| √ | Century of Experience | Evidence | Name of Reader / Listener / Reading Group | Author of Text | Title of Text | Form of Text | | |
| 1800-1849 | 'I told him of my having now read every play of Euripides; & he seemed very much surprised [...] and observed, that ve... | Elizabeth Barrett | Euripides | [all plays] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'the emerald ring' 'it is agem which [...]' [transcribes poem] 'le landon'. | Elisabeth or Eliza Duncan | Laetitia Elizabeth Landon | The Emerald Ring | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'happiness is a very common plant...' 'e. smith's fragments' 'greenock' | Elisabeth or Eliza Duncan | Miss Elizabeth Smith | Fragments of prose and verse: by a young lady | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'the christain life may be compared...' 'e. smith's fragments'. followed by extract ascribed to 'hannah more' 'those ... | Elisabeth or Eliza Duncan | Miss Elizabeth Smith | Fragments of prose and verse: by a young lady | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'the cause of all sin...' 'e.smith's fragments'. signed 'e.d.' | Elisabeth or Eliza Duncan | Miss Elizabeth Smith | Fragments of prose and verse: by a young lady | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | ''extract from the course of time' transcribes from 'true happiness had no localities...' to 'where happiness descendi... | Elisabeth or Eliza Duncan | Robert Pollok | The course of time | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'far less shall earth now hastening to decay...' 'world before the flood' 'isle of man June 15th 31'. | Elisabeth or Eliza Duncan | James Montgomery | The world before the flood; a poem in ten cantos | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'stanzas for music by the ettrick shepherd' [transcribes 2 stanzas] 'my sweet little...' | Elisabeth or Eliza Duncan | James Hogg | Stanzas for music | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'filled with profound reverence...' 'blair vii p.375' and 'since the time that heaven began...' 'blair's ser vii p.26' | Elisabeth or Eliza Duncan | Hugh Blair | Sermons | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | I read some of Chrysostom's commentary on the Ephesians. I am getting tired of this commentary. Such underground dar... | Elizabeth Barrett | St John Chrysostom | Commentary on the Ephesians | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Read as I have done lately, not for the pleasure of thinking: but for the comfort of not thinking. | Elizabeth Barrett | | | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Read, as I do every day, seven chapters of Scripture. My heart & mind are not affected by this exercise as they shoul... | Elizabeth Barrett | | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Very busy today. Reading Aeschylus & learning the verb τύπτω. | Elizabeth Barrett | Aeschylus | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Read the Bible, & Horne on its critical study. I do not think enough of the love of God, graciously as it has been ma... | Elizabeth Barrett | | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Read the Bible, & Horne on its critical study. I do not think enough of the love of God, graciously as it has been ma... | Elizabeth Barrett | Horne | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | We [Barrett and Hugh Stuart Boyd] talked comparatively about Homer, Aeschylus & Shakespeare: and positively about Aesc... | Elizabeth Barrett | Homer | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | We [Barrett and Hugh Stuart Boyd] talked comparatively about Homer, Aeschylus & Shakespeare: and positively about Aesc... | Elizabeth Barrett | Aeschylus | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | We [Barrett and Hugh Stuart Boyd] talked comparatively about Homer, Aeschylus & Shakespeare: and positively about Aesc... | Elizabeth Barrett | Aeschylus | Prometheus | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | We [Barrett and Hugh Stuart Boyd] talked comparatively about Homer, Aeschylus & Shakespeare: and positively about Aesc... | Elizabeth Barrett | Euripides | Medea | Print: Book |
| | We [Barrett and Hugh Stuart Boyd] talked comparatively about Homer, Aeschylus & Shakespeare: and positively about Aesc... | Elizabeth Barrett | William Shakespeare | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'And besides she [Mrs Cliffe] wd. lend me the first two vols of the mysteries of Udolpho before she had finished them ... | Elizabeth Barrett | Ann Radcliffe | Mysteries of Udolpho | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Went into the library to try to rationalize my mind about the deathwatch, - by reading the Cyclopaedia. Feel very unw... | Elizabeth Barrett | Ann Radcliffe | Mysteries of Udolpho | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Went into the library to try to rationalize my mind about the deathwatch, - by reading the Cyclopaedia. Feel very unw... | Elizabeth Barrett | | Cyclopaedia | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Went into the library to try to rationalize my mind about the deathwatch, - by reading the Cyclopaedia. Feel very unw... | Elizabeth Barrett | Victor Hugo | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Went into the library to try to rationalize my mind about the deathwatch, - by reading the Cyclopaedia. Feel very unw... | Elizabeth Barrett | Lamartine | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Went into the library to try to rationalize my mind about the deathwatch, - by reading the Cyclopaedia. Feel very unw... | Elizabeth Barrett | Lamartine | Childe Harold | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | At breakfast, my parcel of books from Eaton came up the road. Fresh from the carrier. Unpacked it eagerly, & read th... | Elizabeth Barrett | Euripides | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | At breakfast, my parcel of books from Eaton came up the road. Fresh from the carrier. Unpacked it eagerly, & read th... | Elizabeth Barrett | Marcus Antoninus | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | At breakfast, my parcel of books from Eaton came up the road. Fresh from the carrier. Unpacked it eagerly, & read th... | Elizabeth Barrett | Callimachus | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | At breakfast, my parcel of books from Eaton came up the road. Fresh from the carrier. Unpacked it eagerly, & read th... | Elizabeth Barrett | | Anthologia | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | At breakfast, my parcel of books from Eaton came up the road. Fresh from the carrier. Unpacked it eagerly, & read th... | Elizabeth Barrett | Epictetus | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | At breakfast, my parcel of books from Eaton came up the road. Fresh from the carrier. Unpacked it eagerly, & read th... | Elizabeth Barrett | Isocrates | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | At breakfast, my parcel of books from Eaton came up the road. Fresh from the carrier. Unpacked it eagerly, & read th... | Elizabeth Barrett | Leonardo Da Vinci | [Painting] | Print: Book |
| | At breakfast, my parcel of books from Eaton came up the road. Fresh from the carrier. Unpacked it eagerly, & read th... | Elizabeth Barrett | Susan Ferrier | Destiny | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | At breakfast, my parcel of books from Eaton came up the road. Fresh from the carrier. Unpacked it eagerly, & read th... | Elizabeth Barrett | Susan Ferrier | The Inheritance | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | At breakfast, my parcel of books from Eaton came up the road. Fresh from the carrier. Unpacked it eagerly, & read th... | Elizabeth Barrett | Euripides | Alcestis | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | I liked my solitude, even tho? I had no one to say so to - & in spite of La Bruy?re & Cowper! ? Nearly finished the Al... | Elizabeth Barrett | Euripides | Alcestis | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | They did not return until past nine; & I meanwhile was hard at work at Antoninus. Finished his 5th book ? read 7 chap... | Elizabeth Barrett | Antoninus | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | They did not return until past nine; & I meanwhile was hard at work at Antoninus. Finished his 5th book ? read 7 chap... | Elizabeth Barrett | | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | I read half the 6th book of Antoninus today ? so I can?t say, after all, perdidi diem [I have lost a day]. | Elizabeth Barrett | Marcus Antoninus | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | I read the other half of Antoninus?s sixth book, - & half his seventh, besides. What a creature I am ? to spend my ti... | Elizabeth Barrett | Marcus Antoninus | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | On Wednesday before breakfast, I read the beginning of Antoninus?s 10th. book, & I went on with it today, but not the ... | Elizabeth Barrett | Marcus Antoninus | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | On Wednesday before breakfast, I read the beginning of Antoninus?s 10th. book, & I went on with it today, but not the ... | Elizabeth Barrett | Mary Shelley | The Last Man | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | On Wednesday before breakfast, I read the beginning of Antoninus?s 10th. book, & I went on with it today, but not the ... | Elizabeth Barrett | Marcus Antoninus | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Solved my doubts, & read half Cebes?s dialogue before I went to bed. It is rather a pleasing than a profound performa... | Elizabeth Barrett | Cebes | Dialogue | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | I finished Keats?s Lamia, Isabella, Eve of St Agnes & Hyperion, before breakfast. The three first disappointed me. T... | Elizabeth Barrett | John Keats | Lamia | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | I finished Keats?s Lamia, Isabella, Eve of St Agnes & Hyperion, before breakfast. The three first disappointed me. T... | Elizabeth Barrett | John Keats | Isabella | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | I finished Keats?s Lamia, Isabella, Eve of St Agnes & Hyperion, before breakfast. The three first disappointed me. T... | Elizabeth Barrett | John Keats | Eve of St Agnes | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | I finished Keats?s Lamia, Isabella, Eve of St Agnes & Hyperion, before breakfast. The three first disappointed me. T... | Elizabeth Barrett | John Keats | Hyperion | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | I finished the Endymion today. I do not admire it as a fine poem; but I do admire many passages of it, as being very ... | Elizabeth Barrett | John Keats | Endymion | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | I finished the Endymion today. I do not admire it as a fine poem; but I do admire many passages of it, as being very ... | Elizabeth Barrett | Theophrastus | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Read some passages from Shelley?s Revolt of Islam before I was up. He is a great poet; but we acknowledge him to be a... | Elizabeth Barrett | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Revolt of Islam | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | I am tired, & have been resting my body in my arm chair, & my mind in Goldoni. Read his Pamela, & Pamela Maritata. T... | Elizabeth Barrett | Goldoni | Pamela | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | I am tired, & have been resting my body in my arm chair, & my mind in Goldoni. Read his Pamela, & Pamela Maritata. T... | Elizabeth Barrett | Goldoni | Pamela Maritata | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | I read parts of scripture with reference to the Calvinistic controversy, & little else today. I am going thro? all th... | Elizabeth Barrett | | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Comparing scripture with scripture. Reading besides Self control [by Mary Brunton] which Henrietta has borrowed from ... | Elizabeth Barrett | | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Comparing scripture with scripture. Reading besides Self control [by Mary Brunton] which Henrietta has borrowed from ... | Elizabeth Barrett | Mary Brunton | Self Control | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | I read Mr. Beverley?s pamphlets which Mr. Boyd had lent to me; the letter to the Archbishop of York, & the Tombs of th... | Elizabeth Barrett | Beverley | Letter to the Archbishop of York | |
| 1800-1849 | I read Mr. Beverley?s pamphlets which Mr. Boyd had lent to me; the letter to the Archbishop of York, & the Tombs of th... | Elizabeth Barrett | Beverley | Tombs of the Prophets | |
| 1800-1849 | I have finished Dr. Clark?s Discourse. It is very clever: but as all metaphysical discourses on scriptural subjects, ... | Elizabeth Barrett | Dr Card | Discourse | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | I have finished Dr. Clark?s Discourse. It is very clever: but as all metaphysical discourses on scriptural subjects, ... | Elizabeth Barrett | Card | Sermon on the Athanasian Creed | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Mrs. Martin lent me Dr. Channing?s treatise ?On the importance & means of a national Literature?, & I ought to be grat... | Elizabeth Barrett | Channing | On the importance & means of a national Literature | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Getting on with Iphigenia [in Aulide] I am very much interested in it ? particularly in the scene between Iphigenia &... | Elizabeth Barrett | | Iphigenia in Aulide | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | We [EB & Mr Boyd] read passages from Gregory?s apologetick, - comparing his marks with mine, in different copies, - & ... | Elizabeth Barrett | Gregory | Apologetick | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Finished the Hippolytus, - & began the Supllices of Aeschylus. I read a part of it before; but I have left off now my... | Elizabeth Barrett | | Hippolytus | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Finished the Hippolytus, - & began the Supllices of Aeschylus. I read a part of it before; but I have left off now my... | Elizabeth Barrett | Aeschylus | Supplices | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Finished the Choephori, & began the Eumenides. Read more than 500 lines of Greek, & was more tired by them than by th... | Elizabeth Barrett | Aeschylus | Choephori | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Finished the Choephori, & began the Eumenides. Read more than 500 lines of Greek, & was more tired by them than by th... | Elizabeth Barrett | Aeschylus | Eumenides | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | I read yesterday in Mr. Joseph Clarke?s Sacred Literature, that Nonnus is an author whom few can read, & fewer admire.... | Elizabeth Barrett | Joseph Clarke | Sacred Literature | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Finished not only the whole of Synesius?s poems, but four odes of Gregory, contained in the same little volume. And y... | Elizabeth Barrett | Synesius | Poems | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Finished not only the whole of Synesius?s poems, but four odes of Gregory, contained in the same little volume. And y... | Elizabeth Barrett | Gregory | Odes | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | At age fourteen, Elizabeth Bryson read Sartor Resartus, a favorite book of her father, an impoverished Dundee bookkeep... | Elizabeth Bryson | Thomas Carlyle | Sartor Resartus | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | At age fourteen, Elizabeth Bryson read Sartor Resartus, a favorite book of her father, an impoverished Dundee bookkeep... | Elizabeth Bryson | Thomas Carlyle | Heroes and Hero-worship | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | At age fourteen, Elizabeth Bryson read Sartor Resartus, a favorite book of her father, an impoverished Dundee bookkeep... | Elizabeth Bryson | Thomas Carlyle | The French Revolution | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Witness statement in trial for housebreaking:
Elizabeth Baglee: "I read in a newspaper of the robbery, a day or two... | Elizabeth Baglee | | | Print: Newspaper |
| 1700-1799 | Witness statement in trial for theft:
Elizabeth Marlow: "In the morning of the 23rd I was looking into the newspape... | Elizabeth Marlow | | | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | Witness statements in trial for theft:
Eliza Morris: "I went to live servant at the Bank tavern, John-street, and o... | Eliza Morris | | | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | Witness statement in trial for burglary:
Elizabeth Walter: "I read in the newspaper, when I had a pint of beer, wha... | Elizabeth Walter | | | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | Witness statement in trial for theft:
Francis Jobling: "I am the prosecutrix's mother. On the evening of the 28th o... | Elizabeth Harriet Guy | | | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899
1900-1945 | 'Elizabeth Rignall, a London painter's daughter, was not permitted to read anything else on Sundays, so she treated Pi... | Elizabeth Rignall | John Bunyan | Pilgrim's Progress | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Lancashire weaver Elizabeth Blackburn... proceeded to an evening institute course in English literature and by the rh... | Elizabeth Blackburn | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | The Rime of the Ancient Mariner | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Lancashire weaver Elizabeth Blackburn... proceeded to an evening institute course in English literature and by the rh... | Elizabeth Blackburn | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Ode to the West Wind | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Lancashire weaver Elizabeth Blackburn... proceeded to an evening institute course in English literature and by the rh... | Elizabeth Blackburn | John Milton | Lycidas | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Lancashire weaver Elizabeth Blackburn... proceeded to an evening institute course in English literature and by the rh... | Elizabeth Blackburn | Thomas Gray | Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Lancashire weaver Elizabeth Blackburn... proceeded to an evening institute course in English literature and by the rh... | Elizabeth Blackburn | [unknown] | [Ancient Greek literature] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Lancashire weaver Elizabeth Blackburn... proceeded to an evening institute course in English literature and by the rh... | Elizabeth Blackburn | George Bernard Shaw | [plays] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'An emancipated working woman like Elizabeth Ring was free to read the works of Freud, Havelock Ellis and Bertrand Rus... | Elizabeth Ring | Havelock Ellis | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'An emancipated working woman like Elizabeth Ring was free to read the works of Freud, Havelock Ellis and Bertrand Rus... | Elizabeth Ring | Sigmund Freud | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'An emancipated working woman like Elizabeth Ring was free to read the works of Freud, Havelock Ellis and Bertrand Rus... | Elizabeth Ring | Bertrand Russell | | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799
1800-1849 | 'Poor Godwin is a terrific example for all conjugal biography; but he has marked that path which may be avoided? The t... | Elizabeth Inchbald | William Godwin | Mary Wollstonecraft | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Poor Godwin is a terrific example for all conjugal biography; but he has marked that path which may be avoided? The t... | Elizabeth Inchbald | Rescoe | The Life and Pontificate of Leo the Tenth | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | ?The little Frys found the hours very long when they sat in the large, rather austere drawing-room, trying not to fidg... | Elizabeth Fry | | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Ellen Nussey's reminiscences of Patrick Bronte's sister-in-law Elizabeth Branwell (in 1871 account of her 1833 visit t... | Elizabeth Branwell | | | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Emily Bronte, diary paper for 30 July 1841 'It is Friday evening -- near 9 o'clock ... Aunt upstairs in her room -- sh... | Elizabeth Branwell | | Blackwood's Magazine | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1600-1699 | "In her course of Reading she was still laying in for use and practice. Her course was, when she read the Scriptures, ... | Elizabeth Baker | | Scriptures | Unknown |
| 1600-1699 | ... between sixteen and seventeen years of age, by the serious reading of the Book called _The Saints Everlasting Rest... | Elizabeth Baker | Richard Baxter | The Saints Everlasting Rest | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899
1900-1945 | 'Reading aloud from "Cranford" one evening ... [Mary Crawford Fraser's] aunt [Elizabeth Sewell] came to a sudden full ... | Elizabeth Sewell | Elizabeth Gaskell | Cranford | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | At first it was thought that Jeremy was deaf - but tests showed that his hearing was perfect. When the condition [dys... | Elizabeth Edith Huggins | | | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849
1850-1899
1900-1945 | Elizabeth Sewell's brother William, seeing her reading Butler's "Analogy", exclaimed 'You can't understand that', whic... | Elizabeth Sewell | Joseph Butler | The Analogy of Religion | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849
1850-1899 | '[Lady Frances Balfour's] father and mother both read poetry aloud ...' | Elizabeth Georgiana Leveson-Gower | | poetry | |
| 1800-1849 | " ... Elizabeth Sewell's consumption of 'modern' works in the late 1820s and 1830s, she records [in her autobiography]... | Elizabeth Sewell | Walter Scott | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | " ... Elizabeth Sewell's consumption of 'modern' works in the late 1820s and 1830s, she records [in her autobiography]... | Elizabeth Sewell | George Gordon Lord Byron | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | H. J. Jackson discusses copy of John Clare, Poems Descriptive of Rural Life and Scenery (1820) annotated by Eliza Loui... | Eliza Louisa Emmerson | John Clare | Poems Descriptive of Rural Life and Scenery | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | '[Mary Wortley] Montagu's Letters and accounts of the sexual freedom of Tahitian women were popular: Elizabeth Montagu... | Elizabeth Montagu | Mary Wortley Montagu | Letters | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'She rejects even "good" books if she finds them tedious or ling-winded, finding unreadable Hooker's "extremely good" ... | Elizabeth Carter | Dr Shuckford | Dr Shuckford's Connection | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'She rejects even "good" books if she finds them tedious or ling-winded, finding unreadable Hooker's "extremely good" ... | Elizabeth Carter | Hooker | Laws of ecclesiastical polity | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'She claims, for instance, a "charity to all kinds of books" which allows her to read sympathetically even the scandal... | Elizabeth Carter | Teresia Constantia Phillips | An apology for the conduct of Mrs Teresia Constantia Phillips | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Even conservative Elizabeth Montagu read "Bankes' voyage", and although she disapproved his religious scepticism she ... | Elizabeth Montagu | John Hawkesworth | An account of voyages... | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'as with history, women use their reading of travels to interrogate an androcentric concept of heroism. Elizabeth Mont... | Elizabeth Montagu | James Bruce | Travels to discover the source of the Nile, in the years 1768, 1769, 1770, 1771, 1772 and 1773... | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | '[Carter] read "a system of false philosophy" by Madame de Chatelet "for no other reason than because it was wrote by ... | Elizabeth Carter | Emilie de Chatelet | | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | '[Carter] is sympathetic to women of different views, like Charlotte Smith or Helen Maria Williams whose books she fin... | Elizabeth Carter | Helen Maria Williams | various books | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Having heard the work of another virtuous woman writer, Catherine Trotter Cockburn, was to be published, [Elizabeth C... | Elizabeth Carter | Charlotte Trotter Cockburn | works | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | [Aunt Bessy] 'used to read "Little Lord Fauntleroy" over and over again to the old women [in the Cambridge workhouse],... | Elizabeth Darwin | Frances Hodgson Burnett | Little Lord Fauntleroy | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | '[Elizabeth Carter and Catherine Talbot] read and admired the work of Elizabeth Rowe, and questioned each other excite... | Elizabeth Carter | Elizabeth Rowe | works | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | '[Elizabeth Carter and Catherine Talbot] read and admired the work of Elizabeth Rowe, and questioned each other excite... | Elizabeth Carter | Katherine Philips | works | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'She began Candide but "threw it aside, and nothing, I believe, will tempt me ever to look into it again."' | Elizabeth Carter | Francois-Marie Voltaire | Candide | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'she thinks Rousseau "the most dangerous writer I ever read", his work "of so bad tendency that, after a few trials, I... | Elizabeth Carter | Jean Jacques Rousseau | works | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Carter and Talbot read fiction and corresponded about it, including "Roderick Random", the novels of Eliza Haywood, F... | Elizabeth Carter | Tobias Smollet | Roderick Random | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Carter and Talbot read fiction and corresponded about it, including "Roderick Random", the novels of Eliza Haywood, F... | Elizabeth Carter | Eliza Haywood | various novels | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Carter and Talbot read fiction and corresponded about it, including "Roderick Random", the novels of Eliza Haywood, F... | Elizabeth Carter | Charlotte Lennox | Henrietta | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Carter and Talbot read fiction and corresponded about it, including "Roderick Random", the novels of Eliza Haywood, F... | Elizabeth Carter | Sarah Fielding | many works | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Carter and Talbot read fiction and corresponded about it, including "Roderick Random", the novels of Eliza Haywood, F... | Elizabeth Carter | | French romances | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Even conservative Elizabeth Montagu read "Bankes's Voyage", and although she disapproved his religious scepticism she... | Elizabeth Montagu | John Hawkesworth | An account of voyages undertaken... for making discoveries in the Southern Hemisphere and performed by Commodore Byrone, Captain Wallis, Captain Carteret and Captain Cook (from 1702 to 1771) drawn up from the Journals... | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Carter read and enjoyed fiction until the end of her life. Pennington reveals her enthusiasm for a number of novelist... | Elizabeth Carter | | a number of novelists | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Carter read and enjoyed fiction until the end of her life. Pennington reveals her enthusiasm for a number of novelist... | Elizabeth Carter | Frances Burney | Evelina | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Carter read and enjoyed fiction until the end of her life. Pennington reveals her enthusiasm for a number of novelist... | Elizabeth Carter | Jane West | A Tale of the Times and other works | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Carter read and enjoyed fiction until the end of her life. Pennington reveals her enthusiasm for a number of novelist... | Elizabeth Carter | Ann Radcliffe | A Sicilian Romance [and other novels] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | '[Pennington] emphasises... that she "highly disapproved" the novels of Charlotte Smith, believing their morality "ver... | Elizabeth Carter | Charlotte Smith | Emmeline | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | '[Pennington] emphasises... that she "highly disapproved" the novels of Charlotte Smith, believing their morality "ver... | Elizabeth Carter | Charlotte Smith | Desmond | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Before I forget again?have you looked into the "History of a Flirt"? [The History of a Flirt, related by Herself ? by... | Elizabeth Barrett | [author of "The Manoeuvering Mother"] anon | History of a Flirt, The | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'The title is, The Neighbours ? just a title for Miss Austen you see! ? And for Miss Austen, you shall praise her as m... | Elizabeth Barrett | Mary Russell Mitford | Our Village | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'The title is, The Neighbours ? just a title for Miss Austen you see! ? And for Miss Austen, you shall praise her as m... | Elizabeth Barrett | Mary Russell Mitford | Belford Regis | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'The title is, The Neighbours ? just a title for Miss Austen you see! ? And for Miss Austen, you shall praise her as m... | Elizabeth Barrett | Jane Austen | Persuasion | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Did you see ? what I am reading just too late (but we must be benighted sometimes) in the number before the last of t... | Elizabeth Barrett | Thomas Babington Macaulay | Diary and Letters of Madame d'Arblay | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'I confess my surprise at your considering Miss Edgeworth & Miss Austen mistresses in pathos ? when the fault of both ... | Elizabeth Barrett | Maria Edgeworth | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Will you answer me one more question ?Is not the "Simple Story" more pathetic than "Persuasion"?' | Elizabeth Barrett | Elizabeth Inchbald | Simple Story, A | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Mary Howitt?s last translation from Frederika Bremer?s Swedish "The Home" charms me even more than "The Neighbours" d... | Elizabeth Barrett | Mary Howitt | Home, The | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Mary Howitt?s last translation from Frederika Bremer?s Swedish "The Home" charms me even more than "The Neighbours" d... | Elizabeth Barrett | various | Athenaeum | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'It is a long argument ? but I have been reading quite lately & for your sake & for the third time, her two best works... | Elizabeth Barrett | Jane Austen | Mansfield Park | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'It is a long argument ? but I have been reading quite lately & for your sake & for the third time, her two best works... | Elizabeth Barrett | Jane Austen | Persuasion | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'It is a long argument ? but I have been reading quite lately & for your sake & for the third time, her two best works... | Elizabeth Barrett | Felicia Hemans | [poems] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Yes, I think that Pride & Prejudice is one of the very best of the Austen novels ? and yet I do not quite rank it wit... | Elizabeth Barrett | Jane Austen | Pride and Prejudice | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Yes, I think that Pride & Prejudice is one of the very best of the Austen novels ? and yet I do not quite rank it wit... | Elizabeth Barrett | Jane Austen | Sense and Sensibility | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'As to Miss Pickering, if there shd be anybody in the world who makes a Miss Austen of her, or a Scott of her, that bo... | Elizabeth Barrett | [Miss] Pickering | [novels] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Cassandra - thought it quite as clever, tho' not so brilliant as P. & P. - Fond of Fanny. - Delighted much in Mr Rus... | Cassandra Elizabeth Austen | Jane Austen | Mansfield Park | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'To amuse ourselves at the inns on this road we brought with us Jackson's "30 Letters" & Moritz's "Travels in England"... | Elizabeth Marsh | William Jackson | Thirty letters on various subjects | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799
1800-1849 | 'As to Mrs M & I, we have been, ever since we lived at Nethersole, great readers, taking each always a book at breakfa... | Elizabeth Marsh | [unknown] | [various] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Cassandra - better than P. & P. - but not so well as M.P.' | Cassandra Elizabeth Austen | Jane Austen | Emma | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Cassandra - thought it quite as clever, tho' not so brilliant as P. & P.' | Cassandra Elizabeth Austen | Jane Austen | Pride and Prejudice | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Elizabeth Goodman, who in the ordinary way read only the Bible and a popular comic, "Ally Sloper's Weekly", at Christ... | Elizabeth Goodman | | The Bible | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Elizabeth Goodman, who in the ordinary way read only the Bible and a popular comic, "Ally Sloper's Weekly", at Christ... | Elizabeth Goodman | | Ally Sloper's Weekly | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'Yesterday the news came of Mrs Gaskell's death. She died suddenly while reading aloud to her daughters'. | Elizabeth Gaskell | unknown | unknown | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Mary Berry, Journal, 25 August 1810, on visit of the Princess of Wales to Strawberry Hill: 'The Princess was very live... | Caroline Amelia Elizabeth of Brunswick-Wolfenb?ttel Princess of Wales | unknown | [books of engravings] | 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 Pope | Epistle to Dr Arbuthnot | Print: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | To Miss Hunt, April 7, 1794
'At present I am puzzling at Persian and Arabic, and I mean to begin Hebrew. I get on a... | Elizabeth Smith | Miguel de Cervantes | Don Quixotte | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | To Miss Hunt, April 7, 1794
'At present I am puzzling at Persian and Arabic, and I mean to begin Hebrew. I get on a... | Elizabeth Smith | Garcilaso de la Vega | History of the Incas | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | To Miss Hunt, Bath Sept 27, 1794
'I have the great store of Spanish lately; the "Teatro Critico Universale" by Feyj... | Elizabeth Smith | Feyjoo | Theatro critico universale | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | To Miss Hunt, Bath Sept 27, 1794
'I have the great store of Spanish lately; the "Teatro Critico Universale" by Feyj... | Elizabeth Smith | Juan de Mariana | History of Spain | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | To Lady Isabella King, Bath March 8th 1798
'Have you read "The Pursuits of Literature"? It is a satirical poem. I d... | Elizabeth Smith | Thomas James Mathias | The Pursuits of Literature | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | To Lady Isabella King, Bath March 8th 1798
'Have you read "The Pursuits of Literature"? It is a satirical poem. I d... | Elizabeth Smith | John Robinson | Illuminati | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | To Miss Hunt Shirley, July 28, 1795
'I must tell you that I cannot help being quite reconciled to Cicero... If you... | Elizabeth Smith | Marcus Tullius Cicero | Tuscular Disputations | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | To Miss Hunt Shirley, July 28, 1795
'I have just finished Clarendon's "History of the rebellion", which Miss Bowdl... | Elizabeth Smith | Edward Hyde Clarendon | History of the Rebellion and civil wars in England | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'One day my [Harriet Martineau's] mother was distressed at finding in the "Times" a ribald song addressed to me.' | Elizabeth Martineau | anon | "ribald" song about Harriet Martineau | Print: Newspaper |
| 1700-1799 | To Miss Hunt Shirley, July 28, 1795
'We have read Mr Gisborne's book aloud ["On the duties of Man"] and all the pa... | Elizabeth Smith | Thomas Gisbourne | An enquiry into the duties of men in the higher and middle classes of society in Great Britain | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | To Miss Hunt, December 12 1792
'The "Lusiad" I never read. It was Middleton's "Life of Cicero" that I meant. I was ... | Elizabeth Smith | Conyeds Middleton | History of the life of Marcus Tullius Cicero | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | To Miss Hunt, December 12 1792
'The "Lusiad" I never read. It was Middleton's "Life of Cicero" that I meant. I was ... | Elizabeth Smith | Tobias George Smolett | History of England | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | To Miss Hunt, July 7, 1792
'At present I am engaged in an argument with my dear Miss Bowdlen concerning Ossian. I s... | Elizabeth Smith | Ossian | [poems] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | To Miss Hunt, July 7, 1792
'At present I am engaged in an argument with my dear Miss Bowdlen concerning Ossian. I s... | Elizabeth Smith | Homer | [poetry] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | To Miss Hunt, July 7, 1792
'At present I am engaged in an argument with my dear Miss Bowdlen concerning Ossian. I s... | Elizabeth Smith | John Milton | [poems] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | To Miss Hunt, July 7, 1792
'Can you find anything equal to his [Ossian's] descriptions of nature; his address to th... | Elizabeth Smith | Ossian | hymns | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'At other times we studied Shakespeare, Milton and some other English poets as well as some of the Italians. We took l... | Elizabeth Smith | William Shakespeare | [works] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'At other times we studied Shakespeare, Milton and some other English poets as well as some of the Italians. We took l... | Elizabeth Smith | John Milton | [poems] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'At other times we studied Shakespeare, Milton and some other English poets as well as some of the Italians. We took l... | Elizabeth Smith | [various English poets] | [poems] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'At other times we studied Shakespeare, Milton and some other English poets as well as some of the Italians. We took l... | Elizabeth Smith | Thomas Secker | Lectures on Catechism | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'At other times we studied Shakespeare, Milton and some other English poets as well as some of the Italians. We took l... | Elizabeth Smith | [n/a] | New Testament | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | To Miss Hunt, St Winifred's Dale, August 18 1793
'I admire the German you sent me extremely. I have read none since... | Elizabeth Smith | [unknown] | Den golden spiegel | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | To Miss Hunt, St Winifred's Dale, August 18 1793
'I admire the German you sent me extremely. I have read none since... | Elizabeth Smith | Wiessen | Lyrische Gedischte | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | To Miss Hunt, April 7 1794
'I am very rich in German books right now for Dr Randolph, who has a great many, has giv... | Elizabeth Smith | Kliest | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | To Miss Hunt, April 7 1794
'I am very rich in German books right now for Dr Randolph, who has a great many, has giv... | Elizabeth Smith | Hallen | [poems] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | To Miss Hunt, April 7 1794
'I am very rich in German books right now for Dr Randolph, who has a great many, has giv... | Elizabeth Smith | Zimmerman | Einsamkert | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | To Miss Hunt, April 7 1794
'I am very rich in German books right now for Dr Randolph, who has a great many, has giv... | Elizabeth Smith | Hunt | Essay on the happiness of the life to come | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849
1850-1899 | From letter of Elizabeth B. Ker, niece of Harriet Martineau: 'I regret infinitely that she desired all her letters to ... | Elizabeth B. Ker | Harriet Martineau | Life in the Sickroom | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Eliza talks of having read in a Newspaper that all the 1st Lieut:s of the Frigates whose Captains were to be sent int... | Eliza de Feuillide | | [newspaper reports] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | 'It is now half past twelve, & having heard Lizzy [JA's niece] read, I am moved down into the Library for the sake of ... | Lizzy Knight | unknown | unknown | Print: Unknown |
| 1700-1799
1800-1849 | 'It would be well if both tales and books werwe always calculated to ... In the "Evenings at Home", or "Juvenile Budge... | Elizabeth Hamilton | John Aikin | Evenings at Home | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799
1800-1849 | [An account of the boy's secret reading, and how his parents only found out when he asked a question about his reading]. | [a boy known to Elizabeth Hamilton] | Homer | Iliad | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'In the morning up early and wrote another [character], my wife lying in bed and reading to me' | Elizabeth Pepys | [unknown] | [unknown] | Unknown |
| 1600-1699 | 'Home and to bed, leaving my wife reading in "Polixandre".' | Elizabeth Pepys | Martin le Roy de Gomberville | Polexandre | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'I fell a-reading in Fuller's "history of Abbys" and my wife in "Grand Cyrus" till 12 at night, and so to bed.' | Elizabeth Pepys | Madeleine de Scuderi | Artamene, ou Le grand Cyrus | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'My wife and I spent a good deal of this evening in reading Du' Bartas's "Imposture" and other parts, which my wife of... | Elizabeth Pepys | Guillaume de Salluste du Bartas | Divine weekes and workes | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'and my wife and I to read Ovids "Metamorphoses", which I brought her home from Pauls churchyard tonight (having calle... | Elizabeth Pepys | Ovid | Metamorphoses | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'at night my wife read "Sir H. Vanes trial" to me, which she begun last night, and I find it a very excellent thing, w... | Elizabeth Pepys | [unknown] | The tryal of Sir Henry Vane, Kt., at the Kings Bench, Westminster, June the 2nd and 6th, 1662, together with what he intended to have spoken the day of his sentence (June 11) for arrest of judgment... | Print: Unknown |
| 1600-1699 | 'at night my wife read "Sir H. Vanes trial" to me, which she begun last night, and I find it a very excellent thing, w... | Elizabeth Pepys | [unknown] | The tryal of Sir Henry Vane, Kt., at the Kings Bench, Westminster, June the 2nd and 6th, 1662, together with what he intended to have spoken the day of his sentence (June 11) for arrest of judgment... | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'The Royal Mandate deserves to be printed in letters of gold - how sweetly descriptive it is, the help to private devo... | Elizabeth Marshall | | The Royal Mandate | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have been reading a sweet work lately, and earnestly recommend it to you my dear, pray let me have your opinion whe... | Elizabeth Marshall | Isaac Ambrose | Looking into Jesus | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Mrs Hannah More's "Practical piety" is a very useful book I think, perhaps you have read it if you think of any [unde... | Elizabeth Marshall | Hannah More | Practical piety | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Mrs Hannah More's "Practical piety" is a very useful book I think, perhaps you have read it if you think of any [unde... | Elizabeth Marshall | | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Her own private readings here were chiefly on Divinity, a volume in 8 vo. consisting of "Lectures on the Bible and li... | Elizabeth Kemble | unknown | Lectures on the Bible and liturgy | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Mr Jaegle makes us read an English book that is called "The Vicar of Wakefield" which is very pretty, interesting, we... | Elizabeth (Betsey) Wynne | Oliver Goldsmith | The Vicar of Wakefield | Print: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | 'we came back in the dark and read "L'Ecole des Maris" and after we played at 21' | Elizabeth (Betsey) Wynne | Moliere [pseud.] | L'Ecole des Maris | Print: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | 'I got up very late and ate a large breakfast after which I prayed and read with Mama almost till dinner time'. | Elizabeth (Betsey) Wynne | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | 'I spent the evening reading with Mama "the Imitation of Jesus Christ" until supper' | Elizabeth (Betsey) Wynne | Thomas a Kempis | The Imitation of Jesus Christ | Print: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | [27th December]'I took my lessons and learnt part of a superb tragedy in german called "Don Carlos" with Mr Jaegle.'
