√ | Century of Experience | Evidence | Name of Reader / Listener / Reading Group | Author of Text | Title of Text | Form of Text | |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have cast up my reading account, and brought it to the end of the year 1835. During the last thirteen months I have... | Thomas Babington Macaulay | Aeschylus | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have cast up my reading account, and brought it to the end of the year 1835. During the last thirteen months I hav... | Thomas Babington Macaulay | Sophocles | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have cast up my reading account, and brought it to the end of the year 1835. During the last thirteen months I hav... | Thomas Babington Macaulay | Euripides | | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'In the year 1655. was published by Mr Web a Booke intituled
Stonehenge-restored (but writt by Mr Inigo Jones) which ... | John Aubrey | Inigo Jones | Stonehenge Restored | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'We have got Fitz-Albini; my father has bought it against my private wishes, for it does not quite satisfy my feelings... | Jane Austen | Samuel Egerton Brydges | Arthur Fitz-Albini: a Novel | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'We have got Boswell's Tour to the Hebrides, and are to have his Life of Johnson.' | Jane Austen | James Boswell | Tour to the Hebrides | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'There was a very long list of Arrivals here, in the Newspaper yesterday, so that we need not immediately dread absolu... | Jane Austen | | | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'I have just been reading Heine's "De l'Allemagne", a very amusing book.' | Francis Romano (Cecco) Oliphant | Heinrich Heine | De l'Allemagne | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I think this extract from a western newspaper pretty nearly beats the record (slang again) for confusion of metaphors... | Francis Romano (Cecco) Oliphant | | [newspaper] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1700-1799 1800-1849 | 'She read sermons and other religious books, her favourite sermons being "professedly practical", without too much "Re... | Jane Austen | Thomas Sherlock | [sermons] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 1800-1849 | [Austen and her family were] 'great novel readers and not ashamed of being so'. | Jane Austen | unknown | [novels] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 1800-1849 | 'Austen read especially novels by women, including Mary Brunton, Frances and Sarah Harriet Burney, Maria Edgeworth, Ch... | Jane Austen | Maria Edgeworth | [novels] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 1800-1849 | 'Austen read especially novels by women, including Mary Brunton, Frances and Sarah Harriet Burney, Maria Edgeworth, Ch... | Jane Austen | Ann Radcliffe | [Gothic novels] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 1800-1849 | 'Austen read especially novels by women, including Mary Brunton, Frances and Sarah Harriet Burney, Maria Edgeworth, Ch... | Jane Austen | Regina Maria Roche | [novels] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 1800-1849 | 'Austen read especially novels by women, including Mary Brunton, Frances and Sarah Harriet Burney, Maria Edgeworth, Ch... | Jane Austen | Charlotte Smith | [novels] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 1800-1849 | 'Austen read especially novels by women, including Mary Brunton, Frances and Sarah Harriet Burney, Maria Edgeworth, Ch... | Jane Austen | Laetitia Matilda Hawkins | [novels] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 1800-1849 | 'Austen read especially novels by women, including Mary Brunton, Frances and Sarah Harriet Burney, Maria Edgeworth, Ch... | Jane Austen | Jane West | [novels] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 1800-1849 | 'Austen read especially novels by women, including Mary Brunton, Frances and Sarah Harriet Burney, Maria Edgeworth, Ch... | Jane Austen | Hannah More | Coelebs in Search of a Wife | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 1800-1849 | 'Austen read especially novels by women, including Mary Brunton, Frances and Sarah Harriet Burney, Maria Edgeworth, Ch... | Jane Austen | | Lady's Magazine | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1700-1799 1800-1849 | 'She enjoyed comic didactic novels, with Lennox's "The Female Quixote" and Barrett's "The Heroine" being especially ad... | Jane Austen | Charlotte Lennox | Female Quixote, The | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 1800-1849 | 'She enjoyed comic didactic novels, with Lennox's "The Female Quixote" and Barrett's "The Heroine" being especially ad... | Jane Austen | Eaton Barrett | The Heroine | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 1800-1849 | 'Her favourite novels included those of Burney, whom she thought "the very best of English novelists", and of Richards... | Jane Austen | Samuel Richardson | Sir Charles Grandison | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'In 1753 Catherine Talbot stayed with the Berkeley family and participated enthusiastically in readings of "Sir Charle... | Catherine Talbot | Samuel Richardson | Sir Charles Grandison | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 1800-1849 | 'Susan Sibbald knew Scottish shepherd Wully Carruthers who was a fellow-subscriber to the circulating library at Melro... | Susan Sibbald | Ann Radcliffe | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Princess Charlotte wrote of reading as a "great passion"; in a poignant attempt to construct bourgeois domestic intim... | Princess Charlotte | Jane Austen | Sense and Sensibility | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Princess Charlotte wrote of reading as a "great passion"; in a poignant attempt to construct bourgeois domestic intim... | Princess Charlotte | George Gordon, Lord Byron | [poems] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Princess Charlotte wrote of reading as a "great passion"; in a poignant attempt to construct bourgeois domestic intim... | Princess Charlotte | | [memoirs and history] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Princess Charlotte wrote of reading as a "great passion"; in a poignant attempt to construct bourgeois domestic intim... | Princess Charlotte | Anne Plumptre | [novels] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Weeton's reading becomes important in communication with friends, but also a point of conflict: when she visits her b... | Ellen Weeton | Alain Rene Le Sage | Gil Blas | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Weeton's reading becomes important in communication with friends, but also a point of conflict: when she visits her b... | Ellen Weeton | Mary Wortley Montagu | [Letters] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Weeton's reading becomes important in communication with friends, but also a point of conflict: when she visits her b... | Ellen Weeton | | [newspaper] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | 'Weeton's reading becomes important in communication with friends, but also a point of conflict: when she visits her b... | Ellen Weeton | | [magazine] | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'Weeton's reading becomes important in communication with friends, but also a point of conflict: when she visits her b... | Ellen Weeton | James Boswell | Tour of the Hebrides | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Weeton's reading becomes important in communication with friends, but also a point of conflict: when she visits her b... | Ellen Weeton | Mungo Park | Travels in the Interior Districts of Africa | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Weeton's reading becomes important in communication with friends, but also a point of conflict: when she visits her b... | Ellen Weeton | [Madame] de Genlis | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Weeton's reading becomes important in communication with friends, but also a point of conflict: when she visits her b... | Ellen Weeton | Elizabeth Hamilton | The Cottagers of Glenburnie | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Yesterday my Elizabeth and I went to the most remarkable poets' Reading I have ever attended. It was held at Lord Byr... | William Henry Davies | William Henry Davies | 'Love's Silent Hour' and three other poems | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'Thursday 16 sept 1824. Had a visit from my friend Henderson of Milton who brought 'Don Juan' in his Pocket' [He] 'ad... | John Clare | Byron | Don Juan | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | "Bought the John Bull Magazine out of curiosity to see if I was among the black sheep it grows in dulness thats one co... | John Clare | | John Bull Magazine | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'came home & read a chapter or two in the New Testament' | John Clare | | The New Testament | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | I have read Foxes book of Martyrs & finished it today | John Clare | John Foxe | Foxes Book of Martyrs | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'The rainy morning has kept me at home & I have amused myself heartily sitting under Waltons Sycamore tree hearing him... | John Clare | Izaak Walton | The Complete Angler | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Read the September No of the London Mag: only 2 good articles in it-'Blakesmore in H-shire' by Elia & review of 'Goeth... | John Clare | | The London Magazine | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have read the first chapter of Genesis the beginning of which is very fine but the sacred historian took a great de... | John Clare | | The Bible | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'read some of the Sonnets of shakspear which are great favourites of mine & lookd into the Poems of Chatterton to see ... | John Clare | William Shakespeare | The Sonnets | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'read some of the Sonnets of shakspear which are great favourites of mine & lookd into the Poems of Chatterton to see ... | John Clare | Thomas Chatterton | 'Poems of Chatterton' | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'all I have read today is Moores Almanack for the account of the weather which speaks of rain tho it is very hot. | John Clare | | Moore's Almanack | Print: almanack |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read some of the Odes of Collins think them superior to Grays [...] I cannot describe the pleasure I feel in reading ... | John Clare | William Collins Collins | 'Odes' [Appears to be a volume of Odes by various authors] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read some of the Odes of Collins think them superior to Grays [...] I cannot describe the pleasure I feel in reading ... | John Clare | John Ogilvie | 'Odes' [Appears to be a volume of Odes by various authors] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | till noon returnd & read snatches in several poets & the Song of Solomon thought the supposed illusions in that luscio... | John Clare | | 'the Song Solomon' | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read in Milton: his account of his blindness is very pathetic & I am always affected to tears'. Makes reference to 'P... | John Clare | John Milton | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Wrote another chapter of my Life read a little in Gray's Letters [...] they are the best letters I have seen & I consi... | John Clare | Thomas Gray | Letters | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'Look'd over the "Human Heart" the title has little connection with the contents- it displays the art of book making i... | John Clare | | The Human Heart | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read the poems of Conder over a second time [...] I am much pleasd with many more which I shall read anon' | John Clare | Josiah Conder | The Star in the East | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Began to read again the 'Garden of Florence' by Reynolds it is a beautiful simple tale' [describes other poems in vol]. | John Clare | John Hamilton Reynolds | The Garden of Florence | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'read in the testamentthe Epistle of St John I love that simple hearted expression of brotherly affection & love' | John Clare | | Epistle of St John | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'this morning a play bill was thrown into my house with this pompous blunder on the face of it [...]. | John Clare | | [playbill] | Print: Handbill, playbill |
| 1700-1799 | Read the News | John Yeoman | | | Print: Newspaper |
| 1700-1799 | Nothing Remarkable happend the Morning Noon nor evening of that Day, only Read the play called the Scool for Wifes. | John Yeoman | Hugh Kelly | The School for Wives | Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | I Read the travels of Roderick Random, who had been into different Quarters and he Exposed the severaty of the Captain... | John Yeoman | Tobias Smollett | Roderick Random | Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | Read the Second Part of Mr. Roderick Random | John Yeoman | Tobias Smollett | Roderick Random | Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | after [a morning walk] I Read the News. | John Yeoman | | | Print: Newspaper |
| 1700-1799 | home [from going to see the King's weekly procession at Kew] & Read the News | John Yeoman | | | Print: Newspaper |
| 1600-1699 | In the year 1650, as I well remember, I was onenight reading in my bed (as it was my custom then to do, in some book o... | John Gadbury | Robert Burton | The Anatomy of Melancholy | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Complete transcript of Cowper's poem. | Anon | William Cowper | The Negro's complaint | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | From the 'West Indies' a Poem by Montgomery.Part 2 Page 22 'In These romantic regions[...] From the same, Part 3 'Ther... | John Warburton | James Montgomery | The West Indies | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have cast up my reading account, and brought it to the end of the year 1835. [?] During the last thirteen months I ... | Thomas Babington Macaulay | Pindar | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have cast up my reading account, and brought it to the end of the year 1835. [?] During the last thirteen months I ... | Thomas Babington Macaulay | Callimachus | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have cast up my reading account, and brought it to the end of the year 1835. [?] During the last thirteen months I ... | Thomas Babington Macaulay | Apollonius Rhodius | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have cast up my reading account, and brought it to the end of the year 1835. [?] During the last thirteen months I ... | Thomas Babington Macaulay | Quintus Calaber | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have cast up my reading account, and brought it to the end of the year 1835. [?] During the last thirteen months I ... | Thomas Babington Macaulay | Theocritus | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have cast up my reading account, and brought it to the end of the year 1835. [?] During the last thirteen months I ... | Thomas Babington Macaulay | Herodotus | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have cast up my reading account, and brought it to the end of the year 1835. [?] During the last thirteen months I ... | Thomas Babington Macaulay | Thucydides | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have cast up my reading account, and brought it to the end of the year 1835. [?] During the last thirteen months I ... | Thomas Babington Macaulay | Xenophon | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have cast up my reading account, and brought it to the end of the year 1835. [?] During the last thirteen months I ... | Thomas Babington Macaulay | Plato | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have cast up my reading account, and brought it to the end of the year 1835. [?] During the last thirteen months I ... | Thomas Babington Macaulay | Aristotle | Politics | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have cast up my reading account, and brought it to the end of the year 1835. [?] During the last thirteen months I ... | Thomas Babington Macaulay | Aristotle | Organon | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have cast up my reading account, and brought it to the end of the year 1835. [?] During the last thirteen months I ... | Thomas Babington Macaulay | Plutarch | Lives | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have cast up my reading account, and brought it to the end of the year 1835. [?] During the last thirteen months I ... | Thomas Babington Macaulay | Lucian | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have cast up my reading account, and brought it to the end of the year 1835. [?] During the last thirteen months I ... | Thomas Babington Macaulay | Athenaeus | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have cast up my reading account, and brought it to the end of the year 1835. [?] During the last thirteen months I ... | Thomas Babington Macaulay | Plautus | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have cast up my reading account, and brought it to the end of the year 1835. [?] During the last thirteen months I ... | Thomas Babington Macaulay | Plautus | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have cast up my reading account, and brought it to the end of the year 1835. [?] During the last thirteen months I ... | Thomas Babington Macaulay | Aeschylus | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have cast up my reading account, and brought it to the end of the year 1835. [?] During the last thirteen months I ... | Thomas Babington Macaulay | Sophocles | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have cast up my reading account, and brought it to the end of the year 1835. [?] During the last thirteen months I ... | Thomas Babington Macaulay | Pindar | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have cast up my reading account, and brought it to the end of the year 1835. [?] During the last thirteen months I ... | Thomas Babington Macaulay | Theocritus | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have cast up my reading account, and brought it to the end of the year 1835. [?] During the last thirteen months I ... | Thomas Babington Macaulay | Terence | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have cast up my reading account, and brought it to the end of the year 1835. [?] During the last thirteen months I ... | Thomas Babington Macaulay | Lucretius | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have cast up my reading account, and brought it to the end of the year 1835. [?] During the last thirteen months I ... | Thomas Babington Macaulay | Catullus | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have cast up my reading account, and brought it to the end of the year 1835. [?] During the last thirteen months I ... | Thomas Babington Macaulay | Albius Tibullus | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have cast up my reading account, and brought it to the end of the year 1835. [?] During the last thirteen months I ... | Thomas Babington Macaulay | Sextus Propertius | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have cast up my reading account, and brought it to the end of the year 1835. [?] During the last thirteen months I ... | Thomas Babington Macaulay | Lucan | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have cast up my reading account, and brought it to the end of the year 1835. [?] During the last thirteen months I ... | Thomas Babington Macaulay | Silius Italicus | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have cast up my reading account, and brought it to the end of the year 1835. [?] During the last thirteen months I ... | Thomas Babington Macaulay | Livy | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have cast up my reading account, and brought it to the end of the year 1835. [?] During the last thirteen months I ... | Thomas Babington Macaulay | Velleius Paterculus | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have cast up my reading account, and brought it to the end of the year 1835. [?] During the last thirteen months I ... | Thomas Babington Macaulay | Sallust | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have cast up my reading account, and brought it to the end of the year 1835. [?] During the last thirteen months I ... | Thomas Babington Macaulay | Caesar | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have cast up my reading account, and brought it to the end of the year 1835. [?] During the last thirteen months I ... | Thomas Babington Macaulay | Cicero | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have cast up my reading account, and brought it to the end of the year 1835. [?] During the last thirteen months I ... | Thomas Babington Macaulay | Aristophanes | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 | 'Macaulay began with the frontispiece, if the book possessed one. "Said to be very like, and certainly full of the ch... | Thomas Babington Macaulay | Monk | Biography of Richard Bentley | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 | ' "This is a very good Idyll. Indeed it is more pleasing to me than almost any other pastoral poem in any language. ... | Thomas Babington Macaulay | Theocritus | Seventh Idyll | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 | 'Of Ben Jonson's Alchemist he writes: "It is very happily managed indeed to make Subtle use so many terms of alchemy, ... | Thomas Babington Macaulay | Ben Jonson | The Alchemist | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 | 'I am a reader in ordinary, and I cannot defend the introduction of the First Catilinarian oration, at full length, in... | Thomas Babington Macaulay | Ben Jonson | Catiline | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 | 'Of Pope's Rape of the Lock, Macaulay says: "Admirable indeed! The fight towards the beginning of the last book is ver... | Thomas Babington Macaulay | Alexander Pope | The Rape of the Lock | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 | 'He thus remarks on the Imitations of Horace's Satires: "Horace had perhaps less wit than Pope, but far more humour, f... | Thomas Babington Macaulay | Horace | Satires | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 | [Marginalia] 'A most powerful piece of rhetoric as ever I read.' | Thomas Babington Macaulay | Paul Louis Courier | Le Simple Discours | |
| 1800-1849 | 'He used to read Courier aloud to his sister at Calcutta of a June afternoon, - in the darkened upstairs chamber, wit... | Thomas Babington Macaulay | Paul Louis Courier | Le Simple Discours | |
| 1850-1899 | 'Our parents had accumulated a large number of books, which we were allowed to browse in as much as we liked.' | Mary Vivian (Molly) Hughes | Walter Scott | | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Our parents had accumulated a large number of books, which we were allowed to browse in as much as we liked.' | Mary Vivian (Molly) Hughes | Charles Dickens | | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Our parents had accumulated a large number of books, which we were allowed to browse in as much as we liked.' | Mary Vivian (Molly) Hughes | William Makepeace Thackeray | | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Our parents had accumulated a large number of books, which we were allowed to browse in as much as we liked.' | Mary Vivian (Molly) Hughes | Charles and Mary Lamb | | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Our parents had accumulated a large number of books, which we were allowed to browse in as much as we liked.' | Mary Vivian (Molly) Hughes | George Eliot | | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Our parents had accumulated a large number of books, which we were allowed to browse in as much as we liked.' | Mary Vivian (Molly) Hughes | Alfred Tennyson | | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Our parents had accumulated a large number of books, which we were allowed to browse in as much as we liked.' | Mary Vivian (Molly) Hughes | George Gordon Noel, Lord Byron | | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Our parents had accumulated a large number of books, which we were allowed to browse in as much as we liked.' | Mary Vivian (Molly) Hughes | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Our parents had accumulated a large number of books, which we were allowed to browse in as much as we liked.' | Mary Vivian (Molly) Hughes | Benjamin Disraeli | | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Our parents had accumulated a large number of books, which we were allowed to browse in as much as we liked.' | Mary Vivian (Molly) Hughes | William Makepeace Thackeray | Vanity Fair | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'mother would summon me to her side and open an enormous Bible. It was invariably at the Old Testament, and I had to r... | Mary Vivian (Molly) Hughes | | Bible (Old Testament), the | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'My English history was derived from a small book in small print that dealt with the characters of the kings at some l... | Mary Vivian (Molly) Hughes | | | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Not as a lesson, but for sheer pleasure, did I browse in "A Child's History of Rome", a book full of good stories.' | Mary Vivian (Molly) Hughes | | A Child's History of Rome | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'For scientific notions I had Dr. Brewer's "Guide to Science", in the form of a catechism.' | Mary Vivian (Molly) Hughes | Dr Brewer | Guide to Science | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Of course I had a shelf for my books..."Rosy's Voyage Around the World" was prime favourite.' | Mary Vivian (Molly) Hughes | | Rosy's Voyage Around the World | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'My own treasures are nearly all with me still, showing only the honourable marks of age and continual reading...' | Mary Vivian (Molly) Hughes | | The Little Gypsy | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | '"Alice in Wonderland" we all knew practically by heart.' | Mary Vivian (Molly) Hughes | Lewis Carroll | Alice in Wonderland | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'one of the red-letter days of my life was a birthday when I received from my father "Through the Looking Glass". I...... | Mary Vivian (Molly) Hughes | Lewis Carroll | Through the Looking Glass | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 | [Marginalia by Macaulay on Swift's "Essay on the Fates of Clergymen"]: 'People speak of the world as they find it. I ... | Thomas Babington Macaulay | Jonathan Swift | Essay on the Fates of Clergymen | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 | Description of Marginalia by Macaulay on Edward Gibbon's 'Vindication' - the marginalia responds to the passage 'Fame ... | Thomas Babington Macaulay | Edward Gibbon | Vindication | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 | [Marginalia by Macaulay on Conyers Middleton's 'Free Enquiry into the Miraculous Powers of the Christian Church']: 'I ... | Thomas Babington Macaulay | Conyers Middleton | Free Enquiry into the Miraculous Powers of the Christian Church | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 | [Marginalia by Macaulay on the first page of his copy of Shakespeare's "Romeo and Juliet"]: 'An admirable opening scen... | Thomas Babington Macaulay | William Shakespeare | Romeo and Juliet | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 | [Marginalia by Macaulay by the passage about the biting of the thumbs in Shakespeare's "Romeo and Juliet"]: 'This is n... | Thomas Babington Macaulay | William Shakespeare | Romeo and Juliet | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 | [Marginalia by Macaulay by the scene in the street beginning with Mercutio's lines: 'Where the devil should this Romeo... | Thomas Babington Macaulay | William Shakespeare | Romeo and Juliet | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 | [Marginalia by Macaulay by the commencement of the third act in Shakespeare's "Romeo and Juliet"]: 'Mercutio, here, is... | Thomas Babington Macaulay | William Shakespeare | Romeo and Juliet | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 | [Marginalia by Macaulay by the the lines 'Some consequence, yet hanging in the stars, / Shall bitterly begin his fearf... | Thomas Babington Macaulay | William Shakespeare | Romeo and Juliet | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 | [Marginalia by Macaulay at the close of the Third Act of Shakespeare's "Romeo and Juliet"]: 'Very fine is the way in w... | Thomas Babington Macaulay | William Shakespeare | Romeo and Juliet | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 | [Editorial commentary on Macaulay's marginalia]: 'When [...] the poor child commits her life to the hands of Friar Law... | Thomas Babington Macaulay | William Shakespeare | Romeo and Juliet | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | I took up the Economy of Human Life, and was much pleased with the simplicity, ease and elegance of its style. The Bio... | John Horrocks Ainsworth | Robert Dodsley | The Economy of Human Life | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | I finished Allan Ramsay's "Gentle Shepherd", and with some parts have been much pleased - the Scotch is interesting to... | John Horrocks Ainsworth | Allan Ramsay | The Gentle Shepherd | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Looked through a volume of the Edinburgh Philosophical Journal - read an account of Gordon's Portable Gas Lamp, and of... | John Horrocks Ainsworth | | The Edinburgh Philosophical Journal | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | Commenced Boswell's Life of Johnson and was much pleased with it. | John Horrocks Ainsworth | James Boswell | The Life of Samuel Johnson | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Dined at five - went on with Boswell having discontinued it, since Saturday January 23rd. | John Horrocks Ainsworth | James Boswell | The Life of Samuel Johnson | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Wholesome dinners produce haviness and ill humour commenced Peveril of the Peak. | John Horrocks Ainsworth | Walter Scott | Peveril of the Peak | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Finished Peveril of the Peak. | John Horrocks Ainsworth | Walter Scott | Peveril of the Peak | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'The story itself was an allegory, and was too subtle for us, but it is impossible to describe the endless pleasure gi... | Mary Vivian (Molly) Hughes | | The Story without an End | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'It was entirely due to its colour that another book became my constant companion. This was an illustrated Scripture t... | Mary Vivian (Molly) Hughes | | | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Some of the boys' prizes fell into my keeping, handed to me in disgust. One of these, "The Safe Compass", afforded me... | Mary Vivian (Molly) Hughes | | The Safe Compass | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Many people of my age must have imbibed their early religious notions from the same book that I did.' | Mary Vivian (Molly) Hughes | | The Peep of the Day | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I was placed in the lowest class with three other little girls of my own age, who were reading aloud the story of Ric... | Mary Vivian (Molly) Hughes | | | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'My new history book was "Little Arthur", which one could read like a delightful story.' | Mary Vivian (Molly) Hughes | | Little Arthur | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'We spent a whole term on the first two scenes of "The Tempest".' | Mary Vivian (Molly) Hughes | William Shakespeare | The Tempest | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'My dear Mrs Oliphant, - I cannot help venturing to express the admiration with which I have been reading the "Lover a... | Alexander Kinglake | Margaret Oliphant | The Lover and his Lass | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | One afternoon, very near the end, she begged to have "Crossing the Bar" read; and while the reader, painfully keeping ... | Annie Coghill | | Crossing the Bar | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I had read in Cobbett's "Advice to Young Men" a caution not to depend upon the Muses for substantial support ... he i... | John Teer | William Cobbett | Advice to Young Men, and, incidentally, to Young W | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Upon on of the interminable book-stalls, or rather book-walls, which display their leafy banners along the quays of th... | Charles Manby Smith | William Cobbett | A French Grammar, Or plain Instructions for the Le | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Volume annotated in Dawson's own hand. Includes correction to Preface and a contents list. | John Dawson | Marquis of Chatele, Paul Hay | The Politics of France | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Manuscript list of 'The Proverbs & c in this Book' (in Dawson's hand) has been bound into the rear of the book. | John Dawson | Nathan Bailey | Universal Etymological Dictionary | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Contains a contents list, index to illustrations, index to maps and cross references to other texts in his library. | John Dawson | William Camden | Britannia: or, a Chorographical Description of Gre | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Two volumes bound together by Dawson and including his 'The Pages Where the affairs in this Book begin for 1723' and '... | John Dawson | | The Historical Register | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 | Macaulay's marginalia, by the lines 'Now, afore God, this reverend holy friar/ All our whole city is much bound to him... | Thomas Babington Macaulay | William Shakespeare | Romeo and Juliet | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 | Macaulay's marginalia by the speech about Queen Mab in Romeo and Juliet: "This speech, - full of matter, of thought, o... | Thomas Babington Macaulay | William Shakespeare | Romeo and Juliet | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 | Macaulay's marginalia by the lines 'Hath Romeo slain himself' to 'Of those eyes shut, that make thee answer "I"' : "If... | Thomas Babington Macaulay | William Shakespeare | Romeo and Juliet | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Macaulay's marginalia by the point where Balthazar brings the evil tidings to Mantua in Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet... | Thomas Babington Macaulay | William Shakespeare | Romeo and Juliet | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 | Macaulay's marginalia in the scene in the vault of death in Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet: "The desperate calmness of... | Thomas Babington Macaulay | William Shakespeare | Romeo and Juliet | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 | Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of Hamlet, by the opening dialogue: "beyond praise". | Thomas Babington Macaulay | William Shakespeare | Hamlet | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 | Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of Hamlet, by the lines 'that season comes/ Wherein our Saviour's birth is celebrate... | Thomas Babington Macaulay | William Shakespeare | Hamlet | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 | Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of Hamlet, "The long story about Fortinbras, and all that follows from it, seems to ... | Thomas Babington Macaulay | William Shakespeare | Hamlet | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 | Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of Hamlet, in the scene of the royal audience in the room of state: "The silence of ... | Thomas Babington Macaulay | William Shakespeare | Hamlet | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 | Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of Hamlet, by the scene with the strolling player's declamation about Pyrrhus: "the ... | Thomas Babington Macaulay | William Shakespeare | Hamlet | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 | Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of Hamlet, at the opening of Act 1, Scene 4: "Nothing can be finer than this specime... | Thomas Babington Macaulay | William Shakespeare | Hamlet | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 | Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of Hamlet, by the lines 'Dost thou hear?/ Since my dear soul was mistress of her cho... | Thomas Babington Macaulay | William Shakespeare | Hamlet | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 | Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of Hamlet, by the conversation between Hamlet and the courtier, in Act 5: "This is a... | Thomas Babington Macaulay | William Shakespeare | Hamlet | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 | Macaulay's marginalia. By an editorial note by Dr Johnson, to the lines, 'Who would fardels bear, / To groan and swea... | Thomas Babington Macaulay | William Shakespeare | Hamlet | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 | Macaulay's marginalia. By the editorial notes in his copy of Hamlet: "It is a noble emendation. Had Warburton often ... | Thomas Babington Macaulay | William Shakespeare | Hamlet | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 | Macaulay's marginalia by the editorial notes in his copy of Hamlet in the scene where Hamlet declines to kill his uncl... | Thomas Babington Macaulay | William Shakespeare | Hamlet | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 | Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of King Lear, in Act 1, Scene 3: "Here begins the finest of all human performances." | Thomas Babington Macaulay | William Shakespeare | King Lear | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 | Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of King Lear, in Act 2, Scene 2, opposite Cornwall's description of the fellow who h... | Thomas Babington Macaulay | William Shakespeare | King Lear | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 | Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of King Lear, by the lines 'Now i pr'ythee, daughter, do not make me mad!/ I will no... | Thomas Babington Macaulay | William Shakespeare | King Lear | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 | Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of King Lear, by the apostrophe commencing, 'O, let not women's weapons, water-drops... | Thomas Babington Macaulay | William Shakespeare | King Lear | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 | Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of King Lear, by opening of the play: "Idolising Shakspeare [sic] as I do, I cannot ... | Thomas Babington Macaulay | William Shakespeare | King Lear | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 | Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of King Lear, by the quarrel between Kent and Cornwall's steward: "It is rather a fa... | Thomas Babington Macaulay | William Shakespeare | King Lear | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 | Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of King Lear, in Act 3, Scene 4: "The softening of Lear's nature and manners, under ... | Thomas Babington Macaulay | William Shakespeare | King Lear | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 | Macaulay's marginalia in response to a note by Dr Johnson at the end of King Lear. Johnson protested against the unpl... | Thomas Babington Macaulay | William Shakespeare | King Lear | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 | Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of Antony and Cleopatra. A response to an editorial note by Steevens. "Solemn nons... | Thomas Babington Macaulay | William Shakespeare | Antony and Cleopatra | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 | Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of Henry V, by the Prologue. Macaulay responds to an editorial note by Dr Johnson, ... | Thomas Babington Macaulay | William Shakespeare | Henry V | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 | Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of A Midsummer Night's Dream, by Warburton's editorial note to the lines 'Now the hu... | Thomas Babington Macaulay | William Shakespeare | A Midsummer Night's Dream | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 | Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of A Midsummer Night's Dream, by the lines 'the rattling tongue / Of saucy and audac... | Thomas Babington Macaulay | William Shakespeare | A Midsummer Night's Dream | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 | Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of A Midsummer Night's Dream, by the lines 'Be, as thou wast wont to be' to 'Hath su... | Thomas Babington Macaulay | William Shakespeare | A Midsummer Night's Dream | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 | Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of A Midsummer Night's Dream, on the last page: "A glorious play. The love-scenes F... | Thomas Babington Macaulay | William Shakespeare | A Midsummer Night's Dream | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | [Permitted Sunday reading for the children of the family] | Mary Vivian (Molly) Hughes | Daniel Defoe | Robinson Crusoe | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | [Permitted Sunday reading for the children of the family] | Mary Vivian (Molly) Hughes | Thomas Hughes | Tom Brown | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | [Permitted Sunday reading for the children of the family]. | Mary Vivian (Molly) Hughes | Hans Christian Andersen | Tales | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | [Permitted Sunday reading for the children of the family]. | Mary Vivian (Molly) Hughes | John Bunyan | Pilgrim's Progress, The | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | [Permitted Sunday reading for the children of the family]. | Mary Vivian (Molly) Hughes | | Good Words for the Young | Print: Serial / periodical, Bound volumes |
| 1850-1899 | 'Again and again I turned to something entitled "The Dark Journey", only to find it was an account of one's digestion.... | Mary Vivian (Molly) Hughes | | The Dark Journey | Print: Serial / periodical, Bound volumes of a periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'We all liked certain parts of a three-volume story called "Henry Milner"...I believe he never did anything wrong, but... | Mary Vivian (Molly) Hughes | | Henry Milner | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'One day when Barnholt was desperate for a new story I recommended Esther as being as good as the "Arabian Knights"...... | Barnholt Thomas | | Bible, The (Book of Esther) | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I concluded that no one could really be as good as this book wanted and that it was a fearful waste of time.' | Mary Vivian (Molly) Hughes | | The Narrow Way | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Among the treasures we rooted out...were an illustrated Prayer Book, gone quite brown with age and damp. When tired o... | Mary Vivian (Molly) Hughes | | | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Foxe's "Book of Martyrs" was another feast for us.' | Mary Vivian (Molly) Hughes | John Foxe | Book of Martyrs | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Surely no book was ever read and re-read and talked over as that first new volume, although we went on to buy many mo... | Mary Vivian (Molly) Hughes | Robert Michael Ballantyne | The Iron Horse | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I can still remember the deep interest I took in a long serial story.' | Mary Vivian (Molly) Hughes | | March Winds and April Showers bring forth May Flowers | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'Cassell's Magazine provided stronger meat...and I think every word of it found some reader in the family.' | Mary Vivian (Molly) Hughes | | Cassell's Family Magazine | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'he saw me one day deep in "A Journey to the Interior of the Earth" [sic].' | Mary Vivian (Molly) Hughes | Jules Verne | Journey to the Centre of the Earth | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'At age thirteen John Clare was shown The Seasons by a Methodist weaver and though he had no real experience of poetry... | John Clare | James Thomson | The Seasons | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Wedding-bells were the usual end to our stories, of which "The Heir of Redclyffe" was a fair sample. Needless to say ... | Mary Vivian (Molly) Hughes | | The Heir of Redclyffe | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 1"Vanity Fair" I read without the faintest suspicion of the intent of the note in the bouquet, or of Rawdon's reason f... | Mary Vivian (Molly) Hughes | William Makepeace Thackeray | Vanity Fair | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'One winter evening I was sitting over the fire engrossed in "Jane Eyre"...' | Mary Vivian (Molly) Hughes | Charlotte Bronte | Jane Eyre | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I struggled through one [essay/article] by Gladstone just, in order to be able to say I had, but honestly I understo... | Mary Vivian (Molly) Hughes | William Gladstone | | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'While he read little but the Bible and religious periodicals, his son was working his way through the Rhymney Workmen... | father of Thomas Jones | | The Bible | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'While he read little but the Bible and religious periodicals, his son was working his way through the Rhymney Workmen... | father of Thomas Jones | | | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'The Primitive Methodists may have been the most anti-intellectual of the Wesleyans, yet miners' MP John Johnson... "f... | John Johnson | Adam Smith | The Wealth of Nations | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'The Primitive Methodists may have been the most anti-intellectual of the Wesleyans, yet miners' MP John Johnson "foun... | John Johnson | John Stuart Mill | Principles of Political Economy | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'The Primitive Methodists may have been the most anti-intellectual of the Wesleyans, yet miners' MP John Johnson "foun... | John Johnson | Alfred Marshall | Principles of Economics | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'The Primitive Methodists may have been the most anti-intellectual of the Wesleyans, yet miners' MP John Johnson "foun... | John Johnson | | [history and philosophy] | Print: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'It was filled with a high but vague nonconformity, and tried to combine the ideals of revivalist Christianity and gre... | Edwin Muir | | Great Thoughts | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | 'In 1926 [Catherine McMullen] was herself a workhouse laundress, struggling to improve her mind by reading T.P. and Ca... | Catherine McMullen | Philip Stanhope, 4th Lord Chesterfield | Letters of Lord Chesterfield to his Son | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'In 1926 [Catherine McMullen] was herself a workhouse laundress, struggling to improve her mind by reading T.P. and Ca... | Catherine McMullen | | T.P. and Cassell's Weekly | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | 'In 1926 [Catherine McMullen] was herself a workhouse laundress, struggling to improve her mind by reading T.P. and Ca... | Catherine McMullen | Elinor Glyn | The Career of Catherine Bush | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'In 1926 [Catherine McMullen] was herself a workhouse laundress, struggling to improve her mind by reading T.P. and Ca... | Catherine McMullen | Geoffrey Chaucer | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'In 1926 [Catherine McMullen] was herself a workhouse laundress, struggling to improve her mind by reading T.P. and Ca... | Catherine McMullen | John Donne | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'In 1926 [Catherine McMullen] was herself a workhouse laundress, struggling to improve her mind by reading T.P. and Ca... | Catherine McMullen | Desiderius Erasmus Rotterdamus | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'In 1926 [Catherine McMullen] was herself a workhouse laundress, struggling to improve her mind by reading T.P. and Ca... | Catherine McMullen | Edward Gibbon | The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'In 1926 [Catherine McMullen] was herself a workhouse laundress, struggling to improve her mind by reading T.P. and Ca... | Catherine McMullen | James Joyce | Finnegan's Wake | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'As a seaman in the mid-1870s, Ben Tillett had not yet been exposed to revolutionary literature, "But I discovered Tho... | Ben Tillett | Thomas Carlyle | | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'As a young South Wales miner, Edmund Stonelake, who had never heard of the French Revolution, asked a bookseller for ... | Edmund Stonelake | Thomas Carlyle | | Print: Book, Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | Witness statement in trial for for theft/ receiving stolen goods:
John Wyn: "On the 17th of December I had been loo... | John Wyn | | Daily Advertiser | Print: Newspaper |
| 1700-1799 | Witness statement in trial for for theft/ receiving stolen goods:
John Wyn: "On the 17th of December I had been loo... | John Wyn | | Daily Advertiser | Print: Newspaper |
| 1700-1799 | Witness statement in trial for burglary:
John Monk: "I have for some years past supported myself by thieving... Wai... | John Monk | | | Print: Handbill |
| 1800-1849 | Witness statement in trial for burglary/ receiving stolen goods:
Henry Ewer: "I am a shopman to Mr Dobree, Oxford-s... | Henry Ewer | | | Print: Handbill |
| 1700-1799 | Prisoner's defence in trial for highway robbery:
"When I came home I went to a coffee-house in Long-acre and asked ... | Alexander Bourk | | Daily Advertiser | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | Witness statement in trial for receiving stolen goods:
Robert Daniel Liddell: "I am in Mr Marshall's employ. On the... | Robert Daniel Liddell | | | Print: Handbill, playbill |
| 1800-1849 | Witness statement in trial for publishing a blasphemous and seditious libel:
Prisoner questions witness Raven
Q: P... | Henry Baldwin Raven | | The Republican | |
| 1700-1799 | Witness statement in trial for highway robbery:
John Brooks: "the handbill came from Sir John Fielding's on the 26t... | John Brooks | Sir John Fielding | | Print: Handbill |
| 1700-1799 | Witness statement in trial for theft:
Henry Butt: "On the 26th of August I took in two gravy spoons... Two days aft... | Henry Butt | | | Print: Handbill |
| 1800-1849 | Witness statement in trial for theft:
Rebecca Johnson: "I began to wash a few things after dinner, and soon after s... | Anthony Whitewood | | | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | Witness statement in trial for housebreaking:
John Osrorne: "I know Wood, he came to my house on the 29th of July..... | John Osrorne | | | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | Witness statement in trial for pickpocketing:
John Everhard Berckemyer: "On the 11th of October, about ten o'clock,... | John Everard Berckemyer | | | Print: Advertisement, Handbill, Poster, playbill |
| 1700-1799 | Witness statement in trial for theft:
Q: "Do you know when Cox was taken up?"
