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1450-1945

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1800-1849'I have cast up my reading account, and brought it to the end of the year 1835. During the last thirteen months I have...Thomas Babington Macaulay AeschylusPrint: Book
1800-1849'I have cast up my reading account, and brought it to the end of the year 1835. During the last thirteen months I hav...Thomas Babington Macaulay SophoclesunknownPrint: Book
1800-1849'I have cast up my reading account, and brought it to the end of the year 1835. During the last thirteen months I hav...Thomas Babington Macaulay EuripidesPrint: Book
1700-1799'My father is now reading the Midnight Bell, which he has got from the library, and mother sitting by the fire.'George Austen Francis LathomMidnight Bell, a German Story, Founded on Incidents in Real LifePrint: Book
1700-1799'My father reads Cowper to us in the evening, to which I listen when I can.'George Austen William CowperunknownPrint: Book
1850-1899'I am working at Richardson now, and will send you the paper by the end of the week. I suppose I ought to be ashamed ...Margaret Oliphant Samuel RichardsonClarissa, or, the History of a Young LadyPrint: Book
1850-1899'I am working at Richardson now, and will send you the paper by the end of the week. I suppose I ought to be ashamed ...Margaret Oliphant Henry FieldingTom JonesPrint: Book
1850-1899'I sympathise most warmly in a great deal that is said in the 'Ginx's Baby' book, and do actually express my own senti...Margaret Oliphant Edward JenkinsGinx's BabyPrint: Book
1850-1899'I sympathise most warmly in a great deal that is said in the 'Ginx's Baby' book, and do actually express my own senti...Margaret Oliphant unknownPeasant LifePrint: Book
1850-1899'If your old contributors had to yield the pas to such writers only as the author of the "Battle of Dorking" we should...Margaret Oliphant George ChesneyBattle of DorkingPrint: Book
1850-1899'I agree with you that Mr Collins's volumes are very good, but I don't agree with you about Mr Trollope, whose "Caesar...Margaret Oliphant CollinsunknownPrint: Book
1850-1899'I agree with you that Mr Collins's volumes are very good, but I don't agree with you about Mr Trollope, whose 'Caesar...Margaret Oliphant Anthony TrollopeCaesarPrint: Book
1850-1899'Pray tell him [Mr Kinglake] that I have been an admirer of his for - Heaven knows how long! - since the days when I w...Margaret Oliphant Alexander William KinglakeEothenPrint: Book
1850-1899'By the bye, how good and clever his (Major Lockhart's) verses are which you sent me...'Margaret Oliphant Major Lockhart[verses]Unknown
1850-1899'There is a novel not very long published by a Mr Allardyce called the "City of Sunshine", entirely about Indian (not ...Margaret Oliphant Alexander AllardyceCity of SunshinePrint: Book
1850-1899'I think very highly of Daudet as a novelist, but I know nothing of him personally.'Margaret Oliphant Alphonse Daudet[novels]Print: Book
1850-1899'I ought to have written last month to thank you and your able contributor for the flattering mention made of me in th...Margaret Oliphant Blackwood's MagazinePrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'I read with sad interest the references to your brother's battery in the 'Times' this morning.'Margaret Oliphant Times, ThePrint: Newspaper
1700-1799At home all day. [...] My wife read part of Clarissa Harlowe to me in the even as I sat a-posting my book.Margaret 'Peggy' Turner Samuel RichardsonClarissa HarlowePrint: Book
1800-1849'I have cast up my reading account, and brought it to the end of the year 1835. [?] During the last thirteen months I ...Thomas Babington Macaulay PindarunknownPrint: Book
1800-1849'I have cast up my reading account, and brought it to the end of the year 1835. [?] During the last thirteen months I ...Thomas Babington Macaulay CallimachusunknownPrint: Book
1800-1849'I have cast up my reading account, and brought it to the end of the year 1835. [?] During the last thirteen months I ...Thomas Babington Macaulay Apollonius RhodiusunknownPrint: Book
1800-1849'I have cast up my reading account, and brought it to the end of the year 1835. [?] During the last thirteen months I ...Thomas Babington Macaulay Quintus CalaberunknownPrint: Book
1800-1849'I have cast up my reading account, and brought it to the end of the year 1835. [?] During the last thirteen months I ...Thomas Babington Macaulay TheocritusunknownPrint: Book
1800-1849'I have cast up my reading account, and brought it to the end of the year 1835. [?] During the last thirteen months I ...Thomas Babington Macaulay HerodotusunknownPrint: Book
1800-1849'I have cast up my reading account, and brought it to the end of the year 1835. [?] During the last thirteen months I ...Thomas Babington Macaulay ThucydidesunknownPrint: Book
1800-1849'I have cast up my reading account, and brought it to the end of the year 1835. [?] During the last thirteen months I ...Thomas Babington Macaulay XenophonunknownPrint: Book
1800-1849'I have cast up my reading account, and brought it to the end of the year 1835. [?] During the last thirteen months I ...Thomas Babington Macaulay PlatounknownPrint: Book
1800-1849'I have cast up my reading account, and brought it to the end of the year 1835. [?] During the last thirteen months I ...Thomas Babington Macaulay AristotlePoliticsPrint: Book
1800-1849'I have cast up my reading account, and brought it to the end of the year 1835. [?] During the last thirteen months I ...Thomas Babington Macaulay AristotleOrganonPrint: Book
1800-1849'I have cast up my reading account, and brought it to the end of the year 1835. [?] During the last thirteen months I ...Thomas Babington Macaulay PlutarchLivesPrint: Book
1800-1849'I have cast up my reading account, and brought it to the end of the year 1835. [?] During the last thirteen months I ...Thomas Babington Macaulay LucianunknownPrint: Book
1800-1849'I have cast up my reading account, and brought it to the end of the year 1835. [?] During the last thirteen months I ...Thomas Babington Macaulay AthenaeusunknownPrint: Book
1800-1849'I have cast up my reading account, and brought it to the end of the year 1835. [?] During the last thirteen months I ...Thomas Babington Macaulay PlautusunknownPrint: Book
1800-1849'I have cast up my reading account, and brought it to the end of the year 1835. [?] During the last thirteen months I ...Thomas Babington Macaulay PlautusunknownPrint: Book
1800-1849'I have cast up my reading account, and brought it to the end of the year 1835. [?] During the last thirteen months I ...Thomas Babington Macaulay AeschylusunknownPrint: Book
1800-1849'I have cast up my reading account, and brought it to the end of the year 1835. [?] During the last thirteen months I ...Thomas Babington Macaulay SophoclesunknownPrint: Book
1800-1849'I have cast up my reading account, and brought it to the end of the year 1835. [?] During the last thirteen months I ...Thomas Babington Macaulay PindarunknownPrint: Book
1800-1849'I have cast up my reading account, and brought it to the end of the year 1835. [?] During the last thirteen months I ...Thomas Babington Macaulay TheocritusunknownPrint: Book
1800-1849'I have cast up my reading account, and brought it to the end of the year 1835. [?] During the last thirteen months I ...Thomas Babington Macaulay TerenceunknownPrint: Book
1800-1849'I have cast up my reading account, and brought it to the end of the year 1835. [?] During the last thirteen months I ...Thomas Babington Macaulay LucretiusunknownPrint: Book
1800-1849'I have cast up my reading account, and brought it to the end of the year 1835. [?] During the last thirteen months I ...Thomas Babington Macaulay CatullusunknownPrint: Book
1800-1849'I have cast up my reading account, and brought it to the end of the year 1835. [?] During the last thirteen months I ...Thomas Babington Macaulay Albius TibullusunknownPrint: Book
1800-1849'I have cast up my reading account, and brought it to the end of the year 1835. [?] During the last thirteen months I ...Thomas Babington Macaulay Sextus PropertiusunknownPrint: Book
1800-1849'I have cast up my reading account, and brought it to the end of the year 1835. [?] During the last thirteen months I ...Thomas Babington Macaulay LucanunknownPrint: Book
1800-1849'I have cast up my reading account, and brought it to the end of the year 1835. [?] During the last thirteen months I ...Thomas Babington Macaulay Silius ItalicusunknownPrint: Book
1800-1849'I have cast up my reading account, and brought it to the end of the year 1835. [?] During the last thirteen months I ...Thomas Babington Macaulay LivyunknownPrint: Book
1800-1849'I have cast up my reading account, and brought it to the end of the year 1835. [?] During the last thirteen months I ...Thomas Babington Macaulay Velleius PaterculusunknownPrint: Book
1800-1849'I have cast up my reading account, and brought it to the end of the year 1835. [?] During the last thirteen months I ...Thomas Babington Macaulay SallustunknownPrint: Book
1800-1849'I have cast up my reading account, and brought it to the end of the year 1835. [?] During the last thirteen months I ...Thomas Babington Macaulay CaesarunknownPrint: Book
1800-1849'I have cast up my reading account, and brought it to the end of the year 1835. [?] During the last thirteen months I ...Thomas Babington Macaulay CicerounknownPrint: Book
1800-1849'I have cast up my reading account, and brought it to the end of the year 1835. [?] During the last thirteen months I ...Thomas Babington Macaulay AristophanesunknownPrint: Book
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'Macaulay began with the frontispiece, if the book possessed one. "Said to be very like, and certainly full of the ch...Thomas Babington Macaulay MonkBiography of Richard BentleyPrint: Book
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' "This is a very good Idyll. Indeed it is more pleasing to me than almost any other pastoral poem in any language. ...Thomas Babington Macaulay TheocritusSeventh IdyllPrint: Book
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'Of Ben Jonson's Alchemist he writes: "It is very happily managed indeed to make Subtle use so many terms of alchemy, ...Thomas Babington Macaulay Ben JonsonThe AlchemistPrint: Book
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'I am a reader in ordinary, and I cannot defend the introduction of the First Catilinarian oration, at full length, in...Thomas Babington Macaulay Ben JonsonCatilinePrint: Book
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'Of Pope's Rape of the Lock, Macaulay says: "Admirable indeed! The fight towards the beginning of the last book is ver...Thomas Babington Macaulay Alexander PopeThe Rape of the LockPrint: Book
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'He thus remarks on the Imitations of Horace's Satires: "Horace had perhaps less wit than Pope, but far more humour, f...Thomas Babington Macaulay HoraceSatiresPrint: Book
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[Marginalia] 'A most powerful piece of rhetoric as ever I read.'Thomas Babington Macaulay Paul Louis CourierLe Simple Discours
1800-1849'He used to read Courier aloud to his sister at Calcutta of a June afternoon, - in the darkened upstairs chamber, wit...Thomas Babington Macaulay Paul Louis CourierLe Simple Discours
1800-1849'The Homes of England' [transcribes text] 'Mrs Hemans'Augusta Browne F.D. HemansThe Homes of EnglandUnknown
1800-1849'Mrs Hemans. Evening Prayer at a girls school' [transcribes text]Augusta Browne F.D. HemansEvening Prayer at a Girl's SchoolUnknown
1800-1849'The Wings of the Dove. Mrs Hemans' [transcribes text]Augusta Browne F.D. HemansThe Wings of the DoveUnknown
completed the perusal of the firstvolume of Perry's French Revolution, which requires to be read with care, the author...I.G. Sampson PerryAn Historical Sketch of the French RevolutionPrint: Book
1800-1849Continued the perusal of the 2nd volume which opens a display of the insubordination & cruelty of the French populaceI.G. Sampson PerryAn Historical Sketch of the French RevolutionPrint: Book
READING THE 2ND VOLUME OF PERRY'S FRENCH REVOLUTIONI.G. Sampson PerryAn Historical Sketch of the French RevolutionPrint: Book
1800-1849Continue the perusal of Perry's French Revolution, which like the murmurings heard at the foot of the crater become mo...I.G. Sampson PerryAn Historical Sketch of the French RevolutionPrint: Book
Still engaged in the perusal of Perry's French Revolution together with a few periodical publications by way of a chan...I.G. Sampson PerryAn Historical Sketch of the French RevolutionPrint: Book
1800-1849Continued Perry's French Revolution and read Cowper I.G. Sampson PerryAn Historical Sketch of the French RevolutionPrint: Book
1800-1849Continued Perry's French Revolution and read Cowper I.G. William CowperPrint: Book
1800-1849Engaged in a 2nd perusal of the Pursuits of Literature and the Monthly Magazine I.G. Thomas James MathiasThe Pursuits of Literature; A Satirical PoemPrint: Book
1800-1849Engaged in a 2nd perusal of The Pursuits of Literature and the Monthly Magazine I.G. Monthly MagazinePrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849Read with much delight and instruction the Baroness De Stael's Germany I.G. Baroness Anne Loiuse Germaine De Stael-HolsteinGermanyPrint: Book
1800-1849Continue the perusal of Rollins Ancient History- this work reflects great light upon the sacred volume.I.G. Charles RollinAncient History of the EgyptiansPrint: Book
1800-1849Read Southey's Life of Wesley and ingenious but by no means faithful production I.G. Robert SoutheyLife of WesleyPrint: Book
1700-1799Did not go to church. Read a funeral sermon of Dr Stanhope's.Gertrude Savile George StanhopeTwelve SermonsPrint: Book
1700-1799Bought... sugar at Cossen's, 2 vols of Dr Clark's exposition of the 4 Evengellists (cost 10s), sermons by Dr Stanhope....Gertrude Savile David LewisPhilip of Macedon: A Tragedy. As it is acted at thPrint: Book
1700-1799After dinner, summerhouse, read the Life of Count Venivill - silly.Gertrude Savile Penelope AubinThe Strange Adventure of the Count de Vinevil andPrint: Book
1700-1799No rest for me in bed, therefore rise 1/2 past 4... summerhouse till 1/2 past 7 read Baker's ChroniclesGertrude Savile Richard BakerA Chronicle of the Kings of England from the TimePrint: Book
1700-1799I know not why but too late for Church. Read 1 hour in the summerhouse, Dr Clark on the Evengelists.Gertrude Savile Samuel ClarkeA Paraphrase on the Four EvangelistsPrint: Book
1700-1799Sup'd by myself in own chamber. Read 'Tale of a Tub'. Bed 11...Gertrude Savile Jonathan SwiftA Tale of A TubPrint: Book
1700-1799I left the old woman with mother as soon as supper was done. Read Baker's Chronicles 1 1/2 hours. Bed at 11.Gertrude Savile Richard BakerA Chronicle of the Kings of EnglandPrint: Book
1700-1799Came home before 7. Dr Clark 1 hour. Bed past 10.Gertrude Savile Samuel ClarkeA Paraphrase on the Four EvangelistsPrint: Book
1700-1799Sup'd alone. Read 'The Perplex'd Duches' a novell. Bed 11.Gertrude Savile Eliza Fowler HaywoodThe Perplex'd Dutchess: Or, Treachery Rewarded...Print: Book
1700-1799Lay till 11. All day alone... Lay on the bed as much as I coud. Read 2 books of the Life of the Baron Debross, an old...Gertrude Savile Eliza HaywoodMemoirs of the Baron de Brosse, who was broke on tPrint: Book
1700-1799Read some spectators in great anguish of mind. 'Im weary of my part My torch is out, and the world stands before me Li...Gertrude Savile John DrydenAll for LovePrint: Book
1700-1799"Is there yet left the least unmortgag'd hope" ('All for Love')Gertrude Savile John DrydenAll for LovePrint: Book
1700-1799'tis in clearing one's charicter, as in taking spotts outof one's cloaths. You make it ten times bigger and seldom or ...Gertrude Savile Thomas KilligrewChit-Chat. A Comedy. As it is Acted at the TheatrePrint: Book
1700-1799Aunt sup'd with me. Read 4 Acts of 'The Gratefull Servant'. Bed 12. More amused and quiet than of late.Gertrude Savile James ShirleyThe Gratefull Servant. A Comedie...Print: Book
1700-1799Afternoon read a sermon of Dr Stanhope's. of Prayers not being granted immediately.Gertrude Savile George StanhopeTwelve SermonsPrint: Book
1700-1799Read one sermon and part of another of Dr Stanhope's of Death and Judgement, and of the sufficiency of the scriptures....Gertrude Savile George StanhopeTwelve SermonsPrint: Book
1700-1799After dinner, garden 1 1/2 hours feeding the foul. Drank coffee. Made an end of the sermon.Gertrude Savile George StanhopeTwelve SermonsPrint: Book
1700-1799Read 2 sermons of Dr Stanhope's, one to sea men, the other on the 5th November.Gertrude Savile George StanhopeTwelve SermonsPrint: Book
1700-1799I sat in the Parlor; drank coffee and read a sermon of Dr Stanhope's...Gertrude Savile George StanhopeTwelve SermonsPrint: Book
1700-1799With mother to Clapham Common. Read to her 'Agnes de Castro' by Mrs Behn. Home before 8. Read one hour of the book bef...Gertrude Savile Aphra BehnAll the Histories and Novels of the Late IngeniousPrint: Book
1700-1799Read part of 'Fair Gilt' by Mrs Behn.Gertrude Savile Aphra BehnAll the Histories and Novels of the Late IngeniousPrint: Book
1700-1799Read part of 'Oroonoko' after supper.Gertrude Savile Aphra BehnAll the Histories and Novels of the Late IngeniousPrint: Book
1700-1799Had a fire in my own Room. Mother sup'd with me there. Read 'The Lucky Mistake' - Mrs Behn.Gertrude Savile Aphra BehnAll the Histories and Novels of the Late IngeniousPrint: Book
1700-1799Read after supper the contempt of the clergy.Gertrude Savile John EachardThe Grounds and Occasion of the Contempt of the ClPrint: Book
1700-1799Summerhouse reading 'contempt of the clergy' till 1/2 past 5.Gertrude Savile John EachardThe Grounds and Occasion of the Contempt of the ClPrint: Book
1700-1799Writt from 6 to 9. Sup'd alone. Read 'The Mulberry Garden', a pretty play. Bed 12.Gertrude Savile Charles SedleyThe Mulberry Garden or The Works...In Two VolumesPrint: Book
1700-1799'O heart, Why dost thou leap against my Bosom like a Cag'd Bird, and beat thyself to Death for an impossible freedom'....Gertrude Savile Nathaniel LeeConstantine The Great: A Tragedy. OR The Works...Print: Book
1700-1799Very miserable. 'Like a poor Lunitick that Makes his Moan And for a time beguiles the Lookers-On He reasons well, his...Gertrude Savile Nathaniel LeeCaesar Borgia. A TragedyPrint: Book
1700-1799Home past 8 a fier in the Parlor. Read Mrs Behn's novels, a book of Abraham's [cut by editor].Gertrude Savile Aphra BehnAll the Histories and Novels of the Late IngeniousPrint: Book
1700-1799With mother to Clapham Common. Read to her 'Agnes de Castro' by Mrs Behn. Home before 8. Read one hour of the book bef...Gertrude Savile Aphra BehnAll the Histories and Novels of the Late IngeniousPrint: Book
1700-1799Made an end of the Novell [the Fair Jilt].Gertrude Savile Aphra BehnAll the Histories and Novels of the Late IngeniousPrint: Book
1700-1799Summerhouse and garden till past 8, cutting shift neck and reading 'The Grounds of the Contempt of the Clergy' by Each...Gertrude Savile John EachardThe Grounds and Occasion of the Contempt of the ClPrint: Book
1700-1799After dinner 1 hour reading 'Contempt of the Clergy'.Gertrude Savile John EachardThe Grounds and Occasion of the Contempt of the ClPrint: Book
1850-1899Monday 7th Buried poor Broome at 10 AM with all honours the General & staff attending the 40th [regiment] lending thei...Frederick Beauchamp Paget Seymour Church of England burial servicePrint: Book
1700-1799Read 'Tale of Tub' 1 hour. Bed past 10.Gertrude Savile Jonathan SwiftA Tale of A TubPrint: Book
1700-1799Brother and Lady Savile came at 5. Sup'd here and went near 11. Most of the time compareing the pedigree of the Savil...Gertrude Savile Thomas WottonThe English Baronets: Being a Genealogical and HisPrint: Book
1700-1799Read 'Double Falshood' a play of Shakespear's never acted till this winter. I think it a poor one for his. Bed 12.Gertrude Savile William ShakespeareDouble Falsehood; Or, the Distrest Lovers... writtPrint: Book
1700-1799Supper alone. Read life of Mr Savage.Gertrude Savile Charles BeckinghamThe Life of Mr Richard SavagePrint: Book
1700-1799Sup'd alone. Read 'The Sophy', a play of Sir J Deham's.Gertrude Savile (Sir) John DenhamThe Sophy OR Poems and TranslationsPrint: Book
1700-1799None went to Church. Read a book of Luther's.Gertrude Savile Martin LutherPrint: Book
1700-1799Read 'Sesostris, a new Tragydy'; a so-so one.Gertrude Savile John SturmySesostris: Or, Royalty in Disguise. A Tragedy.Print: Book
1700-1799Din'd and sup'd with Aunt. Play'd Pickett till past 9. Read some Tatlers. Bed 11.Gertrude Savile TatlerPrint: Serial / periodical
1700-1799Did not go to Church. Read Clark's Attributes morn.Gertrude Savile Samuel ClarkeA Demonstration of the Being and Attributes of GodPrint: Book
1700-1799Read 'The travells of Cyrus' after supper.Gertrude Savile Andrew Michael RamsayThe Travels of CyrusPrint: Book
1700-1799Din'd in own room alone... Read 'A Journy to London', Sir J Vanburg's -part of what is made 'The Provoked Husband' by ...Gertrude Savile (Sir) John VanbrughA Journey to London, being part of a comedy...Print: Book
1700-1799Play'd tunes in 'The Beggars Opera' 2 hours after dinner.Gertrude Savile John GayThe Beggar's OperaPrint: Book
1700-1799Home past 9. Supper alone, Read 'Cyrus', Bed 12.Gertrude Savile Andrew Michael RamsayThe Travels of CyrusPrint: Book
1700-1799Tuned harpsichord and play'd some of Beggars Opera songs after supper alone.Gertrude Savile John GayThe Beggars OperaPrint: Book
1700-1799Read 'A True Estemate of Human Life' by Mr Young, a Sermon preach'd in St George's Church upon the King's death. Extre...Gertrude Savile Edward YoungA Vindication of Providence; Or, a True Estimate oPrint: Book
1700-1799Aunt had the coach at 5 to visit. I drank tea and read Mr Young's sermon. Mrs D'Enly went when the coach came back wit...Gertrude Savile Edward YoungA Vindication of Providence; Or, a True Estimate oPrint: Book
1700-1799Mrs Newton, Lady Palmerston, Lady Clavering and 2 daughters (great fortunes), and 3 Mrs Fox's here. While the last 2 w...Gertrude Savile John GayThe Beggar's OperaPrint: Book
1700-1799Lay till past 9. Read Dr Clark little. Went to King Street chapel...Gertrude Savile Samuel ClarkeA Demonstration of the Being and Attributes of GodPrint: Book
1700-1799Mrs Prade set me down past 9. Read Dr Clark 1/2 hour after supper. Bed 11.Gertrude Savile Samuel ClarkeA Demonstration of the Being and Attributes of GodPrint: Book
1700-1799Supper alone. Tatlers. Bed past 11.Gertrude Savile TatlerPrint: Serial / periodical
1700-1799Supper alone. 4 Tatlers. Bed 1/2 past 11.Gertrude Savile TatlerPrint: Serial / periodical
1700-1799Home 9. Supper below. 3 Tatlers. Bed 11.Gertrude Savile TatlerPrint: Serial / periodical
1700-1799Home past 9. Read 4 Tatlers. Bed past 11.Gertrude Savile TatlerPrint: Serial / periodical
1700-1799Home near 10. Read 4 Tatlers. Bed 12.Gertrude Savile TatlerPrint: Serial / periodical
1700-1799Went into the park...Back to our dinner at 2. Spent the afternoon walking and sitting, and I read 3 Acts of 'The Cons...Gertrude Savile (Sir) Richard SteeleThe Conscious Lovers. A Comedy.Print: Book
1700-1799Read the 'Universal Passion'Gertrude Savile Edward YoungThe Universal PassionPrint: Book
1700-1799Made an end of 'The Unniversall Passion'... 'Tis exceeding seveer, 'tis all satir[e] but mighty pretty and too just. H...Gertrude Savile Edward YoungThe Universal PassionPrint: Book
1700-1799Supper below. Read 'The Life, Roberies, etc. of Dalton', an evidence against several of the Robers which are to be Han...Gertrude Savile The Life and Actions of James Dalton (the noted stPrint: Book
1700-1799Afternoon read Lady's Letter to a Popish Gentleman etc.Gertrude Savile 'B.L' OR 'A Lady' Two Letters: one from a Lady to a friend who had mPrint: Book
1700-1799Read 'The British Recluse'.Gertrude Savile Eliza HaywoodThe British Recluse; Or the Secret History of CleoPrint: Book
1700-1799Afternoon went to the chaple. Home. Coffee. Read Clarke's 'Parraphras on the Evangellists'.Gertrude Savile Samuel Clarke ClarkeA Paraphrase on the Four EvangelistsPrint: Book
1700-1799Read 'The Adventures of Six Days'. 1 hour. Bed 11.Gertrude Savile Madame de GomezLa Belle Assemblee: or, The Adventures of Six DaysPrint: Book
1700-1799Read 'Six Days Adventures' after supper. Bed 11.Gertrude Savile Madame de GomezLa Belle Assemblee: or, The Adventures of Six DaysPrint: Book
1700-1799'Adventures of Six Days' 1 hour after supper. Bed 11.Gertrude Savile Madame de GomezLa Belle Assemblee: or, The Adventures of Six DaysPrint: Book
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[Marginalia by Macaulay on Swift's "Essay on the Fates of Clergymen"]: 'People speak of the world as they find it. I ...Thomas Babington Macaulay Jonathan SwiftEssay on the Fates of ClergymenPrint: Book
1700-1799Read 'Adventures of Six Days'. Bed 1.Gertrude Savile Madame de GomezLa Belle Assemblee: or, The Adventures of Six DaysPrint: Book
1700-1799Home near 9. Read 'The Prude' comfortably by a fire.Gertrude Savile Anon OR 'Ma. A' [Madame A] The Prude. A Novel... By a Young Lady.Print: Book
1700-1799Read 'The Prude'.Gertrude Savile Anon OR 'M. A.' [Madame A] The Prude. A Novel... By a Young Lady.Print: Book
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Description of Marginalia by Macaulay on Edward Gibbon's 'Vindication' - the marginalia responds to the passage 'Fame ...Thomas Babington Macaulay Edward GibbonVindicationPrint: Book
1700-1799Tent till dark. Read the 3rd part of 'The Prude', and the 'The Beautifull Pyrate'.Gertrude Savile Anon OR 'Ma. A' [Madame A] The Prude. A Novel... By a Young Lady.Print: Book
1700-1799Read... "The Beautifull Pyrate".Gertrude Savile Jean Regnauld de SegraisThree Novels; viz I. The Beautiful Pyrate.... OR FPrint: Book
1700-1799Tent all day light. Read Ugania [?] and Bajesett. Bed past 11.Gertrude Savile Jean Regnauld de SegraisThree Novels; viz I. The Beautiful Pyrate.... OR FPrint: Book
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[Marginalia by Macaulay on Conyers Middleton's 'Free Enquiry into the Miraculous Powers of the Christian Church']: 'I ...Thomas Babington Macaulay Conyers MiddletonFree Enquiry into the Miraculous Powers of the Christian ChurchPrint: Book
1700-1799Read a Novell after supper. Bed past 11.Gertrude Savile [A Novell] OR [A Novel]Print: Book
1700-1799Slept in the chair - knew not what to do with myself. Read a New Tragidy in Maniscript that has not been acted; the st...Gertrude Savile 'Brutus' OR 'A Tragedy'Manuscript: Codex
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[Marginalia by Macaulay on the first page of his copy of Shakespeare's "Romeo and Juliet"]: 'An admirable opening scen...Thomas Babington Macaulay William ShakespeareRomeo and JulietPrint: Book
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[Marginalia by Macaulay by the passage about the biting of the thumbs in Shakespeare's "Romeo and Juliet"]: 'This is n...Thomas Babington Macaulay William ShakespeareRomeo and JulietPrint: Book
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[Marginalia by Macaulay by the scene in the street beginning with Mercutio's lines: 'Where the devil should this Romeo...Thomas Babington Macaulay William ShakespeareRomeo and JulietPrint: Book
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[Marginalia by Macaulay by the commencement of the third act in Shakespeare's "Romeo and Juliet"]: 'Mercutio, here, is...Thomas Babington Macaulay William ShakespeareRomeo and JulietPrint: Book
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[Marginalia by Macaulay by the the lines 'Some consequence, yet hanging in the stars, / Shall bitterly begin his fearf...Thomas Babington Macaulay William ShakespeareRomeo and JulietPrint: Book
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[Marginalia by Macaulay at the close of the Third Act of Shakespeare's "Romeo and Juliet"]: 'Very fine is the way in w...Thomas Babington Macaulay William ShakespeareRomeo and JulietPrint: Book
1700-1799Read after supper 'The Noble Slaves'. Bed 12.Gertrude Savile Penelope AubinThe Noble Slaves: Or, the Lives and Adventures ofPrint: Book
1700-1799'Life of Count De Venivill' after supper. Bed near 12.Gertrude Savile Penelope AubinThe Strange Adventures of the Count de Vinevil...Print: Book
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[Editorial commentary on Macaulay's marginalia]: 'When [...] the poor child commits her life to the hands of Friar Law...Thomas Babington Macaulay William ShakespeareRomeo and JulietPrint: Book
1700-1799Tent till Dark. Read 'Nunnery Tales'. What a Stuped Life is my lott!...Gertrude Savile 'Young Nobleman' Nunnery Tales, Written by a Young Nobleman, and TrPrint: Book
1700-1799Sat humdrum some time. Read a storry out of 'Nunnery Tales'. At 5 to Mrs Drydens...Gertrude Savile 'Young Nobleman' Nunnery Tales, Written by a Young Nobleman, and TrPrint: Book
1700-1799'Tis th' infirmity of noblest mind When ruffled with an unexpected woe To speak what settled prudence wou'd conceal: A...Gertrude Savile Elijah FentonMariamne. A Tragey. Acted at the Theatre Royal...Print: Book
1700-1799Writt till supper. Read 'Sesostris'. Bed near 12.Gertrude Savile John SturmySesostris: Or, Royalty in Disguise. A Tragedy...Print: Book
1700-1799After supper read 'The City Widow' and part of the 'Adventures of Abdella' - 2 new books got tonight. Bed past 12.Gertrude Savile Eliza Fowler HaywoodThe City Widow; or, Love in a Butt. A Novel.Print: Book
1700-1799Home past 9 almost starv'd to death...Read 'Gill Blas'. Bed 12.Gertrude Savile Alain Rene Le SageThe History and Adventures of Gil Blas...Print: Book
1700-1799Home near 11. 'Gil Blass'. Bed past 12.Gertrude Savile Alain Rene Le SageThe History and Adventures of Gil Blas...Print: Book
1700-1799Home past 10. 'Noble Slaves'. Bed past 12.Gertrude Savile Penelope AubinThe Noble Slaves: or, The Lives and Adventures ofPrint: Book
1700-1799News. Writt. After supper read 'The Perplex'd Dutches'.Gertrude Savile Eliza Fowler HaywoodThe Perplex'd Dutchess; or, Treachery Rewarded...APrint: Book
1700-1799Made an end of 'Gil Blas'.Gertrude Savile Alain Rene Le SageThe History and Adventures of Gil Blas...Print: Book
1700-1799Masenger - Believe ye are to blame, much to blame Lady; [...] That Feel a Weight of Sorrow through their Souls.Gertrude Savile Philip MassingerThe Very WomanPrint: Book
1700-1799I fear to tempt this stormy sea the World, Whose every Beach is strew'd with wrecks of wretches, That daily perish in ...Gertrude Savile Nicholas RoweThe Ambitious Step-Mother. A Tragedy...Print: Book
1700-1799Afternoon read Clarke's Attributes 2 hours.Gertrude Savile Samuel ClarkeA Demonstration of the Being and Attributes of GodPrint: Book
1700-1799Would not go to Church. Read Dr Clark's 'paraphras'.Gertrude Savile Samuel ClarkeA Paraphrase on the Four EvangelistsPrint: Book
1700-1799Read 4 acts of 'The Rehearsall'. Bed 11.Gertrude Savile George (Duke of Buckingham) VilliersThe RehearsalPrint: Book
1700-1799Read an act of 'The Rehearsall' and one of 'All for Love'. Bed 12.Gertrude Savile George (Duke of Buckingham) VilliersThe RehearsalPrint: Book
1700-1799Read an act of 'The Rehearsall' and one of 'All for Love'. Bed 12.Gertrude Savile John DrydenAll for Love: or, the World well lost. A tragedy..Print: Book
1700-1799Some of Dr Clark's paraphras.Gertrude Savile Samuel ClarkeA Paraphrase on the Four EvangelistsPrint: Book
1700-1799Came up and din'd alone. Writt little. Read 'All for Love'.Gertrude Savile John DrydenAll for Love: or, the World well lost. A tragedy..Print: Book
1700-1799Din'd alone in own room. Read part of 'All for Love'.Gertrude Savile John DrydenAll for Love: or, the World well lost. A tragedy..Print: Book
1700-1799I sat with Aunt till 7. Read Dr Clark's 'Paraphras' 1 1/2 hours.Bed near 11.Gertrude Savile Samuel ClarkeA Paraphrase on the Four EvangelistsPrint: Book
1700-1799Read 'travells of Cyrus' alone 2 1/2 hours. A fine book. Bed near 12.Gertrude Savile Andrew Michael RamsayThe Travels of CyrusPrint: Book
1700-1799Did not go to Church morn. nor afternoon. Read Dr Clark paraphras.Gertrude Savile Samuel ClarkeA Paraphrase on the Four EvangelistsPrint: Book
1700-1799Tatlers (borrow'd of Mrs Helen D'Enly) 1 1/2 hours.Gertrude Savile TatlerPrint: Serial / periodical
1700-1799None went to Church. Read Clark's 'Attributes' and writt.Gertrude Savile Samuel ClarkeA Demonstration of the Being and Attributes of GodPrint: Book
1700-1799Read 2 plays after supper - 'The Guardian' and 'The Devil of a Wife'. Bed 1.Gertrude Savile Thomas JevonThe Devil of a WifePrint: Book
1700-1799Read 2 plays after supper - 'The Guardian' and 'The Devil of a Wife'. Bed 1.Gertrude Savile Abraham CowleyThe Guardian: A Comedy Acted before Prince CharlesPrint: Book
1700-1799Read part of a sermon of Dr Stanhope's.Gertrude Savile George StanhopeTwelve SermonsPrint: Book
1700-1799Read a sermon of Dr Stanhope's to the sons of the clergy. Bed past 11.Gertrude Savile George StanhopeTwelve SermonsPrint: Book
1850-1899[Editorial commentary by Annie Coghill, Mrs Oliphant's cousin] 'George Macdonald's first book, or at any rate his firs...Margaret Oliphant George MacDonaldDavid ElginbrodManuscript: MS of a book
1850-1899'Thank you very much for the "Life of George Eliot," and for the kind and flattering inscription. I am very glad to h...Margaret Oliphant John MorleyLife of George EliotPrint: Book
1850-1899'Thank you very much for the "Life of George Eliot," and for the kind and flattering inscription. I am very glad to h...Margaret Oliphant Review of the Life of George EliotPrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'Laurence Oliphant's sketches of the Druse villages are delightful, but his philosophy is something too tremendous. I...Margaret Oliphant Laurence OliphantLand of Gilead, ThePrint: Book
1850-1899'I see by the "Athenaeum" that the Magazine is to be enlarged'.Margaret Oliphant AthenaeumPrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'Thanks for the old numbers; they are very interesting, and what vigour in them! - but one could not speak so strongly...Margaret Oliphant Blackwood's MagazinePrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'It seems an excellent number, with the exception of the short story, which is not up to "Maga's" mark. The article o...Margaret Oliphant Blackwood's MagazinePrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'I have just been reading your paper about "Taking in Sail". I think I have told you before how much I feel with and ...Margaret Oliphant A.K.H. BoydTaking in SailPrint: Unknown
1850-1899'I don't at all know the books you refer to - I have not seen any of them. Mr Barrie's "Auld Licht Idylls," etc, I th...Margaret Oliphant J.M. BarrieAuld Licht IdyllsPrint: Book
1850-1899I don't feel quite sure with the last paper whether it is in earnest or not, or if your contributor means to make fun ...Margaret Oliphant Blackwood's MagazinePrint: Serial / periodical, Unknown
1850-1899I had half a mind, on reading a paper about the Poor Laws in Austria in your Magazine, to send you a sketch of Dr Chal...Margaret Oliphant [a paper on the Poor Laws in Austria]Print: Newspaper, Unknown
1850-1899I have done nothing but wade through Dean Stanley's Life this last week in the intervals of doing perfunctorily a litt...Margaret Oliphant A.P. StanleyA Selection from the writings of Dean StanleyPrint: Book
1850-1899I have several times intended to speak of the very great vigour and fresh start which the Magazine seems to me to have...Margaret Oliphant Blackwood's MagazinePrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899Mr Lang sent me several chapters to read in the early summer, which I thought were rather dull - tell it not in Gath -...Margaret Oliphant Andrew LangLife of LockhartPrint: Serial / periodicalManuscript: MS chapters of a book
1850-1899I suppose there was no man who had a greater command of the public in his day [than Bulwer Lytton]. To be sure, one m...Margaret Oliphant Marie CorelliPrint: Book
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Macaulay's marginalia, by the lines 'Now, afore God, this reverend holy friar/ All our whole city is much bound to him...Thomas Babington Macaulay William ShakespeareRomeo and JulietPrint: Book
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Macaulay's marginalia by the speech about Queen Mab in Romeo and Juliet: "This speech, - full of matter, of thought, o...Thomas Babington Macaulay William ShakespeareRomeo and JulietPrint: Book
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Macaulay's marginalia by the lines 'Hath Romeo slain himself' to 'Of those eyes shut, that make thee answer "I"' : "If...Thomas Babington Macaulay William ShakespeareRomeo and JulietPrint: Book
1800-1849Macaulay's marginalia by the point where Balthazar brings the evil tidings to Mantua in Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet...Thomas Babington Macaulay William ShakespeareRomeo and JulietPrint: Book
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Macaulay's marginalia in the scene in the vault of death in Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet: "The desperate calmness of...Thomas Babington Macaulay William ShakespeareRomeo and JulietPrint: Book
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Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of Hamlet, by the opening dialogue: "beyond praise".Thomas Babington Macaulay William ShakespeareHamletPrint: Book
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Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of Hamlet, by the lines 'that season comes/ Wherein our Saviour's birth is celebrate...Thomas Babington Macaulay William ShakespeareHamletPrint: Book
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Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of Hamlet, "The long story about Fortinbras, and all that follows from it, seems to ...Thomas Babington Macaulay William ShakespeareHamletPrint: Book
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Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of Hamlet, in the scene of the royal audience in the room of state: "The silence of ...Thomas Babington Macaulay William ShakespeareHamletPrint: Book
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Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of Hamlet, by the scene with the strolling player's declamation about Pyrrhus: "the ...Thomas Babington Macaulay William ShakespeareHamletPrint: Book
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Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of Hamlet, at the opening of Act 1, Scene 4: "Nothing can be finer than this specime...Thomas Babington Macaulay William ShakespeareHamletPrint: Book
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Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of Hamlet, by the lines 'Dost thou hear?/ Since my dear soul was mistress of her cho...Thomas Babington Macaulay William ShakespeareHamletPrint: Book
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Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of Hamlet, by the conversation between Hamlet and the courtier, in Act 5: "This is a...Thomas Babington Macaulay William ShakespeareHamletPrint: Book
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Macaulay's marginalia. By an editorial note by Dr Johnson, to the lines, 'Who would fardels bear, / To groan and swea...Thomas Babington Macaulay William ShakespeareHamletPrint: Book
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Macaulay's marginalia. By the editorial notes in his copy of Hamlet: "It is a noble emendation. Had Warburton often ...Thomas Babington Macaulay William ShakespeareHamletPrint: Book
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Macaulay's marginalia by the editorial notes in his copy of Hamlet in the scene where Hamlet declines to kill his uncl...Thomas Babington Macaulay William ShakespeareHamletPrint: Book
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Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of King Lear, in Act 1, Scene 3: "Here begins the finest of all human performances."Thomas Babington Macaulay William ShakespeareKing LearPrint: Book
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Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of King Lear, in Act 2, Scene 2, opposite Cornwall's description of the fellow who h...Thomas Babington Macaulay William ShakespeareKing LearPrint: Book
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Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of King Lear, by the lines 'Now i pr'ythee, daughter, do not make me mad!/ I will no...Thomas Babington Macaulay William ShakespeareKing LearPrint: Book
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Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of King Lear, by the apostrophe commencing, 'O, let not women's weapons, water-drops...Thomas Babington Macaulay William ShakespeareKing LearPrint: Book
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Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of King Lear, by opening of the play: "Idolising Shakspeare [sic] as I do, I cannot ...Thomas Babington Macaulay William ShakespeareKing LearPrint: Book
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Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of King Lear, by the quarrel between Kent and Cornwall's steward: "It is rather a fa...Thomas Babington Macaulay William ShakespeareKing LearPrint: Book
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Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of King Lear, in Act 3, Scene 4: "The softening of Lear's nature and manners, under ...Thomas Babington Macaulay William ShakespeareKing LearPrint: Book
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Macaulay's marginalia in response to a note by Dr Johnson at the end of King Lear. Johnson protested against the unpl...Thomas Babington Macaulay William ShakespeareKing LearPrint: Book
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Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of Antony and Cleopatra. A response to an editorial note by Steevens. "Solemn nons...Thomas Babington Macaulay William ShakespeareAntony and CleopatraPrint: Book
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Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of Henry V, by the Prologue. Macaulay responds to an editorial note by Dr Johnson, ...Thomas Babington Macaulay William ShakespeareHenry VPrint: Book
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Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of A Midsummer Night's Dream, by Warburton's editorial note to the lines 'Now the hu...Thomas Babington Macaulay William ShakespeareA Midsummer Night's DreamPrint: Book
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Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of A Midsummer Night's Dream, by the lines 'the rattling tongue / Of saucy and audac...Thomas Babington Macaulay William ShakespeareA Midsummer Night's DreamPrint: Book
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Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of A Midsummer Night's Dream, by the lines 'Be, as thou wast wont to be' to 'Hath su...Thomas Babington Macaulay William ShakespeareA Midsummer Night's DreamPrint: Book
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Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of A Midsummer Night's Dream, on the last page: "A glorious play. The love-scenes F...Thomas Babington Macaulay William ShakespeareA Midsummer Night's DreamPrint: Book
1800-1849Finished not only the whole of Synesius?s poems, but four odes of Gregory, contained in the same little volume. And y...Hugh Stuart Boyd GregoryOdesPrint: Book
1800-1849Finished not only the whole of Synesius?s poems, but four odes of Gregory, contained in the same little volume. And y...Hugh Stuart Boyd SynesiusPoemsPrint: Book
1800-1849'The mother of Joseph Wright, the millworker-philologist, did not learn to read until age forty-eight, and then appare...mother of Joseph Wright John BunyanPilgrim's ProgressPrint: Book
1800-1849'The mother of Joseph Wright, the millworker-philologist, did not learn to read until age forty-eight, and then appare...mother of Joseph Wright New TestamentPrint: Book
1800-1849'The mother of Joseph Wright, the millworker-philologist, did not learn to read until age forty-eight, and then appare...mother of Joseph Wright Friedrich KlopstockMessiahPrint: Book
1700-1799Witness statement in trial for for theft: George Martin: [prisoner offered him cup for sale] "the next morning I re...George Martin Daily AdvertiserPrint: Newspaper
1700-1799"On 21 Sept 1798, Klopstock read to W[ordsworth] and C[oleridge] 'some passages from his odes in which he has adopted ...Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock[odes]Unknown
1700-1799Witness statement in trial for theft: Thomas Crocket: "I keep Pan's Coffee-house in Castle-street; on the 9th of No...George Watson Print: Newspaper
1700-1799Witness statement in trial for burglary: 2 statements -that George Todd was apprehended in a public house, reading ...George Todd Print: Newspaper
1800-1849witness statement in trial for theft: George Nash: "I was never in the house before... I only staid while I drank m...George Nash Print: Newspaper
1800-1849William Wordsworth describes coach journey from London, having already observed that the coach guard was a former groc...[a grocer] Anon William Wordsworth[poems]Unknown
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[Macaulay's marginalia by the conversation in the street between Brutus and Cassius, in the First Act of Julius Caesar...Thomas Babington Macaulay William ShakespeareJulius CaesarPrint: Book
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[Macaulay's marginalia at the end of Julius Caesar] "The last scenes are huddled up, and affect me less than Plutarch'...Thomas Babington Macaulay William ShakespeareJulius CaesarPrint: Book
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[Macaulay's marginalia by the lines "Let me have men about me that are fat/ Sleek headed men, and such as sleep o' nig...Thomas Babington Macaulay William ShakespeareJulius CaesarPrint: Book
1900-1945'Even before [Chaim Lewis] discovered the English novelists, he was introduced to Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, Turgenev and Pu...a revolutionary Russian rag merchant Charles DickensPrint: Book
1850-1899'Blatchford, once he read it carefully found [Samuel Smiles's Self Help] "one of the most delightful and invigorating ...Robert Peel Glanville Blatchford Samuel SmilesSelf HelpPrint: Book
1900-1945'George Gregory offers a case study in the importance of Self-Help. His father was an illiterate Somsert miner, his mo...George Gregory Samuel SmilesSelf HelpPrint: Book
1900-1945'George Gregory offers a case study in the importance of Self-Help. His father was an illiterate Somsert miner, his mo...George Gregory John HarriesPrint: Book
1900-1945'George Gregory offers a case study in the importance of Self-Help. His father was an illiterate Somerset miner, his m...George Gregory Jack and The OstrichPrint: Book
1900-1945'George Gregory offers a case study in the importance of Self-Help. His father was an illiterate Somerset miner, his m...George Gregory Charles Monroe SheldonThe Crucifixion of Philip StrongPrint: Book
1900-1945'George Gregory offers a case study in the importance of Self-Help. His father was an illiterate Somerset miner, his m...George Gregory Strongdold the GladiatorPrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849Dorothy Wordsworth to William and Mary Wordsworth, 3 May [1812]: 'The Coleridges and Algernon [Montagu] were here yest...Algernon Montagu Unknown
1800-1849Statement of a juvenile offender: "I came from Manchester to the races. I was taken into custody when I had only be...G.G. William Harrison AinsworthJack SheppardPrint: Book
1800-1849Report of prison chaplain on the progress of prisoner: "From his first arrival in gaol, he had been attended by the...J.G. Child's First BookPrint: Book
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[Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of Antony and Cleopatra, by an editorial note by Steevens, which reminds the reader...Thomas Babington Macaulay William ShakespeareAntony and CleopatraPrint: Book
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[Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of Coriolanus, by a note by Warburton regarding the composition of the Senate] "Abs...Thomas Babington Macaulay William ShakespeareCoriolanusPrint: Book
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[Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of Coriolanus, by a note by Warburton regarding the history of the Roman Consular G...Thomas Babington Macaulay William ShakespeareCoriolanusPrint: Book
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[Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of Coriolanus, by a note by Warburton regarding the creation of the first Censor, w...Thomas Babington Macaulay William ShakespeareCoriolanusPrint: Book
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[Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of Coriolanus, on the last page]: "A noble play. As usual, Shakspeare [sic] had th...Thomas Babington Macaulay William ShakespeareCoriolanusPrint: Book
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[Editorial commentary on Macaulay's reading]: "His manuscript notes extend through the long range of Greek authors fro...Thomas Babington Macaulay HesiodPrint: Book
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[Editorial commentary on Macaulay's reading]: "His manuscript notes extend through the long range of Greek authors fro...Thomas Babington Macaulay AthenaeusPrint: Book
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[Editorial commentary on Macaulay's reading]: "His manuscript notes extend through the long range of Greek authors fro...Thomas Babington Macaulay CatoPrint: Book
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[Editorial commentary on Macaulay's reading]: "His manuscript notes extend through the long range of Greek authors fro...Thomas Babington Macaulay LivyPrint: Book
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[Editorial commentary on Macaulay's reading]: "His manuscript notes extend through the long range of Greek authors fro...Thomas Babington Macaulay SallustPrint: Book
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[Editorial commentary on Macaulay's reading]: "His manuscript notes extend through the long range of Greek authors fro...Thomas Babington Macaulay TacitusPrint: Book
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[Editorial commentary on Macaulay's reading]: "His manuscript notes extend through the long range of Greek authors fro...Thomas Babington Macaulay Aulus GelliusPrint: Book
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[Editorial commentary on Macaulay's reading]: "His manuscript notes extend through the long range of Greek authors fro...Thomas Babington Macaulay SuetoniusPrint: Book
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[Editorial commentary on Macaulay's reading]: "Those two parallel lines in pencil, which were his highest form of comp...Thomas Babington Macaulay CiceroDe FinibusPrint: Book
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[Editorial commentary on Macaulay's reading]: "Those two parallel lines in pencil, which were his highest form of comp...Thomas Babington Macaulay CiceroAcademic QuestionsPrint: Book
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[Editorial commentary on Macaulay's reading]: "Those two parallel lines in pencil, which were his highest form of comp...Thomas Babington Macaulay CiceroTusculan DisputationsPrint: Book
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[Macaulay's marginalia at the end of the first book of Cicero's De Finibus]: "Exquisitely written, graceful, calm, lum...Thomas Babington Macaulay CiceroDe FinibusPrint: Book
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[Macaulay's marginalia in Cicero's De Natura Deorum]: "Equal to anything that Cicero ever did."Thomas Babington Macaulay CiceroDe Natura DeorumPrint: Book
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[Macaulay's marginalia in the Second Book of Cicero's De Divinatione]: double-lines down the margin of the argument ag...Thomas Babington Macaulay CiceroDe DivinationePrint: Book
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[Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of Ben Jonson's Catiline, by the lines 'Lentulus: The augurs all are constant I am ...Thomas Babington Macaulay Ben JonsonCatilinePrint: Book
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[Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of Cicero's Tusculan Disputations, by the translations from Aeschylus and Sophocles...Thomas Babington Macaulay Ben CiceroTusculan DisputationsPrint: Book
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[Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of Cicero's Letters, opposite the sentences 'Meum factum probari abs te [...] nihil...Thomas Babington Macaulay CiceroLettersPrint: Book
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[Editorial commentary on Macaulay's marginalia on Cicero's speeches]: "Macaulay's pencilled observations upon each suc...Thomas Babington Macaulay CiceroSpeechesPrint: Book
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Macaulay's marginalia on Cicero's Epistles to Atticus]: "A kind-hearted man [Cicero], with all his faults." Later, "...Thomas Babington Macaulay CiceroLetters to AtticusPrint: Book
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[Macaulay's marginalia on Cicero's Second Philippic]: "a most wonderful display of rhetorical talent, worthy of all i...Thomas Babington Macaulay CiceroSecond PhilippicPrint: Book
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[Macaulay's marginalia on Cicero's Third Philippic]: "The close of this speech is very fine. His later and earlier s...Thomas Babington Macaulay CiceroThird PhilippicPrint: Book
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[Macaulay's marginalia at the end of Cicero's last Philippic]: "As a man, I think of Cicero much as I always did, exc...Thomas Babington Macaulay CiceroLast PhilippicPrint: Book
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[Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of Plato's Euthydemus]: "It seems incredible that these absurdities of Dionysodoru...Thomas Babington Macaulay PlatoEuthydemusPrint: Book
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[Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of Plato's Euthydemus]: "Glorious irony!"Thomas Babington Macaulay PlatoEuthydemusPrint: Book
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[Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of Plato's Euthydemus]: "Incomparably ludicrous!"Thomas Babington Macaulay PlatoEuthydemusPrint: Book
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[Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of Plato's Euthydemus]: "No writer, not even Cervantes, was so great a master of t...Thomas Babington Macaulay PlatoEuthydemusPrint: Book
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[Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of Plato's Euthydemus]: "There is hardly any comedy, in any language, more diverti...Thomas Babington Macaulay PlatoEuthydemusPrint: Book
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[Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of Plato's Euthydemus]: "Dulcissima hercle, eademque nobilissima vita."Thomas Babington Macaulay PlatoEuthydemusPrint: Book
1800-1849 [Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of Plato's Euthydemus, below the last line of the dialogue]: "Calcutta, May 1835."Thomas Babington Macaulay PlatoEuthydemusPrint: Book
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[Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of Plato's Republic]: "Plato has been censured with great justice for his doctrine...Thomas Babington Macaulay PlatoRepublicPrint: Book
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[Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of Plato's Republic]: "You may see that Plato was passionately fond of poetry, eve...Thomas Babington Macaulay PlatoRepublicPrint: Book
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[Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of Plato's Republic, by the passage where Plato recommends a broader patriotism]: ...Thomas Babington Macaulay PlatoRepublicPrint: Book
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[Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of Plato's Republic, in the Second Book, by the discussion of abstract justice]: "...Thomas Babington Macaulay PlatoRepublicPrint: Book
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[Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of Plato's Republic, in the Eighth Book]: "I remember nothing in Greek philosophy ...Thomas Babington Macaulay PlatoRepublicPrint: Book
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[Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of Plato's Protagoras]: "A very lively picture of Athenian manners. There is scar...Thomas Babington Macaulay PlatoProtagorasPrint: Book
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[Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of Plato's Protagoras]: "Callias seems to have been a munificent and courteous pat...Thomas Babington Macaulay PlatoProtagorasPrint: Book
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[Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of Plato's Protagoras]: "Alcibiades is very well represented here. It is plain th...Thomas Babington Macaulay PlatoProtagorasPrint: Book
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[Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of Plato's Protagoras]: "Protagoras seems to deserve the character he gives himsel...Thomas Babington Macaulay PlatoProtagorasPrint: Book
1800-1849 [Macaulay's marginalia at the beginning of Plato's Gorgias]: "This was my favourite dialogue at College. I do not kn...Thomas Babington Macaulay PlatoGorgiasPrint: Book
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[Macaulay's marginalia in Plato's Gorgias]: "Polus is much in the right. Socrates abused scandalously the advantages...Thomas Babington Macaulay PlatoGorgiasPrint: Book
1800-1849 [Maraulay's marginalia in Plato's Gorgias]: "You have made a blunder, and Socrates will have you in an instant."Thomas Babington Macaulay PlatoGorgiasPrint: Book
1800-1849 [Macaulay's marginalia in Plato's Gorgias]: "Hem! Retiarium astutum!" [Cunning netter].Thomas Babington Macaulay PlatoGorgiasPrint: Book
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[Macaulay's marginalia in Plato's Gorgias]: "There you are in the Sophist's net. I think that, if I had been in the ...Thomas Babington Macaulay PlatoGorgiasPrint: Book
1800-1849 [Macaulay's marginalia in Plato's Gorgias]: "What a command of his temper the old fellow [Callicles] had, and what te...Thomas Babington Macaulay PlatoGorgiasPrint: Book
1800-1849 [Macaulay's marginalia in Plato's Gorgias]: "This is not pure morality; but there is a good deal of weight in what Ca...Thomas Babington Macaulay PlatoGorgiasPrint: Book
1800-1849 [Macaulay's marginalia at the end of the dialogue in Plato's Gorgias]: "This is one of the finest passages in Greek l...Thomas Babington Macaulay PlatoGorgiasPrint: Book
1800-1849 [Macaulay's marginalia at the end of the dialogue in Plato's Gorgias. He marks the the doctrine "that we ought to be...Thomas Babington Macaulay PlatoGorgiasPrint: Book
1800-1849 [Macaulay's marginalia in Plato's Gorgias, by the trial of Socrates, when Socrates expressed a serene conviction that...Thomas Babington Macaulay PlatoGorgiasPrint: Book
1800-1849 [Macaulay's marginalia in Plato's Gorgias, at the end of the trial of Socrates]: "A most solemn and noble close! Noth...Thomas Babington Macaulay PlatoGorgiasPrint: Book
1800-1849 [Macaulay's marginalia on the last page of the Crito]: There is much that may be questioned in the reasoning of Socra...Thomas Babington Macaulay PlatoCritoPrint: Book
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I remember paying him [Macaulay] a visit in his rose-garden at Campden Hill [...] I was in a hurry to communicate to ...George Otto Trevelyan JuvenalPrint: Book
1800-1849'[Sir George] Beaumont wriote to W[ordsworth] on 10 Aug. 1806, saying: "I am sure you will be pleased with my ancestor...Sir George Beaumont John Beaumont[poems]Unknown
1900-1945'In his isolated rural community Gregory never imagined that he might aspire to a higher profession. Now he returned t...George Gregory Charles LyellPrinciples of GeologyPrint: Book
1900-1945'In his isolated rural community Gregory never imagined that he might aspire to a higher profession. Now he returned t...George Gregory [book of world history]Print: Book
1800-1849'As a boy, stonemason Hugh Miller first learned to appreciate the pleasures of literature in the "most delightful of a...Hugh Miller [the story of Joseph]Print: Book
1800-1849'As a boy, stonemason Hugh Miller first learned to appreciate the pleasures of literature in the "most delightful of a...Hugh Miller Jack the Giant KillerPrint: Book
1800-1849'As a boy, stonemason Hugh Miller first learned to appreciate the pleasures of literature in the "most delightful of a...Hugh Miller Sinbad the SailorPrint: Book
1800-1849'As a boy, stonemason Hugh Miller first learned to appreciate the pleasures of literature in the "most delightful of a...Hugh Miller Beauty and the BeastPrint: Book
1800-1849'As a boy, stonemason Hugh Miller first learned to appreciate the pleasures of literature in the "most delightful of a...Hugh Miller AladdinPrint: Book
1800-1849'As a boy, stonemason Hugh Miller first learned to appreciate the pleasures of literature in the "most delightful of a...Hugh Miller Homer the IliadPrint: Book
1800-1849'As a boy, stonemason Hugh Miller first learned to appreciate the pleasures of literature in the "most delightful of a...Hugh Miller Homer The OdysseyPrint: Book
1800-1849'"I next succeeded in discovering for myself a child's book, of not less interest than even The Iliad." It was Pilgrim...Hugh Miller John BunyanPilgrim's ProgressPrint: Book
1800-1849'"I next succeeded in discovering for myself a child's book, of not less interest than even The Iliad." It was Pilgrim...Hugh Miller Daniel DefoeRobinson CrusoePrint: Book
1800-1849'"I next succeeded in discovering for myself a child's book, of not less interest than even The Iliad." It was Pilgrim...Hugh Miller Jonathan SwiftGulliver's TravelsPrint: Book
1700-1799Byron to John Hanson, [? November 1799]: 'I congratulate you on Capt. Hanson's being appointed commander of the Brazen...George Gordon, Lord Byron anon[newspaper]Print: Newspaper
1800-1849Byron to Augusta Byron, 25 April 1805: 'You say you are sick of the Installation [of seven Knights of the Garter at Wi...George Gordon Lord Byron anonMorning PostPrint: Newspaper
1800-1849In letter to Edward Noel Long, 23 February 1807 Byron transcribes lines 91-96 of William Cowper, "Friendship" (as in 1...George Gordon, Lord Byron William CowperFriendshipUnknown
1800-1849Byron to Elizabeth Pigot, 2 August 1807: 'I have now a Review before me entitled, "Literary Recreations" where my Bard...George Gordon, Lord Byron VariousMonthly Literary RecreationsPrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849Byron to the Earl of Clare, 20 August 1807: 'I hope this Letter will find you safe, I saw in a Morning paper, a long a...George Gordon, Lord Byron anon[morning newspaper]Print: NewspaperManuscript: Letter
1800-1849Evidence in trial for theft and receiving stolen goods. Prisoner Brown questions witness George Picard: Q: "Do you...George Picard Daily AdvertiserPrint: Newspaper
1800-1849Witness statement in trial for theft and receiving stolen goods; witness reads a 'bogus' invoice to the court: Q: "...George Deboos Manuscript: invoice
1800-1849Witness statement in trial for theft and receiving stolen goods; witness reads a letter aloud to the court Deboos: ...George Deboos Manuscript: Letter
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Byron to Robert Charles Dallas, 21 January 1808: 'Whenever Leisure and Inclination permit me the pleasure of a visit, ...George Gordon Lord Byron Robert Charles DallasunknownUnknown
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Byron to Robert Charles Dallas, 21 January 1808: 'As for my reading, I believe I may aver without hyperbole, it has be...George Gordon Lord Byron HerodotusunknownPrint: Book
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Byron to Robert Charles Dallas, 21 January 1808: 'As for my reading, I believe I may aver without hyperbole, it has be...George Gordon Lord Byron Edward GibbonDecline and Fall of the Roman EmpirePrint: Book
1800-1849Witness statements in trial for theft: George Baverstock: "I keep the Angel and Crown public house, opposite Whitec...Nicholas Benigne Ablin The TimesPrint: Newspaper
1800-1849Byron to William Harness, 11 February 1808: 'I ... remember being favoured with the perusal of many of your compositio...George Gordon Lord Byron William HarnessunknownUnknown
1800-1849Witness statements in trial for tax offences: Jane Fuller: "I can neither read nor write; I had occasion to send a ...George Griffiths Print: Book
1800-1849Witness statements in trial for tax offences: Jane Fuller: "I can neither read nor write; I had occasion to send a ...George Griffiths Manuscript: Letter
1800-1849Byron to Robert Charles Dallas, 23 June 1810: 'I ... request that you will write to malta. I expect a world of news, ...George Gordon Lord Byron [newspapers]Print: Newspaper
1800-1849Byron to Edward Ellice, 4 July 1810: 'I hear your friend Brougham is in the lower house mouthing at the ministry ... y...George Gordon Lord Byron Henry Brougham[speech]Unknown
1800-1849Byron to John Cam Hobhouse, 23 August 1810: 'I am learning Italian, and this day translated an ode of Horace "Exegi mo...George Gordon Lord Byron HoraceOde ("Exegi monumentum")Unknown
1800-1849Byron to Francis Hodgson, 3 October 1810: 'I have seen some old English papers up to the 15th. of May, I see the "Lady...George Gordon Lord Byron [newspapers]Print: NewspaperUnknown
1800-1849Byron to Francis Hodgson, 3 October 1810: 'I have seen some old English papers up to the 15th. of May, I see the "Lady...George Gordon Lord Byron Anonadvertisement for Scott, The Lady of The LakePrint: Advertisement, NewspaperUnknown
1800-1849Byron to John Cam Hobhouse, 4 October 1810: 'I have just received a letter from [John] Galt with a Candiot poem which ...George Gordon Lord Byron John GaltFair Shepherdess, TheManuscript: Sheet
1800-1849Byron to Francis Hodgson, 20 January 1811: 'I wish to be sure I had a few books ... any damned nonsense on a long Even...George Gordon Lord Byron VariousEdinburgh ReviewPrint: Serial / periodicalManuscript: Letter
1800-1849Byron to John Cam Hobhouse, 5 March 1811: 'I have begun an Imitation of the "De Arte Poetica" of Horace [became his Hi...George Gordon Lord Byron HoraceDe Arte PoeticaPrint: Book
1800-1849Byron to John Cam Hobhouse, 5 March 1811: 'I have seen English papers of October, which say little or nothing ... 'George Gordon Lord Byron [newspapers]Print: Newspaper
1800-1849Byron to John Cam Hobhouse, 10 August 1811, within two weeks of his mother's death: 'I am very lonely, & should think ...George Gordon, Lord Byron unknownunknownUnknown
1800-1849Witness statement in trial for theft: Francis Gifford Banner: "On the Monday after the 30th of June, I saw, in the ...Francis Gifford Banner The TimesPrint: Newspaper
1800-1849Witness statement in trial for forgery: George Coombs: "I appointed to meet him [Conway] next evening at the coffee...George Coobs Print: Newspaper
1800-1849Byron to Francis Hodgson, 9 September 1811: 'Dear Hodgson, - I have been a good deal in your company lately, for I hav...George Gordon, Lord Byron Francis Hodgson[translation of Juvenal]Print: Unknown
1800-1849Byron to Francis Hodgson, 9 September 1811: 'Dear Hodgson, - I have been a good deal in your company lately, for I hav...George Gordon, Lord Byron Francis HodgsonLady Jane Grey, a Tale; and Other PoemsPrint: Book
1800-1849Byron to Francis Hodgson, 4 December 1811: 'I have read Watson to Gibbon. He proves nothing, so I am where I was, ver...George Gordon, Lord Byron Richard WatsonApology for Christianity, in a Series of Letters to Edward Gibbon, Esq.Print: Book
1800-1849Byron to Francis Hodgson, 8 December 1811: 'I have gotten a book by Sir William Drummond (printed, but not published),...George Gordon, Lord Byron Sir William DrummondAedipus JudaicusPrint: Book
1800-1849Byron to John Cam Hobhouse, 15 December 1811: 'I have been living quietly, reading Sir W. Drummond's book on the bible...George Gordon, Lord Byron Sir William DrummondAedipus JudaicusPrint: Book
1800-1849Byron to Lady Caroline Lamb, 1 May 1812: 'I have read over the few poems of Miss Milbank with attention ... I like the...George Gordon, Lord Byron Annabella Milbanke[lines on Dermody]Manuscript: Unknown
1800-1849Byron to Lady Caroline Lamb, 1 May 1812: 'I have read over the few poems of Miss Milbank with attention ... I like the...George Gordon, Lord Byron Annabella Milbanke[lines in the cave at Seaham]Manuscript: Unknown
1800-1849Byron to Bernard Barton, 1 June 1812: 'Some weeks ago my friend Mr Rogers showed me some of the stanzas [of Barton's] ...George Gordon, Lord Byron Bernard BartonunknownManuscript: Unknown
1800-1849Byron to Bernard Barton, 1 June 1812: 'Some weeks ago my friend Mr Rogers showed me some of the stanzas [of Barton's] ...George Gordon, Lord Byron Bernard BartonMetrical EffusionsPrint: Book
1800-1849Byron to Edward Daniel Clarke, 26 June 1812: 'My dear Sir, - Will you accept my very sincere congratulations on your s...George Gordon, Lord Byron Edward Daniel ClarkeTravels in Various Countries of Europe, Asia, and Africa (vol 2)Print: Book
1800-1849Byron to John Murray, acknowledging receipt of parcel of books and letters from Christian well-wishers, 14 September 1...George Gordon Lord Byron anonManuscript: Unknown
1800-1849Byron to Lord Holland, 14 October 1812, on looking out for reports of his Drury Lane Theatre address: 'I have seen no ...George Gordon, Lord Byron variousMorning ChroniclePrint: Newspaper
1800-1849Byron to Lord Holland, 14 October 1812, on looking out for reports of his Drury Lane Theatre address: 'I have seen no ...George Gordon, Lord Byron various[Sunday papers]Print: Newspaper
1800-1849Byron to Lady Melbourne, 17 October 1812, on reports of his Drury Lane Theatre address: '... my address has been ... m...George Gordon, Lord Byron various[newspapers]Print: Newspaper
1800-1849Byron to Lady Melbourne, 18 October 1812, on writing by Annabella Milbanke that she has forwarded to him: '... the spe...George Gordon, Lord Byron Annabella Milbanke[biography]Manuscript: Unknown
1800-1849Byron to Lady Melbourne, 30 October 1812: '... I see by the papers Ld. and Ly. Cowper are returned to Herts.'George Gordon, Lord Byron [newspapers]Print: Newspaper
1800-1849Byron to Lady Melbourne, 18 November 1812: 'I am still here only sad in the prospect of going [from home of Lord and L...George Gordon, Lord Byron unknownunknownUnknown
1800-1849Byron to John Murray, 22 November 1812: 'I have in charge a curious and very long MS. poem written by Lord Brooke (the...George Gordon, Lord Byron Lord Brooke[untitled manuscript]Manuscript: Unknown
1800-1849Byron to Lady Melbourne, 11 January 1813: 'I have been looking over my Kinsham premises which are close to a church an...George Gordon, Lord Byron [epitaphs]Manuscript: tombstone epitaphs
1800-1849Byron to John Murray, 20 January 1813; 'In "Horace in London" I perceive some stanzas on Ld. E[lgin] - in which ... I ...George Gordon Lord Byron James and Horace SmithHorace in London; consisting of Imitations of the First Two Books of the Odes of HoracePrint: Book
1800-1849Byron to John Murray, 21 April 1813: 'I see the Examiner threatens some observations upon you next week ... 'George Gordon, Lord Byron Leigh HuntExaminer, ThePrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849In letter from Byron to Thomas Moore: 'When Byron read these verses aloud to Moore and Rogers, they all three broke do...George Gordon, Lord Byron Lord Thurlow"When Rogers ... "Unknown
1800-1849Byron to John Galt, 8 June 1813: 'I have to thank you for a most agreeable present [apparently a copy of his Letters f...George Gordon, Lord Byron John GaltLetters from the LevantPrint: Book
1800-1849Byron to John Murray, 12 June 1813: 'In yesterday's paper immediately under an advertisement on "Strictures in the Ure...George Gordon, Lord Byron anonadvertisement for William Wadd, Practical Observations on the best mode of curing Strictures...Print: Advertisement, Newspaper
1800-1849Byron to John Murray, 12 June 1813: 'In yesterday's paper immediately under an advertisement on "Strictures in the Ure...George Gordon, Lord Byron anonadvertisement for Modern Poets; a Dialogue in Verse, containing some Strictures on the Poetry of Lord Byron, Mr. Southey, and OthersPrint: Advertisement, Newspaper
1800-1849Byron to John Murray, 13 June 1813: 'I have read the strictures which are just enough - & not grossly abusive - in ver...George Gordon, Lord Byron anonModern Poets; a Dialogue in Verse, containing some Strictures on the Poetry of Lord Byron, Mr. Southey, and OthersPrint: Book
1800-1849Byron to Thomas Moore, 22 August 1813: 'In a "mail-coach" copy of the Edinburgh, I perceive the Giaour is 2d article.'George Gordon, Lord Byron VariousEdinburgh ReviewPrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849Byron to Thomas Moore, 22 August 1813, in description of Newstead Abbey: 'I remember, when about fifteen, reading your...George Gordon, Lord Byron Thomas Moore[poems]Unknown
1800-1849Byron to Thomas Moore, 22 August 1813: 'I hope you are going on with your grand coup - pray do - or that damned Lucien...George Gordon, Lord Byron Lucien BuonaparteCharlemagneManuscript: Unknown
1800-1849Byron to Thomas Moore, 28 August 1813: 'If you want any more books [on the Orient], there is "Castellan's Moeurs des O...George Gordon, Lord Byron A. L. CastellanMoeurs, usages costumes des Othomans, et abrege de leur histoirePrint: Book
1800-1849Byron to Lady Melbourne, 21 September 1813, from Aston Hall, Rotherham (where staying with Sir James Wedderburn Webste...George Gordon, Lord Byron GrimmunknownUnknown
1800-1849Byron thanks J. Thomson (unidentified) for volume of poems, 27 September 1813: 'I have derived considerable pleasure f...George Gordon, Lord Byron J. ThomsonunknownUnknown
1800-1849Byron to John Murray, 12 October 1813: 'I have received and read the British Review ... 'George Gordon, Lord Byron British ReviewPrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849Byron to Dr Samuel Butler, 20 October 1813: 'The little that I have seen by stealth and accident of Charlemagne quite ...George Gordon, Lord Byron Lucien BuonaparteCharlemagneUnknown
1800-1849In postscript to letter written by Byron to John Murray, 3 am [29 November 1813]: 'I have got out of my bed (in which ...George Gordon, Lord Byron Madame Germaine de Stael-HolsteinDe l'AllemagnePrint: Book
1800-1849Byron to John Murray, [29 November 1813 (c)]: 'there have been some epigrams on Mr. W[ar]d one I see today - the first...George Gordon, Lord Byron unknown[epigram on J. W. Ward]Print: Newspaper
1800-1849Byron to Madame de Stael, 30 November 1813, in praise of her De L'Allemagne: 'few days have passed since its publicati...George Gordon, Lord Byron Madame Germaine de Stael-HolsteinDe L'AllemagnePrint: Book
1800-1849Byron to Zachary Macaulay (editor of the Christian Observer), 3 December 1813: 'Sir / - I have just finished the perus...George Gordon, Lord Byron VariousChristian ObserverPrint: Serial / periodical
Byron to John Murray, 4 December 1813: 'I have redde through your Persian Tale - I have taken ye. liberty of making so...George Gordon, Lord Byron unknownPersian TaleManuscript: Unknown
1800-1849Byron to Thomas Moore, 8 December 1813: 'I have met with an odd reflection in Grimm ... "Many people have the reputati...George Gordon, Lord Byron Friedrich Melchoir GrimmCorrespondance LitterairePrint: Book
1800-1849In Byron's Journal (14 November 1813-19 April 1814): 'I never in my life read a composition [of his own], save to Hodg...George Gordon, Lord Byron George Gordon, Lord ByronunknownUnknown
1800-1849In Byron's Journal (14 November 1813-19 April 1814): '... [Madame de Stael] writes octavos, and talks folios. I have ...George Gordon, Lord Byron Madame Germaine de Stael-HolsteinunknownPrint: Book
1800-1849In Byron's Journal (14 November 1813-19 April 1814): 'Read Burns to-day.'George Gordon, Lord Byron Robert BurnsunknownUnknown
1800-1849In Byron's Journal (14 November 1813-19 April 1814), 17 November 1813: 'I wish I could settle to reading again, - my l...George Gordon, Lord Byron unknown[books]Print: Book
1800-1849In Byron's Journal (14 November 1813-19 April 1814), 22 November 1813: 'I remember the effect of the first Edinburgh R...George Gordon, Lord Byron VariousEdinburgh ReviewPrint: Serial / periodical
In Byron's Journal (14 November 1813-19 April 1814), 23 November 1813: "Redde the Ruminator - a collection of Essays, ...George Gordon Lord Byron Sir Egerton BrydgesThe Ruminator: containing a series of moral, critical and sentimental EssaysPrint: Book
In Byron's Journal (14 November 1813-19 April 1814), 26 November 1813: "Two letters, one from **** [Lady Frances Webst...George Gordon Lord Byron Lady Frances Wedderburn Websterletter with poemManuscript: Letter
In Byron's Journal (14 November 1813-19 April 1814), ?27 November 1813: "Redde the Edinburgh Review of Rogers [with hi...George Gordon Lord Byron VariousThe Edinburgh ReviewPrint: Serial / periodical
In Byron's Journal (14 November 1813-19 April 1814), 5 December 1813, on pleasure at learning of his works' popularity...George Gordon Lord Byron George Frederick CookeMemoirs of George Frederick Cooke, late of the Theatre Royal, Covent GardenPrint: Book
In Byron's Journal (14 November 1813-19 April 1814), 5 December 1813, on pleasure at learning of his works' popularity...George Frederick Cooke George Gordon Lord ByronEnglish Bards and Scotch ReviewersPrint: Book
In extract from journal of George Frederick Cooke in W. Dunlap, Memoirs of George Frederick Cooke: "Read English Bards...George Frederick Cooke George Gordon Lord ByronEnglish Bards and Scotch ReviewersPrint: Book
1800-1849Byron's Journal (14 November 1813-19 April 1814), 5 Deecmber 1813: 'I showed ... [John Galt] Sligo's letter on the rep...Matthew Gregory Lewis Lord Sligo (2nd marquis of)[letter on punishment for adultery in Turkey]Manuscript: Letter
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Byron's Journal (14 November 1813-19 April 1814), 5 December 1813, on Madame De Stael: 'I read her again and again ......George Gordon Lord Byron Madame Germaine de Stael-HolsteinunknownPrint: Book
1800-1849Byron's Journal (14 November 1813-19 April 1814), 6 Decmber 1813: 'Saw Lord Glenbervie and his Prospectus, at Murray's...George Gordon Lord Byron Lord GlenbervieProspectus for Sylvester Douglas, Baron Glenbervie,Print: Advertisement
1800-1849Byron's Journal (14 November 1813-19 April 1814), 6 December 1813: "Redde a good deal, but desultorily ... It is odd t...George Gordon Lord Byron Matthew Gregory LewisThe MonkPrint: Book
1800-1849Byron's Journal (14 November 1813-19 April 1814), 7 December 1813: '... up an hour before being called ... Redde the p...George Gordon Lord Byron [newspapers]Print: Newspaper
1800-1849Byron's Journal (14 November 1813-19 April 1814), 13 December 1813: 'Called at three places - read, and got ready to l...George Gordon Lord Byron unknownunknownUnknown
1800-1849Byron's Journal (14 November 1813-19 April 1814), 17 December 1813: 'Redde some Italian, and wrote two Sonnets on *** ...George Gordon Lord Byron unknown[Italian]Unknown
1800-1849Byron's Journal (14 November 1813-19 April 1814), 18 February 1814: 'Got up - redde the Morning Post containing the ba...George Gordon Lord Byron The Morning PostPrint: Newspaper
1800-1849Byron's Journal (14 November 1813-19 April 1814), 18 February 1814 ('Nine o'clock'): 'Redde a little - wrote notes, an...George Gordon Lord Byron unknownunknownUnknown
1800-1849Byron's Journal (14 November 1813-19 April 1814), 18 February 1814 ('Midnight'): 'Began a letter, which I threw into t...George Gordon Lord Byron unknownunknownUnknown
1800-1849Byron's Journal (14 November 1813-19 April 1814), 20 February 1814: ' ... redde the Robbers.'George Gordon Lord Byron Johann Christoph von SchillerThe RobbersPrint: Book
1800-1849Byron's Journal (14 November 1813-19 April 1814), 15 March 1814: 'Redde a satire on myself, called Anti-Byron, and tol...George Gordon Lord Byron unknownAnti-ByronUnknown
1800-1849Byron's Journal (14 November 1813-19 April 1814), 17 March 1814: 'Redde the "Quarrels of Authors" ... a new work, by t...George Gordon Lord Byron Isaac DisraeliQuarrels of AuthorsPrint: Book
1800-1849Byron's Journal (14 November 1813-19 April 1814), 20 March 1814: 'Redde Machiavel, parts of Chardin, and Sismondi, and...George Gordon Lord Byron Jean ChardinunknownPrint: Book
1800-1849Byron's Journal (14 November 1813-19 April 1814), 20 March 1814: 'Redde Machiavel, parts of Chardin, and Sismondi, and...George Gordon Lord Byron Leonard Simonde de SismondiunknownPrint: Book
1800-1849Byron's Journal (14 November 1813-19 April 1814), 20 March 1814: 'Redde Machiavel, parts of Chardin, and Sismondi, and...George Gordon Lord Byron Matteo BandellounknownPrint: Book
1800-1849Byron's Journal (14 November 1813-19 April 1814), 20 March 1814: 'Redde the Edinburgh, 44, just come out. In the begi...George Gordon Lord Byron The Edinburgh ReviewPrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849Byron's Journal (14 November 1813-19 April 1814), 10 April 1814: 'Today I have boxed one hour - written an ode to Napo...George Gordon Lord Byron unknownunknownUnknown
1800-1849Byron to John Herman Merivale, [January 1814]: 'I have redde Roncesvaux with very great pleasure ... You have written ...George Gordon Lord Byron John Herman MerivaleOrlando in RoncesvallesManuscript: Unknown
1800-1849Byron in postscript to letter to John Murray, [11 January 1814]: 'I have redde "Patronage" it is full of praises of Lo...George Gordon Lord Byron Maria EdgeworthPatronagePrint: Book
1800-1849Byron in postscript to letter to John Murray, 4 February 1814: 'I see by the Mo[rning] C[hronicl]e there hathe been di...George Gordon Lord Byron The Morning ChroniclePrint: Newspaper
1800-1849Byron in postscript to letter to John Murray, 4 February 1814: 'I see by the Mo[rning] C[hronicl]e there hathe been di...George Gordon Lord Byron The Morning PostPrint: Newspaper
1800-1849Byron to Leigh Hunt, 9 February 1814: 'Your poem I read long ago in "the Reflector" & it is not much to say it is the ...George Gordon Lord Byron Leigh HuntThe Feast of the PoetsPrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849Byron to Leigh Hunt, 9 February 1814: 'I have been regaled at every Inn on the road [from Newstead to London] by lampo...George Gordon Lord Byron unknown[ministerial gazettes]Print: Newspaper, Serial / periodical
1800-1849Byron to Annabella Milbanke, 12 February 1814: 'In thanking you for your letter you will allow me to say that there is...George Gordon Lord Byron Annabella Milbanke[letter]Manuscript: Letter
1800-1849Byron to Annabella Milbanke, 15 February 1814: 'In my letter of ye. 12th in answer to your last I omitted to say that ...George Gordon Lord Byron John LockeunknownPrint: Book
1800-1849Byron to Annabella Milbanke, 15 February 1814: 'Of the Scriptures ... I have ever been a reader & admirer as compositi...George Gordon Lord Byron The Book of JobPrint: Book
1800-1849Byron to Annabella Milbanke, 15 February 1814: 'Of the Scriptures ... I have ever been a reader & admirer as compositi...George Gordon Lord Byron The Book of IsaiahPrint: Book
1800-1849Byron to Annabella Milbanke, 15 February 1814: 'Of the Scriptures ... I have ever been a reader & admirer as compositi...George Gordon Lord Byron The Book of DeborahPrint: Book
1800-1849Byron to John Murray, 12 March 1814: 'I have not had time to read the whole M.S. but what I have seen seems very well ...George Gordon Lord Byron unknownAnti-ByronManuscript: Unknown
1800-1849Byron to Lady Melbourne, 30 March 1814, on Frances Burney, The Wanderer (which contains episode recalling his ex-lover...George Gordon Lord Byron Frances BurneyThe Wanderer, or Female DifficultiesUnknown
1800-1849Byron to Lady Melbourne, 30 March 1814: 'I have seen the E[dinburgh] R[eview] and the compliment -- which Rogers says ...George Gordon Lord Byron Francis Jeffreyreview of Byron, The Corsair and The Bride of AbydosPrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849Byron to John Murray, 9 April 1814: 'I see Sotheby's tragedies advertised ... ' George Gordon Lord Byron advertisement for William Sotheby, Five Tragedies (1814)Print: Advertisement
1800-1849Byron to John Murray, 26 April 1814, on work (about abdication of Napoleon) sent to him to read: 'I have no guess at y...George Gordon Lord Byron Stratford CanningBonaparteManuscript: Unknown
1800-1849Byron to Lady Melbourne, April- 1 May 1814, on his relations with his half-sister: 'it is odd that I always had a fore...George Gordon Lord Byron unknown[Roman History]Unknown
1800-1849Byron to unknown correspondent, 29 June 1814: 'Sir / -- I have to thank you for the perusal of your work -- and assure...George Gordon Lord Byron unknownunknownUnknown
1800-1849Byron to John Murray, [?July 23-24 1814]: 'I have read the article & concur in opinion with Mr. Rogers & my friends t...George Gordon Lord Byron unknown[article]Unknown
Byron to John Murray, 24 July 1814: 'Waverley is the best & most interesting novel I have redde since -- I don't know ...George Gordon Lord Byron Walter ScottWaverleyPrint: Book
1800-1849Byron in postscript of letter to Annabella Milbanke, 1 August 1814: 'I have read your letter once more -- and it appea...George Gordon Lord Byron Annabella Milbanke[letter]Manuscript: Letter
1800-1849Byron to John Murray, 3 August 1814: 'I see advertisements of Lara & Jacqueline -- pray why? when I requested you to p...George Gordon Lord Byron John Murray[advertisements for Byron, Lara, and Samuel Rogers, Jacqueline (joint publication)]Print: AdvertisementManuscript: Letter
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
1800-1849Byron recommends history books in letter to Annabella Milbanke, 25 August 1814: 'the best thing of that kind I met w...George Gordon Lord Byron unknown[history book]Print: Book
1800-1849Byron to John Murray, 2 September 1814: ' ... [Thomas Campbell] has an unpublished (though printed) poem on a Scene in...George Gordon Lord Byron Thomas CampbellLines on Leaving a Scene in BavariaPrint: Unknown
1800-1849Byron to John Murray, 7 September 1814: 'I am very idle I have read the few books I had with me -- & been forced to f...George Gordon Lord Byron unknownunknownUnknown
1800-1849Byron in letter to Annabella Milbanke of 7 September 1814 praises Richard Porson's Letters to Archdeacon Travis (allud...George Gordon Lord Byron Richard PorsonLetters to Archdeacon TravisUnknown
1800-1849Byron to Thomas Moore, 15 September 1814, writing whilst waiting at Newstead to learn whether marriage proposal acepte...George Gordon Lord Byron unknownunknownPrint: Book
1800-1849Byron to Annabella Milbanke, early in their engagement, 19 September 1814: 'When your letter arrived my sister was sit...George Gordon Lord Byron Annabella Milbanke[letter]Manuscript: Letter
1800-1849Byron to Lady Melbourne, 23 September 1814: 'I am glad you liked Annabella [Milbanke]'s letter to you -- Augusta said ...Augusta Leigh Annabella Milbanke[letter to Byron]Manuscript: Letter
1800-1849Byron to James Perry, editor of the Morning Chronicle, 5 October 1814: 'Sir -- I perceive in your paper this day the c...George Gordon Lord Byron The Morning ChroniclePrint: NewspaperManuscript: Letter
Byron to Annabella Milbanke, 14 October 1814: 'I have this morning seen the paragraph [regarding their engagement, all...George Gordon Lord Byron [newspaper]Print: Newspaper, Serial / periodicalManuscript: Letter
1800-1849Byron to Annabella Milbanke, 16 October 1814: 'In arranging papers I have found the first letter you ever wrote to me ...George Gordon Lord Byron Annabella Milbanke[letter]Manuscript: Letter
1800-1849Byron to Annabella Milbanke, 17 October 1814: 'If there were no other inducements for me to leave London -- the utter ...George Gordon Lord Byron unknownunknownUnknown
1800-1849Byron to Annabella Milbanke, 12 December 1814: 'I perceive in the M[ornin]g Chronicle report -- that Sir H. Mildmay in...George Gordon Lord Byron The Morning ChroniclePrint: NewspaperUnknown
1800-1849Byron to Thomas Moore, 10 January 1815: 'I have redde thee upon the Fathers, and it is excellent well ... you must no...George Gordon Lord Byron Thomas Moorearticle on Boyd's Select Passages from the Writings of St ChrysostomPrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849Byron to John Cam Hobhouse, 26 January 1815: 'Your packet hath been perused ...'George Gordon Lord Byron John Cam Hobhouse[packet]Manuscript: Letter
1800-1849Activities listed by Byron, bored at wife's family home at Seaham, in letter to Thomas Moore, 2 March 1815, include 't...George Gordon Lord Byron The Annual RegisterPrint: Serial / periodical
Activities listed by Byron, bored at wife's family home at Seaham, in letter to Thomas Moore, 2 March 1815, include 't...George Gordon Lord Byron [daily newspapers]Print: Newspaper
1800-1849Byron to John Hanson, 11 July 1815: 'Dear Sir -- I have called about my Will -- which I hope is nearly ready. -- I als...George Gordon Lord Byron Byron family pedigreeUnknown
1800-1849Byron to unknown author of volume of poems sent to him the previous day, 18 July 1815: 'the satisfaction I experienced...George Gordon Lord Byron unknownunknownPrint: Book
1800-1849Byron to Leigh Hunt, 22 October 1815: 'My dear Hunt -- You have excelled yourself - if not all your Contemporaries in ...George Gordon Lord Byron Leigh HuntThe Story of Rimini (Canto 3)Manuscript: Unknown
1800-1849Byron to Leigh Hunt, [4-6 November, 1815]: 'The paper on the Methodists was sure to raise the bristles of the godly --...George Gordon Lord Byron unknown[paper on the Methodists]Print: Serial / periodical
1800-1849Byron to the Rev. Charles Robert Maturin, 21 December 1815, regarding submission of MS [Bertram] to Drury Lane Theatre...George Gordon Lord Byron Charles Robert MaturinBertramManuscript: Unknown
Byron to the Rev. Charles Robert Maturin, 21 December 1815, regarding submission of MS [Bertram] to Drury Lane Theatre...George Lamb Charles Robert MaturinBertramManuscript: Unknown
1800-1849Byron to his father-in-law, Sir Ralph Noel, 7 February 1816: 'I have read Lady Byron's letter -- enclosed by you to Mr...George Gordon Lord Byron Lady Byron[letter]Manuscript: Letter
1800-1849Byron to Leigh Hunt, [?March-April 1816], on receptions of his poem The Story of Rimini: 'my sister and cousin ... wer...Augusta Leigh Leigh HuntThe Story of RiminiUnknown
1800-1849Byron to Pryce Gordon, [?June 1816]: '... I cannot tell you what a treat your gift of Casti has been to me; I have alm...George Gordon Lord Byron Giambattista CastiNovelle AmorosePrint: Book
1800-1849Byron to Pryce Gordon, [?June 1816]: '... I cannot tell you what a treat your gift of Casti has been to me; I have alm...George Gordon Lord Byron Giambattista CastiAnimali ParlantePrint: Book
1800-1849Byron to John Murray, 27 June 1816: 'I have traversed all Rousseau's ground -- with the Heloise before me -- & am stru...George Gordon Lord Byron Jean-Jacques RousseauJulie, ou La Nouvelle HeloisePrint: Book
1800-1849Byron to Samuel Rogers, 29 July 1816: 'I have read "Glenarvon" ... & have also seen Ben. Constant's Adolphe ... a work...George Gordon Lord Byron Lady Caroline LambGlenarvonPrint: Book
1800-1849Byron to Samuel Rogers, 29 July 1816: 'I have read "Glenarvon" ... & have also seen Ben. Constant's Adolphe ... a work...George Gordon Lord Byron Benjamin ConstantAdolphePrint: Book
1800-1849Byron to Augusta Leigh, 17 September 1816 ("Alpine Journal"), on seeing General Ludlow's monument at Vevey: 'I remembe...George Gordon Lord Byron Edmund LudlowmemoirsPrint: Book
1800-1849Byron to Augusta Leigh, 17 September 1816 ("Alpine Journal"), on General Ludlow's monument at Vevey: 'black marble -- ...George Gordon Lord Byron Margaret de Thomasepitaph to Edmund LudlowManuscript: tombstone epitaph
1800-1849Byron to Augusta Leigh, 20 September 1816 ("Alpine Journal"), on evening arrival at inn: 'nine o clock -- going to bed...George Gordon Lord Byron Johann Christoph von SchillerunknownUnknown
1800-1849Byron to Augusta Leigh, 22 September 1816 ("Alpine Journal"): 'Passed a rock -- inscription -- 2 brothers -- one murde...George Gordon Lord Byron anon[inscription on rock]Manuscript: inscriptionUnknown
1800-1849Byron to John Murray, 5 October 1816: 'I have read the last E[dinburgh] R[eview] they are very severe on the Germans -...George Gordon Lord Byron anonreview of Goethe, Aus meinem Leben, Dichtung und WahrheitPrint: Serial / periodicalManuscript: Unknown
1800-1849Byron to John Murray, 5 October 1816: 'I have read the last E[dinburgh] R[eview] they are very severe on the Germans -...George Gordon Lord Byron James Wedderburn WebsterWaterloo and Other PoemsManuscript: UnknownUnknown
1800-1849Byron to John Murray, 5 October 1816: 'I have read the last E[dinburgh] R[eview] they are very severe on the Germans -...George Gordon Lord Byron H. Gally KnightIlderim: A Syrian TaleUnknown
1800-1849Byron to John Murray, 5 October 1816: 'I have read the last E[dinburgh] R[eview] they are very severe on the Germans -...George Gordon Lord Byron The PamphleteerPrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849Byron to Augusta Leigh, 15 October 1816, from Milan: 'What has delighted me most is a manuscript collection (preserved...George Gordon, Lord Byron Lucretia de Borgia[unknown]Manuscript: Unknown
1800-1849Byron to Thomas Moore, 6 November 1816: 'Among many things at Milan, one pleased me particularly, viz. the corresponde...George Gordon Lord Byron Cardinal; Lucretia Bembo; de BorgialettersManuscript: Letter, Unknown
1800-1849Byron to Augusta Leigh, 6 November 1816: ' ... by the way Ada [his daughter]'s name is the same with that of the Siste...George Gordon Lord Byron unknown"book treating of the Rhine"Print: Book
1800-1849Byron to Thomas Moore, 17 November 1816: 'By the way, I suppose you have seen "Glenarvon". Madame de Stael lent it to...George Gordon Lord Byron Lady Caroline LambGlenarvonPrint: Book
1850-1899"Read my birthday book from Walter. 'Alec Forbes of Howglen' by Mac Donald."Agnes Blanche Hemming George MacDonaldAlec Forbes of HowglenPrint: Book
1800-1849Byron to John Murray, 4 December 1816: 'From England I hear nothing ... I know no more ... than the Italian version of...George Gordon Lord Byron ["the Italian version of the French papers"]Print: Newspaper
1850-1899"Had a long morning to read 'Alec Forbes of Howglen'".Agnes Blanche Hemming George MacDonaldAlec Forbes of HowglenPrint: Book
