Reading Experience Database
1450-1945

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1800-1849[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge [unknown]La danse des mortsPrint: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge [unknown]Declaration of PrinciplesPrint: Book
1700-1799
1800-1849
[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge [n/a]A New Version of the Psalms of DavidPrint: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge [n/a]The Parliamentary Debates from the Year 1803Print: Book
1700-1799
1800-1849
[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge [unknown]Sammlung vorzuglich schoner Gedichte...Print: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge [n/a]The Quarterly Journal of Foreign Medicine and SurgeryPrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge [n/a]The Holy BiblePrint: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge [n/a]The Apocryphal New TestamentPrint: Book
1800-1849'Went into the library to try to rationalize my mind about the deathwatch, - by reading the Cyclopaedia. Feel very un...Elizabeth Zenophon [Xenophon]unknownPrint: Book
1800-1849Henry Mayhew's interview with a seller of street stationery: 'I read "Lloyd's Weekly Newspaper" on a Sunday, and what... [n/a]Lloyd's Weekly NewspaperPrint: Newspaper
1800-1849
1850-1899
Henry Mayhew interviews a street buyer of waste paper: "The only worldly labour I do on a Sunday is to take my fami...anon [n/a]Lloyd's Weekly NewspaperPrint: Broadsheet, Newspaper
1800-1849 William Wordsworth discusses reading habits of the local labouring classes in letter to Francis Wrangham, 5 June 180...William Wordsworth anon [working people]["half-penny Ballads"]Print: Book
1800-1849Statement of juvenile offender: "When I left school I went to Mr Banks, bookseller, two years. I had good opportuni...J.H. [unknown][books about voyages]Print: Book
1900-1945'[the father of Harry Burton] 'an irregularly employed housepainter, liked a "stirring novel" but nothing more challen... [n/a]The Daily ChroniclePrint: Newspaper
Byron to unknown female correspondent (mother of author of poem sent for Byron's consideration), 17 August 1814: 'The ...George Gordon Lord Byron Robert Charles Dallas [?][poem]Manuscript: Unknown
1500-1599When he was ordained, the Bishop (who in those days was primus Presbyter, or Praeses) seeking to oppose him, asked him...John Carter [n/a]Old TestamentPrint: Book
1500-1599When he was ordained, the Bishop (who in those days was primus Presbyter, or Praeses) seeking to oppose him, asked him...John Carter [n/a]New TestamentPrint: Book
1500-1599
1600-1699
For his carriage and deportment in his Family, it was sober, grave, and very Religious. He there offered up the Morni...John Carter [n/a]ScripturesPrint: Book
1800-1849Byron to John Murray, 8 February 1822: 'Attacks upon me were to be expected [following publication of his Biblical dra...George Gordon Lord Byron Oxoniensis [pseud.]Remonstrance against CainPrint: Newspaper
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 [unknown][political history]Print: Book
1900-1945'Lancashire weaver Elizabeth Blackburn... proceeded to an evening institute course in English literature and by the rh...Elizabeth Blackburn [unknown][Ancient Greek literature]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 Ouida [pseud][unknown]Print: Unknown
1900-1945[analysis of a female respondent in Arnold Freeman's 1918 Sheffield Survey] 'Munitions worker, age eighteen... Has rea...questionaire respondent [unknown][basic economics textbook]Print: Book
[analysis of a female respondent in Arnold Freeman's 1918 Sheffield Survey] 'Machinist in a shell factory, age twenty-...questionaire respondent [unknown][various history and biography]Print: Book
1900-1945'[according to Stan Dickens]"There was one book that we all thought was sensational" - Aristotle's Masterpiece. "At la...Stan Dickens [anon]Aristotle's MasterpiecePrint: Book
1900-1945'The girls at the hat and cap factory where [Mary Bertenshaw] worked would huddle round at dinner to read Aristotle's ...Mary Bertenshaw [anon]Aristotle's MasterpiecePrint: Book
1850-1899'Allen Clark, the son of Bolton textile workers, found physiology books in the public library incomprehensible. A news...Allen Clark [unknown][physiology textbooks]Print: Book
1900-1945'When they were alone at home [Edna Bold] and her cousin Dorothy extracted from the kitchen bookcase and read side by ...Edna Bold [unknown][medical book]Print: Book
1850-1899'[Millicent, Duchess of Sutherland was] an omnivorous reader -- "she could begin the day with reports on technical edu...Millicent, Duchess of Sutherland [unknown][reports on education in Prussia]Print: Unknown
1850-1899'[Millicent, Duchess of Sutherland was] an omnivorous reader -- "she could begin the day with reports on technical edu...Millicent, Duchess of Sutherland [unknown][romantic fiction]Print: Unknown
'As a boy [Walter] Besant had read American authors avidly ...'Walter Besant [unknown][American literature]Print: Unknown
1900-1945'On Friday afternoon I went to Mudie's. What a fascinating place it is!! I had some peeps into most lovely books, & t...Katherine Mansfield [unknown][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
1900-1945'Britain was a mainly urban society...and soon an expanding range of sexual literature became available in the cities....Mark Grossek [unknown][old plays]Print: Book
1900-1945'Ethel Mannin was an exceptionally liberated letter-sorter's daughter, an early reader of Freud who made something of ...Ethel Mannin [unknown][home medical books]Print: Book
1900-1945[Communist activists often displayed hostility to literature, including Willie Gallacher. However his 'hostility to li...William Gallacher [unknown][children's comics]Print: Serial / periodical
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 [unknown][school stories from The Captain]Print: Book
1900-1945'George Scott left school and the boys' weeklies behind at fifteen: in barely a year he had absorbed enough Shaw, Well...George Scott [unknown][boys' weeklies]Print: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'The father of Labour politician T. Dan Smith, a Wallsend miner, was facinated by travel books, Twain's Innocents Abro... [unknown][travel books]Print: Book
1850-1899'The celebrated singer Sir Harry Lauder, when he was still a mineworker, acquired a fair knowledge of American history...Harry Lauder [unknown][American History]Print: Book
'As a boy George Acorn [an] East Londoner, read "all sorts and conditions of books from 'Penny Bloods' to George Eliot...George Acorn George Eliot [pseud]Print: Book
1800-1849'As Cornish carpenter George Smith had little access to libraries, he "read every sort of book that came in my way" - ...George Smith [unknown][novels]Print: Book
1800-1849'As Cornish carpenter George Smith had little access to libraries, he "read every sort of book that came in my way" - ...George Smith [unknown][history]Print: Book
1800-1849'As Cornish carpenter George Smith had little access to libraries, he "read every sort of book that came in my way" - ...George Smith [unknown][biblical criticism]Print: Book
1800-1849'As Cornish carpenter George Smith had little access to libraries, he "read every sort of book that came in my way" - ...George Smith [unknown][treatises on algebra and geometry]Print: Book
1850-1899'Edwin Whitlock faced...[reading] shortages. A farmer on the Salisbury Downs, he had plenty of time to read while shep...Edwin Whitlock [unknown][Sunday School prize books]Print: Book
1850-1899'[Edwin] Whitlock... borrowed books from a schoolmaster and from neighbours: "Most of them would now be considered ver...Edwin Whitlock [anon]The Holy WarPrint: Book
1850-1899'[Edwin] Whitlock... borrowed books from a schoolmaster and from neighbours: "Most of them would now be considered ver...Edwin Whitlock [unknown][religious magazines]Print: Book, Serial / periodical, but bound into volumes
1800-1849And here I am on a wet Sunday looking out of a damned large bow window at the rain as it falls into the puddles opposi...Charles Dickens Henry Torrens [Sir]Field exercises and evolutions of the armyPrint: Book
1900-1945'Derek Davies could not recall that his mother had ever read a book. His father, a die-caster in an automobile factory... [unknown][detective thrillers]Print: Book
1900-1945'Derek Davies could not recall that his mother had ever read a book. His father, a die-caster in an automobile factory... [unknown][Western novels]Print: Book
1900-1945'Derek Davies could not recall that his mother had ever read a book. His father, a die-caster in an automobile factory... [n/a][local and sports papers]Print: Newspaper
1900-1945'Derek Davies could not recall that his mother had ever read a book. His father, a die-caster in an automobile factory...Derek Davies [n/a][local and sports papers]Print: Newspaper
1900-1945'Derek Davies could not recall that his mother had ever read a book. His father, a die-caster in an automobile factory...Derek Davies [unknown][Western novels]Print: Book
1900-1945'Derek Davies could not recall that his mother had ever read a book. His father, a die-caster in an automobile factory...Derek Davies [unknown][detective thrillers]Print: Book
1900-1945'Derek Davies could not recall that his mother had ever read a book. His father, a die-caster in an automobile factory...Derek Davies [unknown][children's books]Print: Book
1900-1945'Derek Davies could not recall that his mother had ever read a book. His father, a die-caster in an automobile factory...Derek Davies [unknown][travel books, including some on Tibet]Print: Book
1900-1945'Derek Davies could not recall that his mother had ever read a book. His father, a die-caster in an automobile factory...Derek Davies [n/a]The WizardPrint: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'Derek Davies could not recall that his mother had ever read a book. His father, a die-caster in an automobile factory...Derek Davies [n/a]The HotspurPrint: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'Derek Davies could not recall that his mother had ever read a book. His father, a die-caster in an automobile factory...Derek Davies [anon]The Illustrated News History of the 1914-18 WarPrint: Book
1900-1945'Derek Davies could not recall that his mother had ever read a book. His father, a die-caster in an automobile factory...Derek Davies [n/a][books on model railways]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 [n/a][a Latin-English Dictionary]Print: Book
1800-1849'Began reading a Tour in Denmarkby Von Buch translated by Black with geological and mineralogical notes by Professor J...Benjamin Newton [Von Buch][a tour in Denmark]Print: Book
1800-1849'Another of Von Buch's Miraculous Tales. On the coast of Norway are many rocks [...] This is the nineteenth hot day wi...Benjamin Newton [Von Buch][A Tour in Denmark]Print: Book
1800-1849'Von Buch says that it is only lately that the Holy Sacrament has been better understood by the Laplanders [...]'Benjamin Newton [Von Buch][A Tour in Denmark]Print: Book
1900-1945[imaginative role play] 'One chauffeur's daughter alternated effortlessly between heroes and heroines: "I have plotted...Margaret Wharton [unknown][account of Bounty mutiny]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
1850-1899'I have read a good many things, a life of Scott, the "Pleasures of Memory" by S. Rogers, Roman History and other thin...Sir Walter Raleigh [unknown][Life of Scott]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 [anon][ballads]Print: Unknown
1700-1799'Gifford had read only some ballads, the black-letter romance Parismus and Parismenus, some odd loose magazines of his...William Gifford [unknown][magazines]Print: Serial / periodical
1700-1799'Gifford had read only some ballads, the black-letter romance Parismus and Parismenus, some odd loose magazines of his...William Gifford [n/a]BiblePrint: Book
1700-1799'Faith Gray, dutiful member of a devout York evangelical family, self-accusingly notes in a review of the year 1768 a ...Faith Gray [unknown][unknown]Print: Unknown
1850-1899
1900-1945
'[Aneurin Bevan] burrowed through the Tredegar Workmen's Institute Library, and acquired his characteristically grandi...Aneurin (Nye) Bevan [n/a]Roget's ThesaurusPrint: Book
1900-1945'With autodidact diligence [Leslie Paul] closed in on the avant-garde. He read "Prufrock" and "The Waste Land", though...Leslie Paul [unknown]John O' London'sPrint: 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 [n/a]The NationPrint: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'After Stalingrad, [Bernard Kops] immersed himself in Russian literature. A GI dating his sister introduced him to Wal...Bernard Kops [unknown][Russian literature]Print: Book
1700-1799'In the even read to Tho. Davy an appeal to the public on behalf of Admiral Byng wherein he is clearly proved to be no...Thomas Turner [Byng]An appeal to the people: containing the genuine and entire letter of Admiral Byng to the Secr[etary] of the Ad[miralt]y
1800-1849'[Martin] suffered but little violent pain until the day he died. Up to that period he sought amusement in cheerful an... [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1800-1849'I rose with a heavy heart on the Sunday morning, and read mechanically a chapter in the little Bible in which my moth...Charles Manby Smith [n/a]BiblePrint: Book
1800-1849'Upon one of the interminable book-stalls, or rather book-walls, which displayed their leafy barrens along the quays o...Charles Manby Smith [unknown][French pocket dictionary]Print: Book
1800-1849'Upon one of the interminable book-stalls, or rather book-walls, which displayed their leafy barrens along the quays o...Charles Manby Smith [n/a]TestamentPrint: Book
1800-1849'Upon one of the interminable book-stalls, or rather book-walls, which displayed their leafy barrens along the quays o...Charles Manby Smith [n/a]TelemaquePrint: Newspaper
1800-1849'In the course of a fortnight I could manage, with the help of a dictionary, to read the advertisements in the French ...Charles Manby Smith [n/a][newspaper advertisements]Print: Advertisement, Newspaper
1800-1849'One day, [after] an hour's study, I managed to get all the meaning of an advertisement in the Moniteur...'Charles Manby Smith [n/a]MoniteurPrint: Advertisement, Newspaper
1800-1849[Smith describes evening activities while working as the private printer of Dr D.] 'Sometimes I played dices with m...Charles Manby Smith [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1800-1849'"The Times" newspaper was taken in daily, and it was the office of each compositor in town to read the debates and le...Charles Manby Smith [n/a]The TimesPrint: Newspaper
1800-1849'Then we met in-doors for supper, with the home-made loaf and the cambray cheese; and then came the old family Bible a... [n/a]BiblePrint: Book
1800-1849'Then we met in-doors for supper, with the home-made loaf and the cambray cheese; and then came the old family Bible a... [unknown][prayer book]Print: Book
1800-1849'My uncle and some others were subscribers to The Weekly Dispatch, each of the subscribers agreeing as to the time and...villagers of South Mimms [n/a]The Weekly DispatchPrint: Newspaper
1850-1899'I was fond of reading when at home, but we had not an abundance of books; so as soon as I settled at Notting Hill, I ...William Tinsley [unknown][various titles]Print: Book
1850-1899?Besides the standard works of our great writers, I subscribed to a few serials, mostly educational. These included "B...Thomas Burt [n/a]British ControversionalistPrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899?Besides the standard works of our great writers, I subscribed to a few serials, mostly educational. These included "B...Thomas Burt [n/aPopular EducatorPrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899?Besides the standard works of our great writers, I subscribed to a few serials, mostly educational. These included "B...Thomas Burt [n/a]Educational CoursePrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899?In January 1860, appeared the Cornhill magazine, with Thackeray as its editor. The price was a shilling? As soon as I...Thomas Burt [n/a]The Cornhill MagazinePrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'Opening the "Newcastle Chronicle" one November morning of 1865, I observed a long letter signed "A Coalowner". From b...Thomas Burt [n/a]Newcastle ChroniclePrint: Newspaper
1850-1899?When about fourteen years old a comrade lent me a few stray numbers of the "London Journal", a highly spiced periodic...Thomas Burt [n/a]London JournalPrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849?For reading aloud the one book used was the Bible, the Psalms being always selected. Directly the last Psalm was fini...Thomas Catling [n/a]PsalmsPrint: Book
1850-1899?There were no free libraries, so the younger hands joined with me in starting a "Literary Fund" of our own, towards w...Printers and compositors at Thomas Catling's place of work, Edward Lloyd's publishing house [n/a]Cornhill MagazinePrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899?There were no free libraries, so the younger hands joined with me in starting a "Literary Fund" of our own, towards w...Printers and compositors at Thomas Catling's place of work, Edward Lloyd's publishing house [n/a]Cassell's MagazinePrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899?There were no free libraries, so the younger hands joined with me in starting a "Literary Fund" of our own, towards w...Printers and compositors at Thomas Catling's place of work, Edward Lloyd's publishing house [n/a]London JournalPrint: Serial / periodical
1700-1799??now, being able to read, I had almost continually the Testament in my hand. I had all the wondrous accounts in the R...Samuel Bamford [n/a]New TestamentPrint: Book
1850-1899'Began to read Egmont after dinner, then "The Hoggarty Diamond".'George Eliot (pseud) Johann Wolfgang von Goethe [probably]EgmontPrint: BookManuscript: Unknown
1850-1899'I also read again Silvio Pellico's "Prisons". I read it once at Granton- a lovely book (same edition) and "Adam Bede"...Sir Walter Raleigh [unknown][French novel]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 [unknown][dramatists' works]Print: Book
1850-1899'I have read a good many things, a life of Scott, the "Pleasures of Memory" by S. Rogers, Roman History and other thin...Sir Walter Raleigh [unknown][Roman History]Print: Book
1850-1899'Last night I spent with Charles Strachey; we each had an arm chair with a chair between us to hold books as we passed...Sir Walter Raleigh [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1850-1899'Read "Leader" and Scherr'.George Eliot [pseud] [various]The LeaderPrint: Serial / periodicalManuscript: Unknown
1850-1899'Read "Athenaeum"'George Eliot [pseud] [n/a]The AthenaeumPrint: Serial / periodicalManuscript: Unknown
1850-1899'Read article on Dryden in W.R. and looked through the "Contemporary Literature"'George Eliot [pseud] [n/a]The Contemporary LiteraturePrint: UnknownManuscript: Unknown
1800-1849'? with the exception of Bible lessons at Sunday school, all my reading was done at home, after the daily task was fin...Samuel Bamford [n/a]The Armenian MagazinePrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'? with the exception of Bible lessons at Sunday school, all my reading was done at home, after the daily task was fin...Samuel Bamford [unknown]The History of EnglandPrint: Book
1800-1849?They [wife and child] had been at prayers, and were reading the Testament before retiring to rest?. Samuel Bamford's wife and child [n/a]The TestamentPrint: Book
1800-1849[Adams's grandmother?s nephew sent newspapers to her on weekly basis, first the Weekly Dispatch; this was in time repl...William Edwin Adams [n/a]Weekly DispatchPrint: Newspaper
1800-1849[Adams's grandmother?s nephew sent newspapers to her on weekly basis, first the 'Weekly Dispatch'; this was in time re...William Edwin Adams [n/a]The ExaminerPrint: Newspaper
1800-1849?There was and is so judicious a blending of light and heavy literature in "Chambers?s Journal" that their periodical ...William Edwin Adams [n/a]Chambers's JournalPrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849?There was and is so judicious a blending of light and heavy literature in "Chambers?s Journal" that their periodical ...William Edwin Adams [n/a]Family HeraldPrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849?Another Sunday recollection is that of a Sunday morning gathering in a humble kitchen. Larry [a crippled shoemaker] m... [n/a]Northern StarPrint: Newspaper
1850-1899?The "Morning Star" was at that time the leading Radical daily in London ? almost the only Radical daily, indeed. It w...William Edwin Adams [n/a]Morning StarPrint: Newspaper
1700-1799?My Godmother sone [sic] provided me a testament but my mother not being able to Read the first Chapter of St Matthews...Joseph Mayett [n/a]BiblePrint: Book
1700-1799?during this winter I practised rather more than I had done before for the last two years for my master used to Read h...Joseph Mayett [unknown][religious books]Print: Book
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1800-1849
?[my master] also was a good scholar and took great pains to teach me in reading and here I made a Considerable progre...Joseph Mayett [unknown][various]Print: Book
1800-1849'I left off swearing and prodigality and took to reading my Bible and attending divine workship and in doing this I la...Joseph Mayett [n/a]BiblePrint: Book
1800-1849?here I was stationed in a half Room that is half the men of our Company, and half of another Company and there was a ...Joseph Mayett [unknown][unknown]Print: Unknown
1700-1799?I Remembered when I was about 8 or 9 years of age my mother had been Correcting me for something I had done wrong and...Joseph Mayett [n/a]BiblePrint: Book
1700-1799'She [his aunt] did not allow me to be idle, but alternately employed me in helping to knit stockings and in reading. ...Thomas Carter [n/a]BiblePrint: Book
1700-1799'Here I also met with some books of a higher order, but which were then far beyond any comprehension. Among these were...Thomas Carter [n/a]BiblePrint: Book
1700-1799'About this time I also gained the good-will of an aged woman who sold cakes, sweetmeals, and fruit, and was moreover ...Thomas Carter [unknown][stories]Print: Book
1700-1799
1800-1849
'In this way I beguiled many a tedious hour at the time I am now referring to, and also during several years following...Thomas Carter [unknown]History of EnglandPrint: Book
1800-1849Carter describes exam he was forced to undertake to be admitted to the school which was supported by a congregation of...Thomas Carter [n/a]New TestamentPrint: Book
1800-1849'Once in each week we were required to commit to memory a rather large portion of "The Assembly's Catechism": this for...Thomas Carter [unknown]The Assembly's CatechismPrint: Book
1800-1849'On my asking him he [the schoolmaster] readily granted my request, nor did he ever revoke his grant: the books were c...Thomas Carter [n/a]Arminian MagazinePrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'On my asking him he [the schoolmaster] readily granted my request, nor did he ever revoke his grant: the books were c...Thomas Carter [n/a]Gentleman's MagazinePrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'I had been made the more anxious to get some spare time, because several books which I had not before seen now fall i...Thomas Carter [unknown]History of EnglandPrint: 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 [unknown]History of RomePrint: Book
1800-1849'I must now mention some other books which about this time fell in my way. Among these an odd volume of the "Spectator...Thomas Carter [n/a]Spectator, ThePrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'My master - in conjunction with some friends - began to take in a newspaper, called, if I remember rightly, "Lloyd's ...Thomas Carter [n/a]Lloyd's Evening PostPrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'It was in this state of feeling that I first got hold of a little volume called "The Wreath", containing a collection...Thomas Carter [n/a]The WreathPrint: Book
1800-1849'I, moreover, found my Sunday pursuits and amusements to be powerfully instrumental in cheering and elevating my "inne...Thomas Carter [unknown][unknown]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 [n/a]The SpectatorPrint: Serial / periodical
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 [n/a]The RamblerPrint: Serial / periodical
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 [n/a]The TatlerPrint: Serial / periodical
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 [unknown][volumes by the British Essayists]Print: Book, Serial / periodical
1850-1899'The "Prometheus" in the morning'.George Eliot (pseud) Aeschlyus [?]PrometheusPrint: Book
1800-1849'After all my contrivances I found but little convenience for reading, except on the Sunday. I always kept a book in m...Thomas Carter [unknown][various]Print: Book
1800-1849'For breakfast I had a penny roll and half a pint of porter. This I took at a public house - for two reasons: first, t...Thomas Carter [n/a][morning newspaper]Print: Advertisement, Newspaper
1800-1849'These men, with several others whose curiosity began to be awakened by the tenor of our political gossip, united with...Thomas Carter and workmates at the tailors workshop [n/a]The NewsPrint: Newspaper
1800-1849'Thus I became their [workmates] news-purveyor, ie. I every morning gave them an account of what I had just been readi...Thomas Carter [n/a]British PressPrint: Newspaper
1800-1849'Thus I became their [workmates] news-purveyor, ie. I every morning gave them an account of what I had just been readi...Thomas Carter [n/a]Morning ChroniclePrint: Newspaper
1800-1849'Thus I became their [workmates] news-purveyor, ie. I every morning gave them an account of what I had just been readi...Thomas Carter [n/a]The StatesmanPrint: Newspaper
1800-1849'... I did this [looking over the newspaper], as usual, while I took my breakfast, which meal I now procured at a coff...Thomas Carter [n/a]Edinburgh ReviewPrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'... I did this [looking over the newspaper], as usual, while I took my breakfast, which meal I now procured at a coff...Thomas Carter [n/a]Monthly ReviewPrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'... I did this [looking over the newspaper], as usual, while I took my breakfast, which meal I now procured at a coff...Thomas Carter [n/a]Edinburgh MagazinePrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'... I did this [looking over the newspaper], as usual, while I took my breakfast, which meal I now procured at a coff...Thomas Carter [n/a]European MagazinePrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'... I did this [looking over the newspaper], as usual, while I took my breakfast, which meal I now procured at a coff...Thomas Carter [n/a]Monthly MagazinePrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'... I did this [looking over the newspaper], as usual, while I took my breakfast, which meal I now procured at a coff...Thomas Carter [n/a]ExaminerPrint: Newspaper
1800-1849'... I did this [looking over the newspaper], as usual, while I took my breakfast, which meal I now procured at a coff...Thomas Carter [n/a]Black DwarfPrint: Newspaper
1800-1849'I read a volume which was called "The Guide to Domestic Happiness", but found that it had no direct bearing upon the ...Thomas Carter [unknown]Letters on the Marriage StatePrint: Book
1800-1849'When [winter] was over, I began to steal a few moments occasionally for the purpose of looking upon the fair and swee...Thomas Carter [unknown][History of the recent wars]Print: Book
1800-1849'In the course of the ensuing spring (1821), I read Mr. Washington Irving's "Sketch-Book". I thought it very beautiful...Thomas Carter [n/a]London MagazinePrint: Serial / periodical
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 [n/a]New Monthly MagazinePrint: Serial / periodical
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 [n/a]Anti-Jacobin ReviewPrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849?In my leisure hours during this year, and the years 1838 and 1839, I read the whole of Shakespeare?s dramatic works, ...Thomas Carter [n/a]Edinburgh ReviewPrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849?In my leisure hours during this year, and the years 1838 and 1839, I read the whole of Shakespeare?s dramatic works, ...Thomas Carter [n/a]Quarterly ReviewPrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899?This period gave me unnumbered hours for reading, and I devoured everything that came in my way, novels, histories, t...Thomas Catling [unknown]The lives of the StoicsPrint: Book
1850-1899?This period gave me unnumbered hours for reading, and I devoured everything that came in my way, novels, histories, t...Thomas Catling [unknown][unknown various titles]Print: Book
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?My father, as before stated, was a reader, and amongst other books which he now read, was Pain?s [sic] "Rights of Men...Daniel Bamford [unknown][theological works]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 [unknown][works on travel and antiquities]Print: Book
1800-1849?There was and is so judicious a blending of light and heavy literature in "Chambers?s Journal" that their periodical ...William Edwin Adams [n/a][penny bloods]Print: Serial / periodical
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 [unknown]Life of General WashingtonPrint: 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 [unknown][various]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...Thomas Burt [unknown][various]Print: Book
1850-1899?For stories, anecdotes, for something lively and telling, I ransacked my father?s theological magazines, with but sma...Thomas Burt [unknown][theological magazines]Print: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'As our roads home from school lay for a considerable distance in the same direction, Tommy Davies...and I generally w...Thomas Wright [n/a][playbill]Print: Broadsheet, Poster, playbill
1850-1899'As our roads home from school lay for a considerable distance in the same direction, Tommy Davies...and I generally w...Tommy Davies [n/a][playbill]Print: Broadsheet, Poster, playbill
1700-1799'The "Lounger" a new publication being a book now pretty much read, we at this time got it from Humphrey's library & M...John Marsh [n/a]The LoungerPrint: Book, Serial / periodical
1700-1799'The next morning I took a ride to Stoke where Lady Louisa show'd me a paragraph she had cut out of the "Star", reflec...John Marsh [n/a]Star, ThePrint: Newspaper
1700-1799'On the Sunday follow'g (9th) ... we first heard a rumour of the massacre of the prisoners on the 2d & 3d at Paris, th...John Marsh [n/a][newspaper]Print: Newspaper
1850-1899'[On Sunday] After breakfast I had taken up the "Weekly Examiner", and was intent upon a more than usually scurrilous ...Thomas Wright [n/a][Weekly Screamer]Print: Newspaper
1700-1799'At this time to amuse myself in my confinement I read the "Life of Pope Sixtus 5th." w'ch Miss Poole ... lent me. My ...John Marsh [unknown]Life of Pope Sixtus VPrint: Book
1700-1799'At this time to amuse myself in my confinement I read the "Life of Pope Sixtus 5th." w'ch Miss Poole ... lent me. My ...John Marsh [unknown]Life of Pope Sixtus VPrint: Book
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'As to Mrs M & I, we have been, ever since we lived at Nethersole, great readers, taking each always a book at breakfa...John Marsh [unknown][various]Print: Book
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'As to Mrs M & I, we have been, ever since we lived at Nethersole, great readers, taking each always a book at breakfa...Elizabeth Marsh [unknown][various]Print: Book
1700-1799'I rode to Brighton on my way back, where I spent the evening and slept at the Old Ship, amusing myself besides my nov...John Marsh [unknown][a novel]Print: Book
1700-1799'I on Tuesday the 8th went in the afternoon to Fareham by the telegraph, where I spent the evening & slept at the Red ...John Marsh [anon]Maria or The VicaragePrint: Book
1800-1849'... at the end of my fourth year I drew a small weekly salary one half of which my father allowed me for my own use.....Charles Manby Smith [unknown][various titles]Print: Book
1800-1849[Smith joins a reading group of seven with a view to self-improvement] 'We got a good room, with such attendance as we...Charles Manby Smith [unknown][various]Print: Book
1800-1849'"My books" - I have a few of my own - pick up a loom where it can be had; so of course my reading is without choice o...William Thom [unknown][various]Print: Book
1800-1849'On Wed'y the 24th I finish'd reading the new & popular novel of the "Irish Excursion", w'ch Mr Hayley had recommended...John Marsh [Anon]The Irish Excursion, or I fear to tell youPrint: Book
1800-1849'... my usual headache on the first day of travelling having come on before I got to Town, I felt by that time very li...John Marsh [n/a][local newspaper]Print: Advertisement, Newspaper
1800-1849'For some time before this I had found my eyes not so good as they had been, being now oblig'd to hold a book, when re...John Marsh [n/a][newspaper]Print: Newspaper
1800-1849'... April when we marched to Mansfield here I met with a man who was a member of Johannah Southcott Society and he le...Joseph Mayett [unknown][religious books]Print: Book
1800-1849'in the Course of this summer one day I took the Bible to read and happened on the 54th Chapt of Isaiah a chapt I had ...Joseph Mayett [n/a]Book of IsaiahPrint: Book
1800-1849'I went home and told my wife and took my Bible and opened it upon the 37th Psalm I read it and found much Comfort fro...Joseph Mayett [n/a]BiblePrint: Book
1800-1849'the whole of the Church concerned with us in sentiment except my Brother and his wife and they stedfastly opposed us ...Joseph Mayett [n/a]BiblePrint: Book
1800-1849'When I had been in school about twelve months, he resolved that one of the boys should read a chapter from the New Te...Christopher Thomson [n/a]BiblePrint: Book
1800-1849'My father was likewise very fond of reading; he now proposed to encourage my love of books, by entering me a subscrib...Christopher Thomson [unknown][religious tracts]Print: Book, Broadsheet, tracts
1800-1849'My father was likewise very fond of reading; he now proposed to encourage my love of books, by entering me a subscrib...Christopher Thomson [unknown][religious magazines]Print: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'A few years ago the curate of the village called upon the old man to converse with him on religious matters; after so...Isaac [n/a]BiblePrint: Book
1800-1849[description of work while employed as an apprentice at the warehouse of Mr Tait, proprietor of 'Tait's Edinburgh Maga...James Glass Bertram [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1800-1849'At the beginning of each month, too, there fell to be collected from the various agents a large number of English mag...James Glass Bertram [unknown][various English periodicals]Print: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'At the beginning of each month, too, there fell to be collected from the various agents a large number of English mag...James Glass Bertram [n/a]Blackwood's Edinburgh MagazinePrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'I pursued a similar plan with others of the magazines whenever I got a chance, especially "Bentley's Miscellany", whi...James Glass Bertram [n/a]Bentley's MiscellanyPrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'Read the Introduction to Savonarola's poems, by Audin de Rians, "The Spectator" and the "Athenaeum"'.George Eliot [pseud] [n/a]The SpectatorPrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'Read the Introduction to Savonarola's poems, by Audin de Rians, "The Spectator" and the "Athenaeum"'.George Eliot [pseud] [n/a]The AthenaeumPrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'Read the "Cornhill" and "Orley Farm"'.George Eliot [pseud] [n/a]Cornhill MagazinePrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'Looked into the Novellieri Scelti'.George Eliot [pseud.] Giuseppe Zirardini [probably]Tesoro dei Novellieri Italiani scelti dal decimoterzo al decimonono secoloPrint: Book
1850-1899'In the evening read the Newspaper and an article on Renan in "Blackwood"'George Eliot [pseud] [unknown]Blackwood's Edinburgh MagazinePrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'In the evening read the Newspaper and an article on Renan in "Blackwood"'George Eliot [pseud] [n/a][Newspaper]Print: Newspaper
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] [unknown]Canti CarnascialeschiPrint: 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] [n/a]Blackwood's Edinburgh MagazinePrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'Looked at the chronicle of the conquest of the Morea yesterday, and into Finlay's "History of Medieval Greece".'George Eliot [pseud] [unknown][chronicle of conquest of the Morea]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'Finished "Annual Register" for 1832. Reading Blackstone'.George Eliot [pseud] [n/a]Annual Register, ThePrint: Serial / periodicalManuscript: Unknown
1800-1849Thomas 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]PoemsPrint: Book
1800-1849'I read the new Testament in Greek with great success & am edified with the slow but sure progress I make in that lang...Lady Caroline Lamb [n/a]New TestamentPrint: Book
1850-1899'In the evening I read aloud a short speech of Bright's on Ireland, delivered 20 years ago, in which he insists that n...George Eliot [pseud] [n/a]Spectator, ThePrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'G. finished reading "Seraphime" aloud to me'.George Henry Lewes [unknown]SeraphimePrint: Unknown
1850-1899'I am reading about plants, and Helmholtz on music'George Eliot [pseud] [unknown][books on plants]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] [unknown]Ancient GeographyPrint: Book
1850-1899'Read the articles Phoenicia and Carthage in Ancient Geography. Looked into Smith's "Universal History" again for Cart...George Eliot [pseud] [unknown]Vegetable World, ThePrint: Book
1850-1899'I read about Fourier and Owen'George Eliot [pseud] [unknown][on Charles Fourier and Robert Owen, Utopian Socialists]Print: Unknown
1900-1945[a teacher at St Edmunds Scool, Canterbury] 'encouraged him by supplying him regularly with the literary pages of Le ...Lawrence Durrell [n/a]Le FigaroPrint: Serial / periodical
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 HeroPrint: 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
1800-1849'It was in this state of feeling that I first got hold of a little volume called "The Wreath", containing a collection...Thomas Carter [unknown]The GravePrint: Book
1800-1849'It was in this state of feeling that I first got hold of a little volume called "The Wreath", containing a collection...Thomas Carter [unknown]The MinstrelPrint: Book
1800-1849'... I did this [looking over the newspaper], as usual, while I took my breakfast, which meal I now procured at a coff...Thomas Carter [n/a][daily newspapers]Print: Newspaper
1850-1899'Of course you have seen the squib on him in the "Examiner" ("Mr Sampson"). I saw it in a Liverpool paper. One sees hi...Harriet Martineau [unknown][Liverpool newspaper: squib on Matthew Arnold]Print: Newspaper
1850-1899'Of course you have seen the squib on him in the "Examiner" ("Mr Sampson"). I saw it in a Liverpool paper. One sees hi...Harriet Martineau [unknown]Daily News (comment on Matthew Arnold)Print: Newspaper
1850-1899'Of course you have seen the squib on him in the "Examiner" ("Mr Sampson"). I saw it in a Liverpool paper. One sees hi...Harriet Martineau [unknown]The Times (comment on Matthew Arnold)Print: Newspaper
1850-1899'So it is you who send me the "Pall Mall"! I shall read it with yet more pleasure now I know... It ...Harriet Martineau [n/a]Pall Mall Gazette, ThePrint: Newspaper
1850-1899'Fan Arnold lends me the "Spectator", and at first I thought it a treat in its way: but I am getting as tired of it as...Harriet Martineau [n/a]Spectator, ThePrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849[Letter from Lord Byron to Annabella Milbanke, Feb 15 1814]. 'In my letter of ye 12th in answer to your last I omitted...George Gordon, Lord Byron [n/a]BiblePrint: 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 [unknown][30 vol. History of 'Conjurazioni]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 [anon.]Thousand Nights and One Night, ThePrint: Book
1800-1849'Read all evening'Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1800-1849'Read in the greek grammar'Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin [unknown][Greek Grammar]Print: Book
1800-1849'Read and work in the evening'Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1800-1849'Read in the morning and work'Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1800-1849'Read in the Greek grammar'Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin [unknown][Greek Grammar]Print: Book
1800-1849'Read a little in the Greek grammar'Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin [unknown][Greek Grammar]Print: Book
1800-1849'Work and read in the evening'Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1800-1849'Write and read'Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin [unknown][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 [?] EdmestonThe penny magazinePrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'Dr. Walcot went into the shop of Mr Wright, where Mr. Giffard was seated reading a newspaper; he asked him if his nam...Mr Giffard [n/a][newspaper]Print: Newspaper
1850-1899'The boy was reading a play bill, when the prisoner went up to him and struck him, knocking out one of his teeth.' [n/a][playbill]Print: Advertisement, Poster, playbill
1800-1849'On looking in at the shop window, which was well stocked and elegant, we perceived a notice announcing that a Riblic ...John Cole [n/a][notice]Print: Advertisement, Poster, Notice on shop window
1800-1849'Read some descriptions of West Indies.'John Cole [unknown][descriptions of the West Indies]Print: Book
1800-1849'Aftn. Suitable readings & social prayers. Read a sermon by the Revd E. Butcher.'John Cole [Anon][suitable readings]Print: Book
1800-1849'Read acct of the "Tailor Bird".'John Cole [unknown][Account of the Tailor Bird]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 [various English poets][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 [n/a]New TestamentPrint: Book
1700-1799To Miss Hunt, St Winifred's Dale, August 18 1793 'I admire the German you sent me extremely. I have read none since...Elizabeth Smith [unknown]Den golden spiegelPrint: Book
1800-1849'We had each seen the "Derbyshire Patriot" (I for the first time) of that day- Westminster election on Wednesday the p...Joseph Jenkinson [n/a]The Derbyshire PatriotPrint: Newspaper
1800-1849'We had each seen the "Derbyshire Patriot" (I for the first time) of that day- Westminster election on Wednesday the p...Mr Hollingsworth [n/a]The Derbyshire PatriotPrint: Newspaper
1800-1849'We had each seen the "Derbyshire Patriot" (I for the first time) of that day- Westminster election on Wednesday the p...Mr Dobb [n/a]The Derbyshire PatriotPrint: Newspaper
1800-1849'We had each seen the "Derbyshire Patriot" (I for the first time) of that day- Westminster election on Wednesday the p...Mr Ward [n/a]The Derbyshire PatriotPrint: Newspaper
1800-1849'Went with E. Allen to the Swan to see a London paper, saw one and learnt from it that Col. Evans was return'd to West...Joseph Jenkinson [n/a]Bells Weekly MessengerPrint: Newspaper
1800-1849'Read an important letter of Mr E. Elliot's to the editor of the "Morning Chronicle also an extract from the "Parliame...Joseph Jenkinson [n/a]The Morning ChroniclePrint: Newspaper
1800-1849'Read an important letter of Mr E. Elliot's to the editor of the "Morning Chronicle also an extract from the "Parliame...Joseph Jenkinson [n/a]The Parliamentary ReviewPrint: Newspaper
1800-1849'Saw an advertisement that Mr Berry was to preach at South Street on the following Sunday and at once determined (heal...Joseph Jenkinson [n/a][advertisement / poster for next week's preacher]Print: Advertisement, Poster
1800-1849'Sent for a pot of porter. J.I. and myself drank it, I smoked a pipe read a little in an old "Sheffield Iris"- then wr...Joseph Jenkinson [n/a]The Sheffield IrisPrint: Newspaper
1800-1849'Trade awfully bad the money market depressed and deplorable accounts from the manufacturing districts ... says the "M...Joseph Jenkinson [n/a]The Morning ChroniclePrint: Newspaper
1800-1849'The "Morning Chronicle" of this day announced the death of Henry Lord Brougham... The editor very kindly and very jus...Joseph Jenkinson [n/a]The Morning ChroniclePrint: Newspaper
1800-1849'Noticed at dinner time the improper conduct of Mr Slyfield he having taken the paper and not reading aloud. I kindly ...Mr Slyfield [n/a][The Morning Chronicle?]Print: Newspaper
1800-1849'The account of the money market rather more favourable.'Joseph Jenkinson [n/a][The Morning Chronicle?]Print: Newspaper
1800-1849'Rose at 7 am wash'd looked over the paper etc.'Joseph Jenkinson [n/a][The Morning Chronicle?]Print: Newspaper
1800-1849'Read the paper and smoked a pipe.'Joseph Jenkinson [n/a][The Morning Chronicle?]Print: Newspaper
1800-1849'In the "Ency. Bri." article Porto-Bello the same account is given. They sat it was given by Columbus.'Joseph Hunter [n/a]The Encyclopedia BritanicaPrint: Book
1800-1849'Brought back [from the subscription? library] the Gents Mag for Feby 4 March. They have not yet done with the controv...Joseph Hunter [n/a]The Gentleman's MagazinePrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'In this weeks paper Dr M. advertises that he proposes to deliver 12 lectures on metal and metalurgy ...the subscripti...Joseph Hunter [n/a][The Sheffield Iris]Print: Advertisement, Newspaper
1800-1849'In the "Iris" of this day Dr M advertises the subjects of the two next lectures ...Montgomery [the editor] is very ca...Joseph Hunter [n/a]The Sheffield IrisPrint: Advertisement, Newspaper
1700-1799'I read at night in the G[reek or Great]Testament but for a very short while'.John Jones [n/a][Greek or Great?] TestamentPrint: Book
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'When Mrs Hinde (the Old Lady) would sometimes talk to her about Books, she?d cry out, "Prithee don?t talk to me about...Sarah Churchill [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1850-1899'As my love of books became known, I was made free of such libraries as the neighbours possessed which led to me readi...Hannah Mitchell [unknown][old-fashioned theological works]Print: Book
1850-1899'As my love of books became known, I was made free of such libraries as the neighbours possessed which led to me readi...Hannah Mitchell [unknown][early Methodist magazines]Print: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'As my love of books became known, I was made free of such libraries as the neighbours possessed which led to me readi...Hannah Mitchell [unknown][cookery books]Print: Book
1850-1899'As my love of books became known, I was made free of such libraries as the neighbours possessed which led to me readi...Hannah Mitchell [unknown][tales of murder and robbery]Print: Unknown
1850-1899'As my love of books became known, I was made free of such libraries as the neighbours possessed which led to me readi...Hannah Mitchell [unknown]History of EnglandPrint: 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 [unknown]Adam's First WifePrint: Book
1850-1899'One wet Sunday morning we were all sitting round the table, reading in turn from the New Testament, this being my mot...family of Hannah Mitchell [n/a]New TestamentPrint: Book
1850-1899'The only poetry we had read were short poems in the local paper, which my mother called "verse". But I knew it meant ...Hannah Mitchell [unknown-probably various contributors][poems in newspaper]Print: Newspaper
1700-1799'This cabbage we have eaten every day since we left Cape Horn, and have now good store remaining; as good, to our pala...Joseph Banks [uknown-ship's cook?][recipe]Manuscript: Sheet, Hand written recipe.
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 [unknown][poetry]Print: 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 [unknown][history]Print: Book
1850-1899'I attended Sunday school with the daughter of the house, finding my enforced study of the Bible very valuable to me.'Hannah Mitchell [n/a]BiblePrint: Book
1850-1899'Later on, when Blatchford and his friends, A. M. Thompson, E. F. Fay and Montague Blatchford founded the Socialist we...Hannah Mitchell [n/a]The ClarionPrint: Newspaper, Serial / periodical
1900-1945'Subsequently I recieved a curiously worded scroll addressed to "Our trusty and well beloved Hannah Maria Mitchell." T...Hannah Mitchell [unknown][To our trusty and well beloved Hannah Maria Mitchell]Manuscript: Sheet
1900-1945Sunday, Feb 4 (1940) 'Rose late. 11 o'clock. Breakfast. Went out to shovel snow off paths. Stayed in all day, reading... [unknown][unknown]Unknown
1900-1945'It was quite a thousand pages and they laughed at me for reading it. It was dry, but I could really live the life of ... [unknown][life of Joan of Arc]Print: Book
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[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
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[Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: Untitled; Text = 'Marriage from love, like vinegar from wine/ A sad, sour,...Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine [George Gordon, Lord] [Byron][Don Juan - Canto the Third]Print: Unknown
1800-1849'Saw the "Sheffield Iris" paper- and in it the report of a division in the House of Commons on a motion of Sir W. Ingi...Joseph Jenkinson [n/a]The Sheffield IrisPrint: Newspaper
1800-1849'Sent 29 stuff hats to Mr Booth -heard the "Iris" Paper read by Tom, find the country is much agitated at the conduct ...Tom [n/a]The Sheffield IrisPrint: Newspaper
1900-1945'1.45. Paddington. All seats crowded, people eating, sleeping, reading, on seats and porters' trucks. Looking at Arriv... [unknown][unknown]Print: Unknown
1900-1945'Advert. S. side of Euston Road reading "Morris Commercial Vehicles-a Body for every Trade" heavily draped with decora... [n/a][advertisement]Print: Advertisement, Poster
1900-1945'Girl sitting on soiled newspaper is reading Daily Mirror. The caption reads "Three women wait 25 hours; lead line up ... [n/a]Daily MirrorPrint: Newspaper
1900-1945'I find myself between a well-to-do business man from the Midlands, who is reading a "crime" novel, and two good-looki... [unknown][crime novel]Print: Book
1900-1945'I find myself between a well-to-do business man from the Midlands, who is reading a "crime" novel, and two good-looki... [unknown]Pitman's bookPrint: Book
1900-1945'Walking back to lunch I met an old lady wheeling another old lady in a bath-chair, and heard the one in the bath-chai... [unknown][pamphlet]
1900-1945'Hostess is embroidering a fire-screen. Son, age 19, is reading. The wireless is on, and from time to time they consul... [unknown][unknown]Print: Unknown
1900-1945'Hostess is embroidering a fire-screen. Son, age 19, is reading. The wireless is on, and from time to time they consul... [n/a]Daily Telegraph SupplementPrint: Newspaper
1900-1945'Very few people appeared to be out, in fact it seemed like Sunday in the High Road, I called in a snack bar, ordered ... [n/a][newspaper]Print: Newspaper
1900-1945'On Coronation Day we had a holiday so I thought I would have a rest and so I stayed in bed all the morning reading.' [unknown][unknown]Print: Unknown
1900-1945'About 10.30 p.m. I took her for some refreshment, we talked of books, she said she was reading "A Guide to Philosophy... [unknown]A Guide to philosophyPrint: Book
1850-1899'Suddenly, he gave a sort of cry, and read out the opening sentences from the "Times" announcing a battle in the valle...Philip Gosse [n/a]The TimesPrint: Newspaper
1850-1899'...the inside of the lid of it was lined with sheets of what I now know to have been a sensational novel. It was of c...Edmund Gosse [unknown][sensational novel]Print: Book
1850-1899'I read the Bible everyday, and at much length; also, -with what I cannot but think some praiseworthy patience, - a bo...Edmund Gosse [n/a]BiblePrint: Book
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[Transcription from a commonplace book]: [Untitled]; [Text = prose introduction followed by verse] 'During the trouble...Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine [Robert] [Burns][Lady Mary Anne]Print: Unknown
1900-1945'A man is playing the piano briskly; on music stand is a newspaper, open at the sports page, which he is reading. A hu... [n/a][newspaper]Print: Newspaper
1900-1945'D. Did you ever read Carpentier's life, I've been reading it in a illustrated paper, 'e thought 'e was on a easy thin... [unknown]Carpentier's lifePrint: Newspaper, Serial / periodical, illustrated paper
1900-1945'Tries to read sports page, but ends up reading news. One girl does bad piece of work in mill. Immense black-out purch... [n/a][newspaper]Print: Newspaper
1900-1945'While an old working-class lady of 68 in Worktown, reading a newspaper, summed up her opinion of the war as follows.' [n/a][newspaper]Print: Newspaper
1900-1945'When one has finished reading through this pamphlet one comes to the inevit- able conclusion that there is absolutel... [unknown][pamphlet]
1800-1849?[N]ow that the Newspaper is so interesting it is difficult to read at all'Lady Caroline Lamb [n/a][newspaper]Print: Newspaper
1800-1849?Dear Sir, if you had condescended to write a few lines with these copy Books I should have had greater pleasure in r...Lady Caroline Lamb [unknown][copy books]Manuscript: Copy Books
1800-1849'do you ever read the Augustan Review it is stupid though[underlined] it thinks me so - & yet be afraid I like it beca...Lady Caroline Lamb [unknown]Review of Glenarvon in the Augustan ReviewPrint: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'ELLEN: looks up from the "Sketch", which she has been reading: "How do you pronounce M-Y-R-R-H"?'Ellen [unknown]SketchPrint: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'It is a bitterly cold evening, towards the end of February. The fire is very low, and at the moment is rather smother...Miss V [unknown][unknown]Print: Unknown
1900-1945'Housekeeping pupil (voluntarily) reading the paper over my shoulder yesterday morning. "I suppose Eden thought they'd... [n/a][newspaper]Print: Newspaper
1900-1945'At work the sole topic was the new Conscription Bill, with discussion on how it will affect each one. After reading t... [n/a]Daily TelegraphPrint: Newspaper
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[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 poetessPrint: Unknown
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[Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: [Title] 'Mary, Queen of Scots' farewell to France'; [text] 'Adieu, plaisan...Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine [Anne Gabriel] [De Querlon]?[Adieu]Print: Unknown
1900-1945'Whereas Kay was always trying to read or knit when she sat down, Louise is doing nothing at all, and so can be quite ...Kay [unknown][unknown]Unknown
1900-1945'The English student said that he had read an English novel in which a similar idea was suggested. One German was very... [unknown][English novel]Print: Book
1900-1945'The steps around Eros statue are filled with an excited crowd, coster's barrows stand around selling fruit, chocolate...people gathered near the Eros statue [n/a][news running on electric signboard]Print: electric signboard with scrolling text
1900-1945'D. went. N. said he wasn't going to sleep, because it was too uncomfortable; would read a book. He read "Low Company"... [unknown]Low CompanyPrint: Book
1900-1945'Also told me he had been commissioned to write a history of Dudley a few days back. Had declined. We went back and re... [unknown][unknown]Print: Unknown
1900-1945'6.30-8 p.m. read. 8 p.m. supper. 9 p.m. bath and bed. I saw nothing stirring or peculiar. The only funny thing was th... [unknown][unknown]Print: Unknown
1900-1945'Reporter. On May 12 I slept till ten. From ten to eleven I read the paper with interest until I came to a half column... [n/a][newspaper]Print: Newspaper
1900-1945'On one of the side streets, a young couple parked their perambulator in the middle of the sidewalk and stopped to rea...a young couple [n/a][newspaper?]Print: Unknown, perhaps front page of newspaper displayed?
1900-1945'I walked through the park for a few minutes and not finding anything of interest to see or hear, I turned into a lane... [n/a][tomb inscriptions]Print: epitaphs on tombs at cemetery
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[Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: [Title] 'Poesie di Ossian [by] Cartoue'; [Text] 'O tu che luminoso erri e...Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine [unknown]Poesie di OssianPrint: Unknown
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[Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: [Title] 'The old Maid's prayer to Diana'; [Text] 'Since thou and the stars...Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine [Mary] [Tighe]The old Maid's prayer to DianaPrint: Unknown
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[Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: [Title] 'Lord Byron ? From "The Course of Time"'; [Text] '... He touched ...Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine [Robert] [Pollock]The Course of Time [extract]Print: Unknown
1900-1945'My friend didn't want to shave, although he was no longer clean-shaven, so we had a brief wrangle about washing. Then... [n/a][newspaper]Print: Newspaper
1900-1945'At 9.50 I went into the general office in order to await any cases of infectious diseases or nuisances which may aris... [n/a][newspaper]Print: Newspaper
1900-1945'I prepare supper and we eat it. Listen to news. I continue to read.' [unknown][unknown]Print: Unknown
1900-1945'9.15-12.0. Dressed. Wrote a poem. Annoyed by patriotic and religious activities at Church opposite. Read a magazine, ... [n/a]Light and DarkPrint: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'At half past two I was dry, and eating the remnants of my lunch. I switched on the wireless and listened to the Coron... [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1900-1945'Had extra hour in bed and read morning paper. Spent most of morning in garden making enclosure for tortoise as decide... [n/a][morning newspaper]Print: Newspaper
1900-1945' I laid in bed till 6.15 a.m. and got up, washed and shaved. I ate my breakfast and read the paper.' [n/a][newspaper]Print: Newspaper
1900-1945'Smoke a Players "medium" and a De Reszke "Minor". I read "Glasgow Herald" (Bus strike, Britain's new Navy, etc.) and ... [n/a]Ayrshire PostPrint: Newspaper
1900-1945'Breakfast ready and finished dressing 7.45. Read "Daily Worker".' [n/a]Daily WorkerPrint: Newspaper
1700-1799'To attempt to describe either their dresses or persons would be only to repeat some of the many accounts of them that...Joseph Banks [unknown][unknown]Print: Unknown
1900-1945'"I've been calm all week, but yesterday I listened to the news bulletin and I got a bad dose of jitters. I read somew... [unknown][news bulletin]Print: Newspaper, Serial / periodical
1900-1945'Have not read the P.I.L., neither has anyone in the house or anyone else I know. Will be read only if war breaks out.... [n/a][information leaflets]
1900-1945'Oh, I have strained my eyes trying to read, and had to give it up in the end. I call it dismal, sitting for half an h... [unknown][unknown]Print: Unknown
1900-1945'Well, I took it because it's a thriller. That's the reason. I like thrillers, you see. I always read thrillers.' [unknown][thrillers]Print: Book
1900-1945'Course I know what you're talking about, I read about it all in the paper, used to read books about it, they've made ... [unknown][newspapers]Print: Newspaper
1900-1945'Read all about it chum in the papers, they don't interest me 'cept they don't do anything like for the likes of us, t... [n/a][Newspapers]Print: Newspaper
1900-1945'Never thought much about it, took it for granted. One thing it's done is make people's nerves on edge all the time, w... [unknown][newspaper?]Print: Unknown
1900-1945'I read where there's going to be a war soon, it said so in the "People", they tell you what's going to be, there's mo... [n/a]PeoplePrint: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'I read them every Sunday, many a time it's been true, but they don't give you so much bad news. When it was my birthd... [unknown][horoscopes]Print: Newspaper, Serial / periodical
1900-1945'I read all the papers on it. I don't understand the politics of it, but they are all different. That's why people hav... [n/a][newspapers]Print: Newspaper
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[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
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[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
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[Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: [Untitled]; [Text]' "La Belle France" has no more pretensions to beauty/ t...Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine [Anon]Matilde a novelPrint: Unknown
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[Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: [Untitled]; [Text]' Count oe'r the days whose happy flight/ Is shared with...Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine [Anon][untitled]Print: Unknown
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[Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: [Title] 'A Highland Salute to the Queen/ Air Roderigh Vich Alpine dhu, ho...Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine [Anon]A Highland Salute to the QueenPrint: Unknown
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[Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: [Title] 'Long ago!'; [Text] 'Long ago!` Oh long ago!/ Do not these words r... [unknown]Long ago!Print: Unknown
1900-1945'I read an article in the "Daily Herald" on the Coronation Day survey. There was an invitation to write to Blackheath ... [n/a]Daily HeraldPrint: Newspaper
1900-1945'I read in the "News Chronicle" articles about the work, and especially the account by an ordinary housewife of her da... [n/a]News ChroniclePrint: Newspaper
1900-1945'When I read about Mass-Observation in "Reynolds", I wrote straight away to join in. In fact, if there was a joining-... [n/a]Reynolds's Weekly NewspaperPrint: Newspaper
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[Item transcribed into a commonplace book]; [Title] "The Star of Missions"; [Text] "Behold the Mission Star's soul gla...Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine [Anon]The Star of MissionsPrint: Unknown
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[Item transcribed into a commonplace book]; [Untitled]; [Text] "Qu'est ce qui fait le bonheur ou le malheur/ de notre ...Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine [Anon]unknownPrint: Unknown
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[Item transcribed into a commonplace book]; [Title] "Lines on Mountghaine[?] by Innes[?], Mrs Gordon's butler"; [Text]...Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine Innes[?]Lines on Mountghaine [?]Print: Unknown
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[Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: [Title] 'The dead friend'; [Text] 'Not to the grave, not to the grave, my...Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine [Anon]The dead friendPrint: Unknown
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[Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: [Title] 'To one at rest/ by the author of/ the Three Wakings'; [Text] 'And...Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine [Elizabeth Rundle] [Charles]To one at restPrint: Unknown
1900-1945Letter 292 7 October 1940 Referring to the Blitz on London: 'I see in to-day?s [New York] "Times" that you had a ni...Benjamin Britten [n/a]New York TimesPrint: Newspaper
1800-1849'I was invited on one occasion to Mr Champley's, in Newborough, where I saw a specimen of Etty's peculiar painting in ...John Cole [unknown]Royal Academy CataloguePrint: Book
1800-1849'On the circular table in the centre of the room was placed among other books an album, and Mr Storey being called awa...John Cole [unknown][album]Print: Book
1800-1849'At this later place [Lincoln] we arrived at about 10 in the evening. Tea and bed were then in request, with a small p...John Cole [n/a][newspaper]Print: Newspaper
1800-1849'Roved around Northampton and stepped into most of the booksellers' shops to examine new works, etc, and made extracts...John Cole [unknown authors][various titles]Print: Book
1800-1849'After tea walked home, and went through, with my family, our usual Sunday evening devotions, consisting of sermon rea...John Cole [unknown][sermons]Print: Book
1800-1849'This dream I knew not what to make of but I took some encouragement from it and the next day I was reading in pilgrim...Joseph Mayett [n/a]Book of JobPrint: Book
1800-1849'When in my early apprentice days I was first enabled to dip into the pages of "Maga", its chief attraction was the la...James Glass Bertram [n/a]Blackwood's Edinburgh MagazinePrint: Serial / periodical
1700-1799'Every Sunday after breakfast the Bishop of Norwich reads to their Royal Highnesses a practical explanation of the pri...Prince George [unknown][explanation of the principles of the Christian religion]Print: Book
1800-184914/1/1827 ? 'I read "Galt?s Life of Wolsey" with interest. To be thankful, and rather better, could only read a psalm ...Amelia Opie [n/a]PsalmPrint: Book