... | Elizabeth (Betsey) Wynne | Friedrich Schiller | Don Carlos in German | Print: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | 'This evening we read a fine trajedy by Corneille where there are many noble characters Emily has such strength and su... | Elizabeth (Betsey) Wynne | Pierre Corneille | Cinna | Print: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | 'I read a little of "Robinson Crusoe" that is how I spent my evening'. | Elizabeth (Betsey) Wynne | Daniel Defoe | Robinson Crusoe | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'The weather was fine but so dirty I could not go out. I read the "Gazettes" this evening'. | Elizabeth (Betsey) Wynne | [n/a] | Gazettes | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Missing Sewell on her childhood reading in her family home:
'To be alone was never unpleasant to me. In th... | Elizabeth Sewell | unknown | [Story] | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Missing Sewell on studies at Miss Crooke's boarding school, Newport, Isle of Wight:
'When my regular lesson... | Elizabeth Sewell | unknown | French idioms | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'My chief acquaintance with the writers of the eighteenth century is derived from reading to Aunt Lyddy papers in the ... | Elizabeth Sewell | | The Spectator | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'My chief acquaintance with the writers of the eighteenth century is derived from reading to Aunt Lyddy papers in the ... | Elizabeth Sewell | Samuel Johnson | The Rambler | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'My chief acquaintance with the writers of the eighteenth century is derived from reading to Aunt Lyddy papers in the ... | Elizabeth Sewell | Mason | Plays | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'My chief acquaintance with the writers of the eighteenth century is derived from reading to Aunt Lyddy papers in the ... | Elizabeth Sewell | Joseph Addison | Cato | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Missing Sewell, on visits to her uncle Edwards (a barrister)'s library in his home at Binstead:
'My first ... | Elizabeth Sewell | Burger | Lenore | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Missing Sewell, on books lent to herself and her siblings, when children, during visits to her uncle Edwards... | Elizabeth Sewell | anon | Arabian Nights' Entertainments | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I was always given to strange scrupulous fancies, and not long before [leaving her first boarding school when aged al... | Elizabeth Sewell | | Biblical story of Jephthah | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Missing Sewell on reading at her Bath boarding school:
'We learned passages from the best authors, and my d... | Elizabeth Sewell | Walter Scott | The Lady of the Lake | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Missing Sewell on her reading at home in the Isle of Wight, after leaving her Bath boarding school in 1830:
... | Elizabeth Sewell | William Russell | History of Modern Europe | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Missing Sewell on her reading at home in the Isle of Wight, after leaving her Bath boarding school in 1830:
... | Elizabeth Sewell | William Robertson | History of Charles the Fifth | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Missing Sewell on her reading at home in the Isle of Wight, after leaving her Bath boarding school in 1830:
... | Elizabeth Sewell | Isaac Watts | Improvement of the Mind | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Missing Sewell on her reading at home in the Isle of Wight, after leaving her Bath boarding school in 1830:
... | Elizabeth Sewell | unknown | [Italian history of the Venetian Doges] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Missing Sewell on her reading at home in the Isle of Wight, after leaving her Bath boarding school in 1830:
... | Elizabeth Sewell | Miguel de Cervantes | Don Quixote | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Missing Sewell on her reading at home in the Isle of Wight, after leaving her Bath boarding school in 1830:
... | Elizabeth Sewell | unknown | Spanish grammar | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Missing Sewell on her reading at home in the Isle of Wight, after leaving her Bath boarding school in 1830:
... | Elizabeth Sewell | unknown | Spanish dictionary | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Missing Sewell on her reading at home in the Isle of Wight, after leaving her Bath boarding school in 1830:
... | Elizabeth Sewell | unknown | [Texts on botany] | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Missing Sewell on her reading at home in the Isle of Wight, after leaving her Bath boarding school in 1830:
... | Elizabeth Sewell | Walter Scott | novels | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Missing Sewell on her reading at home in the Isle of Wight, after leaving her Bath boarding school in 1830:
... | Elizabeth Sewell | Walter Scott | [poetry and novels] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Missing Sewell on her reading at home in the Isle of Wight, after leaving her Bath boarding school in 1830:
... | Elizabeth Sewell | George Gordon, Lord Byron | poetry | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'In 1835, [James] Edwards [Sewell, reader's brother] [...] had the curacy of Hursley. Mr. Gilbert Heathcote held the ... | Elizabeth Sewell | Walter Scott | Paul's Letters to his Kinsfolk | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'In 1835, [James] Edwards [Sewell, reader's brother] [...] had the curacy of Hursley. Mr. Gilbert Heathcote held the ... | Elizabeth Sewell | William Shakespeare | works | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Missing Sewell on a stay at her aunt Mrs Hanbury's London house during late 1835:
'The house and the situat... | Elizabeth Sewell | Laetitia Matilda Hawkins | The Countess and Gertrude | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | '[By c. late 1830s] My mind had [...] become much quietened and strengthened by the reading of Butler's "Analogy", whi... | Elizabeth Sewell | Joseph Butler | Analogy of Religion | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Missing Sewell, on the start of her writing career:
'I began "Amy Herbert"-- I scarcely know why -- only I ... | Elizabeth Sewell | Mrs. Mary Sherwood | Tales | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Missing Sewell, on the start of her writing career:
'I began "Amy Herbert"-- I scarcely know why -- only I ... | Elizabeth Missing Sewell | Elizabeth Missing Sewell | Stories on the Lord's Prayer | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Missing Sewell, on the start of her writing career:
Elizabeth Missing Sewell, on the start of her writing c... | Elizabeth Missing Sewell | Elizabeth Missing Sewell | Amy Herbert | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Missing Sewell, on the anonymity of her first publication ("Stories on the Lord's Prayer", serialised in "Th... | Elizabeth Missing Sewell | Elizabeth Missing Sewell | Stories on the Lord's Prayer | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849
1850-1899 | 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 Sewell | The Earl's Daughter | Manuscript: 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 Sewell | Margaret Percival | 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 Sewell | Laneton Parsonage | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | 'I took my two lessons with Mr Jaegle, we began to read "Les Voyages du Jeune Anarchasis". The little that I heard tod... | Elizabeth (Betsey) Wynne | [Abbe] Barthelemy | Les Voyages du Jeune Anacharsis | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'I began to read "Paul and Virginia" book that Mrs Braun brought here it is very pretty'. | Elizabeth (Betsey) Wynne | Bernardin de St Pierre | Paul et Virginie | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'We read today in the "Veilees du Chateau" I think that book very good for the young people'. | Elizabeth (Betsey) Wynne | Stephanie Felicite de Genlis | Veilees du Chateua ou Cours Morale a l'usage des Enfants | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'We finished today to read Russels "Modern History", which is perfectly well wrote and in a very intertaining [sic] ma... | Elizabeth (Betsey) Wynne | William Russell | History of Modern Europe | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'I read today an English Tragedy by Thomson that pleased me much and made me like that author's works'. | Elizabeth (Betsey) Wynne | James Thomson | [a tragedy] | Print: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | 'I staid at home and read "Charles Grandison" that we have in French a charming book'. | Elizabeth (Betsey) Wynne | Samuel Richardson | Sir Charles Grandison | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'The Day was beautifull and I enjoyed the sweetness of the weather in riding walking and sitting out in the fields wit... | Elizabeth (Betsey) Wynne | Samuel Richardson | Sir Charles Grandison | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'The Day was beautifull and I enjoyed the sweetness of the weather in riding walking and sitting out in the fields wit... | Elizabeth (Betsey) Wynne | William Robertson | The History of America | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'The Day was beautifull and I enjoyed the sweetness of the weather in riding walking and sitting out in the fields wit... | Elizabeth (Betsey) Wynne | Hugh Blair | Lectures on Rhetoric and Belles Lettres | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'I read of "Grandisson" - That Book pleases and interests me very much'. | Elizabeth (Betsey) Wynne | Samuel Richardson | Sir Charles Grandison | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'I have done to read "Grandisson" that book has amused me vastly'. | Elizabeth (Betsey) Wynne | Samuel Richardson | Sir Charles Grandison | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Ever since I have read "Rudolph of Wertenberg" I have more pleasure when I walk round this country, as it makes me re... | Elizabeth (Betsey) Wynne | [unknown] | Rudolph of Wertenberg | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'I have been reading today some of my journals and indeed find them so horribly stupid that it did not encourage me to... | Elizabeth (Betsey) Wynne | Elizabeth Wynne | [diaries] | Manuscript: diary |
| 1800-1849 | From Elizabeth Missing Sewell's Journal, 20 June 1845:
'The Meyricks have been here today. Mr. Meyrick told Edward... | Elizabeth Missing Sewell | John Henry Newman | Obedience, the remedy for religious perplexity | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | From Elizabeth Missing Sewell's Journal, 21 October 1845:
'Some of us went for a lovely walk yesterday by the sea cli... | Elizabeth Missing Sewell | unknown | Article on the Jesuits | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | From 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 Review | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | From Elizabeth Missing Sewell's Journal, September 1846:
'We went into London one day [...] Burns's is a dull shop ... | Elizabeth Missing Sewell | Cecilia Tilley | Chollerton | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | From Elizabeth Missing Sewell's Journal, 26 November 1846:
'I read nothing scarcely [...] Miss Martineau's [italics... | Elizabeth Missing Sewell | Harriet Martineau | Tales on the Game Laws | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | From Elizabeth Missing Sewell's Journal, 31 December 1846:
'I read a little now, and am almost afraid I am learning... | Elizabeth Missing Sewell | Alison | accounts of Napoleon's battles | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | From 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 Southey | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | From Elizabeth Missing Sewell's Journal, 14 August 1850:
'Ruskin's [italics]Lectures on Architecture and Painting[end... | Elizabeth Missing Sewell | John Ruskin | Lectures on Architecture and Painting | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | From Elizabeth Missing Sewell's Journal, 19 February 1856:
'I came here [Bournemouth] for a fortnight and have stayed... | Elizabeth Missing Sewell | unknown | An Authentic Sketch of the life and public services of His Excellency Sir Charles Theophilus Metcalfe, Bart., KCB etc (second volume) | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | From Elizabeth Missing Sewell's Journal, 19 February 1856:
'I came here [Bournemouth] for a fortnight and have stayed... | Elizabeth Missing Sewell | Pusey | two sermons | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | From Elizabeth Missing Sewell's Journal, 19 February 1856:
'I came here [Bournemouth] for a fortnight and have stayed... | Elizabeth Missing Sewell | Thomas Carlyle | Heroes and Hero-Worship | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | From Elizabeth Missing Sewell's Journal, 19 February 1856:
'I came here [Bournemouth] for a fortnight and have stayed... | Elizabeth Missing Sewell | | pamphlets | |
| 1850-1899 | From Elizabeth Missing Sewell's Journal, 19 February 1856:
'I came here [Bournemouth] for a fortnight and have stayed... | Elizabeth Missing Sewell | | magazines | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | From Elizabeth Missing Sewell's Journal, 19 February 1856:
'I came here [Bournemouth] for a fortnight and have stayed... | Elizabeth Missing Sewell | | The Times | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | From Elizabeth Missing Sewell's Journal, 19 February 1856:
'I came here [Bournemouth] for a fortnight and have stayed... | Elizabeth Missing Sewell | Charles Kingsley | Hypatia | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | From 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 Paul | Epistle to the Hebrews | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | From Elizabeth Missing Sewell's Journal, 'Tuesday Evening, 9th June [1857]':
'I have just finished Mrs. Gaskell's [it... | Elizabeth Missing Sewell | Elizabeth Gaskell | Life of Charlotte Bronte | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | From Elizabeth Missing Sewell's Journal, 'Tuesday Evening, 9th June [1857]':
'I have just finished Mrs. Gaskell's [it... | Elizabeth Missing Sewell | Charlotte Bronte | Jane Eyre | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | From Elizabeth Missing Sewell's Journal, 28 January [?1865]:
'I am reading [italics]French Essays on Literature[end i... | Elizabeth Missing Sewell | Charles de Remusat | 'French Essays on Literature' | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | From Elizabeth Missing Sewell's Journal, 7 November 1868:
'Began Lacordaire's [italics]Conferences de Notre Dame[end ... | Elizabeth Missing Sewell | Jean Baptiste Henri-Dominique Lacordaire | Conferences de Notre Dame de Paris | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | From Elizabeth Missing Sewell's Journal, 15 July 1870, from Eisenach:
'War [apparently the Franco-Prussian war] is ac... | Elizabeth Missing Sewell | anon | slip of paper printed with news of declaration of war [?between France and Prussia] | Print: loose slip of paper |
| 1850-1899 | From Elizabeth Missing Sewell's Journal, 15 August 1871, during visit to friends at Ashbourne Green, Derbyshire:
'I h... | Elizabeth Missing Sewell | Richard Rowe | Episodes in an Obscure Life | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849
1850-1899 | From letter to Eleanor L. Sewell reproduced in [italics]The Autobiography of Elizabeth Missing Sewell[end italics], wr... | Elizabeth Wordsworth | Elizabeth Missing Sewell | Preparation for the Holy Communion | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Eleanor L. Sewell, niece of Elizabeth Missing Sewell, in chapter 21 of [italics]The utobiography of Elizabeth Missing ... | Elizabeth Missing Sewell | | The Times | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | Eleanor 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 read a French novel, "Matilde", which interested me much and is extremely well written - by Mde Cottin'. | Elizabeth (Betsey) Fremantle | Sophie Cottin | Mathilde | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | From 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 |
| 1850-1899 | From Letter VIII, [italics]Letters on Daily Life[end italics]:
'In what spirit of self-denial, and with what noble mo... | Elizabeth Missing Sewell | Fanny Kemble | Autobiography | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849
1850-1899 | In Letter XI, "Letters on Daily Life", Elizabeth Missing Sewell reproduces a sonnet by 'Archbishop Trench' opening 'Th... | Elizabeth Missing Sewell | Trench | sonnet opening 'Thou cam'st not to thy place by accident' | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | In 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 |
| 1800-1849 | In Letter XXI, "Letters on Daily Life" (addressed to 'C___'), on the
correspondent's supposedly having mentioned to ... | Elizabeth Missing Sewell | Jane Taylor | The Contributions of Q.Q. | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | In letter to 'My Dear ----,' E. M. Sewell reproduces several passages (in English translation) from Giovanni Perrone, ... | Elizabeth Missing Sewell | Giovanni Perrone | Catechismi intorno al Protestantesimo ed alla Chiesa Cattolica | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Elizabeth Missing Sewell, in letter to 'My Dear _____', from Florence, May 1861:
'A pamphlet [on the Chiesa Evangel... | Elizabeth Missing Sewell | unknown | Pamphlet on the Chiesa Evangelica | |
| 1850-1899 | Elizabeth Missing Sewell, describing travel from Pisa toward Spezzia in letter of 5 June 1861 to 'My Dear _____', head... | Elizabeth Missing Sewell | Mary Russell Mitford | Rienzi | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Elizabeth Missing Sewell, describing travel from Pisa toward Spezzia in letter of 5 June 1861 to 'My Dear _____', head... | Elizabeth Missing Sewell | | newspaper | Print: 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 |
| 1700-1799 | [Betsey]:'The gazettes from France were read this evening there was nothing remarquable in them. We began again "Les P... | Elizabeth (Betsey) Wynne | Moliere [pseud.] | Les Precieuses Ridicules | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Mrs Hugh Fraser, describing life at the select girls' boarding school she attended, run by
Elizabeth Missing Sewell ... | Elizabeth Missing Sewell | Elizabeth Gaskell | Cranford | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'When I first ventured to write a sentence for publication, having a deep sense of my profound ignorance of the rules ... | Elizabeth Missing Sewell | Lindley Murray | English grammar | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Missing Sewell recalls her studies to the age of thirteen:
'As regards history, I had learnt absolutely per... | Elizabeth Missing Sewell | William Pinnock | Catechism | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth 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 Gospels | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'It had [...] been a favourite idea of my mother's that her girls should learn Latin, and she engaged an old schoolmas... | Elizabeth Missing Sewell | St Matthew | Matthew 2:1 | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Missing Sewell recalls studies at the second school she attended (to the age of 15):
'Our subjects of stu... | Elizabeth Missing Sewell | Mangall | Questions | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Missing Sewell recalls studies at the second school she attended (to the age of 15):
'Our subjects of stu... | Elizabeth Missing Sewell | unknown | [texts on French history] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Missing Sewell recalls studies at the second school she attended (to the age of 15):
'Our subjects of stu... | Elizabeth Missing Sewell | Mrs Marcet | Conversations on Chemistry | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Missing Sewell recalls studies at the second school she attended (to the age of 15):
'Our subjects of stu... | Elizabeth Missing Sewell | Mrs Marcet | Conversations on Political Economy | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Missing Sewell recalls studies at the second school she attended (to the age of 15):
'Our subjects of stu... | Elizabeth Missing Sewell | Joyce | Scientific Dialogues | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'and then home, and my wife and I to read in Fullers "Church History", and so to supper and to bed.' | Elizabeth Pepys | Thomas Fuller | The church-history of Britain | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | From Elizabeth Missing Sewell's recommendations of non-fictional works 'which I can
guarantee myself' in 'Hints on R... | Elizabeth Missing Sewell | Lady Barker | Letters from New Zealand | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | From Elizabeth Missing Sewell's recommendations of non-fictional works 'which I can
guarantee myself' in 'Hints on R... | Elizabeth Missing Sewell | George Kennan | Tent Life in Siberia | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | From Elizabeth Missing Sewell's recommendations of non-fictional works 'which I can
guarantee myself' in 'Hints on R... | Elizabeth Missing Sewell | J. A. Froude | Short Essays on Great Subjects | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | From Elizabeth Missing Sewell's recommendations of non-fictional works 'which I can
guarantee myself' in 'Hints on R... | Elizabeth Missing Sewell | Count Beugnot | Memoirs | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | From Elizabeth Missing Sewell's recommendations of works 'which I can
guarantee myself' in 'Hints on Reading':
'C... | Elizabeth Missing Sewell | Frederick William Robinson | Christie's Faith | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | From Elizabeth Missing Sewell's recommendations of non-fictional works 'which I can
guarantee myself' in 'Hints on R... | Elizabeth Missing Sewell | J. G. Sharp | Culture and Religion | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'and so to my chamber, and got her to read to me for saving of my eyes' | Elizabeth Pepys | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'and then my wife and I to my chamber, where through the badness of my eyes she was forced to read to me, which she do... | Elizabeth Pepys | Robert Boyle | Some considerations touching the style of the Holy Scriptures | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'and then home and my wife read to me as last night, and so to bed' | Elizabeth Pepys | Robert Boyle | Some considerations touching the style of the Holy Scriptures | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'and so parted and to bed - after my wife had read something to me (to save my eyes) in a good book.' | Elizabeth Pepys | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'In the evening read [a] good book, my wife to me' | Elizabeth Pepys | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'and then home without strangers to dinner, and then my wife to read, and then I to the office' | Elizabeth Pepys | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'Then home and got my wife to read to me out of Fuller's "Church History"' | Elizabeth Pepys | Thomas Fuller | The church-history of Britain | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'and there to save my eyes, got my wife at home to read again, as last night, in the same book, till W. Batelier came ... | Elizabeth Pepys | Thomas Fuller | The church-history of Britain | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'and then home to supper and my wife to read; and then to bed.' | Elizabeth Pepys | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'and so home and there to read and my wife to read to me out of Sir Rob Cotton's book about Warr; which is very fine, ... | Elizabeth Pepys | Sir Robert Cotton | An answer to such motives as were offer'd by certain military-men to Prince Henry, inciting him to affect arms more than peace | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'So home, and my wife to read to me in Sir R. Cotton's book of Warr, which is excellent reading; and perticularly I wa... | Elizabeth Pepys | Sir Robert Cotton | An answer to such motives as were offer'd by certain military-men to Prince Henry, inciting him to affect arms more than peace | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'He gone, I home; and there my wife made an end to me of Sir R. Cottons discourse of Warr, which is endeed a very fine... | Elizabeth Pepys | Sir Robert Cotton | An answer to such motives as were offer'd by certain military-men to Prince Henry, inciting him to affect arms more than peace | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'and when came home there, I got my wife to read' | Elizabeth Pepys | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'and there however I got her to read to me the "History of Algier", which I find a very pretty book.' | Elizabeth Pepys | John Davies [transl] | The history of Algiers and its slavery | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'And so it growing night, I away home by coach, and there set my wife to read' | Elizabeth Pepys | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'And in the evening betimes came to Reding and there heard my wife read more of "Mustapha".' | Elizabeth Pepys | [unknown] | Mustapha | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'And after dinner, she to read in the "Illustr. Bassa" the plot of yeterday's play, which is most exactly the same.' | Elizabeth Pepys | Madame de Scud?ri | Ibrahim, ou L'illustre Bassa | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'And there I saw this new play my wife saw yesterday; and do not like it, it being very smutty, and nothing so good as... | Elizabeth Pepys | Madame de Scud?ri | Ibrahim, ou L'illustre Bassa | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'and then home - and there to get my wife to read to me till supper, and then to bed' | Elizabeth Pepys | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'and I did get my wife to spend the morning reading of Wilkins's "Real Character".' | Elizabeth Pepys | John Wilkins | An essay towards a real character, and a philosophical language | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'and then at night, my wife to read again and to supper and to bed.' | Elizabeth Pepys | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'and so to bed, after hearing my wife read a little.' | Elizabeth Pepys | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'and then they gone, and my wife to read to me, and to bed.' | Elizabeth Pepys | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'and so home and did get my wife to read to me' | Elizabeth Pepys | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'and so home and to supper, and got my wife to read to me and so to bed.' | Elizabeth Pepys | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'and we home to supper, and my wife to read to me and so to bed.' | Elizabeth Pepys | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'and so by coach home; and there, having this day bought the "Queene of Arragon" play, I did get my wife and W Batelie... | Elizabeth Pepys | William Habington | The Queene of Arragon | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'and in the evening home, and there made my wife read till supper time, and so to bed.' | Elizabeth Pepys | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'and so home, and my wife to read to me; and then with much content to bed.' | Elizabeth Pepys | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'and after dinner, all the afternoon got my wife and boy to read to me.' | Elizabeth Pepys | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'and my wife to read to me all the afternoon' | Elizabeth Pepys | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'And so in to solace myself with my wife, whom I got to read to me, and so W. Hewer and the boy' | Elizabeth Pepys | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'and then with comfort to sit with my wife, and get her to read to me' | Elizabeth Pepys | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'and then home, where my wife to read to me; and so to supper and to bed.' | Elizabeth Pepys | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'and thence home, and my wife to read to me and W. Hewer to set some matters of accounts right at my chamber; to bed.' | Elizabeth Pepys | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'and then home to ease my eyes and make my wife read to me.' | Elizabeth Pepys | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'He gone, my wife and I to supper; and so she to read and made an end of the "Life of Archbishop Laud", which is worth... | Elizabeth Pepys | Peter Heylyn | Cyprianus Anglicus, or The history of the life and death of William Laud, Archbishop of Canterbury | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'and then she to read a little book concerning Speech in general, a translation late out of French, a most excellent p... | Elizabeth Pepys | L.G. de Cordemoy | A philosophicall discourse concerning speech, conformable to the Cartesian principles ... Englished out of French | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'so home, my wife to read to me out of "The Siege of Rhodes"; and so to supper and to bed.' | Elizabeth Pepys | William Davenant | The siege of Rhodes | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'So home, and there to talk and my wife to read to me, and so to bed.' | Elizabeth Pepys | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'In the evening, he gone, my wife to read to me and talk, and spent the evening with much pleasure; and so to supper a... | Elizabeth Pepys | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'and so home, with much pleasure talking and then to reading; and so to supper and to bed.' | Elizabeth Pepys | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'and so home with my wife, who read to me late; and so to supper and to bed.' | Elizabeth Pepys | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'and there to read and talk with my wife, and so to bed.' | Elizabeth Pepys | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'and so took my wife home, and there to make her to read, and then to supper and to bed.' | Elizabeth Pepys | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'and home, my wife to read to me' | Elizabeth Pepys | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'and then home to supper with my wife, and to get her to read to me.' | Elizabeth Pepys | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'and there hired my wife to make an end of Boyles book of Forms tonight and tomorrow' | Elizabeth Pepys | Robert Boyle | The origin of formes and qualities | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'and I spent all afternoon with my wife and W. Battelier talking and then making them read, and perticularly made an e... | Elizabeth Pepys | Robert Boyle | The origin of formes and qualities | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'and after supper, and W. Battler gone, my wife begun another book I lately bought, a new book called "The State of En... | Elizabeth Pepys | Edward Chamberlayne | Angliae Notitia; or The present state of England: together with divers reflections upon the ancient state thereof | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'and after dinner, to get my wife and boy, one after another, to read to me - and so spent the afternoon and evening' | Elizabeth Pepys | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'And so home to supper, and get my wife to read to me, and then to bed.' | Elizabeth Pepys | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'and so home, and there Pelling hath got me W. Pen's book against the Trinity; I got my wife to read it to me, and I f... | Elizabeth Pepys | William Penn | The sandy foundation shaken: or, Those so generally believed and applauded doctrines, of one God, subsisting in three distinct and separate persons, the impossibility of God's pardoning sinners, without a plenary satisfaction, ... | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'Up, and got my wife to read to me a copy of what the Surveyor offered to the Duke of York on Friday, he himself putti... | Elizabeth Pepys | Middleton | [Middleton's memorandum] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1600-1699 | 'I away home; and there spent the evening talking and reading with my wife and Mr Pelling' | Elizabeth Pepys | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'and then home to my wife to read to me, and to bed' | Elizabeth Pepys | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'and then home, and there my wife to read to me, my eyes being sensibly hurt by the too great lights of the playhouse.' | Elizabeth Pepys | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'So home, and my wife read to me till supper, and to bed.' | Elizabeth Pepys | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'So down to supper, and she to read to me, and then with all possible kindness to bed.' | Elizabeth Pepys | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'and my wife to read to me, and then to bed in mighty good humour, but for my eyes.' | Elizabeth Pepys | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'So home, and did get my wife to read, and so to supper and to bed.' | Elizabeth Pepys | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'At night, my wife to read to me and then to supper' | Elizabeth Pepys | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'and so home, where got my wife to read to me, and so after supper to bed.' | Elizabeth Pepys | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'So home, and there to my chamber and got my wife to read to me a little' | Elizabeth Pepys | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'and then home and got my wife to read to me again in "The Nepotisme", which is very pleasant, and so to supper and to... | Elizabeth Pepys | Gregorio Leti | Il nipotismo di Roma: or The history of the Popes nephews from the time of Sixtus the IV to the death of the last Pope Alexander the VII. In two parts. Written originally in Italian, in the year 1667 and Englished by W.A. | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'and so away, back by water home, and after dinner got my wife to read' | Elizabeth Pepys | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'So home and to supper; and my wife to read, and Tom, my "Nipotisme", and then to bed.' | Elizabeth Pepys | Gregorio Leti | Il nipotismo di Roma: or The history of the Popes nephews from the time of Sixtus the IV to the death of the last Pope Alexander the VII. In two parts. Written originally in Italian, in the year 1667 and Englished by W.A. | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'and then to her, and she read to me the "Epistle of Cassandra", which is very good endeed, and the better to her beca... | Elizabeth Pepys | La Calpren?de | Cassandra | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'But I will find time to get it read to me - and I did get my wife to begin a little tonight in the garden, but not so... | Elizabeth Pepys | Silas Taylor | The Serenade, or Disappointment | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1600-1699 | 'in the evening, my wife and I all alone, with the boy, by water up as high as Putney almost with the tide, and back a... | Elizabeth Pepys | Robert Wild | Upon the rebuilding the city ... the Lord Mayor and the noble company of bachelors dining with him, May 5th, 1669 | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to her uncle, Samuel Moulton-Barrett, c. December 1816:
'I have finished "Telemaque," and have re... | Elizabeth Barrett | Francois de Salignac de la Mothe-Fenelon | Les Aventures de Telemaque | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to her uncle, Samuel Moulton-Barrett, c. December 1816:
'I have finished "Telemaque," and have re... | Elizabeth Barrett | Jean Racine | plays | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to her uncle, Samuel Moulton-Barrett, c. December 1816:
'I have begun Latin, and I have gotten as... | Elizabeth Barrett | | Latin grammar | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to her mother, Mary Moulton-Barrett, c.1817 (originally in French):
'My very dear Mama / Excuse m... | Elizabeth Barrett | Maria Edgeworth | Manoeuvring | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to her mother, Mary Moulton-Barrett, c.1817 (originally in French):
'I agree that Caroline [in Ed... | Elizabeth Barrett | Maria Edgeworth | Patronage | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to her mother, Mary Moulton-Barrett, c.1817 (originally in French):
'I agree that Caroline [in Ed... | Elizabeth Barrett | Walter Scott | Rob Roy | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to her father, Edward Moulton-Barrett, c. November 1817:
'I have been reading Lord Byrons Corsair... | Elizabeth Barrett | George Gordon, Lord Byron | Works including The Corsair | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to her father, Edward Moulton-Barrett, c. November 1817:
'I have been reading Lord Byrons Corsair... | Elizabeth Barrett | George Gordon, Lord Byron | Reviews of the Corsair | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to her uncle, Samuel Moulton-Barrett, November 1818:
'I have read "Douglas on the Modern Greeks."... | Elizabeth Barrett | Frederick Sylvester North Douglas | An Essay on Certain Points of Resemblance between the Ancient and Modern Greeks | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to her uncle, Samuel Moulton-Barrett, November 1818:
'I have read "Douglas on the Modern Greeks."... | Elizabeth Barrett | John Bigland | An Historical Display of the Effects of Physical and Moral Causes on the Character and Circumstances of Nations | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to her uncle, Samuel Moulton-Barrett, November 1818:
'I have read "Douglas on the Modern Greeks."... | Elizabeth Barrett | Marquise de Sevigne | Letters | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to her uncle, Samuel Moulton-Barrett, November 1818:
'I have read "Douglas on the Modern Greeks."... | Elizabeth Barrett | George Gordon, Lord Byron | Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, Canto the Fourth | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to James Graham-Clarke, letter postmarked 12 November 1825:
'Have you met with Southey's new Poem... | Elizabeth Barrett | unknown | Review of Robert Southey, A Tale of Paraguay (1825) (including extracts from poem) | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Uvedale Price, Foxley [Price's home] October 1826:
'Mr Price's desire that I should have read ... | Elizabeth Barrett | Uvedale Price | An Essay on the Modern Pronunciation of the Greek and Latin Languages | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Uvedale Price, 30 December 1826, in response to his remarks on the description of a storm in Geor... | Elizabeth Barrett | Petronius | Satyricon | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Uvedale Price, 30 December 1826, in response to his remarks on the description of a storm in Geor... | Elizabeth Barrett | William Chamberlayne | Pharonnida, an Heroic Poem | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Uvedale Price, 30 December 1826, in response to his remarks on the description of a storm in Geor... | Elizabeth Barrett | James Beattie | The Minstrel | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Uvedale Price, 30 December 1826, in response to his remarks on the description of a storm in Geor... | Elizabeth Barrett | William Shakespeare | The Tempest | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Uvedale Price, 30 December 1826, in response to his remarks on the description of a storm in Geor... | Elizabeth Barrett | Thomas Chatterton | An Excelente Balade of Charitie | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Homer I adore as more than human and I never read Popes fine translation without feeling exalted above my self'. | Elizabeth Barrett | Homer | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'At four and a half my great delight was poring over fairy phenomenons and the actions of
