Reading Experience Database
1450-1945

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1800-1849Complete transcript of Cowper's poem.Anon William CowperThe Negro's complaintUnknown
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Henry Mayhew interviews 'educated' costermongers who read fiction aloud to groups of costermongers in the courts they ...anon Edward Lloyd[various titles published by Lloyd]Print: Serial / periodical
Henry Mayhew's interview with an orphan flower girl and her sister: "'We've always had good health. We can all read'....anon Garden of HeavenPrint: Book
1800-1849Henry Mayhew interviews a sweet-stuff maker: "One of the appliances of the sweet-stuff trade which I saw in the roo...anon History of EnglandPrint: Book, Serial / periodical, uncut sheets
1800-1849Henry Mayhew interviews a long-song seller: to sell ballads he not only cries their titles, but also sings the songs h...anon Print: Broadsheet, broadside ballads
1800-1849Henry Mayhew interviews a running patterer -seller of broadsheets mainly dealing with crime and breaking news, sometim...anon Print: Broadsheet
1800-1849Henry Mayhew interviews a street author or street poet: "I was very fond of reading poems in my youth, as soon as I...anon Oliver GoldsmithEdwin and AngelinaPrint: Book
1800-1849Henry Mayhew interviews a 'cheap John': "From selling the printed songs, I imbibed a wish to learn to read, and, with...anon Print: Broadsheet, broadside ballads
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Henry Mayhew interviews a blind female seller of 'small wares', the conversation turns to her younger son: "My youn...anon Print: Book, Broadsheet, Serial / periodical, penny book
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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
1800-1849Henry Mayhew interviews a fancy cabinet-maker "...one elderly and very intelligent man, a first rate artisan in ski...anon ExaminerPrint: Broadsheet, Newspaper, Serial / periodical
1800-1849Henry Mayhew interviews a fancy cabinet-maker "...one elderly and very intelligent man, a first rate artisan in ski...anon Daily NewsPrint: Broadsheet, Newspaper
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Henry Mayhew interviews a fancy cabinet-maker "...one elderly and very intelligent man, a first rate artisan in ski...anon variousPrint: Book, leaves from books used to wrap food purchases
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Henry Mayhew interviews a penny mouse-trap maker (cripple): "My daughter is eighteen and my son eleven; that is my ...anon Family FriendPrint: Serial / periodical
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Henry Mayhew interviews a penny mouse-trap maker (cripple): "I found books often lull my pain... I can't afford the...anon John MiltonParadise LostPrint: Book
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Henry Mayhew interviews a penny mouse-trap maker (cripple): "I found books often lull my pain... I can't afford the...anon William ShakespearePrint: Book
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Henry Mayhew interviews a penny mouse-trap maker (cripple): "I found books often lull my pain... I can't afford the...anon Print: Book
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Henry Mayhew interviews a street entertainer -a 'blind reader': "I was not born blind, but lost my sight four years...anon GospelPrint: Book
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Henry Mayhew interviews a boy of 16, a vagrant and inmate of a casual ward of a London workhouse: "My father had no...anon WattsPrint: Book
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Henry Mayhew interviews a boy of 16, a vagrant and inmate of a casual ward of a London workhouse: "My father had no...anon John WesleyPrint: Book
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Henry Mayhew interviews a boy of 16, a vagrant and inmate of a casual ward of a London workhouse: "My father had no...anon religious magazinesPrint: Serial / periodical
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Henry Mayhew interviews a boy of 16, a vagrant and inmate of a casual ward of a London workhouse: "My father had no...anon ClarkLives of PiratesPrint: Book, Serial / periodical, numbers collected into volume by library?