1900-1945'Well, it takes me enough time reading papers and the Sunday papers, and "John Bull" and the "Illustrated"' [n/a][newspapers]Print: Newspaper
1900-1945'Well, it takes me enough time reading papers and the Sunday papers, and "John Bull" and the "Illustrated"' [n/a][Sunday newspapers]Print: Newspaper
1900-1945'Well, it takes me enough time reading papers and the Sunday papers, and "John Bull" and the "Illustrated"' [n/a]John BullPrint: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'Well, it takes me enough time reading papers and the Sunday papers, and "John Bull" and the "Illustrated"' [n/a]Sports IllustratedPrint: Newspaper, Serial / periodical
1900-1945'I don't read books at all, chiefly magazines that I can pick up and put down without losing the thread of the story ...' [n/a][magazines]Print: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'I like reading. I can sit down and read a good thriller and start on it again immediately I have finished it, but not... [unknown][thrillers]Print: Book
1900-1945'I do like reading, and I spend most of the evening reading because there's nowhere to go.' [unknown][unknown]Print: Unknown
1900-1945'Well, yes, but not good reading. I only read to pass the time away, - any old thing; any time when I happen to be stu... [unknown][unknown]Print: Unknown
1900-1945'Sunday evening is the only time I do read, - I spend over an hour reading the "News of the World".' [n/a]News of the WorldPrint: Newspaper
1900-1945'I read the "Times", which takes a time, - I suppose about an hour a day.' [n/a]The TimesPrint: Newspaper
1900-1945'I read the "Telegraph" reviews ... in trains and in the evening, lunch-time etc.' [n/a]TelegraphPrint: Newspaper
1900-1945'I've got too much to do (to read books). I read the newspapers mostly, morning and evening editions, and the midday, ... [n/a][Newspapers]Print: Newspaper
1900-1945'I spend some time reading the papers, morning and evening editions, roughly about 14 hours a week, about two hours ea... [n/a][Newspapers]Print: Newspaper
1900-1945'I don't read newspapers, but I get the magazine "Woman", and I spend about 2 hours reading that.' [n/a]WomanPrint: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'The only reading I do outside the scope of my studies is that of newspapers, and the "New Statesman", - one hour.' [n/a]New StatesmanPrint: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'The only reading I do outside the scope of my studies is that of newspapers, and the "New Statesman", - one hour.' [n/a][Newspapers]Print: Newspaper
1900-1945'Three hours magazines, - scientific and travel' [n/a][magazines]Print: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'I read a lot of magazines ... They're bright and easy reading, and you can find out lots of useful things in them.' [n/a][magazines]Print: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'I read one magazine, the "Engineer", which I peruse at odd times over a week or so. It would take sometimes as much a... [n/a]The EngineerPrint: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'25 C was reading a book, waiting to be served, and reading with concentration, both elbows on table, head between han... [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1850-1899'In her spare time she was a great reader of novelettes and out of her four shillings subscribed to "Bow Bells" and th...Flora Thompson [n/a]Bow BellsPrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'In her spare time she was a great reader of novelettes and out of her four shillings subscribed to "Bow Bells" and th...Flora Thompson [n/a]Family HeraldPrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'In her spare time she was a great reader of novelettes and out of her four shillings subscribed to "Bow Bells" and th...Flora Thompson [unknown]His Ice QueenPrint: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'That I don't like refugees in fiction is perhaps easy to understand, but I don't even like the war and today's condit... [unknown][books]Print: Book
1900-1945'Detective stories and thrillers are by far the most numerous, in fact at the moment are all the fiction I seem to rea... [unknown][detective novels]Print: Book
1900-1945'Oh, I read the reviews in the "Sunday Times" and the "Times Literary Supplement", when I can get hold of it. I also r... [n/a]Sunday TimesPrint: Newspaper
1900-1945'Oh, I read the reviews in the "Sunday Times" and the "Times Literary Supplement", when I can get hold of it. I also r... [n/a]Times Literary SupplementPrint: Newspaper
1900-1945'Oh, I read the reviews in the "Sunday Times" and the "Times Literary Supplement", when I can get hold of it. I also r... [unknown]Guide to EdinburghPrint: Book
1900-1945'Oh, I read the reviews in the "Sunday Times" and the "Times Literary Supplement", when I can get hold of it. I also r... [unknown][books on James IV]Print: Book
1900-1945'Novels, except of exceptional quality, I prefer to borrow as I read them, mainly for relaxation only and seldom wish ... [unknown][novels]Print: Book
1900-1945'I read the first page of the newspaper first, then turn to the back page, then fold the outside in. A chance headline... [n/a]Daily HeraldPrint: Newspaper
1900-1945'I read the headlines and the adverts. If any particular headline strikes me I follow it up. Particularly comment on p... [n/a]Daily HeraldPrint: Advertisement, Newspaper
1900-1945'First of all I read the main headlines, then the various news paragraphs in order of importance on the front page, th... [n/a]Daily HeraldPrint: Newspaper
1900-1945'I have always adopted the principle of working the newspaper fairly carefully from beginning to end. There may be an ... [n/a]Daily HeraldPrint: Newspaper
1900-1945'At work the sole topic was the new Conscription Bill, with discussion on how it will affect each one. After reading t... [n/a]Daily TelegraphPrint: Newspaper
1900-1945'Oh, I read the reviews in the "Sunday Times" and the "Times Literary Supplement", when I can get hold of it. I also r... [n/a]Jack O' LondonPrint: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'Oh, I read the reviews in the "Sunday Times" and the "Times Literary Supplement", when I can get hold of it. I also r... [unknown][books]Print: Book
1900-1945'Novels, except of exceptional quality, I prefer to borrow as I read them, mainly for relaxation only and seldom wish ... [unknown][novels]Print: Book
1900-1945'Have breakfast (next real interval is tea time, so breakfast includes prayers, reading and any urgent letters - this ... [unknown][unknown]Unknown
1900-1945'I was reading the other day the story of an air flight. They had a long and dangerous journey to undertake, and befor... [unknown][unknown]Print: Unknown
1900-1945'I have been reading the papers lately and I am astonished read what Mr. Heathcot-Amery has done. His people are highl... [n/a][Newspaper]Print: Newspaper
1900-1945'Well, see Miss. Christmas Day my father was reading his paper. His glass of beer was at his side. He feel asleep and ... [n/a][Newspaper]Print: Newspaper
1900-1945'"Oh here they are again! I'll be glad when the bloody election's over. Why don't they make their minds up, what they ... [n/a][Newspaper]Print: Newspaper
1900-1945'The newspaper today took my breath away. Such a landslide I had not expected. Yesterday morning, reading the "Telegra... [n/a]Daily TelegraphPrint: Newspaper
1900-1945'At one of the three occupied tables by the windows sat two women, one about thirty, the other probably no more than 1... [n/a][periodical]Print: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'At one of the three occupied tables by the windows sat two women, one about thirty, the other probably no more than 1... [n/a][newspaper cutting]Print: Newspaper
1900-1945'After breakfast I postponed the things I ought to do by a little reading and knitting. Then I wrote letters till lunc... [unknown][unknown]Print: Unknown
1900-1945'Many thanks for the cuttings on higher criticism. I can't help thinking that this movement is larely the result of t...Donald William Alers Hankey [unknown][unknown - on Higher criticism]Print: Unknown, cuttings
1900-1945'Don't worry about me; at last I am a serious soldier. I have a pile of books on ordnance, and gunnery, and ammunitio...Donald William Alers Hankey [unknown][essay on rifling]Print: Book
1800-1849'at ten o'clock yesterday evening little Jem Parsons (the cabin boy), and his friend the black terrier, came on deck, ...Jem Parsons [unknown]The adventures of a lousePrint: Book
1800-1849'at ten o'clock yesterday evening little Jem Parsons (the cabin boy), and his friend the black terrier, came on deck, ...Jem Parsons [unknown]Roslin CastlePrint: Book
1800-1849'at ten o'clock yesterday evening little Jem Parsons (the cabin boy), and his friend the black terrier, came on deck, ...Jem Parsons [unknown][book of prayers]Print: Book
1900-1945'I should say in justice to myself that I am absolutely unmoved, except by impatience, at the daily twitterings of the... [n/a][Newspapers]Print: Newspaper
1900-1945'Reading the ordinary papers occasionally, listening to the B.B.C. news sometimes, reading the Left wing papers someti... [n/a][Left-wing newspapers]Print: Newspaper
1900-1945'"Manchester Guardian". English news once a day. Lord Haw-Haw, conversations with as may people as possible, reading o... [n/a]Manchester GuardianPrint: Newspaper
1900-1945'I'm very amused reading in the paper about the trains yesterday. (reads): "Many trains had to run in duplicate and tr... [n/a][Newspaper]Print: Newspaper
1900-1945'There was little time left before supper, and we decided to go for short walk to have a look at the moon. This done, ... [unknown][unknown]Print: Unknown
1900-1945'Exhilarated with a terrible sadness, after reading "Arise to Conquer", I wondered if, when young men have done with t... [unknown]Arise to conquerPrint: Book
1900-1945'I was absolutely horrified about the Italians, the way they took revenge on Mussolini. I can't imagine what we're fig... [n/a][Newspaper: Article on Mussolini's death]Print: Newspaper
1900-1945'There was a wonderful account in the "Daily Worker" of Mussolini's death, how he was shot in the head and his brain s... [n/a][Daily Worker: Article on Mussolini's death]Print: Newspaper
1900-1945'I heard that peace was declared on May the 7th, about 7 or 8 o'clock in the evening, at home with my parents. We had ... [unknown][unknown]Print: Unknown
1900-1945'I have dreamt of Hitler twice recently, I put this down [to] reading books in the international situation rather than... [unknown][works/news on Hitler and Nazi-Germany]Print: Unknown
1900-1945'Before the deed was done, however, the person in question awakened (I found the said person had been reading a thrill... [unknown][a thriller]Print: Book
1900-1945'I am forming my opinions mainly from what I read in books on economies, politics, history, etc. I read the daily pape... [unknown][books]Print: Book
1900-1945'I am forming my opinions mainly from what I read in books on economies, politics, history, etc. I read the daily pape... [n/a][daily newspapers]Print: Newspaper
1800-1849[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge David Lyndsay [pseud]Dramas of the Ancient WorldPrint: Book
1700-1799[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge [n/a]Book of Common Prayer [unknown edition]Print: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge [unknown]Transactions of the Medico-Chirurgical SocietyPrint: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge Robert Anderson [Editor]The Works of the British PoetsPrint: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge [unknown]The Conduct of the British Government towards the Church of England in the West India ColoniesPrint: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge [n/a]The Quarterly ReviewPrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge [n/a]The Quarterly ReviewPrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge [unknown]Eikon BasilikePrint: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge [n/a]Encyclopaedia LondinensisPrint: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge [unknown]Sermons or Homilies of the United Church of EnglandPrint: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge [unknown]Homeri Hymni et epigrammataPrint: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge [unknown]Homeri Hymni et epigrammataPrint: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia] Samuel Taylor Coleridge [n/a]The Annual AnthologyPrint: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia] Samuel Taylor Coleridge [unknown]Analysis of the Report of a CommitteePrint: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia] Samuel Taylor Coleridge [unknown]The Age. A Poem. In eight books.Print: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia] Samuel Taylor Coleridge [unknown]Acta Seminarii Regii et Societatis Philologicae LiPrint: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia] Samuel Taylor Coleridge [n/a]AthenaeumPrint: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia] Samuel Taylor Coleridge [unknown]Carmina Illustrium Poetarum ItalorumPrint: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia] Samuel Taylor Coleridge [n/a]The Book of Common PrayerPrint: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia] Samuel Taylor Coleridge [unknown]A Harmonie upon the Three EvangelistsPrint: Book
1700-1799[Marginalia] Samuel Taylor Coleridge [n/a]The Holy BiblePrint: Book
1700-1799[Marginalia] Samuel Taylor Coleridge [n/a]The Holy BiblePrint: Book
1700-1799[Marginalia] Samuel Taylor Coleridge [n/a]The Holy BiblePrint: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia] Samuel Taylor Coleridge [n/a]The Holy BiblePrint: 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]articlePrint: Unknown
1800-1849[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge [n/a]The Law Magazine OR Quarterly Review of JurisprudencePrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge S. Maxwell [potential pseudonym]The Battle of the Bridge; or Pisa DefendedPrint: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge [n/a]The Edinburgh Medical and Surgical JournalPrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge [n/a]The Edinburgh Medical and Surgical JournalPrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge [n/a]The Edinburgh Medical and Surgical JournalPrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge [n/a]The Eclectic ReviewPrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'The "Morning Chronicle" says the troops are to be withdrawn from France.'Benjamin Newton [n/a]The Morning ChroniclePrint: Newspaper
1700-1799'We got the Iris this morning I copied out of it the petition of the G [?] dispersed thro Germany and Hartman's Solilo...Joseph Hunter [n/a]The Sheffield IrisPrint: Newspaper
1700-1799'Mr Fisher who came up to alter Mr E a gown &c against our journay bought in a "Cambridge Inteligencer" to look at; it...Joseph Hunter [n/a]Cambridge InteligencerPrint: Newspaper
1700-1799'[Brought from the library] "Varieties of English Literature" vol 1st which being unintelligible stuff for the most pa...Joseph Hunter [William] [Tooke]Varieties of Literature From Foreign Literary JourPrint: Book
1700-1799'I was deeply engag'd in Homer & Burgesdicius, otherwise should have answer'd it [letter from John Potter] sooner. I ...Richard Hurd Francis Burgerdiscius [Burgersdijk]Institutionum LogicarumPrint: Book
1700-1799'One of your brothers was brought to a liking of reading by my putting some Books which I had told amusing stories out...Alexander Monro [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1700-1799'We got "The Iris" this morning; it contained an Advertisement from Mr [Sorby?], saying that he intended to resign the...Joseph Hunter [n/a]The Sheffield IrisPrint: Advertisement, Newspaper
1700-1799'We got the new catalogue from Library, The number of subscribers 118, there are near 2400 Books. [In Margin] Printed ...Joseph Hunter [unknown][Catalogue of the Sheffield Subscription Library]
1700-1799'We learn from the "Iris" of this morning that the "Wisperer" is just published by J.M.Gomery [James Montgomery].'Joseph Hunter [n/a]The Sheffield IrisPrint: Newspaper
1700-1799'Brought [...] the European Magazine for April 1798; it contains an essay on provincial Half-pennies by Joseph M[orer]...Joseph Hunter [n/a]European MagazinePrint: Serial / periodical
1700-1799'I begun to write in my Common-place book, the account of the King of Patterdale [from the 'Gentleman's Magazine', bor...Joseph Hunter [n/a]Gentleman's MagazinePrint: Serial / periodical
1700-1799'We got the "Iris"; it contains an exceedingly humourous account of the first campaign of our Loyal Independant Sheffi...Joseph Hunter [n/a]The IrisPrint: Newspaper
1700-1799'Got the "Monthly Mag" & "Rev." from Miss Haynes. They appear to be two very entertaining no's. I am much pleased with...Joseph Hunter [n/a]The Monthly MagazinePrint: Serial / periodical
1700-1799'I will give an account of how I spend the day hour by hour. From 7 to 8 drew part of a landscape, wrote my diary. 8 ...Joseph Hunter [n/a]EncyclopaediaPrint: Book
1700-1799'I will give an account of how I spend the day hour by hour. [...9-12 at the warehouse] 12 to 1 came to my dinner, re...Joseph Hunter [n/a]The IrisPrint: Newspaper
1700-1799'Wrote out of the "Monthly Mag." an example of English hexameter. [Borrowed 'the first 12 no.s' from Miss Haynes on 1...Joseph Hunter [n/a]Monthly MagazinePrint: Serial / periodical
1700-1799'"The Iris" this week contains an advertisement from the Cutler's Company [annual ball] White Bear Inn. Price 10s 6d.'Joseph Hunter [n/a]The IrisPrint: Advertisement, Newspaper
1700-1799'Took [the] "Answer to Wilberforce" to the Chapel Library & brought "The Spirit of the Public Journals for 1797, Being...Joseph Hunter [unknown]The Spirit of the Public Journals for 1797Print: Book
1700-1799'Wrote out of the "Spirit of the Public Journals" "Washing Day", a poem in blank verse; originally printed in the "Mon...Joseph Hunter [unknown]The Spirit of the Public Journals for 1797 [seriesPrint: Book
1700-1799'When I brought the "Spirit of the Journals", I did not think that it would have contributed anything towards the acco...Joseph Hunter [unknown]The Spirit of the Public Journals for 1797 [seriesPrint: Book
1700-1799'Wrote also out of the "Spirit of the Journals" "a hymn for the fast day" by Captain Norrice on Foxe's Birthday.'Joseph Hunter [unknown]The Spirit of the Public Journals for 1797 [seriesPrint: Book
1700-1799'Took the "Spirit of the Journals" to the Chapel Library [...] there are no less than 101 Epigrams on Messrs Pitt & Du...Joseph Hunter [unknown]The Spirit of the Public Journals for 1797 [seriesPrint: Book
1700-1799'The "Monthly Magazine" contains an account of the publication of that long expected work by Mr Conder of Ipswich, "an...Joseph Hunter [n/a]The Monthly MagazinePrint: Serial / periodical
1700-1799'"The Iris" in mentioning the Sessions at Sheffield says ...'Joseph Hunter [n/a]The IrisPrint: Newspaper
1700-1799'brought also the "Gent Mag" for Sepr 1798. [It] speaks very severly of Mr Smith's Sermon to the Odd-fellows; they say...Joseph Hunter [n/a]The Gentleman's MagazinePrint: Serial / periodical
1700-1799'Saw ... in the possession of one of our men the "Spy", a periodical printed by Crome in the year 1795, in which were ...Joseph Hunter [n/a]The SpyPrint: Serial / periodical
1700-1799'It has been stated in some of the London papers that when the news [of Nelson's victory] arrived there was no appeara...Joseph Hunter [n/a]The IrisPrint: Newspaper
1700-1799'Brought the 2d number of the "Anti-Jacobin Review & Magazine", which is got into the Surry Street library instead of ...Joseph Hunter [n/a]Anti-Jacobin ReviewPrint: Serial / periodical
1700-1799'Borrowed the "Spy" of one of our men; it is peculiarly calculated for the lower class of people. Mr Harrison a school...Joseph Hunter [n/a]The SpyPrint: Serial / periodical
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'The dews of the evening most carefully shun Being tears of the sky for the loss of the sun! Chesterfield'Carey/Maingay group[P.D.] [Stanhope]Advice to a Lady in AutumnPrint: UnknownUnknown
1700-1799'Brought the "Gents Mag" for May. It contains an advertisement for a new edition of the "Encyclopedia Britannica" with...Joseph Hunter [n/a]The Gentleman's MagazinePrint: Advertisement, Serial / periodical
1700-1799'Mr Scholfield gave me a medal struck to commemorate the presentation of the colours to the Birmingham association of ...Joseph Hunter [n/a]'Printed Description' accompanying a comemorative medalPrint: Handbill
1700-1799'Wrote out of the Register's "Mary Queen of Scotts a Monody; Written near the Ruins of Sheffield Manor". It is one of ...Joseph Hunter [n/a][The Annual] RegisterPrint: Book
1700-1799'On 25.7.1799, I have seen a month or two ago, in the "Mon Mag" an account of the publication of the first part of the...Joseph Hunter [n/a]The Monthly MagazinePrint: Serial / periodical
1700-1799'Brought the "Monthly Review" from Miss Haynes; this month they review Conder's "Arrangement of Provincial Coins", but...Joseph Hunter [n/a]The Monthly ReviewPrint: Serial / periodical
1700-1799'Brought "A Fortnights Ramble to the Lakes" from the Chapel Library; also the "Analytical Review" for July 1798, to re...Joseph Hunter [n/a]Analytical ReviewPrint: Serial / periodical
1700-1799'Brought the "Mon Mag" from Miss Haynes. It contains an account of the death of Dr Towers.'Joseph Hunter [n/a]The Monthly MagazinePrint: Book
1700-1799'When I came to extract the remarks on Dodsley, I found [they?] were remarks upon an old edition & that the editors we...Joseph Hunter [n/a]The Gentleman's MagazinePrint: Serial / periodical
1700-1799'Took Colquhoun's "treatise of the police of the metropolis" to the library. I have not read it but, Mr Evans has; he ...Joseph Hunter [n/a]The IrisPrint: Newspaper
1800-1849'Dr Marwick advertises again.'Joseph Hunter [n/a]The IrisPrint: Advertisement, Newspaper
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'It was when I was very ill that the article in the "Monthly Rev." was read to me.'Joseph Hunter [n/a]Monthly ReviewPrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'The "Iris" contains an advertisement of a book being published intitled "A Poetical Review of Miss Hannah More's Stri...Joseph Hunter [n/a]The IrisPrint: Advertisement, Newspaper
1800-1849'From paper in "Monthly Review" I got on Mathematical Subjects and resumed Consideration of Negative Signs, retracing ...William Windham [n/a]Monthly ReviewPrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'In the [?] read principally the papers in the "Adventurer" and Rogers' "Pleasures of Memory"; thought less of the pap...William Windham [n/a]AdventurerPrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'"Gazette" with details of victory over Dupont, +c'William Windham [n/a]GazettePrint: Newspaper
1800-1849'Breakfasted below. Read "Edinburgh Review" afterwards, for first time, after I know what interval, a little Greek, vi...William Windham [n/a]Edinburgh ReviewPrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'In the evening read principally papers in the "Adventurer" and Rogers' "Pleasure of Memory"; thought less of the pape...William Windham [unknown]Spanish GrammarPrint: Unknown
1800-1849'Looked into "Philosophical Transactions" for paper of Dr Reid about momentums +c, could not find it but stumbled upon...William Windham [unknown]Philosophical Transactions of the Royal SocietyPrint: Book
1800-1849'Day of "Gazette" arriving, with news of Wellesley's victory [Battle of Talavera] of 28th July.'William Windham [n/a]GazettePrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899Mrs Robinson's journal of Oct 7 1854, reprinted in the Times June 15 1856: '..we sat and read Athenaums aloud, chattin...Mrs Robinson [n/a]AthenaumPrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849[Transcript of essay, under the heading 'Today'] 'Today. New Monthly Magazine for January 1823'Charles Holte Bracebridge [n/a]New Monthly MagazinePrint: Serial / periodical
1700-1799[3 July 1797] 'brought the 2nd vol of the "Antiquarian Repertory"; I had read it before but there was a picture in it ...Joseph Hunter [n/a]The Antiquarian Repertory [Vol II of 4 vols]Print: Book
1800-1849'1831' 'Farewell to 1831 year of Whig Ministry of Shen reform... Extracted from Fraser's Magazine by Benj. Beanlands'Benjamin Beanlands [n/a]Fraser's Magazine For Town and CountryPrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'My Ain Fire Side' 'O, I hae seen great ones...' >From the Nithsdale and Galloway SongsBowly groupRobert Hartley Cromek [editor of vol]'My Ain Fireside' OR Remains of Nithsdale and GallUnknown
1800-1849'Once more amongst the old gigantic hills/...' 'Foreign Literary Review Janury 1832.'Bowly group [n/a]Foreign Quarterly ReviewPrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'From the Cheltenham Chronicle of 11 Oct. 1832 on the Death of Sir Walter Scott' 'Harp of the North! The Mighty Hand, ...Devereux Bowly [n/a]The Cheltenham Chronicle and Gloucestershire AdvertiserPrint: Newspaper
1800-1849'Sir Walter Scott was buried at Dryburgh... Annual Obituary for 1833.'Devereux Bowly [n/a]The Annual Biography and ObituaryPrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'To the Great Pyramid' Mountain of Art! Sublime Mysterious Pile!, ... From the Cheltenham Chronicle Feb 7 1833'Bowly group [n/a]The Cheltenham ChroniclePrint: Newspaper
1700-1799'about this time I began to practis accounts, I bought a Book, & Slate, and got somebody to set me a gate at the begin...Benjamin Shaw [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1700-1799'god was Merciful & spoke Peace to my Soul, & now I found that with god which Passeth all understanding, & rejoiced al...Benjamin Shaw [n/a]Bible ['the scriptures']Print: Book
1800-1849'the last weeks paper stated, that 200, 000 were out of work within 20 miles of manchester, &c, & the long drought is ...Benjamin Shaw [n/a][Newspaper]Print: Newspaper
1800-1849'She delighted in Singing, & Prayer, & reading the Scriptures, Particularly the 14 Chapter of John &c- this was a favo...Hannah Shaw [n/a]Bible ['the Scriptures']Print: Book
1800-1849'She sade she was happy in her mind & had many a Comfortable hour when she could not Sleep in reading her testament & ...Betty Shaw [n/a]Bible ['her Testament']Print: Book
1800-1849'She sade she was happy in her mind & had many a Comfortable hour when she could not Sleep in reading her testament & ...Betty Shaw [Wesley?][hymn book]Print: Book
1800-1849'From my early years I was always a lover of books, and I well remeber when we lived in a solitary place that my mothe...Robert White [unknown]'a penny history'
1800-1849'Even while exerting myself to the utmost on the farm, I was not without my own pleasure, for during my leisure hours ...Robert White [unknown]'poetry and border ballads'Print: Book
1800-1849'Recievd the "London Magazine" by my friend Henderson who bought if from town with him a very dull no [.] [...] the ar...John Clare [n/a]The London MagazinePrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'Read "Solomons Song" and beautiful as some of the images of that poem are some of them are not recognisable in my jud...John Clare [n/a]Solomon's SongPrint: Book
1800-1849'Read over the magazine [received from London on Sunday 7 Nov] the review of Lord Byrons conversations is rather enter...John Clare [n/a]The London MagazinePrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'A ryhming school master is the greatest bore in literature the following ridiculous advertisement proves the assertio...John Clare [n/a]Stamford MercuryPrint: Advertisement, Newspaper
1800-1849'Newspaper Miracles Wonders Curiositys etc under these heads I shall insert anything I can find worth reading and laug...John Clare [n/a]Stamford MercuryPrint: Newspaper
1800-1849'Recieved a letter from Mrs Emmerson and a "Literary Gazette" from somebody in which is a review of an unsuccesful att...John Clare [n/a]Literary GazettePrint: Book
1800-1849'Recieved a news paper from Montgomery in which my poem of the "Vanitys of Life" was inserted with an ingenius and fla...John Clare [n/a]The IrisPrint: Newspaper
1800-1849[quotes from 4 separate stories] 'Stamford Mercury' '"A black birds nest with four young ones was found a few days ago...John Clare [n/a]Stamford MercuryPrint: Newspaper
1800-1849'Saw a reciept to mend broken china in the "Stamford Mercury" [...] news papers have been famous for hyperbole and the...John Clare [n/a]Stamford MercuryPrint: Newspaper
1800-1849'News paper wonders - "There is now living at Barton an old lady of the name of Faunt who has nearly attaind the great...John Clare [n/a]Stamford MercuryPrint: Newspaper
1800-1849'Recieved the April and May ma[ga]zine from London with a letter from Hessey and one from Vandyke [...] the magazine i...John Clare [n/a]London MagazinePrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'Extracts from the "Stamford Mercury"' [copies two stories]John Clare [n/a]Stamford MercuryPrint: Newspaper
1800-1849'At a meeting of florists held at the Old Kings Head at Newark last week prizes were adjudged as follows' [quotes resu...John Clare [n/a]Stamford MercuryPrint: Newspaper
1800-1849'News paper odditys [quotes article on salt mine in Poland] "Stamford Mercury"'John Clare [n/a]Stamford MercuryPrint: Newspaper
1800-1849'Parish officers are modern savages as the following fact will testifye - Crowland Abbey "Certain surveyors have latel...John Clare [n/a]Stamford MercuryPrint: Newspaper
1800-1849'Recieved a parcel from Holbeach with a letter and the Scientific Receptacle from J. Savage - they have inserted my po...John Clare [n/a]The Scientific ReceptaclePrint: Book
1800-1849'"The Lingfield and Crowhurst Choir sung several select pieces from Handel in the cavity of a yew tree [continues for ...John Clare [n/a]Stamford MercuryPrint: Newspaper
1800-1849'Saw in the Stamford paper that the lost leaf of "Dooms day book" was found and had no time to copy out the account'John Clare [n/a]Stamford MercuryPrint: Newspaper
1800-1849'A salmon near ['near' in italics] 20 lbs weight ...' 'Stamford Mercury'John Clare [n/a]Stamford MercuryPrint: Newspaper
1800-1849'The catholics have lost their bill once more [they] shoud when one beholds the following sacred humbugs [...] From "N...John Clare [n/a]Stamford MercuryPrint: Newspaper
1800-1849'The following advertisement is from the "Observer" of Sunday May 22 1825. "Just published the speech of his Royal Hig...John Clare [n/a]The ObserverPrint: Advertisement, Newspaper
1800-1849'"A hive of bees natives of New South Wales [...] The bees are very small and have no sting but their honey is peculia...John Clare [n/a]Stamford MercuryPrint: Newspaper
1800-1849'a newspaper lye of the first order - "Mr Gale of Holt in the parish of Bradford Witts has at present a Pear of the ja...John Clare [n/a]Stamford MercuryPrint: Newspaper
1800-1849'More wonders from the "Mercury" "A clergyman of the established church name Benson now attracts larger congregations ...John Clare [n/a]Stamford MercuryPrint: Newspaper
1850-1899'This summer, as my eighth year advanced, we read the "Epistle to the Hebrews", with very great deliberation, stopping...Philip Gosse [n/a]BiblePrint: Book
1850-1899'In our lighter moods, we turned to the "Book of Revelation", and chased the phantom of Popery through its fuliginous ...Philip Gosse [n/a]BiblePrint: Book
1850-1899'...and we now started Latin, in a little eighteenth-century reading book, out of which my Grandfather had been taught...Edmund Gosse [unknown][Latin Grammar]Print: Book
1850-1899'My mother then received from her earlier home certain volumes, among which was a gaudy gift-book of some kind, contai...Edmund Gosse [unknown][volume of engravings]Print: Book
1800-1849James Harvey 'Blind Jim" 'had, from hearing, mastered most of the content of these two important papers [Times and Wee...James Harvey [n/a]The Weekly DispatchPrint: Newspaper
1800-1849James Harvey 'Blind Jim" 'had, from hearing, mastered most of the content of these two important papers [Times and Wee...James Harvey [n/a]The TimesPrint: Newspaper
1850-1899Lancashire workman wrote to Cassell's that the first 23 volumes of the National Library "have done a great deal of goo...several Lancashire workman [n/a]Cassell's National Library (first 23 vols)Print: Book
1850-1899BL edition inscribed 'Victoria of Prussia' and initialled page after page with some dates presumeably showing when rea...Victoria of Prussia [unknown]The Peep of Day; or a series of the earliest religPrint: Book
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'She rose about eight o'clock; and, before she came down stairs, read herself a chapter in the Bible or New Testament,...Mary Birch [n/a]BiblePrint: Book
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'We might mention the Rambler, theGuardian, and Shakespeare, as her favourites among older writers; and, among modern ...Mary Birch [n/a]The RamblerPrint: Serial / periodical
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'We might mention the Rambler, the Guardian, and Shakespeare, as her favourites among older writers; and, among modern...Mary Birch [n/a]The GuardianPrint: Serial / periodical
1700-1799The reader listed the contents of this publication. Vol 1. The Second Edition. 'Poems. Ode to Hope. Elegy on the deat...Frances Hamilton [unknown]Poems and Essays by a Lady Lately DeceasedPrint: Book
1700-1799an Observation 'By those who profess a knowledge of human Nature, the real causes of deep and continued dissension wil...Frances Hamilton [unknown]The Christian Church from the Earliest Period to the Present TimePrint: Book
1700-1799content of this letter described 'as objected' in a pamphlet recommended by his Lordship 1789 (presumably the reader h...Frances Hamilton [unknown]A Letter to Earl Stanhope
1700-1799Long description of the character of Duke Sully by Henry 4th of France: 'his temper harsh, unpatient, obstinate, too ...Frances Hamilton [unknown]Memoirs of Maximillion de Baltiure, Duke of Sully, Prime Minister to Henry the GreatPrint: Book
1850-1899'There were numbers of a paper called, I think, "The Christian World", dating from several years back. They contained ...Edwin Muir [n/a]The Christian WorldPrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'There was also a thick volume bound in calf and containing a verbatim report of a controversy between a Protestant di...Edwin Muir [unknown][volume about theological debate]Print: Book
1850-1899''I read all my new school books as soon as I got them; I read "The People's Journal", "The People's Friend", and "The...Edwin Muir [unknown][school books]Print: Book
1850-1899''I read all my new school books as soon as I got them; I read "The People's Journal", "The People's Friend", and "The...Edwin Muir [n/a]The People's JournalPrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899''I read all my new school books as soon as I got them; I read "The People's Journal", "The People's Friend", and "The...Edwin Muir [n/a]The People's FriendPrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899''I read all my new school books as soon as I got them; I read "The People's Journal", "The People's Friend", and "The...Edwin Muir [n/a]The Christian HeraldPrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899''I read all my new school books as soon as I got them; I read "The People's Journal", "The People's Friend", and "The...Edwin Muir [unknown]Sunday StoriesPrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899''I read all my new school books as soon as I got them; I read "The People's Journal", "The People's Friend", and "The...Edwin Muir [unknown][novels]Print: Book
1850-1899''I read all my new school books as soon as I got them; I read "The People's Journal", "The People's Friend", and "The...Edwin Muir [n/a]The Penny MagazinePrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'Out of all that reading only one memory survives now. The story itself I have forgotten but the scene was laid in Ita...Edwin Muir [unknown][story]Print: Unknown
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'There was another impression, almost as horrible, but this time it was caused by an illustration, not a story. Suther...Edwin Muir [n/a]The Police NewsPrint: Newspaper
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'I do not know whether it was a benefit of a calamity when my brother Willie, out of pure kindness, began taking "Chum...Edwin Muir [n/a]The Boy's Own PaperPrint: Serial / periodical
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'I do not know whether it was a benefit of a calamity when my brother Willie, out of pure kindness, began taking "Chum...Edwin Muir [n/a]ChumsPrint: Serial / periodical
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 [n/a][School history book]Print: Book
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'One day I saw a life of Carlyle in a bookshop window in Kirkwall and begged a shilling from my mother to buy it; but ...Edwin Muir [unknown][book on Wallace and Bruce]Print: Book
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'Curiously enough the story I remember best is a grotesque and rather silly one which appeared in an annual almanac is...Edwin Muir [unknown][story about the origin of Orkney and Shetland Islands]Print: Serial / periodical, almanac
1850-1899'there was nothing in the house which was worth reading, apart from the Bible, "The Pilgrim's Progress", "Gulliver's T...Edwin Muir [n/a]The BiblePrint: Book
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'In the lower part of the newsagent's windows were the journals that catered for me. By would be reformers they were l...Joseph Stamper [unknown]Bronco BillPrint: Serial / periodical
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'In the lower part of the newsagent's windows were the journals that catered for me. By would be reformers they were l...Joseph Stamper [unknown]Jack WrightPrint: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'On incident stays clear in my mind. It was on one of the rare days, other than Christmas and New Year, when my grandm...Norman Nicholson [unknown]History of the World WarPrint: Book
1900-1945'On incident stays clear in my mind. It was on one of the rare days, other than Christmas and New Year, when my grandm...John Slater [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1900-1945'The beautiful and disturbing feminine shapes which I sometimes saw in the photographic section of "The Sketch" and "T...Norman Nicholson [n/a]The SketchPrint: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'The beautiful and disturbing feminine shapes which I sometimes saw in the photographic section of "The Sketch" and "T...Norman Nicholson [n/a]The TatlerPrint: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'So that, whatever may have been its deeper cause, the love which filled my imagination was of a kind that seemed, to ...Norman Nicholson [n/a]The Woman's WeeklyPrint: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'Tom... introduced me to Poe's "Tales", to my first detective stories and to the early novels of H.G. Wells.'Norman Nicholson [unknown][detective stories]Print: Book
1900-1945'[Bernard] Shaw the buffoon, the joker, the iconoclast, appeared day by day in every newspaper like a living comic str... [n/a]Daily MailPrint: Newspaper
1900-1945'The [reference room of the public library] was almost airless, catarrhal from the fumes of the coke-stove, musty and ...Norman Nicholson [n/a]The Encyclopedia BritannicaPrint: Book
1900-1945'The [reference room of the public library] was almost airless, catarrhal from the fumes of the coke-stove, musty and ...Norman Nicholson [n/a]Dictionary of National BiographyPrint: 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 [n/a]The Golden TreasuryPrint: Book
1900-1945'I began now to borrow from the Sanatorium Library books on nature and the countryside -Hardy, Hudson, Jefferies, Gilb...Norman Nicholson [unknown][books on birds, animals, snakes, trees]Print: Book
1850-1899'We had, at home, a huge Family Bible -one of the brass-bound sort -with fine fat type and hundreds of illustrations. ...Thomas A. Jackson [n/a]The BiblePrint: Book
1850-1899'Next to the Bible in time, and soon superseding it in practice were four volumes of Cassell's Illustrated History of ...Thomas A. Jackson [n/a]Cassells Illustrated History of EnglandPrint: Book, Serial / periodical, weekly parts collected by father and bound into four volumes
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'...in one matter father and son were united. We developed a mutual love of comic papers, and together taught ourselve... [n/a]Girls' Own PaperPrint: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'...in one matter father and son were united. We developed a mutual love of comic papers, and together taught ourselve... [n/a]ChipsPrint: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'...in one matter father and son were united. We developed a mutual love of comic papers, and together taught ourselve... [n/a]Comic CutsPrint: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'...in one matter father and son were united. We developed a mutual love of comic papers, and together taught ourselve... [n/a]Lot o' FunPrint: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'...in one matter father and son were united. We developed a mutual love of comic papers, and together taught ourselve... [n/a]ButterflyPrint: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'One day, however, I made a discovery. I could read myself! I was four years old now... and while sprawling on the flo...Jack Common [n/a][comic paper]Print: Serial / periodical
1900-1945[Given 'a handsome and well-illustrated volume called the Prize Bible' by his grandmother] '...the surprise they got w...Jack Common [n/a]BiblePrint: Book
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'When I grew into a youth and read everything I got my hands on, from Penny Dreadfuls to the Holy Scriptures, I came a...Joseph Stamper [n/a]Holy ScripturesPrint: Book
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'When I grew into a youth and read everything I got my hands on, from Penny Dreadfuls to the Holy Scriptures, I came a...Joseph Stamper [unknown]Penny DreadfulsPrint: Serial / periodical
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'When I was a youth I envied others having this capacity to make close friends. I even bought a book, "How To Make Fri...Joseph Stamper [unknown]How to make friends and influence peoplePrint: Book
1850-1899'Have finished the lives of Harry the VIIIths Queens, very interesting work. Reading a small treatise on "Pneumatics" ...Albert Battiscombe [unknown][lives of Henry VIII's wives - see note below]Print: Book
1850-1899'Have finished the lives of Harry the VIIIths Queens, very interesting work. Reading a small treatise on "Pneumatics" ...Albert Battiscombe [unknown]PneumaticsPrint: Book
1850-1899'My mother used to read the novels of Miss Braddon and Mrs Henry Wood, and those in a series called "The Family Story ...Polly Stamper [n/a]The Family StorytellerPrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'My father took me to see them sold up. He must have been off work again, foundry work was little better than casual l...Joseph Stamper [unknown][notice]Manuscript: Graffito
1850-1899'There is a book you may have come across, and that was read a lot when I was young, called the Bible. I used to read ...Joseph Stamper [n/a]BiblePrint: Book
1850-1899'Whilst waiting my turn and having observed all these things, I started to spell out a notice above the mirror, I coul...Joseph Stamper [unknown][notice]Print: Advertisement, Poster
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'There was the "Police News" and the "Police Budget". I don't think these had any connection, officially, with the pol...Joseph Stamper [n/a]Police NewsPrint: Serial / periodical
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'There was the "Police News" and the "Police Budget". I don't think these had any connection, officially, with the pol...Joseph Stamper [n/a]Police BudgetPrint: Serial / periodical
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'Also on pink newsprint were "Sketchy Bits" and "Photo Bits". Most of the "bits" in these journals had huge nude thigh...Joseph Stamper [n/a]Sketchy BitsPrint: Serial / periodical
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'Also on pink newsprint were "Sketchy Bits" and "Photo Bits". Most of the "bits" in these journals had huge nude thigh...Joseph Stamper [n/a]Photo BitsPrint: Serial / periodical
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'Now that we had gas I found it much easier and pleasanter to read. When I had read all my own periodicals I used to r...Polly Stamper [n/a]Heartsease LibraryPrint: Serial / periodical
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'Now that we had gas I found it much easier and pleasanter to read. When I had read all my own periodicals I used to r...Joseph Stamper [n/a]Heartsease LibraryPrint: Serial / periodical
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'[Father] had joined the PSA at the YMCA. That is: the Pleasant Sunday Afternoon at the Young Men's Christian Associat... [unknown]Sylvestre SoundPrint: Book
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'[Father] had joined the PSA at the YMCA. That is: the Pleasant Sunday Afternoon at the Young Men's Christian Associat... [unknown]SomnambulistPrint: Book
1900-1945'...went along to the reference room of the public library to look up data on African trees. I searched the shelves an...Joseph Stamper [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1900-1945'[given an alternative text by the librarian, entitled 'Young People's First Book of Trees'] Every time the man came t...Joseph Stamper [unknown]Young People's First Book of TreesPrint: Book
1900-1945'...I spoke to three of my workmates...All they read was "The Racing Specialist" and the "Football Edition"...'iron moulders [n/a]The Racing SpecialistPrint: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'...I spoke to three of my workmates...All they read was "The Racing Specialist" and the "Football Edition"...'iron moulders [n/a]Football EditionPrint: Serial / periodical
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'I was reading a lot of magazine stories now. There was a boys' reading-room at the public library; the magazines were...Joseph Stamper [n/a]Strand MagazinePrint: Serial / periodical
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'I was reading a lot of magazine stories now. There was a boys' reading-room at the public library; the magazines were...Joseph Stamper [n/a]WindsorPrint: Serial / periodical
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'I was reading a lot of magazine stories now. There was a boys' reading-room at the public library; the magazines were...Joseph Stamper [n/a]Pearson'sPrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'Worked an hour or two at French; I suppose I must now finish the history of Rome, having once begun it must be finished'Albert Battiscombe [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1850-1899'Reading a book on Pneumatics and been thinking of making an Anemometer of my own invention do not know if it would su...Albert Battiscombe [unknown][book on pneumatics]Print: Book
1850-1899'Reading "History of Rome", & amusing myself variously.' Albert Battiscombe [unknown]History of RomePrint: Book
1700-1799'Got the "Monthly Mag" & "Rev." from Miss Haynes. They appear to be two very entertaining no's. I am much pleased with...Joseph Hunter [n/a]Monthly ReviewPrint: Serial / periodical
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'The following Saturday afternoon [father] was a bit late getting home from work; he must have gone to the second-hand...Joseph Stamper [anon]Guy's ExpositorPrint: Book
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'I had started to write "poetry". I was reading masses of it in the Penny Poets, and I thought I would like to be a po...Joseph Stamper [n/a][Penny Poets]Print: Book
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'And the female crocodile does make a nest! I had read all about it in a book from the library...'Joseph Stamper [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
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'I was getting a lot of stiff reading out of the public library, now, "for my father". One work was "Quain's Anatomy" ...Joseph Stamper [unknown]Quain's AnatomyPrint: Book
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'I read a lot of astronomy and that, too, was wonderful. The world is full of wonders if one only looks for them. One ...Joseph Stamper [unknown][Astronomy and spectrum analysis]Print: Book
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'I was so interested in spectrum analysis that I took the big book to school with me, to read in playtime. The desks w...Joseph Stamper [unknown][Astronomy and spectrum analysis]Print: Book
1850-1899'reading "Cornhill Magazine" &c'Albert Battiscombe [n/a]Cornhill MagazinePrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'Commenced work again to day in earnest - read some of the [following page missing]' Albert Battiscombe [unknown][unknown]Unknown
1850-1899'Paymaster went ashore to inquire about coals &, he returned at 8 PM telling us to steam alongside a brig to morrow mo...Albert Battiscombe [n/a][newspaper]Print: Newspaper
1850-1899'I am going to try & commence work again, having done nothing since entering the sick list, except read a few novels a...Albert Battiscombe [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1850-1899'Read a good deal during the day, and worked a Couple of hours at French.'Albert Battiscombe [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'At noon my brother John came to me, and I corrected as well as I could his Greek speech against the Apposition, thoug...Samuel Pepys [unknown]Pontificale romanum Clementis VIII, part 2Print: Book
1600-1699'Back I went by Mr Downing's order, and stayed there till 12 a-clock in expectation of one to come to read some writin...Samuel Pepys [unknown][unknown]Manuscript: Sheet
1600-1699'I called at St Paul's churchyard, where I bought Buxtorfes Hebrew Grammar and read a declaration of the gentlemen of ...Samuel Pepys [unknown]The humble address and hearty desires of the gentlemen, ministers and free-holders of the county of Northampton, presented to his Excellency the Lord General Monck, at his arrival at Northampton January, 24, 1659Print: Broadsheet
1600-1699'In the morning up early and wrote another [character], my wife lying in bed and reading to me'Elizabeth Pepys [unknown][unknown]Unknown
1600-1699'To their church in the afternoon, and in Mrs Turner's pew my wife took up a good black hood and kept it. A stranger p...Samuel Pepys [n/a]Book of TobitPrint: Book
1600-1699'This morning I lay long abed; then to my office, where I read all the morning my Spanish book of Rome.'Samuel Pepys [unknown]Las cosas maravillosas della sancta ciudad de RomaPrint: Book
1600-1699'...and with them to Marshes at Whitehall to drink, and stayed there a pretty while reading a pamphlet, well-writ and ...Samuel Pepys Roger L'Estrange [? probably]A plea for limited monarchy, as it was established in this nation, before the late war. In a humble address to his Excellency, General Monck
1600-1699'My Lord and the ship's company down to Sermon. I stayed above to write and look over my new song-book, which came las...Samuel Pepys [Playford]Select ayres and dialoguesPrint: Book
1600-1699'This morning the King's proclamacion against drinking, swearing and debauchery was read to our ships' companies in th...Samuel Pepys [King] [Charles II]A proclamation against debauched and profane persons, who, on pretence of regard to the King, revile and threaten others, or spend their time in taverns and tipping houses, drinking his healthPrint: Broadsheet
1600-1699'Home, and at night had a chapter read; and I read prayers out of the Common Prayer book, the first time that ever I r...Samuel Pepys [n/a]BiblePrint: Book
1600-1699'Home, and at night had a chapter read; and I read prayers out of the Common Prayer book, the first time that ever I r...Samuel Pepys [n/a]Common Prayer BookPrint: Book
1600-1699'Up to my chamber to read a little, and write my Diary for three or four days past.'Samuel Pepys [unknown][unknown]Print: Unknown
1600-1699'I had the boy up tonight for his sister to teach him to put me to bed, and I heard him read, which he doth pretty well.'Wayneman Birch [unknown][unknown]Print: Unknown
1600-1699'So after supper and reading of some chapters, I went to bed.'Samuel Pepys [n/a]BiblePrint: Book
1600-1699'In Pauls churchyard I called at Kirton's; and there they had got a Masse book for me, which I bought and cost me 12s....Samuel Pepys [unknown]Masse BookPrint: Book
1600-1699'At night Mr Moore came and sat with me, and there I took a book and he did instruct me in many law=notions, in which ...Samuel Pepys [unknown][law book?]Print: Book
1600-1699'Home and fell a-reading of the tryalls of the late men that were hanged for the King's death; and found good satisfac...Samuel Pepys [unknown]An exact and most impartial accompt of the ... trial ... of nine and twenty regicidesPrint: Book
1600-1699'Home by Coach and read late in the last night's book of the Tryalls...'Samuel Pepys [unknown]An exact and most impartial accompt of the ... trial ... of nine and twenty regicidesPrint: Book
1600-1699'So to Pauls churchyard and there bought "Montelion", which this year doth not prove so good as the last was; and so a...Samuel Pepys [John] [Phillips?]Montelion, the prophetical almanac for the year 1661Print: almanac
1600-1699'So we parted, and I and Mr Creed to Westminster-hall and looked over a book or two, and so to My Lord's...'Samuel Pepys [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'After that home and to bed - reading myself asleep while the wench sat mending my breeches by my bedside.'Samuel Pepys [unknown][unknown]Print: Unknown
1600-1699''This day the parson read a proclamacion at church for the keeping of Wednesday next, the 30th of January, a fast for...anon [unknown]A proclamation for observation of the thirtieth day of January as a day of fast and humiliation according to the late act of parliament for that purposePrint: Handbill
1600-1699'And God forgive me, did spent it in reading some little French Romances.'Samuel Pepys [unknown][French Romances]Print: Book
1600-1699'and I home and stayed there all day within - having found Mr Moore, who stayed with me till at night, talking and rea...Samuel Pepys [unknown][Good books]Print: Book
1600-1699'Then by linke home - and there to my book awhile and to bed.'Samuel Pepys [unknown][book]Print: Book
1600-1699'Then home - I to read.'Samuel Pepys [unknown][book]Print: Book
1600-1699'Then to reading and at night to bed.'Samuel Pepys [unknown][book]Print: Book
1600-1699'This day I find in the news-Booke that Rogr. Pepys is chosen at Cambridge for the towne, the first place that we hear...Samuel Pepys [n/a]The Kingdomes IntelligencerPrint: Newspaper
1600-1699'And then I up to my chamber to read.'Samuel Pepys [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'and so home, and after a little reading, to bed.'Samuel Pepys [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'Having writ letters into the country and read something, I went to bed.'Samuel Pepys [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'And then came home with us Sir W. Pen and drank with us and then went away; and my wife after him to see his daughter...Samuel Pepys [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'Dined at home; and so about my business in the afternoon to the temple, where I find my chancery bill drawn against T...Samuel Pepys [unknown][chancery Bill drawn against Trice]Manuscript: Sheet
1600-1699'So to bed, with my mind cheery upon it; and lay long reading Hobbs his "liberty and necessity", and a little but a ve...Samuel Pepys [unknown][unknown- little but shrewd piece]Print: Unknown
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
1600-1699'and so up to my study and read the two treatys before Mr Selden's "Mare Clausum"; and so to bed.'Samuel Pepys [unknown]Additional evidences... relating to the reigns of K. James and K. CharlesPrint: Unknown
1600-1699'And so home by Coach and I late reading in my Chamber; and then to bed, my wife being angry that I keep the house up ...Samuel Pepys [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'Hence home and to read; and so to bed, but very late again.'Samuel Pepys [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'so home - to read - supper and to prayers; and then to bed.'Samuel Pepys [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'This day in the news-booke, I find that my Lord Buckhurst and his fellows have printed their case as they did give in...Samuel Pepys [n/a]The Kingdomes IntelligencerPrint: Newspaper
1600-1699'I up to my chamber to read and write, and so to bed.'Samuel Pepys [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'At night to my chamber to read and sing; and so to supper and to bed.'Samuel Pepys [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'He being gone, I to my study and read; and so to eat a bit of bread and cheese and so to bed.'Samuel Pepys [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'This night Tom came to show me a civil letter sent him from his mistress.'Samuel Pepys [unknown][letter]Manuscript: Letter
1600-1699'And so went home, taking Mr Leigh with me; and after drunk a cup of wine, he went away and I to my office, there read...Samuel Pepys [anon]A treatise of taxes and contributionsPrint: Book
1600-1699'and so to my office, practising arthmetique alone and making an end of last night's book, with great content, till 11...Samuel Pepys [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'at night my wife read "Sir H. Vanes trial" to me, which she begun last night, and I find it a very excellent thing, w...Elizabeth Pepys [unknown]The tryal of Sir Henry Vane, Kt., at the Kings Bench, Westminster, June the 2nd and 6th, 1662, together with what he intended to have spoken the day of his sentence (June 11) for arrest of judgment...Print: Unknown
1600-1699'at night my wife read "Sir H. Vanes trial" to me, which she begun last night, and I find it a very excellent thing, w...Elizabeth Pepys [unknown]The tryal of Sir Henry Vane, Kt., at the Kings Bench, Westminster, June the 2nd and 6th, 1662, together with what he intended to have spoken the day of his sentence (June 11) for arrest of judgment...Print: Unknown
1600-1699'Towards noon there comes a man in, as if upon ordinary business, and shows me a Writt from the Exchequer, called a Co...Samuel Pepys [unknown][Writ]Unknown
1600-1699'While my wife dressed herself, Creed and I walked out to see what play was acted today, and we find it "The Sleighted...Samuel Pepys [unknown][playbill]Print: Advertisement, Broadsheet, Poster, playbill
1600-1699'and I to my office till the evening, doing one thing or other and reading my vowes as I am bound every Lord's day'Samuel Pepys [unknown][vowes]Print: BookUnknown
1600-1699'staying a little in Paul's churchyard at the forreigne booksellers, looking over some Spanish books and with much ado...Samuel Pepys [unknown][Spanish books]Print: Book
1600-1699'While that [dinner] was prepared, to my office to read over my vowes, with great affection and to very good purpose.'Samuel Pepys [unknown][vowes]Print: BookUnknown
1600-1699'So home to my office, alone till dark, reading some part of my old "Navy precedents", and so home to supper.'Samuel Pepys [unknown]Navy precedentsPrint: Book
1600-1699'to my office and there made an end of reading my book that I have had of Mr Barlows, of the Journall of the Comission...Samuel Pepys [unknown][Report of the proceedings of the commission of 1618]Print: Book
1600-1699'So home; and after reading my vowes, being sleepy, without prayers to bed'Samuel Pepys [unknown][vowes]Unknown
1600-1699'Scotland: it seems, for all the news-book tells us every week that they are all so quiet and everything in the Church...Samuel Pepys [n/a]Kingdom IntelligencePrint: Newspaper
1600-1699'And so walk and by water to White-hall, all our way by water, both coming and going, reading a little book said to be...Samuel Pepys [unknown]A vindication of the degree of gentry in opposition to titular honours, and the humour of riches being the measure of honours. Done by a person of qualityPrint: Book
1600-1699'I to my office and there read all the morning in my Statute-book, consulting among others the statute against seeling...Samuel Pepys [unknown][Statute book]Print: Book
1600-1699'Up and to read a little;'Samuel Pepys [unknown][unknown]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 ScripturesPrint: Book
1600-1699'Thence by water home and to bed - having played out of my chamber-window on my pipe before I went to bed - and making...Will Hewer [unknown]Paris Vulgate [or] Latin TestamentPrint: Book
1600-1699'Home in the evening and to my office, where despatched business and so home. And after Wills reading a little in the ...Will Hewer [unknown]Paris Vulgate [or] Latin TestamentPrint: Book
1600-1699'and then I to my office and read my vowes seriously and with content; and so home to supper, to prayers, and to bed.' Samuel Pepys [unknown][vowes]Print: BookUnknown
1600-1699'then a Latin chapter of Will and to bed.'Will Hewer [unknown]Paris Vulgate [or] Latin TestamentPrint: Book
1600-1699'So to the reading of my vowes seriously, and then to supper.'Samuel Pepys [unknown][vowes]Unknown
1600-1699'So home and up to my lute long; and then after a little Latin chapter with Will, to bed.'Will Hewer [unknown]Paris Vulgate [or] Latin TestamentPrint: Book
1600-1699'Myself very studious to learn what I can of all things necessary for my place as an officer of the Navy - reading lat...Samuel Pepys [unknown][books on timber measuring and tides]Print: Book
1600-1699'and so home and to my office a while to read my vowes. The home to prayers and to bed.'Samuel Pepys [unknown][vowes]Unknown
1600-1699'So home to dinner alone. And then to read a little and so to church again, where the Scott made an ordinary sermon; a...Samuel Pepys [unknown][vowes]Unknown
1600-1699'So home to dinner alone. And then to read a little and so to church again, where the Scott made an ordinary sermon; a...Samuel Pepys [Thomas] [Southland]Love a la modePrint: Book
1600-1699'So home to dinner alone. And then to read a little and so to church again, where the Scott made an ordinary sermon; a...Samuel Pepys [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'And being in bed, made Will read and conster three or four Latin verses in the bible and chid him for forgetting the ...Will Hewer [unknown]Paris Vulgate [or] Latin TestamentPrint: Book
1600-1699'I sat up an hour after Mr Coventry was gone to read my vowes - it raining a wonderful hard showre about 11 at night f...Samuel Pepys [unknown][vowes]Unknown
1600-1699'So home and at my office reading my vowes;'Samuel Pepys [unknown][vowes]Unknown
1600-1699'Home and stayed up a good while, examining Will in his Latin bible and my brother along with him in his Greeke. And s...Will Hewer [unknown]Paris Vulgate [or] Latin TestamentPrint: Book
1600-1699'Home and stayed up a good while, examining Will in his Latin bible and my brother along with him in his Greeke. And s...John Pepys [n/a][Greek Bible]Print: Book
1600-1699'Thence by coach with my Lord Peterborough and Sandwich to my Lord Peterborough's house; and there, after an hour's lo...Samuel Pepys [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'and so we went to boat again and then down to the bridge and there tried to find a sister of Mrs Morrices, but she wa...Samuel Pepys [unknown][unknown - recipes]Print: Book
1600-1699'To church again; and so home to my wife and with her read "Iter boreale", a poem made just at the King's coming home ...Samuel Pepys [Robert] [Wild]Iter borealePrint: Book
1600-1699'and then abroad by water to White-hall and to Westminster-hall and there bought the first news-books of Lestrange's w...Samuel Pepys [Robert] [L'Estrange]The IntelligencerPrint: Newspaper
1600-1699'This day I read a proclamacion for calling in and commanding everybody to apprehend my Lord Bristoll.'Samuel Pepys [unknown][proclamation]Print: Broadsheet, Handbill, Poster
1600-1699'Then into the garden to read my weekly vowes.'Samuel Pepys [unknown][vowes]Unknown
1600-1699'This day my wife showed me bills printed, wherein her father, with Sir John Collidon and Sir Edwd. Ford, hath got a p...Samuel Pepys [unknown][bills advertising a cure for smoking chimneys]Print: Handbill
1600-1699'Up and to my office, where all the morning - and part of it Sir J Mennes spent as he doth everything else, like a foo...Sir John Mennes [or Minnes] [unknown][anatomy of the body]Print: Book
1600-1699'And read very seriously my vowes, which I am fearful of forgetting by my late great expenses - but I hope in God I do...Samuel Pepys [unknown][vowes]Unknown
1600-1699'So home and my wife and I together all the evening, discoursing; and then after reading my vowes to myself... we hast...Samuel Pepys [unknown][vowes]Unknown
1600-1699'So home to prayers, and then to read my vowes and to bed.'Samuel Pepys [unknown][vowes]Unknown
1600-1699'After a good supper with my wife, and hearing on the maids read in the Bible, we to prayers and to bed.'maids of Samuel Pepys [n/a]BiblePrint: Book
1600-1699'my wife, it being a cold day and it begin to snow, kept her bed till after dinner. And I below by myself looking over...Samuel Pepys [unknown][Arithmetic books]Print: Book
1600-1699'To church; where after sermon, home and to my office before dinner, reading my vowes;'Samuel Pepys [unknown][vowes]Unknown
1600-1699'There parted in the street with them, and I to my Lord's; but he not being within, took Coach, and being directed by ...Samuel Pepys [n/a][bill advertising cockfight]Print: Advertisement, Broadsheet, Poster