Byron to John Murray, 4 December 1816: 'From England I hear nothing ... I know no more ... than the Italian version of...George Gordon Lord Byron Quarterly ReviewPrint: Advertisement, Serial / periodical
1850-1899"Read Lorna Doone in the evening and helped Mother in to bed."Agnes Blanche Hemming R.D. BlackmoreLorna DoonePrint: Book
1850-1899"Much interested in Lorna Doone. It is a truly romantic book."Agnes Blanche Hemming R.D. BlackmoreLorna DoonePrint: Book
1850-1899"Finished reading Lorna Doone and like it very much."Agnes Blanche Hemming R.D. BlackmoreLorna DoonePrint: Book
1850-1899"Read aloud to Maude from Lorna Doone. Very much taken with this little bit - 'the valley into which I gazed was fair...Agnes Blanche Hemming R.D. BlackmoreLorna DoonePrint: Book
1800-1849Byron to Douglas Kinnaird, 24 February 1817: 'I saw in Switzerland in the autumn the poems of [James Wedderburn] Webst...George Gordon, Lord Byron James Wedderburn WebsterWaterloo and Other PoemsPrint: Advertisement, Book, Serial / periodical
1800-1849Byron to John Murray, 3 March 1817, on review of his work in Quarterly Review received two days previously: '... I ......George Gordon Lord Byron Walter ScottReview of Byron, Childe Harold Canto III and The Prisoner of Chillon, a Dream, and other PoemsPrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849[Marginalia]: All three volumes have marginal vertical lines and underlines which appear to indicate meaningful points...Magdalene Erskine Anne GrantLetters from the Mountains; being the real correspondence of a Lady, between the year 1773 and 1807, third edition.Print: Book
1800-1849Byron to Thomas Moore, 25 March 1817, on Alpine travels in 1816: 'I kept a journal of the whole for my sister Augusta,...Augusta Leigh George Gordon Lord Byrontravel journalManuscript: Codex
1800-1849Byron to John Cam Hobhouse, 31 March 1817: 'I have bought several books ... among others a complete Voltaire in 92 vol...George Gordon Lord Byron VoltaireOeuvres Completes de Voltaire. De L'Imprimerie de la Societe Litterarie TypographiquePrint: Book
1800-1849Byron to Thomas Moore, 31 March 1817: 'Did I tell you that I have translated two Epistles? -- a correspondence between...George Gordon Lord Byron St. Paul Epistles to CorinthiansPrint: BookUnknown
Byron to editor of a Venice newspaper, denying that Napoleon was the protagonist of (?) Childe Harold's Pilgrimage Can...George Gordon Lord Byron [newspaper]Print: NewspaperUnknown
1800-1849Byron to John Murray, 2 April 1817, having observed upon preservation of black veil over Falieri's picture, and the st...George Gordon Lord Byron Johan Christoph von SchillerGeisterseherPrint: Book
1800-1849Byron to John Murray, 2 April 1817: 'There have been two Articles in the Venice papers one a review of C. Lamb's "Glen...George Gordon Lord Byron reviews of Caroline Lamb, Glenarvon, and Byron, Childe Harold Canto IIIPrint: Newspaper
1800-1849Byron to Samuel Rogers, 4 April 1817: 'Will you remember me to Ld. and Lady Holland -- I have to thank the former for ...George Gordon Lord Byron Lord HollandSome Account of the Life and Writings of Lope Felix de Vega CarpioPrint: Book
1800-1849Byron to John Murray, 9 April 1817: 'I will tell you something about [The Prisoner of] Chillon. -- A Mr. De Luc ninety...George Gordon Lord Byron Jean-Jacques RousseauConfessionsPrint: Book
1800-1849Byron to John Cam Hobhouse, 14 April 1817: 'I have read a good deal of Voltaire lately ... what I dislike is his extre...George Gordon Lord Byron VoltaireunknownPrint: Book
1800-1849Byron to John Murray, 9 May 1817: 'The "Tales of my Landlord" I have read with great pleasure ...'George Gordon Lord Byron Walter ScottTales of my LandlordPrint: Book
1800-1849Byron to John Murray 9 July 1817: 'I have got the sketch & extracts from Lallah Rookh ... the plan as well as the extr...George Gordon Lord Byron Thomas MooreLallah RookhUnknown
1800-1849Byron to Thomas Moore, 10 July 1817: '[John] Murray ... has contrived to send me extracts from Lalla Rookh ... They ar...George Gordon Lord Byron Thomas MooreLallah Rookh (extracts)Print: Serial / periodical
1800-1849Byron to John Murray, 15 July 1817: 'I lent [M. G.] Lewis who is at Venice ... your extracts from Lalla Rookh -- & Man...Matthew Gregory Lewis Thomas MooreLallah Rookh (extracts)Print: Serial / periodical
1800-1849Byron to John Murray, 15 July 1817: 'I lent [M. G.] Lewis who is at Venice ... your extracts from Lalla Rookh -- & Man...Matthew Gregory Lewis Charles Robert MaturinManuelUnknown
1800-1849Byron to John Murray, 15 September 1817: 'I have read 'Lallah Rookh' -- but not with sufficient attention yet -- for I...George Gordon Lord Byron Thomas MooreLallah RookhPrint: Book
1800-1849Byron to John Murray, 15 September 1817, on what he perceives to be inferiority of contemporary authors to Pope: 'I am...George Gordon Lord Byron Thomas Moore[poems]Unknown
1800-1849Byron to John Murray, 15 September 1817, on what he perceives to be inferiority of contemporary authors to Pope: 'I am...George Gordon Lord Byron Alexander Pope[poems]Unknown
1800-1849Byron to John Murray, 15 September 1817, on what he perceives to be inferiority of contemporary authors to Pope: 'I am...George Gordon Lord Byron George Gordon Lord Byron[poems]Unknown
1800-1849Byron to John Murray, 12 October 1817: 'In Coleridge's life I perceive an attack upon the then Committee of D[rury] L[...George Gordon Lord Byron Samuel Taylor ColeridgeBiographia LiterariaPrint: Book
1800-1849Byron to John Murray, 12 October 1817: 'I heard Mr. Lewis translate verbally some scenes of Goethe's Faust ... last Su...Matthew Gregory Lewis Johann Wolfgang von GoetheFaustUnknown
1800-1849Byron to John Murray, 12 October 1817: 'Of the Prometheus of AEschylus I was passionately fond as a boy - (it was one ...George Gordon Lord Byron Aeschylus PrometheusPrint: Book
1800-1849Byron to Richard Belgrave Hoppner, 15 December 1817: 'I think your Elegy a remarkably good one ... I do not know wheth...George Gordon Lord Byron Richard Belgrave HoppnerElegyManuscript: Unknown
1800-1849Byron to John Murray, 20 February 1818, thanking him for parcel of books: 'The books I have read, or rather am reading...George Gordon Lord Byron Rev. William BeloeThe Sexagenarian, or Recollections of a Literary LifePrint: Book
1800-1849Byron to John Murray, 20 February 1818, thanking him for parcel of books: 'With the Reviews I have been much entertain...George Gordon Lord Byron [Reviews]Print: Serial / periodical
1800-1849Byron to Samuel Rogers, 3 March 1818: 'I read my death in the papers, which was not true.'George Gordon Lord Byron [obituary]Print: Newspaper
1800-1849Byron to John Murray, 25 March 1818: 'Rose's Animali I never saw till a few days ago ...'George Gordon Lord Byron William Stewart RoseThe Court and Parliament of Beasts, freely translated from the Animali Parlanti of CastiUnknown
1800-1849Byron to Douglas Kinnaird, 15 July 1818: '... I see by the papers that Captain Lew Chew [ie Captain Sir Murray Maxwell...George Gordon Lord Byron [Italian Gazettes]Print: Newspaper
1800-1849Byron to John Murray, 17 July 1818: 'I have seen one or two late English publications -- which are no great things --e...George Gordon Lord Byron Walter ScottRob RoyPrint: Book
1800-1849Byron to John Cam Hobhouse, 30 September 1818: "' saw the other day by accident your "Historical &c." -- the Essay [on...George Gordon Lord Byron John Cam HobhouseHistorical Illustrations of the Fourth Canto of Childe HaroldPrint: Book
1800-1849Byron to John Murray, 24 November 1818, explaining reasons for animosity toward Robert Southey: 'I have read his revie...George Gordon Lord Byron Review of Leigh Hunt, FoliagePrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849Byron to John Murray, 24 November 1818, thanking him for books sent (including new edition of Isaac Disraeli, "The Lit...George Gordon Lord Byron Isaac DisraeliThe Literary CharacterPrint: Book
1800-1849Byron to John Murray, 24 November 1818, thanking him for books sent (including new edition of Isaac Disraeli, "The Lit...George Gordon Lord Byron Isaac DisraeliThe Literary CharacterPrint: Book
1800-1849Byron to John Cam Hobhouse, 12 December 1818, on Hobhouse's election campaign: 'I saw your late Speech in Galignani's ...George Gordon Lord Byron Galignani's newspaperPrint: Newspaper
1800-1849Byron to the Editor of Galingani's Messenger, 27 April 1819: 'Sir, -- In various numbers of your Journal -- I have see...George Gordon Lord Byron Galignani's MessengerPrint: Advertisement, Newspaper
1800-1849Byron to John Murray, 18 May 1819: 'I have read Parson Hodgson's "Friends" in which he seems to display his knowledge ...George Gordon Lord Byron Francis HodgsonThe Friends: a PoemUnknown
1800-1849Byron to John Cam Hobhouse, 3 June 1819, from Ferrara: 'In looking over the M.S. of Ariosto today -- I found at the bo...George Gordon Lord Byron Ludovico AriostoOrlando FuriosoManuscript: Unknown
1800-1849Byron to John Cam Hobhouse, 3 June 1819, from Ferrara: 'In looking over the M.S. of Ariosto today -- I found at the bo...George Gordon Lord Byron Count Vittorio Alfieri[marginalia]Manuscript: Unknown, marginal note in MS of Ariosto, Orlando Furioso
1800-1849Byron to Richard Belgrave Hoppner, 6 June 1819: 'I found ... such a pretty epitaph in the Certosa Cimetery -- or rathe...George Gordon, Lord Byron n/an/aManuscript: Unknown, tombstone epitaphs
1800-1849Byron to Lady Byron, 20 July 1819: 'I tried to discover for Leigh Hunt some traces of Francesca [character in Dante's ...George Gordon Lord Byron Benvenuto da ImolaCommentary on Dante, CommediaManuscript: Unknown
1800-1849Byron to Countess Teresa Guiccioli, 23 August 1819, about her copy of Italian translation of Corinne: 'I have read thi...George Gordon Lord Byron Madame Germaine de Stael-HolsteinCorinnePrint: Book
1850-1899'George Acorn, growing up in extreme poverty in London's East End, scraped together 31/2 d to buy a used copy of David...George Acorn Charles DickensDavid CopperfieldPrint: Book
1800-1849'[Hugh Miller's] literary style was out of date: in 1834 he alluded to "my having kept company with the older English ...Hugh Miller Joseph AddisonPrint: Book, Serial / periodical
1800-1849'[Hugh Miller's] literary style was out of date: in 1834 he alluded to "my having kept company with the older English ...Hugh Miller Alexander PopePrint: Book
1800-1849Byron to Countess Teresa Guiccioli, '[After Feb 7, 1820?]' (translated from Italian) : 'I have read the "few lines" of...George Gordon Lord Byron Countess Teresa Guiccioli[letter]Manuscript: Letter
1800-1849'[Hugh Miller's] literary style was out of date: in 1834 he alluded to "my having kept company with the older English ...Hugh Miller [probably William] RobertsonPrint: Book
1600-1699And a Sermon of Mr. H. Hickman's at Oxford, much moved her (on Isa. 27. 11. It is a people of no understanding, theref...Margaret Charlton Unknown
1800-1849Byron to William Bankes, 26 February 1820: 'I have more of Scott's novels (for surely they are Scott's) since we met, ...George Gordon Lord Byron Walter Scott[novels]Print: BookManuscript: Letter
1800-1849Byron to William Bankes, 26 February 1820: 'I have more of Scott's novels (for surely they are Scott's) since we met, ...George Gordon Lord Byron Walter Scott[poems]Print: BookManuscript: Letter
1600-1699When I was at any time from home, she would not pray in the Family, though she could not endure to be without it. She ...Margaret Baxter [unknown]Print: Book
1800-1849Byron to John Murray, 3 March 1820: 'Pray send me Walter Scott's new novels ... I read some of his former ones at leas...George Gordon Lord Byron Walter ScottThe Bride of LammermoorPrint: BookManuscript: Letter
1800-1849Byron to John Murray, 3 March 1820: 'Pray send me Walter Scott's new novels ... I read some of his former ones at leas...George Gordon Lord Byron Walter ScottA Legend of MontrosePrint: Book
1800-1849Byron to John Cam Hobhouse, 29 March 1820: 'I congratulate you on your change of residence, which I perceive by the pa...George Gordon Lord Byron [newspapers]Print: Newspaper
1800-1849Byron to Richard Belgrave Hoppner, 25 May 1820: 'A German named Rupprecht has sent me heaven knows why several Deutsch...George Gordon Lord Byron German periodicalsPrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849Byron to John Murray, 7 June 1820: '[Goethe's] Faust I never read -- for I don't know German -- but Matthew Monk Lewis...Matthew Gregory Lewis Johann Wolfgang von GoetheFaustPrint: Book
1800-1849Byron to Thomas Moore, 9 June 1820; 'Galignani has just sent me the Paris edition of your works (which I wrote to orde...George Gordon Lord Byron Thomas MooreWorksPrint: Book
1800-1849Byron to Thomas Moore, 9 June 1820; 'I have just been turning over Little, which I knew by heart in 1803, being then i...George Gordon Lord Byron Thomas MoorePoems of the Late Thomas LittlePrint: Book
1800-1849Byron to Thomas Moore, 9 June 1820; 'I have just been turning over Little, which I knew by heart in 1803, being then i...George Gordon Lord Byron Thomas MoorePoems of the Late Thomas LittlePrint: Book
1800-1849Byron to John Murray, 17 July 1820, on books used in research for Marino Faliero, Doge of Venice: 'I have consulted Sa...George Gordon Lord Byron Marino Sanuto"Italian history of the Doges of Venice"Print: Book
1800-1849Byron to John Murray, 17 July 1820, on books used in research for Marino Faliero, Doge of Venice: 'I have consulted Sa...George Gordon Lord Byron unknown"Siege of Zara"Print: Book
1800-1849Byron to John Murray, 17 July 1820, on books used in research for Marino Faliero, Doge of Venice: 'I have consulted Sa...George Gordon Lord Byron Pierre Antoine DaruunknownPrint: Book
1800-1849Byron to John Murray, 17 July 1820, on books used in research for Marino Faliero, Doge of Venice: 'I have consulted Sa...George Gordon Lord Byron Jean Charles SismondiHistory of the Italian Republics in the Middle AgesPrint: Book
1800-1849Byron to John Murray, 22 July 1820, about books received: 'the diary of an Invalid good and true bating a few mistakes...George Gordon Lord Byron Henry MatthewsDiary of an InvalidPrint: Book
1800-1849Byron to Countess Teresa Guiccioli, on current reading habits, 24 July 1820 (translated from Italian): 'I like sometim...George Gordon Lord Byron unknown[books]Print: Book
1800-1849Byron to Countess Teresa Guiccioli, 24 July 1820 (translated from Italian): '... I read in the Gazette of an Irish la...George Gordon Lord Byron GazettePrint: Newspaper
1800-1849Byron to Countess Teresa Guiccioli, 7 August 1820 (translated from Italian): 'I am reading the second volume of the p...George Gordon Lord Byron Count Giulio PerticariDell'amor patrio di DantePrint: Book
1800-1849Byron to John Murray, 29 September 1820: '... on reading more of the 4 volumes on Italy [attacked by Byron in note to ...George Gordon Lord Byron Jane WaldieSketches Descriptive of ItalyPrint: Book
1800-1849Byron to Douglas Kinnaird, 26 October 1820: 'I have read lately several speeches of Hobhouse in taverns -- his Eloquen...George Gordon Lord Byron John Cam Hobhouse[speeches]Unknown
1800-1849Byron to John Murray, 4 November 1820: 'I have read part of the Quarterly just arrived ...'George Gordon Lord Byron Quarterly ReviewPrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'Miss Hutchison Stirling is I believe about to submit to you a little story which I read at her request some time ago ...Margaret Oliphant Amelia Hutchison StirlingMonsieur le ComteManuscript: Book in MS
1850-1899'Is it right to ask who was the author of a very short contribution called I think Tea at the farm, or some such name?...Margaret Oliphant Harriette CheapeTea at the MainsPrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'I should like to say my mind about Louis Stevenson's Wrecker and the Naulakhka - both of which are striking instances...Margaret Oliphant Robert Louis StevensonWreckerPrint: Book
1850-1899'I should like to say my mind about Louis Stevenson's Wrecker and the Naulakhka - both of which are striking instances...Margaret Oliphant Rudyard KiplingNaulakhaPrint: Book
1850-1899'May I say that the new story in the Magazine begins very well? - the incident is striking and I think quite original,...Margaret Oliphant Sarah GrandSingularly DeludedPrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'I see a delightful account of the origin of Bon Gaultier's parody of Locksley Hall in last night's St James's' by Sir...Margaret Oliphant St James'sPrint: Newspaper, Serial / periodical
1850-1899'As for Mona Maclean I am afraid I could not say more than that it is a cleverish very youthful book, the author of wh...Margaret Oliphant Graham TraversMona Maclean: Medical StudentPrint: Book, Serial / periodical
1850-1899'As for Mona Maclean I am afraid I could not say more than that it is a cleverish very youthful book, the author of wh...Margaret Oliphant F Marion CrawfordPrint: Book, Serial / periodical
1850-1899'I see in the papers that that man Walter Scott is going to bring out shortly a collection of Anglicized versions of e...Margaret Oliphant Print: Advertisement, Newspaper
1850-1899'[...] how extremely sorry I am for your great loss in Mr. Henderson. I saw a mention of him [Mr. Henderson] in the At...Margaret Oliphant Print: Advertisement, Newspaper, Serial / periodical
1850-1899'The manager here Mr. Simpson hearing what I said of it [George Chesney's "The Battle of Dorking"] took a proof home a...[?George] Simpson George T ChesneyBattle of DorkingManuscript: Sheet, Proofs of aricle
1850-1899'I am much mistaken if the appearance of the article 'The Battle of Dorking' does not mark an epoch in the history of ...G.C. Swayne George T ChesneyBattle of DorkingPrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 4 January 1821: ' ... out of spirits -- read the papers ...'George Gordon Lord Byron papersPrint: Newspaper
1800-1849Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 4 January 1821, having remarked how case of murder in papers men...George Gordon Lord Byron [poetry]Unknown
1800-1849Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 4 January 1821: 'Came home at eleven [pm] ... Read a Life of Leo...George Gordon Lord Byron Guiseppe BossiDel Cenacolo do Leonardo da Vinci OR Delle Opinioni di Leonardo da VinciPrint: BookUnknown
1800-1849Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 5 January 1821: 'Read the conclusion, for the fifitieth time (I ...George Gordon Lord Byron Walter ScottTales of my Landlord (3rd series)Print: Book
1800-1849Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 5 January 1821: 'Read Mitford's History of Greece -- Xenophon's ...George Gordon Lord Byron William MitfordHistory of GreecePrint: Book
1800-1849Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 5 January 1821: 'Read Mitford's History of Greece -- Xenophon's ...George Gordon Lord Byron XenophonRetreat of the Ten ThousandPrint: Book
1800-1849Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 5 January 1821: '[after visit to friends at 11pm] Came home -- r...George Gordon Lord Byron XenophonRetreat of the Ten ThousandPrint: Book
1800-1849Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 5 January 1821: 'Ordered Fletcher (at four o'clock this afternoo...George Gordon Lord Byron Francis Bacon"apophthegms"Manuscript: Unknown, Copied by William Fletcher (reader's valet).
1850-1899'"The Battle of Dorking" is written so well that I wd. gladly have written it, supposing that I had the knowledge. Th...Richard Doddridge Blackmore George T ChesneyBattle of DorkingPrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 6 January 1821: 'Read Spence's Anecdotes ... Corrected blunders ...George Gordon Lord Byron Francis Bacon"apophthegms"Manuscript: Unknown, Copied by William Fletcher (reader's valet).
1800-1849Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 6 January 1821: 'Read Spence's Anecdotes ... Corrected blunders ...George Gordon Lord Byron Joseph SpenceAnecdotesPrint: BookManuscript: Unknown
1800-1849Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 6 January 1821: Read Spence's Anecdotes ... Corrected blunders i...George Gordon Lord Byron William MitfordHistory of GreecePrint: Book
1800-1849Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 6 January 1821: 'Turned to a passage in Guinguene [sic] -- ditto...George Gordon Lord Byron Pierre Louis GingueneHistoire Litteraire de l'ItaliePrint: Book
1800-1849Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 6 January 1821: 'Turned to a passage in Guinguene [sic] -- ditto...George Gordon Lord Byron Lord HollandLope de VegaPrint: Book
1800-1849Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 6 January 1821: 'Came home [after going visiting at 8pm], and re...George Gordon Lord Byron William MitfordHistory of GreecePrint: Book
1800-1849Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 7 January 1821: 'Read Spence, and turned over Roscoe, to find a ...George Gordon Lord Byron Joseph SpenceAnecdotesPrint: Book
1800-1849Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 7 January 1821: 'Read Spence, and turned over Roscoe, to find a ...George Gordon Lord Byron William RoscoeThe Life of Lorenzo de Medici, called the Magnificent OR The Life and Pontificate of Leo the TenthPrint: Book
1800-1849Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 7 January 1821: 'Read the 4th. vol of W. Scott's second series o...George Gordon Lord Byron Walter ScottTales of my Landlord (2nd series)Print: Book
1800-1849Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 7 January 1821: 'Dined. Read the Lugano Gazette. Read -- I forg...George Gordon Lord Byron Lugano GazettePrint: Newspaper
1800-1849Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 7 January 1821: 'Dined. Read the Lugano Gazette. Read -- I forg...George Gordon Lord Byron unknownunknownUnknown
1800-1849Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 7 January 1821: 'It wants half an hour of midnight ... Turned ov...George Gordon Lord Byron unknown[books]Print: Book
1800-1849Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 8 January 1821: 'Came home [from ?Guicciolis', where visited at ...George Gordon Lord Byron William MitfordHistory of GreecePrint: Book
1800-1849Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 8 January 1821: 'Came home [from ?Guicciolis', where visited at ...George Gordon Lord Byron Walter ScottRob RoyPrint: Book
1800-1849Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 9 January 1821: 'Dined. Read Johnson's "Vanity of Human Wishes"...George Gordon Lord Byron Samuel JohnsonThe Vanity of Human WishesPrint: Book
1800-1849Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 10 January 1821: 'Looked over accounts. Read Campbell's Poets -...George Gordon Lord Byron accountsManuscript: Unknown
1800-1849Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 10 January 1821: 'Looked over accounts. Read Campbell's Poets -...George Gordon Lord Byron Thomas CampbellSpecimens of the British Poets (including prefatory Essay on English Poetry)Print: BookUnknown
1800-1849Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 10 January 1821: '[after going out to hear music] Came home -- ...George Gordon Lord Byron Thomas CampbellSpecimens of the British Poets (including prefatory Essay on English Poetry)Print: BookUnknown
1800-1849Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 10 January 1821: 'Midnight. I have been turning over different L...George Gordon Lord Byron variousLives of poetsPrint: BookUnknown
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Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 10 January 1821: 'Midnight. I have been turning over different L...George Gordon Lord Byron Alexander PopeunknownPrint: Book
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Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 10 January 1821: 'Midnight. I have been turning over different L...George Gordon Lord Byron John DrydenunknownPrint: Book
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Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 10 January 1821: 'Midnight. I have been turning over different L...George Gordon Lord Byron Samuel Johnsonunknown
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Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 10 January 1821: 'Midnight. I have been turning over different L...George Gordon Lord Byron Thomas GrayunknownPrint: Book
1800-1849Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 11 January 1821: 'Read the letters ... Dined ...'George Gordon Lord Byron lettersManuscript: Letter
1800-1849Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 11 January 1821: 'Dined ... Went out -- returned ... read Poets,...George Gordon Lord Byron [Poets]Print: Book
1800-1849Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 11 January 1821: 'Dined ... Went out -- returned ... read Poets,...George Gordon Lord Byron Joseph SpenceAnecdotesPrint: Book
1800-1849Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 11 January 1821: 'In reading, I have just chanced upon an expres...George Gordon Lord Byron Thomas CampbellSpecimens of the British Poets (including prefatory Essay on English Poetry)Print: Book
1800-1849Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 11 January 1821, on visit to plain of Troy in 1810: ' ... I read...George Gordon Lord Byron Anon.Homer Travestie; Being a new translation of that great poet (1720) OR A Burlesque Translation of Homer (3rd edn of same piece, 1770)Print: Book
1800-1849Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 12 January 1821: 'Read the Poets -- English that is to say -- ou...George Gordon Lord Byron Thomas CampbellSpecimens of the British Poets (including prefatory Essay on English Poetry)Print: Book
1800-1849Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 12 January 1821: 'How strange are my thoughts! -- The reading of...George Gordon Lord Byron John MiltonSabrina FairPrint: Book
1800-1849Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 12 January 1821: 'Midnight. Read the Italian translation by Guid...George Gordon Lord Byron Franz GrillparzerSapphoPrint: Book
1800-1849Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 12 January 1821: 'I have read ... much less of Goethe, and Schil...George Gordon Lord Byron Johann Wolfgang von GoetheunknownPrint: Book
1800-1849Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 12 January 1821: 'I have read ... much less of Goethe, and Schil...George Gordon Lord Byron SchillerunknownPrint: Book
1800-1849Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 12 January 1821: 'I have read ... much less of Goethe, and Schil...George Gordon Lord Byron Christoph Martin WielandunknownPrint: Book
1800-1849Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 13 January 1821: 'Sketched the outline and Drams. Pers. of an in...George Gordon Lord Byron William MitfordHistory of GreecePrint: Book
1800-1849Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 14 January 1821: 'Turned over Seneca's tragedies. Wrote the ope...George Gordon Lord Byron SenecatragediesPrint: Book
1800-1849Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 14 January 1821: 'Read Diodorus Siculus -- turned over Seneca, a...George Gordon Lord Byron SenecatragediesPrint: Book
1800-1849Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 14 January 1821: 'Read Diodorus Siculus -- turned over Seneca, a...George Gordon Lord Byron Diodorus SiculusunknownPrint: Book
1800-1849Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 15 January 1821: '... dined -- dipped into a volume of Mitford's...George Gordon Lord Byron William MitfordHistory of GreecePrint: Book
1800-1849Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 15 January 1821: "In the year 1814, Moore ... and I were going t...George Gordon, Lord Byron n/aJavanese newspaperPrint: Newspaper
1800-1849Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 16 January 1821: 'Read -- rode -- fired pistols -- returned -- d...George Gordon Lord Byron unknownunknownUnknown
1800-1849Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 17 January 1821: 'Arrived a packet of books from England and Lom...George Gordon Lord Byron unknown[various books]Print: Book
1800-1849Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 18 January 1821: '... the post arriving late, did not ride. Rea...George Gordon Lord Byron lettersManuscript: Letter
1800-1849Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 19 January 1821: 'I have been reading the Life, by himself and d...George Gordon Lord Byron Richard Lovell and Maria EdgeworthMemoirsPrint: Book
1800-1849Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 20 January 1821: 'Rode -- fired pistols. Read from Grimm's Corr...George Gordon Lord Byron Friedrich Melchior GrimmCorrespondence LitterairePrint: Book
1800-1849Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 21 January 1821: 'Dined -- visited -- came home -- read. Remark...George Gordon Lord Byron Friedrich Melchior GrimmCorrespondence LitterairePrint: Book
1800-1849Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 23 January 1821: 'Read -- rode -- fired pistols, and returned.'George Gordon Lord Byron unknownunknownUnknown
1800-1849Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 23 January 1821: 'Dined -- read. Went out at eight ...'George Gordon Lord Byron unknownunknownUnknown
1800-1849Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 25 January 1821: 'Answered [John] Murray's letter -- read -- lou...George Gordon Lord Byron unknownunknownUnknown
1800-1849Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 28 January 1821 entry: 'Past Midnight. One o' the clock. I hav...George Gordon Lord Byron Karl Wilhelm Friedrich SchlegelHistory of LiteraturePrint: Book
1800-1849Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 29 January 1821 entry: 'Read S[chlegel].'George Gordon Lord Byron Karl Wilhelm Friedrich SchlegelHistory of LiteraturePrint: Book
1800-1849Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 31 January 1821 entry: 'Midnight. I have been reading Grimm's Co...George Gordon Lord Byron Friedrich Melchior GrimmCorrespondence LitterairePrint: Book
1800-1849Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 2 February 1821, on tendency to attacks of thirst: 'I read in Ed...George Gordon Lord Byron Richard Lovell and Maria EdgeworthMemoirsPrint: Book
1800-1849Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 5 February 1821: ' ... dined -- read -- went out ...'George Gordon Lord Byron unknownunknownUnknown
1800-1849Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 5 February 1821: 'Read some of Bowles's dispute about Pope, with...George Gordon Lord Byron William Lisle BowlesvariousPrint: Serial / periodicalUnknown
1800-1849Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 13 February 1821: 'Today read a little in Louis B.'s Hollande ...'George Gordon Lord Byron Louis BuonaparteDocuments Historiques, et Reflexions sur le Gouvernement de la HollandePrint: Book, Serial / periodical
1800-1849Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 16 February 1821: 'At nine [pm] went out -- at eleven returned ....George Gordon Lord Byron Walter ScottTales of my LandlordPrint: Book
1800-1849Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 18 February 1821: 'In turning over Grimm's Correspondence to-day...George Gordon Lord Byron Friedrich Melchior GrimmCorrespondence LitterairePrint: Book
Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 20 February 1821: 'Within these few days I have read, but not wr...George Gordon Lord Byron unknownunknownUnknown
1800-1849Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 23 February 1821:'"... rode, &c. -- visited -- wrote nothing -- ...George Gordon Lord Byron Roman historyUnknown
1800-1849Byron to John Murray, 20 January 1821: 'I have just read in an Italian paper "That Ld. B. has a tragedy coming out" &c...George Gordon Lord Byron Italian newspaperPrint: NewspaperUnknown
1800-1849In letter to John Murray of 21 February 1821, Byron makes various comments and corrections, with page references, on W...George Gordon Lord Byron William TurnerJournal of a Tour in the LevantPrint: BookManuscript: Letter
1800-1849Byron to John Murray, 1 March 1821: 'Give my love to Sir W. Scott -- & tell him to write more novels; -- pray send out...George Gordon Lord Byron Walter Scott[various novels]Print: BookManuscript: Letter
1800-1849Byron to P. B. Shelley, 26 April 1821, on death of Keats after adverse reviews: 'I read the review of "Endymion" in th...George Gordon Lord Byron John Wilson Crokerreview of John Keats, EndymionPrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849Byron to P. B. Shelley, 26 April 1821: 'I read [The] Cenci ...'George Gordon Lord Byron Percy Bysshe ShelleyThe CenciUnknown
1700-1799Byron's "Dictionary" (journal), 1 May 1821: 'The moment I could read -- my grand passion was history ... I was particu...George Gordon Lord Byron unknownRoman HistoryPrint: Book
1700-1799Byron's "Dictionary" (journal), 1 May 1821, on studies with tutor (Paterson): 'With him I began Latin in Ruddiman's Gr...George Gordon Lord Byron RuddimanLatin GrammarPrint: Book
Byron to Francis Hodgson, 12 May 1821; ' ... your two poems [critical of Byron] have been sent. I have read them over...George Gordon Lord Byron Francis HodgsonChilde Harold's Monitor, or Lines occasioned by the Last Canto of Childe Harold, including Hints to other ContemporariesUnknown
1800-1849Byron to Francis Hodgson, 12 May 1821; ' ... your two poems [critical of Byron] have been sent. I have read them over...George Gordon Lord Byron Francis HodgsonSaeculo Mastix, or the Lash of the Age we live inUnknown
1800-1849Byron to Francis Hodgson, 12 May 1821; 'Two hours after the "Ave Maria", the Italian date of twilight ... I have ... d...George Gordon Lord Byron Francis HodgsonNotes to (?) Childe Harold's Monitor, or Lines Occasioned by the Last Canto of Childe Harold, including Hints to other ContemporariesUnknown
1800-1849Byron to Douglas Kinnaird, 29 June 1821: 'Instead of receiving a letter from you per post -- I have been reading one i...George Gordon Lord Byron Douglas Kinnairdletter (ie article?)Print: Newspaper
1800-1849Byron to John Murray, 29 June 1821: 'I have just read "John Bull's letter" -- it is diabolically well written -- & ful...George Gordon Lord Byron J. G. LockhartJohn Bull's Letter to Lord Byron
1800-1849Byron to Thomas Moore, 5 July 1821: 'I have had a curious letter to-day from a girl in England ... It is signed simply...George Gordon Lord Byron [N. N. A.] anon[private letter]Manuscript: Letter
Byron to Thomas Moore, 2 August 1821: 'You may probably have seen all sorts of attacks upon me in some gazettes in Eng...George Gordon Lord Byron A. A. Wattsseries of five articles alleging plagiarism in Byron's worksPrint: Serial / periodicalManuscript: Letter
1800-1849Byron to John Murray, 7 August 1821: 'I have just been turning over the homicide review of J. Keats ...'George Gordon Lord Byron John Wilson CrokerAdverse review of John Keats, EndymionPrint: Serial / periodicalManuscript: Letter
1800-1849Byron to John Murray, 23 August 1821, on sources for descriptions in Don Juan Canto III: 'much of the description of t...George Gordon Lord Byron Richard TullyNarrative of a Ten Years' Residence at the Court of TripoliPrint: BookManuscript: Letter
1800-1849Byron to Octavius Gilchrist, 5 September 1821, acknowledges receipt and reading of three pamphlets (by Gilchrist) rela...George Gordon Lord Byron Octavius Gilchristpamphlets
1700-1799Byron to John Murray, 9 October 1821, having requested that he send a Bible: 'I am a great reader and admirer of those...George Gordon Lord Byron Books of Old TestamentPrint: Book
1800-1849Byron's "Detached Thoughts" (15 October 1821-18 May 1822), on reading 'reviews', 15 October 1821: ' ... the first I ev...George Gordon Lord Byron unknown[reviews]Print: Serial / periodicalManuscript: Letter
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Byron's "Detached Thoughts" (15 October 1821-18 May 1822), on Harrow master Dr. Drury: 'My first Harrow verses (that i...George Gordon Lord Byron AeschylusPrometheus BoundPrint: BookManuscript: Letter
1800-1849Byron's "Detached Thoughts" (15 October 1821-18 May 1822), 5 November 1821: 'I have lately been reading Fielding over ...George Gordon Lord Byron Henry FieldingunknownPrint: Book
1800-1849Byron to Thomas Moore, 16 November 1821, on literary ambitions of an Irish visitor, John Taaffe: 'I read a letter of y...George Gordon Lord Byron Thomas Moore[letter]Manuscript: Letter
1800-1849Byron to John Murray, 24 November 1821, regarding his MS Memoirs: 'Is there anything in the M.S.S. that could be perso...Douglas Kinnaird George Gordon Lord ByronMemoirsManuscript: Unknown
1800-1849Byron to John Murray, 4 December 1821: 'By extracts in the English papers in your holy Ally -- Galignani's messenger -...George Gordon Lord Byron Galignani's MessengerPrint: Newspaper
1800-1849Byron to John Sheppard, who had sent him a prayer apparently written for him (Byron) by his (Sheppard's) late wife, 8 ...George Gordon, Lord Byron John Sheppard[unknown]Manuscript: Letter
Byron to Bryan Waller Procter, 1822, regarding Procter's drama Mirandola: ' ... "Mirandola" [was] not announced till t...George Gordon Lord Byron advertisement for "Mirandola"Print: Advertisement, Newspaper
1800-1849Byron to the editor of The Courier, 5 February 1822: 'Sir / -- I have read in your Journal some remarks of Mr. Southey...George Gordon Lord Byron Robert SoutheyletterPrint: Newspaper
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
1800-1849Byron to Thomas Moore, 1 March 1822: 'In the impartial Galignani I perceive an extract from Blackwood's Magazine, in w...George Gordon Lord Byron article originally appearing in Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, January 1822Print: Newspaper
1800-1849Byron to Edward J. Dawkins, 17 May 1822: "I return you the paper with many thanks for that and your letter. -- It is t...George Gordon, Lord Byron n/a[English newspaper]Print: Newspaper
1800-1849Byron to John Murray, 26 May 1822, giving directions for burial of his daughter Allegra at Harrow Church: 'Near the do...George Gordon Lord Byron Manuscript: epitaph
1800-1849Byron to Thomas Moore, 8 June 1822: 'I have read the recent article of Jeffrey in a faithful transcription of the impa...George Gordon Lord Byron Francis JeffreyunknownPrint: Newspaper
1800-1849Byron to Thomas Moore, 8 August 1822: 'I have not seen the thing you mention [John Watkins, Memoirs of the Life and Wr...George Gordon Lord Byron Advertisement for [John Watkins], Memoirs of the Life and Writings of the Right Honourable Lord ByronPrint: Advertisement
1800-1849Byron to the Rev Thomas Hall, 14 August 1822: 'I have observed in Galignani's paper lists of the Subscribers and Subsc...George Gordon Lord Byron Lists of subscribers to Irish poor relief fundsPrint: Newspaper
1800-1849Byron to John Murray, 9 October 1822, on his recent illness (painfully and ineffectually treated by a local doctor): '...George Gordon Lord Byron Thompsonbook of prescriptionsPrint: Book
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Byron to Augusta Leigh, 12 December 1822, on the inspiration for his play Werner: 'The Story "the German's tale" [in S...George Gordon Lord Byron Harriet LeeThe German's TalePrint: Book
1800-1849Byron to John Murray, 25 October 1822, sending back unread Quarterly Review (having decided to read no more reviews): ...George Gordon Lord Byron Galignani's MessengerPrint: Newspaper
1800-1849Byron to the Earl of Blessington, 5 April 1823: 'I return the C[ount] D'O[rsay]'s journal which is a very extraordinar...George Gordon Lord Byron Count D'OrsayJournalManuscript: Unknown
1800-1849Byron to Madame Sergent-Marceau, 5 May 1823 (translated from Italian): 'no present you might give me would be more wel...George Gordon Lord Byron Antoine Francois Sergent-MarceauNotices Historiques sur le General MarceauPrint: Book
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Byron to the Countess of Blessington, on Benjamin Constant's Adolphe, 6 May 1823: 'The first time I ever read it ... w...George Gordon Lord Byron Benjamin ConstantAdolphePrint: Book
1800-1849Byron to John Cam Hobhouse, 28 May 1823: "I read your various speeches in the Times."George Gordon, Lord Byron n/aThe TimesPrint: Newspaper
1800-1849Byron to Henri Beyle (who later wrote under the name Stendhal), 29 May 1823: 'Of your works I have seen only "Rome", e...George Gordon Lord Byron Henri BeyleRomePrint: Book
1800-1849Byron to Henri Beyle (who later wrote under the name Stendhal), 29 May 1823: 'Of your works I have seen only "Rome", e...George Gordon Lord Byron Henri BeyleLife of HaydnPrint: Book
1800-1849Byron to Henri Beyle (who later wrote under the name Stendhal), 29 May 1823: 'Of your works I have seen only "Rome", e...George Gordon Lord Byron Henri BeyleLife of MozartPrint: Book
1800-1849Byron to Henri Beyle (who later wrote under the name Stendhal), 29 May 1823: 'Of your works I have seen only "Rome", e...George Gordon Lord Byron Henri Beyleessay on Racine and Shakespeare
1800-1849Byron thanks J. J. Coulmann for books sent, July 1823: 'I have also to return thanks to you for having honoured me wit...George Gordon Lord Byron Amadee PichotEssai sur le Genie et le Caractere de Lord Byron par A[madee] P[icho]tPrint: Book
1800-1849Byron to Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 22 July 1823, thanking him for 'lines' forwarded by Charles Sterling and received...George Gordon Lord Byron Johann Wolfgang von GoetheunknownManuscript: Letter
1850-1899'Rose Macaulay's inner life was fostered from the start by parents who made her earliest years rich with stories and m...Grace Macaulay Maria Edgeworth'The Purple Jar' in Every Child's StoriesPrint: Book
1850-1899'Rose Macaulay's inner life was fostered from the start by parents who made her earliest years rich with stories and m...Grace Macaulay Ann Fraser TytlerLeila: or, The IslandPrint: Book
1850-1899'Rose Macaulay's inner life was fostered from the start by parents who made her earliest years rich with stories and m...Grace Macaulay Catherine SinclairHoliday HousePrint: Book
1850-1899'Rose Macaulay's inner life was fostered from the start by parents who made her earliest years rich with stories and m...Grace Macaulay The Wave and the BattlefieldPrint: Book
1850-1899'Later in the month (30 November), Grace writes that she is "reading Henry V to M. and R. [Margaret and Rose] in the e...Grace Macaulay William ShakespeareHenry VPrint: Book
1850-1899'In September and October [Grace Macaulay] is reading aloud to Margaret (ill with scarlet fever) Mrs Molesworth's The ...Grace Macaulay Mary Louisa MolesworthThe Cuckoo ClockPrint: Book
1850-1899'In September and October [Grace Macaulay] is reading aloud to Margaret (ill with scarlet fever) Mrs Molesworth's The ...Grace Macaulay Charlotte M. YongeThe Chaplet of PearlsPrint: Book
1850-1899'In September and October [Grace Macaulay] is reading aloud to Margaret (ill with scarlet fever) Mrs Molesworth's The ...Grace Macaulay Charlotte M. YongeThe Heir of RedclyffePrint: Book
1850-1899'[Grace Macaulay's diary] entry for 2 March 1890 records that she "read the boys parts of Settlers at Home and Otto Sp...Grace Macaulay Frederick MarryatThe Settlers in CanadaPrint: Book
1850-1899'[Grace Macaulay's diary] entry for 2 March 1890 records that she "read the boys parts of Settlers at Home and Otto Sp...Grace Macaulay Wilhelm HeyFunfzig Fabeln or Noch Funfzig FabelnPrint: Book
1850-1899'On 12 May [1890 Grace Macaulay] recalls that she "read part of Mill on Floss to children in aft, to their delight".'Grace Macaulay George EliotThe Mill on the FlossPrint: Book
1850-1899'Rose... remembers her father reading to them - Dickens, Scott, Robinson Crusoe, Shakespeare, Jane Austen, Meredith, T...George Macaulay Charles DickensPrint: Book
1850-1899'Rose... remembers her father reading to them - Dickens, Scott, Robinson Crusoe, Shakespeare, Jane Austen, Meredith, T...George Macaulay Walter ScottPrint: Book
1850-1899'Rose... remembers her father reading to them - Dickens, Scott, Robinson Crusoe, Shakespeare, Jane Austen, Meredith, T...George Macaulay Daniel DefoeRobinson CrusoePrint: Book
1850-1899'Rose... remembers her father reading to them - Dickens, Scott, Robinson Crusoe, Shakespeare, Jane Austen, Meredith, T...George Macaulay William ShakespearePrint: Book
1850-1899'Rose... remembers her father reading to them - Dickens, Scott, Robinson Crusoe, Shakespeare, Jane Austen, Meredith, T...George Macaulay Jane AustenPrint: Book
1850-1899'Rose... remembers her father reading to them - Dickens, Scott, Robinson Crusoe, Shakespeare, Jane Austen, Meredith, T...George Macaulay George MeredithPrint: Book
1850-1899'Rose... remembers her father reading to them - Dickens, Scott, Robinson Crusoe, Shakespeare, Jane Austen, Meredith, T...George Macaulay Henry FieldingTom JonesPrint: Book
1850-1899'Rose... remembers her father reading to them - Dickens, Scott, Robinson Crusoe, Shakespeare, Jane Austen, Meredith, T...George Macaulay Miguel de CervantesDon QuixotePrint: Book
1850-1899'Rose... remembers her father reading to them - Dickens, Scott, Robinson Crusoe, Shakespeare, Jane Austen, Meredith, T...George Macaulay Alexandre Dumas (pere)The Three MusketeersPrint: Book
'Rose... remembers her father reading to them - Dickens, Scott, Robinson Crusoe, Shakespeare, Jane Austen, Meredith, T...George Macaulay Charles DarwinThe Origin of SpeciesPrint: Book
1800-1849Byron to Scrope Berdmore Davies, 31 July 1810: 'I see by the papers 15th May my Satire [English Bards and Scotch Revie...George Gordon Lord Byron [newspapers]Print: Newspaper
1800-1849Byron to Scrope Berdmore Davies, 7 December 1818: 'We have all here been very much pleased with Hobhouse's book on Ita...George Gordon Lord Byron John Cam HobhouseHistorical Illustrations of the Fourth Canto of Childe HaroldPrint: Book
1800-1849Byron to Ben Crosby, 1 December 1807: ' ... as to any reviews of my precious Publication [Hours of Idleness] ... I hav...George Gordon Lord Byron Critical ReviewPrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849Byron to Ben Crosby, 1 December 1807: '... as to any reviews of my precious Publication [Hours of Idleness] ... I have...George Gordon Lord Byron The Eclectic ReviewPrint: Serial / periodical
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Byron to Wililiam Harness, 11 February 1808: 'I ... remember being favoured [while at school] with the perusal of many...George Gordon Lord Byron William HarnessunknownManuscript: Unknown
1800-1849Byron to Henry Gally Knight, 4 April 1815: 'Dear Knight -- I have read "Alashtar" with attention and great pleasure.'George Gordon Lord Byron Henry Gally KnightAlashtar, an Arabian TaleManuscript: Unknown
1800-1849Byron to Jean Antoine Galignani, 27 April 1819: 'In various numbers of your Journal -- I have seen mentioned a work en...George Gordon Lord Byron Galignani's MessengerPrint: Newspaper
1800-1849Byron to Jean Antoine Galignani, 28 April 1820: 'I perceive in a long advertisement of what you are pleased to call Ld...George Gordon Lord Byron Galignani's MessengerPrint: Newspaper
1800-1849Byron to John Hunt, 5 July 1823: 'I have seen the Blackwood [review of The Age of Bronze]: but I still think it a pity...George Gordon Lord Byron review of Byron, The Age of BronzePrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849Byron to the Chronica Greca, 23 May 1824 (translated from Italian): 'I have read for the first time yesterday an artic...George Gordon Lord Byron Hellenica ChronicaPrint: Newspaper
1850-1899George Gissing in diary, 9 August 1894: "'Read Hall Caine's 'The Manxman', which has just appeared in 1 vol., instead ...George Gissing Hall CaineThe ManxmanPrint: Book
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On publication of illustrated edition of Chambers's Encyclopedia in 1906: "G. K. Chesterton did not need the incentive...Gilbert Keith Chesterton Chambers's EncyclopediaPrint: Book
1850-1899"[George Bernard] Shaw had read Marx's Das Kapital (in French translation) and he was converted to socialism ..."George Bernard Shaw Karl MarxDas KapitalPrint: Book
1850-1899'[George] Saintsbury [who became a Tory journalist] read Marx as an undergraduate ...'George Saintsbury Karl MarxunknownPrint: Book
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'For Hugh Walpole ... Scott was a lifelong passion ... from a subscription library in Durham he proceeded to read all ...Hugh Walpole Walter ScottunknownPrint: Book
1900-1945'However many times [Hugh] Walpole read Scott, he never ceased to be moved, as in 1918, when he "read a little Heart o...Hugh Walpole Walter ScottThe Heart of MidlothianPrint: Book
1900-1945'Whatever little agues beset [Hugh] Walpole, there was always a cure in Scott: a cold would send him to bed, where he ...Hugh Walpole variousThe Abbotsford CorrespondencePrint: BookUnknown
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'Whatever little agues beset [Hugh] Walpole, there was always a cure in Scott: a cold would send him to bed, where he ...Hugh Walpole Walter ScottJournalPrint: Book
1900-1945'[Hugh] Walpole's last reading of Scott was in the month before his death, when he was endeavouring to finish Katherin...Hugh Walpole Walter ScottKatherine ChristianPrint: Book
1900-1945'In his Scrap Book in 1922 ... [George Saintsbury] recorded that he was 'reading for the hundredth time the Short Stor...George Saintsbury Walter ScottWandering Willie's Tale (in Redgauntlet)Print: Book
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E. M. Forster, "Jane Austen," in Abinger Harvest (1924): 'She is my favourite author! I read and re-read, the mouth o...Edward Morgan Forster Jane Austen[novels]Print: Book
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'Devoted ... was the ritual of Gordon Hewart, who rose to become Lord Chief Justice: he read Dickens every night of hi...Gordon Hewart Charles DickensunknownPrint: Book
1800-1849To our young ploughman, who, when I went to him where he was digging in atrench at the foot of the lawn, read the reso...A Young Ploughman [series of 'Resolutions' in manuscript, drawn up bManuscript: Sheet
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'Sordello (1840) was undoubtedly the toughest assignment [of Browning's works]. When Douglas Jerrold venured on it wh...Douglas Jerrold Robert BrowningSordelloPrint: Book
1900-1945'Margaret Wharton's parents were highly literate, and with their encouragement she entered a teaching training college...Margaret Wharton Thomas HardyTess of the d'UrbervillesPrint: Book
1900-1945'Margaret Wharton's parents were highly literate, and with their encouragement she entered a teaching training college...Margaret Wharton A.J. CroninHatter's CastlePrint: Book
1900-1945'Margaret Wharton's parents were highly literate, and with their encouragement she entered a teaching training college...Margaret Wharton Radclyffe HallThe Well of LonelinessPrint: Book
1850-1899'Just a little note of this night. I had been working very hard and came to my room very late and tired, but took up ...Margaret Oliphant Walter ScottFortunes of NigelPrint: Book
1850-1899'After reading at the Athenaeum a section of Ruskin's autobiography, "Praeterita", published in instalments between 18...Grant Duff John RuskinPraeteritaPrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'I think the praise of the "Saturday Review" and the "Times" - evidently both are much dissatisfied with the book [Geo...Margaret Oliphant Review of 'Felix Holt the Radical'Print: Newspaper
1850-1899'I think the praise of the "Saturday Review" and the "Times" - evidently both are much dissatisfied with the book [Geo...Margaret Oliphant Review of 'Felix Holt the Radical'Print: Newspaper
1850-1899... [H. G.] Wells relearnt French by reading Voltaire for himself in the early 1880s and through visits to France ...'H. G. Wells VoltaireunknownPrint: Book
1850-1899'Theodore Watts-Dunton remembers Algernon Swinburne's fondness for reading aloud during his last years at Watts-Dunton...Algernon Swinburne Charles Dickens[unknown]Print: Unknown
1850-1899'Theodore Watts-Dunton remembers Algernon Swinburne's fondness for reading aloud during his last years at Watts-Dunton...Algernon Swinburne Charles Lamb[unknown]Print: Unknown
1850-1899'Theodore Watts-Dunton remembers Algernon Swinburne's fondness for reading aloud during his last years at Watts-Dunton...Algernon Swinburne Charles Reade[unknown]Print: Unknown
1850-1899'Theodore Watts-Dunton remembers Algernon Swinburne's fondness for reading aloud during his last years at Watts-Dunton...Algernon Swinburne William Makepeace Thackeray[unknown]Print: Unknown
1850-1899"In 1862, as a 25-year-old rebel ... [Swinburne] took it on himself to scandalize a dinner party at Fryston. His tar...Algernon Swinburne Algernon SwinburneLes Noyades
1850-1899'In 1864 George Du Maurier witnessed ... [a] bravura performance [by Swinburne] at a bachelor party in the studio of t...Algernon Swinburne Algernon SwinburneunknownUnknown
1900-1945'I see that a new volume of the Dizzy life is announced.'Algernon Cecil Advertisement of book on Disraeli's Life in the Quarterly ReviewPrint: Advertisement, Serial / periodical
1900-1945' ... in Egypt during the Great War [E. M.] Forster applied himself to read [Henry] James. Struggling with What Maisi...Edward Morgan Forster Henry JamesWhat Maisie KnewPrint: Book
1850-1899'[George] Moore pinpointed his ... awakening interest in fiction to overhearing his parents discussing whether Lady Au...George Moore Mary Elizabeth BraddonLady Audley's SecretPrint: Book
1850-1899'[George] Moore pinpointed his ... awakening interest in fiction to overhearing his parents discussing whether Lady Au...George Moore Mary Elizabeth BraddonThe Doctor's WifePrint: Book
1850-1899'[George] Moore pinpointed his ... awakening interest in fiction to overhearing his parents discussing whether Lady Au...George Moore Percy Bysshe ShelleyunknownPrint: Book
1850-1899'[George] Moore pinpointed his ... awakening interest in fiction to overhearing his parents discussing whether Lady Au...George Moore George Gordon, Lord ByronunknownPrint: Book
1850-1899On visit to 50-year-old Dante Gabriel Rossetti, '[Hall] Caine, half his age, was treated to a reading of "The King's T...Dante Gabriel Rossetti Dante Gabriel RossettiThe King's TragedyUnknown
1850-1899The editor's footnote quotes a letter from Dante Gabriel Rossetti to Ellen Heaton: 24/11/1855 - "Much of my time in Pa...Dante Gabriel Rossetti Robert BrowningMen and WomenPrint: Book
1900-1945. . . [George] Sturt, Bennett's supposedly 'aesthetic' critic, was not particularly admiring of 'Anna'[of the Five Tow...George Sturt Arnold BennettAnna of the Five TownsPrint: Book
1850-1899'I have got two copies of "Felix Holt" - the last sent me by Mr Langford [...] I don't think I could say anything sati...Margaret Oliphant George EliotFelix Holt the RadicalPrint: Book
1850-1899'A propos of French literature, there is an advertisement of Lamartine in the papers which goes to one's heart, offeri...Margaret Oliphant [Advertisement of works by Lamartine]Print: Advertisement, Newspaper
1850-1899'Thank you for sending me the "Times" with the review. It is very gracious and good [...] I don't know whether I am a...Margaret Oliphant The TimesPrint: Newspaper
1850-1899'When I went to read the chapter about the many mansions, even then I seemed to be stifled again'.Margaret Oliphant BiblePrint: Book
1850-1899'I was reading of Charlotte Bronte the other day, and could not help comparing myself with the picture more or less as...Margaret Oliphant Elizabeth GaskellLife of Charlotte BrontePrint: Book
1850-1899I cut out of a newspaper and put in here a little poem of Swinburne whom I have never loved. It is dated three years ...Margaret Oliphant SwinburneThrenodyPrint: Newspaper
1850-1899'[I] sit through the evening with Denny alone generally, often reading a little Italian'.Margaret Oliphant [Italian]Unknown
1850-1899'What a wonderful record is that journal of Sir Walter's which dear Annie Ritchie has sent me - and with what love one...Margaret Oliphant Walter ScottJournalPrint: Book
1850-1899'I have found a little, not comfort, but fellowship in reading about Archbishop Tait. I did not like his book. I tho...Margaret Oliphant R.T. DavisonLife of Archibald Campbell TaitPrint: Book
1850-1899'I have been reading the life of Mr Symonds, and it makes me almost laugh (though little laughing is in my heart) to t...Margaret Oliphant John Addington SymondsLife of SymondsPrint: Book
1850-1899'Since seeing Captain Blackwood yesterday I have read over 'Night and Morning'.Margaret Oliphant Edward Bulwer LyttonNight and MorningPrint: Book
1850-1899'If you wish me to take up Mr Caird's Sermons I will be glad to do it. I think myself that there is a little want of ...Margaret Oliphant Edward CairdSermonsPrint: Book
1850-1899We are very curious and interested about "Adam Bede", which we see advertised and criticised in the "Athenaeum".'Margaret Oliphant AthenaeumPrint: Advertisement, Serial / periodical
1850-1899We are very curious and interested about "Adam Bede", which we see advertised and criticised in the "Athenaeum".'Margaret Oliphant unknownReview of Adam BedePrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'Thank you very much for the Magazine - I am charmed with "St Stephen's". It is Sir Edward's, of course.'Margaret Oliphant Blackwood's MagazinePrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'Thank you very much for the Magazine - I am charmed with "St Stephen's". It is Sir Edward's, of course.'Margaret Oliphant ?Edward ?Bulwer LyttonSt Stephen'sPrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'The table is heaped with picture-books, and Maggie, rather sentimental with a bad cold, is reading Mrs. Jameson's Leg...Maggie Oliphant A.B. JamesonLegends of the SaintsPrint: Book
1850-1899'I was extremely glad to get your MS [...] I have of course some small criticism to make, but none of importance [...]...Margaret Oliphant R.H. StoryManuscript: Sheet, work in MS
1850-1899'I am delighted with Kinglake: has he steered quite clear of action for libel, or is it not within the bounds of possi...Margaret Oliphant A.W. KinglakeInvasion of the CrimeaPrint: Book
1850-1899G. H. Hardy on Marie Corelli's Ardath: "'The most striking feature of the book ... is the colossal number of notes of ...G. H. Hardy Marie CorelliArdathPrint: Book
1850-1899'How delightful are Sir Edward's Essays. One seems to see his own special creation, the accomplished man of the world...Margaret Oliphant Edward Bulwer LyttonEssaysPrint: Book
1850-1899'I must say I think the "Woman in White" a marvel of workmanship. I found it bear a second reading very well, and ind...Margaret Oliphant Wilkie CollinsThe Woman in WhitePrint: Book
1850-1899'I must say I think the "Woman in White" a marvel of workmanship. I found it bear a second reading very well, and ind...Margaret Oliphant Wilkie CollinsThe Woman in WhitePrint: Book
1850-1899'Now about your literary questions, scoffer! Know that I read everything (except the politics, - I am a Radical, you...Margaret Oliphant David WingateMy Little WifePrint: Book
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" ... Gilbert Frankau ... read ... [Nat Gould's novels] while at Eton at the turn of the century ..."Gilbert Frankau Nat GouldnovelsPrint: Book
1900-1945'when Gladys [Teal] took a job at a draper's shop around 1930, a female assistant gave her a Marie Stopes book on birt...Gladys Teal Marie Stopes[book on birth control]Print: Book
1900-1945'Houseservant Margaret Powell was unusually daring: she left Marie Stopes, along with the Kama Sutra and Havelock Elli...Margaret Powell Marie Stopes[book on sex]Print: Book
1900-1945'Houseservant Margaret Powell was unusually daring: she left Marie Stopes, along with the Kama Sutra and Havelock Elli...Margaret Powell Havelock Ellis[book on sex]Print: Book
1900-1945'Houseservant Margaret Powell was unusually daring: she left Marie Stopes, along with the Kama Sutra and Havellock Ell...Margaret Powell Kama SutraPrint: Book
1850-1899From the editor?s footnote to a letter sent in November 1856: ?In a letter to Miss Heaton, Rossetti was no less enthu...Dante Gabriel Rossetti Elizabeth Barrett BrowningAurora LeighPrint: Book
1850-1899'... King Kalakava [of Hawaii] ... was an avid reader of [R. L.] Stevenson's romances ...'King Kalakava Robert Louis StevensonPrint: Unknown
1900-1945'In 1911 E. M. Forster read "with mingled joy and disgust" "A School History of England", which Kipling and C. R. L. F...Edward Morgan Forster Rudyard and C. R. L. Kipling and FletcherA School History of EnglandPrint: Book
1850-1899George Gissing, diary entry for 9 December 1894: 'Gloomy day. Read "Esther Waters". Some pathos and power in latter ...George Gissing George MooreEsther WatersPrint: Book
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'[George Bernard] Shaw was struck when reading St Paul's Epistles by their "inveterate crookedness of mind".'George Bernard Shaw St PaulEpistlesPrint: Book
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'[George Bernard] Shaw read the Bible all through; and he was much affected by Bunyan's "Pilgrim's Progress".'George Bernard Shaw The BiblePrint: Book
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'[George Bernard] Shaw read the Bible all through; and he was much affected by Bunyan's "Pilgrim's Progress".'George Bernard Shaw John BunyanPilgrim's ProgressPrint: Book
1900-1945'"Why do you want to break men's spirits for?" Shaw asked Henry James after reading his one-act play "The Saloon" in 1...George Bernard Shaw Henry JamesThe SaloonUnknown
1850-1899" ... tears filled ... [D. G. Rossetti's] eyes as he read about Guy Morville's death in The Heir of Redclyffe."Dante Gabriel Rossetti Charlotte M. YongeThe Heir of RedclyffePrint: Book
1850-1899'One of the privately printed copies [of "John Inglesant" was] ... read by Mrs Humphry Ward and her advocacy persuaded...Mary Augusta Ward J. Henry ShorthouseJohn Inglesant
1800-1849'The books which I am at present employed in reading to myself are in English, Plutarch's Lives and Milner's Ecclesias...Thomas Babington Macaulay PlutarchLivesPrint: Book
1800-1849'The books which I am at present employed in reading to myself are in English, Plutarch's Lives and Milner's Ecclesias...Thomas Babington Macaulay MilnerEcclesiastical HistoryPrint: Book
1800-1849'In my learning I do Xenophon every day'.Thomas Babington Macaulay XenophonPrint: Book
1900-1945' ... [Virginia Woolf] was liable to blame Mrs [Humphry] Ward for her own periods of sterility as a writer: "How I dis...Virginia Woolf Mrs Humphry WardPrint: Book
1800-1849In my learning I do Xenophon every day and twice a week the Odyssey, in which I am classed with Wilberforce.Thomas Babington Macaulay HomerThe OdysseyPrint: Book
1800-1849'We get by heart Greek grammar or Virgil every evening'.Thomas Babington Macaulay VirgilPrint: Book
1800-1849The books which I am reading to myself are [...] in French, Fenelon's Dialogues of the Dead.'Thomas Babington Macaulay FenelonDialogues of the DeadPrint: Book
1800-1849'I shall send you back the volumes of Madame de Genlis's [underline] petits romans [end underline] as soon as possible...Thomas Babington Macaulay Stephanie-Felicite de GenlisPrint: Book
1800-1849[Every Sunday] 'After breakfast we learn a chapter in the Greek Testament, that is with the aid of our Bibles, and wit...Thomas Babington Macaulay BiblePrint: Book
1800-1849'We dine almost as soon as we come back, and we are left to ourselves till afternoon church. During this time I employ...Thomas Babington Macaulay Print: Book
1800-1849'Hear what I have read since I came here. Hear and wonder! I have in the first place read Boccacio's Decameron, a tale...Thomas Babington Macaulay BoccacioDecameronPrint: Book
1800-1849'Everything here is going on in the common routine. The only things of peculiar interest are those which we get from t...Thomas Babington Macaulay Print: Newspaper
1900-1945'Nottinghamshire collier G.A.W. Tomlinson volunteered for repair shifts on weekends, when he could earn time-and-a-hal...G.A.W. Tomlinson Geoffrey ChaucerThe Canterbury TalesPrint: Book
1900-1945'Nottinghamshire collier G.A.W. Tomlinson volunteered for repair shifts on weekends, when he could earn time-and-a-hal...G.A.W. Tomlinson Charles LambPrint: Book
1900-1945'Nottinghamshire collier G.A.W. Tomlinson volunteered for repair shifts on weekends, when he could earn time-and-a-hal...G.A.W. Tomlinson Charles DarwinOn the Origin of SpeciesPrint: Book
1900-1945'Nottinghamshire collier G.A.W. Tomlinson volunteered for repair shifts on weekends, when he could earn time-and-a-hal...G.A.W. Tomlinson Oscar WildeBallad of Reading GaolPrint: Book
1900-1945'Nottinghamshire collier G.A.W. Tomlinson volunteered for repair shifts on weekends, when he could earn time-and-a-hal...G.A.W. Tomlinson Oliver GoldsmithThe Deserted VillagePrint: Book
1900-1945'When, during the 1926 miners' strike, [G.A.W. Tomlinson] read 'The Charge of the Light Brigade', an obvious political...G.A.W. Tomlinson Alfred Lord TennysonThe Charge of the Light BrigadePrint: Book
1900-1945[George Scott disliked the Communism of fellow journalist, Stan] 'He had read Das Kapital (or parts of it) and could t...Stan (acquaintance of George Scott) Karl MarxDas KapitalPrint: Book
1900-1945[George Scott disliked the Communism of fellow journalist, Stan] 'He had read Das Kapital (or parts of it) and could t...Stan (acquaintance of George Scott) Straight and Crooked ThinkingPrint: Book
1800-1849George Smith, A Memoir (London, 1902): 'The MS. of "Jane Eyre" was read by Mr Wiliams ... he brought it to me on a Sa...George Murray Smith Charlotte BronteJane EyreManuscript: Unknown
1800-1849J. G. Lockhart to a friend, 29 December 1847: 'I have finished the adventures of Miss Jane Eyre, and think her far the...John Gibson Lockhart Charlotte BronteJane EyrePrint: Book
1600-1699'Rereading, some twenty years later, correspondence from the 1650s collected at Swarthmore Hall, [George] Fox crossed ...George Fox Quaker correspondenceManuscript: Letter
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'George Scott left school and the boys' weeklies behind at fifteen: in barely a year he had absorbed enough Shaw, Well...George Scott George Bernard Shaw[unknown]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 Herbert George Wells[unknown]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 John Rodrigo Dos Passos[unknown]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 John Steinbeck[unknown]Print: Book
1900-1945'Girls in the top forms [at Roedean] were allowed to read ... in a small school library ... but ... [Margaret Cole] fo...Margaret Cole Thomas Babington MacaulayEssaysPrint: Book
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'Margaret Cole read early volumes of "The Girl's Own Paper" belonging to her mother (and found them dated and over-mor...Margaret Cole The Girl's Own PaperPrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849In ... [a] letter to Maria Lewis, of September 1840 ... [George Eliot] enthusiastically advised her to 'recommend to a...George Eliot [pseud] Sarah LewisWoman's MissionPrint: Book
1850-1899'[Mary St Leger Harrison] ... had the run of [Charles] Kingsley [her father]'s library, where she read history, philos...Mary St Leger Harrison philosophical textsPrint: Book
1850-1899'[Mary St Leger Harrison] ... had the run of [Charles] Kingsley [her father]'s library, where she read history, philos...Mary St Leger Harrison poetryPrint: Book
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'[Lady Frances Balfour's] father and mother both read poetry aloud ...'George Douglas Campbell poetry
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'[Lady Frances Balfour's] father and mother both read poetry aloud ...'Elizabeth Georgiana Leveson-Gower poetry
1850-1899"Angela Brazil ... was considerably disturbed by the pictures in [Foxe's Book of Martyrs]..."Angela Brazil John FoxeBook of Martyrs
1850-1899" .... when ... [Mark Pattison] ... met [Mrs Humphry Ward] as a girl of sixteen ... she was familiar ... with certain ...Mary Augusta Arnold John RuskinModern PaintersPrint: Book
1850-1899On advice of Mark Pattison, young Mrs Humphry Ward took up study of early Spanish, using Bodleian "'Spanish room'".Mary Augusta Arnold Texts in/on early SpanishPrint: Book
1900-1945'... [Margaret Cole's] reading at Girton in the early twentieth century influenced her development as a Socialist ... ...Margaret Cole J. A. HobsonThe Science of WealthPrint: Book
1900-1945"... [Margaret Cole's] reading at Girton in the early twentieth century influenced her development as a Socialist ... ...Margaret Cole H. G. WellsNew Worlds for OldPrint: Book
1900-1945"... [Margaret Cole's] reading at Girton in the early twentieth century influenced her development as a Socialist ... ...Margaret Cole H. G. WellsThe First Men in the MoonPrint: Book
1900-1945"A conversion narrative precisely illustrating ... [the] effects of reading in action is told by Margaret Smith, who s...Margaret Smith Votes for WomenPrint: Serial / periodical
1900-1945"In Holloway ... ['General' Drummond] read Jane Porter's The Scottish Chiefs and Samuel Smiles's Life and Labour."General Drummond Jane PorterThe Scottish ChiefsPrint: Book
1900-1945"In Holloway ... ['General' Drummond] read Jane Porter's The Scottish Chiefs and Samuel Smiles's Life and Labour."General Drummond Samuel SmilesLIfe and LabourPrint: Book
'As a boy George Acorn [an] East Londoner, read "all sorts and conditions of books from 'Penny Bloods' to George Eliot...George Acorn ['Penny Bloods']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
'As a boy George Acorn [an] East Londoner, read "all sorts and conditions of books from 'Penny Bloods' to George Eliot...George Acorn Robert Louis StevensonTreasure IslandPrint: 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
1800-1849Stephen Gill, "Copyright and the Publishing of Wordsworth, 1850-1900": "Many eminent Victorians -- George Eliot, Mill,...George Eliot William WordsworthpoetryPrint: Book
1850-1899Jonathan Rose, "How Historians Study Reader Response: or, What did Jo Think of Bleak House?": "George Acorn recalled t...George Acorn Charles DickensDavid CopperfieldPrint: Book
1850-1899'George Acorn read George Eliot at age nine, but "solely for the story. I used to skip the parts that moralized, or pa...George Acorn George Eliot[unknown]Print: Book
1900-1945'George Howell, bricklayer and trade unionist..."read promiscuously. How could it be otherwise? I had no real guide, w...George Howell John MiltonPrint: Book
1900-1945'George Howell, bricklayer and trade unionist..."read promiscuously. How could it be otherwise? I had no real guide, w...George Howell William ShakespearePrint: Book
1900-1945'George Howell, bricklayer and trade unionist..."read promiscuously. How could it be otherwise? I had no real guide, w...George Howell Alexander PopePrint: Book
1900-1945'George Howell, bricklayer and trade unionist..."read promiscuously. How could it be otherwise? I had no real guide, w...George Howell John DrydenPrint: Book
1900-1945'George Howell, bricklayer and trade unionist..."read promiscuously. How could it be otherwise? I had no real guide, w...George Howell George Gordon, Lord ByronPrint: Book
1900-1945'George Howell, bricklayer and trade unionist..."read promiscuously. How could it be otherwise? I had no real guide, w...George Howell Percy Bysshe ShelleyPrint: Book
1900-1945'George Howell, bricklayer and trade unionist..."read promiscuously. How could it be otherwise? I had no real guide, w...George Howell Robert BurnsPrint: Book
1900-1945'George Howell, bricklayer and trade unionist..."read promiscuously. How could it be otherwise? I had no real guide, w...George Howell Walter ScottPrint: Book
1900-1945'George Howell, bricklayer and trade unionist..."read promiscuously. How could it be otherwise? I had no real guide, w...George Howell Samuel Taylor ColeridgePrint: Book
1900-1945'George Howell, bricklayer and trade unionist..."read promiscuously. How could it be otherwise? I had no real guide, w...George Howell William WordsworthPrint: Book
1900-1945'George Howell, bricklayer and trade unionist..."read promiscuously. How could it be otherwise? I had no real guide, w...George Howell Robert SoutheyPrint: Book
1900-1945'George Howell, bricklayer and trade unionist..."read promiscuously. How could it be otherwise? I had no real guide, w...George Howell Edmund SpenserPrint: Book
1900-1945'George Howell, bricklayer and trade unionist..."read promiscuously. How could it be otherwise? I had no real guide, w...George Howell Geoffrey ChaucerPrint: Book
1900-1945'George Howell, bricklayer and trade unionist..."read promiscuously. How could it be otherwise? I had no real guide, w...George Howell Henry Wadsworth LongfellowPrint: Book
1900-1945'George Howell, bricklayer and trade unionist..."read promiscuously. How could it be otherwise? I had no real guide, w...George Howell William Cullen BryantPrint: Book
1900-1945[imaginative role play] 'One chauffeur's daughter alternated effortlessly between heroes and heroines: "I have plotted...Margaret Wharton Robert Louis StevensonTreasure IslandPrint: Book
1900-1945[imaginative role play] 'One chauffeur's daughter alternated effortlessly between heroes and heroines: "I have plotted...Margaret Wharton Charlotte BronteJane EyrePrint: Book
1900-1945[imaginative role play] 'One chauffeur's daughter alternated effortlessly between heroes and heroines: "I have plotted...Margaret Wharton Frederick MarryatMasterman Ready, or the Wreck in the PacificPrint: 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
1900-1945[imaginative role play] 'One chauffeur's daughter alternated effortlessly between heroes and heroines: "I have plotted...Margaret Wharton Arthur Conan DoyleSir NigelPrint: Book
1900-1945[imaginative role play] 'One chauffeur's daughter alternated effortlessly between heroes and heroines: "I have plotted...Margaret Wharton Richard Doddridge BlackmoreLorna DoonePrint: Book
1800-1849"And how fared the growth of this child's mind the while? Thanks to the care of his mother, who had sent him to the pe...Gerald Massey BiblePrint: Book
1800-1849"And how fared the growth of this child's mind the while? Thanks to the care of his mother, who had sent him to the pe...Gerald Massey John BunyanPilgrim's ProgressPrint: Book
1800-1849"And how fared the growth of this child's mind the while? Thanks to the care of his mother, who had sent him to the pe...Gerald Massey Daniel DefoeRobinson CrusoePrint: Book
1800-1849"And how fared the growth of this child's mind the while? Thanks to the care of his mother, who had sent him to the pe...Gerald Massey [Wesleyan magazines]Print: Serial / periodical
1800-1849"And how fared the growth of this child's mind the while? Thanks to the care of his mother, who had sent him to the pe...Gerald Massey [battle histories]Print: Book
1850-1899" ... to the coda of his copy of the Meditations of Marcus Aurelius Antoninus, 'depart, therefore, contented and in go...James Henry Leigh Hunt Marcus Aurelius AntoninusMeditationsPrint: Book
1700-1799H. J. Jackson describes and discusses ninth edition copy (1754) of Thomas Gray, Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard ...General James Wolfe Thomas GrayElegy Written in a Country Churchyard
1800-1849"Walter Savage Landor's copy of Conversations of Lord Byron with the Countess of Blessington takes issue with Byron's ...Walter Savage Landor Conversations of Lord Byron with the Countess of BlessingtonPrint: Book
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" ... Macaulay ... did not annotate his copies of Jane Austen except to record the dates of reading and to correct a v...Thomas Babington Macaulay Jane AustennovelsPrint: Book
1800-1849"And now, for the first time in his life, he met with plenty of books, reading all that came in his way, from 'Lloyd's...Gerald Massey LloydLloyd's Penny TimesPrint: Newspaper
1800-1849"And now, for the first time in his life, he met with plenty of books, reading all that came in his way, from 'Lloyd's...Gerald Massey William CobbettWorksPrint: Book
1800-1849"And now, for the first time in his life, he met with plenty of books, reading all that came in his way, from 'Lloyd's...Gerald Massey French without a MasterPrint: Book
1800-1849"And now, for the first time in his life, he met with plenty of books, reading all that came in his way, from 'Lloyd's...Gerald Massey [English history]Print: Book
1800-1849"And now, for the first time in his life, he met with plenty of books, reading all that came in his way, from 'Lloyd's...Gerald Massey [Roman history]Print: Book
1800-1849"And now, for the first time in his life, he met with plenty of books, reading all that came in his way, from 'Lloyd's...Gerald Massey [Grecian history]Print: Book
1800-1849"Now I began to think that the crown of all desire, and the sum of all existence, was to read and get knowledge. Read...Gerald Massey [books]Print: Book
1800-1849"Now I began to think that the crown of all desire, and the sum of all existence, was to read and get knowledge. Read...Gerald Massey [books]Print: Book
1800-1849"As an errand-boy I had, of course, many hardships to undergo, and to bear with much tyranny; and that led me into rea...Gerald Massey Tom PaineThe Rights of ManPrint: Book
1800-1849"As an errand-boy I had, of course, many hardships to undergo, and to bear with much tyranny; and that led me into rea...Gerald Massey VolneyPrint: Book
1800-1849"As an errand-boy I had, of course, many hardships to undergo, and to bear with much tyranny; and that led me into rea...Gerald Massey HowittPrint: Book
1800-1849"As an errand-boy I had, of course, many hardships to undergo, and to bear with much tyranny; and that led me into rea...Gerald Massey Louis BlancPrint: Book
1800-1849H. J. Jackson notes annotations by Macaulay made in 1836 in his copy of Joseph Milner, History of the Church of Christ...Thomas Babington Macaulay Joseph MilnerHistory of the Church of ChristPrint: Book
1800-1849'I have likewise read "Gil Blas", with unbounded admiration of the abilities of Le Sage.'Thomas Babington Macaulay Le SageGil BlasPrint: Book
1800-1849?Malden and I have read Thalaba together, and are proceeding to the Curse of Kehama.?Thomas Babington Macaulay Robert SoutheyThalabaPrint: Book
1800-1849'I have read the greater part of the History of James I and Mrs. Montagues?s essay on Shakespeare, and a great deal of...Thomas Babington Macaulay Elizabeth Montague[essay on Shakespeare]Print: Book
1800-1849'I have read the greater part of the History of James I and Mrs. Montagues?s essay on Shakespeare, and a great deal of...Thomas Babington Macaulay unknownHistory of James IPrint: Book
1800-1849'I have read the greater part of the History of James I and Mrs. Montagues?s essay on Shakespeare, and a great deal of...Thomas Babington Macaulay Edward GibbonDecline and Fall of the Roman EmpirePrint: Book
1800-1849'John Smith, Bob Hankinson, and I, went over the "Hebrew Melodies" together'.Thomas Babington Macaulay George Gordon, Lord ByronHebrew MelodiesPrint: Book
1800-1849'In the year 1816 we were at Brighton for the summer holidays, and he read to us "Sir Charles Grandison". It was alwa...Thomas Babbington Macaulay Samuel RichardsonSir Charles GrandisonPrint: Book
1800-1849'He [Macaulay] was so fired up with reading Scott?s "Lay" and "Marmion", the former of which he got entirely, and the ...Thomas Babington Macaulay Walter ScottLay of the Last MinstrelPrint: Book
1800-1849'He [Macaulay] was so fired up with reading Scott?s "Lay" and "Marmion", the former of which he got entirely, and the ...Thomas Babington Macaulay Walter ScottMarmionPrint: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia in Macaulay's copy of Xenophon's "Anabasis"]: 'Decidedly his best work. Dec 17 1835'Thomas Babington Macaulay XenophonAnabasisPrint: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia] 'Most certainly. February 24, 1837' Thomas Babington Macaulay XenophonAnabasisPrint: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia] 'One of the very first works that antiquity has left us. Perfect in its kind. October 9, 1837'.Thomas Babington Macaulay XenophonAnabasisPrint: Book
1800-1849'I read Plautus four times at Calcutta. The first in November and December 1834. The second in January and the begin...Thomas Babington Macaulay PlautusunknownPrint: Book
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1800-1849H. J. Jackson discusses William George Thompson's annotations to Joanna Southcott, The Strange Effects of Faith (inclu...William George Thompson Joanna SouthcottThe Strange Effects of Faith
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1700-1799H. J. Jackson discusses Granville Sharp's "tenacious, rigorous, and expansive" argumentative annotations in anonymous ...Granville Sharp Samuel EstwickConsiderations on the Negroe Cause, Commonly So Called
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H. J. Jackson notes observations by Leigh Hunt written into back of a copy of William Wycherley's Plays originally bel...James Leigh Hunt William WycherleyPlaysPrint: Book
1850-1899'A.E. Coppard, a laundrywoman's son who grew up in dire poverty, left school at nine, ascended the ranks of clerkdom a...Alfred Edgar Coppard anon[Deadeye Dick stories]Print: Serial / periodical
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'A.E. Coppard, a laundrywoman's son who grew up in dire poverty, left school at nine, ascended the ranks of clerkdom a...Alfred Edgar Coppard William Shakespeare[works]Print: Book
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'A.E. Coppard, a laundrywoman's son who grew up in dire poverty, left school at nine, ascended the ranks of clerkdom a...Alfred Edgar Coppard HomerOdysseyPrint: Book
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'A.E. Coppard, a laundrywoman's son who grew up in dire poverty, left school at nine, ascended the ranks of clerkdom a...Alfred Edgar Coppard William MorrisThe Earthly ParadisePrint: Book
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'A.E. Coppard, a laundrywoman's son who grew up in dire poverty, left school at nine, ascended the ranks of clerkdom a...Alfred Edgar Coppard Thomas HardyJude the ObscurePrint: Book
1700-1799"One of the interleaved British Library copies of the 1691 edition [of Gerard Langbaine's Account of the English Drama...George Steevens Thomas Percyannotations in Gerard Langbaine, An Account of the English Dramatic Poets (Oxford, 1691)
1700-1799"One of the interleaved British Library copies of the 1691 edition [of Gerard Langbaine's Account of the English Drama...George Steevens William Oldysannotations in Gerard Langbaine, An Account of the English Dramatic Poets (Oxford, 1691)
1500-1599Anthony Grafton, in "Discitur ut agatur: How Gabriel Harvey Read His Livy," notes that in 1590 Gabriel Harvey read Liv...Gabriel Harvey T. Livii PataviniRomanae historiae principis, Decades tres cum dimidiaPrint: Book
1500-1599Anthony Grafton, in "Discitur ut agatur: How Gabriel Harvey Read His Livy," notes that in 1590 Gabriel Harvey read Liv...Gabriel Harvey St AugustineDe Civitate DeiPrint: Book
1500-1599Anthony Grafton, in "Discitur ut agatur: How Gabriel Harvey Read His Livy," notes that in 1590 Gabriel Harvey read Liv...Gabriel Harvey Juan Luis VivesCommentary to St Augustine, De Civitate DeiPrint: Book
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Anthony Grafton, in "Discitur ut agatur: How Gabriel Harvey Read His Livy," notes Harvey's reading, and light annotati...Gabriel Harvey Niccolo MachiavelliThe Art of WarPrint: Book
1500-1599[MARGINALIA]:'The discouerie of his mistress, a false diamant. His sicknes, & Jealosie did not help the matter, but di...Gabriel Harvey George GascoigneThe PosiesPrint: Book
1900-1945'"Reflection: It is presumably a bad thing to look through articles, reviews, etc. to find one's own name. Yet I often...Virginia Woolf Times Literary Supplement, ThePrint: Newspaper, Serial / periodical
1900-1945'it was many, many years before any of us was able to look with unprejudiced eyes at anything Scotch again. Always exc...Gwen Raverat Walter Scott[novels]Print: Book
1900-1945'There were some problems which I never solved in all my youth. For instance, there was Gloucester's Natural Son in Ki...Gwen Raverat William ShakespeareKing LearPrint: Book
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'David Copperfield was puzzling, too. He was a 'posthumous child' and was born with a 'caul'. The French dictionary, t...Gwen Raverat Charles DickensDavid CopperfieldPrint: Book
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'David Copperfield was puzzling, too. He was a 'posthumous child' and was born with a 'caul'. The French dictionary, t...Gwen Raverat William Makepeace ThackerayHenry EsmondPrint: Book
1900-1945'Every time I re-read "Emma" I see more clearly that we must be somehow related to the Knightleys of Donwell Abbey; bo...Gwen Raverat Jane AustenEmmaPrint: Book
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'It was here, at No. 31, that I discovered Bewick, one afternoon while Aunt Etty was having her rest. I remember lying...Gwen Raverat Thomas BewickPrint: Book
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'One would be called upon to read aloud, say, Wordsworth's "Excursion" with her - Wordsworth was her religion - but on...Gwen Raverat William WordsworthExcursion, ThePrint: Book
1700-1799'My wife read the 20th and 21st numbers of "The Guardian" to me, which I think extremely good, the first of which show...Peggy Turner The GuardianPrint: Serial / periodical
1700-1799'in the even I wrote my London letters... also read the News paper... as I was a writing all the even my wife read "Cl...Peggy Turner Samuel RichardsonClarissaPrint: Unknown
1700-1799'My wife read part of "Clarissa Harlowe" to me in the even as I sat a-posting my book.'Peggy Turner Samuel RichardsonClarissaPrint: Book
1700-1799[while he was doing his accounts Turner's wife read aloud to him] 'the moving Scene of the Funeral of Miss Clarissa Ha...Peggy Turner Samuel RichardsonClarissaPrint: Book
1700-1799'in the Even my Wife and I read part of the Sermon preach'd... at the opening of St Peters Cornhill 1681.'Peggy Turner unknown sermonUnknown
1700-1799'My wife read to me in the Even 4 No. of the Freeholder.'Peggy Turner The FreeholderPrint: Serial / periodical
1700-1799'In the even my wife finished reading of "Clarissa Harlowe", which I look upon as a very well-wrote thing though it mu...Peggy Turner Samuel RichardsonClarissaPrint: Book
1850-1899[Marginalia]: p. 465 has a bookmark and marginal mark against item 'Regimen'; opposite the half-title there is referen...Magdalene Sharpe Erskine Alexander MacaulayA dictionary of medicine, designed for popular usePrint: Book
1850-1899'I have only now realised that the reason Blind Pew in "Treasure Island" frightened me so extremely was that I gave hi...Gwen Raverat Robert Louis StevensonTreasure IslandPrint: Book
1850-1899'The books [Uncle George] read to us were all in the romantic vein: Shakespeare's "Histories", Chaucer, Percy's "Reliq...George Darwin William Shakespeare[Histories]Print: Book
1850-1899'The books [Uncle George] read to us were all in the romantic vein: Shakespeare's "Histories", Chaucer, Percy's "Reliq...George Darwin Geoffrey ChaucerPrint: Book
1850-1899'The books [Uncle George] read to us were all in the romantic vein: Shakespeare's "Histories", Chaucer, Percy's "Reliq...George Darwin Walter Scott[novels]Print: Book
1850-1899'The books [Uncle George] read to us were all in the romantic vein: Shakespeare's "Histories", Chaucer, Percy's "Reliq...George Darwin (ed.) Thomas PercyReliques of Ancient English PoetryPrint: Book
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'[Gwen Raverat's father] was disgusted by Stendhal's "Le Rouge et le Noir" when I lent it to him; though I am still su...George Darwin Stendhal (pseud -Marie-Henri Beyle) Le Rouge et le NoirPrint: Book
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'I could read "The Daisy Chain" or "The Wide Wide World", and just take the religion as the queer habits of those sort...Gwen Raverat Charlotte Mary YongeThe Daisy ChainPrint: Book
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'I could read "The Daisy Chain" or "The Wide Wide World", and just take the religion as the queer habits of those sort...Gwen Raverat Susan WarnerThe Wide Wide WorldPrint: Book
1900-1945'I learnt with interest all about David and read Browning's "Saul" with "an intelligent scripture mistess".'Gwen Raverat Robert BrowningSaulPrint: Book
1900-1945'I learnt with interest all about David and read Browning's "Saul" with "an intelligent scripture mistess".'Gwen Raverat Bible, ThePrint: Book
1900-1945'[Hugh] Walpole spent all Sunday afternoon at my house in reading Jacob Tonson?s "New Age" articles, which he had aske...Hugh Walpole Arnold Bennett'New Age' articlesPrint: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'I congratulate you on ?Prohack?. It is brilliant and I have read it with intense admiration.' Algernon Methuen Marshall Arnold BennettMr ProhackPrint: Book
1850-1899'When we came home I read some of L.'s M.S. aloud.'George Eliot [pseud] 'L.' - prob George Henry Lewes Manuscript: Unknown
1850-1899'We read, wrote and walked a little before dinner. After, I read Sainte Beuve aloud.'George Eliot [pseud] Charles Augustin Sainte Beuve[unknown]Print: Book
1850-1899'I read the Kestner letters at Ilmenau.'George Eliot (pseud) unknown'Kestner letters'Print: Unknown
1850-1899'We set off for Ilmenau by railway. I read Liszt's account of "Der Fliegende Holander" by the way.'George Eliot (pseud) Franz Liszt[account of Der Fliegende Hollander - The Flying Dutchman]Print: Unknown
1850-1899'In the morning I partly condensed Liszt's article on Meyerbeer for the Vivian paper. In the evening walked and read a...George Eliot (pseud) Franz Liszt[article on Meyerbeer]Manuscript: Unknown
1850-1899'In the morning I partly condensed Liszt's article on Meyerbeer for the Vivian paper. In the evening walked and read a...George Eliot (pseud) Johann Wolfgang von GoetheDie WahlverwandtschaftenPrint: BookManuscript: Unknown
1850-1899'G. dined at the Marquis de Ferriere's and I read Rameau's Neffe.'George Eliot (pseud) Denis DiderotLe Nevue de RameauPrint: BookManuscript: Unknown
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'Began to read Egmont after dinner, then "The Hoggarty Diamond".'George Eliot [pseud] William Makepeace ThackerayThe Great Hoggarty DiamondPrint: BookManuscript: Unknown
1850-1899'Bad headache all day. Gross Cophta in the evening. Looked through Moore's Life of Sheridan in the morning - a first r...George Eliot [pseud] Johann Wolfgang von GoetheGross CophtaPrint: BookManuscript: Unknown
1850-1899'Bad headache all day. Gross Cophta in the evening. Looked through Moore's Life of Sheridan in the morning - a firstra...George Eliot [pseud] Thomas MooreMemoirs of the Life of SheridanPrint: BookManuscript: Unknown
1850-1899'I read Gotz in the morning. In the afternoon, Liszt, the Marquis de Ferriere and Mr Marshall sat with us. Walked, rea...George Eliot [pseud] possibly Johann Nikolaus Gotz[if this Gotz, then poetry]Print: BookManuscript: Unknown
1850-1899'I read Gotz in the morning. In the afternoon, Liszt, the Marquis de Ferriere and Mr Marshall sat with us. Walked, rea...George Eliot [pseud] Johann Wolfgang von GoetheDer BurgergeneralPrint: BookManuscript: Unknown
1850-1899'Began translating Spinoza's Ethics... Read Wilhelm Meister aloud in the evening'George Eliot [pseud] Benedictus de SpinozaEthicsPrint: BookManuscript: Unknown
1850-1899'Began translating Spinoza's Ethics... Read Wilhelm Meister aloud in the evening'George Eliot [pseud] Johann Wolfgang von GoetheWilhelm Meister's ApprenticeshipPrint: BookManuscript: Unknown
1850-1899'Read Vehse's Weimar in the evening'.George Eliot [pseud] Carl Eduard VehseDer Hof zu WeimarPrint: BookManuscript: Unknown
1850-1899'Fraulein Assing, Varnhagen's niece, lent me a volume of Heine's poems. I read aloud "Donna Clara" and then Wilhelm Me...George Eliot [pseud] Heinrich Heine"Donna Clara"Print: BookManuscript: Unknown
1850-1899'I read Wilhelm Meister aloud, and then G. read part of the Merchant of Venice'George Henry Lewes William ShakespeareThe Merchant of VenicePrint: BookManuscript: Unknown
1850-1899'I read Heine's poems; wrote a few recollections of Weimar and translated Genealogical Tables of the Goethe family'.George Eliot [pseud] Heinrich HeinepoemsPrint: BookManuscript: Unknown
1850-1899'Read Laocoon'.George Eliot [pseud] Gotthold Ephraim LessingLaocoon: An Essay on the Limits of Painting and PoetryPrint: BookManuscript: Unknown
1850-1899'In the evening we went to Spargnapini's, and had some chocolate and read the papers. G. finished reading allowed (sic...George Eliot [pseud] Johann Wolfgang von GoetheWilhelm Meister's ApprenticeshipPrint: BookManuscript: Unknown
1850-1899'Finished Lessing's Laocoon - the most un-German of all German books that I have ever read.The style is strong clear a...George Eliot [pseud] Gotthold Ephraim LessingLaocoon: An Essay on the Limits of Painting and PoetryPrint: BookManuscript: Unknown
1850-1899'Ill all day and unable to go out. G. finished Romeo and Juliet'.George Henry Lewes William ShakespeareRomeo and JulietPrint: BookManuscript: Unknown
1850-1899'The weather continues disagreeable and the streets dirty. Read Jacobi's Briefe uber Spinoza.'George Eliot [pseud] Friedrich Heinrich JacobiBriefe Uber SpinozaPrint: BookManuscript: Unknown
1850-1899'Home for half an hour and read Nathan der Weise'.George Eliot [pseud] Gotthold Ephraim LessingNathan der WeisePrint: BookManuscript: Unknown
1850-1899'G. read Julius Caesar aloud, as far as Caesar's appearance in the senate house. Very much struck with the masculine s...George Henry Lewes William ShakespeareJulius CaesarPrint: BookManuscript: Unknown
1850-1899''Finished Minna von Barnhelm... G. began Antony and Cleopatra'.George Henry Lewes William ShakespeareAntony and CleopatraPrint: BookManuscript: Unknown
1850-1899''Finished Minna von Barnhelm... G. began Antony and Cleopatra'.George Eliot [pseud] Gotthold Ephraim LessingMinna von BarnhelmPrint: BookManuscript: Unknown
1850-1899'Began the Italianische Reise.'George Eliot [pseud] Johann Wolfgang von GoetheItalianische ReisePrint: BookManuscript: Unknown
1850-1899'Not well in the morning. Finished Fanny Lewald's Wandlungen'.George Eliot [pseud] Fanny LewaldWandlungenPrint: BookManuscript: Unknown
1850-1899'Read Italianische Reise - Residence in Naples. Pretty passage about a star seen through a chink in the ceiling as he ...George Eliot [pseud] Johann Wolfgang von GoetheItalianische ReisePrint: BookManuscript: Unknown
1850-1899'Read Italianische Reise - Residence in Naples. Pretty passage about a star seen through a chink in the ceiling as he ...George Henry Lewes William ShakespeareHenry IVPrint: BookManuscript: Unknown
1850-1899'I have begun Scherr's Geschichte Deutschen Cultur und Sitte'.George Eliot [pseud] Johannes ScherrGeschichte Deutschen Cultur und Sitte'Print: BookManuscript: Unknown
1850-1899'G went at 8 and I spent the evening alone for the first time since we have been at Berlin. I read G's Farce - Robson'...George Eliot [pseud] George Henry Lewes[a farce]Manuscript: UnknownUnknown
1850-1899'went to dine at the Hotel de l'Europe. I took "Iphigenia" to read. Italianische Reise until Dessoir came. He read us ...George Eliot [pseud] Euripides IphigeniaPrint: BookManuscript: Unknown
1850-1899'went to dine at the Hotel de l'Europe. I took Iphigenia to read. Italianische Reise until Dessoir came. He read us th...George Henry Lewes William ShakespeareThe Merchant of VenicePrint: BookManuscript: Unknown