Taylor: "I saw it in the newspaper" | John Taylor | | | Print: Newspaper |
| 1700-1799 | Witness statement in trial for highway robbery:
Henry Barnard: "I went to Baker's Coffee-house to search the newspa... | Henry Barnard | | | Print: Newspaper |
| 1700-1799 | Witness statement in trial for highway robbery:
Henry Barnard: "I went to Baker's Coffee-house to search the newspa... | Henry Barnard | | | Print: Newspaper |
| 1700-1799 | Witness statement in trial for theft:
John Williamson: "I went and got a pennyworth of gin. I had a newspaper in my... | John Williamson | | | Print: Newspaper |
| 1700-1799 | Witness statement in trial for coining:
John Bailey: "I am an engraver in Fleet-market. I saw the prisoner, as well... | John Bailey | | | Print: Newspaper |
| 1700-1799 | Witness statement in trial for stealing:
John Jackson: "I came up by coach, I got down at the White Horse Cellar in... | John Jackson | | | Print: Newspaper |
| 1700-1799 | Witness statement in trial for robbery:
Jane Toosey swore to the court that she read about this crime in the newspa... | Jane Toosey | | Daily Advertiser | Print: Newspaper |
| 1700-1799 | Witness statement in trial for forgery:
Joseph Lecree: "...a card was left for me to go to Ibberson's Coffee-house,... | Henry Griffin | | | Print: Newspaper |
| 1700-1799 | Witness statement in trial for theft:
Thomas Tuck: "Last Saturday, about three o'clock, the prisoner was in my parl... | John Simmonds | | | Print: Newspaper |
| 1700-1799 | Witness statement in trial for embezzlement:
Anthony Parkin: "he went on Saturday morning to a public house, the si... | John Norton | | | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | Witness statement in trial for theft:
John Lench: "On Saturday the 7th of May, between twelve and one, I was readin... | John Lench | | | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | Witness statement in trial for theft:
John Wiffin: "On the 1st of August, I was reading the newspaper at the Northu... | John Wiffin | | | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | witness statement in trial for theft/ receiving stolen goods:
William de Roach: "In the middle of August I was in P... | John Pollard | | | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | witness statement in trial for theft/ receiving stolen goods:
William de Roach: "Then the week following Mrs Rippen... | John Pollard | | | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | witness statement in trial for murder:
Henry Bracken: "I caused hom to be apprehended. I read the description of hi... | Henry Bracken | | | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | witness statement in trial for deception/forgery:
John Dougan: "I was going to the West Indies, in pursuance of tha... | Anthony McKenrott | | | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | witness statement in trial for theft:
Michael McNally: "Jack brought a newspaper to me, and read a statement that C... | John (Jack) Winter | | | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 | [Macaulay's marginalia by the conversation in the street between Brutus and Cassius, in the First Act of Julius Caesar... | Thomas Babington Macaulay | William Shakespeare | Julius Caesar | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 | [Macaulay's marginalia at the end of Julius Caesar] "The last scenes are huddled up, and affect me less than Plutarch'... | Thomas Babington Macaulay | William Shakespeare | Julius Caesar | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 | [Macaulay's marginalia by the lines "Let me have men about me that are fat/ Sleek headed men, and such as sleep o' nig... | Thomas Babington Macaulay | William Shakespeare | Julius Caesar | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 | Henry Mayhew interviews 'educated' costermongers who read fiction aloud to groups of costermongers in the courts they ... | anon | Edward Lloyd | [various titles published by Lloyd] | Print: Serial / periodical |
| | Henry Mayhew's interview with an orphan flower girl and her sister:
"'We've always had good health. We can all read'.... | anon | | Garden of Heaven | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Henry Mayhew interviews a sweet-stuff maker:
"One of the appliances of the sweet-stuff trade which I saw in the roo... | anon | | History of England | Print: Book, Serial / periodical, uncut sheets |
| 1800-1849 | Henry Mayhew interviews a long-song seller: to sell ballads he not only cries their titles, but also sings the songs h... | anon | | | Print: Broadsheet, broadside ballads |
| 1800-1849 | Henry Mayhew interviews a running patterer -seller of broadsheets mainly dealing with crime and breaking news, sometim... | anon | | | Print: Broadsheet |
| 1800-1849 | Henry Mayhew interviews a street author or street poet:
"I was very fond of reading poems in my youth, as soon as I... | anon | Oliver Goldsmith | Edwin and Angelina | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Henry Mayhew interviews a 'cheap John':
"From selling the printed songs, I imbibed a wish to learn to read, and, with... | anon | | | Print: Broadsheet, broadside ballads |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 | Henry Mayhew interviews a blind female seller of 'small wares', the conversation turns to her younger son:
"My youn... | anon | | | Print: Book, Broadsheet, Serial / periodical, penny book |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 | Henry Mayhew interviews a street buyer of waste paper:
"The only worldly labour I do on a Sunday is to take my fami... | anon | [n/a] | Lloyd's Weekly Newspaper | Print: Broadsheet, Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | Henry Mayhew interviews a fancy cabinet-maker
"...one elderly and very intelligent man, a first rate artisan in ski... | anon | | Examiner | Print: Broadsheet, Newspaper, Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | Henry Mayhew interviews a fancy cabinet-maker
"...one elderly and very intelligent man, a first rate artisan in ski... | anon | | Daily News | Print: Broadsheet, Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 | Henry Mayhew interviews a fancy cabinet-maker
"...one elderly and very intelligent man, a first rate artisan in ski... | anon | | various | Print: Book, leaves from books used to wrap food purchases |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 | Henry Mayhew interviews a penny mouse-trap maker (cripple):
"My daughter is eighteen and my son eleven; that is my ... | anon | | Family Friend | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 | Henry Mayhew interviews a penny mouse-trap maker (cripple):
"I found books often lull my pain... I can't afford the... | anon | John Milton | Paradise Lost | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 | Henry Mayhew interviews a penny mouse-trap maker (cripple):
"I found books often lull my pain... I can't afford the... | anon | William Shakespeare | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 | Henry Mayhew interviews a penny mouse-trap maker (cripple):
"I found books often lull my pain... I can't afford the... | anon | | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 | Henry Mayhew interviews a street entertainer -a 'blind reader':
"I was not born blind, but lost my sight four years... | anon | | Gospel | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 | Henry Mayhew interviews a boy of 16, a vagrant and inmate of a casual ward of a London workhouse:
"My father had no... | anon | Watts | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 | Henry Mayhew interviews a boy of 16, a vagrant and inmate of a casual ward of a London workhouse:
"My father had no... | anon | John Wesley | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 | Henry Mayhew interviews a boy of 16, a vagrant and inmate of a casual ward of a London workhouse:
"My father had no... | anon | | religious magazines | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 | Henry Mayhew interviews a boy of 16, a vagrant and inmate of a casual ward of a London workhouse:
"My father had no... | anon | Clark | Lives of Pirates | Print: Book, Serial / periodical, numbers collected into volume by library? |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 | Henry Mayhew interviews a boy of 16, a vagrant and inmate of a casual ward of a London workhouse:
"My father had no... | anon | | Tales of Shipwrecks | Print: Serial / periodical, probably penny numbers |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 | Henry Mayhew interviews a boy of 16, a vagrant and inmate of a casual ward of a London workhouse:
"My father had no... | anon | | Family Herald | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 | Henry Mayhew interviews a boy of 16, a vagrant and inmate of a casual ward of a London workhouse:
"My father had no... | anon | William Harrison Ainsworth | Windsor Castle | Print: Book, Serial / periodical, unsure if penny numbers or book |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 | Henry Mayhew interviews a boy of 16, a vagrant and inmate of a casual ward of a London workhouse:
"My father had no... | anon | William Harrison Ainsworth | The Tower of London | Print: Book, Serial / periodical, unsure if penny numbers or book |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 | Henry Mayhew interviews a boy of 17, an inmate of a London workhouse:
"I thought I should make my fortune in London... | anon | | | Print: Book, Serial / periodical, penny books |
| 1850-1899 | Henry Mayhew interviews a boy of 17, an inmate of a London workhouse:
"I've read 'Jack Sheppard' through, in three ... | anon | William Harrison Ainsworth | Jack Sheppard | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Henry Mayhew interviews a 'London sneak or common thief':
"On Sunday evenings the only books read were such as 'Jac... | anon | William Harrison Ainsworth | Jack Sheppard | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Henry Mayhew interviews a 'London sneak or common thief':
"On Sunday evenings the only books read were such as 'Jac... | anon | William Harrison Ainsworth | Rookwood | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Henry Mayhew interviews a 'London sneak or common thief':
"On Sunday evenings the only books read were such as 'Jac... | anon | | Newgate Calendar | Print: Book, Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 | Henry Mayhew interviews a former London pickpocket, turned patterer; grew up in Shropshire, father a Wesleyan minister... | anon | | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 | Henry Mayhew interviews a former London pickpocket, turned patterer; grew up in Shropshire, father a Wesleyan minister... | anon | | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 | Henry Mayhew interviews a former London pickpocket, turned patterer; grew up in Shropshire, father a Wesleyan minister... | anon | Thomas Paine | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 | Henry Mayhew interviews a former London pickpocket, turned patterer; grew up in Shropshire, father a Wesleyan minister... | anon | Volney | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 | Henry Mayhew interviews a former London pickpocket, turned patterer; grew up in Shropshire, father a Wesleyan minister... | anon | George Jacob Holyoake | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 | Henry Mayhew interviews a former London pickpocket, turned patterer; grew up in Shropshire, father a Wesleyan minister... | anon | Edward Bulwer-Lytton | | Print: Book, Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 | Henry Mayhew interviews a former London pickpocket, turned patterer; grew up in Shropshire, father a Wesleyan minister... | anon | Charles Dickens | | Print: Book, Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | '[Muir's] account of his reading material as a young man in Glasgow points to an involvement with poems of the Romanti... | Edwin Muir | John Keats | 'Ode to a Nightingale' | Print: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | '[Muir's] account of his reading material as a young man in Glasgow points to an involvement with poems of the Romanti... | Edwin Muir | Alfred Lord Tennyson | 'The Lotus Eaters' | Print: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | '[Muir's] account of his reading material as a young man in Glasgow points to an involvement with poems of the Romanti... | Edwin Muir | Percy Bysshe Shelley | 'Ode to the West Wind' | Print: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | '[Muir's] account of his reading material as a young man in Glasgow points to an involvement with poems of the Romanti... | Edwin Muir | Algernon Charles Swinburne | 'Atalanta in Calydon' | Print: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | '[Muir's] account of his reading material as a young man in Glasgow points to an involvement with poems of the Romanti... | Edwin Muir | Wiliam Wordsworth | 'The Solitary Reaper' | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Henry Mayhew holds meeting with a group of the lowest class of male juvenile thieves and vagabonds; during the meeting... | anon | William Harrison Ainsworth | Jack Sheppard | Print: Book, Serial / periodical, either in penny numbers or as volume |
| 1800-1849 | Henry Mayhew holds meeting with a group of the lowest class of male juvenile thieves and vagabonds; during the meeting... | anon | William Harrison Ainsworth | Rookwood | Print: Book, Serial / periodical, either in penny numbers or as volume |
| 1900-1945 | '[Muir] wrote to Stephen Spender in the summer of 1944 that Bowra's book had made him realise that he had been writing... | Edwin Muir | C. Maurice Bowra | The Heritage of Symbolism | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Henry Mayhew holds meeting with a group of the lowest class of male juvenile thieves and vagabonds; during the meeting... | anon | | Claude du Val | Print: Book, Serial / periodical, either in penny numbers or as volume |
| 1800-1849 | Henry Mayhew holds meeting with a group of the lowest class of male juvenile thieves and vagabonds; during the meeting... | anon | | Newgate Calendar | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | Henry Mayhew holds meeting with a group of the lowest class of male juvenile thieves and vagabonds; during the meeting... | anon | | Lives of the Robbers and Pirates | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1700-1799 | William Wordsworth to Robert Shelton Mackenzie, 26 January 1838:
'When I was a very young Man the present Archdeacon ... | Francis Wrangham | Juvenal | Satire X | Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'Emrys Daniel Hughes, [an] imprisoned CO and son of a Tonypandy miner, learned that the authorities were not unaware o... | Emrys Daniel Hughes | Percy Bysshe Shelley | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Emrys Daniel Hughes, [an] imprisoned CO and son of a Tonypandy miner, learned that the authorities were not unaware o... | Emrys Daniel Hughes | Laurence Sterne | Tristram Shandy | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Emrys Daniel Hughes, [an] imprisoned CO and son of a Tonypandy miner, learned that the authorities were not unaware o... | Emrys Daniel Hughes | Thomas More | Utopia | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Emrys Daniel Hughes, [an] imprisoned CO and son of a Tonypandy miner, learned that the authorities were not unaware o... | Emrys Daniel Hughes | Herbert George Wells | The World Set Free | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Emrys Daniel Hughes, [an] imprisoned CO and son of a Tonypandy miner, learned that the authorities were not unaware o... | Emrys Daniel Hughes | | [biography of William Penn] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Emrys Daniel Hughes, [an] imprisoned CO and son of a Tonypandy miner, learned that the authorities were not unaware o... | Emrys Daniel Hughes | Walt Whitman | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '[Emrys Hughes] read the social history of Macaulay, Froude, and J.R. Green; Thorold Rogers's Six Centuries of Work an... | Emrys Daniel Hughes | Thomas Babington Macaulay | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '[Emrys Hughes] read the social history of Macaulay, Froude, and J.R. Green; Thorold Rogers's Six Centuries of Work an... | Emrys Daniel Hughes | James Anthony Froude | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '[Emrys Hughes] read the social history of Macaulay, Froude, and J.R. Green; Thorold Rogers's Six Centuries of Work an... | Emrys Daniel Hughes | John Richard Green | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '[Emrys Hughes] read the social history of Macaulay, Froude, and J.R. Green; Thorold Rogers's Six Centuries of Work an... | Emrys Daniel Hughes | Thorold Rogers | Six Centuries of Work and Wages | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '[Emrys Hughes] read the social history of Macaulay, Froude, and J.R. Green; Thorold Rogers's Six Centuries of Work an... | Emrys Daniel Hughes | Thomas Carlyle | The French Revolution | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | '[Francis] Wrangham was ... in the habit of reading MS verses to his friends: C[oleridge] heard his "Brutoniad" in Sep... | Francis Wrangham | Francis Wrangham | Brutoniad | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'Even before [Chaim Lewis] discovered the English novelists, he was introduced to Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, Turgenev and Pu... | a revolutionary Russian rag merchant | Charles Dickens | | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Blatchford, once he read it carefully found [Samuel Smiles's Self Help] "one of the most delightful and invigorating ... | Robert Peel Glanville Blatchford | Samuel Smiles | Self Help | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Dorothy Wordsworth to Catherine Clarkson, 27 December 1811: 'To diminish the evil [of smoking chimneys] we have a cons... | John Wordsworth | | | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Dorothy Wordsworth to William Wordsworth, 23 April 1812: 'John is certainly much quicker in reading than he was. He ha... | John Wordsworth | Daniel Defoe | Robinson Crusoe | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Dorothy Wordsworth to William and Mary Wordsworth, 3 May [1812]: 'The Coleridges and Algernon [Montagu] were here yest... | Algernon Montagu | | | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Dorothy Wordsworth to William and Mary Wordsworth, 3 May [1812]: '[John] is reading a Story Book of Algernon [Montagu]... | John Wordsworth | | [a story book] | Print: BookManuscript: Letter |
| 1800-1849 | Dorothy Wordsworth to William and Mary Wordsworth, 3 May [1812]: '[John] appears to us very slow in comprehending what... | John Wordsworth | unknown | History of England | Print: BookManuscript: Letter |
| 1800-1849 | Dorothy Wordsworth to William and Mary Wordsworth, 3 May [1812]: '[John] appears to us very slow in comprehending what... | John Wordsworth | | [grammar] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Dorothy Wordsworth to Sara Hutchinson, 16 March 1815: 'William has made a conquest of holy Hannah [More], though she h... | Hannah More | William Wordsworth | extracts from The Excursion | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | Dorothy Wordsworth to Sara Hutchinson, 16 March 1815: 'William has made a conquest of holy Hannah [More], though she h... | Hannah More | | Edinburgh Review | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 | [Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of Antony and Cleopatra, by an editorial note by Steevens, which reminds the reader... | Thomas Babington Macaulay | William Shakespeare | Antony and Cleopatra | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 | [Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of Coriolanus, by a note by Warburton regarding the composition of the Senate] "Abs... | Thomas Babington Macaulay | William Shakespeare | Coriolanus | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 | [Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of Coriolanus, by a note by Warburton regarding the history of the Roman Consular G... | Thomas Babington Macaulay | William Shakespeare | Coriolanus | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 | [Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of Coriolanus, by a note by Warburton regarding the creation of the first Censor, w... | Thomas Babington Macaulay | William Shakespeare | Coriolanus | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 | [Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of Coriolanus, on the last page]: "A noble play. As usual, Shakspeare [sic] had th... | Thomas Babington Macaulay | William Shakespeare | Coriolanus | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 | [Editorial commentary on Macaulay's reading]: "His manuscript notes extend through the long range of Greek authors fro... | Thomas Babington Macaulay | Hesiod | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 | [Editorial commentary on Macaulay's reading]: "His manuscript notes extend through the long range of Greek authors fro... | Thomas Babington Macaulay | Athenaeus | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 | [Editorial commentary on Macaulay's reading]: "His manuscript notes extend through the long range of Greek authors fro... | Thomas Babington Macaulay | Cato | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 | [Editorial commentary on Macaulay's reading]: "His manuscript notes extend through the long range of Greek authors fro... | Thomas Babington Macaulay | Livy | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 | [Editorial commentary on Macaulay's reading]: "His manuscript notes extend through the long range of Greek authors fro... | Thomas Babington Macaulay | Sallust | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 | [Editorial commentary on Macaulay's reading]: "His manuscript notes extend through the long range of Greek authors fro... | Thomas Babington Macaulay | Tacitus | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 | [Editorial commentary on Macaulay's reading]: "His manuscript notes extend through the long range of Greek authors fro... | Thomas Babington Macaulay | Aulus Gellius | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 | [Editorial commentary on Macaulay's reading]: "His manuscript notes extend through the long range of Greek authors fro... | Thomas Babington Macaulay | Suetonius | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 | [Editorial commentary on Macaulay's reading]: "Those two parallel lines in pencil, which were his highest form of comp... | Thomas Babington Macaulay | Cicero | De Finibus | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 | [Editorial commentary on Macaulay's reading]: "Those two parallel lines in pencil, which were his highest form of comp... | Thomas Babington Macaulay | Cicero | Academic Questions | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 | [Editorial commentary on Macaulay's reading]: "Those two parallel lines in pencil, which were his highest form of comp... | Thomas Babington Macaulay | Cicero | Tusculan Disputations | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 | [Macaulay's marginalia at the end of the first book of Cicero's De Finibus]: "Exquisitely written, graceful, calm, lum... | Thomas Babington Macaulay | Cicero | De Finibus | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 | [Macaulay's marginalia in Cicero's De Natura Deorum]: "Equal to anything that Cicero ever did." | Thomas Babington Macaulay | Cicero | De Natura Deorum | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 | [Macaulay's marginalia in the Second Book of Cicero's De Divinatione]: double-lines down the margin of the argument ag... | Thomas Babington Macaulay | Cicero | De Divinatione | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 | [Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of Ben Jonson's Catiline, by the lines 'Lentulus: The augurs all are constant I am ... | Thomas Babington Macaulay | Ben Jonson | Catiline | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 | [Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of Cicero's Tusculan Disputations, by the translations from Aeschylus and Sophocles... | Thomas Babington Macaulay | Ben Cicero | Tusculan Disputations | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 | [Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of Cicero's Letters, opposite the sentences 'Meum factum probari abs te [...] nihil... | Thomas Babington Macaulay | Cicero | Letters | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 | [Editorial commentary on Macaulay's marginalia on Cicero's speeches]: "Macaulay's pencilled observations upon each suc... | Thomas Babington Macaulay | Cicero | Speeches | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 | Macaulay's marginalia on Cicero's Epistles to Atticus]: "A kind-hearted man [Cicero], with all his faults." Later, "... | Thomas Babington Macaulay | Cicero | Letters to Atticus | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 | [Macaulay's marginalia on Cicero's Second Philippic]: "a most wonderful display of rhetorical talent, worthy of all i... | Thomas Babington Macaulay | Cicero | Second Philippic | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 | [Macaulay's marginalia on Cicero's Third Philippic]: "The close of this speech is very fine. His later and earlier s... | Thomas Babington Macaulay | Cicero | Third Philippic | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 | [Macaulay's marginalia at the end of Cicero's last Philippic]: "As a man, I think of Cicero much as I always did, exc... | Thomas Babington Macaulay | Cicero | Last Philippic | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 | [Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of Plato's Euthydemus]: "It seems incredible that these absurdities of Dionysodoru... | Thomas Babington Macaulay | Plato | Euthydemus | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 | [Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of Plato's Euthydemus]: "Glorious irony!" | Thomas Babington Macaulay | Plato | Euthydemus | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 | [Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of Plato's Euthydemus]: "Incomparably ludicrous!" | Thomas Babington Macaulay | Plato | Euthydemus | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 | [Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of Plato's Euthydemus]: "No writer, not even Cervantes, was so great a master of t... | Thomas Babington Macaulay | Plato | Euthydemus | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 | [Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of Plato's Euthydemus]: "There is hardly any comedy, in any language, more diverti... | Thomas Babington Macaulay | Plato | Euthydemus | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 | [Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of Plato's Euthydemus]: "Dulcissima hercle, eademque nobilissima vita." | Thomas Babington Macaulay | Plato | Euthydemus | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of Plato's Euthydemus, below the last line of the dialogue]: "Calcutta, May 1835." | Thomas Babington Macaulay | Plato | Euthydemus | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 | [Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of Plato's Republic]: "Plato has been censured with great justice for his doctrine... | Thomas Babington Macaulay | Plato | Republic | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 | [Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of Plato's Republic]: "You may see that Plato was passionately fond of poetry, eve... | Thomas Babington Macaulay | Plato | Republic | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 | [Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of Plato's Republic, by the passage where Plato recommends a broader patriotism]: ... | Thomas Babington Macaulay | Plato | Republic | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 | [Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of Plato's Republic, in the Second Book, by the discussion of abstract justice]: "... | Thomas Babington Macaulay | Plato | Republic | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 | [Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of Plato's Republic, in the Eighth Book]: "I remember nothing in Greek philosophy ... | Thomas Babington Macaulay | Plato | Republic | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 | [Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of Plato's Protagoras]: "A very lively picture of Athenian manners. There is scar... | Thomas Babington Macaulay | Plato | Protagoras | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 | [Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of Plato's Protagoras]: "Callias seems to have been a munificent and courteous pat... | Thomas Babington Macaulay | Plato | Protagoras | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 | [Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of Plato's Protagoras]: "Alcibiades is very well represented here. It is plain th... | Thomas Babington Macaulay | Plato | Protagoras | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 | [Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of Plato's Protagoras]: "Protagoras seems to deserve the character he gives himsel... | Thomas Babington Macaulay | Plato | Protagoras | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Macaulay's marginalia at the beginning of Plato's Gorgias]: "This was my favourite dialogue at College. I do not kn... | Thomas Babington Macaulay | Plato | Gorgias | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 | [Macaulay's marginalia in Plato's Gorgias]: "Polus is much in the right. Socrates abused scandalously the advantages... | Thomas Babington Macaulay | Plato | Gorgias | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Maraulay's marginalia in Plato's Gorgias]: "You have made a blunder, and Socrates will have you in an instant." | Thomas Babington Macaulay | Plato | Gorgias | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Macaulay's marginalia in Plato's Gorgias]: "Hem! Retiarium astutum!" [Cunning netter]. | Thomas Babington Macaulay | Plato | Gorgias | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 | [Macaulay's marginalia in Plato's Gorgias]: "There you are in the Sophist's net. I think that, if I had been in the ... | Thomas Babington Macaulay | Plato | Gorgias | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Macaulay's marginalia in Plato's Gorgias]: "What a command of his temper the old fellow [Callicles] had, and what te... | Thomas Babington Macaulay | Plato | Gorgias | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Macaulay's marginalia in Plato's Gorgias]: "This is not pure morality; but there is a good deal of weight in what Ca... | Thomas Babington Macaulay | Plato | Gorgias | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Macaulay's marginalia at the end of the dialogue in Plato's Gorgias]: "This is one of the finest passages in Greek l... | Thomas Babington Macaulay | Plato | Gorgias | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Macaulay's marginalia at the end of the dialogue in Plato's Gorgias. He marks the the doctrine "that we ought to be... | Thomas Babington Macaulay | Plato | Gorgias | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Macaulay's marginalia in Plato's Gorgias, by the trial of Socrates, when Socrates expressed a serene conviction that... | Thomas Babington Macaulay | Plato | Gorgias | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | William Wordsworth describes his eldest son's slowness in reading to his brother Christopher Wordsworth, 1 January 1... | John Wordsworth | | dictionary | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Macaulay's marginalia in Plato's Gorgias, at the end of the trial of Socrates]: "A most solemn and noble close! Noth... | Thomas Babington Macaulay | Plato | Gorgias | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Macaulay's marginalia on the last page of the Crito]: There is much that may be questioned in the reasoning of Socra... | Thomas Babington Macaulay | Plato | Crito | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | '[Henry Crabb] Robinson recorded on 24 May 1812 that "I read Wordsworth some of Blake's poems; he was pleased with som... | Henry Crabb Robinson | William Blake | unknown | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'In a letter to D[orothy] W[ordsworth] of 10 March 1801, J[ohn] W[ordsworth] added that "Mr Lewis's poem [The Felon] i... | John Wordsworth | M. G. Lewis | Felon, The | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 1800-1849 | 'As a boy, the poet John Clare consumed six-penny romances of Cinderella and Jack and the Beanstalk, "and great was th... | John Clare | | Cinderella | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 1800-1849 | 'As a boy, the poet John Clare consumed six-penny romances of Cinderella and Jack and the Beanstalk, "and great was th... | John Clare | | Jack and the Beanstalk | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'A joiner's son in an early-nineteenth century Scottish village recalled [reading] his first novel, David Moir's The L... | a Scottish joiner's son | David Moir | The Life of Mansie Wauch | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Byron to John Hanson, [? November 1799]: 'I congratulate you on Capt. Hanson's being appointed commander of the Brazen... | George Gordon, Lord Byron | anon | [newspaper] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to Augusta Byron, 25 April 1805: 'You say you are sick of the Installation [of seven Knights of the Garter at Wi... | George Gordon Lord Byron | anon | Morning Post | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | In letter to Edward Noel Long, 23 February 1807 Byron transcribes lines 91-96 of William Cowper, "Friendship" (as in 1... | George Gordon, Lord Byron | William Cowper | Friendship | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to William J. Bankes, on having received 'two Critical opinions, from Edinburgh' (of Lord Woodhouselee and Henry... | Alexander Fraser Tytler, Lord Woodhouselee | George Gordon, Lord Byron | Poems on Various Occasions | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to William J. Bankes, on having received 'two Critical opinions, from Edinburgh' (of Lord Woodhouselee and Henry... | Henry Mackenzie | George Gordon, Lord Byron | Poems on Various Occasions | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to Elizabeth Pigot, 2 August 1807: 'I have now a Review before me entitled, "Literary Recreations" where my Bard... | George Gordon, Lord Byron | Various | Monthly Literary Recreations | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to the Earl of Clare, 20 August 1807: 'I hope this Letter will find you safe, I saw in a Morning paper, a long a... | George Gordon, Lord Byron | anon | [morning newspaper] | Print: NewspaperManuscript: Letter |
| 1700-1799 1800-1849 | Byron to Robert Charles Dallas, 21 January 1808: 'Whenever Leisure and Inclination permit me the pleasure of a visit, ... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Robert Charles Dallas | unknown | Unknown |
| 1700-1799 1800-1849 | Byron to Robert Charles Dallas, 21 January 1808: 'As for my reading, I believe I may aver without hyperbole, it has be... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Herodotus | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 1800-1849 | Byron to Robert Charles Dallas, 21 January 1808: 'As for my reading, I believe I may aver without hyperbole, it has be... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Edward Gibbon | Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Witness statements in trial for theft:
George Baverstock: "I keep the Angel and Crown public house, opposite Whitec... | Nicholas Benigne Ablin | | The Times | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to William Harness, 11 February 1808: 'I ... remember being favoured with the perusal of many of your compositio... | George Gordon Lord Byron | William Harness | unknown | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Witness statements in trial for highway robbery:
John Gavill: "I saw his [Davis] examination in the newspapers... I... | John Gavill | | | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | ' ... a most violent attack is preparing for me in the the next number of the Edinburgh Review, this I have from the a... | anon | Henry Brougham | review of Byron, Hours of Idleness | Print: proofManuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Witness statements in trial for theft:
John Mims: "I am servant to John Bird, who keeps a cook-shop in Golden Lane.... | John Mims | | | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to Robert Charles Dallas, 23 June 1810: 'I ... request that you will write to malta. I expect a world of news, ... | George Gordon Lord Byron | | [newspapers] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to Edward Ellice, 4 July 1810: 'I hear your friend Brougham is in the lower house mouthing at the ministry ... y... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Henry Brougham | [speech] | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to John Cam Hobhouse, 23 August 1810: 'I am learning Italian, and this day translated an ode of Horace "Exegi mo... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Horace | Ode ("Exegi monumentum") | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to Francis Hodgson, 3 October 1810: 'I have seen some old English papers up to the 15th. of May, I see the "Lady... | George Gordon Lord Byron | | [newspapers] | Print: NewspaperUnknown |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to Francis Hodgson, 3 October 1810: 'I have seen some old English papers up to the 15th. of May, I see the "Lady... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Anon | advertisement for Scott, The Lady of The Lake | Print: Advertisement, NewspaperUnknown |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to John Cam Hobhouse, 4 October 1810: 'I have just received a letter from [John] Galt with a Candiot poem which ... | George Gordon Lord Byron | John Galt | Fair Shepherdess, The | Manuscript: Sheet |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to Francis Hodgson, 20 January 1811: 'I wish to be sure I had a few books ... any damned nonsense on a long Even... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Various | Edinburgh Review | Print: Serial / periodicalManuscript: Letter |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to John Cam Hobhouse, 5 March 1811: 'I have begun an Imitation of the "De Arte Poetica" of Horace [became his Hi... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Horace | De Arte Poetica | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to John Cam Hobhouse, 5 March 1811: 'I have seen English papers of October, which say little or nothing ... ' | George Gordon Lord Byron | | [newspapers] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to John Cam Hobhouse, 10 August 1811, within two weeks of his mother's death: 'I am very lonely, & should think ... | George Gordon, Lord Byron | unknown | unknown | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Witness statement in trial for theft:
John Spencer: "On the 6th of April, in consequence of what I saw in the newsp... | John Spencer | | | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | Witness statement in trial for conspiracy:
Rev. Francis Lee: "In May last I saw an advertisement in the Times newsp... | Rev Francis Lee | | The Times | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | Witness statement in trial for forgery:
Henry Palmer: "In the middle of March, in the evening, I was sitting at the... | Henry Palmer | | | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | Prisoner's defence in trial for forgery:
"On reading Bell's Weekly Messager of the 25th of January last, which fell... | John Hill Wagstaff | | Bell's Weekly Messager | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | Witness statement in trial for theft:
Cammell: "I heard the prisoner was in custody a few days after -I read it in ... | John Cammell | | | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | Witness statement in trial for theft -shoplifting:
Wilhelmina Clarke: "I am servant to Mr Birt... On the 12th of Ma... | John Birt | | | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | Witness statement in trial for theft:
Francis Gifford Banner: "On the Monday after the 30th of June, I saw, in the ... | Francis Gifford Banner | | The Times | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | Witness statement in trial for housebreaking:
Stephen Davies: "on the 23rd of December he came again -I had the goo... | Stephen Davies | | | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | Witness statement in trial for coining:
John Leeming: "a few days afterwards I saw something in the newspaper, went... | John Leeming | | | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'John Paton was raised in the Aberdeen slums on a diet of penny dreadfuls ("good healthy stuff for an imaginative boy"... | John Paton | | [Old and New Testament] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'John Paton was raised in the Aberdeen slums on a diet of penny dreadfuls ("good healthy stuff for an imaginative boy"... | John Paton | | [penny dreadfuls] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to Francis Hodgson, 9 September 1811: 'Dear Hodgson, - I have been a good deal in your company lately, for I hav... | George Gordon, Lord Byron | Francis Hodgson | [translation of Juvenal] | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to Francis Hodgson, 9 September 1811: 'Dear Hodgson, - I have been a good deal in your company lately, for I hav... | George Gordon, Lord Byron | Francis Hodgson | Lady Jane Grey, a Tale; and Other Poems | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to Francis Hodgson, 4 December 1811: 'I have read Watson to Gibbon. He proves nothing, so I am where I was, ver... | George Gordon, Lord Byron | Richard Watson | Apology for Christianity, in a Series of Letters to Edward Gibbon, Esq. | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Emrys Daniel Hughes, son of a Welsh miner, first treated Pilgrim's Progress as an illustrated adventure story. When h... | Emrys Daniel Hughes | John Bunyan | Pilgrim's Progress | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to Francis Hodgson, 8 December 1811: 'I have gotten a book by Sir William Drummond (printed, but not published),... | George Gordon, Lord Byron | Sir William Drummond | Aedipus Judaicus | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to John Cam Hobhouse, 15 December 1811: 'I have been living quietly, reading Sir W. Drummond's book on the bible... | George Gordon, Lord Byron | Sir William Drummond | Aedipus Judaicus | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to Lady Caroline Lamb, 1 May 1812: 'I have read over the few poems of Miss Milbank with attention ... I like the... | George Gordon, Lord Byron | Annabella Milbanke | [lines on Dermody] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to Lady Caroline Lamb, 1 May 1812: 'I have read over the few poems of Miss Milbank with attention ... I like the... | George Gordon, Lord Byron | Annabella Milbanke | [lines in the cave at Seaham] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to Lady Caroline Lamb, 1 May 1812: 'I have read over the few poems of Miss Milbank with attention ... A friend o... | [friend of Byron's, probably Dallas] anon | Annabella Milbanke | [poems] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to Bernard Barton, 1 June 1812: 'Some weeks ago my friend Mr Rogers showed me some of the stanzas [of Barton's] ... | George Gordon, Lord Byron | Bernard Barton | unknown | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to Bernard Barton, 1 June 1812: 'Some weeks ago my friend Mr Rogers showed me some of the stanzas [of Barton's] ... | George Gordon, Lord Byron | Bernard Barton | Metrical Effusions | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to Edward Daniel Clarke, 26 June 1812: 'My dear Sir, - Will you accept my very sincere congratulations on your s... | George Gordon, Lord Byron | Edward Daniel Clarke | Travels in Various Countries of Europe, Asia, and Africa (vol 2) | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to John Murray, acknowledging receipt of parcel of books and letters from Christian well-wishers, 14 September 1... | George Gordon Lord Byron | anon | | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to Lord Holland, 14 October 1812, on looking out for reports of his Drury Lane Theatre address: 'I have seen no ... | George Gordon, Lord Byron | various | Morning Chronicle | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to Lord Holland, 14 October 1812, on looking out for reports of his Drury Lane Theatre address: 'I have seen no ... | George Gordon, Lord Byron | various | [Sunday papers] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to Lady Melbourne, 17 October 1812, on reports of his Drury Lane Theatre address: '... my address has been ... m... | George Gordon, Lord Byron | various | [newspapers] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to Lady Melbourne, 18 October 1812, on writing by Annabella Milbanke that she has forwarded to him: '... the spe... | George Gordon, Lord Byron | Annabella Milbanke | [biography] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to Lady Melbourne, 30 October 1812: '... I see by the papers Ld. and Ly. Cowper are returned to Herts.' | George Gordon, Lord Byron | | [newspapers] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to Lady Melbourne, 18 November 1812: 'I am still here only sad in the prospect of going [from home of Lord and L... | George Gordon, Lord Byron | unknown | unknown | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to John Murray, 22 November 1812: 'I have in charge a curious and very long MS. poem written by Lord Brooke (the... | George Gordon, Lord Byron | Lord Brooke | [untitled manuscript] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to Lady Melbourne, 11 January 1813: 'I have been looking over my Kinsham premises which are close to a church an... | George Gordon, Lord Byron | | [epitaphs] | Manuscript: tombstone epitaphs |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to John Murray, 20 January 1813; 'In "Horace in London" I perceive some stanzas on Ld. E[lgin] - in which ... I ... | George Gordon Lord Byron | James and Horace Smith | Horace in London; consisting of Imitations of the First Two Books of the Odes of Horace | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to John Murray, 21 April 1813: 'I see the Examiner threatens some observations upon you next week ... ' | George Gordon, Lord Byron | Leigh Hunt | Examiner, The | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | In letter from Byron to Thomas Moore: 'When Byron read these verses aloud to Moore and Rogers, they all three broke do... | George Gordon, Lord Byron | Lord Thurlow | "When Rogers ... " | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to John Galt, 8 June 1813: 'I have to thank you for a most agreeable present [apparently a copy of his Letters f... | George Gordon, Lord Byron | John Galt | Letters from the Levant | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to John Murray, 12 June 1813: 'In yesterday's paper immediately under an advertisement on "Strictures in the Ure... | George Gordon, Lord Byron | anon | advertisement for William Wadd, Practical Observations on the best mode of curing Strictures... | Print: Advertisement, Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to John Murray, 12 June 1813: 'In yesterday's paper immediately under an advertisement on "Strictures in the Ure... | George Gordon, Lord Byron | anon | advertisement for Modern Poets; a Dialogue in Verse, containing some Strictures on the Poetry of Lord Byron, Mr. Southey, and Others | Print: Advertisement, Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to John Murray, 13 June 1813: 'I have read the strictures which are just enough - & not grossly abusive - in ver... | George Gordon, Lord Byron | anon | Modern Poets; a Dialogue in Verse, containing some Strictures on the Poetry of Lord Byron, Mr. Southey, and Others | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to Thomas Moore, 22 August 1813: 'In a "mail-coach" copy of the Edinburgh, I perceive the Giaour is 2d article.' | George Gordon, Lord Byron | Various | Edinburgh Review | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to Thomas Moore, 22 August 1813, in description of Newstead Abbey: 'I remember, when about fifteen, reading your... | George Gordon, Lord Byron | Thomas Moore | [poems] | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to Thomas Moore, 22 August 1813: 'I hope you are going on with your grand coup - pray do - or that damned Lucien... | George Gordon, Lord Byron | Lucien Buonaparte | Charlemagne | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to Thomas Moore, 28 August 1813: 'If you want any more books [on the Orient], there is "Castellan's Moeurs des O... | George Gordon, Lord Byron | A. L. Castellan | Moeurs, usages costumes des Othomans, et abrege de leur histoire | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to Lady Melbourne, 21 September 1813, from Aston Hall, Rotherham (where staying with Sir James Wedderburn Webste... | George Gordon, Lord Byron | Grimm | unknown | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Byron thanks J. Thomson (unidentified) for volume of poems, 27 September 1813: 'I have derived considerable pleasure f... | George Gordon, Lord Byron | J. Thomson | unknown | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | September 5 1840. Went this morning to the house in Ship and Anchor court. On the parlour window of the house formerly... | Francis Place | | | Print: Advertisement, Handbill, Poster |
| 1700-1799 | I was sent to another school in Wine Office Court, Fleet Street, when I was about seven years of age. At this old woma... | Francis Place | | Dillworths Spelling Book | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to John Murray, 12 October 1813: 'I have received and read the British Review ... ' | George Gordon, Lord Byron | | British Review | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1700-1799 | School hours were from 9 to 12 and from 2 to 5. The mode of teaching was this. Each of the boys had a column or half a... | Francis Place | | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to Dr Samuel Butler, 20 October 1813: 'The little that I have seen by stealth and accident of Charlemagne quite ... | George Gordon, Lord Byron | Lucien Buonaparte | Charlemagne | Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | I had read a book, at that time openly sold, on every stall, called Aristotle's Master Piece, it was a thick 18 mo, wi... | Francis Place | | Aristotle's Compleat Master Piece; in Three Parts; Displaying the Secrets of Nature in the Generation of Man | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | I had read a book, at that time openly sold, on every stall, called Aristotle's Master Piece, it was a thick 18 mo, wi... | Francis Place | | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | I neither concealed my doubts nor my fears but communicated them freely to several persons, no one however said anythi... | Francis Place | John Bunyan | Pilgrim's Progress | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | I neither concealed my doubts nor my fears but communicated them freely to several persons, no one however said anythi... | Francis Place | | various religious titles | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | In postscript to letter written by Byron to John Murray, 3 am [29 November 1813]: 'I have got out of my bed (in which ... | George Gordon, Lord Byron | Madame Germaine de Stael-Holstein | De l'Allemagne | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to John Murray, [29 November 1813 (c)]: 'there have been some epigrams on Mr. W[ar]d one I see today - the first... | George Gordon, Lord Byron | unknown | [epigram on J. W. Ward] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1700-1799 | It was the custom of my master to invite some of the oldest of the boys to visit him for an hour or two on half holida... | Francis Place | | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to Madame de Stael, 30 November 1813, in praise of her De L'Allemagne: 'few days have passed since its publicati... | George Gordon, Lord Byron | Madame Germaine de Stael-Holstein | De L'Allemagne | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to Zachary Macaulay (editor of the Christian Observer), 3 December 1813: 'Sir / - I have just finished the perus... | George Gordon, Lord Byron | Various | Christian Observer | Print: Serial / periodical |
| | Byron to John Murray, 4 December 1813: 'I have redde through your Persian Tale - I have taken ye. liberty of making so... | George Gordon, Lord Byron | unknown | Persian Tale | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to Thomas Moore, 8 December 1813: 'I have met with an odd reflection in Grimm ... "Many people have the reputati... | George Gordon, Lord Byron | Friedrich Melchoir Grimm | Correspondance Litteraire | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | My desire for information was however too strong to be turned aside and often have I been sent away from a book stall ... | Francis Place | | various | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | My desire for information was however too strong to be turned aside and often have I been sent away from a book stall ... | Francis Place | | various | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | On my having read some portion of the preceding narrative to Mr Fenn Bookseller at Charing Cross he related circumstan... | Francis Place | Francis Place | Autobiography | Manuscript: unpublished memoirs |
| 1800-1849 | In Byron's Journal (14 November 1813-19 April 1814): 'I never in my life read a composition [of his own], save to Hodg... | George Gordon, Lord Byron | George Gordon, Lord Byron | unknown | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | In Byron's Journal (14 November 1813-19 April 1814): '... [Madame de Stael] writes octavos, and talks folios. I have ... | George Gordon, Lord Byron | Madame Germaine de Stael-Holstein | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | In Byron's Journal (14 November 1813-19 April 1814): 'Read Burns to-day.' | George Gordon, Lord Byron | Robert Burns | unknown | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | In Byron's Journal (14 November 1813-19 April 1814), 17 November 1813: 'I wish I could settle to reading again, - my l... | George Gordon, Lord Byron | unknown | [books] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | ...a desire for information which was by no means whollly neglected even whilst I was an apprentice, I always found so... | Francis Place | | unknown, histories of Greece and Rome | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | ...a desire for information which was by no means whollly neglected even whilst I was an apprentice, I always found so... | Francis Place | | unknown, translated works by Greek and Roman writers | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | In Byron's Journal (14 November 1813-19 April 1814), 22 November 1813: 'I remember the effect of the first Edinburgh R... | George Gordon, Lord Byron | Various | Edinburgh Review | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1700-1799 | ...a desire for information which was by no means whollly neglected even whilst I was an apprentice, I always found so... | Francis Place | Tobias George Smollett | | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | ...a desire for information which was by no means whollly neglected even whilst I was an apprentice, I always found so... | Francis Place | Henry Fielding | | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | ...a desire for information which was by no means whollly neglected even whilst I was an apprentice, I always found so... | Francis Place | Robertson | unknown [Robertson's works?] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | ...a desire for information which was by no means whollly neglected even whilst I was an apprentice, I always found so... | Francis Place | David Hume | [Hume's Essays] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | ...a desire for information which was by no means whollly neglected even whilst I was an apprentice, I always found so... | Francis Place | | translations from French writers | Print: Book |
| | In Byron's Journal (14 November 1813-19 April 1814), 23 November 1813: "Redde the Ruminator - a collection of Essays, ... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Sir Egerton Brydges | The Ruminator: containing a series of moral, critical and sentimental Essays | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | ...a desire for information which was by no means whollly neglected even whilst I was an apprentice, I always found so... | Francis Place | | unknown various | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | ...a desire for information which was by no means whollly neglected even whilst I was an apprentice, I always found so... | Francis Place | | unknown various [anatomy and surgery] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | ...a desire for information which was by no means whollly neglected even whilst I was an apprentice, I always found so... | Francis Place | | unknown [relating to the Arts] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | ...a desire for information which was by no means whollly neglected even whilst I was an apprentice, I always found so... | Francis Place | | unknown [many magazines] | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1700-1799 | ...a desire for information which was by no means whollly neglected even whilst I was an apprentice, I always found so... | Francis Place | Guthrie | unknown [Guthries Geography] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | ...a desire for information which was by no means whollly neglected even whilst I was an apprentice, I always found so... | Francis Place | | unknown [Geometry] | Print: Book |
| | In Byron's Journal (14 November 1813-19 April 1814), 26 November 1813: "Two letters, one from **** [Lady Frances Webst... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Lady Frances Wedderburn Webster | letter with poem | Manuscript: Letter |
| | In Byron's Journal (14 November 1813-19 April 1814), ?27 November 1813: "Redde the Edinburgh Review of Rogers [with hi... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Various | The Edinburgh Review | Print: Serial / periodical |
| | In Byron's Journal (14 November 1813-19 April 1814), 5 December 1813, on pleasure at learning of his works' popularity... | George Gordon Lord Byron | George Frederick Cooke | Memoirs of George Frederick Cooke, late of the Theatre Royal, Covent Garden | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Byron's Journal (14 November 1813-19 April 1814), 5 December 1813: 'I showed ... [John Galt] Sligo's letter on the rep... | John Galt | Lord Sligo (2nd marquis of) | [letter on the punishment for adultery in Turkey] | Manuscript: Letter |
