScottWaverleyPrint: Book
1800-1849'The "Edinburgh Review" will have praised "Waverley" to your hearts content. I think however they left out one of the ...Anne Romilly Walter ScottLord of the Isles, ThePrint: Book
1800-1849'The "Edinburgh Review" will have praised "Waverley" to your hearts content. I think however they left out one of the ...Anne Romilly Walter ScottLady of the Lake, ThePrint: Book
1800-1849'The "Edinburgh Review" will have praised "Waverley" to your hearts content. I think however they left out one of the ...Anne Romilly Walter ScottMarmionPrint: Book
1800-1849'The "Edinburgh Review" will have praised "Waverley" to your hearts content. I think however they left out one of the ...James Mackintosh Walter ScottLord of the Isles, ThePrint: Book
1800-1849'Since I wrote the first two pages of this letter I have read Eugene and Guilliaume, and quite agree with you. Pray co...James Mackintosh Walter ScottLord of the Isles, ThePrint: Book
1800-1849'Since I wrote the first two pages of this letter I have read Eugene and Guilliaume, and quite agree with you. Pray co...James Mackintosh Walter ScottRokebyPrint: Book
1800-1849'Pray read "Tales of my Landlord". They are charming. I think there can be no doubt but that they are written by the A...Anne Romilly Walter ScottTales of my LandlordPrint: Book
1800-1849'Pray read "Tales of my Landlord". They are charming. I think there can be no doubt but that they are written by the A...Walter ScottTales of my LandlordManuscript: Unknown
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 Walter Scott[unknown]Print: Book
1800-1849'Uncle Henry writes very superior Sermons. You & I must try to get hold of one or two & put them into our Novels; it w...Jane Austen Walter ScottThe AntiquaryPrint: 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 John ScottChristian Life(5 vols)Print: Book
1800-1849'After reading the Bride of Lammermoor [Tennyson] wrote the following [reproduces juvenile poem "The Bridal"]'.Alfred Tennyson Walter ScottThe Bride of LammermoorPrint: Book
1850-1899'He [George Gissing] recommended [in letters to his siblings] books like Morris's "Earthly Paradise", a poem "aboundin...George Gissing Walter ScottRedgauntletPrint: Book
1850-1899'[from] April 25th [...] [Tennyson] "copied out 'Maud' for the press, and read 'The Lady of the Lake,' having just fin...Alfred Tennyson Walter ScottThe Lady of the LakePrint: Book
1700-1799'Mr. Scott of Amwell's "Elegies" were lying in the room. Dr. Johnson observed "They are very well; but such as twenty ...Samuel Johnson John Scott[Elegies]Print: Book
1700-1799'Mr. Scott of Amwell's "Elegies" were lying in the room. Dr. Johnson observed "They are very well; but such as twenty ...James Boswell John Scott[Elegies]Print: Book
1900-1945'His books, over three hundred of which are preserved as he left them in 1918, show the range - and limitations - of h...Wilfred Owen Walter ScottPrint: Book
1700-1799'I went to see E. Golder, and friend Bullen came in ... we read a little in the Testament and the journal of Job Scott'Elizabeth Gurney Job ScottJournal of the life, travels and Gospel labours of that faithful servant and minister of Christ, Job ScottPrint: 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 Job ScottJournal of the life, travels and Gospel labours of that faithful servant and minister of Christ, Job ScottPrint: Book
1850-1899'She announced among other things that Longfellow was her favourite poet. “Byron is nice too” she added “Especi...Cornelia Sorabji Walter ScottunknownPrint: Book
1900-1945'Oddly, I remember little of what must have been read to us in the 'poetry' lessons. Apart from a fragment or two of s...Charles Causley Walter ScottLochinvarPrint: Book
1850-1899'These brave words of Scott remind me of the song in The Antiquary, which I have just re-read ...'Robert Louis Stevenson Walter ScottThe AntiquaryPrint: Book
1850-1899'The two middle verses of that song have haunted me ever since I was a child and used to go up into the dark drawing-r...Robert Louis Stevenson Walter ScottIvanhoePrint: Book
1850-1899'He [Tennyson] would always talk of Thackeray's novels, Esmond, Pendennis, and The Newcomes as being "delicious; they ...Alfred Tennyson Walter Scottnovels including Old MortalityPrint: Book