1600-1699'He gone, I to my office and there late, writing and reading; and so home to bed.'Samuel Pepys [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'and then I begin to read to my wife upon the globes, with great pleasure and to good purpose, for it will be pleasant...Samuel Pepys [unknown][on the globes]Print: Book
1600-1699'so home to dinner with my poor wife; and after dinner read a lecture to her in Geography, which she takes very pretti...Samuel Pepys [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'and then through Bedlam (calling by the way at an old bookseller's, and there fell into looking over Spanish books an...Samuel Pepys [unknown][Spanish books]Print: Book
1600-1699'So home, reading all the way a good book;'Samuel Pepys [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'and after supper, to read a lecture to my wife upon the globes, and so to prayers and to bed.'Samuel Pepys [unknown][lecture on the globes]Print: Book
1800-1849'Abraham Austin, carpenter and joiner, examined. I saw James... on Sunday morning again at my house, when he read the ...James Hocker [n/a]Lloyd's Weekly London NewsPrint: Newspaper
1850-1899'I was repelled at home, rather than encouraged to read, and I never remember to have seen a book in my elders' hands....Okey family, parents and grandparents of Thomas Okey [n/a]Daily TelegraphPrint: Newspaper
1850-1899'The only books I remember seeing as a small child were an old copy of Foxe's "Book of Martyrs" and one of the Bible, ...Thomas Okey [n/a]The BiblePrint: Book
1850-1899'The favourite literary pabulum of us boys at school, however, was less classical: "penny bloods" and other Weeklies i...Thomas Okey [Thomas Peckett] [Prest]Sweeney Todd the BarberPrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'The favourite literary pabulum of us boys at school, however, was less classical: "penny bloods" and other Weeklies i...Thomas Okey [unknown]Dick TurpinPrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'The favourite literary pabulum of us boys at school, however, was less classical: "penny bloods" and other Weeklies i...Thomas Okey [unknown]Spring-heeled JackPrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'The favourite literary pabulum of us boys at school, however, was less classical: "penny bloods" and other Weeklies i...Thomas Okey [unknown]Claude DuvalPrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'The favourite literary pabulum of us boys at school, however, was less classical: "penny bloods" and other Weeklies i...Thomas Okey [unknown]Edith the CaptivePrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'The favourite literary pabulum of us boys at school, however, was less classical: "penny bloods" and other Weeklies i...Thomas Okey [unknown]Edith HeronPrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'The favourite literary pabulum of us boys at school, however, was less classical: "penny bloods" and other Weeklies i...Thomas Okey [n/a]Boys of EnglandPrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'I remember being called to Cambridge to act as a judge at an exhibition of basket-work at the local institute. My off...university undergraduates [n/a]Pink 'UnPrint: Serial / periodical
1600-1699'Thence walked with Mr Coventry to St James's and there spent by his desire the whole morning reading of some old Navy...Samuel Pepys [unknown][books about the Navy]Unknown
1600-1699'So stayed within all day, reading of two or three good plays.'Samuel Pepys [unknown][plays]Print: Book
1600-1699'After supper I up to read a little, and then to bed.'Samuel Pepys [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'Up and by water with Mr Tooker (to Woolwich first, to do several businesses of the King's); and then on board Captain...Samuel Pepys [Captain] [Fisher?][papers]Manuscript: Sheet
1600-1699'At night home to supper, weary and my eyes sore with writing and reading - and to bed.'Samuel Pepys [unknown][unknown]Unknown
1600-1699'and there fitted myself and took a hackney-coah I hired (it being a very cold and fowle day) to Woolwich, all the way...Samuel Pepys [unknown]Ichthyothera; or the royal trade of fishing [probably]Print: Book
1600-1699'and so home and with her [wife] all the evening, reading and at musique with my boy, with great pleasure; and so to s...Samuel Pepys [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1800-1849St John's Antigua, July 19 1827 Your letter my Dear Fanny which appears to have been written in May I received yester...John Page [n/a][newspaper]Print: Advertisement, Newspaper
1800-1849St John's Antigua, Augst 2 1829 My Dear Fanny .... I suppose by this you are all reconsiled to the Catholicks. I see...John Page [n/a][newspaper]Print: Newspaper
1800-1849Extract from The Whitehall Evening Post, April 1808 recording the marriage of Mary of ButtermereLydia Haskoll [n/a]White Hall Evening PostPrint: Newspaper
1850-1899'In June, a three-volume novel titled "Circe's Lovers" appeared, written by Leith Derwent (the pseudonym of John Veitc...Arthur Symons Leith Derwent [pseud.]Circe's LoversPrint: Book
1600-1699The boy is 'discontented ... because I cannot understand that which I reade'. The Devil Magirus 'expounded the places ...anon [a boy] [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1850-1899J.H. Ewing diary entry, July 13th 1869: 'Good Words'. Juliana Horatia Ewing [n/a]Good WordsPrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899J. H. Ewing Diary entry, Aug 15 1869: 'Tracts for the Times'Juliana Horatia Ewing Rowland Elliott [?]Tracts for the TimesPrint: Book
1700-1799From his diary, 29th September [1797]: 'Newspaper "Kelso Mail" begun to be taken this first week of October between K...John Hastie [n/a]Kelso MailPrint: Newspaper
1700-1799From Rev. John Hastie's diary, 29th September [1797]: 'Newspaper "Kelso Mail" begun to be taken this first week of Oc...William Knox [n/a]Kelso MailPrint: Newspaper
1700-1799From Rev. John Hastie's diary, 29th September [1797]: 'Newspaper "Kelso Mail" begun to be taken this first week of Oc...James Herriot [n/a]Kelso MailPrint: Newspaper
1700-1799From Rev. John Hastie's diary, 29th September [1797]: 'Newspaper "Kelso Mail" begun to be taken this first week of Oc...David Herriot [n/a]Kelso MailPrint: Newspaper
1600-1699'This day the News-book (upon Mr Moores showing Lestrange Captain Ferrers letter) did do my Lord Sandwich great right ...Samuel Pepys [n/a]The NewesPrint: Newspaper
1600-1699'at night home to look over my new books, and so late to bed.'Samuel Pepys [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'I met this noon with Dr Burnett, who told me, and I find in the news-book this week that he posted upon the Change, t...Samuel Pepys [n/a]The IntelligencerPrint: Newspaper
1600-1699'and so we set out for Chatham - in my way overtaking some company, wherein was a lady, very pretty, riding single, he...Samuel Pepys [unknown][copy of verses]Print: Unknown
1600-1699'At night to read, being weary with this day's great work.'Samuel Pepys [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'and after supper to read melancholy alone, and then to bed.'Samuel Pepys [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'And so home to supper; and after reading a good while in the Kings "works", which is a noble book - to bed.'Samuel Pepys [King] [Charles I]The workes of Charles IPrint: Book
1600-1699'Up, and walked to Greenwich reading a play, and to the office'Samuel Pepys [unknown][a play]Print: Book
1600-1699'Here I saw this week's Bill of Mortality, wherein, blessed be God, there is above 1800 decrease, being the first cons...Samuel Pepys [n/a]Bill of MortalityPrint: Broadsheet, Handbill, Poster
1600-1699'and there sent for the Weekely Bill and find 8252 dead in all, and of them 6978 of the plague - which is a most dread...Samuel Pepys [n/a]Bill of MortalityPrint: Broadsheet, Handbill, Poster
1600-1699'but he showed me a bill which hath been read in the House making all breakng of bulk for the time to come felony; but...Samuel Pepys [unknown][parliamentary bill]
1600-1699'and then up, and fell to reading of Mr Eveling's book about Paynting, which is a very pretty book.'Samuel Pepys [unknown][book about painting]Print: Book
1600-1699'The Bill of Mortality, to all our griefs, is encreased 399 this week, and the encrease general through the whole city...Samuel Pepys [n/a]Bill of MortalityPrint: Broadsheet, Handbill, Poster
1700-1799'I worked till supper with [Madame de Bombelles] whilst Mama read something from "L'Ami des Enfants".'Agathe Wynne [unknown]L'Ami des EnfantsPrint: Serial / periodical
1700-1799'[Betsey Wynne:] We read this evening "Les Femmes Savantes" and "Les Precieuses Ridicules" of the Theatre of Moliere. ... Moliere [pseud.]Les Femmes SavantesPrint: 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 RidiculesPrint: 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 TartuffePrint: Serial / periodical, Unknown
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 MarisPrint: Unknown
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 [n/a][Gazettes / newspapers from paris]Print: Newspaper
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 RidiculesPrint: 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 LuiPrint: Unknown
1700-1799'I got up very late and ate a large breakfast after which I prayed and read with Mama almost till dinner time'.Elizabeth (Betsey) Wynne [unknown][unknown]Print: Unknown
1700-1799'Mr de Regis read us "Semiramis" a fine trajedy of Voltaire what gave me great pleasure'.[Mr] de Regis Voltaire [pseud.]SemiramisPrint: Unknown
1700-1799'The weather was fine but so dirty I could not go out. I read the "Gazettes" this evening'.Elizabeth (Betsey) Wynne [n/a]GazettesPrint: Newspaper
1700-1799'I stayed in bed till 4 oclock this afternoon the sermon was read after dinner. It was fine but a little too strong'.Elizabeth (Betsey) Wynne [unknown][sermon]Print: Unknown
1700-1799'Mamma suffers much and was obliged to go to bed after dinner so Mr de Regis read the sermon which was on the [Mr] de Regis [unknown][sermon]Print: Unknown
1700-1799'I did not hear much of the sermon today, it was on Apathy for whilst it was being read the children...Elizabeth (Betsey) Wynne [unknown][sermon]Print: Unknown
1700-1799'The Sermon was read this evening: very fine but the praises of the king are too strong'.Elizabeth (Betsey) Wynne [unknown][sermon]Print: Unknown
1700-1799'The sermon that we read was on the Passion and even finer than the last'.Eugenia Wynne and others [unknown][sermon]Print: Unknown
1700-1799'We read the French papers where there was a letter of a soldier written to the King of France which is of the grosses...Elizabeth Wynne and others [n/a][French newspapers]Print: Newspaper, Unknown
1850-1899'From this time [7pm] till nine o'clock, the prisoners are allowed to read such books as they may have obtained from t...prisoners at Pentonville prison [unknown][unknown]Print: Book, Serial / periodical
1850-1899'we had reached a cell in the west wing, to which the first letter was addressed. The women were locked up in their ce...anon [unknown][letter]Manuscript: Letter
1850-1899'In the laundry, the prisoner to whom the letter was given smiled gratefully in the clerk's face, as she thrust it int...anon [unknown][letter]Manuscript: Letter
1850-1899Inspection of the cells of the women in separate confinement: 'we found some working, and others reading, but none, st...prisoners in separate confinement at Brixton Prison [unknown][unknown]Print: Book, Serial / periodical
1850-1899Inspection of the East Wing between 8:30pm and time of retirement: 'with their little wooden seats [they] placed thems...prisoners in East Wing at Brixton Prison [unknown][unknown]Print: Book, Serial / periodical
1850-1899'The first business of the morning being over [rolling up hammocks], the men break into groups or read. Many a one, to...prisoners on board the 'Defence' hulk [n/a]BiblePrint: Book
1850-1899'We found some of the prisoners here engaged in reading, while waiting till the officers returned from their breakfast...anon [n/a]Home Friend - a weekly miscellanyPrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'We found some of the prisoners here engaged in reading, while waiting till the officers returned from their breakfast...anon [n/a]Saturday MagazinePrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'We found some of the prisoners here engaged in reading, while waiting till the officers returned from their breakfast...anon Jonathan Edwards [?]History of RedemptionPrint: Book
1850-1899'We found some of the prisoners here engaged in reading, while waiting till the officers returned from their breakfast...anon [unknown]Family Quarrel - an humble storyPrint: Unknown
1850-1899The infirmary: 'Some of the men were in bed and sitting up reading, and others were lying down, looking very ill.'prisoners in the infirmary at Millbank [unknown][unknown]Print: Unknown
1850-1899Recognised among the prisoners a once eminent City merchant, sentenced to transportation for fraud: 'This person, we w...anon [unknown][French and German language books]Print: Book
1850-1899'A few of the men were reading, and never raised their eyes'prisoners at Coldbath Fields [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1850-1899'In one of the yards we noticed...an old man of eighty, with hair as white as the prison walls themselves, and which w...anon [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1850-1899'A big sailor-looking man with red whiskers growing under his chin, advanced to the hearer's desk. Not a word was spok...anon [unknown][unknown]Manuscript: Sheet
1850-1899'Another - a lad with a bandage round his face, and heavy, dingy-coloured eyes - was sent back for having too many blo...anon [unknown][unknown]Manuscript: Sheet
1850-1899'Once the head master had occasion to speak. A lad with ruddy skin, and light hair, had a defect in his speech, and co...anon [unknown][unknown]Manuscript: Sheet
1850-1899Sundays at Coldbath Fields Prison, only half the prisoners can attend chapel at one time: 'Those who are left behind ...prisoners at Coldbath Fields [n/a]The Penny Sunday ReaderPrint: Book
1850-1899Sundays at Coldbath Fields Prison, only half the prisoners can attend chapel at one time: 'Those who are left behind ...prisoners at Coldbath Fields [unknown][Religious Tracts]Print: Book
1850-1899Schoolroom for boy prisoners at Tothill Fields: 'At the time of our entry, the warder schoolmaster was hearing the bo...boys in prison [n/a]BiblePrint: Book
1850-1899Schoolroom for boy prisoners at Tothill Fields: 'At the other end of the room the lads were making even greater havoc...boys in prison [n/a][school textbook]Print: Book
1850-1899Schoolroom in the female prison at Tothill Fields: 'The warder, to let us see the acquirements of her scholars, bade ...anon [n/a]BiblePrint: Book
1850-1899'A young man sat in the corner of another cell with his cheek leaning on his hand and his elbow resting on the table. ...anon [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1850-1899Schoolroom for juvenile males at Wandsworth Prison: 'One little pale-faced boy was reading his lesson to his kind-hea...anon [unknown][lesson: either Bible or school textbook]Print: Book
1850-1899Schoolroom for juvenile males at Wandsworth Prison: 'One little pale-faced boy was reading his lesson to his kind-hea...anon [n/a]BiblePrint: Book
1850-1899Adult (male) school at Wandsworth held in the prison chapel, 43 in the class, engaged in a Bible lesson: 'Others he c...male prisoners at Wandsworth [n/a]BiblePrint: Book
1850-1899Pictures from the cells at Wandsworth: 'Before leaving, on the third day of our visit, we visited the cell where the ...anon [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1850-1899Juvenile schoolroom at Holloway Prison: 'Mr Barre, the teacher, [was] busy with a class of boys, who were reading the...juvenile male prisoners at Holloway [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1850-1899School for female prisoners at Holloway: 'On a subsequent day we visited the class with the matron, which was then e...female prisoners at Holloway [n/a][Bible]Print: Book
1850-1899Newgate Prison: Visiting the cells: 'We first went to Gallery B, occupied by penal servitude men. In one cell we saw ...anon [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1850-1899Newgate Prison: Visiting the cells: 'In another cell we saw a respectable looking man in middle life, seated at his t...anon [unknown][manuscripts]Manuscript: Sheet
1850-1899Horsemonger Lane Gaol - Visiting the cells: 'On looking into another cell, we saw a prisoner sentenced to penal servi...anon [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1850-1899'six months later I read the following announcement in the "Daily Chronicle": "Yesterday a smart and well-dressed youn...anon [n/a]Daily ChroniclePrint: Newspaper
1700-1799'Ever since I have read "Rudolph of Wertenberg" I have more pleasure when I walk round this country, as it makes me re...Elizabeth (Betsey) Wynne [unknown]Rudolph of WertenbergPrint: Book
1700-1799'I read in the English newspapers an attempt has been made against the life of Louis XVIII as this unfortunate Prince ...Eugenia Wynne [n/a][English newspapers]Print: Newspaper
1900-1945Author describes being put into cell in Reading Gaol for the first time: 'That completed the furniture in the cell. B...Stuart Wood [pseud?] [n/a]The BiblePrint: Book
1900-1945'I have read somewhere in the Koran, "The fate of every man have we bound about his neck".'Stuart Wood [pseud?] [n/a]KoranPrint: Book
1900-1945'in the Army I spent most of my leisure reading in a desultory fashion anything that aroused my interest. Later on I b...Stuart Wood [pseud?] [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1900-1945'After a wait of two months as a trial prisoner, during which I was able to do a considerable amount of reading, I was...Stuart Wood [pseud?] [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1900-1945Description of first month spent in Winchester Prison after sentence: 'Nearly twenty-three hours out of every twenty-...Stuart Wood [pseud?] [n/a]BiblePrint: Book
1900-1945'I endeavoured to counteract this depression by reading the Bible, the only book I had besides a Prayer Book and a Pro...Stuart Wood [pseud?] [n/a]BiblePrint: Book
1900-1945'I had read about this country [China] with its forty centuries of history - more or less static, but which, at the pr...Stuart Wood [pseud?] [unknown][book on China]Print: Book
1900-1945'There was also a pretty good library on board [HMS Spartiate], and I suppose the chaplain, who had charge of it, had ...Stuart Wood [pseud?] [unknown][unknown- various titles]Print: Book
1900-1945Describes studies in order to become an imposter - way of making a living: 'Works of reference in public libraries fu...Stuart Wood [pseud?] [n/a]Who's WhoPrint: Book, Serial / periodical
1900-1945Describes studies in order to become an imposter - way of making a living 'Works of reference in public libraries fur...Stuart Wood [pseud?] [n/a]Crockford's Clerical DictionaryPrint: Book
1900-1945Describes studies in order to become an imposter - way of making a living: 'Works of reference in public libraries fu...Stuart Wood [pseud?] [n/a]Army ListPrint: Book
1900-1945Describes studies in order to become an imposter - way of making a living: 'Works of reference in public libraries fu...Stuart Wood [pseud?] [n/a]Navy ListPrint: Book
1900-1945Describes studies in order to become an imposter - way of making a living: 'Works of reference in public libraries fu...Stuart Wood [pseud?] [n/a]University RegistersPrint: Book
1900-1945Describes studies in order to become an imposter - way of making a living: 'Works of reference in public libraries fu...Stuart Wood [pseud?] [n/a]University Year BooksPrint: Book
1900-1945'I read the Bible because in my humble opinion it is one of the most difficult books in the language to read correctly...Stuart Wood [pseud?] [unknown][sermons]Print: Book
1900-1945'I read the Bible because in my humble opinion it is one of the most difficult books in the language to read correctly...Stuart Wood [pseud?] [unknown]Bampton lecturesPrint: Book
1900-1945'I read the Bible because in my humble opinion it is one of the most difficult books in the language to read correctly...Stuart Wood [pseud?] [unknown]Gifford lecturesPrint: Book
1900-1945'I read the Bible because in my humble opinion it is one of the most difficult books in the language to read correctly...Stuart Wood [pseud?] [unknown][lectures on art, drama, history, science and philosophy]Print: Book
1900-1945'I read the Bible because in my humble opinion it is one of the most difficult books in the language to read correctly...Stuart Wood [pseud?] [unknown][speeches]Print: Book
1900-1945'As I began to mend, the Governor, to keep me from brooding too much, gave orders that I was to have all the reading m...Stuart Wood [pseud?] Jane Austen [?][unknown]Print: Book
1900-1945'At Wormwood Scrubs I lent a work on Henry VIII to a jewel thief. When he returned it, he remarked that he had enjoyed... [unknown][Henry VIII]Print: Book
1900-1945'after I had a bath or a wash we would fall to and spend the rest of the evening round the fire, I reading and Kate se...Stuart Wood [pseud?] [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1900-1945'I read hard in divinity, history and general literature, and threw myself into the religious life of the prison to as...Stuart Wood [pseud?] [unknown][unknown - various titles]Print: Book
1900-1945'I read hard in divinity, history and general literature, and threw myself into the religious life of the prison to as...Stuart Wood [pseud?] [unknown][lives of the Fathers]Print: Book
1900-1945'I read hard in divinity, history and general literature, and threw myself into the religious life of the prison to as...Stuart Wood [pseud?] [unknown][biographies of Christ]Print: Book
1900-1945'I read hard in divinity, history and general literature, and threw myself into the religious life of the prison to as...Stuart Wood [pseud?] [unknown][biographies of St Paul]Print: Book
1900-1945'I read hard in divinity, history and general literature, and threw myself into the religious life of the prison to as...Stuart Wood [pseud?] [unknown][studies on the Apostles]Print: Book
1900-1945Second confinement in the Prison at Hull: 'To enumerate some of the books I read would be to write a small catalogue;...Stuart Wood [pseud?] [unknown][unknown - various titles]Print: Book
1900-1945'I often found peace in the pages of Ecclesiastes or Isaiah, or in the writings of men whom Barry has described as the...Stuart Wood [pseud?] [n/a]BiblePrint: 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?] [unknown][Greek Philosophy]Print: Book
1800-1849'28th - Sunday morning. A bright morning but no land in sight. Found the "United Irishman" of yesterday in my cabin. T...John Mitchel [n/a]United IrishmanPrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849Steamer from Southampton docked at Bermuda, bringing English newspapers up to date of 2nd June: 'Our second lieutenan...John Mitchel [n/a]Morning PostPrint: Newspaper
1800-1849'Here I have been reading an account of Abyssinia, being a volume of the "Family Library", wherein you travel one stag...John Mitchel [unknown][Abyssinia]Print: Book
1800-1849'This evening, after dusk, as I sat at my window, looking drearily out on the darkening waters, something was thrown f...John Mitchel [n/a][London newspaper]Print: Newspaper
1800-1849'Of the state of public opinion in Ireland, and the spirit shown by the surviving organs thereof, I have but this indi...John Mitchel [n/a]Freeman's JournalPrint: Newspaper, Serial / periodical
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 [George] [Allan?][biography of Walter Scott]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
1800-1849'Several newspapers have come to hand; also "Blackwood's Magazine" for October. "Blackwood" has a long article on Iris...John Mitchel [n/a][newspapers]Print: Newspaper
1800-1849'Several newspapers have come to hand; also "Blackwood's Magazine" for October. "Blackwood" has a long article on Iris...John Mitchel [n/a]Blackwood's Edinburgh MagazinePrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'Then I have been turning lazily over the pages of a certain "magazine" called the "Saturday Magazine", which the wort...John Mitchel [n/a]Saturday MagazinePrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'Have been reading in "Tait's Magazine" an elaborate review of a new book by the indefatigable Government literator, M...John Mitchel [uknown]Tait's Edinburgh Magazine [review of Macaulay's History of England]Print: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'I have just been gratified (no matter how or by whom) with a sight of some newspapers, which announce, among other th...John Mitchel [n/a][newspaper]Print: Newspaper
1800-1849'The Doctor has sent into my cabin a "Daily News", which came by the mail on Sunday' [general discussion of its conten...John Mitchel [n/a]Daily NewsPrint: Newspaper
1850-1899'27th - I have just had a visit from two American ship-captains, whose vessels lie here. They approached me most rever...John Mitchel [n/a]Freeman's JournalPrint: Newspaper, Serial / periodical
1800-1849'The enemy thinks I am dead. In a parliamentary report in one of the papers, I read that the Home Secretary, replying ...John Mitchel [n/a][newspaper]Print: Newspaper
1800-1849'I have got Cape newspapers for the last two months, and have been reading of the proceedings of the various anti-conv...John Mitchel [n/a][newspaper]Print: Newspaper
1800-1849'A ship has arrived from England, but does not carry our destiny. Two weekly newspapers. News from Europe up to the 11...John Mitchel [n/a][newspaper]Print: Newspaper
1850-1899'Have been reading the "Quarterly Review" on Lyell's tour in North America. The "Quarterly" rejoices, quite generously...John Mitchel [unknown]Quarterly ReviewPrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'I have seen extracts from the new "Nation". Mr Duffy can hardly find words for his disgust, his contempt, "his utter ...John Mitchel [Duffy]NationPrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'I have seen extracts from the new "Nation". Mr Duffy can hardly find words for his disgust, his contempt, "his utter ...John Mitchel [n/a]The TimesPrint: Newspaper
1850-1899'The Cork "Southern Reporter" echoes the new "Nation", and even tries to go beyond it in treason. Mr Barry quarrels wi...John Mitchel [Barry]Southern ReporterPrint: Newspaper
1850-1899'But from yesterday's "Commercial Advertiser" I will copy two letters, the reading of which and the consultation there...John Mitchel [n/a]Commercial AdvertiserPrint: Newspaper
1850-1899'The Cape papers give extracts from the Van Diemen's Land papers, by which I find that O'Brien, Meagher, O'Donoghue, a...John Mitchel [n/a][Newspapers]Print: Newspaper
1850-1899'I have seen some English papers: this Cape affair has caused wonderful excitement and indignation: a horrid insult ha...John Mitchel [n/a]The Times [and other English newspapers]Print: Newspaper
1850-1899'I have got the Cape newspapers, with their advertising columns full of "the Dinner", "the Illuminations", in large ca...John Mitchel [n/a][newspapers]Print: Newspaper
1850-1899'Some Hobart Town newspapers have come on board. O'Brien is still in very close confinement on an island off the east ...John Mitchel [n/a][newspapers]Print: Newspaper
1850-1899'Some Irish newspapers. I can hardly bear to look into them. But John Knox [John Martin] diligently scans them, with m...John Martin [n/a][Irish newspapers]Print: Newspaper
1850-1899'When the circumstances of my arrest came to be known, some of the newspapers commented severely on the harshness of t...John Mitchel [n/a]Colonial TimesPrint: Newspaper
1850-1899'Yesterday I saw in one of the Van Diemen's Land papers, an extract from some London periodical, in which, as usual, g...John Mitchel [n/a][newspaper]Print: Newspaper
1800-1849'Eugenia and myself were much interested in reading the trial of Governor Wale who I recollect seeing at Florence - he...Betsey and Eugenia Wynne [unknown][trial of Governor Wale]Print: Unknown
1800-1849'Spent a very agreeable day at home; had a delightful lesson of Cramer; wrote a long letter to Angelo, and amused myse...Harriet Wynne [possibly] Eusebius[possibly] The History of the Church from Christ to ConstantinePrint: Book
1800-1849'I was so ennuyed at my blindness, that one evening I made the Chaplain read me four Sermons, which alleviated my suff...Thomas Fremantle [unknown]SermonsPrint: Unknown
1800-1849'The evening was very stupid as both Betsey and Justine did not talk one being asleep and the other busily employed re...Justina Wynne [n/a]BiblePrint: Book
1850-1899Sunday 18 October: 'we had service on the poop the Shoole master held it then was a box on board with books ther was ...Maria Steley [n/a][Bible or Prayer Books or Hymn Books]Print: Book
1850-1899Monday 26 October 'we are sailing this Morning 9 miles a hour if we go on at that rate we shall soone be ther i Don't...anon [n/a][funeral service]Print: Book
1850-1899Dec 9 'Sunday, Had a swim then breakfast and kikied anchor bound for [indecipherable]. Read "Death Notch the Avenging...Newton Barton [unknown]Death Notch the Avenging RancherPrint: Unknown
1850-189913 Mar 'This is written in bad light and the vessel heaving and rolling. Hicks is discovering sweet music on the acco...Luce [unknown][Bulletin]Unknown
1800-1849'I read in the "Gibraltar Chronicle" that Adml. Villeneuve was assassinated at Rennes on the 23rd of April, what a hor...Thomas Fremantle [n/a]Gibraltar ChroniclePrint: Newspaper
1800-1849'Then I became seized with a desire to know something about religion, and I read the commandments over and over again,...Mark Jeffrey [n/a]BiblePrint: 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 [unknown][pestilent literature of rascaldom]Print: Book, Serial / periodical
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
1800-1849'It is a considerable time since I saw Leslie's review of La Place'[s] essay on chances - and remarked with considerab...Thomas Carlyle Sir John Leslie [or Playfair?]review of Laplace's Essai philosophique sur les probabilitesPrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849[Carlyle tells how he was trying to write a learned exegesis and came to a dead halt] 'One cannot long be idle - you w...Thomas Carlyle [unknown][unknown novel]Print: Book
1800-1849'But the most extraordinary production of any, I have seen these many days, is "La Pucelle d'Orleans" an Epic by Volta...Thomas Carlyle Voltaire [pseud.]La Pucelle d'OrleansPrint: 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 [n/a]Edinburgh ReviewPrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'I had almost forgotten to thank [you] for my books - they are just such as I wanted. "Blair" is an excellent piece - ...Thomas Carlyle [unknown][an Italian Grammar]Print: Book
1850-1899Davitt meets with a fellow prisoner released on ticket-of-leave: '"I promised you", he exclaimed upon meeting me, "th...Michael Davitt [n/a]Daily TelegraphPrint: Advertisement, Newspaper
1800-1849'A variety of works have been begun about the new year (as is the fashion) in the "periodical line". A weekly newspape...Thomas Carlyle [n/a]The ScotsmanPrint: Newspaper
1800-1849'A variety of works have been begun about the new year (as is the fashion) in the "periodical line". A weekly newspape...Thomas Carlyle [unknown]The Sale RoomPrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'I have read little of any consequence since I wrote to you. You will have seen the last Numbers of the "Edinr" & "Qua...Thomas Carlyle [n/a]Edinburgh ReviewPrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'I have read little of any consequence since I wrote to you. You will have seen the last Numbers of the "Edinr" & "Qua...Thomas Carlyle [n/a]Quarterly ReviewPrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'We get a "Dumfries Courier" here amongst us. Our third Number reached us a few days ago. It seems M'Darmaid [M'Diarmi...Thomas Carlyle [n/a]Dumfries CourierPrint: Newspaper
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 [n/a]The ScotsmanPrint: Newspaper
1800-1849'What I deplore is that laziness and dissipation of mind to which I am still subject. At present I am quieting my cons...Thomas Carlyle [n/a]Literary and Statistical Magazine for ScotlandPrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849I told you I had seen the "Quarterly Review". You would notice its contents in the newspaper. It is a long time since ...Thomas Carlyle [n/a]Quarterly ReviewPrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'I have seen the first number of Constable's new magazine - it seems scarcely equal to Blackwood's - the last number o...Thomas Carlyle [n/a]Edinburgh MagazinePrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'I have seen the first number of Constable's new magazine - it seems scarcely equal to Blackwood's - the last number o...Thomas Carlyle [n/a]Edinburgh Monthly MagazinePrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'I have seen the first number of Constable's new magazine - it seems scarcely equal to Blackwood's - the last number o...Thomas Carlyle [n/a]Edinburgh observer or Town and Country MagazinePrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'Some time since, all the world was astonished at the 2nd number of "Blackwoods (formerly the Edinr) magazine" - The g...Thomas Carlyle [n/a]Blackwood's Edinburgh MagazinePrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849I console myself with Doddridge's Expositor and "The Scholar Armed", to say nothing of a very popular book called "The...Sydney Smith [anon]The Scholar Armed
1800-1849I console myself with Doddridge's Expositor and "The Scholar Armed", to say nothing of a very popular book called "The...Sydney Smith [unknown]The Dissenter Tripped Up
1800-1849'Has Lord Grey read the Edinburgh Review? the article on Barrere is by Macaulay, that upon Lord St Vincent by Barrow; ...Sydney Smith [n/a]Edinburgh ReviewPrint: Serial / periodical
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 1829Print: Book
1800-1849'Have you noticed the Abuse of St Pauls in the Times - I ws moved to write but kept Silence though it was pain and gri...Sydney Smith [n/a]The TimesPrint: Newspaper
1800-1849Extract from the journal of Adam Dodd: 'When I first came on board the A-, I was as thoughtless as anyone on board; b...Adam Dodd [n/a]BiblePrint: Book
1800-1849Short way into the voyage, surgeon receives a letter from one of the convicts: 'He then mentions the influence which ...anon [unknown][the barren fig tree]Print: Book
1800-1849Short way into the voyage, surgeon receives a letter from one of the convicts: 'He then mentions the influence which ...anon [n/a]BiblePrint: Book
1800-1849Short way into the voyage, surgeon receives a letter from one of the convicts: 'He then mentions the influence which ...Colin Arrott Browning [n/a]BiblePrint: Book
1800-1849Confession of invalid convict George Day: 'I hope I prayed but found little peace, until I heard the doctor pressing ...Colin Arrott Browning [n/a]BiblePrint: Book
1800-1849Conversion of convict J- V-; when came on board the ship he was a convinced socialist, and when appointed school teach... [n/a]BiblePrint: Book
1800-1849Conversion of convict J- V-; when came on board the ship he was a convinced socialist, and when appointed school teach... [n/a][devotional texts]Print: Book
1800-1849Conversion of F.M., while greatly affected by death of fellow convict, John Williams: 'My feelings I cannot describe. ... [n/a]BiblePrint: Book
1800-1849Conversion of hardened convict, as a result of a storm which brought terror to his mind: 'It was then I thought of Je... [n/a]BiblePrint: Book
1800-1849'One berth was occupied by George Day... He appeared to be always humble, always contented and resigned, always gratef...George Day [n/a]BiblePrint: Book
1700-1799'Finished a review of Cicero's tract "De Officiis"...' Thomas Green [unknown][unknown]Print: Unknown
1800-1849'I see your name mentioned among the writers in Constable's Encyclopaedia; pray tell me what articles you have written...Sydney Smith Archibald Constable [ed.]Encyclopaedia BritannicaPrint: Book
1800-1849'I speak of books as I read them, and I read them as I can get them. You are read up to twelve o' clock of the precedi...Sydney Smith [unknown][evidence of Elgin Marble Committee]Print: Unknown
1800-1849'You must have had a lively time at Edinburgh from this "Beacon". But Edinburgh is rather too small for such explosion...Sydney Smith [unknown]The BeaconPrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'I have received from you within these few months some very polite and liberal presents of new publications ; and thou...Sydney Smith William Pitt Scargill [anon.]Elizabeth EvanshawPrint: Book
1800-1849'I have received from you within these few months some very polite and liberal presents of new publications ; and thou...Sydney Smith [anon.]Three Months in Ireland. By an English ProtestantPrint: Book
1700-1799'Dr Rennel has published two or three Sermons lately which I would advise you to buy: they are written in a style of f...Sydney Smith Thomas Rennel [ed.][Sermons]Print: Unknown
1800-1849'I have as yet read very few articles in the Edinburgh Review, having lent it to a sick countess, who only wished to r...Sydney Smith [n/a]Edinburgh ReviewPrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'I have read the Budget today and am in low spirits at the provoking prosperity of the country. It is impossible to ru...Sydney Smith [n/a][The Budget]Print: Unknown
1800-1849'Talk and read the papers'Mary Godwin [n/a][newspapers]Print: Newspaper
1800-1849'after dinner read l'esprit des nations 132 Shelley read[s] Italian - read 15 lines of Ovids metamo[r]phosis with Hogg...Mary Godwin Voltaire [pseud.]Le Micromegas de M. de Voltaire, avec une histoire des croisades & un nouveau plan de l'histoire de l'esprit humainPrint: Book
1800-1849'after dinner read l'esprit des nations 132 Shelley read[s] Italian - read 15 lines of Ovids metamo[r]phosis with Hogg...Percy Bysshe Shelley [unknown][work in Italian]Print: Unknown
1800-1849'read Ovid with Hogg (fin. 2nd fable). Shelley reads Gibbon and pastor fido with Clary - in the evening read Esprit de...Mary Godwin Voltaire [pseud.]Le Micromegas de M. de Voltaire, avec une histoire des croisades & un nouveau plan de l'histoire de l'esprit humainPrint: Book
1800-1849'Read Voltaire before breakfast (87)'Mary Godwin Voltaire [pseud.]Le Micromegas de M. de Voltaire, avec une histoire des croisades & un nouveau plan de l'histoire de l'esprit humainPrint: Book
1800-1849'After tea read Ovid 83 lines - Shelley two or three cantos of Ariosto with Clary and plays a game of chess with her R...Mary Godwin Voltaire [pseud.]Le Micromegas de M. de Voltaire, avec une histoire des croisades & un nouveau plan de l'histoire de l'esprit humainPrint: Book
1800-1849'[italics to denote Shelley's hand] S. reads Ovid - Medea and the description of the Plague - After tea M. reads Ovid ...Mary Godwin Voltaire [pseud.]Le Micromegas de M. de Voltaire, avec une histoire des croisades & un nouveau plan de l'histoire de l'esprit humainPrint: Book
1800-1849'Shelley reads Voltaire Essai sur des Nations'Percy Bysshe Shelley Voltaire [pseud.]Le Micromegas de M. de Voltaire, avec une histoire des croisades & un nouveau plan de l'histoire de l'esprit humainPrint: Book
1800-1849'Jefferson reads Don Quixote - C. reads Gibbon - S. finishes the 17th canto of Orlando Furioso - Read Voltaire's Essay...Mary Godwin Voltaire [pseud.]Le Micromegas de M. de Voltaire, avec une histoire des croisades & un nouveau plan de l'histoire de l'esprit humainPrint: Book
1800-1849[Mary Shelley's Reading List for 1815. Only those titles not mentioned in journal entries are given separate database ...Mary Godwin [anon.]Memoirs of Lady Hamilton; With Illustrative Anecdotes of Many of her Friends and Distinguished Contemporaries
1700-1799[Betsey]:'The gazettes from France were read this evening there was nothing remarquable in them. We began again "Les P...Eugenia Wynne [n/a][Gazettes / newspapers from paris]Print: Newspaper
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 RidiculesPrint: 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 Robert Southey [anon.]Letters from England; by Don Manuel Alvarez Espriella . . . Translated from the SpanishPrint: 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 [anon.]Memoirs of Lady Hamilton; With Illustrative Anecdotes of Many of her Friends and Distinguished ContemporariesPrint: Book
1800-1849 [Mary Shelley's Reading List for 1815. Only those titles not mentioned in journal entries are given separate databas...Percy Bysshe Shelley [n/a]New Testament, ThePrint: 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 Edmund Burke [anon.]A Vindication of Natural Society . . . In a letter to Lord ****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 Voltaire [pseud.]Histoire de Charles XII, Roi de SuedePrint: Book
1700-1799Letter to Miss Ewing October 3 1778 'He is an uncommon, indeed I may say, an exalted character; one of those of whom P...Anne Grant [nee MacVicar] [Edward?] [Young?][Satire VI?]Print: Book
1700-1799Letter to Miss Ourry July 13, 1779 'The sublime and solid consolations which true religion and right reason afford, ar...Anne Grant [nee MacVicar] [Edward?] [Young?][?Night Thoughts]Print: Book
1700-1799Letter to Mrs Ourry September 1791 'Clanship, doubtless, narrows the affections, and produces many absurd and unpleasi...Anne Grant [nee MacVicar] ["Parisian philosophers"]unknownPrint: Book
1800-1849'Shelley reads Plutarch in Greek - Lord B - comes down & stays here an hour - I read a novel in the evening'Mary Godwin [unknown][a novel]Print: Book
1800-1849'Finish "Caroline of Litchfield" and "Marmotel's tales". Read Bertram and Christabel and several articles of the quart...Mary Godwin [n/a]Quarterly Review, ThePrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'[italics to indicate Percy Shelley's hand] Still at Havre - engage a passage - wind contrary [end italics] - read "le...Mary Godwin [unknown]Le Criminel SecretPrint: Unknown
1800-1849'read the Edinburgh Review and the second vol. of the antiquary'Mary Godwin [n/a]Edinburgh ReviewPrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'Shelley reads P.[eter] Pindars works aloud'Percy Bysshe Shelley Peter Pindar [pseud.]WorksPrint: Book
1800-1849'Read Patronage & the Milesian chief - finish 5th vol of Clarendon - Shelley reads life of Cromwell'Percy Bysshe Shelley [unknown]Memoirs of Oliver Cromwell and his children, supposed to be written by himselfPrint: Book
1800-1849'Finish Milesian & Patronage - read Holcrofts travels - S. reads life of Cromwell.'Percy Bysshe Shelley [unknown]Memoirs of Oliver Cromwell and his children, supposed to be written by himselfPrint: Book
1600-1699'and at the Dukes, with great joy, I received the good news of the decrease of the plague this week to 70, and but 253...Samuel Pepys [n/a]Bill of mortalityPrint: Broadsheet, Handbill, Poster
1600-1699'I went therefore to Mr Boreman's for pastime, and stayed an hour or two, talking with him and reading a discourse abo...Samuel Pepys [unknown][Discourse on the River Thames]Print: Unknown
1600-1699'He set me down at Mr Gawden's, where nobody yet come home... So I took a book and into the gardens and there walked a...Samuel Pepys [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'And so to the Chapel and there saw, among other things, Sir H. Wottons stone, with this Epitaph - "Hic Jacet primu...Samuel Pepys [unknown][epitaph on memorial stone]Manuscript: Graffito
1600-1699'But blessed be God, a good Bill this week we have - being but 237 in all and 42 of the plague, and of them, but 6 in ...Samuel Pepys [unknown]Bill of mortalityPrint: Broadsheet, Handbill, Poster
1500-1599Marginal notes appear throughout this book, on almost every page. These notes range from comments written in Latin sho...anon Petrus de Palude [?]Sermones thesauri novi de temporePrint: Book
1800-1849'write - read old voyages.'Mary Godwin [unknown][old voyages]Print: Book
1600-1699'Thence to the Exchange, that is, the New Exchange, and looked over some play-books, and entended to get all the late ...Samuel Pepys [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1800-1849'read Locke and the Edinburgh review and two odes of Horace - S. reads Political Justice & Shakespeare and the 23rd Ch...Mary Godwin [n/a]Edinburgh ReviewPrint: Serial / periodical
1600-1699'Anon to Sir W. Penn to bed, and made my boy Tom to read me asleep.'Tom [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'I to dinner, and thence to my chamber to read, and so to the office'Samuel Pepys [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'And the news-book makes that business nothing, but that they are all dispersed.'Samuel Pepys [n/a]London GazettePrint: Newspaper
1600-1699'This day in the gazette was the whole story of defeating the Scotch Rebells, and of the creation of the Duke of Cambr...Samuel Pepys [n/a]London GazettePrint: Newspaper
1600-1699'Thence home to dinner; and there W. Hewer dined with me, and showed me a Gazett in Aprill last (which I wonder should...Samuel Pepys [n/a]London GazettePrint: Newspaper
1600-1699'and so to supper and to read, and so to bed'Samuel Pepys [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1800-1849'read Lucian aloud to Clare - I ode of Horace - In the evening the Quarterly Review and Lock [sic]'Mary Godwin [n/a]Quarterly ReviewPrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'read several papers in the Spectator - Locke - And Memoirs of Count Gramont'Mary Shelley [n/a]SpectatorPrint: Serial / periodical
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] [Gifford]The Baviad and the MaeviadPrint: 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]CaractacusPrint: 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 [Nicolas] Boileau[-Despreaux]Satires [and other works]Print: Book
1600-1699'and then I home to supper, and to read a little and to bed.'Samuel Pepys [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'and so after supper and reading a little, and my wife's cutting off my hair short, which is grown too long upon the c...Samuel Pepys [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'and I read the petty-warrants all the day till late at night, that I was very weary, and troubled to have my private ...Samuel Pepys [unknown][petty-warrants]Manuscript: Unknown
1600-1699'and so to my chamber, having little left to do at my office, my eyes being a little sore by reason of my reading a sm...Samuel Pepys [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'and then to the Change, where for certain I hear, and the newsbook declares, a peace between France and Portugal.'Samuel Pepys [n/a]London GazettePrint: Newspaper
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 [Samuel] [Parr]Bellendenus [preface to]Print: Book
1800-1849'Read Junius - Rain all day - work'Mary Shelley Junius [pseud.]Letters of JuniusPrint: Book
1800-1849'work and read Junius read Amadis'Mary Shelley Junius [pseud.]Letters of JuniusPrint: Book
1600-1699'and so after supper to read and then to bed.'Samuel Pepys [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'and so a little at the office and home, to read a little and to supper and bed'Samuel Pepys [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'and at noon all of us to Kent's at the Three Tun tavern and there dined well at Mr Gawden's charge. There the constab...Samuel Pepys [unknown][table-book]Manuscript: table-book
1600-1699'and so to supper, and after a little reading, to bed.'Samuel Pepys [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1800-1849'S. reads the bible'.Percy Bysshe Shelley [n/a]BiblePrint: Book
1800-1849'Read Pliny - work - Shelley read[s] Hist. French Revolution.'Percy Bysshe Shelley [unknown][History of the French Revolution]Print: Book
1800-1849'Read the Quarterly Review'Mary Shelley [n/a]Quarterly ReviewPrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'finish 2nd book of Tacitus and read Buffon's Hist. Nat. - S. reads Arrian - Watson acquitted - read his trial'.Mary Shelley [unknown][trial of Watson, surgeon accused f high treason]Print: Unknown
1800-1849'Read sleeper awakened in the arabian nights'Mary Shelley [n/a]Arabian Nights, ThePrint: Book
1800-1849'I am confined Tuesday 2nd. Read Rhoda - Pastors Fire Side - Missionary - Wild Irish Girls - The Anaconda. Glenarvon -...Mary Shelley [anon.]RhodaPrint: 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 TheatrePrint: Book
1800-1849'S. reads "France" - read Romans de Voltaire - Hume'Mary Shelley Voltaire [pseud.][unknown]Print: Book
1800-1849'read 2 plays in the ancient drama'Mary Shelley [anon (ed)]Ancient English DramaPrint: Book
1800-1849'Read Italian operas - Montaigne'Mary Shelley [unknown][Italian operas]Print: Book
1800-1849'Read Moliere's Plays'Mary Shelley Moliere [pseud.][Plays]Print: Book
1600-1699'After supper, I to read and then to bed.'Samuel Pepys [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'and so walked to Stepny and spent my time in the churchyard looking over the gravestones, expecting when the company ...Samuel Pepys [n/a][gravestones]Manuscript: Graffito
1600-1699'and thence home, where to supper and then to read a little; and so to bed.'Samuel Pepys [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'And so home and there to the office a little; and thence to my chamber to read and supper, and to bed.'Samuel Pepys [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'This day I read (shown me by Mr Gibson) a discourse newly come forth, of the King of France his pretence to Flanders;...Samuel Pepys [unknown]A dialogue concerning the rights of His Most Christian MajestyPrint: Book
1600-1699'and then to my boat again and home, reading and making an end of the book I lately bought, a merry Satyre called "The...Samuel Pepys Roger L'Estrange [translator]The visions of Don Francisco de QuevedoPrint: Book
1600-1699'and then home to my chamber to read and write; and then to supper and to bed.' Samuel Pepys [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'Fen read me an order of council passed the 17th instant, directing all the Treasurers of any part of the King's reven... [unknown][order of council]Manuscript: Unknown
1600-1699'and Creed did also repeat to me some of the substance of letters of old Burleigh in Queen Elizabeth's time which he h...John Creed [unknown]Cabala, sive Scrinia SacraPrint: Book
1600-1699'and so we home to supper, and I read myself asleep and so to bed.'Samuel Pepys [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'and so home to supper and to read myself asleep, and then to bed.'Samuel Pepys [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'and so the women and W. Hewer and I walked upon the Downes, where a flock of sheep was, and the most pleasant and inn...anon [n/a]BiblePrint: Book
1600-1699'and then to my chamber to read, and so to bed'Samuel Pepys [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'and so home and to my chamber to read; and then to supper and to bed.'Samuel Pepys [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'and I home to supper and to read a little and then to bed.'Samuel Pepys [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'and so home, and after some little reading in my chamber, to supper and to bed.'Samuel Pepys [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'and then home and to my chamber to read'Samuel Pepys [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1800-1849'Finish copying the Cenci'Mary Shelley [unknown]Relazione della morte famiglia Cenci sequita in Roma il di 11 Maggio 1599Manuscript: Unknown
1800-1849'S. reads Electra and Ajax. Read the 8th Canto of Ariosto and the 4th Act of Phormio - Finish the Mille et une nuits. ...Mary Shelley Voltaire [pseud.]ZairePrint: Book
1800-1849'S. reads Electra and Ajax. Read the 8th Canto of Ariosto and the 4th Act of Phormio - Finish the Mille et une nuits. ...Mary Shelley Voltaire [pseud.]AlzirePrint: Book
1800-1849'Read 10th Canto of Ariosto - the Mahomet of Voltaire'Mary Shelley Voltaire [pseud.]MahometPrint: Book
1800-1849'Read 11th Canto of Ariosto & Merope & Simiramis [sic] of Voltaire'Mary Shelley Voltaire [pseud.]La MeropePrint: Book
1800-1849'Read 11th Canto of Ariosto & Merope & Simiramis [sic] of Voltaire'Mary Shelley Voltaire [pseud.]La Tragedie de SemiramisPrint: Book
1800-1849'Read 12 Canto of Ariosto - & L'orphelin de Chine & Tancrede of Voltaire'Mary Shelley Voltaire [pseud.]TancredePrint: Book
1800-1849'Read 12 Canto of Ariosto - & L'orphelin de Chine & Tancrede of Voltaire'Mary Shelley Voltaire [pseud.]L'Orphelin de ChinePrint: Book
1600-1699'and so to my chamber, and got her to read to me for saving of my eyes'Elizabeth Pepys [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'Here I also saw a printed account of the examinations taking touching the burning of the City of London, showing the ...Samuel Pepys [unknown]London's Flames, or The discovery of such evidence as were deposed before the Committee of Parliament etc, with the insolences of the Popish partyPrint: Book
1600-1699'and so parted and to bed - after my wife had read something to me (to save my eyes) in a good book.'Elizabeth Pepys [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'In the evening read [a] good book, my wife to me'Elizabeth Pepys [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'and then home without strangers to dinner, and then my wife to read, and then I to the office'Elizabeth Pepys [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'and then home to supper and my wife to read; and then to bed.'Elizabeth Pepys [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'all morning at my office shut up with Mr Gibson, I walking and he reading to me the order books of the office from th...Richard Gibson [n/a]Books containing the abstracts of ordersManuscript: Unknown
1600-1699'Then home to read, sup and to bed.'Samuel Pepys [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'he and I all the afternoon to read over our office letters, to see what matter can be got for our advantage or disadv...Samuel Pepys [n/a][office letters]Manuscript: Letter
1600-1699'he and I all the afternoon to read over our office letters, to see what matter can be got for our advantage or disadv...Will Hewer [n/a][office letters]Manuscript: Letter
1600-1699'and when came home there, I got my wife to read'Elizabeth Pepys [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'and there however I got her to read to me the "History of Algier", which I find a very pretty book.'Elizabeth Pepys John Davies [transl]The history of Algiers and its slaveryPrint: Book
1600-1699'I read to her out of the "History of Algiers", which is mighty pretty reading'Samuel Pepys John Davies [transl]The history of Algiers and its slaveryPrint: Book
1600-1699'After dinner, up to my wife again, who is in great pain still with her tooth and cheek; and there, they gone, I spent...Samuel Pepys [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'And so it growing night, I away home by coach, and there set my wife to read'Elizabeth Pepys [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'and so I walked away homeward, and there reading all the evening; and so to bed'Samuel Pepys [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'So he gone, I to read a little in my chamber, and so to bed.'Samuel Pepys [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'and then to my chamber and read most of the evening till pretty late, when, my wife not being well, I did lie below s...Samuel Pepys [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'He gone, we home and there I to read, and my belly being full of my dinner today, I anon to bed'Samuel Pepys [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'and so home to supper and to read, and then to bed.'Samuel Pepys [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'and there took a hackney and home and there to read and talk with my wife'Samuel Pepys [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'and she being gone, I to my chamber to read a little again, and then after supper to bed.'Samuel Pepys [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'and so home, and there spent the evening making Balty read to me; and so to supper and to bed.'Balthasar St Michael [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'But Lord, to see among the young commanders and Tho Killigrew and others that came, how unlike a burial this was, Obr...Samuel Pepys [unknown][street ballads]Print: Broadsheet, Handbill
1600-1699'And in the evening betimes came to Reding and there heard my wife read more of "Mustapha".'Elizabeth Pepys [unknown]MustaphaPrint: Book
1600-1699'and then home - and there to get my wife to read to me till supper, and then to bed'Elizabeth Pepys [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'and then at night, my wife to read again and to supper and to bed.'Elizabeth Pepys [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'Thence walked to Barne elmes; and there, and going and coming, did make the boy read to me several things, being nowa... [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'and so to bed, after hearing my wife read a little.'Elizabeth Pepys [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'Thence home and there with Mr Hater and W Hewer late, reading over all the Principal Officers' instructions in order ...Samuel Pepys [unknown]Principal Officer's instructionsUnknown
1600-1699'and the Duke of York and Wren and I, it being now candle-light, into the Duke of York's closet in White-hall and ther...Samuel Pepys [unknown][paper on the faults of the Navy]Manuscript: Unknown
1600-1699'and the Duke of York and Wren and I, it being now candle-light, into the Duke of York's closet in White-hall and ther...Matthew Wren [unknown][paper on the faults of the Navy]Manuscript: Unknown
1600-1699'and the Duke of York and Wren and I, it being now candle-light, into the Duke of York's closet in White-hall and ther...James, Duke of York [unknown][paper on the faults of the Navy]Manuscript: Unknown
1600-1699'and so W. Penn and Lord Brouncker and I at the lodging of the latter to read over our new draft of the victualler's c...Samuel Pepys [unknown][draft of the victualler's contract]Manuscript: Unknown
1600-1699'and so W. Penn and Lord Brouncker and I at the lodging of the latter to read over our new draft of the victualler's c...Sir William Penn [unknown][draft of the victualler's contract]Manuscript: Unknown
1600-1699'and so W. Penn and Lord Brouncker and I at the lodging of the latter to read over our new draft of the victualler's c...Lord Brouncker [unknown][draft of the victualler's contract]Manuscript: Unknown
1600-1699'And coming back I spent reading of the book of warrants of our office in the first Dutch war, and do find that my let...Samuel Pepys [unknown][book of warrants in Cromwell's war, 1652-4]Manuscript: Unknown
1600-1699'My boy was with me, and read to me all day' [unknown][unknown]Unknown
1600-1699'And so home and to my business, and to read again and to bed.'Samuel Pepys [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'and away home myself, and there to read again and sup with Gibson; and so to bed.'Samuel Pepys [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'And so to dinner alone, having since church-time heard my boy read over Dryden's reply to Sir R Howard's answer about...Richard Flecknoe [?]A letter from a gentleman to the Hon. Ed. Howard, Esq.Print: Book
1600-1699'So to supper, and the boy to read to me, and so to bed.' [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'So back home to supper, and made my boy read to me a while, and then to bed.' [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'And so back to my chamber, the boy to read to me; and so to supper and to bed.' [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'and so home to supper, and the boy to read to me; and so to bed.' [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'And so to hear my boy read a little, and supper and to bed.' [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'So home to read and sup; and to bed.'Samuel Pepys [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'and then they gone, and my wife to read to me, and to bed.'Elizabeth Pepys [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'and so home and did get my wife to read to me'Elizabeth Pepys [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'Thence with W. Penn home, and there to get my people to read and to supper and so to bed.'Samuel Pepys [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'and so home and to supper, and got my wife to read to me and so to bed.'Elizabeth Pepys [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'and we home to supper, and my wife to read to me and so to bed.'Elizabeth Pepys [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'and in the evening home, and there made my wife read till supper time, and so to bed.'Elizabeth Pepys [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'and so home, and my wife to read to me; and then with much content to bed.'Elizabeth Pepys [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'and after dinner, all the afternoon got my wife and boy to read to me.'Elizabeth Pepys [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'and after dinner, all the afternoon got my wife and boy to read to me.' [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'and my wife to read to me all the afternoon'Elizabeth Pepys [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'So to read and talk with my wife, till by and by called to the office'Samuel Pepys [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'and so made the boy read to me' [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'And so in to solace myself with my wife, whom I got to read to me, and so W. Hewer and the boy'Elizabeth Pepys [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'and then with comfort to sit with my wife, and get her to read to me'Elizabeth Pepys [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'and then home, where my wife to read to me; and so to supper and to bed.'Elizabeth Pepys [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'and thence home, and my wife to read to me and W. Hewer to set some matters of accounts right at my chamber; to bed.'Elizabeth Pepys [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'and then home to ease my eyes and make my wife read to me.'Elizabeth Pepys [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'and so home, and with W. Hewer with me, to read and talk'William Hewer [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'So home, and there to talk and my wife to read to me, and so to bed.'Elizabeth Pepys [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'In the evening, he gone, my wife to read to me and talk, and spent the evening with much pleasure; and so to supper a...Elizabeth Pepys [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'and so home, with much pleasure talking and then to reading; and so to supper and to bed.'Elizabeth Pepys [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'So home and to supper and read'Samuel Pepys [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'and so home, and there with pleasure to read and talk'Samuel Pepys [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'and so my wife and I spent the rest of the evening in talk and reading, and so with great pleasure to bed.'Samuel Pepys [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'and to dinner and then to read and talk, my wife and I alone'Samuel Pepys [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'and so home and to supper and read'Samuel Pepys [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'and so home with my wife, who read to me late; and so to supper and to bed.'Elizabeth Pepys [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'and there to read and talk with my wife, and so to bed.'Elizabeth Pepys [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'and so to read and to supper, and so to bed.'Samuel Pepys [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'and so took my wife home, and there to make her to read, and then to supper and to bed.'Elizabeth Pepys [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'and home, my wife to read to me'Elizabeth Pepys [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'and then home to supper with my wife, and to get her to read to me.'Elizabeth Pepys [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'and I spent all afternoon with my wife and W. Battelier talking and then making them read, and perticularly made an e...William Battelier [unknown]Le commerce honourable ou Considerations Politiques OR Relation de l'establissement de la Compagnie Fran?oise pour le commerce des Indes OrientalesPrint: Book
1600-1699'and after dinner, to get my wife and boy, one after another, to read to me - and so spent the afternoon and evening'Elizabeth Pepys [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'and after dinner, to get my wife and boy, one after another, to read to me - and so spent the afternoon and evening' [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'And so home to supper, and get my wife to read to me, and then to bed.'Elizabeth Pepys [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'I away home; and there spent the evening talking and reading with my wife and Mr Pelling'Elizabeth Pepys [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'and then home to my wife to read to me, and to bed'Elizabeth Pepys [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'and then home, and there my wife to read to me, my eyes being sensibly hurt by the too great lights of the playhouse.'Elizabeth Pepys [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'So home, and my wife read to me till supper, and to bed.'Elizabeth Pepys [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'So down to supper, and she to read to me, and then with all possible kindness to bed.'Elizabeth Pepys [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'and my wife to read to me, and then to bed in mighty good humour, but for my eyes.'Elizabeth Pepys [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'Up, and to my office with Tom, whom I made read to me the books of Propositions in the time of the Grand Commission, ...Tom Edwards [unknown][Report of the reforming commission of 1618]Unknown