| 1800-1849 | Byron's Journal (14 November 1813-19 April 1814), 5 Deecmber 1813: 'I showed ... [John Galt] Sligo's letter on the rep... | Henry Fox, third Lord Holland | Lord Sligo (2nd marquis of) | [letter on punishment of adultery in Turkey] | Manuscript: Letter |
| 1700-1799 1800-1849 | Byron's Journal (14 November 1813-19 April 1814), 5 December 1813, on Madame De Stael: 'I read her again and again ...... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Madame Germaine de Stael-Holstein | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Byron's Journal (14 November 1813-19 April 1814), 6 Decmber 1813: 'Saw Lord Glenbervie and his Prospectus, at Murray's... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Lord Glenbervie | Prospectus for Sylvester Douglas, Baron Glenbervie, | Print: Advertisement |
| 1800-1849 | Byron's Journal (14 November 1813-19 April 1814), 6 December 1813: "Redde a good deal, but desultorily ... It is odd t... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Matthew Gregory Lewis | The Monk | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Byron's Journal (14 November 1813-19 April 1814), 7 December 1813: '... up an hour before being called ... Redde the p... | George Gordon Lord Byron | | [newspapers] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | Byron's Journal (14 November 1813-19 April 1814), 13 December 1813: 'Called at three places - read, and got ready to l... | George Gordon Lord Byron | unknown | unknown | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Byron's Journal (14 November 1813-19 April 1814), 17 December 1813: 'Redde some Italian, and wrote two Sonnets on *** ... | George Gordon Lord Byron | unknown | [Italian] | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Byron's Journal (14 November 1813-19 April 1814), 18 February 1814: 'Got up - redde the Morning Post containing the ba... | George Gordon Lord Byron | | The Morning Post | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | Byron's Journal (14 November 1813-19 April 1814), 18 February 1814 ('Nine o'clock'): 'Redde a little - wrote notes, an... | George Gordon Lord Byron | unknown | unknown | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Byron's Journal (14 November 1813-19 April 1814), 18 February 1814 ('Midnight'): 'Began a letter, which I threw into t... | George Gordon Lord Byron | unknown | unknown | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Byron's Journal (14 November 1813-19 April 1814), 20 February 1814: ' ... redde the Robbers.' | George Gordon Lord Byron | Johann Christoph von Schiller | The Robbers | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Byron's Journal (14 November 1813-19 April 1814), 15 March 1814: 'Redde a satire on myself, called Anti-Byron, and tol... | George Gordon Lord Byron | unknown | Anti-Byron | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Byron's Journal (14 November 1813-19 April 1814), 17 March 1814: 'Redde the "Quarrels of Authors" ... a new work, by t... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Isaac Disraeli | Quarrels of Authors | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Byron's Journal (14 November 1813-19 April 1814), 20 March 1814: 'Redde Machiavel, parts of Chardin, and Sismondi, and... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Jean Chardin | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Byron's Journal (14 November 1813-19 April 1814), 20 March 1814: 'Redde Machiavel, parts of Chardin, and Sismondi, and... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Leonard Simonde de Sismondi | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Byron's Journal (14 November 1813-19 April 1814), 20 March 1814: 'Redde Machiavel, parts of Chardin, and Sismondi, and... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Matteo Bandello | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Byron's Journal (14 November 1813-19 April 1814), 20 March 1814: 'Redde the Edinburgh, 44, just come out. In the begi... | George Gordon Lord Byron | | The Edinburgh Review | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | Byron's Journal (14 November 1813-19 April 1814), 10 April 1814: 'Today I have boxed one hour - written an ode to Napo... | George Gordon Lord Byron | unknown | unknown | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to John Herman Merivale, [January 1814]: 'I have redde Roncesvaux with very great pleasure ... You have written ... | George Gordon Lord Byron | John Herman Merivale | Orlando in Roncesvalles | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Byron in postscript to letter to John Murray, [11 January 1814]: 'I have redde "Patronage" it is full of praises of Lo... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Maria Edgeworth | Patronage | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Byron in postscript to letter to John Murray, 4 February 1814: 'I see by the Mo[rning] C[hronicl]e there hathe been di... | George Gordon Lord Byron | | The Morning Chronicle | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | Byron in postscript to letter to John Murray, 4 February 1814: 'I see by the Mo[rning] C[hronicl]e there hathe been di... | George Gordon Lord Byron | | The Morning Post | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to Leigh Hunt, 9 February 1814: 'Your poem I read long ago in "the Reflector" & it is not much to say it is the ... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Leigh Hunt | The Feast of the Poets | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to Leigh Hunt, 9 February 1814: 'I have been regaled at every Inn on the road [from Newstead to London] by lampo... | George Gordon Lord Byron | unknown | [ministerial gazettes] | Print: Newspaper, Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to Annabella Milbanke, 12 February 1814: 'In thanking you for your letter you will allow me to say that there is... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Annabella Milbanke | [letter] | Manuscript: Letter |
| 1700-1799 | I now read Blackstone, Hale's Common Law, several other Law Books, and much biography. This course of reading was cont... | Francis Place | William Blackstone | Commentaries on the Laws of England | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | I now read Blackstone, Hale's Common Law, several other Law Books, and much biography. This course of reading was cont... | Francis Place | Matthew Hale | History and Analysis of the Common Laws of England | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | I now read Blackstone, Hale's Common Law, several other Law Books, and much biography. This course of reading was cont... | Francis Place | | various [Law books] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | I now read Blackstone, Hale's Common Law, several other Law Books, and much biography. This course of reading was cont... | Francis Place | | various [biographies] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | The whole or nearly the whole of the eight months when I was not employed was not lost. I read many volumes in history... | Francis Place | David Hume | [Essays and Treatises] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | The whole or nearly the whole of the eight months when I was not employed was not lost. I read many volumes in history... | Francis Place | Adam Smith | Wealth of Nations | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | The whole or nearly the whole of the eight months when I was not employed was not lost. I read many volumes in history... | Francis Place | John Locke | | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | The whole or nearly the whole of the eight months when I was not employed was not lost. I read many volumes in history... | Francis Place | | various [history] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | The whole or nearly the whole of the eight months when I was not employed was not lost. I read many volumes in history... | Francis Place | | various [voyages] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | The whole or nearly the whole of the eight months when I was not employed was not lost. I read many volumes in history... | Francis Place | | various [politics and law] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | I readily got through a small school book of Geometry and having an odd volume of the 1st of Williamsons Euclid I atta... | Francis Place | | [geometry text] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | I readily got through a small school book of Geometry and having an odd volume of the 1st of Williamsons Euclid I atta... | Francis Place | Williamson | Euclid | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | In this room was a number of books, and among them every thing which had been published by Thomas Paine, all these I h... | Francis Place | Thomas Paine | Age of Reason | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | I was finally induced to come to this determination sooner than I should otherwise have done by reading Mr Godwins 'En... | Francis Place | William Godwin | Inquiry Concerning Political Justice | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | I used to plod at the French Grammar as I sat at my work, the book being fixed before me I was diligent also in learni... | Francis Place | | unknown [French grammar] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | I usually when I had done with my french, read some book every night and having left the Corresponding Society I never... | Francis Place | Helvetius | | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | I usually when I had done with my french, read some book every night and having left the Corresponding Society I never... | Francis Place | Jean-Jacques Rousseau | | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | I usually when I had done with my french, read some book every night and having left the Corresponding Society I never... | Francis Place | Voltaire | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | I adhered steadily to the practice I had adopted and read for two or three hours every night after the business of the... | Francis Place | | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Jailed for sufragette disruptions, millworker Annie Kenney rediscovered the Bible, "and I interpreted it quite differ... | Annie Kenney | | [Bible] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Despite the disapproval of her comrade Palme Dutt, Helen Crawfurd found Communist propaganda in Scripture... Accordin... | Helen Crawfurd | | [Bible - Psalms] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 1800-1849 | 'For John Clare [Robinson Crusoe] was "the first book of any merit I got hold of after I could read", and it set in mo... | John Clare | Daniel Defoe | Robinson Crusoe | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to Annabella Milbanke, 15 February 1814: 'In my letter of ye. 12th in answer to your last I omitted to say that ... | George Gordon Lord Byron | John Locke | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to Annabella Milbanke, 15 February 1814: 'Of the Scriptures ... I have ever been a reader & admirer as compositi... | George Gordon Lord Byron | | The Book of Job | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to Annabella Milbanke, 15 February 1814: 'Of the Scriptures ... I have ever been a reader & admirer as compositi... | George Gordon Lord Byron | | The Book of Isaiah | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to Annabella Milbanke, 15 February 1814: 'Of the Scriptures ... I have ever been a reader & admirer as compositi... | George Gordon Lord Byron | | The Book of Deborah | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to John Murray, 12 March 1814: 'I have not had time to read the whole M.S. but what I have seen seems very well ... | George Gordon Lord Byron | unknown | Anti-Byron | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to Lady Melbourne, 30 March 1814, on Frances Burney, The Wanderer (which contains episode recalling his ex-lover... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Frances Burney | The Wanderer, or Female Difficulties | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to Lady Melbourne, 30 March 1814: 'I have seen the E[dinburgh] R[eview] and the compliment -- which Rogers says ... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Francis Jeffrey | review of Byron, The Corsair and The Bride of Abydos | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to John Murray, 9 April 1814: 'I see Sotheby's tragedies advertised ... ' | George Gordon Lord Byron | | advertisement for William Sotheby, Five Tragedies (1814) | Print: Advertisement |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to John Murray, 26 April 1814, on work (about abdication of Napoleon) sent to him to read: 'I have no guess at y... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Stratford Canning | Bonaparte | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to Lady Melbourne, April- 1 May 1814, on his relations with his half-sister: 'it is odd that I always had a fore... | George Gordon Lord Byron | unknown | [Roman History] | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to unknown correspondent, 29 June 1814: 'Sir / -- I have to thank you for the perusal of your work -- and assure... | George Gordon Lord Byron | unknown | unknown | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to John Murray, [?July 23-24 1814]: 'I have read the article & concur in opinion with Mr. Rogers & my friends t... | George Gordon Lord Byron | unknown | [article] | Unknown |
| | Byron to John Murray, 24 July 1814: 'Waverley is the best & most interesting novel I have redde since -- I don't know ... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Walter Scott | Waverley | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Byron in postscript of letter to Annabella Milbanke, 1 August 1814: 'I have read your letter once more -- and it appea... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Annabella Milbanke | [letter] | Manuscript: Letter |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to John Murray, 3 August 1814: 'I see advertisements of Lara & Jacqueline -- pray why? when I requested you to p... | George Gordon Lord Byron | John Murray | [advertisements for Byron, Lara, and Samuel Rogers, Jacqueline (joint publication)] | Print: AdvertisementManuscript: Letter |
| | Byron to unknown female correspondent (mother of author of poem sent for Byron's consideration), 17 August 1814: 'The ... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Robert Charles Dallas [?] | [poem] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Byron recommends history books in letter to Annabella Milbanke, 25 August 1814:
'the best thing of that kind I met w... | George Gordon Lord Byron | unknown | [history book] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to John Murray, 2 September 1814: ' ... [Thomas Campbell] has an unpublished (though printed) poem on a Scene in... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Thomas Campbell | Lines on Leaving a Scene in Bavaria | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to John Murray, 7 September 1814: 'I am very idle I have read the few books I had with me -- & been forced to f... | George Gordon Lord Byron | unknown | unknown | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Byron in letter to Annabella Milbanke of 7 September 1814 praises Richard Porson's Letters to Archdeacon Travis (allud... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Richard Porson | Letters to Archdeacon Travis | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to Thomas Moore, 15 September 1814, writing whilst waiting at Newstead to learn whether marriage proposal acepte... | George Gordon Lord Byron | unknown | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to Annabella Milbanke, early in their engagement, 19 September 1814: 'When your letter arrived my sister was sit... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Annabella Milbanke | [letter] | Manuscript: Letter |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to James Perry, editor of the Morning Chronicle, 5 October 1814: 'Sir -- I perceive in your paper this day the c... | George Gordon Lord Byron | | The Morning Chronicle | Print: NewspaperManuscript: Letter |
| | Byron to Annabella Milbanke, 14 October 1814: 'I have this morning seen the paragraph [regarding their engagement, all... | George Gordon Lord Byron | | [newspaper] | Print: Newspaper, Serial / periodicalManuscript: Letter |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to Annabella Milbanke, 16 October 1814: 'In arranging papers I have found the first letter you ever wrote to me ... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Annabella Milbanke | [letter] | Manuscript: Letter |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to Annabella Milbanke, 17 October 1814: 'If there were no other inducements for me to leave London -- the utter ... | George Gordon Lord Byron | unknown | unknown | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to Annabella Milbanke, 12 December 1814: 'I perceive in the M[ornin]g Chronicle report -- that Sir H. Mildmay in... | George Gordon Lord Byron | | The Morning Chronicle | Print: NewspaperUnknown |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to Thomas Moore, 10 January 1815: 'I have redde thee upon the Fathers, and it is excellent well ... you must no... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Thomas Moore | article on Boyd's Select Passages from the Writings of St Chrysostom | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to John Cam Hobhouse, 26 January 1815: 'Your packet hath been perused ...' | George Gordon Lord Byron | John Cam Hobhouse | [packet] | Manuscript: Letter |
| 1800-1849 | Activities listed by Byron, bored at wife's family home at Seaham, in letter to Thomas Moore, 2 March 1815, include 't... | George Gordon Lord Byron | | The Annual Register | Print: Serial / periodical |
| | Activities listed by Byron, bored at wife's family home at Seaham, in letter to Thomas Moore, 2 March 1815, include 't... | George Gordon Lord Byron | | [daily newspapers] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to John Hanson, 11 July 1815: 'Dear Sir -- I have called about my Will -- which I hope is nearly ready. -- I als... | George Gordon Lord Byron | | Byron family pedigree | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to unknown author of volume of poems sent to him the previous day, 18 July 1815: 'the satisfaction I experienced... | George Gordon Lord Byron | unknown | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to Leigh Hunt, 22 October 1815: 'My dear Hunt -- You have excelled yourself - if not all your Contemporaries in ... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Leigh Hunt | The Story of Rimini (Canto 3) | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1600-1699 | for the most part reading histories, and such books of controversies as the tymes gave occastion for writing | John Bramston | | various unknown [histories] | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | After my father had denied Crumwell he lived at great quiet, spending his tyme very much in reading the Bible, and goo... | John Bramston | | The Bible | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | After my father had denied Crumwell he lived at great quiet, spending his tyme very much in reading the Bible, and goo... | John Bramston | | various unknown [religious titles] | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | He [The earl of Oxford] desired me (companie being with him) to take home the paper, and advise him what he was to do.... | John Bramston | | Instructions | Manuscript: Sheet |
| 1600-1699 | His words were not manie, yet he read all he sayd to us, a thing very unbecoming the chaire, and which I never before ... | Sir John Trevor | Sir John Trevor | [untitled] | Manuscript: Sheet |
| 1600-1699 | as I find reported by Sir Nicholas Hyde, the Lord Justice of the K.B., which I with my hand transcribed, and have by me | John Bramston | Sir Nicholas Hyde | [untitled] | Manuscript: Sheet |
| 1600-1699 | he was required to answer to some of the articles, viz. the signing and subscribing the two opinions; but I thinck it ... | John Bramston | John Bramston | [untitled] | Unknown |
| 1600-1699 | In the year 1622 he was chosen reader, and read upon the statute 32 H.8, cap 2, concerning lymitations. . . .After the... | John Bramston | | Statute 32 Henry VIII cap. 2 and statute 13 Eliz. cap 5 | Manuscript: Codex |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to Leigh Hunt, [4-6 November, 1815]: 'The paper on the Methodists was sure to raise the bristles of the godly --... | George Gordon Lord Byron | unknown | [paper on the Methodists] | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to the Rev. Charles Robert Maturin, 21 December 1815, regarding submission of MS [Bertram] to Drury Lane Theatre... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Charles Robert Maturin | Bertram | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to his father-in-law, Sir Ralph Noel, 7 February 1816: 'I have read Lady Byron's letter -- enclosed by you to Mr... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Lady Byron | [letter] | Manuscript: Letter |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to Pryce Gordon, [?June 1816]: '... I cannot tell you what a treat your gift of Casti has been to me; I have alm... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Giambattista Casti | Novelle Amorose | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to Pryce Gordon, [?June 1816]: '... I cannot tell you what a treat your gift of Casti has been to me; I have alm... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Giambattista Casti | Animali Parlante | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to John Murray, 27 June 1816: 'I have traversed all Rousseau's ground -- with the Heloise before me -- & am stru... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Jean-Jacques Rousseau | Julie, ou La Nouvelle Heloise | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to John Murray, 22 July 1816, on advertisement falsely ascribing authorship of various poems to him: 'I enclose ... | John Polidori | | advertisement for publications | Print: Advertisement |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to Samuel Rogers, 29 July 1816: 'I have read "Glenarvon" ... & have also seen Ben. Constant's Adolphe ... a work... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Lady Caroline Lamb | Glenarvon | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to Samuel Rogers, 29 July 1816: 'I have read "Glenarvon" ... & have also seen Ben. Constant's Adolphe ... a work... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Benjamin Constant | Adolphe | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to Augusta Leigh, 17 September 1816 ("Alpine Journal"), on seeing General Ludlow's monument at Vevey: 'I remembe... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Edmund Ludlow | memoirs | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to Augusta Leigh, 17 September 1816 ("Alpine Journal"), on General Ludlow's monument at Vevey: 'black marble -- ... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Margaret de Thomas | epitaph to Edmund Ludlow | Manuscript: tombstone epitaph |
| 1800-1849 | Biographical Notices of Painters were eagerly sought at this period; but my reading, upon the whole, was of rather a d... | John Cole | | The European | Print: Serial / periodical, Magazine |
| 1800-1849 | Biographical Notices of Painters were eagerly sought at this period; but my reading, upon the whole, was rather a desu... | John Cole | | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Biographical Notices of Painters were eagerly sought at this period; but my reading, upon the whole, was rather a desu... | John Cole | | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to Augusta Leigh, 20 September 1816 ("Alpine Journal"), on evening arrival at inn: 'nine o clock -- going to bed... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Johann Christoph von Schiller | unknown | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | After tea procured 'The Hull Advertiser' and looked over the Advertisement of a Bookselling & Stationary Business to b... | John Cole | | The Hull Advertiser | Print: Advertisement, Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to Augusta Leigh, 22 September 1816 ("Alpine Journal"): 'Passed a rock -- inscription -- 2 brothers -- one murde... | George Gordon Lord Byron | anon | [inscription on rock] | Manuscript: inscriptionUnknown |
| 1800-1849 | My companions at the breakfast-table through this summer were many of our popular English Classics. Among these may b... | John Cole | Salomon Gessner | The Death of Abel | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | My companions at the breakfast-table through this summer were many of our popular English Classics. Among these may b... | John Cole | John Bunyan | Pilgrim's Progress | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | My companions at the breakfast-table through this summer were many of our popular English Classics. Among these may b... | John Cole | Alexander Pope | Homer | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | My companions at the breakfast-table through this summer were many of our popular English Classics. Among these may b... | John Cole | Cicero | Letters | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | My companions at the breakfast-table through this summer were many of our popular English Classics. Among these may b... | John Cole | | Elizabeth, or the Exile of Siberia | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to John Murray, 5 October 1816: 'I have read the last E[dinburgh] R[eview] they are very severe on the Germans -... | George Gordon Lord Byron | anon | review of Goethe, Aus meinem Leben, Dichtung und Wahrheit | Print: Serial / periodicalManuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | My companions at the breakfast-table through this summer were many of our popular English Classics. Among these may b... | John Cole | Samuel Johnson | Rasselas | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to John Murray, 5 October 1816: 'I have read the last E[dinburgh] R[eview] they are very severe on the Germans -... | George Gordon Lord Byron | James Wedderburn Webster | Waterloo and Other Poems | Manuscript: UnknownUnknown |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to John Murray, 5 October 1816: 'I have read the last E[dinburgh] R[eview] they are very severe on the Germans -... | George Gordon Lord Byron | H. Gally Knight | Ilderim: A Syrian Tale | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to John Murray, 5 October 1816: 'I have read the last E[dinburgh] R[eview] they are very severe on the Germans -... | George Gordon Lord Byron | | The Pamphleteer | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'During this Spring read Shakspeare [sic] regularly through, and studied the characters of Hamlet, Douglas, Osman in '... | John Cole | William Shakespeare | Hamlet | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to Augusta Leigh, 15 October 1816, from Milan: 'What has delighted me most is a manuscript collection (preserved... | George Gordon, Lord Byron | Lucretia de Borgia | [unknown] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to Thomas Moore, 6 November 1816: 'Among many things at Milan, one pleased me particularly, viz. the corresponde... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Cardinal; Lucretia Bembo; de Borgia | letters | Manuscript: Letter, Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | During this Spring read Shakspeare [sic] regularly through, and studied the characters of Hamlet, Douglas, Osman in 'Z... | John Cole | Aaron Hill | Zara | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | During this Spring read Shakspeare [sic] regularly through, and studied the characters of Hamlet, Douglas, Osman in 'Z... | John Cole | John Home | Douglas: A Tragedy | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to Augusta Leigh, 6 November 1816: ' ... by the way Ada [his daughter]'s name is the same with that of the Siste... | George Gordon Lord Byron | unknown | "book treating of the Rhine" | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | During this Spring read Shakspeare [sic] regularly through, and studied the characters of Hamlet, Douglas, Osman in 'Z... | John Cole | Richard Brinsley Sheridan | The Duenna | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | During this Spring read Shakspeare [sic] regularly through, and studied the characters of Hamlet, Douglas, Osman in 'Z... | John Cole | | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | During this Spring read Shakspeare [sic] regularly through, and studied the characters of Hamlet, Douglas, Osman in 'Z... | John Cole | | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to Thomas Moore, 17 November 1816: 'By the way, I suppose you have seen "Glenarvon". Madame de Stael lent it to... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Lady Caroline Lamb | Glenarvon | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | "Read my birthday book from Walter. 'Alec Forbes of Howglen' by Mac Donald." | Agnes Blanche Hemming | George MacDonald | Alec Forbes of Howglen | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to John Murray, 4 December 1816: 'From England I hear nothing ... I know no more ... than the Italian version of... | George Gordon Lord Byron | | ["the Italian version of the French papers"] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | "Had a long morning to read 'Alec Forbes of Howglen'". | Agnes Blanche Hemming | George MacDonald | Alec Forbes of Howglen | Print: Book |
| | Byron to John Murray, 4 December 1816: 'From England I hear nothing ... I know no more ... than the Italian version of... | George Gordon Lord Byron | | Quarterly Review | Print: Advertisement, Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | "Read Lorna Doone in the evening and helped Mother in to bed." | Agnes Blanche Hemming | R.D. Blackmore | Lorna Doone | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | "Much interested in Lorna Doone. It is a truly romantic book." | Agnes Blanche Hemming | R.D. Blackmore | Lorna Doone | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | "Finished reading Lorna Doone and like it very much." | Agnes Blanche Hemming | R.D. Blackmore | Lorna Doone | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | "Read aloud to Maude from Lorna Doone. Very much taken with this little bit - 'the valley into which I gazed was fair... | Agnes Blanche Hemming | R.D. Blackmore | Lorna Doone | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to Douglas Kinnaird, 24 February 1817: 'I saw in Switzerland in the autumn the poems of [James Wedderburn] Webst... | George Gordon, Lord Byron | James Wedderburn Webster | Waterloo and Other Poems | Print: Advertisement, Book, Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to John Murray, 3 March 1817, on review of his work in Quarterly Review received two days previously: '... I ...... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Walter Scott | Review of Byron, Childe Harold Canto III and The Prisoner of Chillon, a Dream, and other Poems | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia]: All three volumes have marginal vertical lines and underlines which appear to indicate meaningful points... | Magdalene Erskine | Anne Grant | Letters from the Mountains; being the real correspondence of a Lady, between the year 1773 and 1807, third edition. | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to Thomas Moore, 25 March 1817, on Alpine travels in 1816: 'I kept a journal of the whole for my sister Augusta,... | John Murray | George Gordon Lord Byron | travel journal | Manuscript: Codex |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to John Cam Hobhouse, 31 March 1817: 'I have bought several books ... among others a complete Voltaire in 92 vol... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Voltaire | Oeuvres Completes de Voltaire. De L'Imprimerie de la Societe Litterarie Typographique | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to Thomas Moore, 31 March 1817: 'Did I tell you that I have translated two Epistles? -- a correspondence between... | George Gordon Lord Byron | St. Paul | Epistles to Corinthians | Print: BookUnknown |
| | Byron to editor of a Venice newspaper, denying that Napoleon was the protagonist of (?) Childe Harold's Pilgrimage Can... | George Gordon Lord Byron | | [newspaper] | Print: NewspaperUnknown |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to John Murray, 2 April 1817, having observed upon preservation of black veil over Falieri's picture, and the st... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Johan Christoph von Schiller | Geisterseher | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to John Murray, 2 April 1817: 'There have been two Articles in the Venice papers one a review of C. Lamb's "Glen... | George Gordon Lord Byron | | reviews of Caroline Lamb, Glenarvon, and Byron, Childe Harold Canto III | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to Samuel Rogers, 4 April 1817: 'Will you remember me to Ld. and Lady Holland -- I have to thank the former for ... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Lord Holland | Some Account of the Life and Writings of Lope Felix de Vega Carpio | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to John Murray, 9 April 1817: 'I will tell you something about [The Prisoner of] Chillon. -- A Mr. De Luc ninety... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Jean-Jacques Rousseau | Confessions | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to John Cam Hobhouse, 14 April 1817: 'I have read a good deal of Voltaire lately ... what I dislike is his extre... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Voltaire | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to John Murray, 9 May 1817: 'The "Tales of my Landlord" I have read with great pleasure ...' | George Gordon Lord Byron | Walter Scott | Tales of my Landlord | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to John Murray 9 July 1817: 'I have got the sketch & extracts from Lallah Rookh ... the plan as well as the extr... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Thomas Moore | Lallah Rookh | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to Thomas Moore, 10 July 1817: '[John] Murray ... has contrived to send me extracts from Lalla Rookh ... They ar... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Thomas Moore | Lallah Rookh (extracts) | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to John Murray, 15 September 1817: 'I have read 'Lallah Rookh' -- but not with sufficient attention yet -- for I... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Thomas Moore | Lallah Rookh | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to John Murray, 15 September 1817, on what he perceives to be inferiority of contemporary authors to Pope: 'I am... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Thomas Moore | [poems] | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to John Murray, 15 September 1817, on what he perceives to be inferiority of contemporary authors to Pope: 'I am... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Alexander Pope | [poems] | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to John Murray, 15 September 1817, on what he perceives to be inferiority of contemporary authors to Pope: 'I am... | George Gordon Lord Byron | George Gordon Lord Byron | [poems] | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to John Murray, 12 October 1817: 'In Coleridge's life I perceive an attack upon the then Committee of D[rury] L[... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Biographia Literaria | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to John Murray, 12 October 1817: 'Of the Prometheus of AEschylus I was passionately fond as a boy - (it was one ... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Aeschylus | Prometheus | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to Richard Belgrave Hoppner, 15 December 1817: 'I think your Elegy a remarkably good one ... I do not know wheth... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Richard Belgrave Hoppner | Elegy | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to John Murray, 20 February 1818, thanking him for parcel of books: 'The books I have read, or rather am reading... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Rev. William Beloe | The Sexagenarian, or Recollections of a Literary Life | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to John Murray, 20 February 1818, thanking him for parcel of books: 'With the Reviews I have been much entertain... | George Gordon Lord Byron | | [Reviews] | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to Samuel Rogers, 3 March 1818: 'I read my death in the papers, which was not true.' | George Gordon Lord Byron | | [obituary] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to John Murray, 25 March 1818: 'Rose's Animali I never saw till a few days ago ...' | George Gordon Lord Byron | William Stewart Rose | The Court and Parliament of Beasts, freely translated from the Animali Parlanti of Casti | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to Douglas Kinnaird, 15 July 1818: '... I see by the papers that Captain Lew Chew [ie Captain Sir Murray Maxwell... | George Gordon Lord Byron | | [Italian Gazettes] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to John Murray, 17 July 1818: 'I have seen one or two late English publications -- which are no great things --e... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Walter Scott | Rob Roy | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to John Cam Hobhouse, 30 September 1818: "' saw the other day by accident your "Historical &c." -- the Essay [on... | George Gordon Lord Byron | John Cam Hobhouse | Historical Illustrations of the Fourth Canto of Childe Harold | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to John Murray, 24 November 1818, explaining reasons for animosity toward Robert Southey: 'I have read his revie... | George Gordon Lord Byron | | Review of Leigh Hunt, Foliage | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to John Murray, 24 November 1818, thanking him for books sent (including new edition of Isaac Disraeli, "The Lit... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Isaac Disraeli | The Literary Character | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to John Murray, 24 November 1818, thanking him for books sent (including new edition of Isaac Disraeli, "The Lit... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Isaac Disraeli | The Literary Character | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to John Cam Hobhouse, 12 December 1818, on Hobhouse's election campaign: 'I saw your late Speech in Galignani's ... | George Gordon Lord Byron | | Galignani's newspaper | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to the Editor of Galingani's Messenger, 27 April 1819: 'Sir, -- In various numbers of your Journal -- I have see... | George Gordon Lord Byron | | Galignani's Messenger | Print: Advertisement, Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to John Murray, 18 May 1819: 'I have read Parson Hodgson's "Friends" in which he seems to display his knowledge ... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Francis Hodgson | The Friends: a Poem | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to John Cam Hobhouse, 3 June 1819, from Ferrara: 'In looking over the M.S. of Ariosto today -- I found at the bo... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Ludovico Ariosto | Orlando Furioso | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to John Cam Hobhouse, 3 June 1819, from Ferrara: 'In looking over the M.S. of Ariosto today -- I found at the bo... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Count Vittorio Alfieri | [marginalia] | Manuscript: Unknown, marginal note in MS of Ariosto, Orlando Furioso |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to John Cam Hobhouse, 3 June 1819, from Ferrara: "In looking over the M.S. of Ariosto today -- I found at the bo... | Count Vittorio Alfieri | Ludovico Ariosto | Orlando Furioso | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to Richard Belgrave Hoppner, 6 June 1819: 'I found ... such a pretty epitaph in the Certosa Cimetery -- or rathe... | George Gordon, Lord Byron | n/a | n/a | Manuscript: Unknown, tombstone epitaphs |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to Lady Byron, 20 July 1819: 'I tried to discover for Leigh Hunt some traces of Francesca [character in Dante's ... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Benvenuto da Imola | Commentary on Dante, Commedia | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to Countess Teresa Guiccioli, 23 August 1819, about her copy of Italian translation of Corinne: 'I have read thi... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Madame Germaine de Stael-Holstein | Corinne | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'At age twelve, recalled ploughboy John Ward, "I devoured - not read, that's too tame an expression - Robinson Crusoe,... | John Ward | Daniel Defoe | Robinson Crusoe | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'As a boy V.S. Pritchett read Oliver Twist "in a state of hot horror, It seized me because it was about London and the... | Victor Sawdon Pritchett | Charles Dickens | Oliver Twist | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'As a boy V.S. Pritchett read Oliver Twist "in a state of hot horror, It seized me because it was about London and the... | Victor Sawdon Pritchett | William Makepeace Thackeray | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'At age sixteen, Neville Cardus (whose parents were launderers in turn of the century Manchester) read in the Athenaeu... | Neville Cardus | Charles Dickens | [novels] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'At age sixteen, Neville Cardus (whose parents were launderers in turn of the century Manchester) read in the Athenaeu... | Neville Cardus | | The Athenaeum | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | 'During these early years [Daphne du Maurier] filled her head with tales of adventure, romances, histories and popular... | Daphne du Maurier | Robert Louis Stevenson | Treasure Island | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'During these early years [Daphne du Maurier] filled her head with tales of adventure, romances, histories and popular... | Daphne du Maurier | Robert Louis Stevenson | Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'During these early years [Daphne du Maurier] filled her head with tales of adventure, romances, histories and popular... | Daphne du Maurier | Hans Christian Anderson | The Snow Queen | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'During these early years [Daphne du Maurier] filled her head with tales of adventure, romances, histories and popular... | Daphne du Maurier | | The Wreck of the Grosvenor | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'During these early years [Daphne du Maurier] filled her head with tales of adventure, romances, histories and popular... | Daphne du Maurier | William Harrison Ainsworth | Old St Paul's | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'During these early years [Daphne du Maurier] filled her head with tales of adventure, romances, histories and popular... | Daphne du Maurier | Charles Dickens | Nicholas Nickleby | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'During these early years [Daphne du Maurier] filled her head with tales of adventure, romances, histories and popular... | Daphne du Maurier | Charles Dickens | Bleak House | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'During these early years [Daphne du Maurier] filled her head with tales of adventure, romances, histories and popular... | Daphne du Maurier | Frederick Marryat | Mr Midshipman Easy | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'During these early years [Daphne du Maurier] filled her head with tales of adventure, romances, histories and popular... | Daphne du Maurier | Daniel Defoe | Robinson Crusoe | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'During these early years [Daphne du Maurier] filled her head with tales of adventure, romances, histories and popular... | Daphne du Maurier | George Eliot | The Mill on the Floss | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'During these early years [Daphne du Maurier] filled her head with tales of adventure, romances, histories and popular... | Daphne du Maurier | Oscar Wilde | The Picture of Dorian Gray | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'During these early years [Daphne du Maurier] filled her head with tales of adventure, romances, histories and popular... | Daphne du Maurier | Charlotte Bronte | Jane Eyre | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'During these early years [Daphne du Maurier] filled her head with tales of adventure, romances, histories and popular... | Daphne du Maurier | Emily Bronte | Wuthering Heights | Print: Book |
| 1500-1599 | When he was ordained, the Bishop (who in those days was primus Presbyter, or Praeses) seeking to oppose him, asked him... | John Carter | [n/a] | Old Testament | Print: Book |
| 1500-1599 | When he was ordained, the Bishop (who in those days was primus Presbyter, or Praeses) seeking to oppose him, asked him... | John Carter | [n/a] | New Testament | Print: Book |
| 1500-1599 1600-1699 | For his carriage and deportment in his Family, it was sober, grave, and very Religious. He there offered up the Morni... | John Carter | [n/a] | Scriptures | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | '[Janet Hamilton] had a heavy literary diet as a child - history by Rollin and Plutarch, Ancient Universal History, Pi... | Janet Hamilton | Plutarch | [history] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | '[Janet Hamilton] had a heavy literary diet as a child - history by Rollin and Plutarch, Ancient Universal History, Pi... | Janet Hamilton | Charles Rollin | Ancient History | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | '[Janet Hamilton] had a heavy literary diet as a child - history by Rollin and Plutarch, Ancient Universal History, Pi... | Janet Hamilton | | Ancient Universal History | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | '[Janet Hamilton] had a heavy literary diet as a child - history by Rollin and Plutarch, Ancient Universal History, Pi... | Janet Hamilton | Robert Lindsay of Pitscottie | Chronicles of Scotland | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | '[Janet Hamilton] had a heavy literary diet as a child - history by Rollin and Plutarch, Ancient Universal History, Pi... | Janet Hamilton | Joseph Addison | The Spectator | Print: Book, Serial / periodical, might have been the serial versions or, more likely, bound as a book |
| 1800-1849 | '[Janet Hamilton] had a heavy literary diet as a child - history by Rollin and Plutarch, Ancient Universal History, Pi... | Janet Hamilton | Samuel Johnson | The Rambler | Print: Book, Serial / periodical, might have been the serial versions or, more likely, bound as a book |
| 1800-1849 | '[Janet Hamilton] had a heavy literary diet as a child - history by Rollin and Plutarch, Ancient Universal History, Pi... | Janet Hamilton | Robert Burns | [poetry] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | '[Janet Hamilton] had a heavy literary diet as a child - history by Rollin and Plutarch, Ancient Universal History, Pi... | Janet Hamilton | Allan Ramsay | [poetry] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | '[Janet Hamilton] had a heavy literary diet as a child - history by Rollin and Plutarch, Ancient Universal History, Pi... | Janet Hamilton | John Milton | Paradise Lost | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | '[Janet Hamilton] had a heavy literary diet as a child - history by Rollin and Plutarch, Ancient Universal History, Pi... | Janet Hamilton | Robert Fergusson | [poems] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to Countess Teresa Guiccioli, '[After Feb 7, 1820?]' (translated from Italian) : 'I have read the "few lines" of... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Countess Teresa Guiccioli | [letter] | Manuscript: Letter |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to William Bankes, 26 February 1820: 'I have more of Scott's novels (for surely they are Scott's) since we met, ... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Walter Scott | [novels] | Print: BookManuscript: Letter |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to William Bankes, 26 February 1820: 'I have more of Scott's novels (for surely they are Scott's) since we met, ... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Walter Scott | [poems] | Print: BookManuscript: Letter |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to John Murray, 3 March 1820: 'Pray send me Walter Scott's new novels ... I read some of his former ones at leas... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Walter Scott | The Bride of Lammermoor | Print: BookManuscript: Letter |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to John Murray, 3 March 1820: 'Pray send me Walter Scott's new novels ... I read some of his former ones at leas... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Walter Scott | A Legend of Montrose | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to John Cam Hobhouse, 29 March 1820: 'I congratulate you on your change of residence, which I perceive by the pa... | George Gordon Lord Byron | | [newspapers] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to Richard Belgrave Hoppner, 25 May 1820: 'A German named Rupprecht has sent me heaven knows why several Deutsch... | George Gordon Lord Byron | | German periodicals | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to Thomas Moore, 9 June 1820; 'Galignani has just sent me the Paris edition of your works (which I wrote to orde... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Thomas Moore | Works | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to Thomas Moore, 9 June 1820; 'I have just been turning over Little, which I knew by heart in 1803, being then i... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Thomas Moore | Poems of the Late Thomas Little | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to Thomas Moore, 9 June 1820; 'I have just been turning over Little, which I knew by heart in 1803, being then i... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Thomas Moore | Poems of the Late Thomas Little | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to John Murray, 17 July 1820, on books used in research for Marino Faliero, Doge of Venice: 'I have consulted Sa... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Marino Sanuto | "Italian history of the Doges of Venice" | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to John Murray, 17 July 1820, on books used in research for Marino Faliero, Doge of Venice: 'I have consulted Sa... | George Gordon Lord Byron | unknown | "Siege of Zara" | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to John Murray, 17 July 1820, on books used in research for Marino Faliero, Doge of Venice: 'I have consulted Sa... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Pierre Antoine Daru | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to John Murray, 17 July 1820, on books used in research for Marino Faliero, Doge of Venice: 'I have consulted Sa... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Jean Charles Sismondi | History of the Italian Republics in the Middle Ages | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'In the 1920s Janet Hitchman acquired her literary education among the derelict bookshelves of an orphanage, which inc... | Janet Hitchman | Charles Dickens | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'In the 1920s Janet Hitchman acquired her literary education among the derelict bookshlves of an orphanage, which incl... | Janet Hitchman | Joseph Addison | The Spectator | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'In the 1920s Janet Hitchman acquired her literary education among the derelict bookshlves of an orphanage, which incl... | Janet Hitchman | | Punch | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to John Murray, 22 July 1820, about books received: 'the diary of an Invalid good and true bating a few mistakes... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Henry Matthews | Diary of an Invalid | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'In the 1920s Janet Hitchman acquired her literary education among the derelict bookshlves of an orphanage, which incl... | Janet Hitchman | W.G. Collingwood | The Life of Ruskin | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'In the 1920s Janet Htitchman acquired her literary education among the derelict bookshlves of an orphanage, which inc... | Janet Hitchman | O.F. Walton | Christie's Old Organ | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'In the 1920s Janet Hitchman acquired her literary education among the derelict bookshlves of an orphanage, which incl... | Janet Hitchman | O.F. Walton | A Peep Behind the Scenes | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to Countess Teresa Guiccioli, on current reading habits, 24 July 1820 (translated from Italian): 'I like sometim... | George Gordon Lord Byron | unknown | [books] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'In the 1920s Janet Hitchman acquired her literary education among the derelict bookshlves of an orphanage, which incl... | Janet Hitchman | Hans Christian Anderson | The Little Match Girl | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to Countess Teresa Guiccioli, 24 July 1820 (translated from Italian): '... I read in the Gazette of an Irish la... | George Gordon Lord Byron | | Gazette | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to Countess Teresa Guiccioli, 7 August 1820 (translated from Italian): 'I am reading the second volume of the p... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Count Giulio Perticari | Dell'amor patrio di Dante | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to John Murray, 29 September 1820: '... on reading more of the 4 volumes on Italy [attacked by Byron in note to ... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Jane Waldie | Sketches Descriptive of Italy | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to Douglas Kinnaird, 26 October 1820: 'I have read lately several speeches of Hobhouse in taverns -- his Eloquen... | George Gordon Lord Byron | John Cam Hobhouse | [speeches] | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to John Murray, 4 November 1820: 'I have read part of the Quarterly just arrived ...' | George Gordon Lord Byron | | Quarterly Review | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'Shakespeare provided a political script for J.R. Clynes, the son of an Irish farm labourer, who rose from the textile... | John Robert Clynes | William Shakespeare | Twelfth Night | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Shakespeare provided a political script for J.R. Clynes, the son of an Irish farm labourer, who rose from the textile... | John Robert Clynes | William Shakespeare | Julius Caesar | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Shakespeare provided a political script for J.R. Clynes, the son of an Irish farm labourer, who rose from the textile... | John Robert Clynes | William Shakespeare | A Midsummer Night's Dream | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 4 January 1821: ' ... out of spirits -- read the papers ...' | George Gordon Lord Byron | | papers | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 4 January 1821, having remarked how case of murder in papers men... | George Gordon Lord Byron | | [poetry] | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 4 January 1821: 'Came home at eleven [pm] ... Read a Life of Leo... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Guiseppe Bossi | Del Cenacolo do Leonardo da Vinci OR Delle Opinioni di Leonardo da Vinci | Print: BookUnknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'My dear Willie, I am glad the Pall Mall has noticed the article & I approve of the Advert... We dined at Mount Melvil... | Colonel Moncrieff | George T Chesney | Battle of Dorking | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 5 January 1821: 'Read the conclusion, for the fifitieth time (I ... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Walter Scott | Tales of my Landlord (3rd series) | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | "Reading - finished Melanges d'Histoire et de Litterature which had been my Night lecture." | Lady Eleanor Butler | | Melanges d'Histoire et de Litterature | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 5 January 1821: 'Read Mitford's History of Greece -- Xenophon's ... | George Gordon Lord Byron | William Mitford | History of Greece | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 5 January 1821: 'Read Mitford's History of Greece -- Xenophon's ... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Xenophon | Retreat of the Ten Thousand | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 5 January 1821: '[after visit to friends at 11pm] Came home -- r... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Xenophon | Retreat of the Ten Thousand | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 5 January 1821: 'Ordered Fletcher (at four o'clock this afternoo... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Francis Bacon | "apophthegms" | Manuscript: Unknown, Copied by William Fletcher (reader's valet). |
| 1700-1799 | " Read Betula (sic) Liberata to my beloved. Explained all the difficult passages." | Lady Eleanor Butler | Metastasio | Betulia Liberata | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 6 January 1821: 'Read Spence's Anecdotes ... Corrected blunders ... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Francis Bacon | "apophthegms" | Manuscript: Unknown, Copied by William Fletcher (reader's valet). |
| 1800-1849 | Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 6 January 1821: 'Read Spence's Anecdotes ... Corrected blunders ... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Joseph Spence | Anecdotes | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 6 January 1821: Read Spence's Anecdotes ... Corrected blunders i... | George Gordon Lord Byron | William Mitford | History of Greece | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 6 January 1821: 'Turned to a passage in Guinguene [sic] -- ditto... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Pierre Louis Ginguene | Histoire Litteraire de l'Italie | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 6 January 1821: 'Turned to a passage in Guinguene [sic] -- ditto... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Lord Holland | Lope de Vega | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 6 January 1821: 'Came home [after going visiting at 8pm], and re... | George Gordon Lord Byron | William Mitford | History of Greece | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Gentlemen.