1850-1899'Read Hermann and Dorothea - 4 first books. G read 2nd Part of Henry IV'.George Henry Lewes William ShakespeareHenry IV, Part IIPrint: BookManuscript: Unknown
1850-1899'Read Hermann and Dorothea - 4 first books. G read 2nd Part of Henry IV'.George Eliot [pseud] Johann Wolfgang von GoetheHermann and DorotheaPrint: BookManuscript: Unknown
1850-1899'Bad headache. A regularly wet morning. Read the Athenaeum and Leader and finished Iphigenia'.George Eliot [pseud] variousThe LeaderPrint: Serial / periodicalManuscript: Unknown
1850-1899'Bad headache. A regularly wet morning. Read the Athenaeum and Leader and finished Iphigenia'.George Eliot [pseud] variousAthenaeumPrint: Serial / periodicalManuscript: Unknown
1850-1899'Began Tasso aloud. G. read two acts of As You Like It'.George Eliot [pseud] Torquato TassounknownPrint: BookManuscript: Unknown
1850-1899'Began Tasso aloud. G. read two acts of As You Like It'.George Henry Lewes William ShakespeareAs You Like ItPrint: BookManuscript: Unknown
1850-1899'I began to read aloud the Wanderjahre'.George Eliot [pseud] Johann Wolfgang von GoetheWilhelm Meister's WanderjahrePrint: BookManuscript: Unknown
1850-1899'Read aloud Heine's "Gotter im Exil" and some of his poems. G. read aloud Lear'.George Eliot [pseud] Heinrich HeineDie Gotter im ExilPrint: BookManuscript: Unknown
1850-1899'Read aloud Heine's "Gotter im Exil" and some of his poems. G. read aloud Lear'.George Eliot [pseud] Heinrich Heine[poems]Print: BookManuscript: Unknown
1850-1899'Read aloud Heine's "Gotter im Exil" and some of his poems. G. read aloud Lear'.George Henry Lewes William ShakespeareKing LearPrint: BookManuscript: Unknown
1850-1899'Came home and copied Goethe's discourse on Shakespeare. Read, at dinner, his wonderful observations on Spinoza. Parti...George Eliot [pseud] Johann Wolfgang von Goethe[discourse on Shakespeare]Print: BookManuscript: Unknown
1850-1899'Came home and copied Goethe's discourse on Shakespeare. Read, at dinner, his wonderful observations on Spinoza. Parti...George Eliot [pseud] Johann Wolfgang von Goethe[on Spinoza]Print: BookManuscript: Unknown
1850-1899'Came home and copied Goethe's discourse on Shakespeare. Read, at dinner, his wonderful observations on Spinoza. Parti...George Eliot [pseud] George Henry Lewes[draft of Life of Goethe]Manuscript: Unknown, MS of Lewes' book
1850-1899'Christmas day. Miserably wet... Taming of the Shrew'.George Eliot [pseud] William ShakespeareThe Taming of the ShrewPrint: BookManuscript: Unknown
1850-1899'read Heine's "Allemagne" in the German edition'.George Eliot [pseud] Heinrich HeineDe l'AllemagnePrint: BookManuscript: Unknown
1850-1899'Read at dinner Goethe's account of his relations with Herder at Strasburg in Dichtung und Warheit. Continued aloud He...George Eliot [pseud] Johann Wolfgang von GoetheDichtung und WahrheitPrint: BookManuscript: Unknown
1850-1899'Read at dinner Goethe's account of his relations with Herder at Strasburg in Dichtung und Warheit. Continued aloud He...George Eliot [pseud] Heinrich HeineDer SalonPrint: BookManuscript: Unknown
1850-1899'Read at dinner Goethe's account of his relations with Herder at Strasburg in "Dichtung und Warheit". Continued aloud ...George Henry Lewes Thomas [?] Knight[studies of Shakespeare]Print: BookManuscript: Unknown
1850-1899'Began Stahr's "Torso"... G read "Coriolanus". I read some of "Stahr" to him, but we found it too long wided a style f...George Henry Lewes William ShakespeareCoriolanusPrint: BookManuscript: Unknown
1850-1899'Began Stahr's "Torso"... G read "Coriolanus". I read some of "Stahr" to him, but we found it too long wided a style f...George Eliot [pseud] Adolf StahrTorso: Kunst, K?nstler, und Kunstwerken der AltenPrint: BookManuscript: Unknown
1850-1899'Read Heine in the evening - on German Philosophy'George Eliot [pseud] Heinrich Heine[on German philosophy]Print: BookManuscript: Unknown
1850-1899'G. read some of "Twelfth Night", but his head got bad and he was obliged to leave off'George Henry Lewes William ShakespeareTwelfth NightPrint: BookManuscript: Unknown
1850-1899'Read Goethe's "Maxims in the Wanderjahre". Then we compared several scenes of "Hamlet" in Schlegel's translation with...George Eliot [pseud] Johann Wolfgang von GoetheMaxims, in Wilhelm Meisters WanderjahrePrint: BookManuscript: Unknown
1850-1899'Read Goethe's "Maxims in the Wanderjahre". Then we compared several scenes of "Hamlet" in Schlegel's translation with...George Eliot [pseud] William ShakespeareHamletPrint: BookManuscript: Unknown
1850-1899'Read Goethe's Maxims in the Wanderjahre. Then we compared several scenes of Hamlet in Schlegel's translation with the...George Eliot [pseud] William ShakespeareHamlet, translated into German by SchlegelPrint: BookManuscript: Unknown
1850-1899'Read Dr Fischer's pamphlet'.George Eliot [pseud] [Dr] Fischer[a pamphlet]Manuscript: Unknown
1850-1899'Staid at home this evening and read G's M.S. Book 3. Took a little walk under the Linden and afterwards read Twelfth ...George Eliot [pseud] George Henry Lewesbook in MS, perhaps his Life of GoetheManuscript: Unknown, book M.S.
1850-1899'Staid at home this evening and read G's M.S. Book 3. Took a little walk under the Linden and afterwards read Twelfth ...George Eliot [pseud] William ShakespeareTwelfth NightPrint: BookManuscript: Unknown
1850-1899'Read Hamburgische Briefe at dinner about Voltaire's Merope. Read G's MS. Measure for Measure'.George Eliot [pseud] William ShakespeareMeasure for MeasurePrint: BookManuscript: Unknown
1850-1899'Read Hamburgische Briefe at dinner about Voltaire's Merope. Read G's MS. Measure for Measure'.George Eliot [pseud] unknownHamburgische BriefePrint: UnknownManuscript: Unknown
1850-1899'Finished the poetry of the West-Ostliche Divan'.George Eliot [pseud] Johann Wolfgang von GoetheWest-Ostliche DivanPrint: BookManuscript: Unknown
1850-1899'Not well. G began Midsummer Night's Dream. I went to bed early.'George Henry Lewes William ShakespeareA Midsummer Night's DreamPrint: BookManuscript: Unknown
1850-1899'Tried reading the 2nd part of Faust aloud, but gave it up, as it was too difficult for G. to follow it rapidly enough...George Eliot [pseud] Johann Wolfgang von GoetheFaustPrint: BookManuscript: Unknown
1850-1899'Tried reading the 2nd part of Faust aloud, but gave it up, as it was too difficult for G. to follow it rapidly enough...George Eliot [pseud] Adolf StahrEin Jahr in ItalienPrint: BookManuscript: Unknown
1850-1899'Tried reading the 2nd part of Faust aloud, but gave it up, as it was too difficult for G. to follow it rapidly enough...George Eliot [pseud] Georg Gottfried Gervinus[on Shakespeare]Print: BookManuscript: Unknown
1850-1899'Read the wondrously beautiful "Romische Elegien" again and some of the Venetian epigrams. G. began Winter's Tale'.George Eliot [pseud] Johann Wolfgang von GoetheRomische ElegienPrint: BookManuscript: Unknown
1850-1899'Read the wondrously beautiful "Romische Elegien" again and some of the Venetian epigrams. G. began Winter's Tale'.George Eliot [pseud] Johann Wolfgang von GoetheVenetian EpigramsPrint: BookManuscript: Unknown
1850-1899'Read the wondrously beautiful "Romische Elegien" again and some of the Venetian epigrams. G. began Winter's Tale'.George Henry Lewes William ShakespeareA Winter's TalePrint: BookManuscript: Unknown
1850-1899'In the evening... read the "Zueignung" to the "Gedichte" and several of the Ballads'.George Eliot [pseud] Johann Wolfgang von Goethe"Zuegnung", "Gedichte", BalladsPrint: BookManuscript: Unknown
1850-1899'Read... two first vols. of Vehse. Called at Vehse's for the other volumes'.George Eliot [pseud] Karl Eduard Vehseprobably Geschichte der deutschen H?fe seit der ReformationPrint: BookManuscript: Unknown
1850-1899'G. read Richard III'. George Henry Lewes William ShakespeareRichard IIIPrint: BookManuscript: Unknown
1850-1899'In the evening began Macaulay's History of England. Richard III and G's M.S. on Goethe's scientific labours'. George Eliot [pseud] Thomas Babington MacaulayHistory of EnglandPrint: BookManuscript: Unknown
1850-1899'In the evening began Macaulay's History of England. Richard III and G's M.S. on Goethe's scientific labours'. George Eliot [pseud] George Henry Lewespart of the MS of his Life of GoetheManuscript: Unknown, MS of book
1850-1899'Looked through Wraxall's Memoirs'. George Eliot [pseud] Nathaniel WraxallHistorical MemoirsPrint: BookManuscript: Unknown
1850-1899'Read G.'s MS. of Friendship between Schiller and Goethe'. George Eliot [pseud] George Henry LewesMS of his Life of GoetheManuscript: Unknown, MS of book
1850-1899'read... Shakspeare's (sic) Venus and Adonis'.George Eliot [pseud] William ShakespeareVenus and AdonisPrint: BookManuscript: Unknown
1850-1899'I read Shakspeare's (sic) "Passionate Pilgrim" at breakfast and found a sonnet in which he expresses admiration of Sp...George Eliot [pseud] William Shakespeare (and others)The Passionate PilgrimPrint: BookManuscript: Unknown
1850-1899'After dinner read "Two Gentlemen of Verona" and some of the "Sonnets". That play disgusted me more than ever in the f...George Eliot [pseud] William ShakespeareTwo Gentlemen of VeronaPrint: BookManuscript: Unknown
1850-1899'After dinner read "Two Gentlemen of Verona" and some of the "Sonnets". That play disgusted me more than ever in the f...George Eliot [pseud] William ShakespeareSonnetsPrint: BookManuscript: Unknown
1850-1899'Read Shakspeare's (sic) Sonnets and part of "Tempest"'George Eliot [pseud] William ShakespeareThe TempestPrint: BookManuscript: Unknown
1850-1899'Read "Leader" and Scherr'.George Eliot [pseud] [various]The LeaderPrint: Serial / periodicalManuscript: Unknown
1850-1899'Read "Macbeth".'George Eliot [pseud] William ShakespeareMacbethPrint: BookManuscript: Unknown
1850-1899'Read "Romeo and Juliet"'George Eliot [pseud] William ShakespeareRomeo and JulietPrint: BookManuscript: Unknown
1850-1899'Read the "Leader" and the "Nibelungen Lied"'George Eliot [pseud] anon Nibelungen LiedPrint: BookManuscript: 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
1850-1899'Read article on Dryden in W.R. and looked through the "Contemporary Literature"'George Eliot [pseud] unknown[article on Dryden in W.R. - a periodical?]Print: UnknownManuscript: Unknown
1850-1899'Read Scherr on the Ritterlich-romantische Literatur'George Eliot [pseud] Johannes Scherr[perhaps] Geschichte der englischen Literatur?Print: BookManuscript: Unknown
1850-1899'Began "Reineke Fuchs"'George Eliot [pseud] Johan Wolfgang von GoetheReineke FuchsPrint: BookManuscript: Unknown
1850-1899'Began Schrader's German Mythology'George Eliot [pseud] Eberhard Schrader[German Mythology]Print: BookManuscript: Unknown
1850-1899'Read Schrader. Spinoza. Leader and Athenaeum. "Genesis of Science". Gibbon.'George Eliot [pseud.] Herbert SpencerThe Genesis of SciencePrint: BookManuscript: Unknown
1850-1899'Read Henry V and Henry VIII'.George Eliot [pseud.] William ShakespeareHenry VPrint: BookManuscript: Unknown
1850-1899'Read Henry V and Henry VIII'.George Eliot [pseud.] William ShakespeareHenry VIIIPrint: BookManuscript: Unknown
1850-1899'Still feverish and unable to fix my mind steadily on reading or writing. Read the 1st, 2nd and 3rd parts of Henry VI,...George Eliot [pseud.] William ShakespeareHenry VI, parts 1, 2 and 3Print: BookManuscript: Unknown
1850-1899'Still feverish and unable to fix my mind steadily on reading or writing. Read the 1st, 2nd and 3rd parts of Henry VI,...George Eliot [pseud.] William ShakespeareRichard IIPrint: BookManuscript: Unknown
1850-1899'Began... to read Cumming for article in Westminster'.George Eliot [pseud.] CummingunknownPrint: BookManuscript: Unknown
1850-1899'We are reading in the evenings now, Sydney Smith's letters, Boswell, Whewell's "History of Inductive Sciences", "the ...George Eliot [pseud] Homer Iliad, book IIPrint: BookManuscript: Unknown
1850-1899'Headache. Read "Lucrezia Floriani". We are reading White's "History of Selborne" in the evening'.George Eliot [pseud] George SandLucrezia FlorianiPrint: Book
1850-1899'Began the Antigone, read Von Bohlen on Genesis, and Swedenborg'.George Eliot [pseud.] SophoclesAntigonePrint: Book
1850-1899'Began the Antigone, read Von Bohlen on Genesis, and Swedenborg'.George Eliot [pseud.] P. von BohlenGenesisPrint: Book
1850-1899'Began the Antigone, read Von Bohlen on Genesis, and Swedenborg'.George Eliot [pseud.] Emanuel SwedenborgunknownPrint: Book
1850-1899'Read the Shaving of Shagpat'.George Eliot [pseud.] George MeredithThe Shaving of Shagpat: An Arabian EntertainmentPrint: Book
1850-1899'Read Kingsley's Greek Heroes'.George Eliot [pseud.] Charles KingsleyThe Greek HeroesPrint: Book
1850-1899'finished Kahnis' History of German Protestantism'.George Eliot [pseud.] Karl Friedrich August Kahnis[history of German Protestantism - title unclear]Print: Book
1850-1899'Began to read Riehl, on which I am to write an article for the Westminster'.George Eliot [pseud.] William Heinrich (?) RiehlunknownPrint: Book
1850-1899'In the evenings I have been reading Masson's Essays - "The Three Devils" and Chatterton's Life - and this evening I h...George Eliot [pseud.] David Masson[essay on the Life of Chatterton]Print: Unknown
1850-1899'In the evenings I have been reading Masson's Essays - "The Three Devils" and Chatterton's Life - and this evening I h...George Eliot [pseud] David Masson'The Three Devils'Print: Unknown, probably inbook publ. 1856
1850-1899'In the evenings I have been reading Masson's Essays - "The Three Devils" and Chatterton's Life - and this evening I h...George Eliot [pseud.] Richard Chenevix TrenchAn essay on the life and genius of Calder?n,: With translations from his Life's a dream and Great theatre of the worldPrint: Book
1850-1899'I am reading in the evenings the Memoirs of Beaumarchais and Milne Edwards's Zoology'.George Eliot [pseud] Pierre BeaumarchaisM?moires contre GoezmanPrint: Book
1850-1899'I am reading in the evenings the Memoirs of Beaumarchais and Milne Edwards's Zoology'.George Eliot [pseud] Henri Milne-Edwards[work on Zoology]Print: Book
1850-1899'I have continued reading Milne-Edwards aloud, and have also read Harriet Martineau's article on Missions in the "West...George Eliot (pseud) Henri Milne-Edwards[work on Zoology]Print: Book
1850-1899'I have continued reading Milne-Edwards aloud, and have also read Harriet Martineau's article on Missions in the "West...George Eliot (pseud) Harriet Martineau[article on Missions in the Westminster Review]Print: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'I have continued reading Milne-Edwards aloud, and have also read Harriet Martineau's article on Missions in the "West...George Eliot (pseud) various[articles in the National]Print: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'I have continued reading Milne-Edwards aloud, and have also read Harriet Martineau's article on Missions in the "West...George Eliot (pseud) W.H. HarveyThe Sea-side BookPrint: Book
1850-1899'I have continued reading Milne-Edwards aloud, and have also read Harriet Martineau's article on Missions in the "West...George Eliot (pseud) unknownThe Lover's SeatPrint: Book
1850-1899'have now taken up Quatrefages again.'George Eliot (pseud) Jean Louis Armand de Quatrefages de Breau[zoology]Print: Book
1850-1899'Finished Cesar Birotteau aloud.' George Eliot (pseud) Honore de BalzacThe Rise and Fall of Cesar BirotteauPrint: Book
1850-1899'Began the "Ajax" of Sophocles. Also Miss Martineau's "History of the Peace."'George Eliot [pseud] Sophocles AjaxPrint: Book
1850-1899'Began the Ajax of Sophocles. Also Miss Martineau's History of the Peace'George Eliot [pseud] Harriet MartineauHistory of the Peace: Being a History of England from 1816 to 1854Print: Book
1850-1899'Reading Burke's "Reflections on French Revolution" and "Mansfield Park" in the evenings.'George Eliot [pseud] Edmund BurkeReflections on the Revolution in FrancePrint: Book
1850-1899'Reading Burke's "Reflections on French Revolution" and "Mansfield Park" in the evenings.'George Eliot [pseud] Jane AustenMansfield ParkPrint: Book
1850-1899'I wrote to Sara, also, this morning telling her my impressions from her book just published - "Christianity and Infid...George Eliot (pseud) Sara HennellChristianity and InfidelityPrint: Book
1850-1899'I began to read Miss Catlow's "Botany".'George Eliot (pseud) Agnes CatlowPopular Field BotanyPrint: Book
1850-1899'We are reading Carlyle's "Cromwell" and "Aurora Leigh" again in the evenings. I am still in the "Oedipus Tyrannus", w...George Eliot (pseud) Sophocles Oedipus RexPrint: Book
1850-1899'We are reading Carlyle's "Cromwell" and "Aurora Leigh" again in the evenings. I am still in the "Oedipus Tyrannus", w...George Eliot (pseud) Percy Bysshe Shelley[Poems]Print: Book
1850-1899'In the evening I began the "Life of Charlotte Bronte" aloud. Deeply interesting.'George Eliot (pseud) Elizabeth GaskellLife of Charlotte BrontePrint: Book
1850-1899'I have begun Draper's "Physiology", too but rarely have spirit and clearness of brain for it'.George Eliot (pseud) John William DraperHuman PhysiologyPrint: Book
1850-1899'read "Emma" in the evening.'George Eliot (pseud) Jane AustenEmmaPrint: Book
1850-1899'read G. the three first chapters of "Janet's Repentance".'George Eliot (pseud) George Eliot (pseud)Janet's RepentanceManuscript: MS of own work
1850-1899'began Aeschlyus - "Agamemnon"'.George Eliot [pseud] Aeschlyus AgamemnonPrint: Book
1850-1899'Finished Buckle's "History of Civilization in England" vol. I which I began a fortnight ago.'George Eliot [pseud] Henry Thomas BuckleHistory of Civilization in EnglandPrint: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia]: very brief annotations, bookmarks and marginal marks, indicating active use when on visit to Paris. Also...Magdalene Erskine Bernard de MontfauconAntiquity explained, and represented in sculptures, by the learned Father Montfaucon, translated into English by David HumphreysPrint: Book
1850-1899'We have been reading the last two evenings, the Christmas number of "Household Words" - "Perils of Certain English Pr...George Eliot (pseud) Wilhelm Heinrich RiehlDie FamiliePrint: Book
1850-1899'We have been reading the last two evenings, the Christmas number of "Household Words" - "Perils of Certain English Pr...George Eliot (pseud) Wilhelm Heinrich RiehlLand Und VolkPrint: Book
1850-1899'We have been reading the last two evenings, the Christmas number of "Household Words" - "Perils of Certain English Pr...George Eliot (pseud) Wilhelm Heinrich RiehlDie Burgerliche GesellschaftPrint: Book
1850-1899'Read my new story to G. this evening as far as the end of the third chapter. He praised it highly... I am in the Choe...George Eliot (pseud) George Eliot (pseud.)Adam BedeManuscript: MS of own novel
1850-1899'Read my new story to G. this evening as far as the end of the third chapter. He praised it highly... I am in the Choe...George Eliot (pseud) AeschlyusChoephoraePrint: Book
1850-1899'G. returned from Vernon Hill, and I read to him, after the review of my book in the "Times", the delicious scenes at ...George Eliot (pseud) anon. [review of Eliot's book, in "The Times"]Print: Newspaper
1850-1899'G. returned from Vernon Hill, and I read to him, after the review of my book in the "Times", the delicious scenes at ...George Eliot (pseud) Charles DickensThe Haunted ManPrint: Unknown, could have been book or serial
1850-1899'I have begun the Eumenides, having finished the Choephorae. We are reading Wordsworth in the evenings - at least G. i...George Eliot (pseud) AeschlyusEumenidesPrint: Book
1850-1899'I have begun the Eumenides, having finished the Choephorae. We are reading Wordsworth in the evenings - at least G. i...George Henry Lewes William WordsworthPrint: Book
1850-1899'Gave up Miss Martineau's "History" last night after reading some hundred pages in the second volume. She has a sentim...George Eliot (pseud) Harriet MartineauHistory of the Thirty Years PeacePrint: Book
1850-1899'G. has finished "the Excursion", which repaid us for going to the end by an occasional fine passage even to the last.'George Henry Lewes William WordsworthExcursion, ThePrint: Book
1850-1899'The "Prometheus" in the morning'.George Eliot (pseud) Aeschlyus [?]PrometheusPrint: Book
1850-1899'I finished this morning Horace's "Epistle to the Pisos", which I have been reading at intervals.'George Eliot (pseud) HoraceThe Art of Poetry an Epistle to the PisosPrint: Book
1850-1899'I have begun Carlyle's "Life of Frederic the Great".'George Eliot (pseud) Thomas CarlyleFrederick the GreatPrint: Book
1850-1899'Read the article in yesterday's "Times" on George's Sea-side Studies - highly gratifying... G. is reading to me Miche...George Eliot (pseud) unknown [review in Times of G.H. Lewes' "Sea-side Studies"]Print: Newspaper
1800-1849Related ms notes laid into book - two small notes about distances, properties, owners, and other features either on s...Agnes Halkerston James DuncanScotch itinerary, containing the roads through Scotland on an new plan, with copious observations for the entertainment of travellers, ThePrint: Book
1850-1899'Spent the morning in Bale, chiefly under the chestnut trees near the Cathedral, I reading aloud Flouren's sketch of C...George Eliot (pseud) Flouren[probably Eloge Historique de Baron Cuvier]Print: Book
1850-1899'We have just finished reading aloud "Pere Goriot" - a hateful book... I have been reading lately and have nearly fini...George Eliot (pseud) Auguste ComteCatechism Of Positive Religion, ThePrint: Book
1850-1899'I am reading Thomas a Kempis.'George Eliot (pseud) Thomas a KempisImitation of Christ, The (?)Print: Book
1850-1899'I am reading old Bunyan again after the long lapse of years, and am profoundly struck with the true genius manifested...George Eliot (pseud) John BunyanunknownPrint: Book
1850-1899'A dense fog and a sense of ailing kept me indoors. I read the life of Francois de Sales.'George Eliot (pseud) unknown[Life of Francois de Sales]Print: Book
1900-1945Margot Asquith in footnote to letter to her from Henry James of 9 April 1915, in praise of her diary, in Margot Asquit...Margot Asquith Margot AsquithDiariesManuscript: Codex
1800-1849[Marginalia]: marginal marks (*) and dates throughout the guidebook, with v.2 more heavily marked than v.1.: eg. p.376...Magdalene Erskine Mariano VasiItineraire instructif de Rome ancienne et moderne ?Print: Book
1800-1849'Edward & George. - Not liked it near so well as P.& P. - Edward admired Fanny - George disliked her. - George interes...George Knight Jane AustenMansfield ParkPrint: Book
1800-1849'My Mother - not liked it so well as P. & P. - Thought Fanny insipid. Enjoyed Mrs. Norris.'Cassandra Leigh Austen Jane AustenMansfield ParkPrint: Book
1800-1849'Mrs Augusta Bramstone - owned that she thought S & S. - and P. & P. downright nonsense, but expected to like M.P. bet...Augusta Bramstone Jane AustenMansfield ParkPrint: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia]: marginal marks (x, }, |) plus occasional comments, either single words or short notes eg: p. 74 after th...George Pitts James HallTravels in Scotland, by an unusual route: with a trip to the Orkneys and Hebrides: containing hints and improvements in agriculture and commerce...Print: Book
1800-1849'My Mother - thought it more entertaining than M.P. - but not so interesting as P.& P. - No characters in it equal to ...Cassandra Leigh Austen Jane AustenEmmaPrint: Book
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'I haven't any right to criticise books and I don't often do it except when I hate them. I often want to criticise Ja...Samuel Langhorne Clemens Jane AustenPride and PrejudicePrint: Book
1800-1849'Edward & George. - Not liked it ["Mansfield Park"] near so well as P. & P.'George Knight Jane AustenPride and PrejudicePrint: Book
1800-1849'My Mother - not liked it "[Mansfield Park"] so well as P. & P.'Cassandra Leigh Austen Jane AustenPride and PrejudicePrint: Book
1800-1849'Mrs Augusta Bramstone - owned that she thought S & S. - and P. & P. downright nonsense.'[Mrs] Augusta Bramstone Jane AustenPride and PrejudicePrint: Book
1800-1849'Mrs Augusta Bramstone - owned that she thought S & S. - and P. & P. downright nonsense.'[Mrs] Augusta Bramstone Jane AustenSense and SensibilityPrint: 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'Mr Girle wrote a history of his blue coat days, which he was anxious should appear in "Tait", and one day, at his req...G H Girle G H Girle[memoirs]Manuscript: Sheet, Unpublished memoirs
1800-1849'Much is being said and written now-a-days about the influence of books on the formation of character; let me therefor...James Glass Bertram William CobbettAdvice to young menPrint: Book
1800-1849'Much is being said and written now-a-days about the influence of books on the formation of character; let me therefor...James Glass Bertram George L. CraikPursuit of knowledge under difficultiesPrint: Book
1800-1849'Much is being said and written now-a-days about the influence of books on the formation of character; let me therefor...James Glass Bertram William TaitTait's Edinburgh MagazinePrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'Much is being said and written now-a-days about the influence of books on the formation of character; let me therefor...James Glass Bertram Walter ScottGuy ManneringPrint: Book
1800-1849'Much is being said and written now-a-days about the influence of books on the formation of character; let me therefor...James Glass Bertram Walter ScottThe Heart of MidlothianPrint: Book
1800-1849'Much is being said and written now-a-days about the influence of books on the formation of character; let me therefor...James Glass Bertram Walter ScottThe Bride of LammermoorPrint: Book
1800-1849'Much is being said and written now-a-days about the influence of books on the formation of character; let me therefor...James Glass Bertram Walter ScottSt Ronan's WellPrint: Book
1800-1849'Much is being said and written now-a-days about the influence of books on the formation of character; let me therefor...James Glass Bertram Walter ScottWaverleyPrint: Book
1800-1849'The novels of John Galt were always much to my taste. I fancy I have read every book that came from his pen, includin...James Glass Bertram John GaltLives of the playersPrint: Book
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'The novels of John Galt were always much to my taste. I fancy I have read every book that came from his pen, includin...James Glass Bertram John GaltSir Andrew WylliePrint: Book
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'The novels of John Galt were always much to my taste. I fancy I have read every book that came from his pen, includin...James Glass Bertram John GaltAnnals of the ParishPrint: Book
1800-1849'As an apprentice I was a subscriber to the Mechanic's Library, from which I borrowed a great supply of books - my tas...James Glass Bertram Samuel Smiles[biographies of men]Print: Book
1800-1849'Another book I read with much zest was the autobiography of Lackington, the bookseller, a copy of which amusing and i...James Glass Bertram James Lackington[autobiography]Print: Book
1800-1849'In Mr Tait's warehouse I read Hogg's "Shepherd's Calendar" and some of his poems also, while, at various times, many ...James Glass Bertram James HoggShepherd's CalendarPrint: Book
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
1800-1849'One Saturday afternoon in the summer of 1838, whilst crossing Brumsfield links on my way home to Morningside, endeavo...James Glass Bertram Robert ChambersChambers's JournalPrint: 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 William Harrison AinsworthJack SheppardPrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'When, in the course of a year or two, we removed to the vicinity of Edinburgh, matters in respect of books brightened...James Glass Bertram Mrs JohnstoneThe SchoolmasterPrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'I have read aloud this evening the last of Heyse's "Vier neue Novellen".'George Eliot [pseud.] Paul Johann Ludwig von Heyse"Vier Neue Novellen"Print: Unknown
1850-1899'Finished reading the four last volumes of the "Histoire des Ordres Religieux". Began "La Beata", a story of Florentin...George Eliot [pseud.] Henri Marc-Bonnet"Histoire des Ordres Religieux"Print: Book
1850-1899'Finished reading the four last volumes of the "Histoire des Ordres Religieux". Began "La Beata", a story of Florentin...George Eliot [pseud.] T.A. TrollopeLa BeataPrint: Book
1850-1899'Finished reading the four last volumes of the "Histoire des Ordres Religieux". Began "La Beata", a story of Florentin...George Eliot [pseud.] Franco SachettiNovellePrint: Book
1850-1899'Finished reading the four last volumes of the "Histoire des Ordres Religieux". Began "La Beata", a story of Florentin...George Eliot [pseud.] Jean Charles L?onard de SismondiHistory of the Italian RepublicsPrint: Book
1850-1899'Desultory morning, from feebleness of head. Osservatore Fiorentino and Tenneman's Manual of Philosophy'.George Eliot Marco LastriL'Osservatore FiorentinoPrint: Book
1850-1899'Desultory morning, from feebleness of head. Osservatore Fiorentino and Tenneman's Manual of Philosophy'.George Eliot [pseud.] W.G. TennemanManual of the History of PhilosophyPrint: Book
1850-1899'Read "Le Moyen Age", chiefly on Popular superstitions; looking also through other parts to see if it is worth while f...George Eliot [pseud.] unknownLe Moyen Age IllustrePrint: Book
1850-1899'Read, in the Athenaeum, an interesting article on Bishop Colenso's (of Natal), Letter to the Archbishop of Canterbury...George Eliot [pseud.] unknown[article in the Athenaeum]Print: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'Read, in the Athenaeum, an interesting article on Bishop Colenso's (of Natal), Letter to the Archbishop of Canterbury...George Eliot [pseud.] Charles MontalambertThe Monks of the WestPrint: Book
1850-1899'Read the Introduction to Savonarola's poems, by Audin de Rians, "The Spectator" and the "Athenaeum"'.George Eliot [pseud] Audin de Rians[Introduction to Savonarola's Poems]Print: Unknown
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 Comte on the Middle Ages'George Eliot [pseud] Auguste Comte[on the Middle Ages]Print: Book
1850-1899'Read the "Cornhill" and "Orley Farm"'.George Eliot [pseud] [n/a]Cornhill MagazinePrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'Read the "Cornhill" and "Orley Farm", as distraction under a bad headache'George Eliot [pseud] Anthony TrollopeOrley FarmPrint: Book
1850-1899'In the evening read Renan "Etudes d'Histoire Religieuse" aloud to G.'George Eliot [pseud] Ernest Renan?tudes d?histoire religieusePrint: Book
1850-1899'Began Virgil's "Eclogues" again'George Eliot [pseud] VirgilEcloguesPrint: Book
1850-1899'began Buhle's "History of Modern Philosophy"'.George Eliot [pseud] Johann BuhleTextbook on the History of PhilosophyPrint: Book
1850-1899'Read... G's article on Mad Dogs which he was going to send to Edinburgh'George Eliot [pseud] George Henry Lewes[MS article on Mad Dogs]Manuscript: Sheet, MS of article
1850-1899'Read Hallam on the study of Roman law in the Middle Ages'.George Eliot [pseud] Henry Hallam[perhaps The View of the State of Europe during the Middle Ages]Print: BookManuscript: Unknown
1850-1899'Read Gibbon on the revival of Greek learning'George Eliot [pseud] Edward Gibbon[on revival of Greek learning]Print: UnknownManuscript: Unknown
1850-1899'Savonarola's Sermons'George Eliot [pseud] Girolamo Savonarola[Sermons]Print: BookManuscript: Unknown
1850-1899'Before breakfast I have been reading Savonarola's "Discourse on Government", and have looked into his Sermons on the ...George Eliot [pseud] Girolamo SavonarolaDiscourse on GovernmentPrint: Book
1850-1899'Before breakfast I have been reading Savonarola's "Discourse on Government", and have looked into his Sermons on the ...George Eliot [pseud] Girolamo Savonarola[Sermon on the Epistle of John]Print: Book
1850-1899'Before breakfast I have been reading Savonarola's "Discourse on Government", and have looked into his Sermons on the ...George Eliot [pseud] Girolamo Savonarola[Sermon on Psalm Quam Bonus]Print: Book
1850-1899'Began Lastri - "Osservatore Fiorentino" - this morning, intending to go regularly through it'George Eliot [pseud] Marco LastriL'Osservatore FiorentinoPrint: Book
1850-1899'Looked into the "Marmi" of Doni... read Saccheti and Bocaccio's capital story of Fra Cipolla - one of his few good st...George Eliot [pseud.] Anton Francesco DoniI MarmiPrint: Book
1850-1899'Looked into the "Marmi" of Doni... read Saccheti and Boccaccio's capital story of Fra Cipolla - one of his few good s...George Eliot [pseud.] Giovanni Boccaccio[story of Fra Cipolla, from Decameron]Print: Book
1850-1899'Looked into the "Marmi" of Doni... read Saccheti and Boccaccio's capital story of Fra Cipolla - one of his few good s...George Eliot [pseud.] anonArabian Nights, story of the Little HunchbackPrint: Book
1850-1899'Looked into the "Marmi" of Doni... read Saccheti and Boccaccio's capital story of Fra Cipolla - one of his few good s...George Eliot Jacopo Nardi (probably)unknownPrint: Book
1850-1899'I have begun Bulwer's Rienzi, wishing to examine his treatment of an historical subject'.George Eliot Edward Bulwer LyttonRienziPrint: Book
1850-1899'Read Roscoe's Life of Lorenzoi de Medici. Headache still. Read some of Sachetti's stories and spent the evening alone...George Eliot [pseud.] William RoscoeLife of Lorenzo de MediciPrint: Book
1850-1899'Read Roscoe's Life of Lorenzoi de Medici. Headache still. Read some of Sachetti's stories and spent the evening alone...George Eliot [pseud.] Francesco Sachetti[stories]Print: Book
1850-1899'Continued Roscoe, with much disgust at his shallowness and folly'.George Eliot [pseud.] William RoscoeLife of Lorenzo de MediciPrint: Book
1850-1899'Read again Burlamacchi's Life of Savonarola'.George Eliot BurlamacchiLife of SavonarolaPrint: Book
1850-1899'began Pulci'.George Eliot [pseud.] [probably] Luigi Pulci[if this Pulci, poetry]Print: Book
1850-1899'Began again the Life of Savonarola by Villani. Read of "Ecstasy".'George Eliot [pseud.] Giovanni (?) VillaniLife of Savonarola [in his Cronica?]Print: Book
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'Read Mrs Jameson's "Legendary Art".'George Eliot [pseud.] Anna JamesonSacred and Legendary ArtPrint: Book
1850-1899 'began Marullus. In the evening read Pettigrew on Medical Superstitions.'George Eliot [pseud.] MarullusunknownPrint: Book
1850-1899'began Marullus. In the evening read Pettigrew on Medical Superstitions.'George Eliot [pseud.] Joseph PettigrewMedical SuperstitionsPrint: Book
1850-1899'Read Tiraboschi and Rock's Hierurgia'.George Eliot [pseud.] Girolamo Tiraboschi[probably] Storia della letteratura italianaPrint: Book
1850-1899'Read Tiraboschi on the Discovery of Ancient MSS., and Manni, Vite etc.'George Eliot Girolamo Tiraboschi[probably] Storia della letteratura italianaPrint: Book
1850-1899'Read Tiraboschi and Rock's Hierurgia'.George Eliot [pseud.] Daniel RockHierurgia or the Holy Sacrifice of the MassPrint: Book
1850-1899'Read... Manni's Life of Burchiello, copying extracts'.George Eliot [pseud.] Manni[Life of Burchiello]Print: Book
1850-1899'copied out the Lives of some saints from Mrs Jameson'.George Eliot [pseud.] Anna JamesonSacred and Legendary ArtPrint: Book
1850-1899'I was better in the evening and read aloud to G. an article in National on the discoveries of Bunsen and Kirchoff'.George Eliot [pseud.] unknown[article in the National]Print: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'wrote out the Ecclesiastical Vestments from Rock'.George Eliot [pseud.] Daniel Rock Hierurgia Or The Holy Sacrifice Of The MassPrint: Book
1850-1899'During our stay [in Malvern] I read Mrs Jameson's book on the Legends of the Monastic orders... and began Marchese's ...George Eliot [pseud.] Anna JamesonLegends Of The Monastic Orders As Represented In The Fine ArtsPrint: Book
1850-1899'During our stay [in Malvern] I read Mrs Jameson's book on the Legends of the Monastic orders... and began Marchese's ...George Eliot [pseud.] MarcheseStoria di San MarcoPrint: Book
1850-1899'Not well in the evening so that I read nothing but an article on the Mormons in the W.R.'George Eliot [pseud.] unknown[article on Mormons in Westminster Review]Print: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'Looked into the Archivo Storico and Read some "Ricordi", and "Lives" by Vespasiano'.George Eliot [pseud.] unknownArchivo StoricoPrint: Unknown
1850-1899'Looked into the Archivo Storico and Read some "Ricordi", and "Lives" by Vespasiano'.George Eliot [pseud.] Vespasiano da Bisticci[probably] Vite di uomini illustri del secolo XV,Print: Book
1850-1899'Read Ginguene in the evening'.George Eliot [pseud.] Pierre Louis GingueneunknownPrint: Book
1850-1899'In the evening I read aloud Charlie's compositions, which show very good sense in their effort to arrive at exactness...George Eliot [pseud.] Charles Lewes[compositions]Manuscript: Unknown, compositions
1850-1899'Read Nerli'.George Eliot unknownNerliPrint: Book
1850-1899'Read a chapter on the Roma Law in the Middle Ages in Guizot's History of Civilisation in France'.George Eliot [pseud.] Francois Pierre Guillaume Guizot[probably] The History of France from the Earliest Times to the Year 1789Print: Book
1850-1899'Looked through Machiavelli's works'.George Eliot [pseud.] Niccolo MachiavelliThe Prince (probably)Print: Book
1850-1899'Read Villari, making chronological notes. Then Muratori on Proper Names'.George Eliot [pseud.] Pasquale VillariunknownPrint: Book
1850-1899'Read Villari, making chronological notes. Then Muratori on Proper Names'.George Eliot [pseud.] Ludovico Antonio MuratoriunknownPrint: Book
1850-1899'Began Politian's letters, and read Giannotti on the Government of Florence'George Eliot [pseud] PolizianoLettersPrint: Book
1850-1899'Began Politian's letters, and read Giannotti on the Government of Florence'George Eliot [pseud] Donato GiannottiDella repubblica fiorentinaPrint: 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'Read Cicero "de Officiis" and began Petrarch's letters'George Eliot [pseud] CiceroDe OfficiisPrint: Book
1850-1899'Read Cicero "de Officiis" and began Petrarch's letters'George Eliot Francesco Petrarch[Letters]Print: Book
1850-1899'to the London Library where I looked through Selden's "Titles of Honour"'George Eliot [pseud] John SeldenTitles of HonourPrint: Book
1850-1899'In the evening read Monteil - a marvellous book: crammed with erudition, yet not dull or tiresome'George Eliot [pseud] Amans-Alexis Monteil[presumably one of his works on history of French civilisation]Print: Book
1850-1899'Read "La Tancia", and Gingenue, Roman Epic'George Eliot [pseud] Michelangelo Buonarotti the YoungerLa TanciaPrint: Book
1850-1899'Read "La Tancia", and Gingenue, Roman Epic'George Eliot [pseud] Pierre Louis Ginguene[possibly] Histoire litteraire d'ItaliePrint: Book
1850-1899'I read Craik's "History of English Literature"... up to end of XVth Century'George Eliot [pseud] George Lillie CraikHistory of English Literature and the English LanguagePrint: Book
1850-1899'This week I have read a satire of Juvenal, some of Cicero's "De Officiis", part of Epictetus' Enchiridion, two cantos...George Eliot [pseud] Juvenal[a satire]Print: Book
1850-1899'This week I have read a satire of Juvenal, some of Cicero's "De Officiis", part of Epictetus' Enchiridion, two cantos...George Eliot EpictetusEnchiridionPrint: Book
1850-1899'This week I have read a satire of Juvenal, some of Cicero's "De Officiis", part of Epictetus' Enchiridion, two cantos...George Eliot [pseud] Luigi Pulci[unknown]Print: Book
1850-1899'This week I have read a satire of Juvenal, some of Cicero's "De Officiis", part of Epictetus' Enchiridion, two cantos...George Eliot [pseud] [unknown]Canti CarnascialeschiPrint: Book
1850-1899'This week I have read a satire of Juvenal, some of Cicero's "De Officiis", part of Epictetus' Enchiridion, two cantos...George Eliot [pseud] ManniVeglie PiacevolePrint: Book
1850-1899'This week I have read a satire of Juvenal, some of Cicero's "De Officiis", part of Epictetus' Enchiridion, two cantos...George Eliot [pseud] Theocritus[unknown]Print: Book
1850-1899'Read Epictetus, and the sixth satire of Juvenal, with part of a vol. of the Osservatore Fiorentino'George Eliot [pseud] Juvenal[Sixth Satire]Print: Book
1850-1899'Read Epictetus, and the sixth satire of Juvenal, with part of a vol. of the Osservatore Fiorentino'George Eliot [pseud] Marco LastriOsservatore FiorentinoPrint: Book
1850-1899'In the evening read Goldwin Smith's answer to Mansel'George Eliot [pseud] Goldwin Smith[answer to Mansel]Print: Book
1850-1899''In the evening Bekker's Charikles'George Eliot [pseud] Bekker (or Becker?)ChariklesPrint: Book
1850-1899'began the IXth chapter of Varchi in which he gives an account of Florence'George Eliot [pseud] Benedetto Varchi[History of Florence]Print: Book
1850-1899'There came from the library Hody de Graecis Illustribus, in which I looked at the life of Marullus...'George Eliot [pseud] Humphrey HodyDe Graecis IllustribusPrint: Book
1850-1899'Went to the British Museum. Found some details in Ammirato's Famiglie Nobili Fiorentini... In the evening I read Mura...George Eliot [pseud] Scipioni AmmiratoFamiglie Nobili FiorentiniPrint: Book
1850-1899'Went to the British Museum. Found some details in Ammirato's "Famiglie Nobili Fiorentini"... In the evening I read Mu...George Eliot [pseud] Ludovico Antonio Muratori[unknown, on the Confraternita]Print: Book
1850-1899'Read Sachetti and the Letters of Filelfo'George Eliot [pseud] Franco Sachetti[probably] NovellePrint: Book
1850-1899'Read Sachetti and the Letters of Filelfo'George Eliot [pseud] Francesco Filelfo[Letters]Print: Book
1850-1899'In the evening looked over the 9th book of Varchi again'George Eliot [pseud] Benedetto Varchi[History of Florence]Print: Book
1850-1899'Read half through the dialogue de Veritate Profetica'George Eliot [pseud] Girolamo SavonarolaDe Veritate ProfeticaPrint: Book
1850-1899'Read through Middleton's Letter from Rome'George Eliot [pseud] Conyers MiddletonDr. Middleton's Letter From Rome, Showing an Exact Conformity Between Popery and PaganismPrint: Book
1850-1899'Read the "Compendium Revelationum"'George Eliot [pseud] Girolamo SavonarolaCompendium RevelationumPrint: Book
1850-1899'Read... Heeren on the XVth Century'.George Eliot [pseud] Arnold Hermann Ludwig Heeren[on the XVth Century]Print: Book
1850-1899'Read Politian's Lamia'George Eliot [pseud] PolizianoLamiaPrint: Book
1850-1899'Read the Malmantile'George Eliot [pseud] Malmantile[unknown]Print: Book
1850-1899'Read Sacchetti, and Luigi Pulci's novel, and part of Lasca's story of Lorenzo and the Medico Manente'George Eliot [pseud] Luigi Pulci[unknown -novel]Print: Book
1850-1899'Read Sacchetti, and Luigi Pulci's novel, and part of Lasca's story of Lorenzo and the Medico Manente'George Eliot [pseud] Antonio Francesco Grizzini (pseud. Lasca)[possibly a story from Le Cene]Print: Book
1850-1899'Read passage from Du Bois Reymond's book on Johannes Mueller, a propos of visions. Finished Libro 1 of Machiavelli's ...George Eliot [pseud] Emile Du Bois Reymond[book on Johannes Mueler]Print: Book
1850-1899'Read passage from Du Bois Reymond's book on Johannes Mueller, a propos of visions. Finished Libro 1 of Machiavelli's ...George Eliot [pseud] Niccolo MachiavelliIstorie fiorentinePrint: 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
1900-1945'[Sydney] Cockerell [...] busied himself with sending "The Farmer's Bride" to everyone he could think of [...] Wilfred...Siegfried Sassoon Charlotte MewThe Farmer's BridePrint: 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 Samuel WarrenDiary of a late physicianPrint: Serial / periodical
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 Samuel WarrenTen thousand a yearPrint: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'Siegfried Sassoon [...] bought [Sydney] Cockerell the first number of [Harold] Monro's new shilling magazine, "The Mo...Siegfried Sassoon Charlotte Mew"Sea Love"Print: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'Louis Untermeyer [an American poet] [...] had [...] been carried away by "Madeleine[in Church]" when Siegfried Sassoo...Siegfried Sassoon Charlotte Mew"Madeleine in Church"Unknown
1850-1899'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'Looked at the chronicle of the conquest of the Morea yesterday, and into Finlay's "History of Medieval Greece"'George Eliot George FinlayA History of GreecePrint: Book
1850-1899'Finished "La Mandragola", second time reading for the sake of Florentine expressions, and began "La Calandra"'George Eliot [pseud] Niccolo MachiavelliLa MandragolaPrint: Book
1850-1899'Finished "La Mandragola", second time reading for the sake of Florentine expressions, and began "La Calandra"'George Eliot [pseud] Bernardo Dovizi da BibbienaLa CalandraPrint: Book
1850-1899'I read to G. the Proem and opening scene of my novel and he expressed great delight in them'.George Eliot [pseud] George Eliot (pseud.)RomolaManuscript: Sheet, MS of novel
1850-1899'At present I am running along with Pulci, and have got interested in the paladins, but find him less full of point an...George Eliot [pseud] Luigi Pulci[probably] MorgantePrint: BookManuscript: Unknown
1850-1899'Today we have been to the London Library and I have read J. Mill's article on "The American Conquest".'George Eliot [pseud] John Stuart MillConquest in America, ThePrint: BookManuscript: Unknown
1850-1899'In the evening I read aloud von Sybel's Lectures on the Crusades'George Eliot [pseud] Heinrich von SybelHistory and Literature of the CrusadesPrint: BookManuscript: Unknown
1850-1899'I have lately read again with great delight Mrs Browning's "Casa Guidi Windows". It contains amongst other admirable ...George Eliot [pseud] Elizabeth Barrett BrowningCasa Guidi WindowsPrint: BookManuscript: Unknown
1850-1899[at Englefield Green] 'I have finished Pulci there, and read aloud the "Chateau D'If" to G.'George Eliot [pseud] Alexandre Dumas (pere)The Count of Monte CristoPrint: BookManuscript: Unknown
1850-1899'I have been lately reading some books on the medieval condition of Greece, sent by Mr Clark from Cambridge, and this ...George Eliot [pseud] unknown[books on medieval Greece]Print: BookManuscript: Unknown
1850-1899'I have been lately reading some books on the medieval condition of Greece, sent by Mr Clark from Cambridge, and this ...George Eliot [pseud] Christopher WordsworthGreecePrint: BookManuscript: Unknown
1850-1899'Read Juvenal this morning, and Nisard - "Poetes Latins de la Decadence" in the evening'.George Eliot [pseud] Jean Marie Napol?on D?sir NisardPoetes Latins de la DecadencePrint: BookManuscript: Unknown
1850-1899'Read Juvenal this morning, and Nisard - "Poetes Latins de la Decadence" in the evening'.George Eliot [pseud] Juvenal[unknown]Print: BookManuscript: Unknown
1850-1899'today I have been reading a book often referred to by Hallam: Meiner's "Lives of Picus von Mirandola and Politian". T...George Eliot [pseud] Meiner[lives of Politian and Pico della Mirandola]Print: BookManuscript: Unknown
1850-1899'Reading once again the "Processi" of Savonarola and Vol. III of Boccaccio'.George Eliot [pseud] Girolamo SavonarolaProcessiPrint: BookManuscript: Unknown
1850-1899'Reading once again the "Processi" of Savonarola and Vol. III of Boccaccio'George Eliot [pseud] Giovanni BoccaccioDecameronPrint: BookManuscript: Unknown
1850-1899'Began "Il Principe".'George Eliot [pseud] Niccolo MachiavelliIl PrincipePrint: BookManuscript: Unknown
1850-1899'Read the "Orfeo" and "Stanze" of Poliziano. The latter are wonderfully fine for a youth of 16. They contain a descrip...George Eliot [pseud] PolizianoStanzePrint: BookManuscript: Unknown
1850-1899'Read the "Orfeo" and "Stanze" of Poliziano. The latter are wonderfully fine for a youth of 16. They contain a descrip...George Eliot [pseud] PolizianoOrfeoPrint: BookManuscript: Unknown
1850-1899'Reading the "Purgatorio" again, and the "Compendium Revelationum" of Savonarola'George Eliot [pseud] Dante AlighieriPurgatorioPrint: BookManuscript: Unknown
1850-1899'Reading the "Purgatorio" again, and the "Compendium Revelationum" of Savonarola'George Eliot [pseud] Girolamo SavonarolaCompendium RevelationumPrint: BookManuscript: Unknown
1850-1899'Read aloud what I had written of Part IX to George, and he to my surprize entirely approved it'.George Eliot [pseud] George Eliot (pseud.)RomolaManuscript: Sheet, MS of novel
1850-1899'I am now in the middle of G's "Aristotle", which gives me great delight'George Eliot [pseud] George Henry LewesAristotle, a Chapter from the History of ScienceManuscript: Sheet, prob. in MS as publ. 1864
1850-1899'Reading Mommsen and Story's "Roba di Roma". Also Liddell's "Rome", for a narrative to accompany Mommsen's analysis'.George Eliot [pseud] Theodor Mommsen[one of his Roman history works]Print: Book
1850-1899'Reading Mommsen and Story's "Roba di Roma". Also Liddell's "Rome", for a narrative to accompany Mommsen's analysis'.George Eliot [pseud] William Wetmore StoryRoba di RomaPrint: Book
1850-1899'Reading Mommsen and Story's "Roba di Roma". Also Liddell's "Rome", for a narrative to accompany Mommsen's analysis'.George Eliot [pseud] Henry George LiddellA History of RomePrint: 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] Edward GibbonDecline and Fall of the Roman EmpirePrint: Book
1850-1899'Reading Gibbon Vol 1 in connection with Mosheim. Read about the Dionysia. Also Gieseler, on the condition of the worl...George Eliot [pseud] Johann Lorenz von Mosheim [possibly][unknown]Print: Book
1850-1899'Reading Gibbon Vol 1 in connection with Mosheim. Read about the Dionysia. Also Gieseler, on the condition of the worl...George Eliot [pseud] Johann Karl Ludwig Gieseler[unknown]Print: Book
1850-1899'Read my 2nd Act to George. It is written in verse - my first serious attempt at blank verse. G. praises and encourage...George Eliot [pseud] George Eliot (pseud.)The Spanish GipsyManuscript: Sheet, MS of own work
1850-1899'I read Prescott again and made notes'George Eliot [pseud] [probably] William Prescott[unknown]Print: BookManuscript: Unknown
1850-1899'Reading Aeschlyus, "Theatre of the Greeks", Klein's "History of the Drama" etc.'George Eliot [pseud] Aeschlyus[unknown]Print: BookManuscript: Unknown
1850-1899'Reading Aeschlyus, "Theatre of the Greeks", Klein's "History of the Drama" etc.'George Eliot [pseud] Philip Wentworth BuckhamTheatre of the GreeksPrint: BookManuscript: Unknown
1850-1899'Reading Aeschlyus, "Theatre of the Greeks", Klein's "History of the Drama" etc.'George Eliot [pseud] Julius Leopold KleinGeschichte des DramasPrint: BookManuscript: Unknown
1850-1899'Finished Bamford's "Passages from the life of a Radical". Have just begun again Mill's "Political Economy", and Comte...George Eliot [pseud] Samuel BamfordPassages in the Life of a RadicalPrint: BookManuscript: Unknown
1850-1899'Finished Bamford's "Passages from the life of a Radical". Have just begun again Mill's "Political Economy", and Comte...George Eliot [pseud] John Stuart MillPrinciples of Political EconomyPrint: BookManuscript: Unknown
1850-1899'Finished Bamford's "Passages from the life of a Radical". Have just begun again Mill's "Political Economy", and Comte...George Eliot [pseud] Auguste ComteThe Positive Philosophy of Auguste ComtePrint: BookManuscript: Unknown
1850-1899'Finished "Annual Register" for 1832. Reading Blackstone'.George Eliot [pseud] [n/a]Annual Register, ThePrint: Serial / periodicalManuscript: Unknown
1850-1899'Finished "Annual Register" for 1832. Reading Blackstone'.George Eliot [pseud] [possibly] William Blackstone[Commentaries on the laws of England?]Print: BookManuscript: Unknown
1850-1899'Reading English History, Reign of George III. Shakespeare's King John.'George Eliot [pseud.] unknown[English history in reign of George III]Print: BookManuscript: Unknown
1850-1899'Reading English History, Reign of George III. Shakespeare's King John.'George Eliot [pseud.] William ShakespeareKing JohnPrint: BookManuscript: Unknown
1850-1899'Read Aeschylus before breakfast'.George Eliot [pseud.] AeschylusunknownPrint: BookManuscript: Unknown
1850-1899'in the evening I read G.'s article on Grote's Plato'.George Eliot [pseud.] George Henry Lewes[article on Grote's Plato]Manuscript: Unknown, ms of article
1850-1899'Finished the Agamemnon, 2nd time.'George Eliot [pseud.] AeschylusAgamemnonPrint: BookManuscript: Unknown
1850-1899'I have been reading Villemarque's "Contes populaires des Anciens Bretons".'George Eliot [pseud.] Th?odore Claude Henri vicomte Hersart de la VillemarquContes populaires des anciens BretonsPrint: BookManuscript: Unknown
1800-1849'[in 1811] Reginald Heber reads and praises "War and Peace".'Reginald Heber Felicia Dorothea BrowneWar and Peace -- A Poem. Written at the age of FifteenUnknown
1800-1849'I must tell you that Lord Byron said Mrs Lee [Augusta Leigh?] & Lady Byron had read all my letters [and] verses'.Augusta Leigh Lady Caroline Lamb[letters and verses]Manuscript: Unknown
1850-1899'I have been reading Fawcett's Economic condition of the Working Classes, Mill's Liberty, looking into Strauss's Secon...George Eliot [pseud] FawcettEconomic Condition of the Working ClassesPrint: Book
1850-1899'I have been reading Fawcett's Economic condition of the Working Classes, Mill's Liberty, looking into Strauss's Secon...George Eliot [pseud.] John Stuart MillOn LibertyPrint: Book
1850-1899'I have been reading Fawcett's Economic condition of the Working Classes, Mill's Liberty, looking into Strauss's Secon...George Eliot [pseud.] David Friedrich StraussLife of Jesus [second version]Print: Book
1850-1899'I have been reading Fawcett's Economic condition of the Working Classes, Mill's Liberty, looking into Strauss's Secon...George Eliot [pseud.] unknown NealeHistory of the PuritansPrint: Book
1850-1899'Reading the Bible'George Eliot [pseud.] BiblePrint: Book
1850-1899'began Hallam's Middle Ages'.George Eliot [pseud.] Henry HallamThe View of the State of Europe during the Middle AgesPrint: Book
1850-1899'This evening read again Macaulay's Introduction'.George Eliot [pseud.] Thomas Babington Macaulay [perhaps] History of England [?]Print: Book
1850-1899'I am reading Mill's Logic again, Theocritus still, and English History and Law'.George Eliot [pseud.] John Stuart MillA System of LogicPrint: Book
1850-1899'I am reading Mill's Logic again, Theocritus still, and English History and Law'.George Eliot [pseud.] TheocritusunknownPrint: Book
1850-1899'I am reading Mill's Logic again, Theocritus still, and English History and Law'.George Eliot [pseud.] unknown[English History and Law]Print: Book
1850-1899'Read my MS to George up to p.468. He was delighted with it'.George Eliot [pseud.] George Eliot (pseud.)Felix HoltManuscript: Unknown, MS of own novel
1850-1899'I have taken up the idea of my drama, "The Spanish Gipsy" again, and am reading on Spanish subjects - Bouterwek, Sism...George Eliot [pseud.] Friedrich BouterwekGeschichte der neuern Poesie und Beredsamkeit [vol on Spanish literature]Print: BookManuscript: Unknown
1850-1899'I have taken up the idea of my drama, "The Spanish Gipsy" again, and am reading on Spanish subjects - Bouterwek, Sism...George Eliot [pseud.] Jean Charles L?onard de Sismondi[unknown - on Spain]Print: BookManuscript: Unknown
1850-1899'I have taken up the idea of my drama, "The Spanish Gipsy" again, and am reading on Spanish subjects - Bouterwek, Sism...George Eliot [pseud.] Georges Bernard Depping[unknown - on Spain]Print: BookManuscript: Unknown
1850-1899'I have taken up the idea of my drama, "The Spanish Gipsy" again, and am reading on Spanish subjects - Bouterwek, Sism...George Eliot [pseud.] Juan Antonio Llorente[Spanish history]Print: BookManuscript: Unknown
1850-1899'Finished Depping's "Juifs au Moyen Age". Reading Chaucer, to study English. Also, reading on acoustics, musical instr...George Eliot [pseud.] Georges DeppingJuifs au Moyen AgePrint: BookManuscript: Unknown
1850-1899'Finished Depping's "Juifs au Moyen Age". Reading Chaucer, to study English. Also, reading on acoustics, musical instr...George Eliot [pseud.] Geoffrey Chaucer[unknown]Print: BookManuscript: Unknown
1850-1899'Finished Depping's "Juifs au Moyen Age". Reading Chaucer, to study English. Also, reading on acoustics, musical instr...George Eliot [pseud.] unknown[works on music and acoustics]Print: BookManuscript: Unknown
1850-1899'Reading Renan's Histoire des Langues Semitiques. Ticknor's Spanish Literature'.George Eliot [pseud.] Ernest RenanHistoire g?n?rale et syst?me compar? des langues s?mitiquesPrint: BookManuscript: Unknown
1850-1899'Reading Renan's Histoire des Langues Semitiques. Ticknor's Spanish Literature'.George Eliot [pseud.] George TicknorHistory of Spanish LiteraturePrint: BookManuscript: Unknown
1850-1899'I have been reading Cornewall Lewis's Astronomy of the Ancients, Ockley's History of the Saracens, Astronomical Geogr...George Eliot [pseud.] Cornewall LewisAstronomy of the AncientsPrint: BookManuscript: Unknown
1850-1899'I have been reading Cornewall Lewis's Astronomy of the Ancients, Ockley's History of the Saracens, Astronomical Geogr...George Eliot [pseud.] Simon OckleyHistory of the SaracensPrint: BookManuscript: Unknown
1850-1899'I have been reading Cornewall Lewis's Astronomy of the Ancients, Ockley's History of the Saracens, Astronomical Geogr...George Eliot [pseud.] unknown[books on Astronomical Geography]Print: BookManuscript: Unknown
1850-1899'I have been reading Cornewall Lewis's Astronomy of the Ancients, Ockley's History of the Saracens, Astronomical Geogr...George Eliot [pseud.] unknown[ballads on Bernardo del Carpio]Print: BookManuscript: Unknown
1850-1899'Reading "Los Judios en Espana", "Percy's Reliques", "Isis", occasionally aloud'.George Eliot [pseud.] unknownLos Judios en EspanaPrint: BookManuscript: Unknown
1850-1899'Reading "Los Judios en Espana", "Percy's Reliques", "Isis", occasionally aloud'.George Eliot [pseud.] Thomas Percy (ed.)Reliques of Ancient English PoetryPrint: BookManuscript: Unknown
1850-1899'Reading "Los Judios en Espana", "Percy's Reliques", "Isis", occasionally aloud'.George Eliot [pseud.] unknownIsisPrint: BookManuscript: Unknown
1850-1899'Reading the Iliad, book III'.George Eliot [pseud.] HomerIliadPrint: BookManuscript: Unknown
1850-1899'Began again Prescott's Ferdinand and Isabella'.George Eliot [pseud.] William Henry PrescottHistory of Ferdinand and Isabella, ThePrint: BookManuscript: Unknown
1850-1899'Finished reading "Averroes and l'Averroisme", and "Les Medecins Juifs". Reading "First Principles".'George Eliot [pseud.] Ernest RenanAverroes et l'AverroismePrint: BookManuscript: Unknown
1850-1899'Finished reading "Averroes and l'Averroisme", and "Les Medecins Juifs". Reading "First Principles".'George Eliot [pseud.] Eliakim CarmolyHistoire des M?decins JuifsPrint: BookManuscript: Unknown
1850-1899'Finished reading "Averroes and l'Averroisme", and "Les Medecins Juifs". Reading "First Principles".'George Eliot [pseud.] unknownFirst PrinciplesPrint: BookManuscript: Unknown
1850-1899'I walked to Grossmutter's and read her a letter of G's'.George Eliot [pseud.] George Henry Lewes[letter]Manuscript: Letter
1850-1899'Reading Munk, Melanges de Philosophie juive et arabe'.George Eliot [pseud.] Salomon MunkMelanges de Philosophie Juive et ArabePrint: Book
1850-1899'Finished Guillemin on the Heavens'.George Eliot [pseud.] unknown Guillemin[presumably astronomy text]Print: Book
1850-1899'Reading Lubbock's Prehistoric Ages'.George Eliot [pseud.] John LubbockPrehistoric TimesPrint: Book
1850-1899'Reading; First book of Lucretius, 6th book of the Iliad; Samson Agonistes, Warton's History of English Poetry; Grote ...George Eliot [pseud.] LucretiusDe Rerum NaturaPrint: Book
1850-1899'Reading; First book of Lucretius, 6th book of the Iliad; Samson Agonistes, Warton's History of English Poetry; Grote ...George Eliot [pseud.] HomerIliadPrint: Book
1850-1899'Reading; First book of Lucretius, 6th book of the Iliad; Samson Agonistes, Warton's History of English Poetry; Grote ...George Eliot [pseud.] John MiltonSamson AgonistesPrint: Book
1850-1899'Reading; First book of Lucretius, 6th book of the Iliad; Samson Agonistes, Warton's History of English Poetry; Grote ...George Eliot [pseud.] Thomas WartonHistory of English Poetry, ThePrint: Book
1850-1899'Reading; First book of Lucretius, 6th book of the Iliad; Samson Agonistes, Warton's History of English Poetry; Grote ...George Eliot [pseud.] George GroteunknownPrint: Book
1850-1899'Reading; First book of Lucretius, 6th book of the Iliad; Samson Agonistes, Warton's History of English Poetry; Grote ...George Eliot [pseud] Marcus AureliusunknownPrint: Book
1850-1899'Reading; First book of Lucretius, 6th book of the Iliad; Samson Agonistes, Warton's History of English Poetry; Grote ...George Eliot [pseud.] Dante AlighieriLa Vita NuovaPrint: Book
1850-1899'Reading; First book of Lucretius, 6th book of the Iliad; Samson Agonistes, Warton's History of English Poetry; Grote ...George Eliot [pseud.] Auguste ComteSyst?me de politique positivePrint: Book
1850-1899'Reading; First book of Lucretius, 6th book of the Iliad; Samson Agonistes, Warton's History of English Poetry; Grote ...George Eliot [pseud.] Edwin GuestHistory of English Rhythms, APrint: Book
1850-1899'Reading; First book of Lucretius, 6th book of the Iliad; Samson Agonistes, Warton's History of English Poetry; Grote ...George Eliot [pseud.] Frederick Denison MauriceConscience: Lectures On CasuistryPrint: Book
1850-1899'have been reading a little on philology, have finished the 24th book of the Iliad, the first book of the Faery Queene...George Eliot [pseud.] unknown[philology books]Print: Book
1850-1899'have been reading a little on philology, have finished the 24th book of the Iliad, the first book of the Faery Queene...George Eliot [pseud.] HomerIliadPrint: Book
1850-1899'have been reading a little on philology, have finished the 24th book of the Iliad, the first book of the Faery Queene...George Eliot [pseud.] Edmund SpenserFaerie Queene, ThePrint: Book
1850-1899'have been reading a little on philology, have finished the 24th book of the Iliad, the first book of the Faery Queene...George Eliot [pseud.] [Mrs] Grey[Etruscan subjects]Print: Book
1850-1899'have been reading a little on philology, have finished the 24th book of the Iliad, the first book of the Faery Queene...George Eliot [pseud.] George DennisCities and Cemeteries of Etruria, ThePrint: Book
1850-1899'have been reading a little on philology, have finished the 24th book of the Iliad, the first book of the Faery Queene...George Eliot [pseud.] Ben JonsonAlchemist, ThePrint: Book
1850-1899'have been reading a little on philology, have finished the 24th book of the Iliad, the first book of the Faery Queene...George Eliot [pseud.] Ben JonsonVolponePrint: Book
1850-1899'have been reading a little on philology, have finished the 24th book of the Iliad, the first book of the Faery Queene...George Eliot [pseud.] John Bright[Speeches]Print: Book
1850-1899'have been reading a little on philology, have finished the 24th book of the Iliad, the first book of the Faery Queene...George Eliot [pseud.] George Gordon Lord ByronDon JuanPrint: Book
1850-1899'In the evening read aloud Bright's 4th speech on India, and a story in Italian. In the spectator some interesting fac...George Eliot [pseud.] John Bright[4th speech on India]Print: Book
1850-1899'In the evening read aloud Bright's 4th speech on India, and a story in Italian. In the spectator some interesting fac...George Eliot [pseud.] unknown[Italian story]Print: Book
1850-1899'In the evening read aloud Bright's 4th speech on India, and a story in Italian. In the spectator some interesting fac...George Eliot [pseud.] unknownSpectator, ThePrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'In the evening read aloud Bright's 4th speech on India, and a story in Italian. In the spectator some interesting fac...George Eliot [pseud.] W Thomson[essay in Revue des Cours]Print: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'Aloud [these past two days] I have read Bright's speeches and "I promessi sposi". To myself I have read Mommsen's Rome'.George Eliot [pseud.] Alessandro ManzoniI Promessi SposiPrint: Book
1850-1899'Aloud [these past two days] I have read Bright's speeches and "I promessi sposi". To myself I have read Mommsen's Rome'.George Eliot [pseud.] Theodor MommsenHistory of RomePrint: Book
1850-1899'The last few days I have been looking through Matthew Arnold's poems, and find his earlier ones very superior to the ...George Eliot [pseud] Matthew Arnold[poems]Print: 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] John Bright[speech on Ireland and Church Establishment]Print: 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] Hermann von Helmholtz[book on music]Print: Book
1850-1899'I am reading about plants, and Helmholtz on music'George Eliot [pseud] [unknown][books on plants]Print: Book
1850-1899'Finished my readings in Lucretius. Reading Victor Hugo's "L'Homme qui rit". Also the Frau von Hillern's novel "Ein Ar...George Eliot [pseud] LucretiusDe Rerum NaturaPrint: Book
1850-1899'Finished my readings in Lucretius. Reading Victor Hugo's "L'Homme qui rit". Also the Frau von Hillern's novel "Ein Ar...George Eliot Victor HugoL'Homme Qui RitPrint: Book
1850-1899'Finished my readings in Lucretius. Reading Victor Hugo's "L'Homme qui rit". Also the Frau von Hillern's novel "Ein Ar...George Eliot Willhelmine von HillernEin Arzt der SeelePrint: Book
1850-1899'Began Nisard's History of French Literature - Villehardouin, Joinville, Froissart, Christine de Pisan, Philippe de Co...George Eliot [pseud] Jean Marie Napol?on D?sir NisardHistoire de la litt?rature fran?aisePrint: 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] SmithUniversal HistoryPrint: Book
1850-1899'Read the articles Phoenicia and Carthage in Ancient Geography. Looked into Smith's "Universal History" again for Cart...George Eliot [pseud] Jean Charles L?onard de SismondiLitt?rature du midi de l'EuropePrint: 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'Read the articles Phoenicia and Carthage in Ancient Geography. Looked into Smith's "Universal History" again for Cart...George Eliot [pseud] Michael DraytonNymphidia, The Court of FairyPrint: Book
1850-1899'Read the articles Phoenicia and Carthage in Ancient Geography. Looked into Smith's "Universal History" again for Cart...George Eliot [pseud] Michael DraytonPolyolbionPrint: Book
1850-1899'Read the articles Phoenicia and Carthage in Ancient Geography. Looked into Smith's "Universal History" again for Cart...George Eliot [pseud] George Grote[probably] History of GreecePrint: Book
1850-1899'Read Reybaud's book on Les Reformateurs Modernes'George Eliot [pseud] Louis ReybaudEtudes sur les r?formateurs ou socialistes modernesPrint: Book
1850-1899'I read about Fourier and Owen'George Eliot [pseud] [unknown][on Charles Fourier and Robert Owen, Utopian Socialists]Print: Unknown
1850-1899'Read Plato's Republic, in various parts... In the evening I read Nisard, and Littre on Comte'George Eliot [pseud] PlatoRepublicPrint: Book
1850-1899'Read Plato's Republic, in various parts... In the evening I read Nisard, and Littre on Comte'George Eliot [pseud] Emile Littre[on Comte]Print: Book
1850-1899'[in the past week I have read] part of 22nd Idyll of Theocritus, Sainte Beuve aloud to G. two evenings... Monday even...George Eliot Theocritus22nd IdyllPrint: Book
1850-1899'[in the past week I have read] part of 22nd Idyll of Theocritus, Sainte Beuve aloud to G. two evenings... Monday even...George Eliot [pseud] Charles Augustine Sainte-Beuve[unknown]Print: Book
1850-1899'[in the past week I have read] part of 22nd Idyll of Theocritus, Sainte Beuve aloud to G. two evenings... Monday even...George Eliot [pseud] Samuel DicksonFallacies of the Faculty: With the Chrono-Thermal System of MedicinePrint: Book
1850-1899'Yesterday, sitting in Thornie's room I read through all Shakespeare's sonnets'.George Eliot [pseud] William ShakespeareSonnetsPrint: Book
1850-1899'I am reading Renouard's "History of Medicine"'George Eliot Pierre Victor RenouardHistory of MedicinePrint: Book
1850-1899'I have achieved little during the last week except reading on medical subjects - Encyclopaedia about the medical coll...George Eliot [pseud] unknown[Encyclopaedia re medical colleges]Print: Book
1850-1899'I have achieved little during the last week except reading on medical subjects - Encyclopaedia about the medical coll...George Eliot [pseud] unknown[Life of or by William Cullen]Print: Book
1850-1899'I have achieved little during the last week except reading on medical subjects - Encyclopaedia about the medical coll...George Eliot [pseud] Rutherford RussellHistory and Heroes of MedicinePrint: Book
1850-1899'I have achieved little during the last week except reading on medical subjects - Encyclopaedia about the medical coll...George Eliot [pseud] AristophanesEcclesiazusaePrint: Book
1850-1899'I have achieved little during the last week except reading on medical subjects - Encyclopaedia about the medical coll...George Eliot [pseud] William ShakespeareMacbethPrint: Book
1850-1899'Finished studying again Bekker's "Charikles" yesterday'.George Eliot [pseud] BekkerChariklesPrint: Book
1850-1899'I am reading Maundeville's "Travels".'George Eliot [pseud] John Mandeville (pseud.)TravelsPrint: Book
1850-1899'I have read rapidly through Max Muller's History of Sanskrit Literature and am now reading Lecky's "History of Morals...George Eliot Max MullerHistory of Ancient Sanskrit LiteraturePrint: Book
1850-1899'I have read rapidly through Max Muller's History of Sanskrit Literature and am now reading Lecky's "History of Morals...George Eliot [pseud] William LeckyHistory of European Morals from Augustus to CharlemagnePrint: Book
1850-1899'I have read rapidly through Max Muller's History of Sanskrit Literature and am now reading Lecky's "History of Morals...George Eliot [pseud] Herbert Spencer[probably] Principles of Psychology, ThePrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'I read aloud No. 3 of "Edwin Drood".'George Eliot [pseud.] Charles DickensEdwin DroodPrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'In the evening, G. being very weary, I read him some of Rossetti's poems'.George Eliot [pseud] [probably] Dante Gabriel Rossetti[poems]Print: Book
1700-1799The Dowager Lady Spencer to Mary Berry, from Nuneham (seat of George Simon, second Earl of Harcourt), 21 August 1799: ...G., Dowager Lady Spencer William MasonPoems (third volume)Print: Book
1850-1899'I began Grove on the Correlation of the Physical Forces, needing to read it again with new interests after the lapse ...George Eliot [pseud] William R. GroveOn the Correlation of Physical ForcesPrint: Book
1850-1899'Aloud I read the concluding part of Walter Scott's "Life" which we had begun at Harrogate, two volumes of Froude's "H...George Eliot [pseud] John Gibson LockhartMemoirs of the Life of Sir Walter ScottPrint: Book
1850-1899'Aloud I read the concluding part of Walter Scott's "Life" which we had begun at Harrogate, two volumes of Froude's "H...George Eliot [pseud] James Anthony FroudeHistory of EnglandPrint: Book
1850-1899'Aloud I read the concluding part of Walter Scott's "Life" which we had begun at Harrogate, two volumes of Froude's "H...George Eliot [pseud] Auguste Comte[correspondence with Valat]Print: Book
1850-1899'I am reading Wolfe's Prolegomena to Homer. In the evening aloud, Wilhelm Meister again!'.George Eliot [pseud] Johann Wolfgang GoetheWilhelm Meister's ApprenticeshipPrint: Book
1850-1899'I am reading Wolf's Prolegomena to Homer. In the evening aloud, Wilhelm Meister again!'.George Eliot [pseud] Friedrich August WolfProlegomena ad HomerumPrint: Book
1850-1899'Reading Quintus Fixlein aloud to G. in the evening. Grote on Sicilian history'.George Eliot [pseud] Jean Paul (pseud.)Leben des Quintus FixleinPrint: Book
1850-1899'Reading Quintus Fixlein aloud to G. in the evening. Grote on Sicilian history'.George Eliot [pseud] George Grote[on Sicilian History]Print: Book
1850-1899'I am just finishing again Aristotle's Poetics which I first read in 1856'George Eliot [pseud] AristotlePoeticsPrint: Book
1850-1899'Began to read "Principles of Success in Literature".'George Eliot [pseud] George Henry Lewes"Principles of Success in LiteraturePrint: Book
1850-1899'Read M.S. 'Social Function' and Physical Basis'.George Eliot [pseud] George Henry Lewes[Social Function...]Manuscript: Unknown
1850-1899'Read M.S. 'Social Function' and Physical Basis'.George Eliot [pseud] George Henry LewesPhysical Basis of Mind, ThePrint: Book
1850-1899'Read Physical Basis - and dear Journal of our Seaside Work'George Eliot [pseud] [journal by either Eliot or G.H. Lewes]Manuscript: Unknown, journal
1850-1899'Wrote memories and lived with him all day. Read in his diary 1874 - "Wrote verses to Polly - Wrote verses on Polly".'George Eliot [pseud] George Henry Lewes[journal, 1874]Manuscript: Unknown, journal
1850-1899'Began Revision of Problem II. Revised Introduction. Finished 2nd reading of Psychological Principles'.George Eliot [pseud] George Henry Lewes[various works Eliot was revising]Manuscript: Unknown
1850-1899'Read my darling's book on the Spanish Drama'George Eliot [pseud] George Henry LewesSpanish Drama, ThePrint: BookManuscript: Unknown
1850-1899'Read my darling's first article on Goethe'George Eliot [pseud] George Henry Lewes[first article on Goethe]Print: UnknownManuscript: Unknown
1850-1899'Reading Problem III'George Eliot [pseud] George Henry Lewes[probably] Problems of Life and Mind; Third Series: Mind as a Function of OrganismManuscript: Unknown
1850-1899'unable to read anything except "Times".'George Eliot [pseud] unknownTimes, ThePrint: NewspaperManuscript: Unknown
1850-1899'Read Clifford's First and Last Catastrophe'George Eliot [pseud] W. Kingdom CliffordFirst and Last Castrophe, ThePrint: BookManuscript: Unknown
1850-1899'Read J.S. Mill on Socialism'George Eliot [pseud] John Stuart Mill[on socialism]Print: BookManuscript: Unknown
1850-1899'Read Spencer's Psychology'George Eliot [pseud] Herbert SpencerPrinciples of PsychologyPrint: BookManuscript: Unknown
1850-1899'read on the colour-sense'George Eliot [pseud] unknown[on colour sense]Print: BookManuscript: Unknown
1850-1899'Read Magnus on the Farbensinn'George Eliot [pseud] Hugo MagnusDie Geschichtliche Entwickelung des FarbensinnesPrint: BookManuscript: Unknown
1850-1899'[Trubner] brought Allen Grant's volume on the Colour Sense, of which I read the early chapters in the Evening'.George Eliot [pseud] Allen GrantColour Sense: its Origin and Development, ThePrint: BookManuscript: Unknown
1850-1899'read my darling's M.S. on Language'George Eliot [pseud] George Henry Lewes[on language]Manuscript: Unknown
1850-1899'Read Bain on the Nervous mechanism - and looked for comparison into Foster's'George Eliot [pseud] Alexander Bain[on nervous mechanism]Print: Book
1850-1899'Read Bain on the Nervous mechanism - and looked for comparison into Foster's'George Eliot [pseud] Foster[on nervous mechanism]Print: Book
1850-1899'Made list of his articles, and read His article on Philosophy in France, 1843'George Eliot [pseud] George Henry Lewes[article on Philosophy in France]Print: Unknown
1850-1899'Re-read "Laws of Operation".'George Eliot [pseud] Alexander (perhaps) Ellis (perhaps)[perhaps] On the Laws of Operation, and the Systematization of MathematicsPrint: Unknown
1850-1899'Read Herzen's "La Condizione fisica della Coscienza", sent to me at my request, because it criticizes my darling's st...George Eliot [pseud] Alexander HerzenLa Condizione fisica della CoscienzaPrint: Unknown
1850-1899[Read] 'Iliad in Munro's edition'.George Eliot [pseud] HomerIliadPrint: Book
1850-1899'Read 'Dwarfs and Giants' with which many memories are connected of far off Richmond Days'.George Eliot [pseud] George Henry Lewes[essay on Dwarfs and Giants]Print: Unknown
1850-1899'Read Homer, Bain, St Beuve'.George Eliot [pseud] Alexander Bain (?)unknownPrint: Unknown
1850-1899'Read Homer, Bain, St Beuve'.George Eliot [pseud] Charles Augustin Sainte BeuveunknownPrint: Book
1850-1899'Homer IV. Foster, Physiology'.George Eliot [pseud] Homer[book IV - of Iliad?]Print: Book
1850-1899'Homer IV. Foster, Physiology'.George Eliot [pseud] Michael Foster Textbook of PhysiologyPrint: Book
1850-1899'Grote on the Sophists - then History of Philosophy to compare'George Eliot [pseud] George Grote[probably] History of GreecePrint: Book
1850-1899'Grote on the Sophists - then History of Philosophy to compare'George Eliot [pseud] George Henry LewesBiographical History of Philosophy, APrint: Book
1850-1899'History of Philosophy. Pollock's Sketch of Clifford. Life of Goethe. Homer'.George Eliot [pseud] George Henry LewesLife and Works of Goethe, ThePrint: Book
1850-1899'History of Philosophy. Pollock's Sketch of Clifford. Life of Goethe. Homer'.George Eliot [pseud] Frederick Pollock[biographical sketch of W.K. Clifford]Print: Book
1850-1899'History of Philosophy. Pollock's Sketch of Clifford. Life of Goethe. Homer'.George Eliot [pseud] Edward Caird[probably] Social Philosophy and Religion of Comte, ThePrint: Book
1850-1899'Finished reading "Life and Works of Goethe" with great admiration and delight.'George Eliot [pseud] George Henry LewesLife and Works of GoethePrint: Book
1850-1899'Read Mr Sully's proof of his article on my darling for the New Quarterly, and wrote to him'.George Eliot [pseud] Sully[article on G.H. Lewes]Manuscript: proof of article
1850-1899'Finished Voltaire's Candide again after many years' interval'.George Eliot [pseud] Voltaire (pseud.)CandidePrint: Book
1850-1899'Reading Plato - Republic'George Eliot [pseud] PlatoRepublic,ThePrint: Book
1850-1899'Read [Mrs Merritt's] recollections of Mr Merritt.'George Eliot [pseud] Merritt (Mrs)[recollections of her husband]Unknown
1850-1899[Read] 'Hebrew and Algebra'George Eliot [pseud] unknownHebrew textsPrint: Book
1850-1899[Read] 'Hebrew and Algebra'George Eliot [pseud] unknown[Algebra]Print: Book
1850-1899[Read] 'Purgatorio'.George Eliot [pseud] Dante AlighieriPurgatorioPrint: Book
1850-1899'Read Grote on the Sophists'.George Eliot [pseud] George GroteHistory of GreecePrint: Book
1850-1899'I read his letters, and packed them together, to be buried with me. Perhaps that will happen before next November'.George Eliot [pseud] George Henry Lewes[letters to George Eliot]Manuscript: Letter
1850-1899'Finished Weber's Indian Literature'.George Eliot [pseud] Albrecht WeberHistory of Indian Literature, ThePrint: Book
1850-1899'Finished Monier Williams'George Eliot [pseud] Monier Monier Williams[presumably work on Sanskrit]Print: Book
1850-1899[Read] 'Romanes, 'Theism'. Tiele, History of Religions. Odyssey.'George Eliot [pseud] George John RomanesCandid Examination of Theism, APrint: Book
1850-1899[Read] 'Romanes, 'Theism'. Tiele, History of Religions. Odyssey.'George Eliot [pseud] Cornelis Petrus TieleOutlines of the History of ReligionPrint: Book
1850-1899[Read] 'Romanes, 'Theism'. Tiele, History of Religions. Odyssey.'George Eliot [pseud] HomerOdysseyPrint: Book
1850-1899[Read] 'Chaucer's Prologue'.George Eliot [pseud] Geoffrey ChaucerCanterbury Tales, ThePrint: Book
1850-1899[Read] 'Burton's Queen Anne'.George Eliot [pseud] John Hill Burtonhistory of the reign of Queen Anne, APrint: Book
1850-1899'Finished Fanny Kemble's Records of a girlhood'.George Eliot [pseud] Frances Anne KembleRecords of a GirlhoodPrint: Book
1850-1899'Read a heap of Jewish Chronicles'George Eliot [pseud] unknown[Jewish chronicles]Print: Unknown
1850-1899'Read "Hebrew Migration" - an anonymous book, very well done - arguing that Mount Sinai is in Idumaea and is identical...George Eliot [pseud] anon.Hebrew Migration from Egypt, ThePrint: Book
1850-1899'Finished Prose Edda, etc. Akkadians. Malthus.'George Eliot [pseud] anon.Prose Edda, ThePrint: Book
1850-1899'Finished Prose Edda, etc. Akkadians. Malthus.'George Eliot [pseud] Thomas MalthusunknownPrint: Book
1850-1899'Read Ruy Blas aloud. Afterwards saw three acts'.George Eliot [pseud] Victor HugoRuy BlasPrint: Book
1850-1899[Read] 'Sayce and Promessi Sposi'.George Eliot [pseud] [probably] Archibald Henry Sayce[if this Sayce then work of Assyriology]Print: Book
1850-1899[Read] 'Sayce and Promessi Sposi'.George Eliot [pseud] Alessandro ManzoniI Promessi SposiPrint: Book
1850-1899'Finished the Discours Preliminaire'.George Eliot [pseud] Jean Le Rond D'AlembertDiscours pr?liminaire de l'Encyclop?diePrint: Book
1850-1899'Read Comte and began Hermann and Dorothea'.George Eliot [pseud] Auguste Comte[unknown]Print: Book
1850-1899'Read Comte and began Hermann and Dorothea'.George Eliot [pseud] Johann Wolfgang von GoetheHermann and DorotheaPrint: Book
1850-1899'Read Tennyson's new vol. of poems and particularly like "The first Quarrel".'George Eliot [pseud] Alfred Lord Tennyson[poems including 'The First Quarrel']Print: Book
1850-1899'Read "My faithful Johnny" in the Cornhill'.George Eliot [pseud] Margaret OliphantMy faithful JohnnyPrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'after dinner began Duffield's translation of Don Quixote and Myers' Wordsworth'.George Eliot [pseud] Miguel de CervantesDon QuixotePrint: Book
1850-1899'after dinner began Duffield's translation of Don Quixote and Myers' Wordsworth'.George Eliot [pseud] Frederic William Henry MyersWordsworthPrint: Book
1800-1849M. G. Lewis to Lady Charlotte Bury, 9 December 1810: 'I have galloped through two volumes of Madame du Deffand's Lette...M. G. Lewis Madame du DeffandLetters (2 vols)Print: Book
1700-1799'In a 1735 letter to Lady Hertford, [Elizabeth Singer] Rowe observes that the "Epistle to Dr Arbuthnot" "Seems to be w...Elizabeth Singer Rowe Alexander PopeEpistle to Dr ArbuthnotPrint: Unknown
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 John LockeTreatise on the Reasonableness of ChristianityPrint: Book
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 Joseph ButlerAnalogy of ReligionPrint: Book
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 J.C. de Sismondihistory of the Italian republics;: Being a view of the origin, progress, and fall of Italian freedom, APrint: Book
1800-1849[Letter from Byron to Annabella Milbanke, Aug 25th 1814]. 'You can hardly have a better modern work than Sismondi's, b...George Gordon, Lord Byron Jean Charles de SismondiLitt?rature du midi de l'EuropePrint: 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 Edward GibbonDecline and Fall of the Roman EmpirePrint: 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 Watson[book on Philip of Spain]Print: Book
1800-1849[Letter from Byron to Annabella Milbanke, Aug 25th 1814]. 'You can hardly have a better modern work than Sismondi's, b...George Gordon, Lord Byron William CoxeHistory of the House of AustriaPrint: 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 William CoxeMemoirs of the Bourbon Kings of SpainPrint: 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 Rene Aubert de Vertot[book(s) on Revolutions]Print: Book
1800-1849[Letter from Byron to Annabella Milbanke, Aug 25th 1814]. 'You can hardly have a better modern work than Sismondi's, b...George Gordon, Lord Byron [unknown][30 vol. History of 'Conjurazioni]Print: Book
1800-1849[Letter from Byron to Anabella Milbanke, 28 Nov 1814]. 'I think Southey's "Roderick" as near perfection as poetry can ...George Gordon, Lord Byron Robert SoutheyRoderickPrint: Book
1800-1849'they read books together and discussed them; Scott's "Lord of the Isles" was sent to Byron by Murray. It they did not...George Gordon, Lord Byron Walter ScottLord of the IslesPrint: Book
1800-1849'He was reading an article by Darwin on Diseased Volition'George Gordon, Lord Byron unknown Darwin[article on 'Diseased Volition']Print: Unknown
1850-1899'Brooks loved literature, and during their long walks together he introduced Willie to the most important contemporary...John Ellingham Brooks John Henry, Cardinal Newman[theological works]Print: Book
1850-1899'Brooks loved literature, and during their long walks together he introduced Willie to the most important contemporary...John Ellingham Brooks George Meredith[unknown]Print: Book
1850-1899'Brooks loved literature, and during their long walks together he introduced Willie to the most important contemporary...John Ellingham Brooks Walter PaterImaginary PortraitsPrint: Book
1850-1899'Brooks loved literature, and during their long walks together he introduced Willie to the most important contemporary...John Ellingham Brooks Algernon Charles Swinburne[unknown]Print: Book
1850-1899'Brooks loved literature, and during their long walks together he introduced Willie to the most important contemporary...John Ellingham Brooks Edward Fitzgerald (trans.)Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, ThePrint: Book
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Extracted by G. C. Moore Smith from J. O. Halliwell-Phillipps, "Memoranda on the Tragedy of Hamlet"(1879): 'There was ...Gabriel Harvey Geoffrey ChaucerWorksPrint: Book
1500-1599'In ["Ciceronianus" (published 1577; delivered c.1575)] [...] Harvey says he has been for nearly twenty weeks in his T...Gabriel Harvey Roman textsPrint: Book
1500-1599'In ["Ciceronianus" (published 1577; delivered c.1575)] [...] Harvey says he has been for nearly twenty weeks in his T...Gabriel Harvey SturmunknownPrint: Book
1500-1599'In ["Ciceronianus" (published 1577; delivered c.1575)] [...] Harvey says he has been for nearly twenty weeks in his T...Gabriel Harvey Manutius unknownPrint: Book
1500-1599'In ["Ciceronianus" (published 1577; delivered c.1575)] [...] Harvey says he has been for nearly twenty weeks in his T...Gabriel Harvey Osorius unknownPrint: Book
1500-1599'In ["Ciceronianus" (published 1577; delivered c.1575)] [...] Harvey says he has been for nearly twenty weeks in his T...Gabriel Harvey Sigonius unknownPrint: Book
1500-1599'In ["Ciceronianus" (published 1577; delivered c.1575)] [...] Harvey says he has been for nearly twenty weeks in his T...Gabriel Harvey BuchananunknownPrint: Book
1500-1599'In ["Ciceronianus" (published 1577; delivered c.1575)] [...] Harvey says he has been for nearly twenty weeks in his T...Gabriel Harvey Cicero Works including On FriendshipPrint: Book
1500-1599'In ["Ciceronianus" (published 1577; delivered c.1575)] [...] Harvey says he has been for nearly twenty weeks in his T...Gabriel Harvey Osorius Works including On GloryPrint: Book
1500-1599'There had been a time when [...] [Gabriel Harvey] had been a pure Ciceronian [...] He had then come across the "Cicer...Gabriel Harvey Sambucus CiceronianusPrint: Book
1500-1599'There had been a time when [...] [Gabriel Harvey] had been a pure Ciceronian [...] He had then come across the "Cicer...Gabriel Harvey Ramus CiceronianusPrint: Book
1500-1599'There had been a time when [...] [Gabriel Harvey] had been a pure Ciceronian [...] He had then come across the "Cicer...Gabriel Harvey Caesar unknownPrint: Book
1500-1599'There had been a time when [...] [Gabriel Harvey] had been a pure Ciceronian [...] He had then come across the "Cicer...Gabriel Harvey Varro unknownPrint: Book
1500-1599'There had been a time when [...] [Gabriel Harvey] had been a pure Ciceronian [...] He had then come across the "Cicer...Gabriel Harvey Sallust unknownPrint: Book
1500-1599'There had been a time when [...] [Gabriel Harvey] had been a pure Ciceronian [...] He had then come across the "Cicer...Gabriel Harvey Livy unknownPrint: Book
1500-1599'There had been a time when [...] [Gabriel Harvey] had been a pure Ciceronian [...] He had then come across the "Cicer...Gabriel Harvey Pliny unknownPrint: Book
1500-1599'There had been a time when [...] [Gabriel Harvey] had been a pure Ciceronian [...] He had then come across the "Cicer...Gabriel Harvey Columella unknownPrint: Book
1500-1599'[Gabriel] Harvey no doubt has the incident [of Philip, Lord Surrey's 'attempts [...] on the virtue' of Harvey's siste...Gabriel Harvey Desiderius ErasmusParabolaePrint: Book
1500-1599'Two days after being elected to his fellowship at Trinity Hall, Harvey [...] received from [Spenser] the copy of "How...Gabriel Harvey anonHowleglasPrint: Book
1500-1599'Two days after being elected to his fellowship at Trinity Hall, Harvey [...] received from [Spenser] the copy of "How...Gabriel Harvey SkogginunknownPrint: Book
1500-1599'Two days after being elected to his fellowship at Trinity Hall, Harvey [...] received from [Spenser] the copy of "How...Gabriel Harvey John SkeltonunknownPrint: Book
1500-1599'Two days after being elected to his fellowship at Trinity Hall, Harvey [...] received from [Spenser] the copy of "How...Gabriel Harvey LazarillounknownPrint: Book
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Gabriel Harvey's Commonplace Book (Add.Ms., 32, 494 British Museum) contains transcribed quotations from "Cyvile and u...Gabriel Harvey Cyvile and uncyvile LyfePrint: Book
1500-1599In a 1573 letter, Gabriel Harvey 'alludes to his study of Cicero's [italics]Topica[end italics], of the German philolo...Gabriel Harvey CiceroTopicaPrint: Book
1500-1599In a 1573 letter, Gabriel Harvey 'alludes to his study of Cicero's "Topica", of the German philologist Hegendorff's wr...Gabriel Harvey HegendorffWritings on lawPrint: Book
1500-1599In a 1573 letter, Gabriel Harvey 'alludes to his study of Cicero's [italics]Topica[end italics], of the German philolo...Gabriel Harvey unknownInstitutesPrint: Book
1500-1599'[Gabriel Harvey] bought and studied Guazzo's [italics]Civil Conversation[end italics] in the early 1580s.'Gabriel Harvey S. Stefano GuazzoCivil ConversationPrint: Book
1500-1599'[Gabriel Harvey's] marginalia show that he studied Castiglione [...] with considerable care [...] In 1572 he acquired...Gabriel Harvey Baldassare CastiglioneThe Book of the CourtierPrint: Book
1500-1599'In 1568 [Gabriel] Harvey purchased a copy of Aristotle's "Organon"; in 1572 he was given a copy of Aristotle's "Rheto...Gabriel Harvey Aristotle OrganonPrint: Book
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'In 1568 [Gabriel] Harvey purchased a copy of Aristotle's "Organon"; in 1572 he was given a copy of Aristotle's "Rheto...Gabriel Harvey Aristotle RhetoricPrint: Book
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'About 1570 [Gabriel] Harvey purchased and read the [italics]Academia[end italics] of Audomarus Talaeus, a close assoc...Gabriel Harvey Audomarus TalaeusAcademiaPrint: Book
1500-1599'[Erasmus's "Parabolae"] was acquired by [Gabriel] Harvey in 1566, read by him at some time thereafter, and was re-rea...Gabriel Harvey Desiderius ErasmusParabolaePrint: Book
1500-1599'[Erasmus's "Parabolae"] was acquired by [Gabriel] Harvey in 1566, read by him at some time thereafter, and was re-rea...Gabriel Harvey Desiderius ErasmusParabolaePrint: Book
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'From [...] [1578] [Gabriel] Harvey bought and studied a number of Italian grammars and texts, also some in French and...Gabriel Harvey unknownItalian grammarsPrint: Book
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'From [...] [1578] [Gabriel] Harvey bought and studied a number of Italian grammars and texts, also some in French and...Gabriel Harvey unknownSpanish grammarsPrint: Book
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'From [...] [1578] [Gabriel] Harvey bought and studied a number of Italian grammars and texts, also some in French and...Gabriel Harvey unknownFrench grammarsPrint: Book
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'Throughout [Gabriel] Harvey's copy of [Lord Henry Howard's "A Defensative against the poyson of supposed prophesies"]...Gabriel Harvey Lord Henry Howard, Earl of NorthamptonA Defensative against the poyson of supposed prophesiesPrint: Book
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'In 1584 [Gabriel Harvey] had acquired [...] Hugkel's "Semeiotice", 1560, a medical text which bases its diagnoses on ...Gabriel Harvey Jacob HugkelSemeioticePrint: Book
1500-1599'One of [Gabriel] Harvey's leisure time interests in London at this time [1580s] is suggested by an interesting broads...Gabriel Harvey anonBroadsheet listing merchandise (including pharmaceuticals) of John HesterPrint: Advertisement, Broadsheet
1500-1599'[Gabriel] Harvey's favourite books were read and annotated a number of times [...] at the conclusion of [his Erasmus]...Gabriel Harvey Desiderius ErasmusWorksPrint: Book
1500-1599'[Gabriel] Harvey's Livy folio has marginalia from persusals in 1568, 1580, and 1590.'Gabriel Harvey Livy WorksPrint: Book
1500-1599'[Gabriel] Harvey's Livy folio has marginalia from persusals in 1568, 1580, and 1590.'Gabriel Harvey Livy WorksPrint: Book
1500-1599'[Gabriel] Harvey's Livy folio has marginalia from persusals in 1568, 1580, and 1590.'Gabriel Harvey Livy WorksPrint: Book
1500-1599'In [Gabriel] Harvey's copy of Frontinus, there is evidence of an initial reading in 1578 with marginalia from this pe...Gabriel Harvey Frontinus The stratagemesPrint: Book
1500-1599'In [Gabriel] Harvey's copy of Frontinus, there is evidence of an initial reading in 1578 with marginalia from this pe...Gabriel Harvey Frontinus The stratagemesPrint: Book
1500-1599'In [Gabriel] Harvey's copy of Frontinus, there is evidence of an initial reading in 1578 with marginalia from this pe...Gabriel Harvey Frontinus The stratagemesPrint: Book
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'In the preface to Thomas Wilson's "The arte of Rhetorike, for the use of all such as are studious of Eloquence" (1567...Gabriel Harvey Thomas WilsonThe arte of Rhetorike, for the use of all such as are studious of EloquencePrint: Book
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'[In Gabriel Harvey's methods of annotation] Succinct captions of one or two words placed in the margin often summariz...Gabriel Harvey Thomas BlundevillThe foure chiefest Offices belonging to HorsemanshipPrint: Book
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'In A. P. Gasser's "Historiarum, et Chronicorum Totius Mundi Epitome" (1538) purchased by [Gabriel] Harvey in 1576, ar...Gabriel Harvey A. P. GasserHistoriarum, et Chronicorum Totius Mundi EpitomePrint: Book
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'In George North's "Description of Swedland, Gotland, and Finland" (1561), on sig.G2r next to a textual discussion of ...Gabriel Harvey George NorthDescription of Swedland, Gotland, and FinlandPrint: Book
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'Lodovico Domenichi's "Facetie, motti, et burle" (1571) [an Italian collection of short miscellaneous observations and...Gabriel Harvey Lodovico DomenichiFacetie, motti, et burlePrint: Book
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'An annotated copy of John Hart's "Orthographie" which undoubtedly belonged to [Gabriel] Harvey [...] is replete with ...Gabriel Harvey John HartAn OrthographiePrint: Book
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'In Battista Guarini's "Il Pastor Fido" (1591) [Gabriel] Harvey sometimes places a tiny letter symbol above a textual ...Gabriel Harvey Battista GuariniIl Pastor FidoPrint: Book
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'At the end of Sacchi de Platina's "Hystoria de Vitis pontificum" (c.1505) [Gabriel] Harvey adds his index of Popes an...Gabriel Harvey Sacchi de PlatinaHystoria de Vitis pontificumPrint: Book
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'In [Gabriel Harvey's copy of] G. Breule's "Praxis Medicinae Theorica" (1585) on the front flyleaf is a manuscript ind...Gabriel Harvey G. BreulePraxis Medicinae TheoricaPrint: Book
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Virginia F. Stern notes annotations made by Gabriel Harvey in his copy of Joannis Foorth, "Synopsis Politica"(1582).Gabriel Harvey Joannis FoorthSynopsis PoliticaPrint: Book