1800-1849E. Fry writes to her husband and daughter, Rachel, of the death of her sister, Priscilla Gurney, dated 25 Mar 1821: 'I...Priscilla Gurney Samuel ScottA diary of some religious exercises, and experience of Samuel Scott, late of HartfordPrint: Book
1850-1899'Spent the evening at Home. Read portion of Waverley.'John Buckley Castieau Walter ScottWaverleyPrint: Book
1850-1899'Was at home in the evening. Read a Portion of Rob Roy to Polly.'John Buckley Castieau Walter ScottRob RoyPrint: Book
1850-1899'Read Rob Roy in the evening.'John Buckley Castieau Walter ScottRob RoyPrint: Book
1850-1899'Stopped at Home in the evening and read Rob Roy to Polly.'John Buckley Castieau Walter ScottRob RoyPrint: Book
1850-1899From F. T. Palgrave's 'Personal Recollections' of Tennyson: 'Another little poem [collected in Palgrave's "Golden T...Alfred Tennyson ScottThe Maid of NeidpathUnknown
1700-1799'I suffered unjustly in the eyes of the world with regard to that tale ['The Brownie of Bodsbeck'], which was looked o...James Hogg Walter ScottOld MortalityPrint: Book
1900-1945'Byron was a great genius. 'Don' Juan is a terrific work. But there is scarcely a page of it which does not show tha...Arnold Bennett Sir Walter ScottQuentin DurwardPrint: Book
1800-1849John Wilson Croker to the Rev. George Croly, 28 November 1816: 'Though I have little time to read poetry,and notwit...John Wilson Croker Walter ScottPrint: Book
1900-1945'Tom Scott came in, bringing a typed copy of his lengthy poem, "On my 21st Birthday". Much of this modern verse is uni...William Soutar Tom ScottOn my 21st BirthdayManuscript: Sheet
1900-1945'At half past one Tom Scott strode in, having come home from West Africa: very little change in him after his two year...William Soutar Tom Scott[poems]Manuscript: Unknown
1850-1899'In February 1896, seven titles were added to his [Oscar Wilde's] store. These were: Dante's "Divina commedia", accomp...Oscar Wilde Lidell and ScottGreek LexiconPrint: Book
1800-1849'I began the "Poissons" regularly; pretty hard work; finished "Kenilworth". I think Amy deserved her fate, she is unwo...John Ruskin Walter ScottKenilworth: a romancePrint: Book
1850-1899'Glanced today through the life and diary of David Scott, a Scotch painter: a poor bravura creature, one of the Greek ...John Ruskin William Bell Scott[memoir David Scott]Print: Book
1850-1899'Pleasant tea and "Nigel", but I much depressed all the afternoon.'John Ruskin Sir Walter ScottFortunes of NigelPrint: Book
1850-1899'Chess and "Quentin Durward".'John Ruskin Sir Walter ScottQuentin DurwardPrint: Book
1850-1899'Finished "Quentin Durward"'John Ruskin Sir Walter ScottQuentin DurwardPrint: Book
1850-1899'Read "Ivanhoe" to end in evening.'John Ruskin Sir Walter ScottIvanhoePrint: Book
1850-1899'In afternoon, the trance-teaching, and the reading of "Marmion" with companions...'John Ruskin Sir Walter ScottMarmionPrint: Book
1850-1899'Sound sleep after walk and long reading of "Old Mortality".'John Ruskin Sir Walter ScottOld MortalityPrint: Book
1850-1899'Playing chess, and marbles, with myself, and reading "Nigel" to Lollie.'John Ruskin Sir Walter ScottFortunes of NigelUnknown
1850-1899'Yesterday dined quietly with Diddie and Clennie came down to dessert, and I read the "Abbot" in the evening to them.' John Ruskin Sir Walter ScottAbbot, ThePrint: Book
1800-1849'They [newly married Lord and Lady Byron] read books together, and discussed them; Scott's Lord of the Isles was sent ...Lord and Lady ByronWalter ScottThe Lord of the IslesPrint: Book
1900-1945'Mr Smith read a paper on Shelley & Mrs Ridges selections from a paper by Dr Scott on the poet's literary characterist...Blanche Ridges Dr Scott[paper on Shelley]Unknown
1800-1849Harriet, Countess Granville, to her sister Lady Georgiana Morpeth, 28 August 1819: 'I admire F. Lamb perhaps more t...F. Lamb Walter ScottThe Heart of MidlothianPrint: Book
1800-1849Harriet, Countess Granville to her sister, Lady Georgiana Morpeth, 15 September 1820: 'We are all at "The Abbot." I...Harriet, Countess Granville and family and houseguestsWalter ScottThe AbbotPrint: Book