1600-1699'and I to my office and there made an end of the books of Proposicions; which did please me mightily to hear read, the...Tom Edwards [?] [unknown][Report of the reforming commission of 1618]Unknown
1600-1699'and so spent the whole morning with W. Hewer, he taking little notes in short-hand, while I hired a clerk to read to ... [unknown][documents on the history of the Navy]Manuscript: Roll
1600-1699'So home, and did get my wife to read, and so to supper and to bed.'Elizabeth Pepys [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'At night, my wife to read to me and then to supper'Elizabeth Pepys [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'and so home, where got my wife to read to me, and so after supper to bed.'Elizabeth Pepys [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'So home, and there to my chamber and got my wife to read to me a little'Elizabeth Pepys [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'and so away, back by water home, and after dinner got my wife to read'Elizabeth Pepys [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1850-1899Report of Inspector of Prisons on Reading Gaol - interviews with prisoners on progress in learning and reading at the ...anon [n/a]New TestamentPrint: Book
1850-1899Report of Inspector of Prisons on Reading Gaol - interviews with prisoners on progress in learning and reading at the ...anon [n/a]New TestamentPrint: Book
1850-1899Report of Inspector of Prisons on Reading Gaol - interviews with prisoners on progress in learning and reading at the ...anon [n/a]BiblePrint: Book
1850-1899Report of Inspector of Prisons on Reading Gaol - interviews with prisoners on progress in learning and reading at the ...anon [n/a]New TestamentPrint: Book
1850-1899Report of Inspector of Prisons on Reading Gaol - interviews with prisoners on progress in learning and reading at the ...anon [n/a]BiblePrint: Book
1850-1899Report of Inspector of Prisons on Reading Gaol - interviews with prisoners on progress in learning and reading at the ...anon [n/a]New TestamentPrint: Book
1850-1899Report of Inspector of Prisons on Reading Gaol - interviews with prisoners on progress in learning and reading at the ...anon [n/a]New TestamentPrint: Book
1850-1899The Weekly Return of Lessons repeated by Prisoners at Reading Gaol from 25 May to 1 June 1850. (Report of the schoolma...J.L. [n/a]BiblePrint: Book
1850-1899The Weekly Return of Lessons repeated by Prisoners at Reading Gaol from 25 May to 1 June 1850. (Report of the schoolma...W.A. [n/a]BiblePrint: Book
1850-1899The Weekly Return of Lessons repeated by Prisoners at Reading Gaol from 25 May to 1 June 1850. (Report of the schoolma...G.N. [n/a]BiblePrint: Book
1850-1899The Weekly Return of Lessons repeated by Prisoners at Reading Gaol from 25 May to 1 June 1850. (Report of the schoolma...J.B. [n/a]BiblePrint: Book
1850-1899The Weekly Return of Lessons repeated by Prisoners at Reading Gaol from 25 May to 1 June 1850. (Report of the schoolma...S.D. [n/a]BiblePrint: Book
1850-1899The Weekly Return of Lessons repeated by Prisoners at Reading Gaol from 25 May to 1 June 1850. (Report of the schoolma...J.H. [n/a]BiblePrint: Book
1850-1899The Weekly Return of Lessons repeated by Prisoners at Reading Gaol from 25 May to 1 June 1850. (Report of the schoolma...R.T. [n/a]BiblePrint: Book
1850-1899The Weekly Return of Lessons repeated by Prisoners at Reading Gaol from 25 May to 1 June 1850. (Report of the schoolma...W.T. [n/a]BiblePrint: Book
1850-1899The Weekly Return of Lessons repeated by Prisoners at Reading Gaol from 25 May to 1 June 1850. (Report of the schoolma...W.T. [n/a]BiblePrint: Book
1850-1899The Weekly Return of Lessons repeated by Prisoners at Reading Gaol from 25 May to 1 June 1850. (Report of the schoolma...T.S. [n/a]BiblePrint: Book
1850-1899The Weekly Return of Lessons repeated by Prisoners at Reading Gaol from 25 May to 1 June 1850. (Report of the schoolma...W.M. [n/a]BiblePrint: Book
1850-1899The Weekly Return of Lessons repeated by Prisoners at Reading Gaol from 25 May to 1 June 1850. (Report of the schoolma...D.Y. [n/a]BiblePrint: Book
1850-1899The Weekly Return of Lessons repeated by Prisoners at Reading Gaol from 25 May to 1 June 1850. (Report of the schoolma...H.B. [n/a]BiblePrint: Book
1850-1899The Weekly Return of Lessons repeated by Prisoners at Reading Gaol from 25 May to 1 June 1850. (Report of the schoolma...W.B. [n/a]BiblePrint: Book
1850-1899The Weekly Return of Lessons repeated by Prisoners at Reading Gaol from 25 May to 1 June 1850. (Report of the schoolma...W.K. [n/a]BiblePrint: Book
1850-1899The Weekly Return of Lessons repeated by Prisoners at Reading Gaol from 25 May to 1 June 1850. (Report of the schoolma...J.D. [n/a]BiblePrint: Book
1850-1899The Weekly Return of Lessons repeated by Prisoners at Reading Gaol from 25 May to 1 June 1850. (Report of the schoolma...J.R. [n/a]BiblePrint: Book
1850-1899The Weekly Return of Lessons repeated by Prisoners at Reading Gaol from 25 May to 1 June 1850. (Report of the schoolma...G.B. [n/a]BiblePrint: Book
1850-1899The Weekly Return of Lessons repeated by Prisoners at Reading Gaol from 25 May to 1 June 1850. (Report of the schoolma...T.B. [n/a]BiblePrint: Book
1850-1899The Weekly Return of Lessons repeated by Prisoners at Reading Gaol from 25 May to 1 June 1850. (Report of the schoolma...T.C. [n/a]BiblePrint: Book
1850-1899The Weekly Return of Lessons repeated by Prisoners at Reading Gaol from 25 May to 1 June 1850. (Report of the schoolma...G.G. [n/a]BiblePrint: Book
1850-1899The Weekly Return of Lessons repeated by Prisoners at Reading Gaol from 25 May to 1 June 1850. (Report of the schoolma...W.S. [n/a]BiblePrint: Book
1850-1899The Weekly Return of Lessons repeated by Prisoners at Reading Gaol from 25 May to 1 June 1850. (Report of the schoolma...J.W. [n/a]BiblePrint: Book
1850-1899The Weekly Return of Lessons repeated by Prisoners at Reading Gaol from 25 May to 1 June 1850. (Report of the schoolma...J.B. [n/a]BiblePrint: Book
1850-1899The Weekly Return of Lessons repeated by Prisoners at Reading Gaol from 25 May to 1 June 1850. (Report of the schoolma...J.B. [n/a]BiblePrint: Book
1850-1899The Weekly Return of Lessons repeated by Prisoners at Reading Gaol from 25 May to 1 June 1850. (Report of the schoolma...G.D. [n/a]BiblePrint: Book
1850-1899The Weekly Return of Lessons repeated by Prisoners at Reading Gaol from 25 May to 1 June 1850. (Report of the schoolma...H.J. [n/a]BiblePrint: Book
1850-1899The Weekly Return of Lessons repeated by Prisoners at Reading Gaol from 25 May to 1 June 1850. (Report of the schoolma...S.K. [n/a]BiblePrint: Book
1850-1899The Weekly Return of Lessons repeated by Prisoners at Reading Gaol from 25 May to 1 June 1850. (Report of the schoolma...H.J.T. [n/a]BiblePrint: Book
1850-1899The Weekly Return of Lessons repeated by Prisoners at Reading Gaol from 25 May to 1 June 1850. (Report of the schoolma...J.B. [n/a]BiblePrint: Book
1850-1899The Weekly Return of Lessons repeated by Prisoners at Reading Gaol from 25 May to 1 June 1850. (Report of the schoolma...W.T. [n/a]BiblePrint: Book
1850-1899The Weekly Return of Lessons repeated by Prisoners at Reading Gaol from 25 May to 1 June 1850. (Report of the schoolma...J.P. [n/a]BiblePrint: Book
1850-1899The Weekly Return of Lessons repeated by Prisoners at Reading Gaol from 25 May to 1 June 1850. (Report of the schoolma...H.S. al D. [n/a]BiblePrint: Book
1850-1899The Weekly Return of Lessons repeated by Prisoners at Reading Gaol from 25 May to 1 June 1850. (Report of the schoolma...F.J.N. [n/a]BiblePrint: Book
1850-1899The Weekly Return of Lessons repeated by Prisoners at Reading Gaol from 25 May to 1 June 1850. (Report of the schoolma...R.L. [n/a]BiblePrint: Book
1850-1899The Weekly Return of Lessons repeated by Prisoners at Reading Gaol from 25 May to 1 June 1850. (Report of the schoolma...J.S. al E. [n/a]BiblePrint: Book
1850-1899The Weekly Return of Lessons repeated by Prisoners at Reading Gaol from 25 May to 1 June 1850. (Report of the schoolma...E.B. [n/a]BiblePrint: Book
1850-1899The Weekly Return of Lessons repeated by Prisoners at Reading Gaol from 25 May to 1 June 1850. (Report of the schoolma...E.M. [n/a]BiblePrint: Book
1850-1899The Weekly Return of Lessons repeated by Prisoners at Reading Gaol from 25 May to 1 June 1850. (Report of the schoolma...G.M. [n/a]BiblePrint: Book
1850-1899The Weekly Return of Lessons repeated by Prisoners at Reading Gaol from 25 May to 1 June 1850. (Report of the schoolma...G.R. [n/a]BiblePrint: Book
1850-1899The Weekly Return of Lessons repeated by Prisoners at Reading Gaol from 25 May to 1 June 1850. (Report of the schoolma...W.R. [n/a]BiblePrint: Book
1850-1899The Weekly Return of Lessons repeated by Prisoners at Reading Gaol from 25 May to 1 June 1850. (Report of the schoolma...J.S. [n/a]BiblePrint: Book
1850-1899The Weekly Return of Lessons repeated by Prisoners at Reading Gaol from 25 May to 1 June 1850. (Report of the schoolma...W.G. [n/a]BiblePrint: Book
1850-1899The Weekly Return of Lessons repeated by Prisoners at Reading Gaol from 25 May to 1 June 1850. (Report of the schoolma...J.P. [n/a]BiblePrint: Book
1850-1899The Weekly Return of Lessons repeated by Prisoners at Reading Gaol from 25 May to 1 June 1850. (Report of the schoolma...J.H. [n/a]BiblePrint: Book
1850-1899The Weekly Return of Lessons repeated by Prisoners at Reading Gaol from 25 May to 1 June 1850. (Report of the schoolma...W.R. [n/a]BiblePrint: Book
1850-1899The Weekly Return of Lessons repeated by Prisoners at Reading Gaol from 25 May to 1 June 1850. (Report of the schoolma...J.M. [n/a]BiblePrint: Book
1850-1899The Weekly Return of Lessons repeated by Prisoners at Reading Gaol from 25 May to 1 June 1850. (Report of the schoolma...W.C. [n/a]BiblePrint: Book
1850-1899The Weekly Return of Lessons repeated by Prisoners at Reading Gaol from 25 May to 1 June 1850. (Report of the schoolma...R.F. [n/a]BiblePrint: Book
1850-1899The Weekly Return of Lessons repeated by Prisoners at Reading Gaol from 25 May to 1 June 1850. (Report of the schoolma...B.C. [n/a]BiblePrint: Book
1850-1899The Weekly Return of Lessons repeated by Prisoners at Reading Gaol from 25 May to 1 June 1850. (Report of the schoolma...W.J. [n/a]BiblePrint: Book
1800-1849R.A., alias J.F.: 'He [uncle] sent me to an excellent school where I stayed two years. After leaving school I perused ...R.A. [unknown][unknown]Print: Book, Serial / periodical
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J.M., convict sentenced to transportation, writing to Rev. Joseph: 'I am at present amongst sin and wickedness of the ...J.M. [n/a]BiblePrint: Book
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P.C., transport convict, writing to Rev Joseph from Dartmoor prison, Devon: 'When I read over the Book of Joshua, I of...P.C. [n/a]BiblePrint: Book
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S.G., transport convict writing from Portsmouth: 'During my stay at Pentonville I was, comparatively speaking, comfort...S.G. [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
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W.B., transport convict writing to Rev Joseph from Portland Prison: 'by the blessing of God, after coming to this plac...W.B. [n/a]BiblePrint: Book
1800-1849Case study, E.E.S., a Jew, young man of respectable German family, at first confined in a common prison where associat...E.E.S. [n/a]BiblePrint: Book
1800-1849Extracts from the journal of Joseph Kingsmill: Wed 29 October: 'I was interrogated by several prisoners this evenin...prisoners at Pentonville [n/a]BiblePrint: Book
1800-1849Extracts from the journal of Joseph Kingsmill: 30 October: Kingsmill visits man convicted for forgery on Austrian G...anon [n/a]BiblePrint: Book
1800-1849Extracts from the journal of Joseph Kingsmill: 30 October: 'A very deaf prisoner was allowed a visit today from his...anon [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1800-1849Visit from cell to cell: '2. A vagrant tumbler, and low thief - naturally very shrewd, but from his habits of life,...anon [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1800-1849Visit from cell to cell: '9. A prizefighter. Under a false name he was convicted of highway robbery, innocent, he a...anon [n/a]BiblePrint: Book
1800-1849Visit from cell to cell: '15. A farm labourer, of good capacity, who, having mastered here the alphabet and the art...anon [unknown][book on the Protestant martyrs]Print: Book
1800-1849Visit from cell to cell: '25. A letter-carrier, for a post-office felony. A man of dissolute and drunken habits; a ...anon [n/a]BiblePrint: Book
1800-1849Causes of their own crime, stated by convicts: '37. I became acquainted with some young fellows who had less regard...anon [unknown][novels]Print: Book, Serial / periodical
1800-1849Causes of their own crime, stated by convicts: '37. I became acquainted with some young fellows who had less regard...anon [n/a][Sunday newspapers]Print: Newspaper
1800-1849Causes of their own crime, stated by convicts: '41. Low company, a harsh schoolmaster, attending theatres, reading ...anon [unknown][novels and romances]Print: Book, Serial / periodical
1800-1849'A prisoner on his admission could read but very imperfectly; his Bible he almost had never read before, and indeed kn...anon [n/a]BiblePrint: Book
1800-1849Extract from schoolmaster's journal: G.B., aged 30: 'on his admission, began by repeating several of the Psalms; he t...G.B. [n/a]BiblePrint: Book
1800-1849Extract from the Governor's [Edward Hackett] Journal, 16 March 1845: 'I went through the male prison at 7:30pm, and l...prisoners [n/a]BiblePrint: Book
1800-1849Extract from chaplain's [John Field] journal, 23 Feb 1845: 'The prisoner (H.C.) who avowed his infidelity when first ...H.C. [n/a]BiblePrint: Book
1800-1849Accounts of prisoners: 'I.N., 21, Reg. no. 491. - Convicted of a felony. - I found this criminal entirely ignorant ...I.N. [n/a]BiblePrint: Book
1800-1849Accounts of prisoners: 'W.H., 35, Reg. no. 637 - Convicted of a felony about five months since, and had been three ...W.H. [n/a]BiblePrint: Book
1800-1849Accounts of prisoners: 'G.B., 30, Reg. no 388. - A convicted felon, who had been in another prison for a similar of...G.B. [n/a]BiblePrint: Book
1800-1849Accounts of prisoners: 'The writer of the following exercise was entirely ignorant of the contents of the Bible, an...anon [n/a]BiblePrint: Book
1800-1849Accounts of prisoners: H.W., 26, Reg. no. 530. - Committed six months since for obtaining money under false pretenc...H.W. [n/a]BiblePrint: Book
1800-1849Accounts of prisoners: 'I have never met with a less promising character than the writer of the two following exerc...anon [n/a]BiblePrint: Book
1800-1849Accounts of prisoners: W.W., Reg no. 279: 'This criminal has been nearly twelve months in prison. He has given much...W.W. [n/a]BiblePrint: Book
1800-1849Accounts of prisoners: T.N., Reg no. 311. 'A boy 17 years of age, whose father had been several times in prison ......T.N. [n/a]BiblePrint: Book
1800-1849Accounts of prisoners: T.S., aged 17, Reg no. 312. 'conduct most satisfactory. Committed to memory several chapters...T.S. [n/a]BiblePrint: Book
1800-1849Accounts of prisoners: J.A., aged 31, Reg. no. 325. 'This criminal when committed could not repeat the Lord's Praye...J.A. [n/a]BiblePrint: Book
1800-1849Accounts of prisoners: J.A., aged 21, Reg. no. 132. 'This prisoner was confined five months before his trial and on...J.A. [n/a]BiblePrint: Book
1800-1849Accounts of prisoners: G.B., 30, Reg. no. 388: 'This prisoner was convicted and sentenced to 12 months' imprisonmen...G.B. [n/a]BiblePrint: Book
1800-1849Accounts of prisoners: R.W., 31, Reg. no. 404. 'Charged with a felony - An habitual drunkard, and most vicious char...R.W. [n/a]BiblePrint: Book
1800-1849Accounts of prisoners: F.W., 20, Reg. no. 461: 'This prisoner could read and write when committed, and was generall...F.W. [n/a]BiblePrint: Book
1800-1849Details of prisoners committed with history of insanity: (presented in tabular form) Reg. no. 87: 'An uncle died insa...anon [87] [n/a]BiblePrint: Book
1800-1849Details of prisoners committed with history of insanity: (presented in tabular form) Reg. no. 240: 'Sister a lunatic....anon [240] [n/a]BiblePrint: Book
1800-1849Details of prisoners committed with history of insanity: (presented in tabular form) Reg. no. 264: 'An uncle deranged...anon [264] [n/a]BiblePrint: Book
1800-1849Details of prisoners committed with history of insanity: (presented in tabular form) Reg. no. 26: 'Brother of No. 264...anon [26] [n/a]BiblePrint: Book
1800-1849Details of prisoners committed with history of insanity: (presented in tabular form) Reg. no. 505: 'An aunt insane. C...anon [505] [n/a]BiblePrint: Book
1800-1849Details of prisoners committed with history of insanity: (presented in tabular form) Reg. no. 353: 'Father had been i...anon [353] [n/a]BiblePrint: Book
1800-1849Details of prisoners committed with history of insanity: (presented in tabular form) Reg. no. 670: 'An uncle in a lun...anon [670] [n/a]BiblePrint: Book
1800-1849Details of prisoners committed with history of insanity: (presented in tabular form) Reg. no. 734: 'Sister a lunatic....anon [734] [n/a]BiblePrint: Book
1800-1849Details of prisoners committed with history of insanity: (presented in tabular form) Reg. no. 792: 'Brother died late...anon [792] [n/a]BiblePrint: Book
1800-1849Details of prisoners committed with history of insanity: (presented in tabular form) Reg. no. 839: 'An uncle insane. ...anon [839] [n/a]BiblePrint: Book
1800-1849Details of prisoners committed with history of insanity: (presented in tabular form) Reg. no. 814: 'A sister died in ...anon [814] [n/a]BiblePrint: Book
1850-1899'Took a ramble, a Cup of Coffee at Purcell's. A look at the last number of Punch in the Mechanics'John Buckley Castieau [n/a]PunchPrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'Went to the Mechanics Reading Room for a short time but could not compose my mind to profit much by the Books or Pape...John Buckley Castieau [unknown][unknown]Print: Unknown
1850-1899'I saw by the Bills that The Stranger was to be played to-night and as in duty bound I went to fulfil my promise to Mr...John Buckley Castieau [unknown][playbill]Print: Handbill, Poster, playbill
1850-1899'Before returning home I went to the Reading Room of the Mechanics Institute where after indulging in a little very li...John Buckley Castieau [unknown][unknown]Print: Unknown
1850-1899'Peeped in at the Mechanics and read a book for half an hour.'John Buckley Castieau [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1850-1899'Mather called about 7 o clock, went with him to get a cup of coffee at Purcells, and afterwards he accompanied me to ...John Buckley Castieau [unknown][unknown]Print: Unknown
1850-1899'Mather called about 7 o clock, went with him to get a cup of coffee at Purcells, and afterwards he accompanied me to ... [unknown][unknown]Print: Unknown
1850-1899'In the evening I called at the Mechanics and after reading for a little time went upstairs and heard a lecture by Dr ...John Buckley Castieau [unknown][unknown]Print: Unknown
1850-1899'In the evening spent a very pleasant hour in the Reading Room of the Mechanics looking over the Magazines that arrive...John Buckley Castieau [unknown][magazines]Print: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'Spent the evening at the Mechanics, read a Review in Blackwood of Barnum's work "The Life of a Showman" the critic sh...John Buckley Castieau [unknown]Blackwood's MagazinePrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'Read for an hour at the Mechanics.'John Buckley Castieau [unknown][unknown]Print: Unknown
1850-1899'Rather a dirty day, it being a holiday out of doors I felt lazily inclined myself & did nothing but read during the d...John Buckley Castieau [unknown][unknown]Print: Unknown
1850-1899'Read for an hour at the Mechanics Institute in the evening & afterwards went over the New Theatre.'John Buckley Castieau [unknown][unknown]Print: Unknown
1850-1899'I read for half an hour at the Mechanics. This was the first part of the evening.'John Buckley Castieau [unknown][unknown]Print: Unknown
1850-1899'Felt in a very miserable mood during the evening, took a stroll had a peep into the library of the Mechanics Institut...John Buckley Castieau [unknown][unknown]Print: Unknown
1850-1899'After Tea I took a stroll through the town and then went to Collingwood on my return I looked in at the Reading Room ...John Buckley Castieau [n/a]ArgusPrint: Newspaper
1850-1899'Read the Argus at the Mechanics Reading Room & came home to bed before ten.'John Buckley Castieau [n/a]ArgusPrint: Newspaper
1850-1899'Read for a time at the Mechanics Institute had some soup at William's restaurant & went to bed about ten o clock.'John Buckley Castieau [unknown][unknown]Print: Unknown
1850-1899'Read for a short time at the Mechanics, afterwards met Mr Read went home with him and chatted for an hour or so then...John Buckley Castieau [unknown][unknown]Print: Unknown
1850-1899'Read the papers at the Mechanics Institute.'John Buckley Castieau [unknown][unknown]Print: Unknown
1850-1899'Came home took tea read a little thought a little yawned a great deal and then spite of the rain went out.'John Buckley Castieau [unknown][unknown]Print: Unknown
1850-1899'Read the papers at the Mechanics.'John Buckley Castieau [unknown][newspapers]Print: Newspaper
1850-1899'After I had been in bed two or three hours I woke finding the room shaking very much. I at first fancied some one was...John Buckley Castieau [unknown][newspapers]Print: Newspaper
1850-1899'Read for half an hour at the Mechanics.'John Buckley Castieau [unknown][unknown]Print: Unknown
1850-1899'Read for an hour at the Mechanics Institution, walked round the town & got home to bed before ten o clock.'John Buckley Castieau [unknown][unknown]Print: Unknown
1850-1899'Read the papers at the Mechanics Institution.'John Buckley Castieau [unknown][newspapers]Print: Newspaper
1850-1899'After Tea I took a stroll called in at the Mechanics Institution & read the Papers, went down to the Royal, met Day &...John Buckley Castieau [unknown][newspapers]Print: Newspaper
1850-1899'After four o clock took a stroll, read the papers at the Mechanics & then called at Joe's Office.'John Buckley Castieau [unknown][newspapers]Print: Newspaper
1850-1899'Saw Mr Mather, he told me there's (sic) was a letter in the Argus about my establishment. I went with him to his quar...John Buckley Castieau [unknown]ArgusPrint: Newspaper
1850-1899'The Argus printed this morning a very stinging article upon the Melbourne Police Bench and was especially severe upon...John Buckley Castieau [unknown]ArgusPrint: Newspaper
1850-1899'Came home, read from my new purchases for an hour & went to bed'John Buckley Castieau [unknown][unknown]Print: Unknown
1850-1899'Punch's Almanack was published this morning. I purchased a copy. The engravings are very creditably executed, but th...John Buckley Castieau [n/a]PunchPrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'Neild walked home with me & we had a pleasant chat on various subjects. I showed him "Suffolk's" Bible & told him a l...John Buckley Castieau [n/a]BiblePrint: Book
1850-1899'Sat Reading till twelve o clock then went to bed.'John Buckley Castieau [unknown][unknown]Print: Unknown
1850-1899'Neild took tea with me & sat talking & reading during the evening.'John Buckley Castieau [unknown][unknown]Print: Unknown
1850-1899'Neild took tea with me & sat talking & reading during the evening.'Mr Neild [unknown][unknown]Print: Unknown
1850-1899'We went for a stroll about nine & continued walking till a little past ten. Came home then & after reading a short t...John Buckley Castieau [unknown][unknown]Print: Unknown
1850-1899'Went for early stroll, called at Mr Reed's & read The Age'John Buckley Castieau [n/a]The AgePrint: Newspaper
1850-1899'Read The Age at Mr Reed's the first thing in the morning. Came home had breakfast & transacted ordinary business.'John Buckley Castieau [n/a]The AgePrint: Newspaper
1850-1899'The Rev Mr Corrie read prayers to & then addressed the protestant prisoners.'Mr Corrie [unknown]prayersPrint: Book
1850-1899'Had very little work to do to day & employed myself in Reading & writing.'John Buckley Castieau [unknown][unknown]Print: Unknown
1850-1899'Employed myself during the day in reading & studying the French Grammar, as we are to have a lesson from Lefarge this...John Buckley Castieau [unknown][French Grammar]Print: Book
1850-1899'Went for a short stroll. Called at the Main Gaol, then returned by Collins Street. Called at Reed's and looked over...John Buckley Castieau [n/a]The AgePrint: Newspaper
1850-1899'Went to the Deputy Sheriff's about ten o clock & had a look at the newspapers [he] received by the mornings mail.'John Buckley Castieau [n/a][newspapers]Print: Newspaper
1850-1899'Read the newspapers at Mr Brett's House.'John Buckley Castieau [n/a][newspapers]Print: Newspaper
1850-1899'Received two papers from Joe & read in one of them a good account of the proceedings of the Garrick Club could not he...John Buckley Castieau [n/a][newspaper]Print: Newspaper
1850-1899'Spent the evening at home in reading & writing.'John Buckley Castieau [unknown][unknown]Print: Unknown
1850-1899'Received a letter from Emma and some papers from Joe. In Emma's letter there was an Extraordinary published by one o...John Buckley Castieau [unknown][newspaper cutting]Print: Newspaper
1850-1899'Spent the evening at home doing nothing except lazily read & write.'John Buckley Castieau [unknown][unknown]Print: Unknown
1850-1899'Received three newspapers & Punch all from Neild. The newspapers contained an account of a Performance by the Garric...John Buckley Castieau [unknown][newspapers]Print: Newspaper
1850-1899'In the evening I read a little & so got bedtime to come round.'John Buckley Castieau [unknown][unknown]Print: Unknown
1850-1899'Stayed at home and amused myself with reading & sleeping at intervals during the evening. Went very early to bed.'John Buckley Castieau [unknown][unknown]Print: Unknown
1850-1899'This morning on reading the Ovens & Murray Advertiser with the usual ... which that not over bright piecemeal Organ g...John Buckley Castieau [n/a]Ovens & Murray AdvertiserPrint: Newspaper
1850-1899'The Ovens & Murray Advertiser appeared to day & made me the [?]. It entirely exonerated me from the charges preferred...John Buckley Castieau [n/a]Ovens & Murray AdvertiserPrint: Newspaper
1850-1899'Spent the evening at home, amused myself with reading.'John Buckley Castieau [unknown][unknown]Print: Unknown
1850-1899'Transacted ordinary business during the day & spent the evening at home lazily reading a book.'John Buckley Castieau [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1850-1899'The Ovens & Murray advertiser in its impression of this day announced Mr Cameron to be the successful candidate by a ...John Buckley Castieau [unknown]Ovens and Murray AdvertiserPrint: Newspaper
1850-1899'In the evening walked as far as Martin's with Mr Murphy. Returned read while & then went to bed.'John Buckley Castieau [unknown][unknown]Print: Unknown
1850-1899'The Constitution of this day contained a paragraph representing the desirability of a Beechworth Garrick Club being f...John Buckley Castieau [n/a]The ConstitutionPrint: Newspaper
1850-1899'came back to Beechworth saw all was right in the Gaol, and sat down quietly to read a Book.'John Buckley Castieau [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1800-1849'Read Vita di Alfieri - & Livy - S. goes to Padua - Reads Cymbeline to me in the evening'Mary Shelley [unknown]Vita di AlfieriPrint: Book
1800-1849'read the Quarterly'Mary Shelley [n/a]Quarterly ReviewPrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'Read the life of Virgil'Mary Shelley [unknown]Life of VirgilPrint: Book
1850-1899'The evening was remarkably wet and there was no alternative but to stay at home. I read a little smoked a little dra...John Buckley Castieau [unknown][unknown]Print: Unknown
1800-1849'a rainy day - visit the Coliseum - Read the bible'Mary Shelley [n/a]BiblePrint: Book
1800-1849'Read Montaigne - the Bible & Livy - Walk to the Coliseum - S. reads Winkhelmann'Mary Shelley [n/a]BiblePrint: Book
1800-1849'Read Huon de Bourdeaux a Roman de la Chevalerie'Mary Shelley [unknown][a tale in] Bibliotheque Universelle des DamesPrint: Book
1800-1849'Read Livy - and Romans Chevaleresques'Mary Shelley [unknown][tales in] Bibliotheque universelle des damesPrint: Book
1800-1849'Read Bib. de Chevalerie'Mary Shelley [unknown][tales in] Bibliotheque universelle des damesPrint: Book
1800-1849'Since I left Rome I have read several books of Livy - Antenor - Clarissa Harlowe - The Spectator - a few novels - & a...Mary Shelley [n/a]BiblePrint: Book
1800-1849'Write - read Lucan & the Bible S. writes the Cenci & reads Plutarch's lives - the Gisbornes call in the evening - S....Mary Shelley [n/a]BiblePrint: Book
1800-1849'Write - Read the Edinburgh Review'Mary Shelley [n/a]Edinburgh ReviewPrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'Read the Quarterly review & Remorse - an unhappy day - S. reads one act of the alchemist to the G[isborne]'s in the e...Mary Shelley [n/a]Quarterly ReviewPrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'[Shelley] reads the Trionfe della Morte aloud in the evening & Calderon with C.[harles] C.[lairmont] & Mrs G.'Percy Bysshe Shelley [Francesco] Petrarch [Petrarco]Il trionfo della MortePrint: Book
1800-1849'I read little else than Madame de Sevignes letters - Shelley reads St Luke aloud to us - & to himself the New Testament'Percy Bysshe Shelley [n/a]Gospel of St LukePrint: Book
1800-1849'I read little else than Madame de Sevignes letters - Shelley reads St Luke aloud to us - & to himself the New Testament'Percy Bysshe Shelley [n/a]New TestamentPrint: Book
1800-1849'Read Livy - Work - S. reads the Bible - Sophocles - & the Gospel of St Matthew to me'Percy Bysshe Shelley [n/a]BiblePrint: Book
1800-1849'Read Livy - Work - S. reads the Bible - Sophocles - & the Gospel of St Matthew to me'Percy Bysshe Shelley [n/a]Gospel of St MatthewPrint: Book
1800-1849'Read the Bible'Mary Shelley [n/a]BiblePrint: Book
1800-1849'Finish the book of Proverbs. S. reads the Bible & Sophocles - Finishes the Tempest aloud to me.'Mary Shelley [n/a]ProverbsPrint: Book
1800-1849'Translate S...a [Spinoza] with Shelley - He read [sic] Sophocles and the Bible - & King John & First Part Henry IV al...Mary Shelley [n/a]EcclesiastesPrint: Book
1800-1849'Translate S...a [Spinoza] with Shelley - He read [sic] Sophocles and the Bible - & King John & First Part Henry IV al...Mary Shelley [n/a]Song of SolomonPrint: Book
1800-1849'read Julie - S returns [from Leghorn] - he reads Isaiah aloud to me.'Percy Bysshe Shelley [n/a]IsaiahPrint: Book
1800-1849'[Shelley] finishes reading Isaiah to me & begins Jeremiah - He reads Las Casas on the Indies - Eschylus & Athenaeus'Percy Bysshe Shelley [n/a]IsaiahPrint: Book
1800-1849'[Shelley] finishes reading Isaiah to me & begins Jeremiah - He reads Las Casas on the Indies - Eschylus & Athenaeus'Percy Bysshe Shelley [n/a]JeremiahPrint: Book
1800-1849'S reads Las Casas & Jeremiah aloud. read the F. of the bees'Percy Bysshe Shelley [unknown]JeremiahPrint: Book
1800-1849'S. reads Hobbes. Ezechiel aloud'Percy Bysshe Shelley [n/a]EzekielPrint: Book
1800-1849'S. reads Tobit aloud.'Percy Bysshe Shelley [n/a]TobitPrint: Book
1800-1849'[Shelley] Reads & I also Voltaires memoires by himself'Mary Shelley Voltaire [pseud.]M?moires pour servir ? la vie de M. de VoltairePrint: Book
1800-1849'[Shelley] Reads & I also Voltaires memoires by himself'Percy Bysshe Shelley Voltaire [pseud.]M?moires pour servir ? la vie de M. de VoltairePrint: Book
1800-1849'S. reads Wisdom of Solomon in the evening aloud. Reads Locke and Political Justice.'Percy Bysshe Shelley [n/a]Book of Wisdom of SolomonPrint: Book
1800-1849'Write - Read - I am sure I forget what'Mary Shelley [unknown][unknown]Unknown
1800-1849'Read the Quarterly'Mary Shelley [n/a]Quarterly ReviewPrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'S. reads the Greek Romances'Percy Bysshe Shelley [n/a]Greek RomancesPrint: Book
1800-1849'Begin Lucretius with Shelley - he reads Greek Romances'Percy Bysshe Shelley [n/a]Greek RomancesPrint: Book
1800-1849'S. finish Greek Romances'Percy Bysshe Shelley [n/a]Greek RomancesPrint: Book
1800-1849'Muratori - Greek - Queen's Letter - K.[ing] Swellfoot'Mary Shelley [unknown][possibly] A copy of the Queen's Letter to the King. To which are added, copies of their correspondence since the period of their separation. And the Queen's Character.
1800-1849'Muratori - greek - Irish books'Mary Shelley [unknown][books on Ireland]Print: Book
1800-1849'Read Prometheus Unbound - papers - & Indicators'Mary Shelley [n/a]IndicatorPrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'Medwin reads Dramatic scenes to us & a part of his journal in India'Thomas Medwin Barry Cornwall [pseud.]Dramatic Scenes, and other poemsPrint: Book
1800-1849'Greek - not well - Indicators'Mary Shelley [n/a]IndicatorPrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'Greek - Voltaire's Tales'Mary Shelley Voltaire [pseud.][unknown]Print: Book
1800-1849'read greek - read Mackenzies works'Mary Shelley [unknown][Ancient Greek works]Print: Book
1800-1849' I mark this day because I begin my Greek again - and that is a study which ever delights me - I do not feel the bore...Mary Shelley [unknown][Greek texts]Print: Book
1800-1849'Read Lindsays dramas & Telemaque'Mary Shelley David Lyndsay [pseud.]Dramas of theAncient WorldPrint: Book
1800-1849'I thought I heard My Shelley call me - Not my Shelley in Heaven - but My Shelley - my companion in my Daily tasks - I...Mary Shelley [unknown][unknown]Unknown
1800-1849'I endeavour to read & write - my ideas a [for 'are'] stagnate and my understanding refuses to follow the words I read'Mary Shelley [unknown][unknown]Unknown
1800-1849'I have not forgotten nor neglected my task - but M. Beyle's book is so trite so unentertaining - so [underlined]very[...Mary Shelley Stendhal [pseud.]Promenades dans RomePrint: 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
1800-1849' I have got Wiffin's Garcilaso - He mentions in it that he meant to publish a Spanish Anthology - did he ever?' [l...Mary Shelley Jeremiah Holmes Wiffin [ed. / trans.]Works of Garcilaso de la VegaPrint: Book
1800-1849'In the month of July 1842, as I was passing the site of the Royal Exchange, then in course of re-erection after being...Mary Ann Ashford [unknown][advertisement]Print: Advertisement, Broadsheet, Poster
1800-1849'for although female servants form a large class of Her Majesty's subjects, I have seen but little of them or their af...Mary Ann Ashford [unknown][newspapers]Print: Newspaper
1800-1849'for although female servants form a large class of Her Majesty's subjects, I have seen but little of them or their af...Mary Ann Ashford [unknown][tracts published by the Religious Tract Society]Print: Broadsheet
1800-1849'Before leaving the cotton mill I had the good fortune to make my first acquaintance with the earlier works of Charles...Benjamin Brierley [John] [Cleave]Cleave's Weekly Police GazettePrint: Newspaper
1800-1849'I was pleased to see in the Examiner a mention of the pension [to be granted to Hunt]' [letter to Leigh Hunt]Mary Shelley [n/a]ExaminerPrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'No further news in this Mornings Times from Vienna - I am very anxious for Charles' [letter to Claire Clairmont]Mary Shelley [n/a]TimesPrint: Newspaper
1800-1849'I was astonished yesterday to see in the Times (I sent it) the advertisement that Jenny Lind, after all, is to come o...Mary Shelley [n/a]TimesPrint: Newspaper
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'She often talked to us of her studies as a girl; how she used not only to devour novels and read Sir Charles Grandiso...Jane Edwards [unknown][history]Print: Book
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'She often talked to us of her studies as a girl; how she used not only to devour novels and read Sir Charles Grandiso...Jane Edwards [unknown][great poets' works]Print: Book
1800-1849'we learned Pinnock's Catechisms of History and Geography, and parsed sentences grammatically. For religious instructi...Elizabeth Missing Sewell [n/a]Church CatechismPrint: 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 [unknown]History of MontezumaPrint: Book
1800-1849'whilst yet in the nursery, I learned the greater portion of the first chapter of Isaiah, and can repeat it to this da...Elizabeth Missing Sewell [n/a]Book of IsaiahPrint: Book
1800-1849'My uncle was so particular about his books that he used to declare that when a child's finger had touched one it was ...Elizabeth Missing Sewell and her sisters, including Eleanor [n/a]Arabian Nights Entertainments, ThePrint: Book
1800-1849'[I] had made myself miserable, after reading about Jephtha's vow, because I imagined that every time the thought of m...Elizabeth Missing Sewell [n/a]Book of JudgesPrint: Book
1800-1849'We formed a book-club amongst ourselves, chose and purchased some special favourite, or one which we heard praised, r...Elizabeth Missing Sewell and school friends [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1800-1849'Everything in the Bible that was at all perplexing was turned into a stumbling-block, and came before me, not only du...Eliazbeth Missing Sewell [n/a]BiblePrint: Book
1800-1849'I used to study by myself, for I knew that I was wofully ignorant. Such books as Russell's "History of Modern Europe"...Elizabeth Missing Sewell [unknown][History of Venetian Doges]Print: Book
1800-1849'I taught myself besides to read Spanish - for having found a Spanish "Don Quixote" lying about, which no-one claimed,...Elizabeth Missing Sewell [unknown][a Spanish grammar]Print: Book
1800-1849'I taught myself besides to read Spanish - for having found a Spanish "Don Quixote" lying about, which no-one claimed,...Elizabeth Missing Sewell [unknown][a Spanish dictionary]Print: 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 [unknown][Linnaean botany book]Print: Book
1800-1849'My sisters and I had a volume of the sermons given by an Oxford friend of our brother William; but it was with the ca...Elizabeth M. Sewell and her sisters [unknown][Oxford Movement sermons]Print: Book
1800-1849'We had a wet day yesterday, and amused ourselves with reading aloud "The Life of Stephen Langton" in "The Lives of th...Elizabeth Missing Sewell [unknown]Life of Stephen LangtonPrint: Book
1850-1899'I have written a little, and read a good deal, - the second volume of "Sir Charles Metcalfe's Life", which makes me l...Elizabeth Missing Sewell [n/a]Times, ThePrint: Newspaper
1850-1899'I have written a little, and read a good deal, - the second volume of "Sir Charles Metcalfe's Life", which makes me l...Elizabeth Missing Sewell [unknown][pamphlets and magazines]Print: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'Have you (I forget whether you ever told me) read the Curse of Kahama [sic]? I have seen two Reviews of it, & now so ...Sarah Harriet Burney [unknown]Monthly Review [review of Southey's "The Curse of Kehama"]Print: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'Have you (I forget whether you ever told me) read the Curse of Kahama [sic]? I have seen two Reviews of it, & now so ...Sarah Harriet Burney [unknown]Quarterly Review [review of Southey's "The Curse of Kehama"]Print: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'A book that I am sure would amuse Barrett, and perhaps you also, very much, is [underlined] Jouhaud's Paris dans le d...Sarah Harriet Burney [unknown][review of Pierre Jouhaud, "Paris dans le dix-neuvieme siecle"]Print: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'A book that I am sure would amuse Barrett, and perhaps you also, very much, is [underlined] Jouhaud's Paris dans le d...Sarah Harriet Burney [unknown][review of Jean-Pierre-Guillaume Catteau-Calleville, Voyage en Allemagne et en Suede]Print: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'I read Montaigne and Metastasio'.Charlotte Bury Metastasio [pseud.]Print: Book
1800-1849'Affectation is never more tiresome and ridiculous than in a letter. Madame de Sevigne was the best letter-writer that...Mr Sharpe Voltaire [pseud.]LettersPrint: Book
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'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 [unknown][Story of Perseus]Print: Book
1900-1945'The only above-board children's stories for grown-ups, she thought, were detective stories, and those she read for pu...Elizabeth Bowen [unknown][detective stories]Print: Book
1900-1945'Elizabeth worked hard for the lessons she liked, and instead of preparation for the ones she didn't like she read poe...Elizabeth Bowen [n/a]EncyclopaediaPrint: Book
1900-1945'Elizabeth worked hard for the lessons she liked, and instead of preparation for the ones she didn't like she read poe...Elizabeth Bowen [n/a]BiblePrint: Book
1900-1945'In the early thirties she had read a lot of French, starting with Stendhal: and a chunk of his "De l'amour", in the F...Elizabeth Bowen Stendhal [pseud.]De l'amourPrint: Book
1800-1849'I have within these few minutes recieved Friendship's Offering. It is splendid and far outvies any of the foregoing n...James Hogg Thomas Pringle [ed.]Friendship's OfferingPrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'I received your books last night quite safely, and plunged into 'Lutfullah' with great interest, being prepared to li...Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell E.B. Eastwick ['ed']Autobiography of Lutfullah, a Mohammedan gentleman : and his translations with his fellow-creatures Print: Book
1850-1899'I thank you too for C.E. and A. Bell's poems (my copy has never turned up)'Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell Currer Bell [pseud.]Poems by Currer, Ellis, and Acton BellPrint: Book
1850-1899'Read 'Scenes of Clerical Life', published in Blackwood, for [italics] this [end italics] year, - I shd think they beg...Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell George Eliot [pseud.]Scenes from Clerical LifePrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'I see in an advertisement of the contents of a Magazine (the Psychological) of which I believe you are the Editor, a ...Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell [n/a][advertisement for the 'Psychological' magazine]Print: Advertisement
1850-1899[having been given a rum and peppermint liqueur for a migraine] 'We went to the Railway waiting-room, which was all qu...Florence Elizabeth Gaskell [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1850-1899'I am going to make a request to you, Sir, which is of a slightly impudent nature. It is, that you will be so good as ...Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell George Eliot [pseud.]Amos BartonPrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'I am going to make a request to you, Sir, which is of a slightly impudent nature. It is, that you will be so good as ...Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell George Eliot [pseud.]Adam BedePrint: Book
1850-1899'I'll change my tactics [from trying to persuade Blackwood to give her a copy of "Adam Bede" out of generosity] and sa...Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell [unknown]Blackwood's MagazinePrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'I received the copy of "Adam Bede" which you were so kind as to send me quite safely; and I am very much obliged to y...Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell George Eliot [pseud.]Adam BedePrint: Book
1850-1899'Yes! I found the American cookery books here when we got home, (Decr 20th) and many many thanks. we can't understand ...Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell [unknown][American cookery books]Print: Book
1850-1899'Meta is turning out such a noble beautiful character - Her intellect and her soul, (or wherever is the part in which ...Margaret Emily Gaskell [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1850-1899'I forgot to tell you that Meta reads with & teaches Elliot every night'Margaret Emily Gaskell [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1850-1899'Our Times of today - well of yesterday - well, tomorrow it will be of some day in dream land, for I am past power of ...Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell [n/a]Times, ThePrint: Newspaper
1850-1899'[Meta] has a little orphan boy to teach French to, reads with Elliot every night, etc: etc: and has always more books...Margaret Emily Gaskell [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1850-1899'Oh Mr Bosanquet, did you see William Arnold's death in the Times? - but you did not know him, - you remember he wrote...Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell [n/a]Times, ThePrint: Newspaper
1850-1899'Please say [if Marian Evans is really the author of Adam Bede...] It is a noble grand book, whoever wrote it, - but M...Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell George Eliot [pseud.]Adam BedePrint: Book
1850-1899'No! I have not read nothing! - not even a review of Idylls of the King - only heard Mrs Norton's account of Tennyson'...Alfred, Lord Tennyson [unknown][review of his own 'Idylls of the King']Print: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'I think I have a feeling that it is not worth while trying to write, while there are such books as Adam Bede & Scenes...Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell George Eliot [pseud.]Janet's RepentancePrint: Book, Serial / periodical
1850-1899'We rushed here for ten days on Monday; & last night your letter & Macmillan's Mag. followed us, and was received with...Elizabeth Gaskell and her daughters 'Meta' and Julia [n/a]Macmillan's MagazinePrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'Since I heard, from authority, that you were the author of Scenes from "Clerical Life" and "Adam Bede", I have read t...Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell George Eliot [pseud.]Scenes from Clerical LifePrint: Book, Serial / periodical
1850-1899'Since I heard, from authority, that you were the author of Scenes from "Clerical Life" and "Adam Bede", I have read t...Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell George Eliot [pseud.]Adam BedePrint: Book, Serial / periodical
1850-1899'Since I heard, from authority, that you were the author of Scenes from 'Clerical Life' and 'Adam Bede', I have read t...Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell George Eliot [pseud.]'Amos Barton'Print: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'I extremely like & admire Framley Parsonage, - & the Idle Boy; and the Inaugural address. I like Lovel the Widower, o...Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell [n/a]Cornhill MagazinePrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'Oh! [italics] please [end italics] ask the Tutor not to trouble humself or his friends about the press-gang affair. T...Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell [n/a]Annual RegisterPrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'Do you know by whom 'Melle Mori' is written?' [Gaskell asks George Smith the same question the same day - p.605]Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell [unknown]Melle MoriPrint: Book
1850-1899'only think of having the Mill on the Floss the second day of publication, & of my very own. I think it is so kind of ...Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell George Eliot [pseud]Mill on the Floss, ThePrint: Book
1850-1899'Now I had a vol: of poems sent me the other day, full of sonnets to Dickens, Carlyle &c &c - [italics] such [end ital...Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell [unknown][anthology of laudatory sonnets]Print: Book
1850-1899'I read them an account of the Ammergau Play, out of the London Guardian that Mr Maltby had lent me; & I think they wi...Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell [unknown]London GuardianPrint: Newspaper
1850-1899'we set out on an enquiring expedition, first to yr pastry cook's, where I got a dictionary, and found my words'Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell [n/a][German/English dictionary]Print: Book
1850-1899'I saw in one of our Manchester papers yesterday what I am delighted to learn, that you are the Rector of Lincoln's.'Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell [n/a][Manchester newspaper]Print: Newspaper
1850-1899'do you ever see Fraser's Magazine. If you do I wish you would look back to the number for (say either) August, Sepr, ...Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell [n/a]Fraser's MagazinePrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'In this way he [Mr Bosanquet] has seen some of your letters, & read the Atlantic &c, & especially begged me for a let...Charles Bosanquet [n/a]Atlantic MonthlyPrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'You will see we gain - 'we' the English generally, our information from The Times; and I know that Russell's writing ...Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell [n/a][newspaper acconts of events in America in run up to Civil War]Print: Newspaper
1850-1899'Thank you so much for sending us those loose sheets of newspaper extracts. Who wrote [italics] Two Summers [end itali...Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell [n/a][American newspaper extracts]Print: Newspaper
1850-1899'Our bride & bridegroom write as if they were very happy reading law, novels, driving fishing & boating'Florence (nee Gaskell) and Charles Crompton [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1850-1899'How [italics] very [end italics] interesting the report of the Sanitary Commission is? it tells one so very much one ...Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell [n/a][Report of the Sanitary Commission]Print: Unknown
1850-1899'I want you to tell me what Genl Butler really is - whether an "Our Hero" as a paper in the Atlantic called him; or an...Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell [n/a]Atlantic MonthlyPrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'on Wednesday last (day before yesterday) we came home from paying calls; & found to our surprize that the Daily News ...Florence Elizabeth Crompton [n/a]Daily NewsPrint: Newspaper
1850-1899'[she thanks the Nortons for a photograph of Lincoln and] 'the delicious book on the portraits of Dante which it is a ...Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell [unknown][book on portraits of Dante]Print: Book
1850-1899'the P.M.Gs came all safe, & right, and are such a pleasure! they come [italics] through [end italics] Paris, and [ita...Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell [n/a]Pall Mall GazettePrint: Newspaper
1850-1899'Can you tell who wrote the Review of Miss Martineau's letters in the (this week's) Inquirer signed I.R.'.Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell [n/a]Inquirer, ThePrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'[italics] Whose [end italics] history of the F. Revolution are you reading?'Marianne Gaskell [unknown][a history of the French Revolution]Print: Book
1850-1899'All we know as yet is from the TIMES, speaking of deaths from cholera in 5th reg. "Senior Captain Duckworth dead". "P...Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell [n/a]Times, ThePrint: Newspaper
1850-1899'Miss Bronte in one of her letters to you (Mama [italics] thinks [end italics] written in the year 1835,) gives you so...Charlotte Bronte [unknown]['standard works'; not novels]Print: Book
1850-1899'After dinner Meta & Flossy did their German; & I read French'Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell [unknown][French]Print: Book
1850-1899'here is a letter for you, which I opened [italics] verily [end italics] by mistake at first. One came for Florence at...Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell [unknown][letter to Marianne Gaskell]Manuscript: Letter
1850-1899'They got dingy novels from the Caen Circg Library, & had no other books, I fancy. No wonder they "hate living abroad".''the Heald girls' [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1800-1849'A spendid constellation of Poets arose in the literary horizon - I looked around for Crabbe - Why does not he, who sh...Mary Leadbeter [n/a]Edinburgh ReviewPrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'Read the pamphlet Mr Boswell recommended:, natural, certainly, and the man had too much provocation for his act.'George Crabbe [unknown][pamphlet]
1800-1849'Mr Blackwood the Editor of the Magazine which goes under his Name & who this Morning - in Modo Mr Murray of London - ...George Crabbe [unknown][Miscellany]Print: Book
1800-1849'With your Letter I found a Parcel containing 2 vols of Poetry from a Gentleman who some time since wrote to me upon t...George Crabbe [unknown][poetry]Print: Book
1800-1849'I will not forget Blackwood's Magazine, for though you will not approve much you will certainly be entertained by som...George Crabbe [n/a]Blackwood's Edinburgh MagazinePrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'I like the books which we purchased though the Physiological Botany is rather too minute & supposes the Reader a Lear...George Crabbe [unknown][Travels]Print: Book
1800-1849'The public opinion [of the trial of Catherine Cook, a servant convicted of theft] is, I think, expressed in the Morni...George Crabbe [n/a]Morning Herald, ThePrint: Newspaper
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 [n/a]Quarterly ReviewPrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'That is a curious kind of Hallucination which Miss B. discovers in her Addresses to imaginary Beings: it comes very n...George Crabbe [unknown][book on witchcraft trials]Print: Book
1800-1849'I am reading & have nearly read, a Work upon Enthusiasm, [the] 3d Edition, the author unknown to me, but a thinking M...George Crabbe [unknown][unknown work on religious enthusiasm]Print: Book
1800-1849'I read the papers, Reviews &c &c and cannot help perceiving strong prejudices on both Sides of the Reform Question. B...George Crabbe [n/a][newspapers at time of Reform debate]Print: Newspaper
1850-1899'I read the papers, Reviews &c &c and cannot help perceiving strong prejudices on both Sides of the Reform Question. B...George Crabbe [n/a]Blackwoods Edinburgh MagazinePrint: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'A week in Edinburgh looking up Carlyle MSS before Christmas'Antonia White [unknown][MSS by or about Carlyle]Manuscript: Unknown
1900-1945'It is strange that in poetry, when I was eleven, I had what I can only call my first revelation from which I emerged ...Antonia White [unknown][poetry]Print: Book
1900-1945'At the moment, in a sense, "art" means nothing whatever to me. I cannot read (except trash) look at pictures, listen ...Antonia White [unknown]['trash']Print: Book
1900-1945'I read voraciously the lives of painters and the journals of poets. I am nourished and nourished but I bring forth no...Antonia White [unknown]['lives of painters']Print: Book
1900-1945'I read voraciously the lives of painters and the journals of poets. I am nourished and nourished but I bring forth no...Antonia White [unknown]['journals of poets']Print: Book
1900-1945'Up to dinner, talking to Emily, practising the piano, playing with the children, reading Hoare's admirable article on...Antonia White [n/a]VoguePrint: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'The clerk who cashes my cheques at the bank is quite a bright, intelligent-looking boy. To-day I had a copy of [itali... [unknown][French novels]Print: Book
1900-1945'I am so much enjoying [italics] The Mill on the Floss [end italics] but would so much like to earn the right to read ...Antonia White George Eliot [pseud.]Mill on the Floss, ThePrint: Book
1900-1945'I have just finished [italics] The Mill on the Floss[end italics]. Reading it and [italics] Adam Bede [end italics] h...Antonia White George Eliot [pseud.]Mill on the Floss, ThePrint: Book
1900-1945'I have just finished [italics] The Mill on the Floss[end italics]. Reading it and [italics] Adam Bede [end italics] h...Antonia White George Eliot [pseud.]Adam BedePrint: Book
1900-1945'I have just finished [italics] The Mill on the Floss[end italics]. Reading it and [italics] Adam Bede [end italics] h...Antonia White George Eliot [pseud.]MiddlemarchPrint: Book
1900-1945'I have just finished [italics] The Mill on the Floss[end italics]. Reading it and [italics] Adam Bede [end italics] h...Antonia White [unknown][a life of George Eliot]Print: Book
1900-1945'[King] likes Doughty, Arabian Knights [sic], Froissart.'Cecil King [n/a]Arabian Nights, ThePrint: Book
1900-1945'I think I am not [italics] serious [end italics] enough! Sometimes when I look through the [italics] New Statesman [e...Antonia White [n/a]New Statesman, ThePrint: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'I have been struck by finding the same thought within a few days in two very different places - in George Eliot and i...Antonia White [n/a][an American magazine]Print: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'There is a peculiar flavour about Catholic writings which I still find repellent. [George] Tyrell is the only modern ...Antonia White [unknown][Catholic texts]Print: Book
1900-1945'Dreamy and compulsive lately: cram myself with reading, put off all activities'.Antonia White [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1900-1945[symptoms of depression include] 'Outward signs: maniacal reading, either pure escapism or... the search for the magic...Antonia White [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1900-1945'One is driven back to the Gospels and one does not know how to interpret them' [writing of her desire to understand t...Antonia White [n/a][Gospels]Print: Book
1900-1945'The more I read of theology, Church History, apologetics, philosophy, scripture interpretation, the more hopelessly a...Antonia White [unknown][writings about religion, Church History, etc]Print: Book
1700-1799'chiefly was I charm'd and ravish'd with the Sweets of Poetry; all my Hours were dedicated to the Muses; and from a Re...Laetitia van Lewen [unknown][poetry]Print: Book
1700-1799'[Pilkington tells how Swift cut out many pages of an edition of Horace and made her paste letters between the covers ...Laetitia Pilkington [unknown][letters to Swift from various correspondents]Manuscript: Letter
1700-1799[having quoted from sermons and poetical works, including Swift, Young and her husband, on the subject of adultery Pil...Laetitia Pilkington [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1700-1799'I own myself very indiscreet in permitting any Man to be at an unseasonable Hour in my Bed-Chamber; but Lovers of Lea...Laetitia Pilkington [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1700-1799'I can't but let my Readers see my Vanity, in inserting the following Poems, written to me since I came to [italics] D...Laetitia Pilkington [unknown][commendatory verses by various admirers]Manuscript: Letter
1700-1799'My Landlady, who was really a Gentlewoman, and he [a Gentleman LP knew from Ireland], and I diverted away the Time wi...Laetitia Pilkington [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1700-1799[Having agreed to let her landlady lodge a Dr Turnbull in her (LP's) bedchamber] 'I went up to my own Apartment, where...George Turnbull [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1700-1799'I was going to proceed, when Mr [italics] Cibber [end italics] interrupted me; I was, said he, at the Duke of [italic...Emilia, Lady Lennox [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1700-1799'I grew so melancholy at the Loss of my Companion, that I did not even care for writing, but amused myself entirely wi...Laetitia Pilkington [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1700-1799'Here entered our kind Host, and brought us a Paper called the [italics] Champion [end italics], in which was a very h...Laetitia Pilkington [n/a]Champion, ThePrint: Newspaper
1700-1799[Mr Rooke gives an account of his average day] 'I rise about Nine, drink Coffee, not that I like it, but that it gives...George Rooke [n/a][newspapers]Print: Newspaper
1700-1799[Mr Rooke gives an account of his average day] 'I rise about Nine, drink Coffee, not that I like it, but that it gives...George Rooke [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1700-1799'No sooner did the Doctor percieve [sic] that I knew [italics] Mark Anthony [end italics] from [italics] Julius Caesar...Laetitia Pilkington [unknown][books on Roman History]Print: Book
1700-1799'I had the good Fortune to divert him [Lord Galway] with my comical stuff so well that he left me a Task, which was, t...Laetitia Pilkington [unknown][a French drinking song]Unknown
1700-1799[various benefactors including Colley Cibber having helped her, LP is released from the Marshalsea] 'When I read over ...Laetitia Pilkington [unknown][prison discharge document]Manuscript: Unknown
1700-1799'I wandered through the Cloysters, reading the Inscriptions till it grew duskish. I hastened to the great Gate, but wa...Laetitia Pilkington [unknown][inscriptions]Manuscript: Graffito
1700-1799'Indeed if I had printed all the poetry that has been sent to me for that Purpose, since I came to this Kingdom, it wo...Laetitia Pilkington [unknown][poetry by various correspondents]Manuscript: Unknown
1700-1799'Indeed it were to wished that either this learned and excellent Divine [Dr Delany], or some other of equal Abilities,...Laetitia Pilkington [n/a]Old TestamentPrint: Book
1700-1799'Just as I was writing about [italics] Worsdale [end italics] a Gentleman brought me a Pamphlet, entituled [sic], [ita...Laetitia Pilkington [unknown]The Parallel: Or, Pilkington and Phillips Compared, Being Remarks upon the Memoirs of those two celebrated Writers
1700-1799'I have had so many amorous Epistles, Odes, Songs, Anacreonticks, Saphics, Lyrics, and Pindaricks, in Praise of my Min...Laetitia Pilkington [unknown][poems sent by admirers]Manuscript: Letter
1900-1945'I was greeted in the mess at breakfast today by the whole table exclaiuming: "Genius" - it appears that someone had r...soldier [unknown][a review of Ford's work]Print: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'It is very exciting to read about the B'sh troops in Spa & Malmedy, bits of land that I know as well as the top of Ca...Ford Madox Ford [n/a][newspapers]Print: Newspaper
1900-1945'There is an awfully good little book on English wild flowers with good clear illustrations, but it costs 7/6. Is it w...Esther Gwendolyn, "Stella" Bowen [unknown][book on wild flowers]Print: Book
1900-1945'I wish you were down here, darling so that we cd. consult - about ads in the paper. Just look at this [presumably an ...Ford Madox Ford [n/a][newspaper classifieds]Print: Advertisement, Newspaper
1900-1945'The enclosed press cuttings have just arrived via Clifford. I've read 'em. It might be a good plan to give The Author...Esther Gwendolyn, 'Stella' Bowen [n/a][press cuttings - subject unknown]Print: Newspaper
1900-1945'[Baby] is making progress with her reading & can - most times - identify the sound & the curly S & the elegant L. Per...Esther Julia Ford [unknown][first reading]Print: Unknown
1900-1945'It is very curious her [Ford's daughter's] coquettish mischievousness. If you shew her a letter she will always say i...Esther Julia Ford [n/a][newspaper]Print: Newspaper
1900-1945'I see there is a little reference to him [Drake] in a rude interview with me in the [underlined] World [end underlini...Ford Madox Ford [n/a]World, ThePrint: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'The Daily mail has persistent articles about Stabilisation at 100' [reference to currency fluctuations]Esther Gwendolyn, 'Stella' Bowen [n/a]Daily Mail, ThePrint: Newspaper
1900-1945'The only thing S.L. [Violet Hunt's memoirs] says about you, by the bye, is that I am now wandering homeless over Euro...Ford Madox Ford [unknown]review of Violet Hunt's 'The Flurried Years' in the New York Times]Print: Newspaper
1900-1945'I have just bought the New York Times - wh. feels relatively home-like & read that the AMERICAN CHORUS GIRL IS BEAUTI...Ford Madox Ford [n/a]New York TimesPrint: Newspaper
1900-1945'on Saturday the English proofs of Last Post descended on me and on Monday the American one's and I literally could do...Ford Madox Ford [unknown][research for a tale to be serialised in 'Collier's Weekly'] Print: Book
1900-1945'I have begun DEMIGODS which is the provisional title of the Ney book and what with reading up for it and worrying ove...Ford Madox Ford [unknown][research for the book that became 'A little Less than Gods']Print: Book
1900-1945'I was so delighted with your cutting from the Crapouillot: I am sure I must seem quite fatuous, I shew it to so many ...Ford Madox Ford [unknown][article presumably praising Stella Bowen's exhibition of paintings]Print: Newspaper
1900-1945'I am sending you a copy of the [underlined] Saturday Review [end underlining] with an article of mine & your Lavigne ...Ford Madox Ford [n/a]Saturday ReviewPrint: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'I have been doing a good deal of reading for the Ney book, though it is difficult to get all the books I want'Ford Madox Ford [unknown][research for 'A Little Less than Gods']Print: Book