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Henry Mayhew interviews a boy of 16, a vagrant and inmate of a casual ward of a London workhouse: "My father had no...anon Tales of ShipwrecksPrint: Serial / periodical, probably penny numbers
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Henry Mayhew interviews a boy of 16, a vagrant and inmate of a casual ward of a London workhouse: "My father had no...anon Family HeraldPrint: Serial / periodical
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Henry Mayhew interviews a boy of 16, a vagrant and inmate of a casual ward of a London workhouse: "My father had no...anon William Harrison AinsworthWindsor CastlePrint: Book, Serial / periodical, unsure if penny numbers or book
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Henry Mayhew interviews a boy of 16, a vagrant and inmate of a casual ward of a London workhouse: "My father had no...anon William Harrison AinsworthThe Tower of LondonPrint: Book, Serial / periodical, unsure if penny numbers or book
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Henry Mayhew interviews a boy of 17, an inmate of a London workhouse: "I thought I should make my fortune in London...anon Print: Book, Serial / periodical, penny books
1850-1899Henry Mayhew interviews a boy of 17, an inmate of a London workhouse: "I've read 'Jack Sheppard' through, in three ...anon William Harrison AinsworthJack SheppardPrint: Book
1850-1899Henry Mayhew interviews a 'London sneak or common thief': "On Sunday evenings the only books read were such as 'Jac...anon William Harrison AinsworthJack SheppardPrint: Book
1850-1899Henry Mayhew interviews a 'London sneak or common thief': "On Sunday evenings the only books read were such as 'Jac...anon William Harrison AinsworthRookwoodPrint: Book
1850-1899Henry Mayhew interviews a 'London sneak or common thief': "On Sunday evenings the only books read were such as 'Jac...anon Newgate CalendarPrint: Book, Serial / periodical
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Henry Mayhew interviews a former London pickpocket, turned patterer; grew up in Shropshire, father a Wesleyan minister...anon BiblePrint: Book
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Henry Mayhew interviews a former London pickpocket, turned patterer; grew up in Shropshire, father a Wesleyan minister...anon BiblePrint: Book
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Henry Mayhew interviews a former London pickpocket, turned patterer; grew up in Shropshire, father a Wesleyan minister...anon Thomas PainePrint: Book
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Henry Mayhew interviews a former London pickpocket, turned patterer; grew up in Shropshire, father a Wesleyan minister...anon VolneyPrint: Book
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Henry Mayhew interviews a former London pickpocket, turned patterer; grew up in Shropshire, father a Wesleyan minister...anon George Jacob HolyoakePrint: Book
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Henry Mayhew interviews a former London pickpocket, turned patterer; grew up in Shropshire, father a Wesleyan minister...anon Edward Bulwer-LyttonPrint: Book, Serial / periodical
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Henry Mayhew interviews a former London pickpocket, turned patterer; grew up in Shropshire, father a Wesleyan minister...anon Charles DickensPrint: Book, Serial / periodical
1800-1849Henry Mayhew holds meeting with a group of the lowest class of male juvenile thieves and vagabonds; during the meeting...anon William Harrison AinsworthJack SheppardPrint: Book, Serial / periodical, either in penny numbers or as volume
1800-1849Henry Mayhew holds meeting with a group of the lowest class of male juvenile thieves and vagabonds; during the meeting...anon William Harrison AinsworthRookwoodPrint: Book, Serial / periodical, either in penny numbers or as volume
1800-1849Henry Mayhew holds meeting with a group of the lowest class of male juvenile thieves and vagabonds; during the meeting...anon Claude du ValPrint: Book, Serial / periodical, either in penny numbers or as volume
1800-1849Henry Mayhew holds meeting with a group of the lowest class of male juvenile thieves and vagabonds; during the meeting...anon Newgate CalendarPrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849Henry Mayhew holds meeting with a group of the lowest class of male juvenile thieves and vagabonds; during the meeting...anon Lives of the Robbers and PiratesPrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849' ... a most violent attack is preparing for me in the the next number of the Edinburgh Review, this I have from the a...anon Henry Broughamreview of Byron, Hours of IdlenessPrint: proofManuscript: Unknown
[Annotation NOT in Cunningham's hand (unidentified)]: above the sentence 'Jacob Tonson is the first bookseller of any ...Anon Peter CunninghamLives of the most Eminent Booksellers: Jacob TonsonManuscript: Pamphlet
[Annotation NOT in Cunningham's hand (unidentified, but the same as that on MS about Tonson)]: Top LH corner, in penci...Anon A ProposalPrint: Advertisement
1600-1699" ... in Springfield when a printed copy of the code of laws of 1648 arrived in 1649, it was promptly 'published,' tha...anon Code of Laws 1648Print: Unknown