1800-1849Harriet, Countess Granville to her sister, Lady Georgiana Morpeth, 15 September 1820: 'We are all at "The Abbot." I...Harriet Countess Granville Walter ScottThe Abbot (volume 1)Print: Book
1800-1849Harriet, Countess Granville to her sister, Lady Georgiana Morpeth, 15 September 1820: 'We are all at "The Abbot." I...Harriet Countess Granville Walter ScottIvanhoePrint: Book
1800-1849Harriet, Countess Granville to her sister, Lady Georgiana Morpeth, 8 October 1820: 'To-day I perform alone upon a r...Charles Greville Walter ScottKenilworthPrint: Book
1800-1849Monday, 27 March 1826: 'I answerd two modest requests [for assistance with sons' career advancement] from widow L...anon Walter ScottMarmionPrint: Book
1800-1849Monday, 27 March 1826: 'I answerd two modest requests [for assistance with sons' career advancement] from widow L...anon Walter ScottThe Lady of the LakePrint: Book
1800-1849
1850-1899		From the Commonplace book of Mrs Austen of Ensbury: Transcription of four lines from “Rokesby” (for Rokeby), begin...Catherine Austen Walter ScottRokebyUnknown
1800-1849Thursday, 28 June 1827: 'Visited on invitation a fine old little commodore Trunnion who, in reading a part of Napol...anon Walter ScottLife of NapoleonPrint: Book
1800-1849Wednesday, 1 August 1827: 'Smoked a cigar after dinner, laughd with my daughters and read them the review of Hoffma...Walter Scott Walter Scottarticle on E. T. W. HoffmannPrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849Sunday, 26 April 1829: 'Looking for something I fell in with the Little drama long amissing calld the Doom of Devor...Walter Scott Walter ScottThe Doom of DevorgoilManuscript: Unknown
1800-1849John Murray to Walter Scott, 27 June 1812: 'I cannot refrain [...] from mentioning to you a conversation which Lord...George Prince of Wales Walter ScottThe Lay of the Last MinstrelPrint: Book
1800-1849'[John Murray] was confirmed in his idea that Walter Scott was the author [of Waverley] after carefully reading the bo...John Murray Walter ScottWaverleyPrint: Book
1800-1849'[John Murray] was confirmed in his idea that Walter Scott was the author [of Waverley] after carefully reading the bo...Walter ScottWaverleyPrint: Book
1800-1849Thomas Campbell to John Murray, 2 June 1809: 'I received the review, for which I thank you, and beg leave through y...Thomas Campbell Walter Scottreview of Thomas Campbell, Gertrude of Wyoming etcPrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849Byron to John Murray, 3 March 1817: 'In acknowledging the arrival of the article from the Quarterly, which I recei...Augusta Leigh Walter ScottReview of George Gordon, Lord Byron, Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, Canto IIIPrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'Say, too, that I received his Life of Napoleon, and have read it this winter - in the evening and at night - with att...Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Walter ScottLife of NapoleonPrint: Book
1900-1945Books read by William Lygon, seventh Earl Beauchamp (politician, 1872-1938) to his daughters Lettice (1906-73) and Sib...William Lygon, seventh Earl Beauchamp Walter ScottRedgauntletPrint: Book
1900-1945Books read by William Lygon, seventh Earl Beauchamp (politician, 1872-1938) to his daughters Lettice (1906-73) and Sib...William Lygon, seventh Earl Beauchamp Walter ScottThe TalismanPrint: Book
1900-1945Books read by William Lygon, seventh Earl Beauchamp (politician, 1872-1938) to his daughters Lettice (1906-73) and Sib...William Lygon, seventh Earl Beauchamp Walter ScottIvanhoePrint: Book
1800-1849William Blackwood to John Murray (early January 1815), on having seen a copy of Guy Mannering during a visit to his ...Walter ScottGuy ManneringUnknown
1800-1849'At the beginning of Janaury 1815 Blackwood wrote to Murray that he had seen Ballantyne, and found a copy of "Guy Ma...William Blackwood Walter ScottThe Lord of the IslesPrint: Book
1800-1849William Blackwood to John Murray (early 1815): 'Yesterday I wrote a letter of thanks to Ballantyne for the delight ...William Blackwood Walter ScottGuy Mannering (vols I and II)Print: Book