1500-1599'The date "1580" is inscribed by [Gabriel] Harvey on sig.Ss3v of the Florio volume ["First Fruites" (1578)] at the "Fi...Gabriel Harvey John FlorioFlorio his first fruites: a perfect induction to the Italian and English tonguesPrint: Book
1500-1599'Despite [Gabriel] Harvey's dissatisfaction with his progress in Italian, in 1580 he managed to read the "First Decade...Gabriel Harvey Niccolo MachiavelliDiscorsi ("First Decade")Print: Book
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'Although he read Rabelais and several other French authors in the original, it is unlikely that [Gabriel] Harvey's ma...Gabriel Harvey Francois RabelaisunknownPrint: Book
1500-1599'In the early 1590s [Gabriel Harvey] studied Spanish with the aid of Antonio de Corro's "Spanish Grammer" (1590) and R...Gabriel Harvey Antonio de CorroSpanish GrammerPrint: Book
1500-1599'In the early 1590s [Gabriel Harvey] studied Spanish with the aid of Antonio de Corro's "Spanish Grammer" (1590) and R...Gabriel Harvey Richard PercevalBibliotheca HispanicaPrint: Book
1500-1599'On sig. AIv of [John] Blundevill, ["The fower chiefest offices belonging to Horsemanship"], [Gabriel] Harvey inscribe...Gabriel Harvey John AstleyThe Art of RidingPrint: Book
1500-1599'[One] branch of [Gabriel] Harvey's marginalia [...] has to do with his study of the techniques of warfare. Extensive...Gabriel Harvey Niccolo MachiavelliThe Arte of WarrePrint: Book
1500-1599'[One] branch of [Gabriel] Harvey's marginalia [...] has to do with his study of the techniques of warfare. Extensive...Gabriel Harvey Peter WhitehorneCertain wayes for the ordering of SoldioursPrint: Book
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Gabriel Harvey's favourite authors on warfare, listed in his copy of Machiavelli, "The Arte of Warre", after 1595: ...Gabriel Harvey Vegetius unknownPrint: Book
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Gabriel Harvey's favourite authors on warfare, listed in his copy of Machiavelli, "The Arte of Warre", after 1595: ...Gabriel Harvey SutcliffunknownPrint: Book
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Gabriel Harvey's favourite authors on warfare, listed in his copy of Machiavelli, "The Arte of Warre", after 1595: ...Gabriel Harvey Heinrich RantzauCommentarius Bellicus ... praecepta, consilia et stratagemataPrint: Book
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Gabriel Harvey's favourite authors on warfare, listed in his copy of Machiavelli, "The Arte of Warre", after 1595: ...Gabriel Harvey Marco Antonio GandinounknownPrint: Book
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Gabriel Harvey's favourite authors on warfare, listed in his copy of Machiavelli, "The Arte of Warre", after 1595: ...Gabriel Harvey Carlo ThetiunknownPrint: Book
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Gabriel Harvey's favourite authors on warfare, listed in his copy of Machiavelli, "The Arte of Warre", after 1595: ...Gabriel Harvey Digges StratioticosunknownPrint: Book
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Gabriel Harvey's favourite authors on warfare, listed in his copy of Machiavelli, "The Arte of Warre", after 1595: ...Gabriel Harvey Sir Roger WilliamsunknownPrint: Book
1500-1599'Early examples of [Gabriel Harvey's] marginalia in [the fields of cosmology and astronomy] are found in the large 152...Gabriel Harvey Joannis de SacroboscoTextus de SphaeraPrint: Book
1500-1599'Early examples of [Gabriel Harvey's] marginalia in [the fields of cosmology and astronomy] are found in the large 152...Gabriel Harvey Bonetus de LatesAnnuli ... super astrologiamPrint: Book
1500-1599'Early examples of [Gabriel Harvey's] marginalia in [the fields of cosmology and astronomy] are found in the large 152...Gabriel Harvey Euclid First book of geometryPrint: Book
1500-1599'Next to [John] Balgrave's modest prefatory poem [in "The Mathematical Jewel" (1585)] "The Authour in his own defence"...Gabriel Harvey John BlagraveThe Mathematical Jewel, Shewing the making, and most excellent use of a singuler Instrument so called ... The use of which Jewel ... leadeth ... through the whole Artes of Astronomy, Cosmography, Geography, Topography, Navigation, Longitudes ...Print: Book
1500-1599'Luca Gaurico's "Tractatus Astrologicus" is a work giving horoscopes and brief descriptions of noted persons and of ci...Gabriel Harvey Luca GauricoTractatus AstrologicusPrint: Book
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'The marginalia [dating from late 1570s-c.1608] on fol.3v [of Lodovico Domenichi, "Facetie, motti et burle, di diversi...Gabriel Harvey Eunapius unknownPrint: Book
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'The marginalia [dating from late 1570s-c.1608] on fol.3v [of Lodovico Domenichi, "Facetie, motti et burle, di diversi...Gabriel Harvey Tacitus unknownPrint: Book
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'The marginalia [dating from late 1570s-c.1608] on fol.3v [of Lodovico Domenichi, "Facetie, motti et burle, di diversi...Gabriel Harvey Philostratus unknownPrint: Book
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'The marginalia [dating from late 1570s-c.1608] on fol.3v [of Lodovico Domenichi, "Facetie, motti et burle, di diversi...Gabriel Harvey Julian unknownPrint: Book
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'The marginalia [dating from late 1570s-c.1608] on fol.3v [of Lodovico Domenichi, "Facetie, motti et burle, di diversi...Gabriel Harvey Theodore ZwingerTheatrumPrint: Book
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'The marginalia [dating from late 1570s-c.1608] on fol.3v [of Lodovico Domenichi, "Facetie, motti et burle, di diversi...Gabriel Harvey Guillaume de Saluste du BartasunknownPrint: Book
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'The marginalia [dating from late 1570s-c.1608] on fol.3v [of Lodovico Domenichi, "Facetie, motti et burle, di diversi...Gabriel Harvey Theocritus "Idyll I"Print: Book
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'The marginalia [dating from late 1570s-c.1608] on fol.3v [of Lodovico Domenichi, "Facetie, motti et burle, di diversi...Gabriel Harvey Bion epitaphsPrint: Book
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'The marginalia [dating from late 1570s-c.1608] on fol.3v [of Lodovico Domenichi, "Facetie, motti et burle, di diversi...Gabriel Harvey Adonis epitaphsPrint: Book
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'The marginalia [dating from late 1570s-c.1608] on fol.3v [of Lodovico Domenichi, "Facetie, motti et burle, di diversi...Gabriel Harvey Homer unknownPrint: Book
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'The marginalia [dating from late 1570s-c.1608] on fol.3v [of Lodovico Domenichi, "Facetie, motti et burle, di diversi...Gabriel Harvey Hesiod unknownPrint: Book
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'The marginalia [dating from late 1570s-c.1608] on fol.3v [of Lodovico Domenichi, "Facetie, motti et burle, di diversi...Gabriel Harvey Virgil unknownPrint: Book
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''The marginalia [dating from late 1570s-c.1608] on fol.3v [of Lodovico Domenichi, "Facetie, motti et burle, di divers...Gabriel Harvey Solomon The Song of SongsPrint: Book
1500-1599'On sig. A2 of "A New Letter of Notable Contents" (1593) [Gabriel] Harvey refers to [Barnabe Barnes, "Parthenophil and...Gabriel Harvey Barnabe BarnesParthenophil and Parthenope. Sonnettes, madrigals, elegies and odes.Print: Book
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Virginia F. Stern notes 'a few MS. notes and underlinings' in Gabriel Harvey's copy of Joannes Boccatius, "Compendium ...Gabriel Harvey Joannes BoccatiusCompendium Romanae historiae, oppido quam succintum, & jam primum in lucem editumPrint: Book
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Virginia F. Stern notes that, in Gabriel Harvey's copy of William Bourne, "A Regiment for the Sea" (1592; inscribed 15...Gabriel Harvey William BourneA Regiment for the Sea, Containing verie necessarie matters for all sorts of men and travailers; whereunto is added an Hydrographicall discourse touching the five severall passages to CattayPrint: Book
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Virginia F. Stern notes 'Many underlinings and MS. notes' in Gabriel Harvey's copy of George Buchanan, "Ane admonition...Gabriel Harvey George BuchananAne admonition direct to the trew Lordis mantenaris of the Kingis Graces Authoritie M.G.B. ... accordyng to the Scottish copie Printed at Strivilyng by Robert LekpreuikPrint: Book
1500-1599Virginia F. Stern notes that 1550 copy of Cicero contains 'Many of [Gabriel], Harvey's annotations, some in [February]...Gabriel Harvey CiceroM. Tul. Ciceronis ad C. Trebatium Iurisconsultum Topica; Audomari Talaei praelectionibus explicata, ad Carolum Borbonium Cardinalem VindocinumPrint: Book
1500-1599Virginia F. Stern notes that 1550 copy of Cicero contains 'Many of [Gabriel], Harvey's annotations, some in [February]...Gabriel Harvey CiceroM. Tul. Ciceronis ad C. Trebatium Iurisconsultum Topica; Audomari Talaei praelectionibus explicata, ad Carolum Borbonium Cardinalem VindocinumPrint: Book
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Virginia F. Stern notes that in Gabriel Harvey's 1563 copy of Cicero, "Epistolae ad Atticum" 'The glossary is divided ...Gabriel Harvey CiceroM. Tullii Ciceronis Epistolae Ad Atticum. Ad M. Brutum, Ad Quinctum Fratrem, Cum correctionibus Pauli ManutiiPrint: Book
1800-1849[Transcribed into a ms volume] Title 'Lines by Mrs Hemans'; Text 'Bring flowers, young flowers, for the festal board/ ...Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine Felicia Dorothea Browne HemansBring flowersPrint: Unknown
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[Item transcribed into commonplace book]: Title = 'The season of death' Text = 'Leaves have their time to fall/ And fl...Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine AnonymousThe season of deathPrint: Unknown
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[Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: Title = 'The Voice of Spring'; Text = 'I come, I come ! ye have call'd me ...Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine Felicia HemansThe voice of springPrint: Unknown
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[Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: Title = 'Strangers by Lord Byron'; Text = 'When coldness wraps this suffer...Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine George Gordon, Lord ByronWhen coldness wraps this suffering clayPrint: Unknown
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[Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: Title = 'Epitaph on an idiot'; Text = 'If innocence has its reward in heav...Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine AnonEpitaph on an IdiotPrint: Unknown
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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
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[Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: Title = 'On vaccination'; Text [prose followed by verse] = 'A Mr Stewart w...Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine [James?] Beresford[On vaccination]Print: Unknown
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[Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: Title = 'Night'; Text 'Night is the time for rest/ How sweet, when labors ...Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine [James?] MontgomeryNightPrint: Unknown
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[Transcription from a commonplace book]: Title = 'Epitaph on a tomb in Melrose Abbey'; text [4 lines] = 'The yerthe wa...Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine AnonEpitaph on a tomb in Melrose AbbeyPrint: Unknown
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[Transcription from a commonplace book]: [Title]'Translation of an Arabic Ode'; [text]'When mortal hands thy peace des...Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine Anon[Translation of an Arabic Ode]Print: Unknown
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[Transcription from a commonplace book]: [Title]'The Ton'; [Text] 'I ask not L ...[?] wealth or power/ A Gascoigne's f...Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine Anon[The Ton]Print: Unknown
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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
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[Transcription from a commonplace book]: [Untitled]; [Text] 'Farewell, oh farewell; my heart it is sair/ Farewell oh f...Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine Anon[unknown]Print: Unknown
1800-1849[Transcription from a commonplace book]: [Title] 'Ode to the closing year'; [Text] 'Oh why should I attempt to ring/Th...Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine AnonOde to the closing yearPrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'I received the Books, & among them the Bride of Abydos. It is very, very beautiful.'George Canning George Gordon, Lord ByronThe Bride of AbydosPrint: BookManuscript: Unknown
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[Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: [Title] 'Lines addressed to a Lady who had suffered much and long afflicti...Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine AnonLines addressed to a Lady who had suffered much and long afflictionPrint: Unknown
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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
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[Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: [Title] 'England'; [text] 'The late excellent Dr Clark thus apostrophizes ...Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine Dr Clark[unknown]Print: Unknown
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[Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: [Title] 'The Record'; [text] 'He sleeps, his head upon his sword/ His sold...Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine Letitia Elizabeth LandonThe recordPrint: Unknown
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[Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: [Title] 'The Lily'; [text] 'How withered, perished seems the form/ Of you ...Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine Maria TigheThe lilyPrint: Unknown
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[Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: [Title] 'Evening's daughter'; [text] 'Come, evening gale! The crimson rose...Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine George CrolyEvening's daughterPrint: Unknown
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[Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: [Title] 'From the Troubadour by L.E.L.'; [text] 'A poetical sketch of a pi...Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine Letitia Elizabeth LandonThe Troubadour [extract]Print: Unknown
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[Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: [Title] 'On Friendship'; [Text] 'There are different modes of obligation a...Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine Anon[On Friendship]Print: Unknown
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[Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: [Title] 'Country and Town [by] H. Smith'; [Text] 'Horrid, in country shade...Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine H. SmithCountry and TownPrint: Unknown
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[Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: Title 'Address to Lord Byron by Dr Lamartine'; [Text] 'Toi, dont le monde ...Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine Alphonse Marie Louis de Lamartine[L'Homme]Print: Unknown
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[Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: Title 'Lines on Home'; [Text] 'That is not home, where day by day/ I wear ...Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine AnonLines on HomePrint: Unknown
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[Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: Title 'The Comet'; [Text] 'O'er the blue heavens majestic & alone/ He trea...Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine Henry NeeleThe cometPrint: Unknown
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[Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: [ Untitled]; [Text] 'In the morning of life when its cares are unknown/ a...Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine Thomas Moore[unknown]Print: Unknown
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[Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: [Title] 'The Illuminated City' ; [Text] 'The hills all glow'd with a festi...Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine Felicia Dorothea Browne HemansThe illuminated cityPrint: Unknown
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[Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: [Title] 'From the Forest Sanctuary'; [Text] 'But the dark hours wring fort...Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine Felicia Dorothea Browne HemansThe forest sanctuaryPrint: Unknown
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[Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: [Untitled] ; [Text] 'Que fais tu la seul et reveur?/ Je m'entretiens avec ...Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine Anon[unknown]Print: Unknown
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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
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[Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: [Title] 'Genius ? From "The Dead and the Living"'; [Text] 'Oh genius thou...Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine AnonThe Dead and the Living [extract]Print: Unknown
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[Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: [Untitled] ; [Text] 'And the lady prayed in heaviness/ That looked not for...Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine William Wordsworth[The force of prayer; or, the founding of Bolton Abbey]Print: Unknown
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[Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: [Title] 'My Birthday [by] Moore'; [Text] 'My Birthday! what a different so...Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine Thomas MooreMy BirthdayPrint: Unknown
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[Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: [Title] 'To my mother [by] Moore'; [Text] 'They tell us of an Indian tree/...Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine Thomas MooreTo my motherPrint: Unknown
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[Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: [Title] 'Resignation'; [Text] 'Be hushed each sigh whose murmering moan/ O...Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine AnonResignationPrint: Unknown
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[Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: [Untitled] ; [Text] 'There is another kind of virtue/ that may find employ...Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine Joseph Addison[Spare Time]Print: Unknown
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[Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: [Title] 'Journal of an Annuyee' ; [Text] 'Is it sorrow which makes our exp...Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine AnonJournal of an AnnuyeePrint: Unknown
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[Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: [Untitled];[Text] 'Souls of the just! whose truth and love,/ Like light an...Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine Anon[unknown]Print: Unknown
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[Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: [Untitled]; [Text]'They sin who tell us love can die/ With life all other ...Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine [Robert] Southey[The curse of Kehama, canto X]Print: Unknown
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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] 'Oh that I had the wings of a dove/ that I might flee a...Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine John Malcolm[untitled]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]: [Untitled]; [Text]' ? Now I feel/ What high prerogatives belong to Death/ ...Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine Felicia Dorothea Browne Hemans[untitled]Print: Unknown
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[Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: [Title] 'The Eve of the Battle'; [Text] 'Before tomorrow's sun/ dispels th...Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine G.I. C.....The Eve of the BattlePrint: 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] "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] 'Farewell to the Year/ by Luis Baylon [?], translated by J.G. Lock...Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine Luis BaylonFarewell to the YearPrint: Unknown
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[Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: [Title] 'Worsted Work'; [Text] 'Oh! Talk not of it lightly in an tone of s...Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine [Maria] AbdyWorsted workPrint: Unknown
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[Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: [Title] 'Lines/ by the Rev. M. Vicary'; [Text] 'There is a bark [?] unseen...Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine M. VicaryLinesPrint: 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] 'Adieu/ John Mackintosh/ The earnest student'; [Text] 'Adieu to Go...Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine John MackintoshAdieuPrint: 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
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[Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: [Untitled]; [Text] 'Weep not, tho' lonely and wild be thy path/ And the st...Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine Anonymous[untitled]Print: Unknown
1800-1849'In Mr Tait's warehouse I read Hogg's "Shepherd's Calendar" and some of his poems also, while, at various times, many ...James Glass Bertram James Hogg[poems]Print: Unknown
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'One afternoon his eye caught Paine's "Rights of Man", and he picked it up and began to study it intently. Absorbed, h...King George III Thomas PaineThe Rights of ManPrint: Book
1800-1849'We had a very pleasant day on monday at Ashe [...] There was a whist & a casino table, & six outsiders. - Rice & Luc...Augusta Bramston Dr Edward Jennerpamphlet on the cow pox
1800-1849'To a Lady Weeping "Weep, daughter of a royal line..."'George or Edward Carey George Gordon, Lord Byron'To A Lady Weeping'Print: UnknownUnknown
1800-1849'Written Beneath a Picture' 'Dear object of defeated care!/...' 'R.G.C. 1835''R.G.C.' George Gordon, Lord ByronLines Written Beneath A PicturePrint: UnknownUnknown
1800-1849'On being asked what was the "Origin of Love"' 'The "Origin of Love! - ah why/That question cruel ask of me/...' [mino...Edward or George Carey George Gordon, Lord ByronOn Being Asked What Was the "Origin of Love"Print: UnknownUnknown
1800-1849'They tell us of an Indian tree/...'Margaret Maingay [?] Thomas Moore'They Tell us of An Indian Tree' OR 'To My Mother'Print: UnknownUnknown
1800-1849'Friendship' 'O yes I will own we were dear to one another/...' [Oh! Yes, I will own we were dear to each other/...' -...Margaret Maingay [?] George Gordon, Lord ByronTo [George, Earl Delawarr]Print: UnknownUnknown
1800-1849'To... ...' 'There are who strangely love to roam/And find in wildest haunts their home/...' ['Home' ll. 13-22]Margaret Maingay [probably] Josiah ConderHomePrint: UnknownUnknown
1850-1899'I have been reading the Life of Mr Symond, and it makes me almost laugh (though there is little laughing in my heart)...Margaret Oliphant Horatio Forbes BrownJohn Addington Symonds: A Biography Compiled fromPrint: Book
1800-1849'On seeing some Autumn Flowers' 'Those few pale autumn flowers, How beautiful they are!...' 'L.G. Feb 1831''L.G.' Caroline Anne BowlesAutumn FlowersUnknown
1800-1849'My journey lay over the field of Thrasymenus, and as soon as the sun rose, I read Livy's description of the scene [.....Thomas Babington Macaulay Livy (Titus Livius) History of Rome Book XIIIPrint: Book
1700-1799'We have heard a boy of nine years old, who had never been taught elocution by any reading-master, read simple, pathet...[ a boy known to Maria Edgeworth John AikinEvenings at HomePrint: Book
1800-1849'Our 2d evening's reading to Miss Benn had not pleased me so well, but I beleive [sic] something must be attributed to...Cassandra Leigh Austen Jane AustenPride and PrejudicePrint: Book
1900-1945'But, and it is a big but, I am aware that this opinion has been formed only by reading such books as Louis Goldings' ...Geoffrey Gorer Lewis GoldingsJewish ProblemPrint: Book
1700-1799'a very dry day. I have nothing to say. Wrote to Fries and read "The Discovery of America" by Cortes'.Eugenia Wynne Hernan CortesCartas de relacion [??]Print: Unknown
1700-1799'Mama read the beginning of "Wateck" to us. I fell asleep'.Agathe Wynne William BeckfordVathekPrint: Unknown
1700-1799'After supper [Mama] read us "L'amour maternelle" of Mde. de Genlis.'Agathe Wynne Stephanie Felicite, Comtesse de GenlisL'amour maternellePrint: Unknown
1700-1799'Mama read the story of Mde. de Genlis to us that is called "Zelie" or the "Ingenue" it is very fine. I like it the be...Agathe Wynne Stephanie Felicite, Comtesse de GenlisZeliePrint: Unknown
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]:'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
1900-1945'Friday, 1st January, Completed my paper on Mazzini. Read: ?One Act Plays of today? 2nd vol. (Harrap) ...Gerald Moore J.W. MarriottOne Act Plays of TodayPrint: Book
1900-1945'Saturday, 2nd January, Letter from Neill at Grimsby, Ontario: no other address. Nothing for Mother. Read: ?Plain ...Gerald Moore Rudyard KiplingPlain Tales from the HillsPrint: Book
1900-1945'Thursday, 7th January, Offered Pat 19th January or 16th March for his friend?s lecture. Smith does not expect to le...Gerald Moore Niccolo MachiavelliHistory of FlorencePrint: Book
1900-1945'Saturday, 9th January, Mother tells me Hanley is to write a thesis on ?An Unemployed Man in January 1926?. Talking ...Gerald Moore Belfort BaxEssays on SocialismPrint: Book
1900-1945'Saturday, 16th January, Left letter at Beechcroft for Milligan re continuance of Discussion Group through the summer...Gerald Moore J. Ramsay MacdonaldSocialism: Critical and ConstructivePrint: Book
1900-1945'Wednesday, 27th January, Smith spoke of having wished to be a school master. He would like, even now, to get a bur...Gerald Moore Henrik IbsenPeer GyntPrint: Book
1900-1945'Thursday,28th January, ?Peer Gynt? is good stuff. I hope the Beechcroft Players tackle it some time. Though I supp...Gerald Moore Leonard MerrickA Chair on the BoulevardPrint: Book
1900-1945'Friday, 29th January, I do not like ?Brand?. A religion that takes no account of actuality is no use to humanity. A...Gerald Moore Henrik IbsenBrandPrint: Book
1900-1945'Sunday, 31st January, Discussion group ? Readings from Humorous Poetry. A rubber of whist.' Gerald Moore unknown[humorous poetry]Print: Book
1900-1945'Wednesday, 3rd February, Reading ?The Compleat Angler? (I. Walton). This your real ?open air? book. It is so quaint ...Gerald Moore Isaac WaltonThe Compleat AnglerPrint: Book
1900-1945'Monday, 8th February, Gave the Anno Domini a miss. Tired. Reading Herrick. Also Oppenheim ?The Great Impersonati...Gerald Moore Robert HerrickunknownPrint: Book
1900-1945'Monday, 8th February, Gave the Anno Domini a miss. Tired. Reading Herrick. Also Oppenheim ?The Great Impersonati...Gerald Moore E. Phillips OppenheimThe Great ImpersonationPrint: Book
1900-1945'Wednesday, 10th February, Wrote to Mr Robinson and to Mr. D. Paterson re lecture dates. Read ?Omoo? (Melville)' Gerald Moore Herman MelvilleOmooPrint: Book
1900-1945'Thursday, 11th February, Spent evening at home . Edie painting poppy heads for someone. This modern idea may sound...Gerald Moore Matthew PriorShorter PoemsPrint: Book
1900-1945'Saturday,13th February, Read ?Notre Coeur? (Guy de Maupassant)' Gerald Moore Guy de MaupassantNotre CoeurPrint: Book
1900-1945'Monday, 15th February, Thackeray?s descriptions of high life, and, more especially of army conditions, are magnifice...Gerald Moore William Makepeace ThackerayBarry LindonPrint: Book
1900-1945'Friday, 19th February, Last night?s meeting was a drawn battle. The ?wants? and the ?don?t wants? did an immen...Gerald Moore Hilaire BellocPath to RomePrint: Book
1900-1945'Sunday, 21st February, Discussion group ? nothing doing ? arrived late. Members busy with a game in which, with th...Gerald Moore Henry JamesThe AmericanPrint: Book
1900-1945'Sunday, 28th February, Discussion Group ? We read four plays from which we intend to choose our programme for the su...Gerald Moore J.J. BellThread o' ScarletPrint: Book
1900-1945'Sunday, 28th February, Discussion Group ? We read four plays from which we intend to choose our programme for the su...Gerald Moore DunsanyA Night in the SunPrint: Book
1900-1945'Sunday, 28th February, Discussion Group ? We read four plays from which we intend to choose our programme for the su...Gerald Moore W.W. JacobsThe Monkey's PawPrint: Book
1900-1945'Sunday, 28th February, Discussion Group ? We read four plays from which we intend to choose our programme for the su...Gerald Moore Lady GregoryThe Rising of the MoonPrint: Book
1900-1945'Sunday, 28th February, Discussion Group ? We read four plays from which we intend to choose our programme for the su...Gerald Moore William Makepeace ThackerayThe Four GeorgesPrint: Book
1900-1945'Tuesday, 2nd March, Club ? Mr Graham White?s lecture postponed. Members went into the Local History Society?s meeti...Gerald Moore VillehardouinMemoirs of the CrusadesPrint: Book
1900-1945'Friday, 5th March, I worked late tonight which allowed me to get in a nice little talk with Pat on the value of the ...Gerald Moore Oliver Wendell HolmesThe Autocrat of the Breakfast TablePrint: Book
1900-1945'Monday, 8th March, Heavy day. Discussed the famous Parkin speech on Welsh sportsmanship, and the Glamorgan presiden...Gerald Moore Rupert BrookePoemsPrint: Book
1900-1945'Tuesday, 9th March, Club ? ?Currency and Unemployment? - Arthur Robinson. The finest lecture of the year. Mr. Ro...Gerald Moore Jonathan SwiftJournal to StellaPrint: Book
1900-1945'Sunday, 14th March, Discussion Group ? ?Stunt? rehearsal. Also 1st rehearsal of ?Good Friday? which will draw half...Gerald Moore William ShakespeareHamletPrint: Book
1900-1945'Wednesday, 17th March, Last rehearsal. Things are in trim now I think. I prepared the programme. I think it O....Gerald Moore Jonathan SwiftJournal to StellaPrint: Book
1900-1945'Monday, 22nd March, Read ? ?The eye ? witness? (H. Belloc).' Gerald Moore Hilaire BellocThe Eye-WitnessPrint: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'Wednesday, 24th March, Today would have been deadly dull but for the Lincoln. Queer how so many of us get caught up...Gerald Moore Joseph ConradAlmayer's FollyPrint: Book
1900-1945'Sunday, 28th March, Discussion Group ? annual meeting. Read ? ?Tartarin sur les Alpes? (Daudet).'Gerald Moore Alphonse DaudetTartarin sur les AlpesPrint: Book
1900-1945'Monday, 29th March, A 21st birthday party at the Roberts?. Pleaded illness and got off. My clothes will hardly do...Gerald Moore Edmond HolmesThe Tragedy of EducationPrint: Book
1900-1945'Tuesday, 30th March, Club ? Annual meeting. All officers re-elected except Will Evans who stood down. The Players ...Gerald Moore Honore de BalzacLa Peau de ChagrinPrint: Book
1900-1945'Friday, 2nd April, Walking over the Walton Hall Housing Estate. The spread of the city goes on apace. I find mys...Gerald Moore Robert SoutheyLife of NelsonPrint: Book
1900-1945'Monday, 5th April, I am cast for Amieus in ?As you like it?. I was looking over my script today. Not very much but...Gerald Moore William ShakespeareAs you Like itPrint: Book
1900-1945'Wednesday, 7th April, Spent the evening writing. Cutting my cigarettes to one if it has any bearing on my ill-healt...Gerald Moore Daniel DefoeJournal of the Plague YearPrint: Book
1900-1945'Saturday, 11th April, Mother is still rather poorly. Dad has been before the beaks ! Short weight. The unchanging...Gerald Moore J.B. PriestleyFigures in Modern LiteraturePrint: Book
1900-1945'Tuesday, 13th April, Madge intending to call, decided to go to the Settlement to see Algy and his players. The rehe...Gerald Moore William Makepeace ThackerayEnglish Humourists of the Eighteenth CenturyPrint: Book
1900-1945'Wednesday, 21st April, Re my songs - I might do worse than listen in to the Shakespeare celebrations broadcast on ...Gerald Moore unknownunknownPrint: Book
1900-1945'Thursday, 20th May The office has returned, for its diversion, to County Cricket and the Tests. Pat is an inexhaust...Gerald Moore Manchester GuardianPrint: Newspaper
1900-1945'Friday 28th May The Lloyd George ? Asquith split is a few days old now and it is easy to see that Lloyd George has c...Gerald Moore Manchester GuardianPrint: Newspaper
1900-1945'Friday 28th May The Lloyd George ? Asquith split is a few days old now and it is easy to see that Lloyd George has c...Gerald Moore New StatesmanPrint: Newspaper
1900-1945'Thursday 3rd June ?Our Mr Wrenn? (Sinclair Lewis) I feel crushed with the amount of spare time work I have on han...Gerald Moore Sinclair LewisOur Mr WrennPrint: Book
1900-1945'Friday 4th June ?Martin Arrowsmith? (Sinclair Lewis). How many of my own questionings, disillusionments and hunger...Gerald Moore Sinclair LewisMartin ArrowsmithPrint: Book
1900-1945'Sunday 20th June ? Short History of the World? - (H.G. Wells)'.Gerald Moore H.G. WellsShort History of the WorldPrint: Book
1900-1945'Tuesday 22nd June ?Jack Hamlin?s Mediation?etc.. (Bret Harte) Wednesday 23rd June A quiet day today and then last ...Gerald Moore Bret HarteJack Hamlin's MediationPrint: Book
1900-1945'Thursday 24th June. ?The Spanish Farm? ? (R.H. Mottram). Our ?Robin Hood? Pageant tonight (250 present). I see th...Gerald Moore R.H. MottramThe Spanish FarmPrint: Book
1900-1945'Thursday 24th June ?The Spanish Farm? ? (R.H. Mottram) Our ?Robin Hood? Pageant tonight (250 present). I see the ...Gerald Moore Daily PostPrint: Newspaper
1900-1945'Saturday 26th June ?At the Sign of the Black Moon? ? (Wyndham-Lewis)'.Gerald Moore Percy Wyndham LewisAt the Sign of the Black MoonPrint: Book
1900-1945'Wednesday 30th June. ?Orphan Island? ? (Rose Macaulay). Looked after the infants today while Teddie went to work. ...Gerald Moore Rose MacaulayOrphan IslandPrint: Book
1900-1945'Thursday 1st July This has been one of those demoralising days when a late rising leaves one unable to make any use ...Gerald Moore Rose MacaulayOrphan IslandPrint: Book
1900-1945'Friday 2nd July Teddie and I have managed to get up this morning. Here it is 10.30 and we have tidied up washed t...Gerald Moore Arnold BennettMr ProhackPrint: Book
1900-1945'Monday 5th July I finished ?Mr Prohack? last night. A fine book but I did not take to Mrs P. nor even to Mr Bennett...Gerald Moore Arnold BennettMr ProhackPrint: Book
1900-1945'Tuesday 6th July. ?Mr Waddington of Wyck? ? (May Sinclair). Back to the office today and find that young Reid has ...Gerald Moore May SinclairMr Waddington of WyckPrint: Book
1900-1945'Wednesday 7th July. ?The English Comic Character? - (J.B.Priestley)'.Gerald Moore J.B. PriestleyThe English Comic CharacterPrint: Book
1900-1945'Thursday 8th July I am enjoying ? between books - the ?Everyman? ?Little Flowers of St. Francis?, and find it very ...Gerald Moore St Francis of AssissiLittle Flowers of St FrancisPrint: Book
1900-1945'Saturday 10th July ?Henry IV? ? (Shakespeare ? bought it yesterday, Temple 2 vols)'. Gerald Moore William ShakespeareHenry IVPrint: Book
1900-1945'Tuesday 12th July. I do not like ?Lolly Willowes?. [...] I do not like these fantastic things which suggest that ...Gerald Moore Sylvia Townsend WarnerLolly WillowesPrint: Book
1900-1945'Monday 19th July ?Story teller in London? ? (Pett Ridge) This book is of the type that I enjoy when easy reading ...Gerald Moore William Pett RidgeStory Teller in LondonPrint: Book
1900-1945'Thursday 22nd July. ?Unparliamentary Papers? (Reg Berkeley). I am on my own in the luncheon hours now and find it d...Gerald Moore Reg BerkeleyUnparliamentary papersPrint: Book
1900-1945'Sunday 25th July. ?Return of the Soldier? - (Rebecca West). A very sad book. The hero is rather imbecile as inte...Gerald Moore Rebecca WestReturn of the SoldierPrint: Book
1900-1945'Thursday 29th July ?Sybil? ? (Disraeli) [...] I went to see Mother tonight and completed the preliminary draft f...Gerald Moore Benjamin DisraeliSybilPrint: Book
1900-1945'Friday 30th July. Had luncheon in the office today and stayed in reading my Economics. I am doing it more systemat...Gerald Moore unknown[Economics textbook]Print: Book
1900-1945'Saturday 31st July. ?Nicholas Nickleby? - (Charles Dickens)'. Gerald Moore Charles DickensNicholas NicklebyPrint: Book
1900-1945'Sunday 1 August. ?A Book of Famous Wits? ? (Walter Jerrold). To see Smith with Monica. He comes home this weekend...Gerald Moore Walter JerroldA Book of Famous WitsPrint: Book
1900-1945'Monday 2nd August. We did not go out today, it being Bank Holiday. We stayed in, had a nice quiet day with some mu...Gerald Moore unknownunknownPrint: Book
1900-1945'Tuesday 3rd August. ?Pongo and the Bull? ? ( Belloc)'. Gerald Moore Hilaire BellocPongo and the BullPrint: Book
1900-1945'Saturday 7th August ?The Untilled Field? ? (George Moore)'. Gerald Moore George MooreThe Untilled FieldPrint: Book
1900-1945'Monday 9th August. ?Between the Acts? ? (H.W. Nevinson). Pat is away now and we are feeling the pinch already. I...Gerald Moore H.W. NevinsonBetween the ActsPrint: Book
1900-1945'Monday 16th August ?John Inglesant? ? (J.H. Shorthouse). I finished Sybil and think it certainly is a fine book f...Gerald Moore J.H. ShorthouseJohn InglesantPrint: Book
1900-1945'Monday 16th August ?John Inglesant? ? (J.H. Shorthouse). I finished Sybil and think it certainly is a fine book f...Gerald Moore Benjamin DisraeliSybilPrint: Book
1900-1945'Thursday 19th August ?For faith and Freedom? ? (Walter Besant)'. Gerald Moore Walter BesantFor Faith and FreedomPrint: Book
1900-1945'Monday 23rd August I was more than usually disgusted with the ?Mail? for blatantly howling of our ?recovery of the...Gerald Moore Edna LyallTo Right the WrongPrint: Book
1900-1945'Monday 23rd August I was more than usually disgusted with the ?Mail? for blatantly howling of our ?recovery of the...Gerald Moore Daily MailPrint: Newspaper
1900-1945'Tuesday 24 August The ?Courier? poster today says ?World mourns Rudolph Valentino? ! It makes me glad he is dead, ...Gerald Moore CourierPrint: Poster
1900-1945'Thursday 26th August Pope?s ?Dunciad? This is a week of work. Real graft. Diaries, even of small sketchy nat...Gerald Moore Alexander PopeThe DunciadPrint: Book
1900-1945'Friday 27th August I bought ?Esmond? and ?Westward Ho!? today and started to read the former. Why is Thackeray su...Gerald Moore William Makepeace ThackerayEsmondPrint: Book
1900-1945'Thursday 2nd September ?Fortunes of Nigel? (Walter Scott)' Gerald Moore Walter ScottThe Fortunes of NigelPrint: Book
1900-1945'Tuesday 7th September ?English Opium Eater? (De Quincey)' Gerald Moore Thomas de QuinceyConfessions of an English Opium EaterPrint: Book
1900-1945'Friday 10th September Today my friend Pat bought Kingsley?s ?Heroes? for Monica. I am reading it myself and then...Gerald Moore Charles KingsleyThe HeroesPrint: Book
1900-1945'Sunday 12th September ?Jurgen? (James Branch Cabell)'. Gerald Moore James Branch CabellJurgenPrint: Book
1900-1945'Monday 13th September ?Thrasymachus? (C.E.M. Joad)'Gerald Moore C.E.M. JoadThrasymachusPrint: Book
1900-1945'Saturday 18th September ?Socratic Discourses? Plato & Xenophon (Everyman) I have had the companion ?Five Dialogues...Gerald Moore Xenophon/PlatoSocratic DiscoursesPrint: Book
1900-1945'Monday 20th September ?Minor Elizabethan Drama? (Everyman)' Gerald Moore Ashley Thorndike (ed.)Minor Elizabethan DramaPrint: Book
1900-1945Sunday 26th September ?The Long Trick?, - ?Bartimeus? A delightfully quiet day at home. Reading and writing. ...Gerald Moore "Bartimeus"The Long TrickPrint: Book
1900-1945'Thursday 30th September ?Ivanhoe? (Walter Scott) Late work still the order of the ? night. All is still confusi...Gerald Moore Walter ScottIvanhoePrint: Book
1900-1945'Monday 4th October ?The Golden Glory? ( ? ) A great yarn this.' Gerald Moore unknownThe Golden GloryPrint: Book
1900-1945'Monday 11th October ?Westward Ho!? (Charles Kingsley)'.Gerald Moore Charles KingsleyWestward Ho!Print: Book
1900-1945'Thursday 14th October ?Roderick Random? (T. Smolett)'. Gerald Moore Tobias SmollettRoderick RandomPrint: Book
1900-1945'Friday 15th October. Bought ?The Picture of Dorian Grey? in the Paris edition and the ?New Machiavelli? Benn?s new ...Gerald Moore H.G. WellsThe New MachiavelliPrint: Book
1900-1945'Wednesday 20th October. Rehearsal ? ?Brothers B.?. Did not go to rehearsal but went home to have a quiet evening ...Gerald Moore H.G. WellsThe New MachiavelliPrint: Book
1900-1945'Wednesday 3rd November. ?War of Steel and Gold? ? (Henry. N. Brailsford).' Gerald Moore Henry N. BrailsfordWar of Steel and GoldPrint: Book
1900-1945'Saturday 6th November. ?The Tree of Heaven? - (May Sinclair). Bad day on the Round, but Dad has done well. Moth...Gerald Moore May SinclairThe Tree of HeavenPrint: Book
1900-1945Monday 6th November. ?The End of Laissez-Faire? - J. M. Keynes. Busy today as usual. My latest book,[Keynes] is ve...Gerald Moore J. Maynard KeynesThe End of Laissez FairePrint: Book
1900-1945'Thursday 11th November. ?Opium-eater? again.' Gerald Moore Thomas de QuinceyConfessions of an English Opium EaterPrint: Book
1900-1945'Saturday 20th November. I do not care much for the new form of the ?New Leader?. It is the useless hopeless prop...Gerald Moore New LeaderPrint: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'Sunday 28th November ?Decline and fall? (Edward Gibbon).' Gerald Moore Edward GibbonDecline and Fall of the Roman EmpirePrint: Book
1900-1945'Tuesday 7th December. "Decline and Fall? ? Vol. 2'. Gerald Moore Edward GibbonDecline and Fall of the Roman EmpirePrint: Book
1900-1945'Thursday 9th December. ?The Castaways? ? (W.W. Jacob)'. Gerald Moore W.W. JacobThe CastawaysPrint: Book
1900-1945'Monday 13th December ?The Boost of the Golden Snail? ? (Macclure)'. Gerald Moore Victor MacClureThe Boost of the Golden Snail: A Fantasy of LondonPrint: Book
1900-1945'Tuesday 14th December. ?Cheap Jack Zita? (Baring Gould)'. Gerald Moore Sabine Baring-GouldCheap Jack ZitaPrint: Book
1900-1945'Friday 17th December. French Class again tonight. I don?t know whether they liked me last time. Took Mother?s cla...Gerald Moore Eugene LabicheLe Voyage de M. P?rrichonPrint: Book
1900-1945'Saturday 18th December. ?Rev. Captain Kettle? ? (Hyne)'.Gerald Moore Charles John Cutcliffe Wright HyneThe Rev. Captain KettlePrint: Book
1900-1945'Monday 20th December ?Au dessus de la m?l?e? ? (Romain Rolland). This is the first time I have managed to get hold ...Gerald Moore Romain RollandAu dessus de la m?lPrint: Book
1900-1945'Wednesday 22 December. I have just finished ?Au dessus de la M?l?e?. It revives all my anger at the treacherous l...Gerald Moore Romain RollandAu dessus de la m?lPrint: Book
1900-1945'Saturday 25th December. ?Scrambles among the Alps? (Whymper) Trying to get the proper atmosphere in a snow-less Ch...Gerald Moore Edward WhymperScrambles among the AlpsPrint: Book
1900-1945'Monday 27th December. ?By Order of the Company? (Johnston)'. Gerald Moore Mary JohnstonBy Order of the CompanyPrint: Book
1900-1945[List of books read in 1926] '"Autocrat of the Breakfast Table" (Holmes), "Plain Tales from the Hills" (Kipling), "...Gerald Moore Rudyard KiplingPlain Tales from the HillsPrint: Book
1900-1945'1st January- Saturday I have made no New Year resolutions, and so have none to keep. This might, thus, be an exempl...Gerald Moore H.G. WellsA Modern UtopiaPrint: Book
1900-1945'4th January ? Tuesday. ?Captain Shapely? Harold Brighouse. A well- written yarn this. Very, very entertaining, an...Gerald Moore Harold BrighouseCaptain ShapelyPrint: Book
1900-1945'5th January ? Wednesday. I have taken out a list of the books I read last year; they total 83. Not so bad, consider...Gerald Moore Gerald Moore[list of books read in 1926]Print: Book
1900-1945'11th January, Tuesday. ?John Inglesant? ? (J. H. Shorthouse). I notice a report of a speech by Dr. Norwood in this ...Gerald Moore J.H. ShorthouseJohn InglesantPrint: Book
1900-1945'11th January, Tuesday. ?John Inglesant? ? (J. H. Shorthouse). I notice a report of a speech by Dr. Norwood in this ...Gerald Moore Liverpool PostPrint: Newspaper
1900-1945'13th January, Thursday. ?John Inglesant? ( J.H.Shorthouse). I am re-reading this, not only because it is one of the...Gerald Moore J.H. ShorthouseJohn InglesantPrint: Book
1900-1945'18th January, Tuesday. ?The Decay of Capitalist Civilisation? (S & B Webb) I was up till late last night finishing ...Gerald Moore Sidney and Beatrice WebbThe Decay of Capitalist CivilisationPrint: Book
1900-1945'20th January, Thursday. Pat has given me a number of his poems for the ?Two Houses?. [a magazine of which Gerald Mo...Gerald Moore George Eric Patersonpoems [unspecified]Manuscript: Sheet
1900-1945'30th January, Sunday. I had to stay at home today to do my washing for the forthcoming week, and to put the rooms to...Gerald Moore H.G. WellsThe DreamPrint: Book
1900-1945'2nd February, Wednesday. I have been reading Zangwills, ?King of the Schnorres? and some other yarns of his. He is...Gerald Moore Israel ZangwillKing of the SchnorresPrint: Book
1900-1945'6th February, Sunday. We paid a visit to the church. As usual, it being a familiar object to me, I have taken litt...Gerald Moore Roll of Honour of soldiers killed in the First World WarPrint: Book, Plaque
1900-1945'18th February, Thursday. The packet steamed into the harbour backwards. Another rush across the quay and through ...Gerald Moore Advertisements in FrenchPrint: Advertisement
1900-1945'19th February, Saturday. The Governor having gone off at one for a tour round the sights with Mr Leclerege, I had th...Gerald Moore menu in FrenchPrint: menu
1900-1945'23rd February, Wednesday. This evening after dinner, I flitted from the splendour of the ?Grand? to the hospital-col...Gerald Moore H.G. WellsThe Invisible ManPrint: Book
1900-1945'26th February, Saturday. Finally, succumbing to a morbid desire to get away from people I went off ?home? and read t...Gerald Moore Le SourirePrint: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'17th March, Thursday. The books in my room are an interesting lot, and I will be able to resume reading. I have al...Gerald Moore Claude Farr?reLes CivilisPrint: Book
1900-1945'19th March, Saturday. Spent the afternoon reading and lounging. [...] ?Jocaste? and ?Le Chat Maigre? A. France.' Gerald Moore Anatole FranceJocaste et le Chat MaigrePrint: Book
1900-1945'29th March, Tuesday. ?La Gar?onne? V. Marguerite. 30th March, Wednesday. These last few days I have been readin...Gerald Moore V. MargueriteLa Gar?onnePrint: Book
1900-1945'15th September 1928. Reading Zola today (Une Page D?Amour). A book surprisingly different from, and someho...Gerald Moore Emile ZolaUne Page d'AmourPrint: Book
1900-1945'16th September 1928 I am now re-reading Chesterton?s ?History of the United States?. I have never been able to ...Gerald Moore Cecil ChestertonHistory of the United StatesPrint: Book
1900-1945'17th September 1928. The Geneva conference between the six powers has ended in the happy decision that the Rhinelan...Gerald Moore Le JournalPrint: Newspaper
1900-1945'17th September 1928. [...] The new piece by Maurice Rostand is getting a very favourable press and I would like to ...Gerald Moore W.W. JacobsThe CastawaysPrint: Book
1900-1945'17th September 1928. [...] The new piece by Maurice Rostand is getting a very favourable press and I would like to ...Gerald Moore W.W. JacobsDeep WatersPrint: Book
1900-1945'17th September 1928. [...] The new piece by Maurice Rostand is getting a very favourable press and I would like to ...Gerald Moore Cecil ChestertonThe History of the United StatesPrint: Book
1900-1945'19th September 1928 (Wednesday) I have got nearly all my books home from the office now. It is a lengthy job, bri...Gerald Moore Fyodor DostoevskyCrime and PunishmentPrint: Book
1900-1945'20th September 1928 (Thursday). I note that one of the Swiss Cantons has passed a law enforcing the sterilisation of...Gerald Moore Le JournalPrint: Newspaper
1900-1945'22nd September 1928 (Saturday). I have started to read Kipling?s ?Letters of travel? again. I am very fond of this...Gerald Moore Rudyard KiplingLetters of TravelPrint: Book
1900-1945'22nd September 1928 (Saturday). The cat is out of the bag over the Anglo-French naval pact. One of the Hearst pape...Gerald Moore The New York AmericanPrint: Newspaper
1900-1945'28th September 1928 (Friday). I have been reading an article on Ibsen by Thomas Vladesco in the ?Mercure de France...Gerald Moore Thomas Vladesco[article on Henrik Ibsen]Print: Newspaper
1900-1945'30th September 1928 (Sunday) We saw the Clichy party to their tram, then [illegible] Henry and I had a coffee at ...Gerald Moore Romain RollandJean ChristophePrint: Book
1900-1945'1st October 1928 (Monday). Dug further into ?Jean Christophe? in the Luncheon hour. Am thoroughly enjoying this gr...Gerald Moore Romain RollandJean ChristophePrint: Book
1900-1945'2nd September 1928 (Tuesday) Sunday?s ?Observer? suggests a clean break with the line of diplomatic action brought...Gerald Moore Romain RollandJean ChristophePrint: Book
1900-1945'2nd September 1928 (Tuesday) Sunday?s ?Observer? suggests a clean break with the line of diplomatic action brought...Gerald Moore The ObserverPrint: Newspaper
1900-1945'3rd October 1928 (Wednesday). Late to work, naturally. Although tired, put in a good day?s work and returned hom...Gerald Moore Rudyard KiplingLetters of TravelPrint: Book
1900-1945'6th October 1928 (Saturday). So I finish my day, after an abundant dinner reading ?Taras Boulba? (Gogol) - tr...Gerald Moore Nikolay Vasilevich GogolTaras BoulbaPrint: Book
1900-1945'Saturday 13th October 1928. After dinner went with Mme. and George to Romainville to hear Georges Pioch on Tolsto?. ...Gerald Moore Leo TolstoyunknownPrint: Book
1900-1945'Monday, 15th October 1928 ?Vie de Tolstoy? (Romain Rolland)'. Gerald Moore Romain RollandVie de TolstoyPrint: Book
1900-1945'24th October 1928. Late to work. Hurried letter from mother asking me to obtain for her 10 copies of ?la Vie Litt...Gerald Moore H. BarbusseLa ClartPrint: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'27th October 1928 (Saturday) ?La Rive d?Asie? (Claude Anet)' Gerald Moore Claude AnetLa Rive d?AsiePrint: Book
1900-1945'30th October 1928. I received my first parcel of papers from Mother today. The ?Birkenhead Advertiser?, the ?New ...Gerald Moore Birkenhead AdvertiserPrint: Newspaper
1900-1945'30th October 1928. I received my first parcel of papers from Mother today. The ?Birkenhead Advertiser?, the ?New ...Gerald Moore New LeaderPrint: Newspaper
1900-1945'1st January 1929 (Tuesday) In the eveningthe usual German sing-song. I to bed early. Re-reading ?Back to Meth...Gerald Moore George Bernard ShawBack to MethuselahPrint: Book
1900-1945'4th January 1929. ?Back to Methuselah?. G. B. Shaw' Gerald Moore George Bernard ShawBack to MethuselahPrint: Book
1900-1945'6th January 1929. After tea Mrs Webster started knitting a jumper and we ?boys? read. My literature was a book by...Gerald Moore W.J. Locke[?] The UsurperPrint: Book
1900-1945'7th January 1929 Monday. This evening reading a book bought from Raincy, and writing to Teddie. ?Beyond? Galswort...Gerald Moore John GalsworthyBeyondPrint: Book
1900-1945'8th January 1929 ?Beyond? is a charming book. Sad both in its story and in the writer?s outlook, it is yet most ...Gerald Moore John GalsworthyBeyondPrint: Book
1900-1945'12th January 1929. During the afternoon I read Bordeaux?s ?Robe de laine?, but not with much enjoyment. I do not ...Gerald Moore Henry BordeauxRobe de LainePrint: Book
1900-1945'13th February 1929 I note from ?Excelsior? that the ?Kings? or their representatives, the princes and princesses ...Gerald Moore ExcelsiorPrint: Newspaper
1900-1945'16th February 1929. ?Appreciation of music? (Pollitt)' Gerald Moore Arthur W. PollittThe Enjoyment of MusicPrint: Book
1900-1945'17th February 1929 (Sunday). After a long and very cosy dinner I started for home. I missed the train owing to my ...Gerald Moore Romain RollandLes AmisPrint: Book
1900-1945'24th February 1929 (Sunday) Finished reading ?Les Amis? before luncheon. Rolland is the most ?beautiful? wri...Gerald Moore Romain RollandLes AmisPrint: Book
1900-1945'24th February 1929 (Sunday) Finished reading ?Les Amis? before luncheon. Rolland is the most ?beautiful? wri...Gerald Moore Oscar WildeThe Portrait of Dorian GrayPrint: Book
1900-1945'25th February 1929 (Monday). Still at home, but hope to return to work tomorrow. A quiet day, reading the papers...Gerald Moore Le TempsPrint: Newspaper
1900-1945'26th February 1929. No paper today owing to state of finances. From Friday?s ?Journal? I note that the historic Ta...Gerald Moore Le JournalPrint: Newspaper
1900-1945'27th February 1929. Paris is having a gay old time following the dispute between the luck of the press and M. Coty....Gerald Moore Le MatinPrint: Newspaper
1900-1945'3rd March 1929. At Montmartre. I promised to conduct the latest pensionnaires over Montmartre when they first arr...Gerald Moore [Road sign]Print: Road sign
1900-1945'5th March 1929. Papers from mother, with an account of the opening of the new girls? Secondary school. A very fine...Gerald Moore Pierre BenoitAtlandidePrint: Book
1900-1945'7th March 1929. Reading ?La M?re? (Gorki).' Gerald Moore Maxime La M?rePrint: Book
1900-1945'12th March 1929 Wrote to mother; read my week?s papers and extracted cuttings.' Gerald Moore [newspapers]Print: Newspaper
1900-1945'14th March 1929 ?They have used God Himself to cheer us! They have clothed him in lies and calumny to kill our so...Gerald Moore Maxime GorkiLa M?rePrint: Book
1900-1945'14th March 1929. I had the ?Open Road? in my pocket, and we [G.M. and a friend, Miss Mundel] read bits together, an...Gerald Moore Walt WhitmanSong of the Open RoadPrint: Book
1900-1945'15th March 1929 Miss M?ndel and I inspect my little library. We read some Brooks, Kipling, Holmes, Artemus Ward, ...Gerald Moore BrooksunknownPrint: Book
1900-1945'15th March 1929 Miss M?ndel and I inspect my little library. We read some Brooks, Kipling, Holmes, Artemus Ward, ...Gerald Moore Rudyard KiplingunknownPrint: Book
1900-1945'15th March 1929 Miss M?ndel and I inspect my little library. We read some Brooks, Kipling, Holmes, Artemus Ward, ...Gerald Moore Oliver Wendell HolmesunknownPrint: Book
1900-1945'15th March 1929 Miss M?ndel and I inspect my little library. We read some Brooks, Kipling, Holmes, Artemus Ward, ...Gerald Moore Artemus WardunknownPrint: Book
1900-1945'15th March 1929 Miss M?ndel and I inspect my little library. We read some Brooks, Kipling, Holmes, Artemus Ward, ...Gerald Moore Thomas de QuinceyConfessions of an English Opium EaterPrint: Book
1900-1945'15th March 1929 Miss M?ndel and I inspect my little library. We read some Brooks, Kipling, Holmes, Artemus Ward, ...Gerald Moore Charles DickensSketches by BozPrint: Book
1900-1945'17th March 1929 (Sunday). Slept until 12 ! In the afternoon read my papers and ?Punch?. Everyone out, drawn by ...Gerald Moore [newspapers]Print: Newspaper
1900-1945'17th March 1929 (Sunday). Slept until 12 ! In the afternoon read my papers and ?Punch?. Everyone out, drawn by ...Gerald Moore Punch, or the London CharivariPrint: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'20th March 1929. Finished ?La M?re? (Gorki)' Gerald Moore Maxime GorkiLa M?rePrint: Book
1900-1945'21st March 1929. ?Le Petit Pierre? (Anatole France).' Gerald Moore Anatole FranceLe Petit PierrePrint: Book
1900-1945'23rd March 1929 (Saturday). Bought a ?Monde?, a ?Canard Enchain??, and Goncourt?s ?La Faustin? then spent the afte...Gerald Moore Edmond GoncourtLa FaustinPrint: Book
1900-1945'24th March 1929 (Sunday). Delicious morning. We breakfasted in the garden, and after, while the Th?ologues retire ...Gerald Moore [newspapers]Print: Newspaper
1800-1849Elizabeth Missing Sewell, on the start of her writing career: 'I began "Amy Herbert"-- I scarcely know why -- only I ...Elizabeth Missing Sewell Elizabeth Missing SewellStories on the Lord's PrayerManuscript: Unknown
1800-1849Elizabeth Missing Sewell, on the start of her writing career: Elizabeth Missing Sewell, on the start of her writing c...Elizabeth Missing Sewell Elizabeth Missing SewellAmy HerbertManuscript: Unknown
1800-1849Elizabeth Missing Sewell, on the anonymity of her first publication ("Stories on the Lord's Prayer", serialised in "Th...Elizabeth Missing Sewell Elizabeth Missing SewellStories on the Lord's PrayerPrint: Unknown
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Describing the terminal illness of a friend in her "Autobiography", Elizabeth Missing Sewell reproduces four stanzas f...Elizabeth Missing Sewell Thomas Hood'We watched her breathing through the night --'Unknown
1800-1849'[italics]The Earl's Daughter[end italics] was [...] begun before my mother's death, and I read part of it to her, but...Elizabeth Missing Sewell Elizabeth Missing SewellThe Earl's DaughterManuscript: Unknown
1800-1849'[italics]The Earl's Daughter[end italics] was [...] begun before my mother's death, and I read part of it to her, but...Elizabeth Missing Sewell Elizabeth Missing SewellMargaret PercivalUnknown
1800-1849'[italics]The Earl's Daughter[end italics] was [...] begun before my mother's death, and I read part of it to her, but...Elizabeth Missing Sewell Elizabeth Missing SewellLaneton ParsonageManuscript: Unknown
1700-1799'I read for the second time a novel that Madame de B. brought for us, "Paul and Virginia", that is charming, but thoug...Eugenia Wynne Bernardin de St PierrePaul et VirginiePrint: Book
1700-1799'I read several elegies today, two of Shore the one on the death of his wife, the other on the loss of his child. His ...Eugenia Wynne John Shore[elegies on deaths of wife and child]Print: Unknown
1700-1799'I read several elegies today, two of Shore the one on the death of his wife, the other on the loss of his child. His ...Eugenia Wynne William Henry Lyttelton[probably] A Monody to the Memory of lady Lyttelton. Written in the Year 1747Print: Unknown
1700-1799'Rain again and rain forever. I read a great deal of Robertson's "History of Scotland". I cannot forgive Elizabeth's b...Eugenia Wynne William RobertsonThe History of Scotland during the Reigns of Queen Mary and of King James VI till his Accession to the Crown of EnglandPrint: 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
1700-1799'I read a great deal of "Agathon" a very fine German novel taken from a grecian manuscript written by Wieland. It is v...Eugenia Wynne Christoph Martin WielandAgathonPrint: Book
1800-1849From Elizabeth Missing Sewell's Journal, 20 June 1845: 'The Meyricks have been here today. Mr. Meyrick told Edward...Elizabeth Missing Sewell John Henry NewmanObedience, the remedy for religious perplexityPrint: Book
1800-1849From Elizabeth Missing Sewell's Journal, 21 October 1845: 'Some of us went for a lovely walk yesterday by the sea cli...Elizabeth Missing Sewell unknownArticle on the JesuitsPrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849From Elizabeth Missing Sewell's Journal, 21 October 1845: 'Some of us went for a lovely walk yesterday by the sea cli...Elizabeth Missing Sewell The Oxford and Cambridge ReviewPrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849From Elizabeth Missing Sewell's Journal, September 1846: 'We went into London one day [...] Burns's is a dull shop ...Elizabeth Missing Sewell Cecilia TilleyChollertonPrint: Book
1800-1849From Elizabeth Missing Sewell's Journal, 26 November 1846: 'I read nothing scarcely [...] Miss Martineau's [italics...Elizabeth Missing Sewell Harriet MartineauTales on the Game LawsPrint: Unknown
1800-1849From Elizabeth Missing Sewell's Journal, 31 December 1846: 'I read a little now, and am almost afraid I am learning...Elizabeth Missing Sewell Alisonaccounts of Napoleon's battlesPrint: Unknown
1850-1899From Elizabeth Missing Sewell's Journal, 19 [sic: should be 13] August 1850, during stay with the Rev. G. Cooke, Cubin...Elizabeth Missing Sewell Life of SoutheyPrint: Unknown
1850-1899From Elizabeth Missing Sewell's Journal, 14 August 1850: 'Ruskin's [italics]Lectures on Architecture and Painting[end...Elizabeth Missing Sewell John RuskinLectures on Architecture and PaintingPrint: Book
1850-1899From Elizabeth Missing Sewell's Journal, 19 February 1856: 'I came here [Bournemouth] for a fortnight and have stayed...Elizabeth Missing Sewell unknownAn Authentic Sketch of the life and public services of His Excellency Sir Charles Theophilus Metcalfe, Bart., KCB etc (second volume)Print: Book
1850-1899From Elizabeth Missing Sewell's Journal, 19 February 1856: 'I came here [Bournemouth] for a fortnight and have stayed...Elizabeth Missing Sewell Puseytwo sermonsPrint: Unknown
1850-1899From Elizabeth Missing Sewell's Journal, 19 February 1856: 'I came here [Bournemouth] for a fortnight and have stayed...Elizabeth Missing Sewell Thomas CarlyleHeroes and Hero-WorshipPrint: Book
1850-1899From Elizabeth Missing Sewell's Journal, 19 February 1856: 'I came here [Bournemouth] for a fortnight and have stayed...Elizabeth Missing Sewell pamphlets
1850-1899From Elizabeth Missing Sewell's Journal, 19 February 1856: 'I came here [Bournemouth] for a fortnight and have stayed...Elizabeth Missing Sewell magazinesPrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899From Elizabeth Missing Sewell's Journal, 19 February 1856: 'I came here [Bournemouth] for a fortnight and have stayed...Elizabeth Missing Sewell The TimesPrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899From Elizabeth Missing Sewell's Journal, 19 February 1856: 'I came here [Bournemouth] for a fortnight and have stayed...Elizabeth Missing Sewell Charles KingsleyHypatiaPrint: Book
1850-1899From Elizabeth Missing Sewell's Journal, 19 February 1856: 'I was reading to-day the 5th chapter of the epistle to th...Elizabeth Missing Sewell St PaulEpistle to the HebrewsPrint: Book
1850-1899From Elizabeth Missing Sewell's Journal, 'Tuesday Evening, 9th June [1857]': 'I have just finished Mrs. Gaskell's [it...Elizabeth Missing Sewell Elizabeth GaskellLife of Charlotte BrontePrint: Book
1850-1899From Elizabeth Missing Sewell's Journal, 'Tuesday Evening, 9th June [1857]': 'I have just finished Mrs. Gaskell's [it...Elizabeth Missing Sewell Charlotte BronteJane EyrePrint: Book
1850-1899From Elizabeth Missing Sewell's Journal, 28 January [?1865]: 'I am reading [italics]French Essays on Literature[end i...Elizabeth Missing Sewell Charles de Remusat'French Essays on Literature'Print: Book
1850-1899From Elizabeth Missing Sewell's Journal, 7 November 1868: 'Began Lacordaire's [italics]Conferences de Notre Dame[end ...Elizabeth Missing Sewell Jean Baptiste Henri-Dominique LacordaireConferences de Notre Dame de ParisPrint: Book
1850-1899From Elizabeth Missing Sewell's Journal, 15 July 1870, from Eisenach: 'War [apparently the Franco-Prussian war] is ac...Elizabeth Missing Sewell anonslip of paper printed with news of declaration of war [?between France and Prussia]Print: loose slip of paper
1850-1899From Elizabeth Missing Sewell's Journal, 15 August 1871, during visit to friends at Ashbourne Green, Derbyshire: 'I h...Elizabeth Missing Sewell Richard RoweEpisodes in an Obscure LifePrint: Unknown
1850-1899Eleanor L. Sewell, niece of Elizabeth Missing Sewell, in chapter 21 of [italics]The utobiography of Elizabeth Missing ...Elizabeth Missing Sewell The TimesPrint: Newspaper
1850-1899Eleanor L. Sewell, niece of Elizabeth Missing Sewell, in chapter 21 of [italics]The utobiography of Elizabeth Missing ...Elizabeth Missing Sewell unknown['books of note']Print: Book
1800-1849'I have finished "A Winter in Town", and think that if it was written in two volumes instead of three it would be a ve...Eugenia Wynne Thomas Skinner SurrA Winter in London, or Sketches of FashionPrint: Book
1800-1849From Letter V, "Letters on Daily Life": 'I wonder whether you ever met with an old-fashioned story called "Eyes and n...Elizabeth Missing Sewell Anna Laetitia Barbauld'Eyes, and No Eyes; or, The Art of Seeing'Print: Book
1850-1899From Letter VIII, [italics]Letters on Daily Life[end italics]: 'In what spirit of self-denial, and with what noble mo...Elizabeth Missing Sewell Fanny KembleAutobiographyPrint: Book
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In Letter XI, "Letters on Daily Life", Elizabeth Missing Sewell reproduces a sonnet by 'Archbishop Trench' opening 'Th...Elizabeth Missing Sewell Trenchsonnet opening 'Thou cam'st not to thy place by accident'Unknown
1800-1849In Chapter XII [sic], "Letters on Daily Life": 'In my young days we used to read Miss Edgeworth's story of "To-morr...Elizabeth Missing Sewell ?Maria ?Edgeworth'To-morrow'Print: Book
1800-1849In Letter XXI, "Letters on Daily Life" (addressed to 'C___'), on the correspondent's supposedly having mentioned to ...Elizabeth Missing Sewell Jane TaylorThe Contributions of Q.Q.Print: 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
1850-1899On one occasion, he came to me, flourishing a paper wildly in the air...I thought he had suddenly inherited a fortune,...Margaret Oliphant Robert Louis StevensonThe Master of BallantraePrint: Book, Serial / periodical
1800-1849'I left Ecclefechan on the evening of Tuesday the 19th Decr on the top of the Glasgow Mail. Little occurred worthy of...Unknown 'Scottish Gourmand' n/a][newspaper]Print: Newspaper
1850-1899In letter to 'My Dear ----,' E. M. Sewell reproduces several passages (in English translation) from Giovanni Perrone, ...Elizabeth Missing Sewell Giovanni PerroneCatechismi intorno al Protestantesimo ed alla Chiesa CattolicaPrint: Book
1850-1899Elizabeth Missing Sewell, in letter to 'My Dear _____', from Florence, May 1861: 'A pamphlet [on the Chiesa Evangel...Elizabeth Missing Sewell unknownPamphlet on the Chiesa Evangelica
1850-1899Elizabeth Missing Sewell, describing travel from Pisa toward Spezzia in letter of 5 June 1861 to 'My Dear _____', head...Elizabeth Missing Sewell Mary Russell MitfordRienziPrint: Book
1850-1899Elizabeth Missing Sewell, describing travel from Pisa toward Spezzia in letter of 5 June 1861 to 'My Dear _____', head...Elizabeth Missing Sewell newspaperPrint: Newspaper
1850-1899'When we arrived at Turin, we had no hope of being present at a sitting of Parliament, but our Sicilian friend [a frie...Elizabeth Missing Sewell anon[novel]Unknown
1900-1945'I am well into ?Dodsworth? and am liking it. It is very interesting though I find that Lewis has rather a ?green?, a ...Gerald Moore Sinclair LewisDodsworthPrint: Book
1900-1945'I still like ?Dodsworth?, and now am a little sorry for Mrs. She certainly does seem to lose herself and he is some...Gerald Moore Sinclair LewisDodsworthPrint: Book
1850-1899Mrs Hugh Fraser, describing life at the select girls' boarding school she attended, run by Elizabeth Missing Sewell ...Elizabeth Missing Sewell Elizabeth GaskellCranfordPrint: Book
1900-1945'Yes I know Sudermann ? his play ?Magda? was one of Mrs Pat. Campbell?s great parts ? and I believe he was the author ...Winifred Agnes Moore Susan GlaspellRoad to the TemplePrint: Book
1900-1945'Yes I know Sudermann ? his play ?Magda? was one of Mrs Pat. Campbell?s great parts ? and I believe he was the author ...Winifred Agnes Moore C.E. MontagueRight off the MapPrint: Book
1900-1945'Yes I know Sudermann ? his play ?Magda? was one of Mrs Pat. Campbell?s great parts ? and I believe he was the author ...Winifred Agnes Moore Rose MacauleyKeeping Up AppearancesPrint: Book
1900-1945'Yes I know Sudermann ? his play ?Magda? was one of Mrs Pat. Campbell?s great parts ? and I believe he was the author ...Winifred Agnes Moore Olwen Ward CampbellShelley and the UnromanticsPrint: Book
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'Yes I know Sudermann ? his play ?Magda? was one of Mrs Pat. Campbell?s great parts ? and I believe he was the author ...Winifred Agnes Moore Hermann SudermannThe Song of SongsPrint: Book
1900-1945'Harold gave me the ?Definitive Edition? of the Week-end Book for Xmas. It has drawings by Rutherston, and will be ve...Winifred Agnes Moore Carl Van VechtenNigger HeavenPrint: Book
1900-1945'I have been reading a very fine essay by Rebecca West, ?The Strange Necessity?. It is on the nature of Art ? and even...Winifred Agnes Moore Rebecca WestThe Strange NecessityPrint: Book
1900-1945'I?m glad you like the Shaw. Stanley bought me one of the early editions ? I haven?t read it through yet ? I?m tryin...Winifred Agnes Moore Oswald SpenglerDecline of the WestPrint: Book
1900-1945'I?m glad you like the Shaw. Stanley bought me one of the early editions ? I haven?t read it through yet ? I?m tryin...Winifred Agnes Moore Marcel ProustDu Cote de Chez SwannPrint: Book
1900-1945'I also have been reading ?All Quiet?. Stanley and I stood for an hour outside my hotel at midnight in Southampton Ro...Winifred Agnes Moore Erich Maria RemarqueAll Quiet on the Western FrontPrint: Book
1900-1945'I am at present reading Julian Benda?s ?Belphegor?, a plea for a return to intellectual standards as against the Berg...Winifred Agnes Moore Julian BendaBelphegorPrint: Book
1900-1945'I am really set up with these books, and ?Les Nouvelles?. I do no other reading ? for it keeps up my language and k...Winifred Agnes Moore [French newspapers]Print: Newspaper
1900-1945'I am really appreciating all the books and seem at the moment to be reading only French. I have not by any means ex...Winifred Agnes Moore unknownMahatma GandhiPrint: Book
1900-1945'I am really appreciating all the books and seem at the moment to be reading only French. I have not by any means ex...Winifred Agnes Moore Katherine MayoMother IndiaPrint: Book
1900-1945'I?m so glad you got your books. But I knew as far as a ?yarn? was concerned it was your book. Oakroyd is a masterp...Winifred Agnes Moore unknownOakroydPrint: Book
1900-1945'I enjoy thoroughly ?Les Nouvelles? ? it is most useful to me also ? and ?Gringoire? is good for me ? it tempers my Fr...Winifred Agnes Moore [French newspapers]Print: Newspaper
1900-1945'I enjoy thoroughly ?Les Nouvelles? ? it is most useful to me also ? and ?Gringoire? is good for me ? it tempers my Fr...Winifred Agnes Moore Theodore de BanvilleGringoirePrint: Book
1900-1945'I enjoy thoroughly ?Les Nouvelles? ? it is most useful to me also ? and ?Gringoire? is good for me ? it tempers my Fr...Winifred Agnes Moore unknownLe Blois VertPrint: Book
1900-1945'The book will give me the greatest delight. I am getting a bit past ?yarns? ? but I enjoyed ?Matador? because it is...Winifred Agnes Moore Margaret SteenMatadorPrint: Book
1900-1945'One must know Hemingway if one is to understand post war writing. I read too ?The Open Secret?. Oliver Onions was...Winifred Agnes Moore Oliver OnionsThe Open SecretPrint: Book
1900-1945'I am busy also getting through the Keynes book, and chuckling over the fact that he wrote this book to make clear tha...Winifred Agnes Moore John Maynard KeynesThe General Theory of Employment, Interest and MoneyPrint: Book
1900-1945'I am busy also getting through the Keynes book, and chuckling over the fact that he wrote this book to make clear tha...Winifred Agnes Moore Arthur Cecil PigouunknownPrint: Book
1900-1945'I?m so glad that ?D?senchantement? pleases you. Apart from the subject Montague writes so beautifully ? and to me i...Winifred Agnes Moore MontagueD?senchantementPrint: Book
1900-1945'I have just read Gabouis ?Perfide Albion ? Entente Cordial?, quite good and informative ? this in English from the lo...Winifred Agnes Moore GabouisPerfide Albion ? Entente CordialPrint: Book
1900-1945'I have just read Gabouis ?Perfide Albion ? Entente Cordial?, quite good and informative ? this in English from the lo...Winifred Agnes Moore Francois MauriacLes Anges NoirsPrint: Book
1900-1945'I have just read Gabouis ?Perfide Albion ? Entente Cordial?, quite good and informative ? this in English from the lo...Winifred Agnes Moore Alexander WerthBefore MunichPrint: Book
1900-1945'I have just read Gabouis ?Perfide Albion ? Entente Cordial?, quite good and informative ? this in English from the lo...Winifred Agnes Moore Deladier[collection of speeches]Print: Book
1900-1945'I have just read Gabouis ?Perfide Albion ? Entente Cordial?, quite good and informative ? this in English from the lo...Winifred Agnes Moore Paul MaraudRond Point des Champs Elys?esPrint: Book
1900-1945'I have just read Gabouis ?Perfide Albion ? Entente Cordial?, quite good and informative ? this in English from the lo...Winifred Agnes Moore Philip CarrThe French at HomePrint: Book
1900-1945'I am very busy with small things ? but am hoping to keep more to my books in future. I am making a really exhaustiv...Winifred Agnes Moore unknownLife of TurgotPrint: Book
1900-1945'I am very busy with small things ? but am hoping to keep more to my books in future. I am making a really exhaustiv...Winifred Agnes Moore Albert GuerardFrench Civilisation; Foundations to end of Middle AgesPrint: Book
1900-1945'For relief I have had a life of Orage ? by someone who evidently had a great admiration for him, but only knew him pe...Winifred Agnes Moore unknownLife of OragePrint: Book
1900-1945'To return to my reading at the moment ? I have another book of Ford Madox Ford?s ? oh ! a lovely one, called ?Provenc...Winifred Agnes Moore Ford Madox FordProvencePrint: Book
1900-1945'Stanley sent me a wonderful book of Gollanzc ?The Musical Companion? edited by Bacharach. Did you meet Bacharach ev...Winifred Agnes Moore A.L. BacharachThe Musical CompanionPrint: Book
1900-1945'Now about my reading, -- I have L?on Daudet?s ?Clemenceau?. The book is more interesting to me for the light it thr...Winifred Agnes Moore Leon DaudetClemenceauPrint: Book
1900-1945'I have just completed Havelock Ellis? ?From Rousseau to Proust?, a kind of psychological survey of the ?subjective? w...Winifred Agnes Moore Havelock EllisFrom Rousseau to ProustPrint: Book
1900-1945'Of course I read a great deal. I still continue my studies of French historical development. I have the best new ...Winifred Agnes Moore D.W. BroganThe Development of Modern FrancePrint: Book
1900-1945'Of course I read a great deal. I still continue my studies of French historical development. I have the best new ...Winifred Agnes Moore Edna FerberA Peculiar TreasurePrint: Book
1800-1849'When I first ventured to write a sentence for publication, having a deep sense of my profound ignorance of the rules ...Elizabeth Missing Sewell Lindley MurrayEnglish grammarPrint: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Missing Sewell recalls her studies to the age of thirteen: 'As regards history, I had learnt absolutely per...Elizabeth Missing Sewell William PinnockCatechismPrint: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Missing Sewell recalls her studies to the age of thirteen: 'The Gospels were as familiar to me as the Lor...Elizabeth Missing Sewell New Testament GospelsPrint: Book
1800-1849'It had [...] been a favourite idea of my mother's that her girls should learn Latin, and she engaged an old schoolmas...Elizabeth Missing Sewell St MatthewMatthew 2:1Print: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Missing Sewell recalls studies at the second school she attended (to the age of 15): 'Our subjects of stu...Elizabeth Missing Sewell MangallQuestionsPrint: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Missing Sewell recalls studies at the second school she attended (to the age of 15): 'Our subjects of stu...Elizabeth Missing Sewell unknown[texts on French history]Print: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Missing Sewell recalls studies at the second school she attended (to the age of 15): 'Our subjects of stu...Elizabeth Missing Sewell Mrs MarcetConversations on ChemistryPrint: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Missing Sewell recalls studies at the second school she attended (to the age of 15): 'Our subjects of stu...Elizabeth Missing Sewell Mrs MarcetConversations on Political EconomyPrint: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Missing Sewell recalls studies at the second school she attended (to the age of 15): 'Our subjects of stu...Elizabeth Missing Sewell JoyceScientific DialoguesPrint: Book
1850-1899From Elizabeth Missing Sewell's recommendations of non-fictional works 'which I can guarantee myself' in 'Hints on R...Elizabeth Missing Sewell Lady BarkerLetters from New ZealandPrint: Book
1850-1899From Elizabeth Missing Sewell's recommendations of non-fictional works 'which I can guarantee myself' in 'Hints on R...Elizabeth Missing Sewell George KennanTent Life in SiberiaPrint: Book
1850-1899From Elizabeth Missing Sewell's recommendations of non-fictional works 'which I can guarantee myself' in 'Hints on R...Elizabeth Missing Sewell J. A. FroudeShort Essays on Great SubjectsPrint: Book
1850-1899From Elizabeth Missing Sewell's recommendations of non-fictional works 'which I can guarantee myself' in 'Hints on R...Elizabeth Missing Sewell Count BeugnotMemoirsPrint: Book
1850-1899From Elizabeth Missing Sewell's recommendations of works 'which I can guarantee myself' in 'Hints on Reading': 'C...Elizabeth Missing Sewell Frederick William RobinsonChristie's FaithPrint: Book
1850-1899From Elizabeth Missing Sewell's recommendations of non-fictional works 'which I can guarantee myself' in 'Hints on R...Elizabeth Missing Sewell J. G. SharpCulture and ReligionPrint: 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...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...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...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...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.G. [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
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
1800-1849Accounts 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: G.B., 30, Reg. no. 388: 'This prisoner was convicted and sentenced to 12 months' imprisonmen...G.B. [n/a]BiblePrint: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Henrietta Moulton-Barrett, from Eastnor Castle, 23-24 February 1827: 'As we were going down the ...Lady Margaret Maria Cocks Charlotte AnleyMiriam; Or, the Power of TruthPrint: Book
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Elizabeth Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, 16 January 1830: 'Chrysostom has been staggering me lately by his commentary...Hugh Stuart Boyd St Chrysostom'In Epistolarum primam ad Corinthos'Print: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 17 June 1839: 'I mean to make an extract of your legal admirations and s...George Goodin Moulton-Barrett Sir Edward CokeunknownPrint: Book
1800-1849Walter Savage Landor to Robert Browning, c.18 March 1840: 'Three days have nearly slipped by me since I received yo...Walter Savage Landor Robert BrowningParacelsusPrint: Book
1800-1849Arabella Moulton-Barrett to Samuel Moulton-Barrett, 15 August 1839: 'Georgie [brother] is at Torquay, & he wrote ou...George Goodin Moulton-Barrett Elizabeth Barrett'The Legend of the Browne Rosarie'Manuscript: Unknown
1800-1849'Madam, Having understood from a friend that you wished to obtain the words of "The Bann of the Church of the German E...G.E. Lynch Cotton Mary Russell MitfordTragediesPrint: Book
1800-1849'Madam, Having understood from a friend that you wished to obtain the words of "The Bann of the Church of the German E...G.E. Lynch Cotton Andre-Guillaume Contant-d'OrvilleLes Anecdotes GermaniquesPrint: Book
1800-1849'I send you with this all Dr. Channing's works, and the little series of four small volumes, in whcih Miss Sedgwick's ...George Ticknor Dr. ChanningSermonsPrint: Book
1800-1849'I send you with this all Dr. Channing's works, and the little series of four small volumes, in whcih Miss Sedgwick's ...George Ticknor Catharine M SedgwickHopePrint: Book
1900-1945'There was one [thought like a hornet] zooming in The Times this morning - a woman's voice saying, "Women have not a w...Virginia Woolf The TimesPrint: Newspaper
1800-1849'I am really frightened when I think that you are reading my book critically - It seems to me such a wretched piece of...Leigh Hunt Mary ShelleyRambles in Germany and Italy in 1840, 1842, and 1843Print: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, 2 April 1842: 'As to your kind desire to hear whatever in the way of favorab...Richard Hengist Horne Elizabeth Barrett'Some Account of the Greek Christian Poets'Print: Serial / periodical
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, 2 April 1842: 'As to your kind desire to hear whatever in the way of favorab...George Barrett Hunter Elizabeth Barrett'Some Account of the Greek Christian Poets'Print: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'we learned Pinnock's Catechisms of History and Geography, and parsed sentences grammatically. For religious instructi...Elizabeth Missing Sewell William Pinnock[?] Catechism of the History of EnglandPrint: Book
1800-1849'we learned Pinnock's Catechisms of History and Geography, and parsed sentences grammatically. For religious instructi...Elizabeth Missing Sewell William PinnockCatechism of Geography; being an easy Introduction to the Knowledge of the WorldPrint: Book
1800-1849'we learned Pinnock's Catechisms of History and Geography, and parsed sentences grammatically. For religious instructi...Elizabeth Missing Sewell Sarah TrimmerAbridgement of Scripture History, consisting of Lessons selected from the Old Testament, for the Use of Schools and FamiliesPrint: 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'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 chief acquaintance with the writers of the eighteenth century is derived from reading to Aunt Lyddy papers in the ...Elizabeth Missing Sewell Joseph AddisonSpectatorPrint: Serial / periodical, possibly bound as a book
1800-1849'My chief acquaintance with the writers of the eighteenth century is derived from reading to Aunt Lyddy papers in the ...Elizabeth Missing Sewell Samuel JohnsonRambler, ThePrint: Serial / periodical, possibly bound as a book
1800-1849'My chief acquaintance with the writers of the eighteenth century is derived from reading to Aunt Lyddy papers in the ...Elizabeth Missing Sewell Mason[Plays]Print: Book
1800-1849'My chief acquaintance with the writers of the eighteenth century is derived from reading to Aunt Lyddy papers in the ...Elizabeth Missing Sewell Joseph AddisonCatoPrint: Book
1800-1849'My first sight of German letters, and my first wish to know the language, was gained from being allowed to look at a ...Elizabeth Missing Sewell Gottfried August BurgerLenorePrint: 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 learned passages from the best authors, and my delight in Walter Scott made me add to the regular lesson large por...Elizabeth Missing Sewell Walter ScottLady of the Lake, ThePrint: Book
1800-1849'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'Miss Aldridge gave us Henry's "Communicant's Companion" - a fearful book filled with questions which it would have ta...Eliazbeth Missing Sewell Matthew HenryCommunicant's CompanionPrint: 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 William RussellHistory of Modern EuropePrint: 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 William RobertsonHistory of the Reign of Charles the FifthPrint: 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 Isaac WattsImprovement of the Mind, ThePrint: 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 Miguel de CervantesDon QuixotePrint: 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'The elements of botany on the Linnaean system was another of my attempted acquirements, but I am afraid my studies we...Elizabeth Missing Sewell Walter Scott[unknown]Print: Book
1800-1849'The elements of botany on the Linnaean system was another of my attempted acquirements, but I am afraid my studies we...Elizabeth Missing Sewell George Gordon, Lord Byron[unknown]Print: Book
1800-1849'We were at the old vicarage, which had then only one sitting room, or at least only one which we could use, for the f...Elizabeth Missing Sewell Walter ScottPaul's Letters to his KinsfolkPrint: Book
1800-1849'We were at the old vicarage, which had then only one sitting room, or at least only one which we could use, for the f...Elizabeth Missing Sewell William Shakespeare[unknown]Print: Book
1800-1849'The only gleam of romance I had in connection with the place [a house in John St, Bedford Row, London] was derived fr...Elizabeth Missing Sewell Laetitia HawkinsCountess and Gertrude, The; or, Modes of DisciplinePrint: Book
1800-1849'My mind also had become much quieted and strengthened by the reading of Butler's "Analogy", which I had always heard ...Elizabeth Missing Sewell Joseph ButlerAnalogy of Religion, Natural and Revealed, to the Constitution and Course of NaturePrint: Book
1800-1849'I had seen some numbers of "Tracts for the Times" lying on the counter in a bookseller's shop in Newport, and they ha...Elizabeth Missing Sewell John Henry NewmanTracts for the TimesPrint: Book
1800-1849'I had seen some numbers of "Tracts for the Times" lying on the counter in a bookseller's shop in Newport, and they ha...Elizabeth Missing Sewell Mary Martha Sherwood[Tales]Print: Book
1800-1849'I read both the few chapters of the intended tract, and the beginning of "Amy Herbert" to my sisters, and they liked ...Elizabeth Missing Sewell Elizabeth Missing SewellStories on the Lord's PrayerManuscript: Unknown
1800-1849'I read both the few chapters of the intended tract, and the beginning of "Amy Herbert" to my sisters, and they liked ...Elizabeth Missing Sewell Elizabeth Missing SewellAmy HerbertManuscript: Unknown
1800-1849'In 1840 Miss Yonge was a bright attractive girl, at least ten years younger than myself and very like her own Ethel i...Elizabeth Missing Sewell Charlotte YongeDaisy Chain, ThePrint: Book
1800-1849'I was reading the little book aloud to my mother one evening when he was in the room, and not being well was lying on...Elizabeth Missing Sewell Elizabeth Missing SewellStories on the Lord's PrayerPrint: Book
1800-1849'The idea of connecting it ["Laneton Parsonage", by Sewell] with the Church Catechism had been originally suggested to...Elizabeth Missing Sewell Mary Martha Sherwood[Tales based on Church Catechism]Print: Book
1800-1849'"The Earl's Daughter" was also begun before my mother's death, and I read part of it to her, but she saw from the beg...Elizabeth Missing Sewell Elizabeth Missing SewellEarl's Daughter, TheManuscript: Unknown
1800-1849'"The Earl's Daughter" was also begun before my mother's death, and I read part of it to her, but she saw from the beg...Elizabeth Missing Sewell Elizabeth Missing SewellMargaret PercivalManuscript: Unknown
1800-1849'"The Earl's Daughter" was also begun before my mother's death, and I read part of it to her, but she saw from the beg...Elizabeth Missing Sewell Elizabeth Missing SewellLaneton parsonageManuscript: Unknown
1800-1849'The Church though may mean the Catholic or Universal Church and so Rome may be included. It is a horrid, startling no...Elizabeth Missing Sewell John Henry Newman[a sermon]Print: Book
1800-1849'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
1800-1849'I took up "Chollerton" (a Church tale) and skimmed parts through the uncut leaves and was not fascinated. It seemed s...Elizabeth Missing Sewell Cecilia Frances TilleyChollerton: A tale of our own timesPrint: Book
1800-1849'I read nothing scarcely, all my spare time being given to German exercises. Miss Martineau's "Tales on the Game Laws"...Elizabeth Missing Sewell Harriet MartineauForest and Game-Law TalesPrint: Book
1800-1849'I read a little now, and am almost afraid I am learning to do without reading. Napoleon's battles in Alison's history...Elizabeth Missing Sewell Archibald AlisonHistory of Europe from the Fall of Napoleon in MDCCCXV to the Accession of Louis Napoleon in MDCCCLIIPrint: Book
1850-1899'I have been reading "Southey's Life"; it does me a great deal of good. His life in a book and Mrs Charles Worsley's i...Elizabeth Missing Sewell Robert SoutheyLife and Correspondence of Robert SoutheyPrint: Book
1850-1899'Ruskin's "Lectures on Architecture and Painting" which I have been reading, interest and please me immensely. They ce...Elizabeth Missing Sewell John RuskinLectures on Architecture and PaintingPrint: 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 J.W. KayeLife and correspondence of Charles, Lord MetcalfePrint: 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 Charles KingsleyHypatia - or New Foes with an Old FacePrint: Book
1850-1899'I have written a little, and read a good deal, - the second volume of "Sir Charles Metcalfe's Life", which makes me l...Elizabeth Missing Sewell Edward Bouverie Pusey[Sermons]Print: 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 Thomas CarlyleHeroes and Hero Worship and the Heroic in HistoryPrint: 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
1800-1849Richard Hengist Horne to Elizabeth Barrett, 27 January 1844: 'Do you know Mrs Norton's poetry? Much I have seen, I ...Richard Hengist Horne Caroline Elizabeth Sarah NortonpoemsUnknown
1800-1849Richard Hengist Horne to Elizabeth Barrett, letter postmarked 15 February 1844: 'Do you happen to know anything of ...Richard Hengist Horne Wiliam Carleton'tales' (extracts)Print: Unknown
1800-1849Richard Hengist Horne to Elizabeth Barrett, 10 June 1844: 'Leigh Hunt has shown me his copy [of A New Spirit of the...Leigh Hunt Richard Hengist HorneA New Spirit of the AgePrint: Book
1800-1849'[Henry Fothergill Chorley] had seen a notice of the Brownings' marriage that appeared in the 28 September 1846 issu...Henry Fothergill Chorley notice of marriage of Robert and Elizabeth Barrett BrowningPrint: Newspaper
1800-1849Dante Gabriel Rossetti to Robert Browning, 17 October 1847: 'It is now two or three months ago that I met, at the B...Dante Gabriel Rossetti Robert BrowningPauline, a Fragment of a ConfessionPrint: Book
1850-1899 'The other main diversions of the voyage resolved themselves into reading unimportant novels aloud, by pairs, on the ...George Warrington Steevens unknownunknown [novels]Print: Book
1900-1945Virginia Stephen to Thoby Stephen, 2 November 1901: 'I have been reading Marlow [sic], and I was so much more impre...Virginia Stephen Christopher MarloweDoctor FaustusPrint: Book
1900-1945Virginia Stephen to Thoby Stephen, 2 November 1901: 'I have been reading Marlow [sic], and I was so much more impre...Virginia Stephen Christopher MarloweEdward IIPrint: Book
1900-1945Virginia Stephen to Thoby Stephen, 2 November 1901: 'I have been reading Marlow [sic], and I was so much more impre...Virginia Stephen William ShakespeareCymbelinePrint: Book
1900-1945Virginia Stephen to Violet Dickinson, 1 October 1905: 'We have had visitors for the last 4 weeks [...] I have writt...Virginia Stephen eighteenth-century textsPrint: Book
1900-1945'[Virginia Stephen] was reading Walter Savage Landor's Pericles and Aspasia (1836), and writing, as was her habit du...Virginia Stephen Walter Savage LandorPericles and AspasiaPrint: Book
1900-1945'In her role as literary mentor, Madge [Vaughan] had been reading some of Virginia's short narratives, all apparentl...Madge Vaughan Virginia Stephenshort storiesManuscript: Unknown
1900-1945Virginia Stephen to Violet Dickinson, 25 December 1906: 'I am reading now a book by Renan called his Memories of Ch...Virginia Stephen Ernest RenanCahiers de JeunessePrint: Book
1900-1945Virginia Stephen to Violet Dickinson, 25 December 1906: 'I am reading now a book by Renan called his Memories of Ch...Virginia Stephen Christina RossettipoemsPrint: Book
1900-1945Virginia Stephen to Violet Dickinson, 25 December 1906: 'I am reading now a book by Renan called his Memories of Ch...Virginia Stephen John KeatspoemsPrint: Book
1900-1945Virginia Stephen to Violet Dickinson, ?30 December 1906: 'I have been reading Keats most of the day. I think he is ...Virginia Stephen John KeatspoemsPrint: Book
1900-1945Virginia Stephen to Clive Bell, 18 August 1907: 'I am reading Henry James on America; and feel myself as one embalm...Virginia Stephen Henry JamesThe American ScenePrint: Book
1900-1945Virginia Stephen to Clive Bell, 19 August 1908: 'I split my head over Moore every night, feeling ideas travelling t...Virginia Stephen G. E. MoorePrincipia EthicaPrint: Book
1900-1945Virginia Woolf, on her honeymoon, to Lytton Strachey, 1 September 1912: 'You can't think with what a fury we fall o...Virginia Woolf 'new novels'Print: Book
1900-1945Virginia Woolf, on her honeymoon, to Lytton Strachey, 1 September 1912: 'You can't think with what a fury we fall o...Virginia Woolf Fyodor DostoevskyCrime and PunishmentPrint: Book
1900-1945Virginia Woolf to Violet Dickinson, 11 April 1913: '[italics]I've[end italics] never met a writer who didn't nurse ...Virginia Woolf George MeredithlettersUnknown
1900-1945'Clive Bell's Art had been published in February 1914. It propounded the concept of "Significant form", but Virginia...Virginia Woolf Clive BellArtPrint: Book
1900-1945Virginia Woolf to Lytton Strachey, 22 October 1915: 'I should think I had read 600 books since we met. Please tell ...Virginia Woolf Henry James'works'Print: Book
1900-1945Virginia Woolf to Lytton Strachey, 22 October 1915: 'I should think I had read 600 books since we met. Please tell ...Virginia Woolf Fyodor DostoevskyThe Insulted and InjuredPrint: Book
1900-1945Virginia Woolf to Margaret Llewelyn Davies, 23 January 1916: 'I've been reading Carlyle's Past and Present [1843], ...Virginia Woolf Thomas CarlylePast and PresentPrint: Book
1900-1945Virginia Woolf to Margaret Llewelyn Davies, 23 January 1916: 'I've been reading Carlyle's Past and Present [1843], ...Virginia Woolf The TimesPrint: Newspaper
1900-1945Virginia Woolf to Saxon Sydney-Turner, 25 February 1918: 'Asheham is very lovely at the moment. I started upon Soph...Virginia Woolf Sophocles ElectraPrint: Book
1900-1945Virginia Woolf to Saxon Sydney-Turner, 25 February 1918: 'Asheham is very lovely at the moment. I started upon Soph...Virginia Woolf Leonard MerrickPrint: Book
1900-1945Virginia Woolf to Saxon Sydney-Turner, 25 February 1918: 'I daresay you share my feeling that Asheham is the best p...Virginia Woolf William ShakespeareMeasure for MeasurePrint: Book
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Virginia Woolf to Lytton Strachey, 12 October 1918: 'I read the Greeks, but I am extremely doubtful whether I under...Virginia Woolf classical Greek literaturePrint: Book