1900-1945'Almost every day there is some reference to it [Ford's book on Conrad] here or there. I am sending you a copy of the ...Ford Madox Ford [n/a]Saturday ReviewPrint: Serial / periodical
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 [n/a]New York Times Book ReviewPrint: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'I lay down on my bed and tried to improve my mind, reading articles about the political situation in the Pacific Ocea...Ford Madox Ford [n/a][articles on Pacific politics]Print: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'I lay down on my bed and tried to improve my mind, reading articles about the political situation in the Pacific Ocea...Janice Biala [unknown][life and letters of Gauguin]Print: Book
1900-1945'Now half Paris is wanting to take my likeness & indeed a Spanish painter is doing it all the time while I am writing ...Ford Madox Ford [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1900-1945'Sydney [Larkin's father] gave him free run of his library and his appetite for books grew enormously. "Thanks to my f...Philip Larkin [unknown][various fiction works in his father's library]Print: Book
1900-1945'The older generation read "Die Zeit", a large format newspaper in Yiddish, printed in Hebrew characters, whose conten...Jewish residents of the Gorbals [n/a]Die ZeitPrint: Newspaper
1900-1945'[Father] taught himself to read English almost perfectly. Mother somehow taught herself enough English to get the gis...Mr Glasser [unknown][books in English]Print: Book
1900-1945'[Father] taught himself to read English almost perfectly. Mother somehow taught herself enough English to get the gis...Mrs Glasser [n/a][English newspapers]Print: Newspaper
1900-1945'[Father] taught himself to read English almost perfectly. Mother somehow taught herself enough English to get the gis...Mrs Glasser [n/a]Die ZeitPrint: Newspaper
1900-1945'I spent hours, days, in the great Reading Room of the Mitchell Library. Young as I was, in my ragged shorts, frayed j...Ralph Glasser [n/a]Who's WhoPrint: Book
1900-1945'I spent hours, days, in the great Reading Room of the Mitchell Library. Young as I was, in my ragged shorts, frayed j...Ralph Glasser [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1900-1945'A few weeks before my fourteenth birthday I read that Einstein was coming to Glasgow to address the university, and m...Ralph Glasser [n/a][announcement of Einstein talk]Print: Unknown
1900-1945'After I left school, the Mitchell became if possible even more important. I read widely, indiscriminately: the lives ...Ralph Glasser [n/a]Encyclopaedia BritannicaPrint: Book
1900-1945'After I left school, the Mitchell became if possible even more important. I read widely, indiscriminately: the lives ...Ralph Glasser [n/a][dictionaries]Print: Book
1900-1945'After I left school, the Mitchell became if possible even more important. I read widely, indiscriminately: the lives ...Ralph Glasser [unknown][books of biography, history, philosophy, etc]Print: Book
1900-1945'Father was well read in politics and in the nineteenth century novelists, Dickens and Trollope being his favourites. ...Mr Glasser [unknown][books on politics]Print: Book
1900-1945'Press reports from Russia had an unreal quality, suggesting that observers did not dare believe the horror thinly con...Ralph Glasser [n/a][newspaper reports on Russia]Print: Newspaper
1900-1945'I found the letter when I got home about seven in the evening. While I read it I bolted my teas as usual. Then I read...Ralph Glasser [unknown][acceptance letter from Oxford University]Manuscript: Letter
1900-1945'With her shiny black apron she cleaned her Woolworth's spectacles, thick lenses in metal frames with wire side pieces...Rachel [unknown][Ralph Glasser's acceptance letter from Oxford University]Manuscript: Letter
1900-1945'I went into the grey monastic quad of the Bodleian, the Old School quad, and read the legend in gold above each doorw...Ralph Glasser [n/a][inscriptions at the Bodleian library]Manuscript: Graffito
1900-1945'For most of my first term I rose at [5 a.m.] and bathed and shaved and dressed, and read till breakfast time - until ...Ralph Glasser [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1900-1945'One day, alone for a moment in a girl's room in Lady Margaret Hall - she had gone to fetch a tea-pot from along the c...Ralph Glasser [unknown][a girl's diary]Manuscript: Codex
1900-1945'I was intensely interested in the Romantics at this time, that explosion of creative thought so inadequately explaine...Ralph Glasser [unknown][Romantic texts and works about Romanticism]Print: Book
1900-1945'I read German poetry with the aged, charming Fraulein Wuschack, sometime governess in the Kaiser's family'.Ralph Glasser [unknown][German poetry]Print: Book
1900-1945'The next I learned of him [his old friend Alec] was some time after D-Day, when I read the posthumous citation'.Ralph Glasser [unknown][citation for bravery]Print: Unknown
1900-1945'I met a girl who worked in one of the intelligence sections at Blenheim. In her bed-sitter one evening, as we sat in ... [n/a][Intelligence lists of communists]Print: Unknown
1900-1945'In the dimness I had missed - how could I have done! - a few lines of crabbed writing at the very top of the paper, s...Ralph Glasser [n/a][Oxford Finals Class Lists]Print: Poster
1900-1945'There [living in a better area than previously, after his reformation from being a gambling addict], in his practical...Mr Glasser [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1900-1945'A colleague at the Council, later to achieve distinction as a poet, sent me a copy of his first slim volume of verse ...Ralph Glasser [unknown][poems]Print: Book
1800-1849'Like most of those capable of appreciating real literature, Lady Louisa enjoyed novels of almost any description; adm...Louisa, Lady Stuart [unknown][novels]Print: Book
1700-1799'We hear of nothing but the Prince of Wales, but as we get no other account in our letters but what is to be seen in t...Louisa, Lady Stuart [n/a][newspapers]Print: Newspaper
1700-1799'Some of his pictures are good, and as his family is very noble and greatly allied, one sees many faces one has read o...Louisa, Lady Stuart [unknown][history books]Print: Book
1800-1849'Pray tell Lady Louisa that I have been reading the last "Quarterly Review" (No. XLII) more steadily than I could do a...Louisa, Lady Stuart [n/a]Quarterly ReviewPrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'Pray tell Lady Louisa that I have been reading the last "Quarterly Review" (No. XLII) more steadily than I could do a...Louisa, Lady Stuart [unknown]Quarterly Review [article about Alexander von Humboldt]Print: Serial / periodical
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 [unknown][description of the Court of Haiti]Print: 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 Holroyd [unknown][unknown - French? -text featuring travels in America]Print: Unknown
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 [unknown][unknown - French? -text featuring travels in america]Print: Unknown
1800-1849'If the paper today speaks truth about the King's sending for the Duke of Sussex, he begins as he should do, for no on...Louisa, Lady Stuart [n/a][newspaper]Print: Newspaper
1800-1849'I have not read the Edinburgh Magazine you mention, but if it attacks Walter Scott (or whoever it may be) for a desig...Louisa Clinton [n/a]Edinburgh MagazinePrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'As for reading, I have much to say of the "Memoires de l'Europe sous Napoleon", but not time for it till quiet in my ...Louisa, Lady Stuart [unknown]Memoires de l'Europe sous NapoleonPrint: Book
1800-1849'Another thing pleases me, the general approbation of the last "Quarterly Review", Mr Lockhart's first, I believe, and...Louisa, Lady Stuart [n/a]Quarterly ReviewPrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'Another thing pleases me, the general approbation of the last "Quarterly Review", Mr Lockhart's first, I believe, and...Louisa, Lady Stuart [n/a]Quarterly ReviewPrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'Wellesley Long has thought fit to produce before Chancery his letters to his children, and like everything else they ...Louisa, Lady Stuart [n/a]Morning PostPrint: Newspaper
1800-1849'Wellesley Long has thought fit to produce before Chancery his letters to his children, and like everything else they ...Louisa, Lady Stuart [n/a]Courier, The Print: Newspaper
1800-1849'Wellesley Long has thought fit to produce before Chancery his letters to his children, and like everything else they ...Louisa, Lady Stuart [n/a][Unknown newspaper - article on Wellesley Long Chancery Case]Print: Newspaper
1800-1849'Do tell me what more you have heard about the poor Fans. [Fanshawes]. Is it to such an extent as is rumoured? the new...Louisa, Lady Stuart [n/a][newspapers]Print: Newspaper
1800-1849'Did you see in the newspaper that W.S. has avowed himself the author of "Waverley" etc.? He said at a public meeting ...Louisa, Lady Stuart [n/a][newspaper]Print: Newspaper
1800-1849'In the bushel of advertisements tacked to the "Quarterly Review", I spy two from Cadell that I am very glad to see - ...Louisa, Lady Stuart [n/a]Quarterly Review [advertisements for forthcoming works by Scott]Print: Advertisement, Serial / periodical
1800-1849'In the bushel of advertisements tacked to the "Quarterly Review", I spy two from Cadell that I am very glad to see - ...Louisa, Lady Stuart [n/a]Quarterly Review [Review of Southey's "John Bunyan"]Print: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'Bentley's puffs in the newspaper (for Jane Scott's "Trevelyan") quite sicken me, all admirable and charming alike, wr...Louisa, Lady Stuart [n/a][newspaper advertisements for "Trevelyan"]Print: Newspaper
1800-1849'in came the Rector with, "I have just been at the Hall, Ly Maria has just got the "Court Journal", which says "Trevel... [n/a]Court JournalPrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'The newspapers having transferred their puffs from "Trevelyan" to something more recent I am tranquillized again, and...Louisa, Lady Stuart [n/a][newspaper advertisements for Jane Scott's Trevelyan and other books]Print: Advertisement, Newspaper
1800-1849[From SHR's introduction] 'The assistance to her husband in his professional duties consisted, so we are told in anoth...Anne Romilly [unknown][legal briefs]Unknown
1800-1849'I have seen a letter from a Gentleman in Sweden which proves that her [Madame de Stael's] Anglomania did not first ar...Anne Romilly [unknown][letter to Madame de Stael]Manuscript: Letter
1800-1849'The pleasure we had in reading "Patronage" has been even increased by reading the [torn and illegible] but I should n...Samuel Romilly [unknown][novel by a lady novelist]Print: Book
1800-1849'The pleasure we had in reading "Patronage" has been even increased by reading the [torn and illegible] but I should n...Anne Romilly [unknown][novel by a lady novelist]Print: Book
1800-1849'I have not been able to discover the author of the article in the Quarterly that you mention. We all admired it very ...Anne Romilly [n/a]Quarterly ReviewPrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'I have not been able to discover the author of the article in the Quarterly that you mention. We all admired it very ...Maria Edgeworth [n/a]Quarterly ReviewPrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'If the Quarterly Reviewers should not think proper to publish it [an article by Edgeworth] Sir Saml wishes you would ...Anne Romilly [n/a]Philanthropist, ThePrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'The "Edinburgh Review" will have praised "Waverley" to your hearts content. I think however they left out one of the ...Anne Romilly [unknown]Edinburgh Review [review of 'Waverley']Print: Serial / periodical
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...Anne Romilly [unknown]Eugene Print: Book
1800-1849'I send you some lines which he [Lord Byron] printed but did not publish, and which were handed about [italics] confid...Anne Romilly [n/a]Morning ChroniclePrint: Newspaper
1800-1849'His [Byron's] "Farewell" is miserable poetry, and the allusions to the intimacy of marriage are not only ungentlemanl...Richard Lovell Edgeworth [unknown][Reports on Mendicity]Print: Unknown
1800-1849'I have read both Emma and [torn and illegible]. In the first there is so little to remember, and in the last so much ...Anne Romilly [unknown][unidentified novel]Print: Book
1800-1849'His letters [PB Shelley's in relation to his desertion of his wife] were really curious. A more singular display of t...Anne Romilly [n/a][newspaper]Print: Newspaper
1800-1849'How merciless and ungentlemanlike the"Quarterly Review" is upon Lady Morgan! It is the only thing that could have mad...Anne Romilly [n/a]Quarterly Review Print: Serial / periodical
1600-1699'But all this while, altho' now about Thirteen Years Old, I could not read; then thinking of the vast usefulness of re...Thomas Tryon [unknown][reading primer]Print: Book
1600-1699'[during his three years as a London apprentice castor-maker] I was mightily addicted to reading and Study; and tho' I...Thomas Tryon [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'[at Christmas, Easter and on other holidays, he] 'would be at Work or Study, whilst my Fellow-servants were abroad ta...Thomas Tryon [unknown][books on astrology]Print: Book
1600-1699'But besides Astrology, I read Books of Physick, and sereval [sic] other natural Sciences and Arts.'Thomas Tryon [unknown][books]Print: Book
1600-1699'the time others spent in the Coffee-house or Tavern, I spent in Reading, Writing, Musick, or some useful Imployment'Thomas Tryon [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1700-1799'When she [Katherine Hamilton, sister of Elizabeth] is not employed about something necessary and useful, she entertai...Katherine Hamilton [unknown][unknown]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 [unknown][unknown]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 [unknown][A history of England]Print: Book
1700-1799'[editor's words] In the evening Elizabeth had often to repeat a long elaborate task extracted from the now obsolete p...Elizabeth Hamilton [unknown][scholastic divinity essays]Print: Book
1700-1799'[editor's words. A family friend having tried to shake EH's religious faith,] To terminate this state of doubt, which...Elizabeth Hamilton [n/a]BiblePrint: Book
1700-1799'[editor's words] without literary pretensions, Mrs Marshall had a genuine love of reading, and when no other engageme...Elizabeth Hamilton [unknown][books chosen by Mrs Marshall]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 [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1700-1799'[editor's words] without literary pretensions, Mrs Marshall had a genuine love of reading, and when no other engageme...Mrs Marshall [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1700-1799'[editor's words] In reading the annals of her own country, she had been touched with the hard fate of Lady Arabella S...Elizabeth Hamilton [unknown][Scottish history]Print: Book
1700-1799'History and travels are our chief favourites; but with them we intermix a variety of miscellaneous literature, with n...Elizabeth Hamilton and her uncle, Mr Marshall [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1700-1799'[EH having been expecting her brother back from India] Think, then, what I felt on reading in the newspaper of that s...Elizabeth Hamilton [n/a][newspaper]Print: Newspaper
1700-1799'"The Gentleman's Magazine", begun and carried on by Mr Edward Cave , under the name of SYLVANUS URBAN, had attracted ...Samuel Johnson [n/a]Gentleman's Magazine, ThePrint: Serial / periodical
1700-1799'I myself recollect such impressions [of reverence, like Johnson displayed for the "Gentleman's Magazine"] from "The S...James Boswell [n/a]Scot's Magazine, ThePrint: Serial / periodical
1700-1799'I have read the Italian - nothing in it is well' Samuel Johnson [unknown]['The Italian' - unknown text]Unknown
1700-1799'The authorities [for the definitions in Johnson's Dictionary] were copied from the books themselves, in which he had ...Samuel Johnson [unknown][sources for his Dictionary]Print: Book
1700-1799'Here was an excellent library; particularly, a valuable collection of books in Northern literature, with which Johnso...Samuel Johnson [unknown][books of Northern literature]Print: Book
1700-1799'all the esays [in the "Universal Visitor"] marked with two [italics] asterisks [end italics] have been ascribed to hi...James Boswell [n/a]The Universal VisitorPrint: Serial / periodical
1700-1799'This Tale ["Rasselas"], with all the charms of oriental imagery, and all the force and beauty of which the English la...James Boswell Voltaire [pseud.]Candide: Or, All for the Best Print: Book
1700-1799'This Tale ["Rasselas"], with all the charms of oriental imagery, and all the force and beauty of which the English la...Samuel Johnson Voltaire [pseud.]Candide: Or, All for the Best 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 [unknown][book on astronomy]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...Housman family [n/a]BiblePrint: Book
1850-1899'[A Mr Murphy was looking for something to print in "The Gray's Inn Journal" and a Mr Foote suggested] "Here is a Fren...Mr Foote [unknown][a French magazine]Print: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'[A Mr Murphy was looking for something to print in "The Gray's Inn Journal" and a Mr Foote suggested] "Here is a Fren...Mr Murphy [unknown][a French magazine]Print: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'[A Mr Murphy was looking for something to print in "The Gray's Inn Journal" and a Mr Foote suggested] "Here is a Fren...Mr Murphy [n/a]Rambler, The Print: Serial / periodical
1850-1899I mentioned the periodical paper called "The Connoisseur." He said it wanted matter. No doubt it has not the deep thin...Samuel Johnson [n/a]Connoisseur, ThePrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899I mentioned the periodical paper called "The Connoisseur." He said it wanted matter. No doubt it has not the deep thin...Samuel Johnson [n/a]World, ThePrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'I mentioned the periodical paper called "The Connoisseur." He said it wanted matter. No doubt it has not the deep thi...James Boswell [n/a]Connoisseur, ThePrint: Serial / periodical
1700-1799'[Johnson said] "Sir, in my early years I read very hard. It is a sad reflection, but a true one, that I knew almost a...Samuel Johnson [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1700-1799'His Majesty having observed to him that he supposed he must have read a great deal; Johnson answered, that he thought...Samuel Johnson [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1700-1799'His Majesty then talked of the controversy between Warburton and Lowth, which he seemed to have read, and asked Johns...Samuel Johnson [unknown][Lowth-Warburton controversy]Print: Unknown
1700-1799'His Majesty then talked of the controversy between Warburton and Lowth, which he seemed to have read, and asked Johns...George III of England [unknown][Lowth-Warburton controversy]Print: Book
1700-1799'The King then asked him if there were any other literary journals published in this kingdom, except the "Monthly" and...Samuel Johnson [n/a]Monthly ReviewPrint: Serial / periodical
1700-1799'The King then asked him if there were any other literary journals published in this kingdom, except the "Monthly" and...Samuel Johnson [n/a]Critical ReviewPrint: Serial / periodical
1700-1799'The King then asked him if there were any other literary journals published in this kingdom, except the "Monthly" and...Samuel Johnson [n/a]Philosophical Transactions of the Royal SocietyPrint: Serial / periodical
1700-1799'between reading, chatting and backgammon, we conclude the evening, and usually retire, making the remark, that if we ...Elizabeth Hamilton and her uncle, Mr Marshall [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1700-1799[EDITOR WRITES]'During several months, Mr Hamilton was sedulously engaged in unravelling all the intricacies of the Pe...Charles Hamilton [n/a]Hedaya Print: Book
1700-1799'[EDITOR's WORDS] His [her brother, Charles's ] conversation inspired her with a taste for oriental literature; and wi...Elizabeth Hamilton [unknown][oriental literature]Print: Book
1800-1849'[EDITOR'S WORDS] The author, directed by her learned friends, was indefatigable in collecting documents and procuring...Elizabeth Hamilton [n/a][Classical latin works in translation]Print: Book
1800-1849'[EDITOR'S WORDS] The author, directed by her learned friends, was indefatigable in collecting documents and procuring...Elizabeth Hamilton [n/a][modern works on Classical subjects]Print: Book
1800-1849'[EDITOR'S WORDS] 'If no engagement intervened, the interval from seven till ten was occupied with some interesting bo...Elizabeth Hamilton [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1700-1799'It now only remains for me to walk worthy of that vocation to which I am called. Let me do so in the very manner in w...Elizabeth Hamilton [n/a]Bible [ Paul to the Ephesians, Ch 4]Print: Book
1800-1849'The superiority of the Scriptures to every composition of human genius, must appear incontestible to those who persev...Elizabeth Hamilton [n/a]Bible Print: Book
1800-1849'In studying the prophets, with a view of particularly examining the witness they bear to the Messiah, many things hav...Elizabeth Hamilton [n/a]Bible Print: Book
1700-1799'Many years ago, when I used to read in the library of your College, I promised to recompence the college for that per...Samuel Johnson [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1700-1799'"The London Chronicle", which was the only newspaper he constantly took in, being brought, the office of reading it a...Samuel Johnson [n/a]London ChroniclePrint: Newspaper
1700-1799'"The London Chronicle", which was the only newspaper he constantly took in, being brought, the office of reading it a...James Boswell [n/a]London ChroniclePrint: Newspaper
1700-1799'[from an account by Dr Maxwell, an Irish london-based priest friend of Johnson] Speaking of Mr. Harte, Canon of Winds...Samuel Johnson [unknown]['black letter', ie gothic text books - medieval to 16th c.]Print: Book
1700-1799'Speaking of the French novels, compared with Richardson's, he said, they might be pretty baubles, but a wren was not ...Samuel Johnson [unknown][French novels]Print: Book
1700-1799'I then reminded him of the schoolmaster's cause [a legal case on corporal punisment that Boswell was defending], and ...Samuel Johnson [unknown][legal case papers]Print: Unknown
1700-1799'The Swede [Mr Kristrom] went away, and Mr. Johnson continued his reading of the papers. I said, "I am afraid, Sir, it...Samuel Johnson [unknown][legal case papers]Print: Unknown
1700-1799'I mentioned Elwal the heretick, whose trial Sir John Pringle had given me to read.' James Boswell [unknown][legal trial papers]Unknown
1700-1799'At this time it appears from his "Prayers and Meditations," that he had been more than commonly diligent in religious...Samuel Johnson [n/a]BiblePrint: 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 ...Mrs Williams [n/a]London Chronicle Print: Newspaper
1700-1799'[on Good Friday] We went to church both in the morning and evening. In the interval between the two services we did n...Samuel Johnson [n/a]Greek New TestamentPrint: Book
1700-1799'[on Good Friday] We went to church both in the morning and evening. In the interval between the two services we did n...James Boswell [unknown][books belonging to Johnson]Print: Book
1700-1799'Mr. Elphinston talked of a new book that was much admired, and asked Dr. Johnson if he had read it. Johnson. "I have ...James Elphinstone [unknown][a recently published book]Print: Book
1700-1799'Mr. Elphinston talked of a new book that was much admired, and asked Dr. Johnson if he had read it. Johnson. "I have ...Samuel Johnson [unknown][a recently published book]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 George Sand [pseud.][unknown]Print: Book
1850-1899'[During the 1880s Gissing] continued to read Latin and Greek authors daily'.George Gissing [unknown][unknown]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 George Sand [pseud.][unknown]Print: Book
1800-1849'Last summer, being in Taunton, at the house of Mr J Smith, brother to my first wife, his son brought in a parcel of t...James Lackington anon [Religious Tract Society]tractsPrint: tracts
1700-1799'[Letter from Johnson to Boswell] There has appeared lately in the papers an account of a boat overset between Mull a...Samuel Johnson [n/a][newspapers]Print: Newspaper
1700-1799'In his [Johnson's] manuscript diary of this year, there is the following entry: "Nov. 27. Advent Sunday. I conside...Samuel Johnson [n/a][Greek Testaments]Print: Book
1700-1799'Lady Miller's collection of verses by fashionable people, which were put into her Vase at Batheaston Villa, near Bath...Samuel Johnson [unknown][verses deposited in Lady Miller's vase]Print: Book
1700-1799'I had brought with me a great bundle of Scotch magazines and newspapers, in which his "Journey to the Western Islands...James Boswell [n/a][various Scottish magazine reviews of Johnson's 'Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland']Print: Serial / periodical
1700-1799'Oct. 24. Tuesday. We visited the King's library.—I saw the "Speculum humanae Salvationis", rudely printed with ink,...Samuel Johnson [n/a]Durandi Sanctuarium Print: Book
1700-1799'[letter from Boswell to Johnson] Did you ever look at a book written by Wilson, a Scotchman, under the Latin name of ...James Boswell Florentius Volusenus [pseud.]De Animi TranquillitatePrint: 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'[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, ThePrint: Book
'Talking of the wonderful concealment of the authour of the celebrated letters signed [italics] Junius [end italics]; ...Samuel Johnson Junius [pseud.]Letters of JuniusPrint: Serial / periodical
1700-1799Early childhood reminisences: 'my deep impression is that she was a Holy, devoted follower of the Lord Jesus, but her...Catherine Gurney [n/a]ScripturesPrint: Book
1700-1799Early childhood reminisences: 'my deep impression is that she was a Holy, devoted follower of the Lord Jesus, but her...Catherine Gurney [n/a]PsalmsPrint: Book
1700-1799'I often go to see poor Bob who seems to me dying and it is a good thing to attend a person in that situation. I think...Elizabeth Gurney [n/a][New] TestamentPrint: Book
1700-1799'After reading to poor Bob which was a cross to me because some one was present I wrote this.'Elizabeth Gurney [n/a][New] TestamentPrint: Book
1700-1799'I slept late. Too unwell to go to meeting but have been writing and working which I disapprove of doing in general on...Elizabeth Gurney [n/a][New] Testament [probably]Print: Book
1700-1799'I slept late. Too unwell to go to meeting but have been writing and working which I disapprove of doing in general on...Elizabeth Gurney [n/a][New] Testament [probably]Print: Book
1700-1799'in the afternoon I laid down had a very sweet nap which I did enjoy - read in the Testament ... I then went and read ...Elizabeth Gurney [n/a][New] TestamentPrint: Book
1700-1799'in the afternoon I laid down had a very sweet nap which I did enjoy - read in the Testament ... I then went and read ...Elizabeth Gurney [n/a][New] TestamentPrint: Book
1700-1799'in the afternoon I laid down had a very sweet nap which I did enjoy - read in the Testament ... I then went and read ...Elizabeth Gurney [n/a][unknown]Print: Book
1700-1799'In the afternoon ... I went to the Cathedral then I came home read to the Normans and little Castleton'Elizabeth Gurney [n/a]Bible [most likely]Print: Book
1700-1799'I first wrote to my father then wrote a little journal, read two chapters in the Testament, had a good lesson of Fren...Elizabeth Gurney [n/a][New] TestamentPrint: Book
1700-1799'I have been great part of this morning with poor Bob who seems now dying. I read a long chapter in the Testament to h...Elizabeth Gurney [n/a][New] TestamentPrint: Book
1700-1799'This day I begin to read through the Bible. I have finished the Testament. I wish to read the Bible of a morning and ...Elizabeth Gurney [n/a]Bible [Old Testament]Print: Book
1700-1799'I read to the old Normans'Elizabeth Gurney [n/a][New] TestamentPrint: Book
1700-1799'read to Mrs Norman'Elizabeth Gurney [n/a][New] TestamentPrint: Book
1700-1799'I have been reading a good deal in the Testament today'Elizabeth Gurney [n/a][New] TestamentPrint: Book
1700-1799'This morning Kitty came in for us to read the Testament together, which I enjoyed, I read my favourite chapter the 15...Elizabeth Gurney [n/a][New] TestamentPrint: Book
1700-1799'I had rather a comfortable drive here from Shrewsbury, read in the Testament and got by heart one or two verses'Elizabeth Gurney [n/a][New] TestamentPrint: Book
1700-1799'After they all went I came and wrote my journal and sat with cousin Priscilla and we read till dinner'Elizabeth Gurney [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1700-1799'After they all went I came and wrote my journal and sat with cousin Priscilla and we read till dinner'Priscilla Hannah Gurney [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1700-1799'Yesterday evening I had a little choice time by myself. I read and was still in my heart.'Elizabeth Gurney [unknown][unknown, possibly Bible]Print: Book
1700-1799'A most comfortable reading with my little boys and one with my family'Elizabeth Gurney [unknown][unknown, probably religious, Bible?]Print: Book
1700-1799'A most comfortable reading with my little boys and one with my family'Elizabeth Gurney [unknown][unknown, probably religious, Bible?]Print: Book
1700-1799'I devoted most of my morning writing to P. Hoare, writing French and reading'Elizabeth Gurney [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1700-1799'at night snug time reading after the rest of the family were in bed'Elizabeth Gurney [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1700-1799'went to Meeting - had a more comfortable reading with my boys than this day [last] week'Elizabeth Gurney [unknown][unknown, probably religious, Bible?]Print: Book
1700-1799'I had a satisfactory reading with my little boys more so than I almost remember'Elizabeth Gurney [unknown][unknown, probably religious, Bible?]Print: Book
1700-1799'At ten o'clock we all met in the study and my father read to us. - I fear my mind is not sufficiently obedient to its...Elizabeth Gurney [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1700-1799'At ten o'clock we all met in the study and my father read to us. - I fear my mind is not sufficiently obedient to its...John Gurney [unknown][unknown, probably religious, Bible?]Print: Book
1700-1799'Rose in pretty good time, read before breakfast, had a lesson in French, read English, wrote logic before dinner'Elizabeth Gurney [unknown][unknown, probably Bible?]Print: Book
1700-1799'Rose in pretty good time, read before breakfast, had a lesson in French, read English, wrote logic before dinner'Elizabeth Gurney [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1700-1799'I first wrote in my journal, read in the Testament after breakfast'Elizabeth Gurney [n/a][New] TestamentPrint: Book
1700-1799'I wrote and read a little before breakfast'Elizabeth Gurney [unknown][unknown, probably Bible?]Print: Book
1700-1799'I then wrote a little journal, read a chapter away from the fire; rather as a cross to the body; but I had such a swe...Elizabeth Gurney [n/a]BiblePrint: Book
1700-1799'I then read french and wrote it, had one or two little interruptions'Elizabeth Gurney [n/a][French]Print: 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 [n/a][New] TestamentPrint: Book
1700-1799'quite vexed to teach my children in so shabby a room as the laundry; [underline] Pride [end underline] I think it was...Elizabeth Gurney [unknown][unknown, probably religious, Bible?]Print: Book
1700-1799'Read my Testament and felt not destitute of religion'Elizabeth Gurney [n/a][New] TestamentPrint: Book
1700-1799'I had a comfortable time with my children only I felt too anxious for uncle Joseph to see them as he was here but he ...Elizabeth Gurney [unknown][unknown, probably religious, Bible?]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 [unknown][French]Print: Book
1700-1799'12 verse. 4th chap: Paul to Timothy; this does strike my mind deeply; Let no man despite thy youth but be thou an exa...Elizabeth Gurney [n/a]New TestamentPrint: Book
1700-1799'I read to dear little Mary'Elizabeth Gurney [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1800-1849'I feel very unworthy this morning. Though the day appeared to begin well in a few words of solemn supplication after ...Elizabeth Fry [n/a]BiblePrint: Book
1800-1849'Enabled publicly after "Reading" to cast my care upon our Henry Helper'Elizabeth Fry [n/a]BiblePrint: Book
1800-1849'Yesterday I was enabled after reading to cast my care wholly and publicly upon the great helper of the helpless, in w...Elizabeth Fry [n/a]BiblePrint: Book
1800-1849'A chapter we read this morning tendered my spirit and raised it in aspirations to the God of my help. Describing by w...Elizabeth Fry [n/a]2 CorinthiansPrint: Book
1800-1849'The 40th and 42nd Psalms spoke comfort to me this morning, and I may say they greatly expressed the language of my sp...Elizabeth Fry [n/a]Bible (Psalms)Print: Book
1800-1849'Having poured forth my soul in prayer, and having exhorted my household to live in the love and fear of the Lord, I h...Elizabeth Fry [n/a]Bible (Esther)Print: Book
1800-1849'I told no one my state until about the time to get up. I then dressed. I felt bound to have my husband, children, my ...Elizabeth Fry [n/a]BiblePrint: Book
1800-1849'Upon reading the 2nd Chap. in Deuteronomy I felt this verse so much the acknowledgement of my heart, though all the w...Elizabeth Fry [n/a]Bible (Deuteronomy)Print: Book
1800-1849'These words in Eccles. struck me much. Ch. II v 21 & 22: "Marvel not at the works of sinners, but trust in the Lord a...Elizabeth Fry [n/a]Bible (Ecclesiastes)Print: Book
1800-1849'I paid a very interesting visit to two female convict ships with my dear sister E. Fry and cousin Sarah last 6th day,...Elizabeth Fry [n/a]BiblePrint: Book
1800-1849'The first day before leaving home I must also describe if I can. It was one of the most interesting nature. In the fi...Elizabeth Fry [n/a]BiblePrint: Book
1800-1849'My sisters Catherine, Rachel, Chenda and myself had a very remarkable morning, I felt most easy to stay at home from ...Elizabeth Fry [n/a]BiblePrint: Book
1800-1849'On the morning of the New Year we assembled almost all our large household, and many guests, principally young ones. ...Elizabeth Fry [n/a]BiblePrint: Book
1800-1849'I then went to town, and at Newgate, where I went under feelings of rather deep concern, found unexpectedly [underlin...Elizabeth Fry [n/a]BiblePrint: Book
1800-1849'We spent a cheerful, sober evening, until a general family Reading, when several joined our interesting party. We rea...Elizabeth Fry [n/a]Bible (Colossians)Print: Book
1800-1849'Last sixth day a very interesting time at Newgate, numbers there, clergy, some nobility, a sheriff, [underline] many ...Elizabeth Fry [n/a]BiblePrint: Book
1800-1849'Our wedding day twenty nine years since we married! My texts for the morning are applicable: "Our light affliction wh...Elizabeth Fry [n/a]Bible (Corinthians)Print: Book
1800-1849'In the evening our dear brother Buxton dined with us, and spent the evening; and after our Reading I had to return th...Elizabeth Fry [n/a]BiblePrint: Book
1800-1849'The last time I parted with those in the Ship Mary such a scene all around me, when I parted from them, probably for ...Elizabeth Fry [n/a]BiblePrint: Book
1800-1849'My spirit is however brought low before the Lord, on behalf of some most dear - ah, the unutterable conflict that giv...Elizabeth Fry [n/a]BiblePrint: Book
1800-1849'We have been favoured the last two days to have all our fifteen children around us ... After dinner we walked a littl...Elizabeth Fry [n/a]Bible (Psalms)Print: Book
1800-1849'dined at Lord Bexley's, afterwards led to many fears - worry about showing off - But a few words in the Proverbs enco...Elizabeth Fry [n/a]Bible (Proverbs)Print: Book
1800-1849'I returned from Brighton the day before yesterday having felt a drawing of love to visit the Friends; and to attend t...Elizabeth Fry [n/a]Bible (Psalms)Print: Book
1800-1849'[came home to find one of her sons drinking ale with some men with fireworks] I slept only at short intervals, up and...Elizabeth Fry [n/a]Bible (Psalms)Print: Book
1800-1849'5th day last - This evening William Foster read the 5th chap of Isaiah expressing his full belief that our Joseph wou...William Foster [n/a]Bible (Isaiah)Print: Book
1800-1849'And in the evening strength was given me with a very large party to speak a little on the subject of slavery and then...Elizabeth Fry [n/a]BiblePrint: Book
1800-1849'Last evening we had more than fifty guests, some influential persons of this world, young and old, French and English...Elizabeth Fry [n/a]Bible (Isaiah)Print: Book
1800-1849'In the evening we had many young women but hardly any men. Our great object was to stimulate them in every good word ...Elizabeth Fry [n/a]BiblePrint: Book
1800-1849'We had a large meeting at one of the pasteurs at Aix en Provance the few Protestants there and their Pastor requested...Elizabeth Fry [n/a]BiblePrint: Book
1800-1849'At Nismes we found a large party at one of the Pasteurs, where we had some further conversation on District Societies...Elizabeth Fry [n/a]BiblePrint: Book
1800-1849'I also had a serious reading of the Holy Scriptures with many English, who came to see us at our hotel, and a time of...Elizabeth Fry [n/a]BiblePrint: Book
1800-1849'We were sent for to visit Prince and Princess Charles and their children and paid them an agreeable and I hope not un...Elizabeth Fry [n/a]BiblePrint: Book
1800-1849'I had then to enter a drawing room full of company to receive numbers of foreigners, and our ambassador Lord William ...Elizabeth Fry [n/a]BiblePrint: Book
1800-1849'In the evening we had a very large party to our reading and worship. I should think nearly a hundred persons ... we h...Elizabeth Fry [n/a]BiblePrint: 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.]AdrianoPrint: Book
'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 gentilhommePrint: Book
1850-189915 Oct 1855 Meeting Minutes: Report from Elizabeth Fry Refuge - 'One of them Eliza Salmon was a Roman Catholic and has...Eliza Salmon [n/a]BiblePrint: Book
1800-1849Daily entry in journal, reads the Scriptures to the female convicts on board the 'Cadet' every morning and evening.R.W. Gibbs [n/a]BiblePrint: Book
1800-1849Thurs 16 November 1848: 'Visited an invalid in hospital, conversed with her on her everlasting concern, read and expou...R.W. Gibbs [n/a]BiblePrint: Book
1800-1849Mon 20 November 1848: 'After service conversed with Ellen Hinds and Anne Wheatcroft who appeared truly contrite, read ...R.W. Gibbs [n/a]BiblePrint: Book
1800-1849Tues 21 November 1848: 'After service conversed apart with Anne Wheatcroft who indicated a very favourable state of mi...R.W. Gibbs [n/a]BiblePrint: Book
1800-184927 Nov 1848 to 17 Apr 1849: visits the inmates in ship hospital to read Scriptures to them every morning.R.W. Gibbs [n/a]BiblePrint: Book
1800-1849Tues 27 Mar 1849 - Sat 31 Mar 1849: chaplain had accident on board ship, Matron reads Scriptures to convicts every mor... [n/a]BiblePrint: Book
1800-1849Fri 19 Jan 1849: 'After service instructed a class of Bible readers - improving much'female convicts [n/a]BiblePrint: Book
1800-1849Fri 31 Jan 1849: 'After service instructed a class of Bible readers - desirous to improve'female convicts [n/a]BiblePrint: Book
1800-1849Fri 10 Mar 1849: 'After service instructed a class of Bible readers - improving in Scripture knowledge'female convicts [n/a]BiblePrint: Book
1800-1849'In the evening my father brought two friends with him and Lawrence Candler. As I was reading to my children in the la...Elizabeth Gurney [n/a]BiblePrint: Book
1800-1849'After breakfast, I believed it better to propose reading in the Bible, but I felt doing it, particularly as my brothe...Elizabeth Fry [n/a]Bible (Psalms)Print: Book
1800-1849'After breakfast, I believed it better to propose reading in the Bible, but I felt doing it, particularly as my brothe...Joseph Fry [n/a]Bible (Psalms)Print: Book
1800-1849'I rather felt this morning it would have been right for me to read the Bible again, and stop George Dilwyn and Joseph...Joseph Fry [n/a]BiblePrint: Book
1800-1849'I again felt some difficulty at reading the Bible, however, I got through well. George Dilwyn encouraging me, by sayi...Elizabeth Fry [n/a]BiblePrint: Book
1800-1849'George Dilwyn said, for our encouragement this morning, that he had seen, since he had been with us, the efficacy of ...Elizabeth Fry [n/a]BiblePrint: Book
1800-1849'I was up in pretty good time, dressed by eight, and after reading, settled my great housekeeping accounts'Elizabeth Fry [n/a]BiblePrint: Book
1800-1849'After reading a little, I went some way off to see a poor woman'Elizabeth Fry [n/a][unknown, possibly Bible]Print: Book
1800-1849'In the evening, after reading at Earlham, I was greatly helped in prayer, for my brothers and sisters, who were all p...Elizabeth Fry [n/a]BiblePrint: Book
1800-1849'After poor John's funeral, I wished the servants, and those who attended, and were disposed to do so, to come and rea...Elizabeth Fry [n/a]Bible (New Testament)Print: Book
1800-1849'Yesterday I experienced liveliness of spirit, without any apparent cause; nothing but free mercy and grace, for I thi...Elizabeth Fry [n/a]BiblePrint: Book
1800-1849'At last I have been enabled to accomplish my desire in having the greater part of our family here, present at the Scr...Elizabeth Fry [n/a]BiblePrint: Book
1800-1849Dec 1816 - Fry recommences visits to Newgate prison: 'On her second visit, she was, at her own request, left alone amo...Elizabeth Fry [n/a]Bible (New Testament)Print: Book
1800-1849Words of a gentleman, well known to Fry, desirous of seeing and judging for himself effects of the experiment in Newga... [n/a]Bible (probably)Print: Book
1800-1849ms journal of Sophia de C-, one of the ladies of the Visiting Society for Newgate, entry dated 1 May 1817: 'Most of th... [n/a]BiblePrint: Book
1800-1849ms journal of Sophia de C-, one of the ladies of the Visiting Society for Newgate, entry dated 1 May 1817: '[school ro...Sophie de C [n/a][unknown]Print: Book
1800-1849ms journal of Sophia de C-, one of the ladies of the visiting Society for Newgate, entry dated 1 May 1817: '[school ro...Sophia de C [n/a]Bible (New Testament)Print: Book
1800-1849ms journal of Sophia de C-, one of the ladies of the visiting Society for Newgate, entry dated 1 May 1817: 'We next pr...Sophia de C [n/a]Bible (New Testament)Print: Book
1800-1849ms journal of Sophia de C-, one of the ladies of the visiting Society for Newgate, entry dated 2 May 1817: 'Rose early...Elizabeth Fry [n/a]Bible (Psalms)Print: Book
1800-1849ms journal of Sophia de C-, one of the ladies of the visiting Society for Newgate, entry dated 24 May 1817: 'I read to...Sophia de C [n/a]BiblePrint: Book
1800-1849Fry explains reading to prisoners to Committee of House of Commons on the Prisons of the Metropolis, 27 Feb 1818: 'our...Elizabeth Fry [n/a]BiblePrint: Book
1800-1849Fry explains reading to prisoners to Committee of House of Commons on the Prisons of the Metropolis, 27 Feb 1818: 'our... [n/a]BiblePrint: Book
1800-1849'The last time that Mrs Fry was on board the Maria, whilst she lay at Deptford, was one of those solemn and interestin...Elizabeth Fry [n/a]BiblePrint: Book
1800-1849Extract of letter from Lady Mackintosh to E. Fry: 'I have had a note from Sir James - "I dined Saturday, June 3rd, at ...Elizabeth Fry [n/a]Bible (Ephesians)Print: 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 [n/a]BiblePrint: 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 [unknown]Accounts of the MissionsPrint: Book
1800-1849Recollections of Miss Young, who accompanied her father, Captain Young, to female convict ships at Woolwich: 'On board...Elizabeth Fry [n/a]Bible (Psalms)Print: Book
1800-1849Letter from brother-in-law, T.F. Buxton, to E. Fry, Northrepps, 1 Dec 1828: 'I very quiet day yesterday, and a long ti...Thomas Fowell Buxton [n/a]Bible (Psalms)Print: Book
1800-1849Journal 20 Dec 1837: 'Afterwards I went to Clapham to visit a poor dying converted Jew, who had sent a letter to beg m...Elizabeth Fry [n/a]Bible (Psalms)Print: Book
1800-1849Journal 20 Dec 1837: 'Afterwards I went to Clapham to visit a poor dying converted Jew, who had sent a letter to beg m...Elizabeth Fry [n/a]BiblePrint: Book
1800-1849Journal of Miss Fraser, Newgate prison visitor, dated 29 Nov 1834: 'I spent an interesting time in Newgate, Mrs Fry an...Elizabeth Fry [n/a]BiblePrint: Book
1800-1849Journal of Miss Fraser, Newgate prison visitor, dated 29 Nov 1834: 'I spent an interesting time in Newgate, Mrs Fry an...James [n/a]Bible (New Testament)Print: Book
1800-1849Visit to France, 1838, accompanied by Joseph Fry, friend Josiah Forster, and Lydia Irving. Letter to children, Abbevil...Elizabeth Fry [n/a][unknown]Print: Book
1800-1849Visit to France, 1838, accompanied by Joseph Fry, friend Josiah Forster, and Lydia Irving. Letter to children, Abbevil...Elizabeth Fry [n/a]BiblePrint: Book
1800-1849Visit to France, 1838, accompanied by Joseph Fry, friend Josiah Forster, and Lydia Irving. Letter to children, Abbevil...Elizabeth Fry [n/a]Bible (New Testament)Print: Book
1800-1849Aug 1838, journey to Scotland with sister in law E. Fry, friend John Sanderson, and from 15th, William Ball, a Quaker ...Elizabeth Fry [n/a]BiblePrint: Book
1800-1849Aug 1838, journey to Scotland with sister in law E. Fry, friend John Sanderson, and from 15th, William Ball, a Quaker ...Quakers [n/a]BiblePrint: Book
1800-1849Aug 1838, journey to Scotland with sister in law E. Fry, friend John Sanderson, and from 15th, William Ball, a Quaker ...Elizabeth Fry [n/a]Bible (Psalms)Print: Book
1800-1849Aug 1838, journey to Scotland with sister in law E. Fry, friend John Sanderson, and from 15th, William Ball, a Quaker ...Elizabeth Fry [n/a]BiblePrint: Book
1800-1849Journal, Boulogne 28 May 1843: 'The afternoon of the Sabbath I paid a distressing visit to the St Lazare Prison; such ...Elizabeth Fry [n/a]BiblePrint: Book
1800-1849Evidence of E. Fry to parliamentary Select Committee - Fry explains that she is careful in her prison readings to have...Elizabeth Fry [n/a]Bible (Old Testament)Print: Book
1800-1849Day on which E. Fry read the new rules to the female prisoners at Newgate: 'when this business was concluded, one of t...Elizabeth Fry [n/a]Bible (New Testament)Print: Book
1800-1849Officials invited into Newgate to see the success of E. Fry's new prison routine: 'In compliance with this appointment...Elizabeth Fry [n/a]BiblePrint: Book
1800-1849Account of the gifts given to several female prisoners who burnt their playing cards: 'she called the first to her, an... [n/a]BiblePrint: Book
1800-1849'in expressing our acknowledgement of the good they have done, it is our duty to point out those parts of their procee...Elizabeth Fry [n/a]BiblePrint: Book
1800-184924pp pamphlet describing a reading by Mrs Fry to the female prisoners at Newgate, at which the author was present. pp....Elizabeth Fry [n/a]Bible (New Testament)Print: Book
1800-1849'The following particulars relating to a poor woman named Amelia Roberts, who has hanged for robbing her master's hous...Lady E.K. [unknown][Bible probably]Print: Book
1800-1849'The following particulars relating to a poor woman named Amelia Roberts, who has hanged for robbing her master's hous...Amelia Roberts [n/a]BiblePrint: Book
1800-1849'The following particulars relating to a poor woman named Amelia Roberts, who has hanged for robbing her master's hous...Amelia Roberts [n/a]BiblePrint: Book
1800-1849'The following particulars relating to a poor woman named Amelia Roberts, who has hanged for robbing her master's hous...Amelia Roberts [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1800-1849'The following particulars relating to a poor woman named Amelia Roberts, who has hanged for robbing her master's hous...Amelia Roberts [unknown][hymn-book]Print: Book
1800-1849'Mary O'Connor, the woman first appointed to be school-mistress to her fellow-prisoners, conducted herself with much p...Mary O'Connor [n/a]BiblePrint: Book
1800-1849'Mary Joy was convicted in July, 1834. From the period of her conviction, her mind seems to have been exercised with a...Mary Joy [n/a]Bible (Psalms)Print: Book
1800-1849'Mary Joy was convicted in July, 1834 ... She was indeed in bad health at the time of her coming to Newgate; she belie...Mary Joy [n/a]BiblePrint: Book
1800-1849'Mary Joy was convicted in July, 1834 ... She remained in Newgate till the month of January, when a pardon was obtaine... [n/a]BiblePrint: Book
1800-1849'Eliza Cooper was first visited in Newgate in the summer of 1849. She was committed for unlawfully deserting her infan... [n/a]BiblePrint: Book
1800-1849'Eliza Cooper was first visited in Newgate in the summer of 1849. She was committed for unlawfully deserting her infan...Eliza Cooper [n/a]BiblePrint: Book
1800-1849'Eliza Cooper was first visited in Newgate in the summer of 1849. She was committed for unlawfully deserting her infan...Eliza Cooper [unknown]Come to JesusPrint: Book, tract
1800-1849'Eliza Cooper was first visited in Newgate in the summer of 1849. She was committed for unlawfully deserting her infan... [n/a]BiblePrint: Book
1800-1849'Eliza Cooper was first visited in Newgate in the summer of 1849. She was committed for unlawfully deserting her infan...Eliza Cooper [n/a]BiblePrint: Book
1800-1849'Eliza Cooper was first visited in Newgate in the summer of 1849. She was committed for unlawfully deserting her infan... [n/a]Bible (Psalms)Print: Book
1800-1849'The case of Maria Manning is not one which it can be in any measure satisfactory to dwell upon ... Manning requested ... [n/a]Bible (Psalms)Print: Book
1850-1899'Read some numbers of Blackwood and enjoyed myself much more than I should have done had I been gadding about in the w...John Buckley Castieau [n/a]Blackwood's Print: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'Remained at home in the evening amused myself with Reading.'John Buckley Castieau [unknown][unknown]Print: Unknown
1850-1899'Played Cricket in the afternoon. Attended a Lecture at the Mechanics Institute. Afterwards Read a little & then went ...John Buckley Castieau [unknown][unknown]Print: Unknown
1850-1899'Read at home in the evening till nearly eleven Then went down the Street.'John Buckley Castieau [unknown][unknown]Print: Unknown
1850-1899'Great article abusive of Wackerow appeared in Ovens & Murray this morning'John Buckley Castieau [n/a]Ovens and Murray AdvertiserPrint: Newspaper
1850-1899'Dined at Hall's. Came home & Read until I went to bed.'John Buckley Castieau [unknown][unknown]Print: Unknown
1850-1899'Went to bed at ten o clock. Got up in the night & Read could not sleep.'John Buckley Castieau [unknown][unknown]Print: Unknown
1850-1899'Went for a little walk with Polly in the evening. Read & then went to bed.'John Buckley Castieau [unknown][unknown]Print: Unknown
1850-1899'Read in the morning.'John Buckley Castieau [unknown][unknown]Print: Unknown
1850-1899' Read at home during the evening.'John Buckley Castieau [unknown][unknown]Print: Unknown
1850-1899'Read at home in the evening.'John Buckley Castieau [unknown][unknown]Print: Unknown
1850-1899'Read the paper at Hutchinson's in the afternoon.'John Buckley Castieau [n/a][unknown - newspaper]Print: Newspaper
1850-1899'I took a stroll as far as the Mechanics read the papers came home had some toddy & a bath & went to bed'John Buckley Castieau [n/a][unknown - newspaper]Print: Newspaper
1850-1899'I was busy with prison business till past nine o clock, then I went to the Mechanics & read the papers, came home had...John Buckley Castieau [n/a][unknown - newspaper]Print: Newspaper
1850-1899'In the evening went to the Mechanics & read the papers.'John Buckley Castieau [n/a][unknown - newspaper]Print: Newspaper
1850-1899'Had a little barney with Polly, owing to my reading some cutting remarks by "a woman" "on women" in the Broadway Maga...John Buckley Castieau [n/a]Broadway MagazinePrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'Seemed to dread going to bed, everything smelling hot & stuffy, laid down for a time on the sofa, then got up & read ...John Buckley Castieau [unknown][unknown]Print: Unknown
1850-1899'I read the Papers at [the Mechanics?]'John Buckley Castieau [n/a][unknown- newspaper]Print: Newspaper
1850-1899'In the evening I strolled down to the Mechanics & had a glance at the pictures in the English comic periodicals. Th...John Buckley Castieau [n/a][unknown- periodicals]Print: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'In the evening went for a walk with Polly, called at the Mechanics & got some periodicals, took a turn through the Ea...John Buckley Castieau [n/a]AustralasianPrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'Went to the Mechanics & read the Evening paper, not much news.'John Buckley Castieau [n/a][unknown - newspaper]Print: Newspaper
1850-1899'In the evening went into town & read the papers, there was very little new & the town seemed quiet Bourke Street bein...John Buckley Castieau [n/a][unknown - newspaper]Print: Newspaper
1850-1899'A leading article appeared in the Argus of this morning lauding the management of Dunedin Gaol & calling attention to...John Buckley Castieau [n/a]ArgusPrint: Newspaper
1850-1899'Went in the evening to the Mechanics & read the papers, or rather tried to do so. The Church Assembly was sitting in ...John Buckley Castieau [n/a][unknown - newspaper]Print: Newspaper
1850-1899'Went to the Mechanics this evening & had a look at the Herald.'John Buckley Castieau [n/a]Evening HeraldPrint: Newspaper
1850-1899'Went to the Mechanics this evening & had a look at the papers, the Philarmonic (sic) people were practising so ready ...John Buckley Castieau [n/a][unknown - newspaper]Print: Newspaper
1850-1899'My letter appeared in the Argus this morning & created quite a flutter.' [letter to the editor in response to the art...John Buckley Castieau [n/a]ArgusPrint: Newspaper
1850-1899'In the Argus of this morning a Leading Article appeared in which "my taking an erroneous view of the meaning of a pre...John Buckley Castieau [n/a]ArgusPrint: Newspaper
1850-1899'Looked in at the Mechanics & read a little in Punch & the papers, then came back to the Gaol'John Buckley Castieau [n/a][unknown - newspaper]Print: Newspaper
1850-1899'Looked in at the Mechanics & read a little in Punch & the papers, then came back to the Gaol'John Buckley Castieau [n/a]PunchPrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'Went down to the Mechanics Institute this evening, the Library was shut up, found however all the English periodicals...John Buckley Castieau [n/a][English periodicals]Print: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'Went into town in the evening & read the papers.'John Buckley Castieau [n/a][unknown - newspaper]Print: Newspaper
1850-1899'Went into town in the evening saw by the Ovens Paper of Thursday that Mrs Zincke gave birth to a little girl on the 2...John Buckley Castieau [n/a]Ovens and Murray AdvertiserPrint: Newspaper
1850-1899' In the evening I went to the Mechanics & read the Evening Paper.'John Buckley Castieau [n/a][unknown - newspaper]Print: Newspaper
1850-1899'Went into town in the evening & read the papers, on my return the girls were very jolly.'John Buckley Castieau [n/a][unknown - newspaper]Print: Newspaper
1850-1899'In the evening went to the Mechanics & read the papers, returned had some beer & went to bed.'John Buckley Castieau [n/a][unknown - newspaper]Print: Newspaper
1850-1899'I went to the Mechanics in the evening & read the papers.'John Buckley Castieau [n/a][unknown - newspaper]Print: Newspaper
1850-1899'Read & idled during the afternoon till Telford made his appearance'John Buckley Castieau [unknown][unknown]Print: Unknown
1850-1899'After tea I went for a walk, a very quiet stroll indeed, did not meet a soul I knew & did not open my mouth to speak....John Buckley Castieau [unknown][unknown]Print: Unknown
1850-1899'Went into town in the evening to the Mechanics read the papers came home'John Buckley Castieau [n/a][unknown - newspaper]Print: Newspaper
1850-1899'In the evening I went to the Mechanics & read the papers, came home after a stroll in Bourke Street'John Buckley Castieau [n/a][unknown - newspaper]Print: Newspaper
1850-1899'Was at the Mechanics to-day went especially to see the Ovens & Murray & whether my "Copy" had been used, it did not a...John Buckley Castieau [n/a]Ovens and Murray AdvertiserPrint: Newspaper
1850-1899'Read the Australasian & lounged upon the sofa after dinner till muster time.'John Buckley Castieau [n/a]AustralasianPrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'Received two copies of the Ovens & Murray Advertiser. Glennon’s advertisement offering £25 Reward for the discove...John Buckley Castieau [n/a]Ovens and Murray AdvertiserPrint: Newspaper
1850-1899'In the evening went to the Mechanics read in the Ovens & Murray a skit I had written some week or more since on “T...John Buckley Castieau [n/a]Ovens and Murray AdvertiserPrint: Newspaper
1850-1899'In the evening went to the Mechanics & read the papers.'John Buckley Castieau [n/a][unknown - newspaper]Print: Newspaper
1850-1899'Went to the Mechanics in the evening & read the papers, nothing particular.'John Buckley Castieau [n/a][unknown - newspaper]Print: Newspaper
1850-1899'An answer to the letter I wrote to the Argus about Dunedin Gaol appeared to-day in the Argus signed “Robert Stout...John Buckley Castieau [n/a]ArgusPrint: Newspaper
1850-1899'My letter in reply to Mr Stout appeared in the Argus.' [composed previous day]John Buckley Castieau [n/a]ArgusPrint: Newspaper
1850-1899'In the evening went to the Mechanics & read the papers. Punch very fair & should improve now its competitors have be...John Buckley Castieau [n/a]PunchPrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'In the evening I went to the Mechanics & read the papers, returned home had a smoke & then went off to bed.'John Buckley Castieau [n/a][unknown - newspaper]Print: Newspaper
1850-1899'In the evening I went to the Mechanics & read the papers, turning the Country ones over nervously for fear of finding...John Buckley Castieau [n/a][unknown - newspaper]Print: Newspaper
1850-1899'In the evening I went to the Mechanics read the papers & then spent some time in searching among different periodical...John Buckley Castieau [n/a][unknown - newspaper]Print: Newspaper, Serial / periodical
1850-1899'after dinner we parted I had a look at the papers at the Mechanics & then came home.'John Buckley Castieau [n/a][unknown - newspaper]Print: Newspaper, Serial / periodical
1850-1899'In evening I went into town & read the Papers at the Mechanics, nothing yet done about the formation of a new Ministr...John Buckley Castieau [n/a][unknown - newspaper]Print: Newspaper
1850-1899' In Bourke Street I met Joe White & we commenced as usual chatting on different subjects. I asked what sort of a pla...John Buckley Castieau [n/a]The AgePrint: Newspaper
1850-1899'after tea went to the Mechanics & read the papers then came home'John Buckley Castieau [n/a][unknown - newspaper]Print: Newspaper
1850-1899'The rest of the day I was mostly reading or playing with the children.'John Buckley Castieau [unknown][unknown]Print: Unknown
1850-1899'Went to the Mechanics in the evening & read the papers. McCulloch is forming a Ministry & asked the House to give hi...John Buckley Castieau [n/a][unknown - newspaper]Print: Newspaper
1850-1899'Went to the Mechanics in the evening & read the papers. The Ministry not yet formed & the House adjourned till to-mo...John Buckley Castieau [n/a][unknown - newspaper]Print: Newspaper
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 [n/a][unknown - newspaper]Print: Newspaper
1850-1899'The Age which is bidding to be considered the Government Organ as it was during the old McCulloch Ministry is yet ver...John Buckley Castieau [n/a]The AgePrint: Newspaper
1850-1899'The Age which is bidding to be considered the Government Organ as it was during the old McCulloch Ministry is yet ver...John Buckley Castieau [n/a]The ArgusPrint: Newspaper
1850-1899'The Age which is bidding to be considered the Government Organ as it was during the old McCulloch Ministry is yet ver...John Buckley Castieau [n/a]The TelegraphPrint: Newspaper
1850-1899' Went to the Mechanics this evening & read the papers'John Buckley Castieau [n/a][unknown - newspaper]Print: Newspaper
1850-1899'In the evening I went to the Mechanics & read the papers'John Buckley Castieau [n/a][unknown - newspaper]Print: Newspaper
1850-1899'Came home & bought the Extraordinary there was very little in it in fact no item that was to me of any importance at ...John Buckley Castieau [n/a]The ExtraordinaryPrint: Newspaper
1850-1899'A fine day. In the Gaol this morning a number of letters were found which were thrown over the wall for a prisoner w...John Buckley Castieau [convict][letters]Manuscript: Letter
1850-1899'After Tea I went into town & spent an hour at the Mechanics saw some of the English Comic Journals the other magazine...John Buckley Castieau [n/a][English comic periodicals]Print: Serial / periodical
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 [n/a][unknown - newspaper]Print: Newspaper
1850-1899'After muster I went to the Mechanics & read the papers for an hour or two'John Buckley Castieau [n/a][unknown - newspaper]Print: Newspaper
1850-1899'After tea I read a fairy tale to the youngsters & then went to the Mechanics & read the papers.'John Buckley Castieau [n/a][unknown - newspaper]Print: Newspaper
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 [n/a][unknown - newspaper]Print: Newspaper
1850-1899'Went to the Mechanics... & read the papers'John Buckley Castieau [n/a][unknown - newspaper]Print: Newspaper
1850-1899'I went to the Mechanics in the evening & read the papers, then returned home had some more gin & water & went to bed.'John Buckley Castieau [n/a][unknown - newspaper]Print: Newspaper
1850-1899'It came on to rain very fast this evening, however I went to the Mechanics & read the papers very little however in t...John Buckley Castieau [n/a]PunchPrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'I went to the Mechanics & read the papers. Touchstone has a Cartoon'John Buckley Castieau [n/a]TouchstonePrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'By the Argus of this morning I saw that Mr Wintle died last evening.'John Buckley Castieau [n/a]ArgusPrint: Newspaper
1850-1899'Went to the Mechanics & read the papers nothing very particular in them.'John Buckley Castieau [n/a][unknown - newspaper]Print: Newspaper
1850-1899'In the evening I went to the Mechanics & read the Ovens & Murray, saw that Evan Evans Louisa Wintle’s husband had p...John Buckley Castieau [n/a]Ovens and Murray AdvertiserPrint: Newspaper
1850-1899'Went to the Mechanics & read the papers home by nine o clock'John Buckley Castieau [n/a][unknown - newspaper]Print: Newspaper
1850-1899'After muster I went to the Mechanics read the papers & got some Blackwood's Magazines ... when I got home Polly had g...John Buckley Castieau [n/a][unknown - newspaper]Print: Newspaper
1850-1899'After muster I went to the Mechanics read the papers & got some Blackwood's Magazines ... when I got home Polly had g...John Buckley Castieau [n/a]Blackwood's Print: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'After tea I read to the youngsters & then went out for a walk, came back & read the Australasian'John Buckley Castieau [unknown][fairy tales?]Print: Book
1850-1899'After tea I read to the youngsters & then went out for a walk, came back & read the Australasian'John Buckley Castieau [n/a]AustralasianPrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'In the evening went to the Mechanics & read the papers'John Buckley Castieau [n/a][unknown - newspaper]Print: Newspaper
1850-1899'Went to the Mechanics & read the papers in the afternoon'John Buckley Castieau [n/a][unknown - newspaper]Print: Newspaper
1850-1899'In the evening went to the Mechanics & poured over the papers. In the Evening Herald there was a paragraph stating "B...John Buckley Castieau [n/a]Evening HeraldPrint: Newspaper
1850-1899''In the evening went to the Mechanics & poured over the papers. In the Evening Herald there was a paragraph stating "...John Buckley Castieau [n/a][unknown - comic periodicals]Print: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'Went into town after Muster & read the papers at the Mechanics, did not see any very great news in fact never remembe...John Buckley Castieau [n/a][unknown - newspaper]Print: Newspaper
1850-1899'Went into town after Muster & read the papers at the Mechanics, did not see any very great news in fact never remembe...John Buckley Castieau [n/a]Illustrated [?]Print: Newspaper
1850-1899'After muster I went into town to the Mechanics & read the Papers, saw that the verdict against Draper had been upheld...John Buckley Castieau [n/a][unknown - newspaper]Print: Newspaper
1850-1899'After tea did Harry's sums & then went to the Mechanics a second time skimmed the Weeklys'John Buckley Castieau [n/a][unknown - newspaper]Print: Newspaper
1850-1899'Went to the Mechanics & read the papers between muster & Tea time.'John Buckley Castieau [n/a][unknown - newspaper]Print: Newspaper
1850-1899'after tea I went to the Mechanics & read the papers'John Buckley Castieau [n/a][unknown - newspaper]Print: Newspaper
1850-1899'I went to the Mechanics this evening & read the papers then took a stroll & came home.'John Buckley Castieau [n/a][unknown - newspaper]Print: Newspaper