1800-1849'In October [1815] Scott published his poem, the "Field of Waterloo," and its appearance convinced Blackwood [incorr...William Blackwood Walter ScottThe Field of WaterlooPrint: Book
1800-1849John Murray to Walter Scott, on reception of Tales of My Landlord, 14 December 1816: 'Lord Holland said, when I ask...Lord Holland and familyWalter ScottTales of My LandlordPrint: Book
1800-1849John Murray to Walter Scott, on reception of Tales of My Landlord, 14 December 1816: 'Lord Holland said, when I ask...Lord and Lady GlenbervieWalter ScottTales of My LandlordPrint: Book
1800-1849John Murray to Walter Scott, on reception of Tales of My Landlord, 14 December 1816: 'Lord Holland said, when I ask...John Hookham Frere Walter ScottTales of My LandlordPrint: Book
1800-1849John Murray to Walter Scott, on reception of Tales of My Landlord, 14 December 1816: 'Lord Holland said, when I ask...Henry Hallam Walter ScottTales of My LandlordPrint: Book
1800-1849John Murray to Walter Scott, on reception of Tales of My Landlord, 14 December 1816: 'Lord Holland said, when I ask...Walter ScottTales of My LandlordPrint: Book
1800-1849John Murray to Walter Scott, on reception of Tales of My Landlord, 14 December 1816: 'Lord Holland said, when I ask...Richard Heber Walter ScottTales of My LandlordPrint: Book
1800-1849John Murray to Walter Scott, on reception of Tales of My Landlord, 14 December 1816: 'Lord Holland said, when I ask...William Lamb Walter ScottTales of My LandlordPrint: Book
1800-1849John Murray to Walter Scott, on reception of Tales of My Landlord, 14 December 1816: 'Lord Holland said, when I ask...William Gifford Walter ScottTales of My LandlordPrint: Book
1800-1849John Murray to Walter Scott, on reception of Tales of My Landlord, 14 December 1816: 'Lord Holland said, when I ask...Walter ScottTales of My LandlordPrint: Book
1800-1849Isaac D'Israeli to John Murray, 4 August 1818: 'It was with your usual kindness that you sent us the "Heart of Midl...Isaac D'Israeli and familyWalter ScottThe Heart of MidlothianPrint: Book
1850-1899'Progress was so slight [in Charles Schreiber's recovery following disorder of lungs in spring 1883] that the doctors ...Lady Charlotte Schreiber Walter ScottPrint: Book
1850-189916 March 1884, from Lisbon, en route home from South Africa: 'I am now reading to C. S. that charming book Rob Roy....Lady Charlotte Schreiber Walter ScottRob RoyPrint: Book
1800-1849'[Thomas] Carlyle saw Scott's greatness in the extracts from the Diary given by Lockhart. The stern critic rightly rec...Thomas Carlyle Walter ScottJournal (extracts)Print: Book
1800-1849[From the diary of Elizabeth Firth, 22 January 1816:] 'Read Lord of the Isles again.'Elizabeth Firth Walter ScottThe Lord of the IslesPrint: Book
1800-1849[From the diary of Elizabeth Firth, 21 June 1817:] 'Read Old Mortality; did not like it.'Elizabeth Firth Walter ScottOld MortalityPrint: Book
1800-1849[From the diary of Elizabeth Firth, 2 January 1819:] 'Read the Heart of Midlothian.'Elizabeth Firth Walter ScottThe Heart of MidlothianPrint: Book
1800-1849'There is a copy of the Imitation of Christ extant, given to Charlotte [Bronte] in 1826, and there are other books tha...Bronte children (Charlotte, Branwell, Emily, Anne)Walter ScottTales of a GrandfatherPrint: Book
1800-1849[Charlotte Bronte to her schoolfriend Ellen Nussey, 1 January 1833:] 'I am glad you like "Kenilworth"; it is certai...Ellen Nussey Walter ScottKenilworthPrint: Book
1800-1849[Charlotte Bronte to her schoolfriend Ellen Nussey, 1 January 1833:] 'I am glad you like "Kenilworth"; it is certai...Charlotte Bronte Walter ScottKenilworthPrint: Book
1900-1945

Meeting held at Ashton Lodge, Kendrick Rd., 13.x.32.

Henry M. Wallis in the chair

1. Minutes of las...

Charles E. Stansfield Walter ScottIvanhoePrint: Book
1900-1945

Meeting held at Ashton Lodge, Kendrick Rd., 13.x.32.

Henry M. Wallis in the chair

1. Minutes of las...

Francis E. Pollard Walter ScottThe Heart of MidlothianPrint: Book
1900-1945

Meeting held at Ashton Lodge, Kendrick Rd., 13.x.32.

Henry M. Wallis in the chair

1. Minutes of las...

Rosamund Wallis Walter ScottOld MortalityPrint: Book

 

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