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Virginia Woolf to Lytton Strachey, 12 October 1918: 'I read the Greeks, but I am extremely doubtful whether I under...Virginia Woolf John Miltoncomplete worksPrint: Book
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Virginia Woolf to Lytton Strachey, 30 November 1919: 'I'm in the 2nd vol. of Ethel Smyth. I think she shows up triu...Virginia Woolf Ethel SmythImpressions that Remained (vol. 2)Print: Book
1900-1945Virginia Woolf to Molly MacCarthy, 20 June 1921: 'I am reading the Bride of Lammermoor -- by that great man Scott: ...Virginia Woolf Walter ScottThe Bride of LammermoorPrint: Book
1900-1945Virginia Woolf to Molly MacCarthy, 20 June 1921: 'I am reading the Bride of Lammermoor -- by that great man Scott: ...Virginia Woolf D. H. LawrenceWomen in LovePrint: Book
1900-1945Virginia Woolf to Janet Case, 20 March 1922: 'Literature still survives. I've not read K. Mansfield [The Garden Pa...Virginia Woolf Katherine MansfieldBlissPrint: Book
1900-1945Virginia Woolf to Roger Fry, 6 May 1922: 'I have the most violent cold in the whole parish. Proust's fat volume com...Virginia Woolf Marcel ProustA l'ombre des jeunes filles en fleursPrint: Book
1900-1945Virginia Woolf to Ottoline Morrell, 18 August 1922: 'Poor Rebecca West's novel bursts like an over stuffed sausage....Virginia Woolf Rebecca WestThe JudgePrint: Book
1900-1945Virginia Woolf to Ottoline Morrell, 18 August 1922: 'Poor Rebecca West's novel bursts like an over stuffed sausage....Virginia Woolf Henry JamesThe Wings of a DovePrint: Book
1900-1945Virginia Woolf to Ottoline Morrell, 18 August 1922: 'Poor Rebecca West's novel bursts like an over stuffed sausage....Virginia Woolf James JoyceUlyssesPrint: Book
1900-1945Virginia Woolf to Mary Hutchinson, c. 18 April 1923: 'I am reading Proust, I am reading Rimbaud. I am longing to wr...Virginia Woolf Marcel ProustPrint: Book
1900-1945Virginia Woolf to Mary Hutchinson, c. 18 April 1923: 'I am reading Proust, I am reading Rimbaud. I am longing to wr...Virginia Woolf Rimbaud Print: Book
1900-1945Virginia Woolf to Gwen Raverat, 11 March 1925: 'I don't think you would believe how it moves me that you and Jacque...Gwen Raverat Virginia WoolfMrs DallowayPrint: Unknown, In proof copy
1900-1945Virginia Woolf to Vita Sackville-West, 17 February 1926: 'Why are all professors of English literature ashamed of E...Virginia Woolf Walter RaleighLettersPrint: Book
1900-1945Virginia Woolf to Vita Sackville-West, 9 October 1927: 'I am reading Knole and The Sackvilles. Dear me; you know a ...Virginia Woolf V. Sackville-WestKnole and the SackvillesPrint: Book
1900-1945Virginia Woolf to Vita Sackville-West, 30 August 1928: 'I am happy because it is the loveliest August [...] I read ...Virginia Woolf Marcel ProustPrint: Book
1900-1945Virginia Woolf to Vita Sackville-West, 30 August 1928: 'I am happy because it is the loveliest August [...] I read ...Virginia Woolf Henry JamesPrint: Book
1900-1945Virginia Woolf to Vita Sackville-West, 30 August 1928: 'I am happy because it is the loveliest August [...] I read ...Virginia Woolf Fyodor DostoevskyPrint: Book
1900-1945Virginia Woolf to Vita Sackville-West, 8 January 1929: 'I've been reading Balzac, and Tolstoy. Practically every sc...Virginia Woolf Honore de BalzacPrint: Book
1900-1945Virginia Woolf to Vita Sackville-West, 8 January 1929: 'I've been reading Balzac, and Tolstoy. Practically every sc...Virginia Woolf Leo TolstoyPrint: Book
1900-1945Virginia Woolf to Vita Sackville-West, 8 January 1929: 'I've been reading Balzac, and Tolstoy. Practically every sc...Virginia Woolf Leo TolstoyAnna KareninaPrint: Book
1900-1945Virginia Woolf to Mary Hutchinson, 6 May 1929: 'We are down here [Monks House, Rodmell] to see about making a new r...Virginia Woolf Ronald FirbankPrint: Book
1900-1945Virginia Woolf to Vita Sackville-West, 17 September 1929: 'I've only read 30 pages of Rebecca [West] [...] I agree ...Virginia Woolf Rebecca WestHarriet HumePrint: Book
1900-1945Virginia Woolf to Vanessa Bell, 8 November 1930: 'We had a terrific visitation from Hugh Walpole. If you want a boo...Hugh Walpole Somerset MaughamCakes and AlePrint: Book
1900-1945Virginia Woolf to Ethel Smyth, 20 April 1931: 'I'm reading Lawrence, Sons and Lovers, for the first time'. ...Virginia Woolf D. H. LawrenceSons and LoversPrint: Book
1900-1945Virginia Woolf to Ethel Smyth, 20 April 1931: 'Stella Benson I don't read because what I did read seemed to me all ...Virginia Woolf Stella BensonUnknown
1900-1945Virginia Woolf to Vita Sackville-West, 24 May 1931: 'I've wasted 4 days when I wanted to write. And I've spent them...Virginia Woolf Princess Daisy of PlessFrom My Private DiaryPrint: Book
1900-1945Virginia Woolf to Hugh Walpole, 8 November 1931: 'I'm reading Middlemarch with even greater pleasure than I remembe...Virginia Woolf George EliotMiddlemarchPrint: Book
1900-1945Virginia Woolf to Hugh Walpole, 8 November 1931: 'I'm reading Middlemarch with even greater pleasure than I remembe...Virginia Woolf Ford Madox FordThus to RevisitPrint: Book
1900-1945Virginia Woolf to Lytton Strachey, 10 December 1931: 'I read As you like it the other day and was almost sending yo...Virginia Woolf William ShakespeareAs You Like ItPrint: Book
1900-1945Virginia Woolf to Vita Sackville-West, 18 October 1932: 'My Elizabeth [Bowen] comes to see me, alone, tomorrow. I r...Virginia Woolf Elizabeth BowenPrint: Book
1900-1945Virginia Woolf to Ethel Smyth, c.28 December 1932: 'D'you know I get such a passion for reading sometimes its like ...Virginia Woolf Axel MuntheThe Story of San MichelePrint: Book
1900-1945Virginia Woolf to Ethel Smyth, c.28 December 1932: 'D'you know I get such a passion for reading sometimes its like ...Virginia Woolf Stella BensonTobit TransplantedPrint: Book
1900-1945'Hugh Walpole's The Apple Tree, a volume of reminiscences, was published for Christmas 1932. The first words of the ...Hugh Walpole Virginia WoolfThe WavesPrint: Book
1900-1945Virginia Woolf to Quentin Bell, 26 July 1933: 'I'm sending you a book of short stories; one -- by [James] Joyce -- ...Virginia Woolf James Joyceshort storyPrint: Book
1900-1945Virginia Woolf to Quentin Bell, 26 November 1933: 'I read your letter with great pleasure in Time and Tide; it seem...Virginia Woolf Quentin BellletterPrint: Serial / periodical
1900-1945Virginia Woolf to Vanessa Bell, 3 May 1934: 'We only got the Times yesterday and read about George [Duckworth]. Wel...Virginia Woolf report of death of Sir George DuckworthPrint: Newspaper
1900-1945Virginia Woolf to Ethel Smyth, 21 May 1934: 'So I came back lit the fire; and read Proust, which is of course so ma...Virginia Woolf Marcel ProustPrint: Book
1900-1945Virginia Woolf to Ethel Smyth, 21 May 1934: 'I lit the fire and read Mrs Wharton; Memoirs and she knew Mrs Hunter [...Virginia Woolf Edith WhartonA Backward GlancePrint: Book
1900-1945Virginia Woolf to Ethel Smyth, 8 January 1935: 'We had a children's party and I judged the clothes. All the mothers...Virginia Woolf The BiblePrint: Book
1900-1945Virginia Woolf to Ethel Smyth, 8 January 1935: 'We had a children's party and I judged the clothes. All the mothers...Virginia Woolf Ernest RenanSt PaulPrint: Book
1900-1945Virginia Woolf to Ethel Smyth, 8 January 1935: 'We had a children's party and I judged the clothes. All the mothers...Virginia Woolf New TestamentPrint: Book
1900-1945Virginia Woolf to Hugh Walpole, 8 February 1936: 'I'm reading David Copperfield for the 6th time with almost comple...Virginia Woolf Charles DickensDavid CopperfieldPrint: Book
1900-1945'In Thomas Wright's Life of Charles Dickens (1935), Virginia [Woolf] had read about the novelist's affair with the a...Virginia Woolf Thomas WrightLife of Charles DickensPrint: Book
1900-1945'Virginia [Woolf] read at least three of Colette's books, two of autobiography (Mes Apprentissages, 1934, Sido, 1929...Virginia Woolf Sidonie-Gabrielle ColetteSidoPrint: Book
1900-1945Virginia Woolf to Ethel Smyth, 18 September 1936: 'The Prelude. Have you read it lately? Do you know, it's so good,...Virginia Woolf William WordsworthThe PreludePrint: Book
1900-1945Virginia Woolf to Lady Ottoline Morrell, 27 June 1937: 'If you want sheer joy read [Congreve]; if you dont want any...Virginia Woolf George SandMemoires (vol 5)Print: Book
1900-1945Virginia Woolf to Leonard Woolf, 14 July 1936: 'A very good, though very dull day. No headache this morning, brain ...Virginia Woolf Thomas Babington MacaulayunknownPrint: Book
1900-1945Virginia Woolf to Vita Sackville-West, 3 May 1938: 'I am reading for the first time a book which I think a very goo...Virginia Woolf Bernard MandevilleThe Fable of the Bees; or, Private Vices, Publick BenefitsPrint: Book
1900-1945Virginia Woolf to Ethel Smyth, 29 August 1938: 'Just finished Lady Fred Cavendish's diaries: no vigour, no insight,...Virginia Woolf Lady Frederick CavendishThe Diary of Lady Frederick CavendishPrint: Book
1900-1945Virginia Woolf to May Sarton, 2 February 1939: 'I have been so steeped in modern manuscripts that I was losing all ...Virginia Woolf Geoffrey ChaucerunknownPrint: Book
1900-1945Virginia Woolf to Shena, Lady Simon, 22 January 1940: 'I've had too many distractions to write [...] But not too ma...Virginia Woolf Shena, Lady Simonpaper on women and warUnknown
1900-1945Virginia Woolf to Ethel Smyth, 1 February 1940: 'I'd like to look at South Riding [...] W[inifred]. H[oltby]. was a...Virginia Woolf Winifred Holtbystudy on Virginia WoolfPrint: Book
1900-1945Virginia Woolf to Ethel Smyth, 1 February 1940: 'Reading Burke. Reading Gide.'Virginia Woolf Edmund BurkeunknownPrint: Book
1900-1945Virginia Woolf to Ethel Smyth, 1 February 1940: 'Reading Burke. Reading Gide.'Virginia Woolf Andre GideunknownPrint: Book
1900-1945Virginia Woolf to Ethel Smyth, 17 May 1940: 'D'you know what I find? -- reading a whole poet is consoling: Coleridg...Virginia Woolf Samuel Taylor ColeridgeunknownPrint: Book
1900-1945Virginia Woolf to Benedict Nicolson, 13 August 1940: '[opens] Just as I began to read your letter, an air raid warn...Virginia Woolf Benedict Nicolsonletter to Virginia WoolfManuscript: Letter
1900-1945'I like the story very very much - in fact, I began reading it after you left...went out for a walk, thinking of it al...Virginia Woolf Vita Sackville-WestSeducers in EcuadorManuscript: Unknown
1900-1945Saturday 2 January 1915: 'I read Guy Mannering upstairs for 20 minutes'.Virginia Woolf Walter ScottGuy ManneringPrint: Book
1900-1945Tuesday 19 January 1915: 'I'm reading The Idiot. I cant bear the style of it very often; at the same time, he seem...Virginia Woolf Fyodor DostoevskyThe IdiotPrint: Book
1900-1945Tuesday 19 January 1915: 'I'm reading The Idiot. I cant bear the style of it very often; at the same time, he seem...Virginia Woolf Jules MicheletHistoire de FrancePrint: Book
1900-1945Tuesday 19 January 1915: 'I'm reading The Idiot. I cant bear the style of it very often; at the same time, he seem...Virginia Woolf Fanny Kemble'Life'Print: Book
1900-1945Tuesday 19 January 1915: 'I'm reading The Idiot. I cant bear the style of it very often; at the same time, he seem...Virginia Woolf Alexander PopeThe Rape of the LockPrint: Book
1900-1945Wednesday 20 January 1915: 'I read Essay upon Criticism waiting for my train at Hammersmith. The classics make the t...Virginia Woolf Alexander PopeEssay on CriticismPrint: Book
1900-1945Thursday 21 January 1915: 'I went to the London Library [...] Here I read Gilbert Murray on Immortality, got a book ...Virginia Woolf Alexander PopeEpistle to Dr ArbuthnotPrint: Book
1900-1945Thursday 21 January 1915: 'I went to the London Library [...] Here I read Gilbert Murray on Immortality, got a book ...Virginia Woolf Gilbert MurrayunknownPrint: Book
1900-1945Monday 25 January 1915: 'I have been very happy reading father on Pope, which is very witty & bright -- without a si...Virginia Woolf Leslie Stephencritical work on PopePrint: Book
1900-1945Sunday 31 January 1915: 'After tea [...] I started reading The Wise Virgins, & I read it straight on until bedtime, ...Virginia Woolf Leonard WoolfThe Wise Virgins, A Story of Words, Opinions, and a Few EmotionsManuscript: Unknown
1900-1945Sunday 14 February 1915: 'I am now reading a later volume of Michelet, which is superb, & the only tolerable history...Virginia Woolf Jules MicheletHistoire de FrancePrint: Book
1900-1945Friday 2 November 1917: 'I find it impossible to read after a railway journey; I cant open Dante or think of him wit...Virginia Woolf The TimesPrint: Newspaper
1900-1945Monday 12 November 1917: 'I went to Mudies, & got The Leading Note, in order to examine into R.T. more closely [...]...Virginia Woolf Rosalind MurrayThe Leading NotePrint: Book
1900-1945Wednesday 5 December 1917: 'L[eonard]. reading Life of Dilke [...] I'm past the middle of Purgatorio, but find it st...Virginia Woolf Dante AlighieriPurgatorioPrint: Book
1900-1945Friday 7 December 1917: 'I ended my afternoon in one of the great soft chairs at Gordon Square [...] I sat alone for...Virginia Woolf unknown'book on Children & Sex'Print: Book
1900-1945Sunday 6 January 1918: 'Gerald [Shove] read Tolstoy the other day, & determined to give up tobacco, but now argues t...Gerald Shove Leo TolstoyunknownPrint: Book
1850-1899'Many thanks for your delightful letter. I am glad you are in the midst of delightful scenery and Aurora Leigh.'Richard Reginald Harding Elizabeth Barrett BrowningAurora LeighPrint: Book
1900-1945'In bed I have been fuming over your assumption that my liking for the poet Crabbe is avowed. I assure you I bought a...Virginia Woolf George CrabbeunknownPrint: Book
1900-194510 December 1917: 'My afternoon was very nearly normal; to Mudies, tea in an A.B.C. reading a life of Gaudier Brzeska'.Virginia Woolf Ezra PoundGaudier-Brzeska. A MemoirPrint: Book
1900-194524 January 1918: 'To the Club, where I found Lytton by himself, & not feeling inclined for talk we read our papers nea...Virginia Woolf newspapersPrint: Newspaper
1900-19452 March 1918: '[On 19 February] we went to Asheham [...] I saw no-one; for 5 days I wasn't in a state for reading [due...Virginia Woolf John, Viscount MorleyunknownPrint: Book
1900-19452 March 1918: '[On 19 February] we went to Asheham [...] I saw no-one; for 5 days I wasn't in a state for reading [due...Virginia Woolf William ShakespeareunknownPrint: Book
1900-19455 April 1918: 'Off we went to Asheham on Thursday [21 March] [...] my memory is most centred upon an afternoon readi...Virginia Woolf William Wordsworth'Lines Written in Early Spring, 1798'Print: Book
1900-194518 April 1918: 'I went to Guildford. I don't see how to put 3 or 4 hours of Roger's conversation into the rest of th...Roger Fry Marcel ProustDu Cote de chez SwannPrint: Book
1900-194518 April 1918: 'I went to Guildford. I don't see how to put 3 or 4 hours of Roger's conversation into the rest of th...Roger Fry Aristophanes LysistrataManuscript: Unknown
1900-194527 June 1918: 'At the Club yesterday I picked up the Times & read of Aunt Minna's death 2 days ago at Lane End [...]...Virginia Woolf notice of death of Sarah Emily DuckworthPrint: Newspaper
1900-19452 July 1918: 'I was reading Macaulay's Life over my tea [...] when Mrs Woolf [husband's sister-in-law] was announced.'Virginia Woolf George Otto TrevelyanThe Life and Letters of Lord MacaulayPrint: Book
1900-1945'...I'm sitting in an old silk petticoat at the moment with a hole in it, and the top part of another dress with a hol...Virginia Woolf Thomas de QuinceyImpassioned ProsePrint: Book
1900-1945Editor's note reads 'V[irginia] W[oolf] must have been reading William Michael Rossetti's 1904 edition of The Poetic...Virginia Woolf William Michael RossettiMemoir of Christina RossettiPrint: Book
1900-19457 August 1918: 'Our excitement [has been] the return of the servants from Lewes last night, with [...] the English r...Virginia Woolf Katherine Mansfield'Bliss'Print: Serial / periodical
1900-19457 August 1918: 'I was very glad to go on with my Byron [...] I'm amused to find how easily I can imagine the effect ...Virginia Woolf unknownlife of ByronPrint: Book
1900-1945'The whole book is full of nooks and corners which I enjoy exploring. Sometimes one wants a candle in one's hand thoug...Virginia Woolf Vita Sackville-WestPassenger to TeheranManuscript: Sheet, Earlier in the letter Virginia Woolf describes the form of the text she read as 'the second batch of proofs'.
1900-1945'"I'm in the middle of the Lighthouse, ekeing it out so that it will last. Why doesn't she publish a book every day? ...Hugh Walpole Virginia WoolfTo the LighthousePrint: Book
1900-1945'The day before I left I read in the Times that I had won the most insignificant and ridiculous of prizes but I have h...Virginia Woolf The TimesPrint: Newspaper
1900-19457 January 1920: 'Reading Empire & Commerce to my genuine satisfaction, with an impartial delight in the closeness, pas...Virginia Woolf Leonard WoolfEmpire and Commerce in Africa. A Study in Economic ImperialismUnknown
1900-19456 March 1920: 'On Thursday, dine with the MacCarthys, & the first Memoir Club meeting [hosted by MacCarthys]. A highly...Roger Fry Roger Fryautobiographical essayManuscript: Unknown
1900-194520 April 1920: 'Saw the birth of Ka's son in the Times this morning, & feel slightly envious all day in consequence.'Virginia Woolf Notice of birth of Mark Arnold-FosterPrint: Newspaper
1900-1945Tuesday 10 August 1920: 'Reading Don Q. still -- I confess rather sinking in the sand -- rather soft going [...] but h...Virginia Woolf Miguel de CervantesDon QuixotePrint: Book
1900-1945Thursday 19 August 1920: 'Yesterday [...] read [Sophocles'] Trachiniae with comparative ease -- always comparative -- ...Virginia Woolf Sophocles TrachiniaePrint: Book
1900-1945Tuesday 25 January 1921: 'K. M. (as the papers call her) swims from triumph to triumph in the reviews; save that [J. C...Virginia Woolf Katherine MansfieldunknownPrint: Unknown
1900-1945Friday 15 April 1921: 'I have been lying recumbent all day reading Carlyle, and now Macaulay, first to see if Carlyle ...Virginia Woolf Thomas Carlyle'reminiscences'Print: Book
1900-1945Friday 15 April 1921: 'I have been lying recumbent all day reading Carlyle, and now Macaulay, first to see if Carlyle ...Virginia Woolf Thomas Babington MacaulayunknownPrint: Book
1900-1945Sunday 15 May 1921: 'I read 4 pages of sneer & condescending praise of me in the Dial the other day. Oddly enough, I h...Virginia Woolf Kenneth Burke'The Modern English Novel Plus' (review of Virginia Woolf, NIght and Day, and The Voyage OutPrint: Serial / periodical
1900-1945Monday 12 September 1921: 'I have finished the Wings of the Dove, & make this comment. His [Henry James's] manipulatio...Virginia Woolf Henry JamesThe Wings of a DovePrint: Book
1900-1945Thursday 15 September 1921: 'I have been dabbling in K.M.'s stories, & have to rinse my mind -- in Dryden? Still, if s...Virginia Woolf Katherine MansfieldstoriesPrint: Unknown
1900-1945Monday 6 February 1922: 'What a sprightly journalist Clive Bell is! I have just read him, & see how my sentences would...Virginia Woolf Clive Bell[journalism] Unknown
1900-1945Tuesday 14 February 1922: 'I am reading [in convalescence, following week of illness] Moby Dick: Princesse de Cleves; ...Virginia Woolf Herman MelvilleMoby DickPrint: Book
1900-1945Tuesday 14 February 1922: 'I am reading [in convalescence, following week of illness] Moby Dick: Princesse de Cleves; ...Virginia Woolf Madame de La FayetteLa Princesse de ClevesPrint: Book
1900-1945Tuesday 14 February 1922: 'I am reading [in convalescence, following week of illness] Moby Dick: Princesse de Cleves; ...Virginia Woolf Walter ScottOld MortalityPrint: Book
1900-1945Tuesday 14 February 1922: 'I am reading [in convalescence, following week of illness] Moby Dick: Princesse de Cleves; ...Virginia Woolf Lady Gwendolyn CecilThe Life of Robert, Marquis of SalisburyPrint: Book
1900-1945Tuesday 14 February 1922: 'I am reading [in convalescence, following week of illness] Moby Dick: Princesse de Cleves; ...Virginia Woolf Cecil TorrSmall Talk at Wreyland (vol 1 and/or 2)Print: Book
1900-1945Tuesday 14 February 1922: 'I am reading [in convalescence, following week of illness] Moby Dick: Princesse de Cleves; ...Virginia Woolf unknownLife of TennysonPrint: Book
1900-1945Tuesday 14 February 1922: 'I am reading [in convalescence, following week of illness] Moby Dick: Princesse de Cleves; ...Virginia Woolf unknownLife of [?Samuel] JohnsonPrint: Book
1900-1945Wednesday 15 February 1922: 'Of my reading I will now try to make some note. 'First Peacock; Nightmare Abbey, &...Virginia Woolf Thomas Love PeacockNightmare AbbeyPrint: Book
1900-1945Wednesday 15 February 1922: 'Of my reading I will now try to make some note. 'First Peacock; Nightmare Abbey, &...Virginia Woolf Thomas Love PeacockCrotchet CastlePrint: Book
1900-1945Wednesday 15 February 1922: 'Of my reading I will now try to make some note. 'First Peacock; Nightmare Abbey, &...Virginia Woolf Walter ScottOld MortalityPrint: Book
1900-1945Wednesday 15 February 1922: 'Of my reading I will now try to make some note. 'First Peacock; Nightmare Abbey, &...Virginia Stephen Thomas Love PeacockunknownPrint: Book
1900-1945Saturday 18 February 1922: 'According to the papers, the cost of living is now I dont know how much lower than last ye...Virginia Woolf George Gordon, Lord ByronLord Byron's CorrespondencePrint: Book
1900-1945Saturday 18 February 1922: 'I want to read Byron's Letters, but I must go on with La Princesse de Cleves. This masterp...Virginia Woolf Madame de la FayetteLa Princesse de ClevesPrint: Book
1900-1945Saturday 18 February 1922: 'Within the last few minutes I have skimmed the reviews in the New Statesman; between coffe...Virginia Woolf The New StatesmanPrint: Serial / periodical
1900-1945Saturday 18 February 1922: 'Within the last few minutes I have skimmed the reviews in the New Statesman; between coffe...Virginia Woolf The NationPrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'Jack tells me you are reading Meister: this surprises me; if I did not recollect your love for me, I shoudl not be ab...Margaret A. Carlyle Johann Wolfgang von GoetheWilhelm Meister's ApprenticeshipPrint: Book
1900-1945'I'm reading an Oxford undergraduate ms novel, and his hero says "Do you know these lines from The Land, the finest po...Virginia Woolf unknown[ms novel]Manuscript: Codex
1900-1945Tuesday 31 August 1920: 'Finished Sophocles this morning -- read mostly at Asheham.'Virginia Woolf Sophocles unknownPrint: Book
1900-1945Sunday 5 December 1920: 'My brain is tired of reading Coleridge. Why do I read Coleridge? It is partly the result of E...Virginia Woolf Samuel Taylor ColeridgeunknownPrint: Book
1900-1945Wednesday 10 August 1921: 'I may well ask, what is truth? And I cant ask it in my natural tones, since my lips are wet...Virginia Woolf Edmund GosseBooks on the TablePrint: Book
1900-1945[Following transcription of two substantial paragraphs, in which Leigh Hunt describes Coleridge] '[this] is all I can ...Virginia Woolf Leigh HuntThe Autobiography of Leigh HuntPrint: Book
1900-194518 December 1921: 'Roger's visit [on 17 December] went off specially well [...] Roger had Benda in his pocket & read a...Roger Fry Julien BendaunknownPrint: Book
1900-1945Wednesday 16 August 1922: 'I have read 200 pages [of Ulysses] so far -- not a third; & have been amused, stimulated, c...Virginia Woolf James JoyceUlyssesPrint: Book
1900-1945Thursday 7 September 1922: 'L[eonard]. put into my hands a very intelligent review of Ulysses, in the American Nation,...Virginia Woolf Gilbert SeldesReview of James Joyce, UlyssesPrint: Serial / periodical
1900-1945Wednesday 6 September 1922: 'I finished Ulysses, & think it a mis-fire. Genius it has I think; but of the inferior wat...Virginia Woolf James JoyceUlyssesPrint: Book
1900-1945Saturday 17 March 1923: 'Written, for a wonder, at 10 o'clock at night [...] my brain saturated with the Silent Woman....Virginia Woolf Ben JonsonEpicoene, or The Silent WomanPrint: Book
1900-1945Thursday 30 Auguust: 'My goodness, the wind! Last night we looked at the meadow trees, flinging about [...] I read suc...Virginia Woolf Elizabeth GaskellWives and DaughtersPrint: Book
1900-1945Friday 15 August 1924: 'When I was 20 I liked 18th Century prose; I liked Hakluyt, Merimee. I read masses of Carlyle, ...Virginia Stephen unknown'18th Century prose'Print: Book
1900-1945Friday 15 August 1924: 'When I was 20 I liked 18th Century prose; I liked Hakluyt, Merimee. I read masses of Carlyle, ...Virginia Stephen Richard HakluytunknownPrint: Book
1900-1945Friday 15 August 1924: 'When I was 20 I liked 18th Century prose; I liked Hakluyt, Merimee. I read masses of Carlyle, ...Virginia Stephen Prosper MerimeeunknownPrint: Book
1900-1945Friday 15 August 1924: 'When I was 20 I liked 18th Century prose; I liked Hakluyt, Merimee. I read masses of Carlyle, ...Virginia Stephen Thomas CarlyleunknownPrint: Book
1900-1945Friday 15 August 1924: 'When I was 20 I liked 18th Century prose; I liked Hakluyt, Merimee. I read masses of Carlyle, ...Virginia Stephen Walter ScottLettersPrint: Book
1900-1945Friday 15 August 1924: 'When I was 20 I liked 18th Century prose; I liked Hakluyt, Merimee. I read masses of Carlyle, ...Virginia Stephen J. G. LockhartLife of Walter ScottPrint: Book
1900-1945Friday 15 August 1924: 'When I was 20 I liked 18th Century prose; I liked Hakluyt, Merimee. I read masses of Carlyle, ...Virginia Stephen Edward GibbonunknownPrint: Book
1900-1945Friday 15 August 1924: 'When I was 20 I liked 18th Century prose; I liked Hakluyt, Merimee. I read masses of Carlyle, ...Virginia Stephen unknownbiographical worksPrint: Book
1900-1945Friday 15 August 1924: 'When I was 20 I liked 18th Century prose; I liked Hakluyt, Merimee. I read masses of Carlyle, ...Virginia Stephen Percy Bysshe ShelleyunknownPrint: Book
1900-1945Sunday 17 May 1925: 'Yesterday we had tea with Margaret in her new house [...] She is severe to Lilian [Harris, her co...Margaret Caroline Llewelyn Davies Ethel M. DellunknownPrint: Book
1900-1945Sunday 17 May 1925: 'Yesterday we had tea with Margaret in her new house [...] She is severe to Lilian [Harris, her co...Margaret Caroline Llewelyn Davies Charles DickensunknownPrint: Book
1900-1945Monday 21 December 1925: 'I read her [Vita Sackville-West's] poem; which is more compact, better seen & felt than anyt...Virginia Woolf Vita Sackville-WestOn the LakeUnknown
1900-1945Saturday 27 February 1926: 'Mrs. Webb's book has made me think a little what I could say of my own life. I read some o...Virginia Woolf Virginia Woolf1923 diaryManuscript: Unknown
1900-1945Saturday 27 February 1926: 'Mrs. Webb's book has made me think a little what I could say of my own life. I read some o...Virginia Woolf Beatrice WebbMy ApprenticeshipPrint: Book
1900-1945Wednesday 24 March 1926: 'These disjointed reflections I scribble on a divine, if gusty, day; being about, after readi...Virginia Woolf Leo TolstoyAnna KareninaPrint: Book
1900-1945Saturday 27 March 1926: '[Gerald Gould] reads novels incessantly; got a holiday 3 years ago, & prided himself on readi...Gerald Gould unknownnovelsPrint: Book
1900-1945Saturday 27 March 1926: '[Gerald Gould] reads novels incessantly; got a holiday 3 years ago, & prided himself on readi...Gerald Gould Anton ChekhovunknownPrint: Book
1900-1945Thursday 1 July: '[in library of Robert Bridges, during visit to Morrell family at Garsington] I asked to see the Hopk...Virginia Woolf Gerard Manley Hopkins[manuscripts]Manuscript: Unknown
1900-1945'Owing to his giving me the books, am now reading C by M. Baring. I am surprised to find it as good as it is. But how ...Virginia Woolf Maurice BaringCPrint: Book
1900-1945'And the book came. And I've read one or two of the new ones. And I liked them yes - I liked the one to Enid Bagnold...Virginia Woolf Vita Sackville-WestCollected PoemsUnknown
1900-1945'I've been walking on the marsh and found a swan sitting in a Saxon grave. This made me think of you. Then I came ba...Virginia Woolf Kenneth ClarkunknownUnknown
1900-1945'I've not read it (and I dont suppose you'd care a damn to know what I thought, if I thought about it considered as a ...Virginia Woolf Vita Sackville-WestCountry NotesPrint: Book
1900-1945Saturday 31 July [entry headed 'My Own Brain,' and beginning 'Here is a whole nervous breakdown in miniature']: 'A des...Virginia Woolf Robert BridgesunknownPrint: Unknown
1900-1945Saturday 31 July [entry headed 'My Own Brain,' and beginning 'Here is a whole nervous breakdown in miniature']: 'A des...Virginia Woolf Dante AlighieriunknownPrint: Book
1900-1945Tuesday 28 September 1926: 'Intense depression: I have to confess that this has overcome me several times since Septem...Virginia Woolf Geoffrey ScottThe Architecture of Humanism. A Study in the History of TastePrint: Book
1900-1945Saturday 12 February 1927: 'Vita's prose is too fluent. I've been reading it, & it makes my pen run. When I've read a ...Virginia Woolf V. Sackville-WestPassenger to TeheranPrint: Book
1900-1945Saturday 18 June 1927: 'I read -- any trash. Maurice Baring; sporting memoirs.'Virginia Woolf Maurice BaringunknownPrint: Book
1900-1945Saturday 18 June 1927: 'I read -- any trash. Maurice Baring; sporting memoirs.'Virginia Woolf unknown'sporting memoirs'Print: Book
1900-1945Tuesday 20 September 1927: 'I opened the Morning Post & read the death of Philip Ritchie [...] I think for the first t...Virginia Woolf Notice of death of the Hon. Philip Charles Thomson RitchiePrint: Newspaper
1900-1945Tuesday 24 April 1928: 'I was reading Othello last night, & was impressed by the volley & volume & tumble of his words...Virginia Woolf William ShakespeareOthelloPrint: Book
1900-1945Tuesday 24 April 1928: 'I was reading Othello last night, & was impressed by the volley & volume & tumble of his words...Virginia Woolf unknownFrench textsPrint: Book
1900-1945Sunday 25 November 1928: 'I took Essex & Eth (Lytton's) down [to Rodmell] to read, & Lord forgive me! -- find it a poo...Virginia Woolf Lytton StracheyElizabeth and EssexUnknown
1900-1945Monday 2 September 1929: 'I have just read a page or two out of Samuel Butler's notebooks to take the taste of Alice M...Virginia Woolf Samuel ButlerNotebooksPrint: Book
1900-1945Monday 2 September 1929: 'I have just read a page or two out of Samuel Butler's notebooks to take the taste of Alice M...Virginia Woolf Viola MeynellAlice Meynell. A MemoirPrint: Book
1900-1945Wednesday 23 October 1929: 'Since I have been back [apparently to London, from Sussex home] I have read Virginia Water...Virginia Woolf Elizabeth JenkinsVirginia WaterPrint: Book
1900-1945Wednesday 23 October 1929: 'Since I have been back [apparently to London, from Sussex home] I have read Virginia Water...Virginia Woolf John Middleton MurryGod: an Introduction to the Science of MetabiologyPrint: Book
1900-1945Wednesday 23 October 1929: 'Since I have been back [apparently to London, from Sussex home] I have read Virginia Water...Virginia Woolf Jean RacinePrint: Book
1900-1945Monday 18 November 1929: '[following argument with cook] My mind is like a gum when an aching tooth has been drawn. I ...Virginia Woolf Augustine Biirrell?Collected Essays, 1880-1920Print: Book
1900-1945'V[irginia] W[oolf] made notes (see Holograph Reading Notes, vols XI and XII in the Berg Collection) on George Puttenh...Virginia Woolf George PuttenhamThe Arte of English PoesiePrint: Book
1900-1945'V[irginia] W[oolf] made notes (see Holograph Reading Notes, vols XI and XII in the Berg Collection) on George Puttenh...Virginia Woolf William WebbeA Discourse of English PoetriePrint: Book
1900-1945'V[irginia] W[oolf] made notes (see Holograph Reading Notes, vols XI and XII in the Berg Collection) on George Puttenh...Virginia Woolf Gabriel HarveyWorksPrint: Book
1900-1945'V[irginia] W[oolf] made notes (see Holograph Reading Notes, vols XI and XII in the Berg Collection) on George Puttenh...Virginia Woolf Gabriel HarveyCommonplace BookPrint: Book
1900-1945'V[irginia] W[oolf] made notes (see Holograph Reading Notes, vols XI and XII in the Berg Collection) on George Puttenh...Virginia Woolf Gabriel HarveyLetter Book, 1573-1580Print: Book
1850-1899Sunday 8 December 1929: 'It was the Elizabethan prose writers I loved first & most wildly, stirred by Hakluyt, which f...Virginia Stephen Richard HakluytunknownPrint: Book
1900-1945Sunday 26 January 1930: 'We have been at Rodmell [...] At night I read Lord Chaplin's life.'Virginia Woolf 'Lord Chaplin's life'Print: Book
1900-1945Monday 3 March 1930: 'Rodmell again [...] Suppose health were shown on a thermometer I have gone up 10 degrees since y...Virginia Woolf E. F. BensonDodoPrint: Book
1900-1945Monday 3 March 1930: 'Molly Hamilton writes a d----d bad novel. She has the wits to construct a method of telling a st...Virginia Woolf Molly HamiltonunknownPrint: Book
1900-1945Wednesday 20 August 1930: 'I am reading Dante, & I say, yes, this makes all writing unnecessary [...] I read the Infer...Virginia Woolf Dante AlighieriInfernoPrint: Book
1900-1945Thursday 28 August 1930: 'I am reading R. Lehmann, with some interest & admiration -- she has a clear hard mind, beati...Virginia Woolf Rosamund LehmannA Note in MusicPrint: Book
1900-1945Wednesday 24 September 1930: 'I am reading Dante; & my present view of reading is to elongate immensely. I take a week...Virginia Woolf Dante AlighieriLa Divina CommediaPrint: Book
1900-1945Saturday 27 December 1930: 'We came down [to Rodmell] on Tuesday, & next day my cold was the usual influenza, & I am i...Virginia Woolf Daniel DefoeA Tour through the Whole Island of Great BritainPrint: Book
1900-1945Saturday 27 December 1930: 'We came down [to Rodmell] on Tuesday, & next day my cold was the usual influenza, & I am i...Virginia Woolf Archibald Hamilton RowanThe Autobiography of Archibald Hamilton RowanPrint: Book
1900-1945Saturday 27 December 1930: 'We came down [to Rodmell] on Tuesday, & next day my cold was the usual influenza, & I am i...Virginia Woolf E. F. BensonAs We Were: A Victorian Peep-ShowPrint: Book
1900-1945Saturday 27 December 1930: 'We came down [to Rodmell] on Tuesday, & next day my cold was the usual influenza, & I am i...Virginia Woolf James JeansunknownPrint: Book
1900-1945Saturday 27 December 1930: 'We came down [to Rodmell] on Tuesday, & next day my cold was the usual influenza, & I am i...Virginia Woolf The Rev. John SkinnerThe Journal of a Somerset RectorPrint: Book
1900-1945Saturday 27 December 1930: 'We came down [to Rodmell] on Tuesday, & next day my cold was the usual influenza, & I am i...Virginia Woolf Queen VictoriaLettersPrint: Book
1900-1945' Before starting on the march we attended a service in the Mission Church[...].[Hugh]Ruttledge read the first lesson...Hugh Ruttledge BiblePrint: Book
1900-1945Monday 20 April 1931: 'Arrived [at La Rochelle] at 7.30 -- so quick one drives: I forgot our 2 punctures. One at Thoua...Virginia Woolf D. H. LawrenceSons and LoversPrint: Book
1900-1945Thursday 28 May 1931: 'Disappointed, reading lightly through, by The man who died, D.H.L.'s last. Reading Sons and Lov...Virginia Woolf D. H. LawrenceThe Man Who DiedPrint: Book
1900-1945Tuesday 7 July 1931: 'I am reading Don Juan; & dispatch a biography every two days.'Virginia Woolf George Gordon, Lord ByronDon JuanPrint: Book
1900-1945Tuesday 7 July 1931: 'I am reading Don Juan; & dispatch a biography every two days.'Virginia Woolf unknownbiographiesPrint: Book
1900-1945Tuesday 1 September 1931: 'And so a few days of bed & headache & overpowering sleep, sleep descending inexorable as I ...Virginia Woolf Hugh WalpoleJudith ParisPrint: Book
1900-1945Tuesday 1 September 1931: 'And so a few days of bed & headache & overpowering sleep, sleep descending inexorable as I ...Virginia Woolf Walter ScottIvanhoePrint: Book
1900-1945'G. L. Dickinson wrote to V[irginia] W[oolf] in praise of The Waves on 23 October [1931], and again, after re-reading,...Goldsworthy Lowes Dickinson Virginia WoolfThe WavesPrint: Book
1900-1945'G. L. Dickinson wrote to V[irginia] W[oolf] in praise of The Waves on 23 October [1931], and again, after re-reading,...Goldsworthy Lowes Dickinson Virginia WoolfThe WavesPrint: Book
1900-194525 December 1931: 'After writing the last page, Nov. 16th, I could not go on writing without a perpetual headache; & s...Virginia Woolf GoetheFaustPrint: Book
1900-194525 December 1931: 'After writing the last page, Nov. 16th, I could not go on writing without a perpetual headache; & s...Virginia Woolf Benjamin DisraeliConingsbyPrint: Book
1900-1945Tuesday 2 February 1932: 'I am reading Wells' science of life, & have reached the hen that became a cock or vice versa.'Virginia Woolf H. G. WellsThe Science of LifePrint: Book
1900-1945Thursday 11 February 1932: 'My mind is set running upon A Knock on the Door (whats its name?) owing largely to reading...Virginia Woolf H. G. WellsThe Work, Wealth, and Happiness of MankindPrint: Book
1900-1945Sunday 8 May 1932: 'I've scarcely read [on holiday in Greece] [...] only Roger's Eastman, & Wells, & Murry.'Virginia Woolf Max EastmanThe Literary Mind: Its Place in an Age of SciencePrint: Book
1900-1945Sunday 8 May 1932: 'I've scarcely read [on holiday in Greece] [...] only Roger's Eastman, & Wells, & Murry.'Virginia Woolf H. G. WellsunknownPrint: Book
1900-1945Sunday 8 May 1932: 'I've scarcely read [on holiday in Greece] [...] only Roger's Eastman, & Wells, & Murry.'Virginia Woolf John Middleton MurryunknownPrint: Book
1900-1945Wednesday 11 May: 'again this heroism in the attempt at pen & ink: but I am tired of reading Rousseau: it is 6 o'clock...Virginia Woolf Jean-Jacques RousseauunknownPrint: Book
1900-1945In Diary of Virginia Woolf, facing page on which entry for 20 August 1932 and beginning of entry for 2 September writt...Virginia Woolf Alexis de TocquevilleSouvenirsPrint: Book
1900-1945In Diary of Virginia Woolf, facing page on which entry for 20 August 1932 and beginning of entry for 2 September writt...Virginia Woolf Lord KilbrackenReminiscencesPrint: Book
1900-1945In Diary of Virginia Woolf, facing page on which entry for 20 August 1932 and beginning of entry for 2 September writt...Virginia Woolf George Bernard ShawPen Portraits and ReviewsPrint: Book
1900-1945In Diary of Virginia Woolf, facing page on which entry for 20 August 1932 and beginning of entry for 2 September writt...Virginia Woolf Douglas AinslieAdventures Social and LiteraryPrint: Book
1900-1945In Diary of Virginia Woolf, facing page on which entry for 20 August 1932 and beginning of entry for 2 September writt...Virginia Woolf V. Sackville-West'novel'Print: Book
1900-1945In Diary of Virginia Woolf, facing page on which entry for 20 August 1932 and beginning of entry for 2 September writt...Virginia Woolf Samuel Taylor ColeridgepoemsPrint: Book
1900-1945In Diary of Virginia Woolf, facing page on which entry for 20 August 1932 and beginning of entry for 2 September writt...Virginia Woolf Samuel Taylor ColeridgelettersPrint: Book
1900-1945Sunday 2 October 1932: 'I am [...] reading DHL. with the usual sense of frustration. Not that he & I have too much in ...Virginia Woolf D. H. LawrenceThe Letters of D. H. LawrencePrint: Book
1900-1945Wednesday 13 July 1932: 'Old Joseph Wright & Lizzie Wright are people I respect. Indeed I do hope the 2nd vol. will co...Virginia Woolf Elizabeth WrightThe Life of Joseph Wright (vol 1)Print: Book
1900-1945Sunday 15 January 1933: 'I am reading Parnell.'Virginia Woolf R. Barry O'BrienThe Life of Charles Stuart ParnellPrint: Book
1900-1945Sunday 14 May 1933: 'I am reading -- skipping -- the Sacred Fount [by Henry James] -- about the most inappropriate of ...Virginia Woolf Henry JamesThe Sacred FountPrint: Book
1900-1945Sunday 21 May 1933: 'Tonight sitting at the open window of a secondrate inn in Draguignan [...] I dip into Creevey; L[...Virginia Woolf Thomas CreeveyThe Creevey PapersPrint: Book
1900-1945Monday 26 June 1933: 'The present moment. 7 o'clock on June 26th: [...] I after reading Henry 4 Pt one saying whats th...Virginia Woolf William ShakespeareHenry IV Part 1Print: Book
1900-1945Monday 26 June 1933: 'The present moment. 7 o'clock on June 26th: [...] I after reading Henry 4 Pt one saying whats th...Virginia Woolf Leopardi[poem]Print: Book
1900-1945Thursday 6 July 1933: 'Dinner at Roger's yesterday [...] Roger reading French poetry to Mrs Q[uennell]. & Gloria [Geor...Roger Fry unknown'French poetry'Print: Book
1900-1945Friday 7 July 1933: 'Being headachy [...] I have spent the whole morning reading old diaries, and am now (10 to 1) muc...Virginia Woolf Virginia WoolfdiariesManuscript: Unknown
1900-1945Wednesday 26 July 1933: 'When I cant write of a morning -- as now -- I try to tune myself on other books: couldnt sett...Virginia Woolf Florence HardyLife of Thomas HardyPrint: Book
1900-1945Saturday 12 August 1933: 'I've been reading Faber on Newman; compared his account of a nervous breakdown; the refusal ...Virginia Woolf Geoffrey Cust FaberA Character Study of the Oxford MovementPrint: Book
1900-1945Wednesday 16 August 1933: 'I want to discuss Form, having been reading Turgenev [goes on to make remarks on this topic]'.Virginia Woolf TurgenevunknownPrint: Book
1900-1945Thursday 24 August 1933: 'I have spent the morning reading the Confessions of Arsene Houssaye left here yesterday by C...Virginia Woolf Arsene HoussayeConfessionsPrint: Book
1900-1945Satirday 2 September 1933: 'I am reading with extreme greed a book by Vera Britain [sic], called The Testament of Yout...Virginia Woolf Vera BrittainTestament of YouthPrint: Book
1900-194523 September 1933: 'I am reading Margot [Oxford] -- "V W our greatest English authoress;" Molly Hamilton on Webbs: & T...Virginia Woolf Margot OxfordMore MemoriesPrint: Book
1900-194523 September 1933: 'I am reading Margot [Oxford] -- "V W our greatest English authoress;" Molly Hamilton on Webbs: & T...Virginia Woolf Mary Agnes HamiltonSidney and Beatrice WebbPrint: Book
1900-19455 October 1933: 'I spent yesterday in bed; headache; infinite weariness up my back; clouds forming in my neck; half as...Virginia Woolf Marguerite SteenHugh Walpole: A StudyPrint: Book
1900-1945Thursday 7 December 1933: 'I was walking through Leicester Sqre -- how far from China -- just now when I read Death of...Virginia Woolf announcement of death of Stella BensonPrint: Poster
1900-1945Tuesday 16 January: 'I have let all this time -- 3 weeks at Monks [House, Sussex residence] -- slip because I was ther...Virginia Woolf Andrew MarvellunknownPrint: Book
1900-1945Tuesday 30 January 1934: 'Yesterday I went to Shapland about my watch bracelet [...] came back; sat; talked; Julian [B...Virginia Woolf Arthur YoungTravels in France during the Years 1787, 1788, and 1789Print: Book
1900-1945Wednesday 14 February: '10 days recumbent [with headache], sleeping, dreaming, dipping into oh dear how many different...Virginia Woolf Arthur YoungTravels in France during the Years 1787, 1788, and 1789Print: Book
1900-1945Wednesday 14 February: '10 days recumbent [with headache], sleeping, dreaming, dipping into oh dear how many different...Virginia Woolf Arthur YoungTravels in France during the Years 1787, 1788, and 1789Print: Book
1900-1945Wednesday 14 February: '10 days recumbent [with headache], sleeping, dreaming, dipping into oh dear how many different...Virginia Woolf William Makepeace ThackerayunknownPrint: Book
1900-1945Wednesday 14 February: '10 days recumbent [with headache], sleeping, dreaming, dipping into oh dear how many different...Virginia Woolf Lord BernersFirst ChildhoodPrint: Book
1900-1945Wednesday 14 February: '10 days recumbent [with headache], sleeping, dreaming, dipping into oh dear how many different...Virginia Woolf Ernest de SelincourtDorothy WordsworthPrint: Book
1900-1945Wednesday 14 February: '10 days recumbent [with headache], sleeping, dreaming, dipping into oh dear how many different...Virginia Woolf J. E. NealeQueen ElizabethPrint: Book
1900-1945Saturday 21 July 1934: 'I am reading Sh[akespea]re plays the fag end of the morning. Have read, Pericles, Titus Andron...Virginia Woolf William ShakespearePericlesPrint: Book
1900-1945Saturday 21 July 1934: 'I am reading Sh[akespea]re plays the fag end of the morning. Have read, Pericles, Titus Andron...Virginia Woolf William ShakespeareTitus AndronicusPrint: Book
1900-1945Saturday 21 July 1934: 'I am reading Sh[akespea]re plays the fag end of the morning. Have read, Pericles, Titus Andron...Virginia Woolf William ShakespeareCoriolanusPrint: Book
1900-1945'T. S. Eliot's The Rock. A Pageant Play had been performed at Sadler's Wells Theatre 28 May-9 June [1934] in aid of th...Virginia Woolf T. S. EliotThe Rock. A Pageant PlayPrint: Book
1900-1945Tuesday 21 August 1934: 'I read Une Vie last night, & it seemed to me rather marking time & watery -- heaven help me -...Virginia Woolf Guy de MaupassantUne ViePrint: Book
1900-1945Thursday 30 August 1934: 'No letters at all this summer. But there will be many next year, I predict. And I dont mind;...Virginia Woolf Ex-Detective Sergeant B. LeesonLost London. The Memoirs of an East End DetectivePrint: Book
1900-1945Thursday 30 August 1934: 'No letters at all this summer. But there will be many next year, I predict. And I dont mind;...Virginia Woolf Saint-SimonMemoirsPrint: Book
1900-1945Thursday 30 August 1934: 'No letters at all this summer. But there will be many next year, I predict. And I dont mind;...Virginia Woolf Henry JamesPreface, Portrait of a LadyPrint: Book
1900-1945Thursday 30 August 1934: 'No letters at all this summer. But there will be many next year, I predict. And I dont mind;...Virginia Woolf Andre GidePages de Journal, 1929-1932Print: Book
1900-1945Tuesday 2 October 1934: 'Books read or in reading [over summer 1934]: Sh[akespea]re. Troilus. ...Virginia Woolf William ShakespeareTroilus and CressidaPrint: Book
1900-1945Tuesday 2 October 1934: 'Books read or in reading [over summer 1934]: Sh[akespea]re. Troilus. ...Virginia Woolf William ShakespearePericlesPrint: Book
1900-1945Tuesday 2 October 1934: 'Books read or in reading [over summer 1934]: Sh[akespea]re. Troilus. ...Virginia Woolf William ShakespeareThe Taming of the ShrewPrint: Book
1900-1945Tuesday 2 October 1934: 'Books read or in reading [over summer 1934]: Sh[akespea]re. Troilus. ...Virginia Woolf William ShakespeareCymbelinePrint: Book
1900-1945Tuesday 2 October 1934: 'Books read or in reading [over summer 1934]: Sh[akespea]re. Troilus. ...Virginia Woolf Guy de MaupassantunknownPrint: Book
1900-1945Tuesday 2 October 1934: 'Books read or in reading [over summer 1934]: Sh[akespea]re. Troilus. ...Virginia Woolf Charles de VignyunknownPrint: Book
1900-1945Tuesday 2 October 1934: 'Books read or in reading [over summer 1934]: Sh[akespea]re. Troilus. ...Virginia Woolf Saint-SimonMemoirsPrint: Book
1900-1945Tuesday 2 October 1934: 'Books read or in reading [over summer 1934]: Sh[akespea]re. Troilus. ...Virginia Woolf Andre GideunknownPrint: Book
1900-1945Tuesday 2 October 1934: 'Books read or in reading [over summer 1934]: Sh[akespea]re. Troilus. ...Virginia Woolf John Cowper PowysAutobiographyPrint: Book
1900-1945Tuesday 2 October 1934: 'Books read or in reading [over summer 1934]: Sh[akespea]re. Troilus. ...Virginia Woolf H. G. WellsExperiment in AutobiographyPrint: Book
1900-1945Tuesday 2 October 1934: 'Books read or in reading [over summer 1934]: Sh[akespea]re. Troilus. ...Virginia Woolf Sylvia Leonora Brook, Ranee of SarawakGood Morning and Good NightPrint: Book
1900-1945Tuesday 2 October 1934: 'Books read or in reading [over summer 1934]: Sh[akespea]re. Troilus. ...Virginia Woolf Bonamy DobreeModern Prose StylePrint: Book
1900-1945Tuesday 2 October 1934: 'Books read or in reading [over summer 1934]: Sh[akespea]re. Troilus. ...Virginia Woolf Alice JamesAlice James: Her Brothers -- Her JournalPrint: Book
1900-1945Sunday 14 October 1934: 'I cant write. When will my brain revive? in 10 days I think. And it can read admirably. I beg...Virginia Woolf James ThomsonThe SeasonsPrint: Book
1900-1945Sunday 14 October 1934: 'I cant write. When will my brain revive? in 10 days I think. And it can read admirably. I beg...Virginia Woolf Edward Sackville-WestThe Sun in CapricornPrint: Book
1900-1945Monday 15 October 1934, during period of depression: 'I am as slack as a piece of macaroni: & in this state cant shake...Virginia Woolf unknownlife of James BoswellPrint: Book
1900-1945Wednesday 17 October 1934: 'I am so sleepy. Is this age? I cant shake it off. And so gloomy. Thats [writing] the end o...Virginia Woolf Virginia WoolfdiariesManuscript: Unknown
1900-1945Monday 29 October 1934: 'Reading Antigone. How powerful that spell is still -- Greek. Thank heaven I learnt it young -...Virginia Woolf Sophocles AntigonePrint: Book
1900-1945Wednesday 21 November 1934: 'I am reading, with interest & distaste, Wells'. Virginia Woolf H. G. WellsExperiment in AutobiographyPrint: Book
1900-1945Tuesday 1 January 1935: 'I had a lovely old years walk yesterday [...] & then in to Lewes to take the car to Martins [...Virginia Woolf Ernest RenanSt PaulPrint: Book
1900-1945Tuesday 1 January 1935: 'I had a lovely old years walk yesterday [...] & then in to Lewes to take the car to Martins [...Virginia Woolf newspapersPrint: Newspaper
1900-1945Tuesday 1 January 1935: 'I had a lovely old years walk yesterday [...] & then in to Lewes to take the car to Martins [...Virginia Woolf Acts of the ApostlesPrint: Book
1900-1945Wednesday 23 January 1935: 'I am reading the Faery Queen [sic] -- with delight. I shall write about it.'Virginia Woolf Edmund SpenserThe Faerie QueenePrint: Book
1900-1945Monday 11 March 1935: 'I am reading Chateaubriand; & to my joy find I can read an Italian novel for pleasure, currentl...Virginia Woolf ChateaubriandunknownPrint: Book
1900-1945Monday 11 March 1935: 'I am reading Chateaubriand; & to my joy find I can read an Italian novel for pleasure, currentl...Virginia Woolf unknown'Italian novel'Print: Book
1900-1945Sunday 14 April 1935: 'Now for Alfieri & Nash & other notables: so happy I was reading alone last night [...] I read A...Virginia Woolf Vittorio AlfieriunknownPrint: Book
1900-1945Sunday 14 April 1935: 'Now for Alfieri & Nash & other notables: so happy I was reading alone last night [...] I read A...Virginia Woolf John SummersonJohn Nash, Architect to King George IVPrint: Book
1900-1945Sunday 14 April 1935: 'Now for Alfieri & Nash & other notables: so happy I was reading alone last night [...] I read A...Virginia Woolf Annie S. SwanMy LifePrint: Book
1900-1945Saturday 20 April 1935: 'The scene has now changed to Rodmell [...] Good Friday was a complete fraud -- rain & more ra...Virginia Woolf Stephen SpenderThe Destructive ElementPrint: Book
1900-1945'Belchamber (1904) by Howard ("Howdie") Overing Sturgis (1855-1920), a prosperous American expatriate, has for its pri...Virginia Woolf Howard Overing SturgisBelchamberPrint: Book
1900-1945Thursday 9 May 1935: 'Sitting in the sun outside the German Customs. A car with the swastika on the back window has ju...Virginia Woolf D. H. LawrenceAaron's RodPrint: Book
1900-1945Sunday 26 May 1935: 'I'm writing at Aix-en-Provence on a Sunday evening [...] I'm dipping into K.M.'s letters, Stendha...Virginia Woolf Katherine MansfieldThe Letters of Katherine MansfieldPrint: Book
1900-1945Sunday 26 May 1935: 'I'm writing at Aix-en-Provence on a Sunday evening [...] I'm dipping into K.M.'s letters, Stendha...Virginia Woolf Stendhal 'on Rome'Print: Book
1900-1945Friday 31 May 1935: 'Some good German woman sends a pamphlet on me, into which I couldnt resist looking, though nothin...Virginia Woolf Ruth GruberVirginia Woolf: A Study
1900-1945Thursday 29 August 1935: 'Reading Miss Mole, Abbe Dunnet (good), an occasional bite at Hind & Panther'.Virginia Woolf Emily Hilda YoungMiss MolePrint: Book
1900-1945Thursday 29 August 1935: 'Reading Miss Mole, Abbe Dunnet (good), an occasional bite at Hind & Panther'.Virginia Woolf Abbe DunnetunknownPrint: Book
1900-1945Thursday 29 August 1935: 'Reading Miss Mole, Abbe Dunnet (good), an occasional bite at Hind & Panther'.Virginia Woolf John DrydenThe Hind and the PantherPrint: Book
1900-1945Saturday 31 August 1935: 'Read Hind & Panther. D.H.L. by E. (good) & slept.'Virginia Woolf John DrydenThe Hind and the PantherPrint: Book
1900-1945Saturday 31 August 1935: 'Read Hind & Panther. D.H.L. by E. (good) & slept.'Virginia Woolf Jessie ChambersD. H. Lawrence: A Personal RecordPrint: Book
1900-1945Saturday 7 September 1935: 'A heavenly quiet morning reading Alfieri by the open window & not smoking [...] I've stopp...Virginia Woolf John BaileyJohn Bailey, 1864-1931, Letters and DiariesPrint: Book
1900-1945Saturday 7 September 1935: 'A heavenly quiet morning reading Alfieri by the open window & not smoking [...] I've stopp...Virginia Woolf Vittorio AlfieriunknownPrint: Book
1850-1899Saturday 7 September 1935: 'A heavenly quiet morning reading Alfieri by the open window & not smoking [...] I've stopp...Virginia Stephen William CowperunknownPrint: Book
1900-1945Friday 13 September 1935: 'Reading Love for Love, Life of Anthony Hope, &c.'Virginia Woolf William CongreveLove for LovePrint: Book
1900-1945Friday 13 September 1935: 'Reading Love for Love, Life of Anthony Hope, &c.'Virginia Woolf Sir Charles MallettAnthony Hope and His BooksPrint: Book
1900-1945[?] Sunday 29 September 1935: 'Yesterday I [...] read the Lovers Melancholy & skimmed the top of the words; & want to ...Virginia Woolf John FordThe Lover's MelancholyPrint: Book
1900-1945[?] Sunday 29 September 1935: 'Yesterday I [...] read the Lovers Melancholy & skimmed the top of the words; & want to ...Virginia Woolf Mrs EasdaleMiddle Age: 1885-1932Print: Book
1900-1945Thursday 14 March 1915: 'If I'd written this diary last night which I was too excited to do, I should have left a row ...Virginia Woolf StarPrint: Newspaper
1900-1945Tuesday 10 September 1918: 'Though I am not the only person in Sussex who reads Milton, I mean to write down my impres...Virginia Woolf John MiltonParadise LostPrint: Book
1900-1945Sunday 20 April 1919: 'In the idleness which succeeds [writing] any long article [...] I got out this diary, & read as...Virginia Woolf Virginia WoolfDiaryManuscript: Codex
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Thursday 12 September 1919: 'Writing has been done under difficulties. I was making way with my new experiment, when I...Virginia Woolf Sir Thomas BrowneunknownPrint: Book
1900-1945Sunday 21 September 1919: 'By paying 5/ I have become a member of the Lewes public library. It is an amusing place -- ...Virginia Woolf Mrs Humphry WardA Writer's RecollectionsPrint: Book
1900-1945'A Writer's Recollections, by Mrs Humphry Ward, had been published in the autumn of 1918. V[irginia] W[oolf] had read ...Virginia Woolf Mrs Humphry WardA Writer's RecollectionsPrint: Book
1900-1945Sunday 28 December 1919, following illness with influenza: 'I've read two vast volumes of the Life of Butler; & am rac...Virginia Woolf Henry Festing JonesSamuel Butler, Author of Erewhon (1835-1902): A MemoirPrint: Book
1900-1945Sunday 28 December 1919, following illness with influenza: 'I've read two vast volumes of the Life of Butler; & am rac...Virginia Woolf Charles GrevilleMemoirsPrint: Book
1900-1945Sunday 5 January 1936: 'My head is quiet today, soothed by reading the Trumpet Major last night'.Virginia Woolf Thomas HardyThe Trumpet-MajorPrint: Book
1900-1945Sunday 11 January 1936: 'A very fine day [...] I read Borrow's Wild Wales, into which I can plunge head foremost [...]...Virginia Woolf George BorrowWild WalesPrint: Book
1900-1945Sunday 11 January 1936: 'A very fine day [...] I read Borrow's Wild Wales, into which I can plunge head foremost [...]...Virginia Woolf Harry J. GreenwallThe Strange Life of Willy ClarksonPrint: Book
1900-1945Tuesday 25 February 1936: 'I've had headaches. Vanquish them by lying still & binding books & reading D. Copperfield.' Virginia Woolf Charles DickensDavid CopperfieldPrint: Book
1900-1945Saturday 29 February 1936: 'I read Quennel [sic] on Byron: dont like that young mans clever agile thin blooded mind'.Virginia Woolf Peter QuennellByron. The Years of FamePrint: Book
1900-1945Sunday 21 June 1936, during composition of The Years: 'A very strange, most remarkable summer [...] I am learning my c...Virginia Woolf Gustave FlaubertlettersPrint: Book
1900-1945Friday 27 November 1936: 'Dined alone, read Sir T. Browne's letters.'Virginia Woolf Sir Thomas BrownelettersPrint: Book
1900-1945Wednesday 24 February 1937: 'Started reading French again: Misanthrope & Colette's memoirs given me last summer by Jan...Virginia Woolf Colette Mes ApprentisagesPrint: Book
1900-1945Wednesday 24 February 1937: 'Started reading French again: Misanthrope & Colette's memoirs given me last summer by Jan...Virginia Woolf Moliere Le MisanthropePrint: Book
1900-1945Monday 8 March 1937: 'What I noticed on the walk to Cockfosters [on 6 March] were: [records various observations] [......Virginia Woolf Leo TolstoyWhat Then Must We Do?Print: Book
1900-1945Friday 19 March 1937: '"They" say almost universally that The Years is a masterpiece [...] The praise chorus began yes...Virginia Woolf Howard Springreview of Virginia Woolf, The YearsPrint: Newspaper
1800-1849'[Scott] denies "Waverly" [sic] which it behoves him to do for a while at least; indeed I do not think he will ever ac...George Gordon, Lord Byron Walter ScottWaverley; or, 'Tis Sixty Years SincePrint: Book, Serial / periodical
1900-1945Sunday 4 April 1937: 'Reading Balzac with great pleasure. Novel reading power is coming back.'Virginia Woolf Honore de BalzacunknownPrint: Book
1900-1945Tuesday 25 May 1937, in account of travels in France, 7-23 May 1937: 'At Rodez the best hotel in the world [...] Readi...Virginia Woolf George SandElle et LuiPrint: Book
1900-1945Tuesday 25 May 1937, in account of travels in France, 7-23 May 1937: 'Reading Beckford by [Guy] Chapman [1937] -- but ...Virginia Woolf Guy ChapmanBeckfordPrint: Book
1800-1849'To my utter mortification and dissappointment I have this day received a letter from my Bookseller refusing my new wo...George Boyd James HoggThree Perils of Man, TheManuscript: Unknown
1900-1945Thursday 15 April 1937: 'Reading Balzac: reading A. Birrell's memoirs'.Virginia Woolf Honore de BalzacunknownPrint: Book
1900-1945Thursday 15 April 1937: 'Reading Balzac: reading A. Birrell's memoirs'.Virginia Woolf Augustine BirrellThings Past RedressPrint: Book
1900-1945Tuesday 30 November 1937: 'Reading Chateaubriand now, bought in 6 fine vols for one guinea at Cambridge'.Virginia Woolf Francois-Rene Vicomte de ChateaubriandunknownPrint: Book
1900-1945Sunday, 19 June 1937, during holiday to Scotland and Border country: 'I have been reading translations of Greek verse,...Virginia Woolf unknownGreek versePrint: Book
1900-1945Thursday 1 September 1937: 'A violent attack on 3 Gs in Scrutiny by Q. Leavis. I dont think it gave me an entire singl...Virginia Woolf Queenie LeavisReview of Virginia Woolf, Three GuineasPrint: Serial / periodical
1900-1945Thursday 22 September 1938: 'I was just getting into the old, very old, rhythm of regular reading, first this book the...Virginia Woolf Madame de SevigneunknownPrint: Book
1900-1945Thursday 22 September 1938: 'I was just getting into the old, very old, rhythm of regular reading, first this book the...Virginia Woolf Siegfried SassoonunknownPrint: Book
1900-1945Tuesday 15 November 1938: 'My one quiet evening since Thursday. Read Chaucer.' Virginia Woolf Geoffrey ChaucerunknownPrint: Book
1900-1945Tuesday 17 January 1939: 'Yesterday I went to the London Library [...] read Tom [Eliot]'s swan song in the Criterion [...Virginia Woolf T. S. Eliotvaledictory editorial articlePrint: Serial / periodical
1900-1945Tuesday 17 January 1939: 'Yesterday I went to the London Library [...] read Tom [Eliot]'s swan song in the Criterion [...Virginia Woolf Eugene DelacroixJournal de Eugene DelacroixPrint: Book
1900-1945Thursday 9 February 1939: 'Looking at my old Greek diary I was led to speculate [...] I won't budge from the scheme th...Virginia Woolf Virginia WoolfDiary (17 May 1932)Manuscript: Unknown
1900-1945Tuesday 28 February 1939: 'I have just read [Shelley's] Mont Blanc, but cant make it "compose": clouds perpetually ove...Virginia Woolf Percy Bysshe ShelleyMont BlancPrint: Book
1900-1945Thursday 16 March 1939: 'Yesterday in Bond Street where I finally did lay out £10 on clothes, I saw a crowd round a c...Virginia Woolf T. S. EliotThe Family ReunionPrint: Book
1900-1945Wednesday 22 March 1939: 'Tom sent me his play, Family Reunion. No, it don't do. I read it over the week end. It start...Virginia Woolf T. S. EliotThe Family ReunionPrint: Book
1900-1945Wednesday 22 March 1939: 'Reading Eddie Marsh.'Virginia Woolf Sir Edward MarshA Number of PeoplePrint: Book
1900-1945Tuesday 11 April 1939: 'I am reading Dickens; by way of a refresher. how he lives; not writes: both a virtue & a fault...Virginia Woolf Charles DickensunknownPrint: Book
1900-1945Tuesday 11 April 1939: 'I am reading Dickens; by way of a refresher. how he lives; not writes: both a virtue & a fault...Virginia Woolf RochefoucauldunknownPrint: Book
1900-1945Thursday 13 April 1939: 'I read about 100 pages of Dickens yesterday, & see something vague about the drama & fiction:...Virginia Woolf Charles DickensunknownPrint: Book
1900-1945Saturday 29 April 1939: 'Yesterday I went out [...] to walk in London [makes various observations] [...] So into Canno...Virginia Woolf Adolf HitlerSpeech denouncing 1935 Anglo-German Naval Agreement and 1934 German-Polish Non-Agression PactPrint: Newspaper
1900-1945Saturday 29 April 1939: 'Yesterday I went out [...] to walk in London [makes various observations] [...] So into Canno...Virginia Woolf Geoffrey ChaucerunknownPrint: Book
1900-1945Thursday 13 July 1939: 'A bad morning [...] 2 hours at M[ecklenburgh]S[quare].[...] A grim thought struck me: wh. of t...Virginia Woolf Blaise PascalunknownPrint: Book
1900-1945Thursday 13 July 1939: 'A bad morning [...] 2 hours at M[ecklenburgh]S[quare].[...] A grim thought struck me: wh. of t...Virginia Woolf Walter PaterunknownPrint: Book
1900-1945Friday 28 July 1939: 'Reading Gide's diaries, recommended by poor death mask Eddie [Sackville-West]. An interesting kn...Virginia Woolf Andre GideAndre Gide's Journal 1885-1939Print: Book
1900-1945Monday 11 September 1939: 'I have just read 3 or 4 Characters of Theophrastus, stumbling from Greek to English, & may ...Virginia Woolf Theophrastus 'Characters'Print: Book
1900-1945Saturday 2 December 1939: 'Began reading Freud last night; to enlarge the circumference. to give my brain a wider scop...Virginia Woolf Sigmund FreudunknownPrint: Book
1900-1945Friday 8 December 1939: 'Shopping -- tempted to buy jerseys & so on. I dislike this excitement. yet enjoy it. Ambivale...Virginia Woolf Sigmund FreudunknownPrint: Book
1900-1945Sunday 17 December 1939: 'We ate too much hare pie last night; & I read Freud on Groups [...] I'm reading Ricketts dia...Virginia Woolf Sigmund FreudGroup PsychologyPrint: Book
1900-1945Sunday 17 December 1939: 'We ate too much hare pie last night; & I read Freud on Groups [...] I'm reading Ricketts dia...Virginia Woolf Charles RickettsSelf-Portrait, Taken from the Letters & Journals of Charles Ricketts, RAPrint: Book
1900-1945Sunday 17 December 1939: 'We ate too much hare pie last night; & I read Freud on Groups [...] I'm reading Ricketts dia...Virginia Woolf Lord HerbertLetters and Diaries of Henry, Tenth Earl of Pembroke and his Circle, 1734-80Print: Book
1900-1945Sunday 17 December 1939: 'We ate too much hare pie last night; & I read Freud on Groups [...] I'm reading Ricketts dia...Virginia Woolf William ShakespeareThe Ages of Man: Shakespeare's Image of Man and NaturePrint: Book
1800-1849'I have brought Coleridge with me, & am [italics] doing [end italics] him & Wordsworth [-] [italics] fit place for the...Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell Samuel Taylor ColeridgePrint: Book
1800-1849'I have brought Coleridge with me, & am [italics] doing [end italics] him & Wordsworth [-] [italics] fit place for the...Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell William WordsworthPrint: Book
1800-1849'I have done all my [italics] composition [end italics] of Ld B -, & done Crabbe outright since you left & got up Dryd...Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell George Gordon, Lord ByronPrint: Book
1800-1849'I have done all my [italics] composition [end italics] of Ld B -, & done Crabbe outright since you left & got up Dryd...Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell George CrabbePrint: Book
1800-1849'I have done all my [italics] composition [end italics] of Ld B -, & done Crabbe outright since you left & got up Dryd...Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell Alexander PopePrint: Book
1800-1849'I have done all my [italics] composition [end italics] of Ld B -, & done Crabbe outright since you left & got up Dryd...Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell John DrydenPrint: Book
1800-1849'[She thanks them for the great pleasure two of their works had given her 'by their charming descriptions of natural s...Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell Wiiliam HowittPrint: Book
1800-1849'We are 'here today, & gone tomorrow', as the fat scullion maid said in some extract in Holland's Exercise book.'Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell Holland[Exercise book]Print: Book
1800-1849'I like your expression of 'an unwritten tragedy'. It quite answers to the sadness which fills my heart as I look on s...Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell Alfred, Lord Tennyson'Deserted House, The'Print: Book
1800-1849'All this has done me good like the word in 'The Doctor &c', which relieved the author so much.' ['all this' refers...Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell Robert SoutheyDoctor, ThePrint: Book
1800-1849'After breakfast we read, sauntered in the beautiful garden, called on the Howitts, shopped (so amusing) received call...Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell Print: Book
1800-1849'I have just finished Miss Martineau's new romance. Toussaint the hero is a magnificent character, - and all connected...Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell Harriet MartineauHour and the Man, ThePrint: Book
1800-1849'I have just finished Miss Martineau's new romance. Toussaint the hero is a magnificent character, - and all connected...Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell Harriet MartineauDeerbrookPrint: Book
1800-1849'All morng [sic] we sat with books in our hands but not reading much, only talking. After lunch (at 12) I went out wit...Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell Print: Book
1800-1849'Read 'Jane Eyre', it is an uncommon book. I don't know if I like or dislike it. I take the opposite side to the perso...Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell Charlotte BronteJane EyrePrint: Book
1800-1849'Shall you have any objection to the name of 'Stephen Berwick' as that of the author of 'Mary Barton' which I have jus...Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell [advertisement for 'Mary Barton' in Edinburgh Review]Print: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'I don't think one does [italics] admire [end italics] (it is far too good a word to be used on the subject) 'Susan Ho...Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell Catherine CroweSusan HopleyPrint: Book
1800-1849'I envy you the "Times"; - it's very unprincipled and all that, but the most satisfactory newspaper going. Now is not ...Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell Times, ThePrint: Newspaper
1800-1849'I had the Sunday School girls here last Sunday, and Susanna came to help me, and I thought we went off gloriously, on...Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell Walter ScottKenilworthPrint: Book
1800-1849'In looking over the book I see numerous errors regarding the part written in the Lancashire dialect; 'gotten' should ...Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell Elizabeth GaskellMary BartonPrint: Book
1800-1849'In looking over the book I see numerous errors regarding the part written in the Lancashire dialect; 'gotten' should ...Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell Thomas Carlyle[letter approving 'Mary Barton']Manuscript: Letter
1800-1849'Who writes the literary reviews in the Examiner? I hoped Mr Forster, because I was so much delighted with Oliver Gold...Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell John ForsterLife and Times of Oliver Goldsmith, ThePrint: Book
1800-1849'Who writes the literary reviews in the Examiner? I hoped Mr Forster, because I was so much delighted with Oliver Gold...Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell John ForsterLives of the Statesmen of the Commonwealth Print: Book
1800-1849'I try and find out the places where Mr Forster said I strained after common-place materials for effect, till the whol...Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell John Forster[review, probably in 'The Examiner' of 'Mary Barton']Print: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'I had a letter from Carlyle, and when I am over-filled with thoughts arising from this book, I put it all aside, (or ...Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell Thomas Carlyle[encouraging letter about 'Mary Barton']Manuscript: Letter
1800-1849'Did you read a little piece of Carlyles on the death of Charles Buller, that appeared about a month ago in the London...Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell Thomas Carlyle[article in 'London Examiner' on Chas Buller]Print: Serial / periodical
1900-1945Wednesday 3 January 1940: 'I have just put down Mill's autobiography, after copying certain sentences in the volume I ...Virginia Woolf John Stuart MillAutobiographyPrint: Book
1900-1945Friday 9 February 1940: 'For some reason hope has revived. Now what served as bait? [...] I think it was largely readi...Virginia Woolf Winifred HoltbySouth RidingPrint: Book
1900-1945Friday 9 February 1940: 'For some reason hope has revived. Now what served as bait? [...] I think it was largely readi...Virginia Woolf Edmund BurkeunknownPrint: Book
1900-1945Thursday 7 March 1940: 'A fortnight -- well on Saturday it will be a fortnight -- with influenza [...] before getting ...Virginia Woolf anon mock epitaph for Virginia WoolfPrint: Serial / periodical
1900-1945Thursday 7 March 1940: 'A fortnight -- well on Saturday it will be a fortnight -- with influenza [...] before getting ...Virginia Woolf Henry Havelock EllisMy LifePrint: Book
1900-1945Thursday 22 March 1940: 'I read Tolstoy at Breakfast -- Goldenweiser, that I translated with Kot in 1923 & have almost...Virginia Woolf A. B. GoldenveizerTalks with TolstoiPrint: Book
1900-1945Thursday 22 March 1940: 'I read Tolstoy at Breakfast -- Goldenweiser, that I translated with Kot in 1923 & have almost...Virginia Stephen Leo TolstoyWar and PeacePrint: Book
1900-1945Sunday 31 March 1940: 'S[ense]. & S[ensibility]. all scenes. very sharp. Surprises. masterly [...] Very dramatic. Plot...Virginia Woolf Jane AustenSense and SensibilityPrint: Book
1900-1945Wednesday 29 May 1940: 'Reading masses of Coleridge & Wordsworth letters of a night -- curiously untwisting & burrowin...Virginia Woolf William WordsworthlettersPrint: Book
1900-1945Wednesday 29 May 1940: 'Reading masses of Coleridge & Wordsworth letters of a night -- curiously untwisting & burrowin...Virginia Woolf Samuel Taylor ColeridgelettersPrint: Book
1900-1945Wednesday 29 May 1940: 'Reading masses of Coleridge & Wordsworth letters of a night -- curiously untwisting & burrowin...Virginia Woolf G. K. ChestertonThomas AquinasPrint: Book
1900-1945Friday 31 May 1940: 'Began Balzac, Vautrin.'Virginia Woolf Honore de BalzacunknownPrint: Book
1900-1945Thursday 13 June 1940: '[Lord] Haw-Haw, objectively announcing defeat -- victory on his side of the line, that is -- a...Virginia Woolf William WordsworthlettersPrint: Book
1900-1945Saturday 22 June 1940: 'On the down at Bugdean I found some green glass tubes [...] And I read my Shelley at night. Ho...Virginia Woolf Percy Bysshe ShelleyunknownPrint: Book
1900-1945Friday 5 July 1940: 'Why should I be bothering myself with Coleridge I wonder -- Biog. Lit. & then with father's essay...Virginia Woolf Samuel Taylor ColeridgeBiographia LiterariaPrint: Book
1900-1945Friday 5 July 1940: 'Why should I be bothering myself with Coleridge I wonder -- Biog. Lit. & then with father's essay...Virginia Woolf Sir Leslie Stephenessay on ColeridgePrint: Book
1900-1945Wednesday 28 August 1940: 'I should say, to placate V[irginia].W[oolf]. when she wishes to know what was happening in ...Virginia Woolf ScrutinyPrint: Serial / periodical
1900-1945Saturday 14 September 1940: 'I am reading Sevigne: how recuperative last week [during heavy air raids]; gone stale a l...Virginia Woolf Madame de SevignelettersPrint: Book
1900-1945Saturday 14 September 1940: 'I am reading Sevigne: how recuperative last week [during heavy air raids]; gone stale a l...Virginia Woolf Henry WilliamsonGoodbye West CountryPrint: Book
1900-1945Monday 16 September 1940: 'Have been dallying with Mr Williamson's Confessions, appalled by his ego centricity [...] H...Virginia Woolf Henry WilliamsonGoodbye West CountryPrint: Book
1900-1945Tuesday 17 September 1940: 'Yesterday in the Public Library I took down a book of Peter Lucas's criticism [...] London...Virginia Woolf F. L. LucasStudies French and EnglishPrint: Book
1900-1945Saturday 21 September 1940: 'I have forced myself to overcome my rage at being beaten at Bowls & my fulminations again...Virginia Woolf Jules MicheletHistoire de FrancePrint: Book
1900-1945Saturday 26 October 1940: '"The complete Insider" -- I have just coined this title to express my feeling towards Georg...Virginia Woolf Jules MicheletHistoire de France vol.15Print: Book
1900-1945Saturday 26 October 1940: '"The complete Insider" -- I have just coined this title to express my feeling towards Georg...Virginia Woolf G. M. TrevelyanHistory of EnglandPrint: Book
1900-1945Friday 1 November 1940: 'My Times book this week is E. F. Benson's last autobigraphy [...] I learn there the perils of...Virginia Woolf E. F. BensonFinal Edition, an Informal AutobiographyPrint: Book
1900-1945Friday 15 November 1940: 'I had a gaping raw wound too reading my essay in N.W. Why did I? Why come to the top when I ...Virginia Woolf Virginia Woolf'The Leaning Tower'Print: Book
1900-1945Friday 15 November 1940: 'I am reading Read's Aut[obiograph]y: a tight packed unsympathetic mind, all good cabinet mak...Virginia Woolf Herbert ReadAnnals of Innocence and ExperiencePrint: Book
1900-1945Monday 18 November 1940: 'These queer little sand castles, I was thinking; I was finishing Herbert Read's autobiograph...Virginia Woolf Herbert ReadAnnals of Innocence and ExperiencePrint: Book
1900-1945Sunday 29 December 1940: 'I detest the hardness of old age --I feel it. I rasp. I'm tart. 'The foot less prompt to ...Virginia Woolf Matthew ArnoldThyrsisPrint: Book
1900-1945Wednesday 1 January 1941: 'On Sunday night, as I was reading about the great fire, in a very accurate detailed book, L...Virginia Woolf anonaccount of the Great Fire of LondonPrint: Book
1900-1945Thursday 9 January 1941: 'Desmond's book has come. Dipping I find it small beer. Too Irish, too confidential, too slop...Virginia Woolf Desmond MacCarthyDramaPrint: Book
1900-1945Monday 20 January 1941: 'Reading Gide. La Porte Etroite [1909] feeble, slaty, sentimental.'Virginia Woolf Andre GideLa Porte EtroitePrint: Book
1900-1945'I have been reading Marlow, and I was so much more impressed by him than I thought I should be, that I read Cymbeline...Virginia Stephen William ShakespeareCymbelinePrint: Book
1900-1945'Tomorrow I go on to Ben Jonson, but I shan't like him as much as Marlow. I read Dr Faustus...'Virginia Stephen Christopher MarloweDr FaustusPrint: Book
1900-1945'Tomorrow I go on to Ben Jonson, but I shan't like him as much as Marlow. I read Dr Faustus, and Edward II...'Virginia Stephen Christopher MarloweEdward IIPrint: Book
1800-1849'I have many things I should like to say to the writer of the remarks on 'Mary Barton' which Miss Mitchell has sent me...Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell Sam Greg[remarks on Gaskell's 'Mary Barton']Manuscript: Unknown
1800-1849'I send you back 'Ambarvalia' with many thanks; I am also much obliged to you for sending me Mr Espinasse's prospectus...Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell Arthur Hugh CloughAmbarvaliaPrint: Book
1800-1849'I send you back 'Ambarvalia' with many thanks; I am also much obliged to you for sending me Mr Espinasse's prospectus...Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell Francis Espinasse[prospectus]Print: Unknown
1800-1849'My copy of 'Margaret' is in such demand since the review in the Athenaeum; it is pledged 3 deep'.Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell [review of 'Margaret, a tale of the Real and the Ideal']Print: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'My copy of 'Margaret' is in such demand since the review in the Athenaeum; it is pledged 3 deep'.Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell Sylvester JuddMargaret, a Tale of the Real and the IdealPrint: Book
1800-1849'I think I have behaved most abominably in never taking any notice of your great kindness in sending me David Copperfi...Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell Charles DickensDavid CopperfieldPrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'If you want an agreeable book, read 'Lives of the Lindsays'.Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell Alexander Crawford, Lord LindsayLives of the Lindsays; Or, A memoir of the houses of Crawford and BalcarresPrint: Book
1800-1849'Suffice it to say that its who can revere Mr Newman most with Mr Darbishire, the Winkworths and myself, the book is a...Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell John Henry Newman[possibly] Discourses to Mixed CongregationsPrint: Book
1800-1849'Do you know Dr Epps - I think you do - ask him to tell you who wrote Jane Eyre and Shirley,- <...> Do tell me who wro...Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell Charlotte BronteShirleyPrint: Book
1800-1849'I mean to copy you out some lines of my [italics] hero [end italics], Mr Kingsley'Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell Charles KingsleyPrint: Book
1800-1849'[italics] Is [end italics] Miss Jewsbury's review shallow? It looked to me very deep, but then I know I'm easily impo...Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell Geraldine Jewsbury[unknown review]Print: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'I am going through a course of John Henry Newman's Sermons.'Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell John Henry Newman[Sermons]Print: Book
1800-1849''Tennyson' has arrived safe, without a shadow of damage and thanks without end for it. I have been half-opening the p...Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell Alfred, Lord Tennyson[Poems]Print: Book
1850-1899'Miss Maggie Bell has sent me [a] MS. novel to look over, - she is a nice person, and I know I once wanted to help sor...Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell Maggie Bell[MS. novel]Manuscript: Unknown
1850-1899'I have not read that poem of R. Brownings. I saw the review in the Examiner, (no end of thanks to you for the said,) ...Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell W.C. DeVane[review of Browning's 'Christmas Eve and Easter-Day']Print: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'I think I told you that I disliked a good deal in the plot of Shirley, but the expression of her own thoughts in it i...Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell Charlotte BronteShirleyPrint: Book
1850-1899'Do you know a little book written by a daughter of Sir Jas Stephens, called 'Passages in the life of a Daughter at Ho...Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell Caroline Emelia StephenPassages in the life of a Daughter at HomePrint: Book
1850-1899'But I think you are probably seeing more of what has never fallen in my way exactly, but of what I read of in that st...Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell Frederick Denison Maurice[Sermon on 'Religion versus God'] Print: Unknown
1850-1899'I never cd enter into Sartor Resartus, but I brought away one sentence which does capitally for a reference when I ge...Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell Thomas CarlyleSartor ResartusPrint: Book
1850-1899'After breakfast we went on the Lake; and Miss B and I agreed in thinking Mr Moseley a good goose; in liking Mr Newman...Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell John RuskinModern PaintersPrint: Book
1850-1899'I am very happy nevertheless making flannel petticoats; and reading Modern painters'Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell John RuskinModern PaintersPrint: Book
1850-1899'from an accidental copy of the Leader I learn that a fourth edition [of Mary Barton] is coming out'Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell Leader, ThePrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'Thank you for the Atlas. The Guardian (Puseyite) has been very busy praising M[oorland] C[ottage] too. I hope the Tim...Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell Atlas, The [review of Gaskell's 'The Moorland Cottage']Print: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'Thank you for the Atlas. The Guardian (Puseyite) has been very busy praising M[oorland] C[ottage] too. I hope the Tim...Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell Guardian, The [review of Gaskell's 'The Moorland Cottage']Print: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'Thank you for the Atlas. The Guardian (Puseyite) has been very busy praising M[oorland] C[ottage] too. I hope the Tim...Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell William WhewellFraser's Magazine [review of Gaskell's 'The Moorland Cottage']Print: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'Thank you for the Atlas. The Guardian (Puseyite) has been very busy praising M[oorland] C[ottage] too. I hope the Tim...Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell Times, The [review of a Thackeray book, perhaps Pendennis]Print: Newspaper
1850-1899'She [Gaskell's daughter 'Meta' or Margaret Emily] is [italics] quite [end italics] able to appreciate any book I am r...Margaret Emily Gaskell John RuskinSeven Lamps of Architecture, ThePrint: Book
1850-1899'She [Gaskell's daughter 'Meta' or Margaret Emily] is [italics] quite [end italics] able to appreciate any book I am r...Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell John RuskinSeven Lamps of Architecture, ThePrint: Book
1850-1899'What novel did you choose (in default of one from me,) for your confinement reading. I am afraid you did not get hold...Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell Catherine CuthbertsonSanto Sebastiano: or, The Young ProtectorPrint: Book
1850-1899'Wm brought me Bernard Palissy, but it so happened I had not a moment of time for reading except one day, when I got v...Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell H. MorleyPalissy the PotterPrint: Book
1850-1899'The "North British Review"had a [italics] delicious [end italics] review of "Ruth" in it. Who the deuce could have wr...Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell North British Review [review of Gaskell's 'Ruth']Print: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'Spectator, Lity Gazette, Sharp's Mag; Colborn have all abused it ['Ruth'] as roundly as may be. Litery Gazette in eve...Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell Literary Gazette [review of Gaskell's 'Ruth']Print: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'Spectator, Lity Gazette, Sharp's Mag; Colborn have all abused it ['Ruth'] as roundly as may be. Litery Gazette in eve...Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell [various periodicals: reviews of Gaskell's 'Ruth']Print: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'Yes! I did read that letter of 'First Hand'; - those letters inded, and I liked the whole tone and mode of expression...Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell [letter of a 'First Hand']Print: Unknown
1850-1899'Do you know that little poem of Hood's called [']the Lady's Dream'; because it is so true what he says about evil bei...Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell Thomas Hood'Lady's Dream, The'Print: Unknown
1850-1899'The difference between Miss Bronte and me is that she puts all her naughtiness into her books, and I put all my good...Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell Charlotte BronteVillettePrint: Book
1850-1899'I do not know Mr Joseph Kay's address or I should have written to thank him for his valuable and most interesting pam...Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell Joseph KayCondition of Poor Children in English and German Towns
1850-1899'she [Charlotte Bronte] was very angry indeed with that part of the Examiner review of Esmond (I had forgotten it) whi...Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell Examiner [review of Thackeray's 'Henry Esmond']Print: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'Are you inclined to see the MS of a translation from the German done by my friend Miss Winkworth ('Life of Niebuhr') ...Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell Frederick PerthesMemoirs of Frederick Perthes or Literary, Religious and Political Life in Germany from 1789 to 1848Manuscript: Unknown
1850-1899In looking over the bound vol. of 'Notes and Queries' for the first half of 1851, I find a paper by you entitled 'Edmu...Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell James Crossley'Edmund Burkke and the Annual Register' Print: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'She [a Mrs Granville, nee Wheler] had been a great friend of the Miss Porters (Jane and Anna Maria) in girlhood; and ...Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell Mrs Granville[tales]Print: Book
1850-1899'I have thanked you (mentally) very much for Folious Appearances, the humour, strength - and even affectation of which...Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell John TuplingFolious appearances. a consideration on our ways of lettering books Print: Book
1850-1899'I wanted to see the Duchess Eleanor ever since I read that review - criticism - whatever you call it in the Times, lo...Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell Times, The [review of H.F. Chorley's play 'The Duchess Eleanor']Print: Newspaper
1850-1899'I have sent your letter on to my husband by this post; but I must just say a very hearty thank you for the pleasure I...Walter Savage Landor William GaskellLectures on the Lancashire DialectUnknown
1850-1899'I have a friend who was educated at Nieuwied, - & who is just crazy about 'Brother Mieth'. First she made me write to...Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell Henry Morley'Brother Mieth and his Brothers'Print: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'Here is the beautiful Commonplace book awaiting me on my return home! And I give it a great welcome you may be sure; ...Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell Anna JamesonCommonplace Book of Thoughts, APrint: Book
1850-1899'I was exceedingly interested and touched by that Soldier's Story. It is very 'war-music'al, & comes in beautifully ju...Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell Household Words [?]Print: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'I have looked for Mr Macarthey's character in Shirley, and I find it exactly corresponds with what you have told me o...Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell Charlotte BronteShirleyPrint: Book
1850-1899'Your kind and racy critiques both give me pleasure and do me good; that is to say, your praise gives me pleasure beca...Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell William Fairbairn[remarks on 'North and South']Manuscript: Letter
1850-1899'I have read [italics] once [end italics] over all the letters you so kindly entrusted me with, and I don't think even...Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell Charlotte Bronte[letters to Ellen Nussey]Manuscript: Letter
1850-1899'in the 'bus I sate next to somebody, whose face I thought I knew, & then I made out it was only that he was very like...Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell Charles DickensLittle DorritPrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'I am extremely obliged to you for the pacquet of Miss Bronte's letters which I found here on my return home, too late...Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell Charlotte Bronte[letters to W.S. Williams]Manuscript: Letter
1850-1899'I am sending by the same post as this letter, the book on Yorkshire, you were so very kind as to lend me. I cannot te...Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell [book on Yorkshire]Print: Book
1850-1899'[Having visited Haworth, Gaskell acquired MSS of 'The Professor', 'Emma'], & by far the most extraordinary of all, a ...Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell Charlotte Bronte[manuscripts]Manuscript: books
1850-1899'[Having visited Haworth, Gaskell acquired MSS of 'The Professor', 'Emma'], & by far the most extraordinary of all, a ...Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell William Blake[manuscripts]Manuscript: Unknown
1850-1899'I have read the Professor, - I don't see the objections to its publication that I apprehended, - or at least only suc...Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell Charlotte BronteProfessor, TheManuscript: Unknown
1900-1945Sunday 3 September 1939: 'This is I suppose certainly the last hour of peace. The time limit is out at 11. P[rime]M[in...Virginia Woolf R. H. TawneyPrint: Book
1900-1945Friday 6 October 1939: 'I compose articles on Lewis Carroll & read a great variety of books -- Flaubert's life, R[oger...Virginia Woolf Francis SteegmullerFlaubert and Madame Bovary. A Double PortraitPrint: Book
1900-1945Friday 6 October 1939: 'I compose articles on Lewis Carroll & read a great variety of books -- Flaubert's life, R[oger...Virginia Woolf Jacques Emile BlancheMore Portraits of a Lifetime, 1918-38Print: Book
1900-1945Friday 6 October 1939: 'I compose articles on Lewis Carroll & read a great variety of books -- Flaubert's life, R[oger...Virginia Woolf Roger FryLast LecturesPrint: Book
1900-1945Friday 6 October 1939: 'I compose articles on Lewis Carroll & read a great variety of books -- Flaubert's life, R[oger...Virginia Woolf 'life of Erasmus'Print: Book
1900-1945Wednesday 25 October 1939: 'As a journalist I'm in demand [...] To relax I read Little Dorrit [...] Gerald Heard's boo...Virginia Woolf Charles DickensLittle DorritPrint: Book
1900-1945Wednesday 25 October 1939: 'As a journalist I'm in demand [...] To relax I read Little Dorrit [...] Gerald Heard's boo...Virginia Woolf Gerald HeardPain, Sex and Time: A New Outlook on Evolution and the Future of ManPrint: Book
1850-1899'I return to you these verses (of which I have taken a copy) with many thanks. I am always glad of your scraps of inte...Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell [verses]Unknown
1850-1899'I dreaded lest the Prof: should involve anything with M. Heger - I had heard her say it related to her Brussels life,...Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell Charlotte BronteProfessor, TheManuscript: Unknown
1850-1899'I looked in last week's Examiner thinking there [italics] might [end italics] be an advertisement of the Professor. W...Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell Examiner, ThePrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'The Professor is curious as indicating strong character & rare faculties on the part of the author; but not interesti...Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell Charlotte BronteProfessor, The
1850-1899'I don't think you know how much good your letter did me. In the first place I was really afraid that you did not like...Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell William Fairbairn[letter offering his opinion of Gaskell's biography of Charlotte Bronte]Manuscript: Letter
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 received your books last night quite safely, and plunged into 'Lutfullah' with great interest, being prepared to li...Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell Bombay Quarterly ReviewPrint: 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 Athenaeum [review of Eastwick's 'Lutfullah']Print: Serial / periodical
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'People say, the Times leading the van, that the news is quite as good as can be expected &c &c &c.'Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell Times, ThePrint: Newspaper
1850-1899'we, as a family, are going through a whole course of Indian literature - Kaye and Malcolm to wit; but I am afraid I r...Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell John W. Kaye[possibly] Administration of the East India Company, ThePrint: Book
1850-1899'we, as a family, are going through a whole course of Indian literature - Kaye and Malcolm to wit; but I am afraid I r...Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell John Malcolm[possibly] Government of India, ThePrint: Book
1850-1899'I am very very much obliged to you for sending us the Homeward Mail. We read it from end to end; title page, & printe...Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell Homeward Mail, ThePrint: Newspaper, Serial / periodical
1850-1899'Is Mr Child married? I am always wanting to write & thank him for his Ballads, which I delight in' [she then deprecat...Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell Francis James ChildBalladsPrint: Book
1850-1899'I mean to read the Atlantic soon; I find 2 numbers, one from you with names of authors, for the which thank you; the ...Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell Charles Eliot Norton[articles in the 'Atlantic Monthly' on India and an exhibition]Print: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'I mean to read the Atlantic soon; I find 2 numbers, one from you with names of authors, for the which thank you; the ...Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell Thomas Carlyle[article in the 'Atlantic Monthly']Print: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'I mean to read the Atlantic soon; I find 2 numbers, one from you with names of authors, for the which thank you; the ...Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell Atlantic MonthlyPrint: Serial / periodical
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'Thanks for telling me about the articles. I always like to read anything of your writing, even when it is not of such...Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell Richard Monckton Milnes'Lucknow'Print: Unknown
1850-1899'Thank you very much for your list of authors. You may think how we [italics] savoured [end italics] the papers on the...Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell Atlantic MonthlyPrint: Serial / periodical, Unknown
1850-1899'I don't like American biographies. Dr Kane's life is [italics] murdered [end italics], - and why do you give us all t...Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell William ElderBiography of Elisha Kent KanePrint: Book
1850-1899'I don't like American biographies. Dr Kane's life is [italics] murdered [end italics], - and why do you give us all t...Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell James PartonLife and Times of Aaron Burr, ThePrint: Book