I am the fourth generation of my family that have taken in Blackwood's Magazine; the back numbers bound f... | Francis Philips | George T Chesney | The Private Secretary | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 7 January 1821: 'Read Spence, and turned over Roscoe, to find a ... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Joseph Spence | Anecdotes | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 7 January 1821: 'Read Spence, and turned over Roscoe, to find a ... | George Gordon Lord Byron | William Roscoe | The Life of Lorenzo de Medici, called the Magnificent OR The Life and Pontificate of Leo the Tenth | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'As for the Private Secretary, I can sympathize with both you & Chesney. As Editor, I should have [?] to print it as ... | Alex Innes Shand | George T Chesney | The Private Secretary | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 7 January 1821: 'Read the 4th. vol of W. Scott's second series o... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Walter Scott | Tales of my Landlord (2nd series) | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 7 January 1821: 'Dined. Read the Lugano Gazette. Read -- I forg... | George Gordon Lord Byron | | Lugano Gazette | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 7 January 1821: 'Dined. Read the Lugano Gazette. Read -- I forg... | George Gordon Lord Byron | unknown | unknown | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 7 January 1821: 'It wants half an hour of midnight ... Turned ov... | George Gordon Lord Byron | unknown | [books] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 8 January 1821: 'Came home [from ?Guicciolis', where visited at ... | George Gordon Lord Byron | William Mitford | History of Greece | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 8 January 1821: 'Came home [from ?Guicciolis', where visited at ... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Walter Scott | Rob Roy | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 9 January 1821: 'Dined. Read Johnson's "Vanity of Human Wishes"... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Samuel Johnson | The Vanity of Human Wishes | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 10 January 1821: 'Looked over accounts. Read Campbell's Poets -... | George Gordon Lord Byron | | accounts | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 10 January 1821: 'Looked over accounts. Read Campbell's Poets -... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Thomas Campbell | Specimens of the British Poets (including prefatory Essay on English Poetry) | Print: BookUnknown |
| 1800-1849 | Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 10 January 1821: '[after going out to hear music] Came home -- ... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Thomas Campbell | Specimens of the British Poets (including prefatory Essay on English Poetry) | Print: BookUnknown |
| 1800-1849 | Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 10 January 1821: 'Midnight. I have been turning over different L... | George Gordon Lord Byron | various | Lives of poets | Print: BookUnknown |
| 1700-1799 1800-1849 | Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 10 January 1821: 'Midnight. I have been turning over different L... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Alexander Pope | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 1800-1849 | Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 10 January 1821: 'Midnight. I have been turning over different L... | George Gordon Lord Byron | John Dryden | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 1800-1849 | Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 10 January 1821: 'Midnight. I have been turning over different L... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Samuel Johnson | unknown | |
| 1700-1799 1800-1849 | Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 10 January 1821: 'Midnight. I have been turning over different L... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Thomas Gray | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 11 January 1821: 'Read the letters ... Dined ...' | George Gordon Lord Byron | | letters | Manuscript: Letter |
| 1800-1849 | Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 11 January 1821: 'Dined ... Went out -- returned ... read Poets,... | George Gordon Lord Byron | | [Poets] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 11 January 1821: 'Dined ... Went out -- returned ... read Poets,... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Joseph Spence | Anecdotes | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 11 January 1821: 'In reading, I have just chanced upon an expres... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Thomas Campbell | Specimens of the British Poets (including prefatory Essay on English Poetry) | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 11 January 1821, on visit to plain of Troy in 1810: ' ... I read... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Anon. | Homer Travestie; Being a new translation of that great poet (1720) OR A Burlesque Translation of Homer (3rd edn of same piece, 1770) | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 12 January 1821: 'Read the Poets -- English that is to say -- ou... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Thomas Campbell | Specimens of the British Poets (including prefatory Essay on English Poetry) | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 12 January 1821: 'How strange are my thoughts! -- The reading of... | George Gordon Lord Byron | John Milton | Sabrina Fair | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 12 January 1821: 'Midnight. Read the Italian translation by Guid... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Franz Grillparzer | Sappho | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 12 January 1821: 'I have read ... much less of Goethe, and Schil... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 12 January 1821: 'I have read ... much less of Goethe, and Schil... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Schiller | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 12 January 1821: 'I have read ... much less of Goethe, and Schil... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Christoph Martin Wieland | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 13 January 1821: 'Sketched the outline and Drams. Pers. of an in... | George Gordon Lord Byron | William Mitford | History of Greece | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 14 January 1821: 'Turned over Seneca's tragedies. Wrote the ope... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Seneca | tragedies | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 14 January 1821: 'Read Diodorus Siculus -- turned over Seneca, a... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Seneca | tragedies | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 14 January 1821: 'Read Diodorus Siculus -- turned over Seneca, a... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Diodorus Siculus | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 15 January 1821: '... dined -- dipped into a volume of Mitford's... | George Gordon Lord Byron | William Mitford | History of Greece | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 15 January 1821: "In the year 1814, Moore ... and I were going t... | George Gordon, Lord Byron | n/a | Javanese newspaper | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 16 January 1821: 'Read -- rode -- fired pistols -- returned -- d... | George Gordon Lord Byron | unknown | unknown | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 17 January 1821: 'Arrived a packet of books from England and Lom... | George Gordon Lord Byron | unknown | [various books] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 18 January 1821: '... the post arriving late, did not ride. Rea... | George Gordon Lord Byron | | letters | Manuscript: Letter |
| 1800-1849 | Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 19 January 1821: 'I have been reading the Life, by himself and d... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Richard Lovell and Maria Edgeworth | Memoirs | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 20 January 1821: 'Rode -- fired pistols. Read from Grimm's Corr... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Friedrich Melchior Grimm | Correspondence Litteraire | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 21 January 1821: 'Dined -- visited -- came home -- read. Remark... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Friedrich Melchior Grimm | Correspondence Litteraire | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 23 January 1821: 'Read -- rode -- fired pistols, and returned.' | George Gordon Lord Byron | unknown | unknown | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 23 January 1821: 'Dined -- read. Went out at eight ...' | George Gordon Lord Byron | unknown | unknown | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 25 January 1821: 'Answered [John] Murray's letter -- read -- lou... | George Gordon Lord Byron | unknown | unknown | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 28 January 1821 entry: 'Past Midnight. One o' the clock. I hav... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel | History of Literature | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 29 January 1821 entry: 'Read S[chlegel].' | George Gordon Lord Byron | Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel | History of Literature | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 31 January 1821 entry: 'Midnight. I have been reading Grimm's Co... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Friedrich Melchior Grimm | Correspondence Litteraire | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 2 February 1821, on tendency to attacks of thirst: 'I read in Ed... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Richard Lovell and Maria Edgeworth | Memoirs | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 5 February 1821: ' ... dined -- read -- went out ...' | George Gordon Lord Byron | unknown | unknown | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 5 February 1821: 'Read some of Bowles's dispute about Pope, with... | George Gordon Lord Byron | William Lisle Bowles | various | Print: Serial / periodicalUnknown |
| 1800-1849 | Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 13 February 1821: 'Today read a little in Louis B.'s Hollande ...' | George Gordon Lord Byron | Louis Buonaparte | Documents Historiques, et Reflexions sur le Gouvernement de la Hollande | Print: Book, Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 16 February 1821: 'At nine [pm] went out -- at eleven returned .... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Walter Scott | Tales of my Landlord | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 18 February 1821: 'In turning over Grimm's Correspondence to-day... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Friedrich Melchior Grimm | Correspondence Litteraire | Print: Book |
| | Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 20 February 1821: 'Within these few days I have read, but not wr... | George Gordon Lord Byron | unknown | unknown | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 23 February 1821:'"... rode, &c. -- visited -- wrote nothing -- ... | George Gordon Lord Byron | | Roman history | Unknown |
| 1600-1699 | 'God... did cast into my hand, one day, a book of "Martin Luther", his comment on the "Galathians", so old that it was... | John Bunyan | Martin Luther | Commentary on the Galations | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to John Murray, 20 January 1821: 'I have just read in an Italian paper "That Ld. B. has a tragedy coming out" &c... | George Gordon Lord Byron | | Italian newspaper | Print: NewspaperUnknown |
| 1800-1849 | In letter to John Murray of 21 February 1821, Byron makes various comments and corrections, with page references, on W... | George Gordon Lord Byron | William Turner | Journal of a Tour in the Levant | Print: BookManuscript: Letter |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to John Murray, 1 March 1821: 'Give my love to Sir W. Scott -- & tell him to write more novels; -- pray send out... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Walter Scott | [various novels] | Print: BookManuscript: Letter |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to P. B. Shelley, 26 April 1821, on death of Keats after adverse reviews: 'I read the review of "Endymion" in th... | George Gordon Lord Byron | John Wilson Croker | review of John Keats, Endymion | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to P. B. Shelley, 26 April 1821: 'I read [The] Cenci ...' | George Gordon Lord Byron | Percy Bysshe Shelley | The Cenci | Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | Byron's "Dictionary" (journal), 1 May 1821: 'The moment I could read -- my grand passion was history ... I was particu... | George Gordon Lord Byron | unknown | Roman History | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Byron's "Dictionary" (journal), 1 May 1821, on studies with tutor (Paterson): 'With him I began Latin in Ruddiman's Gr... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Ruddiman | Latin Grammar | Print: Book |
| | Byron to Francis Hodgson, 12 May 1821; ' ... your two poems [critical of Byron] have been sent. I have read them over... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Francis Hodgson | Childe Harold's Monitor, or Lines occasioned by the Last Canto of Childe Harold, including Hints to other Contemporaries | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to Francis Hodgson, 12 May 1821; ' ... your two poems [critical of Byron] have been sent. I have read them over... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Francis Hodgson | Saeculo Mastix, or the Lash of the Age we live in | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to Francis Hodgson, 12 May 1821; 'Two hours after the "Ave Maria", the Italian date of twilight ... I have ... d... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Francis Hodgson | Notes to (?) Childe Harold's Monitor, or Lines Occasioned by the Last Canto of Childe Harold, including Hints to other Contemporaries | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to Douglas Kinnaird, 29 June 1821: 'Instead of receiving a letter from you per post -- I have been reading one i... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Douglas Kinnaird | letter (ie article?) | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to John Murray, 29 June 1821: 'I have just read "John Bull's letter" -- it is diabolically well written -- & ful... | George Gordon Lord Byron | J. G. Lockhart | John Bull's Letter to Lord Byron | |
| 1900-1945 | I had read every line of several volumes of the 'Home Magazine' -especially a grotesque serial called 'The Wallypug of... | Victor Sawdon Pritchett | | Home Magazine | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | I had read every line of several volumes of the 'Home Magazine' -especially a grotesque serial called 'The Wallypug of... | Victor Sawdon Pritchett | G.E. Farrow | The Wallypug of Why | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | I had read every line of several volumes of the 'Home Magazine' -especially a grotesque serial called 'The Wallypug of... | Victor Sawdon Pritchett | | Children's Encyclopaedia | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to Thomas Moore, 5 July 1821: 'I have had a curious letter to-day from a girl in England ... It is signed simply... | George Gordon Lord Byron | [N. N. A.] anon | [private letter] | Manuscript: Letter |
| 1900-1945 | I had read every line of several volumes of the 'Home Magazine' -especially a grotesque serial called 'The Wallypug of... | Victor Sawdon Pritchett | | Hereward the Wake | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | I had read every line of several volumes of the 'Home Magazine' -especially a grotesque serial called 'The Wallypug of... | Victor Sawdon Pritchett | | [comics -unknown] | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | I had read every line of several volumes of the 'Home Magazine' -especially a grotesque serial called 'The Wallypug of... | Victor Sawdon Pritchett | | Marriage on Two Hundred a Year | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to John Murray, 6 July 1821: 'At the particular request of the Countess G[uiccioli] I have promised not to conti... | Countess Teresa Guiccioli | George Gordon Lord Byron | Don Juan (Cantos I and II) | Print: BookManuscript: Letter |
| 1900-1945 | Our first lessons were from Ford Madox Ford's 'English Review' which was publishing some of the best young writers of ... | Victor Sawdon Pritchett | Ford Madox Ford | English Review | Print: Book, Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | Bartlett dug out one of James Russell Lowell's poems, 'The Vision of Sir Launfal', though why he chose that dim poem I... | Victor Sawdon Pritchett | James Russell Lowell | The Vision of Sir Launfal | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Bartlett dug out one of James Russell Lowell's poems, 'The Vision of Sir Launfal', though why he chose that dim poem I... | Victor Sawdon Pritchett | Alfred Tennyson | | Print: Book |
| | Byron to Thomas Moore, 2 August 1821: 'You may probably have seen all sorts of attacks upon me in some gazettes in Eng... | George Gordon Lord Byron | A. A. Watts | series of five articles alleging plagiarism in Byron's works | Print: Serial / periodicalManuscript: Letter |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to John Murray, 7 August 1821: 'I have just been turning over the homicide review of J. Keats ...' | George Gordon Lord Byron | John Wilson Croker | Adverse review of John Keats, Endymion | Print: Serial / periodicalManuscript: Letter |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to John Murray, 23 August 1821, on sources for descriptions in Don Juan Canto III: 'much of the description of t... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Richard Tully | Narrative of a Ten Years' Residence at the Court of Tripoli | Print: BookManuscript: Letter |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to Octavius Gilchrist, 5 September 1821, acknowledges receipt and reading of three pamphlets (by Gilchrist) rela... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Octavius Gilchrist | pamphlets | |
| 1700-1799 | Byron to John Murray, 9 October 1821, having requested that he send a Bible: 'I am a great reader and admirer of those... | George Gordon Lord Byron | | Books of Old Testament | Print: Book |
| | Byron's "Detached Thoughts" (15 October 1821-18 May 1822), on R. B. Sheridan, 15 October 1821: 'One day I saw him take... | Richard Brinsley Sheridan | Richard Brinsley Sheridan | Monody on Garrick | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Byron's "Detached Thoughts" (15 October 1821-18 May 1822), 15 October 1821: 'At the Opposition Meeting of the peers in... | William Wyndham Lord Grenville | unknown | Correspondence re Francis Rawdon Hastings, second Earl of Moira | Manuscript: Letter |
| 1800-1849 | Byron's "Detached Thoughts" (15 October 1821-18 May 1822), on reading 'reviews', 15 October 1821: ' ... the first I ev... | George Gordon Lord Byron | unknown | [reviews] | Print: Serial / periodicalManuscript: Letter |
| 1700-1799 1800-1849 | Byron's "Detached Thoughts" (15 October 1821-18 May 1822), on Harrow master Dr. Drury: 'My first Harrow verses (that i... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Aeschylus | Prometheus Bound | Print: BookManuscript: Letter |
| 1800-1849 | Byron's "Detached Thoughts" (15 October 1821-18 May 1822), 5 November 1821: 'I have lately been reading Fielding over ... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Henry Fielding | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to Thomas Moore, 16 November 1821, on literary ambitions of an Irish visitor, John Taaffe: 'I read a letter of y... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Thomas Moore | [letter] | Manuscript: Letter |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to John Murray, 4 December 1821: 'By extracts in the English papers in your holy Ally -- Galignani's messenger -... | George Gordon Lord Byron | | Galignani's Messenger | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to John Sheppard, who had sent him a prayer apparently written for him (Byron) by his (Sheppard's) late wife, 8 ... | George Gordon, Lord Byron | John Sheppard | [unknown] | Manuscript: Letter |
| | Byron to Bryan Waller Procter, 1822, regarding Procter's drama Mirandola: ' ... "Mirandola" [was] not announced till t... | George Gordon Lord Byron | | advertisement for "Mirandola" | Print: Advertisement, Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to the editor of The Courier, 5 February 1822: 'Sir / -- I have read in your Journal some remarks of Mr. Southey... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Robert Southey | letter | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to John Murray, 8 February 1822: 'Attacks upon me were to be expected [following publication of his Biblical dra... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Oxoniensis [pseud.] | Remonstrance against Cain | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to Thomas Moore, 1 March 1822: 'In the impartial Galignani I perceive an extract from Blackwood's Magazine, in w... | George Gordon Lord Byron | | article originally appearing in Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, January 1822 | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to Edward J. Dawkins, 17 May 1822: "I return you the paper with many thanks for that and your letter. -- It is t... | George Gordon, Lord Byron | n/a | [English newspaper] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to John Murray, 26 May 1822, giving directions for burial of his daughter Allegra at Harrow Church: 'Near the do... | George Gordon Lord Byron | | | Manuscript: epitaph |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to Thomas Moore, 8 June 1822: 'I have read the recent article of Jeffrey in a faithful transcription of the impa... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Francis Jeffrey | unknown | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to Thomas Moore, 8 August 1822: 'I have not seen the thing you mention [John Watkins, Memoirs of the Life and Wr... | George Gordon Lord Byron | | Advertisement for [John Watkins], Memoirs of the Life and Writings of the Right Honourable Lord Byron | Print: Advertisement |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to the Rev Thomas Hall, 14 August 1822: 'I have observed in Galignani's paper lists of the Subscribers and Subsc... | George Gordon Lord Byron | | Lists of subscribers to Irish poor relief funds | Print: Newspaper |
| 1700-1799 | 'I do not wonder at your wanting to read [italics for title] first impressions again, so seldom as you have gone throu... | Cassandra Austen | Jane Austen | First Impressions | Manuscript: Book in Manuscript |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to John Murray, 9 October 1822, on his recent illness (painfully and ineffectually treated by a local doctor): '... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Thompson | book of prescriptions | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 1800-1849 | Byron to Augusta Leigh, 12 December 1822, on the inspiration for his play Werner: 'The Story "the German's tale" [in S... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Harriet Lee | The German's Tale | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to John Murray, 25 October 1822, sending back unread Quarterly Review (having decided to read no more reviews): ... | George Gordon Lord Byron | | Galignani's Messenger | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to the Earl of Blessington, 5 April 1823: 'I return the C[ount] D'O[rsay]'s journal which is a very extraordinar... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Count D'Orsay | Journal | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to Madame Sergent-Marceau, 5 May 1823 (translated from Italian): 'no present you might give me would be more wel... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Antoine Francois Sergent-Marceau | Notices Historiques sur le General Marceau | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 1800-1849 | Byron to the Countess of Blessington, on Benjamin Constant's Adolphe, 6 May 1823: 'The first time I ever read it ... w... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Benjamin Constant | Adolphe | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to John Cam Hobhouse, 28 May 1823: "I read your various speeches in the Times." | George Gordon, Lord Byron | n/a | The Times | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to Henri Beyle (who later wrote under the name Stendhal), 29 May 1823: 'Of your works I have seen only "Rome", e... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Henri Beyle | Rome | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to Henri Beyle (who later wrote under the name Stendhal), 29 May 1823: 'Of your works I have seen only "Rome", e... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Henri Beyle | Life of Haydn | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to Henri Beyle (who later wrote under the name Stendhal), 29 May 1823: 'Of your works I have seen only "Rome", e... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Henri Beyle | Life of Mozart | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to Henri Beyle (who later wrote under the name Stendhal), 29 May 1823: 'Of your works I have seen only "Rome", e... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Henri Beyle | essay on Racine and Shakespeare | |
| 1800-1849 | Byron thanks J. J. Coulmann for books sent, July 1823: 'I have also to return thanks to you for having honoured me wit... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Amadee Pichot | Essai sur le Genie et le Caractere de Lord Byron par A[madee] P[icho]t | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 22 July 1823, thanking him for 'lines' forwarded by Charles Sterling and received... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe | unknown | Manuscript: Letter |
| 1800-1849 | 'The neighbours and we have set up a book-club since the beginning of the year, & I want to beg you to tell me of some... | Caroline Clive | George Sand | La Mare au Diable | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'The neighbours and we have set up a book-club since the beginning of the year, & I want to beg you to tell me of some... | Caroline Clive | Jules Sandeau | La Chasse au Roman | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'The neighbours and we have set up a book-club since the beginning of the year, & I want to beg you to tell me of some... | Caroline Clive | Lord Mahon | The Life of Louis, Prince of Conde, Surnamed the Great | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'The neighbours and we have set up a book-club since the beginning of the year, & I want to beg you to tell me of some... | Caroline Clive | | Memoirs of a Missionary | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Nearly the best thing she has written is L[ady] Geraldine.' | Caroline Clive | Elizabeth Barrett Browning | Lady Geraldine | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Robert Browning] 'published a sort of poem called Bells & Pomegranates in wh. there is no meaning at all.' | Caroline Clive | Robert Browning | Bells and Pomegranates | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Your biography will always be a model work, & one of wh. the Interest is perpetual' | Caroline Clive | Elizabeth Gaskell | Life of Charlotte Bronte | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to Scrope Berdmore Davies, 31 July 1810: 'I see by the papers 15th May my Satire [English Bards and Scotch Revie... | George Gordon Lord Byron | | [newspapers] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to Scrope Berdmore Davies, 7 December 1818: 'We have all here been very much pleased with Hobhouse's book on Ita... | George Gordon Lord Byron | John Cam Hobhouse | Historical Illustrations of the Fourth Canto of Childe Harold | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to Ben Crosby, 1 December 1807: ' ... as to any reviews of my precious Publication [Hours of Idleness] ... I hav... | George Gordon Lord Byron | | Critical Review | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to Ben Crosby, 1 December 1807: '... as to any reviews of my precious Publication [Hours of Idleness] ... I have... | George Gordon Lord Byron | | The Eclectic Review | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1700-1799 1800-1849 | Byron to Wililiam Harness, 11 February 1808: 'I ... remember being favoured [while at school] with the perusal of many... | George Gordon Lord Byron | William Harness | unknown | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to Henry Gally Knight, 4 April 1815: 'Dear Knight -- I have read "Alashtar" with attention and great pleasure.' | George Gordon Lord Byron | Henry Gally Knight | Alashtar, an Arabian Tale | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'Working class readers continued to enjoy Macaulay's drama and accessibility long after professional historians had de... | Kathleen Woodward | Thomas Babington Macaulay | History of England | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Working class readers continued to enjoy Macaulay's drama and accessibility long after professional historians had de... | Kathleen Woodward | Edward Gibbon | The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Leslie A. Marchand notes regarding 1812 letter in which Byron mentions sending a book (possibly Childe Harold's Pilgri... | Lady Caroline Lamb | George Gordon Lord Byron | Childe Harold's Pilgrimage | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to Jean Antoine Galignani, 27 April 1819: 'In various numbers of your Journal -- I have seen mentioned a work en... | George Gordon Lord Byron | | Galignani's Messenger | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to Jean Antoine Galignani, 28 April 1820: 'I perceive in a long advertisement of what you are pleased to call Ld... | George Gordon Lord Byron | | Galignani's Messenger | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to John Hunt, 5 July 1823: 'I have seen the Blackwood [review of The Age of Bronze]: but I still think it a pity... | George Gordon Lord Byron | | review of Byron, The Age of Bronze | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to the Chronica Greca, 23 May 1824 (translated from Italian): 'I have read for the first time yesterday an artic... | George Gordon Lord Byron | | Hellenica Chronica | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | '"One advantage of leaving school at an early age is that one can study subjects of your own choice", wrote Frank Arge... | Frank Argent | | [Freudian psychology] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '"One advantage of leaving school at an early age is that one can study subjects of your own choice", wrote Frank Arge... | Frank Argent | | [industrial administration] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '"One advantage of leaving school at an early age is that one can study subjects of your own choice", wrote Frank Arge... | Frank Argent | [unknown] | [political history] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '"One advantage of leaving school at an early age is that one can study subjects of your own choice", wrote Frank Arge... | Frank Argent | William Blake | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '"One advantage of leaving school at an early age is that one can study subjects of your own choice", wrote Frank Arge... | Frank Argent | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '"One advantage of leaving school at an early age is that one can study subjects of your own choice", wrote Frank Arge... | Frank Argent | John Stuart Mill | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '"One advantage of leaving school at an early age is that one can study subjects of your own choice", wrote Frank Arge... | Frank Argent | Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '"One advantage of leaving school at an early age is that one can study subjects of your own choice", wrote Frank Arge... | Frank Argent | Beatrice and Sidney Webb | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '"One advantage of leaving school at an early age is that one can study subjects of your own choice", wrote Frank Arge... | Frank Argent | Bertrand Russell | Essays in Scepticism | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '"One advantage of leaving school at an early age is that one can study subjects of your own choice", wrote Frank Arge... | Frank Argent | Oswald Arnold Gottfried Spengler | The Decline of the West | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'merchant seaman Lennox Kerr ditched overboard his early experiments in authorship:"... writing isn't for the working ... | Lennox Kerr | William Shakespeare | [works] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'merchant seaman Lennox Kerr ditched overboard his early experiments in authorship:"... writing isn't for the working ... | Lennox Kerr | n/a | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'merchant seaman Lennox Kerr ditched overboard his early experiments in authorship:"... writing isn't for the working ... | Lennox Kerr | William Cobbett | A Grammar of the English Language in a Series of Letters | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, 30 October 1802: '... [William Wordsworth and Stoddart] surprized us by their a... | ?John Stoddart | Geoffrey Chaucer | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'From 7.40 to 9 1/2 reading aloud to myself from p.42 to 50 (very carefully) vol.I Rousseau's Confessions. I READ this... | Anne Lister | Jean Jaques Rousseau | Confessions | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | ' Came up to bed at 9.50. Read from pp55 to 65 Vol.I Rousseau's Confessions.' | Anne Lister | Jean Jaques Rousseau | Confessions | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | ' Could not resist unpacking my books from Paris...About ten [servant] came and curled my hair. Stood musing. Peeped i... | Anne Lister | Jean Jaques Rousseau | Julie: ou Nouvelle Heloise | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | ' Reading from pp 22 to 32, II, Nouvelle Heloise.' | Anne Lister | Jean Jaques Rousseau | Julie: ou Nouvelle Heloise | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Tea between 9 and 10. I read aloud a little of 'The Pleasures of Hope'. Mrs Barlow [friend and lover] sat hemming one... | Anne Lister | Thomas Campbell | The Pleasures of Hope | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | ' Tea at 8. Then read aloud to my aunt the first 74pp Vol I, "Sayings and Doings'."Excellent. Dont know when I have la... | Anne Lister | Theodore Hook | Sayings and Doings | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Found on the table at the inn ( in no.9, a very nice small parlour with a lodging openinginto it), among several othe... | Anne Lister | | Peak Scenery, or Excursions in Derbyshire | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | ' Tea at 8. Read aloud to my aunt the first 31pp of Moore's Buxton and Castleton Guide.' | Anne Lister | Henry Moore | Buxton and Casleton Guide Picturesque Excursions i | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | ' At 2.30 went out to the library [..]Subscribed for a month [...] Came up to bed at 9.35. Sat up reading the first 79... | Anne Lister | Mme Marie-Sophie Cottin | Amelie Mansfield | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | ' Went out [..] to the Tuileries Gardens at 8.55. In going, bought at the 1st shop on the left, under the arcades. a p... | Anne Lister | Chateaubriand | Le Roi Est Mort, Vive Le Roi | |
| 1800-1849 | [ Had bought and read pamphlet immediately prior to this experience] 'Paid a sol for the Journal Politique which I rea... | Anne Lister | | Journal Politique or Moniteur on Journal Politique | Print: Newspaper, Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | Read the psalms and lessons to myself. After tea, read aloud sermon 15 and ...My aunt read aloud 17, Polwhele | Anne Lister | Richard Polwhele | Sermons: a new volume | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Got to Mr Knights 1/4 after 3 and was with him full an hour and a half [...]These questions were all asked as soon as ... | Anne Lister | Lucian | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | before breakfast, looking over the Greek grammar + Bonney-Castle's algebra...went to Mr Knight at 3. | Anne Lister | | [Greek Grammar] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Extensive discusion of the text in a letter to Marianne Lawson 15/03/1823.] ...Throw in too, I grant, some fine poetr... | Anne Lister | Thomas Moore | The Loves of the Angels | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Letter to M. Lawson dated Saturday 15 March 1823] I have no room for more about the Retrospective Review, than that I... | Anne Lister | | Retrospective Review | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | [Letter dated 1823, to Miss Pickford]. Madame Marcet is a very good guide as far as she goes, but surely respecting t... | Anne Lister | Jane Marcet | Conversations on Natural Philosophy | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Letter to Sarah Maclean, dated Monday 21 June 1824] Your being so fond of Cowper tells me half of your character- How... | Anne Lister | William Cowper | Retirement | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Letter to Maria Barlow, dated Tuesday Morning, 16 August 1825] ...It is as I have just read from the pen of Madme Cot... | Anne Lister | Sophie Cottin | Amelie Mansfield | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Letter to Aunt dated 3 February 1832] I do not think any books so bad to read as a newspaper. [...]If you ever read ... | Anne Lister | Edward Bulwer-Lytton | Eugene Aram. A Tale by the Author of 'Pelham' | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Letter dated Monday 15 January 1838] Have you seen that book of Bernard's on the Constitution? Not fit for every eye.... | Anne Lister | J. B. Bernard | Theory of the Constitution Compared with its Pract | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | What matters it to me if Young was an ambitious man or not? He wrote what I feel; and tho' not his wishes, his words w... | Anne Lister | Edward Young | The Complaint: Night Thoughts on Life, Death, and | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Letter to Sibbella Maclean, dated August 18 1824] I should have marked, and doubtless, have done so in my little edit... | Anne Lister | Edward Young | The Complaint: Night Thoughts on Life, Death, and | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Letter to Sibbella Maclean, dated Saturday 10 July 1824] You remind me of Dr Gregory's advive to his daughter. A woma... | Anne Lister | John Gregory | A Father's Legacy to His Daughters | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | The Grecian History has pleased me much you know Mr Trant made a present of the Roman History, what a brave people the... | Anne Lister | Oliver Goldsmith | The Grecian History | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | My library is one of my greatest pleasures after a good ramble in the fields. I assure you I am very much pleased with... | Anne Lister | Alexander Hunter | Georgical Essays | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | I was rather unwell for about an hour, but not very bad when I could go on reading The Vicar of Wakefield | Anne Lister | Oliver Goldsmith | The Vicar of Wakefield | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Wee are much obliged to you for sending in Pamela, but I must tell you how it entertained us, Miss Jenny and I cryed m... | Anne Cust | Samuel Richardson | Pamela | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Before breakfast, looking over the Greek grammar and Bonnycastle's algebra... | Anne Lister | John Bonnycastle | An introduction to algebra or a treatise on algebr | |
| 1800-1849 | Before breakfast from line 36-86 Sophlocles 'Electra' | Anne Lister | Sophlocles | Electra | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Assisted my Aunt in reading prayers in the afternoon. In the evening read aloud sermons 8+9, Hoole. | Anne Lister | Joseph Hoole | sermons on several important practical subjects | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | After breakfast...dawdling awaythe morning in looking over medical Mss, weighing out powders [...]. | Anne Lister | | ['Medical Mss'] | Manuscript: Sheet |
| 1800-1849 | Looking over some songs, writing out 'The Bay of Biscay' and 'Said Eve unto Adam' + dawdling literally quite in a pers... | Anne Lister | | The Bay of Biscay | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Looking over some songs, writing out 'The Bay of Biscay' and 'Said Eve unto Adam' + dawdling literally quite in a pers... | Anne Lister | | Said Eve unto Adam | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | In the evening, between 8+9, read from pp 263-307, vol I, Gibbon's Miscellaneous works. He died in London [...] 16 Jan... | Anne Lister | Edward Gibbon | Miscellaneous Works | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | In the afternoon at 3.40, down the old bank to the library...No Miss Browne. I could have said, changing only the gend... | Anne Lister | Edward Gibbon | Miscellaneous Works | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | This morning's post brought me (from York, directed by Anne Belcombe, Petergate) the Manchester Observer [etc] 2 sheet... | Anne Lister | | Manchester Observer or literary, commercial and poli | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | Before breakfast + afterwards, from 11 to 1, making minutes + extracts from Hall's travels in France (it must go to th... | Anne Lister | Colonel Francis Hall | Travels in France in 1818 | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | Looking over the Annals of philosophy for November last. Population of Moscow - effect of bathing in the Red Sea [...] | Anne Lister | | Annals of philosophy | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | I was on the amoroso till M- made me read aloud the first 126pp, vol 2, of Sir walter Scott's(he has just been made a ... | Anne Lister | Sir Walter Scott | The Monastery. A romance | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | from 1 to 3, read the first 100pp. vol 3 Leontine de Blondheim...It is altogether a very interesting thing +have read ... | Anne Lister | August Fredrich Ferdinand von Kotzebue | Leontine de Blondheim | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Dr Scudamore, recommended and has just sent me to look at Thomsons Conspectus of the Pharmacopeias, a nice little 42m... | Anne Lister | Anthony Todd Thomson | A Conspectus of the pharmacopeias of the London [e | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Spent the afternoon in mending some of my things for the wash. After tea, read aloud sermons 13+14 of Alison's. | Anne Lister | Archibald Alison | Sermons | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Read...Demosthenes +...Lelands translation. This is the 4th Greek work I have read thro' & I certainly feel considerab... | Anne Lister | Desmosthenes | All the Orations of Demosthenes | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Had no time for Eudid but looked into Emerson's mechanics for 1/4 hour, as I wish to prepare myself a little for Dalto... | Anne Lister | William Emerson | The principle of mechanics | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Just after ten read aloud to my aunt the very favourable review of Lallah Rookh; an Oriental romance by Thomas Moore..... | Anne Lister | Thomas Moore | Lallah Rookh or 'Review' | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'At 12 Marianna and I went upstairs. She sat sewing and I reading aloud to her the first 3 or 4 pages of the M.S. Lect... | Anne Lister | Dr Scudamore | Lectures on physiology | Manuscript: Sheet |
| 1800-1849 | Read...Demosthenes and ...Lelands translation. This is the 4th Greek work I have read thro' and I certainly feel consi... | Anne Lister | Thomas Leland | All the Orations of Demosthenes Translated into En | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | had no time for Euclid but looked into Emerson's Mechanics for 1/4 hour as I wish to prepare myself a little for Dalto... | Anne Lister | William Emerson | Mechanics or The Principles of Mechanics | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | before breakfast, props.24+25 lib. Euclid | Anne Lister | Euclid | The Elements | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | between 1 and 2, the first 7 propositions of the 1st book of Euclid, with which I mean to renew my acquaintance and to... | Anne Lister | Euclid | The Elements | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | All went to morning church & said the sacrement [...] Read the psalms & lessons to myself. After tea, read aloud sermo... | Anne Lister | | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | I have been pleased with some tracts on political Economy by William Alias Entomology Spence esq. F.L.S. Just reprinte... | Anne Lister | William Spence | Tracts on Political Economy: Viz I. Britain Indepe | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 1900-1945 | 'Frances Stevenson, born in 1888, recollected [in The years that Are Past, 1967] that she "read greedily [pre-1914] ..... | Frances Stevenson | Charles Dickens | Little Dorrit | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 1900-1945 | 'Frances Stevenson, born in 1888, recollected [in The years that Are Past, 1967] that she "read greedily [pre-1914] ..... | Frances Stevenson | Charles Dickens | The Old Curiosity Shop | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 1900-1945 | 'Frances Stevenson, born in 1888, recollected [in The years that Are Past, 1967] that she "read greedily [pre-1914] ..... | Frances Stevenson | Rev. Richard H. Barham | The Ingoldsby Legends | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 1900-1945 | 'Frances Stevenson, born in 1888, recollected [in The years that Are Past, 1967] that she "read greedily [pre-1914] ..... | Frances Stevenson | Sir Walter Scott | poems | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Frances Stevenson, born in 1888, recollected [in The years that Are Past, 1967] that she "read greedily [pre-1914] ..... | Frances Stevenson | Henryk Sienkiewicz | Quo Vadis | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Frances Stevenson, born in 1888, recollected [in The years that Are Past, 1967] that she "read greedily [pre-1914] ..... | Frances Stevenson | Rider Haggard | She | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Frances Stevenson, born in 1888, recollected [in The years that Are Past, 1967] that she "read greedily [pre-1914] ..... | Frances Stevenson | Mrs Meek | Ellesmere | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | '[William Robertson] Nicoll's boyhood reading included Scott, Disraeli, the Brontes, Bulwer Lytton, Shelley, Johnson, ... | William Robertson Nicoll | Sir Walter Scott | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | '[William Robertson] Nicoll's boyhood reading included Scott, Disraeli, the Brontes, Bulwer Lytton, Shelley, Johnson, ... | William Robertson Nicoll | Benjamin Disraeli | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | '[William Robertson] Nicoll's boyhood reading included Scott, Disraeli, the Brontes, Bulwer Lytton, Shelley, Johnson, ... | William Robertson Nicoll | Edward Bulwer Lytton | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | '[William Robertson] Nicoll's boyhood reading included Scott, Disraeli, the Brontes, Bulwer Lytton, Shelley, Johnson, ... | William Robertson Nicoll | Percy Bysshe Shelley | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | '[William Robertson] Nicoll's boyhood reading included Scott, Disraeli, the Brontes, Bulwer Lytton, Shelley, Johnson, ... | William Robertson Nicoll | Samuel Johnson | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | '[William Robertson] Nicoll's boyhood reading included Scott, Disraeli, the Brontes, Bulwer Lytton, Shelley, Johnson, ... | William Robertson Nicoll | Joseph Addison | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | '[William Robertson] Nicoll's boyhood reading included Scott, Disraeli, the Brontes, Bulwer Lytton, Shelley, Johnson, ... | William Robertson Nicoll | Richard Steele | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | '[William Robertson] Nicoll's boyhood reading included Scott, Disraeli, the Brontes, Bulwer Lytton, Shelley, Johnson, ... | William Robertson Nicoll | Oliver Goldsmith | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | '[William Robertson] Nicoll's boyhood reading included Scott, Disraeli, the Brontes, Bulwer Lytton, Shelley, Johnson, ... | William Robertson Nicoll | Ralph Waldo Emerson | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | '[William Robertson] Nicoll's boyhood reading included Scott, Disraeli, the Brontes, Bulwer Lytton, Shelley, Johnson, ... | William Robertson Nicoll | James Russell Lowell | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | '[William Robertson] Nicoll's boyhood reading included Scott, Disraeli, the Brontes, Bulwer Lytton, Shelley, Johnson, ... | William Robertson Nicoll | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | '[William Robertson] Nicoll's boyhood reading included Scott, Disraeli, the Brontes, Bulwer Lytton, Shelley, Johnson, ... | William Robertson Nicoll | Bronte | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 1900-1945 | '... [William Robertson Nicoll] devoured even more newspapers than books [had grown up with clergyman father's library... | William Robertson Nicoll | | newspapers | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'The [1890s] dockers' leader Ben Tillett went hungry in order to buy books ... [and] thereby struggled through the lit... | Ben Tillett | Charles Darwin | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'The [1890s] dockers' leader Ben Tillett went hungry in order to buy books ... [and] thereby struggled through the lit... | Ben Tillett | Herbert Spencer | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'The [1890s] dockers' leader Ben Tillett went hungry in order to buy books ... [and] thereby struggled through the lit... | Ben Tillett | Thomas Huxley | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | "It was when reading Gilbert Murray's rendering of Euripides' Medea, by the side of the [Shrewsbury School] cricket fi... | Neville Cardus | Euripides | Medea | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | "[George Bernard] Shaw had read Marx's Das Kapital (in French translation) and he was converted to socialism ..." | George Bernard Shaw | Karl Marx | Das Kapital | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Neville Cardus, on devising cultural self-improvement scheme, in Autobiography (1947): "'I came upon the works of J. M... | Neville Cardus | J. M. Robertson | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Neville Cardus, on devising cultural self-improvement scheme, in Autobiography (1947): "'... one day I picked up a cop... | Neville Cardus | Samuel Butler | Note Books | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | On readers of William Robertson Nicoll's British Weekly: " ... [a] Lancashire man ... started reading the British Week... | [a Lancashire man] anon | | The British Weekly | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | Before breakfast from 7 3/4 to 9 1/4, from 10 3/4 to 2 1/2 (including an interruption of 20 minutes)read from V.1304 t... | Anne Lister | Sophocles | Philoctetes | |
| 1800-1849 | Called at Whiteley's. Saw there the Leeds Mercury & my father's estate advertised in it. Went to the library for a lit... | Anne Lister | | The Leeds Mercury | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | Went downstairs a very little after 9 so as to have 1/2 hour before church for reading 2 or 3 old papers my uncle gave... | Anne Lister | | '2 or 3 old papers' | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | Began Dr Johnson's tour to the Hebrides, A journey to the western Isles of scotland... My aunt and I read aloud the ev... | Anne Lister | James Boswell | The journal of a tour to the Hebrides with Samuel Johnson | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | down the newbank to Halifax. Called at a shop or 2, and at Miss Kitson's. Went for 1/2 hour tothe library till the Sal... | Anne Lister | Cicero | On/the book of old age | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | From Hope went to the library and staid about an hour reading... In monthly Magazine of July 1820 remarkable praise of... | Anne Lister | | Monthly Magazine | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | In the morning, looking over the abridgement of Spence's Polymetics... that was Isabella's... gave me the idea of writ... | Anne Lister | Joseph Spence | Polymetics Abridged | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [9 September has problem getting book from] Reading a few pp. of my Paris guide, in French, for the sake of reading Fr... | Anne Lister | | 'Paris guide' | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | The following paragraph, apparently cut-out from a newspaper, but without date or reference, has been lent me by Mrs N... | Anne Lister | | 'Old Maids' | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | In the evening, read in the European magazine for last month, an additional memoir of the life of Napoleon...Madame de... | Anne Lister | | European Magazine | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | I shall turn for a while to Urquhart's comentaries on classical learning. O books! books! I owe you much. Ye are my sp... | Anne Lister | David Henry Urquhart | Commentaries on classical learning | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | "The heart knows its own bitterness + it is enough. Je sens moncover, et je connais les hommes. Je ne suis fait comme ... | Anne Lister | Jean Jacques Rousseau | Confessions | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Did not come to breakfast till 10. Read M some of my journal. Dawdled away the morning, talking to one another, till ... | Anne Lister | Anne Lister | Journal | Manuscript: Sheet, mss memoirs |
| 1800-1849 | In the afternoon, read aloud the first 30pp. glenarvon, vol.2. Miss Goodricke called and sat a little while with us. ... | Anne Lister | Caroline Lamb | Glenarvon | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Just before tea... read from p.126 to 168, collections and recollections the last article a pretty well done account o... | Anne Lister | John Stewart | Collections and recollections | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | At 4 3/4 read from p.91 to 138 The art of employing time, which, from p.134 to where I have left off, I am more partic... | Anne Lister | | The art of employing time to the greatest advantage | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Got home a few minutes past one. M- + I tete-a-tete in the drawing [room]... Brought down Dr Ash's little book, Instit... | Anne Lister | John Ash | Grammatical Institutes | Print: Book |
| | Came upstairs at 10 1/2 [...] musing melancholily over the fire till 11. From then till 3.10, read the whole of (M-sen... | Anne Lister | By the author of valerius and Reginald Dalton | Some passages in the life of Mr Adam Blair | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | From 8.30 to 9.10 walked on the terrace, occasionally reading Young's Night Thoughts. Coffee at 9.10. | Anne Lister | Edward Young | The complaint, or night thoughts | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Walked forward to Lightcliffe. Mrs W. Priestley + Miss Hodgson at dinner... would call again in 1/2 hour. Did so, afte... | Anne Lister | | | Print: text printed on gravestonesUnknown |
| 1800-1849 | Isabella sent me, from Croft, the Globe + Traveller of last Friday, containing the account of the death of Lord Byron ... | Anne Lister | | The Globe and Traveller | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | From 2-6 looking over volumes 2, 3, 4 + 5 as far as p.111 of my journal. Volume three that part containing the account... | Anne Lister | Anne Lister | Journal | Manuscript: Sheet, mss her memoirs/ journal |
| 1800-1849 | 'finished my morning's work a few minutes before 2. Made an extract or 2 from Lord Byron's Childe Harold + the lyrics ... | Anne Lister | George Gordon, Lord Byron | Childe Harold | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Dr Scudamore, recommended and has just sent me to look at Thomsons Conspectus of the Pharmacopeias, a nice little 42 m... | Anne Lister | Anthony Todd Thomson | A conspectus of the pharmacopeias of the London | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 1900-1945 | '"I owe more to Scott than to any other writer," [William] Robertson Nicoll stated. "Every year even in the busiest t... | William Robertson Nicoll | Walter Scott | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 1900-1945 | '[William] Robertson Nicoll ... reckoned he had read ... [Rob Roy] sixty times.' | William Robertson Nicoll | Walter Scott | Rob Roy | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'In 1917 ... [John Buchan] was treated for a duodenal ulcer. Recuperating after the operation, he read through a doze... | John Buchan | Walter Scott | Waverley Novels (12) | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'In 1917 ... [John Buchan] was treated for a duodenal ulcer. Recuperating after the operation, he read through a doze... | John Buchan | Alexandre Dumas | Valois cycle | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'In 1917 ... [John Buchan] was treated for a duodenal ulcer. Recuperating after the operation, he read through a doze... | John Buchan | Alexandre Dumas | D'Artagnan cycle | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'In 1917 ... [John Buchan] was treated for a duodenal ulcer. Recuperating after the operation, he read through a doze... | John Buchan | Victor-Marie Hugo | Notre-Dame de Paris | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'In 1917 ... [John Buchan] was treated for a duodenal ulcer. Recuperating after the operation, he read through a doze... | John Buchan | Victor-Marie Hugo | Les Miserables | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'In 1917 ... [John Buchan] was treated for a duodenal ulcer. Recuperating after the operation, he read through a doze... | John Buchan | Honore de Balzac | [novels] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 1900-1945 | '... [Walter Scott's] books captivated ... [Andrew Lang] as a boy and 'grow better on every fresh reading."' | Andrew Lang | Walter Scott | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 1900-1945 | E. M. Forster, "Jane Austen," in Abinger Harvest (1924): 'She is my favourite author! I read and re-read, the mouth o... | Edward Morgan Forster | Jane Austen | [novels] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'In 1901 ... [Newman Flower] left his bed at four in the morning to travel from Croydon to watch the funeral processio... | Newman Flower | Charles Dickens | Bleak House | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'It was in ... 1901 ... that Ernest Raymond as a teenager first took a Dickens from the shelf: "By the grace and favou... | Ernest Raymond | Charles Dickens | The Pickwick Papers | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Twice I procured a French grammar, and in private essayed that tongue; but my attempts were discovered and laughed at,... | Anne Lutton | | [French Grammar] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | As I grew up, I still read with avidity all I could lay my hands on, and was not at all fastidious. Unfortunately I g... | Anne Lutton | | ['novels'] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | '... Oliver Twist (1838), the first Dickens that A. A. Milne was exposed to, at 9, gave him nightmares.' | Alan Alexander Milne | Charles Dickens | Oliver Twist | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Never did any poor creature labour with morediligence than I did to obtain the most accurate knowledge of the language... | Anne Lutton | | ['Roman Classics'] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | My circumstances were perhaps well fitted to the task of self-culture - too straitened to admit of much expenditure on... | Anne Lutton | Virgil | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | I procured a Greek grammar, and soon made considerable progress. | Anne Lutton | | ['Greek Grammar'] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | I procured a Greek grammar, and soon made considerable progress. I first read the New Testament almost throughout; the... | Anne Lutton | | New Testament | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | I procured a Greek grammar, and soon made considerable progress. I first read the New Testament almost throughout; the... | Anne Lutton | Homer | The Iliad | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | I procured a Greek grammar, and soon made considerable progress. I first read the New Testament almost throughout; the... | Anne Lutton | Homer | The Odyssey | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Andrew Lang, in Adventures Among Books, on being introduced to Dickens: 'I had minded my lessons, and satisfied my tea... | Andrew Lang | Charles Dickens | The Pickwick Papers | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Andrew Lang, in Adventures Among Books, on being introduced to Dickens: 'I had minded my lessons, and satisfied my tea... | Andrew Lang | Pinnock | History of Rome | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | My taste for light reading was diminished, yet works of fiction were not all abandoned. The beautiful productions of M... | Anne Lutton | Maria Edgeworth | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | My taste for light reading was diminished, yet works of fiction were not all abandoned. The beautiful productions of M... | Anne Lutton | | [old-school novels] | Print: Book |
| | My father's large bookcase was stuffed with odd volumes of the Gentleman's Magazine and other miscellaneous matters. A... | Anne Lutton | John Adams | The History of Rome, from the Foundation of the Ci | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | My father's large bookcase was stuffed with odd volumes of the Gentleman's Magazine and other miscellaneous matters. A... | Anne Lutton | William Robertson | The History of America | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 1900-1945 | 'Devoted ... was the ritual of Gordon Hewart, who rose to become Lord Chief Justice: he read Dickens every night of hi... | Gordon Hewart | Charles Dickens | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | My father's large bookcase was stuffed with odd volumes of the Gentleman's Magazine and other miscellaneous matters. A... | Anne Lutton | J.J. Barthelemy | Travels of Anacharsis the Younger in Greece, | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | My father's large bookcase was stuffed with odd volumes of the Gentleman's Magazine and other miscellaneous matters. A... | Anne Lutton | Oliver Goldsmith | The History of England from the Earliest Times... | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | My father's large bookcase was stuffed with odd volumes of the Gentleman's Magazine and other miscellaneous matters. A... | Anne Lutton | John Wesley | Sermons on Several Occasions OR Three Sermons | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | My father's large bookcase was stuffed with odd volumes of the Gentleman's Magazine and other miscellaneous matters. A... | Anne Lutton | | The Gentleman's Magazine | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'Neville Cardus was born in 1889 in Rusholme, Manchester, the illegitimate son of a police constable's daughter and th... | Neville Cardus | Charles Dickens | David Copperfield | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | It was Lilly's Latin Grammar. It called for uncommon perseverance to come at its contents, so much had it suffered fro... | Anne Lutton | William Lilly | Lilly's Latin Grammar | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Finding an old copy of Barrow's Euclid in my father's bookcase, I resolved to come at some knowledge of mathematics an... | Anne Lutton | Isaac Barrow | Euclid's Elements. The Whole Fifteen Books Compend | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 1900-1945 | 'Lady Cynthia Asquith, daughter of the eleventh Earl [of Elcho] ... regularly reread her favourite [Dickens] stories ...' | Lady Cynthia Asquith | Charles Dickens | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Recorded in diary of Lady Cynthia Asquith, 15 January 1918: 'The Professor [of English Literature at Oxford, Sir Walte... | Sir Walter Alexander Raleigh | Charles Dickens | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | I read Mrs Rogers' Life and Letters with great profit. ... The life and letters of Mrs Rogers here made a great bless... | Anne Lutton | Hester Ann Rogers | Spiritual Letters Or A Short Account of the Experi | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | ' ... [F. H. Bradley] appeared as the retired professor, Cheiron, in [Elinor] Glyn's Halcyone (1912), having assiduous... | Francis Herbert Bradley | Elinor Glyn | Halcyone | Manuscript: Codex |