1850-1899'A great sensation in the Herald of this evening. In a fit of jealousy, a Mr Cook shot a Mrs Moss through the heart & ...John Buckley Castieau [n/a]Evening HeraldPrint: Newspaper
1850-1899'In the evening the ladies went to St Peters church I staid at home & did Harry's sums then amused myself by reading a...John Buckley Castieau [n/a]Bell's ElocutionistPrint: Book
1850-1899'In the evening the ladies went to St Peters church I staid at home & did Harry's sums then amused myself by reading a...John Buckley Castieau [unknown][unknown]Print: Unknown
1850-1899'I read the papers at the Mechanics in the evening & brought home a book'John Buckley Castieau [n/a][unknown - newspaper]Print: Newspaper
1850-1899'Went to the Mechanics & read the papers saw by the Herald Mr McMullen of Wangaratta died from the effects of a fall f...John Buckley Castieau [n/a]Evening HeraldPrint: Newspaper
1850-1899'After Muster went into Town & read the papers at the Mechanics ... I stayed at home & finished “The Giraffe Hunters...John Buckley Castieau [n/a][unknown - newspaper]Print: Newspaper
1850-1899'Went to the Mechanics & read the papers before tea, went again after tea & exchanged some books, came home & read til...John Buckley Castieau [n/a][unknown - newspaper]Print: Newspaper
1850-1899'Went to the Mechanics & read the papers before tea, went again after tea & exchanged some books, came home & read til...John Buckley Castieau [unknown][unknown]Print: Unknown
1850-1899'After Muster I went to the Mechanics & read the papers then strolled through the town ... Did not go out on Saturday ...John Buckley Castieau [n/a]AustralasianPrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'After Muster I went to the Mechanics & read the papers then strolled through the town ... Did not go out on Saturday ...John Buckley Castieau [n/a][unknown - newspaper]Print: Newspaper
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 [n/a]Ovens and Murray AdvertiserPrint: Newspaper
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 [unknown][unknown]Print: Unknown
1850-1899'In the afternoon I mustered & then sat reading till tea time. In the evening I went as usual to the Mechanics & read ...John Buckley Castieau [unknown][unknown]Print: Unknown
1850-1899'In the afternoon I mustered & then sat reading till tea time. In the evening I went as usual to the Mechanics & read ...John Buckley Castieau [n/a][unknown - newspaper]Print: Newspaper
1850-1899'The English Mail was telegraphed to day nothing very important in the Telegram published by the Argus'John Buckley Castieau [n/a]ArgusPrint: Newspaper
1850-1899'Went to the Mechanics & read the papers saw in the Ovens & Murray that Kerferd in his letter stated every one connect...John Buckley Castieau [n/a]Ovens and Murray AdvertiserPrint: Newspaper
1850-1899'In the afternoon after muster went to the Mechanics & read the papers. Melbourne Punch had a picture of the Tasmanian...John Buckley Castieau [n/a]Melbourne PunchPrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'After Muster went into town & read the Papers at the Mechanics'John Buckley Castieau [n/a][unknown - newspaper]Print: Newspaper
1850-1899' In the Australasian of yesterday "The Peripatetic" announced his last article having as he said sold his office of F...John Buckley Castieau [n/a]AustralasianPrint: Newspaper
1850-1899'After muster went to the Mechanics & had a look at the Evening Herald & at Melbourne Punch nothing startling in eithe...John Buckley Castieau [n/a]Evening HeraldPrint: Newspaper
1850-1899'After muster went to the Mechanics & had a look at the Evening Herald & at Melbourne Punch nothing startling in eithe...John Buckley Castieau [n/a]Melbourne PunchPrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'After muster went to the Mechanics & had a look at the Evening Herald & at Melbourne Punch nothing startling in eithe...John Buckley Castieau [unknown][unknown]Print: Unknown
1850-1899'Went to the Mechanics & turned over the leaves of "Touchstone". There's nothing in it.'John Buckley Castieau [n/a]TouchstonePrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'Saw by the Ovens & Murray Advertiser that Butler is really about leaving Beechworth'John Buckley Castieau [n/a]Ovens and Murray AdvertiserPrint: Newspaper
1850-1899'After muster I went to the Mechanics & read the Herald then came back & stayed at home the whole of the evening'John Buckley Castieau [n/a]Evening HeraldPrint: Newspaper
1850-1899'After muster went to the Mechanics & read the evening Herald brought some periodicals away & got home in time for tea...John Buckley Castieau [n/a]Evening HeraldPrint: Newspaper
1850-1899'After muster went to the Mechanics & read the evening Herald brought some periodicals away & got home in time for tea...John Buckley Castieau [n/a]Blackwood's MagazinePrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'Went to the Mechanics in the evening & read the papers. Mr Gordon a well known sporting man & a poet of some pretens...John Buckley Castieau [n/a][unknown - newspaper]Print: Newspaper
1850-1899'I mustered at four o clock & after tea went into town & read the Evening Herald, with the exception of an Attempt at ...John Buckley Castieau [n/a]Evening HeraldPrint: Newspaper
1850-1899'I went to the Mechanics, nothing of much importance or interest in the Evening Herald'John Buckley Castieau [n/a]Evening HeraldPrint: Newspaper
1850-1899'After muster although it was raining & the weather was exceedingly unpleasant I went into town & read the papers at t...John Buckley Castieau [n/a][unknown - newspaper]Print: Newspaper
1850-1899'After muster this afternoon I went into town & read the evening paper, Nothing particular in it, the newspaper boys w...John Buckley Castieau [n/a]Evening HeraldPrint: Newspaper
1850-1899'Received newspaper from Beechworth nothing much except that Sixpenny nobblers are now general in the township.'John Buckley Castieau [n/a][unknown - newspaper]Print: Newspaper
1850-1899'Came home read a story in Temple Bar, drank my grog smoked my pipe & went to bed'John Buckley Castieau [n/a]Temple BarPrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'After muster I went to the Mechanics & read the Herald which was eagerly sought after for further intelligence concer...John Buckley Castieau [n/a]Evening HeraldPrint: Newspaper
1850-1899'In the evening after Muster I went into Melbourne & read the papers. The English ones were on the table. Got home bef...John Buckley Castieau [n/a][unknown - newspaper]Print: Newspaper
1850-1899'This evening I went to the Mechanics & read the Papers'John Buckley Castieau [n/a][unknown - newspaper]Print: Newspaper
1850-1899'Last night at Hotham a woman was beaten to death my her husband. The woman it seems was addicted to drink & the man ...John Buckley Castieau [n/a][unknown - newspaper]Print: Newspaper
1850-1899'Read a little, drank a little & smoked a good deal'John Buckley Castieau [unknown][unknown]Print: Unknown
1850-1899'Went to the Mechanics & then to the Yorick Club, not much in the Papers so I amused myself by looking through "The Su...John Buckley Castieau [n/a][unknown - newspaper]Print: Newspaper
1850-1899'Went to the Yorick Club in the evening & skimmed the papers'John Buckley Castieau [n/a][unknown - newspaper]Print: Newspaper
1850-1899'After muster went to the Yorick Club & peeped at the papers came home to dinner'John Buckley Castieau [n/a][unknown - newspaper]Print: Newspaper
1850-1899'I went to "the Mechanics" & when I returned I amused myself with reciting & reading aloud'John Buckley Castieau [unknown][unknown]Print: Unknown
1850-1899'Got some Beechworth Papers, great Leading Article regarding the dismissal of Stewart & the Turnkeys.'John Buckley Castieau [n/a][unknown - newspaper]Print: Newspaper
1850-1899'In the evening I strolled down to the Mechanics & had a glance at the pictures in the English comic periodicals. Th...John Buckley Castieau [n/a][unknown - comic periodicals]Print: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'After Muster I went to the Mechanics & had a look at the Evening paper. There was nothing however particular in it.'John Buckley Castieau [n/a][unknown - newspaper]Print: Newspaper
1850-1899'Read the Australasian, till Mr Wyburn & Miss Morphy put in an appearance'John Buckley Castieau [n/a]AustralasianPrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'Was shocked to see by the Argus this morning that Mr Farie was dangerously ill & on enquiring at the office I found i...John Buckley Castieau [n/a]ArgusPrint: Newspaper
1850-1899'Went to the Yorick Club this afternoon or rather evening stayed there & read a Review in Blackwood on [Lothair?] it w...John Buckley Castieau [n/a]Blackwood's MagazinePrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'went to the Yorick Club & read for a time'John Buckley Castieau [unknown][unknown]Print: Unknown
1850-1899'called at the Yorick Club, read the papers, very little new in any of them'John Buckley Castieau [n/a][unknown - newspaper]Print: Newspaper
1850-1899'went to the Yorick Club & had another look at the papers'John Buckley Castieau [n/a][unknown - newspaper]Print: Newspaper
1850-1899'After muster I sat at home & read ... After tea I went into town & called at the "Mechanics" & afterwards at the "Yor...John Buckley Castieau [n/a]Evening HeraldPrint: Newspaper
1850-1899'After muster I sat at home & read ... After tea I went into town & called at the "Mechanics" & afterwards at the "Yor...John Buckley Castieau [unknown][unknown]Print: Unknown
1850-1899'Went to the office this morning nothing new excepting that the Argus speaks of "Earl" as Second favourite for the Met...John Buckley Castieau [n/a]ArgusPrint: Newspaper
1850-1899'Read all the evening & did not attempt to go out at all'John Buckley Castieau [unknown][unknown]Print: Unknown
1850-1899'My foot was bad again to-day & I was obliged to be careful with it consequently I stayed at home & read nearly the wh...John Buckley Castieau [unknown][unknown]Print: Unknown
1850-1899'After muster this afternoon I went to the Yorick Club & read some of the papers'John Buckley Castieau [n/a][unknown - newspaper]Print: Newspaper
1850-1899'Read & smoked till about half past ten o clock, then went to bed'John Buckley Castieau [unknown][unknown]Print: Unknown
1850-1899'Went after muster to the Yorick. In the Herald of this evening "Castieau" was mentioned among the passengers in a Ste...John Buckley Castieau [n/a]Evening HeraldPrint: Newspaper
1850-1899'A Paragraph appeared in both the Argus & the Age this morning about Harry's accident & the boy was of course as pleas...John Buckley Castieau [n/a]The AgePrint: Newspaper
1850-1899'A Paragraph appeared in both the Argus & the Age this morning about Harry's accident & the boy was of course as pleas...John Buckley Castieau [n/a]ArgusPrint: Newspaper
1850-1899'After muster went into Melbourne & called at "the Yorick", had a look at Punch, there was a portrait of Dr Paley not ...John Buckley Castieau [n/a]PunchPrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'Came home to tea & as the weather was wet in the evening did not stir out but stayed at home & read till bed time'John Buckley Castieau [unknown][unknown]Print: Unknown
1850-1899'I was left by myself & spent the time pretty comfortably reading some sketches by "Yates", then smoking & thinking fo...John Buckley Castieau [unknown][unknown]Print: Unknown
1850-1899'The "Argus" of this morning was very interesting & it seems the more one think (sic) about the war the more astoundin...John Buckley Castieau [n/a]ArgusPrint: Newspaper
1850-1899'After muster went to "The Yorick" & had a peep at some of the English papers "War" "War" "War" is the burden of them ...John Buckley Castieau [n/a][unknown - newspaper]Print: Newspaper
1850-1899'After muster went to "The Yorick" & had a peep at some of the English papers "War" "War" "War" is the burden of them ...John Buckley Castieau [n/a]StandardPrint: Newspaper
1850-1899'In the Herald this evening there was a paragraph stating that thre of the Associates were dismissed & giving the name...John Buckley Castieau [n/a]Evening HeraldPrint: Newspaper
1850-1899'At the Mechanics to day saw a paragraph about Harry's accident in the Ovens Murray Observer'John Buckley Castieau [n/a]Ovens and Murray AdvertiserPrint: Newspaper
1850-1899'After tea I went to the Yorick Club & read the papers. In the Evening Herald was a remarkable circular from the Soli...John Buckley Castieau [n/a]Evening HeraldPrint: Newspaper
1850-1899'During the day I read the War Supplement of the Australasian & made myself tolerably conversant with the particulars ...John Buckley Castieau [n/a]AustralasianPrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'Read & smoked till about half past ten then went to bed & went sulkily to sleep feeling very miserable & dissatisfied...John Buckley Castieau [unknown][unknown]Print: Unknown
1850-1899'went to the "Yorick" there was however no one there so I read for a time & then left'John Buckley Castieau [n/a][unknown]Print: Newspaper, Serial / periodical
1850-1899'Went to the Mechanics in the evening & changed some books came home & read.'John Buckley Castieau [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1850-1899'then spent the rest of the morning in reading the Australasian & "All the Year round"'John Buckley Castieau [n/a]AustralasianPrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'then spent the rest of the morning in reading the Australasian & "All the Year round"'John Buckley Castieau [n/a]All the Year RoundPrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'Read nearly the whole of the day. Had four numbers of "Edwin Drood" & read them all, then in the evening went to the ...John Buckley Castieau [n/a]AustralasianPrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'looked in at the Yorick, there was no one at all there however I stayed & read for some time came home had some toddy...John Buckley Castieau [n/a][unknown]Print: Newspaper, Serial / periodical
1850-1899'then went to the Mechanics, read the Ovens & Murray of Saturday last which contained a Supplement with a first rate c...John Buckley Castieau [n/a]Ovens and Murray AdvertiserPrint: Newspaper
1850-1899'then went to "the Yorick" where I met Kane with whom I chatted for some time about "Supple" read the papers then came...John Buckley Castieau [n/a][unknown - newspaper]Print: Newspaper
1850-1899'Saw by the Ovens & Murray that Alderdice & Fanny Young had got married, they have been courting for a long time'John Buckley Castieau [n/a]Ovens and Murray AdvertiserPrint: Newspaper
1850-1899'went back to the Argus office where quite a crowd had assembled. Much excitement was occasioned by a placard which w...John Buckley Castieau [n/a][placard]Print: Advertisement, Broadsheet, Poster
1850-1899'went back to the Argus office where quite a crowd had assembled. Much excitement was occasioned by a placard which w...John Buckley Castieau [n/a]The Extraordinary (Argus)Print: Newspaper
1850-1899'After muster I went into town & spent a couple of hours at the Yorick reading "The Home News" particularly interestin...John Buckley Castieau [n/a]The Home NewsPrint: Newspaper
1850-1899'Read a great deal of the War news & was truly disgusted at the horrible things that have been enacted'John Buckley Castieau [n/a][unknown - newspaper]Print: Newspaper
1850-1899'Went to the Yorick in the evening & stayed there for some time reading the last number of Edwin Drood & some English...John Buckley Castieau [n/a][unknown - newspaper]Print: Newspaper
1850-1899'Went to the Yorick Club in the afternoon & read for some time'John Buckley Castieau [n/a][unknown]Print: Newspaper, Serial / periodical
1850-1899'then went to the Yorick where I stayed for a short time & had a look at the papers'John Buckley Castieau [n/a][unknown]Print: Newspaper
1850-1899'Account in the papers of great floods at Ballaarat & other places, at Coleraine nine persons are said to have been dr...John Buckley Castieau [n/a][unknown - newspaper]Print: Newspaper
1850-1899'Went into Melbourne in the evening, took a book to the Mechanics & read for a time at the Yorick'John Buckley Castieau [n/a][unknown]Print: Newspaper, Serial / periodical
1850-1899'In the evening went to the Mechanics changed some Periodicals, then went over to the Yorick & read for a timeJohn Buckley Castieau [n/a][unknown]Print: Newspaper, Serial / periodical
1850-1899'Went to the Mechanics in the evening & changed a book, then went over to the Yorick did not stay long, looked through...John Buckley Castieau [n/a][unknown - newspaper]Print: Newspaper
1850-1899'Mustered in the afternoon & then went to the Yorick where I did a little reading ... Came home soon & after a read & ...John Buckley Castieau [n/a][unknown]Print: Newspaper, Serial / periodical
1850-1899'Mustered in the afternoon & then went to the Yorick where I did a little reading ... Came home soon & after a read & ...John Buckley Castieau [unknown][unknown]Print: Unknown
1850-1899'In the evening went to the Yorick, read for a time then took a walk up Bourke Street'John Buckley Castieau [n/a][unknown]Print: Newspaper, Serial / periodical
1850-1899'Went to the Yorick club this afternoon & read the Extraordinary the Mail having been Telegraphed to-day. Paris was a...John Buckley Castieau [n/a]The Extraordinary (Argus)Print: Newspaper
1850-1899'Went to "The Yorick" & read the English Punches'John Buckley Castieau [n/a]PunchPrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'went to the Mechanics & turned over some of the "funny" periodicals'John Buckley Castieau [n/a][unknown - comic periodicals]Print: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'then went to the Yorick where I stayed & read an article in Blackwood'John Buckley Castieau [n/a]Blackwood's MagazinePrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'I read with horror of the brutual exhibitions of the Romans with their gladiators pitted against one another or oppos...John Buckley Castieau [unknown][Roman history]Print: Unknown
1850-1899'Came home sat down to read & did so for some time, then I went in for smoking & for gin & water'John Buckley Castieau [unknown][unknown]Print: Unknown
1850-1899'I went into town this morning & read the Argus at the Yorick Club'John Buckley Castieau [n/a]ArgusPrint: Newspaper
1850-1899'then to the Yorick at the latter place had a chat with Semple & Eville & a look at Punch'John Buckley Castieau [n/a]PunchPrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'Went into Melbourne after tea & changed a book at the Mechanics, then came home, read a novel for some time smoked a ...John Buckley Castieau [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1850-1899'In the evening went to the "Yorick" & read Punch & some of the papers'John Buckley Castieau [n/a]PunchPrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'After tea I went for a stroll & looked in at the Yorick Club, read some of the papers & Touchstone the last paper cam...John Buckley Castieau [n/a]TouchstonePrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'The Argus had a long detailed account of a row that took place between G.P. Smith & Bowman late member for Maryboroug...John Buckley Castieau [n/a][unknown]Print: Newspaper, Serial / periodical
1850-1899'The Argus had a long detailed account of a row that took place between G.P. Smith & Bowman late member for Maryboroug...John Buckley Castieau [n/a]ArgusPrint: Newspaper
1850-1899'In the evening went to the Yorick & had a look at Punch & the Papers'John Buckley Castieau [n/a]PunchPrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'went into Melbourne after muster & stayed some time reading at the Yorick thought London Punch particularly good this...John Buckley Castieau [n/a]PunchPrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899' I passed the morning reading the Australasian'John Buckley Castieau [n/a]AustralasianPrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'Went into Melbourne in the morning & had a look at the Argus at the Yorick'John Buckley Castieau [n/a]ArgusPrint: Newspaper
1850-1899'then read the papers at "The Yorick"'John Buckley Castieau [n/a][unknown - newspaper]Print: Newspaper
1850-1899'An advertisement of Polly's appeared in the Argus this morning ... There was no appearance in the Argus of the articl...John Buckley Castieau [n/a]ArgusPrint: Advertisement, Newspaper
1850-1899'I did not go out at all this evening but after tea sat reading till I was tired when Harry & I read together & then I...John Buckley Castieau [n/a]Evening HeraldPrint: Newspaper
1850-1899'I did not go out at all this evening but after tea sat reading till I was tired when Harry & I read together & then I...John Buckley Castieau [unknown][unknown]Print: Unknown
1850-1899'I went to the Club in the evening & read the papers for some time, then took a stroll & returned home'John Buckley Castieau [unknown][unknown - newspaper]Print: Newspaper
1850-1899'soon after I took a walk as far as the Yorick. Purves was there & we had a little chat. I looked through "The Leader"...John Buckley Castieau [n/a]The LeaderPrint: Newspaper
1850-1899'Some excitement as the English mail was expected & in the morning a report was spread that she had been [telegraphed?...John Buckley Castieau [n/a]ArgusPrint: Newspaper
1850-1899'Went to the Yorick & read the English [papers?] or rather looked at the Pictures in them'John Buckley Castieau [n/a][unknown - newspaper]Print: Newspaper
1850-1899'Called at the Yorick & read the papers'John Buckley Castieau [n/a][unknown - newspaper]Print: Newspaper
1850-1899'Long articles in the papers describing the escape. The Telegraph & Argus give fair reports, the Age was rather severe...John Buckley Castieau [n/a]AgePrint: Newspaper
1850-1899'Long articles in the papers describing the escape. The Telegraph & Argus give fair reports, the Age was rather severe...John Buckley Castieau [n/a]ArgusPrint: Newspaper
1850-1899'Long articles in the papers describing the escape. The Telegraph & Argus give fair reports, the Age was rather severe...John Buckley Castieau [n/a]TelegraphPrint: Newspaper
1850-1899'After tea went into Melbourne & read the papers at the Yorick'John Buckley Castieau [n/a][unknown - newspaper]Print: Newspaper
1850-1899'Went to the Yorick & read the papers, then after a look at Punch came home'John Buckley Castieau [n/a]PunchPrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'In the evening I went to "the Yorick" & had a look at the papers. Came home & went on reading Vanity Fair.'John Buckley Castieau [n/a][unknown - newspaper]Print: Newspaper
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 [unknown][unknown]Print: Unknown
1850-1899'Went to the Yorick Club in the evening & stayed there chatting & reading until nearly ten o'clock'John Buckley Castieau [unknown][unknown]Print: Newspaper, Serial / periodical
1850-1899'The Papers this morning contained a Telegram stating that Mr Charles Smyth the Acting Judge showed great strangeness ...John Buckley Castieau [n/a][unknown - newspaper]Print: Newspaper
1850-1899'Got home a little after nine o'clock & after a little reading and two or three pipes had a bath & went to bed'John Buckley Castieau [unknown][unknown]Print: Unknown
1850-1899'Was favoured this morning by Post with an extract from the Pall Mall Gazette on the manner in which the punishment of...John Buckley Castieau [n/a]Pall Mall GazettePrint: Newspaper
1850-1899'Was sorry to see in the Argus this morning that "Raecke's" private house was burnt down on Sunday evening last & that...John Buckley Castieau [n/a]ArgusPrint: Newspaper
1850-1899'Was sorry to see in the Argus this morning that "Raecke's" private house was burnt down on Sunday evening last & that...John Buckley Castieau [unknown]Handy AndyPrint: Unknown
1850-1899'Went to the Club in the evening & had a look at Punch.'John Buckley Castieau [n/a]PunchPrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'I sat up smoking & reading with an occasional turn at nagging till nearly twelve o'clock'John Buckley Castieau [unknown][unknown]Print: Unknown
1850-1899'Read The Australasian to myself & some little tales to the children & passed the evening away until past ten'John Buckley Castieau [n/a]AustralasianPrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'Read The Australasian to myself & some little tales to the children & passed the evening away until past ten'John Buckley Castieau [unknown][fairy tales?]Print: Book
1850-1899'Went into Melbourne & read the papers at "The Yorick" then took a turn through Bourke Street & then home'John Buckley Castieau [n/a][unknown - newspaper]Print: Newspaper
1850-1899'then I went into town & called in at the Yorick to read the papers. Recently a youthful individual with innumerable b...John Buckley Castieau [n/a][unknown - newspaper]Print: Newspaper
1850-1899'Was sorry to read in The Argus of this morning that "Tommy Hoyle" the well known Beechworth [?] met with an accident ...John Buckley Castieau [n/a]ArgusPrint: Newspaper
1850-1899'Stayed talking with Sissy, Walter & Harry. Read to them for a little while & then looked over Harry's sums'John Buckley Castieau [unknown][unknown]Print: Unknown
1850-1899'Went to the Yorick in the afternoon. The Club however was unusually empty for Saturday afternoon & so I did not do mu...John Buckley Castieau [n/a][unknown - newspaper]Print: Newspaper
1850-1899'While Polly was at Church I read many Tales to the little [children] until they were tired'John Buckley Castieau [unknown][fairy tales?]Print: Book
1850-1899'Instead of mustering this afternoon I went to the Yorick. The men were however arguing politics & I held my tongue & ...John Buckley Castieau [n/a][unknown - newspaper]Print: Newspaper
1850-1899'Went to "The Yorick" but did not stay longer than necessary to have a look at the Herald. The Victorians won the Cric...John Buckley Castieau [n/a]Evening HeraldPrint: Newspaper
1850-1899'I was at "The Yorick" & had a good look at English Punch & The Graphic after which I came home.'John Buckley Castieau [n/a]PunchPrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'I was at "The Yorick" & had a good look at English Punch & The Graphic after which I came home.'John Buckley Castieau [n/a]The GraphicPrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'Received the Ovens & Murray. It contained the letter I wrote a few days since. I thought it read very so so but Polly...John Buckley Castieau [n/a]Ovens and Murray AdvertiserPrint: Newspaper
1850-1899'Went into town & read the Newspapers at the Club'John Buckley Castieau [n/a][unknown - newspaper]Print: Newspaper
1850-1899'Read some stories to the youngsters, about the only good thing I did to-day.'John Buckley Castieau [n/a][stories]Print: Book
1850-1899'Went to the Club in the evening & read some of the papers'John Buckley Castieau [n/a][unknown - newspaper]Print: Newspaper
1850-1899'Went to the Club. Skimmed some of the papers then purchased The Australasian'John Buckley Castieau [n/a][unknown - newspaper]Print: Newspaper
1850-1899'In the evening after Mr & Mrs Hall were gone I went to the Yorick & read the papers then came home'John Buckley Castieau [n/a][unknown - newspaper]Print: Newspaper
1850-1899'in the evening went to the Yorick where I spent some time in reading the papers'John Buckley Castieau [n/a][unknown - newspaper]Print: Newspaper
1850-1899'A report in the Telegraph Newspaper this morning was to the effect that the Sheriff would probably be chosen from Mr ...John Buckley Castieau [n/a]TelegraphPrint: Newspaper
1850-1899'In the evening went to Melbourne & called at the Club where I had a look at Punch & the other papers 'John Buckley Castieau [n/a]PunchPrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'after Muster went into town & read the papers at the Yorick'John Buckley Castieau [n/a][unknown - newspaper]Print: Newspaper
1850-1899'went into the office where I wrote a little article in reply to a stupid Leader that appeared in The Telegraph of thi...John Buckley Castieau [n/a]TelegraphPrint: Newspaper
1850-1899'In the evening when the weather had taken up I went to the Club & read for some time, then came home'John Buckley Castieau [n/a][unknown]Print: Newspaper, Serial / periodical
1850-1899'When I got back Polly had gone to bed so I sat & read for an hour & then followed her up stairs. The book I was readi...John Buckley Castieau [n/a]Blueskin, or the adventures of Jonathan WildPrint: Book
1850-1899'Commenced reading some awful rubbish there is in "Blueskin", a catch-penny thieves book which glorifies "Jack Sheppar...John Buckley Castieau [n/a]Blueskin, or the adventures of Jonathan WildPrint: Book
1850-1899'After Muster I went to the Club & stayed there reading for a short time, then came home to tea'John Buckley Castieau [n/a][unknown]Print: Newspaper, Serial / periodical
1850-1899'Stayed home all the evening. Amused myself reading until ten o'clock'John Buckley Castieau [unknown][unknown]Print: Unknown
1850-1899'Stayed at home nursing my cough this evening. Read "Jack Sheppard" or rather "Blueskin", smoked some strong tobacco &...John Buckley Castieau [unknown]Blueskin, or the adventures of Jonathan WildPrint: Book
1850-1899'In the evening I went to the "Yorick" & had a look over the newspapers'John Buckley Castieau [n/a][unknown - newspaper]Print: Newspaper
1850-1899'After Muster went to the Yorick & read the papers until tea time'John Buckley Castieau [n/a][unknown - newspaper]Print: Newspaper
1850-1899'After Muster went to the Yorick & read the papers, nothing very ... or interesting'John Buckley Castieau [n/a][unknown - newspaper]Print: Newspaper
1850-1899'Went to the Yorick & read the papers, the only item in the Evening Herald of any consequence was the announcement of ...John Buckley Castieau [n/a]Evening HeraldPrint: Newspaper
1850-1899'After Muster went to the Yorick & read the papers, then came home to tea.'John Buckley Castieau [n/a][unknown - newspaper]Print: Newspaper
1850-1899'Found the youngsters had not gone to bed so aroused them by reading some little stories'John Buckley Castieau [n/a][fairy tales?]Print: Book
1850-1899'Stayed at home this evening. Read a little to the children'John Buckley Castieau [n/a][fairy tales?]Print: Book
1850-1899'amused myself reading to myself & the youngsters.'John Buckley Castieau [n/a][fairy tales?]Print: Book
1850-1899'"The Australasian" noticed my article in the Journal & so did the Ovens & Murray Advertiser each giving a short extra...John Buckley Castieau [n/a]AustralasianPrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'"The Australasian" noticed my article in the Journal & so did the Ovens & Murray Advertiser each giving a short extra...John Buckley Castieau [n/a]Ovens and Murray AdvertiserPrint: Newspaper
1850-1899'Stayed at home all the evening, first amused myself with Reading, smoking & dreaming'John Buckley Castieau [unknown][unknown]Print: Unknown
1850-1899'This evening's Herald gave the names of Duffy's Ministry'John Buckley Castieau [n/a]Evening HeraldPrint: Newspaper
1850-1899'so went to the Club. There I glanced over the Weeklies & then came home'John Buckley Castieau [n/a][weekly newspapers]Print: Newspaper
1850-1899'Went to the Yorick & read the papers then came home'John Buckley Castieau [n/a][unknown - newspapers]Print: Newspaper
1850-1899'Polly played the Piano all the evening & I read'John Buckley Castieau [unknown][unknown]Print: Unknown
1850-1899'In the evening I amused myself with reading while Polly amused or instructed herself at the piano.'John Buckley Castieau [unknown][unknown]Print: Unknown
1850-1899'On the Road bought an Extraordinary which was published this morning, the English Mail having arrived in the night. T...John Buckley Castieau [n/a]The Extraordinary (Argus)Print: Newspaper
1850-1899'Mustered in the afternoon, then went to the Club & read the Evening Paper'John Buckley Castieau [n/a]Evening HeraldPrint: Newspaper
1850-1899Mustered in the afternoon & spent the evening reading & disagreeing'John Buckley Castieau [unknown][unknown]Print: Unknown
1850-1899'In the evening went to "the Yorick" where I read the papers. Then came home & read till Polly came in'John Buckley Castieau [unknown][unknown]Print: Unknown
1850-1899'In the evening went to "the Yorick" where I read the papers. Then came home & read till Polly came in'John Buckley Castieau [n/a][unknown - newspaper]Print: Newspaper
1850-1899'Went to "the Yorick" & read the Papers, skimmed an Article in Cornhill & then came away home'John Buckley Castieau [n/a]CornhillPrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'Have very little to write about to-day, everything was dull & quiet & peacable. The Weekly Papers helped to pass away...John Buckley Castieau [n/a]AustralasianPrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'the youngsters spent a great deal of their time in the parlor & in the evening their mamma read them a number of stor...Polly Castieau [unknown][unknown]Print: Unknown
1850-1899'the youngsters spent a great deal of their time in the parlor & in the evening their mamma read them a number of stor...Walter Castieau [unknown][unknown]Print: Unknown
1850-1899'the youngsters spent a great deal of their time in the parlor & in the evening their mamma read them a number of stor...Sissy Castieau [unknown][unknown]Print: Unknown
1850-1899'the youngsters spent a great deal of their time in the parlor & in the evening their mamma read them a number of stor...Dotty Castieau [unknown][unknown]Print: Unknown
1850-1899'In the evening read for a while, then played Bezique with Mrs Castieau'John Buckley Castieau [unknown][unknown]Print: Unknown
1850-1899'In the evening went to "the Yorick" & had a look at some of the papers'John Buckley Castieau [n/a][unknown - newspaper]Print: Newspaper
1850-1899'after Muster wrote a page in my Diary & read until nearly five o'clock'John Buckley Castieau [unknown][unknown]Print: Unknown
1850-1899'Stayed at home this evening & did nothing else but read. Mrs Robertson stayed till about eight o'clock but I did not ...John Buckley Castieau [unknown][unknown]Print: Unknown
1850-1899'By the Ovens & Murray to-day we learnt the death of Mrs Telford, the poor lady died at last very suddenly. She has ho...John Buckley Castieau [n/a]Ovens and Murray AdvertiserPrint: Newspaper
1850-1899'when I went into the house after Muster I found that Polly had gone away to Elsternwick with Harry, Sissy & Dotty so ...John Buckley Castieau [unknown][unknown]Print: Unknown
1850-1899'Mustered in the afternoon & read "Gil Blas" till tea was ready. After tea went to "the Yorick", read for a while & ch...John Buckley Castieau [n/a][unknown]Print: Newspaper, Serial / periodical
1850-1899'Read some pieces of poetry to them this evening & was very pleased however to find how interested they were & how muc...John Buckley Castieau [unknown][Poems]Print: Book
1850-1899'In the evening I stayed at home, played "Snap" with Dotty & read some poetry & the Story of Le Fevre to please Harry'John Buckley Castieau [unknown][Poems]Print: Book
1850-1899'In the evening I stayed at home, played "Snap" with Dotty & read some poetry & the Story of Le Fevre to please Harry'John Buckley Castieau [unknown]Le FevrePrint: 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 Voltaire [pseud.]ZadigPrint: Book
1850-1899'Mustered in the afternoon & then went to the Yorick where I read the papers.'John Buckley Castieau [n/a][unknown - newspaper]Print: Newspaper
1850-1899'in the evening I went into town, called at the Yorick & looked at the Weeklies'John Buckley Castieau [n/a][unknown - newspaper]Print: Newspaper
1850-1899'Had dinner & read until Muster time. After Muster read again till tea-time.'John Buckley Castieau [unknown][unknown]Print: Unknown
1850-1899'Received two Ovens & Murray Advertisers. They however contained very little new'John Buckley Castieau [n/a]Ovens and Murray AdvertiserPrint: Newspaper
1850-1899'In the evening wrote a page in my Diary & dreamed away over "The Newcomes" until it was time to go to bed. The little...John Buckley Castieau [unknown][stories]Print: Book
1850-1899'Went to the Club in the evening & read for a while, then came home & after reading for a while went to bed'John Buckley Castieau [unknown][unknown]Print: Newspaper, Serial / periodical
1850-1899'Went to the Club in the evening & read for a while, then came home & after reading for a while went to bed'John Buckley Castieau [unknown][unknown]Print: Unknown
1850-1899'Went to the Club & had a glance at the Illustrated Papers & Punch which arrived by this Mail'John Buckley Castieau [n/a]PunchPrint: Serial / periodical
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 [unknown][fairy tales]Print: Book
1850-1899'After Muster had tea & read the Evening Paper'John Buckley Castieau [n/a]Evening HeraldPrint: Newspaper
1850-1899'then I went to the Club where I stayed & read an Article in Blackwood then came home'John Buckley Castieau [n/a]Blackwood's MagazinePrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'Polly read the Australasian till she was tired & then went to bed'Polly Castieau [n/a]AustralasianPrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'In the evening I went to the Yorick & read some of the papers'John Buckley Castieau [n/a][unknown - newspaper]Print: Newspaper
1850-1899'Went into the town in the evening & read the papers at the Club.'John Buckley Castieau [n/a][unknown - newspaper]Print: Newspaper
1850-1899'after tea went to the Yorick where I stayed chatting to Jardine smith & Carrington some time. After they left I read ...John Buckley Castieau [n/a]Fraser's MagazinePrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'In The Argus this morning I was very sorry to see the death of Dempster's little boy recorded. This was the only son ...John Buckley Castieau [n/a]ArgusPrint: Newspaper
1850-1899'Commenced reading a tale in Good Words "Oswald [?]"'John Buckley Castieau [n/a]Good WordsPrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'Stayed at home this evening & after doing a little reading & visiting the pigs played Bezique with Polly till it was ...John Buckley Castieau [unknown][unknown]Print: Unknown
1850-1899'In the Argus of this morning there was a leading article commenting on Duncan's appointment to the charge of the Gaol...John Buckley Castieau [n/a]ArgusPrint: Newspaper
1850-1899'Heard Dotty read to-night & was quite pleased at finding she was very much improved & able to read easy words without...Dotty Castieau [unknown][unknown]Print: Unknown
1850-1899'Received a number of Ovens & Murray Advertisers this morning which however contained little of any consequence that I...John Buckley Castieau [n/a]Ovens and Murray AdvertiserPrint: Newspaper
1850-1899'There was a notice on the Board that baths could be had at the Club at a charge of 3d each to pay for towells &c. I c...John Buckley Castieau [n/a][sign]Manuscript: Sheet
1850-1899'This brought the time to past ten o'clock. Read, smoked, fidgetted & passed the time away till half past eleven, then...John Buckley Castieau [unknown][unknown]Print: Unknown
1850-1899'then went to the Club & read the papers'John Buckley Castieau [n/a][unknown - newspaper]Print: Newspaper
1850-1899'In the Evening paper this evening an account was given of two large fires at Sydney this morning, one of which destro...John Buckley Castieau [n/a]Evening HeraldPrint: Newspaper
1850-1899'Got home about ten, sat reading till about twelve, & then went to bed.'John Buckley Castieau [unknown][unknown]Print: Unknown
1850-1899'In the Evening Herald, of this night, there was a Report of an Argument before the Supreme Court with respect to Park...John Buckley Castieau [n/a]Evening HeraldPrint: Newspaper
1850-1899'I went into town & read some of the papers at the Club, came home & soon went to bed'John Buckley Castieau [n/a][unknown - newspaper]Print: Newspaper
1850-1899'After tea went with Polly into town & there heard a great commotion in the crowd & number of boys selling the Argus E...John Buckley Castieau [n/a]The Extraordinary (Argus)Print: Newspaper
1850-1899'By the Argus we found that the Mail had been telegraphed at midnight. The Prince had been most dangerously ill but th...John Buckley Castieau [n/a]ArgusPrint: Newspaper
1850-1899'Could not muster to-day but laid myself down on the Sofa & read'John Buckley Castieau [unknown][unknown]Print: Unknown
1850-1899'in the evening I went to the Club & had a look at Melbourne Punch & one or two of the papers.'John Buckley Castieau [n/a]PunchPrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'In the evening went to the Club & on the Road called in at the Albion as I wanted to see the Ovens & Murray Advertise...John Buckley Castieau [n/a]Ovens and Murray AdvertiserPrint: Newspaper
1850-1899'The English mail was telegraphed this afternoon ... Extraordinaries were being sold when we were coming home. I bough...John Buckley Castieau [n/a]The Extraordinary (Argus)Print: Newspaper
1850-1899'in the evening went to the Club & after reading the papers took a walk & then came home'John Buckley Castieau [n/a][unknown - newspaper]Print: Newspaper
1850-1899'In the evening went as usual to the Club & after skimming some of the English periodicals went for a little stroll wi...John Buckley Castieau [n/a][unknown - periodicals]Print: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'In the evening I went to the Club & after reading the papers started to keep an appointment I had made with Polly & M...John Buckley Castieau [n/a][unknown - newspaper]Print: Newspaper
1850-1899'I was much disturbed this morning & was up reading at two o'clock the mosquitoes not allowing me to get to sleep'John Buckley Castieau [unknown][unknown]Print: Unknown
1850-1899'In the Evening Herald published to night it was stated that Mr Dunn now Crown Prosecutor was to be made a County Cour...John Buckley Castieau [n/a]Evening HeraldPrint: Newspaper
1850-1899'The Case of Blair V Clarson was commenced in the Supreme Court to day & from what I saw in The Herald the details are...John Buckley Castieau [n/a]Evening HeraldPrint: Newspaper
1850-1899'After tea went to the Club where I ... read for a time then took a walk through the town & came home'John Buckley Castieau [n/a][unknown]Print: Newspaper, Serial / periodical
1850-1899'I mustered in the afternoon & in the evening went to the Club, where I stayed & read for some time'John Buckley Castieau [n/a][unknown]Print: Newspaper, Serial / periodical
1850-1899'Was very pleased this evening at hearing the children read. They sat round their mamma & read verse about a chapter o...Harry Castieau [n/a]BiblePrint: Book, Serial / periodical
1850-1899'Was very pleased this evening at hearing the children read. They sat round their mamma & read verse about a chapter o...Sissy Castieau [n/a]BiblePrint: Book, Serial / periodical
1850-1899'Was very pleased this evening at hearing the children read. They sat round their mamma & read verse about a chapter o...Dotty Castieau [n/a]BiblePrint: Book, Serial / periodical
1850-1899'Mustered in the afternoon, in the evening went to the Club & had a good look over the English Punches & Illustrated &...John Buckley Castieau [n/a]PunchPrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'In the evening went to the Club where I stayed for some time reading the Saturday Review. There was a capital article...John Buckley Castieau [n/a]Saturday ReviewPrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'In the Leader this evening was published an autobiography of John Wallace & his portrait was given away with each cop...John Buckley Castieau [n/a]LeaderPrint: Newspaper
1850-1899'I had all the youngsters in my own charge. We got on however capitally for I found a nice story in Chatterbox which I...John Buckley Castieau [n/a]ChatterboxPrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'I had all the youngsters in my own charge. We got on however capitally for I found a nice story in Chatterbox which I...John Buckley Castieau [n/a]Bible (New Testament)Print: Book
1850-1899'I had all the youngsters in my own charge. We got on however capitally for I found a nice story in Chatterbox which I...Harry Castieau [n/a]Bible (New Testament)Print: Book
1850-1899'I had all the youngsters in my own charge. We got on however capitally for I found a nice story in Chatterbox which I...Dotty Castieau [n/a]Bible (New Testament)Print: Book
1850-1899'I had all the youngsters in my own charge. We got on however capitally for I found a nice story in Chatterbox which I...Sissy Castieau [n/a]Bible (New Testament)Print: Book
1850-1899'I had all the youngsters in my own charge. We got on however capitally for I found a nice story in Chatterbox which I...John Buckley Castieau [n/a][unknown - newspaper]Print: Newspaper
1850-1899'I bought "The Age" as to-day it published a paper larger than "The Argus" for a penny & announced the intention of do...John Buckley Castieau [n/a]The AgePrint: Newspaper
1850-1899'In the evening, Polly read to the children & then gave them a bible lesson'Polly Castieau [n/a]Bible [?]Print: Book
1850-1899'Received four Ovens & Murray Advertisers. They contained however very little news though their telegrams are so full ...John Buckley Castieau [n/a]Ovens and Murray AdvertiserPrint: Newspaper
1850-1899'McKinley & I walked into town & went to the Yorick together. After reading the papers Duerdin & I left for home & too...John Buckley Castieau [n/a][unknown - newspaper]Print: Newspaper
1850-1899'Came home, drank a bottle of beer, smoked ever so many pipes, read a book, & built castles in the air till Polly & th...John Buckley Castieau [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1850-1899'There was a stinging article in the Age of this morning commenting upon the failings & peculiarities of the Judges'John Buckley Castieau [n/a]The AgePrint: Newspaper
1850-1899'Went into town in the evening & called at the Yorick. There I remained reading for some time then I took a walk as fa...John Buckley Castieau [unknown][unknown]Print: Newspaper, Serial / periodical
1850-1899'Went to the Club again in the evening & had a look over the [Home?] papers. The Illustrated & Graphic are full of Eng...John Buckley Castieau [unknown]The GraphicPrint: Newspaper
1850-1899'I read at Home to the little girls & boys till eight o'clock, then went to the Club'John Buckley Castieau [unknown][unknown]Print: Unknown
1850-1899'There was a heavy article in the Argus this morning ... on the Government for the appointments they have made since t...John Buckley Castieau [n/a]ArgusPrint: Newspaper
1850-1899'I read for a time to the little boys. They were very attentive & it was quite a pleasure to watch their earnest faces'John Buckley Castieau [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1850-1899'Mustered in the afternoon & afterwards went to the Club. There I read the Herald until it was time to go home to tea'John Buckley Castieau [n/a]Evening HeraldPrint: Newspaper
1850-1899'Received a number of papers from Beechworth. The Ovens & Murray has I think become rather duller since it has appeare...John Buckley Castieau [n/a]Ovens and Murray AdvertiserPrint: Newspaper
1850-1899'I went to the Club where I looked through some of the ... Papers & then came away home. Stayed at home in the evening...John Buckley Castieau [n/a][unknown - newspaper]Print: Newspaper
1850-1899'I went to the Club where I looked through some of the ... Papers & then came away home. Stayed at home in the evening...John Buckley Castieau [unknown][unknown]Print: Unknown
1850-1899'After tea I read some story books that Mrs Parkin had kindly sent over for the amusement of baby'John Buckley Castieau [unknown][story books]Print: Book
1850-1899'After tea I read with Harry some Dramatic [?]. Harry understands well what he reads, but is in too great a hurry & co...Harry Castieau [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1850-1899'Polly then buried her [?] in the last number of the Family Herald & I smoked away at a new pipe'Polly Castieau [n/a]Family HeraldPrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'Received to-day six numbers of the Ovens & Murray Advertiser. There was nothing in any of them very interesting to an...John Buckley Castieau [n/a]Ovens and Murray AdvertiserPrint: Newspaper
1850-1899'"Telo" one of the Age staff was hunting up material for an Article & spent the whole day in the prison. He had some l...Harry Castieau [unknown][unknown]Print: Unknown
1850-1899'The Herald this evening contained the names of the new Ministry. Kerferd is Solicitor General, Casey Minister of Land...John Buckley Castieau [n/a]Evening HeraldPrint: Newspaper
1850-1899'The Herald this evening contained the names of the new Ministry. Kerferd is Solicitor General, Casey Minister of Land...John Buckley Castieau [n/a]AustralasianPrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'Went to the Club. In the Evening Herald there was a startling telegram from Ballaarat announcing that [six prisoners ...John Buckley Castieau [n/a]Evening HeraldPrint: Newspaper
1850-1899'The Argus of this morning contained a manifesto from Alipius, Roman Catholic bishop of Melbourne calling upon good ch...John Buckley Castieau [n/a]ArgusPrint: Newspaper
1850-1899'Heard Harry read & was much pleased with the understanding he shows though he is at times very careless with regard t...Harry Castieau [unknown][unknown]Print: Unknown
1850-1899'Harry & I then read a dialogue & this brought the time right for the theatre, where Telo took Mrs Castieau, the girls...Harry Castieau [unknown][drama?]Print: Book
1850-1899'Received a week's Ovens & Murray Advertisers to-day. There was a very good skit in one. It was an account of "The fir...John Buckley Castieau [n/a]Ovens and Murray AdvertiserPrint: Newspaper
1850-1899'After tea Harry began to read & was pretty successful with his lesson for which he was duly rewarded a mark.'Harry Castieau [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1850-1899'Telo gave me "The Leader" with the Prison letters article. There was'ent much in it excepting the two guineas it gave...John Buckley Castieau [n/a]LeaderPrint: Newspaper
1850-1899'While Darvall was with us this evening, Harry was anxious to show off his reading & so essayed a Piece. He was howeve...Harry Castieau [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1850-1899'While Darvall was with us this evening, Harry was anxious to show off his reading & so essayed a Piece. He was howeve...John Buckley and Harry Castieau [unknown][dialogue]Print: Book
1850-1899'I read a little Byron for my own amusement then a number of Aesop's Fables for the amusement of the youngsters. The e...John Buckley Castieau [unknown][unknown]Print: Unknown
1850-1899'heard Harry & Sissy read'Harry Castieau [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1850-1899'heard Harry & Sissy read'Sissy Castieau [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1850-1899'Heard Harry read, but was very bilious & unwell'Harry Castieau [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1850-1899'"Bowman" I see by this Evening's paper is to be Deputy Judge while Judge Hackett is doing the work of Judges Cope & N...John Buckley Castieau [n/a]Evening HeraldPrint: Newspaper
1850-1899'Seven or eight numbers of the Ovens & Murray Advertiser came to hand to-day. In one of them I was sorry to read an ac...John Buckley Castieau [n/a]Ovens and Murray AdvertiserPrint: Newspaper
1850-1899'Harry & I read for a long time together. Harry is beginning to understand what he reads & takes a fair part in Dialog...John Buckley and Harry Castieau [n/a][dialogue]Print: Book
1850-1899'Read a part of a very good novel, "Married beneath him". Heard Harry read & then played a Game of Bezique with Polly'Harry Castieau [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1850-1899'In the evening Harry & I read for a long time together while mamma amused herself with the piano.'John Buckley and Harry Castieau [unknown][dialogue?]Print: Book
1850-1899'went to the Club. Had a look at Punch & Vanity Fair & then left.'John Buckley Castieau [n/a]PunchPrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'went to the Club. Had a look at Punch & Vanity Fair & then left.'John Buckley Castieau [n/a]Vanity FairPrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'Harry this evening commenced reading McAuley's (sic) History of England. He is getting a great deal too fond of Plays...John Buckley Castieau [n/a]AustralasianPrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'Harry this evening commenced reading McAuley's (sic) History of England. He is getting a great deal too fond of Plays...Polly Castieau [n/a]Family HeraldPrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'After a quiet read for an hour or so I felt much more amiable & undertook to take baby out for a walk.'John Buckley Castieau [unknown][unknown]Print: Unknown
1850-1899'in the evening went to the Club, read for a time & then came home ... Was reading at the Club some of the Articles in...John Buckley Castieau [n/a]Public OpinionPrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'I was much amused by one prisoner's letter that in the course of Duty I read to-day. The prisoner is in Gaol for beat...John Buckley Castieau [prisoner][letter]Manuscript: Letter
1850-1899'In the evening I read to the youngsters out of Peter [Parley?] & then heard Harry read a Page of Macauley. Went into ...John Buckley Castieau Peter Parley [pseud.][unknown]Print: Book
1850-1899'Home then read some Reports from America on Prisoners Aid Societies & the good that had there been effected by them.'John Buckley Castieau [unknown][Reports from America on Prisoners Aid Societies]Print: Unknown
1850-1899'The Argus had no report of the meeting yesterday for the establishing of a Discharged prisoners Aid Society. The Tele...John Buckley Castieau [n/a]ArgusPrint: Newspaper
1850-1899'The Argus had no report of the meeting yesterday for the establishing of a Discharged prisoners Aid Society. The Tele...John Buckley Castieau [n/a]TelegraphPrint: Newspaper
1850-1899'The Argus had no report of the meeting yesterday for the establishing of a Discharged prisoners Aid Society. The Tele...John Buckley Castieau [n/a]The AgePrint: Newspaper
1850-1899'Was at home all the evening. Heard Sissy & Harry read, read a little myself & went off to bed tolerably early'John Buckley Castieau [unknown][unknown]Print: Unknown
1850-1899'Was at home all the evening. Heard Sissy & Harry read, read a little myself & went off to bed tolerably early'Harry Castieau [unknown][unknown]Print: Unknown
1850-1899'Was at home all the evening. Heard Sissy & Harry read, read a little myself & went off to bed tolerably early'Sissy Castieau [unknown][unknown]Print: Unknown
1850-1899'Read to the youngsters in the evening'John Buckley Castieau [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1850-1899'Polly this morning while I was getting up rushed almost breathless into the bed-room with her eyes all alight & The A...Polly Castieau [n/a]ArgusPrint: Newspaper
1850-1899'After Muster I went to the Club & had a look at the Weekly Papers'John Buckley Castieau [n/a][unknown - newspaper]Print: Newspaper
1850-1899'In the evening I heard Harry read. He could not however get on very well & so I turned him over to his mother & playe...Harry Castieau [unknown][unknown]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 [n/a][unknown - newspaper]Print: Newspaper
1850-1899'I must not forget however I read out of "Good Words" a very amusing sketch of a Dutchman's troubles in London from th...John Buckley Castieau [n/a]Good WordsPrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'I must not forget however I read out of "Good Words" a very amusing sketch of a Dutchman's troubles in London from th...Harry Castieau [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1850-1899'Harry importuned me to play Bezique, so we had a game & after it was over I took my book & Harry went to bed'John Buckley Castieau [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1850-1899'In the evening I read to the youngsters until it was time for them to go to bed.'John Buckley Castieau [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1850-1899'After tea this evening I read some dramatic pieces with Harry & played a couple of games of Bezique with Mamma. Smoke...John Buckley and Harry Castieau [unknown][drama]Print: Book
1850-1899'The Argus contained a full Report of a Lecture delivered the night previous at the Independent Church by the Church o...John Buckley Castieau [n/a]ArgusPrint: Newspaper
1850-1899'I read a story in the evening to the youngsters & then heard Harry read for marks. We were engaged in a dialogue from...John Buckley Castieau [unknown][stories]Print: Book
1850-1899'In the evening went to the Club. There were several members present most of them engaged with the Periodicals lately ...John Buckley Castieau [n/a]The GraphicPrint: Newspaper, Serial / periodical
1850-1899'A file of Beechworth papers came to hand to-day. By them I see it is intended to hold a Local Exhibition at Beechwort...John Buckley Castieau [n/a]Ovens and Murray AdvertiserPrint: Newspaper
1850-1899'The Australasian & the Age. Then read a little to the youngsters & at ten o'clock went to bed'John Buckley Castieau [n/a]AustralasianPrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'The Australasian & the Age. Then read a little to the youngsters & at ten o'clock went to bed'John Buckley Castieau [n/a]The AgePrint: Newspaper
1850-1899'The Australasian & the Age. Then read a little to the youngsters & at ten o'clock went to bed'John Buckley Castieau [unknown][stories]Print: Book
1850-1899'was down in good time & had devoured my breakfast as well as the Australasian by a little past nine o'clock.'John Buckley Castieau [n/a]AustralasianPrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'In the Evening I read a story from the Arabian Nights, then played a game of Bezique with Dotty.'John Buckley Castieau [n/a]Arabian Nights, ThePrint: Book
1850-1899'This Evening was rather a lazy one. I read & afterwards played a game of Bezique with Polly, then went to bed'John Buckley Castieau [unknown][unknown]Print: Unknown
1850-1899'In the Argus this morning there was a skit written in the style of "The Battle of Dorking". It was styled "The great ...John Buckley Castieau [n/a]ArgusPrint: Newspaper
1850-1899'Mustered in the afternoon & then worked in the office for a couple of hours, employing myself first with my Diary & a...John Buckley Castieau [unknown][prison report]Print: Unknown
1850-1899'Mustered in the afternoon & then worked in the office for a couple of hours, employing myself first with my Diary & a...John Buckley Castieau [n/a][unknown]Print: Newspaper, Serial / periodical
1850-1899'Mustered in the afternoon & then worked in the office for a couple of hours, employing myself first with my Diary & a...Polly Castieau [n/a][stories]Print: Book
1850-1899'Read with Harry in the Evening, then played a long game of Bezique with Sissy'John Buckley and Harry Castieau [unknown][drama?]Print: Book
1850-1899'Polly played sacred music & I read for a time to the youngsters.'John Buckley Castieau [unknown][stories]Print: Book
1850-1899'Did not sleep at all well last night for I was haunted with the dread of the Papers making a mess of the Case of Weec...John Buckley Castieau [n/a][unknown - newspaper]Print: Newspaper
1850-1899'Was much pleased with Sissy's Reading to-night. Dotty has a very good idea of Reading also but is not able to speak p...Sissy Castieau [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1850-1899'Was much pleased with Sissy's Reading to-night. Dotty has a very good idea of Reading also but is not able to speak p...Dotty Castieau [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1850-1899'I stayed at home in the evening & amused myself by reading.'John Buckley Castieau [unknown][unknown]Print: Unknown
1850-1899'In the Argus of this morning there was a paragraph stating that the Governor of the Gaol referred to by Mr Duffy was ...John Buckley Castieau [n/a]ArgusPrint: Newspaper
1850-1899'Was reading a good deal in the evening, then came into the Gaol & wrote up my Diary'John Buckley Castieau [unknown][unknown]Print: Unknown
1850-1899'When we came home we did some reading & then Polly & I played three games of bagatelle of which I lost two'John Buckley Castieau [unknown][unknown]Print: Unknown
1850-1899'In the Argus of this morning there appeared the article I had written on "Prisons & Prisoners". It appeared to me to ...John Buckley Castieau [n/a]ArgusPrint: Newspaper
1850-1899'The Evening Herald published an account of the trial of the Captain of the Carl at Sydney. The brutalities that took ...John Buckley Castieau [n/a]Evening HeraldPrint: Newspaper
1850-1899'I stayed at home & after [reading] the paper smoked till I was sleepy then I went off to bed & was sleeping soundly w...John Buckley Castieau [n/a][unknown - newspaper]Print: Newspaper
1850-1899'Got to-day from Beechworth a number of different copies of the Ovens & Murray Advertiser. There was not very much in ...John Buckley Castieau [n/a]Ovens and Murray AdvertiserPrint: Newspaper
1850-1899'This evening in the Herald there was a long paragraph about the needle-work done by the women in the Gaol work-room, ...John Buckley Castieau [n/a]Evening HeraldPrint: Newspaper
1850-1899'I stayed at home & read'John Buckley Castieau [unknown][unknown]Print: Unknown
1850-1899'after four o'clock went to the Club. Read a lot of papers there & got home in good time for tea'John Buckley Castieau [n/a][unknown - newspaper]Print: Newspaper
1850-1899'Marcus Clarke commenced in this day's Weekly Times a series of articles under the title of "The Wicked World" or Melb...John Buckley Castieau [n/a]Weekly TimesPrint: Newspaper
1850-1899'Up this morning in good time & had a long read of the Argus before I went into the office.'John Buckley Castieau [n/a]ArgusPrint: Newspaper
1850-1899'In the evening I read some little tit bits from Dr [Syntax?] to the youngsters'John Buckley Castieau [unknown]Dr SyntaxPrint: Book
1850-1899'then went to the Club. Read for a time & then came home to tea, the Herald had a Paragraph pointing out the stupidity...John Buckley Castieau [n/a]Evening HeraldPrint: Newspaper
1850-1899'In the evening I went to the Yorick & read quietly for a time.'John Buckley Castieau [n/a][unknown]Print: Newspaper, Serial / periodical
1850-1899'After tea sat & smoked while Polly read for a while, soon followed her to bed'Polly Castieau [unknown][unknown]Print: Unknown
1850-1899'In the evening I tried the reading powers of Walter & Godfrey with a chapter in the testament, both of the boys have ...Castieau children [n/a]BiblePrint: Book
1850-1899'There was a tale in the Age of yesterday called "The wife's revenge" it was very well written & described a heartless...John Buckley Castieau [n/a]The AgePrint: Newspaper
1850-1899'In the evening I went to the Club & had a long read, got home by about nine o'clock'John Buckley Castieau [n/a][unknown]Print: Newspaper, Serial / periodical
1850-1899'in the evening I did a little reading & went to bed early'John Buckley Castieau [unknown][unknown]Print: Unknown
1850-1899'Had some reading with Harry & Dotty, Dotty went to sleep but Harry joined me in a Piece & listened to my reading anot...Castieau family [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1850-1899'Stayed at home drinking & smoking & doing a little reading till Polly returned with Godfrey from the theatre at twelv...John Buckley Castieau [unknown][unknown]Print: Unknown
1850-1899'Got up in a funk & sent for the Age, was delighted to find the Article about the Gaol was not inserted'John Buckley Castieau [n/a]The AgePrint: Newspaper
1850-1899'In the evening I read until the children & Miss McDermott went to bed, then I smoked away until ten o'clock went to b...John Buckley Castieau [unknown][unknown]Print: Unknown
1850-1899'In the evening read away for some time & had some words with Polly on a very disagreeable subject'John Buckley Castieau [unknown][unknown]Print: Unknown
1850-1899'Read during the evening & went to bed at about eleven'John Buckley Castieau [unknown][unknown]Print: Unknown
1850-1899'I amused myself with reading a tale in Blackwood till nine o'clock'John Buckley Castieau [unknown]Blackwood's MagazinePrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'In the evening Harry & I did some Readings. It was a great night for Harry & he did'ent go to bed till after ten o'cl...John Buckley and Harry Castieau [unknown][drama?]Print: Book
1850-1899'Was much annoyed by a Leading Article in The Argus about the Gaol & Penal Department'John Buckley Castieau [n/a]ArgusPrint: Newspaper
1850-1899'In the Age this morning there was an Article on prison labor & Labor in the Melbourne Gaol particularly, it was evide...John Buckley Castieau [n/a]The AgePrint: Newspaper
1850-1899'read in the evening & went to bed early'John Buckley Castieau [unknown][unknown]Print: Unknown
1850-1899'In the evening I read the papers & went to bed before ten o'clock.'John Buckley Castieau [n/a][unknown - newspaper]Print: Newspaper
1850-1899'In the Argus of this morning was published Jardine Smith's Leader on the Gaol. It commenced with an Apology for a pre...John Buckley Castieau [n/a]ArgusPrint: Newspaper
1850-1899'spent the evening at home reading'John Buckley Castieau [unknown][unknown]Print: Unknown
1850-1899'In the evening I read a good deal to myself & then read with Dotty & afterwards with Harry'Castieau family [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1850-1899'In the evening I read a good deal to myself & then read with Dotty & afterwards with Harry'John Buckley Castieau [unknown][unknown]Print: Unknown
1850-1899'in the afternoon amused myself as well as I could with the newspapers.'John Buckley Castieau [n/a][unknown - newspaper]Print: Newspaper
1850-1899'This night I went to bed at ten o'clock. Polly stayed down stairs reading'Polly Castieau [unknown][unknown]Print: Unknown
1850-1899'I amused myself reading the Saturday Age'John Buckley Castieau [n/a]The AgePrint: Newspaper
1850-1899'A great Article was published in the Age newspaper this morning upon Prison labor this time the Castlemaine Gaol was ...John Buckley Castieau [n/a]The AgePrint: Newspaper