1850-1899'I don't like American biographies. Dr Kane's life is [italics] murdered [end italics], - and why do you give us all t...Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell James Parton[Life of Barnum]Print: Book
1850-1899'Can you tell me anything of a book, published or rather printed, by the late Earl of Bridgewater at his press in Pari...Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell Francis Henry EgertonApercu Historique et genealogiquePrint: Book
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...Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell HendschelTelegraphPrint: Book
1850-1899'you will receive a Lyra Germanica from me the day after you get this letter, - I always wanted you to have it, & wish...Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell Christian Karl Josias BunsenLyra GermanicaPrint: Book
1850-1899'I read the [italics] Subsidiary Notes [end italics] first. It was so interesting I could not leave it. I finished it ...Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell Florence NightingaleNotes on Matters affecting the Health, Efficiency, and Hosptal Administration of the British ArmyPrint: Book
1850-1899'I tell [Mr Aide] my "honest opinion" of his [italics] first [end italics] volume at any rate: It introduces one just ...Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell Mr AideRitaPrint: 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'Read Arthur Stanley's Three Introductory Lectures on the Study of Ecclesiastical History Parker Oxford - price [itali...Margaret Emily Gaskell Arthur Penrhyn StanleyThree Introductory Lectures on the study of Ecclesiastical HistoryPrint: Book
1850-1899'Read Arthur Stanley's Three Introductory Lectures on the Study of Ecclesiastical History Parker Oxford - price [itali...Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell Arthur Penrhyn StanleyThree Introductory Lectures on the study of Ecclesiastical HistoryPrint: Book
1850-1899'Read Arthur Stanley's Three Introductory Lectures on the Study of Ecclesiastical History Parker Oxford - price [itali...Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell G.W. DasentPopular Tales from the NorsePrint: 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'As you ask me for my opinion I shall try and give it as truly as I can; otherwise it will be of no use [...] In the f...Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell Herbert GreyThree Paths, TheUnknown
1850-1899'As you ask me for my opinion I shall try and give it as truly as I can; otherwise it will be of no use [...] In the f...Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell Arthur HelpsFriends in CouncilPrint: Book
1850-1899'As you ask me for my opinion I shall try and give it as truly as I can; otherwise it will be of no use [...] In the f...Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell Daniel Defoe[unknown]Print: Book
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'Reading your Domestic Annals of Scotland, warms up all my old Scottish blood, - and makes me wish heartily that our f...Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell Robert ChambersDomestic Annals of Scotland: from the reformation to the revolution 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'You never no, [italics] never [end italics] - sent a more acceptable present than Cousin Stella & The Fool of Quality...Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell Henrietta JenkinCousin StellaPrint: Book
1850-1899'You never no, [italics] never [end italics] - sent a more acceptable present than Cousin Stella & The Fool of Quality...Margaret Emily Gaskell Henrietta JenkinCousin StellaPrint: Book
1850-1899'You never no, [italics] never [end italics] - sent a more acceptable present than Cousin Stella & The Fool of Quality...Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell Henry BrookeFool of Quality, ThePrint: Book
1850-1899'after reading the dedication of your Essay on Liberty I can understand how any word expressing a meaning only conject...Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell John Stuart MillOn LibertyPrint: Book
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'I think that if you can get hold of a portable 'Excursion' it is a capital book to have with you; also that vol (1st ...Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell William WordsworthExcursion, ThePrint: Book
1850-1899'I think that if you can get hold of a portable 'Excursion' it is a capital book to have with you; also that vol (1st ...Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell Thomas de QuinceyMiscellaniesPrint: Book
1850-1899'To go back to books. H. Martineau's is, I think, the best guide book [to the Lakes].'Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell Harriet MartineauComplete Guide to the English LakesPrint: Book
1850-1899'I have been reading White's Northumberland, so I knew Carter Fell, & all your tour like old familiar names, when I me...Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell William WhiteTravel in Northumberland and the BorderPrint: Book
1850-1899'Do [italics] you [end italics] know what Hawthorne's tale is about? [italics] I [end italics] do; and I think it will...Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell Nathaniel HawthorneMarble Faun, ThePrint: Book
1850-1899'(do you know how [italics] very [end italics] beautiful that Cathedral [at Canterbury] is, & do you know Arthur Stanl...Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell Arthur Penrhyn StanleyHistorical Memorials of CanterburyPrint: Book
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'Thank you very much for sending me the Missing Link, and remembering my wish to know more about "Marian" [Evans]. The...Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell Ellen RaynardMissing Link, The; or Bible Women In The Homes Of The London PoorPrint: Book
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'thanks [...] most especially for those brilliant lines of Father Prout's; how we did delight in them, and how I shoul...Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell Francis Mahoney[Inaugural Ode for the Cornhill Magazine in the persona of 'Father Prout']Print: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'thanks [...] most especially for those brilliant lines of Father Prout's; how we did delight in them, and how I shoul...Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell Francis Mahoney[Saturday Review - review of the play 'Dead Heart']Print: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'I extremely like & admire Framley Parsonage, - & the Idle Boy; and the Inaugural address. I like Lovel the Widower, o...Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell Anthony TrollopeFramley ParsonagePrint: 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 William Makepeace ThackerayLovel the WidowerPrint: 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'In last week's No of All the Year Round is a repudiation (by Mr Dickens,) of having intended Leigh Hunt by Harrold Sk...Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell Charles DickensAll the Year Round [article]Print: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'I ought to have told you that my dear Madame Mohl was the author of that Recamier article, - stay, I'll put her lette...Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell Madame Mohl[review of Mme Lenorment's 'Souvenirs et Correspondance de Madame Recamier]Print: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'Mr & Mrs Clarke & Ly Coltman were all full of "Cousin Stella" & I had quite a reflected lustre from the fact that I k...Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell Henrietta Camilla JenkinCousin StellaPrint: Book
1850-1899'I wish Mr Trollope would go on writing Framley Parsonage for ever. I don't see any reason why it should ever come to ...Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell Anthony TrollopeFramley ParsonagePrint: 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'my beautiful Vita Nuova, which only came yesterday, but which was more identified with [italics] you [end italics] an...Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell Charles Eliot NortonNew Life of Dante, An Essay with TranslationsManuscript: Unknown
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'I suspect that Meta has taken up either the 5th vol. of Modern Painters, or Tyndall on Glaciers, both of which books ...Margaret Emily Gaskell John RuskinModern PaintersPrint: Book
1850-1899'I suspect that Meta has taken up either the 5th vol. of Modern Painters, or Tyndall on Glaciers, both of which books ...Margaret Emily Gaskell John TyndallGlaciers of the Alps, ThePrint: Book
1850-1899'that brings me to say how very much I enjoyed during Meta's invalid days reading again & with deliberation your Art &...Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell Charles Eliot NortonNotes of Travel and Study in ItalyPrint: Book
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 Edward Wilberforce'Purgatory'Print: Serial / periodical
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'I do [italics] not [end italics] know all Henry Vaughan's poems, - I know well 'They are all gone into &c', and parts...Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell Henry VaughanSilex ScintillansPrint: Book
1850-1899'I do [italics] not [end italics] know all Henry Vaughan's poems, - I know well 'They are all gone into &c', and parts...Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell Henry VaughanThey are all gone into the world of lightPrint: Book
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'I have been so ungrateful in never thanking you for your last - and for that [italics] beautiful] end italics] noble ...Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell Charles Eliot Norton[paper on 'The Advantages of Defeat]Unknown
1850-1899'['After Hawthorne's romance had come out she expresses to her friends her supposition that they will have read, as ev...Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell Nathaniel HawthorneMarble Faun, ThePrint: Book
1850-1899'(I think what gave me the start [ on wanting to write a life of Mme de Sevigne] was the meeting with a supposed-to-be...Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, Marquise de Sevigne[Letters]Print: Book
1850-1899'all this time I have never thanked you for Mr Aide's book. But at first I was ill (whh made the gift all the more val...Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell Hamilton AideCarr of CarrlyonPrint: Book
1850-1899'I have dipped into Mr Harrison; in fact almost read it, here & there in bits - I feel as if in one or two places I co...Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell Frederick Harrison[MS of impressions of manufacturing districts of Lancashire and Yorkshire]Manuscript: Unknown
1850-1899'I hope that you will not measure my gratitude to you for so kindly sending the Cleopatra-poem, by my promptitude in w...Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell William Wetmore StoryCleopatraManuscript: Unknown
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 Elizabeth C. AkersTwo SummersPrint: Serial / periodical
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'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'I was so sorry to see that Dr Wendell Holmes called England "The Lost Leader". - I went & read the poem to Meta, who ...Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell Oliver Wendell Holmes[poem]Print: Unknown
1850-1899'You remember Stanton Harcourt - in Pope's Letters'Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell Alexander Pope[Letters]Print: Book
1850-1899'on their wedding journey they [John Symonds and Catherine North] have been writing a paper on Christmas, - which look...Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell John Addington SymondsThoughts on Xmas. In Florence, 1863Manuscript: Unknown
1850-1899'Will you ask Mr Lowell if he would [italics] give [end italics] me his Fireside Travels, with his writing inside? I w...Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell James Russell LowellFireside TravelsPrint: Book
1850-1899'I have beguiled myself into forgetfulness of my own story by reading "Tony Butler" - it is so clear! - and Lowell's "...Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell Charles LeverTony ButlerPrint: Book
1850-1899'Why don't you ask Miss (Maggie) Elliott to write you a novel? 6 Grosvenor Crescent - daughter of the Dean of Bristol ...Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell Maggie Elliott[story with title like 'Jem']Print: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'about "Cranford" I am so much pleased you like it. It is the only one of my own books that I can read again; - but wh...Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell Elizabeth GaskellCranfordPrint: Book
1850-1899'about "Cranford" I am so much pleased you like it. It is the only one of my own books that I can read again; - but wh...Margaret Ruskin Elizabeth GaskellCranfordPrint: Book
1850-1899'are you in a generous humour, and will you give me "the Gayworthys" - I am so delighted with all the specimens I see ...Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell [reviews of 'The Gayworthys' by Mrs ADT Whitney]Print: Serial / periodical
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'You can't think how much I shall value Fireside Travels, (which only reached me during this past week,) now that I ha...Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell James R. LowellFireside TravelsPrint: Book
1850-1899'You can't think how much I shall value Fireside Travels, (which only reached me during this past week,) now that I ha...Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell James R. Lowell[poems]Print: Unknown
1850-1899'You can't think how much I shall value Fireside Travels, (which only reached me during this past week,) now that I ha...Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell James R. LowellBiglow Papers, ThePrint: 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
1900-1945'Baccae [sic] is far and away the best play of Euripides I have read.'Virginia Woolf EuripidesThe BacchaePrint: Book
1900-1945'I am just finishing the Life of B[urne-]. J[ones]. which begins to bore me slightly-not the Life, which is excellent,...Virginia Woolf Julia Mary Cartwright AdyThe Life and Works of Edward Burne-Jones, bart.Print: Book
1900-1945'I am reading, 'Your Life in 15 Century' Mrs J. R. Green.'Virginia Woolf Alice Stopford GreenTown Life in the Fifteenth CenturyPrint: Book
1900-1945'I am reading, ... "Life" of William Morris.'Virginia Woolf J.W. MackailLife of William MorrisPrint: Book
1900-1945'I am reading, ... Layard's Nineveh.'Virginia Woolf Austen Henry LayardNinevehPrint: Book
1900-1945'I am reading, ... "History of Music."'Virginia Woolf unknown[History of Music]Print: Book
1900-1945'I am reading, ... "Not Wisely but too Well" by Miss Rhoda Broughton.'Virginia Woolf Rhoda BroughtonNot Wisely but Too WellPrint: Book
1900-1945'I am reading, ... 2 bound volumes of the Windsor Magazine which I hire for 2d a week, a ridiculously cheap price.'Virginia Woolf The Windsor Magazine: An Illustrated Monthly for Men and WomenPrint: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'...- I spend 5 days of precious time toiling through Henry James' subtleties for Mrs Lyttleton, and write a very hard...Virginia Woolf Henry JamesThe Golden BowlPrint: Book
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'Allow me, Sir, to return you my best thanks for your Lyrical ballad, "The Triumph for Salamis", which I have just rec...Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell William Cox BennettBaby May and Other Poems on Infants Unknown
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'Allow me, Sir, to return you my best thanks for your Lyrical ballad, "The Triumph for Salamis", which I have just rec...Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell William Cox BennettTriumph for Salamis, the: a lyrical ballad
1850-1899'I have got the "Guesses at Truth", & thank you for them darling'.Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell Julius HareGuesses at TruthPrint: Book
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'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'From what I can judge from the letters Mr Nicholls has entrusted me with, her [Charlotte Bronte's] very earliest way ...Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell Charlotte Bronte[letters]Print: NewspaperManuscript: Letter
1850-1899'The letters Mr Smith does send principally relate to the other Bronte's transactions with Newby, or else they are (ve...Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell Charlotte Bronte[letters]Manuscript: Letter
1850-1899'Mama is so terribly busy that she really cannot find time to write to you, but she has asked me to do so for her, as ...Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell Ellen Nussey[account of Anne Bronte's death]Manuscript: Unknown
1850-1899'She has also received a packet of letters from Mr Williams (another London publisher, I believe), which she says are ...Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell Charlotte Bronte[letters]Manuscript: Letter
1850-1899'All evening that I have been reading Lord Mahon aloud I have been thinking how I could rush home via Strasbourg & Par...Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell Philip Henry Stanhope, 5th Earl Stanhope, Lord Mahon[unknown]Print: Book
1850-1899'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'I am very much obliged to you indeed for so kindly and so speedily sending me the books I asked for, and which gave g...Margaret Emily ('Meta') Gaskell John RuskinModern PaintersPrint: Book
1850-1899'I am very much obliged to you for letting me see Miss Kavanagh's new work. I will take great care of it and return it...Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell Julia Kavanagh[possibly] French Women of LettersPrint: Book
1850-1899'[whilst watching a boat race at Eton] Meta said she thought of the verse in the Ancient Mariner "A Seraph band" &c, -...Margaret Emily (Meta) Gaskell Samuel Taylor ColeridgeRime of the Ancient mariner, ThePrint: Book
1700-1799'I continued two years with this man [an apothecary to whom he was apprenticed], I read Romances and learned to Bleed'.George Crabbe [Romances]Print: Book
1700-1799'I read novels and poetry and began to contribute to Magazines and Diaries.'George Crabbe [Novels and poetry]Print: Book
1700-1799'I read much, collected Extracts & translated Latin Books of physic with a view of double improvement; I studied the M...George Crabbe [Latin medical books]Print: Book
1700-1799'I read much, collected Extracts & translated Latin Books of physic with a view of double improvement; I studied the M...George Crabbe [botany books]Print: Book
1700-1799'I read much, collected Extracts & translated Latin Books of physic with a view of double improvement; I studied the M...George Crabbe Gilbert KnowlesMateria medica botanicaPrint: Book
1700-1799'The Frenchman who wrote Maxims says 'there is hardly anyone who does not repay great obligations with Ingratitude'.George Crabbe Francois de La RochefoucauldMaximesPrint: Book
1700-1799'I am desired by the Duchess of Rutland to Print a Discourse which I read at Belvoir-Chapel at the Funeral of the late...George Crabbe George Crabbe[funeral address for Duke of Rutland]Manuscript: Unknown
1700-1799'I think Drayton's Verses have a peculiar propriety in such work; his Subject being the same and his Poetry now becomi...George Crabbe Michael DraytonPolyolbionPrint: Book
1700-1799'With this parcel we return Messrs Marshall and Young. some Observations from the former I lay by as matters to be inq...George Crabbe Arthur YoungSix Month's Tour Through the North of England, APrint: Book
1700-1799'With this parcel we return Messrs Marshall and Young. some Observations from the former I lay by as matters to be inq...George Crabbe William MarshallRural Economy of the Midland Counties, The; Including the Management of Livestock in Leicestershire and its Environs'Print: Book
1700-1799'I do not perfectly understand Fabricius always, but I think his Genera more natural than those of any other Author; i...George Crabbe Johan Christian FabriciusSystema entomologiaePrint: Book
1700-1799'we know nothing of mankind, but from letters and Neswpapers, to the latter of which, in spite of my Verses & Witticis...George Crabbe [newspapers]Print: Newspaper
1800-1849'Mr Pratt Author of a poem called "the Lower World" & of divers other works in prose & rhyme sent to me his Book with ...George Crabbe Samuel Jackson PrattLower World, ThePrint: Book
1800-1849'by the way my dear Sir, why does the Scottish Reviewer (late Edinboro Quarterly) abuse me in his last Number? Whateve...George Crabbe Scotish Review, ThePrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'by the way my dear Sir, why does the Scottish Reviewer (late Edinboro Quarterly) abuse me in his last Number? Whateve...George Crabbe Edinburgh ReviewPrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'I derived a three fold Pleasure from the Receipt of Rokeby, first from the book itself, the Article, the thing sold a...George Crabbe Walter ScottRokebyPrint: Book
1800-1849'Mr Pratt & I began to write nearly about the same time & his Sympathy & my Village were [cancelled] nearly [ end canc...George Crabbe Samuel Jackson PrattSympathy; a PoemPrint: Unknown
1800-1849'[Crabbe relates how he has had a letter from a Lady who] 'enjoins and adjures me to go instantly & climb the Mountain...George Crabbe Walter ScottLay of the Last Minstrel, ThePrint: Book
1800-1849'[Crabbe relates how he has had a letter from a Lady who] 'enjoins and adjures me to go instantly & climb the Mountain...George Crabbe Walter ScottMarmionPrint: Book
1800-1849'[Crabbe relates how he has had a letter from a Lady who] 'enjoins and adjures me to go instantly & climb the Mountain...George Crabbe Walter ScottLady of the Lake, ThePrint: Book
1800-1849'[Crabbe relates how he has had a letter from a Lady who] 'enjoins and adjures me to go instantly & climb the Mountain...George Crabbe Walter ScottRokebyPrint: Book
1800-1849'I have a present of the poetical Register no 7 as a testimony of respect & therein I find [italics] Horace in London ...George Crabbe Horace SmithHorace in LondonPrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'I have a present of the poetical Register no 7 as a testimony of respect & therein I find [italics] Horace in London ...George Crabbe Horace SmithRejected AddressesPrint: Unknown
1800-1849'I have a present of the poetical Register no 7 as a testimony of respect & therein I find [italics] Horace in London ...George Crabbe William Wordsworth[poems]Print: Unknown
1800-1849'there is one Story if story it may be called, that Shape or Limb, Beginning or End has none, "The ancient Mariner or ...George Crabbe Samuel Taylor ColeridgeRime of the Ancient Mariner, ThePrint: Book
1800-1849'I will not mention my own nor my son's Judgment upon the Poem, which in spite of my Prohibition he stole for a solita...George Crabbe Walter ScottLord of the Isles, ThePrint: Book
1800-1849Walter Savage Landor to Robert Browning, letter postmarked 10 November 1845: 'Before I have half re[a]d through you...Walter Savage Landor Robert BrowningDramatic Romances and LyricsPrint: Book
1800-1849'We talk of Waverly [sic] and Guy Mannering: Lady Jersey sent me the former [italics] as yours [end italics]. I vote w...George Crabbe Walter ScottWaverley; or, Tis Sixty Years SincePrint: Book
1800-1849'We talk of Waverly [sic] and Guy Mannering: Lady Jersey sent me the former [italics] as yours [end italics]. I vote w...George Crabbe Walter ScottGuy ManneringPrint: Book
1800-1849'I have now read the remainder [underlined twice] nearly [end underlining] of Glenarvon! & should not give th[e Wr]ite...George Crabbe Caroline LambGlenarvonPrint: Book
1800-1849'you can write: They really are very admirable Things and the Morality is as pure & useful as the literary merit is co...George Crabbe Mary Leadbeter[unknown]Print: Book
1800-1849'Mr Boswell the younger. Malone's papers.'George Crabbe Edmund Malone[unknown]Manuscript: Unknown
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[present at dinner at Mr Murray's was] 'The Mrs Graham who wrote the lively India Journal, a delightful woman!'George Crabbe Maria GrahamJournal of A Residence in IndiaPrint: Book
1800-1849'Read Miss Edgeworth's dramas'.George Crabbe Maria Edgeworth[Dramas]Print: Book
1800-1849'I went to Norwich & past two Days with Mrs Opie who has written some pleasant books, particularly the [italics] Fathe...George Crabbe Amelia Alderson OpieFather and Daughter, The: a Tale in Prose, with an Epistle from the Maid of Corinth to her Lover, and Other Poetical PiecesPrint: Book
1800-1849'I have thought of your lines, and will claim your pardon when I suggest another alteration. The boy and the butterfly...George Crabbe Samuel RogersHuman LifeManuscript: Unknown
1800-1849'I assure you she [Mrs Murray] was a Shield to me on the Night when I read my Verses.' [to Murray and others, prior to...George Crabbe George Crabbe[verses]Manuscript: Unknown
1800-1849'I received yours this Morning as I was reading pages 85-113 in the M.S.'George Crabbe George CrabbeTales from the HallManuscript: Unknown
1800-1849'I found your Poem some days before at Mr Hoare's who has paid his Annual Visit to Bath. Give me full Credit when I as...George Crabbe Samuel RogersHuman Life, A PoemPrint: Book
1800-1849'[Critics] have been as graciously disposed towards me as I could expect. The Edinborough more particularly who have p...George Crabbe Francis Jeffrey[review of Crabbe's 'Tales from the Hall']Print: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'A Mr Gally Knight the Author of a Book of very fair Poetry, told me a Story which He thought would suit me [as the ba...George Crabbe Henry Gally KnightAlashtar, an Arabian Tale [?]Print: Book
1800-1849'Mr Murray made me a present of the 5 Octavo Vols of Mr Irvings Works, the Sketch-Book & some others: I do understand ...George Crabbe Washington Irving[Works]Print: Book
1800-1849'Here is Mr Mackensie - with the Surprise I heard it - the Author of "the Man of Feeling" & indeed he is so called.'George Crabbe Henry MackenzieMan of Feeling, ThePrint: Book
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 Patrick KeithSystems of Physiological BotanyPrint: Book
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'I like the books which we purchased though the Physiological Botany is rather too minute & supposes the Reader a Lear...George Crabbe Johan Wolfgang von GoetheFaustPrint: Book
1800-1849'I like the books which we purchased though the Physiological Botany is rather too minute & supposes the Reader a Lear...George Crabbe Denis ChavisArabian Tales; or, A Continuation of The Arabian Nights EntertainmentsPrint: Book
1800-1849'I like the books which we purchased though the Physiological Botany is rather too minute & supposes the Reader a Lear...George Crabbe Thomas WartonHistory of English Poetry, ThePrint: Book
1800-1849'I have just read the "Liber Amoris" of (as we are told) Mr Hazlet: it is strange that any Man could write & marvelous...George Crabbe William HazlittLiber Amoris, or the New PygmalionPrint: Book
1800-1849'I have been engaged by Spurzheims new Edition of his Phrenology: he does not write English Accurately & even where I ...George Crabbe Johann C. SpurzheimPhrenologyPrint: Book
1800-1849'I thank you for your Letter & Mr Scott's Treatise. True! I agree with him in his principal Idea, though even there I ...George Crabbe Abraham ScottCalvinistic Doctrines RefutedPrint: Book
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 Horace SmithGaieties and Gravities; A Series of Sketches, Comic Tales, and Fugitive VagariesPrint: Book
'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 Reynolds[unknown]Print: Book
1800-1849'How are you supplied with Books; I have some from Bath, but I begin to be weary of toil & Humour. yet Mr Reynolds was...George Crabbe [n/a]Quarterly ReviewPrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'The reason for my not mentioning the History of Bremhill was this. I had not read at that time more than a very few p...George Crabbe William Lisle BowlesParochial History of Bremhill, ThePrint: Book
1800-1849'I think you do not mean the Treatise of Copplestone that I do, for I see nothing in his Discourses of Necessity and C...George Crabbe Edward CoplestonInquiry into the Doctrines of Necessity & PredestinationPrint: Book
1800-1849'I think you do not mean the Treatise of Copplestone that I do, for I see nothing in his Discourses of Necessity and C...George Crabbe Joseph MilnerHistory of the Church of ChristPrint: Book
1800-1849'I think you do not mean the Treatise of Copplestone that I do, for I see nothing in his Discourses of Necessity and C...George Crabbe John NewtonCardiphonia, or Utterance of the HeartPrint: Book
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'You and I both love reading, and it is well for me that I do; but at your time reading is but one employment, whereas...George Crabbe Print: Book
1800-1849'Have you met with a Work called Scripture Difficulties? - C. Benson in the Hulsean Lectures?'George Crabbe Christopher BensonHulsean Lectures for 1822: On Scripture Difficulties; Twenty DiscoursesPrint: 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
1800-1849'So you have been reading my almost forgotten stories - Lady Barbara and Ellen! I protest to you their origin is lost ...George Crabbe George CrabbeLady BarbaraPrint: Book
1800-1849'So you have been reading my almost forgotten stories - Lady Barbara and Ellen! I protest to you their origin is lost ...George Crabbe George CrabbeEllenPrint: Book
1800-1849'I have not done much with the Sermons you sent me nor after the Bristol Huricanes Would you expect it, still I have n...George Crabbe George Crabbe[sermons]Manuscript: Unknown
1900-1945'last night [Barker] read me Coleridge's "Ode on Dejection" which is very beautiful in parts. It exactly expresses tho...George Barker Samuel Taylor ColeridgeDejection: An OdePrint: Book
1900-1945Leonard Woolf to Lytton Strachey, 2 August 1911: 'Les Freres Karamazov is one of the greatest of novels [...] Have ...Edgar Woolf George MeredithThe Ordeal of Richard FeverelPrint: Book
1900-1945Leonard Woolf to Molly MacCarthy, 28 September 1912: 'Virginia is very lazy, she's lying on a sofa eating chocolate...Virginia Woolf The Strand MagazinePrint: Serial / periodical
1900-1945Leonard Woolf to Lytton Strachey, describing routine at home at Asheham, 25 April 1913: 'After dinner Virginia read...Virginia Woolf The Life of Mrs Humphry WardPrint: Book
1900-1945Leonard Woolf to Virginia Woolf, 13 March 1914: 'Lytton read me last night what he had written about Manning. It's ...Giles Lytton Strachey Lytton StracheyLife of Cardinal ManningManuscript: Unknown
1700-1799[LP reproduces her poem 'to the Hon. Colonel Duncombe', which she sent to Lord Augustus Fitz Roy] 'Lord Augustus did n...Augustus, Lord Fitzroy Laetitia PilkingtonTo The Hon. Colonel DuncombeManuscript: Unknown
1700-1799[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'A short while after he went down Stairs, he sent his Compliments up, and begg'd I would lend him a Book to amuse hims...George Turnbull Laetitia Pilkington[Poems]Manuscript: Unknown
1700-1799'I ventured to communicate to him [Dr Turnbull] Mr [italics] Walsh[end italics]'s Letter; the Doctor lifted up his Han...George Turnbull J. Walsh[letter professing to be from Matthew Pilkington's lawyer]Manuscript: Letter
1700-1799[Mr Rooke tells LP] 'as I had, in the Shop, read your [italics] Apology for the Minister [end italics], I was greatly ...George Rooke Laetitia PilkingtonApology for the Minister, An
1700-1799[Mr 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
1900-1945'After dinner, (a delicious dinner), Virginia read us her memoir of Old Bloomsbury. She had read it to me already at ...Virginia Woolf Virginia Woolf"memoir of Old Bloomsbury"Unknown
1850-1899E. M. Forster to Alice Clara Forster, 13 February 1898: 'Have you read Crockett's new book, the Adventures of Sir T...Edward Morgan Forster Samuel Rutherford CrockettThe Surprising Adventures of Sir Toady LionPrint: Book
1850-1899E. M. Forster to Laura Mary Forster, 3 March 1898: 'I will tell how I spent my prize money. I got Browning's Poems ...Edward Morgan Forster Jane AustenNorthanger AbbeyPrint: Book
1850-1899E. M. Forster to Laura Mary Forster, 3 March 1898: 'I have just read a paper to the Classical Society on "The Greek...Edward Morgan Forster Edward Morgan Forster"The Greek Feeling for Nature"Manuscript: Unknown
1850-1899E. M. Forster to Laura Mary Forster, 7 May 1899: 'Thank you very much [...] for the Punches & Antiquaries which I m...Edward Morgan Forster PunchPrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899E. M. Forster to Laura Mary Forster, 7 May 1899: 'Thank you very much [...] for the Punches & Antiquaries which I m...Edward Morgan Forster The Antiquary: A Magazine Devoted to the Study of the PastPrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899E. M. Forster to Laura Mary Forster, 7 May 1899: 'Thank you very much [...] for the Punches & Antiquaries which I m...Edward Morgan Forster Nature NotesPrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899E. M. Forster to Alice Clara Forster, ?summer 1899: 'I hear much of Mr Dimbleby, and have tried to read his books. ...Edward Morgan Forster Jabez Bunting DimblebyPrint: Book
1850-1899E. M. Forster to George Barger, 27 July 1899: 'I have had a good time in Scotland & here [Northumberland] & go home...Edward Morgan Forster Henry JamesPortrait of a LadyPrint: Book
1850-1899E. M. Forster to George Barger, 27 July 1899: 'I have had a good time in Scotland & here [Northumberland] & go home...Edward Morgan Forster Maurice HewlettThe Forest Lovers: A RomancePrint: Book
1850-1899E. M. Forster to Alice Clara Forster, 5 November 1899: 'I have been reading Bernard Shaw's plays. Wonderfully cleve...Edward Morgan Forster George Bernard ShawplaysPrint: Book
1900-1945E. M. Forster to Laura Mary Forster, 27 February 1900: 'Last Thursday I went to Mr Dickinson's to hear Trevelyan of...George Macaulay Trevelyan George Macaulay Trevelyan'The Uses of History'Manuscript: Unknown
1900-1945E. M. Forster to Alice Clara Forster, 9 April 1905: 'At 2.45 I and Herr Steinweg [German tutor employed by the Coun...Edward Morgan Forster 'The Child's first Lesebuch'Print: Book
1900-1945E. M. Forster to Alice Clara Forster, 9 April 1905: 'Elizabeth [employer] has lent me Erewhon which I am enjoying.'Edward Morgan Forster Samuel ButlerErewhon; or, Over the RangePrint: Book
1900-1945E. M. Forster to Arthur Cole, 11 April 1905: 'Have you read Erewhon? Now I'm at Marius the Epicurean.'Edward Morgan Forster Walter PaterMarius the EpicureanPrint: Book
1900-1945E. M. Forster to Alice Clara Forster, 2 July 1905: 'In the evening I read Elizabeth [employer] "Emma". Liebeth [emp...Edward Morgan Forster Jane AustenEmmaPrint: Book
1900-1945E. M. Forster to Arthur Cole, 7 July 1905, following satirical account of English travellers met the previous day: ...Edward Morgan Forster Jane AustenNorthanger AbbeyPrint: Book
1900-1945E. M. Forster to Arthur Cole, 7 July 1905, following satirical account of English travellers met the previous day: ...Edward Morgan Forster Anatole FranceThaisPrint: Book
1900-1945'[George Macaulay] Trevelyan wrote to Leonard Woolf (December 1905 [...]) "I wonder whether you will have seen E. M. F...George Macaulay Trevelyan E. M. ForsterWhere Angels Fear to TreadUnknown
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E. M. Forster to Edward Joseph Dent, 3 Ocotber 1906: 'You would hardly know me, so violently has Chartres gothicise...Edward Morgan Forster Joris-Karl HuysmansLa CathedralePrint: Book
1900-1945E. M. Forster to Edward Garnett, 28 October 1907: 'You said I might write to you about The Breaking Point. I think ...Edward Morgan Forster Edward GarnettA Censored Play: The Breaking PointPrint: Book
1900-1945E. M. Forster to Hugh Walpole, 19 July 1908: 'I can say without preamble that it's good -- the theme is ample and f...Edward Morgan Forster Hugh WalpoleThe Wooden Horse / 'The House of the Trojans'Manuscript: Unknown
1900-1945E. M. Forster to Malcolm Darling, 10 February 1910: 'I left off the last [letter to Darling] saying that I was goin...Edward Morgan Forster Ernest B. HavellIndian Sculpture and Painting ... with an Explanation of Their Motives and IdealsPrint: Book
1900-1945E. M. Forster to Ottoline Morrell, 2 April 1910: 'I am reading Les Freres Karamazov, but am so far a little disappo...Edward Morgan Forster Fyodor DostoevskyThe Brothers KaramazovPrint: Book
1900-1945E. M. Forster to Malcolm Darling, 15 April 1910: 'Just now I am enthralled by Gibbon's Autobiography. There are pas...Edward Morgan Forster Edward GibbonAutobiographyPrint: Book
1900-1945E. M. Forster to Malcolm Darling, 29 June 1910: 'I am reading Manucci's "Storia do Mogor" -- a most entertaining bo...Edward Morgan Forster Niccolo ManucciStoria do Mogor; or Mogul India, 1653-1708Print: Book
1900-1945E. M. Forster to Malcolm Darling, 12 August 1910: 'Do you get any time for reading? I am taking huge chunks of Mat ...Edward Morgan Forster Matthew ArnoldPrint: Book
1900-1945E. M. Forster to Syed Ross Masood, mid-January 1911: 'I am reading Lyall's hand book about the English in India -- ...Edward Morgan Forster Sir Alfred C. LyallBritish Dominion in IndiaPrint: Book
1900-1945E. M. Forster to Syed Ross Masood, mid-January 1911: 'I am reading Lyall's hand book about the English in India -- ...Edward Morgan Forster Alice PerrinIdolatryPrint: Book
1900-1945E. M. Forster to Syed Ross Masood, mid-January 1911: 'I am reading Lyall's hand book about the English in India -- ...Edward Morgan Forster Alice PerrinPrint: Book
1900-1945'E[dward]M[organ]F[orster] was reading, as well, Lyall's Asiatic Studies: Religious and Social (1882) and G. F. I. Gra...Edward Morgan Forster Sir Alfred C. LyallAsiatic Studies: Religious and SocialPrint: Book
1900-1945'E[dward]M[organ]F[orster] was reading, as well, Lyall's Asiatic Studies: Religious and Social (1882) and G. F. I. Gra...Edward Morgan Forster G. F. I. GrahamThe Life and Works of Syed Ahmed KhanPrint: Book
1900-1945E. M. Forster to Malcolm Darling, 29 July 1911: 'I have been reading Kipling's child's history of England with ming...Edward Morgan Forster Rudyard KiplingPuck of Pook's HillPrint: Book
1900-1945E. M. Forster to Malcolm Darling, 29 July 1911: 'I have been reading Kipling's child's history of England with ming...Edward Morgan Forster H. G. WellsThe New MachiavelliPrint: Book
1900-1945E. M. Forster to Malcolm Darling, 29 July 1911: 'I have been reading Kipling's child's history of England with ming...Edward Morgan Forster Rosalind MurrayThe Leading NotePrint: Book
1900-1945E. M. Forster to Malcolm Darling, 29 July 1911: 'I have been reading Kipling's child's history of England with ming...Edward Morgan Forster A. Felix WedgwoodThe Shadow of a TitanPrint: Book
1900-1945E. M. Forster to Malcolm Darling, 29 July 1911: 'When you have a spare day [...] do send me some Indian papers -- t...Edward Morgan Forster Valentine ChiriolIndian UnrestPrint: Book
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E. M. Forster to Jessica Darling, 24 September 1911: 'It's something to be near fine country [Simla] [...] Whether ...Edward Morgan Forster Thomas HardynovelsPrint: Unknown
1900-1945E. M. Forster to Forrest Reid, 31 January 1912: 'I have read The Bracknels, and wish to thank you for it [...] it d...Edward Morgan Forster Forrest ReidThe BracknelsPrint: Book
1900-1945E. M. Forster to Jessica Darling, 6 February 1912: 'Before I get off books, I will put down the names of one or two...Edward Morgan Forster George MooreAvePrint: Book
1900-1945E. M. Forster to Jessica Darling, 6 February 1912: 'Before I get off books, I will put down the names of one or two...Edward Morgan Forster G. L. StracheyLandmarks in French LiteraturePrint: Book
1900-1945E. M. Forster to Jessica Darling, 6 February 1912: 'Before I get off books, I will put down the names of one or two...Edward Morgan Forster J. T. SheppardGreek TragedyPrint: Book
1900-1945E. M. Forster to Jessica Darling, 6 February 1912: 'Before I get off books, I will put down the names of one or two...Edward Morgan Forster Mme Augustine BulteauL'Ame des AnglaisPrint: Book
1900-1945E. M. Forster to Jessica Darling, 6 February 1912: 'Before I get off books, I will put down the names of one or two...Edward Morgan Forster Andre ChevrillonDans L'IndePrint: Book
1900-1945E. M. Forster to Jessica Darling, 6 February 1912: 'Before I get off books, I will put down the names of one or two...Edward Morgan Forster Forrest ReidThe BracknelsPrint: Book
1900-1945E. M. Forster to Jessica Darling, 6 February 1912: 'Before I get off books, I will put down the names of one or two...Edward Morgan Forster Lascelles AbercrombieEmblems of LovePrint: Book
1900-1945E. M. Forster to Jessica Darling, 6 February 1912: 'Before I get off books, I will put down the names of one or two...Edward Morgan Forster Edith WhartonEthan FromePrint: Book
1900-1945E. M. Forster to Jessica Darling, 6 February 1912: 'Before I get off books, I will put down the names of one or two...Edward Morgan Forster Max BeerbohmZuleika DobsonPrint: Book
1900-1945E. M. Forster to S. R. Masood, 8 March 1912: 'Have just dined with the Morisons -- a very interesting evening, and ...Edward Morgan Forster Miss WrightpoemManuscript: Unknown
1900-1945E. M. Forster to Malcolm Darling, 12 March 1912: 'I seem to have read several good books -- William James's Memorie...Edward Morgan Forster William JamesMemories and StudiesPrint: Book
1900-1945E. M. Forster to Malcolm Darling, 12 March 1912: 'I seem to have read several good books -- William James's Memorie...Edward Morgan Forster Walter de la MareThe ReturnPrint: Book
1900-1945E. M. Forster to Malcolm Darling, 12 March 1912: 'I seem to have read several good books -- William James's Memorie...Edward Morgan Forster Amber ReevesThe Reward of VirtuePrint: Book
1900-1945E. M. Forster to Leonard Woolf, before 24 May 1912: 'Dear Woolf 'It's a good story. Try the English Review -- I ...Edward Morgan Forster Leonard WoolfstoryManuscript: Unknown
1900-1945E. M. Forster to Forrest Reid, 19 June 1912: 'The day before yesterday I read The Ghost Ship by R. Middleton [...] ...Edward Morgan Forster Richard Barham Middleton'The Ghost Ship'
1900-1945E. M. Forster to Forrest Reid, 13 December 1912: 'I have read Following Darkness again, and am happier than I can t...Edward Morgan Forster Forrest ReidFollowing DarknessPrint: Book
1700-1799[LP recounts, addressing Matthew Pilkington, how she was invited to a Dublin widower's house and in the parlour] 'a Ge...a gentleman Laetitia PilkingtonMemoirsPrint: Book
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'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'The [underlined] whole [end underlining] trouble [in Bowen's relationships with her friends Phyllis and Clifford] is ...Esther Gwendolyn 'Stella' Bowen Clifford Bax[poems]Print: Unknown
1900-1945'The [underlined] whole [end underlining] trouble [in Bowen's relationships with her friends Phyllis and Clifford] is ...Esther Gwendolyn 'Stella' Bowen Phyllis Reid[poems]Unknown
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'I've had [underlined] one [end underlining] violent set-too with Douglas on the subject of Gertrude Stein. He said he...Douglas Cole Getrude Stein[art criticism]Print: Book
1900-1945'I have just read a very bad book by Edith Wharton & am cross with it for being bad because I thougt she never [underl...Esther Gwendolyn, 'Stella' Bowen Edith Wharton[unknown]Print: Book
1900-1945'The last mail brought me your Dedicatory letter. I am [underlined] so [end underlining] touched & so very very proud....Esther Gwendolyn, 'Stella' Bowen Ford Madox Ford[dedicatory letter to 'The Good Soldier']Manuscript: Letter
1900-1945'I read about your earlier dinner quite by accident in "Books" - & by the way I have never had the copy with your Step...Esther Gwendolyn, 'Stella' Bowen Isabel Paterson[column in ] New York Herald Tribune BooksPrint: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'I read about your earlier dinner quite by accident in "Books" - & by the way I have never had the copy with your Step...Esther Gwendolyn, 'Stella' Bowen Ford Madox Ford[unknown article about Ezra Pound]Print: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'I read about your earlier dinner quite by accident in "Books" - & by the way I have never had the copy with your Step...Esther Gwendolyn, 'Stella' Bowen Ernest HemingwaySun Also Rises, ThePrint: Book
1900-1945'I read about your earlier dinner quite by accident in "Books" - & by the way I have never had the copy with your Step...Esther Gwendolyn, 'Stella' Bowen Violet HuntI Have This to SayPrint: Book
1900-1945'I have inspected all the work the binder has done for you and as far as I can rember it seems to be what you ordered....Esther Gwendolyn, 'Stella' Bowen Ford Madox FordThus to RevisitPrint: Book
1900-1945'first let me say how splendid I think the "Last Post" is. (By the way, Duckworth has acknowledged receipt of MSS, so ...Esther Gwendolyn, 'Stella' Bowen Ford Madox FordLast Post, TheManuscript: Unknown
1900-1945'I am very touched by all the tributes in your New Year's letter, & enormously pleased with The Last Post. I don't bel...Esther Gwendolyn, 'Stella' Bowen Ford Madox FordLast Post, ThePrint: Book
1900-1945'Many thanks for the 3 chapters - they look entrancing, but I haven't had time to do more than glance at them as I've ...Esther Gwendolyn, 'Stella' Bowen Ford Madox Ford[chapters from 'It Was the Nightingale']Manuscript: Unknown
1900-1945'Ray Postgate has given me some [underlined] excellent [end underlining] reviews of it was the Nightingale by Isabel P...Esther Gwendolyn, 'Stella' Bowen Isabel Paterson[review of 'It Was The Nightingale' in] New York Herald Tribune Book ReviewPrint: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'Ray Postgate has given me some [underlined] excellent [end underlining] reviews of it was the Nightingale by Isabel P...Esther Gwendolyn, 'Stella' Bowen W.R. Benet'Uncle Ford'Print: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'Mummy is now reading "[T]he Time of Man", so you can't have it back just yet: but you'll get it some day'.Esther Gwendolyn, 'Stella' Bowen Elizabeth Madox RobertsTime of Man, ThePrint: Book
1850-1899'Your mention of Hawthorne puts me in mind to tell you what rabid [underlined] admirers we are of his [...] There is...Margaret De Quincey Nathaniel HawthorneTwice-Told TalesUnknown
1850-1899'Your mention of Hawthorne puts me in mind to tell you what rabid [underlined] admirers we are of his [...] There is...Margaret De Quincey Nathaniel HawthorneBlithedale RomancePrint: Book
1850-1899'Your mention of Hawthorne puts me in mind to tell you what rabid [underlined] admirers we are of his [...] There is...Margaret De Quincey Charles LambunknownUnknown
1850-1899'Your mention of Hawthorne puts me in mind to tell you what rabid [underlined] admirers we are of his [...] There is...Margaret De Quincey Ann RadcliffeThe Mysteries of UdolphoPrint: Book
1850-1899'Your mention of Hawthorne puts me in mind to tell you what rabid [underlined] admirers we are of his [...] There is...Margaret De Quincey William Makepeace ThackerayunknownPrint: Book
1850-1899'Your mention of Hawthorne puts me in mind to tell you what rabid [underlined] admirers we are of his [...] There is...Margaret De Quincey Henry Wadsworth LongfellowThe Golden LegendPrint: Book
1850-1899'The more I read of Mr. Hawthorne's writings the more intense does my admiration become. I read over the other day a...Margaret De Quincey Nathaniel HawthorneThe House of Seven GablesPrint: Book
1850-1899'The more I read of Mr. Hawthorne's writings the more intense does my admiration become. I read over the other day a...Margaret De Quincey William Wordsworth"She Was a Phantom of Delight"Print: Book
1850-1899'Have you read your sister in laws Doges Farm? Well that describes much the same sort of country that this is; and yo...Virginia Woolf Margaret SymondsDays Spent on a Doge's FarmPrint: Book
1900-1945'My real object in writing is to make a confession-which is to take back a whole cartload of goatisms which I used at ...Virginia Woolf William ShakespeareCymbelinePrint: Book
1900-1945'However, to make up, the Times has sent me two trashy books, about Thackeray and Dickens and I may write 1500 words o...Virginia Woolf Lewis MelvilleThe Thackeray CountryPrint: Book
1900-1945'However, to make up, the Times has sent me two trashy books, about Thackeray and Dickens and I may write 1500 words o...Virginia Woolf F. G. KittonThe Dickens CountryPrint: Book
1900-1945E. M. Forster to Laura Mary Forster, 19 February 1913: 'Do you know Sleeman's Rambles & Recollections of an Indian ...Edward Morgan Forster Sir William SleemanRambles and Recollections of an Indian OfficialPrint: Book
1900-1945E. M. Forster to Malcolm Darling, 6 November 1914: 'I am not a Pro-German [...] I have read the White Paper, and Cr...Edward Morgan Forster John Adam CrambGermany and England
1900-1945E. M. Forster to Malcolm Darling, 6 November 1914: 'I am not a Pro-German [...] I have read the White Paper, and Cr...Edward Morgan Forster General Friedrich Adam Julius von BernhardiPrint: Book
1900-1945E. M. Forster to Malcolm Darling, 6 November 1914: 'I am not a Pro-German [...] I have read the White Paper, and Cr...Edward Morgan Forster 'White Paper'Print: Unknown
1900-1945E. M. Forster to Malcolm Darling, 6 November 1914: 'Just now I sit in the N[ational]. G[allery]. having studied a n...Edward Morgan Forster notice on wartime safety measuresPrint: ?poster ('notice')
1900-1945E. M. Forster to Edward Joseph Dent, 6 March 1915: 'You can scarcely imagine the loneliness of such an effort as th...Roger Fry E. M. ForsterMauriceManuscript: Unknown
1900-1945E. M. Forster to Edward Joseph Dent, 6 March 1915: 'I have not read Platen yet [...] German's a labour. I liked Hol...Edward Morgan Forster Johann Christian Friedrich HolderlinHyperionPrint: Book
1900-1945E. M. Forster to Edward Joseph Dent, 6 March 1915: 'I have not read Platen yet [...] German's a labour. I liked Hol...Edward Morgan Forster D. H. LawrenceThe White PeacockPrint: Book
1900-1945E. M. Forster to Malcolm Darling, 2 August 1915: 'I read (and sometimes write) the New Statesman [...] also the Mor...Edward Morgan Forster The New StatesmanPrint: Serial / periodical
1900-1945E. M. Forster to Malcolm Darling, 2 August 1915: 'I read (and sometimes write) the New Statesman [...] also the Mor...Edward Morgan Forster The Morning PostPrint: Newspaper
1900-1945E. M. Forster to Malcolm Darling, 2 August 1915: 'I read (and sometimes write) the New Statesman [...] also the Mor...Edward Morgan Forster James Arthur Balfour'What Our Fleet Has Done' Print: Newspaper
1900-1945E. M. Forster to Malcolm Darling, 2 August 1915: 'I read (and sometimes write) the New Statesman [...] also the Mor...Edward Morgan Forster Count Ernst von Reventlow'A Year of Naval Warfare'Print: Newspaper
1900-1945E. M. Forster to Malcolm Darling, 6 August 1916: 'I saw from the Hospital Lists that an officer from Lovats Scouts ...Edward Morgan Forster Bridget McLagan (i.e. Mary Borden Turner)'Bombardment'Print: Serial / periodical
1900-1945E. M. Forster to Malcolm Darling, 6 August 1916: 'I saw from the Hospital Lists that an officer from Lovats Scouts ...Edward Morgan Forster Bridget McLagan (i.e. Mary Borden Turner)'Rousbrugge'Print: Serial / periodical
1900-1945E. M. Forster to Laura Mary Forster (aunt), 25 August 1916: 'Your welcome letter to Darkest Africa has been followe...Edward Morgan Forster 'Missionary magazine'Print: Serial / periodical
1900-1945E. M. Forster to Laura Mary Forster (aunt), 25 August 1916: 'Your welcome letter to Darkest Africa has been followe...Edward Morgan Forster Henry JamesWhat Maisie KnewPrint: Book
1900-1945E. M. Forster to Laura Mary Forster (aunt), 1 January 1917: 'For the last hour I have occupied myself with copying ...Edward Morgan Forster John MiltonUnknown
1900-1945E. M. Forster to Laura Mary Forster (aunt), 1 January 1917: 'For the last hour I have occupied myself with copying ...Edward Morgan Forster Walter PaterMarius the EpicureanPrint: Book
1900-1945E. M. Forster to Wilson Plant, 14 February 1917: 'Not many books here [...] I have been enjoying Bridges and sticki...Edward Morgan Forster Robert Bridges, ed.[possibly] The Spirit of Man: An Anthology in English & French from the Philosophers and Poets made by the POet Laureate in 1915 & dedicated by gracious permission to His Majesty the King Print: Book
1900-1945E. M. Forster to Wilson Plant, 14 February 1917: 'Not many books here [...] I have been enjoying Bridges and sticki...Edward Morgan Forster Emil ZolaPrint: Book
1900-1945E. M. Forster to Wilson Plant, 14 February 1917: 'Like you I am a great admirer of D. H. Lawrence [...] The Rainbow...Edward Morgan Forster D. H. LawrenceThe RainbowPrint: Book
1900-1945E. M. Forster to Goldsworthy Lowes Dickinson, 5 May 1917: 'I am anxious to re-read a little history and see how its...Edward Morgan Forster Edward GibbonPrint: Book
1900-1945E. M. Forster to Florence Barger,30 September 1917: 'Thanks for The Feet of the Young Men, but I wish I hadn't dock...Edward Morgan Forster The Feet of the Young MenPrint: Book
1900-1945E. M. Forster to Florence Barger,30 September 1917: 'Thanks for The Feet of the Young Men, but I wish I hadn't dock...Edward Morgan Forster Benedict SpinozaEthicsPrint: Book
1900-1945E. M. Forster to Robert Trevelyan, 29 January 1918: 'I am already deep in The Piddle Years [sic]. I never find Henr...Edward Morgan Forster Henry JamesThe Middle YearsPrint: Book
1900-1945E. M. Forster to Robert Trevelyan, 29 January 1918: 'I have been reading Racine and Claudel.'Edward Morgan Forster Jean Baptiste RacinePrint: Book
1900-1945E. M. Forster to Robert Trevelyan, 29 January 1918: 'I have been reading Racine and Claudel.'Edward Morgan Forster Paul ClaudelPrint: Book
1900-1945E. M. Forster to Robert Trevelyan, 29 January 1918: 'Lucretius has come -- I like him very much.'Edward Morgan Forster Robert TrevelyanTranslations from LucretiusManuscript: Unknown
1900-1945E. M. Forster to Siegfried Sassoon, 2 May 1918: 'Have just finished The Sense of the Past, and though it's so obscu...Edward Morgan Forster Henry JamesThe Sense of the PastPrint: Book
1900-1945E. M. Forster to Siegfried Sassoon, 3 August 1918: 'Re the poets you mention I have read some of them both. I liked...Edward Morgan Forster Robert GravesPrint: Unknown
1900-1945E. M. Forster to Siegfried Sassoon, 3 August 1918: 'Re the poets you mention I have read some of them both. I liked...Edward Morgan Forster Robert Malise Bowyer NicholsPrint: Unknown
1900-1945E. M. Forster to Robert Trevelyan, 23 August 1918: 'Thank you for your poem on Confuscius [sic]. It amused me very ...Edward Morgan Forster Robert TrevelyanUnknown
1900-1945E. M. Forster to Forrest Reid, 10 January 1919: 'Some of your stories I have read before, but I am enjoying and adm...Edward Morgan Forster Forrest Reid'Kenneth'Print: Book
1900-1945E. M. Forster to Forrest Reid, 10 January 1919: 'Some of your stories I have read before, but I am enjoying and adm...Edward Morgan Forster Forrest Reid'The Trial of Witches'Print: Book
1700-1799'[quotation from Johnson's 'Life of Edmund Smith', regarding Gilbert Walmsley] His studies had been so various, that I...Gilbert Walmsley Print: Book
1700-1799'The hand-writing [in the original sketch for "Irene"] is very difficult to read, even by those who were best acquaint...George III Samuel Johnson[original notes for "Irene"]Manuscript: Unknown
1900-1945[following transcribed passage on 'gravity,' from Tristram Shandy I.ii] 'Insight vitiated by instinct of self defen...Edward Morgan Forster Laurence SterneThe Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, GentlemanPrint: Book
1900-1945'More I reflect on the novel the higher I place it: attempts to read Swift, Miss Burney, Smollett, place it on a pinna...Edward Morgan Forster Jonathan SwiftPrint: Book
1900-1945'More I reflect on the novel the higher I place it: attempts to read Swift, Miss Burney, Smollett, place it on a pinna...Edward Morgan Forster Frances BurneyPrint: Book
1900-1945'More I reflect on the novel the higher I place it: attempts to read Swift, Miss Burney, Smollett, place it on a pinna...Edward Morgan Forster Tobias SmollettPrint: Book
1900-1945In Commonplace Book entries made during 1926, E. M. Forster comments upon, and transcribes passages from, Defoe's Mol...Edward Morgan Forster Daniel DefoeMoll FlandersPrint: Book
1900-1945'[Percy Lubbock] thinks ["The Craft of Fiction" -- a sensitive yet poor spirited book] that the aim of a novel should ...Edward Morgan Forster Percy LubbockThe Craft of FictionPrint: Book
1850-1899'Impossible to read a Meredith as simply and fairly as a Fielding, with one eye fixed on the author's interests and th...Edward Morgan Forster Henry FieldingTom JonesPrint: Book
1850-1899'Impossible to read a Meredith as simply and fairly as a Fielding, with one eye fixed on the author's interests and th...Edward Morgan Forster George MeredithEvan HarringtonPrint: Book
1900-1945Among entries made in 1926 in E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book is a passage from Vanbrugh, The Provok'd Wife III.i (op...Edward Morgan Forster John VanbrughThe Provok'd WifePrint: Book
1900-1945'Robinson Crusoe an English book -- and only the English could have accepted it as adult literature: comforted by feel...Edward Morgan Forster Daniel DefoeRobinson CrusoePrint: Book
1850-1899'Robinson Crusoe an English book -- and only the English could have accepted it as adult literature: comforted by feel...Edward Morgan Forster Daniel DefoeRobinson CrusoePrint: Book
1900-1945'Gulliver is Robinson Crusoe in Fairy Land [...] '[quotes] He said the [italics]Struldbrugs[end italics] commonly ...Edward Morgan Forster Jonathan SwiftGulliver's TravelsPrint: Book
1900-1945'Clarissa Harlowe. Have read 1/3 of [...] Certainly I am bored, but the book is not tedious through repetition -- the ...Edward Morgan Forster Samuel RichardsonClarissa, or The History of a Young LadyPrint: Book
1900-1945Among texts discussed and quoted from at length in 1926 Commonplace Book of E. M. Forster is Henry James, The Ambassad...Edward Morgan Forster Henry JamesThe AmbassadorsPrint: Book
1900-1945Among texts discussed and quoted from in 1926 Commonplace Book of E. M. Forster is Norman Douglas, D. H. Lawrence and ...Edward Morgan Forster Norman DouglasD. H. Lawrence and Maurice Magnus: A Plea for Better MannersPrint: Book
1900-1945Among texts discussed and quoted from in 1926 Commonplace Book of E. M. Forster is Herman Melville, Billy Budd, with r...Edward Morgan Forster Herman MelvilleBilly BuddPrint: Book
1900-1945'Great Expectations. Alliance between atmosphere and plot (the convicts) make it more solid and satisfactory than anyt...Edward Morgan Forster Charles DickensGreat ExpectationsPrint: Book
1900-1945Remarks in E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book of 1926 include 'Nearly all novels go off at the end,' with examples inclu...Edward Morgan Forster Sylvia Townsend WarnerLolly WillowesPrint: Book
1900-1945Remarks in E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book of 1926 include 'Nearly all novels go off at the end,' with further commen...Edward Morgan Forster David GarnettA Man in the ZooPrint: Book
1900-1945Remarks in E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book of 1926 include 'Nearly all novels go off at the end,' with further commen...Edward Morgan Forster David GarnettLady into FoxPrint: Book
1900-1945Remarks in E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book of 1926 include 'Nearly all novels go off at the end,' with further commen...Edward Morgan Forster David GarnettThe Sailor's ReturnUnknown
1900-1945Remarks in E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book of 1926 include 'Nearly all novels go off at the end,' with further commen...Edward Morgan Forster Oliver GoldsmithThe Vicar of WakefieldPrint: Book
1900-1945Entries in E. M. Forster, Commonplace Book (1926) include passage on character in tragedy from Aristotle, Poetics.Edward Morgan Forster Aristotle PoeticsPrint: Book
1900-1945Transcribed in E. M. Forster, Commonplace Book (1927): 'What is principle to me? I am a Pitt. -- Lady Hester Stanho...Edward Morgan Forster Max BeerbohmLetter to Lytton StracheyManuscript: Letter
1900-1945'An hour won. Dryden's Epistles read for pleasure September night windy, dark, warm, and I have read the Epistles of D...Edward Morgan Forster John DrydenEpistlesPrint: Book
1900-1945In Commonplace Book for 1927 E. F. Forster transcribes passage on time from vol. I, ch.iv of Thomas Mann, The Magic Mo...Edward Morgan Forster Thomas MannThe Magic MountainPrint: Book
1900-1945'Elusiveness. Shut up always in the same carcase, one is puzzled by this charge, which is brought against me not only ...Edward Morgan Forster J. B. Priestleyarticle on E. M. ForsterPrint: Newspaper
1900-1945Passages transcribed in E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book for 1927 include Oscar Browning's reflections, quoted in H. E...Edward Morgan Forster H. E. WorthamOscar BrowningPrint: Book
1900-1945Transcribed in E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book for 1927: 'I love me, I love me, I'm wild about myself, I love me,...Edward Morgan Forster 'I love me' (song lyric)Print: Book
1900-1945Under heading 'Peer Gynt': 'The main ideas of this great and bitter poem become clearer at this last hasty reading (3-...Edward Morgan Forster Henrik IbsenPeer GyntPrint: Book
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Under heading 'Peer Gynt': 'The main ideas of this great and bitter poem become clearer at this last hasty reading (3-...Edward Morgan Forster Henrik IbsenPeer GyntPrint: Book
1900-1945'Peace has been lost on the earth and only lives outside it, in places where my imagination has not been trained to fo...Edward Morgan Forster E. M. Forstershort storiesUnknown
1900-1945Passages transcribed into E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book (1928) include reflections on lovers' perceptions from Fran...Edward Morgan Forster Francois MauriacLe Desert de l'AmourPrint: Book
1900-1945Passages transcribed into E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book (1928) include reflections on lovers' perceptions from Fran...Edward Morgan Forster Francois MauriacLa PharisiennePrint: Book
1900-1945Passages transcribed into E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book (1928) include remarks on spatial relations between man, at...Edward Morgan Forster A. S. EddingtonStars and AtomsPrint: Book
1900-1945Passages transcribed into E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book (1928) include character Margaret's remarks on married life...Edward Morgan Forster Thomas DeloneyThe Gentle Craft part IIPrint: Book
1900-1945Passages transcribed into E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book (1929) include section from Horace Walpole's letter of 13 N...Edward Morgan Forster Horace WalpoleLetter to George Montagu, 13 November 1760Print: Book
1900-1945'Eddington (5.1.29). After reading his Nature of the Physical World as carefully as I can, the new ideas become more p...Edward Morgan Forster A. S. EddingtonThe Nature of the Physical WorldPrint: Book
1900-1945Transcribed into E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book (1929): 'It does not mattter what men say in words so long as the...Edward Morgan Forster A. N. WhiteheadScience and the Modern WorldPrint: Book
1900-1945Passages transcribed into E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book (1929) include anecdotes on pigmies from Ernest Hubert Lewi...Edward Morgan Forster Ernest Hubert Lewis SchwarzThe Kalahari and its Native RacesPrint: Book
1900-1945' "Impressions and experiences which are important for the man may take no place in the poetry, and those which become...Edward Morgan Forster T. S. Eliot'Tradition and the Individual Talent'Print: Book
1900-1945Passages transcribed into E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book (1929-30) include descriptions and reflections on vagrants...Edward Morgan Forster Anton Chekhov'Uprooted'Print: Book
1900-1945'Raw February Afternoon 2-30 [...] Reading Vaughan [quotes two stanzas beginning 'Thou art a moon-like toil'] [...] R...Edward Morgan Forster Henry Vaughan'Quickness'Print: Book
1900-1945'Raw February Afternoon 2-30 [...] Reading Vaughan [quotes two stanzas beginning 'Thou art a moon-like toil'] [...] R...Edward Morgan Forster F. L. Lucas'The Graces'Print: Book
1900-1945'Raw February Afternoon 2-30 [...] Thought, after reading little Cyril Conolly [sic], of the new generation knocking a...Edward Morgan Forster Cyril ConnollyPrint: Unknown
1900-1945'L'Heroisme consiste a ne pas permettre au corps de renier les impudences de l'esprit 'runs an epigram of Maurois w...Edward Morgan Forster Andre MauroisByronPrint: Book
1900-1945'Have been trying to read Solent Wolf [sic] again -- duck-weed and spittle unrelieved [...] No wonder that those Hardy...Edward Morgan Forster John Cowper PowysWolf SolentPrint: Book
1850-1899'At this time the controversy concerning the pieces published by Mr James Macpherson as translations of [italics] Ossi...Hugh Blair James MacphersonFragments of Ancient Poetry collected in the Highlands of ScotlandPrint: Book
1900-1945Passages transcribed in E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book (1930) include three stanzas (beginning 'Old warder of these ...Edward Morgan Forster Alfred TennysonIn MemoriamPrint: Book
1900-1945Passages transcribed in E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book (1930) include Tennyson, 'A Farewell'.Edward Morgan Forster Alfred Tennyson'A Farewell'Print: Book
1900-1945Passages transcribed in E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book (1930) include Poem LII ('Far in a western brookland') of A. ...Edward Morgan Forster A. E. HousmanPoem LII ('Far in a western brookland')Print: Book
1900-1945Texts discussed in E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book (1930) include Corneille, Trois Discours ('Sur le poeme dramatique...Edward Morgan Forster Pierre CorneilleTrois DiscoursPrint: Book
1900-1945Texts discussed, and quoted from at length, in E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book (1930) include The Conquest of Granada...Edward Morgan Forster John DrydenThe Conquest of GranadaPrint: Book
1900-1945Texts discussed, and quoted from at length, in E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book (1930) include The Conquest of Granada...Edward Morgan Forster John DrydenAn Essay of Heroic PlaysPrint: Book
1900-1945'Rodogune 1646. Despite indistinct and I believe undistinguished diction, this is the most moving and exciting play of...Edward Morgan Forster Pierre CorneilleRodogunePrint: Book
1900-1945Texts discussed and quoted from in E. M. Forster, Commonplace Book (1930) include John Dryden, Preface to The Maiden Q...Edward Morgan Forster John DrydenPreface, The Maiden QueenPrint: Book
1900-1945Texts discussed and quoted from at length in E. M. Forster, Commonplace Book (1930) include Samuel Johnson, Rasselas, ...Edward Morgan Forster Samuel JohnsonRasselasPrint: Book
1900-1945Texts discussed and quoted from at length in E. M. Forster, Commonplace Book (1930) include Samuel Johnson, Life of Sa...Edward Morgan Forster Samuel JohnsonLife of [Richard] SavagePrint: Book
1900-1945Texts discussed and quoted from in E. M. Forster, Commonplace Book (1930) include Samuel Johnson, Preface to the Engli...Edward Morgan Forster Samuel JohnsonPreface to DictionaryPrint: Book
1900-1945Texts discussed and quoted from in E. M. Forster, Commonplace Book (1930) include Samuel Johnson, Preface to the Engli...Edward Morgan Forster Samuel JohnsonPlan [for Dictionary]Print: Book
1900-1945[under heading 'Johnson on Othello]: 'Consulted original ed. to see if Raleigh misses out much. Naturally J. is stupid...Edward Morgan Forster Samuel Johnsonremarks on OthelloPrint: Book
1900-1945[under heading 'Johnson on Othello]: 'Consulted original ed. to see if Raleigh misses out much. Naturally J. is stupid...Edward Morgan Forster Walter Raleigh, ed.Johnson on ShakesparePrint: Book
1900-1945[under heading 'Battle of the Books']: 'How I dislike Swift, and how is it possible to take this ill tempered ill info...Edward Morgan Forster Jonathan SwiftThe Battle of the BooksPrint: Book
1900-1945[under heading 'Battle of the Books']: 'How I dislike Swift, and how is it possible to take this ill tempered ill info...Edward Morgan Forster Jonathan SwiftA Tale of a TubPrint: Book
1900-1945Texts on which detailed notes made in E. M. Forster, Commonplace Book (1930) include Boileau, L'Art Poetique, comments...Edward Morgan Forster Nicolas BoileauL'Art PoetiquePrint: Book
1900-1945'Dante, De Vulgari Eloquentia 1309 (?) which I'd never read and now only have in translation, must have been written e...Edward Morgan Forster Dante AlighieriDe Vulgari EloquentiaPrint: Book
1900-1945'Shaw's St Joan and Joyce's Ulysses into which I looked today (8-11-30) made me ashamed of my own writing. They have s...Edward Morgan Forster George Bernard ShawSaint JoanPrint: Book
1900-1945'Shaw's St Joan and Joyce's Ulysses into which I looked today (8-11-30) made me ashamed of my own writing. They have s...Edward Morgan Forster James JoyceUlyssesPrint: Book
1900-1945[entered in E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book (1930), underneath quoted passage opening 'I wonder what morality is, whe...Edward Morgan Forster J. A. SymondsManuscript: Unknown, Copied from earlier transcription in Forster's hand.
1900-1945[entered in E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book (1930), underneath quoted passage opening 'I wonder what morality is, whe...Edward Morgan Forster J. A. SymondsUnknown
1900-1945Texts quoted from at length in E. M. Forster, Commonplace Book (1931) include Henry James, Letters, passages from whic...Edward Morgan Forster Henry JamesThe Letters of Henry James (vol.I)Print: Book
1900-1945'Aubrey in young John Collier's book of selections has reminded me of the value of the quaint and the charming: they m...Edward Morgan Forster John AubreyThe Scandal and Credulities of John AubreyPrint: Book
1900-1945Texts from which passages quoted in E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book, 1931-32, include remarks on animal genitalia in ...Edward Morgan Forster Voltaire Des Singularites de la NaturePrint: Book
1900-1945Passages quoted in E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book, 1932, include this remark from Charles F. Richardson 'Critical In...Edward Morgan Forster Charles F. Richardson'Critical Introduction'Print: Book
1900-1945Under heading 'Invocation of Poetry by Rhetoric': 'A mass of dead words is set spinning, then kindles. [italics]Or[...Edward Morgan Forster William ShakespeareRomeo and JulietPrint: Book
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
1900-1945Passages transcribed at length in E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book (1932) include reflections by Indu Rakshit on 'the ...Edward Morgan Forster Indu RakshitPrint: Serial / periodical
1900-1945Passages transcribed at length in E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book (1932) include extract from Voltaire, Charles XII B...Edward Morgan Forster Voltaire Histoire de Charles XII (Book 3)Print: Book
1900-1945Passages transcribed in E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book (1935) include (from chapter 15 of Christopher Isherwood, Mr ...Edward Morgan Forster Christopher IsherwoodMr Norris Changes TrainsPrint: Book
1900-1945Passages transcribed in E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book (1935) include reflections on associations of placenames and ...Edward Morgan Forster Ernest HemingwayA Farewell to ArmsPrint: Book
1900-1945Passages transcribed in E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book (1935-6) include two quotations from Herman Melville, Mardi.Edward Morgan Forster Herman MelvilleMardiPrint: Book
1900-1945Passages transcribed in E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book (1935-6) include quotation from letter of Herman Melville to ...Edward Morgan Forster Herman MelvilleLetter to Nathaniel Hawthorne, ?1 June 1851Print: Book
1900-1945Passages transcribed in E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book (1935-6) include quotation from Norman Douglas, Together, ope...Edward Morgan Forster Norman DouglasTogetherPrint: Book
1900-1945'A clean table and proper lighting make me solider, I find. Tonight I have swept all the rubbish off my board and read...Edward Morgan Forster Sophocles Oedipus TyrannusPrint: Book
1900-1945Passages transcribed into E. M. Forster, Commonplace Book (1937) include part of Le Morte D'Arthur, XX.3, opening: ' "...Edward Morgan Forster Thomas MaloryLe Morte D'ArthurPrint: Book
1900-1945Passages transcribed into E. M. Forster, Commonplace Book (1937) include Zechariah I.ii: 'And they answered the Ang...Edward Morgan Forster Book of ZechariahPrint: Book
1900-1945Passages transcribed into E. M. Forster, Commonplace Book (1937) include five extracts from letters of Ibsen, noted as...Edward Morgan Forster Henrik Ibsenpassages from The Correspondence of Henrik IbsenManuscript: Unknown
1900-1945Passages transcribed into E. M. Forster, Commonplace Book (1937) include extract from Cowley's Essay No. 5 ('The Garde...Edward Morgan Forster Abraham CowleyEssay no. 5 ('The Garden')Print: Book
1900-1945Passages transcribed into E. M. Forster, Commonplace Book (1937) include the description of the death of Mr Badman's ...Edward Morgan Forster John BunyanThe Life and Death of Mr BadmanPrint: Book
1900-1945Passages transcribed into E. M. Forster, Commonplace Book (1937) include reflections upon benefits of reading both dev...Edward Morgan Forster Jean de la Bruyere'Du Coeur'Print: Book
1900-1945Passages transcribed at length into E. M. Forster, Commonplace Book (1937) include the description of the suicide of J...Edward Morgan Forster John BunyanThe Life and Death of Mr BadmanPrint: Book
1900-1945Passages transcribed at length into E. M. Forster, Commonplace Book (1937-38) include extracts on the art and literatu...Edward Morgan Forster Jean Freville, trans. and ed.Sur la Litterature et l'Art: Karl Marx, Friedrich EngelsPrint: Book
1900-1945Passages transcribed at length into E. M. Forster, Commonplace Book (1938) include Hitler's 18 July 1937 'address at M...Edward Morgan Forster Adolf Hitleraddress on national artPrint: Unknown
1900-1945Passages transcribed at length into E. M. Forster, Commonplace Book (1938) include 'Lenin-cum-Stalin on literature. Be...Edward Morgan Forster V. I. Lenin and Josef Stalin(excerpted) writings on literaturePrint: Book
1900-1945Passages transcribed into E. M. Forster, Commonplace Book (1938) include Ruskin's remarks on Claude and the Poussins a...Edward Morgan Forster John RuskinThe Stones of Venice (vol 1 chapter 1)Print: Book
1900-1945Passages transcribed into E. M. Forster, Commonplace Book (1938) include General R. T. Wilson's account of five Britis...Edward Morgan Forster General Sir Robert Thomas WilsonHistory of the British Expedition to EgyptPrint: Book
1900-1945Passages transcribed into E. M. Forster, Commonplace Book (1938) include criticisms of practices of editors of Renaiss...Edward Morgan Forster William GiffordMemoir of Ben JonsonPrint: Book
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Passages transcribed into E. M. Forster, Commonplace Book (1938) include criticisms of practices of editors of Renaiss...Thomas Babington Macaulay William GiffordMemoir of Ben JonsonPrint: Book
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Under heading 'Early Greek Science. -- And Lucretius': 'Farington (Science and Politics in the Ancient World) think...Edward Morgan Forster Benjamin FaringtonScience and Politics in the Ancient WorldPrint: Book
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Under heading 'Early Greek Science. -- And Lucretius': 'Farington (Science and Politics in the Ancient World) think...Edward Morgan Forster F. M. CornfordFrom Religion to PhilosophyPrint: Book
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Passages transcribed at length into E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book (1938) include 'The Rev. John Newton on the Messi...Edward Morgan Forster John NewtonSermon IV ('The Lord Coming to His Temple')Print: Book
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Passages transcribed into E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book (1938-40) include three quotations from the Dunciad (addres...Edward Morgan Forster Alexander PopeThe Dunciad (books I and II)Print: Book
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'Dispsychus -- read after many hesitations -- is not clear what world it opposes to the spirit: the world of action or...Edward Morgan Forster Arthur Hugh CloughDipsychusPrint: Book
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Passages quoted in E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book (1940) include remarks on value of cultural works for successive g...Edward Morgan Forster John Emerich Edward Dalberg Lord ActonA Lecture on the Study of HistoryPrint: Book
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Passages quoted in E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book (1940) include remarks on value of cultural works for successive g...Edward Morgan Forster William WordsworthThe PreludePrint: Book
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Passages quoted in E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book (1940) include remarks on value of cultural works for successive g...Edward Morgan Forster William Wordsworth'Sonnet on Napoleon'Print: Book
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Passages quoted at length in E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book (1940) include three extracts from the Letters of Madame...Edward Morgan Forster Madame de SevigneLettersPrint: Book
1900-1945Passages transcribed in E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book (1940-41) under heading 'Eighteenth Centuriana' include repor...Edward Morgan Forster R. W. Ketton-CremerHorace Walpole: A BiographyPrint: Book
1900-1945[under heading Voltaire's Zaide] 'The warmth of feeling between Z. and Orasmane, the easiness of the action (except in...Edward Morgan Forster Voltaire ZaidePrint: Book
1900-1945Passages transcribed into E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book (1941) include remarks on bigotry (opening 'Bigotry is an o...Edward Morgan Forster Ernest HemingwayFor Whom the Bell TollsPrint: Book
1900-1945Transcribed in E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book (1941), under heading 'Wordsworth on Machinery': '"Nor shall your p...Edward Morgan Forster William WordsworthSonnets of the Imagination XLIIPrint: Book
1900-1945Passages transcribed in E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book (1941) include speech about Christmas by Dolly Winthrop in ch...Edward Morgan Forster George EliotSilas MarnerPrint: Book
1900-1945Passages transcribed in E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book (1941) include stanza 7 of Malherbe, 'Consolation a Monsieur ...Edward Morgan Forster Francois de Malherbe'Consolation a Monsieur du Perier, sur la Mort de sa Fille'Print: Book
1900-1945Passages transcribed in E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book (1941) include stanza 32 of Malherbe, 'Pour le Roi, allant ch...Edward Morgan Forster Francois de Malherbe'Pour le Roi, allant chatier la Rebellion des Rochelois'Print: Book
1900-1945Passages transcribed in E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book (1941) include remark that '[Christ] was the Son of Man, beca...Edward Morgan Forster Gerald HeardThe Creed of Christ: An Interpretation of the Lord's PrayerPrint: Book
1900-1945'The Disappointment of God. 'The Times, in an article with this title, announced that though God is certainly disap...Edward Morgan Forster 'The Disappointment of God'Print: Newspaper
1900-1945'Sylvia's Lovers 1863, though I have not finished it, has been an eye-opener after the twitterings of Cranford. The se...Edward Morgan Forster Elizabeth GaskellSylvia's LoversPrint: Book
1900-1945Passages transcribed in E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book (1942) include remarks by H. A. L. Fisher beginning: 'Men wis...Edward Morgan Forster H. A. L. FisherA History of EuropePrint: Book
1900-1945Passages transcribed in E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book (1942) include Ruskin's remark, from a Slade Lecture (with fi...Edward Morgan Forster John Ruskin'The Pleasures of Deed' (Lecture II in series 'The Pleasures of England')Print: Book
1900-1945Passages transcribed in E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book (1942) include remark by Courier, opening 'Les gendarmes sont...Edward Morgan Forster Paul-Louis Courier'Petition pour les Villageois que l'on empeche de Danser' (1822)Print: Book
1900-1945Passages transcribed in E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book (1942) include remark by Paul Valery opening 'L'Histoire est ...Edward Morgan Forster Paul ValeryPrint: Book
1900-1945Passages transcribed (and translated) in E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book (1942) include remarks on conquerors' imposi...Edward Morgan Forster St AugustineDe Civitate DeiPrint: Book
1900-1945'That detestable father [italics]St Jerome[end italics], thus reacts to the Fall of Rome:-- '[...] When the refugee...Edward Morgan Forster Thomas HodgkinItaly and Her Invaders 376-476 (vol. I)Print: Book
1900-1945'That detestable father [italics]St Jerome[end italics], thus reacts to the Fall of Rome:-- '[...] When the refugee...Edward Morgan Forster Virgil Aeneid (Book II)Print: Book
1900-1945From Diary of E. M. Forster, 8 September 1940: 'London Burning! I watched this event from my Chiswick flat last nig...Edward Morgan Forster George EliotMiddlemarchPrint: Book
1900-1945[Following notes on 'squabble' between SS. Jerome and Augustine] 'Extracted from ch. iv of Lecky's "Morals from Aug...Edward Morgan Forster W. E. H. LeckyHistory of European Morals from Augustus to CharlemagnePrint: Book
1900-1945'St Augustine, Some scattered notes. 'Have glanced at his work On Marriage & Concupiscence, part of his attack on t...Edward Morgan Forster St Augustine'On Marriage and Concupiscence'Print: Book
1900-1945[Following notes on life and thought of Pelagius] 'From a good article in the Biographie Universelle.'Edward Morgan Forster Michaudarticle on PelagiusPrint: Book
1900-1945[Following heading 'St Augustine'] 'Some questions raised rather than solved in Figges' [sic] "Political Aspects of th...Edward Morgan Forster John Neville FiggisThe Political Aspects of St Augustine's City of GodPrint: Book
1900-1945Texts quoted from and discussed at length in E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book (1942) include St Jerome, Letters ('Loeb...Edward Morgan Forster St JeromeSelect Letters of St JeromePrint: Book
1900-1945'St Basil (329-379) [...] is a Father easily disposed of, and a glance at the second volume of letters in Loeb shall s...Edward Morgan Forster St BasilLetters (vol.II)Print: Book
1900-1945'Forster's material on the Sophists and others is drawn from part II ("Byzantium A.D. 313-565") of F. A. Wright's A Hi...Edward Morgan Forster F. A. WrightA History of Later Greek LiteraturePrint: Book
1900-1945[following heading Sophocles of Constantinople] 'I have run through his Ecclesiastical History with amusement and with...Edward Morgan Forster Socrates of ConstantinopleEcclesiastical HistoryPrint: Book
1900-1945[following heading 'Bakunin (1814-1876)] 'Reading Carr's pitiless and ungenerous account of him, I am often carried ou...Edward Morgan Forster E. H. CarrMichael BakuninPrint: Book
1900-1945Texts from which passages transcribed at length in E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book (1942-1943) include Marcel Proust,...Edward Morgan Forster Marcel ProustLe Temps RetrouvePrint: Book
1900-1945'In his diary (1 March 1922) Forster recorded, while on the boat returning from India, his early impressions of Proust...Edward Morgan Forster Marcel ProustDu Cote de chez SwannPrint: Book
1900-1945Passages transcribed in E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book (1943) include reflections on Australia from Charles Darwin's...Edward Morgan Forster Charles DarwinThe Voyage of the BeaglePrint: Book
1900-1945Passages transcribed in E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book (1943) include anecdote about Boer prisoners and their guards...Edward Morgan Forster A. P. WavellAllenby: Soldier and StatesmanPrint: Book
1900-1945'La Silence de la Mer by "Vercors" (Schlumberger?) was given me by Raymond Mortimer yesterday and read without much ad...Edward Morgan Forster Jean BrullerLe Silence de la MerPrint: Book
1900-1945'La Silence de la Mer by "Vercors" (Schlumberger?) was given me by Raymond Mortimer yesterday and read without much ad...Edward Morgan Forster Jean Giono'Prelude de Pan'Print: Unknown
1900-1945'La Silence de la Mer by "Vercors" (Schlumberger?) was given me by Raymond Mortimer yesterday and read without much ad...Edward Morgan Forster Honore de BalzacIllusions perduesPrint: Book
1900-1945'La Silence de la Mer by "Vercors" (Schlumberger?) was given me by Raymond Mortimer yesterday and read without much ad...Edward Morgan Forster Andre GideJournalPrint: Unknown
1900-1945Poems transcribed in E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book (1943) include Stefan George's verses opening 'Du schlank und re...Edward Morgan Forster Stefan George'Du schlank un rein wie eine flamme'Print: Book
1900-1945Poems transcribed in E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book (1943) include Stefan George's verses opening 'Du schlank und re...Edward Morgan Forster Charles Baudelaire'Hymne' ('A la tres-chere, a la tres-belle')Print: Book
1900-1945'The Ordeal of Mark Twain by a bothered and bothering American of the psychoanalysing 20s has succeeded in bothering m...Edward Morgan Forster Van Wyck BrooksThe Ordeal of Mark TwainPrint: Book
1900-1945[under heading 'Lord Acton Some "shining precepts" for the historical student] E. M. Forster transcribes passage op...Edward Morgan Forster John Emerich Edward Dalberg Lord ActonA Lecture on the Study of HistoryPrint: Book
1900-1945Noted by E. M. Forster in his Commonplace Book (1944), beside quoted lines 'Thought shall be the harder / Heart the ke...Edward Morgan Forster Arnold ToynbeeA Study of History (vol I)Print: Book
1900-1945Transcribed by E. M. Forster in his Commonplace Book (1944): 'On Hydon's top there is a cup And in that cup there ...Edward Morgan Forster A Handbook for Travellers in Surrey, Hampshire and the Isle of WightPrint: Book
1900-1945Passages in E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book (1944) include two short quotations, from Bede ('Two most wicked spirits ...Edward Morgan Forster Bede Ecclesiastical History (Bk 5 ch 13)Print: Book
1900-1945Passages in E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book (1944) include two short quotations, from Bede ('Two most wicked spirits ...Edward Morgan Forster Henri-Frederic AmielFragments d'un Journal IntimePrint: Book
1900-1945Passages in E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book (1944) include description of domestic life from Charles Waterton, Wander...Edward Morgan Forster Charles WatertonWanderings in South AmericaPrint: Book
1900-1945Passages in E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book (1944-45) include account of Ancient Egyptian burial customs, as discover...Edward Morgan Forster Samuel HenleyAppendix no. 2Print: Book
1900-1945Passages in E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book (1945) include extracts (on transience of pleasure in nature) from Ruskin...Edward Morgan Forster John RuskinIntroduction to Notes on Turner drawingsPrint: Book
1850-1899'He [George Gissing] seems to have read Hardy's novels as they appeared and, impressed by "Diana of the Crossways", re...George Gissing Thomas Hardy[novels]Print: Book
1850-1899'He [George Gissing] seems to have read Hardy's novels as they appeared and, impressed by "Diana of the Crossways", re...George Gissing George MeredithDiana of the CrosswaysPrint: Book
1850-1899'He [George Gissing] seems to have read Hardy's novels as they appeared and, impressed by "Diana of the Crossways", re...George Gissing George Meredith[novels]Print: Book
1850-1899'In the late 1880s Gissing immersed himself in contemporary European fiction, as he had during previous periods of his...George Gissing Johann Wolfgang von Goethe[unknown]Print: Book
1850-1899'In the late 1880s Gissing immersed himself in contemporary European fiction, as he had during previous periods of his...George Gissing Heinrich Heine[unknown]Print: Book
1850-1899'In the late 1880s Gissing immersed himself in contemporary European fiction, as he had during previous periods of his...George Gissing Joseph Marie Eugene Sue[unknown]Print: Book
1850-1899'In the late 1880s Gissing immersed himself in contemporary European fiction, as he had during previous periods of his...George Gissing Henri MurgerScenes de la Vie BohemePrint: Book
1850-1899'In the late 1880s Gissing immersed himself in contemporary European fiction, as he had during previous periods of his...George Gissing Auguste ComteCours de Philosophie PositivePrint: Book
1850-1899'In the late 1880s Gissing immersed himself in contemporary European fiction, as he had during previous periods of his...George Gissing Ivan TurgenevFathers and SonsPrint: Book
1850-1899'In the late 1880s Gissing immersed himself in contemporary European fiction, as he had during previous periods of his...George Gissing Moliere[unknown]Print: Book
1850-1899'In the late 1880s Gissing immersed himself in contemporary European fiction, as he had during previous periods of his...George Gissing George Sand [pseud.][unknown]Print: Book
1850-1899'In the late 1880s Gissing immersed himself in contemporary European fiction, as he had during previous periods of his...George Gissing Honore de Balzac[unknown]Print: Book
1850-1899'In the late 1880s Gissing immersed himself in contemporary European fiction, as he had during previous periods of his...George Gissing Alfred de Musset[unknown]Print: Book
1850-1899'In the late 1880s Gissing immersed himself in contemporary European fiction, as he had during previous periods of his...George Gissing Henrik Ibsen[unknown]Print: Book
1850-1899'In the late 1880s Gissing immersed himself in contemporary European fiction, as he had during previous periods of his...George Gissing Emile Zola[unknown]Print: Book
1850-1899'In the late 1880s Gissing immersed himself in contemporary European fiction, as he had during previous periods of his...George Gissing Fyodor Dostoevsky[unknown]Print: Book
1850-1899'In the late 1880s Gissing immersed himself in contemporary European fiction, as he had during previous periods of his...George Gissing Edmond de Goncourt[unknown]Print: Book
1850-1899'He [George Gissing] recommended [in letters to his siblings] books like Morris's "Earthly Paradise", a poem "aboundin...George Gissing William MorrisEarthly Paradise, ThePrint: Book
1850-1899'He [George Gissing] recommended [in letters to his siblings] books like Morris's "Earthly Paradise", a poem "aboundin...George Gissing John RuskinUnto this LastPrint: Book
1850-1899'He [George Gissing] recommended [in letters to his siblings] books like Morris's "Earthly Paradise", a poem "aboundin...George Gissing Walter ScottRedgauntletPrint: Book
1850-1899'He [George Gissing] recommended [in letters to his siblings] books like Morris's "Earthly Paradise", a poem "aboundin...George Gissing Walter Savage LandorImaginary Conversations Print: Book
1850-1899'He [George Gissing] recommended [in letters to his siblings] books like Morris's "Earthly Paradise", a poem "aboundin...George Gissing Johann Peter EckermanConversations of GoethePrint: Book
1850-1899'He [George Gissing] recommended [in letters to his siblings] books like Morris's "Earthly Paradise", a poem "aboundin...George Gissing Friedrich Schiller[unknown]Print: Book
1850-1899'He [George Gissing] recommended [in letters to his siblings] books like Morris's "Earthly Paradise", a poem "aboundin...Margaret Gissing Friedrich Schiller[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'Now [after 1890] he [Gissing] read books that seemed to have had a direct impact on his development, turning him away...George Gissing Paul Charles Joseph Bourget[unknown]Print: Book
1850-1899'Now [after 1890] he [Gissing] read books that seemed to have had a direct impact on his development, turning him away...George Gissing Jens Peter JacobsenNiels lyhnePrint: Book
1850-1899'Now [after 1890] he [Gissing] read books that seemed to have had a direct impact on his development, turning him away...George Gissing Jens Peter JacobsenMarie GrubePrint: Book
1850-1899'Now [after 1890] he [Gissing] read books that seemed to have had a direct impact on his development, turning him away...George Gissing Ivan TurgenevFathers and SonsPrint: Book
1850-1899'Now [after 1890] he [Gissing] read books that seemed to have had a direct impact on his development, turning him away...George Gissing Fyodor Dostoevsky[unknown]Print: Book
1850-1899'Now [after 1890] he [Gissing] read books that seemed to have had a direct impact on his development, turning him away...George Gissing Thomas HardyWoodlanders, ThePrint: Book
1850-1899'Now [after 1890] he [Gissing] read books that seemed to have had a direct impact on his development, turning him away...George Gissing Thomas HardyMayor of Casterbridge, ThePrint: Book
1850-1899'Now [after 1890] he [Gissing] read books that seemed to have had a direct impact on his development, turning him away...George Gissing Thomas HardyJude the ObscurePrint: Book
1850-1899'Now [after 1890] he [Gissing] read books that seemed to have had a direct impact on his development, turning him away...George Gissing Henrik IbsenHedda GablerPrint: 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
1850-1899'Gissing, probably more than any of his contemporaries, knew well the main trends of European literature at that time,...George Gissing Honore de Balzac[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 Emile Zola[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 Ivan Turgenev[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 Leo Tolstoy[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 Fyodor Dostoevsky[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 Gustave Flaubert[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 Guy de Maupassant[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 Henrik Ibsen[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 Alphonse Daudet[unknown]Print: Book
1850-1899'Gissing read as widely as ever, with the same unbridled curiosity as during his youth but now with an intelligence te...George Gissing J.P. JacobsenNiels LyhnePrint: Book