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"Alice Foley's father was an often drunk, sometimes violent Irish factory worker in Bolton, but when 'in sober mood, h...anon Charles DickensnovelsPrint: Book
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"Alice Foley's father was an often drunk, sometimes violent Irish factory worker in Bolton, but when 'in sober mood, h...anon George EliotnovelsPrint: Book
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1900-1945
"Mary Brown ... wrote in her Memories that "'I asked a Lancashire working woman what she thought of Story of an Afri...anon Olive SchreinerThe Story of an African FarmPrint: Book
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Elizabeth Segel, "As the Twig is Bent: Gender and Childhood Reading": "When Lucy Lyttelton's grandmother began reading...anon George EiiotAdam BedePrint: Unknown
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" ... a young compositor encounters Macaulay for the first time: "'Bernard Shaw tells me how he could get more intox...anon Thomas Babington MacaulayHistory of EnglandPrint: Book
1600-1699"According to one contemporary anecdote, when a would-be lover borrowed from the Arcadia to woo a lady, she immediatel...anon Sir Philip SidneyThe Countess of Pembroke's ArcadiaUnknown
1600-1699"One of the copies [of Paradise Regain'd ... Samson Agonistes] I examined at the British Library, London (shelfmark C1...anon John MiltonParadise Regain'd/Samson AgonistesPrint: Book
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"To the Editors of the Attempt, Gentlemen, If I recollect rightly you give notice to the effect, that communication ...anon The AttemptPrint: Serial / periodical
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" ... an irritated reader of Jonathan Edwards's Dissertation Concerning Liberty and Necessity (1797) provides an epigr...anon Jonathan EdwardsDissertation Concerning Liberty and NecessityPrint: Book
1700-1799H. J. Jackson notes, partially reproduces, and discusses lengthy annotations, including mock completion of title and c...anon Richard WatsonA Letter to His Grace the Archbishop of CanterburyPrint: Unknown
1800-1849"The [Pierpont] Morgan [Library] copy [of Southey, A Vision of Judgement (1821)] once belonged to Byron. It contains ...anon William BeckfordAnnotations to Robert Southey, A Vision of JudgementManuscript: annotations in printed text
1800-1849H. J. Jackson discusses copious annotations and commentary by unidentified, contemporary male reader in copy of Willia...anon William MudfordNubilia in Search of a HusbandPrint: Book
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"An Irish nationalist annotating the autobiographical Life of Theobald Wolfe Tone, the Founder of the 'United Irishmen...anon LIfe of Theobald Wolfe Tone, the Founder of the 'United Irishmen'Print: Book
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"An unknown reader inclined to be sarcastic at Boswell's expense in a British Library copy of the 1829 edition [of the...anon James BoswellThe Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.DPrint: Book
H. J. Jackson notes unknown reader's marginal contradiction of assertion of Samuel Johnson that a dog will be as likel...anon James BoswellThe Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.DPrint: Book
H. J. Jackson on readers' responses in annotations to Samuel Johnson's comment that the letter H seldom begins any but...anon James BoswellThe Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.DPrint: Book
H. J. Jackson on readers' responses in annotations to Samuel Johnson's comment that the letter H seldom begins any but...anon Annotation in James Boswell, The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.DManuscript: annotation in printed text
1850-1899H. J. Jackson notes "extra illustration" ("prompted by the text") of a copy of Margaret Sandford, Thomas Poole and His...anon Mrs Henry SandfordThomas Poole and His FriendsPrint: Book
1800-1849" ... a tourist guide to Salisbury Cathedral, published about 1800 and acquired by the British Library in 1874, contai...anon guide to Salisbury CathedralPrint: Book
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H. J. Jackson notes annotations in a copy of Middlemarch by a reader who, "initially repelled by the books, was gradua...anon George EliotMiddlemarchPrint: Book
1700-1799H. J. Jackson notes annotations (adding"information and explanations") made to copy of Samuel Saunders, Short and Easy...anon Samuel SaundersA Short and Easy Introduction to Scientific and Philosophic BotanyPrint: Book
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H. J. Jackson notes pencilled parodic completions by unknown (apparently male) reader of verses in The New School of L...anon The New School of LovePrint: Book
1850-1899"A Victorian edition of a legal classic, the Institutes of Justinian, shows signs of careful and laborious study, with...anon Justinian The Institutes of Justinian; with English Introduction, Translation, and Notes, by Thomas Collett SandarsPrint: Book
1600-1699"In 1630 [William] Prynne saracastically claimed [in Lame Giles his Haltings 2-3] that he had 'repaired to the Printin...anon ("others") Giles WiddowesLawlesse Kneelesse Schismaticall PuritanPrint: Book, proof copy