| 1800-1849 | My brother and I rose in the mornings about four o'clock, to pray with each other and read the Scriptures; and oh what... | Anne Lutton | | 'Scriptures' | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 1900-1945 | 'Probably the last letter ... [Anthony Trollope] wrote, before his fatal stroke in 1882, was to express pleasure on le... | Cardinal John Henry Newman | Anthony Trollope | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | To our young ploughman, who, when I went to him where he was digging in atrench at the foot of the lawn, read the reso... | A Young Ploughman | | [series of 'Resolutions' in manuscript, drawn up b | Manuscript: Sheet |
| | Henry James to Thomas Sergeant Perry, 25 November 1883: 'I have read Trollope's autobiography and regard it as one of ... | Henry James | Anthony Trollope | Autobiography | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | ' ... [Elizabeth and Alice Thompson] used to go for picnics at Porto Fino, loaded with books of verse, and Mrs Thompso... | Christiana Thompson | William Shakespeare | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | ' ... [Elizabeth and Alice Thompson] used to go for picnics at Porto Fino, loaded with books of verse, and Mrs Thompso... | Christiana Thompson | William Wordsworth | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | ' ... [Elizabeth and Alice Thompson] used to go for picnics at Porto Fino, loaded with books of verse, and Mrs Thompso... | Christiana Thompson | John Keats | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | ' ... [Elizabeth and Alice Thompson] used to go for picnics at Porto Fino, loaded with books of verse, and Mrs Thompso... | Christiana Thompson | Alfred Tennyson | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'As late as the First World War, a Manchester boy could find an epiphany in an old volume of the Journal rescued from ... | 'a Manchester boy' | n/a | Chambers's Journal | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | [A Sheffield Survey organised by Arnold Freeman in 1918, assessing 816 manual workers, gives the following case:] 'Pri... | questionaire respondent | Charles Dickens | The Pickwick Papers | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [A Sheffield Survey organised by Arnold Freeman in 1918, assessing 816 manual workers, gives the following case:] 'Pri... | questionaire respondent | Charles Dickens | The Old Curiosity Shop | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [A Sheffield Survey organised by Arnold Freeman in 1918, assessing 816 manual workers, gives the following case:] 'Pri... | questionaire respondent | Charles Dickens | David Copperfield | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [A Sheffield Survey organised by Arnold Freeman in 1918, assessing 816 manual workers, gives the following case:] 'Pri... | questionaire respondent | Edward Bulwer-Lytton | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [A Sheffield Survey organised by Arnold Freeman in 1918, assessing 816 manual workers, gives the following case:] 'Pri... | questionaire respondent | Robert Michael Ballantyne | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [A Sheffield Survey organised by Arnold Freeman in 1918, assessing 816 manual workers, gives the following case:] 'Pri... | questionaire respondent | George Alfred Henty | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [A Sheffield Survey organised by Arnold Freeman in 1918, assessing 816 manual workers, gives the following case:] 'Pri... | questionaire respondent | Daniel Defoe | Robinson Crusoe | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [A Sheffield Survey organised by Arnold Freeman in 1918, assessing 816 manual workers, gives the following case:] 'Pri... | questionaire respondent | Walter Scott | Quentin Durward | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [A Sheffield Survey organised by Arnold Freeman in 1918, assessing 816 manual workers, gives the following case:] 'Pri... | questionaire respondent | Walter Scott | Ivanhoe | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [A Sheffield Survey organised by Arnold Freeman in 1918, assessing 816 manual workers, gives the following case:] 'Pri... | questionaire respondent | Walter Scott | Waverley | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [A Sheffield Survey organised by Arnold Freeman in 1918, assessing 816 manual workers, gives the following case:] 'Pri... | questionaire respondent | Robert Louis Stevenson | Kidnapped | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [A Sheffield Survey organised by Arnold Freeman in 1918, assessing 816 manual workers, gives the following case:] 'Pri... | questionaire respondent | Robert Louis Stevenson | Treasure Island | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [A Sheffield Survey organised by Arnold Freeman in 1918, assessing 816 manual workers, gives the following case:] 'Pri... | questionaire respondent | Richard Henry Dana | Two Years Before the Mast | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [A Sheffield Survey organised by Arnold Freeman in 1918, assessing 816 manual workers, gives the following case:] 'Pri... | questionaire respondent | David Livingstone | [Travels: perhaps, 'Missionary Travels And Researches In South Africa'] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [A Sheffield Survey organised by Arnold Freeman in 1918, assessing 816 manual workers, gives the following case:] 'Pri... | questionaire respondent | Fridtjof Nansen | [Travels - probably 'Farthest North'] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [A Sheffield Survey organised by Arnold Freeman in 1918, assessing 816 manual workers, gives the following case:] 'Pri... | questionaire respondent | Matthew Peary | [Travels] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [A Sheffield Survey organised by Arnold Freeman in 1918, assessing 816 manual workers, gives the following case:] 'Pri... | questionaire respondent | Robert Falcon Scott | [Travels in the Antarctic] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [A Sheffield Survey organised by Arnold Freeman in 1918, assessing 816 manual workers, gives the following case:] 'Eng... | questionaire respondent | n/a | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [A Sheffield Survey organised by Arnold Freeman in 1918, assessing 816 manual workers, gives the following case:] 'Eng... | questionaire respondent | Wiliam Shakespeare | The Merchant of Venice | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [A Sheffield Survey organised by Arnold Freeman in 1918, assessing 816 manual workers, gives the following case:] 'Eng... | questionaire respondent | William Shakespeare | Julius Caesar | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [A Sheffield Survey organised by Arnold Freeman in 1918, assessing 816 manual workers, gives the following case:] 'Eng... | questionaire respondent | William Shakespeare | The Tempest | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [A Sheffield Survey organised by Arnold Freeman in 1918, assessing 816 manual workers, gives the following case:] 'Eng... | questionaire respondent | William Shakespeare | Much Ado about Nothing | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [A Sheffield Survey organised by Arnold Freeman in 1918, assessing 816 manual workers, gives the following case:] 'Eng... | questionaire respondent | Alexander Pope | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [A Sheffield Survey organised by Arnold Freeman in 1918, assessing 816 manual workers, gives the following case:] 'Eng... | questionaire respondent | Alfred Lord Tennyson | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [A Sheffield Survey organised by Arnold Freeman in 1918, assessing 816 manual workers, gives the following case:] 'Eng... | questionaire respondent | John Masefield | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [A Sheffield Survey organised by Arnold Freeman in 1918, assessing 816 manual workers, gives the following case:] 'Eng... | questionaire respondent | Robert Louis Stevenson | Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [A Sheffield Survey organised by Arnold Freeman in 1918, assessing 816 manual workers, gives the following case:] 'Eng... | questionaire respondent | Ralph Waldo Emerson | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [A Sheffield Survey organised by Arnold Freeman in 1918, assessing 816 manual workers, gives the following case:] 'Eng... | questionaire respondent | Charles Dickens | Nicholas Nickleby | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [A Sheffield Survey organised by Arnold Freeman in 1918, assessing 816 manual workers, gives the following case:] 'Eng... | questionaire respondent | Charles Dickens | David Copperfield | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [A Sheffield Survey organised by Arnold Freeman in 1918, assessing 816 manual workers, gives the following case:] 'Eng... | questionaire respondent | Charles Dickens | Oliver Twist | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [A Sheffield Survey organised by Arnold Freeman in 1918, assessing 816 manual workers, gives the following case:] 'Eng... | questionaire respondent | Charles Dickens | A Tale of Two Cities | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [A Sheffield Survey organised by Arnold Freeman in 1918, assessing 816 manual workers, gives the following case:] 'Eng... | questionaire respondent | Charles Dickens | The Old Curiosity Shop | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [A Sheffield Survey organised by Arnold Freeman in 1918, assessing 816 manual workers, gives the following case:] 'Eng... | questionaire respondent | Charles Dickens | A Christmas Carol | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [A Sheffield Survey organised by Arnold Freeman in 1918, assessing 816 manual workers, gives the following case:] 'Eng... | questionaire respondent | Charles Reade | The Cloister and the Hearth | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [A Sheffield Survey organised by Arnold Freeman in 1918, assessing 816 manual workers, gives the following case:] 'Eng... | questionaire respondent | Gilbert Keith Chesterton | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [A Sheffield Survey organised by Arnold Freeman in 1918, assessing 816 manual workers, gives the following case:] 'Eng... | questionaire respondent | George Bernard Shaw | Major Barbara | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [A Sheffield Survey organised by Arnold Freeman in 1918, assessing 816 manual workers, gives the following case:] 'Eng... | questionaire respondent | George Bernard Shaw | John Bull's Other Island | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [A Sheffield Survey organised by Arnold Freeman in 1918, assessing 816 manual workers, gives the following case:] 'Eng... | questionaire respondent | George Bernard Shaw | The Doctor's Dilemma | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [A Sheffield Survey organised by Arnold Freeman in 1918, assessing 816 manual workers, gives the following case:] 'Eng... | questionaire respondent | George Bernard Shaw | Man and Superman | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [A Sheffield Survey organised by Arnold Freeman in 1918, assessing 816 manual workers, gives the following case:] 'Eng... | questionaire respondent | George Bernard Shaw | The Shewing up of Blanco Posnet | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [A Sheffield Survey organised by Arnold Freeman in 1918, assessing 816 manual workers, gives the following case:] 'Eng... | questionaire respondent | George Bernard Shaw | The Devil's Disciple | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [A Sheffield Survey organised by Arnold Freeman in 1918, assessing 816 manual workers, gives the following case:] 'Eng... | questionaire respondent | George Bernard Shaw | You Never Can Tell | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [A Sheffield Survey organised by Arnold Freeman in 1918, assessing 816 manual workers, gives the following case:] 'Eng... | questionaire respondent | George Bernard Shaw | Socialism and Superior Brains | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [A Sheffield Survey organised by Arnold Freeman in 1918, assessing 816 manual workers, gives the following case:] 'Eng... | questionaire respondent | George Bernard Shaw | Fabian Essays | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [A Sheffield Survey organised by Arnold Freeman in 1918, assessing 816 manual workers, gives the following case:] 'Eng... | questionaire respondent | George Bernard Shaw | An Unsocial Socialist | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [A Sheffield Survey organised by Arnold Freeman in 1918, assessing 816 manual workers, gives the following case:] 'Eng... | questionaire respondent | George Bernard Shaw | The Irrational Knot | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [A Sheffield Survey organised by Arnold Freeman in 1918, assessing 816 manual workers, gives the following case:] 'Eng... | questionaire respondent | John Galsworthy | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [A Sheffield Survey organised by Arnold Freeman in 1918, assessing 816 manual workers, gives the following case:] 'Eng... | questionaire respondent | Herbert George Wells | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [A Sheffield Survey organised by Arnold Freeman in 1918, assessing 816 manual workers, gives the following case:] 'Eng... | questionaire respondent | Enoch Arnold Bennett | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [A Sheffield Survey organised by Arnold Freeman in 1918, assessing 816 manual workers, gives the following case:] 'Eng... | questionaire respondent | Sidney and Beatrice Webb | Industrial Democracy | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [A Sheffield Survey organised by Arnold Freeman in 1918, assessing 816 manual workers, gives the following case:] 'Eng... | questionaire respondent | Oliver Joseph Lodge | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [A Sheffield Survey organised by Arnold Freeman in 1918, assessing 816 manual workers, gives the following case:] 'Eng... | questionaire respondent | Edward Carpenter | Towards Democracy | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [A Sheffield Survey organised by Arnold Freeman in 1918, assessing 816 manual workers, gives the following case:] 'Eng... | questionaire respondent | Edward Carpenter | The Intermediate Sex | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [A Sheffield Survey organised by Arnold Freeman in 1918, assessing 816 manual workers, gives the following case:] 'Eng... | questionaire respondent | John Atkinson Hobson | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [A Sheffield Survey organised by Arnold Freeman in 1918, assessing 816 manual workers, gives the following case:] 'Eng... | questionaire respondent | Alfred Marshall | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [A Sheffield Survey organised by Arnold Freeman in 1918, assessing 816 manual workers, gives the following case:] 'Eng... | questionaire respondent | Plato | The Republic | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [analysis of a female respondent in Arnold Freeman's 1918 Sheffield Survey] 'Munitions worker, age eighteen... Has rea... | questionaire respondent | Benjamin Seebohm Rowntree | Poverty, A Study of Town Life | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [analysis of a female respondent in Arnold Freeman's 1918 Sheffield Survey] 'Munitions worker, age eighteen... Has rea... | questionaire respondent | [unknown] | [basic economics textbook] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [analysis of a female respondent in Arnold Freeman's 1918 Sheffield Survey] 'Munitions worker, age eighteen... Has rea... | questionaire respondent | Louisa May Alcott | Little Women | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [analysis of a female respondent in Arnold Freeman's 1918 Sheffield Survey] 'Machinist in a shell factory, age twenty-... | questionaire respondent | William Shakespeare | [works] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [analysis of a female respondent in Arnold Freeman's 1918 Sheffield Survey] 'Machinist in a shell factory, age twenty-... | questionaire respondent | Robert Burns | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [analysis of a female respondent in Arnold Freeman's 1918 Sheffield Survey] 'Machinist in a shell factory, age twenty-... | questionaire respondent | John Keats | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [analysis of a female respondent in Arnold Freeman's 1918 Sheffield Survey] 'Machinist in a shell factory, age twenty-... | questionaire respondent | Walter Scott | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [analysis of a female respondent in Arnold Freeman's 1918 Sheffield Survey] 'Machinist in a shell factory, age twenty-... | questionaire respondent | Alfred, Lord Tennyson | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [analysis of a female respondent in Arnold Freeman's 1918 Sheffield Survey] 'Machinist in a shell factory, age twenty-... | questionaire respondent | Charles Dickens | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [analysis of a female respondent in Arnold Freeman's 1918 Sheffield Survey] 'Machinist in a shell factory, age twenty-... | questionaire respondent | William Makepeace Thackeray | Vanity Fair | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [analysis of a female respondent in Arnold Freeman's 1918 Sheffield Survey] 'Machinist in a shell factory, age twenty-... | questionaire respondent | anon | The Rubiyat of Omar Khayyam | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [analysis of a female respondent in Arnold Freeman's 1918 Sheffield Survey] 'Machinist in a shell factory, age twenty-... | questionaire respondent | Ella Wheeler Wilcox | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| | [analysis of a female respondent in Arnold Freeman's 1918 Sheffield Survey] 'Machinist in a shell factory, age twenty-... | questionaire respondent | [unknown] | [various history and biography] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [analysis of a female respondent in Arnold Freeman's 1918 Sheffield Survey] 'Machine file cutter, age twenty-five... H... | questionaire respondent | Charles Dickens | The Old Curiosity Shop | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [analysis of a female respondent in Arnold Freeman's 1918 Sheffield Survey] 'Machine file cutter, age twenty-five... H... | questionaire respondent | Mark Twain | The Innocents Abroad, or The New Pilgrims' Progress | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [analysis of a female respondent in Arnold Freeman's 1918 Sheffield Survey] 'Machine file cutter, age twenty-five... H... | questionaire respondent | Emmusska, Baroness Orczy | The Scarlet Pimpernel | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [analysis of a female respondent in Arnold Freeman's 1918 Sheffield Survey] 'Machine file cutter, age twenty-five... H... | questionaire respondent | n/a | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [analysis of a female respondent in Arnold Freeman's 1918 Sheffield Survey] 'Housewife, age twenty-eight... Has read "... | questionaire respondent | Charles Dickens | David Copperfield | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [analysis of a female respondent in Arnold Freeman's 1918 Sheffield Survey] 'Housewife, age twenty-eight... Has read "... | questionaire respondent | Charles Dickens | The Old Curiosity Shop | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [analysis of a female respondent in Arnold Freeman's 1918 Sheffield Survey] 'Housewife, age twenty-eight... Has read "... | questionaire respondent | Richard Doddridge Blackmore | Lorna Doone | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [analysis of a female respondent in Arnold Freeman's 1918 Sheffield Survey] 'Housewife, age twenty-eight... Has read "... | questionaire respondent | Louisa May Alcott | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [analysis of a female respondent in Arnold Freeman's 1918 Sheffield Survey] 'Housewife, age twenty-eight... Has read "... | questionaire respondent | David Livingstone | [Travels, probably 'Missionary Travels And Researches In South Africa'] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [analysis of a female respondent in Arnold Freeman's 1918 Sheffield Survey] 'Housewife, age twenty-eight... Has read "... | questionaire respondent | Charles Darwin | [probably 'The Voyage of the Beagle'] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 1900-1945 | [analysis of a female respondent in Arnold Freeman's 1918 Sheffield Survey] 'Cutlery worker, age seventy-two...Fond of... | questionaire respondent | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 1900-1945 | [analysis of a female respondent in Arnold Freeman's 1918 Sheffield Survey] 'Cutlery worker, age seventy-two...Fond of... | questionaire respondent | Robert Louis Stevenson | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 1900-1945 | [analysis of a female respondent in Arnold Freeman's 1918 Sheffield Survey] 'Cutlery worker, age seventy-two...Fond of... | questionaire respondent | John Ruskin | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 1900-1945 | [analysis of a female respondent in Arnold Freeman's 1918 Sheffield Survey] 'Cutlery worker, age seventy-two...Fond of... | questionaire respondent | William Morris | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 1900-1945 | [analysis of a female respondent in Arnold Freeman's 1918 Sheffield Survey] 'Cutlery worker, age seventy-two...Fond of... | questionaire respondent | Charles Dickens | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'In 1955 Manny Shinwell - who read all of Palgrave's Golden Treasury to his children, and had consoled himself in pris... | Emmanuel (Manny) Shinwell | Francis Turner Palgrave | Golden Treasury of English Song and Lyrics | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'In 1955 Manny Shinwell - who read all of Palgrave's Golden Treasury to his children, and had consoled himself in pris... | Emmanuel (Manny) Shinwell | John Keats | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'In 1955 Manny Shinwell - who read all of Palgrave's Golden Treasury to his children, and had consoled himself in pris... | Emmanuel (Manny) Shinwell, later Baron Shinwell | Alfred, Lord Tennyson | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '[according to Stan Dickens]"There was one book that we all thought was sensational" - Aristotle's Masterpiece. "At la... | Stan Dickens | [anon] | Aristotle's Masterpiece | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Allen Clark, the son of Bolton textile workers, found physiology books in the public library incomprehensible. A news... | Allen Clark | [unknown] | [physiology textbooks] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Allen Clark, the son of Bolton textile workers, found physiology books in the public library incomprehensible. A news... | Allen Clarke | Francois Rabelais | Gargantua and Pantagruel | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'When they were alone at home [Edna Bold] and her cousin Dorothy extracted from the kitchen bookcase and read side by ... | Edna Bold | [unknown] | [medical book] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'When they were alone at home [Edna Bold] and her cousin Dorothy extracted from the kitchen bookcase and read side by ... | Edna Bold | John Foxe | Foxe's Book of Martyrs | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Bartlett's picture of the Hispaniola lying beached in the Caribbean, on the clean-swept sand, its poop, round house, m... | Victor Sawdon Pritchett | Robert Louis Stevenson | Treasure Island | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Bartlett's picture of the Hispaniola lying beached in the Caribbean, on the clean-swept sand, its poop, round house, m... | Victor Sawdon Pritchett | Robert Louis Stevenson | Kidnapped | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Bartlett's picture of the Hispaniola lying beached in the Caribbean, on the clean-swept sand, its poop, round house, m... | Victor Sawdon Pritchett | Mark Twain | Tom Sawyer | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Bartlett's picture of the Hispaniola lying beached in the Caribbean, on the clean-swept sand, its poop, round house, m... | Victor Sawdon Pritchett | Mark Twain | Huckleberry Finn | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | That I understood very little of what I read did not really matter to me (Washington Irving's 'Life of Columbus' was a... | Victor Sawdon Pritchett | Washington Irving | Life of Columbus | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | I had also read 'Paper Bag Cookery' -one of my father's fads -because I wanted to try it. Now I saw 'The Meditations o... | Victor Sawdon Pritchett | Nicholas Soyer | The Art of Paper Bag Cookery | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | I had also read 'Paper Bag Cookery' -one of my father's fads -because I wanted to try it. Now I saw 'The Meditations o... | Victor Sawdon Pritchett | Marcus Aurelius | The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | I had also read 'Paper Bag Cookery' -one of my father's fads -because I wanted to try it. Now I saw 'The Meditations o... | Victor Sawdon Pritchett | Hall Caine | The Bondman | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | I moved to Marie Corelli and there I found a book of newspaper articles called 'Free Opinions'. The type was large. Th... | Victor Sawdon Pritchett | Marie Corelli | Free Opinions | Print: Book, Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | I had a look at 'In tune with the infinite'. I moved on to my father's single volume, India paper edition of 'Shakespe... | Victor Sawdon Pritchett | Marie Corelli | Master Christain | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | I had a look at 'In tune with the infinite'. I moved on to my father's single volume, India paper edition of 'Shakespe... | Victor Sawdon Pritchett | William Shakespeare | Shakespeare's Complete Works | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | I had a look at 'In tune with the infinite'. I moved on to my father's single volume, India paper edition of 'Shakespe... | Victor Sawdon Pritchett | William Cullen Bryant | Thanatopsis | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | I had a look at 'In tune with the infinite'. I moved on to my father's single volume, India paper edition of 'Shakespe... | Victor Sawdon Pritchett | Ralph Waldo Trine | In Tune with the Infinite | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | In Retrospect of an Unimportant Life (1934), the Bishop of Durham Herbert Hensley Henson reminisced about Browning's "... | Herbert Hensley Henson | Robert Browning | A Death in the Desert | Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'After reading at the Athenaeum a section of Ruskin's autobiography, "Praeterita", published in instalments between 18... | Grant Duff | John Ruskin | Praeterita | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | In her Writer's Recollections (1919; pp.325-26), Mrs Humphrey Ward would remember an occasion in Italy when, Paul Bour... | Henry James | Rudyard Kipling | McAndrew's Hymn | Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Theodore Watts-Dunton remembers Algernon Swinburne's fondness for reading aloud during his last years at Watts-Dunton... | Algernon Swinburne | Charles Dickens | [unknown] | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Theodore Watts-Dunton remembers Algernon Swinburne's fondness for reading aloud during his last years at Watts-Dunton... | Algernon Swinburne | Charles Lamb | [unknown] | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Theodore Watts-Dunton remembers Algernon Swinburne's fondness for reading aloud during his last years at Watts-Dunton... | Algernon Swinburne | Charles Reade | [unknown] | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Theodore Watts-Dunton remembers Algernon Swinburne's fondness for reading aloud during his last years at Watts-Dunton... | Algernon Swinburne | William Makepeace Thackeray | [unknown] | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | "In 1862, as a 25-year-old rebel ... [Swinburne] took it on himself to scandalize a dinner party at Fryston. His tar... | Algernon Swinburne | Algernon Swinburne | Les Noyades | |
| 1850-1899 | 'In 1864 George Du Maurier witnessed ... [a] bravura performance [by Swinburne] at a bachelor party in the studio of t... | Algernon Swinburne | Algernon Swinburne | unknown | Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Professor Gardiner, in the 2nd volume of his "Great Civil War", has given so much prominence to the character and act... | Jennet Pryce | Gardiner | Great Civil War | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | '...[Newman] Flower as a boy read and idolized Hardy ...' | Newman Flower | Thomas Hardy | [unknown] | Print: Unknown |
| | [Annotation NOT in Cunningham's hand (unidentified)]: above the sentence 'Jacob Tonson is the first bookseller of any ... | Anon | Peter Cunningham | Lives of the most Eminent Booksellers: Jacob Tonson | Manuscript: Pamphlet |
| | [Annotation NOT in Cunningham's hand (unidentified, but the same as that on MS about Tonson)]: Top LH corner, in penci... | Anon | | A Proposal | Print: Advertisement |
| 1800-1849 | 'Sir, I have heard with great regret that you are the author of that gross personal libel which appeared in the Quarte... | John Galt | Thomas Dunham Whitaker | Galt's Life of Cardinal Wolsey | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | 'Arnold Bennett, when reading [Herbert] Spencer's posthumously published Autobiography (1904), found the account "disa... | Arnold Bennett | Herbert Spencer | Autobiography | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | '[Millicent, Duchess of Sutherland was] an omnivorous reader -- "she could begin the day with reports on technical edu... | Millicent, Duchess of Sutherland | [unknown] | [reports on education in Prussia] | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | '[Millicent, Duchess of Sutherland was] an omnivorous reader -- "she could begin the day with reports on technical edu... | Millicent, Duchess of Sutherland | Thomas Huxley | Life | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | '[Millicent, Duchess of Sutherland was] an omnivorous reader -- "she could begin the day with reports on technical edu... | Millicent, Duchess of Sutherland | William Shakespeare | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | '[Millicent, Duchess of Sutherland was] an omnivorous reader -- "she could begin the day with reports on technical edu... | Millicent, Duchess of Sutherland | [unknown] | [romantic fiction] | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'I presented my manuscript [of her novel, "The Miser Married"] to Mr. Orme. In two days it was accepted, and I agreed... | Catherine Hutton | | Review of The Miser Married | Manuscript: Sheet |
| 1850-1899 | The Duchess of Sutherland to Regy Brett: 'I have dinner on a tray [and], in between mouthfuls of fried sole and partri... | Millicent Duchess of Sutherland | John Ruskin | Sesame and Lilies | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | The Duchess of Sutherland to Regy Brett: 'I have dinner on a tray [and], in between mouthfuls of fried sole and partri... | Millicent Duchess of Sutherland | Marie Corelli | Barabbas | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I presented my manuscript [of her novel, "The Miser Married"] to Mr. Orme. In two days it was accepted, and I agreed... | Catherine Hutton | | Review of The Miser Married | Manuscript: Sheet |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have been going through a course of novels by lady authors, beginning with Mrs Brooke and ending with Miss Austen, ... | Catherine Hutton | Mrs Brooke | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have been going through a course of novels by lady authors, beginning with Mrs Brooke and ending with Miss Austen, ... | Catherine Hutton | Jane Austen | Sense and Sensibility | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have been going through a course of novels by lady authors, beginning with Mrs Brooke and ending with Miss Austen, ... | Catherine Hutton | Jane Austen | Pride and Prejudice | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have been going through a course of novels by lady authors, beginning with Mrs Brooke and ending with Miss Austen, ... | Catherine Hutton | Jane Austen | Mansfield Park | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have been going through a course of novels by lady authors, beginning with Mrs Brooke and ending with Miss Austen, ... | Catherine Hutton | Jane Austen | Emma | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have been going through a course of novels by lady authors, beginning with Mrs Brooke and ending with Miss Austen, ... | Catherine Hutton | Jane Austen | Northanger Abbey | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have been going through a course of novels by lady authors, beginning with Mrs Brooke and ending with Miss Austen, ... | Catherine Hutton | Jane Austen | Persuasion | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | '[Wilfrid] Meynell told [Wilfrid] Blunt that, as their train passed through the countryside [on way to visiting Blunt]... | Francis Thompson | | The Globe | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have been going through a course of novels by lady authors, beginning with Mrs Brooke and ending with Miss Austen, ... | Catherine Hutton | Catherine Hutton | The Welsh Mountaineer | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have been going through a course of novels by lady authors, beginning with Mrs Brooke and ending with Miss Austen, ... | Catherine Hutton | Catherine Hutton | Oakwood Hall | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have been going through a course of novels by lady authors, beginning with Mrs Brooke and ending with Miss Austen, ... | Catherine Hutton | Catherine Hutton | The Miser Married | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 1900-1945 | 'Constance Smedley's favourite childhood reading was ... Louisa May Alcott's Little Women (1868-9)' | Constance Smedley | Louisa May Alcott | Little Women | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | It is amusing to find him writing to Sturt, in 1900, to persuade him that it would be a good idea to try to sell 'Bett... | Arnold Bennett | George Sturt | The Bettesworth Book | Manuscript: Sheet |
| 1900-1945 | 'I see that a new volume of the Dizzy life is announced.' | Algernon Cecil | | Advertisement of book on Disraeli's Life in the Quarterly Review | Print: Advertisement, Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | 'I think Algernon's article is quite first rate, about the best thing he ever wrote. It is at once individual and san... | John Bailey | | Quarterly Review | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | 'I was astonished to find the following in the Quarterly Review: - "England has Carlyle". "There is no other English n... | Donald Brown | | Quarterly Review | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | 'My dear Prothero, I hope you will not mind my saying as an old friend and contributor to the Quarterly how much I reg... | Valentine Chirol | | Article entitled "India under Lord Hardinge" in the Quarterly Review | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | Lane's reader was John Buchan, who read 'A Man from the North' and liked it, although he said it would not be popular. | John Buchan | Arnold Bennett | The Man from the North | Manuscript: Sheet, proofs |
| 1850-1899 | He went to bed that night to read about the death of Jules from the Goncourt 'Journals', in order to put himself into ... | Arnold Bennett | Edmund de Goncourt | Journals | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Letter 9/8/1857 (Inverness)- 'Please tell me why you don't like Mme de Genlis. And then I'll tell you, if you like, wh... | John Ruskin | Stephane-Felicite de Genlis | | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Letter 6/9/1857 (Bridge of Allan) - 'I am very glad those are the reasons for your dislike of Mme de Genlis - both bec... | John Ruskin | Stephane-Felicite de Genlis | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 | Letter September 1857 ? 'I hope you know Miss Edgeworths ?Helen?'. | John Ruskin | Maria Edgeworth | Helen | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Letter 6/8/1858 - 'First let me thank you for your notes on Verona - & correction of my statement to the good folks on... | Louisa, Marchioness of Waterford | John Ruskin | The Political Economy of Art | Print: Book |
| | Letter, 25/11/1860 - "I have opposite me at my worktable, a sketch of Rossetti's of the princess - (Parizade; the stor... | John Ruskin | | Arabian Nights | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Letter, 25/11/1860 - 'The opening of the note enclosed from Mrs Browning refers to my having spoken of Lord John's las... | John Ruskin | Lord John Russell | | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 | Letter dated 24/4/1862 ? 'The reason I said I had never understood the story of Cain is that God?s own words to him [G... | John Ruskin | | The Bible | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Letter 8/2/1863 - "For, as far as I remember - my sayings to you have been very nearly limited to Goldsmith's model of... | John Ruskin | Oliver Goldsmith | The Vicar of Wakefield | Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | Letter 8/2/1863 - "I'm afraid to speak like the wicked girl in the fairy tale - who let - not pearls fall from her lip... | John Ruskin | Oliver Goldsmith | The Vicar of Wakefield | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Letter 8/2/1863 - "I'm so thin and hard and metallic that I think sometimes I'm going to turn into the pin that Death ... | John Ruskin | William Shakespeare | Richard II | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 | Letter 16/8/1863 - Following a description of rural walk - "it was just like the beginning of a new novel of Sir Walte... | John Ruskin | Sir Walter Scott | | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | "He says careless work is a proof of something wrong in a person's whole moral character." From the editor's footnote... | Louisa, Marchioness of Waterford | John Ruskin | Cestus of Aglaia | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Letter W 38 - Chamouni, 3/10/1863 - "I can't make out the run of some coal slates of the Col de Balme at their junctio... | John Ruskin | Horace Benedict de Saussure | Voyages dans les Alpes | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | "Ford Cottage, July 18th, 1865. Have you read Ruskin's "Sesame and Lilies", his two last lectures? The book sent me to... | Louisa, Marchioness of Waterford | John Ruskin | Sesame and Lilies | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | "Ford Castle, June 1st (1866). Dear Mr Ruskin. I am reading with delight your Crown of Wild Olives trying to fit the s... | Louisa, Marchioness of Waterford | John Ruskin | Crown of Wild Olives | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Letter from Barbauld to her neice, Lucy Aikin, dated 27/7/1805. "What is your opinion of [begin underline] causation ... | Anna Letitia Barbauld | William Paley | Natural Theology | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | " Read Davila." "Read...and Davila" | Lady Eleanor Butler | Davila | ? [ History of the French Civil Wars] | Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | " Read Davila." "Read...and Davila" | Lady Eleanor Butler | Davila | ? [ History of the French Civil Wars] | Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | Constance Smedley on readings in American literature: 'Thoreau ... opened the door to a philosophy of life when I was ... | Constance Smedley | Henry David Thoreau | unknown | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | Constance Smedley on readings in American literature: 'Thoreau ... opened the door to a philosophy of life when I was ... | Constance Smedley | Ralph Waldo Emerson | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | " Finished reading that Emmeline, a Trumpery novel in four volumes. If I can answer for myself I will never again unde... | Lady Eleanor Butler | Charlotte Smith | Emmeline | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Constance Smedley on readings in American literature: "'Thoreau ... opened the door to a philosophy of life when I was... | Constance Smedley | James Russell Lowell | | Print: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | " reading Rousseau to my Sally." | Lady Eleanor Butler | Jean Jacques Rousseau | | Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | " From one till three reading Rousseau to the joy of my Life." | Lady Eleanor Butler | Jean Jacques Rousseau | | Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | " From five till Ten read Rousseau (finished the 7th tome) to my Sally. | Lady Eleanor Butler | Jean Jacques Rousseau | | Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | " I read to my beloved no 97 of the Rambler written by Richardson, author of those inimitable books Pamela, Clarissa a... | Lady Eleanor Butler | Samuel Richardson | The Rambler | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1700-1799 | " Read Six Sonatto di Petrarca" | Lady Eleanor Butler | Petrarch | Sonatto di Petrarca | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | " Finished The Tatler" | Lady Eleanor Butler | | The Tatler | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1700-1799 | " began the Spectator" | Lady Eleanor Butler | | The Spectator | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1700-1799 | " Began Les Memoires de Madame Maintenon. I doubt whether the vulgarity of stile (sic), absurd anecdotes and impertine... | Lady Eleanor Butler | Madame de Maintenon | Les Memoires de Madame de Maintenon | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | " Nine till twelve in the Dressing room reading-finished Les Memoires de Maintenon. Began her letters" | Lady Eleanor Butler | Madame de Maintenon | Les Memoires de Madame de Maintenon | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | " finished Swinburne's Travel Through Spain to My Love." | Lady Eleanor Butler | Swinburne | Travels through Spain | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Went again to the shrubbery-brought our books namely Gil Blas and Madame de Sevigne with us. | Lady Eleanor Butler | A.R. Lesage | Gil Blas | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | " From two till three I read Tab. de la Suisse." | Lady Eleanor Butler | | Tab. de la Suisse | Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | Listed under "Books read since April the first 1789" | Lady Eleanor Butler | Madame de Metterniche | Memoires | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Listed under "Books read since April the first 1789" | Lady Eleanor Butler | Jean Baptiste Poquelin Moliere | | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Listed under "Books read since April the first 1789" | Lady Eleanor Butler | Corneille | Theatro du Grand Corneilles | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Listed under "Books read since April the first 1789" | Lady Eleanor Butler | Racine | Theatro et oevres de Racine | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Listed under "Books read since April the first 1789" | Lady Eleanor Butler | Dante | La Divina Commedia | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Listed under "Books read since April the first 1789" | Lady Eleanor Butler | Pietro Metastasio | opera (16 Tom) | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Listed under "Books read since April the first 1789" | Lady Eleanor Butler | Gilpin | Northern Tour | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Listed under "Books read since April the first 1789" | Lady Eleanor Butler | Thomas Gray | Works | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | ' ... in Egypt during the Great War [E. M.] Forster applied himself to read [Henry] James. Struggling with What Maisi... | Edward Morgan Forster | Henry James | What Maisie Knew | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | "'More even than with the contemptible inexpressiveness of the whole thing,' Henry James wrote after reading She ... '... | Henry James | H. Rider Haggard | She | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Lady Cynthia Asquith's diary recorded about one January Sunday in 1917, "Stayed in bed until dinner. I read 'East Ly... | Lady Cynthia Asquith | Mrs Henry Wood | East Lynne | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | ' ... at Stanway in 1916 for her sister's twenty-first birthday, Lady Cynthia [Asquith] entertained family and guests ... | Lady Cynthia Asquith | Florence L. Barclay | The Rosary | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | On visit to 50-year-old Dante Gabriel Rossetti, '[Hall] Caine, half his age, was treated to a reading of "The King's T... | Dante Gabriel Rossetti | Dante Gabriel Rossetti | The King's Tragedy | Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | Letter B 14 - Postmark 6/12/1857 - "I can't answer at length till Monday. But you are quite right about the graver wan... | Anna Blunden | John Ruskin | The Elements of Drawing | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Letter B 23 - Postmark 15/10/1858 - "Cease reading my books for the present - there are a thousand as good - and many ... | John Ruskin | Aubrey Thomas de Vere | | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 | Letter B 24 - 20/10/1858 - "There was some nonsense in your long letter about Britomart and Una. Both of them were in ... | John Ruskin | Edmund Spencer | The Faerie Queen | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Letter B 24 - 20/10/1858 - "There was some nonsense in your long letter about Britomart and Una. Both of them were in ... | Anna Blunden | Edmund Spencer | The Faerie Queen | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Letter B 28 - Postmark 27/10/1858 - "The fit you took about the slavery arose not only owing to Aurora Leigh, but from... | John Ruskin | Elizabeth Barrett Browining | Aurora Leigh | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Letter B 28 - Postmark 27/10/1858 - "The fit you took about the slavery arose not only owing to Aurora Leigh, but from... | Anna Blunden | Elizabeth Barrett Browining | Aurora Leigh | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 | Letter B 94 - 6/5/1862 - "The commonest hack writing - Burnett's or anybody's on composition, would do you good." | John Ruskin | John Burnet | [on composition] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Letter B 71 - 3/9/1860 - "I have now your interesting letter about the Sheep-folds. I think you are right about the ti... | Anna Blunden | John Ruskin | Notes on the Construction of Sheepfolds | |
| 1850-1899 | Letter H 25 - Late November 1855 - "It is so off ... that we all should like that poem of the Arab physician best. - F... | John Ruskin | Robert Browning | Men and Women | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | From the editor's short biography of Ellen Heaton - "In 1849 her brother was reading The Seven Lamps of Architecture; ... | John Heaton | John Ruskin | The Seven Lamps of Architecture | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Letter H53, January 1857
"But I think if you read Anderson carefully, you will feel how pointed, neat and concise he ... | John Ruskin | Hans Christian Andersen | Fairy legends and Tales | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 | Letter H 3 - 9/2/1855 - "I will not fail to quote Mrs Browning in the book I am now about. I think more highly of her ... | John Ruskin | Elizabeth Barrett Browning | Poems, including "Drama of Exile" | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 | Letter H 21 - 12/11/1855 - "-The common - pretty - timid - mistletoe bought kind of kiss was not what Dante meant. Ros... | John Ruskin | Dante Alighieri | Inferno | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 | Letter H 21 - 12/11/1855 - "At the death of Socrates - when hemlock is brought - his friends exclaimed - "The sun is n... | John Ruskin | Plato | Death of Socrates | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | The editor's footnote quotes a letter from Dante Gabriel Rossetti to Ellen Heaton: 24/11/1855 - "Much of my time in Pa... | Dante Gabriel Rossetti | Robert Browning | Men and Women | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Letter H 25, Late November 1855 - "-Fancy my endorsing the Athenaeum! Every word in that Athenaeum critique I agree wi... | John Ruskin | | The Athenaeum | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 | From the editor's short biography of Ellen Heaton: "She had read and was a 'great admirer' of the early volumes of Mod... | Ellen Heaton | John Ruskin | Modern Painters I and II | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Letter H. 39 - (12/10/1856) - "I don't know when I read a poem, since a boy I first read "The Assyrian came down" - wh... | John Ruskin | George Gordon Lord Byron | The Destruction of Sennacherib | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 | Letter H. 29 - (30/12/1855) - "and she is as proud as - Flora Mac Ivor." | John Ruskin | Walter Scott | Waverley | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Letter H. 39 - 12/10/1856 - "-I don't know when I read a poem, since as a boy I first read "The Assyrian came down" - ... | John Ruskin | Dante Gabriel Rossetti | The Burden of Nineveh | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 | Letter H. 28 - 23/12/1855 - "You have Carey's Dante I suppose - else Matilda's quotation from the Psalms might be usel... | John Ruskin | Dante Alighieri | | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | '2 East Parade, Leeds. June 25th 1856. Ellen is rather puzzled', wrote her brother to his wife, 'on comparing the towe... | Ellen Heaton | John Ruskin | Modern Painters IV | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Letter H 30 - January 1856 - "I am always treating you ill - but I took so many presentation copies [of the third volu... | Ellen Heaton | John Ruskin | Modern Painters III | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Letter H 32 - 11/1/1857 - "Here is a little bit of criticism at last by way of example on your beginning of the Butter... | John Ruskin | Ellen Heaton | Tales | Manuscript: Unpublished short tales |
| 1850-1899 | "You say you have been reading some French novels lately." | Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. | | [Some French novels] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'My father sat passive, taking no notice, with his paper, not perceiving much I believe, and poor Willie, tucked in th... | Francis Wilson | | | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'Suddenly he [William Edmonstoune Ayton] burst forth without any warning with "Come hither Evan Cameron" - and repeate... | William Edmonstoune Ayton | William Edmonstoune Ayton | The Execution of Montrose | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | "I think that Miss Thackeray and my wife have expressed to you their great pleasure in your article on their father." | Ann Thackeray | George Barnett Smith | The Works of Thackeray | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 | 'I was captivated by "Margaret Maitland" before the author came to [italic] bribe [end italic] me by the gift of a cop... | Francis Jeffrey | Margaret Oliphant | Passages in the Life of Margaret Maitland | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'My husband, reading for the first time, one of the first books of Anthony Trollope, thought he perceived a considerab... | Frank Oliphant | Anthony Trollope | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | John Partridge on popularity of Charles Garvice's fiction: '[at Easter 1911] I looked round a large kiosk at a popular... | John Partridge | | The Daily Chronicle | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | '...in December 1918 ... [Sir Anthony] Deane organized at All Saints, Ennismore Gardens, a memorial service for author... | Edmund Gosse | | Lesson | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Newman Flower, head of Cassell's, describes returning to work after period of illness to find first bound copy of Hall... | Newman Flower | Hall Caine | The Woman of Knockaloe (Introduction) | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Arnold Bennett to George Sturt, 29 October 1895: "'I have just read Marie Corelli's new book -- my first of hers. I c... | Arnold Bennett | Marie Corelli | ? The Sorrows of Satan | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'On Friday afternoon I went to Mudie's. What a fascinating place it is!! I had some peeps into most lovely books, & t... | Katherine Mansfield | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Do you know I have read none of the books that you mentioned. Is not that shocking - but - Sylvia - you know that li... | Katherine Mansfield | Louis Vintras | The Silver Net | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | "In 1905 [Andrew] Lang ... recalled: 'The first book that ever made me cry, of which feat I was horribly ashamed, was ... | Andrew Lang | Harriet Beecher Stowe | Uncle Tom's Cabin | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I have been reading - French & English writing and lately have seen a great many Balls - and loved them - and dinners... | Katherine Mansfield | | | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'The Queen [Victoria] ... read the sequel [to "Uncle Tom's Cabin"], "Dred: A Tale of the Dismal Swamp" (1856), and con... | Queen Victoria | Harriet Beecher Stowe | Dred: A Tale of the Dismal Swamp | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'While I am on the subject of eating - for I am convinced E.F.Benson wrote the book on an empty, healthy tummy, do ple... | Katherine Mansfield | E.F. Benson | Sheaves | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I have adopted Stendhal. Every night I read him now & first thing in the morning.' | Katherine Mansfield | Stendhal | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I have adopted Stendhal. Every night I read him now & first thing in the morning.' | Katherine Mansfield | Stendhal | | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'The Queen [Victoria] had ... [in 1886] read only "Donovan" [by Edna Lyall], but in sending this to her daughter toget... | Queen Victoria | Edna Lyall | Donovan: A Modern Englishman | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'The Queen [Victoria] had ... [in 1886] read only "Donovan" [by Edna Lyall], but in sending this to her daughter toget... | Princess Beatrice | Edna Lyall | We Two | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Then I woke up, switched on the light, & began to read Venus & Adonis. It's pretty stuff - rather like the Death of ... | Katherine Mansfield | William Shakespeare | Venus and Adonis | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I got up at that moment to re-read your article on Leon Bloy. The memory of it suddenly rose in my mind, like a scent'. | Katherine Mansfield | John Middleton Murry | The Loneliness of Leon Bloy | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | 'I got up at that moment to re-read your article on Leon Bloy. The memory of it suddenly rose in my mind, like a scent'. | Katherine Mansfield | John Middleton Murry | The Loneliness of Leon Bloy | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | "[George] Meredtih's penultimate novel, Lord Ormont and his Aminta (1894), was, [Henry] James told Edmund Gosse [in le... | Henry James | George Meredith | Lord Ormont and his Aminta | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I don't dare to work any more tonight. That is why I asked for another Dickens; if I read him in bed he diverts my m... | Katherine Mansfield | Charles Dickens | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'There is a trifling scene in Virginia's book where a charming young creature in a bright fantastic attitude plays the... | Katherine Mansfield | Virginia Woolf | Night and Day | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The novel can't just leave the war out [...] What has been - stands - but Jane Austen could not write Northanger Abbe... | Katherine Mansfield | Jane Austen | Northanger Abbey | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Since I came here I have been very interested in the Bible. I have read the Bible for hours on end.' | Katherine Mansfield | | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | "[Wilfrid Scawen] Blunt was a great admirer of [Meredith's] Modern Love and, though he only read it thirty years after... | Wilfrid Scawen Blunt | George Meredith | Modern Love | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I bought a book by Henry James yesterday and read it, as they say, "until far into the night". It was not very inter... | Katherine Mansfield | Henry James | Confidence | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | "Lady Cynthia Asquith ... believed [as she recorded in her diary] that 'Meredith is very good for reading aloud.' On ... | Lady Cynthia Asquith | George Meredith | The Egoist | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I read the lonely Nietzsche: but I felt a bit ashamed of my feelings for this man in the past. He is, if you like, "... | Katherine Mansfield | Nietzsche | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I have read and sewed to-day, but not written a word'. | Katherine Mansfield | unknown | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Read in the evening and later read with J. a good deal of poetry'. | Katherine Mansfield | | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Read in the evening and later read with J. a good deal of poetry'. | Katherine Mansfield | | [poetry] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'It's very quiet. I've re-read L'Entrave. I suppose Colette is the only woman in France who does just this. I don't... | Katherine Mansfield | Colette | L'Entrave | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'It's very quiet. I've re-read L'Entrave. I suppose Colette is the only woman in France who does just this. I don't... | Katherine Mansfield | Colette | L'Entrave | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | ' "When all is done human life is at its greatest and best but a little froward [sic] child to be played with, and hum... | Katherine Mansfield | William Temple | Miscellanea | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | ' "A CALM IRRESISTIBLE WELL-BEING - ALMOST mystic in character, and yet doubtless connected with physical conditions" ... | Katherine Mansfield | Dorothy Wordsworth | Journal | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | ' "They were neither of them quite enough in love to imagine that ?350 a year would supply them with all the comforts ... | Katherine Mansfield | Jane Austen | Sense and Sensibility | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Calm day. In garden read early poems in Oxford Book. Discussed our future library. In the evening read Dostoevsky'. | Katherine Mansfield | | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Calm day. In garden read early poems in Oxford Book. Discussed our future library. In the evening read Dostoevsky'. | Katherine Mansfield | Dostoevsky | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I have read - given way to reading - two books by Octave Mirbeau - and after them I see dreadfully and finally, (1) t... | Katherine Mansfield | Octave Mirbeau | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I have read - given way to reading - two books by Octave Mirbeau - and after them I see dreadfully and finally, (1) t... | Katherine Mansfield | Octave Mirbeau | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'My sticks of rhubarb were wrapped up in a copy of the "Star" containing Lloyd George's last, more than eloquent speec... | Katherine Mansfield | Lloyd George | | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | 'Putting my weakest books to the wall last night I came across a copy of "Howard's End" and had a look into it. But i... | Katherine Mansfield | E.M. Forster | Howard's End | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Tchehov [Chekhov] makes me feel that this longing to write stories of such uneven length is quite justified. Geneva ... | Katherine Mansfield | Anton Chekhov | Geneva | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Tchehov [Chekhov] makes me feel that this longing to write stories of such uneven length is quite justified. Geneva ... | Katherine Mansfield | Anton Chekhov | Hamilton | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Journal entry of March 1916 entitled "Notes on Dostoevsky" gives 2 pages of notes on "The Idiot" and "The Possessed". | Katherine Mansfield | Dostoevsky | The Idiot | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Journal entry of March 1916 entitled "Notes on Dostoevsky" gives 2 pages of notes on "The Idiot" and "The Possessed". | Katherine Mansfield | Dostoevsky | The Possessed | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Jinne Moore was awfully good at elocution. Was she better than I? I could make the girls cry when I read Dickens in ... | Katherine Mansfield | Charles Dickens | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'At age thirteen or fourteen John Edmonds, who was reading "The Cloister and the Hearth" with a lower-midddle-class gi... | John Edmonds | Charles Reade | The Cloister and the Hearth | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Even those who read widely about sex often learned very little. In the 1920s Jennie Lee won a psychology degree from ... | Jennie Lee | Marie Stopes | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Even those who read widely about sex often learned very little. In the 1920s Jennie Lee won a psychology degree from ... | Jennie Lee | Havelock Ellis | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Even those who read widely about sex often learned very little. In the 1920s Jennie Lee won a psychology degree from ... | Jennie Lee | Sigmund Freud | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [Bennett] '. . .reread Balzac and de Maupassant and wondered whether he would be acccused of plagiarism.' | Arnold Bennett | Honore de Balzac | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '. . . he was reading Gaboriau's detective fiction enthusiastically at this time, and makes several polite acknowledge... | Arnold Bennett | Gaboriau | [detective fiction] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Letter H 49 (late November 1856)
?Mrs Brownings poem is the finest in the English language ? poem I mean ? (not drama... | John Ruskin | Elizabeth Barrett Browning | Aurora Leigh | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | From the editor?s footnote to a letter sent in November 1856:
?In a letter to Miss Heaton, Rossetti was no less enthu... | Dante Gabriel Rossetti | Elizabeth Barrett Browning | Aurora Leigh | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Letter H 85 (Latter half of March 1860)
?Mrs Browning?s verse is capital, but would have been better in prose. It is ... | John Ruskin | Elizabeth Barrett Browning | Poems before Congress | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Letter H88 (?Mid-April 1860)
?Mrs B. is entirely good. In fact Magnificent (except her rhyme to Modena ? needlessly o... | John Ruskin | Elizabeth Barrett Browning | Poems before Congress | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Letter H.96 (Beginning of June 1861)
?The Defence of Guenevere by Morris is published by Bell & Daldy.?