1850-1899'Gissing read as widely as ever, with the same unbridled curiosity as during his youth but now with an intelligence te...George Gissing Frederika BremerHerthaPrint: Book
1850-1899'Gissing read as widely as ever, with the same unbridled curiosity as during his youth but now with an intelligence te...George Gissing Hippolyte TaineHistory of English LiteraturePrint: Book
1850-1899'Gissing read as widely as ever, with the same unbridled curiosity as during his youth but now with an intelligence te...George Gissing Paul BourgetÉtudes et portraitsPrint: Book
1850-1899'Gissing read as widely as ever, with the same unbridled curiosity as during his youth but now with an intelligence te...George Gissing Paul BourgetEssais de psychologie contemporainePrint: Book
1850-1899'Gissing read as widely as ever, with the same unbridled curiosity as during his youth but now with an intelligence te...George Gissing Albert Henry BuckTreatise on Hygiene and Public Health Print: Book
1850-1899'Gissing read as widely as ever, with the same unbridled curiosity as during his youth but now with an intelligence te...George Gissing William B. CarpenterPrinciples of Mental Physiology, With Their Applications to the Training and Discipline of the MindPrint: Book
1850-1899'Gissing read as widely as ever, with the same unbridled curiosity as during his youth but now with an intelligence te...George Gissing Theodule-Armand RibotHérédité: étude psychologique Print: Book
1850-1899'[from Gissing's diary] Spent the evening in a troubled state of mind, occasionaly glancing at Darwin's "Origin of Spe...George Gissing Charles DarwinOn the Origin of SpeciesPrint: Book
1850-1899'[in Athens, Gissing] spent a lot of time in the hotel reading Aristophanes and Plato. He could read Greek but not spe...George Gissing Aristophanes[unknown]Print: Book
1850-1899'[in Athens, Gissing] spent a lot of time in the hotel reading Aristophanes and Plato. He could read Greek but not spe...George Gissing Plato[unknown]Print: Book
1700-1799'The late "worthy'' Duke of Queensberry, as Thomson, in his "Seasons," justly characterises him, told me that when Gay...Charles Douglas, Third Duke of Queensberry John GayBeggar's Opera, TheUnknown
1900-1945'the two poets [Owen and Sassoon] probably talked more about literature than anything else. Owen found that they had b...Siegfried Sassoon Thomas HardyPrint: Book
1900-1945'the two poets [Owen and Sassoon] probably talked more about literature than anything else. Owen found that they had b...Siegfried Sassoon John KeatsPrint: Book
1900-1945'the two poets [Owen and Sassoon] probably talked more about literature than anything else. Owen found that they had b...Siegfried Sassoon Alfred Edward HousmanPrint: Book
1900-1945'Nothing before "Le Feu" had given such an appallingly vivid description of trench warfare or combined it with such pa...Siegfried sassoon Henri BarbusseUnder FirePrint: Book
1600-1699'they lent me Mr Gee's booke concerninge prayer; he was minister at Eccleston. And upon the 15th day, Tusday, I was re...Roger Lowe Edward GeeA Treatise of Prayer and of Divine Providence as relating to itPrint: Book
1600-1699'I stayd till noone readinge in the Booke of Martirs'.Roger Lowe John FoxeBook of Martyrs Print: Book
1600-1699'I went into old William Hasleden's in Ashton; his wife was sicke and I read in the Practice of Pietie, and as I was r...Roger Lowe Lewis BaylyThe Practice of PietyPrint: Book
1850-1899The Duke of Argyll to Alfred Tennyson, 14 July 1859: 'I think my prediction is coming true, that your "Idylls of th...Thomas Babington Macaulay Alfred TennysonGuineverePrint: Book
1850-1899The Duke of Argyll to Alfred Tennyson, 14 July 1859: 'I think my prediction is coming true, that your "Idylls of th...Thomas Babington Macaulay Alfred TennysonThe Maid of AstolatPrint: Book
1900-1945'"I have just put down the "Testament Politique,"" G. was writing to me, as though by telepathy, only a week later, "a...Frederick the Great of Prussia Testament PolitiquePrint: Book
1700-1799[from Bennet Langton's collection of Johnsoniana passed to Boswell in 1780] 'He mentioned with an air of satisfaction ...Giuseppe Marc'Antonio Baretti Mr Grove[articled in 'The Spectator']Print: Serial / periodical
1700-1799'Baretti used to read here with vast Avidity - do you remember all you read said I one day - Scarce a word replyed Bar...Giuseppe Marc'Antonio Baretti Print: Book
1700-1799'The Famous Sonnet of Sir H: Wooton beginning. Ye meaner Beauties of the Night is likewise exquisitely pretty, and I s...Giuseppe Marc'Antonio Baretti Henry Wooton'Ye meaner beauties of the night'Print: Unknown
1850-1899Read for the fist time June 1865. Macaulay took this volume more than once on our Easter trips.George Otto Trevelyan Charles DickensPickwick PapersPrint: Book
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Copious MS notes, some correcting translation, others commenting on world affairs or noting events in Trevelyan's own ...George Otto Trevelyan Conyers MiddletonThe life and letters of Marcus Tullius CiceroPrint: Book
1900-1945"This volume was being read by Sir George Trevelyan when his last illness overtook him. CPT" [i.e. Sir Charles Philips...George Otto Trevelyan John PooleLittle Pedlington and the PedlingtoniansPrint: Book
1900-1945"This volume was being read by Sir George Trevelyan when his last illness came on him": MS note in the hand of Sir Cha...George Otto Trevelyan Elizabeth Von ArnimChristopher and ColumbusPrint: Book
1900-1945MS date of reading by G.O. Trevelyan: Sep 2 1922. Also: "The pencil notes in this volume, which are cut off partially ...George Otto Trevelyan Cicero The treatises of M.T. CiceroPrint: Book
1900-1945Vol. III: "Sept 10 1922 A jolly book with all its faults and absurdities. The social manners and ways of three generat...George Otto Trevelyan Frances TrollopeThe Laurringtons; or, superior peoplePrint: Book
1900-1945"What an admirable and clear type this most readable book is printed in! June 18 1928". "Perhaps the last time this am...George Otto Trevelyan Frances TrollopeThe ward of Thorpe-CombePrint: Book
1900-1945"Oct 23 1913 Excellent book. The best account of the great Tory re-action that I know, - except in Scotland, Cockburn'...George Otto Trevelyan Henry GunningReminiscences of the university, town and county of Cambridem from the year 1780Print: Book
1900-1945Many marginal notes include: "The marginal notes and lines are from Macaulay's Deux Ponts edition. NB I did not read t...George Otto Trevelyan Aulus GelliusNoctes atticaePrint: Book
1900-1945"The marginal lines and notes are copied from Macaulay's Bipontine edition They are of high interest NB The notes in p...George Otto Trevelyan Caius Velleius PaterculusWorksPrint: Book
1900-1945"July 19 1909. Ah me. I was reading this soon after dear little Paul died." [Paul = grandson of George Otto Trevelyan....George Otto Trevelyan Caius Suetonius TranquillusOpera omniaPrint: Book
1900-1945Many MS dates of reading: "Feb 13 1907 Welcombe"; "Nov 10 1909 Rome (Read in one day)"; "June 1915 Welcombe"; "October...George Otto Trevelyan Plato Dialogues
1900-1945Many MS dates of reading incl. "Began reading the Odyssey in summer of 1902, continued it during summer of 1903." George Otto Trevelyan Homer IliadPrint: Book
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Copious MS notes and doodles throughout. First date "Trevelyan May 1852". One sketch is a drawing of "Alice [his siste...George Otto Trevelyan Thucydides De bello PelloponesiacoPrint: Book
1900-1945Copious MS notes; multiple dates of reading , incl. "Sept 15 1915 Wallington"; "July 3 1922 A glorious winter"; "Finis...George Otto Trevelyan Herodotus WorksPrint: Book
1850-1899This book, originally owned and read by Lord Macaulay in June-Oct 1836, was given to his nephew who wrote on flyleaf: ...George Otto Trevelyan Martin MadanA new and literal translation of Juvenal and PerseusPrint: Book
1900-1945Copious MS notes in hand of George Otto Trevelyan. Dates of reading are: Oct 1902 (on a train in Italy); Sept 16 1905;...George Otto Trevelyan Demosthenes Demosthenes With English notes by the Rev. Arthur HolmesPrint: Book
1900-1945Copious notes and dates of reading, incl. Dec 1918, Sept 1921. Trevelyan transcribes the dates when Macaulay also read...George Otto Trevelyan Demosthenes Orationes publicae; ed. by G.H. Heslop ... The OlynthiacsPrint: Book
1900-1945Copious MS notes, incl.: "The Midas was the first oration of Demosthenes which Macaulay gave me, as a schoolboy, to re...George Otto Trevelyan Demosthenes in MidiamPrint: Book
1900-1945Copious MS notes in the hand of Sir George Otto Trevelyan, including: "The marginal lines, and notes, are copied from ...George Otto Trevelyan Xenophon Anabasis; with an English translation by Carleton L. BrownsonPrint: Book
1850-1899MS notes and dates of reading include: "Top of Beamerside while electioneering at Melrose, July 6th, 1868"; p.40: "Wey...George Otto Trevelyan Horace Works; ed by MacleanePrint: Book
1900-1945MS note on final flyleaf: "This book gets very poor towards the end. The omissions in the Shield of Achilles, - both i...George Otto Trevelyan John WalkerClavis HomericaPrint: Book
1900-1945MS notes and marks throughout, including: "May 2 1919. Exquisite book! I seem to hear my dear friend [Henry James] tal...George Otto Trevelyan Henry JamesPortraits of placesPrint: Book
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MS notes including various dates of reading from Feb 16, 1899 - March 25 1901. Final volume summarised as: "A fine, co...George Otto Trevelyan Jules MicheletHistoire de FrancePrint: Book
1850-1899Dates of reading given in MS as being between June 22 1897 "Jubilee Day" and July 7 1897.George Otto Trevelyan Laurence SterneTristram ShandyPrint: Book
1900-1945MS notes and marginalia throughout book, including the thoughts of Sir George Otto Trevelyan on visiting the grave who...George Otto Trevelyan Mark TwainA tramp abroadPrint: Book
1900-1945MS note at the end of "The man of destiny": "Dec 5 1926 Read aloud to C, [i.e. Lady Caroline Trevelyan] - as I once di...George Otto Trevelyan George Bernard ShawPlays: pleasant and unpleasantPrint: Book
Marginal marks show signs of George Otto Trevelyan's close reading, as of a proof - he corrects errors, e.g. where the...George Otto Trevelyan Sir Robert Thomas WilsonPrivate diary of travels, personal services, and public events ...Print: Book
1900-1945Copious MS notes and marginal marks, including some showing signs of irritation: v.5 p.96 "Oh do have done!"; v.4: "Oh...George Otto Trevelyan Oliver CromwellOliver Cromwell's letters and speeches; with elucidations by Thomas Carlyle Print: Book
1900-1945Copious MS notes, including a chronology explaining the ages of the characters: "Samuel born 1833, 29 in 1862/ Constan...George Otto Trevelyan Arnold BennettThe old wives' talePrint: Book
1900-1945MS notes including dates of reading, e.g.: "July 18 1916 Welcombe"; "March 29 1923 with Anna [i.e. Anna Philips, Georg...George Otto Trevelyan Arnold BennettThese twainPrint: Book
1850-1899Marginalia and marginal lines. Includes dates and places of reading by George Otto Trevelyan: v.2: Oct 7 1891; v.3: Gl...George Otto Trevelyan Samuel RichardsonClarissaPrint: Book
1900-1945Many marginal notes, including dates of reading: May 27, 1919 and June 22-July 1 1923. "Too much Hohanzollen. Without ...George Otto Trevelyan Julius StindeThe Bucholz family. Second Part. Sketches of Berlin lifePrint: Book
1900-1945Various MS notes and marks including date of reading: June 23 1923 and a note on p.311 "The birthplace": "This was bas...George Otto Trevelyan Henry JamesThe better sortPrint: Book
1900-1945Marginal marks and MS notes. Dates of reading on final page and the note: "What was the year when we saw so much of th...George Otto Trevelyan Henry JamesThe reverberatorPrint: Book
1900-1945Various marginal marks and MS dates of reading including: "Welcombe. Read to C[Lady Caroline Trevelyan] and Anna [his ...George Otto Trevelyan Henry JamesThe Aspern Papers - Louisa Pallant - The modern warningPrint: Book
1900-1945A note on endpaper by Sir Charles Philips Trevelyan: "This volume was among the books being read by Sir George Trevely...George Otto Trevelyan Anthony HopeThe Dolly dialoguesPrint: Book
1850-1899This book has marginal marks and dried acanthus leaves, with the MS note: "Acanthus leaves from Shelley's grave. Rome....George Otto Trevelyan Percy Bysshe ShelleyThe poetical works of Percy Bysshe ShelleyPrint: Book
1900-1945This book has copious notes and marginal marks, including many unrelated to the text written on pastedown and fly-leaf...George Otto Trevelyan Henry JamesThe ambassadorsPrint: Book
1900-1945Marginal marks and MS notes throughout,including p.xiii: "[The author's husband] deeply disapproved of her pleasure-se...George Otto Trevelyan Mary Boykin ChesnutA diary from DixiePrint: Book
1900-1945Marginal marks and MS notes throughout, incl. v.2 giving Nov 12 1904 as the "second time of reading" and v.1 July 24, ...George Otto Trevelyan Felix BouvierBonaparte en ItaliePrint: Book
1900-1945MS annotations and marginal marks incl. v.1 p.503, in reply to the author's comment "we must now throw a glance to the...George Otto Trevelyan John Lothrop MotleyHistory of the United NetherlandsPrint: Book
1850-1899MS annotations incl. v.1 p.534: "A ludicrous map, palpably incorrect at every point. Malplaquet is on the wrong side o...George Otto Trevelyan James GrantBritish battles on land and seaPrint: Book
MS notes throughout, mainly taken for Sir George's own research into Charles James Fox. One reads (v.2.p.376): "I am g...George Otto Trevelyan Charles James FoxMemorials and correspondence of Charles James FoxPrint: Book
1900-1945MS notes and marginal marks throughout the book, in the hand of Sir George Otto Trevelyan. Dates of reading include "S...George Otto Trevelyan John Lothrop MotleyThe rise of the Dutch republic: a historyPrint: Book
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MS notes in all vol. other than I, XI and XVI. Some are copied from Macaulay's own copy of Cicero which he read betwee...George Otto Trevelyan Marcus Tullius CiceroM. Tullii Ciceronis OperaPrint: Book
1900-1945MS notes in vols. I and II, including some copied from Lord Macaulay's copy of the text. Dates of reading include: "Ma...George Otto Trevelyan Julius CaesarOpera omniaPrint: Book
1900-1945Many MS notes, some of which are transcribed from those of Lord Macaulay in another edition: "Macaulay's notes and mar...George Otto Trevelyan Cornelius TacitusOpera omniaPrint: Book
1900-1945Many MS notes, incl. some copied from Lord Macaulay's own copy of Livy: "I copied these marginal notes, and lines, fro...George Otto Trevelyan Livy Historiorum libriPrint: Book
1900-1945MS notes, some evidently copied from Lord Macaulay's own marginalia in another volume. On p.145 Sir George writes: "I ...George Otto Trevelyan Sallust Opera omniaPrint: Book
1900-1945'His injury had not been permanent, and he now sat day after day beside Winifred's bed, talking to her about Russian l...George de Coundouroff Fyodor DostoyevskyCrime and PunishmentPrint: Book
1700-1799'At the time when Owen Ruffhead was writing the "Contest" in opposition to Murphy's "Test"; Gilbert Cooper it seems th...Gilbert Cooper Arthur MurphyContestPrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'Our mother started with joy at the sight of 'great fall in Tea' printed in the last newspaper, at the head of an adve...Margaret Carlyle Advertisement for TeaPrint: Advertisement, Newspaper
1850-1899From F. T. Palgrave's 'Personal Recollections' of Tennyson: 'Tennyson [...] said that Clough as he lay on the grass...Arthur Hugh Clough Arthur Hugh CloughMari MagnoManuscript: Unknown
1700-1799'Povoleri the Italian who dedicated the Tragedy of Rosmunda to me some years ago, has translated Gray's Church Yard El...Giovanni Povoleri Giovanni Povoleri[translation of Gray's Elegy into Italian]Manuscript: Unknown
1700-1799'[George Goldie] earnestly requested to see my MS. I gave it to him with reluctance, being predetermined to have nothi...George Goldie James Hogg'The Queens Wake'Manuscript: Unknown
1850-1899'[Mrs Ward's report of a conversation with Gladstone] 'I spoke of Pattison's autobiography as illustrating Newman's ho...Mary Augusta Ward Mark PattisonMemoirsPrint: Book
1850-1899'[Mrs Ward's report of a conversation with Gladstone] 'I spoke of Pattison's autobiography as illustrating Newman's ho...Mary Augusta Ward Mark Pattison'Confession of Faith'Manuscript: Unknown
1850-1899'[letter from Mrs Ward to Gladstone] Thank you very much for the volume of "Gleanings" with its gracious inscription. ...Mary Augusta Ward William GladstoneGleanings Of Past Years Print: Book
1850-1899'[letter from Mrs Ward to Gladstone] Thank you very much for the volume of "Gleanings" with its gracious inscription. ...Mary Augusta Ward Henri Frederic AmielJournal IntimePrint: Book
1850-1899'[letter from Mrs Ward to Gladstone, regarding his projected article about "Robert Elsmere"] If you do speak of him [T...Mary Augusta Ward T.H. GreenWitness of God and Faith, The: Two Lay SermonsPrint: Book
1850-1899'There, too, in the book-lined room which she had made her study, she would on Sunday evenings carry out in practice t...Mary Augusta Ward GospelsPrint: Book
1850-1899'[letter from Mrs Ward to her father] Read the books about Lancashire life a hundred years ago, and see if they have n...Mary Augusta Ward [books on 18th century Lancashire life]Print: Book
1850-1899'[letter to from Mrs Ward to Mrs Leonard Huxley, her sister] After seeing those temples with their sacrificial altars ...Mary Augusta Ward [Paul's 1st Epistle to the Corinthians]Print: Book
1850-1899'[during a riddle game at Mrs Ward's home, Stocks] Lord Acton, who had that day devoured ten books of Biblical critici...John Dalberg-Acton, 1st Baron Acton [biblical criticism]Print: Book
1850-1899'[Mrs Ward] regularly put herself to school to learn every detail of the system of sweated home work prevalent in the ...Mary Augusta Ward [blue books of statistics]Print: Book
1850-1899'[Mrs Ward writes to Mr Buxton about Sidney Webb's idea for a Factory Act for east London, and comments] I find the sa...Mary Augusta Ward [papers on Factory Law]Print: Unknown
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 had reed some of bond of the suboth, I walked abroad: and so to supper'Margaret Hoby Bond[unknown]Print: 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[unsure if reading or writing?] 'then I wrett the most part of an examenation or triall of a christian, framed by Mr R...Margaret Hoby Richard Rhodes[Examination of the trial of a Christian]Unknown
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'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 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'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 had supped, I reed of grenhame, and se went to bed'Margaret Hoby Richard Greenham[unknown]Print: Book
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'and reed of Granhame tell supper time'Margaret Hoby Richard Greenham[unknown]Print: 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'and after that I walked, and reed a sarmon of Geferd vpon the song of Salomon'Margaret Hoby George GiffordeSermons upon the Songe of SalomonPrint: Book
1500-1599'after dinner I went about the house, and read of the arball'Margaret Hoby William TurnerNew herballPrint: Book
1500-1599'then I reed a chapter of the Bible to my mother'Margaret Hoby [n/a]BiblePrint: 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'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'after, I walked a while, and read of Babington, and then went to supper'Margaret Hoby Gervase Babington[unknown]Print: Book
1500-1599'then I praied and read of the bible, and so went to dimer'Margaret Hoby [n/a]BiblePrint: Book
1500-1599'and then reed of Bright of Mallincocolie, and then went to supper'Margaret Hoby Timothy BrightA treatise of melancholie, containing the causes thereofPrint: 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'and then I read of the book of marters and so went to bed'Margaret Hoby John FoxeBook of Martyrs (the title by which Foxe's Acts and Monuments of these Latter and Perilous Days was popularly known)Print: 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 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'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
1800-1849From John Wilson Croker's Journal of 1818: 'December 16th. -- Before dinner His Royal Highness told me he had been ...George Augustus Frederick Prince of Wales Jonathan Swiftworks (including correspondence)Print: 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
1800-1849From John Wilson Croker's Journal of 1818: 'December 16th. -- Before dinner His Royal Highness told me he had been ...George Augustus Frederick Prince of Wales Mrs Delanyletter containing account of Royal visitManuscript: Letter, Copied.
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
1500-1599'and then I hard Margaret Rhodes reed of Mr Grenhm'Margaret Rhodes Richard Greenham[unknown]Print: Book
1500-1599After priuat praers I did read 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 reed a whill of perkins, and so went to bed'Margaret Hoby William Perkins[unknown]Print: 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'After priuat praier I did eate my breakfast: then I reed of the bible'Margaret Hoby [n/a]BiblePrint: 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 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
1850-1899'[At Mrs Ward's Passmore Edwards Settlement] One class, too, she kept as her very own - a weekly reading aloud for boy...Mary Augusta Ward Rudyard KiplingPrint: Book
1850-1899'[At Mrs Ward's Passmore Edwards Settlement] One class, too, she kept as her very own - a weekly reading aloud for boy...Mary Augusta Ward Robert Louis StevensonPrint: Book
1500-1599'and after reed a while, and so went to supper'Margaret Hoby [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1850-1899'All through the winter of 1896-7 Mrs Ward was steeping herself in Catholic literature' [as research for her book "Hel...Mary Augusta Ward [Catholic literature]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
1850-1899'Many Catholic books, in which she browsed "with what thoughts", as Carlyle would say, followed her to Levens [a house...Mary Augusta Ward [Catholic literature]Print: Book
1500-1599'After priuat praier I reed of the bible, eate my breakfast, and went to Church'Margaret Hoby [n/a]BiblePrint: Book
1850-1899'[letter from Mrs Ward to her father] One of the main impressions of this Catholic literature upon me is to make me pe...Mary Augusta Ward [Catholic literature]Print: Book
1850-1899'[letter written by Mrs Ward from Italy] We read the "Tribuna" and the "Civilta Cattolica", which on opposite sides [o...Mary Augusta Ward Civilta CattolicaPrint: Serial / periodical
1500-1599'After priuat praier I reed of the bible, then brake my fast and walked abroad'Margaret Hoby [n/a]BiblePrint: Book
1850-1899'[letter written by Mrs Ward from Italy] We read the "Tribuna" and the "Civilta Cattolica, which on opposite sides [of...Mary Augusta Ward TribunaPrint: Serial / periodical
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
1850-1899'She had been reading much of Chateaubriand and Mme de Beaumont during the winter, and had felt her imagination kindle...Mary Augusta Ward François-René, vicomte de ChateaubriandPrint: 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
1850-1899'She had been reading much of Chateaubriand and Mme de Beaumont during the winter, and had felt her imagination kindle...Mary Augusta Ward Jeanne Marie Le Prince de BeaumontPrint: Book
1500-1599'and from thence came home and reed of Grenhame, and hard Megg Rhodes read'Margaret Hoby Richard Greenham[unknown]Print: Book
1500-1599'and from thence came home and reed of Grenhame, and hard Megg Rhodes read'Margaret Rhodes [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1850-1899'[letter from Mrs Ward to her husband describing an inept Cardinal's lack of knowledge about the crypt of St Peters, R...Mary Augusta Ward Alfred von HarnackPrint: Book
1900-1945'There was one German scholar with whom she had at any rate a lengthy correspondence - Dr Adolf Julicher, of Marburg, ...Mary Augusta Ward Adolf JulicherAn Introduction to the New TestamentPrint: Book
1900-1945'There was one German scholar with whom she had at any rate a lengthy correspondence - Dr Adolf Julicher, of Marburg, ...Mary Augusta Ward Adolf JulicherAn Introduction to the New TestamentPrint: Unknown, page proofs
1900-1945'[letter from Mrs Ward to Bishop Creighton, after her father's death] My father's was a rare and [italics] hidden [end...Mary Augusta Ward Thomas Arnold[private papers]Manuscript: Unknown
1900-1945'How they [Mrs Ward and her brother William Arnold] would talk, sometimes, about the details of her craft, about Jane ...Mary Augusta Ward George MeredithPrint: Book
1900-1945'[Letter from Mrs Ward to the Society of Authors when that body recommended Herbert Spencer not George Meredith for th...Mary Augusta Ward George MeredithRichard FeverelPrint: Book
1900-1945'[Letter from Mrs Ward to the Society of Authors when that body recommended Herbert Spencer not George Meredith for th...Mary Augusta Ward George MeredithEgoist, ThePrint: Book
1900-1945'[Letter from Mrs Ward to the Society of Authors when that body recommended Herbert Spencer not George Meredith for th...Mary Augusta Ward George MeredithVittoriaPrint: Book
1900-1945'[Letter from Mrs Ward to the Society of Authors when that body recommended Herbert Spencer not George Meredith for th...Mary Augusta Ward George MeredithBeauchamp's CareerPrint: Book
1900-1945'[Letter from Mrs Ward to the Society of Authors when that body recommended Herbert Spencer not George Meredith for th...Mary Augusta Ward Herbert SpencerPrint: Book
1900-1945'[in America] on the very few occasions when Mrs Ward did consent to be interviewed, she insisted on seeing the proof ...Mary Augusta Ward [newspaper interviews with herself]Print: Unknown, newspaper proofs
1900-1945'[in Boston Mrs Ward] met the fine old veteran, Mrs Julia Ward Howe, author of the "Battle Hymn of the Republic", who ...Mary Augusta Ward Julia Ward HoweReminiscencesPrint: Book
1900-1945'[letter from Mrs Ward] I have been reading Bancroft this morning, and shall read G.O.T. tonight. We [italics] were [e...Mary Augusta Ward George BancroftHistory of the United States, from the Discovery of the American Continent.Print: Book
1900-1945'[Mrs Ward's average day at Stocks began] at 5.30 a.m, with the reading of Greek, or writing of letters, or much readi...Mary Augusta ward Emile FaguetDix-Huitieme Siecle: Études Littéraires Print: Book
1900-1945'[Mrs Ward's average day at Stocks began] at 5.30 a.m, with the reading of Greek, or writing of letters, or much readi...Mary Augusta ward Charles Augustin Sainte-BeuvePrint: Book
1900-1945'[Mrs Ward's average day at Stocks began] at 5.30 a.m, with the reading of Greek, or writing of letters, or much readi...Mary Augusta ward Walter RaleighWordsworthPrint: Book
1900-1945'[Mrs Ward's average day at Stocks began] at 5.30 a.m, with the reading of Greek, or writing of letters, or much readi...Mary Augusta ward HomerPrint: Book
1900-1945'[Mrs Ward's average day at Stocks began] at 5.30 a.m, with the reading of Greek, or writing of letters, or much readi...Mary Augusta ward HoracePrint: Book
1900-1945'[Mrs Ward's average day at Stocks began] at 5.30 a.m, with the reading of Greek, or writing of letters, or much readi...Mary Augusta Ward EuripidesPrint: Book
1900-1945'[Mrs Ward's average day at Stocks began] at 5.30 a.m, with the reading of Greek, or writing of letters, or much readi...Mary Augusta Ward AeschylusAgamemnonPrint: Book
1900-1945'She was deep in the writings of Father Tyrrel, of Bergson and of William James during these years'.Mary Augusta Ward Wlliam JamesPrint: Book
1900-1945'She was deep in the writings of Father Tyrrel, of Bergson and of William James during these years'Mary Augusta Ward George TyrrellPrint: Book
1900-1945'She was deep in the writings of Father Tyrrel, of Bergson and of William James during these years'Mary Augusta Ward Henri BergsonPrint: Book
1900-1945'[Letter from Mrs Ward to her daughter Janet Trevelyan] It is good to be alive on spring days like this! I have been r...Mary Augusta Ward William JamesPrint: Book
1900-1945'[Letter from Mrs Ward to her daughter Janet Trevelyan] It is good to be alive on spring days like this! I have been r...Mary Augusta Ward biblePrint: 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 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, 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'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
1600-1699'then I reed in perkins tell I went againe to the Church'Margaret Hoby William Perkins[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'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'after took a lector, read of the bible, praied, and so went to dinner'Margaret Hoby [n/a]BiblePrint: Book
1600-1699'tell about 3 a Cloke: then I rede of the arball'Margaret Hoby William TurnerNew herballPrint: 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 I reed of the bible: after, I praied and so dined'Margaret Hoby [n/a]BiblePrint: Book
1600-1699'after, I reed of the bible, praied, and lastly dined'Margaret Hoby [n/a]BiblePrint: Book
1600-1699'after that, I reed of perkins, hauinge som further Conference with my Cossine'Margaret Hoby William Perkins[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
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 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
1900-1945'Mrs Ward never allowed the springs of thought to grow dry for lack of reading. The one advantage that she gained from...Mary Augusta Ward Print: Book
1600-1699'took a lector, reed of the testament, praied with Mr Rhodes'Margaret Hoby [n/a]BiblePrint: Book
1900-1945'[letter from General Hastings Anderson to Janet Trevelyan] What strikes me most in your mother's book ["Fields of Vic...Hastings Anderson Mary Augusta WardFields of VictoryPrint: 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
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'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'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'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'and then I walked awhill, and after reed of Mr Broughtons booke'Margaret Hoby Hugh BroughtonMaster Broughtons letters, especially his lastv pamphlet to and against the Archbishop of Centerbury about Sheol and Hades answeredPrint: Book
1600-1699'when I had praied, I took a litle phesick and then I reed of Mr Browghtons book'Margaret Hoby Hugh BroughtonMaster Broughtons letters, especially his lastv pamphlet to and against the Archbishop of Centerbury about Sheol and Hades answeredPrint: 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 [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'then I Came home and praied priuatly and reed of the bible'Margaret Hoby [n/a]BiblePrint: 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'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'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'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'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 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'and so, after priuat praers, I Reed a whill and so went to bed'Margaret Hoby [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1800-1849John Gibson Lockhart to John Wilson Croker, 6 August 1846: 'The "Modern Timon" is not, I think, by a [italics]poet[...John Gibson Lockhart Edward Bulwer-LyttonThe New TimonPrint: Book
1800-1849Lord George Bentinck to John Wilson Croker, 30 June 1847: 'I have read your article in the Quarterly and think it q...Lord George Bentinck John Wilson Crokerarticle on Parliament and Irish CatholicsPrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849Lord George Bentinck to John Wilson Croker, 6 October 1847: 'I have got the Quarterly and am highly delighted with ...Lord George Bentinck John Wilson Croker'Peel Policy'Print: Serial / periodical
1800-1849Lord George Bentinck to John Wilson Croker, 6 October 1847: 'The cotton market will ocupy a good deal of attention ...Lord George Bentinck Manchester Monthly Trade CircularPrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849Lord George Bentinck to John Wilson Croker, 28 December 1847: I have only got Hansard to-day; I have marked the par...Lord George Bentinck Hansard (parliamentary reports)Print: Serial / periodical
1800-1849John Gibson Lockhart to John Wilson Croker, 12 January 1849, on Macaulay's recently-published History of England: '...John Gibson Lockhart Thomas Babington MacaulayHistory of England, vols 1 and 2Print: Book
1800-1849John Gibson Lockhart to John Wilson Croker, 12 January 1849, on Macaulay's recently-published History of England: '...John Gibson Lockhart GroteHistory of GreecePrint: 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'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 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'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'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'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 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'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 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 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'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'After priuat praier I reed of Mr Ardington's booke, and then did eate my breakfast'Margaret Hoby Ardington[unknown]Unknown
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 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'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'After praier I reed ouer certaine papers of instruction [which] I had receiued from Mr Rhodes'Margaret Hoby Richard Rhodes?[papers of instruction]Unknown
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'After my accustomed prairs I did eate and read'Margaret Hoby [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 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'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, 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'and after went to readinge and medetation'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, 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 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 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'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'After priuat prairs I reed of Mr perkins, and after went to the church'Margaret Hoby William Perkins[unknown]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'after, I went to my Clositt, and there reed and praied'Margaret Hoby [unknown][unknown]Print: Book
1600-1699'and then read and praied priuatly'Margaret Hoby [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'and att night, I had read a letter that Came from Mr Rhodes'Margaret Hoby Richard RhodesletterManuscript: Letter
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 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'in the after none, when she was Gon, I reed a Little of Mr Rogers book to Anne france'Margaret Hoby Thomas RogersA pretious book of heavenly meditations, called a private talk of the soule with GodPrint: 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 violent theft: George Verry: 'the only thing that induced me to appear as a witness wa...George Verry [n/a][newspaper]Print: Newspaper
1800-1849'On the evening of the days when it was necessary for him to stay in the City, to "lock up" [the family banking-house]...George Grote classical textsPrint: Book
1800-1849'From the year 1812 up to the year 1815, the young banker's life revolved in a sufficiently prosaic circle; working st...George Grote David RicardoPrint: Book
1800-1849'From the year 1812 up to the year 1815, the young banker's life revolved in a sufficiently prosaic circle; working st...George Grote historical textsPrint: Book
1800-1849'From the year 1812 up to the year 1815, the young banker's life revolved in a sufficiently prosaic circle; working st...George Grote 'metaphysics'Print: Book
1800-1849George Grote to George W. Norman, 26 June 1816: 'From England, in 1816, it is delightful to retire, even to Italy i...George Grote Sismondihistory of Italy (vol. 1)Print: Book
1800-1849George Grote to George W. Norman (April 1817): 'I send you down the best "Lucretius" I have [...] Though the reason...George Grote Lucretius De rerum naturaPrint: Book
1800-1849George Grote to George W. Norman (April 1817): 'I send you down the best "Lucretius" I have [...] Though the reason...George Grote Seneca TragediesPrint: Book
1800-1849George Grote to George W. Norman (April 1817): 'I send you down the best "Lucretius" I have [...] Though the reason...George Grote Aristotle Nicomachean EthicsPrint: Book
1800-1849George Grote to George W. Norman (April 1817): 'I send you down the best "Lucretius" I have [...] Though the reason...George Grote David HumeEssaysPrint: Book
1800-1849'The writings of this remarkable man [Jeremy Bentham] were now beginning to tell upon the thinking portion of young pu...George Grote Jeremy BenthamworksPrint: Book
1800-1849From the diary kept by George Grote for his fiancee, Harriet Lewin (1818): 'Tuesday, Sept, 22nd, 1818. 'Rose at 7....George Grote Jean Baptiste SayEconomie politiquePrint: Book
1800-1849From the diary kept by George Grote for his fiancee, Harriet Lewin (September 1818): 'Rose at 1/2 past 6 [...] read...George Grote Jean Baptiste SayEconomie politiquePrint: Book
1800-1849From the diary kept by George Grote for his fiancee, Harriet Lewin (September 1818): 'Rose at 7 [...] Sat reading S...George Grote Adam SmithAn Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of NationsPrint: Book
1800-1849From the diary kept by George Grote for his fiancee, Harriet Lewin (September 1818): 'September 30th. At Badgemore ...George Grote Lord Shaftesbury'letter on Enthusiasm'Print: Book
1800-1849From the diary kept by George Grote for his fiancee, Harriet Lewin (September 1818): 'September 30th. At Badgemore ...George Grote Lord Shaftesbury'letter on Enthusiasm'Print: Book
1800-1849From the diary kept by George Grote for his fiancee, Harriet Lewin (autumn 1818): 'Thursday, October 8th. 'Rose so...George Grote Jean Baptiste SayPrint: Book
1800-1849From the diary kept by George Grote for his fiancee, Harriet Lewin (autumn 1818): 'Rose at 8. Read once again the "...George Grote 'Dissertation on Virtue'Print: Book
1800-1849From the diary kept by George Grote for his fiancee, Harriet Lewin (autumn 1818): 'Rose at 8. Read once again the "...George Grote Adam SmithAn Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations, volume 2 chapter 1Print: Book
1800-1849From the diary kept by George Grote for his fiancee, Harriet Lewin (autumn 1818): 'Threadneedle Street, 14th Octobe...George Grote Jean Baptiste SayPrint: Book
1800-1849From the diary kept by George Grote for his fiancee, Harriet Lewin (autumn 1818): 'Threadneedle Street, 14th Octobe...George Grote Friedrich SchillerDon CarlosPrint: Book
1800-1849From the diary kept by George Grote for his fiancee, Harriet Lewin (autumn 1818): 'Threadneedle Street, 14th Octobe...George Grote Jean Baptiste SayPrint: Book
1800-1849From the diary kept by George Grote for his fiancee, Harriet Lewin (autumn 1818): 'Thursday, October 15th, 1818. '...George Grote Jean Baptiste SayPrint: Book
1800-1849From the diary kept by George Grote for his fiancee, Harriet Lewin (autumn 1818): 'Rose at 1/2 past 6 [...] Read Sa...George Grote Jean Baptiste SayPrint: Book
1800-1849From the diary kept by George Grote for his fiancee, Harriet Lewin (autumn 1818): 'Rose at 1/2 past 6 [...] Read Sa...George Grote TurgotPrint: Book
1800-1849From the diary kept by George Grote for his fiancee, Harriet Lewin (autumn 1818): 'Rose at 1/2 past 6 [...] Read Sa...George Grote Friedrich SchillerDon CarlosPrint: Book
1800-1849From the diary kept by George Grote for his fiancee, Harriet Lewin (autumn 1818): 'Rose at 1/2 past 6 [...] Read Sa...George Grote Adam SmithAn Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of NationsPrint: Book
1800-1849From the diary kept by George Grote for his fiancee, Harriet Lewin (autumn 1818): 'Rose at 1/2 past 6 [...] Read Sa...George Grote Adam SmithAn Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of NationsPrint: Book
1800-1849From the diary kept by George Grote for his fiancee, Harriet Lewin (autumn 1818): 'Rose at 1/2 past 6 [...] Read Sa...George Grote Friedrich SchillerDon CarlosPrint: Book
1800-1849From the diary kept by George Grote for his fiancee, Harriet Lewin (autumn 1818): 'Rose at 1/2 past 6 [...] Read Sa...George Grote Jean Baptiste SayPrint: Book
1800-1849From the diary kept by George Grote for his fiancee, Harriet Lewin (autumn 1818): 'Rose at 1/2 past 6 [...] Read Sa...George Grote Turgot[Dissertation] sur les valeurs et monnoiesPrint: Book
1800-1849From the diary kept by George Grote for his fiancee, Harriet Lewin (autumn 1818): 'Tuesday, October 20th. 'Rose at...George Grote Turgot[Dissertation] sur les valeurs et monnoiesPrint: Book
1800-1849From the diary kept by George Grote for his fiancee, Harriet Lewin (autumn 1818): 'Tuesday, October 20th. 'Rose at...George Grote Turgot[Dissertation] sur les valeurs et monnoiesPrint: Book
1800-1849From the diary kept by George Grote for his fiancee, Harriet Lewin (autumn 1818): 'Having passed a sleepless night ...George Grote Turgot[Dissertation] sur les valeurs et monnoiesPrint: Book
1800-1849From the diary kept by George Grote for his fiancee, Harriet Lewin (autumn 1818): 'Having passed a sleepless night ...George Grote Edinburgh ReviewPrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849From the diary kept by George Grote for his fiancee, Harriet Lewin (autumn 1818): 'Dined at 1/2 past 5; [Charles] C...George Grote David Ricardo'Political Economy'Print: Book
1800-1849From the diary kept by George Grote for his fiancee, Harriet Lewin (1819): 'January, 1819. 'Saturday -- Rose at 1/...George Grote David RicardoPrint: Book
1800-1849From the diary kept by George Grote for his fiancee, Harriet Lewin (1819): 'January, 1819. 'Sunday -- Rose about 9...George Grote David RicardoPrint: Book
1800-1849From the diary kept by George Grote for his fiancee, Harriet Lewin (1819): 'January, 1819. 'Sunday -- Rose about 9...George Grote Gotthold Ephraim LessingLaocoonPrint: Book
1800-1849From the diary kept by George Grote for his fiancee, Harriet Lewin (1819): 'January, 1819. 'Sunday -- Rose about 9...George Grote Melon'Essai sur le commerce'Print: Unknown
1800-1849From the diary kept by George Grote for his fiancee, Harriet Lewin (1819): 'Dined at 1/2 past 5; played on the bass...George Grote Gotthold Ephraim Lessing'theological writings'Print: Book
1800-1849From the diary kept by George Grote for his fiancee, Harriet Lewin (1819): 'Read part of the first book of Aristotl...George Grote Aristotle PoliticsPrint: Book
1800-1849From George Grote's diary, kept for his fiancee Harriet Lewin (January 1819): 'Rose at 9 [...] Mr. Bury brought me ...George Grote David Ricardo'on the depreciation of our paper currency'
1800-1849From George Grote's diary, kept for his fiancee Harriet Lewin (1819): 'Mr Bury brought me Ricardo's pamphlets this ...George Grote David Ricardo'on the depreciation of our paper currency'
1800-1849From George Grote's diary, kept for his fiancee Harriet Lewin (1819): 'Mr Bury brought me Ricardo's pamphlets this ...George Grote David Ricardo'reply to Mr Bosanquet'
1800-1849From George Grote's diary, kept for his fiancee Harriet Lewin (1819): 'Mr Bury brought me Ricardo's pamphlets this ...George Grote Xenophon Print: Book
1800-1849From George Grote's diary, kept for his fiancee Harriet Lewin (1819): 'Mr Bury brought me Ricardo's pamphlets this ...George Grote Aristotle Print: Book
1800-1849From George Grote's diary, kept for his fiancee Harriet Lewin (1819): 'Between 4 and 5 read Mr. Galton's "Chart on ...George Grote GaltonChart on the Late Depreciation of Bank NotesPrint: Unknown
1800-1849From George Grote's diary, kept for his fiancee Harriet Lewin (1819): 'Between 4 and 5 read Mr. Galton's "Chart on ...George Grote HemsterhuisDe l'Homme et de ses RapportsPrint: Unknown
1800-1849From George Grote's diary, kept for his fiancee Harriet Lewin (1819): '[after 11pm] Read Hemsterhuis for an hour --...George Grote Hemsterhuis(possibly) De l'Homme et de ses RapportsPrint: Unknown
1800-1849From George Grote's diary, kept for his fiancee Harriet Lewin (1819): 'Rose a little before 9. Breakfasted and read...George Grote Edinburgh ReviewPrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849From George Grote's diary, kept for his fiancee Harriet Lewin (1819): 'Rose a little before 9. Breakfasted and read...George Grote SchillerWallensteinPrint: Book
1800-1849From George Grote's diary, kept for his fiancee Harriet Lewin (1819): 'Rose a little before 9. Breakfasted and read...George Grote Imanuel Kant'Anthropology'Print: Book
1800-1849From George Grote's diary, kept for his fiancee Harriet Lewin (1819): 'Rose at 9. Breakfasted and read some of Hems...George Grote HemsterhuisSur la divinitePrint: Unknown
1800-1849From George Grote's diary, kept for his fiancee Harriet Lewin (1819): 'Rose at 9. Breakfasted and read some of Hems...George Grote article on 'Mill's British India'Print: Serial / periodical
1800-1849From George Grote's diary, kept for his fiancee Harriet Lewin, Thursday 11 March 1819: 'Rose at 7. Breakfasted, and...George Grote Immanuel KantPrint: Book
1800-1849From George Grote's diary, kept for his fiancee Harriet Lewin, Thursday 11 March 1819: 'Rose at 7. Breakfasted, and...George Grote Immanuel KantPrint: Book
1800-1849From George Grote's diary, kept for his fiancee Harriet Lewin, Friday 12 March 1819: 'Read some of Franklin's Life ...George Grote 'Franklin's Life'Print: Book
1800-1849From George Grote's diary, kept for his fiancee Harriet Lewin, Saturday 13 March 1819: 'Rose at 1/2 past 7, after a...George Grote David HumeEssay on the Academical PhilosophyPrint: Book
1800-1849From George Grote's diary, kept for his fiancee Harriet Lewin, Saturday 13 March 1819: 'Rose at 1/2 past 7, after a...George Grote Immanuel KantPrint: Book
1800-1849From George Grote's diary, kept for his fiancee Harriet Lewin, Monday 22 March 1819: 'Rose at 6 [...] Read some of ...George Grote Immanuel KantPrint: Book
1800-1849From George Grote's diary, kept for his fiancee Harriet Lewin, Wednesday 24 March 1819: 'Rose soon after 6. Read Ka...George Grote Immanuel KantPrint: Book
1800-1849From George Grote's diary, kept for his fiancee Harriet Lewin, Thursday 25 March 1819: 'Between 4 and 5 I read some...George Grote Immanuel KantProlegomenaPrint: Book
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
1800-1849From George Grote's diary, kept for his fiancee Harriet Lewin, Friday 26 March 1819: 'Rose at 6. Read and meditated...George Grote Immanuel KantPrint: Book
1800-1849From George Grote's diary, kept for his fiancee Harriet Lewin, Friday 26 March 1819: 'Rose at 6. Read and meditated...George Grote Immanuel KantPrint: Book
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
1800-1849From George Grote's diary, kept for his fiancee Harriet Lewin, Saturday 27 March 1819: 'George Norman appeared [......George Grote David RicardoPrint: Book
1800-1849From the 1806-1840 Commonplace book of an unknown reader. 'From Bell's weekly Messenger, April 13 1834. "The late Rudo...C.M.G. [anon] Bell's Weekly Messenger (obituaries)Print: Newspaper
1800-1849From George Grote's Journal, 3 December 1822: 'Rose a little before 7. Read to the conclusion of Pausanias, being a...George Grote Pausanias Print: Book
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
1800-1849From George Grote's Journal, 3 December 1822: 'Rose a little before 7. Read to the conclusion of Pausanias, being a...George Grote GoguetPrint: Book
1800-1849From the 1806-1840 Commonplace book of an unknown reader. '"Weep not for me ye daughters of Jerusalem" St Luke 23 Chap...C.M.G. [anon] Gospel of St Luke, 23: 20-30Print: Book
1800-1849From George Grote's Journal, 4 December 1822: 'Rose at 6. Read Goguet on the different Arts until breakfast; after ...George Grote GoguetPrint: Book
1800-1849From George Grote's Journal, 4 December 1822: 'Rose at 6. Read Goguet on the different Arts until breakfast; after ...George Grote Voltaire Dictionnaire [?philosophique]Print: Book
1800-1849From the 1806-1840 Commonplace book of an unknown reader. 'Then died lamented in the strength of life 1827 "Called no...C.M.G. [anon] George CrabbeThe Mother's FuneralPrint: Book
1800-1849From George Grote's Journal, 5 December 1822: 'Rose a little before 8. Read Goguet's Dissertation on Sanchoniathon;...George Grote GoguetDissertation on SanchoniathonPrint: Book
1800-1849From George Grote's Journal, 5 December 1822: 'Rose a little before 8. Read Goguet's Dissertation on Sanchoniathon;...George Grote GoguetDissertation on the Book of JobPrint: Book
1800-1849From George Grote's Journal, 5 December 1822: 'Rose a little before 8. Read Goguet's Dissertation on Sanchoniathon;...George Grote WolfProleg[omena] 'in Homer'Print: Book
1800-1849From George Grote's Journal, 6 December 1822: 'Continued the perusal of Wolf's Prolegomena, which contains very muc...George Grote WolfProleg[omena] 'in Homer'Print: Book
1800-1849From George Grote's Journal, 6 December 1822: 'Continued the perusal of Wolf's Prolegomena, which contains very muc...George Grote Voltaire Dictionnaire [?philosophique]Print: Book
1800-1849From the 1806-1840 Commonplace book of an unknown reader. Transcribed two pages starting '"Aug 3rd 1664. During the Pl...C.M.G. [anon] The Life of Thomas Sydenham M.D.Print: Book
1800-1849From George Grote's Journal, 7 December 1822: 'Rose at 6. Read Wolf. My opinion of him not lessened; from some pass...George Grote WolfProleg[omena] 'in Homer'Print: Book
1800-1849From the 1806-1840 Commonplace book of an unknown reader. Transcribed a letter from 'Mr Evelyn to Mr Pepys, Wotton Aug...C.M.G. [anon] William BrayLife of John EvelynPrint: Book
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
1800-1849From the 1806-1840 Commonplace book of an unknown reader. Several pages are transcribed from the 'Diary of an Ennuyee'.C.M.G. [anon] Anna Brownell JamesonDiary of an EnnuyeePrint: Book
1800-1849From George Grote's Journal, 8 December 1822: 'Rose at 6. Finished Wolf's Proleg. [...] After breakfast set to upon...George Grote WolfProleg[omena] 'in Homer'Print: Book
1800-1849From George Grote's Journal, 8 December 1822: 'Rose at 6. Finished Wolf's Proleg. [...] After breakfast set to upon...George Grote 'Diod.' SiculusPrint: Book
1800-1849From George Grote's Journal, 8 December 1822: 'Rose at 6. Finished Wolf's Proleg. [...] After breakfast set to upon...George Grote 'Diod.' SiculusPrint: Book
1800-1849From George Grote's Journal, 9 December 1822: 'Rose at 6. Employed all my reading-time this day upon Diodor., and g...George Grote 'Diod.' SiculusPrint: Book
1800-1849From George Grote's Journal, 9 December 1822: 'Rose at 6. Employed all my reading-time this day upon Diodor., and g...George Grote Voltaire 'Miracles'Print: Book
1800-1849From the 1806-1840 Commonplace book of an unknown reader. Under title 'Naples, 1826', C.M.G. describes the city and (m...C.M.G. [anon] Dante AlighieriDivina Commedia: InfernoPrint: Book
1800-1849From the 1806-1840 Commonplace book of an unknown reader. C.M.G. transcribes, under title 'The Ettrick Shepherd, Queen...C.M.G. [anon] James HoggQueen HyndePrint: Book
1800-1849From the 1806-1840 Commonplace book of an unknown reader. 'St Paul at Philippi, from the Seatonian Prize Poems. - By t...C.M.G. [anon] Rev. J.E. HankinsonSt Paul at PhilippiUnknown
1800-1849From the 1806-1840 Commonplace book of an unknown reader. 'Mrs Hannah More says in her "Essay on Saint Paul," that he ...C.M.G. [anon] Hannah MoreEssay on Saint PaulUnknown
1800-1849From the 1806-1840 Commonplace book of an unknown reader. 'Approved remedies for Everyday Maladies. For a Fit of Passi...C.M.G. [anon] Salisbury HeraldPrint: Newspaper
1800-1849From the 1806-1840 Commonplace book of an unknown reader. Notes are made on relationships in the Bible, e.g. two colum...C.M.G. [anon] BiblePrint: Book
1800-1849'[By 1837] American politics had for many years occupied Grote's attention, and engaged his sympathy. He was a great...George Grote The FederalistPrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849From the 1806-1840 Commonplace book of an unknown reader. Transcribed: '"I compare marriage, even where there is no un...C.M.G. [anon] RichardsonunknownUnknown
1800-1849From the 1806-1840 Commonplace book of an unknown reader. 'Maxims of Bishop Middleton'. Various maxims follow, includi...C.M.G. [anon] Bishop MiddletonMaximsUnknown
1800-1849From the 1806-1840 Commonplace book of an unknown reader. 'Copied from the John Bull Newspaper, Novr 19 1837. Speech o...C.M.G. [anon] John Bull NewspaperPrint: Newspaper
1800-1849George Grote to Sir William Molesworth (c.1838-40): 'Have you read Comte's "Traite de Philosophie Positive," of whi...George Grote ComteTraite de Philosophie Positive (vol. 3)Print: Book
1800-1849George Grote to Sir William Molesworth (c.1838-40): 'The other day at the Athenaeum I took up one of the volumes of...George Grote Victor CousinDocumens pour servir a l'Histoire de FrancePrint: Book
1800-1849George Grote to G. C. Lewis, September 1840: 'Since you departed from London, I have been reading some of Kant's "K...George Grote Immanuel KantKritik der reinen VernunftPrint: Book
1800-1849George Grote to G. C. Lewis, September 1840: 'Since you departed from London, I have been reading some of Kant's "K...George Grote Plato TimaeusPrint: Book
1800-1849George Grote to G. C. Lewis, September 1840: 'Since you departed from London, I have been reading some of Kant's "K...George Grote Plato ParmenidesPrint: Book
1800-1849George Grote to G. C. Lewis, September 1840: 'Since you departed from London, I have been reading some of Kant's "K...George Grote John LockePrint: Book
1800-1849George Grote to G. C. Lewis, 16 December 1840: 'I have been reading, and am still reading, B. de St. Hilaire, "De l...George Grote B. de St HilaireDe la logique d'AristotePrint: Book
1800-1849George Grote to G. C. Lewis, 16 December 1840: 'I have been reading, and am still reading, B. de St. Hilaire, "De l...George Grote Aristotle Print: Book
1800-1849'Early in 1841 Grote was called upon to add another duty to the already full catalogue, for his friend Dr. Waddingto...George Grote George WaddingtonThe History of the ReformationUnknown
1800-1849'On the evening of our arrival at Verona, George said to me, "H, have you got an Italian grammar with you?" -- "Yes....George Grote Italian grammarPrint: Book
1800-1849'Within a day or two of our arrival in Rome (which was on the 7th December, 1841) Grote engaged a master, in order t...George Grote 'English comedies'Print: Book
1800-1849G. C. Lewis to George Grote, 5 April 1846: 'I cannot resist writing to express to you the satisfaction, as well as ...G. C. Lewis George GroteA History of Greece (vols 1 and 2)Print: Book
1800-1849G. C. Lewis to George Grote, 5 November 1847: 'I received yesterday the volume on "Swiss Politics" which you were s...G. C. Lewis George GroteLetters from SwitzerlandPrint: Book
1800-1849George Grote to G. C. Lewis, 22 January 1849: 'I have recently read Lord Hervey's Memoirs, on the recommendation of...George Grote Lord HerveyMemoirsPrint: Book
1850-1899George Grote to G. C. Lewis, 30 September 1852: 'Neither the work of Beaufort sur l'Histoire Romaine -- nor the wor...George Grote Abbe St PierreAnnees PolitiquesPrint: Book
1850-1899'The farm [a family property] in Lincolnshire consumed a vast deal of our time all through [...] 1853 [...] Grote wo...George Grote Stephens'Book of the Farm'Print: Book
1850-1899George Grote to Harriet Grote (wife), 14 October 1853: 'I immediately sent for the "Edinburgh Review," and have rea...George Grote John Stuart MillArticle on George Grote's History of GreecePrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'In the course of the summer of this year [1856] an article appeared in the pages of the "Quarterly Review," upon Mr...George Grote William SmithArticle on George Grote's History of GreecePrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899George Grote to John Stuart Mill (October 1857): 'I send you Thomas's book on the provincial administration of La B...George Grote Life of DaunouPrint: Book
1850-1899George Grote to John Stuart Mill (October 1857): 'I have looked at W. Humboldt's book: it is written in a very exce...George Grote W. HumboldtPrint: Book
1850-1899George Grote to G. C. Lewis, 12 October 1857: 'I have received and perused your three numbers of "Notes and Queries...George Grote G. C. Lewisarticles on ancient historyPrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899George Grote to G. C. Lewis, 12 October 1857: 'I have received and perused your three numbers of "Notes and Queries...George Grote Notes and QueriesPrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899George Grote to G. C. Lewis, 21 October 1858 'The day before yesterday I got Donaldson's book, the completion of Mu...George Grote DonaldsonPrint: Book
1850-1899'Early in December [1858] we removed, with our household, to "The Priory" at Reigate, belonging to Earl Somers [...] w...George Grote Print: Book
1850-1899'While we were [visiting] at Harpton Court, passing one forenoon in Mr. Grote [husband]'s dressing-room, I asked him (...George Grote DegerandoHistoire des systemes de philosophiePrint: Book
1850-1899George Grote to John Stuart Mill (January 1862): 'I have just been reading your three articles in "Fraser's Magazin...George Grote John Stuart Millarticles 'upon the Principles of Utility'Print: Serial / periodical
1850-1899George Grote to G. C. Lewis, 9 February 1862: 'I ought before this to have written to thank you for your book of An...George Grote G. C. Lewis'book of Ancient Astronomy' Print: Book
1850-1899George Grote to G. C. Lewis, 6 November 1862: 'I send you herewith a letter and pamphlet which was forwarded to me ...George Grote Irvingpamphlet on mythology and the human mind
1850-1899George Grote to G. C. Lewis, 6 November 1862: 'I suppose you have read Colenso's book. It is certainly singular to ...George Grote ColensoPrint: Book
1850-1899George Grote to G. C. Lewis, 29 December 1862: 'Your Egyptological pamphlet is a very ingenious jeu d'esprit, and t...George Grote G. C. Lewis'Egyptological pamphlet'
1850-1899George Grote to 'Mr Bain,' 4 Septemberr 1868: 'In coming down here [Long Bennington] yesterday, I read the Septembe...George Grote BainarticlePrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899George Grote to 'Mr Bain,' 4 Septemberr 1868: 'In coming down here [Long Bennington] yesterday, I read the Septembe...George Grote John Fiskearticle on 'the Science of History'Print: Serial / periodical
1850-1899George Grote to 'Mr Bain,' 4 Septemberr 1868: 'In coming down here [Long Bennington] yesterday, I read the Septembe...George Grote article on John WilkesPrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899From Harriet Grote's diary (1868): 'Mr. Grote [husband] said he had, in the course of the last few months, taken do...George Grote Edward GibbonPrint: Book
1850-1899From Harriet Grote's diary (1868): 'Mr. Grote [husband] said he had, in the course of the last few months, taken do...George Grote anon ('ancient writers') Print: Book
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'Sir William Gomm served for some time in India, and indeed had been commander of the forces there. Being at Simla, he...George Grote Sir William GommAnnotations to George Grote, A History of Greece (vols 1-5)
1850-1899'We left Metz on the 7th of September [1869], and "made" direct for Paris. It happened that, before starting for the r...George Grote Le SieclePrint: Newspaper
1850-1899'We left Metz on the 7th of September [1869], and "made" direct for Paris. It happened that, before starting for the r...George Grote TribunePrint: Newspaper
1850-1899'We remained in Paris from 8th September [1869] to the 18th. The effect of the daily articles against the Empire, whic...George Grote anti-Empire articlesPrint: Newspaper, Unknown
1850-1899'We proceeded to Chatsworth on the 13th of August [1870] -- that is to say, to the "Edensor Inn," hard by [...] Lady E...George Grote 'treatises of medieval authors'Unknown
1700-1799Harriet Cavendish to unknown recipient (c.1796): 'G. is very much interested in the "black penitent" and is now rea...Lady Georgina Cavendish 'the black penitent'Print: Book
1800-1849Lady Harriet Cavendish to her grandmother, the Countess Dowager Spencer, 8 August 1807: 'George's reading goes on p...George Howard Print: Book
1800-1849'In 1809 [Anne Isabella Milbanke] wrote the Lines supposed to be spoken at the Grave of Dermody. It is one of the earl...George Gordon Lord Byron Anne Isabella Milbanke'Lines Supposed to be Spoken at the Grave of Dermody' and other versesManuscript: Unknown
1900-1945'C.E. Stansfield read a paper on Ed. Spenser & his times & the Faerie Queene. Readings were given by Mrs Reynolds, Mrs...Henry Marriage Wallis Edmund SpenserFaerie QueenePrint: Book
1900-1945'Geo Meredith's Diana of the Crossways was the subject of the evening. H.M. Wallis read an essay on the work of Geo M...Henry Marriage Wallis George MeredithPrint: Book
1900-1945'Geo Meredith's Diana of the Crossways was the subject of the evening. H.M. Wallis read an essay on the work of Geo M...Henry Marriage Wallis Henry Marriage Wallis[paper on Meredith's works]Manuscript: Unknown
1900-1945'Geo Meredith's Diana of the Crossways was the subject of the evening. H.M. Wallis read an essay on the work of Geo M...Henry Marriage Wallis George Meredith[two poems]Print: Book
1900-1945'Mrs Smith then read an interesting biography of Keats which was followed by a reading of "I stood tiptoe upon a littl...Henry Marriage Wallis John Keats Isabella; or, The Pot of BasilPrint: Book
1800-1849'The only link of which [Byron] was at this time [1811-12] conscious between him and Miss [Anne Isabella] Milbanke was...George Gordon Lord Byron Joseph BlacketpoetryUnknown
1800-1849'[Byron] was reading an article by [Erasmus] Darwin on Diseased Volition (a semi-anticipation of Freud) and pointed ou...George Gordon Lord Byron Erasmus Darwinarticle 'on Diseased Volition'Print: Unknown
1900-1945'W.S. Rowntree then read a very interesting paper on four Punch artists which was followed by readings from Punch of a...Henry Marriage Wallis PunchPrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849The whole three are sitting sewing in the most peaceful manner at my hand: our Mother has been reading the Man of Feel...Margaret Carlyle Henry MackenzieThe Man of FeelingPrint: Book
1800-1849The whole three are sitting sewing in the most peaceful manner at my hand: our Mother has been reading the Man of Feel...Margaret Carlyle Thomas CarlyleState of German LiteraturePrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849Harriet Countess Granville to her sister, Lady Georgiana Morpeth, 1 January 1822: 'I think "Cain" most wicked, but ...Granville Leveson Gower George Gordon Lord ByronCainPrint: Book
1800-1849Harriet Countess Granville to her sister, Lady Georgiana Morpeth, from The Hague, 22 April 1824: 'Here is again the...Granville Leveson Gower French newspapersPrint: Newspaper
1900-1945'H.M Wallis ably reviewed Dill's Social Life in the Roman Empire & much discussion followed'.Henry Marriage Wallis Samuel DillRoman Society from Nero to Marcus AureliusPrint: Book
1900-1945'The subject of the evening - 'English Ballads' - was then discussed in two papers, by F.J. Edminson & H.M. Wallis, an...Henry Marriage Wallis Henry Marriage Wallis[paper on English ballads]Manuscript: Unknown
1900-1945'The subject of the evening - 'English Ballads' - was then discussed in two papers, by F.J. Edminson & H.M. Wallis, an...Henry Marriage Wallis [either an English ballad or text about ballads]Print: Book
1900-1945'The programme on Thos Hardy & his works was as follows Mr Binns read an interesting account of the author's life & H...Henry Marriage Wallis Thomas Hardy[minor poems]Print: Book
1900-1945'The programme on Thos Hardy & his works was as follows Mr Binns read an interesting account of the author's life & H...Henry Marriage Wallis Henry Marriage Wallis[paper on Thomas Hardy]Manuscript: Unknown
1900-1945'The programme on parodies consisted of a paper by H.M. Wallis & C.I. Evans & readings by Miss Marriage, Mrs Evans, C....Henry Marriage Wallis [a parody]Print: Book
1800-1849Friday, 23 December 1825: 'Sir Gilbert [the first Earl Minto] was indeed a man among a thousand. I knew him very ...Sir Gilbert Eliot, first Earl Minto Sir Gilbert Eliot, first Earl MintopoemsUnknown
1900-1945'The subject of the evening Vers de Societe was introduced by H.M. Wallis & illustrative readings from various authors...Henry Marriage Wallis [example of Vers de Societe]Print: Book
1900-1945'The programme on Ibsen's work was opened by a reading on Peer Gynt by Helen Rawlings from P.H. Wicksteed's book on Ib...Margery Rawlings Henrik IbsenPeer GyntPrint: Book
1900-1945'The programme on G. Bernard Shaw & his work was then entered upon by C.E. Stansfield reading a paper on the man & his...Henry Marriage Wallis George Bernard ShawDoctor's Dilemma, ThePrint: Book
1900-1945'Browning's Sordello was introduced by some prefatory notes by H.M. Wallis read by E.E. Unwin. H.M. Wallis then read a...Henry Marriage Wallis Henry Marriage Wallis[paper on historical setting of Browning's 'Sordello']Manuscript: Unknown
1900-1945'Browning's Sordello was introduced by some prefatory notes by H.M. Wallis read by E.E. Unwin. H.M. Wallis then read a...Henry Marriage Wallis Robert BrowningSordelloPrint: Book
1900-1945'A series of more or less five minutes essays or talks on various aspects of Browning by the folowing members were the...Margery Rawlings Robert BrowningEvelyn HopePrint: Book
1900-1945'J.J. Cooper introduced the subject of the Brontes with some excellent biographical notes & readings were given from t...Henry Marriage Wallis BrontePrint: Book
1900-1945'Mrs Unwin then read a biography of Leo Tolstoi. C.I. Evans then dealt with him as a schoolmaster - H.M. Wallis as a l...Henry Marriage Wallis [works by and about Tolstoy]Print: Book
1900-1945'Mrs Unwin then read a biography of Leo Tolstoi. C.I. Evans then dealt with him as a schoolmaster - H.M. Wallis as a l...Reginald Robson [works by and about Tolstoy]Print: Book
1900-1945'The Life & Works of Oliver W. Holmes were then dealt with. John J. Cooper read an interesting biographical paper, con...Reginald Robson Oliver Wendell HolmesProfessor at the Breakfast Table, ThePrint: Book
1900-1945'The Life & Works of Oliver W. Holmes were then dealt with. John J. Cooper read an interesting biographical paper, con...Reginald Robson Reginald Robson[paper on Holmes's 'the Professor at the Breakfast Table']Manuscript: Unknown
1900-1945'The Meeting then considered the Life & Works of Alfred Russel Wallace. Walter S. Rowntree gave us an account of Walla...Henry Marriage Wallis Henry Marriage Wallis[Paper on A.R. Wallace's scientific writings]Manuscript: Unknown
1900-1945'The Meeting then considered the Life & Works of Alfred Russel Wallace. Walter S. Rowntree gave us an account of Walla...Henry Marriage Wallis Alfred Russel Wallace[scientific writings]Print: Book
1900-1945'The evening was given over to the consideration of Thackeray. A paper by J.J. Cooper was read by Miss Marriage follo...Henry Marriage Wallis William Makepeace ThackerayRoundabout PapersPrint: Book
1800-1849Harriet, Countess Granville, to her sister, Lady Carlisle, 4 September 1834: 'Our host at the inn at Avignon, a poe...Granville Leveson Gower ?PiersonUnknown
1900-1945'The evening was then devoted to Richard Jefferies - Poet-Naturalist. Ernest E. Unwin read a paper dealing with his li...Henry Marriage Wallis Richard JefferiesPrint: Book
1900-1945'The evening was then devoted to the consideration of Cervantes - his life & work. C.E. Stansfield read a paper & read...Reginald Robson Miguel de CervantesPrint: Book
1900-1945'The evening was then given up to the consideration of three modern poets. Alfred Noyes. A paper by Mrs Unwin with re...Henry Marriage Wallis Henry NewboltVitai LampadaPrint: Book
1900-1945'The evening was then given up to the consideration of three modern poets. Alfred Noyes. A paper by Mrs Unwin with re...Reginald Robson Rupert BrookePrint: Book
1900-1945'The evening was then given up to the consideration of three modern poets. Alfred Noyes. A paper by Mrs Unwin with re...Reginald Robson Rupert BrookePrint: Book
1900-1945'The evening was then given up to the consideration of three modern poets. Alfred Noyes. A paper by Mrs Unwin with re...Reginald Robson Reginald Robson[paper on Rupert Brooke]Manuscript: Unknown
1900-1945'The evening was devoted to Meredith. H.M. Wallis read a most interesting paper upon Meredith's works. This gave rise ...Henry Marriage Wallis Henry Marriage Wallis[paper on Meredith]Manuscript: Unknown
1900-1945'The evening was devoted to Meredith. H.M. Wallis read a most interesting paper upon Meredith's works. This gave rise ...Henry Marriage Wallis George MeredithPrint: Book
1800-1849Harriet, Countess Granville to her sister, Lady Carlisle, 7 December 1839: 'Georgy [daughter] read me a sermon of ...Lady Georgiana Leveson Gower sermonUnknown
1800-1849Harriet, Countess Granville to her brother, the Duke of Devonshire, 12 June 1843: 'We read about Ireland with great...Lady Georgiana Leveson Gower Mr SheilspeechPrint: Unknown
1900-1945'Dostoieffsky [sic] occupied our attention for the remained [sic] of the evening. We were much indebted to R.H. Robson...Reginald Robson Reginald Robson[paper on Dostoevsky]Print: BookManuscript: Unknown
1900-1945'Dostoieffsky [sic] occupied our attention for the remained [sic] of the evening. We were much indebted to R.H. Robson...Reginald Robson Fyodor DostoevskyPrint: Book
1900-1945'Mark Twain A very humorous essay written by C.E. Stansfield & read by R.H. Robson gave us a delightful introduction ...Reginald Robson Mark TwainPrint: Book
1900-1945'Mark Twain A very humorous essay written by C.E. Stansfield & read by R.H. Robson gave us a delightful introduction ...Reginald Robson Charles Stansfield[essay on Twain]Manuscript: Unknown
1900-1945'C.I. Evans described the Earthly Paradise & Mrs Evans & R.H. Robson gave readings therefrom. H.M. Wallis read [supers...Henry Marriage Wallis William MorrisPrint: Book
1900-1945'C.I. Evans described the Earthly Paradise & Mrs Evans & R.H. Robson gave readings therefrom. H.M. Wallis read [supers...Reginald Robson William MorrisEarthly Paradise, ThePrint: Book
1900-1945'C.I. Evans described the Earthly Paradise & Mrs Evans & R.H. Robson gave readings therefrom. H.M. Wallis read [supers...Henry Marriage Wallis William MorrisSigurd the VolsungPrint: Book
1900-1945'Gilbert Murray & his work was the subject for the evening & a paper was read by H.M. Wallis. This afforded an interes...Henry Marriage Wallis Henry Marriage Wallis[paper on Gilbert Murray]Manuscript: Unknown
1900-1945'Gilbert Murray & his work was the subject for the evening & a paper was read by H.M. Wallis. This afforded an interes...Henry Marriage Wallis Gilbert MurrayRise of the Greek Epic, ThePrint: Book
1900-1945'The meeting then entered the gloomy portals of New Grub St & attempted to follow the fortunes of George Gissing. The ...Henry Marriage Wallis George GissingOdd Women, ThePrint: Book
1800-1849John Murray to Walter Scott, 27 June 1812: 'I cannot refrain [...] from mentioning to you a conversation which Lord...George Prince of Wales Walter ScottThe Lay of the Last MinstrelPrint: Book
1800-1849From recollections of John Murray junior: 'Sometimes, though not often, Lord Byron read passages from his poems to ...George Gordon Lord Byron George Gordon Lord ByronpoemsUnknown
1900-1945'The meeting then considered the work of H.G. Wells. The chief item of interest was undoubtedly a paper by Henry M. Wa...Henry Marriage Wallis Henry Marriage Wallis[paper on Wells's 'Romances']Manuscript: Unknown
1900-1945'The meeting then considered the work of H.G. Wells. The chief item of interest was undoubtedly a paper by Henry M. Wa...Reginald Robson Herbert George Wells[a short story]Print: Book
1900-1945'The meeting then considered the work of H.G. Wells. The chief item of interest was undoubtedly a paper by Henry M. Wa...Henry Marriage Wallis Herbert George Wells[novels]Print: Book
1800-1849John Murray to his wife, 15 August 1814: 'I have got [for publication] at last Mr. Eagle's "Journal of Penrose, the...George Gordon Lord Byron EagleJournal of Penrose, the SeamanManuscript: Unknown
1800-1849John Murray to Walter Scott, 25 December 1815: 'I was with Lord Byron yesterday. He enquired after you, and bid me ...George Gordon Lord Byron C. R. MaturinBertramUnknown
1800-1849John Murray to Walter Scott, 25 December 1815: 'I was with Lord Byron yesterday. He enquired after you, and bid me ...The Hon. George Lamb C. R. MaturinBertramUnknown
1800-1849Byron to John Murray, 3 March 1817: 'In acknowledging the arrival of the article from the Quarterly, which I recei...Augusta Leigh Walter ScottReview of George Gordon, Lord Byron, Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, Canto IIIPrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849Augusta Leigh, Byron's half-sister, to John Murray (July 1818): 'I return the Edinburgh Review, with a thousand tha...Augusta Leigh Edinburgh ReviewPrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'Say, too, that I received his Life of Napoleon, and have read it this winter - in the evening and at night - with att...Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Walter ScottLife of NapoleonPrint: Book
1800-1849'On the whole, our study and love of German Literature seems to be rapidly progressive: in my time, that is, within th...British Population (general) [German literature]Print: BookUnknown
1900-1945'The subject before the meeting was Joseph Conrad. R.H. Robson introduced the subject with an interesting essay & a nu...Reginald Robson Reginald Robson[paper on Conrad]Manuscript: Unknown
1900-1945'The subject before the meeting was Joseph Conrad. R.H. Robson introduced the subject with an interesting essay & a nu...Reginald Robson Joseph ConradPrint: Book
1900-1945'The remainder of the evening was given over to R.L. Stevenson & his work. [the format of the evening's discussion on...Henry Marriage Wallis Robert Louis StevensonMaster of Ballantrae, ThePrint: Book
1900-1945'Essays were then read. The Secretary does not feel able to do more than indicate the general nature of these essays. ...Reginald Robson Henry Marriage Wallis[paper on an altar stone found near Carthage]Manuscript: Unknown
1900-1945'Balzac We were introduced by Henry M. Wallis to the novels of Balzac by an introduction to & readings from The Wild ...Henry Marriage Wallis Henry Marriage Wallis[paper introducing Balzac]Manuscript: Unknown
1900-1945'Balzac We were introduced by Henry M. Wallis to the novels of Balzac by an introduction to & readings from The Wild ...Henry Marriage Wallis Honore de BalzacWild Ass's Skin, ThePrint: Book
1900-1945'The subject of the evening's programme was John Keats. R.H. Robson read an essay dealing with his life. The main infl...Reginald Robson Reginald Robson[essay on Keats' life]Manuscript: Unknown
1900-1945'The subject of the evening's programme was John Keats. R.H. Robson read an essay dealing with his life. The main infl...Henry Marriage Wallis Henry Marriage Wallis[essay on Keats]Manuscript: Unknown
1900-1945'The subject of the evening's programme was John Keats. R.H. Robson read an essay dealing with his life. The main infl...Henry Marriage Wallis John KeatsPrint: Book
1900-1945'The evening then became a 'Comic One'. The chief contribution was a paper by H.M. Wallis on 'the Comic' as reflected ...Henry Marriage Wallis Henry Marriage Wallis[paper on the Comic]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...Henry Marriage Wallis Shane LeslieEnd of a Chapter, ThePrint: Book
1800-1849'Lord Byron, to whom Mr. Murray sent a copy of [Belzoni's] work, said: "Belzoni [italics]is[end italics] a grand trave...George Gordon Lord Byron Giovanni BelzoniNarrative of the Operations and recent Discoveries within the Pyramids, Temples, Tombs, and Excavations in Egypt and NubiaPrint: Book
1900-1945'The meeting then considered the works of Thomas Hardy. H.M. Wallis gave a paper outlining the main features of Hardy'...Henry Marriage Wallis Henry Marriage Wallis[paper on Hardy's life and work]Manuscript: Unknown
1900-1945'The meeting then considered the works of Thomas Hardy. H.M. Wallis gave a paper outlining the main features of Hardy'...Henry Marriage Wallis Thomas Hardy'Three Travellers, The'Print: Book
1900-1945'The meeting then considered the works of Thomas Hardy. H.M. Wallis gave a paper outlining the main features of Hardy'...Henry Marriage Wallis Thomas HardyPrint: Book
1900-1945'The rest of the evening was given to Edmund Gosse. H.M. Wallis spoke about Edmund Gosse the man & his work for the pu...Henry Marriage Wallis Edmund GosseFather & Son: A Study of Two Temperaments Print: Book
1900-1945'The rest of the evening was given to Edmund Gosse. H.M. Wallis spoke about Edmund Gosse the man & his work for the pu...Henry Marriage Wallis Edmund Gosse[literary criticism]Print: Book
1800-1849Gally Knight to John Murray, 17 February 1831: 'I have seen the second volume of Moore's "Life of Byron," and thoug...Gally Knight Thomas MooreLife of ByronPrint: Book
1900-1945'The Secy. (who was absent) has received the folowiing summary from R.B. Graham. a) C.I. Evans read a paper on Ben Jo...Henry Marriage Wallis Ben Jonson[short poems]Print: Book
1800-1849George Borrow to John Murray junior, 1 December 1842: 'Yesterday read "Letters from the Baltic"; much pleased with ...George Borrow Miss RigbyLetters from the BalticPrint: Book
1800-1849George Borrow to John Murray junior, 1 December 1842: 'Yesterday read "Letters from the Baltic"; much pleased with ...George Borrow Review of Miss Rigby, Letters from the BalticPrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849George Borrow to John Murray junior, 31 December 1842: 'With respect to the critique [of his The Bible in Spain] in...George Borrow Review of George Borrow, The Bible in SpainPrint: Newspaper
1800-1849George Borrow to John Murray junior, 31 December 1842: 'With respect to the critique [of his The Bible in Spain] in...George Borrow Review of George Borrow, The Bible in SpainPrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849George Borrow to John Murray, 25 February 1843: 'I have seen the article in the Edinburgh about the Bible [in Spain...George Borrow Review of George Borrow, The Bible in SpainPrint: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'The following miscellaneous programme was then gone through. This change in the subject was caused by the imposibilit...Henry Marriage Wallis E.V. LucasJoints in the ArmourPrint: Unknown
1900-1945'The following miscellaneous programme was then gone through. This change in the subject was caused by the imposibilit...Reginald Robson Reginald Robson'Bad Morality & Bad art'Manuscript: Unknown
1900-1945'the rest of the evening was devoted to Browning's The Ring & the Book. Henry M. Wallis read a masterly paper in intro...Henry Marriage Wallis Henry Marriage Wallis[paper on Browning's The Ring & the Book]Manuscript: Unknown
1900-1945'the rest of the evening was devoted to Browning's The Ring & the Book. Henry M. Wallis read a masterly paper in intro...Reginald Robson Robert BrowningRing and the Book, ThePrint: Book
1900-1945'the rest of the evening was devoted to Browning's The Ring & the Book. Henry M. Wallis read a masterly paper in intro...Henry Marriage Wallis Robert BrowningRing and the Book, ThePrint: Book
1900-1945'The rest of the meeting was devoted to Fanny Burney. Mrs Robson read a paper which had been prepared by Miss Cole dea...Reginald Robson Fanny Burney[from works or diary]Manuscript: Sheet, copy from book, taken by Miss Cole
1900-1945'The subject before the meeting was Thomas Love Peacock, novelist & poet. H.M. Wallis read an introductory paper which...Henry Marriage Wallis Henry Marriage Wallis[paper on Thomas Love Peacock]Manuscript: Unknown
1900-1945'The subject before the meeting was Thomas Love Peacock, novelist & poet. H.M. Wallis read an introductory paper which...Henry Marriage Wallis Thomas Love PeacockPrint: Book
1900-1945'If the novel at which he [Warrington Dawson] is working now and of which he read me the first four chapters is, as a ...Francis Warrington Dawson Francis Warrington DawsonThe SinManuscript: Unknown
1900-1945'The rest of the evening was devoted to John Bunyan. H.R. Smith read a paper dealing with the main episodes of his lif...Reginald Robson John BunyanPilgrim's ProgressPrint: Book
1900-1945'The remainder of the evening was devoted to the writings of Maurice Hewlett. [C.I. Evans outlined a few facts of his ...Henry Marriage Wallis Maurice HewlettQueen's Quair Or The Six Years' Tragedy Print: Book
1900-1945'5. The Club now considered the subject for the evening - Berkshire - & the opening paper was by H.M. Wallis who touch...Henry Marriage Wallis Henry Marriage Wallis[paper on History of Berkshire]Manuscript: Unknown
1900-1945'The rest of the evening concerned Prehistoric Man & Woman. H.M. Wallis read a paper entitled 'The Piltdown Woman'. Th...Henry Marriage Wallis Henry Marriage Wallis[paper on Piltdown Woman]Manuscript: Unknown
1900-1945'The rest of the evening was spent in the company of Samuel Pepys (Peeps) The Club was much indebted to H.M. Wallis a...Reginald Robson Samuel PepysDiaryPrint: Book
1900-1945'The rest of the evening was spent in the company of Samuel Pepys (Peeps) The Club was much indebted to H.M. Wallis a...Henry Marriage Wallis Henry Marriage Wallis[essay on Pepys]Manuscript: Unknown
1900-1945'The subject of the evening, 'Ballads', now occupied attention. From an introductory paper prepared by Mary Hayward ...Henry Marriage Wallis Henry Marriage Wallis[paper on ballads]Manuscript: Unknown
1900-1945'The subject of the evening, 'Ballads', now occupied attention. From an introductory paper prepared by Mary Hayward ...Reginald Robson Sir Patrick SpensPrint: Unknown
1900-1945'The subject of the evening, 'Ballads', now occupied attention. From an introductory paper prepared by Mary Hayward ...Henry Marriage Wallis Helen of KirconnelPrint: Unknown
1900-1945'The evening was then devoted to Samuel Johnson as seen through the biography of Boswell. Two papers were contributed....George Burrow George Burrow[paper on Dr Johnson]Manuscript: Unknown
1900-1945'The evening was then devoted to Samuel Johnson as seen through the biography of Boswell. Two papers were contributed....Reginald Robson James BoswellLife of JohnsonPrint: Book
1900-1945'The evening was then devoted to Samuel Johnson as seen through the biography of Boswell. Two papers were contributed....Henry Marriage Wallis James BoswellLife of JohnsonPrint: Book
1900-1945'The rest of the evening was devoted to the works of Laurence Housman. Most of the members had seen & heard Mr Housman...Henry Marriage Wallis Henry Marriage Wallis[paper on Laurence Housman]Manuscript: Unknown
1900-1945'The rest of the evening was devoted to the works of Laurence Housman. Most of the members had seen & heard Mr Housman...Reginald Robson Reginald Robson[paper on Housman's 'New Child's Guide to Knowledge']Manuscript: Unknown
1900-1945'The rest of the evening was devoted to the works of Laurence Housman. Most of the members had seen & heard Mr Housman...Henry Marriage Wallis Laurence HousmanEnglishwoman's Love-letters, AnPrint: BookManuscript: Unknown
1900-1945'The rest of the evening was devoted to the works of Laurence Housman. Most of the members had seen & heard Mr Housman...Reginald Robson Laurence HousmanNew Child's Guide to KnowledgePrint: BookManuscript: Unknown
1900-1945'Yet the previous December, after reading my first nine chapters, G. had written to me at Halifax: "Your book, I thin...George Catlin Vera BrittainTestament of YouthPrint: Book
1900-1945'On the plane I saw in the paper of the fellow ahead of me, "Le Marechal Pilzudski est mort hier".'George Catlin Print: Newspaper
1900-1945'Miss Marriage then gave us some notes on Anatole France [sic] Life with references to some of his work & the order of...Reginald Robson Anatole FrancePenguin IslandPrint: Book
1900-1945'Mr Burrow then introduced John Masefield's work setting out the little publicly known of his life following with a sh...George Burrow John MasefieldPrint: Book
1900-1945'Mr Burrow then introduced John Masefield's work setting out the little publicly known of his life following with a sh...George Burrow John Masefield'Everlasting Mercy, The'Print: Book
1900-1945'Mr Burrow then introduced John Masefield's work setting out the little publicly known of his life following with a sh...Henry Marriage Wallis John MasefieldGallipoli
1900-1945'Mr Robson then gave us some short notes on Sir A.T. Quiller Couch and read us his short story "Once aboard the lugger...Reginald Robson Arthur Quiller-Couch'Once aboard the lugger'Print: Book
1900-1945'Mr Robson then gave us some short notes on Sir A.T. Quiller Couch and read us his short story "Once aboard the lugger...Henry Marriage Wallis Arthur Quiller-Couch[a short story]Print: Book
1900-1945'Mr Robson then gave us some short notes on Sir A.T. Quiller Couch and read us his short story "Once aboard the lugger...Henry Marriage Wallis Arthur Quiller-Couch[a poem]Print: Book
1900-1945'Mr Robson then gave us some short notes on Sir A.T. Quiller Couch and read us his short story "Once aboard the lugger...Henry Marriage Wallis Arthur Quiller-CouchPrint: Book
1700-1799'I was correcting a proof sheet of my volume [of poetry], when the servant abruptly announced Mr. Fitzgerald! [...] Th...George Robert Fitzgerald Mary Robinson'pastoral [poem]'Print: Unknown, In publisher's proofs
1900-1945'Mr Geo Burrow read a paper on George Sand indicating her semi-patrician origin & the County surroundings in which she...George Burrow George Burrow[paper on George Sand]Manuscript: Unknown
1900-1945'H.R. Smith gave a brief outline of S. Baring Gould's Life following which H.M. Wallis read from "John Herring" a Dart...Henry Marriage Wallis Sabine Baring-GouldJohn HerringPrint: Book
1900-1945'H.R. Smith gave a brief outline of S. Baring Gould's Life following which H.M. Wallis read from "John Herring" a Dart...Henry Marriage Wallis Sabine Baring-GouldPrint: Book
1900-1945'The rest of the evening was devoted to Anthony Trollope. C.E. Stansfield read an amusing passage from Dr Thorne. H.M....Reginald Robson Anthony TrollopeWarden, ThePrint: Book
1900-1945'The rest of the evening was devoted to Anthony Trollope. C.E. Stansfield read an amusing passage from Dr Thorne. H.M....Henry Marriage Wallis Henry Marriage Wallis[essay on Trollope, with extracts from his works]Manuscript: Unknown
1900-1945'The rest of the evening was devoted to Anthony Trollope. C.E. Stansfield read an amusing passage from Dr Thorne. H.M....Henry Marriage Wallis Anthony TrollopePrint: 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...George Burrow George Burrow[paper on Mark Rutherford]Manuscript: Unknown
1900-1945'H.R. Smith then gave some account of Lord Byron's Life. Mrs Burrough [sic] read part of Mazzeppa [sic]. C.E Stansfiel...Reginald Robson George Gordon, Lord Byron'Isles of Greece, The'Print: Book
1900-1945'H.R. Smith then gave some account of Lord Byron's Life. Mrs Burrough [sic] read part of Mazzeppa [sic]. C.E Stansfiel...Reginald Robson George Gordon, Lord ByronChilde Harold's PilgrimagePrint: Book
1900-1945'The evening's subject of William de Morgan was introduced by Geo Burrow who gave some account of his life drawing att...Reginald Robson William de MorganAlice for ShortPrint: Book
1900-1945'F.E. Pollard gave some account of Walt Whitman's Life indicating the variety of livelyhood [sic] & of expression whic...George Burrow Walt Whitman'Memories of President Lincoln'Print: Book
1900-1945'F.E. Pollard gave some account of Walt Whitman's Life indicating the variety of livelyhood [sic] & of expression whic...Reginald Robson Walt WhitmanPrint: Book
1900-1945'The subject for the evening Herman Melville was then proceeded with & R.H. Robson gave a short account of his life fo...George Burrow Herman MelvilleMoby DickPrint: Book
1900-1945'The subject for the evening Hugh Walpole was then taken F.E. Pollard giving us a brief outline of the writer's life. ...Reginald Robson Hugh WalpoleCathedral, ThePrint: Book
1700-1799Margaret Collier to Samuel Richardson, from Ryde, 3 October 1755: 'I met with some lines the other day in a transla...Margaret Collier AriostoOrlando FuriosoPrint: Book
1700-1799Margaret Collier to Samuel Richardson, from Ryde, 31 December 1755: 'My good old folks were desirous that I should ...Margaret Collier Samuel RichardsonClarissaPrint: Book
1700-1799Margaret Collier to Samuel Richardson, from Ryde, 31 December 1755: 'My good old folks were desirous that I should ...Margaret Collier Samuel RichardsonClarissaPrint: Book
1700-1799Margaret Collier to Samuel Richardson, from Ryde, 31 December 1755: 'I still feel anxiety, painful anxiety, for so...Margaret Collier newspapersPrint: Newspaper
1700-1799Margaret Collier to Samuel Richardson, from Ryde, 11 February 1756: 'My good old folks --you can't think how I love...Margaret Collier Samuel RichardsonSir Charles GrandisonPrint: Book
1900-1945'After refreshment Geo Burrow told us of Meinholt's [sic] book "The Amber Witch" & of witchcraft & Howard R. Smith re...George Burrow Johannes Wilhelm Meinhold"The Amber Witch"Print: Book
1900-1945'C.I. Evans read a short essay on W.H. Hudsons story Green Mansions H.R. Smith followed on Rates & Taxes & Geo Burrow ...George Burrow Henry Marriage Wallis[paper on geology]Manuscript: Unknown
1900-1945'Letters & Letter writing were then proceeded with. Mrs Burrow read three letters of William Cowper characteristica...George Burrow Charles Lamb[letters]Print: Unknown
1700-1799[Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 7 February 1755:] 'Did not you permit Miss Highmore to give [Mrs Donnelon] a...Sir George Lyttleton Elizabeth Carter'To a Lady Fond of Life'Manuscript: Unknown
1900-1945'The Club then listened to a variety of readings from modern poets as follows: A Rawlings Extracts from "The Art of...Reginald Robson J. C. Squires[poem possibly entitled 'Birds']Print: Book
1900-1945'The Club then listened to a variety of readings from modern poets as follows: A Rawlings Extracts from "The Art of...George Burrow Burrow[poems]Print: Book
1900-1945'The subject of the evening "Gardens" was then taken. Geo Burrow reminded us that the world began in the garden of Ede...George Burrow [reading about the Garden of Eden]Print: Book
1900-1945'The subject of Tolstoy & his works was then taken. R. H. Robson gave a brief outline of his life. T. C. Elliott gave ...George Burrow Leo TolstoyThe CossacksPrint: Book
1900-1945'F. E. Pollard read an article on Thos Hardy by Arnold Bennett S. A. Reynold [sic] spoke on Hardy's country with books...Reginald Robson Thomas HardyFar from the Madding CrowdPrint: Book
1900-1945'F. E. Pollard read an article on Thos Hardy by Arnold Bennett S. A. Reynold [sic] spoke on Hardy's country with books...George Burrow Thomas HardyDynasts, ThePrint: Book
1900-1945'Geo Burrow then read portions of Thackeray's essay on Swift. H. R. Smith read several short extracts from the Journal...George Burrow William Makepeace ThackerayEssay on Jonathan SwiftPrint: Book
1900-1945'He told me later that the "New York Post" announced the conclusion of the war in Europe under the headline: "Now We M...George Catlin New York PostPrint: Newspaper
1800-1849[George Henry Lewes to Elizabeth Gaskell:] 'When Jane Eyre first appeared, the publishers courteously sent me a cop...George Henry Lewes Charlotte BronteJane EyrePrint: Book
1800-1849[Charlotte Bronte (as 'Currer Bell') to her publisher, W. S. Williams, 11 December 1847:] 'There are moments when I...James Henry Leigh Hunt Charlotte BronteJane EyrePrint: Book
1800-1849'most striking & thrilling... twice to my mother & sisters'G. W. F. Howard, Lord Morpeth Astolphe de Custine?Biographical Anecdotes of the Founders of the French RepublicPrint: Book
1800-1849'very good, rather political in character'G. W. F. Howard, Lord Morpeth William Ellery ChanningSermon on Spiritual FreedomPrint: Book
1800-1849'very good, with his peculiar views'G. W. F. Howard, Lord Morpeth William Ellery ChanningSermon on the Imitableness of ChristPrint: Book
1800-1849'good, with the Unitarian views'G. W. F. Howard, Lord Morpeth William Ellery ChanningSermons on Love to ChristPrint: Book
1800-1849'a vague subject, but treated in the refined & elevated spirit peculiar to him'G. W. F. Howard, Lord Morpeth George Stillman HillardThe Relation of the Poet to His AgePrint: Book
1800-1849'written in a bad American style, turgid, & obscurely fractious, but interesting from its matter'G. W. F. Howard, Lord Morpeth Thomas FarnhamTravels in the Great Western PrairiesPrint: Book
1800-1849'I have been extremely interested by it, and think it a most remarkable book, beyond measure severe, every line is wri...G. W. F. Howard, Lord Morpeth Astolphe de CustineLa RussiaPrint: Book
1800-1849'the founder of the Ministry at large, excellent. I must have talk with Ly Byron about this subject, & the similar ins...G. W. F. Howard, Lord Morpeth William Ellery ChanningSermon on Dr TuckermanPrint: Book
1800-1849'interesting, but I should say indicative of rather a deficient moral standard & Providential recognition'G. W. F. Howard, Lord Morpeth [Articles on the French Revolution and Robespierre, journal unknown]Print: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'fine imagery, but is too speculative'G. W. F. Howard, Lord Morpeth Henry MelvillSermon on the AscensionPrint: Unknown
1800-1849'short as all his are, & excellent as almost all are'G. W. F. Howard, Lord Morpeth Thomas ArnoldSermon on the text 'except ye eat the flesh of the son of man'Print: Unknown
1800-1849'very interesting & able. I have read the entire contents of his published works, and every page has impressed upon me...G. W. F. Howard, Lord Morpeth William Ellery ChanningLecture on the Present AgePrint: Book
1800-1849'pithy & good. He is sure never to offend, usually to instruct & amend'G. W. F. Howard, Lord Morpeth Thomas ArnoldSermon on the Three Comings of ChristPrint: Book
1800-1849'Read loud… I like better & better, it is so clever & so practical'G. W. F. Howard, Lord Morpeth Thomas ArnoldSermon on Ceasar's HouseholdPrint: Book
1800-1849'full of good & useful matter'G. W. F. Howard, Lord Morpeth James Kay-ShuttleworthProof of a report on Battersea Teacher-Training SchoolPrint: Unknown
1800-1849'entertained me much, though they would probably have not so much interest out of this family, to which so many of the...G. W. F. Howard, Lord Morpeth George SelwynCorrespondencePrint: Book
1800-1849'excellent, some antidote is salutary amidst such frivolities'G. W. F. Howard, Lord Morpeth LeightonSermon on Divine Grace and ObediencePrint: Book
1800-1849