1600-1699"Hugh Leeson [a member of the preacher John Rogers's Dublin congregation in the early 1650s] ... was first 'wrought up...anon The BiblePrint: Book
1600-1699"[Isaac] Newton had gained international renown following the publication of his Principia in 1679 ... [attaining] som...anon Isaac NewtonPhilosophiae Naturalis Principia MathematicaPrint: Book
1800-1849Harriet Martineau, on a response to her series of "Tales", denounced as 'improper' in the Quarterly Review, by a woman...anon Harriet Martineauvolume containing "Garveloch" storiesPrint: Book
1800-1849Harriet Martineau, on plans for, and execution of, her work on Toussaint L'Ouverture: 'I went to my confidante, with a...anon Harriet Martineauwork on Toussaint L'OuverturePrint: Book
1800-1849'[A friend] one day desired to be allowed to see and criticise the first chapter of my [Harriet Martineau's] "Retrospe...anon Harriet MartineauRetrospect of Western TravelManuscript: Unknown
1800-1849Harriet Martineau to 'Mr Atkinson', 21 November 1847: 'I saw a sort of scared smile on Mrs. ----'s face the other day,...anon Harriet Martineauarticles on Household EducationPrint: Unknown
1850-1899Harriet Martineau on the death of a Town Missionary acquaintance of hers: 'A friend of his at Birmingham wrote to ...anon Harriet MartineauLetterManuscript: Letter
1850-1899'On the 8th of May [1851], I [Harriet Martineau] went for a fortnight to stay with some friends, between whom and myse...anon Auguste ComteunknownPrint: Book
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
1600-1699The boy is 'discontented ... because I cannot understand that which I reade'. The Devil Magirus 'expounded the places ...anon [a boy] [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1850-1899'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
1850-1899'We were told that a Bible and Testament were placed at the head of each bed; and we saw one convict reading "Recreati...anon Rev Lewis TomlinsonRecreations in AstronomyPrint: Book
1850-1899'We found some of the prisoners here engaged in reading, while waiting till the officers returned from their breakfast...anon Thomas PearsonInfidelity; its Aspects, Causes and AgenciesPrint: 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
1850-1899Recognised 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'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
1850-1899Schoolroom 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
1850-1899Pictures 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
1850-1899Newgate 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
1900-1945'My pal was a typical Cockney recidivist who sold fruit on a coster's barrow between convictions and went crook when s...anon Charles Dickens[works]Print: Book, Serial / periodical
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
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
1850-1899'The individual...was a fellow-worker of mine for nigh two years in Dartmoor. He had, in his younger days, passed thro...anon HomerIlliadPrint: 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 Blaise Pascal[unknown]Print: Book
1850-1899'The individual...was a fellow-worker of mine for nigh two years in Dartmoor. He had, in his younger days, passed thro...anon Jean de La Fontaine[unknown]Print: Book
1850-1899'The individual...was a fellow-worker of mine for nigh two years in Dartmoor. He had, in his younger days, passed thro...anon [unknown][pestilent literature of rascaldom]Print: Book, Serial / periodical
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
1850-1899One day, as Louis was leaving the hotel, he stopped to send a message up to my mother by one of the 'Buttons', as they...anon Robert Louis StevensonTreasure IslandPrint: Book
1850-1899A friend of mine, a Welsh blacksmith, was twenty-five years old and could neither read nor write, when he heard a chap...anon Daniel DefoeRobinson CrusoePrint: Book
1850-1899'This modern fashion [in the study of poetry in schools] of treating noble thoughts, feelings, and principles, set for...anon William WordsworthThe Excursion (excerpts)Print: Book
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
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
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
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
1800-1849Accounts 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: 'I have never met with a less promising character than the writer of the two following exerc...anon [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'The Presbyterian Minister came and read prayers to the prisoners.'anon prayersPrint: Unknown
1850-1899'The Presbyterian Minister read prayers and addressed the Protestants'anon prayersPrint: Book
1850-1899'The Presbyterian Minister read prayers to the prisoners, and afterwards preached a sermon.'anon prayersPrint: Book
1850-1899'The Catholic Prisoners had prayers and an exhortation read to them during the day.'anon prayers and exhortationPrint: Book
1850-1899'Prayers were read to the Catholic prisoners'anon prayersPrint: Book
1850-1899'The Presbyterian Minister read prayers and delivered an Address to the Protestant prisoners.'anon prayersPrint: Book