necromancers -- & the seve... | Elizabeth Barrett | Richard Johnson | The Famous Historie of the Seven Champions of Christendom | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'At 7 [...] I read the History of England and Rome -- at 8 I perused the History of Greece and it was at this age that... | Elizabeth Barrett | unknown | 'History of England and Rome' | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'At 7 [...] I read the History of England and Rome -- at 8 I perused the History of Greece and it
was at this age th... | Elizabeth Barrett | unknown | 'History of Greece' | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'At 7 [...] I read the History of England and Rome -- at 8 I perused the History of Greece and
it was at this age th... | Elizabeth Barrett | James Beattie | The Minstrel | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'At 7 [...] I read the History of England and Rome -- at 8 I perused the History of Greece and
it was at this age th... | Elizabeth Barrett | Homer | The Iliad | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'At 7 [...] I read the History of England and Rome -- at 8 I perused the History of Greece and
it was at this age th... | Elizabeth Barrett | Homer | The Odyssey | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'At 7 [...] I read the History of England and Rome -- at 8 I perused the History of Greece and
it was at this age th... | Elizabeth Barrett | John Milton | Paradise Lost (extracts) | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'At 7 [...] I read the History of England and Rome -- at 8 I perused the History of Greece and
it was at this age th... | Elizabeth Barrett | William Shakespeare | The Tempest | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'At 7 [...] I read the History of England and Rome -- at 8 I perused the History of Greece and
it was at this age th... | Elizabeth Barrett | William Shakespeare | Othello | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'During these eight months [of striving for literary fame, aged eleven] I never felt myself of
ore consequence or ha... | Elizabeth Barrett | Homer | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'During these eight months [of striving for literary fame, aged eleven] I never felt myself of ore consequence or had ... | Elizabeth Barrett | Homer | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'During these eight months [of striving for literary fame, aged eleven] I never felt myself of
ore consequence or ha... | Elizabeth Barrett | Elizabeth Barrett | The Battle of Marathon | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'At twelve I enjoyed a literary life in all its pleasures. Metaphysics were my highest delights and after having read... | Elizabeth Barrett | John Locke | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'In my sixth year [...] Nothing could contribute so much to my amusement as a novel. A
novel at six years may appea... | Elizabeth Barrett | Amelia Opie | Temper, or Domestic Scenes | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'This year [when aged twelve] I read Milton for the first time [italics]thro[end italics] together
with Shakespeare ... | Elizabeth Barrett | John Milton | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'This year [when aged twelve] I read Milton for the first time [italics]thro[end italics] together
with Shakespeare ... | Elizabeth Barrett | William Shakespeare | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'This year [when aged twelve] I read Milton for the first time [italics]thro[end italics] together
with Shakespeare ... | Elizabeth Barrett | Homer | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'At this period [aged thirteen] I perused all modern authors who had any claim to superior merit & poetic excellence. ... | Elizabeth Barrett | Homer | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'At this period [aged thirteen] I perused all modern authors who had any claim to superior merit
& poetic excellence... | Elizabeth Barrett | Virgil | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'At this period [aged thirteen] I perused all modern authors who had any claim to superior merit
& poetic excellence... | Elizabeth Barrett | Hooker | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'we each [Elizabeth Barrett and her brother Edward] are blessed with abilities -- my dear Bro's
are more solid & mor... | Elizabeth Barrett | Cicero | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, 11 March 1827:
'I thanked you, in my last note, for sending me your works, -... | Elizabeth Barrett | Hugh Stuart Boyd | 'A Day of Pleasure at Malvern' | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, 11 March 1827:
'I thanked you, in my last note, for sending me your works, -... | Elizabeth Barrett | Hugh Stuart Boyd | A Malvern Tale | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, 11 March 1827:
'I thanked you, in my last note, for sending me your works, -... | Elizabeth Barrett | Hugh Stuart Boyd | Prologue and Epilogue to poems of St Gregory | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, 11 March 1827:
'I thanked you, in my last note, for sending me your works, -... | Elizabeth Barrett | Hugh Stuart Boyd | 'Elegy' | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, 11 March 1827:
'I thanked you, in my last note, for sending me your works, -... | Elizabeth Barrett | Hugh Stuart Boyd | Translation from Sophocles' Electra | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Uvedale Price, c.15 April 1827:
'I have done reading your correspondence with Mr Commeline [..... | Elizabeth Barrett | Uvedale Price and James Commeline | correspondence on pronunciation of classical languages | Manuscript: Letter |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Uvedale Price, c.15 April 1827:
'I have done reading your correspondence with Mr Commeline [..... | Elizabeth Barrett | unknown | Review of William Mitford, An Inquiry into the Principles of Harmony in Language... | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, September 1827:
'I am [...] obliged to you for sending me your work on the A... | Elizabeth Barrett | Hugh Stuart Boyd | Reflections on the Atoning Sacrifice of Jesus Christ | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Henrietta Moulton-Barrett, from Eastnor Castle, c.October 1827:
'As Lady Margaret wished to se... | Elizabeth Barrett | Elizabeth Barrett | (probably) "The Development of Genius" | Manuscript: Sheet |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, 3 November 1827:
'You have extremely obliged me by lending me your Select Tr... | Elizabeth Barrett | Hugh Stuart Boyd | Select Passages from the Writings of St Chrysostom, St Gregory Nazianzen, and St Basil | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, 1 December 1827:
'I [italics]have[end italics] read the Pharsalia; & am very... | Elizabeth Barrett | Lucan | Pharsalia | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Uvedale Price to Elizabeth Barrett, 11 December 1827:
'It gave me great pleasure to hear that you think so favorabl... | Elizabeth Barrett | Uvedale Price | An Essay on the Modern Pronunciation of the Greek and Latin Languages | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, 12 January 1828:
'I know very little Hebrew, & have indeed only read a few c... | Elizabeth Barrett | | Hebrew scriptures | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, 3 March 1828:
I have reconsidered Io [...] I quite agree with you in admirin... | Elizabeth Barrett | Aeschlylus | Prometheus Bound | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, March 1828:
'I send you three notices of my poem [An Essay on Mind] [...] Th... | Elizabeth Barrett | anon | Review of Elizabeth Barrett, An Essay on Mind with Other Poems | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, March 1828:
'I send you three notices of my poem [An Essay on Mind] [...] Th... | Elizabeth Barrett | anon | Review of Elizabeth Barrett, An Essay on Mind with Other Poems | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, March 1828:
'I send you three notices of my poem [An Essay on Mind] [...] Th... | Elizabeth Barrett | Erasmus Darwin | The Botanic Garden, a Poem | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, 20-21 April 1828:
'I have been reading St Chrysostom in Greek & in your Engl... | Elizabeth Barrett | St Chrysostom | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, 20-21 April 1828:
'I have been reading St Chrysostom in Greek & in your Engl... | Elizabeth Barrett | St Chrysostom | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, 1-3 May 1828:
'Saturday, eight o' clock. Our dinner hour was rather later t... | Elizabeth Barrett | anon | 'Review' | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, 28-29 May 1828:
"If you have not read the Essay on the Picturesque, will you... | Elizabeth Barrett | Uvedale Price | Essay on the Picturesque | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Lady Mary Shepherd, c.July 1828:
'I am reduced to the necessity of offering my [italics]writte... | Elizabeth Barrett | Lady Mary Shepherd | Essays on the Perception of an External Universe | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, 11 July 1828:
'I will [italics]not[end italics] keep Miss Muschett's poem, -... | Elizabeth Barrett | Henrietta Muschett | poem | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, 'Saturday Night,' 2 August 1828:
'It is late for me to be writing, -- but I ... | Elizabeth Barrett | Hugh Stuart Boyd | 'elegy' | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, 'Saturday Night,' 2 August 1828:
'I have not gone [italics]thro'[end italics... | Elizabeth Barrett | E.H. Barker | Parriana; or, Notices of the Rev. Samuel Parr, collected by E. H. Barker | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, 6 August 1828:
'I have finished the Parriana -- but not the work on Junius.'... | Elizabeth Barrett | E. H. Barker | The Claims of Sir Philip Francis, K.B., to the Authorship of Junius's Letters, Disproved | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, 26-27 September 1828:
'On opening your book to look for Joan of Arc, I came ... | Elizabeth Barrett | Hugh Stuart Boyd | Thoughts on an Illustrious Exile | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, 2 February 1829, thanking him for forwarding parcel containing E. H. Barker's e... | Elizabeth Barrett | E.H. Barker (ed.) | Cicero's Catilinian Orations | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, 5 May 1829:
'I return Heliodorus, -- & [italics]keep[end italics] many pleas... | Elizabeth Barrett | Heliodorus | Aethiopica | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, 5 May 1829:
'I never learnt anything about the rule [...] of the Greek Artic... | Elizabeth Barrett | Hugh Stuart Boyd | notes to the Agamemnon | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, 5 May 1829:
'I never learnt anything about the rule [...] of the Greek Artic... | Elizabeth Barrett | Hugh Stuart Boyd | 'Essay on the Greek Article' | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Edmund Henry Barker, 12 May 1829:
'You desire to have my remarks on Dugald Stewart versus Sir ... | Elizabeth Barrett | Dugald Stewart | essays | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Edmund Henry Barker, 12 May 1829:
'You desire to have my remarks on Dugald Stewart versus Sir ... | Elizabeth Barrett | Dugald Stewart | essays | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, 16 May 1829:
'I have actually & absolutely finished the seven hundred & thir... | Elizabeth Barrett | Gregory Nazianzen | In laudem virginitatis | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, 25 May 1829:
'I have received the Bishop of Limerick's book, & thank you for... | Elizabeth Barrett | John Jebb | Sermons on Subjects Chiefly Practical | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, 1829:
'I meant to have taken with me today the following extract from the le... | Elizabeth Barrett | Jean Jacques Barthelemy | Voyage du jeune Anarcharsis en Grece (introduction) | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, October 1829:
'I have now read the oration[s] on Barlaam & Gordius, & the tr... | Elizabeth Barrett | St Basil | Oration on Barlaam | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, October 1829:
'I have now read the oration[s] on Barlaam & Gordius, & the tr... | Elizabeth Barrett | St Basil | Oration on Gordius | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, October 1829:
'I have now read the oration[s] on Barlaam & Gordius, & the tr... | Elizabeth Barrett | St Basil | Treatise on reading the books of the Gentiles | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, October 1829:
'I have now read the oration[s] on Barlaam & Gordius, & the tr... | Elizabeth Barrett | St Basil | Homily 'De Fide' | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, 'Tuesday Evening,' October 1829:
'With regard to your treatise on Geology, I... | Elizabeth Barrett | Hugh Stuart Boyd | 'treatise on Geology' | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, 'Thursday Morng.', October 1829:
'You will think me very idle when I tell yo... | Elizabeth Barrett | St Chrysostom | 'In Eutropium Eunuchum, Patrium et Consulem' | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, 'Thursday Morng.', October 1829:
'You will think me very idle when I tell yo... | Elizabeth Barrett | Longinus | De Sublimitate | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, 'Friday Night,' December 1829:
'I have read the seven orations on Paul, & th... | Elizabeth Barrett | St Chrysostom | orations including (probably) Homily on 1 Corinthians | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, 21 December 1829:
'I have been reading over again Plato's Phaedon [...] The ... | Elizabeth Barrett | Plato | Phaedon | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, Monday 28 December 1829, thanking him for his epitaph on a cat, and following c... | Elizabeth Barrett | Hugh Stuart Boyd | Greek epitaph 'On the death of a favourite Tom Cat' | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1700-1799
1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, 16 January 1830:
'Chrysostom has been staggering me lately by his commentary... | Elizabeth Barrett | St Chrysostom | 'In Epistolarum primam ad Corinthos' | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799
1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, 16 January 1830:
'Chrysostom has been staggering me lately by his commentary... | Elizabeth Barrett | Hugh Stuart Boyd | Annotations to St Chrysostom, 'In Epistolarum primam ad Corinthos' | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, 16 January 1830:
'Today I finished Longinus's treatise, & Euripedes's Rhesus... | Elizabeth Barrett | Longinus | De Sublimitate | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, 16 January 1830:
'Today I finished Longinus's treatise, & Euripedes's Rhesus... | Elizabeth Barrett | Euripides | Rhesus | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, 29 January 1830:
'As you like epigrams, & are not likely to have met with on... | Elizabeth Barrett | | Latin epigraph | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, 16 February 1830:
'Here is a paragraph about Bells which I copy from the Tim... | Elizabeth Barrett | | report on change-ringing | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, 8 September 1830:
'I have been reading lately with my brothers some of Racin... | Elizabeth Barrett | Jean Jacques Racine | plays | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, 21 January 1831:
'You will lend me Phalaris (will you not?) at some future t... | Elizabeth Barrett | Richard Bentley | A Dissertation upon the Epistles of Phalaris | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Ann Lowry Boyd, c. April 1831:
'For the last week I have not been at all well, & indeed was ob... | Elizabeth Barrett | Thomas Moore | Letters and Journals of Lord Byron: with Notices of His Life | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, 1 June 1831:
'I recollect many years ago when I read one whole volume of Bla... | Elizabeth Barrett | Sir William Blackstone | Commentaries on the Laws of England | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, 1 June 1831:
'I recollect many years ago when I read one whole volume of Bla... | Elizabeth Barrett | Henry Hawkins | 'Reform of Parliament the Ruin of Parliament' | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, 15 November 1831:
'I have been reading an article in the Quarterly Review th... | Elizabeth Barrett | | 'Letter to the Lords' (article concerning Reform Bill) | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | Arabella Graham-Clarke to Henrietta Moulton-Barrett, 14 Deecmber 1830:
'Ba [Elizabeth Barrett] read the last work o... | Elizabeth Barrett | Sir Humphrey Davy | Consolation in Travail | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, 24 March 1832:
'When I had Payne Knight here, I took the trouble of counting... | Elizabeth Barrett | Homer | Carmina Homerica | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, 9 June 1832:
'I have been reading thro' the eight first chapters of Genesis ... | Elizabeth Barrett | | Genesis | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, 9 June 1832:
'I have been reading thro' the eight first chapters of Genesis ... | Elizabeth Barrett | Germaine de Stael | Corinne, ou L'Italie | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, July 1832:
'I have read Hebrew regularly every day since I told you of my be... | Elizabeth Barrett | | Genesis | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, July 1832:
'I have read Hebrew regularly every day since I told you of my be... | Elizabeth Barrett | | Hebrew lexicon | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, July 1832:
'I have read Hebrew regularly every day since I told you of my be... | Elizabeth Barrett | Alessandro Manzoni | I Promessi Sposi | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, July 1832:
'I have read Hebrew regularly every day since I told you of my be... | Elizabeth Barrett | | sequel to I Promessi Sposi | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, 10 July 1832:
'I have read Miss Fanny Kemble's tragedy [...] It seems to me ... | Elizabeth Barrett | Frances Anne Kemble | Francis the First, an Historical Drama | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, 10 July 1832:
'Mr Croker has lately published an edition of Boswell's Life o... | Elizabeth Barrett | James Boswell | The Life of Samuel Johnson | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Lady Margaret Cocks, 30 August 1832:
'As soon as breakfast is over, I read a chapter from the ... | Elizabeth Barrett | | Hebrew Bible | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Lady Margaret Cocks, 30 August 1832:
'As soon as breakfast is over, I read a chapter from the ... | Elizabeth Barrett | Edward George Bulwer-Lytton | Pelham, or The Adventures of a Gentleman | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, 16 April 1832:
'I believe I ought to have written to you before to thank you... | Elizabeth Barrett | Synesius Bishop of Ptolemais | Hymns | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, 2 November 1832:
'I am glad you have been reading Euripedes. I have looked ... | Elizabeth Barrett | Euripedes | Orestes | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, 2 November 1832:
'I have read, since I spoke to you last about my Greek read... | Elizabeth Barrett | Pindar | Odes | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, 2 November 1832:
'I have read, since I spoke to you last about my Greek read... | Elizabeth Barrett | | Alcestis | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, 2 November 1832:
'I have read, since I spoke to you last about my Greek read... | Elizabeth Barrett | | Troades | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, 2 November 1832:
'I have read, since I spoke to you last about my Greek read... | Elizabeth Barrett | Virgil | Aeneid | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, 2 November 1832:
'I have read, since I spoke to you last about my Greek read... | Elizabeth Barrett | | Biblia Hebraica | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Julia Martin, 14 December 1832:
'I have been reading Bulwer's novels & Mrs Trollope's libels, ... | Elizabeth Barrett | Edward George Bulwer-Lytton | novels including The Disowned | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Julia Martin, 14 December 1832:
'I have been reading Bulwer's novels & Mrs Trollope's libels, ... | Elizabeth Barrett | Frances Trollope | Domestic Manners of the Americans | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Julia Martin, 14 December 1832:
'I have been reading Bulwer's novels & Mrs Trollope's libels, ... | Elizabeth Barrett | Dr Parr | 'works' | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Lady Margaret Cocks, 31 December 1832:
'I have had my hands & head full of a book called the G... | Elizabeth Barrett | | The Theatre of the Greeks | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Lady Margaret Cocks, 31 December 1832:
'I have had my hands & head full of a book called the G... | Elizabeth Barrett | August Wilhelm von Schlegel | Uber dramatische Kunst und Literatur (extracts) | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Julia Martin, 7 September 1833:
'Dr Clarke's doctrines are not always & altogether and strictl... | Elizabeth Barrett | | An Account of the Infancy, Religious and Literary Life of Adam Clarke | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Lady Margaret Cocks, 14 September 1834:
'Have you seen a poetical translation of Klopstock's m... | Elizabeth Barrett | Gottlieb Friedrich Klopstock | The Messiah | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Lady Margaret Cocks, 15 November 1833:
'Do you know Herbert's poems? [Mr Hunter] lent them to... | Elizabeth Barrett | George Herbert | poems | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Lady Margaret Cocks, 15 November 1833:
'Just at this moment I am busy with Plato, trying to fi... | Elizabeth Barrett | Plato | Parmenides | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, 24 June 1835:
'I am reading Dr Brown's Philosophy -- shall have [italics]rea... | Elizabeth Barrett | Thomas Brown | Lectures on the Philosophy of the Human Mind | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, 24 June 1835:
'I am reading Dr Brown's Philosophy -- shall have [italics]rea... | Elizabeth Barrett | Anthony Collins | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, 24 June 1835:
'I am reading Dr Brown's Philosophy -- shall have [italics]rea... | Elizabeth Barrett | Martin Luther | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, 28 July 1835:
'I have been reading [...] Lord Brougham's Natural Theology, -... | Elizabeth Barrett | Henry Peter Brougham, Lord Brougham | A Discourse upon Natural Theology | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, c.September 1835:
'I have been reading the Bridgewater treatises, -- and am ... | Elizabeth Barrett | | Bridgewater Treatises | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, c.September 1835:
'I have been reading the Bridgewater treatises, -- and am ... | Elizabeth Barrett | William Prout | Chemistry, Meteorology, and the Function of Digestion Considered with Reference to Natural Theology | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, c.September 1835:
'I have been reading the Bridgewater treatises, -- and am ... | Elizabeth Barrett | Thomas Chalmers | On the Power, Wisdom and Goodness of God as Manifested in the Adaptation of External Nature to the Moral and Intellectual Constitution of Man | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, c.October 1835, regarding possible visit to him:
'Don't expect [...] to find... | Elizabeth Barrett | Collins | work 'upon necessity' | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, c.October 1835:
'Did you ever hear of Dr Wardlaw's treatise upon infant bapt... | Elizabeth Barrett | Ralph Wardlaw | A Dissertation on the Scriptural Authority, Nature, and Uses, of Infant Baptism | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Lady Margaret Cocks, ?4 November 1835:
'The Bridgewater treatises seem to me (I have not read ... | Elizabeth Barrett | William Kirby | The Habits and Instincts of Animals | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Lady Margaret Cocks, ?4 November 1835:
'Dr Brown's philosophy! No philosophy is like it. Poet... | Elizabeth Barrett | Thomas Brown | Lectures on the Philosophy of the Human Mind | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Lady Margaret Cocks, 9 December 1835:
'Have you seen Serjeant Talfourd's new tragedy, the Ion ... | Elizabeth Barrett | Thomas Noon Talfourd | Ion | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Lady Margaret Cocks, 9 December 1835:
'I have read lately Stilling's autobiography; & was by t... | Elizabeth Barrett | Johann Heinrich Jung-Stilling | autobiography | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 9 July 1836:
'You have not my dear kind friend thought me unkind and tha... | Elizabeth Barrett | Mary Russell Mitford | Dramatic Scenes, Sonnets and Other Poems | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 10 August 1836:
'I can tell you [...] of [John Kenyon's] having given hi... | Elizabeth Barrett | Robert Browning | Paracelsus | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 10 August 1836:
'I can tell you [...] of [John Kenyon's] having given hi... | Elizabeth Barrett | Henry Shepherd | The Countess of Essex | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 10 August 1836:
'Jesse Cliffe -- I have read it! [italics]Thank you for ... | Elizabeth Barrett | Mary Russell Mitford | 'Jesse Cliffe' | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, ?24 August 1836:
'You have not read all Tennyson's poems -- neither have... | Elizabeth Barrett | Alfred Tennyson | 'The Mermaid' | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, ?24 August 1836:
'You have not read all Tennyson's poems -- neither have... | Elizabeth Barrett | | 'Saunders & Ottley's catalogue of new publications' | Print: Advertisement, Unknown, catalogue |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, c.29 August 1836:
'Mrs Lenox Conyngham's name had come to my ears but it... | Elizabeth Barrett | H.F. Chorley | Memorials of Mrs Hemans | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Julia Martin, 7 December 1836:
'I have been reading [...] Sheridan Knowles's play of "The Wrec... | Elizabeth Barrett | Sheridan Knowles | The Wrecker's Daughter | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 14 December 1836:
'How much ignorance I have to confess in sackcloth, wi... | Elizabeth Barrett | Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher | plays (extracts) | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 14 December 1836:
'How much ignorance I have to confess in sackcloth, wi... | Elizabeth Barrett | John Ford | plays (extracts) | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, 1837:
'I will write out two passages from Justin Martyr, the only ones which... | Elizabeth Barrett | Justin Martyr | Apologia Prima Pro Christianis (LVXI,2) | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, 1837:
'I will write out two passages from Justin Martyr, the only ones which... | Elizabeth Barrett | Justin Martyr | Dialogus cum Tryphone Judaeo, 70 | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Julia Martin, 23 January 1837:
'I have read Coombs [sic] Phrenology [...] [It] is very clever,... | Elizabeth Barrett | George Combe | Elements of Phrenology | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 17 February 1837:
'I have been reading & rejoicing in your Faithful Shep... | Elizabeth Barrett | John Fletcher | The Faithful Shepherdess | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, ?17 March 1837:
'I have read your play [Otto of Wittelsbach] my dearest ... | Elizabeth Barrett | Mary Russell Mitford | Otto of Wittelsbach | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 2 May 1837:
'Yes! the extracts from Mrs Butler's play, in the Athenaeum,... | Elizabeth Barrett | Frances Anne Butler | The Star of Seville | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrrett to Lady Margaret Cocks, mid-May 1837:
'I am very much obliged by your kindness in allowing me to... | Elizabeth Barrett | Lady Margaret Cocks | dramatic poems | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrrett to Lady Margaret Cocks, mid-May 1837:
'I have been much pleased lately in reading Lady Dacre's t... | Elizabeth Barrett | Barbarina Brand, Lady Dacre | Translations from the Italian | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 2 June 1837:
'I agree with you in thinking Pickwick admirable -- but I ... | Elizabeth Barrett | Charles Dickens | The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 2 June 1837:
'I have read the Star of Seville [...] It [italics]is[end ... | Elizabeth Barrett | Frances Anne Butler | The Star of Seville | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 17 July 1837:
'Why should we [']'mere balladmongers" have so much to sa... | Elizabeth Barrett | Mary Russell Mitford | Country Stories | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 22 July 1837:
'I am sure I ought to be proud of my verses ["Victoria's ... | Elizabeth Barrett | George Gordon, Lord Byron | The Age of Bronze | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrrett to Lady Margaret Cocks, 19 August 1837:
'I have seen in the papers, the death of a beloved frien... | Elizabeth Barrett | | death notice for Harriet Baker (d.17 August) | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrrett to Lady Margaret Cocks, 19 August 1837:
'I scarcely ever do anything -- in the way of [italics]b... | Elizabeth Barrett | J. C. F. von Schiller | Die Jungfrau von Orleans | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrrett to Lady Margaret Cocks, 19 August 1837:
'I scarcely ever do anything -- in the way of [italics]b... | Elizabeth Barrett | J. C. F. von Schiller | Maria Stuart | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrrett to Lady Margaret Cocks, 19 August 1837:
'I scarcely ever do anything -- in the way of [italics]b... | Elizabeth Barrett | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe | Gotz von Berlichingen mit der eisenen Hand | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrrett to Lady Margaret Cocks, 19 August 1837:
'I scarcely ever do anything -- in the way of [italics]b... | Elizabeth Barrett | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe | Egmont | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrrett to Lady Margaret Cocks, 19 August 1837:
'Has your Ladyship seen Lamb's letters, in Mr Talfourd's... | Elizabeth Barrett | Charles Lamb | Letters of Charles Lamb, With a Sketch of His Life | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrrett to Lady Margaret Cocks, 29 September 1837:
'I confess to you that I utterly dislike Lady Mary! [... | Elizabeth Barrett | Lady Mary Wortley Montague | Letters | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 29 September 1837:
'You certainly shd write Dash [Mitford's dog]'s memo... | Elizabeth Barrett | Mary Russell Mitford | Letter to Elizabeth Barrett | Manuscript: Letter |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 12 October 1837:
'The village [i.e. (apparently) Mitford's] reminds me ... | Elizabeth Barrett | Frances Trollope | The Vicar of Wrexhill (extracts) | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 28 November 1837:
'Hearing of Miss Porter is like being a child again. ... | Elizabeth Barrett | Jane Porter | novels | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 1 January 1838:
'In my childish days & for some days afterwards I have r... | Elizabeth Barrett | Anna Seward | Letters of Anna Seward: Written Between the Years 1784 and 1807 | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to John Kenyon, c. February 1838:
'I [italics]will[end italics] thank you for all the pleasure I ... | Elizabeth Barrett | John Kenyon | poems | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, c.26 February 1838:
'I saw the following advertisement in the Athenaeum of S... | Elizabeth Barrett | | advertisement for rare antique Bible | Print: Advertisement, Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to John Kenyon, c. March 1838:
'Thank you for Alford's poems. There is much beauty in some of th... | Elizabeth Barrett | Henry Alford | poems | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, March 1838:
'[To] satisfy some curiosity, [I] have been reading Garth's ... | Elizabeth Barrett | Samuel Garth | The Dispensary, a Poem | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, March 1838:
'I have been reading the "Exile," from Marion Campbell, with... | Elizabeth Barrett | Mary Russell Mitford | "The Exile" | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 16 April 1838:
'I had to thank [John Kenyon] for [...] lending me Mr Mil... | Elizabeth Barrett | Richard Monckton Milnes | Memorials of a Residence on the Continent, and Historical Poems | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to John Kenyon, c. June 1838:
'The opening stanzas of your poem would charm Criticism into silenc... | Elizabeth Barrett | John Kenyon | "The Greek Wife" | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to John Kenyon, 7 June 1838:
'I turned over the leaves of Mr Reade's poem for some minutes before... | Elizabeth Barrett | John Edmund Reade | Italy | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Thomas Noon Talfourd, 13 June 1838:
'Miss Barrett presents her compliments to Mr Serjeant Talf... | Elizabeth Barrett | Thomas Noon Talfourd | The Athenian Captive | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, 21 June 1838:
'I have seen an extract from a private letter of Mr Chorley ed... | Elizabeth Barrett | Henry Fothergill Chorley | letter (extract) | Manuscript: Letter |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 21 June 1838:
'Mr Townsend's poems have just reached me. I have had no ... | Elizabeth Barrett | Richard Edwin Austin Townsend | Visions of the Western Railways | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 3 July 1838:
'I have written to Mr Townsend. The more I read of his poe... | Elizabeth Barrett | Richard Edwin Austin Townsend | Visions of the Western Railways | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 3 July 1838:
'I have written to Mr Townsend. The more I read of his poe... | Elizabeth Barrett | Frances Sargent Osgood | 'romance' | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 25 September 1838:
'I "remind you" to tell me all about Miss Landon's hu... | Elizabeth Barrett | Madame de Grandrion | Duty and Inclination | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 30 October 1838:
'I did not receive Finden immediately. I had desired Pa... | Elizabeth Barrett | | Findens' Tableaux of the Affections: A Series of Picturesque Illustrations of the Womanly Virtues | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Theodosia Garrow, late November 1838:
'I cannot return the [italics]Book of Beauty[end italics... | Elizabeth Barrett | Theodosia Garrow | poems 'The Gazelles' and 'On Presenting a Young Invalid With a Bunch of Early Violets' | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 12 March 1839:
'I like Schiller's Robbers better than any other play of ... | Elizabeth Barrett | J. C. F. von Schiller | Die Rauber | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett, invalid, to Mary Russell Mitford, 10 April 1839:
'What can I do bound hand and foot in this wild... | Elizabeth Barrett | Lancelot Andrewes | Sermons | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 10 April 1839:
'Mr Reade has power [...] both of thought & language [...... | Elizabeth Barrett | John Edmund Reade | Italy | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 30 April 1839:
'At painful times, when composition is impossible & readi... | Elizabeth Barrett | John Parkhurst | An Hebrew and English Lexicon | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 30 April 1839:
'At painful times, when composition is impossible & readi... | Elizabeth Barrett | Samuel Lee | A Grammar of the Hebrew Language | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 16 May 1839:
'I am glad you have looked at Cheveley. [italics]Now[end i... | Elizabeth Barrett | Rosina, Lady Bulwer-Lytton | Cheveley, or the Man of Honour | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Arabella Moulton-Barrett, 4 June 1839:
''[Dr Barry] has been lending me his friend & patient D... | Elizabeth Barrett | William Fullerton Cumming, M.D. | Notes of a Wanderer in Search of Health, Through Italy, Egypt, Greece, Turkey; Up the Danube and Down the Rhine | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 11 July 1839:
'I do not know whether Miss Garrow does or does not write ... | Elizabeth Barrett | Theodosia Garrow | stanzas on the death of Letitia Elizabeth Landon | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Arabella Moulton-Barrett, 13-14 July 1839:
'I told [Mr Naylor] [...] that the gift of his book... | Elizabeth Barrett | Samuel Naylor | Ceracchi, a Drama and other Poems | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 3 August 1839:
'I a personally quite unacquainted with Mr Horne [...] Ha... | Elizabeth Barrett | Richard Hengist Horne | poems | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 11 August 1839:
'I have read Mr Chorley's Lion [...] it is a work highly... | Elizabeth Barrett | Henry Fothergill Chorley | The Lion, a Tale of the Coteries | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 11 August 1839:
'Mr Chorley's Sea port town was brought to me a little w... | Elizabeth Barrett | Henry Fothergill Chorley | Sketches of a Sea Port Town | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Theodosia Garrow, md-August 1839:
'I was too tired upon my return from the [italics]voyage[end... | Elizabeth Barrett | anon | Two Old Men's Tales: The Deformed, and The Admiral's Daughter | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 13 December 1839:
'I have lately held within my hands Miss Eliza Cook's ... | Elizabeth Barrett | Eliza Cook | Melaia, and Other Poems | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, 29 January 1840:
'[Dr Scully (physician attending Barrett)] brought me a boo... | Elizabeth Barrett | | Catalogue of library of Samuel Parr | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, late January 1840:
'Have you seen Mrs Gore & Mrs Trollope in their late ... | Elizabeth Barrett | Catherine Gore | Preferment: or, My Uncle the Earl | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, late January 1840:
'Have you seen Mrs Gore & Mrs Trollope in their late ... | Elizabeth Barrett | Frances Trollope | One Fault. A Novel | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, late January 1840:
'Did you ever meet with an account partly translated ... | Elizabeth Barrett | Mary Ann Schimmelpenninck | Select Memoirs of Port Royal | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Septimus Moulton-Barrett, 6 February 1840:
''Tell [Papa] too what I forgot to tell, that I hav... | Elizabeth Barrett | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Essays, Letters from Abroad, Translations and Fragments | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, mid-February 1840:
'Did you ever hear how poor Mr Reade has compromised ... | Elizabeth Barrett | | Review of William Reade's poems Italy and The Deluge | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 20 February 1840:
'I never received Mr Merry's book until a very few day... | Elizabeth Barrett | William Merry | The Philosophy of a Happy Futurity est. on the Sure Evidence of the Bible | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 6 March 1840:
'I cant agree about the Legend, I read the whole of it - &... | Elizabeth Barrett | Leigh Hunt | A Legend of Florence | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 28 March 1840:
'I [italics]have[end italics] Sylvia or the May Queen amo... | Elizabeth Barrett | George Darley | Sylvia; or, The May Queen | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Richard Hengist Horne, 15 May 1840:
'I had finished Napoleon & was about to write to you on th... | Elizabeth Barrett | Richard Hengist Horne | The History of Napoleon | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 3 June 1840:
'Have you given up the idea of seeing Mr Darley's book agai... | Elizabeth Barrett | George Darley | Thomas a Becket | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to George Goodin Moulton-Barrett, 17 June 1840:
'["Glencoe"] never reached me until last week [..... | Elizabeth Barrett | Thomas Noon Talfourd | Glencoe | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett, invalid, to Mary Russell Mitford, 10 December 1840:
'You cant guess what my business has been la... | Elizabeth Barrett | Mary Russell Mitford | Our Village | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Thomas Powell, 24 December 1840:
'It is right to apprize you of the safe arrival [of book from... | Elizabeth Barrett | Thomas Powell | poems | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Richard Hengist Horne, late January 1841:
'I have just read your reply to the Monthly Critic -... | Elizabeth Barrett | Richard Hengist Horne | response to article in the Monthly Critic | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 9 February 1841:
'If you are looking out for romances to melt away the s... | Elizabeth Barrett | Robert Montgomery Bird | Nick of the Woods: A Story of Kentucky | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Richard Hengist Horne, 10 March 1841:
'I have seen Orpheus, & write just to thank you for the ... | Elizabeth Barrett | Richard Hengist Horne | 'Orpheus' | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 2 July 1841:
'Before I forget again .. have you looked into the "History... | Elizabeth Barrett | Lady Charlotte Susan Maria Bury | The History of a Flirt: Related by Herself | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 2 July 1841:
'Poor LEL! Just as she had outstretched her hand to touch ... | Elizabeth Barrett | Letitia Elizabeth Landon | poems | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 15 July 1841:
'I have read the Bells & Pomegranates! -- "Pippa passes" .... | Elizabeth Barrett | Robert Browning | Pippa Passes (Bells and Pomegranates, No. I) | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 4 August 1841:
'I have seen & read [italics]the book[end italics] [...] ... | Elizabeth Barrett | Richard Hengist Horne | Exposition of the False Medium and Barriers Excluding Men of Genius from the Public | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 9 August 1841:
'How glad I was to see the graceful stanzas in the Athena... | Elizabeth Barrett | Mary Russell Mitford | 'On the Portrait of the Duchess of Burlington, Painted after her Death by Mr Lucas' | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 28 August 1841:
'In regard to Miss Garrow's poetry, I cannot to please a... | Elizabeth Barrett | Theodosia Garrow | 'The Doom of Cheynholme' | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 28 August 1841:
'In regard to Miss Garrow's poetry, I cannot to please a... | Elizabeth Barrett | Theodosia Garrow | poems | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 21 September 1841:
'Mr Haydon's letters shut up in the best letter of al... | Elizabeth Barrett | Benjamin Robert Haydon | letters to Mary Russell Mitford | Manuscript: Letter |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 23 September 1841:
'Mr Horne set me Martinuzzi to read, a day or two ago... | Elizabeth Barrett | George Stephens | Martinuzzi | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 18 October 1841:
'I had heard of Lucretia Davidson, in a passing way, & ... | Elizabeth Barrett | Washington Irving | Biography and Poetical Remains of the late Margaret Miller Davidson | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to John Kenyon, 10 November 1841:
'I have been wandering in Lower Austria [sic] -- very much plea... | Elizabeth Barrett | John Kenyon | 'Upper Austria' | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 12 November 1841, having recommended she read
Theodosia Garrow's narrativ... | Elizabeth Barrett | Theodosia Garrow | poem on death of Letitia Elizabeth Landon | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 25 November 1841:
'The Roman Brother -- & thank you! -- There are fine t... | Elizabeth Barrett | John A. Heraud | The Roman Brother: A Tragedy | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 6 December 1841:
'What a singular movement is this Puseyite one [...] Mr... | Elizabeth Barrett | R. M. Milnes | One Tract More, or, The System Illustrated by "The Tracts for the Times," Externally Regarded: by a Layman | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 8 December 1841:
'I have not read Self formation, -- & [italics]have[end... | Elizabeth Barrett | Ann Radcliffe | Gaston de Blondeville | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 8 December 1841:
'I have not read Self formation, -- & [italics]have[end... | Elizabeth Barrett | Thomas J. Serle | Joan of Arc | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 23-25 December 1841:
'Mrs Jameson's early writings -- the Ennuyee for in... | Elizabeth Barrett | Anna Brownell Jameson | writings including Conversations on the State of Art and Literature in Germany (1837) | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 23-25 December 1841:
'Have you read the "Blue Belles"? Do -- it is very... | Elizabeth Barrett | Frances Trollope | The Blue Belles of England | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 1-6 January 1842:
'Did you see Mr Hunter's treatise upon the Tempest? M... | Elizabeth Barrett | Joseph Hunter | A Disquisition on the Scene, Origin, Date, etc. of Shakespeare's Tempest | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 1-6 January 1842:
'Did you see Mr Hunter's treatise upon the Tempest? M... | Elizabeth Barrett | Henry Alford | Chapters on the Poets of Ancient Greece | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Thomas Westwood, 7 January 1842:
'Miss Barrett -- inferring Mr Westwood from the handwriting, ... | Elizabeth Barrett | Thomas Westwood | Note to Elizabeth Barrett | Manuscript: Letter |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, 12 January 1842:
'I have won a sight of the Poetae Christiani -- but the pri... | Elizabeth Barrett | | Poetae Graeci Christiani, una cum Homericus Centonibus | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Richard Hengist Horne, 18 January 1842:
'What can you have thought, my dear Mr Horne, of all t... | Elizabeth Barrett | Richard Hengist Horne | Alsargis | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Thomas Westwood, 5 February 1842:
'I [italics]was[end italics] and [italics]am[end italics] ve... | Elizabeth Barrett | Thomas Westwood | Poems | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 21 February 1842:
'What an amusing book these Burneyana [italics]do[end ... | Elizabeth Barrett | Frances Burney | Diary and Letters (Volume 1) | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 31 February [sic] 1842:
'I have not very long done with Lewis's memoirs,... | Elizabeth Barrett | Margaret Baron-Wilson | The Life and Correspondence of M. G. Lewis | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 31 February [sic] 1842:
'I have not very long done with Lewis's memoirs,... | Elizabeth Barrett | William Hayley | Memoirs of the Life and Writings of William Hayley, Esq ... Written by Himself | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, 5 March 1842:
'I had two volumes of Euripedes [sic] with me in Devonshire --... | Elizabeth Barrett | | De legibus | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, 5 March 1842:
'I had two volumes of Euripedes [sic] with me in Devonshire --... | Elizabeth Barrett | Plato | Works including Dissertation sur le Passage du Rhone et les Alpes par Annibal | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, 5 March 1842:
'I had two volumes of Euripedes [sic]with me in Devonshire -- ... | Elizabeth Barrett | | works attributed to Plato | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, 5 March 1842:
'I had two volumes of Euripedes [sic] with me in Devonshire --... | Elizabeth Barrett | Aeschylus | plays | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, 5 March 1842:
'I had two volumes of Euripedes [sic] with me in Devonshire --... | Elizabeth Barrett | Sophocles | plays | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, 5 March 1842:
'I had two volumes of Euripedes [sic] with me in Devonshire --... | Elizabeth Barrett | Euripides | plays | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, 10 March 1842:
'I have read of Aristotle, only His poetics, his ethics & his... | Elizabeth Barrett | Aristotle | Poetics | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, 10 March 1842:
'I have read of Aristotle, only His poetics, his ethics & his... | Elizabeth Barrett | Aristotle | Ethics | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, 10 March 1842:
'I have read of Aristotle, only His poetics, his ethics & his... | Elizabeth Barrett | Aristotle | 'work upon rhetoric' | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 16 March 1842:
'I [italics]have[end italics] read Marmontel's memoirs ..... | Elizabeth Barrett | Jean Francois Marmontel | Memoires | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 17 March 1842:
'In regard to Zanoni, I think with you that there is much... | Elizabeth Barrett | Edward George Bulwer-Lytton | Zanoni | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 24 March 1842:
'Richardson's correspondence has charmed me -- "charming"... | Elizabeth Barrett | Samuel Richardson | Correspondence | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 24 March 1842:
'I like this waste of the public money upon bishops of Ne... | Elizabeth Barrett | Richard Edwin Austin Townsend | poem on the departure and farewell sermon of George Augustus Selwyn, on his being appointed Bishop of New Zealand | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 27-28 March 1842:
'Do you know how Mr Macready has been attacked for try... | Elizabeth Barrett | Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher | plays | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 27-28 March 1842:
'Do you know how Mr Macready has been attacked for try... | Elizabeth Barrett | Philip Massinger | plays | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 27-28 March 1842:
'Do you know how Mr Macready has been attacked for try... | Elizabeth Barrett | Ben Jonson | plays | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 27-28 March 1842:
'Do you know how Mr Macready has been attacked for try... | Elizabeth Barrett | | Select Collection of Old Plays | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 27-28 March 1842:
'I have read the "Cavalier" -- but years ago. I must ... | Elizabeth Barrett | Daniel Defoe | Memoirs of a Cavalier | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 27-28 March 1842:
'I have read the "Cavalier" -- but years ago. I must ... | Elizabeth Barrett | Daniel Defoe | Robinson Crusoe | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 27-28 March 1842:
'I have read the "Cavalier" -- but years ago. I must ... | Elizabeth Barrett | Daniel Defoe | A Journal of the Plague Year | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to George Goodin Moulton-Barrett, 30 March 1842:
'I have been reading Emerson -- He does away wit... | Elizabeth Barrett | Ralph Waldo Emerson | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to James Russell Lowell, 31 March 1842:
'I beg you at last to receive my very earnest thanks for ... | Elizabeth Barrett | James Russell Lowell | A Year's Life | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 1 April 1842:
'The "Rhymed Plea" is admirable "after its kind" -- but wi... | Elizabeth Barrett | John Kenyon | A Rhymed Plea for Tolerance | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 1 April 1842:
'I read the Beggar girl, when I was very young'. | Elizabeth Barrett | Agnes Maria Bennett | The Beggar Girl and Her Benefactors | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 6 April 1842:
'The best and fullest biography [of William Cowper] in all... | Elizabeth Barrett | Robert Southey (ed) | The Works of William Cowper, Esq., ... With a Life of the Author | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to John Kenyon, 13 April 1842:
'I send you back the [italics]two[end italics] books with a great ... | Elizabeth Barrett | William Wordsworth | Poems, Chiefly of Early and Late Years; Including The Borderers, a Tragedy | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 13 April 1842:
'Dear Mr Kenyon lent me Wordsworth's new volume two days ... | Elizabeth Barrett | William Wordsworth | Poems, Chiefly of Early and Late Years; Including The Borderers, a Tragedy | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 25 April 1842:
'Of course you know Mademoiselle de Monpensier's [sic] Me... | Elizabeth Barrett | Anne Marie Louise d'Orleans, Duchesse de Montpensier | Memoires | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 25 April 1842:
'Of course you know Mademoiselle de Monpensier's [sic] Memo... | Elizabeth Barrett | Louis de Rouvroy, Duc de Saint-Simon | Memoires | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 14 May 1842:
'I cdnt help reading to Crow your beautiful story of your Flu... | Elizabeth Barrett | Mary Russell Mitford | letter to Elizabeth Barrett | Manuscript: Letter |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to John Kenyon, 15 May 1842:
'I ought to be thanking you for your great kindness about this divine ... | Elizabeth Barrett | Alfred Tennyson | Poems | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 3 June 1841:
'Yes [...] to [having read] Emerson's letters [sic]. Or ra... | Elizabeth Barrett | Ralph Waldo Emerson | Essays: First Series | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 22 July 1842:
'I read Mary Wolstonecraft [sic] when I was thirteen: no, ... | Elizabeth Barrett | Mary Wollstonecraft | A Vindication of the Rights of Woman | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 26 July 1842:
'If our dear Mr Kenyon should turn out to be bewitched [by... | Elizabeth Barrett | Ellen Pickering | novels | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 30 August 1842:
'As to Charlotte Elizabeth -- yes, I have read that litt... | Elizabeth Barrett | Charlotte Elizabeth Tonna | 'little books' | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 30 August 1842:
'Romilly's memoirs have interest [...] Not that I am an ... | Elizabeth Barrett | Samuel Romilly | Memoirs of the Life of Sir Samuel Romilly, Written by Himself | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 14 September 1842:
'My dearest friend, here is the newspaper [containing... | Elizabeth Barrett | | The Berkshire Chronicle | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 14 September 1842:
'Will Mrs Partridge receive the expression of my earn... | Elizabeth Barrett | | report of reprieve of condemned criminal Elizabeth Barrett | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Benjamin Robert Haydon, 29 October 1842:
'I have to thank you [...] for the sight of a very in... | Elizabeth Barrett | Benjamin Robert Haydon | letter to the Sheffield Mercury regarding formation of a School of Design in Sheffield. | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 4 November 1842:
'I have been reading Mrs Trollope in the New Monthly. S... | Elizabeth Barrett | Frances Trollope | The Barnabys in America | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'E[lizabeth] B[arrett] B[arrett] had read Marryat's [...] A Diary in America, With Remarks on
its Institutions (1839... | Elizabeth Barrett | Frederick Marryat | A Diary in America, With Remarks on its Institutions | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 12 November 1842:
'Mr Kenyon called yesterday [...] and he left Lady Ble... | Elizabeth Barrett | John Kenyon, Walter Savage Landor, Theodosia Garrow | The Keepsake for 1843 | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 21 November 1842:
'Keep my secret -- but I have been reading a good deal... | Elizabeth Barrett | George Sand | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 21 November 1842:
'Keep my secret -- but I have been reading a good deal... | Elizabeth Barrett | Eugene Sue | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 21 November 1842:
'Keep my secret -- but I have been reading a good deal... | Elizabeth Barrett | Frederic Soulie | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 21 November 1842:
'Keep my secret -- but I have been reading a good deal... | Elizabeth Barrett | Louis de Maynard de Queilhe | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 27 November 1842:
'"Leila" [...] made me blush in my solitude to the end... | Elizabeth Barrett | George Sand | Leila | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 27 November 1842:
''Have you observed what I have observed [...] that Ch... | Elizabeth Barrett | Victor Hugo | Les derniers jours d'un condamne | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 27 November 1842:
'I have just done reading a romance of Frederick Souli... | Elizabeth Barrett | Frederic Soulie | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 29 November 1842:
'I have read through Pollock's Course of Time, -- & I ... | Elizabeth Barrett | Robert Pollock | The Course of Time | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 29 November 1842:
'Mr Leigh Hunt & Mr Horne have been reviewing Tennyson... | Elizabeth Barrett | Richard Hengist Horne | review article on Tennyson and/or Browning | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 29 November 1842:
'Mr Leigh Hunt & Mr Horne have been reviewing Tennyson... | Elizabeth Barrett | Leigh Hunt | review article on Tennyson and/or Browning | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 3 December 1842:
'My thoughts have lately been of Frederica Bremer?s "Ne... | Elizabeth Barrett | Frederika Bremer | The Neighbours: A Story of Everyday Life | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 5 December 1842:
'I did think the fifth volume [of Frances Burney D'Arbl... | Elizabeth Barrett | Frances Burney D'Arblay | Diary and Letters (Volume 5) | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 7 December 1842:
'I like Mary Howitt's lyrical poetry -- ballad poetry, ... | Elizabeth Barrett | Mary Howitt | The Seven Temptations | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 9 December 1842:
'Do you really object to the re-iteration of [italics]O... | Elizabeth Barrett | Alfred Tennyson | 'Oriana' | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 14 December 1842:
'Mr Browning's last "Bells and Pomegranates" I sigh ov... | Elizabeth Barrett | Robert Browning | Bells and Pomegranates III (Dramatic Lyrics) | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 17 December 1842:
'I sent Pere Goriot [...] because it is my belief that... | Elizabeth Barrett | Honore de Balzac | Le Pere Goriot | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 21 December 1842:
'Because I would not, [italics]could not[end italics] ... | Elizabeth Barrett | George Sand | Leila | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 21 December 1842:
'Because I would not, [italics]could not[end italics] ... | Elizabeth Barrett | George Sand | Jacques | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 21 December 1842:
'Because I would not, [italics]could not[end italics] ... | Elizabeth Barrett | George Sand | Indiana | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 28 December 1842:
'I am bewitched, my beloved friend, to be sure! Do yo... | Elizabeth Barrett | Frances Trollope | Letter to Mary Russell Mitford | Manuscript: Letter |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 28 December 1842:
'Did you ever look at -- I dont say [italics]read[end ... | Elizabeth Barrett | Claude Prosper Jolyot de Crebillon fils | Le Sopha, Conte Moral | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 30 December 1842:
'I remember [...] reading in the curious Memoires d'un... | Elizabeth Barrett | Etienne Leon de Lamothe-Langon | Memoires d'une Femme de Qualite sur Louis XVIII, sa Cour et son Regne | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 30 December 1842:
'I like Madme de Genlis in many of her writings [...] ... | Elizabeth Barrett | Comtesse de Genlis | Adele et Theodore, ou Lettres sur l'Education | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, 5 January 1843:
'It is many years since I looked at Ossian; & I never did mu... | Elizabeth Barrett | James Macpherson (as 'Ossian') | 'Carthon' | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, 5 January 1843:
'Did I tell you that I have been reading through an M.S. tra... | Elizabeth Barrett | Plato | Gorgias | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Benjamin Robert Haydon, 8 January 1843:
'Your autobiography my dear Mr Haydon is delightful! ... | Elizabeth Barrett | Benjamin Robert Haydon | autobiography | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 14 January 1843:
'I have read the Letters from Palmyra. They are [...] ... | Elizabeth Barrett | William Ware | Zenobia: or, The Fall of Palmyra | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 15 January 1843:
'I read this very morning Schindler's interesting memoi... | Elizabeth Barrett | Anton Felix Schindler | The Life of Beethoven | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799
1800-1849 | Benjamin Robert Haydon, in his Autobiography, mentions 'Liz', 'An attractive girl on the second
floor of a house ful... | Liz | William Shakespeare | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to James Martin, 6 February 1843:
'Do you know that the royal Boz lives close to us -- three door... | Elizabeth Barrett | Charles Dickens | Martin Chuzzlewit | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Benjamin Robert Haydon, 11 February 1843:
'I wish I could send you the "Confessio amantis" -- ... | Elizabeth Barrett | John Gower | Confessio Amantis | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, ?3 March 1843:
'Mr Kenyon calls Christopher North a "glorious brute" -- ... | Elizabeth Barrett | John Wilson (as Christopher North) | The Recreations of Christopher North (vol. 3) | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 8 March 1843:
'[The writings of Miss Edgeworth] are excellent & admirabl... | Elizabeth Barrett | Maria Edgeworth | 'The Cherry Orchard' | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 8 March 1843:
'[The writings of Miss Edgeworth] are excellent & admirabl... | Elizabeth Barrett | Maria Edgeworth | 'Rosamond' | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 14 March 1843:
'I have [italics]tried[end italics] to read "Duty and Inc... | Elizabeth Barrett | anon | Duty and Inclination (volume 1) | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 14 March 1843:
'I have [italics]tried[end italics] to read "Duty and Inc... | Elizabeth Barrett | anon | Duty and Inclination | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to John Kenyon, mid-March 1843:
'Thank you, my dear cousin, for Mr Longfellow's verses -- a [ital... | Elizabeth Barrett | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to John Kenyon, mid-March 1843:
'Here is the first volume of Horner -- thank you! It is very inte... | Elizabeth Barrett | Leonard Horner | Memoirs and Correspondence of Francis Horner, M.P. (volume I) | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to John Kenyon, mid-March 1843:
'This Mr Horner is very noble & strong -- & I like him better, my... | Elizabeth Barrett | Leonard Horner | Memoirs and Correspondence of Francis Horner, M.P. (volume II) | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 21 March 1843:
'Notwithstanding my admiration of Bulwer, I had the harde... | Elizabeth Barrett | Edward George Bulwer-Lytton | The Last of the Barons | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 25 March 1843:
'I have seen Bewick only in extracts -- therefore you are... | Elizabeth Barrett | Thomas Bewick | The History of British Birds (extracts) | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 29 March 1843:
'I have been reading to my amusement, Mrs Trollope's Harg... | Elizabeth Barrett | Frances Trollope | Hargrave, or the Adventures of a Man of Fashion | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, 31 March 1843:
'I feel guilty before you, since your last letter has remaine... | Elizabeth Barrett | James Macpherson (as 'translator' of Ossian) | The Death of Cuchullin | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Benjamin Robert Haydon, 7 April 1843:
'I have read Caesar's commentaries, to be sure, .. but I... | Elizabeth Barrett | Julius Caesar | De Bello Gallico | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Benjamin Robert Haydon, 21 April 1843:
'Mrs S. C. Hall is an agreeable & graceful writer, & I ... | Elizabeth Barrett | Mrs Samuel Carter Hall | unknown | Print: Unknown |
| 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 England | Print: Book |
| 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 Geography; being an easy Introduction to the Knowledge of the World | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'we learned Pinnock's Catechisms of History and Geography, and parsed sentences grammatically. For religious instructi... | Elizabeth Missing Sewell | Sarah Trimmer | Abridgement of Scripture History, consisting of Lessons selected from the Old Testament, for the Use of Schools and Families | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'we learned Pinnock's Catechisms of History and Geography, and parsed sentences grammatically. For religious instructi... | Elizabeth Missing Sewell | [n/a] | Church Catechism | Print: 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 Isaiah | 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 Addison | Spectator | Print: 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 Johnson | Rambler, The | Print: 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 Addison | Cato | Print: 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 Burger | Lenore | Print: 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 Judges | Print: 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 Scott | Lady of the Lake, The | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Richard Hengist Horne, 1 May 1843:
'I have been reading Carlyle .. his "Past & Present" -- The... | Elizabeth Barrett | Thomas Carlyle | Past and Present | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, 18 May 1843:
'[William Wordsworth] had the kindness to send me the poem upon... | Elizabeth Barrett | William Wordsworth | Grace Darling | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 24 May 1843:
'Mary Howitt's last translation from Frederika Bremer's swe... | Elizabeth Barrett | Frederika Bremer | The Home: or, Family Cares and Family Joys | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Richard Hengist Horne, 29 May 1843:
'The other day I took up the Foreign Quarterly of last Jan... | Elizabeth Barrett | Julia Pardoe | 'Modern Turkish Travellers' | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Richard Hengist Horne, 29 May 1843:
'Reading Mr Halpin of the Shakespeare society upon Oberon'... | Elizabeth Barrett | Nicholas John Halpin | Oberon's Vision in the Midsummer-Night's Dream | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Richard Hengist Horne, 29 May 1843:
'By the way [...] I have been reading you in the Illuminat... | Elizabeth Barrett | Richard Hengist Horne | article on Royal Commission on Children's Employment | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 29 May 1843:
'Mr Reade's "Sacred Poems" I am now looking into by dear Mr... | Elizabeth Barrett | John Edmund Reade | Sacred Poems | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Richard Hengist Horne, 9 June 1843:
'A gentleman, a poet, a correspondent, at large intervals,... | Elizabeth Barrett | Philip James Bailey | Festus | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 16 June 1843:
'My idea of [italics]V[ed italics] has always been .. a cl... | Elizabeth Barrett | V | IX Poems by V. (extracts) | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to John Kenyon, 30 June 1843:
'I honor Mrs Coleridge for the readiness of reasoning & integrity i... | Elizabeth Barrett | Mrs Coleridge | 'On Rationalism' | Print: 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 Russell | History of Modern Europe | Print: 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 Robertson | History of the Reign of Charles the Fifth | Print: 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 Watts | Improvement of the Mind, The | Print: 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 Cervantes | Don Quixote | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I taught myself besides to read Spanish - for having found a Spanish "Don Quixote" lying about, which no-one claimed,... | Elizabeth Missing Sewell | [unknown] | [a Spanish grammar] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I taught myself besides to read Spanish - for having found a Spanish "Don Quixote" lying about, which no-one claimed,... | Elizabeth Missing Sewell | [unknown] | [a Spanish dictionary] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 13 July 1843:
'I like the spirit & courteous goodness of Mr James's book... | Elizabeth Barrett | George Payne Rainsford James | novels | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | '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 | Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 13 July 1843:
'You must remember Mademoiselle de Montpensier's delightfu... | Elizabeth Barrett | Anne Marie Louise d'Orleans, Duchesse de Montpensier | Memoires | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | '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 Scott | Paul's Letters to his Kinsfolk | 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 | 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 Hawkins | Countess and Gertrude, The; or, Modes of Discipline | Print: 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 Butler | Analogy of Religion, Natural and Revealed, to the Constitution and Course of Nature | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 22 July 1843:
'Mr Borrow [italics]is[end italics] a very original & char... | Elizabeth Barrett | George Borrow | The Bible in Spain; or, The Journeys, Adventures, and Imprisonment of an Englishman, in an Attempt to Circulate the Scriptures in the Peninsula | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I had seen some numbers of "Tracts for the Times" lying on the counter in a bookseller's shop in Newport, and they ha... | Elizabeth Missing Sewell | John Henry Newman | Tracts for the Times | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, ?late July 1843:
'As you praise Charles O'Malley so much, I really must ... | Elizabeth Barrett | Charles James Lever | Charles O'Malley | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I had seen some numbers of "Tracts for the Times" lying on the counter in a bookseller's shop in Newport, and they ha... | Elizabeth Missing Sewell | 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 Sewell | Stories on the Lord's Prayer | Manuscript: 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 Sewell | Amy Herbert | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, ?late July 1843:
'As you praise Charles O'Malley so much, I really must ... | Elizabeth Barrett | Michael Scott | Tom Cringle's Log | Print: 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 Yonge | Daisy Chain, The | Print: 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 Sewell | Stories on the Lord's Prayer | Print: 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 Sewell | Earl's Daughter, The | Manuscript: 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 Sewell | Margaret Percival | Manuscript: 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 Sewell | Laneton parsonage | Manuscript: 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 Langton | Print: 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 Tilley | Chollerton: A tale of our own times | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I read nothing scarcely, all my spare time being given to German exercises. Miss Martineau's "Tales on the Game Laws"... | Elizabeth Missing Sewell | Harriet Martineau | Forest and Game-Law Tales | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | '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 Alison | History of Europe from the Fall of Napoleon in MDCCCXV to the Accession of Louis Napoleon in MDCCCLII | Print: 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 Southey | Life and Correspondence of Robert Southey | Print: 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 Ruskin | Lectures on Architecture and Painting | 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 | J.W. Kaye | Life and correspondence of Charles, Lord Metcalfe | 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 | Charles Kingsley | Hypatia - or New Foes with an Old Face | 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 | Edward Bouverie Pusey | [Sermons] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 29 July 1843:
'I am reading William Howitt's Germany with a good deal of... | Elizabeth Barrett | William Howitt | Rural and Domestic Life of Germany | 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 Carlyle | Heroes and Hero Worship and the Heroic in History | 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 | [n/a] | Times, The | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'I have written a little, and read a good deal, - the second volume of "Sir Charles Metcalfe's Life", which makes me l... | Elizabeth Missing Sewell | [unknown] | [pamphlets and magazines] | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Cornelius Mathews, 31 August 1843:
'I wrote immediately upon receiving your works in their rep... | Elizabeth Barrett | Cornelius Mathews | Motley Book | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Cornelius Mathews, 31 August 1843:
'I wrote immediately upon receiving your works in their rep... | Elizabeth Barrett | Cornelius Mathews | Behemoth, a Legend of the Moundbuilders | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett, invalid, to Richard Hengist Horne, 5 October 1843:
'I very much admire Mr Macaulay -- & could sc... | Elizabeth Barrett | Thomas Babington Macaulay | Lays of Ancient Rome | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to William Merry, 2 November 1843:
'Your book [...] is written in a spirit so amiable & concilia... | Elizabeth Barrett | William Merry | Predestination and Election, Considered Scripturally | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, 12 December 1843:
'I have read in Baron Dupotet's & Dr Stone's book upon Mes... | Elizabeth Barrett | Baron Jean du Potet de Sennevoy | An Introduction to the Study of Animal Magnetism ... With an Appendix Containing Reports of British Practitioners in Favour of the Science | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Richard Hengist Horne, 13 December 1843:
'I admired [Richard Monckton Milne's] first volume ve... | Elizabeth Barrett | Richard Monckton Milnes | 'Lay of the Humble' | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to John Kenyon, 22 December 1843:
'I read the "Song of the Shirt" & felt all the power of it. It ... | Elizabeth Barrett | Thomas Hood | 'The Song of the Shirt' | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Richard Hengist Horne, 23 December 1843:
'One or two volumes of the Memoirs of the queens of E... | Elizabeth Barrett | Hannah Lawrance | Historical Memoirs of the Queens of England from the Commencement of the Twelfth Century | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Richard Hengist Horne, 23 December 1843:
'Either a Stickney or a Strictland wrote the "Poetry ... | Elizabeth Barrett | Sarah Ellis (nee Stickney) | The Poetry of Life | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Thomas Westwood, 26 December 1843:
'Although I have read rather widely the divinity of the Gre... | Elizabeth Barrett | Hooker | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Thomas Westwood, 26 December 1843:
'Although I have read rather widely the divinity of the Gre... | Elizabeth Barrett | Jeremy Taylor | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Thomas Westwood, 26 December 1843:
'Although I have read rather widely the divinity of the Gre... | Elizabeth Barrett | | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 27 December 1843:
'Although not agreeing with you that the poetry of Car... | Elizabeth Barrett | Caroline Bowles | The Birth-Day | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 27 December 1843:
'The Christmas Carol strikes me much as it does you. I... | Elizabeth Barrett | Charles Dickens | A Christmas Carol | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Thomas Westwood to Elizabeth Barrett, 27 December 1843:
'On my return from a long, weary walk through mud & mist, y... | Elizabeth Barrett | William Wordsworth | epitaph for Robert Southey | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Thomas Westwood, 31 December 1843:
'With thanks I return the verses of your artist friend [enc... | Elizabeth Barrett | Woods | lines of poetry | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Richard Hengist Horne, 29 December 1843:
'Looking over a book catalogue this morning I saw Agn... | Elizabeth Barrett | | Book catalogue | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Richard Hengist Horne, 5-6 January 1844:
'[George Payne Rainsford James] is a picturesque writ... | Elizabeth Barrett | George Payne Rainsford James | novels | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Thomas Westwood, 11 January 1844:
'I have [...] read your volume through [...] I have several ... | Elizabeth Barrett | Thomas Westwood | Beads from a Rosary | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Thomas Westwood to Elizabeth Barrett, 28 January 1844:
'For the Dramas [of Richard Hengist Horne], we owe you many ... | Elizabeth Barrett | Richard Hengist Horne | The Ballad of Delora | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Richard Hengist Horne, 5 February 1844:
'[Samuel Lover] is a very powerful writer of Irish nov... | Elizabeth Barrett | Samuel Lover | novels | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Richard Hengist Horne, 5 February 1844:
'I [italics]cannot read[end italics] Lever, ... honest... | Elizabeth Barrett | Charles James Lever | Harry Lorrequer | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 20-21 February 1844:
'We will talk of Eugene Sue.