| John Ruskin | William Morris | The Defence of Guenevere | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 | Letter H. 114. Postmark 15 May 1863
Referring to a picture of Helen of Troy: ?She is the sweetest character in all Ho... | John Ruskin | Homer | Odyssey | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 | Letter H. 114. Postmark 15 May 1863
Referring to a picture of Helen of Troy: ?She is the sweetest character in all Ho... | John Ruskin | Homer | Iliad | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 | Letter H. 114. Postmark 15 May 1863
Referring to a picture of Helen of Troy: ?She is the sweetest character in all Ho... | John Ruskin | Johann von Goethe | Faust | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Letter of Elizabeth Barrett to Robert Browning, May 7 1846
?Miss Heaton ? told me yesterday that the poetess proper o... | Ellen Heaton | Rebecca Hey | The Moral of Flowers (1833) and The Spirit of the Woods (1837) | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | '... King Kalakava [of Hawaii] ... was an avid reader of [R. L.] Stevenson's romances ...' | King Kalakava | Robert Louis Stevenson | | Print: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | '[A. A.] Milne ... [became] a decided anti-militarist after reading Norman Angell's "The Great Illusion" (1910) ...' | Alan Alexander Milne | Norman Angell | The Great Illusion | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'In 1911 E. M. Forster read "with mingled joy and disgust" "A School History of England", which Kipling and C. R. L. F... | Edward Morgan Forster | Rudyard and C. R. L. Kipling and Fletcher | A School History of England | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The sculptress Kathleen Bruce, widow of the Arctic explorer Captain Scott ... became positively scornful when she rea... | Kathleen Bruce | H. G. Wells | God the Invisible King | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'When Florence Murray married in 1902, her husband, a Colne valley wool manufacturer, was a widower with a young son .... | Florence Murray | Charles Dickens | David Copperfield | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 1900-1945 | 'In spite of his own decided irreligion, [Arnold] Bennett kept the Bible at his bedside and read it.' | Arnold Bennett | | The Bible | Print: Book |
| | 'In 1970, on radio, Field Marshal Montgomery said that reading "When it was Dark" [1903] had been a turning point in h... | Bernard Law Montgomery | Guy Thorne | When it was Dark | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 1900-1945 | '[George Bernard] Shaw was struck when reading St Paul's Epistles by their "inveterate crookedness of mind".' | George Bernard Shaw | St Paul | Epistles | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 1900-1945 | '[George Bernard] Shaw read the Bible all through; and he was much affected by Bunyan's "Pilgrim's Progress".' | George Bernard Shaw | | The Bible | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 1900-1945 | '[George Bernard] Shaw read the Bible all through; and he was much affected by Bunyan's "Pilgrim's Progress".' | George Bernard Shaw | John Bunyan | Pilgrim's Progress | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '"Why do you want to break men's spirits for?" Shaw asked Henry James after reading his one-act play "The Saloon" in 1... | George Bernard Shaw | Henry James | The Saloon | Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | " ... tears filled ... [D. G. Rossetti's] eyes as he read about Guy Morville's death in The Heir of Redclyffe." | Dante Gabriel Rossetti | Charlotte M. Yonge | The Heir of Redclyffe | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'When Wilfrid Blunt ... reread "Loss and Gain" he was struck how "Newman's mind ... seems never to have faced the real... | Wilfrid Scawen Blunt | John Henry Newman | Loss and Gain | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Writing her memoirs in 1926, Janet Courtney went back to what she was like at 15, "when "John Inglesant" was publishe... | Janet Courtney | J. Henry Shorthouse | John Inglesant | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | ' ... when Arnold Bennett was reading Mrs [Edith] Wharton's "The House of Mirth" (1905), he concluded: "It can just be... | Arnold Bennett | Edith Wharton | The House of Mirth | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'The books which I am at present employed in reading to myself are in English, Plutarch's Lives and Milner's Ecclesias... | Thomas Babington Macaulay | Plutarch | Lives | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'The books which I am at present employed in reading to myself are in English, Plutarch's Lives and Milner's Ecclesias... | Thomas Babington Macaulay | Milner | Ecclesiastical History | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'In my learning I do Xenophon every day'. | Thomas Babington Macaulay | | Xenophon | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | ' ... [Virginia Woolf] was liable to blame Mrs [Humphry] Ward for her own periods of sterility as a writer: "How I dis... | Virginia Woolf | Mrs Humphry Ward | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | In my learning I do Xenophon every day and twice a week the Odyssey, in which I am classed with Wilberforce. | Thomas Babington Macaulay | Homer | The Odyssey | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'We get by heart Greek grammar or Virgil every evening'. | Thomas Babington Macaulay | Virgil | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | The books which I am reading to myself are [...] in French, Fenelon's Dialogues of the Dead.' | Thomas Babington Macaulay | Fenelon | Dialogues of the Dead | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I shall send you back the volumes of Madame de Genlis's [underline] petits romans [end underline] as soon as possible... | Thomas Babington Macaulay | Stephanie-Felicite de Genlis | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Every Sunday] 'After breakfast we learn a chapter in the Greek Testament, that is with the aid of our Bibles, and wit... | Thomas Babington Macaulay | | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'We dine almost as soon as we come back, and we are left to ourselves till afternoon church. During this time I employ... | Thomas Babington Macaulay | | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Hear what I have read since I came here. Hear and wonder! I have in the first place read Boccacio's Decameron, a tale... | Thomas Babington Macaulay | Boccacio | Decameron | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Everything here is going on in the common routine. The only things of peculiar interest are those which we get from t... | Thomas Babington Macaulay | | | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | "It was in my fifteenth year that I became again, this time intelligently, aquainted with Shakespeare. I got hold of a... | Edmund Gosse | William Shakespeare | Julius Caesar | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | " It was in my fifteenth year that I became again, this time intelligently, aquainted with Shakespeare. I got hold of ... | Edmund Gosse | William Shakespeare | Much Ado about Nothing | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | " It [the school's peity] proceeded no further than the practice of reading the Bible aloud, each boy in successive or... | Edmund Gosse | | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | " But, if I chose to walk six or seven miles along the coast... I might spend as pocket-money the railway fare I thus ... | Edmund Gosse | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | [poems] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | " But, when I was nearly sixteen, I made a purchase which brought me into sad trouble, and was the cause of a permane... | Edmund Gosse | Ben Jonson | | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | " But, when I was nearly sixteen, I made a purchase which brought me into sad trouble, and was the cause of a permanen... | Edmund Gosse | Christopher Marlowe | Hero and Leander | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | " When I reached home, tired out with enthusiasm and exercise, I must needs, so soon as I had eaten, search out my ste... | Edmund Gosse | Christopher Marlowe | Hero and Leander | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | " But I read with unchecked voracity, and in several curious directions. Shakespeare now passed into my possession ent... | Edmund Gosse | William Shakespeare | | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | " But I read with unchecked voracity, and in several curious directions...I made aquaintance with Keats, who entirely ... | Edmund Gosse | John Keats | | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | "But I read with unchecked voracity, and in several curious directions...I made aquaintance...with Shelley, whose 'Que... | Edmund Gosse | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Queen Mab | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | " But I read with unchecked voracity, and in several curious directions...I made aquaintance... with Wordsworth, for t... | Edmund Gosse | William Wordsworth | | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | "But I read with unchecked voracity, and in several curious directions...My Father presented me with the entire bulk o... | Edmund Gosse | Robert Southey | Works (poetical?) | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | "But I read with unchecked voracity, and in several curios directions...My Father presented me with the entire bulk of... | Edmund Gosse | F.T Palgrave | The Golden Treasury | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | " He [Father] presented to me a copy of Dean Alford's edition of the Greek New Testament, in four great volumes, and t... | Edmund Gosse | | Greek New Testament | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | "Yet I could not but observe the difference with zeal with which I snatched at a volume of Carlyle or Ruskin- since th... | Edmund Gosse | Thomas Carlyle | | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | "Yet I could not but observe the difference between the zeal with which I snatched at a volume of Carlyle or Ruskin -s... | Edmund Gosse | John Ruskin | | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | The seventeenth-century waterman-poet John Taylor had read More's Utopia, Plato's Republic, Montaigne, and Cervantes i... | John Taylor | Thomas More | Utopia | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | The seventeenth-century waterman-poet John Taylor had read More's Utopia, Plato's Republic, Montaigne, and Cervantes i... | John Taylor | Plato | Republic | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | The seventeenth-century waterman-poet John Taylor had read More's Utopia, Plato's Republic, Montaigne, and Cervantes i... | John Taylor | Michel Eyquem de Montaigne | Essays | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | The seventeenth-century waterman-poet John Taylor had read More's Utopia, Plato's Republic, Montaigne, and Cervantes i... | John Taylor | Miguel de Cervantes | probably Don Quixote | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | In the public library [Manny Shinwell] doggedly tackled volumes "whose contents I usually failed to understand": Paley... | Emmanuel Shinwell (later Baron Shinwell) | William Paley | View of the Evidences of Christianity | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | In the public library [Manny Shinwell] doggedly tackled volumes "whose contents I usually failed to understand": Paley... | Emmanuel Shinwell (later Baron Shinwell) | Ernst Heinrich Philipp August Haeckel | Riddle of the Universe | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | In the public library [Manny Shinwell] doggedly tackled volumes "whose contents I usually failed to understand": Paley... | Emmanuel Shinwell (later Baron Shinwell) | Herbert Spencer | The Study of Sociology | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | In the public library [Manny Shinwell] doggedly tackled volumes "whose contents I usually failed to understand": Paley... | Emmanuel Shinwell (later Baron Shinwell) | Marcus Aurelius | Meditations | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | The parents of playwright Arnold Wesker were both immigrants, tailor's machinists, Communists and culturally Jewish at... | Arnold Wesker | Leo Tolstoy | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | The parents of playwright Arnold Wesker were both immigrants, tailor's machinists, Communists and culturally Jewish at... | Arnold Wesker | Maxim Gorky | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | The parents of playwright Arnold Wesker were both immigrants, tailor's machinists, Communists and culturally Jewish at... | Arnold Wesker | Jack London | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | The parents of playwright Arnold Wesker were both immigrants, tailor's machinists, Communists and culturally Jewish at... | Arnold Wesker | Sinclair Lewis | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | The parents of playwright Arnold Wesker were both immigrants, tailor's machinists, Communists and culturally Jewish at... | Arnold Wesker | Honore de Balzac | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | The parents of playwright Arnold Wesker were both immigrants, tailor's machinists, Communists and culturally Jewish at... | Arnold Wesker | Guy de Maupassant | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | ?Well, I do remember the pleasure Mr Opie expressed in reading a proverb in one act, taken from the French of ?Carmont... | John Opie | Holcroft | Theatrical recorder | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | 'Wil John Edwards...pursued Gibbon, Hardy, Swinburne and Meredith. His reading was suggested by the literary pages of ... | Wil John Edwards | Edward Gibbon | presumably Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Wil John Edwards...pursued Gibbon, Hardy, Swinburne and Meredith. His reading was suggested by the literary pages of ... | Wil John Edwards | Thomas Hardy | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Wil John Edwards...pursued Gibbon, Hardy, Swinburne and Meredith. His reading was suggested by the literary pages of ... | Wil John Edwards | Algernon Charles Swinburne | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Wil John Edwards...pursued Gibbon, Hardy, Swinburne and Meredith. His reading was suggested by the literary pages of ... | Wil John Edwards | George Meredith | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Wil John Edwards...pursued Gibbon, Hardy, Swinburne and Meredith. His reading was suggested by the literary pages of ... | Wil John Edwards | Miguel de Cervantes | Don Quixote | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Wil John Edwards...pursued Gibbon, Hardy, Swinburne and Meredith. His reading was suggested by the literary pages of ... | Wil John Edwards | | Clarion (literary pages) | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | '[During the Great Depression] "Thousands used the Public Library for the first time", recalled itinerant labourer Joh... | John Brown | Karl Marx | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '[During the Great Depression] "Thousands used the Public Library for the first time", recalled itinerant labourer Joh... | John Brown | George Bernard Shaw | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '[During the Great Depression] "Thousands used the Public Library for the first time", recalled itinerant labourer Joh... | John Brown | Friedrich Engels | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Attending Oxford on a Cassel scholarship, John Allaway found that his WEA training, far from fitting him into a unive... | John Allaway | Alfred Marshall | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Attending Oxford on a Cassel scholarship, John Allaway found that his WEA training, far from fitting him into a unive... | John Allaway | J.A. Hobson | | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | "The habits and tastes of Mr Opie were, happily, very inexpensive... [he and his wife] spent the evening hours in conv... | John Opie | | [various books, fiction in particular] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Attending Oxford on a Cassel scholarship, John Allaway found that his WEA training, far from fitting him into a unive... | John Allaway | Henry George | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Attending Oxford on a Cassel scholarship, John Allaway found that his WEA training, far from fitting him into a unive... | John Allaway | John Maynard Keynes | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Attending Oxford on a Cassel scholarship, John Allaway found that his WEA training, far from fitting him into a unive... | John Allaway | Hugh Dalton | | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | "Kitty dispatched the little ones to the schoolroom to do their lessons. Then John, Rachel and Kitty seated themselves... | John Pitchford | Thomas Grey | Perigrinus Porteous | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | "Kitty dispatched the little ones to the schoolroom to do their lessons. Then John, Rachel and Kitty seated themselves... | John Pitchford | Thomas Grey | Elegy written in a Country Churchyard | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'In 1925 Ifan Edwards was driven by unemployment to read Das Kapital in the public library. "It took him about four hu... | Ifan Edwards | Karl Marx | Das Kapital | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [George Scott disliked the Communism of fellow journalist, Stan] 'He had read Das Kapital (or parts of it) and could t... | Stan (acquaintance of George Scott) | Karl Marx | Das Kapital | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [George Scott disliked the Communism of fellow journalist, Stan] 'He had read Das Kapital (or parts of it) and could t... | Stan (acquaintance of George Scott) | | Straight and Crooked Thinking | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Emily Bronte, diary paper for 26 June 1837: 'Monday evening June 26 1837
A bit past 4 o'clock Charolotte [sic] work... | Branwell Bronte | Edward Bulwer-Lytton | Eugene Aram | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Ewan McColl remembered his father, a Communist ironfounder, as someone who was always giving him secondhand books. He... | Ewan McColl | Charles Darwin | [all works] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Ewan McColl remembered his father, a Communist ironfounder, as someone who was always giving him secondhand books. He... | Ewan McColl | Fyodor Dostoevsky | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Ewan McColl remembered his father, a Communist ironfounder, as someone who was always giving him secondhand books. He... | Ewan McColl | Honore de Balzac | The Human Comedy | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Ewan McColl remembered his father, a Communist ironfounder, as someone who was always giving him secondhand books. He... | Ewan McColl | Immanuel Kant | Critique of Pure Reason | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Ewan McColl remembered his father, a Communist ironfounder, as someone who was always giving him secondhand books. He... | Ewan McColl | | The Mistaken Subtlety of the Four-Sided Figure | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Ewan McColl remembered his father, a Communist ironfounder, as someone who was always giving him secondhand books. He... | Ewan McColl | Nikolai Gogol | The Overcoat | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Ewan McColl remembered his father, a Communist ironfounder, as someone who was always giving him secondhand books. He... | Ewan McColl | Nikolai Gogol | The Nose | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Ewan McColl remembered his father, a Communist ironfounder, as someone who was always giving him secondhand books. He... | Ewan McColl | Nikolai Gogol | The Madman's Diary | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'By [age fifteen] [Ewan] McColl had also read Engels's The Peasant War in Germany and The Origins of the Family'. | Ewan McColl | Friedrich Engels | The Peasant War in Germany | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'By [age fifteen] [Ewan] McColl had also read Engels's The Peasant War in Germany and The Origins of the Family'. | Ewan McColl | Friedrich Engels | The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Branwell Bronte to Hartley Coleridge, 27 June 1840: 'I have ... striven to translate 2 books [of Horace] ... the first... | Patrick Branwell Bronte | Horace | | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Although mainly an outdoor boy Rider began to read several popular romances of the day...: "I loved those books that ... | Henry Rider Haggard | Daniel Defoe | Robinson Crusoe | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Next to Robinson Crusoe, Rider liked the Arabian Nights, The Three Musketeers and the poems of Edgar Allan Poe and Ma... | Henry Rider Haggard | Anon | The Arabian Nights | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Next to Robinson Crusoe, Rider liked the Arabian Nights, The Three Musketeers and the poems of Edgar Allan Poe and Ma... | Henry Rider Haggard | Alexandre Dumas (pere) | The Three Musketeers | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Next to Robinson Crusoe, Rider liked the Arabian Nights, The Three Musketeers and the poems of Edgar Allan Poe and Ma... | Henry Rider Haggard | Edgar Allan Poe | | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Next to Robinson Crusoe, Rider liked the Arabian Nights, The Three Musketeers and the poems of Edgar Allan Poe and Ma... | Henry Rider Haggard | Charles Dickens | A Tale of Two Cities | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Next to Robinson Crusoe, Rider liked the Arabian Nights, The Three Musketeers and the poems of Edgar Allan Poe and Ma... | Henry Rider Haggard | Edward George Earl Bulwer Lytton | The Coming Race | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Next to Robinson Crusoe, Rider liked the Arabian Nights, The Three Musketeers and the poems of Edgar Allan Poe and Ma... | Henry Rider Haggard | Thomas Babington Macaulay | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '[Helen Crawfurd] derived lessons in socialism and feminism from Carlyle, Shaw, Wells, Galsworthy, Arnold Bennett, Ibs... | Helen Crawfurd | Thomas Carlyle | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '[Helen Crawfurd] derived lessons in socialism and feminism from Carlyle, Shaw, Wells, Galsworthy, Arnold Bennett, Ibs... | Helen Crawfurd | George Bernard Shaw | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '[Helen Crawfurd] derived lessons in socialism and feminism from Carlyle, Shaw, Wells, Galsworthy, Arnold Bennett, Ibs... | Helen Crawfurd | Herbert George Wells | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '[Helen Crawfurd] derived lessons in socialism and feminism from Carlyle, Shaw, Wells, Galsworthy, Arnold Bennett, Ibs... | Helen Crawfurd | John Galsworthy | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '[Helen Crawfurd] derived lessons in socialism and feminism from Carlyle, Shaw, Wells, Galsworthy, Arnold Bennett, Ibs... | Helen Crawfurd | Arnold Bennett | | Print: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | '[Helen Crawfurd] derived lessons in socialism and feminism from Carlyle, Shaw, Wells, Galsworthy, Arnold Bennett, Ibs... | Helen Crawfurd | Henrik Ibsen | Ghosts | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '[Helen Crawfurd] derived lessons in socialism and feminism from Carlyle, Shaw, Wells, Galsworthy, Arnold Bennett, Ibs... | Helen Crawfurd | Henrik Ibsen | A Doll's House | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '[Helen Crawfurd] derived lessons in socialism and feminism from Carlyle, Shaw, Wells, Galsworthy, Arnold Bennett, Ibs... | Helen Crawfurd | Charles Dickens | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '[Helen Crawfurd] derived lessons in socialism and feminism from Carlyle, Shaw, Wells, Galsworthy, Arnold Bennett, Ibs... | Helen Crawfurd | Benjamin Disraeli | Sybil | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '[Helen Crawfurd] derived lessons in socialism and feminism from Carlyle, Shaw, Wells, Galsworthy, Arnold Bennett, Ibs... | Helen Crawfurd | Elizabeth Gaskell | Mary Barton | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '[Helen Crawfurd] derived lessons in socialism and feminism from Carlyle, Shaw, Wells, Galsworthy, Arnold Bennett, Ibs... | Helen Crawfurd | Thomas Hardy | Jude the Obscure | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '[Helen Crawfurd] derived lessons in socialism and feminism from Carlyle, Shaw, Wells, Galsworthy, Arnold Bennett, Ibs... | Helen Crawfurd | Thomas Hardy | Tess of the d'Urbervilles | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '[Helen Crawfurd] derived lessons in socialism and feminism from Carlyle, Shaw, Wells, Galsworthy, Arnold Bennett, Ibs... | Helen Crawfurd | Thomas Hardy | Under the Greenwood Tree | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '[Helen Crawfurd] derived lessons in socialism and feminism from Carlyle, Shaw, Wells, Galsworthy, Arnold Bennett, Ibs... | Helen Crawfurd | Alfred Lord Tennyson | The Princess | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '[Helen Crawfurd] derived lessons in socialism and feminism from Carlyle, Shaw, Wells, Galsworthy, Arnold Bennett, Ibs... | Helen Crawfurd | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '[Helen Crawfurd] derived lessons in socialism and feminism from Carlyle, Shaw, Wells, Galsworthy, Arnold Bennett, Ibs... | Helen Crawfurd | Walt Whitman | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '[Helen Crawfurd] derived lessons in socialism and feminism from Carlyle, Shaw, Wells, Galsworthy, Arnold Bennett, Ibs... | Helen Crawfurd | Robert Burns | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '[Helen Crawfurd] derived lessons in socialism and feminism from Carlyle, Shaw, Wells, Galsworthy, Arnold Bennett, Ibs... | Helen Crawfurd | Elizabeth Barrett Browning | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '[Helen Crawfurd] derived lessons in socialism and feminism from Carlyle, Shaw, Wells, Galsworthy, Arnold Bennett, Ibs... | Helen Crawfurd | George Eliot | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '[Helen Crawfurd] derived lessons in socialism and feminism from Carlyle, Shaw, Wells, Galsworthy, Arnold Bennett, Ibs... | Helen Crawfurd | George (Amantine Lucille Aurore) Sand (Dupin) | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '[Helen Crawfurd] derived lessons in socialism and feminism from Carlyle, Shaw, Wells, Galsworthy, Arnold Bennett, Ibs... | Helen Crawfurd | Charlotte /Emily/ Anne Bronte | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '[Helen Crawfurd] derived lessons in socialism and feminism from Carlyle, Shaw, Wells, Galsworthy, Arnold Bennett, Ibs... | Helen Crawfurd | Victor Hugo | Les Miserables | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '[Helen Crawfurd] derived lessons in socialism and feminism from Carlyle, Shaw, Wells, Galsworthy, Arnold Bennett, Ibs... | Helen Crawfurd | Victor Hugo | Nore Dame de Paris (The Hunchback of Notre Dame) | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | J. G. Lockhart to a friend, 29 December 1847: 'I have finished the adventures of Miss Jane Eyre, and think her far the... | John Gibson Lockhart | Charlotte Bronte | Jane Eyre | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | '[Benjamin] Franklin repudiated local tradition in favour of the new prose style he encountered in stray copies of the... | Benjamin Franklin | | The Spectator | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1700-1799 | '[Benjamin] Franklin repudiated local tradition in favor of the new prose style he encountered in stray copies of the ... | Benjamin Franklin | | The Tatler | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1700-1799 | '... late in the [eighteenth] century [John] Clare ... learned to read from chapbooks like "Cinderella", "Little Red R... | John Clare | | Cinderella | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | '... late in the [eighteenth] century [John] Clare ... learned to read from chapbooks like "Cinderella", "Little Red R... | John Clare | | Little Red Riding Hood | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | '... late in the [eighteenth] century [John] Clare ... learned to read from chapbooks like "Cinderella", "Little Red R... | John Clare | | Jack and the Beanstalk | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | At meeting of new representative assembly for colony of Virginia in 1619, 'The man appointed speaker, John Pory, a vet... | John Pory | Anon | Charter of Virginia Assembly | Unknown |
| 1600-1699 | " ... in Springfield when a printed copy of the code of laws of 1648 arrived in 1649, it was promptly 'published,' tha... | anon | | Code of Laws 1648 | Print: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | [Lionel Fraser dreamt unfulfilledly of Oxbridge]: 'Whatever resentment he may have felt was mollified by the Gem and M... | Lionel Fraser | Frank Richards | [stories in the Magnet] | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | [Lionel Fraser dreamt unfulfilledly of Oxbridge]: 'Whatever resentment he may have felt was mollified by the Gem and M... | Lionel Fraser | Frank Richards | [stories in the Gem] | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | 'Charwoman's son Bryan Forbes "devoured every word, believed every word" of the Magnet and Gem, "surrendering to a wor... | Bryan Forbes | Frank Richards | [stories in the Gem] | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | 'Charwoman's son Bryan Forbes "devoured every word, believed every word" of the Magnet and Gem, "surrendering to a wor... | Bryan Forbes | Frank Richards | [stories in the Magnet] | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | 'Angela Brazil inspired Kathleen Betterton (whose father operated a lift in the London Underground) to ascend the scho... | Kathleen Betterton | Angela Brazil | [school stories] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'V.S. Pritchett furtively devoured the Gem and Magnet with a compositor's son: both adopted Greyfriars nicknames and s... | Victor Sawdon Pritchett | Frank Richards | [school stories in the Gem] | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | 'V.S. Pritchett furtively devoured the Gem and Magnet with a compositor's son: both adopted Greyfriars nicknames and s... | Victor Sawdon Pritchett | Frank Richards | [school stories in the Magnet] | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1700-1799 | Frances Burney at seventeen observes that she is about "to charm myself for the third time with poor Sterne's 'Sentime... | Frances Burney | Laurence Sterne | A Sentimental Journey | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'At the same time as she was entertaining herself with a variety of novels, [Frances] Burney was putting herself throu... | Frances Burney | | novels | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'At the same time as she was entertaining herself with a variety of novels, [Frances] Burney was putting herself throu... | Frances Burney | Homer | | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'At the same time as she was entertaining herself with a variety of novels, [Frances] Burney was putting herself throu... | Frances Burney | | ancient history | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'At the same time as she was entertaining herself with a variety of novels, [Frances] Burney was putting herself throu... | Frances Burney | | | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'At the same time as she was entertaining herself with a variety of novels, [Frances] Burney was putting herself throu... | Frances Burney | | | Print: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | 'In 1768, Burney read in rapid succession Elizabeth and Richard Griffith's "A Series of Genuine Letters between Henry ... | Frances Burney | Elizabeth and Richard Griffith | A Series of Genuine Letters between Henry and Frances | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'In 1768, Burney read in rapid succession Elizabeth and Richard Griffith's "A Series of Genuine Letters between Henry ... | Frances Burney | Oliver Goldsmith | The Vicar of Wakefield | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'In 1768, Burney read in rapid succession Elizabeth and Richard Griffith's "A Series of Genuine Letters between Henry ... | Frances Burney | Samuel Johnson | Rasselas | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'In her teens [Frances] Burney was tackling on her own such works as Plutarch's "Lives" (in translation), Pope's "Ilia... | Frances Burney | Plutarch | Lives | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'In her teens [Frances] Burney was tackling on her own such works as Plutarch's "Lives" (in translation), Pope's "Ilia... | Frances Burney | Homer | Iliad | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'In her teens [Frances] Burney was tackling on her own such works as Plutarch's "Lives" (in translation), Pope's "Ilia... | Frances Burney | Alexander Pope | Works | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'In her teens [Frances] Burney was tackling on her own such works as Plutarch's "Lives" (in translation), Pope's "Ilia... | Frances Burney | Alexander Pope | Letters | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'In her teens [Frances] Burney was tackling on her own such works as Plutarch's "Lives" (in translation), Pope's "Ilia... | Frances Burney | David Hume | The History of England | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'In her teens [Frances] Burney was tackling on her own such works as Plutarch's "Lives" (in translation), Pope's "Ilia... | Frances Burney | Nathaniel Hooke | Roman History | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'In her teens [Frances] Burney was tackling on her own such works as Plutarch's "Lives" (in translation), Pope's "Ilia... | Frances Burney | Conyers Middleton | Life of Cicero | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'In her teens [Frances] Burney was tackling on her own such works as Plutarch's "Lives" (in translation), Pope's "Ilia... | Frances Burney | Denis Diderot | treatise on music | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Frances Burney to Hester Thrale, 22 January 1781, on reading account of Thrale's apperance at court on 18 January 1781... | Frances Burney | | newspapers | Print: Newspaper |
| 1700-1799 | 'Mrs. Thrale offered the kind of readings [of work in progress, ie Cecilia] Burney ... most valued, instant impression... | Hester Lynch Thrale | Frances Burney | Cecilia | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | Copied by Frances Burney into her journal letters, from Samuel Hoole, "Aurelia" (1783):
'I stood, a favouring muse,... | Frances Burney | Samuel Hoole | Aurelia | |
| 1700-1799 | 'Colonel Digby had read Falconer's "The Shipwreck" aloud to Burney during her court service ...' | The Hon. Stephen Digby | William Falconer | The Shipwreck | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Frances Burney noted as having been 'an early reader' of Ann Radcliffe, "The Mysteries of Udolpho" (1794). | Frances Burney | Ann Radcliffe | The Mysteries of Udolpho | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | '[Frances] Burney's little diary of "Consolatory Extracts Daily collected or read in my extremity of Grief at the sudd... | Frances Burney | Anne-Louise-Germaine baronne de Stael-Holstein | | |
| 1800-1849 | '[Frances] Burney's little diary of "Consolatory Extracts Daily collected or read in my extremity of Grief at the sudd... | Frances Burney | Catherine Talbot | | |
| 1800-1849 | '[Frances] Burney's little diary of "Consolatory Extracts Daily collected or read in my extremity of Grief at the sudd... | Frances Burney | Hester Chapone | | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'Frances Burney had thought that Charles Burney had written his autobiography more completely than he had done. When ... | Frances Burney | Charles Burney | Memoirs | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | '[Frances] Burney had read both "The Mysteries of Udolpho" and "The Italian" when they first came out, preferring the ... | Frances Burney | Ann Radcliffe | The Mysteries of Udolpho | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | '[Frances] Burney had read both "The Mysteries of Udolpho" and "The Italian" when they first came out, preferring the ... | Frances Burney | Ann Radcliffe | The Italian | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | '... Anne Thackeray ... discovered ... [Burney's Diary and Letters] in her father's library and felt inspired to becom... | Anne Thackeray | Frances Burney | The Diary and Letters | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'It is equally possible for the same reader to adopt different frames for the same story, relishing it on one level wh... | Aneurin Bevan | n/a | The Magnet | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | 'It is equally possible for the same reader to adopt different frames for the same story, relishing it on one level wh... | Aneurin Bevan | n/a | The Gem | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | 'It is equally possible for the same reader to adopt different frames for the same story, relishing it on one level wh... | Aneurin Bevan | H. Rider Haggard | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'It is equally possible for the same reader to adopt different frames for the same story, relishing it on one level wh... | Aneurin Bevan | William Le Queux | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'It is equally possible for the same reader to adopt different frames for the same story, relishing it on one level wh... | Aneurin Bevan | John Buchan | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'It is equally possible for the same reader to adopt different frames for the same story, relishing it on one level wh... | Aneurin Bevan | Phillips Oppenheim | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '...he had read so much of de Maupassant, and had admired him for so many years, that probably his manner and his con... | Arnold Bennett | Guy de Maupassant | Bel-Ami | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'When he reread "Une Vie", in March 1908, he could find faults, but they were irrelevant to the work that had been don... | Arnold Bennett | Guy de Maupassant | Une Vie | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Since they filled those gaps [in historical and geographical knowledge], classic travel books could produce the same ... | Alexander Somerville | George Anson | A Voyage Round the World | Print: Book, Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | 'A more recent influence was Huysmans' "Les Soeurs Vatards", a novel about artisan life in a lace-maker's atelier in P... | Arnold Bennett | Joris Karl Huysmans | Les Soeurs Vatards | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '. . . Jules Claretie's "L'Histoire de la R?volution de 1870-1871." He says that he "looked at the pictures" in Clare... | Arnold Bennett | Jules Claretie | L'Histoire de la R?volution de 1870-1871 | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'He did a good deal of research, reading up the "Victoria History of the Potteries" and various other documentary sour... | Arnold Bennett | unknown | Victoria History of the Potteries | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | "He would read acts of 'The Honeymoon' aloud to the two women, conscious that he did not read well, but considering it... | Arnold Bennett | Arnold Bennett | The Honeymoon | Manuscript: Sheet |
| 1900-1945 | '. . . her short stories, 'The Little Karoo', all set in the South Africa of her childhood, were widely admired and ar... | Arnold Bennett | Pauline Smith | The Little Karoo | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Bennett had read "Ann Veronica", which Wells had sent him that October with an inscription "The Young Mistress's Tale... | Arnold Bennett | H. G. Wells | Ann Veronica | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '. . . his reading of that remarkable book, "When I was a Child, Recollections of an Old Potter"'. | Arnold Bennett | William Shaw | When I was a Child, Recollections of an Old Potter | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'One of the daughters of Florence Barclay, a writer of popular fiction ... recounts how her mother used, in the 1880s,... | Florence Barclay | Hans Christian Andersen | Fairy Tales | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'One of the daughters of Florence Barclay, a writer of popular fiction ... recounts how her mother used, in the 1880s,... | Florence Barclay | Frances Hodgson Burnett | Little Lord Fauntleroy | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'One of the daughters of Florence Barclay, a writer of popular fiction ... recounts how her mother used, in the 1880s,... | Florence Barclay | Charlotte Mary Yonge | The Little Duke | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'One of the daughters of Florence Barclay, a writer of popular fiction ... recounts how her mother used, in the 1880s,... | Florence Barclay | Walter Scott | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Frances Buss ...grew up in a houseful of younger brothers: she was forced to hide under a sofa on the second floor of... | Frances Mary Buss | | | |
| 1900-1945 | Enid Starkie, in "A Lady's Child" (1941) p.5: '[following childhood deprived of maternal affection] ... when I began t... | Enid Starkie | | French fiction | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | "Jeremy would always have fond memories of the Grange during the war years - throwing wet mud at cloth-caped gardener ... | Ellen Clifford | | | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 1900-1945 | 'When she was thirteen or fourteen, [Constance] Maynard's businessman father used to read Monier Williams on the relig... | Henry Maynard | Monier Williams | work/s on Eastern religions | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'When she was thirteen or fourteen, [Constance] Maynard's businessman father used to read Monier Williams on the relig... | Henry Maynard | William Law | | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'When she was thirteen or fourteen, [Constance] Maynard's businessman father used to read Monier Williams on the relig... | Henry Maynard | Jacob Boehme | | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 1900-1945 | ' ... [13-to-14-year-old Constance Maynard's] most intimate contact with reading .. took place ... in a secluded corne... | Constance Maynard | John Milton | Sonnets | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 1900-1945 | ' ... [13-to-14-year-old Constance Maynard's] most intimate contact with reading .. took place ... in a secluded corne... | Constance Maynard | William Cowper | poetry | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | ' ... [13-to-14-year-old Constance Maynard's] most intimate contact with reading .. took place ... in a secluded corne... | Constance Maynard | Washington Irving | Orations | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | ' ... [13-to-14-year-old Constance Maynard's] most intimate contact with reading .. took place ... in a secluded corne... | Constance Maynard | Alfred Tennyson | poetry | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | '["In A Nursery in the Nineties" (1935)] Eleanor Farjeon (b.1881) ... recreates her identificatory enthusiam as she re... | Eleanor Farjeon | Alexandre Dumas | The Three Musketeers | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'As a child in the late 1860s and 1870s, the books ... [Florence White] used to read were "The Wide, Wide World", "Que... | Florence White | Susan Warner | The Wide, Wide World | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'As a child in the late 1860s and 1870s, the books ... [Florence White] used to read were "The Wide, Wide World", "Que... | Florence White | Susan Warner | Queechy | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'As a child in the late 1860s and 1870s, the books ... [Florence White] used to read were "The Wide, Wide World", "Que... | Florence White | Maria Charlesworth | Ministering Children | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Joan Evans, "Prelude and Fugue: An Autobiography" (1964): 'One of my few conscious naughtinesses after I had attained ... | Joan Evans | Alfred Tennyson | poetry | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Joan Evans, "Prelude and Fugue: An Autobiography" (1964): 'One of my few conscious naughtinesses after I had attained ... | Joan Evans | Matthew Arnold | poetry | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 1900-1945 | 'Yeats forbade his sisters to read George Moore's "A Mummer's Wife": a proscription which led Susan Mitchell, who live... | Susan Mitchell | George Moore | A Mummer's Wife | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 | '[Lady Frances Balfour's] father and mother both read poetry aloud ...' | Elizabeth Georgiana Leveson-Gower | | poetry | |
| 1850-1899 | ' ...[Lady Frances Balfour] was forbidden to read the second volume of ... [Uncle Tom's Cabin] "but human nature canno... | Lady Frances Balfour | Harriet Beecher Stowe | Uncle Tom's Cabin | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'H. M. Swanwick, in the late 1870s, absorbed what she could from any available scientific books and medical journals, ... | Helen Maria Lucy Swanwick | | science books | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'H. M. Swanwick, in the late 1870s, absorbed what she could from any available scientific books and medical journals, ... | Helena Maria Lucy Swanwick | | medical journals | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'H. M. Swanwick, in the late 1870s, absorbed what she could from any available scientific books and medical journals, ... | Helena Maria Lucy Swanwick | | The Bible | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'H. M. Swanwick, in the late 1870s, absorbed what she could from any available scientific books and medical journals, ... | Helena Maria Lucy Swanwick | William Shakespeare | | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | "Angela Brazil ... was considerably disturbed by the pictures in [Foxe's Book of Martyrs]..." | Angela Brazil | John Foxe | Book of Martyrs | |