1850-1899'I had some books to read & when I could get anything at all like an easy position in bed I stayed satisfied.'John Buckley Castieau [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1850-1899'After tea I went to the Athenaeum & read the papers in the reading room'John Buckley Castieau [n/a][unknown - newspaper]Print: Newspaper
1850-1899'This evening after I had had my dinner I went to the Athenaeum & stayed reading for an hour'John Buckley Castieau [unknown][unknown]Print: Newspaper, Serial / periodical
1850-1899'Mustered in the afternoon & then went to the Athenaeum to read the papers'John Buckley Castieau [n/a][unknown - newspaper]Print: Newspaper
1850-1899'Read at the Athenaeum.'John Buckley Castieau [unknown][unknown]Print: Newspaper, Serial / periodical
1850-1899'In the evening Harry & the girls went to Church, Polly & I sat reading by the fire till it was toddy time, then we ha...John Buckley Castieau [unknown][unknown]Print: Unknown
1850-1899'after eight o'clock Harry & I went to "The Athenaeum" & after changing a book I went into the Reading room & had a lo...John Buckley Castieau [n/a][unknown - newspaper]Print: Newspaper
1850-1899'In the evening went to the Athenaeum & looked at the papers, came home & read for a while then smoked a pipe & went o...John Buckley Castieau [n/a][unknown - newspaper]Print: Newspaper
1850-1899'In the evening went to the Athenaeum & looked at the papers, came home & read for a while then smoked a pipe & went o...John Buckley Castieau [unknown][unknown]Print: Unknown
1850-1899'before tea I took a stroll to the Athenaeum where I read the papers.'John Buckley Castieau [n/a][unknown - newspaper]Print: Newspaper
1850-1899'Went to the Athenaeum and read the papers'John Buckley Castieau [n/a][unknown - newspaper]Print: Newspaper
1850-1899'Went to The Athenaeum & read the papers'John Buckley Castieau [n/a][unknown - newspaper]Print: Newspaper
1850-1899'Read for a long time. My eyes have been very weak of late & I found to-night that reading small print by gas-light di...John Buckley Castieau [unknown][unknown]Print: Newspaper, Serial / periodical
1850-1899'Mustered in the afternoon & then went to the Athenaeum where I read the papers'John Buckley Castieau [n/a][unknown - newspaper]Print: Newspaper
1850-1899'Spent the evening over the fire reading most of the time although I did play a game of Bezique with Sissy & three gam...John Buckley Castieau [unknown][unknown]Print: Unknown
1850-1899'Between five & six Polly came down stairs & then I went off to the Athenaeum & read the papers'John Buckley Castieau [n/a][unknown - newspaper]Print: Newspaper
1850-1899'Coming home I purchased The Australasian & the Leader. I bought "the Leader" because it contained the commencement of...John Buckley Castieau [n/a]LeaderPrint: Newspaper
1850-1899'Did not muster but went to the Athenaeum to read the papers. Stayed at home in the evening & read for a while, then s...John Buckley Castieau [unknown][unknown]Print: Unknown
1850-1899'Did not muster but went to the Athenaeum to read the papers. Stayed at home in the evening & read for a while, then s...John Buckley Castieau [n/a][unknown - newspaper]Print: Newspaper
1850-1899'Went to the Athenaeum & read the papers before tea. In the evening read Blackwood & afterwards had my chest painted w...John Buckley Castieau [n/a][unknown - newspaper]Print: Newspaper
1850-1899'Went to the Athenaeum & read the papers before tea. In the evening read Blackwood & afterwards had my chest painted w...John Buckley Castieau [n/a]Blackwood's MagazinePrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'Went to the Athenaeum & read the papers'John Buckley Castieau [n/a][unknown - newspaper]Print: Newspaper
1850-1899'The Newspapers full of [?] obtained from the Debate in the House last evening, the Argus very truthfully implied that...John Buckley Castieau [n/a]ArgusPrint: Newspaper
1850-1899'Went to the Athenaeum & had a look at the papers, in the evening after tea read for a while & then played a game of B...John Buckley Castieau [n/a][unknown - newspaper]Print: Newspaper
1850-1899'Went to the Athenaeum & had a look at the papers, in the evening after tea read for a while & then played a game of B...John Buckley Castieau [unknown][unknown]Print: Unknown
1850-1899'Went to the Athenaeum & had a look at the papers, in the evening after tea read for a while & then played a game of B...Harry Castieau [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1850-1899'I read in the Castlemaine Representative last evening that an old man named Joseph Hill who had been sent from here t...John Buckley Castieau [n/a]Castlemaine RepresentativePrint: Newspaper
1850-1899'In the papers this morning there was a melancholy account of the suicide of a man named Lennon'John Buckley Castieau [n/a][unknown - newspaper]Print: Newspaper
1850-1899'Looked in at the Athenaeum & read the papers then came home to tea, in the evening read to Harry & heard him read, he...John Buckley Castieau [n/a][unknown - newspaper]Print: Newspaper
1850-1899'Looked in at the Athenaeum & read the papers then came home to tea, in the evening read to Harry & heard him read, he...John Buckley and Harry Castieau [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1850-1899'Stayed for some time at the Athenaeum reading through the papers'John Buckley Castieau [n/a][unknown - newspaper]Print: Newspaper
1850-1899'I stayed at home & read. In the afternoon I mustered & then sat for the rest of the day reading over the fire.'John Buckley Castieau [unknown][unknown]Print: Unknown
1850-1899'I went to the Athenaeum & had a look at the English papers. There were a good many members assembled to do the same t...John Buckley Castieau [n/a][unknown - newspaper]Print: Newspaper
1850-1899'At tea time however I came down stairs & after reading a while went into the office & attended to some duty'John Buckley Castieau [unknown][unknown]Print: Unknown
1850-1899'Went to the Athenaeum & had a look at the papers'John Buckley Castieau [n/a][unknown - newspaper]Print: Newspaper
1850-1899'Went to the Athenaeum & read the papers.'John Buckley Castieau [n/a][unknown - newspaper]Print: Newspaper
1850-1899'Went to the Athenaeum & had a look at the papers. In the evening read for a while & played a couple of games of cribb...John Buckley Castieau [n/a][unknown - newspaper]Print: Newspaper
1850-1899'Went to the Athenaeum & had a look at the papers. In the evening read for a while & played a couple of games of cribb...John Buckley Castieau [unknown][unknown]Print: Unknown
1850-1899'Read "George [Gaith?]" until Polly & Harry came home went to bed at about half past twelve o'clock'John Buckley Castieau [unknown][unknown]Print: Unknown
1850-1899'Went to the Athenaeum & read before tea time. In the evening smoked & read until it was time to go to bed'John Buckley Castieau [unknown][unknown]Print: Unknown
1850-1899'Went to the Athenaeum & read before tea time. In the evening smoked & read until it was time to go to bed'John Buckley Castieau [n/a][unknown - newspaper]Print: Newspaper
1850-1899'I went to the Athenaeum after five o'clock & got home by tea time spent the evening reading.'John Buckley Castieau [unknown][unknown]Print: Unknown
1850-1899'At Wangaratta we got the daily papers, in the Argus there was a [?] advocating my being sent to report on the prisons...John Buckley Castieau [n/a]ArgusPrint: Newspaper
1850-1899'In the Age of this morning there appeared a short Leading article strongly advocating my being sent Home to see the E...John Buckley Castieau [n/a]The AgePrint: Newspaper
1850-1899'In the evening went to the Athenaeum & read the papers, got home by a little after eight'John Buckley Castieau [n/a][unknown - newspaper]Print: Newspaper
1850-1899'This evening I was sitting quietly reading the Evening Herald when I noticed Polly show some considerable excitement ...John Buckley Castieau [n/a]Evening HeraldPrint: Newspaper
1850-1899'Read newspapers & a novel nearly all day the weather being so unsettled that it was not deemed wise to go out.'John Buckley Castieau [n/a][unknown - newspaper]Print: Newspaper
1850-1899'Read newspapers & a novel nearly all day the weather being so unsettled that it was not deemed wise to go out.'John Buckley Castieau [unknown][unknown - novel]Print: Book
1850-1899'Stayed up late reading & smoking'John Buckley Castieau [unknown][unknown]Print: Unknown
1850-1899'Came back by the half past one train [from?] Town, after buying "Sarah Barnham" at [the?] Station. Amused myself by r...John Buckley Castieau [unknown]Sarah BarnhamPrint: Book
1850-1899'Bought the Evening Herald. There was not much in it excepting an account of the injury done to one of the Turret guns...John Buckley Castieau [n/a]Evening HeraldPrint: Newspaper
1850-1899'Bought ["Life of Sarah Barnham"?] (Sara Bernhardt). (See entry for 24 August.) It is villanously scandalous & makes t...John Buckley Castieau [unknown]Sarah BarnhamPrint: Book
1850-1899'I wrote up my Diary & read in the evening'John Buckley Castieau [unknown][unknown]Print: Unknown
1850-1899'Awoke early & as it was too soon to get up read for an hour in bed. Did not go to town to-day, read & wrote in the m...John Buckley Castieau [unknown][unknown]Print: Unknown
1850-1899'In the evening commenced reading again a book called Five years in Penal Servitude. The book refers to English prison...John Buckley Castieau [unknown]Five Years in Penal ServitudePrint: Book
1850-1899'Read & wrote till bed time'John Buckley Castieau [unknown][unknown]Print: Unknown
1850-1899'In the evening read the papers'John Buckley Castieau [n/a][unknown - newspaper]Print: Newspaper
1850-1899'Had something to eat & then read & smoked till after twelve o'clock.'John Buckley Castieau [unknown][unknown]Print: Unknown
1850-1899'Went to bed after reading for a long while'John Buckley Castieau [unknown][unknown]Print: Unknown
1850-1899'A Paragraph appeared in the Argus to the effect that I was to retire & Brett to be appointed in my place'John Buckley Castieau [n/a]ArgusPrint: Newspaper
1700-1799'Louisa and I began this day to read French. Our book was a little light piece of French gallantry entitled 'Journal A...James Boswell and Louisa [anon.]Journal AmoureuxPrint: Book
1700-1799'Some time ago I left off the pamphlet shop in the passage to the Temple Exchange Coffee-house, and took "The North Br...James Boswell [n/a]The North BritonPrint: Serial / periodical
1700-1799'Some time ago I left off the pamphlet shop in the passage to the Temple Exchange Coffee-house, and took "The North Br...James Boswell [unknown][novels]Print: Book
1700-1799'This forenoon I read the history of Joseph and his brethren, which melted my heart and drew tears from my eyes. It is...James Boswell [n/a]BiblePrint: Book
1700-1799'I then got "The North Briton" and read it at Child's. I shall do so now every Saturday evening'James Boswell [n/a]The North BritonPrint: Serial / periodical
1700-1799'At night at home, I read the Church service by myself with great devotion'James Boswell [n/a][Church service]Print: Book
1700-1799'In my younger years I had read in the "Lives of the Convicts" so much about Tyburn that I had a sort of horrid eagern...James Boswell [unknown]Lives of the convictsPrint: Book
1500-1599'and after I had read 2 chapters of the Bible, I went to dinner'Margaret Hoby [n/a]BiblePrint: Book
1500-1599'and, after I retourned home, I praied priuatly, read a chapter of the bible, and wrought tell dinner time'Margaret Hoby [n/a]BiblePrint: Book
1500-1599'and after I had broken my fast ... read some thinge in the bible, and so to work'Margaret Hoby [n/a]BiblePrint: Book
1500-1599'after dinner I wrought and read tell 4, and then I walked a litle abroad and, after I Cam home, read and [torn] tell ...Margaret Hoby [unknown][unknown]Print: Unknown
1500-1599'that don, I walked tell praiers, then hard Mr Rhodes read a chapter, and so went to bed'Richard Rhodes [n/a]Bible Print: Book
1500-1599'After priuat prairs I went about the house and read of the bible and wrought tell dinner time'Margaret Hoby [n/a]Bible Print: Book
1500-1599'after, I reed of the bible, and walked alone'Margaret Hoby [n/a]Bible Print: Book
1500-1599'and then, walkinge a litle and readinge of the bible in my Chamber, went to supper'Margaret Hoby [n/a]Bible Print: Book
1500-1599'In the morninge, after priuat praier, I Reed of the bible, and then wrought tell 8: a clock'Margaret Hoby [n/a]Bible Print: Book
1500-1599'after priuat praier I reed of the bible and wrought tell dinner time, before which I praied; and, after dinner, I con...Margaret Hoby [n/a]BiblePrint: Book
1500-1599'after priuat praier I reed of the bible and wrought tell dinner time, before which I praied; and, after dinner, I con...Margaret Hoby [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1500-1599'after priuat praier I reed of the bible and wrought tell dinner time, before which I praied; and, after dinner, I con...Margaret Hoby [unknown][sermon]Print: Book
1500-1599'then I was busie and hard Mr Rhodes Read his Catechismie tell 5'Richard Rhodes [n/a]CatechismPrint: Book
1500-1599'then I went a little about the house and reed of the diatt of the soul tell 5:, and then returned to priuat praier an...Margaret Hoby [unknown]Diet of the SoulPrint: Book
1500-1599'then I went a little about the house and reed of the diatt of the soul tell 5:, and then returned to priuat praier an...Margaret Hoby [n/a]BiblePrint: Book
1500-1599'In the morninge, after priuat praier, I brake my fast: soon after that I hard som chapters of the bible read'Margaret Hoby [n/a]BiblePrint: Book
1500-1599'when I had praied priuatly I did read of the Bible allmost vntell dinner time'Margaret Hoby [n/a]BiblePrint: Book
1500-1599'then I Came home and did studie my lector, and read a whill'Margaret Hoby [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1500-1599'I walked and kept Mr Hoby Compenie almost tel dinner time: then I reed a litle, and praied, and so to dinner: after w...Margaret Hoby [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1500-1599'I walked and kept Mr Hoby Compenie almost tel dinner time: then I reed a litle, and praied, and so to dinner: after w...Margaret Hoby [unknown][a book of the pews in the church]Manuscript: Codex
1500-1599'after I wrett my notes in my testement and reed of the bible, then to dinner'Margaret Hoby [n/a]BiblePrint: Book
1500-1599'after, I had reed of the bible, after to lector, and then to bed'Margaret Hoby [n/a]BiblePrint: Book
1500-1599'then I reed a chapter of the Bible to my mother'Margaret Hoby [n/a]BiblePrint: Book
1500-1599'then I hard Mr Rhodes read tell allmost dinner time'Richard Rhodes [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1500-1599'After priuat praier I wrought a whill and hard Mr Rhodes read'Richard Rhodes [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1500-1599'after that I walked abroade, then I Cam in and wrought, hard Mr Rhodes read, then I praied with Mr Rhodes'Richard Rhodes [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1500-1599'M. Rhodes read a sarmon of the Reuel: and so went to bed'Margaret Rhodes [unknown][sermon - Revelation]Print: Book
1500-1599'then, after dinner, I walked, and hard Mr Rhodes Read'Richard Rhodes [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1500-1599'then hard Mr Rhodes read, and so went to bed'Richard Rhodes [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1500-1599'I Came home, where I did litle good but talked of many maters, litle concerning me, with Mrs Ormston, to whom a read ...Margaret Hoby [n/a]BiblePrint: Book
1500-1599'then I praied and read of the bible, and so went to dimer'Margaret Hoby [n/a]BiblePrint: Book
1500-1599'after, I did breake my fast, then I went about the house and, after, read of the bible'Margaret Hoby [n/a]BiblePrint: Book
1500-1599'After priuat prairs I did eate my breakfast, and then I did read of the Testament, and so went to church'Margaret Hoby [n/a]BiblePrint: Book
1500-1599'after the sarmon, I walked, and read and talked with Mrs Ormston of that was deliuered'Margaret Hoby [n/a]Bible?Print: Book
1500-1599'and, sonne after, when I had reed of the Bible, I dined'Margaret Hoby [n/a]BiblePrint: Book
1500-1599'After priuat praier and breakfast I did read a whill for beinge not well, partly through myne owne folly'Margaret Hoby [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1500-1599'after, hard Euerill Read, and then praied, so went to supper'Euerill Aske [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1500-1599'After priuat praier I did eate my breakfast, Read a Longe Letter and wret an other'Margaret Hoby [unknown][letter]Manuscript: Letter
1500-1599'then I medetated of the sarmons, and read and spoke to Mrs Ormstone of the Chapter that was read in the morning'Margaret Hoby [n/a]BiblePrint: Book
1500-1599'then I walked, and took a Lector, and read tell Lector time: then I hard that, and so went to supper: ... and, after,...Margaret Hoby [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1500-1599'then I did read a while to my workwemen, and then to the Lector'Margaret Hoby [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1500-1599'After priuat praier I reed a while of the Bible'Margaret Hoby [n/a]BiblePrint: Book
1500-1599'after, I reed of the Bible, and spock of Certaine Chapters to Mrs Ormston and John douson'Margaret Hoby [n/a]BiblePrint: Book
1500-1599'after supper, hard Mr Rhodes read, and then went to priuat praier'Richard Rhodes [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1500-1599'after, hard him read, then praied, and so went to bed'Richard Rhodes [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1500-1599'then I praied with Mr Rhodes and reed tell supper time: after, I hard publect prairs, and Reed of the testement'Margaret Hoby [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1500-1599'then I praied with Mr Rhodes and reed tell supper time: after, I hard publect prairs, and Reed of the testement'Margaret Hoby [n/a]BiblePrint: Book
1500-1599'then I Came home and reed to Mrs Ormstone'Margaret Hoby [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1500-1599'and so read tel supper Came'Margaret Hoby [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1500-1599'After priuat praier I did read of the Bible and then eate my breakfast'Margaret Hoby [n/a]BiblePrint: Book
1500-1599'then I dimed, and talked with some strangers that Came to visitt me, and after, being not well, I slept a while and t...Margaret Hoby [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1500-1599'after dinner I wrought and hard Mr Rhodes Read tell all most supper time'Richard Rhodes [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1500-1599'then I walked, reed of the bible, praied, and so went to dinner'Margaret Hoby [n/a]BiblePrint: Book
1500-1599'after, I walked and talked with Mr Rhodes, Reed of the bible, and, after, praied'Margaret Hoby [n/a]BiblePrint: Book
1500-1599After priuat praers I did read of the bible'Margaret Hoby [n/a]BiblePrint: Book
1500-1599'after, to supper, then to work, and hard readinge of the bible'Margaret Hoby [n/a]BiblePrint: Book
1500-1599'after I wrought, reed of the bible and praied, and then went to dinner'Margaret Hoby [n/a]BiblePrint: Book
1500-1599'then I wrought and reed tell dinner time'Margaret Hoby [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1500-1599'After priuat praers I did eate my breakfast, then I wrough and reed of the bible tell dinner time'Margaret Hoby [n/a]BiblePrint: Book
1500-1599'then I Came home and hard Mr Rhodes read of the bible'Richard Rhodes [n/a]BiblePrint: Book
1500-1599'then I reed a hard readinge a whill'Margaret Hoby [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1500-1599'After priuat praiers I did eate my breakfast, then reed of the bible and wrought'Margaret Hoby [n/a]BiblePrint: Book
1500-1599'praied with Mr Rhodes, hard one read, and then went to priuat praier'Richard Rhodes [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1500-1599'After priuat praier I did eate my breakfast: then I reed of the bible'Margaret Hoby [n/a]BiblePrint: Book
1500-1599'after, I talked, and hard Mr Rhodes Read, then I went to dimer'Richard Rhodes [un[unknown]Print: Book
1500-1599'then I hard one read of ardentons book, and after I talked with Mr Rhodes'Margaret Hoby [unknown][ardenton's book]Print: Book
1500-1599'after dimer I talked a whill, and then wrought and hard Mr Maude read of a sermon'Mr Maude [unknown][sermon]Print: Book
1500-1599'After priuat praiers I did eate my breakfast, then I reed of the bible and write in my table book, and so went to din...Margaret Hoby [n/a]BiblePrint: Book
1500-1599'after, I hard Mr Maud read of a sarmon book, then I praied, after dinned: then then I wrought and hard Mr Maud read a...Mr Maude [unknown][sermon]Print: Book
1500-1599'After priuat praier I went about the house, and reed, did eate my breakfast, then I reed againe tell dinner time, the...Margaret Hoby [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1500-1599'after dinner I did read of a good book, and then went about the house: then I reed againe'Margaret Hoby [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1500-1599'After priuat praier I did eate my breakfast, goe abowt, read of the bible, pray, and after dime: then I talked a whil...Margaret Hoby [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1500-1599'After priuat praier I did eate my breakfast, goe abowt, read of the bible, pray, and after dime: then I talked a whil...Margaret Hoby [n/a]BiblePrint: Book
1500-1599'After priuat praers I Reed tell dinner time'Margaret Hoby [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1500-1599'and after reed a while, and so went to supper'Margaret Hoby [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1500-1599'after that, praied priuatly, hauinge reed a Chapter of the bible, and so went to bed'Margaret Hoby [n/a]BiblePrint: Book
1500-1599'After priuat praier I did eate my breakfast, dispatched diuerse busenes in the house, praied, and then read of the bi...Margaret Hoby [n/a]BiblePrint: Book
1500-1599'then I did reed of the bible, praied, walked a litle abroad, dinned'Margaret Hoby [n/a]BiblePrint: Book
1500-1599'After priuat praier I reed of the bible, eate my breakfast, and went to Church'Margaret Hoby [n/a]BiblePrint: Book
1500-1599'then I caused one to Read vnto me'Margaret Hoby [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1500-1599'After priuat praier I reed of the bible, then brake my fast and walked abroad'Margaret Hoby [n/a]BiblePrint: Book
1500-1599'att :5: a cloke, I returned againe to examenation and praier: then I reed a whill and, after, went to supper'Margaret Hoby [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1500-1599'after priuat praers I did read of the bible, brake my fast, and then went to church'Margaret Hoby [n/a]BiblePrint: Book
1500-1599'and from thence came home and reed of Grenhame, and hard Megg Rhodes read'Margaret Rhodes [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'After I was readie, had praied and broake my fast, I reed of the bible'Margaret Hoby [n/a]BiblePrint: Book
1600-1699'after that, I hard him read tell all most night'Richard Rhodes [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'After priuat praers and my breakfast, I reed of the bible'Margaret Hoby [n/a]BiblePrint: Book
1600-1699'after I was in my Chamber, I praied priuatly, reed of the Testament, and then supper'Margaret Hoby [n/a]BiblePrint: Book
1600-1699'after, hard mr Rhodes read praies, and went to bed'Richard Rhodes [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'after, I passed the afternone with Litle readinge because of my secknes'Margaret Hoby [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'reed of my bible, studeed my Lector, and so dined'Margaret Hoby [n/a]BiblePrint: Book
1600-1699'after I Came home I praied, reed of the bible, and dined'Margaret Hoby [n/a]BiblePrint: Book
1600-1699'After priuat praers I tooke order for diner and then reed of the bible'Margaret Hoby [n/a]BiblePrint: Book
1600-1699'After I hard Mr Rhodes Read of a good mans book, who proueth against Bis: Bilson that Christ suffered in soule the wr...Richard Rhodes [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'reed a Chapter of the testement, and so went to bed'Margaret Hoby [n/a]BiblePrint: Book
1600-1699'read tell diner time'Margaret Hoby [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'After priuat praier I reed a whill and then did eate my breakfast'Margaret Hoby [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1700-1799Robert 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 ProvidencePrint: Book
1700-1799Robert Southey to Grosvenor Charles Bedford, 22 November - 2 December 1793: 'Your plan of a general satire I am ready ...Robert Southey Martin Scriblerus [pseud.]Memoirs of Martin ScriblerusPrint: Book
1600-1699'and, after, I wrought, hearinge Mr Rhodes Read of a booke against some newe spronge vp herisies'Richard Rhodes [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'then I reed a whill, after I went to supper'Margaret Hoby [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'after, I wrett Certaine thinges in my sermon book and did read of the bible, praied, and then dined'Margaret Hoby [n/a]BiblePrint: Book
1600-1699'After priuat praers in the morninge I reed of the bible, and so dined'Margaret Hoby [n/a]BiblePrint: Book
1600-1699'after dinner I hard Mr Rhodes read'Richard Rhodes [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'satt with Mr Hoby tell 6: then I went to priuat examenatione and praier, and to Read of the Testament'Margaret Hoby [n/a]BiblePrint: Book
1600-1699'...tell all most :11: a cloke: then I praied, read of the bible, dined'Margaret Hoby [n/a]BiblePrint: Book
1600-1699'After priuat praers I went about the house and then I reed of the bible tell dinner time'Margaret Hoby [n/a]BiblePrint: Book
1600-1699'after dinner I dressed vp my Clositte and read and, to refreshe my selfe beinge dull, I plaied and sunge to the Alphe...Margaret Hoby [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'After I was readie and had praied, I did read of the testemente and bible'Margaret Hoby [n/a]BiblePrint: Book
1600-1699'brake my fast: after, reed of the bible'Margaret Hoby [n/a]BiblePrint: Book
1600-1699'then wrought and hard Mr Rhodes read tell 4 acloke'Richard Rhodes [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'after took a lector, read of the bible, praied, and so went to dinner'Margaret Hoby [n/a]BiblePrint: Book
1600-1699'after I Came home I reed of the testement'Margaret Hoby [n/a]BiblePrint: Book
1600-1699'and, when I Came home, I mad an end of writing my sermon, then reed of the bible'Margaret Hoby [n/a]BiblePrint: Book
1600-1699'then Mr Rhodes reed to me tell 4'Richard Rhodes [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'then I reed of the bible: after, I praied and so dined'Margaret Hoby [n/a]BiblePrint: Book
1600-1699'hard Mr Rhodes read'Richard Rhodes [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'after, I reed of the bible, praied, and lastly dined'Margaret Hoby [n/a]BiblePrint: Book
1600-1699'then I walked a whill and hard one read'Margaret Hoby [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'and allmost all the afternone, I hard Mr Rhodes read'Richard Rhodes [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'hard Mr Rhodes read, took order for supper'Richard Rhodes [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'hard Mr Rhodes read, conferred with him Vpon some thinges touchinge himselfe'Richard Rhodes [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'after, I wrought, and hard Mr Rhodes read of the bible tell diner time: then I wrought, and walked a whill, and after...Richard Rhodes [n/a]BiblePrint: Book
1600-1699'after, I talked with a neighbour, then wrought a whill and hard Mr Rhodes read'Richard Rhodes [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'After priuat praier I did break my fast, read of the bible, walked to my workmen'Margaret Hoby [n/a]BiblePrint: Book
1600-1699'After priuat praier I did eate, then dressed my patients, reed of the bible, and then saluted some strangers'Margaret Hoby [n/a]BiblePrint: Book
1600-1699'after, I kept Companie tell they departed and, after, reed and talked with a yonge papest maid'Margaret Hoby [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'took order for dimer, reed of the bible, walked abroad'Margaret Hoby [n/a]BiblePrint: Book
1600-1699'then I dressed my patients, reed, talked with a neighbour, praied, then dined'Margaret Hoby [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1900-1945'[letter from Frederic Harrison to Mrs Ward] I am one of those to whom your book ["The Case of Richard Meynell"] speci...Frederic Harrison George Eliot [pseud.]Adam BedePrint: Book
1600-1699'gott Mr Hoby to Read some of perkines to me, and, after diner, I red as Longe as I Could my selfe'Margaret Hoby [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'after, I hard Mr Rhodes Read, and wrought, took order for supper'Richard Rhodes [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'After priuat praier I did read of the bible, then wret in my sermon book'Margaret Hoby [n/a]BiblePrint: Book
1600-1699'After priuat praers I did eate, read, and then goe to the church'Margaret Hoby [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'After priuat praers I did eate, heare Mr Rhodes read, dressed my patients'Richard Rhodes [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'took a lector, reed of the testament, praied with Mr Rhodes'Margaret Hoby [n/a]BiblePrint: Book
1600-1699'After priuat praer I did read, break my fast, and then went with Mr Hoby to the Garden'Margaret Hoby [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'reed a whill of another good book, and then went to priuat medetations and praier'Margaret Hoby [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1900-1945'I have read 100 pages of 'L. Leuwen'. [Lucien Leuwen] It is exceedingly fine, but I don’t yet class it with 'La Ch...Arnold Bennett Henri Beyle [Stendhal]Lucien LeuwenPrint: Book
1900-1945'I have read 100 pages of 'L. Leuwen'. [Lucien Leuwen] It is exceedingly fine, but I don’t yet class it with 'La Ch...Arnold Bennett Henri Beyle [Stendhal]La Chartreuse de ParmePrint: Book
1600-1699'after priuat praier and reading of the bible I did eate: then I hard M. Doman read'Margaret Hoby [n/a]BiblePrint: Book
1600-1699'after priuat praier and reading of the bible I did eate: then I hard M. Doman read'Margaret Hoby [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'and then wrought, reed, and wrett tell diner tim'Margaret Hoby [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'After priuat praier I did eate, read, and obsarued mine accustomed exercises tell night'Margaret Hoby [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'after, I reed of the bible, went about the house, praied, and after dined'Margaret Hoby [n/a]BiblePrint: Book
1600-1699'then I took order for supper and read abroad with Mr Hoby'Thomas and Margaret Hoby [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'After priuat praers I did eate, tooke a lector, reed of the bible and testement, and then dined'Margaret Hoby [n/a]BiblePrint: Book
1600-1699'then I hard the sarmon and after reed of a good book tell supper time'Margaret Hoby [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'After priuat praier I did eate, read, and was busie deliueringe some monie'Margaret Hoby [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'After I had praied I wrought, hearinge Mr Rhodes read tell dinner time'Richard Rhodes [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'and then I reed of the Testemente and so to supper, then to publeck praers, and so to bed'Margaret Hoby [n/a]BiblePrint: Book
1600-1699'After praers I did goe about the house and, hauing dune som busenes, I did eate a litle, read, and lastly dined'Margaret Hoby [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'After priuat praers I did read, eate, and went to the church'Margaret Hoby [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'After I had praied and reed, some of my freinds came, with whom I talked'Margaret Hoby [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'After priuat praers I reed, talked with my phesition and som other gentlewemen, and so went to dinner'Margaret Hoby [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'then Mr Hoby reed to me and an other gentlewoman Came to me, with whom I talked tell 5 a Clocke'Thomas Hoby [unknown][unknown]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
1600-1699'After I was readie I praied, then reed of the bible and an other good book, and after 10 a cloke...'Margaret Hoby [n/a]BiblePrint: Book
1600-1699'After I was readie I praied, then reed of the bible and an other good book, and after 10 a cloke...'Margaret Hoby [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'I got vp and was lett blood: then I made me readie and went to priuat praier and reeadinge of the bible, as I was wonte'Margaret Hoby [n/a]BiblePrint: Book
1600-1699'After priuat praier I dinned, then I walked about with my mother and reed, tell towardes night: then I praied priuatl...Margaret Hoby [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'After priuat praers, I reed of the bible and walked about before dinner'Margaret Hoby [n/a]BiblePrint: Book
1600-1699'after, I was busie in the house, and walkinge and reading tell supper time'Margaret Hoby [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'after, I reed of the bible tell all most Church time'Margaret Hoby [n/a]BiblePrint: Book
1600-1699'After priuat praier I did read, eate, and so went to Church'Margaret Hoby [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'then I went about a whill, and reed a praier, and then went to bed'Margaret Hoby [unknown][prayer]Print: Book
1600-1699'I went about tell supper time and reed of the Testement'Margaret Hoby [n/a]BiblePrint: Book
1600-1699'then went to priuat praer and reed a whill, and so went to bed'Margaret Hoby [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'I went to supper, then I reed, and lastly went to bed'Margaret Hoby [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'After priuat praers I went about the house when I had reed of the bible'Margaret Hoby [n/a]BiblePrint: Book
1600-1699'and, after, went about the house and reed a whill, and so went to bed'Margaret Hoby [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'I wrought tell all most 5 a cloke, and hard Mr Rhodes read'Richard Rhodes [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'then I Came home and praied priuatly and reed of the bible'Margaret Hoby [n/a]BiblePrint: Book
1600-1699'and then wrought and hard Mr Rhodes read of the principles of poperie out of one of their owne bookes'Richard Rhodes [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'when I Came home, I read of the bible, wrought, and after dined'Margaret Hoby [n/a]BiblePrint: Book
1600-1699'then I did eate, read, and after went to the church'Margaret Hoby [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'After priuat praere I did read to my wemen'Margaret Hoby [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'after, I wrought and hard Mr Rhodes read of a popeshe booke'Richard Rhodes [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'after I brake my fast, wrought, hard Mr Rhodes Read, took a lector'Richard Rhodes [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'after, I wrough and hard Mr Rhodes reead'Richard Rhodes [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'after, I wrought and hard Mr Rhodes reead of the testement and other good bookes'Richard Rhodes [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'after, I wrought and hard Mr Rhodes reead of the testement and other good bookes'Richard Rhodes [n/a]BiblePrint: Book
1600-1699'and, when I had reed a whill, I went to dinner'Margaret Hoby [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'then I reed a whill and praied, and so went to bed'Margaret Hoby [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'then I kept in my Chamber workinge tell allmost night and hard my Cosine Isons Read' [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'after, I reed, praied, and went to dinner'Margaret Hoby [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'after I Came in I reed, praied, and then went to dinner'Margaret Hoby [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'all the followinge I went about and hard Mr Rhodes Read tell my time of priuat examenation and praier'Richard Rhodes [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'after priuat praers I reed, walked and medetated'Margaret Hoby [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'After I was readie I was Called to some busenes, which dine I went to priuat praier and readinge'Margaret Hoby [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'after, I reed and went to the church'Margaret Hoby [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'After I had gone about some busenes I praied priuatly, and after reed and took a lecture'Margaret Hoby [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'and, when I Came in, I reed a litle of humanitie, and then went to priuat examenation and praier'Margaret Hoby [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'and then I went to work and hard Mr Rhodes read'Richard Rhodes [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'After I was readie, I praied, went about the house, took a lecture, reed of the bible, praied, and went to dinner'Margaret Hoby [n/a]BiblePrint: Book
1600-1699'After priuat praier I wrett notes in my testement, reed a whill, and went to the church'Margaret Hoby [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'After priuat praers I reed'Margaret Hoby [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'then I reed of the bible, after praied and so went to diner'Margaret Hoby [n/a]BiblePrint: Book
1600-1699'after dinner I talked with som strangers that Came to Mr Hoby, wrought, reed a sarmon'Margaret Hoby [unknown][sermon]Print: Book
1600-1699'After priuat praier I did read of the bible and then went about the house'Margaret Hoby [n/a]BiblePrint: Book
1600-1699'after diner, I went about a whill, hard Mr Rhodes Read, and then I went to priuat examenation and praier'Richard Rhodes [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'After priuat praier I did eate, read a whill, and then went to church'Margaret Hoby [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'after, I withdrew my selfe and reed of the bible and praied, and then went to dinner'Margaret Hoby [n/a]BiblePrint: Book
1600-1699'when they were gone, I reed and wrett in my sarmon booke'Margaret Hoby [unknown][sermon]Print: Book
1600-1699'when I Came in, I wrought and reed tell 5 a cloke'Margaret Hoby [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'after, I reed a whill and so went to church'Margaret Hoby [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'and after reed and praied, and then I went to dinner'Margaret Hoby [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'after diner I went to work, and hard Mr Rhodes read of a sarmon booke'Richard Rhodes [unknown][sermon]Print: Book
1600-1699'and so, after priuat praers, I Reed a whill and so went to bed'Margaret Hoby [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'After priuat praers I did read, then I wrought a peece of work for a freind'Margaret Hoby [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'After priuat I stoudied my lecture and, after, I I took a newe, wrought, and hard Mr Rhodes read of the bible'Richard Rhodes [n/a]BiblePrint: Book
1600-1699'After I had praied I went about the house, then I hard Mr Rhodes read, took a lecture, praied, wrought, and went to d...Richard Rhodes [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'I praied and dined, and then I talked with my Mother and reed to hir'Margaret Hoby [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'after, I reed, praied, and dined'Margaret Hoby [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'After I had praied I brake my fast: after, I hard Mr Rhodes read, and wrought tell allmost dinner time'Richard Rhodes [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'After I was readie and had praied, I went about the house, wrought a whill, reed, and praied'Margaret Hoby [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'After priuat praers I reed and went to the church'Margaret Hoby [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'after diner I talked of the sarmon, and reed of the bible with some Gentlewemen that were with me'Margaret Hoby [n/a]BiblePrint: Book
1600-1699'After praier I went about the house, and then went to my work and readinge'Margaret Hoby [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'then I hard Mr Rhodes read, and so I went to priuatt examenation and praier: after I went to supper'Richard Rhodes [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'After praer I wrought and hard Mr Rhodes read'Richard Rhodes [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'After I had praied I reed of the Testement and did eate: after, I walked and did medetate of that I had reed'Margaret Hoby [n/a]BiblePrint: Book
1600-1699'then I dined: after, I talked with my neighbours of that we had hard, and Reed some thinge to them'Margaret Hoby [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'hard Mr Rhodes read of a sermon book'Richard Rhodes [unknown][Sermons]Print: Book
1600-1699'and, after, I did read of the bible, praied, and wrett in my sermon booke, and then went to dinner'Margaret Hoby [n/a]BiblePrint: Book
1600-1699'after ward I talked with Mr Gregorie, hard Mr Rhodes read, and, after, I went to priuat medetation and praier'Richard Rhodes [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'then I reed of the testement, walked a whill, and went to supper'Margaret Hoby [n/a]BiblePrint: Book
1600-1699'After priuat praers I wrett in my testement and reed'Margaret Hoby [n/a]BiblePrint: Book
1600-1699'after, I went to work and then I went about the house, hard Mr Rhodes read'Richard Rhodes [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'After priuat praier I reed and then went to church'Margaret Hoby [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'after I Came home I walked and reed, and then I went to priuat praier and examenation'Margaret Hoby [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'so, when I had praied priuatly & reed a chapter of the testement, I went to bed'Margaret Hoby [n/a]BiblePrint: Book
1600-1699'when I had ben a whill about the house, I reed of the testement and then praied and examened my selfe'Margaret Hoby [n/a]BiblePrint: Book
1600-1699'and then, towardes night, I wrett to my Cosine bouser, and reed of the Testement, and then went to priuat examenation...Margaret Hoby [n/a]BiblePrint: Book
1600-1699'After priuat praers I did read and went about the house, and, after I had broken my fast, I went to church'Margaret Hoby [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'after, dined: and then I talked and reed to some good wiffes that was with me'Margaret Hoby [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'and then I went againe to the church, and, after, I reed of the testement'Margaret Hoby [n/a]BiblePrint: Book
1600-1699'after, I reed of the bible, and then went to priuatt praier and, after publeck, so to bed'Margaret Hoby [n/a]BiblePrint: Book
1600-1699'After priuat praier I went about the house, and, hauinge eaten some thinge, I went to work, and hard Mr Rhodes read'Richard Rhodes [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'and after returned to priuat praier and readinge of the testement'Margaret Hoby [n/a]BiblePrint: Book
1600-1699'After priuat praers I went about the house, reed of the testement, wrett some medetation that I had the day before'Margaret Hoby [n/a]BiblePrint: Book
1600-1699'reed of the bible, and after returned to priuat medetation and praier'Margaret Hoby [n/a]BiblePrint: Book
1600-1699'After praier I reed and went to church'Margaret Hoby [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'after, I went about and wrought, and hard Mr Rhodes read, and praied with him, and so went to supper'Richard Rhodes [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'when I had talked a whill and hard Mr Rhodes read 2 chapters of the Testement, I went to priuat praers and so to bed'Richard Rhodes [n/a]BiblePrint: Book
1600-1699'after I diner I made an end of writinge my sarmon, then I walked, Red, and wrought'Margaret Hoby [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'after, I wrought, hard Mr Rhodes read, and then walked abroad into the feedles'Richard Rhodes [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'after, I sung a psalme with some of the saruants and, lastly, reed a chapter, praied, and so went to bed'Margaret Hoby [n/a]BiblePrint: Book
1600-1699'After priuat praier I reed a whill to my mother, and then went to the church'Margaret Hoby [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'then I talked and reed to some good wiues that dined [with] me'Margaret Hoby [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'at the time of praier, I returned to priuat examenation, praier, and reading: after, I went to supper'Margaret Hoby [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'After priuat praier I reed, did eate my breakfast, and then went to the church'Margaret Hoby [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'then dined: after, I talked of the sarmon, and reed to the good wiues that was with me, and then I praied and againe ...Margaret Hoby [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'after, I reed, wrett diuers notes'Margaret Hoby [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'then I went about the house, and, after I had reed of the bible and praied'Margaret Hoby [n/a]BiblePrint: Book
1600-1699'some thinge I did eate, and then did reed, and made prouision for som strangers that Came'Margaret Hoby [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'and after, when I had praied and reed of the bible, I dined'Margaret Hoby [n/a]BiblePrint: Book
1600-1699'after I reed and so went to supper'Margaret Hoby [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'and, after, I hard a good booke reed by Mr Vrpeth, and sonne after I went to supper'Margaret Hoby [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'After priuat praers I reed of the bible, talked [with] some of my freindes, praied, and then went to diner'Margaret Hoby [n/a]BiblePrint: Book
1600-1699'and, when the sarmon was don, I Came in and hard Mr Ardington Read a sarmon'Mr Ardington [unknown][sermon]Unknown
1600-1699'and then I hard Mr Ardington read a sarmon and talked with hime tell allmost night'Mr Ardington [unknown][sermon]Unknown
1600-1699'and, after Diner, I went about the house, wrett 2. letters, hard Mr Rhodes read a sarmon, then walked with Mr Ardington'Richard Rhodes [unknown][sermon]Print: Book
1600-1699'then I went to work and hard readinge'Margaret Hoby [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'after, I reed and praied and so dined'Margaret Hoby [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'After priuat praier I went to the Church when I had reed and eaten somethinge ... and when I had reed a whill, I went...Margaret Hoby [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'after, I wrought and hard Mr Genking Read tell 4 a cloke'Margaret Hoby [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'after, I reed abroad'Margaret Hoby [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'after I dined, I wrought, walked and reed tell allmost night'Margaret Hoby [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'after, I reed, praied, was busie about waxe lights, and then I dined'Margaret Hoby [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'and, after I had reed a whill, I went to priuat examenation and praier: then to supper'Margaret Hoby [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'then I was busie in the kitchine allmost all the after none, and then I reed of the bible, and so went to priuat exam...Margaret Hoby [n/a]BiblePrint: Book
1600-1699'was so ill that I Could not goe to the publecke exercises, but Mr Hoby reed in the morninge to me and praied with me'Thomas Hoby [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'this day I Continewed my orderarie exercises of praier and readinge'Margaret Hoby [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'After priuat praier I took accountes, did reead of the bible, praied, and walked, and so dined'Margaret Hoby [n/a]BiblePrint: Book
1600-1699'After priuat praier and readinge a whill I went to the church ... then dined: after, I talked [with] some of my neigh...Margaret Hoby [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'All but the times of my ordenarie exercises of praier and readinge I was busie takinge order for my going to london, ...Margaret Hoby [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'After priuat praier I reed of the bible, and then I wrought tell allmost diner time'Margaret Hoby [n/a]BiblePrint: Book
1600-1699'After priuat praier I went to worke tell dinner time: after, I wrought and reed, and was accompened with Mr Edward Ga...Margaret Hoby [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'After priuat praier I brake my fast and wroug, reed of the bible, and then praied and dined'Margaret Hoby [n/a]BiblePrint: Book
1600-1699'then I praied, reed of the bible, and went to diner'Margaret Hoby [n/a]BiblePrint: Book
1600-1699'and, after I had reed and praied, I went to supper'Margaret Hoby [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'After priuat praier I went to my booke, and after I dined'Margaret Hoby [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'After priuat praier I went to my booke, and wrett a letter to Mr Rhodes: then I dined ... and after I went to my book...Margaret Hoby [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'After priuat praers I reed, and talked with Mr Vrpith'Margaret Hoby [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'After priuat praiers I went to readinge: then I was busie tell diner time ... then I returned home, and reed, and aft...Margaret Hoby [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'and then I reed a sarmon, and so, hauinge praied, went to supper'Margaret Hoby [unknown][sermon]Print: Book
1600-1699'After priuat praier I went about and reed of the bible'Margaret Hoby [n/a]BiblePrint: Book
1600-1699'then I went to Read a whill and, when I had praied, I went to bed'Margaret Hoby [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'After praiers I went to diner: after, I went to a standinge to se the quene Come to London, were I Reed a serome'Margaret Hoby [unknown][sermon]Print: Book
1600-1699'and after I had dined I reed of the bible'Margaret Hoby [n/a]BiblePrint: Book
1600-1699'after, I went to worke, and read, and so, when I had praied and supped, I went to bed'Margaret Hoby [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'after, I reed and wrought and was Vesited by my brother, and, after I had praied and suped, I reed and so went to bed'Margaret Hoby [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'after, I wrette to Mr Rhodes, and reed of the bible'Margaret Hoby [n/a]BiblePrint: Book
1600-1699'After prairs, I reed and dined'Margaret Hoby [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'After I had praied I reed, and went to diner'Margaret Hoby [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'After I was readie, and had praied and reed, I walked'Margaret Hoby [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'after, I walked and was veseted by my Cousine Cookes wiffe, and, after they were gone, I went to readinge and praier'Margaret Hoby [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'After priuat praier I reed, and walked to the Comune Garden'Margaret Hoby [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'After praiers I reed, and wrett to Mr Rhodes'Margaret Hoby [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'and I had praied, reed, wrought, and dined'Margaret Hoby [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'and when I Came home I went to priuat readinge and praier'Margaret Hoby [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'after, I busied myself in my Chamber and then went to priuatt readinge and praier'Margaret Hoby [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'after, I went to Mr Egertons sermon and so, within litle time, I went to priuat readinge and praier, and settinge dow...Margaret Hoby [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'and, when he was gome, I went to priuat praier and readinge'Margaret Hoby [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'after supper I went againe to priuat praier and reading, and so to bed'Margaret Hoby [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'After my praier and readinge I went into the feedles with Mistress Thornbrow ... and, after she was gone, I went to p...Margaret Hoby [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'After priuat praier and readinge I went to walk'Margaret Hoby [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'After priuat praier and readinge I went to worke'Margaret Hoby [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'and so, after, I went to priuat praier and reading'Margaret Hoby [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'had so great a Cough that I Could not goe abroad, nor the next day goe to church, but exercised my selfe at home in w...Margaret Hoby [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'at night I went to priuat praier and readinge'Margaret Hoby [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'at my accustomed time I went to priuat praier and readinge'Margaret Hoby [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'after I Cam home I was pained in the toothach which Continewed with me 4 days after, in which time I exercised praing...Margaret Hoby [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'After praiers And readinge I went to diner'Margaret Hoby [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'After priuat praier and readinge I went to worke'Margaret Hoby [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'After priuatt praier I went to readinge and worke tell diner'Margaret Hoby [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'this day I, beinge not well, praied and reed in mine owne chamber'Margaret Hoby [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'this day was rainie so that I Could nor durst goe abroad but exersised in the house, with prainge and reading and sin...Margaret Hoby [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'After priuatt prairs I went to my worke, after I had reed of the bible' Margaret Hoby [n/a]BiblePrint: Book
1600-1699'After prairs I went to work, and, hauinge reed a Litle, I talked with some that Came to Dine with vs'Margaret Hoby [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'After priuat praiers I brake my fast and reed'Margaret Hoby [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'After priuatt praiers I reed of the bible'Margaret Hoby [n/a]BiblePrint: Book
1600-1699'After, I went to priuat readinge and medetation'Margaret Hoby [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'this day I kept my chamber, and, as I was able, I wrought and reede and had Mr Ardington read to me and Mr Rhodes'Margaret Hoby [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'this day I kept my chamber, and, as I was able, I wrought and reede and had Mr Ardington read to me and Mr Rhodes'Mr Ardington [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'this day I kept my chamber, and, as I was able, I wrought and reede and had Mr Ardington read to me and Mr Rhodes'Richard Rhodes [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'After my accustomed prairs I did eate and read'Margaret Hoby [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'then, after diner, I ... Continewed to exercis my selfe in some busenes tell praier, hauing Mr Rhodes and Mr Ardingto...Richard Rhodes [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'then, after diner, I ... Continewed to exercis my selfe in some busenes tell praier, hauing Mr Rhodes and Mr Ardingto...Mr Ardington [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'after, I hard Mr Ardington Read, and reed my selfe a Catzisimie of the Lord supper'Mr Ardington [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'after, I hard Mr Ardington Read, and reed my selfe a Catzisimie of the Lord supper'Margaret Hoby [n/a]CatechismPrint: Book
1600-1699'before diner I praied and read of the bible'Margaret Hoby [n/a]BiblePrint: Book
1600-1699'then I wrought and hard Mr Rhodes read'Richard Rhodes [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'then I praied and reed, dined'Margaret Hoby [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'this day, for prainge, readinge and workinge, I Continewed my ordenarie exercises, with much Comfort and peace of Con...Margaret Hoby [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'this day, for prainge, readinge and workinge, I Continewed my ordenarie exercises, with much Comfort and peace of Con...Richard Rhodes [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'after, I returned in to my Chamber, and there reed and praied tell all most I went to supper'Margaret Hoby [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'the rest of the day, after the afternone sermon, I spent in readinge, singing, praing, and hearinge repeticions'Margaret Hoby [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'After prairs and readinge I kept Mr Gatt Companie'Margaret Hoby [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'after Diner, I wrought and hard Mr Rhodes read'Richard Rhodes [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'after, walked about with Hoby, and then returned to priuatt reading and praier'Margaret Hoby [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'I went about the howse, and then reed and wrought a whill before diner'Margaret Hoby [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'then I went to priuatt prairs and medetation and readinge'Margaret Hoby [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'After I had reed and praied I went about the house'Margaret Hoby [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'and, after, went to readinge and preparation for the next day'Margaret Hoby [unknown][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...Margaret Hoby [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'was buseed about that all day tell night, at which time Iohn Corrow praied and reed publeckly'John Corrow [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'and after went to readinge and medetation'Margaret Hoby [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'hard Mr Rhodes read'Richard Rhodes [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'after, I dined, and after I talked and reed to some good wiffes: after, I praied and reed, and wrett notes in my bibl...Margaret Hoby [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'after, I dined, and after I talked and reed to some good wiffes: after, I praied and reed, and wrett notes in my bibl...Margaret Hoby [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'after supper, I hard Mr Aston praie and reade, and so went to bed'Mr Aston [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'after, I Came home and hard Mr Rhodes read: after diner I went abroad, and when I come home I dresed some sores: afte...Richard Rhodes [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'I kept my chamber, and hard Iohn Corrow and Mr Rhodes read to me'Richard Rhodes [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'I kept my chamber, and hard Iohn Corrow and Mr Rhodes read to me'John Corrow [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'I hard this day, after I had praied, Mr Rhodes read the booke of my lord Esixe treason, and I wrought: and so like wi...John Corrow [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'After praier I wrough, and hard Mr Rhodes and younge Coroow read'Richard Rhodes [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'After praier I wrough, and hard Mr Rhodes and younge Coroow read'John Corrow [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'In the morning I praied, hard Mr Rhodes read, and wrought'Richard Rhodes [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'After praier I went to the church, and, after, I Came from thence, I praied and reed: after, I dined: then, I talked ...Margaret Hoby [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'after, I reed, and wrought tell :2: a cloke'Margaret Hoby [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'After praier I wrought, reed, went about the house, and praied againe before diner'Margaret Hoby [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'After praier I went to work, and hard Mr Rhodes read of a good booke'Richard Rhodes [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'After priuat praier I reed of the bible, and so went to the church'Margaret Hoby [n/a]BiblePrint: Book
1600-1699'After priuat praier I reed of the bible, and so went to the church: after, I Came home, and after diner I reed a Litl...Margaret Hoby [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'After priuatt prairs I reed abroad [with] my Cosine Dakine'Margaret Hoby [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'After priuatt prairs I reed abroad [with] my Cosine Dakine: after I Came home and that I had dined, I talked of good ... [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'after diner, I hard Mr Rhodes read, and wrought'Richard Rhodes [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'and, sonne after, went to priuatt prairs and readinge'Margaret Hoby [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'dined, reed of the bible, walked abroad'Margaret Hoby [n/a]BiblePrint: Book
1600-1699'hard Kate read a chapter'Kate [n/a]Bible [?]Print: Book
1600-1699'after, I praied, dined, and reed, and Conferred of good thinges to such wemen as dined with me'Margaret Hoby [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'at my accustomed Hower, I returned to priuatt readinge and praier'Margaret Hoby [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'hard Mr Rhodes read of the true diCeplen of christes church'Richard Rhodes [unknown]Book of DisciplinePrint: Book
1600-1699'this day I Continewed my accustomed exercises, and wrough, hard Mr Ardington read, and singe psa: tell I went to priu...Mr Ardington [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'then I busied my selfe about the house, and hard some readinge, and after I went to priuatt praier'Margaret Hoby [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'in the afternone Mr Ardington Reed to me'Mr Ardington [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'after, I went to my Clositt, and there reed and praied'Margaret Hoby [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'After prairs I wrought, and hard Mr Ardington Reed'Mr Ardington [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'After prairs I wrought, as I was accustomed, with my maides, and hard Mr Ardington read: and, after I had dined and h...Mr Ardington [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'and then read and praied priuatly'Margaret Hoby [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'and after diner I went about, and walked abroad, and hard Mr Ardington read'Mr Ardington [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'After priuatt praiers I reed, and kept Companie with Mrs Girlington and diuers that Came'Margaret Hoby [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'after I perused Iohn wass his accussinge Letter, I went to priuatt praier'Margaret Hoby John Wass[e]letterManuscript: Letter
1600-1699'After piruatt praier I went about the house, and hard Mr Rhodes read'Richard Rhodes [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'This day and the next I went about the house, after I had hard Kate [read] a chapter'Kate [n/a]Bible [?]Print: Book
1600-1699'after the sarmon and dimer, I reed to the wiues and talked of the sarmon'Margaret Hoby [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'reed to the good wiffes, as I had wont, after dinner'Margaret Hoby [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'and after dinner I reed to some good neighbours'Margaret Hoby [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'I Continewed well, I thanke god, these daies: and reed some medetations of the Lady Bowes hir Makinge'Margaret Hoby [unknown][unknown]Unknown