' know the "Mysteri... | Elizabeth Barrett | Eugene Sue | The Mysteries of Paris | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 20-21 February 1844:
'We will talk of Eugene Sue.
I know the "Mysteri... | Elizabeth Barrett | Eugene Sue | Mathilde, Memoires d'une Jeune Femme | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Richard Hengist Horne, letter postmarked 21 February 1844:
'[italics]Have[end italics] I read ... | Elizabeth Barrett | Philip James Bailey | Festus | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Richard Hengist Horne, letter postmarked 21 February 1844:
'[italics]Have[end italics] I read ... | Elizabeth Barrett | Philip James Bailey | Additional scene for Festus | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Richard Hengist Horne, letter postmarked 21 February 1844:
'I suppose by an opinion upon Taylo... | Elizabeth Barrett | Henry Taylor | Philip van Artevelde | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 13 March 1844:
'My dearest friend I return Mr Reade's letter which amuse... | Elizabeth Barrett | John Edmund Reade | letter to Mary Russell Mitford | Manuscript: Letter |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to John Kenyon, 16 March 1844:
'I return Mr Burges's criticism [...] which interested me much in ... | Elizabeth Barrett | George Burges | criticism on lines of Aeschylus attributed to Sophocles | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to John Kenyon, 16 March 1844:
'I return Mr Burges's criticism [...] which interested me much in ... | Elizabeth Barrett | Sophocles | 'recognised fragments of Sophocles' | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to John Kenyon, 21 March 1844:
'Southey's letters! I did quite delight in [italics]them[end itali... | Elizabeth Barrett | unknown | A Memoir of ... The Late William Taylor of Norwich | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Richard Hengist Horne, 22 December 1843:
'I never saw [John Sterling']s book, although I have ... | Elizabeth Barrett | John Sterling | poems | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Richard Hengist Horne, 22 December 1843:
'I never saw [John Sterling']s book, although I have ... | Elizabeth Barrett | Bartholomew Simmons | poems | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Richard Hengist Horne, 22 December 1843:
'I never saw [John Sterling']s book, although I have ... | Elizabeth Barrett | Chandos Leigh, 1st Baron Leigh | poems | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 29 March 1844:
'Really, [Paul de Kock] is very bad -- he is very [italic... | Elizabeth Barrett | Paul de Kock | novels | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Richard Hengist Horne, 13 June 1844:
'The poem [of Caroline Norton's] which I called [italics]... | Elizabeth Barrett | Caroline Elizabeth Sarah Norton | The Dream, and Other Poems | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 22 July 1844:
'I have been reading for the second time, that interesting... | Elizabeth Barrett | Henry Fothergill Chorley | Memorials of Mrs Hemans | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 22 July 1844:
'I have been reading for the second time, that interesting... | Elizabeth Barrett | Samuel Laman Blanchard | Life and Literary Remains of L.E.L. | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to James Russell Lowell, 31 July 1844, thanking him for copy of his Poems
(1844):
'Your "Legend... | Elizabeth Barrett | James Russell Lowell | Poems | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 9-10 August 1844:
'Do you remember, by the glance you had, my lovely lit... | Lizzie Barrett | Mary Russell Mitford | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 1 September 1844:
'I have sent you Miss Pyer's volume of poems today .. ... | Elizabeth Barrett | Catherine Smith Pyer | Wild Flowers; or Poetic Gleanings from Natural Objects | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 3 September 1844:
'I read the preface to "Le Lis" & was delighted by it ... | Elizabeth Barrett | Honore de Balzac | Le Lys dans la Vallee (including Preface) | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 16 September 1844:
'The first book of Balzac's I ever read, disgusted me... | Elizabeth Barrett | Honore de Balzac | La Vieille Fille | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 20 September 1844:
'I have just read Coningsby. It is very able, & yet s... | Elizabeth Barrett | Benjamin Disraeli | Coningsby: or, The New Generation | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 24 October 1844:
'I thought I had read only the [italics]third[end itali... | Elizabeth Barrett | Eugene Sue | Le Juif Errant | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to John Kenyon, 29 October 1844:
'There is an excellent refutation of Puseyism in the Edinburgh R... | Elizabeth Barrett | Henry Rogers | 'Recent Developments of Puseyism' | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to John Kenyon, 29 October 1844:
'There is an excellent refutation of Puseyism in the Edinburgh R... | Elizabeth Barrett | Thomas Babington Macaulay | 'Early Administrations of George the Third: The Earl of Chatham' | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 20 November 1844:
'Have you any recollection of Adam Blair? I believe th... | Elizabeth Barrett | John Gibson Lockhart | Some Passages in the Life of Mr. Adam Blair Minister of the Gospel at Cross-Meikle | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 20 November 1844:
'I read "La Torpille" -- but I cannot give you any inf... | Elizabeth Barrett | Honore de Balzac | La Torpille | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 20 November 1844:
'I read "La Torpille" -- but I cannot give you any inf... | Elizabeth Barrett | Jean Francois Casimir Delavigne | poetry | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 20 November 1844:
'Madame Bodin is a mere Madame. Poor & weak. I read tw... | Elizabeth Barrett | Camille Bodin | Pascaline et Savinie | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 20 November 1844:
'Madame Bodin is a mere Madame. Poor & weak. I read tw... | Elizabeth Barrett | Camille Bodin | Stenia et l'abbe Maurice | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Edward Moxon, 25 November 1844:
'I am grateful to you for the gift you have sent me [...] I ha... | Elizabeth Barrett | Edward Moxon | Sonnets | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 30 November 1844:
'I have read some of the romances of Madme d'Abrantes ... | Elizabeth Barrett | Madame d'Abrantes | romances | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 30 November 1844:
'Madme Bodin nee Jenny Bastide is neither very pure no... | Elizabeth Barrett | Jenny Bodin (nee Bastide) | Stenia et l'abbe Maurice | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 30 November 1844:
'Of [italics]Sandeau[end italics] I have read very lit... | Elizabeth Barrett | Leonard Sylvain Jules Sandeau | Marianna | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 30 November 1844:
'I read Don Juan d'Autriche -- & looked into a good de... | Elizabeth Barrett | Casimir Delavigne | Don Juan d'Autriche, ou la Vocation | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 30 November 1844:
'I read Don Juan d'Autriche -- & looked into a good de... | Elizabeth Barrett | Casimir Delavigne | plays | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 30 November 1844:
'"Les Maitres Mosaistes" I [italics]will[end italics] ... | Elizabeth Barrett | George Sand | Les Maitres Mosaistes | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 30 November 1844:
'"Les Maitres Mosaistes" I [italics]will[end italics] ... | Elizabeth Barrett | George Sand | Les sept cordes de la lyre | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Richard Hengist Horne, 3 December 1844:
'I am grateful enough to [Leigh Hunt] [...] having, ..... | Elizabeth Barrett | Leigh Hunt | Imagination and Fancy | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to James Martin, 10 December 1844:
'I am glad I have so much interesting matter to look forward t... | Elizabeth Barrett | Horace Twiss | The Public and Private Life of Lord Chancellor Eldon, with Selections from His Correspondence (vol. 1) | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799
1800-1849 | '[underlined] My [end underlining] favorite passage in [underlined] Il Paradiso Perduto [end underlining] is this - Wh... | Elizabeth Wilbraham | John Milton | Paradise Lost | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799
1800-1849 | '[underlined] My [end underlining] favorite passage in [underlined] Il Paradiso Perduto [end underlining] is this - Wh... | Elizabeth Wilbraham | John Milton | Paradise Regained | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 16 December 1844:
'I saw the sonnet [of Wordsworth] [...] which gave me ... | Elizabeth Barrett | William Wordsworth | 'Sonnet on the Projected Kendal and Winandermere Railway' | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 16 December 1844:
'I saw the sonnet [of Wordsworth] [...] which gave me ... | Elizabeth Barrett | Richard Monckton Milnes | 'Projected Railways in Westmoreland. An Answer to Mr Wordsworth's Late Sonnet' | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 24 December 1844:
'I used to read Mary Wolstonecraft [sic], (the "Rights... | Elizabeth Barrett | Mary Wollstonecraft | A Vindication of the Rights of Woman | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 24 December 1844:
'I observe an advertisement of [Charles Cowden Clarke'... | Elizabeth Barrett | | advertisement for Mary Victoria Cowden Clarke, The Complete Concordance to Shakespeare | Print: Advertisement, Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 24 December 1844:
'[Frederic Soulie] was one of the first of the new Fre... | Elizabeth Barrett | Frederic Soulie | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 24 December 1844:
'If you do not remember the memoires of "La Grande Mad... | Elizabeth Barrett | Anne Marie Louise Henriette d'Orleans Duchesse de Montpensier | Memoires | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 28 December 1844:
'I have just finished the "Chouans." Of a certain powe... | Elizabeth Barrett | Honore de Balzac | Le dernier Chouan | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 28 December 1844:
'I have just finished the "Chouans". Of a certain powe... | Elizabeth Barrett | Honore de Balzac | David Sechard, volume 1 | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 30 December 1844:
'The "Chimes" touched me very much! I thought it & sti... | Elizabeth Barrett | Charles Dickens | The Chimes | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 30 December 1844:
'With regard to "La Confession Generale," I am in just... | Elizabeth Barrett | Frederic Soulie | Confession generale | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 30 December 1844:
'With regard to "La Confession Generale," I am in just... | Elizabeth Barrett | Alexandre Dumas | Fernande | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett Browning to Arabella and Henrietta Moulton-Barrett (sisters), 2 October
1846, on receiving her fat... | Elizabeth Barrett Browning | George Moulton-Barrett | letter to Elizabeth Barrett Browning | Manuscript: Letter |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett Browning to Arabella and Henrietta Moulton-Barrett (sisters), 2 October
1846, on receiving her fat... | Elizabeth Barrett Browning | Arabella and Henrietta Moulton-Barrett | letter to Elizabeth Barrett Browning | Manuscript: Letter |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett Browning to Mary Russell Mitford, 8 February 1847:
'I see by the "Siecle" that Balzac's works are... | Elizabeth Barrett Browning | | Advertisement for edition of Honore de Balzac, Comedie Humaine | Print: Advertisement, Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett Browning to Mary Russell Mitford, 8 February 1847:
'The "Siecle" has for a feuilleton a new roman... | Elizabeth Barrett Browning | Frederic Soulie | Les Aventures de Saturnin Fichet ou la Conspiration de la Rouarie | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett Browning to Henrietta Moulton-Barrett, 16-21 May 1847:
'I went a week ago into Wilson's room & st... | Elizabeth Barrett Browning | | Italian grammar | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett Browning to Henrietta Moulton-Barrett, 16-21 May 1847:
'I went a week ago into Wilson's room & st... | Elizabeth Wilson | | Italian grammar | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett Browning to Mary Russell Mitford, c.20 September 1847:
'French books I get at [in Florence], but ... | Elizabeth Barrett | Eugene Sue | Martin (vol I) | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Her reading as a child was voracious, although her late start in learning to read for herself left her with a cosy ta... | Elizabeth Bowen | George Macdonald | [probably] Princess and Curdie, The | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Her reading as a child was voracious, although her late start in learning to read for herself left her with a cosy ta... | Elizabeth Bowen | Emmuska, Baroness Orczy | Scarlet Pimpernel, The | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Her reading as a child was voracious, although her late start in learning to read for herself left her with a cosy ta... | Elizabeth Bowen | Edith Nesbit | [probably] Five Children and It | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Her reading as a child was voracious, although her late start in learning to read for herself left her with a cosy ta... | Elizabeth Bowen | Charles Dickens | [Works] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'In a BBC talk of 1947 about the book that had most influenced her early years, she chose to talk about Rider Haggard'... | Elizabeth Bowen | Henry Rider Haggard | She | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The only above-board children's stories for grown-ups, she thought, were detective stories, and those she read for pu... | Elizabeth Bowen | [unknown] | [detective stories] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Elizabeth worked hard for the lessons she liked, and instead of preparation for the ones she didn't like she read poe... | Elizabeth Bowen | [n/a] | Encyclopaedia | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Elizabeth worked hard for the lessons she liked, and instead of preparation for the ones she didn't like she read poe... | Elizabeth Bowen | [n/a] | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'In the early thirties she had read a lot of French, starting with Stendhal: and a chunk of his "De l'amour", in the F... | Elizabeth Bowen | Stendhal [pseud.] | De l'amour | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'In the early thirties she had read a lot of French, starting with Stendhal: and a chunk of his "De l'amour", in the F... | Elizabeth Bowen | Gustave Flaubert | L'Education Sentimentale | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'In 1937 she was having "a heavenly time" reading Montherlant, and writing a piece on him for the "New Statesman".' | Elizabeth Bowen | Henry Millon de Montherlant | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Maupassant never meant as much to her as Flaubert, or as Proust. She was reading collections of Maupassant's stories ... | Elizabeth Bowen | Guy de Maupassant | 'Yvette' [and other short stories] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Maupassant never meant as much to her as Flaubert, or as Proust. She was reading collections of Maupassant's stories ... | Elizabeth Bowen | Marcel Proust | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'the short stories she did know, from Downe days, were Richard Middleton's colection "The Ghost Ship" and E.M. Forster... | Elizabeth Bowen | E.M. Forster | Celestial Omnibus, The | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'the short stories she did know, from Downe days, were Richard Middleton's colection "The Ghost Ship" and E.M. Forster... | Elizabeth Bowen | Richard Middleton | Ghost Ship, The | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have brought Coleridge with me, & am [italics] doing [end italics] him & Wordsworth [-] [italics] fit place for the... | Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | | Print: 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 Wordsworth | | Print: 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 Byron | | Print: 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 Crabbe | | Print: 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 Pope | | Print: 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 Dryden | | Print: 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 Howitt | | Print: 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 Southey | Doctor, The | Print: 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 Martineau | Hour and the Man, The | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have just finished Miss Martineau's new romance. Toussaint the hero is a magnificent character, - and all connected... | Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell | Harriet Martineau | Deerbrook | Print: Book |
| 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 Bronte | Jane Eyre | Print: 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 Crowe | Susan Hopley | Print: 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, The | Print: 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 Scott | Kenilworth | Print: 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 Gaskell | Mary Barton | Print: 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 Forster | Life and Times of Oliver Goldsmith, The | Print: 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 Forster | Lives 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 |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to John Kenyon, 3 January 1845: 'I send back your "Vestiges of Creation" [...] it appears to me that... | Elizabeth Barrett | Robert Chalmers | Vestiges of the Natural HIstory of Creation | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 6-[8] January 1845: 'As to Napoleon, if he had walked less in blood, I coul... | Elizabeth Barrett | Las Cases | Memorial de Saint Helene | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Julia Martin, 6 January 1845: 'Have you read Mr Serjeant Talfourd's "Rambles & thoughts"? With so... | Elizabeth Barrett | Thomas Noon Talfourd | Vacation Rambles and Thoughts | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 14 January 1845:
'Did I say anything to you of "Fernande" -- Dumases --... | Elizabeth Barrett | Alexandre Dumas | Fernande | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 18 January 1845:
'Paul [de Kock] is the writer of farce, .. broad farce... | Elizabeth Barrett | Paul de Kock | Mon Ami Piffard; et Chipolata | Print: 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 Clough | Ambarvalia | Print: 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 Judd | Margaret, a Tale of the Real and the Ideal | Print: 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 Dickens | David Copperfield | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'If you want an agreeable book, read 'Lives of the Lindsays'. | Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell | Alexander Crawford, Lord Lindsay | Lives of the Lindsays; Or, A memoir of the houses of Crawford and Balcarres | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Suffice it to say that its who can revere Mr Newman most with Mr Darbishire, the Winkworths and myself, the book is a... | Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell | John Henry Newman | [possibly] Discourses to Mixed Congregations | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | '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 Bronte | Shirley | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I mean to copy you out some lines of my [italics] hero [end italics], Mr Kingsley' | Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell | Charles Kingsley | | Print: 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 Bronte | Shirley | Print: 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 Stephen | Passages in the life of a Daughter at Home | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'But I think you are probably seeing more of what has never fallen in my way exactly, but of what I read of in that st... | Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell | Frederick Denison Maurice | [Sermon on 'Religion versus God'] | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | '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 Carlyle | Sartor Resartus | Print: 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 Ruskin | Modern Painters | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I am very happy nevertheless making flannel petticoats; and reading Modern painters' | Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell | John Ruskin | Modern Painters | Print: 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, The | 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 | | 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 Whewell | Fraser'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... | Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell | John Ruskin | Seven Lamps of Architecture, The | Print: 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 Cuthbertson | Santo Sebastiano: or, The Young Protector | Print: 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. Morley | Palissy the Potter | Print: 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 Bronte | Villette | Print: 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 Kay | Condition 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 Perthes | Memoirs of Frederick Perthes or Literary, Religious and Political Life in Germany from 1789 to 1848 | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | In 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 Tupling | Folious 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 a friend who was educated at Nieuwied, - & who is just crazy about 'Brother Mieth'. First she made me write to... | Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell | Henry Morley | 'Brother Mieth and his Brothers' | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'Here is the beautiful Commonplace book awaiting me on my return home! And I give it a great welcome you may be sure; ... | Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell | Anna Jameson | Commonplace Book of Thoughts, A | Print: Book |
| 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 Bronte | Shirley | Print: 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 Dickens | Little Dorrit | Print: 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 Bronte | Professor, The | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Allan Park Paton, 18 January 1845:
'I take shame to myself in the confession, that the first ... | Elizabeth Barrett | Allan Park Paton | poem | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 20-21 January 1845:
'I put down "Modeste Mignon" to take up your letter... | Elizabeth Barrett | Honore de Balzac | Modeste Mignon | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 28 January 1845: 'I have seen a page of the Lancet (which Nelly Bordman sen... | Elizabeth Barrett | unknown | article on reported cure by mesmerism of Harriet Martineau | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 4 February 1845:
'Do you think you cd. take courage & attempt the eight... | Elizabeth Barrett | Frederic Soulie | Les Memoires du diable | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 15 February 1845:
'I am not sorry you fell over "La veille Fille" [sic] ... | Elizabeth Barrett | Honore de Balzac | Le Pere Goriot | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 15 February 1845:
'I am not sorry you fell over "La veille Fille" [sic] ... | Elizabeth Barrett | Honore de Balzac | La vieille fille | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 26 February 1845:
'Tell me, was Soulie's "Confession Generale" never fi... | Elizabeth Barrett | Frederic Soulie | Confession generale, vols 1 and 2 | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 26 February 1845:
'Do you know the "Napoleon et Marie Louise" of M. de ... | Elizabeth Barrett | Claude Francois de Meneval | Napoleon et Marie Louise: souvenirs historiques | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 26 February 1845:
'I do not know Charlotte Smith's books for children. ... | Elizabeth Barrett | Anna Laetitia Barbauld | Lessons for Children, From Two to Three Years Old | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 26 February 1845:
'I do not know Charlotte Smith's books for children. ... | Elizabeth Barrett | Maria Edgeworth | Early Lessons | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 5 March 1845:
'I am in the midst of "La Femme superieure." [sic] The tr... | Elizabeth Barrett | Honore de Balzac | La Femme superieur | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Thomas Westwood, c.13 March 1845: 'Do you read Blackwood? & in that case, have you had deep delig... | Elizabeth Barrett | Thomas De Quincey | 'Suspiria De Profundis: Being a Sequel to the Confessions of an English Opium-Eater' | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 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 Bronte | Professor, The | Manuscript: 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, The | Print: 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 Bronte | Professor, 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 Review | Print: 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 Bell | Print: 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, The | Print: 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, The | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'we, as a family, are going through a whole course of Indian literature - Kaye and Malcolm to wit; but I am afraid I r... | Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell | John Malcolm | [possibly] Government of India, The | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | '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, The | Print: 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 Child | Ballads | Print: 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 Monthly | Print: 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 Life | Print: 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 Monthly | Print: 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 Elder | Biography of Elisha Kent Kane | Print: 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 and Times of Aaron Burr, The | Print: 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 Egerton | Apercu Historique et genealogique | Print: 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 | Hendschel | Telegraph | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | [having been given a rum and peppermint liqueur for a migraine] 'We went to the Railway waiting-room, which was all qu... | Florence Elizabeth Gaskell | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | '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 Bunsen | Lyra Germanica | Print: 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 Nightingale | Notes on Matters affecting the Health, Efficiency, and Hosptal Administration of the British Army | Print: 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 Aide | Rita | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I am going to make a request to you, Sir, which is of a slightly impudent nature. It is, that you will be so good as ... | Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell | George Eliot [pseud.] | Amos Barton | Print: 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 Bede | Print: 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 Magazine | Print: 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 Bede | Print: 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 | 'Read Arthur Stanley's Three Introductory Lectures on the Study of Ecclesiastical History Parker Oxford - price [itali... | Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell | Arthur Penrhyn Stanley | Three Introductory Lectures on the study of Ecclesiastical History | Print: 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. Dasent | Popular Tales from the Norse | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Our Times of today - well of yesterday - well, tomorrow it will be of some day in dream land, for I am past power of ... | Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell | [n/a] | Times, The | Print: 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 Grey | Three Paths, The | Unknown |
| 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 Helps | Friends in Council | Print: 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 | 'Reading your Domestic Annals of Scotland, warms up all my old Scottish blood, - and makes me wish heartily that our f... | Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell | Robert Chambers | Domestic Annals of Scotland: from the reformation to the revolution | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | '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, The | Print: 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 Jenkin | Cousin Stella | Print: 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 Brooke | Fool of Quality, The | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'after reading the dedication of your Essay on Liberty I can understand how any word expressing a meaning only conject... | Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell | John Stuart Mill | On Liberty | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | '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 Bede | Print: 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 Wordsworth | Excursion, The | Print: 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 Quincey | Miscellanies | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'To go back to books. H. Martineau's is, I think, the best guide book [to the Lakes].' | Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell | Harriet Martineau | Complete Guide to the English Lakes | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | '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 White | Travel in Northumberland and the Border | Print: 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 Hawthorne | Marble Faun, The | Print: 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 Stanley | Historical Memorials of Canterbury | Print: 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 Repentance | Print: 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 Raynard | Missing Link, The; or Bible Women In The Homes Of The London Poor | Print: 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 Life | Print: 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 Bede | Print: 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 Trollope | Framley Parsonage | 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 | William Makepeace Thackeray | Lovel the Widower | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'I extremely like & admire Framley Parsonage, - & the Idle Boy; and the Inaugural address. I like Lovel the Widower, o... | Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell | [n/a] | Cornhill Magazine | Print: 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 Dickens | All 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 Jenkin | Cousin Stella | Print: 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 Trollope | Framley Parsonage | Print: 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 Register | Print: 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 Mori | Print: 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 Norton | New Life of Dante, An Essay with Translations | Manuscript: 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, The | Print: 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 Guardian | Print: 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 ... | Florence Elizabeth Gaskell | Wilhelm Meinhold | Amber Witch, The | Print: 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 Norton | Notes of Travel and Study in Italy | Print: 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 Magazine | Print: 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 Vaughan | Silex Scintillans | Print: 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 Vaughan | They are all gone into the world of light | Print: 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 Hawthorne | Marble Faun, The | Print: 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 Aide | Carr of Carrlyon | Print: 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 Story | Cleopatra | Manuscript: 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. Akers | Two Summers | Print: 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 Monthly | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'I was so sorry to see that Dr Wendell Holmes called England "The Lost Leader". - I went & read the poem to Meta, who ... | Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell | Oliver Wendell Holmes | [poem] | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | '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 Symonds | Thoughts on Xmas. In Florence, 1863 | Manuscript: 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 Lowell | Fireside Travels | Print: 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 Lever | Tony Butler | Print: 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 Gaskell | Cranford | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'on Wednesday last (day before yesterday) we came home from paying calls; & found to our surprize that the Daily News ... | Florence Elizabeth Crompton | [n/a] | Daily News | Print: Newspaper |
| 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. Lowell | Fireside Travels | 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. 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. Lowell | Biglow Papers, The | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'the P.M.Gs came all safe, & right, and are such a pleasure! they come [italics] through [end italics] Paris, and [ita... | Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell | [n/a] | Pall Mall Gazette | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849
1850-1899 | '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 Bennett | Baby May and Other Poems on Infants | Unknown |
| 1800-1849
1850-1899 | '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 Bennett | Triumph for Salamis, the: a lyrical ballad | |
| 1850-1899 | 'I have got the "Guesses at Truth", & thank you for them darling'. | Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell | Julius Hare | Guesses at Truth | Print: 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, The | Print: 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, The | Print: 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 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 Letters | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to John Kenyon, 3 January 1845:
'I send back your "Vestiges of Creation". The writer has a certai... | Elizabeth Barrett Barrett | Robert Chambers | Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 18 March 1845:
'I have been so low, and weary, & tired of life [...] Yes... | Elizabeth Barrett Barrett | Eugene Sue | Le Juif errant | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 18 March 1845:
'Do you know "Le macon" by Michel Raymond --? It is not a... | Elizabeth Barrett Barrett | Raymond Brucker and Michel Masson | Le macon | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 19 March 1845:
'Mind you read Andersen's "Improvisatore." I have just f... | Elizabeth Barrett | Hans Christian Andersen | The Improvisatore: or, Life in Italy | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 25 March 1845:
'Read George Sand's "Jeanne". It is full of beauty, of p... | Elizabeth Barrett | George Sand | Jeanne | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 5 April 1845:
'A most singular book of Eugene Sue's [sic] I have read l... | Elizabeth Barrett | Frederic Soulie | Le Bananier | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 5 April 1845:
'For Mr Horne's storybook, I like some of the stories & t... | Elizabeth Barrett | Richard Hengist Horne and Mary Gillies | A Story Book of Country Scenes | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 14 April 1845:
'[Charles Bernard] is a very worldly writer, to my mind; ... | Elizabeth Barrett | Charles Bernard | Un homme serieux | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 14 April 1845:
'[Charles Bernard] is a very worldly writer, to my mind; ... | Elizabeth Barrett | Charles Bernard | Le Paravent | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 14 April 1845:
'[Charles Bernard] is a very worldly writer, to my mind; ... | Elizabeth Barrett | Charles Bernard | Une Aventure de magistrat | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 14 April 1845:
'[Charles Bernard] is a very worldly writer, to my mind; ... | Elizabeth Barrett | George Sand | Rose et Blanche | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 14 April 1845:
'I must beg you to order & read "Le rouge et le noir" by ... | Elizabeth Barrett | Stendhal | Le rouge et le noir | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 14 April 1845:
'We shall find no where on the earth, I believe, the clim... | Elizabeth Barrett | Henriette Etiennette Fanny Reybaud | Deux a deux | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Cornelius Mathews, 30 April 1845:
'You will see the announcement of Mrs. Norton's new poem on ... | Elizabeth Barrett | Caroline Norton | 'The Child of the Islands' (extracts) | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Robert Browning, 1 May 1845:
'Once I sate up all night to read Vivian Grey'. | Elizabeth Barrett | Benjamin Disraeli | Vivian Grey | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 2 May 1845:
'I have found [...] the continuation of David Sichard [novel... | Elizabeth Barrett | Honore de Balzac | Esther, ou les Amours d'un vieux banquier | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 26 May 1845:
'Thank you, thank you, for letting me see the pencilled lin... | Elizabeth Barrett Barrett | John Clare | unknown | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 26 May 1845:
'I know Bamford's "Life of a Radical," which contains some ... | Elizabeth Barrett | Samuel Bamford | Passages in the Life of a Radical | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Allan Park Paton, 28 May 1845:
'For the newspapers, or rather for your verses in them, I thank... | Elizabeth Barrett | Allan Park Paton | 'The Road Round by Kennedy's Mill' | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 14 June 1845:
'I have seen Elliott's poems but not in the form you menti... | Elizabeth Barrett | Ebenezer Elliott | poems | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 11 July 1845:
'Have you seen the "Compagnon du tour de France" by George... | Elizabeth Barrett | George Sand | Le Compagnon du Tour de France | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Robert Browning, 15-17 July 1845:
'Yesterday you must have wondered at me for being in such a ... | Elizabeth Barrett | Robert Browning | 'Claret and Tokay' | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | Richard Hengist Horne to Edgar Allan Poe, 17 May 1845:
'Miss Barrett has read the "Raven" and says she thinks there... | Elizabeth Barrett | Edgar Allan Poe | 'The Raven' | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Robert Browning, letter postmarked 21 July 1845, following remarks on Browning's reading of her p... | Elizabeth Barrett Barrett | Robert Browning | 'Garden Fancies: I, The Flower's Name; II, Sibrandus Schafnaburgensis' | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Robert Browning, letter postmarked 21 July 1845, following remarks on Browning's reading of her p... | Elizabeth Barrett Barrett | Robert Browning | 'The Tomb at St. Praxed's (Rome, 15----.)' | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Robert Browning, letter postmarked 21 July 1845, following remarks on Browning's reading of her p... | Elizabeth Barrett | Robert Browning | 'The Boy and the Angel' | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Robert Browning, letter postmarked 21 July 1845, following remarks on Browning's reading of her p... | Elizabeth Barrett Barrett | Robert Browning | 'The Laboratory (Ancien Regime)' | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Thomas Westwood, 6 September 1845:
'I shd. have written long since to you, if but to thank you... | Elizabeth Barrett Barrett | Edgar Allan Poe | 'The Raven' | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Robert Browning, letter postmarked 19 September 1845:
'I began to write last saturday to thank... | Elizabeth Barrett Barrett | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Posthumous Poems | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Robert Browning, letter postmarked 19 September 1845:
'I began to write last saturday to thank... | Elizabeth Barrett Barrett | Percy Bysshe Shelley | 'Marianne's Dream' | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Robert Browning, letter postmarked 1 October 1845:
'I have read to the last line of your Rosic... | Elizabeth Barrett Barrett | Percy Bysshe Shelley | St. Irvyne; or, The Rosicrucian: A Romance. By a Gentleman of the University of Oxford | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Robert Browning, 4 October 1845:
'Your spring-song is full of beauty as you know very well [..... | Elizabeth Barrett Barrett | Robert Browning | 'Oh to be in England' | Manuscript: Sheet |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 27 October 1845:
'Balzac's "Paysans" in its one volume, (for [italics]I[... | Elizabeth Barrett Barrett | Honore de Balzac | Les Paysans | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 27 October 1845:
'Balzac's "Paysans" in its one volume, (for [italics]I[... | Elizabeth Barrett Barrett | Eugene Sue | Le Juif errant | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Robert Browning, 12 November 1845:
'I read Luria's first act twice through before I slept last... | Elizabeth Barrett Barrett | Robert Browning | Luria (Act I) | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Henry Fothergill Chorley, ?14 November 1845:
'I have read your three volumes of "Pomfret" with... | Elizabeth Barrett Barrett | Henry Fothergill Chorley | Pomfret | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 1 December 1845:
'I have been loitering over "Le monde comme il est" & t... | Elizabeth Barrett Barrett | Astolphe Louis Leonard Marquis de Custine | Le Monde comme il est | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Robert Browning, letter postmarked 20 December 1845:
'Mrs. Sigourney has just sent me, .. just... | Elizabeth Barrett Barrett | Lydia Sigourney | Scenes in my Native Land | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Roberrt Browning, 4 January 1846:
'When you get Mr. Horne's book you will understand how, afte... | Elizabeth Barrett Barrett | Richard Hengist Horne | 'The Monk of Swineshead Abbey' | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Roberrt Browning, 4 January 1846:
'When you get Mr. Horne's book you will understand how, afte... | Elizabeth Barrett Barrett | Richard Hengist Horne | 'The Three Knights of Camelott: a Fairy Tale' | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Roberrt Browning, 4 January 1846:
'When you get Mr. Horne's book you will understand how, afte... | Elizabeth Barrett Barrett | Richard Hengist Horne | 'Bedd Gelert' | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 6 January 1846:
'Any more news of Balzac? "Les petits maneges" I have re... | Elizabeth Barrett Barrett | Honore de Balzac | Les Petits Menages d'une Femme verteuse | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 6 January 1846:
'I forgot quite to quarrel with you a little about Sir E... | Elizabeth Barrett Barrett | Edward Bulwer Lytton | 'Confessions and Observations of a Water-Patient' | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, ?7 January 1846:
'Zoe [...] I have been reading at last. An extraordinar... | Elizabeth Barrett Barrett | Geraldine Endsor Jewsbury | Zoe: The History of Two Lives | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Robert Browning, 15 January 1846:
'Papa used to say .. "Dont read Gibbon's history -- it's not... | Elizabeth Barrett Barrett | Thomas Paine | The Age of Reason | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Robert Browning, 15 January 1846:
'Papa used to say .. "Dont read Gibbon's history -- it's not... | Elizabeth Barrett Barrett | Voltaire | Philosophical Dictionary | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Robert Browning, 15 January 1846:
'Papa used to say .. "Dont read Gibbon's history -- it's not... | Elizabeth Barrett Barrett | David Hume | Essays | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Robert Browning, 15 January 1846:
'Papa used to say .. "Dont read Gibbon's history -- it's not... | Elizabeth Barrett Barrett | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe | The Sorrows of Young Werther | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Robert Browning, 15 January 1846:
'Papa used to say .. "Dont read Gibbon's history -- it's not... | Elizabeth Barrett Barrett | Jean-Jacques Rousseau | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Robert Browning, 15 January 1846:
'Papa used to say .. "Dont read Gibbon's history -- it's not... | Elizabeth Barrett Barrett | Mary Wollstonecraft | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Robert Browning, on childhood religious beliefs and practices, 15 January 1846:
'As to the [cl... | Elizabeth Barrett Barrett | William King | Political and Literary Anecdotes of His Own Times | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett Browning to Mary Russell Mitford, 2 October 1849:
'I saw the "Amba[r]valia" reviewed somewhere --... | Elizabeth Barrett Browning | Thomas Burbidge and Arthur Hugh Clough | Ambarvalia (extracts) | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett Browning to Mary Russell Mitford, 2 October 1849:
'I saw the "Amba[r]valia" reviewed somewhere --... | Elizabeth Barrett Barrett | John Kenyon | 'Sacred Gipsy Carol' | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett Browning to Mary Russell Mitford, 1 December 1849:
'We have had the sight of Clough & Burbidge, a... | Elizabeth Barrett Browning | Matthew Arnold | 'The Sick King in Bokhara' | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett Browning to Mary Russell Mitford, 1 December 1849:
'We have had the sight of Clough & Burbidge, a... | Elizabeth Barrett Browning | Matthew Arnold | 'The Forsaken Merman' | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Elizabeth Barrett Browning to Arabella Moulton-Barrett, 12 March 1850:
'Robert is reading "the Caxtons" & is much p... | Elizabeth Barrett Browning | Charlotte Bronte | Shirley | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Elizabeth Barrett Browning to Anna Brownell Jameson, 2 April 1850:
'I have read Shirley lately: it is not equal to ... | Elizabeth Barrett Browning | Charlotte Bronte | Shirley | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Elizabeth Barrett Browning to Isa Blagden, ?27 July 1850:
'I am finishing the "Memoires d'un medecin"'. | Elizabeth Barrett Browning | Alexandre Dumas (pere) | Memoires d'un medecin: Joseph Balsamo | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett Browning to Mary Russell Mitford, 7 November 1850:
'Miss Fanshawe is well worth your writing of [... | Elizabeth Barrett Browning | Catherine Maria Fanshawe | poems | Manuscript: Unknown, copied |
| 1850-1899 | Elizabeth Barrett Browning to Mary Russell Mitford, 7 November 1850:
'I have seen extracts in the Examiner from Ten... | Elizabeth Barrett Browning | Alfred Tennyson | In Memoriam (extracts) | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849
1850-1899 | Elizabeth Barrett Browning to Isa Blagden, ?10 November 1850:
'By the British Review, do you mean the [italics]Nort... | Elizabeth Barrett Browning | | 'German Socialism' | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | Elizabeth Barrett Browning to Thomas Westwood, 12-13 December 1850:
'If you had not sent me the Athenaeum article I... | Elizabeth Barrett Browning | John Westland Marston | Review of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Poems (1850) | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | Elizabeth Barrett Browning to Mary Russell Mitford, 13 December 1850:
'For Mary Barton, I am a little, little disap... | Elizabeth Barrett Browning | Elizabeth Gaskell | Mary Barton | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | Elizabeth Barrett Browning to Mary Russell Mitford, 13 December 1850:
'As to "In Memoriam," I have seen it, I have ... | Elizabeth Barrett Browning | Alfred Tennyson | In Memoriam | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Elizabeth Barrett Browning to Arabella Moulton-Barrett [sister], 16-19 December 1850, on 18 December:
'We have been... | Elizabeth Barrett Browning | Alfred Tennyson | In Memoriam | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett Browning to Mary Russell Mitford, 22 May 1845:
'The "Memoires de Fleure," was made into an agreea... | Elizabeth Barrett Barrett | | The French Stage and the French People, as illustrated in the Memoirs of M. Fleury | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'During my Stay in the Country, he wrote me a great many poetical Compliments, and subscrib'd himself, [italics] Amint... | Elizabeth van Lewen | Matthew Pilkington | [letters to her daughter] | Manuscript: Letter |
| 1700-1799 | '[editor's words] Previous to her arrival in Stirlingshire she had learnt to read with distinctness and propriety; and... | Elizabeth Hamilton | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | '[editor's words] Previous to her arrival in Stirlingshire she had learnt to read with distinctness and propriety; and... | Elizabeth Hamilton | William Hamilton | Blind Harry's Wallace | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | '[editor's words] Previous to her arrival in Stirlingshire she had learnt to read with distinctness and propriety; and... | Elizabeth Hamilton | William Shakespeare | [History Plays] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | '[editor's words] Previous to her arrival in Stirlingshire she had learnt to read with distinctness and propriety; and... | Elizabeth Hamilton | [unknown] | [A history of England] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | '[editor's words] Previous to her arrival in Stirlingshire she had learnt to read with distinctness and propriety; and... | Elizabeth Hamilton | Homer | Iliad | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | '[editor's words] In the evening Elizabeth had often to repeat a long elaborate task extracted from the now obsolete p... | Elizabeth Hamilton | [unknown] | [scholastic divinity essays] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | '[editor's words. A family friend having tried to shake EH's religious faith,] To terminate this state of doubt, which... | Elizabeth Hamilton | [n/a] | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | '[editor's words] without literary pretensions, Mrs Marshall had a genuine love of reading, and when no other engageme... | Elizabeth Hamilton | [unknown] | [books chosen by Mrs Marshall] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | '[editor's words] without literary pretensions, Mrs Marshall had a genuine love of reading, and when no other engageme... | Elizabeth Hamilton | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | '[editor's words] without literary pretensions, Mrs Marshall had a genuine love of reading, and when no other engageme... | Elizabeth Hamilton | Henry Home, Lord Kames | Elements of Criticism | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | '[editor's words] In reading the annals of her own country, she had been touched with the hard fate of Lady Arabella S... | Elizabeth Hamilton | [unknown] | [Scottish history] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | '[EH having been expecting her brother back from India] Think, then, what I felt on reading in the newspaper of that s... | Elizabeth Hamilton | [n/a] | [newspaper] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1700-1799 | 'Mrs Johnson, in whose judgement and taste he had great confidence, said to him, after a few numbers of "The Rambler" ... | Elizabeth Johnson | Samuel Johnson | Rambler, The | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1700-1799 | '[EDITOR's WORDS] His [her brother, Charles's ] conversation inspired her with a taste for oriental literature; and wi... | Elizabeth Hamilton | [unknown] | [oriental literature] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | '[EDITOR'S WORDS] In composing this work [her "Letters on Education"], she accustomed herself to read a few letters to... | Elizabeth Hamilton | Elizabeth Hamilton | Letters on Education | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'When the first proof came home, I did not like its look in print; so stopped the press, and wrote another first chapt... | Elizabeth Hamilton | Elizabeth Hamilton | Letters on Education | Print: proof |
| 1800-1849 | '[EDITOR'S WORDS] The author, directed by her learned friends, was indefatigable in collecting documents and procuring... | Elizabeth Hamilton | [n/a] | [Classical latin works in translation] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | '[EDITOR'S WORDS] The author, directed by her learned friends, was indefatigable in collecting documents and procuring... | Elizabeth Hamilton | [n/a] | [modern works on Classical subjects] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | '[EDITOR'S WORDS] 'On reading the first sheets [of her "Cottagers of Glenburnie"] at her own fire-side, she was encour... | Elizabeth Hamilton | Elizabeth Hamilton | Cottagers of Glenburnie, The | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | '[EDITOR'S WORDS] 'If no engagement intervened, the interval from seven till ten was occupied with some interesting bo... | Elizabeth Hamilton | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | '[EDITOR'S WORDS] She had, however, dwelt long enough on the idea [of aging] to make it the subject of a sportive poem... | Elizabeth Hamilton | Elizabeth Hamilton | [poem - 'Is that Auld Age'] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | '[EDITOR'S WORDS] Although Mrs Hamilton never lost her relish for works of humour and imagination, she had, during the... | Elizabeth Hamilton | Dugald Stewart | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | '[EDITOR'S WORDS] Although Mrs Hamilton never lost her relish for works of humour and imagination, she had, during the... | Elizabeth Hamilton | Archibald Allison | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | '[EDITOR'S WORDS] Although Mrs Hamilton never lost her relish for works of humour and imagination, she had, during the... | Elizabeth Hamilton | William Paley | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'It now only remains for me to walk worthy of that vocation to which I am called. Let me do so in the very manner in w... | Elizabeth Hamilton | [n/a] | Bible [ Paul to the Ephesians, Ch 4] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'The superiority of the Scriptures to every composition of human genius, must appear incontestible to those who persev... | Elizabeth Hamilton | [n/a] | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'In studying the prophets, with a view of particularly examining the witness they bear to the Messiah, many things hav... | Elizabeth Hamilton | [n/a] | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'I told him, that I had been present the day before when Mrs. Montagu, the literary lady, sat to Miss Reynolds for her... | Elizabeth Montagu | Edward Gibbon | Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'I read Wm S- letter and thought upon it and religion before I got up, I think of and feel religion at times but I do ... | Elizabeth Gurney | William Savery | [letter] | Manuscript: Letter |
| 1700-1799 | 'I often go to see poor Bob who seems to me dying and it is a good thing to attend a person in that situation. I think... | Elizabeth Gurney | [n/a] | [New] Testament | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'After reading to poor Bob which was a cross to me because some one was present I wrote this.' | Elizabeth Gurney | [n/a] | [New] Testament | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'I slept late. Too unwell to go to meeting but have been writing and working which I disapprove of doing in general on... | Elizabeth Gurney | [n/a] | [New] Testament [probably] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Altogether I think I have had a satisfactory day. I had a good lesson of French this morning and read much in Epectitus' | Elizabeth Gurney | Epictetus | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'in the afternoon I laid down had a very sweet nap which I did enjoy - read in the Testament ... I then went and read ... | Elizabeth Gurney | [n/a] | [New] Testament | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'in the afternoon I laid down had a very sweet nap which I did enjoy - read in the Testament ... I then went and read ... | Elizabeth Gurney | [n/a] | [New] Testament | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'in the afternoon I laid down had a very sweet nap which I did enjoy - read in the Testament ... I then went and read ... | Elizabeth Gurney | [n/a] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'I have been reading a letter from my father in which he offers me to come to London, [underline] what [end underline]... | Elizabeth Gurney | John Gurney | [letter] | Manuscript: Letter |
| 1700-1799 | 'I have been reading a letter from my father in which he offers me to come to London, [underline] what [end underline]... | Elizabeth Gurney | Robert Barclay | Apology for the True Christian Divinity | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'This evening I have been reading a good deal in the "Monk". I don't know whether it hurts the mind or not, it certain... | Elizabeth Gurney | Matthew Lewis | The Monk | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'In the afternoon ... I went to the Cathedral then I came home read to the Normans and little Castleton' | Elizabeth Gurney | [n/a] | Bible [most likely] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'I first wrote to my father then wrote a little journal, read two chapters in the Testament, had a good lesson of Fren... | Elizabeth Gurney | Robert Barclay | Apology for the True Christian Divinity | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'I first wrote to my father then wrote a little journal, read two chapters in the Testament, had a good lesson of Fren... | Elizabeth Gurney | [n/a] | [New] Testament | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'I have been great part of this morning with poor Bob who seems now dying. I read a long chapter in the Testament to h... | Elizabeth Gurney | [n/a] | [New] Testament | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'I went to see Mrs Norman and read in Barclay's Apology' | Elizabeth Gurney | Robert Barclay | Apology for the True Christian Divinity | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'read in Barclay's Apology in the evening' | Elizabeth Gurney | Robert Barclay | Apology for the True Christian Divinity | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'read a little in Barclay' | Elizabeth Gurney | Robert Barclay | Apology for the True Christian Divinity | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'This day I begin to read through the Bible. I have finished the Testament. I wish to read the Bible of a morning and ... | Elizabeth Gurney | [n/a] | Bible [Old Testament] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'I read to the old Normans' | Elizabeth Gurney | [n/a] | [New] Testament | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'read to Mrs Norman' | Elizabeth Gurney | [n/a] | [New] Testament | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'I have been reading a good deal in the Testament today' | Elizabeth Gurney | [n/a] | [New] Testament | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'This morning Kitty came in for us to read the Testament together, which I enjoyed, I read my favourite chapter the 15... | Elizabeth Gurney | [n/a] | [New] Testament | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'I had rather a comfortable drive here from Shrewsbury, read in the Testament and got by heart one or two verses' | Elizabeth Gurney | [n/a] | [New] Testament | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'After they all went I came and wrote my journal and sat with cousin Priscilla and we read till dinner' | Elizabeth Gurney | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Yesterday evening I had a little choice time by myself. I read and was still in my heart.' | Elizabeth Gurney | [unknown] | [unknown, possibly Bible] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'A most comfortable reading with my little boys and one with my family' | Elizabeth Gurney | [unknown] | [unknown, probably religious, Bible?] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'A most comfortable reading with my little boys and one with my family' | Elizabeth Gurney | [unknown] | [unknown, probably religious, Bible?] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'I devoted most of my morning writing to P. Hoare, writing French and reading' | Elizabeth Gurney | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'I have this day read Rasselas which is a book I like as it leads to deep affection' | Elizabeth Gurney | Samuel Johnson | The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'at night snug time reading after the rest of the family were in bed' | Elizabeth Gurney | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'went to Meeting - had a more comfortable reading with my boys than this day [last] week' | Elizabeth Gurney | [unknown] | [unknown, probably religious, Bible?] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Since dinner I have read much logic and enjoyed it, it is interesting to me, may, I think, with attention, do me good... | Elizabeth Gurney | Isaac Watts | Logic: or, The right use of reason, in the inquiry after truth | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'I have been reading Watts on judgement this afternoon; it has led me into thought and particularly upon the evidence ... | Elizabeth Gurney | Isaac Watts | Logic: or, The right use of reason, in the inquiry after truth | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'read Watts' Logic' | Elizabeth Gurney | Isaac Watts | Logic: or, The right use of reason, in the inquiry after truth | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'I had a satisfactory reading with my little boys more so than I almost remember' | Elizabeth Gurney | [unknown] | [unknown, probably religious, Bible?] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'I read much this morning in St Basil, which is to me excellent, interesting and beautiful. He advises a constant than... | Elizabeth Gurney | St Basil of Caesarea | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'At ten o'clock we all met in the study and my father read to us. - I fear my mind is not sufficiently obedient to its... | Elizabeth Gurney | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Rose in pretty good time, read before breakfast, had a lesson in French, read English, wrote logic before dinner' | Elizabeth Gurney | [unknown] | [unknown, probably Bible?] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Rose in pretty good time, read before breakfast, had a lesson in French, read English, wrote logic before dinner' | Elizabeth Gurney | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'wrote a little logic this afternoon and read Jones on the Figurative languages of the Scriptures' | Elizabeth Gurney | William Jones | A course of lectures on the figurative language of the Holy Scripture, and the interpretation of it from Scripture itself | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'I first wrote in my journal, read in the Testament after breakfast' | Elizabeth Gurney | [n/a] | [New] Testament | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'I wrote and read a little before breakfast' | Elizabeth Gurney | [unknown] | [unknown, probably Bible?] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'I am now reading Butler's Analogy' | Elizabeth Gurney | Joseph Butler | Analogy | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'I have read a good deal of Lavator's journal and have felt sympathy with him. I like the book as it reminds me of my ... | Elizabeth Gurney | Lavator | Journal | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'I have been reading Lavator on self knowledge, and like it much. I find it difficult to confine my attention to what ... | Elizabeth Gurney | Lavator | self knowledge | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'I then wrote a little journal, read a chapter away from the fire; rather as a cross to the body; but I had such a swe... | Elizabeth Gurney | [n/a] | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'I then read french and wrote it, had one or two little interruptions' | Elizabeth Gurney | [n/a] | [French] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'I then read Mason on self knowledge till dinner, not with so much attention as I could wish; I seldom attend sufficie... | Elizabeth Gurney | John Mason | Self-knowledge: A Treatise | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'After that Kitty made a proposition very pleasant to me, that we should sit together all the afternoon and read "Pilg... | Elizabeth Gurney | John Bunyan | Pilgrim's Progress | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'I went to see E. Golder, and friend Bullen came in ... we read a little in the Testament and the journal of Job Scott' | Elizabeth Gurney | [n/a] | [New] Testament | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'I went to see E. Golder, and friend Bullen came in ... we read a little in the Testament and the journal of Job Scott' | Elizabeth Gurney | Job Scott | Journal of the life, travels and Gospel labours of that faithful servant and minister of Christ, Job Scott | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'quite vexed to teach my children in so shabby a room as the laundry; [underline] Pride [end underline] I think it was... | Elizabeth Gurney | [unknown] | [unknown, probably religious, Bible?] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Read my Testament and felt not destitute of religion' | Elizabeth Gurney | [n/a] | [New] Testament | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'I had a comfortable time with my children only I felt too anxious for uncle Joseph to see them as he was here but he ... | Elizabeth Gurney | [unknown] | [unknown, probably religious, Bible?] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'I had a quiet afternoon on the sofa in my room reading Mason on self knowledge, French, and Job Scott's journal, whic... | Elizabeth Gurney | John Mason | Self-knowledge: A Treatise | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'I had a quiet afternoon on the sofa in my room reading Mason on self knowledge, French, and Job Scott's journal, whic... | Elizabeth Gurney | [unknown] | [French] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'I had a quiet afternoon on the sofa in my room reading Mason on self knowledge, French, and Job Scott's journal, whic... | Elizabeth Gurney | Job Scott | Journal of the life, travels and Gospel labours of that faithful servant and minister of Christ, Job Scott | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | '12 verse. 4th chap: Paul to Timothy; this does strike my mind deeply; Let no man despite thy youth but be thou an exa... | Elizabeth Gurney | [n/a] | New Testament | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'I read to dear little Mary' | Elizabeth Gurney | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Let me remember, that though I now see, in all the prophets, the most valuable testimony to the truth of the Christia... | Elizabeth Hamilton | | [books on the prophecies] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'The parable of the talents was one of the first passages in the New Testament that attracted my serious attention'. | Elizabeth Hamilton | | [New testament] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'The evidences of the infinite wisdom, power, and goodness of the great Creator, given by Paley in his Natural Theolog... | Elizabeth Hamilton | William Paley | Natural Theology | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | '[letter to Mrs --] 'books, for a certain length of time, are a charming substitute for common conversation. I do not ... | Elizabeth Hamilton | James Currie | Life of Robert Burns | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | '[letter to Mrs --] 'books, for a certain length of time, are a charming substitute for common conversation. I do not ... | Elizabeth Hamilton | Robert Burns | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | '[Letter to H.M. Esq.] I have purchased your friend "Currie's Life of Burns"; which, I confess, has operated like a ch... | Elizabeth Hamilton | Robert Burns | [poems] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | '[Letter to H.M. Esq.] I have purchased your friend "Currie's Life of Burns"; which, I confess, has operated like a ch... | Elizabeth Hamilton | James Currie | Life of Burns | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | '[letter to H.M. esq] my poor brains have been of late so completely fused in the furnace of metaphysic, that they hav... | Elizabeth Hamilton | | [books on metaphysics] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | '[letter to Hector MacNeil - H.M.] 'it appears to me, that even in your slighter pieces, this illusion [hiding judgmen... | Elizabeth Hamilton | Hector Macneil | [poems] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | '[letter to Hector MacNeil - H.M.] [EH says she has received a note from 'Miss H.] along with your volume, of which sh... | Elizabeth Hamilton | Hector Macneil | Harp, The | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | '[letter to Hector MacNeil - H.M.] Do I not well remember hiding "Kaims's Elements of Criticism", under the cover of a... | Elizabeth Hamilton | Henry Home, Lord Kames | Elements of Criticism | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | '[letter to Dr S.] It was the perusal of Tacitus, in Murphy's translation, which first excited the idea in my mind [of... | Elizabeth Hamilton | Tacitus | Annals | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | '[letter to Dr S.] My reading [on classical subjects relevant to a projected book] has not been, by any means, extensi... | Elizabeth Hamilton | | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | '[letter to Dr S.] If you have not yet seen the Edinburgh Quarterly Review, I beg leave to recommend it your perusal, ... | Elizabeth Hamilton | | [Edinburgh] Quarterly Review | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | '[letter to Dr S.] I have just finished the perusal of a publication which plainly shows what may be accomplished by t... | Elizabeth Hamilton | Thomas Clarkson | History of the Abolition of the African Slave Trade | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | '[letter to Miss J-B-] I have just been looking over the fifth volume of poor Burns. it contains much that he would ha... | Elizabeth Hamilton | R.H. Cromek | Reliques of Robert Burns | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I feel very unworthy this morning. Though the day appeared to begin well in a few words of solemn supplication after ... | Elizabeth Fry | [n/a] | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Enabled publicly after "Reading" to cast my care upon our Henry Helper' | Elizabeth Fry | [n/a] | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Yesterday I was enabled after reading to cast my care wholly and publicly upon the great helper of the helpless, in w... | Elizabeth Fry | [n/a] | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have been reading over an old journal book. Ah saith my soul, how has the loving kindness and tender mercy of the A... | Elizabeth Fry | Elizabeth Fry | [Journal] | Manuscript: Codex |
| 1800-1849 | 'A chapter we read this morning tendered my spirit and raised it in aspirations to the God of my help. Describing by w... | Elizabeth Fry | [n/a] | 2 Corinthians | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'The 40th and 42nd Psalms spoke comfort to me this morning, and I may say they greatly expressed the language of my sp... | Elizabeth Fry | [n/a] | Bible (Psalms) | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Having poured forth my soul in prayer, and having exhorted my household to live in the love and fear of the Lord, I h... | Elizabeth Fry | [n/a] | Bible (Esther) | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I told no one my state until about the time to get up. I then dressed. I felt bound to have my husband, children, my ... | Elizabeth Fry | [n/a] | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Upon reading the 2nd Chap. in Deuteronomy I felt this verse so much the acknowledgement of my heart, though all the w... | Elizabeth Fry | [n/a] | Bible (Deuteronomy) | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'These words in Eccles. struck me much. Ch. II v 21 & 22: "Marvel not at the works of sinners, but trust in the Lord a... | Elizabeth Fry | [n/a] | Bible (Ecclesiastes) | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I paid a very interesting visit to two female convict ships with my dear sister E. Fry and cousin Sarah last 6th day,... | Elizabeth Fry | [n/a] | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'The first day before leaving home I must also describe if I can. It was one of the most interesting nature. In the fi... | Elizabeth Fry | [n/a] | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'My sisters Catherine, Rachel, Chenda and myself had a very remarkable morning, I felt most easy to stay at home from ... | Elizabeth Fry | [n/a] | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'On the morning of the New Year we assembled almost all our large household, and many guests, principally young ones. ... | Elizabeth Fry | [n/a] | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I then went to town, and at Newgate, where I went under feelings of rather deep concern, found unexpectedly [underlin... | Elizabeth Fry | [n/a] | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have lately been reading some of my old journals in the year 1801. It has been very affecting to me; In what a low ... | Elizabeth Fry | Elizabeth Fry | Journals | Manuscript: Codex |
| 1800-1849 | 'We spent a cheerful, sober evening, until a general family Reading, when several joined our interesting party. We rea... | Elizabeth Fry | [n/a] | Bible (Colossians) | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Last sixth day a very interesting time at Newgate, numbers there, clergy, some nobility, a sheriff, [underline] many ... | Elizabeth Fry | [n/a] | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I felt low and naturally prone to be irritable, and from the deep feeling of the difficulties in doing my part toward... | Elizabeth Fry | C.H.V. Bogatsky | Golden Treasury for the Children of God | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Our wedding day twenty nine years since we married! My texts for the morning are applicable: "Our light affliction wh... | Elizabeth Fry | [n/a] | Bible (Corinthians) | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'In the evening our dear brother Buxton dined with us, and spent the evening; and after our Reading I had to return th... | Elizabeth Fry | [n/a] | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'The last time I parted with those in the Ship Mary such a scene all around me, when I parted from them, probably for ... | Elizabeth Fry | [n/a] | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'My spirit is however brought low before the Lord, on behalf of some most dear - ah, the unutterable conflict that giv... | Elizabeth Fry | [n/a] | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'We have been favoured the last two days to have all our fifteen children around us ... After dinner we walked a littl... | Elizabeth Fry | [n/a] | Bible (Psalms) | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'dined at Lord Bexley's, afterwards led to many fears - worry about showing off - But a few words in the Proverbs enco... | Elizabeth Fry | [n/a] | Bible (Proverbs) | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I returned from Brighton the day before yesterday having felt a drawing of love to visit the Friends; and to attend t... | Elizabeth Fry | [n/a] | Bible (Psalms) | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | '[came home to find one of her sons drinking ale with some men with fireworks] I slept only at short intervals, up and... | Elizabeth Fry | [n/a] | Bible (Psalms) | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'New Years Day - fourteen children to dine with us - had meant to read them my concentrated journal of the year; but c... | Elizabeth Fry | Elizabeth Fry | Journal | Manuscript: Codex |
| 1800-1849 | 'And in the evening strength was given me with a very large party to speak a little on the subject of slavery and then... | Elizabeth Fry | [n/a] | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Last evening we had more than fifty guests, some influential persons of this world, young and old, French and English... | Elizabeth Fry | [n/a] | Bible (Isaiah) | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'In the evening we had many young women but hardly any men. Our great object was to stimulate them in every good word ... | Elizabeth Fry | [n/a] | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'We had a large meeting at one of the pasteurs at Aix en Provance the few Protestants there and their Pastor requested... | Elizabeth Fry | [n/a] | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'At Nismes we found a large party at one of the Pasteurs, where we had some further conversation on District Societies... | Elizabeth Fry | [n/a] | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I also had a serious reading of the Holy Scriptures with many English, who came to see us at our hotel, and a time of... | Elizabeth Fry | [n/a] | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'We were sent for to visit Prince and Princess Charles and their children and paid them an agreeable and I hope not un... | Elizabeth Fry | [n/a] | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I had then to enter a drawing room full of company to receive numbers of foreigners, and our ambassador Lord William ... | Elizabeth Fry | [n/a] | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'In the evening we had a very large party to our reading and worship. I should think nearly a hundred persons ... we h... | Elizabeth Fry | [n/a] | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Cumberland had written two Odes, what says Mrs Montagu to me do you think of them? I think said I they are as like Gr... | Elizabeth Montagu | Richard Cumberland | [Odes] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Cumberland had written two Odes, what says Mrs Montagu to me do you think of them? I think said I they are as like Gr... | Elizabeth Montagu | Thomas Gray | [Odes] | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699
1700-1799 | Transcribed in Elizabeth Lyttelton's hand, "A Hymne to our Creator" by Dr Dillingham.