1850-1899'The Presbyterian Minister read prayers to the prisoners.'anon prayersPrint: Book
1850-1899'The presbyterian minister read prayers to the prisoners.'anon prayersPrint: Book
1800-1849John Ramsay to James Graham-Clarke, 14 October 1826: 'Some time ago I sent a Copy of the little work of your highly...anon Elizabeth BarrettAn Essay on Mind, with Other PoemsPrint: Book
1800-1849Angela Bayford to Henrietta Moulton-Barrett, 23 June 1827: 'I am glad Ba [Elizabeth Barrett] is so pleased with Irv...anon IrvingprefacePrint: Book
1800-1849Robert Browning to William Johnson Fox, ?28 March 1833: 'You must not think me too incroaching, if I make the getti...anon Percy Bysshe ShelleyRosalind and Helen, a Modern EcloguePrint: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Richard Hengist Horne, 9 June 1843: 'A gentleman, a poet, a correspondent, at large intervals,...anon Philip James BaileyFestusPrint: Book
1850-1899'Colonel Forbes has not in appearance, position and surroundings the least resemblance to his prototype; yet that the ...anon. Elizabeth Missing SewellKatherine AshtonPrint: Book
1900-1945Friday 14 December 1917: 'Today we went to see Philip at Fishmongers Hall [being used as military hospital] [...] a ...anon unknownunknownPrint: Book
1900-1945E. M. Forster to Forrest Reid, 2 February 1913: 'I sent F[ollowing].D[arkness]. to a woman of another kind [i.e. th...anon Forrest ReidFollowing DarknessPrint: Book
1900-1945'In front of the fire, the little plump cook read the evening paper aloud to the housemaid. "'The Queen is now aslee...anon [a cook] evening paperPrint: Newspaper
1850-1899'The following tribute was received [by Tennyson] from Scutari: '"We had in hospital a man of the Light Brigade, on...anon Alfred TennysonThe Charge of the Light BrigadePrint: Unknown
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'At the end of the year [1855] an unknown Nottingham artizan [sic] came to call. My father asked him to dinner and at ...anon texts used in teaching self to readPrint: Unknown
1850-1899'A district visitor was delivering tracts among a large meeting of some poor folk to whom she had lately read part of ...anon Alfred TennysonEnoch ArdenPrint: Book
1850-1899W. G. Clark, on a reader of Tennyson's 'The Northern Farmer': '[?W. H.] Thompson has been staying at Fryston, where...anon Alfred TennysonThe Northern FarmerManuscript: Unknown, In hand of 'Mr Creyke.'
1850-1899From Tennyson's notes on Demeter and Other Poems: 'A lady tells me that when she read "The Northern Cobbler" at a v...anon Alfred TennysonThe Northern CobblerPrint: Book
1800-1849Monday, 27 March 1826: 'I answerd two modest requests [for assistance with sons' career advancement] from widow L...anon Walter ScottMarmionPrint: Book
1800-1849Monday, 27 March 1826: 'I answerd two modest requests [for assistance with sons' career advancement] from widow L...anon Walter ScottThe Lady of the LakePrint: Book
1800-1849Thursday, 28 June 1827: 'Visited on invitation a fine old little commodore Trunnion who, in reading a part of Napol...anon Walter ScottLife of NapoleonPrint: Book
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Quoted from 'one of Sir Walter Scott's works of biography', in chapter entitled 'Oroonoko': '"The editor was acquai...anon Aphra Behn[?]OroonokoPrint: Book
1700-1799Quoted from 'one of Sir Walter Scott's works of biography', in chapter entitled 'Oroonoko': '"The editor was acquai...anon Aphra Behn[?]OroonokoPrint: Book
1700-1799Aaron Hill to Samuel Richardson, 13 October 1746, on a past conversation with Alexander Pope on the sublime in poetry:...anon 'lines to the earl of Oxford'Print: Book
1700-1799Elizabeth Carter to Catherine Talbot, 14 February 1754: 'Did you ever read a little French book called Theorie des ...anon Louis-Jean Lévesque de PouillyTheorie des sentimens agréablesPrint: Book
1700-1799[Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 13 April 1756:] 'I have been running about sadly since I wrote to you last, ...anon Thomas NewtonDissertations on the Prophecies, Which Have Remarkably Been Fulfilled, And Are Being FulfilledPrint: Book
1700-1799[Elizabeth Carter to Catherine Talbot, 26 July 1768, following expressions of concern over illness of Talbot's stepfat...anon report of illness of Archbishop of CanterburyPrint: Newspaper
1700-1799[Elizabeth Carter to Elizabeth Vesey, 13 November 1769:] 'My sister and all her family are with me at present, amon...anon Print: Book
1700-1799[Thomas Edwards to Samuel Richardson, 31 March 1753:] 'I cannot help mentioning to you, because I know it will give...anon Samuel RichardsonClarissaPrint: Book
1850-1899[From letter to Clement Shorter from the niece of John Nunn:] 'In 1857 I was staying with Mr Nunn at Thorndon, in S...anon Elizabeth GaskellLife of Charlotte BrontePrint: Book
1800-1849Branwell Bronte to Francis H. Grundy, 9 June 1842: 'Mr James Montgomery and another literary gentleman who have lat...anon Branwell BronteManuscript: Unknown
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[A former pupil of Cowan Bridge School, Yorkshire (the model for 'Lowood' in Jane Eyre), to Charlotte Bronte's wi...

Anon Charlotte BronteJane EyrePrint: Book

 

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