[Sidney Biddell to Ellen Nussey, 15 February 1885:]


'I am having a great treat in Cross's "Life of G...

George Eliot Charlotte BronteJane EyrePrint: Book
1850-1899

[Sidney Biddell to Ellen Nussey, 15 February 1885:]


'I am having a great treat in Cross's "Life of G...

George Eliot Elizabeth GaskellLife of Charlotte BrontePrint: Book
1900-1945'One Friday afternoon I went to the [italics] Daily Herald [end italics] office to call on a friend. As I entered the ...Gilbert Keith Chesterton Gilbert Keith ChestertonBackfile of his own articles published in the "Daily Herald."Print: Newspaper
1900-1945'The subject of the evening Elizabethan Drama other than Shakespear was then taken. Geo Burrow read a very short intro...George Burrow George Burrow[A very short introduction to Elizabethan drama other than Shakespeare]Manuscript: Unknown
1900-1945'A scene was then read from The Lamentable Tragedy of Arden of Faversham T. C. Elliot taking the part of Arden[.] S A ...George Burrow anon Arden of Faversham Unknown
1900-1945The Club was then much impressed by a reading from Christopher Marlows Doctor Faustus parted as under Thos. C Elliot...Reginald H. Robson Christopher MarloweDoctor FaustusUnknown
1900-1945There followed an amusing passage from Ben Jonsons Silent Woman with C I Evans as Morose Geo Burrow as Mute & R H Robs...George Burrow Ben JonsonEpicoene, or the Silent WomanUnknown
1900-1945There followed an amusing passage from Ben Jonsons Silent Woman with C I Evans as Morose Geo Burrow as Mute & R H Robs...Reginald H. Robson Ben JonsonEpicoene, or the Silent WomanUnknown
1900-1945H. M. Wallis delighted us with an account of War Time Tree fellings Henry Marriage Wallis Henry Marriage WallisWar Time Tree FellingsManuscript: Unknown
1900-1945

'A Meeting held at 9 Denmark Rd 13/11/1928 F. E. Pollard in the chair

1. Minutes of last read and approved<...

Reginald H. Robson Reginald H. RobsonThe Abolition of the House of CommonsManuscript: Unknown
1900-1945

'A meeting held at School House 4/12/28 T. C. Elliott in the chair

1 Minutes of the last read and approved<...

Reginald H. Robson William ShakespeareThe TempestUnknown
1900-1945

'A Meeting held at Oakdene 20/2/1929 S. A. Reynolds in the chair

1. Minutes of last Meeting read and approv...

Reginald H. Robson Victor HugoToilers of the Sea (Les Travailleurs de la mer)Print: Book
1900-1945

'A Meeting held at Grove House May 3rd H. B. Lawson in the chair

Min 1. Minutes of last Read and approved

Reginald H. Robson William ShakespeareHenry IV Part 1 (Act II scene I: the men in buckram)Print: Book
1900-1945

'A Meeting held at Grove House May 3rd H. B. Lawson in the chair

Min 1. Minutes of last Read and approved

George Burrow William ShakespeareHenry IV Part 1 (Act II scene I: the men in buckram)Print: Book
1900-1945

'A Meeting held at Grove House May 3rd H. B. Lawson in the chair

Min 1. Minutes of last Read and approved

George Burrow Charles DickensDavid CopperfieldPrint: Book
1900-1945'Robert Graves lent me his manuscript poems to read: some very bad, violent and repulsive. A few full of promise and ...Siegfried Sassoon Robert GravesUnknown
1900-1945

'A Meeting held at Broomfield June 6 1929

Geo H Burrow in the chair

Min 1. Minutes of last time rea...

George Burrow [Un-named modern American works in verse]
1900-1945

'A Meeting held at Broomfield June 6 1929

Geo H Burrow in the chair

Min 1. Minutes of last time rea...

Reginald H. Robson Sinclair LewisBabbitt
1900-1945

'A Meeting held at 70 Northcourt Avenue 25th September 1929 C. E Stansfield in the chair

Min 1. Minutes o...

Reginald H. Robson Reginald H. Robson[essay on a family holiday]Manuscript: Unknown
1900-1945

'A Meeting held at 70 Northcourt Avenue 25th September 1929 C. E Stansfield in the chair

Min 1. Minutes o...

George Burrow George BurrowThe Jamboree and Thoughts thereonManuscript: Unknown
1900-1945Meeting held at Broomfield June 3rd 1930
G. Burrow in the chair
1. Minutes of last read and approved
...
Reginald H. Robson John GalsworthyThe RoofPrint: Book
1900-1945Meeting held at Broomfield June 3rd 1930
G. Burrow in the chair
1. Minutes of last read and approved
...
Henry Marriage Wallis John GalsworthyThe RoofPrint: Book
1900-1945Meeting held at Broomfield June 3rd 1930
G. Burrow in the chair
1. Minutes of last read and approved
...
George Burrow John GalsworthyThe RoofPrint: Book
1900-1945Meeting held at Ashton Lodge July 10th 1930
H. M. Wallis in the chair
Min 1. Minutes of last meeting approv...
George Burrow George Burrow[an account of the life of John Masefield]Manuscript: Unknown
1900-1945Meeting held at Ashton Lodge July 10th 1930
H. M. Wallis in the chair
Min 1. Minutes of last meeting approv...
Henry Marriage Wallis John MasefieldSard HarkerPrint: Book
1900-1945Meeting held at Ashton Lodge July 10th 1930
H. M. Wallis in the chair
Min 1. Minutes of last meeting approv...
Edgar Castle John MasefieldPhilip the KingUnknown
1900-1945Meeting held at Ashton Lodge July 10th 1930
H. M. Wallis in the chair
Min 1. Minutes of last meeting approv...
Mignon Castle John MasefieldPhilip the KingUnknown
1900-1945'Meeting held at 70, Northcourt Avenue: 2. VI. 31 Charles E. Stansfield in the chair 1. Minutes of last approved [....George Burrow George Burrow[an introduction to the topic of the Sitwells]Manuscript: Unknown
1900-1945'Meeting held at 70, Northcourt Avenue: 2. VI. 31 Charles E. Stansfield in the chair 1. Minutes of last approved [....George Burrow Who's WhoPrint: BookManuscript: Unknown
1900-1945'Meeting held at 70, Northcourt Avenue: 2. VI. 31 Charles E. Stansfield in the chair 1. Minutes of last approved [....Henry Marriage Wallis Henry Marriage WallisSouthern Baroque ArtManuscript: Unknown
1900-1945'Meeting held at 70, Northcourt Avenue: 2. VI. 31 Charles E. Stansfield in the chair 1. Minutes of last approved [....George Burrow Osbert or Sacheverell SitwellUnknown
1900-1945Meeting held at School House, Leighton Park: 16. IX. 31. Victor Alexander in the chair
'Meeting held at School H...
Henry Marriage Wallis Henry Marriage Wallis[an account of two or three bird nesting exploits undertaken with James Crosfield in Scotland]Manuscript: Unknown
1900-1945

'Meeting held at Fairlight: 9 Denmark Rd. 18th April 1932.

Francis Pollard in the Chair.

1. Minutes...

Reginald H. Robson Hugh de SelincourtThe Cricket MatchPrint: 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...

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 Reckitt House, Leighton Park: 22.6.32

Reginald H. Robson in the Chair.

1. Minutes o...

Reginald H. Robson Reginald H. Robson[a paper on the life of Goethe]Manuscript: Unknown
1900-1945

Meeting held at Reckitt House, Leighton Park: 22.6.32

Reginald H. Robson in the Chair.

1. Minutes o...

George Burrow Johann Wolfgang von GoetheGefundenUnknown
1900-1945

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

Henry M. Wallis in the chair

1. Minutes of las...

Henry Marriage Wallis Henry Marriage Wallis[on the later work of Walter Scott]Manuscript: Unknown
1900-1945

Meeting held at Fairlight, Denmark Rd.: 21.iii.33

Francis E. Pollard in the Chair.

1. Minutes of l...

Mignon Castle Alfred Rawlings[a thoughtful essay]Manuscript: Unknown
1900-1945

Meeting held at Fairlight, Denmark Rd.: 21.iii.33

Francis E. Pollard in the Chair.

1. Minutes of l...

Reginald H. Robson Howard Smith[A paper on English justice]Manuscript: Unknown
1900-1945

Meeting held at Fairlight, Denmark Rd.: 21.iii.33

Francis E. Pollard in the Chair.

1. Minutes of l...

George Burrow Reginald H. Robson[The life and writings of John Galsworthy]Manuscript: Unknown
1900-1945

Meeting held at 70 Northcourt Avenue 28/4/1933

C. E. Stansfield in the chair


1 Minutes of l...

George Burrow Matthew ArnoldThe Scholar GipsyUnknown
1900-1945

Meeting held at 70 Northcourt Avenue 28/4/1933

C. E. Stansfield in the chair


1 Minutes of l...

George Burrow Matthew ArnoldThyrsisUnknown
1900-1945

Meeting held at 70 Northcourt Avenue 28/4/1933

C. E. Stansfield in the chair


1 Minutes of l...

Edgar Castle H. V. MortonIn Search of EnglandPrint: Book
1900-1945

Meeting held at Oakdene, Northcourt Av, 20.3.34.

Sylvanus A. Reynolds in the Chair.

1. Minute...

Reginald H. Robson Dorothy BrainHors d’OeuvresManuscript: Unknown
1900-1945

Meeting held at 9 Denmark Road, 20 IV. 1934

F. E. Pollard in the chair

1. Minutes of last read & a...

Reginald H. Robson Reginald H. Robson[On the artistic and socialist aspects of William Morris’s work]Manuscript: Unknown
1900-1945

Meeting held at 9 Denmark Road, 20 IV. 1934

F. E. Pollard in the chair

1. Minutes of last read & a...

Reginald H. Robson J. W. MackailThe Life of William MorrisPrint: Book
1900-1945

'Meeting held at 70 Northcourt Avenue: 18. 6. 35.

Charles E. Stansfield in the Chair

1. Minutes of...

Reginald H. Robson Samuel PepysDiaryPrint: Book
1900-1945

'Meeting held at 70 Northcourt Avenue: 18. 6. 35.

Charles E. Stansfield in the Chair

1. Minutes of...

Henry Marriage Wallis William MorrisUnknown
1900-1945

Meeting held at School House, L. P. : 13.9.35

   Francis E. Pollard in the Chair.

1. Min...

Reginald H. Robson Reginald H. RobsonThe Excursion – Saturday July 13th. 1935: Byways of the Chiltern HillsManuscript: Notebook, with photographs of the excursion pasted alongside the text.
1900-1945

Meeting held at School House, L.P. :- 28. v. 37.

C. E. Stanfield in the Chair.

1. Minutes of last...

Reginald H. Robson Percy Bysshe Shelley Prometheus Unbound
1900-1945

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

Henry Marriage Wallis in the Chair.

1. Minutes of last ...

Henry Marriage Wallis Henry Marriage Wallis[a paper on witchcraft]Manuscript: Unknown
1900-1945

'Meeting held at 70 Northcourt Avenue: 14. 12. 37

C. E. Stansfield in the Chair.

1. Minutes of las...

Edgar Castle Victor Alexander[letter acknowledging receipt of letter of resignation from the XII Book Club]Manuscript: Letter, Notebook
1900-1945

'Meeting held at 70 Northcourt Avenue: 14. 12. 37

C. E. Stansfield in the Chair.

1. Minutes of las...

Edgar Castle Victor Alexander[letter acknowledging receipt of letter of resignation from the XII Book Club]Manuscript: Letter, Notebook
1900-1945

'Meeting held at 70 Northcourt Avenue: 14. 12. 37

C. E. Stansfield in the Chair.

1. Minutes of las...

Mignon Castle Victor Alexander[letter acknowledging receipt of letter of resignation from the XII Book Club]Manuscript: Letter
1900-1945Meeting held at 70 Northcourt Avenue: 14. 12. 37
[...]
6. The evening was completed by the reading of extra...
Reginald H. Robson Sinclair LewisDodsworthPrint: 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
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”

...
Margaret L. LLoyd Benjamin Robert HaydonAutobiographyPrint: Book
1900-1945

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

...
Roger Moore Benjamin Robert HaydonAutobiographyPrint: Book
1900-1945

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

...
Roger Moore Benjamin Robert HaydonAutobiographyPrint: Book
1900-1945February 15th was the date chosen for the next time and the subject “Books that people have been reading”
...
Roger Moore Benjamin Robert HaydonAutobiographyPrint: Book
1900-1945'Here I sit reading the Saturday Review, New Statesman etc and feeling rather humpy.'Siegfried Sassoon Saturday ReviewPrint: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'I keep reading Tess and The Return of the Native -- they fit in admirably with my thoughts.'Siegfried Sassoon Thomas HardyThe Return of the NativePrint: Book
1900-1945'Another sharp frost and thick fog this morning. Reading Curzon's Monasteries in the Lavant which Meiklejohn sent me a...Siegfried Sassoon Robert CurzonVisits to Monasteries in the LavantPrint: Book
1900-1945'It is really remarkable how oblivious we are to what is going on overseas. There is very little in the papers about t...Douglas Herbert Bell Print: Newspaper
1900-1945'Back to the front line, taking over a stretch of our own, which shows the Staff trusts us ... Some papers came by pos...Douglas Herbert Bell Print: Newspaper
1900-1945'Made a very successful raisin rice pudding over a charcoal brazier. This is War; a straw-strewn barn, heaps of period...Douglas Herbert Bell Print: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'A mail arrived after dusk. Someone sent me the Bishop's address at the Guildhall, and I read it out to those around, ...Douglas Herbert Bell [Address by the Bishop of London at Guildhall, 1914]Print: Unknown
1900-1945'There is a Brigade Order out about the show on the 19th. In it we read that it was supposed to pin German troops to t...Douglas Herbert Bell Print: Unknown
1900-1945'There is a Brigade Order out about the show on the 19th. In it we read that it was supposed to pin German troops to t...Douglas Herbert Bell [Army Communique]Print: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'Talking of slang, the Tommies' name for England is "Blighty". This puzzled me for a bit, till I remembered one of Kip...Douglas Herbert Bell Rudyard KiplingPrint: Book
1900-1945'I have just come across these lines by A. E., which I like, because the stars are your only companions on sentry duty...Douglas Herbert Bell George William Russell"Shadows and Lights"Print: Unknown
1900-1945'Glorious day, warm sun. It is funny to sit here quietly chatting and reading with a peaceful view behind over field a...Douglas Herbert Bell Unknown
1900-1945'Much as he had liked [his previous employers], George Michael [Clarkson] liked the builder-brothers just as well. The...George Michael Clarkson Print: Book
1900-1945'Each day there is a "Budget" published, the work of the more literary and energetic of our members, chiefly consistin...Douglas Lyall Grant [POW camp publication]Print: Serial / periodical

 

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