| Elizabeth Lyttelton | Dr Dillingham | A Hymne to our Creator | Unknown |
| 1600-1699
1700-1799 | Transcribed in Elizabeth Lyttelton's hand, verses by Lady Jane Grey beginning: 'be Constant be Constant Feare not for ... | Elizabeth Lyttelton | Lady Jane Grey | 'Be Constant' | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699
1700-1799 | Transcribed in Elizabeth Lyttelton's hand, (anon) 'An Hymne to our Redeemer'.
Copied in spaces between other entries ... | Elizabeth Lyttelton | anon | An Hymne to our Redeemer | Unknown |
| 1600-1699
1700-1799 | Transcribed in Elizabeth Lyttelton's hand, Sir Thomas Browne's translation of Lucan, Pharsalia, IV.519-20. | Elizabeth Lyttelton | Lucan | Pharsalia | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699
1700-1799 | Transcribed in Elizabeth Lyttelton's hand, 'upon the remoue of the body of Queen Elizabeth from Richmond where she dye... | Elizabeth Lyttelton | Thomas Heywood (attrib.) | Upon the remoue of the body of Queen Elizabeth from Richmond where she dyed the 24 of March, 1602 the 45 year of her Raign, & seventy of her age | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699
1700-1799 | Transcribed in Elizabeth Lyttelton's hand, 'Distich from a monument to Elizabeth I in Allhallows the Great, Thames Str... | Elizabeth Lyttelton | anon | Distich from a monument to Elizabeth I in Allhallows the Great, Thames Street, London. | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699
1700-1799 | Transcribed in Elizabeth Lyttelton's hand, Juvenal, 'Vnto the wiser Gods the care permit'.
| Elizabeth Lyttelton | Juvenal | Unto the wiser Gods the care permit, | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699
1700-1799 | Transcribed in Elizabeth Lyttelton's hand, Edmund Elys, 'Inconstancy'.
| Elizabeth Lyttelton | Edmund Elys | Inconstancy | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699
1700-1799 | Transcribed in Elizabeth Lyttelton's hand, John Norris, 'Beauty'. Lyttelton signals the continuation of the poem acros... | Elizabeth Lyttelton | John Norris | Beauty | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699
1700-1799 | Transcribed in Elizabeth Lyttelton's hand, Edmund Elys, 'Peccatum Redivivum: Or, The Rebellion of a Conquer'd Lust'. | Elizabeth Lyttelton | Edmund Elys | Peccatum Redivivum: Or, The Rebellion of a Conquer'd Lust | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699
1700-1799 | Transcribed in Elizabeth Lyttelton's hand, Edward Reynolds 'When our Emmanuell from his Throne came down'.
| Elizabeth Lyttelton | Edward Reynolds | When our Emmanuell from his Throne came down | Print: Unknown |
| 1600-1699
1700-1799 | Transcribed in Elizabeth Lyttelton's hand, John Norris, 'Love'. | Elizabeth Lyttelton | John Norris | Love | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699
1700-1799 | Transcribed in Elizabeth Lyttelton's hand, Elizabeth I's 'On the words hoc est corpus meum', titled 'Queen Elizas answ... | Elizabeth Lyttelton | Queen Elizabeth I (attrib.) | 'On the words hoc est corpus meum' | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699
1700-1799 | Transcribed in Elizabeth Lyttelton's hand, two couplets from Nathaniel Wanley's translation of Justus Lipsius, 'A disc... | Elizabeth Lyttelton | Justus Lipsius | A Discourse of Constancy | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699
1700-1799 | Transcribed in Elizabeth Lyttelton's hand, two couplets from Edward Reynolds, 'A Treatise of the Passions and Facvltie... | Elizabeth Lyttelton | Edward Reynolds | A Treatise of the Passions and Facvlties of the Soule of Man | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699
1700-1799 | Transcribed in Elizabeth Lyttelton's hand, an anonymous poem entitled 'An Euening Hymn' and beginning 'Now that the Sa... | Elizabeth Lyttelton | anon | An Evening Hymn | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699
1700-1799 | Transcribed in Elizabeth Lyttelton's hand, John Norris, 'Plato's Two Cupids'. | Elizabeth Lyttelton | John Norris | Plato's Two Cupids | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699
1700-1799 | Transcribed in Elizabeth Lyttelton's hand, a Meditation on Seneca's maxim 'verum gaudium res severa est' (Epistulae mo... | Elizabeth Lyttelton | Seneca | Epistulae morales, 23, 4 | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699
1700-1799 | Transcribed in Elizabeth Lyttelton's hand, John Norris, 'The Refinement'. | Elizabeth Lyttelton | John Norris | The Refinement | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699
1700-1799 | Transcribed in Elizabeth Lyttelton's hand, Sir Philip Woodhouse, 'Some Essays of Morality in prozaick Ryme upon Aristo... | Elizabeth Lyttelton | Sir Philip Woodhouse | Some Essays of Morality in prozaick Ryme upon Aristotles definition of friendly Loue | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699
1700-1799 | Transcribed in Elizabeth Lyttelton's hand, Sir Philip Woodhouse, 'an Essay of Morall fortetude according to Aristotle'... | Elizabeth Lyttelton | Sir Philip Woodhouse | an Essay of Morall fortetude according to Aristotle | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699
1700-1799 | Transcribed in Elizabeth Lyttelton's hand, Thomas Flatman, 'On Dr. Brown's Travels'.
| Elizabeth Lyttelton | Thomas Flatman | On Dr. Brown's Travels | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699
1700-1799 | Transcribed in Elizabeth Lyttelton's hand, Sir Philip Woodhouse, 'Moralistic reflections in verse'. | Elizabeth Lyttelton | Sir Philip Woodhouse | Moralistic reflections in verse | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699
1700-1799 | Transcribed in Elizabeth Lyttelton's hand, an anonymous 'Moral dialogue'. | Elizabeth Lyttelton | anon | Moral Dialogue | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699
1700-1799 | Transcribed in Elizabeth Lyttelton's hand, Sir Thomas Browne, 'Of Consumptions'. | Elizabeth Lyttelton | Sir Thomas Browne | Of Consumptions | Unknown |
| 1600-1699
1700-1799 | [List of books read to Sir Thomas Browne by Elizabeth Lyttelton]. Headed in commonplace book: 'The books which my daug... | Elizabeth Lyttelton | Plutarch | Lives | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699
1700-1799 | [List of books read to Sir Thomas Browne by Elizabeth Lyttelton]. Headed in commonplace book: 'The books which my daug... | Elizabeth Lyttelton | Richard Knolles | The generall historie of the Turks | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699
1700-1799 | [List of books read to Sir Thomas Browne by Elizabeth Lyttelton]. Headed in commonplace book: 'The books which my daug... | Elizabeth Lyttelton | Paul Rycaut | History of the Turkish Empire from the Year 1623 to the Year 1677 | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699
1700-1799 | [List of books read to Sir Thomas Browne by Elizabeth Lyttelton]. Headed in commonplace book: 'The books which my daug... | Elizabeth Lyttelton | Richard Baker | A Chronicle of England | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699
1700-1799 | [List of books read to Sir Thomas Browne by Elizabeth Lyttelton]. Headed in commonplace book: 'The books which my daug... | Elizabeth Lyttelton | S.J. Alvaro Semedo | The History of China | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699
1700-1799 | [List of books read to Sir Thomas Browne by Elizabeth Lyttelton]. Headed in commonplace book: 'The books which my daug... | Elizabeth Lyttelton | Flavius Josephus | The History of the Jewish Wars | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699
1700-1799 | [List of books read to Sir Thomas Browne by Elizabeth Lyttelton]. Headed in commonplace book: 'The books which my daug... | Elizabeth Lyttelton | John Foxe | Book of Martyrs | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699
1700-1799 | [List of books read to Sir Thomas Browne by Elizabeth Lyttelton]. Headed in commonplace book: 'The books which my daug... | Elizabeth Lyttelton | Adam Olearius | Travels of the Ambassadors sent by Frederic, Duke of Holstein, to the Great Duke of Muscovy and the King of Persia | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699
1700-1799 | [List of books read to Sir Thomas Browne by Elizabeth Lyttelton]. Headed in commonplace book: 'The books which my daug... | Elizabeth Lyttelton | Mandelilo | Travels (unidentified) | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699
1700-1799 | [List of books read to Sir Thomas Browne by Elizabeth Lyttelton]. Headed in commonplace book: 'The books which my daug... | Elizabeth Lyttelton | Taverniere | Travels (unidentified) | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699
1700-1799 | [List of books read to Sir Thomas Browne by Elizabeth Lyttelton]. Headed in commonplace book: 'The books which my daug... | Elizabeth Lyttelton | Pietro della Valle | Travels in Persia | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699
1700-1799 | [List of books read to Sir Thomas Browne by Elizabeth Lyttelton]. Headed in commonplace book: 'The books which my daug... | Elizabeth Lyttelton | Vincent Le Blanc | The world surveyed: or, The famous voyages & travailes of Vincent Le Blanc | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699
1700-1799 | [List of books read to Sir Thomas Browne by Elizabeth Lyttelton]. Headed in commonplace book: 'The books which my daug... | Elizabeth Lyttelton | Fernão Mendes Pinto | Pilgrimage of Fernam Mendez Pinto in which is told the many and very strange things he saw and heard in the kingdom of China, in the one of Tartary, in the one of Sornau, usually called Siam, in the one of Calaminhan, in the one of Pegù... | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699
1700-1799 | [List of books read to Sir Thomas Browne by Elizabeth Lyttelton]. Headed in commonplace book: 'The books which my daug... | Elizabeth Lyttelton | Thomas Gage | Travels in the New World | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699
1700-1799 | [List of books read to Sir Thomas Browne by Elizabeth Lyttelton]. Headed in commonplace book: 'The books which my daug... | Elizabeth Lyttelton | Terre | Travels (unidentified) | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699
1700-1799 | [List of books read to Sir Thomas Browne by Elizabeth Lyttelton]. Headed in commonplace book: 'The books which my daug... | Elizabeth Lyttelton | anon | History of the Life of Monsieur d'Epernon | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699
1700-1799 | [List of books read to Sir Thomas Browne by Elizabeth Lyttelton]. Headed in commonplace book: 'The books which my daug... | Elizabeth Lyttelton | unknown | History of Naples | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699
1700-1799 | [List of books read to Sir Thomas Browne by Elizabeth Lyttelton]. Headed in commonplace book: 'The books which my daug... | Elizabeth Lyttelton | unknown | History of Venice | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699
1700-1799 | [List of books read to Sir Thomas Browne by Elizabeth Lyttelton]. Headed in commonplace book: 'The books which my daug... | Elizabeth Lyttelton | William Camden | Historie of the Life and Reigne of Elizabeth | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699
1700-1799 | [List of books read to Sir Thomas Browne by Elizabeth Lyttelton]. Headed in commonplace book: 'The books which my daug... | Elizabeth Lyttelton | Herodian | History of the Empire from the Death of Marcus | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699
1700-1799 | [List of books read to Sir Thomas Browne by Elizabeth Lyttelton]. Headed in commonplace book: 'The books which my daug... | Elizabeth Lyttelton | Procopius of Caesarea | Secret History | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699
1700-1799 | [List of books read to Sir Thomas Browne by Elizabeth Lyttelton]. Headed in commonplace book: 'The books which my daug... | Elizabeth Lyttelton | Sands | Travels (unidentified) | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699
1700-1799 | [List of books read to Sir Thomas Browne by Elizabeth Lyttelton]. Headed in commonplace book: 'The books which my daug... | Elizabeth Lyttelton | Olaus Magnus | History of the Northern People | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699
1700-1799 | [List of books read to Sir Thomas Browne by Elizabeth Lyttelton]. Headed in commonplace book: 'The books which my daug... | Elizabeth Lyttelton | Rudolf Jakob Camerarius | De sexu plantarum epistola | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699
1700-1799 | [List of books read to Sir Thomas Browne by Elizabeth Lyttelton]. Headed in commonplace book: 'The books which my daug... | Elizabeth Lyttelton | Suetonius | De Vita Caesarum [the Twelve Caesars] | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699
1700-1799 | [List of books read to Sir Thomas Browne by Elizabeth Lyttelton]. Headed in commonplace book: 'The books which my daug... | Elizabeth Lyttelton | Appian | Roman History | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699
1700-1799 | [List of books read to Sir Thomas Browne by Elizabeth Lyttelton]. Headed in commonplace book: 'The books which my daug... | Elizabeth Lyttelton | Speed | Chronicle of the Life of King James | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699
1700-1799 | [List of books read to Sir Thomas Browne by Elizabeth Lyttelton]. Headed in commonplace book: 'The books which my daug... | Elizabeth Lyttelton | Purchas | His Pilgrimage or Relations of the World and the Religions Observed in All Ages and Places Discovered from the Creation Unto This Present | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699
1700-1799 | [List of books read to Sir Thomas Browne by Elizabeth Lyttelton]. Headed in commonplace book: 'The books which my daug... | Elizabeth Lyttelton | unknown | Sermons | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699
1700-1799 | Transcription in Elizabeth Lyttelton's hand of 'King James his Epitaph by Bishop Corbet'.
| Elizabeth Lyttelton | Richard Corbett | Epitaph on King James | Unknown |
| 1600-1699
1700-1799 | Transcription in Elizabeth Lyttelton's hand of Aphra Behn, 'Epitaph on William Fairfax'. | Elizabeth Lyttelton | Aphra Behn | Epitaph on William Fairfax | Unknown |
| 1600-1699
1700-1799 | Transcription in Elizabeth Lyttelton's hand of Walter Ralegh, 'Even such is time which takes in trust'. | Elizabeth Lyttelton | Walter Ralegh | Even such is time which takes in trust | Unknown |
| 1600-1699
1700-1799 | Transcription in Elizabeth Lyttelton's hand of Richard Corbett, 'To his Son Vincent Corbett'. | Elizabeth Lyttelton | Richard Corbett | To his Son Vincent Corbett | Unknown |
| 1600-1699
1700-1799 | Transcription in Elizabeth Lyttelton's hand of Richard Corbett, 'An Elegie upon the Death of his own Father'.
| Elizabeth Lyttelton | Richard Corbett | An Elegie upon the Death of his own Father | Unknown |
| 1600-1699
1700-1799 | Transcription in Elizabeth Lyttelton's hand of Henry Wotton, 'On the Death of Sr Albertus Morton.'
| Elizabeth Lyttelton | Sir Henry Wotton | On the Death of Sr Albertus Morton | Unknown |
| 1600-1699
1700-1799 | Transcription in Elizabeth Lyttelton's hand of Psalm 56 v. 3. | Elizabeth Lyttelton | | Psalms, 56:3 | Unknown |
| 1600-1699
1700-1799 | In Elizabeth Lyttelton's hand, a paraphrase of Walter Ralegh's lines 'Like hermit poor', entitled 'A Christian paraphr... | Elizabeth Lyttelton | Walter Ralegh | Like hermit poor | Unknown |
| 1600-1699
1700-1799 | Transcription in Elizabeth Lyttelton's hand of John Donne, 'A Hymne to God the Father'. | Elizabeth Lyttelton | John Donne | A Hymne to God the Father | Unknown |
| 1600-1699
1700-1799 | Written in Elizabeth Lyttelton's hand a translation of John Foxe's 'The Epitaph upon that Blessed Martyr Walter Mill a... | Elizabeth Lyttelton | John Foxe | Book of Martyrs | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699
1700-1799 | Transcription in Elizabeth Lyttelton's hand of Thomas Carey, 'On his Mistress going to Sea'.
| Elizabeth Lyttelton | Thomas Carey | On his mistress going to sea | Unknown |
| 1600-1699
1700-1799 | Transcription in Elizabeth Lyttelton's hand of John Taylor, 'There for a token I did thinke it meete'.
| Elizabeth Lyttelton | John Taylor | There for a token I did thinke it meete | Unknown |
| 1600-1699
1700-1799 | Transcription in Elizabeth Lyttelton's hand of Henry Savile, 'To the King'. | Elizabeth Lyttelton | Henry Savile | To the King | Unknown |
| 1600-1699
1700-1799 | Transcription in Elizabeth Lyttelton's hand of William Alabaster, 'Dr Alabasters verses upon Dr Reynolds & his Brother'. | Elizabeth Lyttelton | William Alabaster | Verses upon Dr Reynolds & his Brother | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699
1700-1799 | Transcription in Elizabeth Lyttelton's hand of an extract from Joshua Sylvester's translation of the second day from G... | Elizabeth Lyttelton | Joshua Sylvester | Translation of the second day from Guillaume Du Bartas's The Second Week | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699
1700-1799 | Transcription in Elizabeth Lyttelton's hand of Richard Fanshawe, 'A Happy Life out of Martial'. | Elizabeth Lyttelton | Richard Fanshawe | A Happy Life out of Martial | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699
1700-1799 | Transcription in Elizabeth Lyttelton's hand of a Couplet from Charles Aleyn, 'The Battailes of Crescey and Poictiers'. | Elizabeth Lyttelton | Charles Aleyn | The Battailes of Crescey and Poictiers | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699
1700-1799 | Transcription in Elizabeth Lyttelton's hand of Katherine Phillips, 'A Virgin'. | Elizabeth Lyttelton | Katherine Phillips | A Virgin | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699
1700-1799 | Transcription in Elizabeth Lyttelton's hand of 'The humble Addres of ye house of Commons to the Queen, March ye 7 1710' | Elizabeth Lyttelton | | The humble Addres of ye house of Commons to the Queen, March ye 7 1710 | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699
1700-1799 | Transcription in Elizabeth Lyttelton's hand of lines attributed to Sir Thomas Browne, beginning, 'the Almond florishet... | Elizabeth Lyttelton | Sir Thomas Browne (attrib.) | Verses beginning 'the Almond florisheth ye Birch trees flowe' | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699
1700-1799 | Transcription in Elizabeth Lyttelton's hand of extracts from a speech by Lord Chief Justice William Scroggs at his imp... | Elizabeth Lyttelton | William Scroggs | Speech by Lord Chief Justice William Scroggs at his impeachment in 1680-1 | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699
1700-1799 | Transcription in Elizabeth Lyttelton's hand of William Cartwright, 'To Mr. W. B. at the Birth of his first Child'.
| Elizabeth Lyttelton | William Cartwright | To Mr. W. B. at the Birth of his first Child | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699
1700-1799 | Transcription in Elizabeth Lyttelton's hand of Sir Thomas Browne, 'Fragment on meadowes'. | Elizabeth Lyttelton | Sir Thomas Browne | Fragment on meadowes | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699
1700-1799 | Transcription in Elizabeth Lyttelton's hand of Sir Thomas Browne, 'Seignor verdero in his proper habitt'.
| Elizabeth Lyttelton | Sir Thomas Browne | Seignor verdero in his proper habitt, | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699
1700-1799 | Transcription in Elizabeth Lyttelton's hand of 'An Epitaph upon Felton, who was hang'd in Chains for murdering the Old... | Elizabeth Lyttelton | Anon | An Epitaph upon Felton, who was hang'd in Chains for murdering the Old Duke of Buckingham | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699
1700-1799 | Transcription in Elizabeth Lyttelton's hand of 'A Turkish Prayer or Alhemdolilla'. | Elizabeth Lyttelton | Anon | A Turkish Prayer or Alhemdolilla | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699
1700-1799 | Transcription in Elizabeth Lyttelton's hand of Richard Corbett, 'King James came in progres to the house of Sr Pope Kn... | Elizabeth Lyttelton | Richard Corbett | King James came in progres to the house of Sr Pope Knight, when his Lady was lately delivered of a daughter, which babe was Presented to the King with a Paper of verses in her hand... | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699
1700-1799 | Transcription in Elizabeth Lyttelton's hand of Edward Tenison, a pair of anagrams on Elizabeth Lyttelton's name, and a... | Elizabeth Lyttelton | Edward Tenison | anagrams and couplets | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1600-1699
1700-1799 | Transcription in Elizabeth Lyttelton's hand of Sir Henry Wotton, 'Upon the Sudden Restraint of the Earl of Somerset th... | Elizabeth Lyttelton | Sir Henry Wotton | Upon the Sudden Restraint of the Earl of Somerset then falling from favour | Unknown |
| 1600-1699
1700-1799 | Transcription in Elizabeth Lyttelton's hand of Sir Henry Wotton, 'The Character of a Happy Life'. | Elizabeth Lyttelton | Sir Henry Wotton | The Character of a Happy Life | Unknown |
| 1600-1699
1700-1799 | Transcription in Elizabeth Lyttelton's hand of St Ignatius of Antioch, 'My Love is Crucified'.
| Elizabeth Lyttelton | St Ignatius of Antioch | My Love is Crucified | Unknown |
| 1600-1699
1700-1799 | Transcription in Elizabeth Lyttelton's hand of Sir Philip Woodhouse, 'Italian & French Proverbs rythmisd'.