| 1900-1945 | 'In January he had read Wells's 'The New Machieavelli' . . .[sic]' | Arnold Bennett | H. G. Wells | New Machiavelli, The | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The play was finished after a long summer of hard work on 24 August: they sat in an arbour to read it with an audienc... | Arnold Bennett | Arnold Bennett | Milestones | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'When it rained, Bennett stayed in the cabin and read Dostoevsky.' | Arnold Bennett | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | " ... in the early 1870s, the ten-year-old Annabel Huth Jackson 'was terribly frightened by the episode of the mad wom... | Annabel Huth Jackson | Charlotte Bronte | Jane Eyre | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | "Christine Longford, having read The Wide, Wide World in the first decade of the twentieth century, recalled that she ... | Christine Longford | Susan Warner | The Wide, Wide World | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | " ... it was whilst at a frivolous, rote-learning girls' school that ... [Frances Power Cobbe] developed her determine... | Frances Power Cobbe | Edmund Spenser | The Faerie Queene | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | " ... it was whilst at a frivolous, rote-learning girls' school that ... [Frances Power Cobbe] developed her determine... | Frances Power Cobbe | John Milton | Complete poetry | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | " ... it was whilst at a frivolous, rote-learning girls' school that ... [Frances Power Cobbe] developed her determine... | Frances Power Cobbe | Dante Alighieri | Divina Commedia | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | " ... it was whilst at a frivolous, rote-learning girls' school that ... [Frances Power Cobbe] developed her determine... | Frances Power Cobbe | Torquato Tasso | Gerusalemme Liberata | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | " ... it was whilst at a frivolous, rote-learning girls' school that ... [Frances Power Cobbe] developed her determine... | Frances Power Cobbe | Homer | The Iliad | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | " ... it was whilst at a frivolous, rote-learning girls' school that ... [Frances Power Cobbe] developed her determine... | Frances Power Cobbe | Homer | The Odyssey | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | " ... it was whilst at a frivolous, rote-learning girls' school that ... [Frances Power Cobbe] developed her determine... | Frances Power Cobbe | Virgil | The Aeneid | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | " ... it was whilst at a frivolous, rote-learning girls' school that ... [Frances Power Cobbe] developed her determine... | Frances Power Cobbe | Lucan | Pharsalia | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | " ... it was whilst at a frivolous, rote-learning girls' school that ... [Frances Power Cobbe] developed her determine... | Frances Power Cobbe | Aeschylus | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | " ... it was whilst at a frivolous, rote-learning girls' school that ... [Frances Power Cobbe] developed her determine... | Frances Power Cobbe | Sophocles | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | " ... it was whilst at a frivolous, rote-learning girls' school that ... [Frances Power Cobbe] developed her determine... | Frances Power Cobbe | Euripedes | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | " ... it was whilst at a frivolous, rote-learning girls' school that ... [Frances Power Cobbe] developed her determine... | Frances Power Cobbe | Ovid | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | " ... it was whilst at a frivolous, rote-learning girls' school that ... [Frances Power Cobbe] developed her determine... | Frances Power Cobbe | Tacitus | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | " ... it was whilst at a frivolous, rote-learning girls' school that ... [Frances Power Cobbe] developed her determine... | Frances Power Cobbe | Xenophon | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | " ... it was whilst at a frivolous, rote-learning girls' school that ... [Frances Power Cobbe] developed her determine... | Frances Power Cobbe | Herodotus | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | " ... it was whilst at a frivolous, rote-learning girls' school that ... [Frances Power Cobbe] developed her determine... | Frances Power Cobbe | Thucydides | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | "... [the young Frances Power Cobbe] ... read, in what translations were ... accessible, in Eastern sacred philosophy,... | Frances Power Cobbe | Anquetil du Perron | Zend Avesta | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | "... [the young Frances Power Cobbe] ... read, in what translations were ... accessible, in Eastern sacred philosophy,... | Frances Power Cobbe | Sir William Jones | Institutes of Menu | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | "... [the young Frances Power Cobbe] ... read, in what translations were ... accessible, in Eastern sacred philosophy,... | Frances Power Cobbe | Diogenes Laertius | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | "... [the young Frances Power Cobbe] ... read, in what translations were ... accessible, in Eastern sacred philosophy,... | Frances Power Cobbe | | translated ancient philosophical texts | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | "... [the young Frances Power Cobbe] ... read, in what translations were ... accessible, in Eastern sacred philosophy,... | Frances Power Cobbe | | Biographical Dictionary | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | "Deist" and "heathen" authors studied by the young Frances Power Cobbe: "Gibbon, Hume, Tindal, Collins, and Voltaire .... | Frances Power Cobbe | Edward Gibbon | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | "Deist" and "heathen" authors studied by the young Frances Power Cobbe: "Gibbon, Hume, Tindal, Collins, and Voltaire .... | Frances Power Cobbe | David Hume | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | "Deist" and "heathen" authors studied by the young Frances Power Cobbe: "Gibbon, Hume, Tindal, Collins, and Voltaire .... | Frances Power Cobbe | Tindal | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | "Deist" and "heathen" authors studied by the young Frances Power Cobbe: "Gibbon, Hume, Tindal, Collins, and Voltaire .... | Frances Power Cobbe | Collins | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | "Deist" and "heathen" authors studied by the young Frances Power Cobbe: "Gibbon, Hume, Tindal, Collins, and Voltaire .... | Frances Power Cobbe | Voltaire | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | "Deist" and "heathen" authors studied by the young Frances Power Cobbe: "Gibbon, Hume, Tindal, Collins, and Voltaire .... | Frances Power Cobbe | Marcus Aurelius | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | "Deist" and "heathen" authors studied by the young Frances Power Cobbe: "Gibbon, Hume, Tindal, Collins, and Voltaire .... | Frances Power Cobbe | Seneca | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | "Deist" and "heathen" authors studied by the young Frances Power Cobbe: "Gibbon, Hume, Tindal, Collins, and Voltaire .... | Frances Power Cobbe | Epictetus | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | "Deist" and "heathen" authors studied by the young Frances Power Cobbe: "Gibbon, Hume, Tindal, Collins, and Voltaire .... | Frances Power Cobbe | Plutarch | Moralia | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | "Deist" and "heathen" authors studied by the young Frances Power Cobbe: "Gibbon, Hume, Tindal, Collins, and Voltaire .... | Frances Power Cobbe | Xenophon | Memorabilia | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | "Deist" and "heathen" authors studied by the young Frances Power Cobbe: "Gibbon, Hume, Tindal, Collins, and Voltaire .... | Frances Power Cobbe | Plato | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | "... by August [1840] ... [Anne Jemima Clough admits in journal] doing 'one bad thing' (which turns out to be reading ... | Anne Jemima Clough | George Gordon Lord Byron | The Corsair | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Early reading of Joan Evans noted as having included Salomon Reinach, Orpheus: A History of Religions; Jane Harrison, ... | Joan Evans | Salomon Reinach | Orpheus:A History of Religions | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Early reading of Joan Evans noted as having included Salomon Reinach, Orpheus: A History of Religions; Jane Harrison, ... | Joan Evans | Jane Harrison | Prolegomena to the Study of Greek Religion | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Early reading of Joan Evans noted as having included Salomon Reinach, Orpheus: A History of Religions; Jane Harrison, ... | Joan Evans | Farnell | Cults of the Greek States | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Early reading of Joan Evans noted as having included Salomon Reinach, Orpheus: A History of Religions; Jane Harrison, ... | Joan Evans | Sir James George Frazer | The Golden Bough | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 | "Rocking her brother in his cradle ... [Marianne Farningham] was reading from the Sailor's Magazine and came across 't... | Marianne Farningham | | poem on family Bible | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 | "Rocking her brother in his cradle ... [Marianne Farningham] was reading from the Sailor's Magazine and came across 't... | Marianne Farningham | Felicia Hemans | The Better Land | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 | "... [Marianne Farningham's autobiography] records her childhood disappointment, when reading the Sunday School Union'... | Marianne Farningham | | Sunday School Union magazines | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 | "The popular religious poet Frances Ridley Havergal claimed 'I do not think I was eight when I hit upon Cowper's lines... | Frances Ridley Havergal | William Cowper | | Print: Unknown |
| | "Enid Starkie claimed that reading Francis Thompson's 'The Hound of Heaven' when she was ten made her feel as though s... | Enid Starkie | Francis Thompson | The Hound of Heaven | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 1900-1945 | Jane Ellen Harrison, in Reminiscences of a Student's Life (1925) 11-12: "'Until I met Aunt Glegg in the Mill on the Fl... | Jane Ellen Harrison | George Eliot | The Mill on the Floss | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 1900-1945 | "Alice Foley's father was an often drunk, sometimes violent Irish factory worker in Bolton, but when 'in sober mood, h... | anon | Charles Dickens | novels | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 1900-1945 | "Alice Foley's father was an often drunk, sometimes violent Irish factory worker in Bolton, but when 'in sober mood, h... | anon | George Eliot | novels | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | "As ... [Hannah Mitchell's] love of books became known locally: 'I made free of such libraries as the neighbours posse... | Hannah Mitchell | | theological works | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | "As ... [Hannah Mitchell's] love of books became known locally: 'I made free of such libraries as the neighbours posse... | Hannah Mitchell | | early Methodist magazines | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | "As ... [Hannah Mitchell's] love of books became known locally: 'I made free of such libraries as the neighbours posse... | Hannah Mitchell | | cookery books | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | "As ... [Hannah Mitchell's] love of books became known locally: 'I made free of such libraries as the neighbours posse... | Hannah Mitchell | | crime/horror fiction | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | "As ... [Hannah Mitchell's] love of books became known locally: 'I made free of such libraries as the neighbours posse... | Hannah Mitchell | Horace Walpole | The Castle of Otranto: A Gothic Story | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | "One windfall came [to Hannah Mitchell] from a passing walker, who asked if the family liked reading poetry. Although... | Hannah Mitchell | William Wordsworth | poems | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | "One windfall came [to Hannah Mitchell] from a passing walker, who asked if the family liked reading poetry. Although... | Hannah Mitchell | | local newspaper (including verse) | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | While in service Hannah Mitchell read books borrowed from subscription library; "This reading was supplemented by book... | Hannah Mitchell | | library books | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | While in service Hannah Mitchell read books borrowed from subscription library; "This reading was supplemented by book... | Hannah Mitchell | | bookstall stock | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | "'At a critical juncture', as she put it [in her autobiography] ... [Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence] read a novel which app... | Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence | Walter Besant | Children of Gibeon | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | " ... it was reading a Life of Mazzini, with its description of how he founded the 'Young Italy' Society, in which eac... | Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence | | Life of Mazzini | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | "Before she came into contact with Suffragism ... [Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence] felt her political outlook ... had been ... | Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence | William Morris | poetry | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | "Before she came into contact with Suffragism ... [Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence] felt her political outlook ... had been ... | Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence | Carpenter | poetry | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | "Before she came into contact with Suffragism ... [Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence] felt her political outlook ... had been ... | Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence | Walt Whitman | poetry | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 1900-1945 | "Annabel Huth Jackson ... [became] a 'convinced feminist' after reading an article on the white slave trade in th War ... | Annabel Huth Jackson | | The War Cry | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 1900-1945 | "Mary Brown ... wrote in her Memories that
"'I asked a Lancashire working woman what she thought of Story of an Afri... | anon | Olive Schreiner | The Story of an African Farm | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Murray (of the Hand-Books) has lately put forward a work which I have found very full of
entertaining reading: a co... | Henry James | | [a guidebook to the areas round London] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | "Emmeline Pankhurst (b. 1858) emphasized the value of her childhood reading in forming her guiding principles. Uncle ... | Emmeline Pankhurst | Harriet Beecher Stowe | Uncle Tom's Cabin | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | "Emmeline Pankhurst (b. 1858) emphasized the value of her childhood reading in forming her guiding principles. Uncle ... | Emmeline Pankhurst | John Bunyan | Pilgrim's Progress | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | "Emmeline Pankhurst (b. 1858) emphasized the value of her childhood reading in forming her guiding principles. Uncle ... | Emmeline Pankhurst | | The Holy War | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | "Emmeline Pankhurst (b. 1858) emphasized the value of her childhood reading in forming her guiding principles. Uncle ... | Emmeline Pankhurst | Homer | The Odyssey | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | "Emmeline Pankhurst (b. 1858) emphasized the value of her childhood reading in forming her guiding principles. Uncle ... | Emmeline Pankhurst | Thomas Carlyle | The French Revolution | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | "Emmeline Pankhurst (b. 1858) emphasized the value of her childhood reading in forming her guiding principles. Uncle ... | Emmeline Pankhurst | | newspapers | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 1900-1945 | " ... from feminist literature proper ... [the Viscountess Rhondda] was led into other disciplines, reading widely in ... | Viscountess Rhondda | | feminist writings | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 1900-1945 | " ... from feminist literature proper ... [the Viscountess Rhondda] was led into other disciplines, reading widely in ... | Viscountess Rhondda | | works on political science | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 1900-1945 | " ... from feminist literature proper ... [the Viscountess Rhondda] was led into other disciplines, reading widely in ... | Viscountess Rhondda | | works on economics | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 1900-1945 | " ... from feminist literature proper ... [the Viscountess Rhondda] was led into other disciplines, reading widely in ... | Viscountess Rhondda | | works on psychology | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 1900-1945 | " ... from feminist literature proper ... [the Viscountess Rhondda] was led into other disciplines, reading widely in ... | Viscountess Rhondda | | works in anthropology | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 1900-1945 | ' ... [The Viscountess Rhondda] recounts the difficulty she had in acquiring ... Havelock Ellis's Psychology of Sex: e... | Viscountess Rhondda | Havelock Ellis | The Psychology of Sex | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | "Florence Spong recounted in August 1909: 'As to breaking my [prison] cell window, I told them I only followed the adv... | Florence Spong | | A Healthy Home, and How to Keep It | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | "In Holloway ... ['General' Drummond] read Jane Porter's The Scottish Chiefs and Samuel Smiles's Life and Labour." | General Drummond | Jane Porter | The Scottish Chiefs | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | "In Holloway ... ['General' Drummond] read Jane Porter's The Scottish Chiefs and Samuel Smiles's Life and Labour." | General Drummond | Samuel Smiles | LIfe and Labour | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | "Whilst the Viscountess Rhondda had taken with her [to prison, where sent as suffragettte] Morley's Life of Gladstone ... | Viscountess Rhondda | Edna Lyall | novels | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | "Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence wrote of having read Shakespeare's history plays whilst in prison [as suffragette] ..." | Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence | William Shakespeare | History plays | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | "Doctor Gregory's Book was published at Edin [r] just two Days before I left that Place...I read it, tho butin the hur... | Henry Mackenzie | Dr John Gregory | A Father's Legacy to his Daughters | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'V.S. Pritchett's "popular educator" was the literary section of the Christian Science Monitor: "It was imbued with th... | Victor Sawdon Pritchett | n/a | Christian Science Monitor | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | 'Growing up in a family that read newspapers only for sport and scandal, Vernon Scannell knew all the great prize figh... | Vernon Scannell | Siegfried Sassoon | [war poems] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Growing up in a family that read newspapers only for sport and scandal, Vernon Scannell knew all the great prize figh... | Vernon Scannell | Wilfred Owen | [war poems] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Growing up in a family that read newspapers only for sport and scandal, Vernon Scannell knew all the great prize figh... | Vernon Scannell | Ernest Hemingway | A Farewell to Arms | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Growing up in a family that read newspapers only for sport and scandal, Vernon Scannell knew all the great prize figh... | Vernon Scannell | Robert Graves | Goodbye to All That | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Growing up in a family that read newspapers only for sport and scandal, Vernon Scannell knew all the great prize figh... | Vernon Scannell | Edmund Blunden | Undertones of War | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | One little book that my father had given me the last time he was at home, was for a long time afterwards my inseparabl... | Ellen Weeton | | ['A storybook'] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | The only gratification I ever sought was to be permitted to sit quietly in my brother's room, with a book. That room w... | Ellen Weeton | | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 1800-1849 | Religion is such a consolation to a drooping spirit,that I could wish thou wouldest seek for comfort and cheerfulness ... | Ellen Weeton | | ['Psalms'] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 1800-1849 | [review of the novel. Noted but not reproduced by the editor] | Ellen Weeton | Anne Louise Stael-Holstein | Corinna, or Italy | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 1800-1849 | Books lately read: A Journal of a tour to the Hebrides with Dr Johnson, by James Boswell, Esq. J. Boswell does appear... | Ellen Weeton | James Boswell | The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides with Samuel | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 1800-1849 | I have to attend to the direction of the House, the table &c, as well as literary studies; to assist in entertaining c... | Ellen Weeton | | [books on carving] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 1800-1849 | Miss R. staid 2 or 3 days withme; the rest of the time I was entirely alone, spending the time chiefly in reading and ... | Ellen Weeton | | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 1800-1849 | 'Books lately read' Lord Chesterfield's Letters to his son, 4 vols. It has been said of these letters... The first an... | Ellen Weeton | Philip Dormer Stanhope | Letters written by the Late Right Honourable Phili | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 1800-1849 | [Has spent week repairing her brother's clothes] The week after that was as much occupied in copying some songs and th... | Ellen Weeton | | [songs and music] | Unknown |
| 1700-1799 1800-1849 | When I begin to enumerate the works I have read since I came to Dove's-Nest, I feel surprised that I should have read ... | Ellen Weeton | | [novels] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 1800-1849 | A Satyrical View of London, by J. Corry. 1 vol. The above vol. is a tolerable production; it treats principally of fa... | Ellen Weeton | John Corry | A Satirical View of London at the Commencement of | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 1800-1849 | Windermere: A Novel in 2 vols This is below Mediocrity; the title [title is underlined]induced me to read it; and with... | Ellen Weeton | By the Editor of the Letters of Maria | Windermere. A Novel | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 1800-1849 | Letters on Mythology Addressed to a Lady by R. Morgan, 1 vol. A humourous and entertaining production, written in a li... | Ellen Weeton | R Morgan | Letters on Mythology | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 1800-1849 | Lessons of a Governess to her Pupils by Madame de Silery- Brulart (formerly Countess de Genlis) 3 vols. For further re... | Ellen Weeton | Stephanie de Genlis Brulart | Lessons of a Governess to Her Pupils | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 1800-1849 | Lake of Killarney, by A.M. Porter. 3 vols. Rose de Blaguere, a foundling, is the heroine of the tale. Mr Clermont the... | Ellen Weeton | Anna Maria Porter | Lake of Killarney | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 1800-1849 | The Cottagers of Glenburnie. 1 vol. by Miss Hamilton. A little tale tending to shew the folly of adhering to old custo... | Ellen Weeton | Miss Elizabeth Hamilton | The Cottagers of Glenburnie: A Tale for the Farmer | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 1800-1849 | The Mysterious Gentleman Farmer. 3 vols. by J.Cory [sic] There is nothing in this novel, or in the author's Satyrical ... | Ellen Weeton | John Corry | The Mysterious Gentleman Farmer | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 1800-1849 | An Essay on Old Maids. 3 vols. Has my approbation, although, or because, I am an Old Maid. What is the public opinion... | Ellen Weeton | W Hayley | A Philosophical, Historical and Moral Essay on Old Maids | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 1800-1849 | I read very seldom indeed having in the first place but very little time for it... and in the second place, Mr & Mrs A... | Ellen Weeton | David Brewster | The Edinburgh Encyclopaedia, Conducted by D. Brews | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Barber John Paton remembered that the "Boys' Friend" "ran a serial which was an enormously exciting tale of Alba's op... | John Paton | n/a | Boys' Friend | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'Barber John Paton remembered that the "Boys' Friend" "ran a serial which was an enormously exciting tale of Alba's op... | John Paton | John Lothrop Motley | The Rise of the Dutch Republic | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Barber John Paton remembered that the "Boys' Friend" "ran a serial which was an enormously exciting tale of Alba's op... | John Paton | John Richard Green | [history] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Barber John Paton remembered that the "Boys' Friend" "ran a serial which was an enormously exciting tale of Alba's op... | John Paton | Thomas Babington Macaulay | [probably The History of England from the Accession of James II] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Barber John Paton remembered that the "Boys' Friend" "ran a serial which was an enormously exciting tale of Alba's op... | John Paton | William Hickling Prescott | [Spanish history] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Barber John Paton remembered that the "Boys' Friend" "ran a serial which was an enormously exciting tale of Alba's op... | John Paton | Christian Matthias Theodor Mommsen | History of Rome | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Lancashire millworker Ben Brierley read penny fairy tales and horror stories as a boy, but they did not contribute to... | Ben Brierley | | [penny horror stories] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Lancashire millworker Ben Brierley read penny fairy tales and horror stories as a boy, but they did not contribute to... | Ben Brierley | | [penny fairy stories] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Lancashire millworker Ben Brierley read penny fairy tales and horror stories as a boy, but they did not contribute to... | Ben Brierley | Robert Burns | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Lancashire millworker Ben Brierley read penny fairy tales and horror stories as a boy, but they did not contribute to... | Ben Brierley | George Gordon, Lord Byron | | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Edwin Whitlock faced...[reading] shortages. A farmer on the Salisbury Downs, he had plenty of time to read while shep... | Edwin Whitlock | n/a | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Edwin Whitlock faced...[reading] shortages. A farmer on the Salisbury Downs, he had plenty of time to read while shep... | Edwin Whitlock | [unknown] | [Sunday School prize books] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Edwin Whitlock faced...[reading] shortages. A farmer on the Salisbury Downs, he had plenty of time to read while shep... | Edwin Whitlock | n/a | POst Office Directory, 1867 | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | '[Edwin] Whitlock... borrowed books from a schoolmaster and from neighbours: "Most of them would now be considered ver... | Edwin Whitlock | Charles Dickens | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | '[Edwin] Whitlock... borrowed books from a schoolmaster and from neighbours: "Most of them would now be considered ver... | Edwin Whitlock | Walter Scott | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | '[Edwin] Whitlock... borrowed books from a schoolmaster and from neighbours: "Most of them would now be considered ver... | Edwin Whitlock | Edward George, Earl Bulwer Lytton | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | '[Edwin] Whitlock... borrowed books from a schoolmaster and from neighbours: "Most of them would now be considered ver... | Edwin Whitlock | Ellen Wood | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | '[Edwin] Whitlock... borrowed books from a schoolmaster and from neighbours: "Most of them would now be considered ver... | Edwin Whitlock | John Bunyan | Pilgrim's Progress | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | '[Edwin] Whitlock... borrowed books from a schoolmaster and from neighbours: "Most of them would now be considered ver... | Edwin Whitlock | [anon] | The Holy War | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | '[Edwin] Whitlock... borrowed books from a schoolmaster and from neighbours: "Most of them would now be considered ver... | Edwin Whitlock | Harriet Beecher Stowe | Uncle Tom's Cabin | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | '[Edwin] Whitlock... borrowed books from a schoolmaster and from neighbours: "Most of them would now be considered ver... | Edwin Whitlock | [unknown] | [religious magazines] | Print: Book, Serial / periodical, but bound into volumes |
| 1850-1899 | '[Edwin] Whitlock... borrowed books from a schoolmaster and from neighbours: "Most of them would now be considered ver... | Edwin Whitlock | anon | The Adventures of a Penny | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | '[Edwin] Whitlock... borrowed books from a schoolmaster and from neighbours: "Most of them would now be considered ver... | Edwin Whitlock | anon | Cassell's History of England | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Scott probably knew de Stael, he was certainly acquainted with her work, friends, lifestyle etc. Here is a brief excer... | John Scott | Anne-Louise-Germaine de Stael | Considerations sur les Principaux Evenements de la | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'We think he is mistaken in every respect. His work does not teach the human heart, but insults it...His precepts are ... | John Scott | Percy Bysshe Shelley | The Cenci | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | I am glad you like The Black Veil. I think that the title is a good one, because it is uncommon, and does not impair t... | John Macrone | Charles Dickens | The Black Veil | Print: Unknown |
| 1450-1499 | Susan Schibanoff, "Taking the Gold out of Egypt: The Art of Reading as a Woman": "In 1473, Anthony Woodville, Earl Riv... | Anthony Woodville Earl Rivers | | Liber Philosophorum Moralium Antiquorum | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Segel, in "'As the Twig is Bent ...': Gender and Childhood Reading," notes that Mary Ann Evans began reading... | Mary Ann Evans | Walter Scott | | Print: Book |
| | Elizabeth Segel, in "'As the Twig is Bent ...': Gender and Childhood Reading": "[Melvyn Bragg] became 'hooked' on Alco... | Melvyn Bragg | Louisa May Alcott | Jo's Boys | Print: Book |
| | Elizabeth Segel, in "'As the Twig is Bent ...': Gender and Childhood Reading": "[Melvyn Bragg] became 'hooked' on Alco... | Melvyn Bragg | Louisa May Alcott | Little Women | Print: Book |
| | David Bleich, "Gender Interests in Reading and Language": "I first 'understood' Wordsworth when I heard his poetry rea... | Jonathan Wordsworth | William Wordsworth | poetry | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Marginal comments throughout the text, generally of the format of a key word within the text being indicated with a cr... | John Drummond Erskine | Adam Dickson | An essay on the causes of the present high price of provisions, as connected with the luxury, currency, taxes, and national debt | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 | Elizabeth Segel, "As the Twig is Bent: Gender and Childhood Reading": "When Lucy Lyttelton's grandmother began reading... | anon | George Eiiot | Adam Bede | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 1900-1945 | " ... a young compositor encounters Macaulay for the first time:
"'Bernard Shaw tells me how he could get more intox... | anon | Thomas Babington Macaulay | History of England | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 1800-1849 | "Anthony Errington, a Tyneside wagonway wright, sat down in 1823 to write out his life history ... After brief account... | Anthony Errington | | | Print: tombstone epitaphs |
| 1700-1799 1800-1849 | "Alexander Somerville, a young farm-worker growing up in the Lammermuir Hills, made his first great journeys without l... | Alexander Somerville | Anson | Voyage Round the World | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 1800-1849 | "After a morning's work ... [Alexander Somerville] recalled,
"'I remained in the fields, and lay on the grass under t... | Alexander Somerville | | | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 1800-1849 | "After a morning's work ... [Alexander Somerville] recalled,
"'I remained in the fields, and lay on the grass under t... | Alexander Somerville | | | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 1800-1849 | "After a morning's work ... [Alexander Somerville] recalled,
"'I remained in the fields, and lay on the grass under t... | Alexander Somerville | | | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 1800-1849 | "John Clare listed the material which he encountered as he learnt his letters in his Northamptonshire parish as the ni... | John Clare | | Cinderella | Print: Unknown, "Sixpenny Romance" |
| 1700-1799 1800-1849 | "John Clare listed the material which he encountered as he learnt his letters in his Northamptonshire parish as the ni... | John Clare | | Little Red Riding Hood | Print: Unknown, "Sixpenny Romance" |
| 1700-1799 1800-1849 | "John Clare listed the material which he encountered as he learnt his letters in his Northamptonshire parish as the ni... | John Clare | | Jack and the Beanstalk | Print: Unknown, "Sixpenny Romance" |
| 1700-1799 1800-1849 | "John Clare listed the material which he encountered as he learnt his letters in his Northamptonshire parish as the ni... | John Clare | | Zig Zag | Print: Unknown, "Sixpenny Romance" |
| 1700-1799 1800-1849 | "John Clare listed the material which he encountered as he learnt his letters in his Northamptonshire parish as the ni... | John Clare | | Prince Cherry | Print: Unknown, "Sixpenny Romance" |
| 1800-1849 | 'A customer of Old Willy's in the Leather and nail line, telling us he had heard Cobbett's register read lately, where... | [A customer of Old Willy's in the Leather and nail line] anon | William Cobbett | Political Register | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'At church twice today as usual; the Parson at his work amongst the children, armed with a huge octavo which he called... | 'The Parson' | Thomas Secker | Lectures on the Catechism of the Church of England | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'The following written by Dr Worthington appeared in the Morning Chronicle. Epistle from Tom Cribb to Big Ben concerni... | Benjamin Newton | n/a | The Morning Chronicle | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | 'Binda gave us a satirical character of the Duke of Wellington said to be written by B.Constant 'un heros froid et med... | Benjamin Newton | John Hobhouse | The substance of some letters | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Binda gave us a satirical character of the Duke of wellington said to be written by B.Constant "un heros froid et med... | Benjamin Newton | anon | Letters written by an eminent persons in the seventeenth century | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Drove out to Ledbury with Commeline, Ann, C, and M.N Junior [...]Having read Kitt's [NB Kett's] Flowers of Wit I pron... | Benjamin Newton | Henry Kett | The flowers of wit, or a choice collection of bon | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Shuckfords Connections, Galt's Life of West. The former is a work of a man of great learning and little judgement.' | Benjamin Newton | Samuel Shuckford | The sacred and profane history of the world | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read [...] Galt's Life of West [...]is recorded one of the noblest instances of religious userality in a Quaker that ... | Benjamin Newton | Galt | [Life of West] the life and studies of Benjamin West | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Very much struck at the unpreachable style of Clarke on the attributes, his logical and metaphysical views, his answe... | Benjamin Newton | Samuel Clarke | A demonstration of the being and attributes of God | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'In the review of Tweddell's Remains where it is said that out of religious motives he refrained from animal food.' | Benjamin Newton | John Tweddell | Edinburgh Review | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'The poorest review of any book that I have yet met in the Edinburgh is that of Goethe.' | Benjamin Newton | n/a | Edinburgh Review | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Wilkins and Visconti on the Elgin marbles. Wilkins' assertions that Visconti does not think the relievos on the ... | Rev. Benjamin Newton | Ennio Visconti | A letter from the chevalier Antonio Canova | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read bishop of Gloucester's Charge which I think excellent for its devotion, its liberality, its style and manner and... | Rev. Benjamin Newton | Henry Ryder | A charge delivered to the clergy of the Diocese | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Bingley's useful knowledge, Jocular Tenures, Pyle, much interrupted by Justice business'. | Rev. Benjamin Newton | William Bingley | Useful knowledge or a familiar and explanatory account | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'An account in the papers of Mrs W. Long being married to Rich the Rope dancer, old Billy Long was a fine contrast to ... | Benjamin Newton | n/a | [newspapers?] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Bingley's Useful Knowledge, Jocular Tenures, Pyle, much interrupted by Justice business'. | Benjamin Newton | Thomas Pyle | [sermons?] | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'Went hunting [...] saw Mr Claridge's advertisement for the sale of 11, 695 trees of which 5241 were oaks.' | Benjamin Newton | n/a | [advertisement] | Print: Advertisement |
| 1800-1849 | 'Saw today in the paper that Philip's Norton was given to Mr Warner'. | Benjamin Newton | n/a | [Local newspaper] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Kidd's Geological Essay and an account of 10 years residence in Tripoli. Kidd's a very bad embarresed [sic] styl... | Benjamin Newton | John Kidd | A Geological essay on the Imperfect Evidence | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I read Wood's Isle of Man because I knew nothing of it and he has said little from there being very little to say'. | Benjamin Newton | George Woods | An account of the past and present state of the Isle of Man | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Dallaway on sculpture is very slovenly from the little pains he takes to be clear. It is very difficult to know what ... | Benjamin Newton | James Dallaway | Of Statuary and Sculpture among the Antients | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Warden's account of Buonuparte [sic]. Whether or not W wrote this account with a view to influence his readers i... | Benjamin Newton | William Warden | Letters written on board [...]in which the conduct | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | "According to one contemporary anecdote, when a would-be lover borrowed from the Arcadia to woo a lady, she immediatel... | anon | Sir Philip Sidney | The Countess of Pembroke's Arcadia | Unknown |
| 1500-1599 1600-1699 | " ... [Sir John] Suckling, coming across what he called 'an imperfect Copy' of [Shakespeare's The Rape of] Lucrece, de... | Sir John Suckling | William Shakespeare | The Rape of Lucrece | Unknown |
| 1600-1699 | "Henry Wotton recalled coming across Milton's A Mask Presented at Ludlow Castle 'in the very close of the late R's Poe... | Henry Wotton | R | Poems | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | "Henry Wotton recalled coming across Milton's A Mask Presented at Ludlow Castle 'in the very close of the late R's Poe... | Henry Wotton | John Milton | A Mask Presented at Ludlow Castle | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | "One of the copies [of Paradise Regain'd ... Samson Agonistes] I examined at the British Library, London (shelfmark C1... | anon | John Milton | Paradise Regain'd/Samson Agonistes | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Stephen Gill, "Copyright and the Publishing of Wordsworth, 1850-1900": "Many eminent Victorians -- George Eliot, Mill,... | John Stuart Mill | William Wordsworth | poetry | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Stephen Gill, "Copyright and the Publishing of Wordsworth, 1850-1900": "Many eminent Victorians -- George Eliot, Mill,... | John Ruskin | William Wordsworth | poetry | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Catherine A. Judd, "Male Pseudonyms and Female Authority in Victorian England": "In 1877 [Mary Ann] Evans wrote to her... | Mary Ann Evans | Mary Finlay Cross | story | Unknown |
| 1500-1599 1600-1699 | " ... [John] Donne describes his 'poor Library, where to cast mine eye upon good Authors kindles or refreshes sometime... | John Donne | | various texts | Unknown |
| 1850-1899 1900-1945 | 'There was a lending library in town, but with no education or guidance in English literature, [Edwin Muir] wasted val... | Edwin Muir | | [study of David Hume] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 1900-1945 | 'There was a lending library in town, but with no education or guidance in English literature, [Edwin Muir] wasted val... | Edwin Muir | Christopher Marlowe | | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 1900-1945 | 'There was a lending library in town, but with no education or guidance in English literature, [Edwin Muir] wasted val... | Edwin Muir | George Crabbe | | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 1900-1945 | '[Neville] Cardus read only boys' papers until quite suddenly, in adolescence, he dove into Dickens and Mark Twain. "T... | Neville Cardus | n/a | [boys' papers] | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | '[Neville] Cardus read only boys' papers until quite suddenly, in adolescence, he dove into Dickens and Mark Twain. "T... | Neville Cardus | Charles Dickens | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '[Neville] Cardus read only boys' papers until quite suddenly, in adolescence, he dove into Dickens and Mark Twain. "T... | Neville Cardus | Mark Twain | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '[Neville] Cardus read only boys' papers until quite suddenly, in adolescence, he dove into Dickens and Mark Twain. "T... | Neville Cardus | Henry Fielding | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '[Neville] Cardus read only boys' papers until quite suddenly, in adolescence, he dove into Dickens and Mark Twain. "T... | Neville Cardus | Robert Browning | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '[Neville] Cardus read only boys' papers until quite suddenly, in adolescence, he dove into Dickens and Mark Twain. "T... | Neville Cardus | Thomas Hardy | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '[Neville] Cardus read only boys' papers until quite suddenly, in adolescence, he dove into Dickens and Mark Twain. "T... | Neville Cardus | Leo Tolstoy | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '[Neville] Cardus read only boys' papers until quite suddenly, in adolescence, he dove into Dickens and Mark Twain. "T... | Neville Cardus | Henry James | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Charlie Chaplin was a classic autodidact, always struggling to make up for a dismally inadequate education, groping h... | Charles Spencer Chaplin | [n/a] | [a Latin-English Dictionary] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Wood's account of the Isle of Man details some laws for the regulation of servants [...] which prevailed till 1777, s... | Benjamin Newton | George Woods | An account of the past and present state of the Isle of Man | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Charlie Chaplin was a classic autodidact, always struggling to make up for a dismally inadequate education, groping h... | Charles Spencer Chaplin | Robert Ingersoll | [speeches on agnosticism] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Lord Chesterfield's letters to his gidson in which I see nothing to admire but the gentle-manly style, but his l... | Benjamin Newton | Philip Dorner Stanhope, Lord Chesterfield | Lord Chesterfield's letters to his son | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Charlie Chaplin was a classic autodidact, always struggling to make up for a dismally inadequate education, groping h... | Charles Spencer Chaplin | Ralph Waldo Emerson | Self Reliance | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Charlie Chaplin was a classic autodidact, always struggling to make up for a dismally inadequate education, groping h... | Charles Spencer Chaplin | Washington Irving | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | '[Attended] the Agricultural Committee in Ripon. Read Clarke, the first volume, and Burder's Illustration of Scripture... | Benjamin Newton | Samuel Clarke | A demonstration of the being attributes of God | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Charlie Chaplin was a classic autodidact, always struggling to make up for a dismally inadequate education, groping h... | Charles Spencer Chaplin | Nathaniel Hawthorne | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Finished second volume of Burder. Began Gibbon's account of his own life.' | Benjamin Newton | Samuel Burder | Oriental Customs:or an illustration of the sacred | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Charlie Chaplin was a classic autodidact, always struggling to make up for a dismally inadequate education, groping h... | Charles Spencer Chaplin | Edgar Allan Poe | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Charlie Chaplin was a classic autodidact, always struggling to make up for a dismally inadequate education, groping h... | Charles Spencer Chaplin | Walt Whitman | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Charlie Chaplin was a classic autodidact, always struggling to make up for a dismally inadequate education, groping h... | Charles Spencer Chaplin | Mark Twain | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Charlie Chaplin was a classic autodidact, always struggling to make up for a dismally inadequate education, groping h... | Charles Spencer Chaplin | William Hazlitt | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Account in paper of persons sent to tower for high treason.' | Benjamin Newton | n/a | [newspaper] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | 'Charlie Chaplin was a classic autodidact, always struggling to make up for a dismally inadequate education, groping h... | Charles Spencer Chaplin | Plutarch | Lives | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Charlie Chaplin was a classic autodidact, always struggling to make up for a dismally inadequate education, groping h... | Charles Spencer Chaplin | Plato | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Charlie Chaplin was a classic autodidact, always struggling to make up for a dismally inadequate education, groping h... | Charles Spencer Chaplin | John Locke | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Charlie Chaplin was a classic autodidact, always struggling to make up for a dismally inadequate education, groping h... | Charles Spencer Chaplin | Immanuel Kant | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Charlie Chaplin was a classic autodidact, always struggling to make up for a dismally inadequate education, groping h... | Charles Spencer Chaplin | Sigmund Freud | Psychoneurosis | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read the report of the secret committee setting forth the treasonable attempts to overthrow the government and divide... | Benjamin Newton | n/a | [newspaper] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | '[Attended] the Agricultural Committee in Ripon. Read Clarke, the first volume, and Burders Illustration of Scripture,... | Benjamin Newton | Samuel Burder | Oriental Customs: or an illustration of the sacred | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Began Gibbon's account of his life; I think he is but a bad biographer having given little amiability to his own char... | Benjamin Newton | Edward Gibbon | Miscellaneous works...with memoirs of his life | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have now finished the morceau so highly reccomended by my nephew, the account of Gibbon's life and writings by hims... | Benjamin Newton | Edward Gibbon | Miscellaneous works...with memoirs of his life | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'An account of a Bill having past for the suspension of the habeas Corpus Act [...] I cannot refrain from quoting from... | Benjamin Newton | Edward Gibbon | Miscellaneous works...with memoirs of his life | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'In reading Franklin's correspondence, it is impossible not to be entertained by his lively style and I think not to b... | Benjamin Newton | Benjamin Franklen | The private correspondence | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Clarke and Madame La Roche Jaqueline'. | Benjamin Newton | Samuel Clarke | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Buonaparte's Memorial to Sir Hudson Lowe, a poor performance and utterly unworthy his fallen greatness'. | Benjamin Newton | Charles Montholon | Bonaparte's memorial in a letter | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I once parodied Gray's Bard without intending the least disrespect for that fine ode.' | Benjamin Newton | Thomas Gray | The Bard: A pindaric ode | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'Ripon Ball [...] The papers full of the trial of and acquital of Hone who defended himself very ingeniously on his be... | Benjamin Newton | n/a | 'The newspapers' | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | 'Charlie Chaplin was a classic autodidact, always struggling to make up for a dismally inadequate education, groping h... | Charles Spencer Chaplin | Lafcadio Hearn | Life and Literature | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'After reading Junius identified with a living character I am pretty well satisfied that Sir P. Francis was the man.' | Benjamin Newton | John Taylor | Junius identified or the identity of Junius | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'After having read the accounts of the trial of the Glasgow Moters as managed by the Lord Advocate [...] I think a mor... | Benjamin Newton | n/a | [newspaper] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | 'Charlie Chaplin was a classic autodidact, always struggling to make up for a dismally inadequate education, groping h... | Charles Spencer Chaplin | Henri Bergson | Laughter: An Essay on the Meaning of the Comic | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Charlie Chaplin was a classic autodidact, always struggling to make up for a dismally inadequate education, groping h... | Charles Spencer Chaplin | Arthur Schopenhauer | The World as Will and Idea | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Too hoarse to do duty [at church] Read Paley's Evidences'. | Benjamin Newton | William Paley | Evidences of Christianity | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Walpole's Turkey and M'Cleod's Voyage of the Alceste to China'. | Benjamin Newton | Robert Walpole | Memoirs relating to European and Asiatic Turkey | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Bedale Club, dined - ordered M'cleod's journal of the Alceste. Dispute at club as to spelling of experience. No one ... | Benjamin Newton | | bible | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Having read Hutton's life of himself which afforded me much amusement I mean to get a book and attempt something of t... | Benjamin Newton | William Hutton | The life of William Hutton | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Walpoe's Turkey amd M'Cleod's Voyage of the Alceste to China.' | Benjamin Newton | John Macleod | Narrative of a voyage in his majesty's late ship A | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'Having lately read Chalmers Sermons on Astronomy in which he has expressed the highest admiration and respect for I. ... | Benjamin Newton | Thomas Chalmers | A series of discourses on the Christian recelation | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read M'cleod's Voyage of the Alceste, his account of the Island of Lewchew is an account of the most amiable pagans I... | Benjamin Newton | John Macleod | Voyage of the Alceste | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'Transcribed and altered a sermon of my grandfather's on the text "And if I be lifted up will draw all men to me" [...]' | Benjamin Newton | grandfather of Benjamin Newton | [sermon] | Manuscript: Sheet |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Golownins captivity in Japan, well told but he was a silly man, suspicious yet not cautious. Read Rob Roy.' | Benjamin Newton | Vasily Golovnin | Narrative of my captivity in Japan | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Golownins Captivity in Japan, well told but he was a silly man, suspicious yet not cautious. Read Rob Roy.' | Benjamin Newton | Walter Scott | Rob Roy: By the author of Waverley | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Snow and rain all day. Read Pegge on the English language, Sir J.Sinclair's Code of Agriculture, proceeded with notes... | Benjamin Newton | Samuel Pegge | Anecdotes of the English language | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Snow and rain all day. Read Pegge on the English language, Sir J. Sinclair's Code of Agriculture, proceeded with note... | Benjamin Newton | Sir John Sinclair | The Code of Agriculture | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Snow and rain all day. Read Pegge on the English language, Sir J. Sinclair's Code of Agriculture, proceeded with note... | Benjamin Newton | Bede | [The Ecclesiastical History] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Vth and VIth vol. of Clarke, admired his account of pyramids, catacombs and hatching of chickens [...]His suppos... | Benjamin Newton | Samuel Clarke | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Finished Curwen's letters, I have recorded my opinion of the style, the commonplace of the abuse of tithes pervades t... | Benjamin Newton | John Curwen | Observations on the State of Ireland | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Wrote part of a sermon from Gisborne's Natural Theology' | Benjamin Newton | Thomas Gisborne | The Testimony of Natural Theology | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have also read Gisbourne's natural theology. The design and matter of the work are excellent but it is exceedingly ... | Benjamin Newton | Thomas Gisborne | The Testimony of Natural Theology | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Began reading a Tour in Denmarkby Von Buch translated by Black with geological and mineralogical notes by Professor J... | Benjamin Newton | [Von Buch] | [a tour in Denmark] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Bedale club. Sat next to Dr Scott who told wonderful stories of the effect which Bell's Mode of Education had caused ... | Benjamin Newton | Richard Watson | Anecdotes of the life of Richard Watson [...] writ | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Armata, said to be Lord Erskine's, very unworthy of his name 'tho his politics are displayed which are pretty ne... | Benjamin Newton | [Erskine or T.E.] | Armata, a Fragment | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Another of Von Buch's Miraculous Tales. On the coast of Norway are many rocks [...] This is the nineteenth hot day wi... | Benjamin Newton | [Von Buch] | [A Tour in Denmark] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Von Buch says that it is only lately that the Holy Sacrament has been better understood by the Laplanders [...]' | Benjamin Newton | [Von Buch] | [A Tour in Denmark] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Proceeded with Denham's "Physico-Theology". Read Hurd's sermon on "Every soul shall be salted with fire", an odd mode... | Benjamin Newton | William Derham | Physio Theology or a Demonstartion of the being | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Saw the names of three old acquaintances written with a diamond on the window of our sitting room, viz, Mrs Rewe, Mrs... | Benjamin Newton | n/a | n/a | Manuscript: Graffito |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 | "To the Editors of the Attempt,