1600-1699'this day I Continewed to heare, and read, and pray, I praise god, [with] much Comfort as before'Margaret Hoby [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'I haue Continewed my duties or praier and readinge, both findinge my corruption and receiuinge stringthMargaret Hoby [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'and hard from my Cossine Arthur dakine: and so, in the afternone likewise, hard some readinge of a book he sent me'Margaret Hoby [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'towarde Night I went to my accostomed exercises of Readinge and praier'Margaret Hoby [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'priuatt praier and readinge'Margaret Hoby [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'and after the exercises I went to readinge and priuatt praier'Margaret Hoby [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'and after dinner went into the Garden, vntill I retourned to priuat praier and readinge'Margaret Hoby [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'and at night I went to priuatt readinge and praier'Margaret Hoby [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'and in the afternone I went to priuatt prairs and readinge'Margaret Hoby [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'and at night returned to priuat readinge and praier'Margaret Hoby [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'and towardes night I went to priuatt readinge and praier'Margaret Hoby [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'and after they were gone I retourned to Readinge and priuat praier'Margaret Hoby [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'and after went to priuatt praier and readinge'Margaret Hoby [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'towardes Night I went to priuatt praier and readinge'Margaret Hoby [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'and after I had praied I went to readinge'Margaret Hoby [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'at Night I went to priuatt readinge and praier'Margaret Hoby [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'and towardes night went to priuatt readinge and praier'Margaret Hoby [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'priuat Readinge'Margaret Hoby [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1800-1849Witness statement in trial for theft: Joseph Bird: 'last Monday week, the 29th of December, about half-past nine o'cl...Joseph Bird [n/a][newspaper]Print: Newspaper
1800-1849Witness statement in trial for theft: Thomas James Francis: 'On the morning of the 17th of April, 1834, I saw three m...William Goodwin [n/a][newspaper]Print: Newspaper
1800-1849Witness statement in trial for theft: Joseph Forster: 'I had heard of his loss, and seen an advertisement in the Time...Joseph Forster [n/a]The TimesPrint: Advertisement, Newspaper
1800-1849Witness statement in trial for deception: Philip Farmer: 'Q. How came you here to-day? A. I saw it in the newspaper...Philip Farmer [n/a][newspaper]Print: Newspaper
1800-1849Witness statement in trial for theft: Benjamin Murray: 'I first saw the account of this robbery in the Dispatch news...Benjamin Murray [n/a]Weekly DispatchPrint: Newspaper
1800-1849Witness statement in trial for theft: Benjamin Murray: 'I first saw the account of this robbery in the Dispatch news...Benjamin Murray [n/a][handbill]Print: Handbill
1800-1849Witness statement in trial for murder: Henry Wignall: 'the 1st of January was Sunday—on the 1st of January I was in...Henry Wignall [n/a][newspaper]Print: Newspaper
1800-1849Witness statement in trial for deception: William Spicer: 'On the 28th of December I had been at home the whole day, ...William Spicer [n/a][newspaper]Print: Newspaper
1800-1849Witness statement in trial for deception: Charles Baldwin: 'On Tuesday, the 6th of June, I read this advertisement in...Charles Baldwin [n/a]Morning AdvertiserPrint: Advertisement, Newspaper
1800-1849Witness statement in trial for bigamy: Mrs Webb: 'after she was separated from her husband, she read in the newspape...Elizabeth Burden [n/a][newspaper]Print: Newspaper
1800-1849Witness statement in trial for deception: John Dawson: 'about a year and nine months ago, I saw an advertisement in t...John Dawson [n/a]The TimesPrint: Advertisement, Newspaper
1800-1849Witness statement in trial for theft: Mary Ann Hatton: 'On Saturday, the 30th of June, between one and two o'clock in...Mary Ann Hatton [n/a][newspaper]Print: Newspaper
1800-1849Witness statement in trial for theft: John Peto: 'On Sunday night, the 26th of August, Bostock came to my house, abou...William Stubbs [n/a][newspaper]Print: Newspaper
1800-1849Witness statement in trial for forgery: Frederick Cooper: 'I remember reading in the newspaper, that the prisoner wa...Frederick Cooper [n/a][newspaper]Print: Newspaper
1800-1849Witness statement in trial for theft: Robert Gollinos: 'on Saturday morning, the 26th of January, I was reading in th...Robert Gollinos [n/a][newspaper]Print: Newspaper
1800-1849Witness statement in trial for theft: Jonas Levy: 'I read in the newspaper that a man named Jones was taken up for s...Jonas Levy [n/a][newspaper]Print: Newspaper
1800-1849Witness statement in trial for theft: Edward Smith: 'On the 17th of June I was at the Feathers public-house, in Oxfor...Edward Smith [n/a][newspaper]Print: Newspaper
1800-1849Witness statement in trial for theft: Dennis Power: 'Q. Do you ever read the "Weekly Dispatch" newspaper? A. I do no...Edward Smith [n/a]Weekly DispatchPrint: Newspaper
1800-1849Prisoner's statement in trial for theft: Joseph Smith: 'There was a gentleman in the tap-room, reading the newspaper... [n/a][newspaper]Print: Newspaper
1800-1849witness statement in trial for theft: Charles Blakeley Brown: 'On the 3rd of December, I read this advertisement in t...Charles Blakeley Brown [n/a]The TimesPrint: Advertisement, Newspaper
1800-1849witness statement in trial for murder: Charlotte Peolaine: 'Q. Had the parcel been left with you before you heard of ...Charlotte Peolaine [n/a][newspaper]Print: Newspaper
1800-1849witness statement in trial for theft: John Henry Bradley: 'I heard no more of it till I saw in the newspaper that th...John Henry Bradley [n/a][newspaper]Print: Newspaper
1800-1849witness statement in trial for conspiracy: Mr Deller: 'I believe I am a judge of the value of gold—I have been a pa...Mr Deller [n/a][newspaper]Print: Newspaper
1800-1849witness statement in trial for theft: Samuel Birchfield: 'About eleven o'clock, on the 26th of February, I left my ho...Samuel Birchfield [n/a][newspaper]Print: Newspaper
1800-1849witness statement in trial for theft: John Kissick: 'On the 10th of November, the prisoner came into my shop, in Tott...Edward Holmes [n/a]Weekly DispatchPrint: Newspaper
1800-1849witness statement in trial for theft: Eliza Warr: 'Q. What did the prisoner do there from one o'clock till after thre...Eliza Warr [n/a][newspaper]Print: Newspaper
1800-1849witness statement in trial for theft: Catherine Stewart: 'I remember the night of Shrove Tuesday—he was at home wit...William Keep [n/a][newspaper]Print: Newspaper
1800-1849witness statement in trial for violent theft: George Verry: 'the only thing that induced me to appear as a witness wa...George Verry [n/a][newspaper]Print: Newspaper
1800-1849witness statement in trial for theft: Robert Lincoln: 'I had heard "worked money" spoken of by my master, and had rea...Robert Lincoln [n/a][newspaper]Print: Newspaper
1800-1849witness statement in trial for deception: Frederick Skerratt: 'I then saw an advertisement in the Times newspaper, s...Frederick Skerratt [n/a][newspaper]Print: Newspaper
1800-1849witness statement in trial for theft: James Dignum: 'I had heard something about the state of Lord Fitzgerald's healt...James Dignum [n/a]The TimesPrint: Newspaper
1800-1849witness statement in trial for theft: Henry Reeves: 'he was reading the newspaper—it might have been for half an h...William Hatton [n/a][newspaper]Print: Newspaper
1800-1849witness statement in trial for theft: William John Boden: 'Q. Where were you? A. In the parlour—the door was open...William John Boden [n/a][newspaper]Print: Newspaper
1800-1849witness statement in trial for wounding: Thomas Waller: 'I was sitting reading the newspaper when the prisoner came in'Thomas Waller [n/a][newspaper]Print: Newspaper
1800-1849witness statement in trial for theft: Edmund Fargens: 'I afterwards saw a paragraph in the newspaper, in consequence...Edmund Fargens [n/a][newspaper]Print: Newspaper
1800-1849witness statement in trial for theft: Esther Lane: 'she had had half a pint of beer, and been reading the newspaper'Jane Barnett [n/a][newspaper]Print: Newspaper
1800-1849witness statement in trial for theft: Frederick Shaw: 'Q. Were there any persons at the tap? A. There was one person ... [n/a][newspaper]Print: Newspaper
1800-1849witness statement in trial for deception: William Angerstein: 'At the time in question I was staying with my father a...William Angerstein [n/a]The TimesPrint: Advertisement, Newspaper
1800-1849witness statement in trial for deception: William Godfrey: 'I was reading the newspaper on the Friday morning that I...William Godfrey [n/a][newspaper]Print: Advertisement, Newspaper
1850-1899'The following programme of readings from Lewis Carroll's works as arranged by the committee of arrangements was then ...Alfred Rawlings Lewis Carroll [pseud.]'A Poem'Print: Book
1850-1899'The following programme of readings from Lewis Carroll's works as arranged by the committee of arrangements was then ...Maria Neild Lewis Carroll [pseud.][from] Sylvie and BrunoPrint: Book
1850-1899'The following programme of readings from Lewis Carroll's works as arranged by the committee of arrangements was then ...Elizabeth Edminson Lewis Carroll [pseud.]'Jabberwocky' [from Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There] Print: Book
1850-1899'The following programme of readings from Lewis Carroll's works as arranged by the committee of arrangements was then ...Charles Stansfield Lewis Carroll [pseud.][the Mock Turtle's Story from] Alice's Adventures in WonderlandPrint: Book
1850-1899'The following programme of readings from Lewis Carroll's works as arranged by the committee of arrangements was then ...Mrs Cass Lewis Carroll [pseud.][from] Hunting of the Snark: an Agony in Eight FitsPrint: Book
1850-1899'The following programme of readings from Lewis Carroll's works as arranged by the committee of arrangements was then ...Allan Goadby Lewis Carroll [pseud.][the Mad Tea Party, from] Alice's Adventures in WonderlandPrint: Book
1850-1899'During the daytime I could not gain sufficient solitude for reading my little story books and was obliged to use the ...Zoe Procter [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1850-1899'Early in 1888 my grandmother was taken ill, and my sister Mary and I went daily to Albert Hall Mansions to help my el...Zoe Procter [unknown][nineteenth-century poets]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 [n/a]The TimesPrint: Newspaper
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 [n/a]StandardPrint: Newspaper
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 [n/a]Morning PostPrint: Newspaper
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 [unknown]Girls' Own PaperPrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'Pearl's conversation was always full of references to the works of the French novelists of the period, so I proceeded...Zoe Procter [Italian poets][poetry]Print: Book
1900-1945'In the newspapers, which my sister sent out to me, I had read about the growing movement for women's suffrage.'Zoe Procter [n/a][newspapers]Print: Newspaper
1900-1945'Not knowing that I had reached the end of my travels for that day, I seated myself on the one chair and proceeded to ...Zoe Procter [n/a]Church TimesPrint: Serial / periodical
1700-1799Robert 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]PoemsPrint: Book
1900-1945'I read the "Syonan Times" it says: "The era of equality for all in Greater Asia is at hand"'Thomas Kitching [n/a]Syonan TimesPrint: Newspaper
1900-1945'I find a copy of the "Prison Regulations" for December 1938: European rations total over three pounds daily and Japan...Thomas Kitching [unknown]Prison RegulationsPrint: Unknown
1900-1945'"The Syonan Times" says Java surrendered unconditionally on Monday [9 Mar]'Thomas Kitching [n/a]Syonan TimesPrint: Newspaper
1900-1945'"The Syonan Times" also gives a list of Nipponese taking positions as Advisers in various States of Malaya except Pah...Thomas Kitching [n/a]Syonan TimesPrint: Newspaper
1900-1945'Notice over the bakery - "Wedding Cakes A Speciality"'Thomas Kitching [unknown][sign]Manuscript: Graffito
1900-1945'A statement about the position as regards the exchange of internees is given by "The Changi Guardian" (the prisoners'...Thomas Kitching [n/a]The Changi GuardianPrint: Newspaper
1900-1945'"The Syonan Times" reports there is no resistance in Northern Sumatra. In the newspaper, there is a remarkable simila...Thomas Kitching [n/a]Syonan TimesPrint: Newspaper
1900-1945'"The Syonan Times" reports that Eden, the Foreign Secretary, has spoken of the prisoners in Hong Kong and of their "w...Thomas Kitching [n/a]Syonan TimesPrint: Newspaper
1900-1945'"The Syonan Times" says that 11 ships have been sunk off Colombo, Rangoon and the Indian coast; also the Queen Mary w...Thomas Kitching [n/a]Syonan TimesPrint: Newspaper
1900-1945'I get a library book, "Dandelion Days". Written on the back cover is an extraordinary message deated 15.1.42 at the G...Thomas Kitching [unknown][marginalia in Dandelion Days]Manuscript: Graffito
1900-1945'"The Syonan Times announces with a flourish the resumption of the delivery of letters.'Thomas Kitching [n/a]Syonan TimesPrint: Newspaper
1900-1945'"The Syonan Times" announces the resumption of the retail sale of sugar. And they are to re-open the schools soon'Thomas Kitching [n/a]Syonan TimesPrint: Newspaper
1900-1945'"The Syonan Times" reports that 200 mixed British and Dutch refugees have been rounded up in Northern Sumatra. They h...Thomas Kitching [n/a]Syonan TimesPrint: Newspaper
1900-1945'"The Syonan Times" says the Nipponese have given Hong Kong internees money and cigarettes and they allow canteens whe...Thomas Kitching [n/a]Syonan TimesPrint: Newspaper
1900-1945'"The Syonan Times" says the scorched earth policy in Malaya was a failure - the rubber and tin are still there!'Thomas Kitching [n/a]Syonan TimesPrint: Newspaper
1900-1945'"The Syonan Times" says the lack of food grown in Malaya is due to the deliberate policy of the British government, w...Thomas Kitching [n/a]Syonan TimesPrint: Newspaper
1900-1945'"The Changi Guardian" says in the "Do You Know?" pages: "That each dawn is now broken by the patter of running feet -...Thomas Kitching [n/a]The Changi GuardianPrint: Newspaper
1900-1945'According to "The Syonan Times", 10,000 prisoners are working on it [war memorial]. A "Lisbon cable" published in the...Thomas Kitching [n/a]Syonan TimesPrint: Newspaper
1900-1945'"The Syonan Times" has a headline: "European War Decided in Two Months", but I cannot get near enough to see which wa...Thomas Kitching [n/a]Syonan TimesPrint: Newspaper
1900-1945'I take the chance of a leisurely read of "The Syonan Times" of May 18th. The headlines include: "Decline of the Briti...Thomas Kitching [n/a]Syonan TimesPrint: Newspaper
1900-1945'I inspect "The Syonan Times" from May 23rd to 28th: the usual unadulterated propaganda - in such mass and so blatant ...Thomas Kitching [n/a]Syonan TimesPrint: Newspaper
1900-1945'I start making star charts and revising my geographical knowledge generally with the aid of a very good atlas - the O...Thomas Kitching [unknown]Oxford Advanced AtlasPrint: Book
1900-1945'"The Syonan Times" says very naively that the essay competition on Nipponese culture was very disappointing. There we...Thomas Kitching [n/a]Syonan TimesPrint: Newspaper
1900-1945'"The Syonan Times reports that Mrs Arbenz, wife of the Swiss Consul, has been killed in a motor accident. Joan knew t...Thomas Kitching [n/a]Syonan TimesPrint: Newspaper
1900-1945'A notice in "The Syonan Times" asks the public to cooperate in measures for the suppression of mosquitoes'Thomas Kitching [n/a]Syonan TimesPrint: Newspaper
1900-1945'"The Syonan Times" gives full details for an exchange of diplomats and others from the US, Canada and South America a...Thomas Kitching [n/a]Syonan TimesPrint: Newspaper
1900-1945'"The Changi Guardian", in its cricket report, says: "Kitching fought the vigorous attack amid rising excitement and, ...Thomas Kitching [n/a]The Changi GuardianPrint: Newspaper
1900-1945'"The Syonan Times" of August 7th says: "Grow more food. It is essential. It is to be planted on enemy-owned rubber pl...Thomas Kitching [n/a]Syonan TimesPrint: Newspaper
1900-1945'"The Syonan Times" says there is to be a public holiday today for the half-anniversary of the New Birth of Malaya.'Thomas Kitching [n/a]Syonan TimesPrint: Newspaper
1900-1945'A notice appears on the board: "The Indian policemen on duty are Japanese subjects and you must obey them as you do t...Thomas Kitching [unknown][notice]Unknown
1900-1945'The B-Block strip of grass between the high wall and the passage is now open. It is to be a haven of peace for reader...Thomas Kitching [unknown][notice]Unknown
1900-1945'"The Syonan Times" says that, in spite of the "evil scorched-earth policy" of the British, the hydro-electric install...Thomas Kitching [n/a]Syonan TimesPrint: Newspaper
1900-1945'A comparison with other internees culled from "The Syonan Times": Manila, S. Thomas University - 3,200 internees in 6...Thomas Kitching [n/a]Syonan TimesPrint: Newspaper
1900-1945'"The Changi Guardian" reports: "The Changi Cricket League, long expected, is now in being, thanks to the untiring ene...Thomas Kitching [n/a]The Changi GuardianPrint: Newspaper
1900-1945'"The Syonan Times" informs us that one Nipponese is worth at least six white soldiers because he fights for ideals an...Thomas Kitching [n/a]Syonan TimesPrint: Newspaper
1900-1945'According to "The Syonan Times", the Government of Malaya says that the Nipponese will educate the youth of Malaya pr...Thomas Kitching [n/a]Syonan TimesPrint: Newspaper
1900-1945'"The Syonan Times" says that M. Egle, the Red Cross representative, entertained to dinner by the Nipponese in Shanghi...Thomas Kitching [n/a]Syonan TimesPrint: Newspaper
1900-1945'"The Syonan Times" says that the Raffles statue is being moved to a museum.'Thomas Kitching [n/a]Syonan TimesPrint: Newspaper
1900-1945[in this entry, lists extracts from "The Syonan Times" of 10 Sept]Thomas Kitching [n/a]Syonan TimesPrint: Newspaper
1900-1945'"The Syonan Times" refers to the "miserable hordes of distressed humanity who were barely able to eke out an existenc...Thomas Kitching [n/a]Syonan TimesPrint: Newspaper
1900-1945'There is unconscious humour in "The Syonan Times". Two headlines state: "New Order Simplifies Chinese Funerals" and "...Thomas Kitching [n/a]Syonan TimesPrint: Newspaper
1900-1945'"The Syonan Times" has the speech of welcome given by the Mayor to Nipponese internees who have arrived on the Tatuta...Thomas Kitching [n/a]Syonan TimesPrint: Newspaper
1900-1945'"The Syonan Times" says the evil influences of the British education system are to be swept away completely and repla...Thomas Kitching [n/a]Syonan TimesPrint: Newspaper
1900-1945'"The Syonan Times" of September 17th contains an account by a Chinese nurse who, I think, must have been on Nora's ship'Thomas Kitching [n/a]Syonan TimesPrint: Newspaper
1900-1945'"The Syonan Times" is running heavy propaganda for the people to learn Japanese. They say people evidently don't like...Thomas Kitching [n/a]Syonan TimesPrint: Newspaper
1900-1945'"The Syonan Times" says the Tatuta Maru brought parcels for the prisoners of war "direct from their kith and kin"'Thomas Kitching [n/a]Syonan TimesPrint: Newspaper
1900-1945'"The Syonan Times" reports that "owing to unavoidable circumstances, the Malayan-Chinese Goodwill Mission's visit to ...Thomas Kitching [n/a]Syonan TimesPrint: Newspaper
1900-1945'There is not so much bombast in the latest "Syonan Times" report on the war: "Our nation remains determined ... to ac...Thomas Kitching [n/a]Syonan TimesPrint: Newspaper
1900-1945[Tom quotes the "Syonan Times" on] '"British Maltreatment of Nipponese Internees" and on how the local people "fail to...Thomas Kitching [n/a]Syonan TimesPrint: Newspaper
1900-1945'"The Syonan Times" carries a report about Miss Estrop, a Eurasian from Kuala Lumpar.'Thomas Kitching [n/a]Syonan TimesPrint: Newspaper
1800-1849From the 1806-1840 Commonplace book of an unknown reader. Dated Garrow, 1823, is transcribed the traditional Scottish ... anon [Trad.]Unknown
1900-1945'A quotation from a book I am reading says: "The only way to waste time is not to enjoy it." How one realises that as ...Thomas Kitching [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1900-1945'"The Syonan Times" leader says: "today, hundreds of thousands of people in Malaya are suffering severely from insuffi...Thomas Kitching [n/a]Syonan TimesPrint: Newspaper
1900-1945'In "The Syonan Times" there is a very anti-British speech by S.C. Goho - the Indians are not supporting the Indian In...Thomas Kitching [n/a]Syonan TimesPrint: Newspaper
1900-1945'"The Syonan Times" has more about the wonderful conditions of prisoners-of-war and internees in Hong Kong and Shanghi...Thomas Kitching [n/a]Syonan TimesPrint: Newspaper
1900-1945'"The Syonan Times" reports that a week's holiday starts in Japan and elsewhere on December 5th at the end of a year's...Thomas Kitching [n/a]Syonan TimesPrint: Newspaper
1900-1945'"The Syonan Times" has an amusing erros in its leader today.'Thomas Kitching [n/a]Syonan TimesPrint: Newspaper
1900-1945'There is an article in "The Syonan Times" by Charles Nell about Malayan Shylocks.'Thomas Kitching [n/a]Syonan TimesPrint: Newspaper
1900-1945'"The Syonan Times" gives it away: "The English who formerly lived like kings are now sighing in Changi Prison".'Thomas Kitching [n/a]Syonan TimesPrint: Newspaper
1900-1945'And now for the best jest so far in Changi: the editors of "The Changi Guardian" suddenly have their cells turned ins...Thomas Kitching [n/a]The Changi GuardianPrint: Newspaper
1800-1849From the 1806-1840 Commonplace book of an unknown reader. Transcription of 'Lines written on the Author's being asked ...St. George Tucker [attrib.]Days of my YouthUnknown
1900-1945'"The Jap Times and Advertiser" held a slogan competition.'Thomas Kitching [n/a]Jap Times and AdvertiserPrint: Newspaper
1900-1945'A paragraph has been cut out of "The Syonan Times"; internees are not allowed to see it, but, with the usual efficien...Thomas Kitching [n/a]Syonan TimesPrint: Newspaper
1900-1945'I am amused by a purchase I make today: it is toilet paper and on the wrapper it says in large letters, obviously as ...Thomas Kitching [n/a]wrapperPrint: wrapper/ packaging
1900-1945'"The Syonan Times" is again full of articles putting the blame for the war on the Allies'Thomas Kitching [n/a]Syonan TimesPrint: Newspaper
1900-1945'"The Syonan Times" advertises a movie in the Capitol, now disguised as Kyo-El-Gekizyo: "Love Finds Andy Hardy".'Thomas Kitching [n/a]Syonan TimesPrint: Advertisement, Newspaper
1900-1945'To quote "The Syonan Times", "All houses will hoist the Rising Sun Flag".'Thomas Kitching [n/a]Syonan TimesPrint: Newspaper
1900-1945'Aha! The transformed newspaper is an accomplished fact. The issue of December 12th carries its new name of "Syonan Si...Thomas Kitching [n/a]Syonan SinbunPrint: Newspaper
1900-1945'"The Syonan Sinbun" publish a long interview given by the Bishop of Singapore a few days ago, which is entirely ficti...Thomas Kitching [n/a]Syonan SinbunPrint: Newspaper
1900-1945'"The Syonan Sinbun" headline on December 18th: "Tokyo Wins War of Radio Waves". The newspaper lauds the superiority o...Thomas Kitching [n/a]Syonan SinbunPrint: Newspaper
1900-1945'A notice in "The Syonan Sinbun" again calls upon all owners of short-wave wireless sets to hand them over for convers...Thomas Kitching [n/a]Syonan SinbunPrint: Newspaper
1900-1945'The newspaper reports that the so-clever Nipponese scientists are not only going to eradicate venereal disease, but a...Thomas Kitching [n/a]Syonan SinbunPrint: Newspaper
1900-1945'"The Syonan Sinbun" advertises a slogan competition for the anniversary of the fall of Singapore: "Slogans should cle...Thomas Kitching [n/a]Syonan SinbunPrint: Advertisement, Newspaper
1900-1945'"The Syonan Sinbun" reports that the museum authorities in Singapore are busy translating all the thousands of explan...Thomas Kitching [n/a]Syonan SinbunPrint: Newspaper
1900-1945'"The Syonan Sinbun" announces that there are 18 large mailbags in Tokyo with letters from Great Britain for war priso...Thomas Kitching [n/a]Syonan SinbunPrint: Newspaper
1900-1945'"The Syonan Sinbun" reports Tokyo as saying that "the maltreatment and petty annoyances to which Nipponese internees ...Thomas Kitching [n/a]Syonan SinbunPrint: Newspaper
1900-1945'"The Syonan Sinbun" reports that Yamashita, the conqueror of Malaya, has been promoted to General.'Thomas Kitching [n/a]Syonan SinbunPrint: Newspaper
1900-1945'"The Syonan Sinbun" for Tuesday and Wednesday surpasses itself.'Thomas Kitching [n/a]Syonan SinbunPrint: Newspaper
1900-1945'"The Syonan Sinbun" leader is quite amusing; it tells the people how changed things are for them compared with a year...Thomas Kitching [n/a]Syonan SinbunPrint: Newspaper
1900-1945'"The Syonan Sinbun" reports that the Nipponese Government has decided not to consider Indians and the other peoples o...Thomas Kitching [n/a]Syonan SinbunPrint: Newspaper
1800-1849From the 1806-1840 Commonplace book of an unknown reader. 'These very pretty rhymes were written in the times of Eliza... anon [Traditional]The Old and Young CourtierUnknown
1800-1849From the 1806-1840 Commonplace book of an unknown reader. Transcription of 'Ballad "The old English Gentleman" sung by... anon [Traditional]The Old English GentlemanUnknown
1800-1849Prisoner's statement in trial for murder: Daniel Johncock: 'I read the Times newspaper, and read of the suicide of a...Daniel Johncock [n/a]The TimesPrint: Newspaper
1800-1849Prisoner's statement in trial for theft: Michael Benson: 'I called for a glass of ale, and paid for it; I was there a...Michael Benson [n/a][newspaper]Print: Newspaper
1800-1849Witness statement in trial for theft: George Martin: 'Q. You saw Martin leave the box and go to get the newspapers? A...Ellen Martin [n/a][newspaper]Print: Newspaper
1800-1849Witness statement in trial for theft: John Scott: 'about one o'clock in the day on the 1st of May, I was in the Frenc...John Scott [n/a][newspaper]Print: Newspaper
1800-1849Witness statement in trial for theft: George Patterson: 'Q. What were you doing there? A. I was reading the newspaper'George Patterson [n/a][newspaper]Print: Newspaper
1800-1849Witness statement in trial for wounding: George Rogers: 'it was quite by accident I saw this affair in the newspaper...George Rogers [n/a][newspaper]Print: Newspaper
1800-1849Witness statement in trial for theft: Henry Theodore James: 'I did not go before the Magistrate on this matter—I sa...Henry Theodore James [n/a][newspaper]Print: Newspaper
1800-1849Witness statement in trial for theft: George Sweet: 'On the 15th Dec. I saw an advertisement in the Times Newspaper ...George Sweet [n/a]The TimesPrint: Advertisement, Newspaper
1800-1849Witness statement in trial for murder: Charles Evans: 'I was in the room when the Coroner summed up the case to the J...Charles Evans [n/a]The TimesPrint: Newspaper
1800-1849Witness statement in trial for theft: Henry Childs: 'Turner sat down, and fell asleep—Grimes sat near him, and seem...Thomas Collins [n/a][newspaper]Print: Newspaper
1800-1849Witness statement in trial for treason: George Davis: 'Q. How came you to alter your mind? A. Through reading the new...George Davis [n/a][newspaper]Print: Newspaper
1800-1849Witness statement in trial for deception: William James Bedel: 'On Monday, 6th Nov. last, I saw this advertisement in...William James Bedel [n/a]The TimesPrint: Advertisement, Newspaper
1800-1849Witness statement in trial for theft: George Dawson: 'Campbell was in my house on that Saturday, from three to four o...Joseph Campbell [n/a][newspaper]Print: Newspaper
1800-1849Witness statement in trial for deception: Thomas Holmman: 'I afterwards saw an account in the newspaper of the priso...Thomas Holmman [n/a][newspaper]Print: Newspaper
1800-1849Witness statement in trial for theft: George Gordon Chitlock: 'both these bags were in the booking-office—the priso...Samuel Game [n/a][newspaper]Print: Newspaper
1800-1849Witness statement in trial for theft: Richard James: 'I put the key of the cupboard into my pocket, and went to the p...Richard James [n/a][newspaper]Print: Advertisement, Newspaper
1800-1849Witness statement in trial for murder: Richard John Moxey: '[Manning] said, "Is the wretch taken?"—I said I did not...Richard John Moxey [n/a][newspaper]Print: Newspaper
1900-1945'The newspaper praises it [loaf made of maize flour and rice]: "Bread reappears in Syonan. The doctors are enthusiasti...Thomas Kitching [n/a]Syonan SinbunPrint: Newspaper
1900-1945'Forbes has three postcards; one marked "Try Singapore, then Batavia". This shows there must be internees in Batavia a...Thomas Kitching [unknown]postcardManuscript: postcard
1900-1945'Very neatly put is this from "The Syonan Sinbun": "With the return of warm weather, the submarine threat has become a...Thomas Kitching [n/a]Syonan SinbunPrint: Newspaper
1900-1945'I receive two letters - one (undated) from Nellie [Tom's eldest sister] in Australia and the other from Amy Hallom in...Thomas Kitching [n/a][letters]Manuscript: Letter
1900-1945'There is an appeal in "The Syonan Sinbun" to stop the black-marketeering in drugs. Quinine is available at five cents...Thomas Kitching [n/a]Syonan SinbunPrint: Newspaper
1900-1945'There is a letter from Joan, Barn Close, Milford, Godalming. It is dated 14.7.42 and addressed to both of us, of cour...Thomas Kitching [n/a][letter]Manuscript: Letter
1900-1945'I am reading volume four of "Wonderful Britain". It is attractively illustrated, particularly to an interned exile. W...Thomas Kitching [unknown]Wonderful BritainPrint: Book
1900-1945'"The Syonan Sinbun" says: 'What were considered ridiculous prices a few months after the fall of Singapore are as not...Thomas Kitching [n/a]Syonan SinbunPrint: Newspaper
1900-1945'"The Syonan Sinbun" reports a speech made by Colonel Okabo to a meeting of Mohammedan delegates. He tells them to war...Thomas Kitching [n/a]Syonan SinbunPrint: Newspaper
1900-1945'The Saturday newspaper has part of a column cut out. As there is no war news from Europe elsewhere, you can put omiss...Thomas Kitching [n/a]Syonan SinbunPrint: Newspaper
1900-1945'I finish reading "Walking in the Grampians". If Nora's alive, I swear we will do some of them WHEN this bloody war is...Thomas Kitching [unknown]Walking in the GrampiansPrint: Book
1900-1945'Both Tuesday and Wednesday editions of "The Syonan Sinbun" have bits cut out - one-and-a-half columns then one column.'Thomas Kitching [n/a]Syonan SinbunPrint: Newspaper
1900-1945'There is more censorship of the newspaper. It is cut about all over the place.'Thomas Kitching [n/a]Syonan SinbunPrint: Newspaper
1900-1945'I discover a new Nipponese word in a newspaper report: "Three of our planes committed jibaku" ie. deliberately dived ...Thomas Kitching [n/a]Syonan SinbunPrint: Newspaper
1900-1945'An article in "The Syonan Sinbun" headed "Red Cross Says Syonan Prisoners Well-Treated" reports that the Internationa...Thomas Kitching [n/a]Syonan SinbunPrint: Newspaper
1900-1945'"The Syonan Sinbun" announces that Nipponese is to be the future lingua franca of Malaya, but do not be perturbed - E...Thomas Kitching [n/a]Syonan SinbunPrint: Newspaper
1900-1945'"Nippon knows no class or racial distinctions which were so hateful under the British", says a leader in "The Syonan ...Thomas Kitching [n/a]Syonan SinbunPrint: Newspaper
1900-1945'"The Syonan Sinbun", under the heading "No Room for Criminals", reports on the new regime's effective campaign agains...Thomas Kitching [n/a]Syonan SinbunPrint: Newspaper
1900-1945'"The Syonan Sinbun" says the Axis have won the first round in Sicily, but doesn't explain how they let the Allies get...Thomas Kitching [n/a]Syonan SinbunPrint: Newspaper
1900-1945'"The Syonan Sinbun" reports a spokesman of the Nipponese Army Board of Information as saying Britain has sent warship...Thomas Kitching [n/a]Syonan SinbunPrint: Newspaper
1900-1945'"The Syonan Sinbun" says a cable from Lisbon on July 22nd reported the arrival in London of 20,000 postcards and lett...Thomas Kitching [n/a]Syonan SinbunPrint: Newspaper
1900-1945'A young hopeful from the Women's camp, aged five, asked what he was going to do when he grew up, said, "Go over to th...Thomas Kitching [n/a]Pow-WowPrint: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'"The Syonan Sinbun" says goods supplied by the Nipponese will be distributed today; the goods include crockery, glass...Thomas Kitching [n/a]Syonan SinbunPrint: Newspaper
1900-1945'I am reading with intense interest the government blue book of documents prior to the outbreak of war on September 3r...Thomas Kitching [n/a]Government Blue BooksPrint: Book
1900-1945'To bunk. Finished reading Aldington's brochure on Lawrence. A slight thing. Odds. Wrote home. Reading. Supper. Finish...William Soutar [unknown]Golden TreasuryPrint: Book
1900-1945'To bunk about 8.0. Reading.'William Soutar [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1900-1945'Began reading through the "Encyclopaedia Britannica" today. Another ten years project, at least. My odyssey through C...William Soutar [n/a]Encyclopaedia BritannicaPrint: Book
1900-1945'Read a couple of ballads to Eve.'William Soutar [unknown][ballads]Unknown
1900-1945'Read to-day that Corot, Degas, Manet, Cezanne were all "paternal parasites" as regards money - if I can do my share i...William Soutar [unknown][unknown]Print: Unknown
1900-1945'Eve stayed in to do her Bible Questions. As she was looking through the chapter on the deception of Isaac by Jacob an...Evelyn Soutar [n/a]BiblePrint: Book
1900-1945'Writing and reading: continue to wrestle with words in a very sticky fashion.'William Soutar [unknown][unknown]Print: Unknown
1900-1945'Writing and reading: To have the great masters always before one is the most thorough searchlight upon self-esteem: e...William Soutar [unknown][unknown]Print: Unknown
1900-1945'Read "An Anthology of War Poems", introduced by Edmund Blunden. Owen's poetry stands well above all the others - his ...William Soutar Edmund Blunden [ed]An Anthology of War PoemsPrint: Book
1900-1945'The first review of "Seeds in the Wind" came along today - "The Glasgow Evening News" - Power may have done it. Overp...William Soutar [n/a]Glasgow Evening NewsPrint: Newspaper
1900-1945'Such a moment I experienced last night when I read Murray's article in "New Britain" on "Shakespeare and Socialism" -...William Soutar [n/a]New BritainPrint: Serial / periodical
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 ScotlandManuscript: Unknown
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 UnboundPrint: Book
1900-1945'Just before tea, I read the ballad "Edward"; of its kind, it is as great a poem as "The Wife of Usher's Well"; there ...William Soutar [unknown]EdwardPrint: Book
1900-1945'I finished reading a "Book of Scottish Verse" yesterday - edited by George Burnett. What a number of minor Scottish p...William Soutar George Burnett [ed]Book of Scottish VersePrint: Book
1800-1849'Note the following passages respecting Edom. Genes. xxxvi. Num. xx, 14, xxi, 4, xxiv, 18, xxxiii, 7. Judges v, 4. Deu...John Ruskin [n/a]BiblePrint: Book
1800-1849'Note Ezekiel 22.30. "I sought for a man among them, that should make up the hedge, and stand in the gap before me for...John Ruskin [n/a]Bible (Ezekiel)Print: Book
1800-1849'Read a little Alison and much chemistry, but a little headachy and out of order.'John Ruskin [unknown][chemistry]Print: Book
1800-1849'Read a little Plato; wrote a long letter to Brown; wrote a chapter of book; walked; read some Italian, and got some v...John Ruskin [unknown][Italian]Print: Book
1800-1849'Read a little Italian. Finished first vol. Waagen.'John Ruskin [unknown][Italian]Print: Book
1800-1849'read some Greek'John Ruskin [unknown][Greek]Print: Book
1800-1849'while in the "Artist and Amateur" I see a series of essays on beauty commenced, which seem as if they would anticipat...John Ruskin E.V. Rippingille [ed.]Artist's and Amateur's MagazinePrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'Blackguardly letter in "Art Union", and interesting one in Rippingille's thing, to be answered; the last at great len...John Ruskin E.V. Rippingille [ed.]Artist's and Amateur's MagazinePrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'Blackguardly letter in "Art Union", and interesting one in Rippingille's thing, to be answered; the last at great len...John Ruskin [unknown]Art UnionPrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'Curious account in the "Witness" of a rock, 8 tons in weight, being carried three hundred yards over sand by ice.'John Ruskin [unknown]WitnessPrint: Unknown
1800-1849'Read some of Spencer in the morning, and learned it, then some of Hooker.'John Ruskin Edmund Spenser [?][unknown]Print: Book
1800-1849'Read some of Spencer in the morning, and learned it, then some of Hooker.'John Ruskin Richard Hooker [?][unknown]Print: Book
1800-1849'I read, as I was sitting at the window, during the sunset of one of the most burning and brilliant days I remember ou...John Ruskin [unknown]GuardianPrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'In the reading of the psalms this morning, I was struck by the 5th and 6th verses of V, where the abhorrence or contr...John Ruskin [n/a]Bible (Psalms)Print: Book
1800-1849'Note the definition of a critic in "Guardian" No.103: "A man who on all occasions is more attentive to what is wantin...John Ruskin [unknown]GuardianPrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'I must interrupt myself to note the 86th paper in the "Guardian" useful to my chapter on penetrative imagination.'John Ruskin [unknown]GuardianPrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'Note the passage in the 93rd paper of "Guardian" respecting our admiration of the oder of motions of heavenly bodies,...John Ruskin [unknown]GuardianPrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'Read the 8th of Jerem this morning. Note the 7th verse very beautiful, comparing Isaiah i. 3. The ninth verse too imp...John Ruskin [n/a]Bible (Jeremiah)Print: Book
1800-1849'I was struck today by the "minding himself to go afoot" in Acts xx. 13. It is interesting to see the Apostle, after l...John Ruskin [n/a]Bible (Acts)Print: Book
1800-1849'I have been abstracting the Book of Revelations. I was especially struck with the general appellation of the System o...John Ruskin [n/a]Bible (Revelations)Print: Book
1800-1849'I never noticed the 45th of Jeremiah till today - it is singularly appicable to all ambitious dreaming at this time. ...John Ruskin [n/a]Bible (Jeremiah)Print: Book
1850-1899'I read today in Galignani part of an acrimonious and of what I fear will become an indecent controversy between the A...John Ruskin [unknown][unknown]Print: Unknown
1850-1899'As I opened the Bible today I was peculiarly struck with the well known, never enough known, passage, Prov. II. 3, 4:...John Ruskin [n/a]Bible (Proverbs)Print: Unknown
1850-1899'Note in Psalm 27th, David's claim to spend all his life in the "house of the Lord" v.4 and following expressions abou...John Ruskin [n/a]Bible (Psalms)Print: Unknown
1850-1899'The more I read the psalms, the more it seems to me that Heathen, in such passages as Ps. XLVI. 6, 10, XLIII. 14, II....John Ruskin [n/a]Bible (Psalms)Print: Unknown
1850-1899'First Sunday in new lodgings in Albyn place. Effie in bed. I read thoughtfully part of 1st Genesis, beginning a new c...John Ruskin [n/a]Bible (Genesis)Print: Book
1850-1899'Confused about the various phrases: The Man, Gen. III. 24. Adam, and Ish, Isha, II. 23. What is the meaning of Abel?'John Ruskin [n/a]BiblePrint: Book
1850-1899'Restoration of Israel. Note 31st and 32nd Jeremiah: clear, unmistakeable, beautiful.'John Ruskin [n/a]Bible (Jeremiah)Print: Book
1850-1899'Note today in Bible reading the charge to Abraham, "Walk before me, and be thou perfect". It means "sincere" in margi...John Ruskin [n/a]BiblePrint: Book
1850-1899'It is curious that the first book I took up here, after my new testament, was the "Christian Year", and it opened at ...John Ruskin [n/a]Christian YearPrint: Book
1850-1899'Nothing much learned today except, by glance at the "Journal pour tous", the fact ascertained that French as well as ...John Ruskin [unknown]Journal pour tousPrint: Unknown
1850-1899'Orange dawn through clouds. Opened Bible at Isaiah XXXVII. 30.'John Ruskin [n/a]Bible (Isaiah)Print: Book
1850-1899'See in "Morning Post" of October 4th, 61, page 3, 3rd column, last article, results of Christianity and "Mr Close of ...John Ruskin [n/a]Morning PostPrint: Newspaper
1850-1899'Observe accident in "Times" of June 17th, caused by caterpillar, Bombyx processionea of Reaumur.'John Ruskin [n/a]The TimesPrint: Book
1850-1899'Read Jeremiah I. in the morning, long since I looked in the Bible; the fresh eye and ear very useful.'John Ruskin [n/a]Bible (Jeremiah)Print: Book
1850-1899'Read only Geology'John Ruskin [unknown][geology]Print: Book
1850-1899'Read Geology ... and Plato to p. 281. In which note that one great point is got at, respecting justice, that all "hur...John Ruskin [unknown][geology]Print: Book
1850-1899'Read geology'John Ruskin [unknown][geology]Print: Book
1850-1899'Read to children under tree.'John Ruskin [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1850-1899'Note that the Prussians have to black their helmets and take off their epaulettes to prepare for battle "with lacquer...John Ruskin [n/a]Daily TelegraphPrint: Newspaper
1850-1899'In "Telegraph" of 31st June [sic] is a notice of the poisonous water of the pumps of London.'John Ruskin [n/a]TelegraphPrint: Newspaper
1850-1899'Pleasant evening reading about Pultowa and Mazeppa to my mother.'John Ruskin [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1850-1899'I open psalter in evening at "respice de caelo et vide, et visita vineam istam".'John Ruskin [n/a]PsalterUnknown
1850-1899'Read Epistle and Gospel for first Sunday in Lent, in evening. Note end of Gospel.'John Ruskin [n/a]BiblePrint: Book
1850-1899'Read "There shall meet you a man bearing a pitcher of water" &c. to "These make ready".'John Ruskin [n/a]BiblePrint: Book
1850-1899'Read 61st Psalm'John Ruskin [n/a]Bible (Psalms)Print: Book
1850-1899'Read 10th Psalm in Rose's book this morning; planned commentary on it.'John Ruskin [unknown][unknown]Unknown
1850-1899'37th Psalm in evening!'John Ruskin [n/a]Bible (Psalms)Print: Book
1850-1899'Read "All they garmets smell of myrrh, aloes and cassia" out of my book on top of the highest.'John Ruskin [n/a]BiblePrint: Book
1850-1899'Intending to read the parallel rendering of this verse in Bible psalms, I opened at Isaiah XXXIII, 17. My old Bible o...John Ruskin [n/a]Bible (Isaiah)Print: Book
1850-1899'The piece for yesterday was Ps. XLV. 8-12 with Isaiah XXXIII. 15-22. The piece for today Ps. XLV. 13 to end.'John Ruskin [n/a]Bible (Psalms)Print: Book
1850-1899'Alone with my mother in evening; read life of Byron'John Ruskin [unknown][life of Lord Byron]Print: Book
1850-1899'Reading, Rusch all in forenoon'John Ruskin [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1850-1899'Read 19th Proverbs and 10th Ecclesiasticus.'John Ruskin [n/a]BiblePrint: Book
1850-1899'Read geology at my breakfast with my two loveliest flint-chalcedonies shining in the sun.'John Ruskin [unknown][geology]Print: Book
1850-1899'Read of Charles of Anjou and Manfred.'John Ruskin [unknown][history]Print: Book
1850-1899'Read old poems of 1848. I have gained something in these twenty-two years.'John Ruskin [unknown][poems]Unknown
1850-1899'Read of Empress Theodora'John Ruskin [unknown][history]Print: Book
1850-1899'read economy of 12th century'John Ruskin [unknown][history]Print: Book
1850-1899'Opened last night at 1st Chron. XVII. 23 and this morning at the 17th psalm. Then read my own day psalms in chapel.John Ruskin [n/a]BiblePrint: Book
1850-1899'Opened last night at 1st Chron. XVII. 23 and this morning at the 17th psalm. Then read my own day psalms in chapel.John Ruskin [n/a]Bible (Psalms)Print: Book
1850-1899'I open at, and read, the 39th of Ezekiel, and secondly, by equal chance, at the 16th psalm.'John Ruskin [n/a]BiblePrint: Book
1850-1899'Looking back to my Father's diary - of which I have just 40 pages, which I shall page forthwith (and then dates of pa...John Ruskin [n/a]Bible (Ezekiel)Print: Book
1850-1899'Opened 3rd of Tobit'John Ruskin [n/a]Bible (Tobit)Print: Book
1850-1899'Read 1st Chron. XVII and 17th Psalm.'John Ruskin [n/a]BiblePrint: Book
1850-1899'Going to bed, I take up the Inn-table New Testament. It opens at "A little while and ye shall not see me, and again a...John Ruskin [n/a]New TestamentPrint: Book
1850-1899'And going to bed, after a little thinking over the Land question in "Fortnightly Review", got for my verse Isaiah XLI...John Ruskin [n/a]Bible (Isaiah)Print: Book
1850-1899'And going to bed, after a little thinking over the Land question in "Fortnightly Review", got for my verse Isaiah XLI...John Ruskin [n/a]Fortnightly ReviewPrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'Read the "Sir, come down ere my child die".'John Ruskin [n/a]Bible (John)Print: Book
1850-1899'Advertisement on Rocks of Hudson: "Use Binninger's Old London Dock Gin".'John Ruskin [n/a][advertisement]Print: Advertisement
1850-1899'Read in Luke XXII, the last supper'John Ruskin [n/a]Bible (Luke)Print: Book
1850-1899'Opened at Ecclesiasticus L. 17, reading on to 18, and, by chance, 8'John Ruskin [n/a]Bible (Ecclesiastes)Print: Book
1850-1899'Yesterday after reading "Romance of Rose" thought much of the destruction of all my higher power of sentiment by late...John Ruskin [unknown]Roman de la rose [?]Print: Book
1850-1899'Read Rouen missal with advantage'John Ruskin [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1850-1899'Read glacier theory and got interested in old things'John Ruskin [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1850-1899'Worked a little on "Romance of Rose"'John Ruskin [unknown]Roman de la rose [?]Print: Book
1850-1899'On board the steamer between Marseilles and Malta, besides reading "Hypatia", which was "too highly coloured" for his...Arthur Penrhyn Stanley Voltaire [pseud.]TancredPrint: Book
1850-1899'Karnak which I chose for our first day has thoroughly answered... The Prince had already suggested what had already o...Arthur Penrhyn Stanley [n/a]PsalmsPrint: Book
1850-1899'Glad to get back to my Testament'John Ruskin [n/a]BiblePrint: Book
1850-1899'My week melting away fast, wholly in black cloud and east wind. But the verse for the 25th, in my brown book, did me ...John Ruskin [n/a][Biblical verse]Unknown
1850-1899'Yesterday a good day; finding money in drawers, and liking my drawings, and getting comfort out of letters and above ...John Ruskin [n/a][Biblical verses]Unknown
1850-1899'Morning text bad - "be not high-minded": the last text in the world for me, always ashamed of myself. But texts can't...John Ruskin [n/a][Biblical verses]Unknown
1850-1899'Today, much helped by my brown book'John Ruskin [n/a][Biblical verses]Unknown
1850-1899'Find invaluable passage of Voltaire on Lucifer and Liberty; article in dictionary on "Abus des mots". The Lucifer is ...John Ruskin Voltaire [pseud.][unknown]Print: Book
1850-1899'Drew a little, and read a French novel, and am singularly better in health.'John Ruskin [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1850-1899'Read 1st of Zephaniah. I must now re-read my Bible, with my new mind.'John Ruskin [n/a]BiblePrint: Book
1850-1899'Read Amos V and by Fors! Ecclesiasticus XXXIX.'John Ruskin [n/a]BiblePrint: Book
1850-1899'Read Jeremiah XV. Note 18th verse.'John Ruskin [n/a]Bible (Jeremiah)Print: Book
1850-1899'Yet I find wonderful things in Bible'John Ruskin [n/a]Bible Print: Book
1850-1899'Re-read 1st of Michah carefully. The first nine verses are intelligible. Samaria, the capital, taken as representing ...John Ruskin [n/a]Bible Print: Book
1850-1899'Chanced upon Isaiah 7th, 5, and read the chapter carefully'John Ruskin [n/a]Bible (Isaiah)Print: Book
1850-1899'Read from 8th to 12th of the 103rd Psalm and thought how true they would seem to me, if read in their precise negative'John Ruskin [n/a]Bible (Psalms)Print: Book
1850-1899'Read first of Zenphaniah. Leaping on threshold, what?'John Ruskin [n/a]BiblePrint: Book
1850-1899'On this I open at 42nd Psalm - well - it may be so'John Ruskin [n/a]Bible (Psalms)Print: Book
1850-1899'Chanced on Jeremiah IV. 23. The Uncreation by folly, of what had been created by wisdom'John Ruskin [n/a]Bible (Jeremiah)Print: Book
1850-1899'Came on Isaiah XXI, and was puzzled with it'John Ruskin [n/a]Bible (Isaiah)Print: Book
1850-1899'Read Jeremiah IX. Compare entry on 18th'John Ruskin [n/a]Bible (Jeremiah)Print: Book
1850-1899'Read half of first Jeremiah. What does he mean by: "I am a child"?'John Ruskin [n/a]Bible (Jeremiah)Print: Book
1850-1899'Read story of Johanan the son of Kareah, Jerem. XLII, XLIII, XLIV.'John Ruskin [n/a]Bible (Jeremiah)Print: Book
1850-1899'Read first vision of Ezekiel.'John Ruskin [n/a]Bible (Ezekiel)Print: Book
1850-1899'Then read 64th Isaiah.'John Ruskin [n/a]Bible (Isaiah)Print: Book
1850-1899'Read Lamentations IV. Compare 2nd verse with Isaiah LXIV. 8, and note that when God is the Potter, he can make gold o...John Ruskin [n/a]BiblePrint: Book
1850-1899'Read piece of St John. "Before Abraham was, I am." The closing verse - "passing through the midst of them" - in its v...John Ruskin [n/a]Bible (John)Print: Book
1850-1899'Read the story of Asa - how intensely ill written and uselessly in Kings!'John Ruskin [n/a]Bible (Kings)Print: Book
1850-1899'Read pieces of the story of Jehoram and Ahaziah, the two sons of Ahab. Note that II Kings I. 17 would be entirely wro...John Ruskin [n/a]Bible (Kings)Print: Book
1850-1899'Read the contingent promises to Solomon: conf. to Jeroboam. 1st Kings IX. 2, 4; XI. 38.'John Ruskin [n/a]Bible (Kings)Print: Book
1850-1899'Read 45th Isaiah. Recollect: "I have surnamed thee, though thou hast not known me", and conf. V. 13.'John Ruskin [n/a]Bible (Isaiah)Print: Book
1850-1899'Read 27th Ecclesiasticus. Note V. 1, 2, 14, 15, 23, 24.'John Ruskin [n/a]Bible (Ecclesiastes)Print: Book
1850-1899'Amos V. see vv. 10-11, 12, but note in it the special attack on the priesthood in Bethel and Gilgal. Compare ch. IV. ...John Ruskin [n/a]Bible (Amos)Print: Book
1850-1899'Read the wonderful 51st of Jeremiah. Recollect vv. 5, 7, 17, 21-23, 63.'John Ruskin [n/a]Bible (Jeremiah)Print: Book
1850-1899'Read Wisdom of Solomon XV, XVI with great delight in this sunny, pure morning'John Ruskin [n/a]BiblePrint: Book
1850-1899'Psalm LI. 15; XVII. 1 and 15.'John Ruskin [n/a]Bible (Psalms)Print: Book
1850-1899'Yesterday read 1st of Wisdom of Solomon.'John Ruskin [n/a]BiblePrint: Book
1850-1899'Read, by chance, Esdras II, VI, and read on to VIII. 48, 54.'John Ruskin [n/a]Bible (Esdras)Print: Book
1850-1899'Read II Esdras I to the marvellous clause of minor prophets.'John Ruskin [n/a]Bible (Esdras)Print: Book
1850-1899'Read II Esdras XIV to XV.'John Ruskin [n/a]Bible (Esdras)Print: Book
1850-1899'And the last verse I read, of my morning's reading, is Esdras II. XV. XVIII.'John Ruskin [n/a]Bible (Esdras)Print: Book
1850-1899'read lessons and psalms for the day to her.'John Ruskin [n/a]BiblePrint: Book
1850-1899'Down after reading carefully and analysing a year of Scott's life (first at Ashtiel), to draw Francesca leaves.'John Ruskin [unknown][unknown]Unknown
1850-1899'Verse for today Esdras - no - Maccabees I. XIII. 30.'John Ruskin [n/a]BiblePrint: Book
1850-1899'Still in bed to breakfast, reading of Scott's early hours'John Ruskin [unknown][unknown]Unknown
1850-1899'Read 45th Isaiah again, which strikes hard, for I have been striving with my Maker, this last month, sullenly'John Ruskin [n/a]Bible (Isaiah)Print: Book
1850-1899'Read 15th Esdras again, and 24th Ezekiel carefully'John Ruskin [n/a]BiblePrint: Book
1850-1899'Read Moschele's life in bed to breakfast, delicious, and Part of II Esdras I.'John Ruskin [n/a]Bible (Esdras)Print: Book
1850-1899'Read Moschele's life in bed to breakfast, delicious, and Part of II Esdras I.'John Ruskin [unknown][Moschele's life]Print: Book
1850-1899'recovered in evening greatly, reading Scott's life and seeing Turner's Okehampton more beautiful than ever'John Ruskin [unknown][unknown]Unknown
1850-1899'Read Ecclesiasticus XXVI - how lovely.'John Ruskin [n/a]Bible (Ecclesiastes)Print: Book
1850-1899'Compare Wisdom of Solomon, of Egyptians, Ch. XVII.'John Ruskin [n/a]BiblePrint: Book
1850-1899'Come upon Wisdom, Ecclesiasticus II. 1-6.'John Ruskin [n/a]BiblePrint: Book
1850-1899'Came on Ecclesiasticus XXIV, and noted references at p. 89 above, with which conf. Wisdom VII. 22 &C. and "The Wisdom...John Ruskin [n/a]BiblePrint: Book
1850-1899'Today the morning psalms very good for me. 1st Collect. p. 83. Lincoln Psalter.'John Ruskin [n/a]PsalterManuscript: Codex, editor's note: an illuminated manuscript belonging to Ruskin
1850-1899'For National debt read "Munera" page 32. Read the first statement of the principles of currency, "Munera" Chap. III 6...John Ruskin [unknown]MuneraPrint: Book
1850-1899'Read IX of Book of Wisdom today'John Ruskin [n/a]BiblePrint: Book
1850-1899'I read Genesis XLVIII for beginning of "Life of Moses"'John Ruskin [n/a]Bible (Genesis)Print: Book
1850-1899'Opened my father's Bible at the blessing of Aaron. Numbers VI. 26.'John Ruskin [n/a]BiblePrint: Book
1850-1899'Miss Blackwell's "Spiritism" horrible, like waking nightmare, read before going to bed.'John Ruskin Allan Kardec [pseud.]Experimental SpritismPrint: Book
1850-1899'Read Wisdom of Solomon, Ch. IX: a little comforting'John Ruskin [n/a]BiblePrint: Book
1850-1899'Also the book of Numbers is woeful reading'John Ruskin [n/a]Bible (Numbers)Print: Book
1850-1899'Yesterday all day at Lombardic Psalter. My book continually opening at p.98 rebukes me for being faint-hearted.'John Ruskin [n/a]PsalterManuscript: Codex
1850-1899'Recovered from fit of quite cowardly despair by Habakkuk III. 16 to end; that chapter and most such are incomparably ...John Ruskin [n/a]BiblePrint: Book
1850-1899'Read my Aosta letter and 104th Psalm in Vulgate - the geology of it quite perfect'John Ruskin [n/a]Bible (Psalms)Print: Book
1850-1899'Read, in the Hotel French Testament, Mark VIII. 33 to end'John Ruskin [n/a]Bible (Mark)Print: Book
1850-1899'Read Mark VIII. 33 to end again.'John Ruskin [n/a]Bible (Mark)Print: Book
1850-1899'finally concluding in reading a French novel'John Ruskin [unknown][French novel]Print: Book
1850-1899'I was not going to open my mother's Bible to try Fors, but to read a Nativity; mechanically, looking at the Dome of t...John Ruskin [n/a]Bible (Deuteronomy)Print: Book
1850-1899'Last night I was led to read "Expectans expectavi", and to understand it for the first time.'John Ruskin [unknown]Expectans expectaviPrint: Book
1850-1899'read twelve chapters of "Mariegola"'John Ruskin [unknown]MariegolaPrint: Book
1850-1899'19th Psalm."John Ruskin [n/a]Bible (Psalms)Print: Book
1850-1899'Work out Chap. VI of Corinthians'John Ruskin [n/a]Bible (Corinthians)Print: Book
1850-1899'Eyes more weary than usual in reading a little by candlelight'John Ruskin [unknown][unknown]Unknown
1850-1899'A grey, quiet morning. I up, lively enough: open at "Propterea benedixit te Deus in aeternum" and consider if really ...John Ruskin [n/a]Bible (Psalms)Print: Book
1850-1899'I've been reading my general epistle of Jude in my old Bible'John Ruskin [n/a]Bible Print: Book
1850-1899'Matthew XXIV, 45th, of All Rulers, giving "Meat", for next "Fors".'John Ruskin [n/a]Bible (Matthew)Print: Book
1850-1899'Read prayer of Daniel, Chap. IX: the most important of all prayers and prophecies in Old Testament. Of some consequen...John Ruskin [n/a]Bible (Daniel)Print: Book
1850-1899'Read, fortunately, my St John's day extract, in "Ariadne", about dreams: helpful much again, now.'John Ruskin [unknown]AriadnePrint: Book
1850-1899'Read the 40th Psalm, with great hope I may take it to myself, led to it by an entry of 1st January'John Ruskin [n/a]Bible (Psalms)Print: Book
1850-1899'Read 14th of Romans, perceiving clearly for the first time how the narrowness of St Paul's business continually misle...John Ruskin [n/a]Bible (Romans)Print: Book
1850-1899'Read Ezekiel 34th'John Ruskin [n/a]Bible (Ezekiel)Print: Book
1850-1899'Read Genesis XXXI, noting infinite wonder and absurdity of Rachel's speech, V. 15. Same in Vulgate.'John Ruskin [n/a]Bible (Genesis)Print: Book
1850-1899'And now, thinking of the mischief done to my own life and how ti many thousand thousand, by dark desire, I open my fi...John Ruskin [n/a]Bible (Corinthians)Print: Book
1850-1899'Opened, after writing this - meaning to take up "Deucalion", book took up Bible instead - at Job XI. 16, and read all...John Ruskin [n/a]Bible (Job)Print: Book
1850-1899'Read a bit of Ezra and referred to Haggai ii. 9: "In this place will I give peace".'John Ruskin [n/a]BiblePrint: Book
1850-1899'Read Hosea XII. 7-9'John Ruskin [n/a]BiblePrint: Book
1850-1899'Examined group of Psalms, 65 to 68.'John Ruskin [n/a]Bible (Psalms)Print: Book
1850-1899Curiously threatening verses open for me just now in the Bible. I can still read my old one without spectacles. D.G. "...John Ruskin [n/a]Bible (Corinthians)Print: Book
1850-1899'Stayed in all yesterday in crashing rain, and was busy at something all day till 1 at night, except reading "World" o...John Ruskin [n/a]WorldPrint: Unknown
1850-1899'read 49th Psalm in 12th century psalter'John Ruskin [n/a]PsalterManuscript: Codex
1850-1899'read St Francis' Hymn of the Creatures to my infinite delight'John Ruskin [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1850-1899'At Rose, reading "Roma Sotteranea".'John Ruskin [unknown]Roma SotterneaPrint: Book
1850-1899'I read Esdras II. 8 again with comfort and shame and wonder'John Ruskin [n/a]Bible (Esdras)Print: Book
1850-1899'Paragraph in "Pall Mall Gazette" very pretty!'John Ruskin [n/a]Pall Mall GazettePrint: Newspaper
1850-1899'Reading by gaslight at breakfast - unwholesome'John Ruskin [unknown][unknown]Unknown
1850-1899'Joan and I by ourselves in the evening played old tunes and read "Aladdin".'John Ruskin [unknown]AladdinPrint: Book
1850-1899'Read the story of Uzziah in the Bible. Curious that it says nothing of what the man was himself, except that his hear...John Ruskin [n/a]Bible (Chronicles)Print: Book
1850-1899'Came on the grand Darwinian verse, just now, "Saying to a stock, thou art my father". Jeremiah II. 27'John Ruskin [n/a]Bible (Jeremiah)Print: Book
1850-1899'Read today the lovely 4-6 verses of Deuteronomy XXX.'John Ruskin [n/a]Bible (Deuteronomy)Print: Book
1850-1899'Read "Wisdom hath builded her house, she hath hewn out her seven pillars".'John Ruskin [n/a]Bible (Proverbs)Print: Book
1850-1899'Slept well, though Joan teazing in evening playing with beads when I was reading.'John Ruskin [unknown][unknown]Unknown
1850-1899'an inglorious misery in evening, over article of extinction of Bison in "Daily Telegraph".'John Ruskin [n/a]Daily TelegraphPrint: Newspaper
1850-1899'read 1st Peter with satisfaction as in old days'John Ruskin [n/a]Bible (Peter)Print: Book
1850-1899'rather enjoyed a bit of absurd French novel'John Ruskin [unknown][French novel]Print: Book
1900-1945'Mr Kaye followed [a talk on the artists of Florence] with a life of Savonarola after which Miss Joyce Heelas & Miss A...Joyce Heelas George Eliot [pseud.]RomolaPrint: Book
1900-1945'Mr Kaye followed [a talk on the artists of Florence] with a life of Savonarola after which Miss Joyce Heelas & Miss A...Miss Angus [?] George Eliot [pseud.]RomolaPrint: 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 NationManuscript: 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, TheManuscript: 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]BuildingManuscript: 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 StoriesManuscript: 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 LawrenceManuscript: 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, TheManuscript: 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 muchManuscript: 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]PoetryManuscript: 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]Theory of LanguageManuscript: 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 EastManuscript: 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 MotionManuscript: 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 CenturyManuscript: 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, TheManuscript: 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, AManuscript: 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'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'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 evening was then given over to the life & works of Lewis Carroll. Mary Hayward Life of Lewis Carroll. Songs. Well...Sylvanus A. Reynolds Lewis Carroll [pseud.]Print: Book
1900-1945'The evening was then given over to the life & works of Lewis Carroll. Mary Hayward Life of Lewis Carroll. Songs. Well...Charles Stansfield Lewis Carroll [pseud.]Print: Book
1900-1945'The evening was then given over to the life & works of Lewis Carroll. Mary Hayward Life of Lewis Carroll. Songs. Well...Rawlings familyLewis Carroll [pseud.]Print: Book
1900-1945'The evening was then given over to the life & works of Lewis Carroll. Mary Hayward Life of Lewis Carroll. Songs. Well...Unwin familyLewis Carroll [pseud.]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'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'C.I. Evans read Geoffrey Young's [?] poem 'Mountain Playmates' & Mary Hayward read Leslie Stephen's account of the fi...Charles Evans Geoffrey Young [?]'Mountain Playmates'Print: Book
1900-1945'The Club then turned its attention to Mark Rutherford. Mr Burrow gave some outline of Hale White [sic] life telling u...George Burrow Mark Rutherford [pseud.]Print: Book
1900-1945'The Club then turned its attention to Mark Rutherford. Mr Burrow gave some outline of Hale White [sic] life telling u...R.B. Graham and Francis PollardMark Rutherford [pseud.]Autobiography of Mark Rutherford: Dissenting MinisterPrint: Book
1900-1945'The Club then turned its attention to Mark Rutherford. Mr Burrow gave some outline of Hale White [sic] life telling u...Katherine Evans Mark Rutherford [pseud.]Series of Character SketchesPrint: Book
1900-1945'The Club then turned its attention to Mark Rutherford. Mr Burrow gave some outline of Hale White [sic] life telling u...Mary Robson Mark Rutherford [pseud.]Revolution in Tanner's Lane, ThePrint: Book
1900-1945'The Club then turned its attention to Mark Rutherford. Mr Burrow gave some outline of Hale White [sic] life telling u...Florence Reynolds Mark Rutherford [pseud.]Catharine FurzePrint: Book
1900-1945'The Club then turned its attention to Mark Rutherford. Mr Burrow gave some outline of Hale White [sic] life telling u...Constance Burrow Mark Rutherford [pseud.]Mark Rutherford's Deliverance 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 [anon. member of XII Book Club]Scandalous Affair, AManuscript: Unknown
1900-1945'The subject of Voltaire was then taken. H. R. Smith gave an outline of his life. Mrs Robson read the Hermits Tale fro...Mary Robson Voltaire [pseud.]ZadigPrint: Book
1900-1945'The subject of Voltaire was then taken. H. R. Smith gave an outline of his life. Mrs Robson read the Hermits Tale fro...Katherine Evans Voltaire [pseud.]Letters on EnglandPrint: Book
1900-1945'The subject of Voltaire was then taken. H. R. Smith gave an outline of his life. Mrs Robson read the Hermits Tale fro...Francis Pollard Voltaire [pseud.]Print: Book
1900-1945'The subject of Voltaire was then taken. H. R. Smith gave an outline of his life. Mrs Robson read the Hermits Tale fro...C. Elliott Voltaire [pseud.]Print: Book
1900-1945'Yes. I've seen "Contact's" [Alan Bott's] work. It is very good . But he's not the only one.' Joseph Conrad Alan Bott [pseud. "Contact"]An Airman's OutingsPrint: Book
1900-1945'Have you seen Gwatkin? His novel is not bad and I can see now why it had that sale. Shall I send it to you or has he ...Joseph Conrad John Paris [pseud. Frank Trelawney Arthur Ashton-Gwatkin]KimonoPrint: Book
1900-1945'Today's "J[ohn] B[lunt]" is particularly good. [...] The last three "Blunts" were remarkably good.'Joseph Conrad Richard Curle [writing as 'John Blunt']I Say Print: Newspaper
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 NapoléonPrint: Book
1900-1945'It my be that I failed to understand "The Ascending Effort", but I did not mean to treat Bourne disrespectfully. [But...Joseph Conrad George Bourne [pseud. of George Sturt]The Ascending EffortPrint: Book
1900-1945'He admired Edward Lear and would spend whole evenings reading "The Nonsense Songs and Stories" and he was also very f...Joseph Conrad Lewis Carroll [pseud.]Alice's Adventures in Wonderland AND Through the Looking GlassPrint: 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 MisanthropePrint: 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 MisanthropePrint: 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 MisanthropePrint: 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 MisanthropePrint: 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 MisanthropePrint: 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 MisanthropePrint: 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 MisanthropePrint: 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 MisanthropePrint: 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 MisanthropePrint: 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 MisanthropePrint: Book
1900-1945

Meeting held at St. Margaret’s, Shinfield Road: 20. 1. 38.

F. E. Pollard in the chair

1. Minutes...

Francis E. Pollard Æ [pseud.]The one dimensional mindPrint: Book
1900-1945

Meeting held at St. Margaret’s, Shinfield Road: 20. 1. 38.

F. E. Pollard in the chair

1. Minutes...

Francis E. Pollard Æ [pseud.][One or more unidentified poems]Unknown
1900-1945

Meeting held at St. Margaret’s, Shinfield Road: 20. 1. 38.

F. E. Pollard in the chair

1. Minutes...

Victor Alexander Æ [pseud.][One or more unidentified poems]Unknown
1900-1945

February 15th was the date chosen for the next time and the subject “Books that people have been reading”

...
Reginald H. Robson Saki [pseud.]Beasts and Super-BeastsPrint: Book
1900-1945

February 15th was the date chosen for the next time and the subject “Books that people have been reading”

...
Reginald H. Robson Saki [pseud.]Beasts and Super-BeastsPrint: Book

 

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