| Elizabeth Lyttelton | Sir Philip Woodhouse | Italian & French Proverbs rythmisd | Unknown |
| 1600-1699
1700-1799 | Transcription in Elizabeth Lyttelton's hand of John Foxe, 'The Prayer of Luther at his death'. | Elizabeth Lyttelton | John Foxe | The Prayer of Luther at his death | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699
1700-1799 | Transcription in Elizabeth Lyttelton's hand of John Foxe, 'The usuall Prayer of Docter Martyn Luther'. | Elizabeth Lyttelton | John Foxe | The usuall Prayer of Docter Martyn Luther | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699
1700-1799 | Transcription in Elizabeth Lyttelton's hand of John Foxe, 'Accounts of the deaths of Jan Huss and Jerome of Prague'. | Elizabeth Lyttelton | John Foxe | Accounts of the deaths of Jan Huss and Jerome of Prague | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699
1700-1799 | Transcription in Elizabeth Lyttelton's hand of Philippe Quinault, 'Autre'. | Elizabeth Lyttelton | Philippe Quinault | Autre | Print: libretto |
| 1850-1899 | 15 Oct 1855 Meeting Minutes: Report from Elizabeth Fry Refuge - 'One of them Eliza Salmon was a Roman Catholic and has... | Eliza Salmon | [n/a] | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'In the evening my father brought two friends with him and Lawrence Candler. As I was reading to my children in the la... | Elizabeth Gurney | [n/a] | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'After breakfast, I believed it better to propose reading in the Bible, but I felt doing it, particularly as my brothe... | Elizabeth Fry | [n/a] | Bible (Psalms) | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I again felt some difficulty at reading the Bible, however, I got through well. George Dilwyn encouraging me, by sayi... | Elizabeth Fry | [n/a] | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'George Dilwyn said, for our encouragement this morning, that he had seen, since he had been with us, the efficacy of ... | Elizabeth Fry | [n/a] | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I was up in pretty good time, dressed by eight, and after reading, settled my great housekeeping accounts' | Elizabeth Fry | [n/a] | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'After reading a little, I went some way off to see a poor woman' | Elizabeth Fry | [n/a] | [unknown, possibly Bible] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Yesterday I went to the workhouse to spend the evening with the children; a prospect I have had in view for some time... | Elizabeth Fry | Frederick Smith | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'In the evening, after reading at Earlham, I was greatly helped in prayer, for my brothers and sisters, who were all p... | Elizabeth Fry | [n/a] | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'After poor John's funeral, I wished the servants, and those who attended, and were disposed to do so, to come and rea... | Elizabeth Fry | [n/a] | Bible (New Testament) | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Yesterday I experienced liveliness of spirit, without any apparent cause; nothing but free mercy and grace, for I thi... | Elizabeth Fry | [n/a] | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'At last I have been enabled to accomplish my desire in having the greater part of our family here, present at the Scr... | Elizabeth Fry | [n/a] | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Dec 1816 - Fry recommences visits to Newgate prison: 'On her second visit, she was, at her own request, left alone amo... | Elizabeth Fry | [n/a] | Bible (New Testament) | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | ms journal of Sophia de C-, one of the ladies of the visiting Society for Newgate, entry dated 2 May 1817: 'Rose early... | Elizabeth Fry | [n/a] | Bible (Psalms) | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Fry explains reading to prisoners to Committee of House of Commons on the Prisons of the Metropolis, 27 Feb 1818: 'our... | Elizabeth Fry | [n/a] | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'The last time that Mrs Fry was on board the Maria, whilst she lay at Deptford, was one of those solemn and interestin... | Elizabeth Fry | [n/a] | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Extract of letter from Lady Mackintosh to E. Fry: 'I have had a note from Sir James - "I dined Saturday, June 3rd, at ... | Elizabeth Fry | [n/a] | Bible (Ephesians) | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Recollections of Miss Young, who accompanied her father, Captain Young, to female convict ships at Woolwich: 'On board... | Elizabeth Fry | [n/a] | Bible (Psalms) | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Journal 20 Dec 1837: 'Afterwards I went to Clapham to visit a poor dying converted Jew, who had sent a letter to beg m... | Elizabeth Fry | [n/a] | Bible (Psalms) | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Journal 20 Dec 1837: 'Afterwards I went to Clapham to visit a poor dying converted Jew, who had sent a letter to beg m... | Elizabeth Fry | [n/a] | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Journey into Scotland in Aug 1834 with husband and two daughters: 'At Kenmore, they enjoyed a quiet Sunday and tolerab... | Elizabeth Fry | Joseph John Gurney | Letter to a Friend on the Authority, Purpose and Effects of Chritianity | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Journal of Miss Fraser, Newgate prison visitor, dated 29 Nov 1834: 'I spent an interesting time in Newgate, Mrs Fry an... | Elizabeth Fry | [n/a] | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Visit to France, 1838, accompanied by Joseph Fry, friend Josiah Forster, and Lydia Irving. Letter to children, Abbevil... | Elizabeth Fry | [n/a] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Visit to France, 1838, accompanied by Joseph Fry, friend Josiah Forster, and Lydia Irving. Letter to children, Abbevil... | Elizabeth Fry | [n/a] | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Visit to France, 1838, accompanied by Joseph Fry, friend Josiah Forster, and Lydia Irving. Letter to children, Abbevil... | Elizabeth Fry | [n/a] | Bible (New Testament) | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Aug 1838, journey to Scotland with sister in law E. Fry, friend John Sanderson, and from 15th, William Ball, a Quaker ... | Elizabeth Fry | [n/a] | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Aug 1838, journey to Scotland with sister in law E. Fry, friend John Sanderson, and from 15th, William Ball, a Quaker ... | Elizabeth Fry | [n/a] | Bible (Psalms) | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Aug 1838, journey to Scotland with sister in law E. Fry, friend John Sanderson, and from 15th, William Ball, a Quaker ... | Elizabeth Fry | [n/a] | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Journal, Boulogne 28 May 1843: 'The afternoon of the Sabbath I paid a distressing visit to the St Lazare Prison; such ... | Elizabeth Fry | [n/a] | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Evidence of E. Fry to parliamentary Select Committee - Fry explains that she is careful in her prison readings to have... | Elizabeth Fry | [n/a] | Bible (Old Testament) | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Day on which E. Fry read the new rules to the female prisoners at Newgate: 'when this business was concluded, one of t... | Elizabeth Fry | [n/a] | Bible (New Testament) | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Officials invited into Newgate to see the success of E. Fry's new prison routine: 'In compliance with this appointment... | Elizabeth Fry | [n/a] | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'in expressing our acknowledgement of the good they have done, it is our duty to point out those parts of their procee... | Elizabeth Fry | [n/a] | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 24pp pamphlet describing a reading by Mrs Fry to the female prisoners at Newgate, at which the author was present. pp.... | Elizabeth Fry | [n/a] | Bible (New Testament) | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Eliza Cooper was first visited in Newgate in the summer of 1849. She was committed for unlawfully deserting her infan... | Eliza Cooper | [unknown] | Come to Jesus | Print: Book, tract |
| 1850-1899 | 'Mr Edminson then read a paper on Mrs Besant's autobiography. Some discussion folowed. Mr Morland gave a summary of Fa... | Elizabeth Ann Smith | Frederic Harrison | Meaning of History, The | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Readings from Wordsworth were then given by Mrs Smith, Mrs Rawlings, Mrs Edminson and Miss Wallis.' | Elizabeth Ann Smith | William Wordsworth | | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Readings from Wordsworth were then given by Mrs Smith, Mrs Rawlings, Mrs Edminson and Miss Wallis.' | Elizabeth Edminson | William Wordsworth | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Witness statement in trial for bigamy:
Mrs Webb: 'after she was separated from her husband, she read in the newspape... | Elizabeth Burden | [n/a] | [newspaper] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | witness statement in trial for theft:
Eliza Warr: 'Q. What did the prisoner do there from one o'clock till after thre... | Eliza Warr | [n/a] | [newspaper] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'The programme on the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayham [sic] was as follows.
Reading of the poem by Mrs Edminson and Mrs Rawl... | Elizabeth Ann Smith | | Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'The programme on the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayham [sic] was as follows.
Reading of the poem by Mrs Edminson and Mrs Rawl... | Elizabeth Ann Smith | Elizabeth Ann Smith | [paper on Life of Edward Fitzgerald] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'The programme on the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayham [sic] was as follows.
Reading of the poem by Mrs Edminson and Mrs Rawl... | Elizabeth Edminson | | Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'A programme of the works of Robert Browning arranged by the committee appointed at the previous meeting was then ente... | Elizabeth Ann Smith | Robert Browning | 'May and Death' | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'A programme of the works of Robert Browning arranged by the committee appointed at the previous meeting was then ente... | Elizabeth Ann Smith | Robert Browning | 'Prospice' | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'The following programme of readings from Lewis Carroll's works as arranged by the committee of arrangements was then ... | Elizabeth Edminson | Lewis Carroll [pseud.] | 'Jabberwocky' [from Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Mr Edminson then made some interesting remarks on the subject of Shakespeare's [?? illegible] and portraits as an int... | Elizabeth Edminson | William Shakespeare | Henry V | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Mrs Edminson then read an interesting paper on Lecky's Map of Life' | Elizabeth Edminson | Elizabeth Edminson | [Paper on Lecky's 'Map of Life'] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'Mrs Edminson then read an interesting paper on Lecky's Map of Life' | Elizabeth Edminson | William Edward Hartpole Lecky | Map of Life | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The consideration of the Life & work of Wm Morris was opened by the reading of a short account of the Life by Mrs Goa... | Elizabeth Edminson | William Morris | Earthly Paradise | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Mr Stansfield read an interesting paper on "Tennyson & his books" & in continuation of the subject readings were give... | Elizabeth Edminson | Alfred, Lord Tennyson | poetry | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Three papers were devoted to aspects of Burns & his works. Mrs Goadby read a biographical sketch. Mrs Smith read a pa... | Elizabeth Ann Smith | Elizabeth Ann Smith | [paper on Burns as song writer] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'Three papers were devoted to aspects of Burns & his works. Mrs Goadby read a biographical sketch. Mrs Smith read a pa... | Elizabeth Ann Smith | Robert Burns | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Lady Harriet Cavendish to her sister, Lady Georgiana Morpeth, 16 December 1807:
'Lady Elizabeth is reading Semple's... | Lady Elizabeth Foster | Semple | 'travels through Spain' | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The meeting at the Lawn on Dec 9 1901 was devoted to the life & works of Moore & Hood. F.J. Edminson read a paper on ... | Elizabeth Edminson | Thomas Hood | Song of the Shirt | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Mrs Edminson then read an appreciative article on the life and letters of J.S. [?] Brown which was much appreciated'. | Elizabeth Edminson | Elizabeth Edminson | [paper on [?] J.S. Brown] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'Mrs Edminson then read an appreciative article on the life and letters of J.S. [?] Brown which was much appreciated'. | Elizabeth Edminson | Brown | [letters of [?] J.S. Brown] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'A short programme of selections from American authors had been arranged but time only sufficed for the reading of The... | Elizabeth Edminson | John Greenleaf Whittier | Meeting, The | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'C.E. Stansfield read a paper on Ed. Spenser & his times & the Faerie Queene. Readings were given by Mrs Reynolds, Mrs... | Elizabeth Edminson | Edmund Spenser | Faerie Queene | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Mrs Edminson & C. E. Stansfield also read from the Canterbury Tales - The Prioress' Tale & the Rhyme of Sir Topas (Fi... | Elizabeth Edminson | Geoffrey Chaucer | Prioress' Tale | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Mrs Smith then read an interesting biography of Keats which was followed by a reading of "I stood tiptoe upon a littl... | Elizabeth Ann Smith | Elizabeth Ann Smith | [a biography of Keats] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'Mrs Smith then read an interesting biography of Keats which was followed by a reading of "I stood tiptoe upon a littl... | Elizabeth Edminson | John Keats | [sonnets] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Mr Binns then read a paper on W.S. Landor which was followed by a reading by Mrs Edminson, a paper by William [?] Har... | Elizabeth Edminson | Walter Savage Landor | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Mr Ridges read an interesting article on the Sagas & Mr & Mrs Edminson & W.S. Rowntree & W Binns selections from them'. | Elizabeth Edminson | | [Sagas] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Papers were then read by Mr Ridges on the Works of Borrow & on the Life of Borrow by R. Heelas. Readings were given b... | Elizabeth Ann Smith | George Borrow | Bible in Spain, The | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The subject of the evening - 'English Ballads' - was then discussed in two papers, by F.J. Edminson & H.M. Wallis, an... | Elizabeth Edminson | | [either an English ballad or text about ballads] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The subject of the evening - 'English Ballads' - was then discussed in two papers, by F.J. Edminson & H.M. Wallis, an... | Elizabeth Ann Smith | | [either an English ballad or text about ballads] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'W.S. Rowntree read a paper on Dante & Florence [,] H.R. Smith explained the Vita Nuova from which Mrs W.H. Smith & Mr... | Elizabeth Smith | Dante Alighieri | La Vita Nuova | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'W.S. Rowntree read a paper on Dante & Florence [,] H.R. Smith explained the Vita Nuova from which Mrs W.H. Smith & Mr... | Elizabeth Edminson | Dante Alighieri | La Vita Nuova | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'A series of more or less five minutes essays or talks on various aspects of Browning by the folowing members were the... | Elizabeth Ann Smith | [a member of the XII Book Club] | [essay on Browning] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'The Meeting then considered the Life & Works of Alfred Russel Wallace. Walter S. Rowntree gave us an account of Walla... | Elizabeth Ann Smith | Elizabeth Ann Smith | [Paper on A.R. Wallace's psychical writings] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'The Meeting then considered the Life & Works of Alfred Russel Wallace. Walter S. Rowntree gave us an account of Walla... | Elizabeth Ann Smith | Alfred Russel Wallace | [psychical 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... | Elizabeth Ann Smith | William Makepeace Thackeray | Vanity Fair | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Mark Twain
A very humorous essay written by C.E. Stansfield & read by R.H. Robson gave us a delightful introduction ... | Elizabeth Ann Smith | Mark Twain | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The rest of the evning was devoted to Wordsworth, Alfred Rawlings, Mrs Rawlings, Mrs W.H. Smith, C.I. Evans, C.E. Sta... | Elizabeth Ann Smith | | [material by or about Wordsworth] | 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... | Elizabeth Marriage | Gilbert Murray | [translations] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The rest of the evening was devoted to Bain's Indian Stories. It is impossible for one, not steeped in Indian mytholo... | Elizabeth Marriage | Francis William Bain | 'In the Great God's Hair' | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Child- Study then claimed our attention. Three papers (or contributions) were given first of all by Mrs Smith, Mr Eva... | Elizabeth Ann Smith | Elizabeth Ann Smith | [paper on child study] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'Child- Study then claimed our attention. Three papers (or contributions) were given first of all by Mrs Smith, Mr Eva... | Elizabeth Ann Smith | | Spectator, The | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | 'The meeting then considered the work of H.G. Wells. The chief item of interest was undoubtedly a paper by Henry M. Wa... | Elizabeth Ann Smith | Elizabeth Ann Smith | [paper on 'Mankind in the Making' by Wells] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'The meeting then considered the work of H.G. Wells. The chief item of interest was undoubtedly a paper by Henry M. Wa... | Elizabeth Ann Smith | Herbert George Wells | Mankind in the Making | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The meeting then continued the discussion of H.G. Wells & his religious development. C.E. Stansfield had prepared an ... | Elizabeth Ann Smith | Herbert George Wells | | Print: 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... | Elizabeth Ann Smith | Robert Louis Stevenson | 'Christmas at Sea' | Print: 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... | Elizabeth Ann Smith | Robert Louis Stevenson | 'Tropic Rain' | Print: 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... | Elizabeth Ann Smith | Robert Louis Stevenson | 'Vagabond' | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The evening was then devoted to the subject of Psychical Phenomena. The Secretary (Ernest E. Unwin] read a brief intr... | Elizabeth Ann Smith | Elizabeth Ann Smith | [paper on the spirit world] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'Essays were then read. The Secretary does not feel able to do more than indicate the general nature of these essays.
... | Elizabeth Ann Smith | Elizabeth Ann Smith | [paper on the mind and its training] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'The subject of the evening's programme was John Keats. R.H. Robson read an essay dealing with his life. The main infl... | Elizabeth Marriage | John Keats | Ode on a Grecian Urn | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The main business of the evening was then proceeded with - 5 mins essays upon some book read recently.
Mrs Evans rea... | Elizabeth Ann Smith | [a member of the XII Book Club] | [paper on Blackwood's 'The Garden of Survival'] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'The main business of the evening was then proceeded with - 5 mins essays upon some book read recently.
Mrs Evans rea... | Elizabeth Ann Smith | Algernon Blackwood | Garden of Survival, The | 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... | Elizabeth Marriage | Edmund Gosse | Two visits to Denmark | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The following miscellaneous programme was then gone through. This change in the subject was caused by the imposibilit... | Elizabeth Ann Smith | Jean Froissart | Chronicles | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'De Quincey was the subject before the paper & number of extracts [sic] & two papers, one read by Mrs Rawlings & one b... | Elizabeth Marriage | Thomas de Quincey | Confessions of an English Opium-Eater | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The subject of the evening, 'Ballads', now occupied attention.
From an introductory paper prepared by Mary Hayward ... | Elizabeth Marriage | | Battle of Otterburn, The | Print: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'Miss Marriage then gave us some notes on Anatole France [sic] Life with references to some of his work & the order of... | Elizabeth Marriage | Anatole France | Red Lily, The | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Miss Marriage then gave us some notes on Anatole France [sic] Life with references to some of his work & the order of... | Elizabeth Marriage | Anatole France | | 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... | Elizabeth Marriage | Arthur Quiller-Couch | [a short story] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Eliza Fenwick, a touring actress, to her mother, also Eliza Fenwick, 'Barbadoes, May 2nd [1812], Morning, 10 o clock,'... | Eliza Fenwick junior | | Morning Service | Print: 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... | Elizabeth Ann Smith | Sabine Baring-Gould | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The remainder of the evening was devoted to a series of readings & quotations from Shakespeare intended to indicate d... | Elizabeth Ann Smith | William Shakespeare | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The subject of Forster's "A Passage to India" was then taken Rosamund Wallis reading a notable paper on the problem o... | Elizabeth Marriage | Edward Morgan Forster | Passage to India, A | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'In January, 1778, Mrs. Burney [Frances Burney's stepmother], who was glancing over the
newspaper at the breakfast t... | Elizabeth Burney | | announcement of publication of Evelina | Print: Newspaper |
| 1700-1799 | 'With the accomplished and honourable family of the Kembles [Elizabeth Inchbald] was long on
terms of close intimacy... | Elizabeth Inchbald | | | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Quoted from Mrs Maxwell Scott:
'My cousin, Baroness von Appell (grand-daughter of Sir Walter [Scott]'s brother Thom... | Eliza Scott | Jane Austen | Emma | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Elizabeth Carter to Catherine Talbot, 4 March 1751:
'You need not make any apologies about my Rambler [No. 100]. I ... | Elizabeth Carter | Samuel Richardson | 'Rambler' [essay] | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1700-1799 | Elizabeth Carter to Catherine Talbot, 24 March 1751:
'Well according to your advice I have given Mr Richardson anot... | Elizabeth Carter | Samuel Richardson | 'Rambler' [essay] | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1700-1799 | Elizabeth Carter to Catherine Talbot, 12 August 1751:
'I have not seen the Oxford and Cambridge Verses. The only la... | Elizabeth Carter | Christopher Smart | On the Eternity of the Supreme Being | Print: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | Elizabeth Carter to Catherine Talbot, 20 August 1751:
'You tell me nothing of Mrs Cockburn. I have read but little ... | Elizabeth Carter | Alison Cockburn | prose writing/s | Print: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | Elizabeth Carter to Catherine Talbot, 23 June 1752:
'I am heartily sorry, my dear Miss Talbot, to find by to-day's ... | Elizabeth Carter | | report of death of Bishop of Durham | Print: Newspaper |
| 1700-1799 | Elizabeth Carter to Catherine Talbot, 21 September 1753:
'Mr Richardson has been so good as to send me four volumes... | Elizabeth Carter | Samuel Richardson | Sir Charles Grandison | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Elizabeth Carter to Catherine Talbot, 10 July 1754:
'I am beyond description charmed with the Italian sonnet you se... | Elizabeth Carter | Carlo Maria Maggi | Sonnet 'Care dell'alma stanca Albengatrici...' | Manuscript: Letter, Transcribed by Catherine Talbot in letter of 10 June 1754. |
| 1700-1799 | Elizabeth Carter to Catherine Talbot, 10 July 1754:
'After that exquisitely beautiful sonnet [by Carlo Maria Maggi,... | Elizabeth Carter | Metastasio | 'love song' opening 'Ecco qual fiero istante' | Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | Elizabeth Carter to Catherine Talbot, 14 September 1754:
'Have you ever read the "Cry?" [...] It never fell in my w... | Elizabeth Carter | Sarah Fielding | The Cry | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Elizabeth Carter to Catherine Talbot, 11 January 1755:
'It is very long since I read Lord Shaftesbury, and I only r... | Elizabeth Carter | Anthony Ashley Cooper | Characterisks of Men, Manners, Times, Opinions. | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Elizabeth Carter to Catherine Talbot, 27 January 1755:
'I read Barbarossa in a great hurry, but remember in general... | Elizabeth Carter | | Barbarossa | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Elizabeth Carter to Catherine Talbot, 5 March 1755:
'I read that part of the Bishop of Norwich's quarto which relat... | Elizabeth Carter | | work on Stoic philosophy | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | [Elizabeth Carter to Catherine Talbot, 5 March 1755:]
'I am obliged to you for the account of the new books, not on... | Elizabeth Carter | Plato | Republic | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | [Elizabeth Carter to Catherine Talbot, 5 March 1755:]
'I am obliged to you for the account of the new books, not on... | Elizabeth Carter | | [novels] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | [Elizabeth Carter to Catherine Talbot, 5 March 1755:]
'I am obliged to you for the account of the new books, not on... | Elizabeth Carter | Henry Fielding | Miscellanies | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | [Elizabeth Carter to Catherine Talbot, 13 June 1755:]
'How do you like Mr Johnson's Dictionary? I have only seen pa... | Elizabeth Carter | Samuel Johnson | Preface to Dictionary | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | [Elizabeth Carter to Catherine Talbot, 13 June 1755:]
'How do you like Mr Johnson's Dictionary? I have only seen pa... | Elizabeth Carter | Deane Swift | Essay on the Life, &c. of Dr Swift | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | [Elizabeth Carter to Catherine Talbot, 3 May 1756:]
'I had read an extract from that book which you say is writ by ... | Elizabeth Carter | Fulke Greville | Reflections, maxims, and characters, moral, critical, and satirical [extract] | Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | [Elizabeth Carter to Catherine Talbot, 26 May 1756:]
'I have not seen Sir Thomas Browne's Christian Morals, but you... | Elizabeth Carter | Thomas Browne | Religio Medici | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | [Elizabeth Carter to Catherine Talbot, 16 June 1758:]
'Since I came home I have picked up [reading] at Mrs Gambieu'... | Elizabeth Carter | Françoise Langlois de Motteville | Memoirs for the History of Anne of Austria | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | [Elizabeth Carter to Catherine Talbot, 30 May 1761:]
'To make you amends for all the nonsense which I have collecte... | Elizabeth Carter | Salomon Gessner | La Mort d'Abel | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | [Elizabeth Carter to Catherine Talbot, 30 May 1761:]
'To make you amends for all the nonsense which I have collecte... | Elizabeth Carter | | 'two pastorals' | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | [Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 9 June 1761:]
'My dear Mr Hanway has published two volumes at last, which yo... | Elizabeth Carter | Jonas Hanway | 'two volumes' | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | [Elizabeth Carter to Catherine Talbot, 13 June 1761:]
'I never had the least doubt but Mrs Phillips's Letters to Si... | Elizabeth Carter | Katherine Phillips | Letters to Sir Charles Cotterel | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | [Elizabeth Carter to Catherine Talbot, 13 June 1761:]
'I never had the least doubt but Mrs Phillips's Letters to Si... | Elizabeth Carter | Katherine Phillips | poetry | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | [Elizabeth Carter to Catherine Talbot, 13 June 1761:]
'I never had the least doubt but Mrs Phillips's Letters to Si... | Elizabeth Carter | | advertisement for work by 'Mr Hanway' | Print: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | [Elizabeth Carter to Catherine Talbot, 26 September 1761:]
'I have seen an article in the newspaper which I am part... | Elizabeth Carter | | report of death of Mr Chapone | Print: Newspaper |
| 1700-1799 | [Elizabeth Carter to Catherine Talbot, 10 May 1763:]
'Carlo Maggi is, indeed, a most excellent companion, and I agr... | Elizabeth Carter | Carlo Maggi | poems | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | [Elizabeth Carter to Catherine Talbot, 4 October 1763:]
'Is your Treatise on Gaiety a poem? If it is I believe I kn... | Elizabeth Carter | | 'Treatise on Gaiety' | Print: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | Elizabeth Carter to Catherine Talbot, 4 October 1763:
'Is your Treatise on Gaiety a poem? If it is I believe I know... | Elizabeth Carter | | 'refutation of Rousseau's Emile' | Print: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | [Elizabeth Carter to Catherine Talbot, 4 October 1763:]
'Is your Treatise on Gaiety a poem? If it is I believe I kn... | Elizabeth Carter | Jean-Jacques Rousseau | 'answer to the Archbishop of Paris's mandement against Emile' | Print: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | [Elizabeth Carter to Catherine Talbot, 15 October 1763:]
'It is more from the testimony of others than from any rec... | Elizabeth Carter | Desiderius Erasmus | 'Dialogues' | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | [Elizabeth Carter to Catherine Talbot, 5 December 1763:]
'Have you read Mrs Macaulay's history? I have seen only so... | Elizabeth Carter | Catherine Macaulay | 'History' [extracts] | Print: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | [Elizabeth Carter to Catherine Talbot, 11 October 1766:]
'Fye upon you and your popish saints [...] Your whole foli... | Elizabeth Carter | | Lloyd's Chronicle | Print: Newspaper, Serial / periodical |
| 1700-1799 | [Elizabeth Carter to Elizabeth Vesey, 29 April 1763:]
'I am rather scandalized that you should even ask how I like ... | Elizabeth Carter | Carlo Maggi | Malincolia d'Alicino | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | [Elizabeth Carter to Elizabeth Vesey, 6 August 1766:]
'Be so good as to tell Mrs Handcock that I do like the "Vicar... | Elizabeth Carter | Oliver Goldsmith | The Vicar of Wakefield | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | [Elizabeth Carter to Elizabeth Vesey, 6 August 1766:]
'I thank you for your transcript from Fairfax [translator of ... | Elizabeth Carter | Edward Fairfax | | Manuscript: Unknown, Transcribed by Elizabeth Vesey. |
| 1700-1799 | [Elizabeth Carter to Elizabeth Vesey, 18 March 1768:]
'I fancy you were not greatly edified by the study of Mr Walp... | Elizabeth Carter | Horace Walpole | ?Royal and Noble Authors | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | [Elizabeth Carter to Elizabeth Vesey, 18 March 1768:]
'I fancy you were not greatly edified by the study of Mr Walp... | Elizabeth Carter | Horace Walpole | The Castle of Otranto | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | [Elizabeth Carter to Elizabeth Vesey, 28 July 1769:]
'I only saw the Cambridge Ode in a newspaper [...] I thought t... | Elizabeth Carter | Thomas Gray | ?Ode for Music | Print: Newspaper |
| 1700-1799 | [Elizabeth Carter to Elizabeth Vesey, 3 December 1769:]
''If the text of the sermon you mention is [italics]It is w... | Elizabeth Carter | | Sermon on text 'It is well...' | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | [Elizabeth Carter to Elizabeth Vesey, 8 December 1773:]
'When I recommended Sherlock's Sermons, I believe I did it ... | Elizabeth Carter | ?Thomas Sherlock | Sermons | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | [Elizabeth Carter to Elizabeth Vesey, 8 December 1773:]
'When I recommended Sherlock's Sermons, I believe I did it ... | Elizabeth Carter | Thomas Secker | Sermons | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | [Elizabeth Carter to Elizabeth Vesey, 4 May 1774:]
'I do not recall any late productions in the literary way, excep... | Elizabeth Carter | Anna Laetitia Aikin | Essays [?on Various Subjects] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | [Elizabeth Carter to Elizabeth Vesey, 4 May 1774:]
'I do not recall any late productions in the literary way, excep... | Elizabeth Carter | Jacob Bryant | A New System, or, an Analysis of Ancient Mythology (vol. I) | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | [Elizabeth Carter to Elizabeth Vesey, 29 July 1774:]
'Lord Chesterfield's Letters are, I think, the most complete s... | Elizabeth Carter | Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield | Letters to His Son | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | [Elizabeth Carter to Elizabeth Vesey, 31 May 1776:]
'As you are acquainted with all possible authors, pray be so go... | Elizabeth Carter | | A Letter to a Young Nobleman Setting out on his Travels | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | [Elizabeth Carter to Elizabeth Vesey, 2 October 1777:]
'Every body seems very impatient for important news from Ame... | Elizabeth Carter | | report of Burgoyne's actions in American War of Independence | Print: Newspaper |
| 1700-1799 | [Elizabeth Carter to Elizabeth Vesey, 25 July 1779:]
'I do not wonder you were struck by Mrs Barbauld's Hymns. They... | Elizabeth Carter | Anna Laetitia Barbauld | Hymns | Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | [Elizabeth Carter to Elizabeth Vesey, 20 November 1779:]
'A thousand thanks to you, my dear Mrs Vesey, for your cha... | Elizabeth Carter | Elizabeth Vesey | 'Ode' | Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | [Elizabeth Carter to Elizabeth Vesey, 9 January 1782:]
'Alas, my dear friend, it is not a reflection on the writing... | Elizabeth Vesey | ?Thomas Francois ?Raynal | | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | [Elizabeth Carter to Elizabeth Vesey, 21 August 1784:]
'Have you read Captain Cook's last voyages? I have just fini... | Elizabeth Carter | James Cook | A Voyage to the Pacific Ocean | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | [Elizabeth Carter to Elizabeth Vesey, 11 June 1786:]
'I have just been reading, in an ancient acount of India, that... | Elizabeth Carter | | 'ancient account of India' | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | [From the diary of Elizabeth Firth, 22 January 1816:]
'Read Lord of the Isles again.' | Elizabeth Firth | Walter Scott | The Lord of the Isles | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [From the diary of Elizabeth Firth, 21 June 1817:]
'Read Old Mortality; did not like it.' | Elizabeth Firth | Walter Scott | Old Mortality | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [From the diary of Elizabeth Firth, 22 April 1818:]
'Read Lalla Rookh.' | Elizabeth Firth | Thomas Moore | Lalla Rookh | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [From the diary of Elizabeth Firth, 13 May 1818:]
'Read Young's Night Thoughts.' | Elizabeth Firth | Edward Young | Night Thoughts | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [From the diary of Elizabeth Firth, 22 May 1818:]
'Read Remains of H. K. White.' | Elizabeth Firth | Henry Kirke White | The Remains of Henry Kirke White, of Nottingham | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [From the diary of Elizabeth Firth, 2 January 1819:]
'Read the Heart of Midlothian.' | Elizabeth Firth | Walter Scott | The Heart of Midlothian | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [From the diary of Elizabeth Firth, 6 January 1820:]
'Read Goldsmith's History of Rome.' | Elizabeth Firth | Oliver Goldsmith | History of Rome | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [From Ellen Nussey's account of her first visit to the home of her schoolfriend, Charlotte Bronte:]
'In summer [Eli... | Elizabeth Branwell | | | Print: Unknown |
| 1700-1799
1800-1849 | Charlotte Bronte to William Wordsworth (in draft response to letter from him of c.1840):
'I am sorry I did not exis... | Elizabeth Branwell | | The Lady's Magazine | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | From Emily Bronte's 'diary paper' of 30 July 1841:
'It is Friday evening, near 9 o'clock -- wild rainy weather. I a... | Elizabeth Branwell | | Blackwood's Magazine | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | Meeting held at Reckitt House, Leighton Park: 22.6.32
Reginald H. Robson in the Chair.
1. Minutes o... | Elizabeth T. Alexander | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe | Faust | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Meeting held at Oakdene, Northcourt Av, 20.3.34.
Sylvanus A. Reynolds in the Chair.
1. Minute... | Elizabeth T. Alexander | Janet Rawlings | Uniforms | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | Meeting held at 30 Northcourt Avenue: 21.4.37.
Ethel C. Stevens in the Chair.
1. Minutes of las... | Elizabeth T. Alexander | Jane Austen | Love and Friendship | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Meeting held at School House, L.P. :- 28. v. 37.
C. E. Stanfield in the Chair.
1. Minutes of last... | Elizabeth T. Alexander | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Ode to the West Wind | |
| 1900-1945 | 'Meeting held at Whinfell, Upper Redlands Rd. 23.10.’37
Alfred Rawlings in the Chair
1. T... | Elizabeth T. Alexander | William Fryer Harvey | Caprimulgus | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | February 15th was the date chosen for the next time and the subject “Books that people have
been reading” ... | Elizabeth T. Alexander | Halliday Sutherland | A Time to Keep | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | February 15th was the date chosen for the next time and the subject “Books that people have
been reading” ... | Elizabeth T. Alexander | Halliday Sutherland | A Time to Keep | Print: Book |