Gentlemen,
If I recollect rightly you give notice to the effect, that communication ... | anon | | The Attempt | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | "Florence Nightingale's copy of Mrs. Trimmer's New and Comprehensive Lessons, Containing a General Outline of the Roma... | Florence Nightingale | Mrs Trimmer | New and Comprehensive Lessons, Containing a General Outline of the Roman HIstory | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 1800-1849 | " ... an irritated reader of Jonathan Edwards's Dissertation Concerning Liberty and Necessity (1797) provides an epigr... | anon | Jonathan Edwards | Dissertation Concerning Liberty and Necessity | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 | " ... within a few pages [of his copy of Philip Nichols's Sir Francis Drake Revived (1626)], [John Ruskin] writes, 've... | John Ruskin | Philip Nichols | Sir Francis Drake Revived | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | H. J. Jackson notes, partially reproduces, and discusses lengthy annotations, including mock completion of title and c... | anon | Richard Watson | A Letter to His Grace the Archbishop of Canterbury | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | " ... to the coda of his copy of the Meditations of Marcus Aurelius Antoninus, 'depart, therefore, contented and in go... | James Henry Leigh Hunt | Marcus Aurelius Antoninus | Meditations | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | "The [Pierpont] Morgan [Library] copy [of Southey, A Vision of Judgement (1821)] once belonged to Byron. It contains ... | anon | William Beckford | Annotations to Robert Southey, A Vision of Judgement | Manuscript: annotations in printed text |
| 1700-1799 | H. J. Jackson describes and discusses ninth edition copy (1754) of Thomas Gray, Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard ... | General James Wolfe | Thomas Gray | Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard | |
| 1700-1799 | " ... [Alexander Pope's surviving books] allow us to be confident about his having read certain works, such as the ess... | Alexander Pope | Michel de Montaigne | essays | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | "The books in which Pope's annotations, though scanty, are undoubtedly authentic include a copy of the racy poems of t... | Alexander Pope | John Wilmot Earl of Rochester | poems | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | "Pope collected copies of attacks on his own work, and the notes in these tend understandably to the defensive, as in ... | Alexander Pope | John Dennis | pamphlet attacking Pope's poetry | |
| 1700-1799 | In his copy of John Whitaker, The History of Manchester, Francis Douce "[backed] up a sarcastic note (I: vii) about th... | Francis Douce | John Whitaker | History of Manchester | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | H. J. Jackson discusses copious annotations and commentary by unidentified, contemporary male reader in copy of Willia... | anon | William Mudford | Nubilia in Search of a Husband | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 | "An Irish nationalist annotating the autobiographical Life of Theobald Wolfe Tone, the Founder of the 'United Irishmen... | anon | | LIfe of Theobald Wolfe Tone, the Founder of the 'United Irishmen' | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 | " ... Macaulay ... did not annotate his copies of Jane Austen except to record the dates of reading and to correct a v... | Thomas Babington Macaulay | Jane Austen | novels | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Marco Polo's Travels which are amusing enough though containing a pretty large collection of absurdities [...]' | Benjamin Newton | Marco Polo | The Travels of Marco Polo | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Finished Marco Polo, a very curious book for the time in which it was written, wonderfully accurate in the account of... | Benjamin Newton | Marco Polo | The Travels of Marco Polo | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Proceeded with Denham's "Physico-Theology". Read Hurd's sermon on "Every soul shall be salted with fire", an odd mode... | Benjamin Newton | Richard Hurd | Sermons [sermons preached at Lincolns Inn] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Bad account of the Queen in today's St. James' Chronicle'. | Benjamin Newton | n/a | St. James' Chronicle | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | 'Saw a very bad account of the Queen today in the Courier at Camp Hill.' | Benjamin Newton | n/a | The Courier | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | 'Finished Derham's "Physico Theology" and read Campbell's narrative of a voyage round the world'. | Benjamin Newton | William Derham | Physico Theology: or a Demonstration of the being | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Finished Derham's "Physico Theology" and read Campbell's narrative of a Voyage round the world'. | Benjamin Newton | Archibald Campbell | A Voyage Round the World, from 1806-1812 | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read the 13th satyr of juvenal with J. Fendall as he is to be lectured on it the first term at Trinity Hall'. | Benjamin Newton | Juvenal | Satires | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Eustace's tour and think he is the best dissenter I have met with, rather prolix about churches, especially such... | Benjamin Newton | John Chetwode Eustace | A [classical] tour through Italy | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | "After waiting a considerable period for the remittance, the box was forced, and found to contain a vast quantity of b... | John Bedford Leno | Samuel Johnson | Lives of the Poets | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | "As Kingsbury and Farrell lost no opportunity of advancing their views, I was soon possessed of a tolerable knowledge ... | John Bedford Leno | Anti Corn Law League | [tracts] | |
| 1800-1849 | "As Kingsbury and Farrell lost no opportunity of advancing their views, I was soon possessed of a tolerable knowledge ... | John Bedford Leno | | The Northern Star | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | "As Kingsbury and Farrell lost no opportunity of advancing their views, I was soon possessed of a tolerable knowledge ... | John Bedford Leno | | New Moral World | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | "As Kingsbury and Farrell lost no opportunity of advancing their views, I was soon possessed of a tolerable knowledge ... | John Bedford Leno | | The Examiner | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | "It was about this period that Mike, the dwarf waiter, fell ill. His mistress and others of her family being worn out... | John Bedford Leno | Edward Young | Night Thoughts | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 | "How much a book gains by the appropriate surroundings of the person reading it, was forcibly impressed upon me [by th... | John Bedford Leno | Walter Scott | The Lady of the Lake | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 | "I found on entering Harborough the walls posted with a proclamation forbidding all meetings in favour of Chartism." | John Bedford Leno | | [proclamations forbidding Chartists' meetings] | Print: Poster |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 | "I stayed for the night in Derby, visiting its various printing offices in search of a job, but without success, and, ... | John Bedford Leno | William Wordsworth | Sonnets | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | "It so happened that a retired Scotch physician, who had settled in the town, chanced to read this notice, and, intere... | a Scotch physician | Falcon Harmonic Society | Notice of a Burns Supper | Print: Poster |
| 1800-1849 | 'Biographical notices of painters were eagerly sought at this period; but my reading, upon the whole, was rather a des... | John Cole | | European, The | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | "Biographical notices of painters were eagerly sought at this period; but my reading, upon the whole, was of rather a ... | John Cole | | [books of topography and travel] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | "Read in Robinson's 'Scripture characters' and in 'The wonders of the vegetable kingdom', which is a very instructive,... | John Cole | Robinson | Scripture Characters | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | "Read in Robinson's 'Scripture characters' and in 'The wonders of the vegetable kingdom', which is a very instructive,... | John Cole | | Wonders of the vegetable kingdom, The | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read a portion of Harvey's Theron and Aspasio...' | John Cole | James Hervey | Theron and Aspasio | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read one of Bradley's Sermons and some pieces in The Sacred Lyre.' | John Cole | Bradley | Sermons | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read one of Bradley's Sermons and some pieces in The Sacred Lyre.' | John Cole | Bradley | Sacred Lyre, The | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'These drawings were placed on the hands of Mr C J Smith, with whom I had become acquainted through an advertisement.' | John Cole | J Smith | advertisement | Print: Advertisement |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Dibdin's Bibliographical Decameron this summer, & Davis's Second Tour round a Bibliomaniac's Library.' | John Cole | Thomas Frognall Dibdin | Bibliographical Decameron | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Dibdin's Bibliographical Decameron this summer, & Davis's Second Tour round a Bibliomaniac's Library.' | John Cole | David | Second tour round a Bibliomaniac's library | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | '...he wrote a poetical piece in my album in an almost unpremeditated manner; & finding it applicable to my History of... | John Cole | | [poetry] | Manuscript: Handwritten in Album |
| 1800-1849 | 'This summer (1825) the author of 'A Journal of a naturalist', states to have been, what it certainly was, 'hot and dr... | John Cole | Williamson | A Journal of a naturalist | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'It was my practise on each Sunday of this summer to pray with him & read a sermon or portions of one to him, which ga... | John Cole | | [sermons] | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'On my return I found that the printed copy of a letter from the late Mr Hinderwell had been left at my shop.' | John Cole | | [printed letter] | Print: Sheet |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read W Trimmer's Sacred History.' | John Cole | W Trimmer | Sacred History | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | H. J. Jackson discusses annotations by John Horne Tooke in his copy of Joseph Priestley, Disquisitions Relating to Mat... | John Horne Tooke | Joseph Priestley | Disquisitions Relating to Matter and Spirit | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | H. J. Jackson notes annotations by Macaulay made in 1836 in his copy of Joseph Milner, History of the Church of Christ... | Thomas Babington Macaulay | Joseph Milner | History of the Church of Christ | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'On turning to my book, I find I have journalised only one day, during this summer vis [sic] July 29, when I walked af... | John Cole | Thomas Frognall Dibdin | Bibliographical Decameron | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'On turning to my book, I find I have journalised only one day, during this summer vis [sic] July 29, when I walked af... | John Cole | Delany | Life of King David | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'On turning to my book, I find I have journalised only one day, during this summer vis [sic] July 29, when I walked af... | John Cole | John Gay | Choir, The | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'On my return to Scarborough was busily employed in preparing for the season, & in editing the work called The Scarbor... | John Cole | Archdeacon Wranghan | Lines on the sea bathing infirmary at Scarborough | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'On my return to Scarborough was busily employed in preparing for the season, & in editing the work called The Scarbor... | John Cole | George Berrett | | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'On my return to Scarborough was busily employed in preparing for the season, & in editing the work called The Scarbor... | John Cole | Hermione Ballantyre | | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'On my return to Scarborough was busily employed in preparing for the season, & in editing the work called The Scarbor... | John Cole | Malvina [pseud.] | [poetry] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'I?m also doing a series of four-part songs for Peter & his Round-table singers to "first-perform" at the Aeolian Hall... | Benjamin Britten | Gerard Manley Hopkins | [religious poems] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Letter 202 to Ralph Hodges, Woodstock, N.Y., Aug 15 1939:
'I?ve done lots of work ? finished this small piece for Tor... | Benjamin Britten | John Keats | Hyperion | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I was delighted to hear that the performance was so good, Sophie. I hear you have never sung better and I know what t... | Benjamin Britten | | [reviews] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | 'Thank you ? thank you - & thank you for a most marvellous show. ? I am more than grateful to you for having spend so ... | Benjamin Britten | | [reviews] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | '- have you ever read a book called "1066 & all that" ?i t's very funny, & one of the authors is on board.'
| Benjamin Britten | R J Yeatman | 1066 and all that | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'One has no inclination at all to work or to read seriously ? so I?ve been dipping into an enormous range of stuff ? f... | Benjamin Britten | Alexander Sergeevich Pushkin | Boris Godonof | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | ?One has no inclination at all to work or to read seriously ? so I?ve been dipping into an enormous range of stuff ? f... | Benjamin Britten | Hans Christian Anderson | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I enjoyed the poem ? please send all the new ones ? I always carry ?madrigal? in my pocket!'
| Benjamin Britten | Wulff Scherchen | [poem] | Manuscript: Letter |
| 1900-1945 | Referring to a concert in New York where one of his pieces was performed:
'The write-ups have been marvellous ? so I ... | Benjamin Britten | | [concert review] | Print: NewspaperManuscript: Letter |
| 1900-1945 | 'I am reading lots (Benvenuto Cellini?s autobiography) ? playing lots of music - & it makes life much easier.'
| Benjamin Britten | Benvenuto Cellini | Autobiography | Print: BookManuscript: Letter |
| 1800-1849 | 'I am glad you have read Madame de Stael?s "Allemagne". The book is a foolish one in some respects; but it abounds wi... | Hannah Macaulay | Germaine de Stael | De l'Allemagne | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have likewise read "Gil Blas", with unbounded admiration of the abilities of Le Sage.' | Thomas Babington Macaulay | Le Sage | Gil Blas | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | ?Malden and I have read Thalaba together, and are proceeding to the Curse of Kehama.? | Thomas Babington Macaulay | Robert Southey | Thalaba | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have read the greater part of the History of James I and Mrs. Montagues?s essay on Shakespeare, and a great deal of... | Thomas Babington Macaulay | Elizabeth Montague | [essay on Shakespeare] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have read the greater part of the History of James I and Mrs. Montagues?s essay on Shakespeare, and a great deal of... | Thomas Babington Macaulay | unknown | History of James I | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have read the greater part of the History of James I and Mrs. Montagues?s essay on Shakespeare, and a great deal of... | Thomas Babington Macaulay | Edward Gibbon | Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'John Smith, Bob Hankinson, and I, went over the "Hebrew Melodies" together'. | Thomas Babington Macaulay | George Gordon, Lord Byron | Hebrew Melodies | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'In the year 1816 we were at Brighton for the summer holidays, and he read to us "Sir Charles Grandison". It was alwa... | Thomas Babbington Macaulay | Samuel Richardson | Sir Charles Grandison | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'He [Macaulay] was so fired up with reading Scott?s "Lay" and "Marmion", the former of which he got entirely, and the ... | Thomas Babington Macaulay | Walter Scott | Lay of the Last Minstrel | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'He [Macaulay] was so fired up with reading Scott?s "Lay" and "Marmion", the former of which he got entirely, and the ... | Thomas Babington Macaulay | Walter Scott | Marmion | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia in Macaulay's copy of Xenophon's "Anabasis"]: 'Decidedly his best work. Dec 17 1835' | Thomas Babington Macaulay | Xenophon | Anabasis | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia] 'Most certainly. February 24, 1837' | Thomas Babington Macaulay | Xenophon | Anabasis | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia] 'One of the very first works that antiquity has left us. Perfect in its kind. October 9, 1837'. | Thomas Babington Macaulay | Xenophon | Anabasis | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I read Plautus four times at Calcutta. The first in November and December 1834.
The second in January and the begin... | Thomas Babington Macaulay | Plautus | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I read Plautus four times at Calcutta. The first in November and December 1834
The second in January and the beginn... | Thomas Babington Macaulay | Plautus | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I read Plautus four times at Calcutta. The first in November and December 1834
The second in January and the beginn... | Thomas Babington Macaulay | Plautus | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'In the November before, he had said to himself as he sat reading history, "I am 46. On the decline. why fill my head ... | Arnold Bennett | | [history] | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia]: several pencil annotations (some fading to illegibility) throughout text, usually of the form of a marke... | John Drummond Erskine | Helvetius | A treatise on man, his intellectual faculties and his education. A posthumous work of M. Helvetius. Translated from the French, with additional notes, by W. Hooper | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'In a letter to Mrs Herzog he says: "Wells's new novel, Marriage, of which I have just read the proofs, contains more ... | Arnold Bennett | H. G. Wells | Marriage | Manuscript: Unknown, proofs of book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia]: two ms items: (1) A full page sketch entitled "Indian Recreations" - a play on the title? It appears to ... | John Drummond Erskine | William Tennant | Indian recreations: consisting of strictures on the domestic and rural economy of the Mahommedans and Hindoos, by the Rev. William Tennant | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '. . . reading the reviews, not even the book, of Mrs Parnell's "Life of Parnell". There was a full-page review in "T... | Arnold Bennett | | Times, The | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia]: copious marginal pencil annotations and text marks, some now fading to the point of illegibility. Conten... | John Drummond Erskine | Francis Gladwin | Dissertations on the rhetoric, prosody and rhyme of the Persians. By Francis Gladwin | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 | H. J. Jackson notes John Gibson Lockhart's annotations, including personal reminiscences in response to sections of te... | John Gibson Lockhart | James Boswell | The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 | "An unknown reader inclined to be sarcastic at Boswell's expense in a British Library copy of the 1829 edition [of the... | anon | James Boswell | The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D | Print: Book |
| | H. J. Jackson notes unknown reader's marginal contradiction of assertion of Samuel Johnson that a dog will be as likel... | anon | James Boswell | The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D | Print: Book |
| | H. J. Jackson on readers' responses in annotations to Samuel Johnson's comment that the letter H seldom begins any but... | anon | James Boswell | The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D | Print: Book |
| | H. J. Jackson on readers' responses in annotations to Samuel Johnson's comment that the letter H seldom begins any but... | anon | | Annotation in James Boswell, The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D | Manuscript: annotation in printed text |
| 1700-1799 | H. J. Jackson discusses Edmund Law's annotations to family Bible, which includes both original and copied commentary, ... | Edmund Law | | The Bible | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | H. J. Jackson discusses Queen Charlotte's responsive "extra-illustration" of text of her copy of An Apology for the Li... | Queen Charlotte | Colley Cibber | An Apology for the Life of Colley Cibber, Comedian ... with an Historical View of the Stage During his Own Time | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia]: various annotations including text marks and numbers throughout the text [the volume is unnumbered], a t... | John Drummond Erskine | Hafiz | The works of Hafez: with an account of his life and writings. | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | H. J. Jackson notes "extra illustration" ("prompted by the text") of a copy of Margaret Sandford, Thomas Poole and His... | anon | Mrs Henry Sandford | Thomas Poole and His Friends | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 1800-1849 | Thomas Dibdin, in The Bibliomania; or Book-Madness (1809), on "illustration" of printed texts, with annotations and in... | Thomas Frognall Dibdin | | Illustrated Chatterton | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '. . . reading the reviews, not even the book, of Mrs Parnell's "Life of Parnell". There was a full-page review in "T... | Arnold Bennett | | Times Literary Supplement, The | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia]: a single item, within a miscellany, is annotated "The Monody on the death of Mr. Cleveland" pp.146-151. ... | John Drummond Erskine | | Javahir at-talif fi navadir at-tasanif = The Asiatick miscellany: consisting of original productions, translations, fugitive pieces, imitations, and extracts from curious publications, Vol.2 | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 1800-1849 | H. J. Jackson discusses John Horseman's annotations to, and insertions in, his first edition copy of William Godwin, M... | John Horseman | William Godwin | Memoirs of the Author of a Vindication of the Rights of Woman | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | " ... a tourist guide to Salisbury Cathedral, published about 1800 and acquired by the British Library in 1874, contai... | anon | | guide to Salisbury Cathedral | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Rather like celibate life in Paris again. I dined at the club and read Macready's diary;. . .' | Arnold Bennett | William Charles Macready | [diary] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 | [Marginalia]: ms annotations suggest they may be reminders of items used for sermon preparation e.g. p.22 Text = "Serm... | clergyman | Henry Blunt | Sermons preached in Trinity Church, Upper Chelsea | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'When her novels were finished, she would take them up herself to Gerald Duckworth at 3, Henrietta Street, Covent Gard... | Elinor Glyn | Elinor Glyn | [novels] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | [Transcript in Journal of Chapter One, in shorthand] | John Byrom | William Wollaston | The Religion of Nature Delineated | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'I called at Squire's [...] my advertisement was not in the Daily Courant. Went into St Dunstan's Church to hear Dr Lu... | John Byrom | n/a | The Daily Courant | Print: Advertisement, Newspaper |
| 1700-1799 | 'To Richard's where I stayed all afternoon ... I met mr Graham of our college formerly, and he showed me some Verses a... | John Byrom | anon | [Verse on Lord Cateret] | Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | 'I went to the Library; read Bramhall against Hobbes' | John Byrom | John Bramhall | Castigation of Mr Hobbes [with the appendix]The Ca | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'I read a good deal of Shakespeares works. Item Ben Johnsons, & Return'd them to the library' | John Henry Ott | William Shakespereare | [various] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'I read the 2 Vol of the Tatler' | John Henry Ott | n/a | Tatler | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | 'Elinor herself spent much time reading the publications, especially Richard Ingalese's "The History and Power of Mind... | Elinor Glyn | Richard Ingalese | History and Power of Mind, The | Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'Coachman's daughter Anne Tibble was enraged by "The Waste Land", which she read as a scholarship student at a redbric... | Anne Tibble | Thomas Stearns Eliot | The Waste Land | Print: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'Coachman's daughter Anne Tibble was enraged by "The Waste Land", which she read as a scholarship student at a redbric... | Anne Tibble | John Clare | [poetry] | Print: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 1800-1849 | H. J. Jackson notes political and critical remarks added by Anna Seward to copy of William Cowper, The Task. | Anna Seward | William Cowper | The Task | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 | H. J. Jackson notes annotations in a copy of Middlemarch by a reader who, "initially repelled by the books, was gradua... | anon | George Eliot | Middlemarch | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | H. J. Jackson notes how annotations made in 1871 by Francis Palgrave in his copy of Alfred Russel Wallace, Contributio... | Francis Palgrave | Alfred Russel Wallace | Contributions to the Theory of Natural Selection | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 | H. J. Jackson notes annotations by T. B. Macaulay in T. J. Mathias, Pursuits of Literature, including "'Bah!'" "'A con... | Thomas Babington Macaulay | T. J. Mathias | Pursuits of Literature | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 1800-1849 | H. J. Jackson notes annotations (including corrections and updatings to text and notes) by Francis Hargrave in copy of... | Francis Hargrave | Edward Coke | The First Part of the Institutes of the Laws of England; or, A Commentary upon Littleton | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'W.J. Brown was introduced to literature by "Robinson Crusoe", "She", "The Last of the Mohicans", and "Around the Worl... | William John Brown | Daniel Defoe | Robinson Crusoe | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'W.J. Brown was introduced to literature by "Robinson Crusoe", "She", "The Last of the Mohicans", and "Around the Worl... | William John Brown | Henry Rider Haggard | She | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'W.J. Brown was introduced to literature by "Robinson Crusoe", "She", "The Last of the Mohicans", and "Around the Worl... | William John Brown | James Fenimore Cooper | The Last of the Mohicans | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'W.J. Brown was introduced to literature by "Robinson Crusoe", "She", "The Last of the Mohicans", and "Around the Worl... | William John Brown | Jules Verne | Around the World in Eighty Days | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'W.J. Brown was introduced to literature by "Robinson Crusoe", "She", "The Last of the Mohicans", and "Around the Worl... | William John Brown | Fyodor Dostoevsky | The Idiot | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'W.J. Brown was introduced to literature by "Robinson Crusoe", "She", "The Last of the Mohicans", and "Around the Worl... | William John Brown | Fyodor Dostoevsky | The Brothers Karamazov | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'after tea [W.J. Brown] would enjoy "five glorious hours of freedom" reading Darwin, Huxley and Tennyson's "In Memoria... | William John Brown | Charles Darwin | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'after tea [W.J. Brown] would enjoy "five glorious hours of freedom" reading Darwin, Huxley and Tennyson's "In Memoria... | William John Brown | Thomas Henry Huxley | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'after tea [W.J. Brown] would enjoy "five glorious hours of freedom" reading Darwin, Huxley and Tennyson's "In Memoria... | William John Brown | Alfred, Lord Tennyson | In Memoriam | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | "Benjamin Dockray ... acquired a copy of Godwin's Memoirs [of the Author of a Vindication of the Rights of Woman] seco... | Benjamin Dockray | William Godwin | Memoirs of the Author of A Vindication of the Rights of Woman | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | H. J. Jackson discusses copy of Paradise Lost annotated by John Keats for Mrs Dilke, in which passages highlighted and... | John Keats | John Milton | Paradise Lost | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | H. J. Jackson discusses Granville Sharp's "tenacious, rigorous, and expansive" argumentative annotations in anonymous ... | Granville Sharp | Samuel Estwick | Considerations on the Negroe Cause, Commonly So Called | |
| 1700-1799 1800-1849 | H. J. Jackson notes Edmund Ferrars's annotations to his copy of Laurence Sterne, A Sentimental Journey: "A note on the... | Edmund Ferrars | Laurence Sterne | A Sentimental Journey through France and Italy. By Mr. Yorick | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 | H. J. Jackson notes annotations made by John James Raven over period of around 40-50 years in copy of Macaulay's Lays ... | John James Raven | Thomas Babington Macaulay | Lays of Ancient Rome: with "Ivry" and "The Armada" | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | " ... Henry Shorthouse ... acquired ... [John Keble, The Christian Year] as a present fom his wife in September 1874 a... | Henry Shorthouse | John Keble | The Christian Year | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | " ... Henry Shorthouse ... acquired ... [John Keble, The Christian Year] as a present fom his wife in September 1874 a... | Henry Shorthouse | John Keble | The Christian Year | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | " ... Henry Shorthouse ... acquired ... [John Keble, The Christian Year] as a present fom his wife in September 1874 a... | Henry Shorthouse | John Keble | The Christian Year | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | H. J. Jackson notes Hester Lynch Piozzi's extensive 1819-20 annotations to The Imperial Family Bible, lent to her by i... | Hester Lynch Piozzi | | The Imperial Family Bible | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | H. J. Jackson notes Hester Lynch Piozzi's notes to Pettit's Anecdotes (borrowed from her friend Edward Mangin in 1817)... | Hester Lynch Piozzi | James Andrew Pettit | Anecdotes, &c Ancient and Modern | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | H. J. Jackson notes 1818 letter from S. T. Coleridge to Joseph Henry Green in which, "having mentioned Novalis's Heinr... | Joseph Henry Green | Novalis | Heinrich von Ofterdingen (vol 2) | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 1800-1849 | H. J. Jackson notes John Horseman's annotation (including literary quotations and cross-references) of his copy of Mar... | John Horseman | Maria Edgeworth | Letters for Literary Ladies | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Lancashire journalist Allen Clarke (b.1863), the son of a Bolton textile worker, avidly read his father's paperback e... | Allen Clarke | William Shakespeare | [works] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Lancashire journalist Allen Clarke (b.1863), the son of a Bolton textile worker, avidly read his father's paperback e... | Allen Clarke | Geoffrey Chaucer | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Lancashire journalist Allen Clarke (b.1863), the son of a Bolton textile worker, avidly read his father's paperback e... | Allen Clarke | Christopher Marlowe | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Lancashire journalist Allen Clarke (b.1863), the son of a Bolton textile worker, avidly read his father's paperback e... | Allen Clarke | Ben Jonson | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Lancashire journalist Allen Clarke (b.1863), the son of a Bolton textile worker, avidly read his father's paperback e... | Allen Clarke | John Milton | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Lancashire journalist Allen Clarke (b.1863), the son of a Bolton textile worker, avidly read his father's paperback e... | Allen Clarke | Alexander Pope | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Lancashire journalist Allen Clarke (b.1863), the son of a Bolton textile worker, avidly read his father's paperback e... | Allen Clarke | Thomas Chatterton | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Lancashire journalist Allen Clarke (b.1863), the son of a Bolton textile worker, avidly read his father's paperback e... | Allen Clarke | Oliver Goldsmith | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Lancashire journalist Allen Clarke (b.1863), the son of a Bolton textile worker, avidly read his father's paperback e... | Allen Clarke | George Gordon, Lord Byron | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Lancashire journalist Allen Clarke (b.1863), the son of a Bolton textile worker, avidly read his father's paperback e... | Allen Clarke | Percy Bysshe Shelley | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Lancashire journalist Allen Clarke (b.1863), the son of a Bolton textile worker, avidly read his father's paperback e... | Allen Clarke | Robert Burns | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Lancashire journalist Allen Clarke (b.1863), the son of a Bolton textile worker, avidly read his father's paperback e... | Allen Clarke | William Wordsworth | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Lancashire journalist Allen Clarke (b.1863), the son of a Bolton textile worker, avidly read his father's paperback e... | Allen Clarke | Leigh Hunt | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Lancashire journalist Allen Clarke (b.1863), the son of a Bolton textile worker, avidly read his father's paperback e... | Allen Clarke | John Fletcher | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Lancashire journalist Allen Clarke (b.1863), the son of a Bolton textile worker, avidly read his father's paperback e... | Allen Clarke | Francis Beaumont | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'As a ?1-a-week warehouse clerk in the early 1920s, H.E. Bates spent most of the workday with Conrad, Hardy, Wells, Be... | Herbert Ernest Bates | Thomas Hardy | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'As a ?1-a-week warehouse clerk in the early 1920s, H.E. Bates spent most of the workday with Conrad, Hardy, Wells, Be... | Herbert Ernest Bates | Joseph Conrad | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'As a ?1-a-week warehouse clerk in the early 1920s, H.E. Bates spent most of the workday with Conrad, Hardy, Wells, Be... | Herbert Ernest Bates | Herbert George Wells | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'As a ?1-a-week warehouse clerk in the early 1920s, H.E. Bates spent most of the workday with Conrad, Hardy, Wells, Be... | Herbert Ernest Bates | Arnold Bennett | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'As a ?1-a-week warehouse clerk in the early 1920s, H.E. Bates spent most of the workday with Conrad, Hardy, Wells, Be... | Herbert Ernest Bates | John Galsworthy | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'As a ?1-a-week warehouse clerk in the early 1920s, H.E. Bates spent most of the workday with Conrad, Hardy, Wells, Be... | Herbert Ernest Bates | Edith Wharton | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'As a ?1-a-week warehouse clerk in the early 1920s, H.E. Bates spent most of the workday with Conrad, Hardy, Wells, Be... | Herbert Ernest Bates | Willa Cather | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Masefield's early experience of literature came with the stories told or read to him by his nurse. The fare was what ... | John Masefield | Alfred, Lord Tennyson | The Dying Swan | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Masefield's early experience of literature came with the stories told or read to him by his nurse. The fare was what ... | John Masefield | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow | Evangeline | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Masefield's early experience of literature came with the stories told or read to him by his nurse. The fare was what ... | John Masefield | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow | Hiawatha | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Masefield obtained his first copy of Robert Louis Stevenson's "Treasure Island" on the Conway and was soon enraptured... | John Masefield | Robert Louis Stevenson | Treasure Island | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'When the seventeen-year-old seaman entered Mr Pratt's bookstore on Sixth Avenue near Greenwich Avenue, he bought his ... | John Masefield | Thomas Malory | Morte d'Arthur | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Masefield habitually purchased a book each Friday evening and read it over the weekend. Among the first purchases was... | John Masefield | Geoffrey Chaucer | The Parliament of Fowls | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Masefield habitually purchased a book each Friday evening and read it over the weekend. Among the first purchases was... | John Masefield | John Milton | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Masefield habitually purchased a book each Friday evening and read it over the weekend. Among the first purchases was... | John Masefield | Percy Bysshe Shelley | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Masefield habitually purchased a book each Friday evening and read it over the weekend. Among the first purchases was... | John Masefield | John Keats | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | H. J. Jackson notes annotations (adding"information and explanations") made to copy of Samuel Saunders, Short and Easy... | anon | Samuel Saunders | A Short and Easy Introduction to Scientific and Philosophic Botany | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | "One of the interleaved British Library copies of the 1691 edition [of Gerard Langbaine's Account of the English Drama... | John Haslemere | Gerard Langbaine | An Account of the English Dramatic Poets | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 1800-1849 | "When John Brand had a copy of his Observations on Popular Antiquities (1777) interleaved to take materials for a revi... | Francis Douce | John Brand | Observations on Popular Antiquities | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 1800-1849 | H. J. Jackson notes Francis Douce's reading and annotation of James Granger, Biographical History (1779). | Francis Douce | James Granger | Biographical History | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | H. J. Jackson notes Francis Douce's reading and annotations (which are "not generous") of copies of John Whitaker, The... | Francis Douce | John Whitaker | The Ancient Cathedral of Cornwall Historically Surveyed | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 1800-1849 | H. J. Jackson notes Francis Douce's reading and annotations (which are "not generous") of copies of John Whitaker, The... | Francis Douce | John Whitaker | The History of Manchester | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 1800-1849 | H. J. Jackson notes pencilled parodic completions by unknown (apparently male) reader of verses in The New School of L... | anon | | The New School of Love | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | "A Victorian edition of a legal classic, the Institutes of Justinian, shows signs of careful and laborious study, with... | anon | Justinian | The Institutes of Justinian; with English Introduction, Translation, and Notes, by Thomas Collett Sandars | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'He had recommended T.S. Eliot to the War Office in 1918, and continued to praise his poetry and his periodical, the "... | Arnold Bennett | T. S. Eliot | Criterion, The | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | 'He read "The Lost Girl" at the end of November just when he was himself most deeply engaged in trivia, and immediatel... | Arnold Bennett | D.H. Lawrence | Lost Girl, The | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The conception of this particular novel ["Riceyman Steps"] was probably sparked off by the discovery, in an old South... | Arnold Bennett | F. Sommer Merryweather | Lives and Anecdotes of Misers | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '...he read widely about working-class life in the district.' | Arnold Bennett | unknown | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Intellectually, he seems to have been most concerned with the affairs of Middleton Murry's new periodical, the "Adelp... | Arnold Bennett | Mioddleton Murry | Adelphi, The | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | 'While she was on board the yacht in August, the proofs of "Riceyman Steps" arrived; She read them tucked up under rug... | Pauline Smith | Arnold Bennett | Riceyman Steps | Print: Book, proofs |
| 1700-1799 | 'She was "surprised into tears" by "The Vicar of Wakefield", although she did not much like it.' | Frances Burney | Oliver Goldsmith | The Vicar of Wakefield | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | '[Mary Wortley] Montagu's Letters and accounts of the sexual freedom of Tahitian women were popular: Elizabeth Montagu... | Anna Seward | Mary Wortley Montagu | Letters | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Anne Grant loved books, but felt guilty about literary pleasure: she enjoyed Byron's poems but worried about their mo... | Anne Grant [nee MacVicar] | George Gordon, Lord Byron | [poems] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Anne Grant loved books, but felt guilty about literary pleasure: she enjoyed Byron's poems but worried about their mo... | Anne Grant [nee MacVicar] | Peter Pindar | [unknown] | Print: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | 'But my dear, what a book! I am ashamed of it! I have read it right through and because I would not conceal from you t... | Frances Boscawen | Denis Diderot | Les bijous indiscrets | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'the young Burney's paranoia about being detected in classical learning. When in 1769 she read Thucydides, she emphasi... | Frances Burney | Thucydides | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Burney haunted the Thrales' library at Streatham, hiding her book when a man appeared: "she instantly put away [her] ... | Frances Burney | Cicero | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Burney's reading group reading two books - "the last voyage of Captain Cook" and the "letters of Madame de Sevigne". S... | Frances Burney | James Cook | Voyage to the Pacific Ocean | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Burney's reading group reading two books - 'the last voyage of Captain Cook and the letters of Madame de Sevigne. She ... | Frances Burney | Marie de Sevigne | letters | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Burney haunted the Thrales' library at Streatham, hiding her book when a man appeared: "she instantly put away [her] ... | Frances Burney | Samuel Johnson | Life of Waller | Print: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | [Burney was] 'not impressed by Samuel James Arnold's "The Creole", Lady Morgan's "The Missionary", Edgeworth's "Patron... | Frances Burney | Hannah More | Coelebs in search of a wife | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | '[Burney was] 'not impressed by Samuel James Arnold's "The Creole", Lady Morgan's "The Missionary", Edgeworth's "Patro... | Frances Burney | Maria Edgeworth | Patronage | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | '[Burney was] 'not impressed by Samuel James Arnold's "The Creole", Lady Morgan's "The Missionary", Edgeworth's "Patro... | Frances Burney | Samuel James Arnold | The Creole | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | '[Burney was] 'not impressed by Samuel James Arnold's "The Creole", Lady Morgan's "The Missionary", Edgeworth's "Patro... | Frances Burney | Lady Morgan | The Missionary | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'she read some new novels, though not often with approval: she disliked the politics of Caleb Williams.' | Frances Burney | | some new novels | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'she read some new novels, though not often with approval: she disliked the politics of Caleb Williams.' | Frances Burney | William Godwin | Caleb Williams | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Janet Schaw and her cousin, sailing from Scotland to the Caribbean, try to keep calm in a terrifying storm by reading... | Janet Schaw | Lord Kames | | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | '[opinion of William Mason's play, "Caractacus", entered in diary]: 'My soul melted into every pleasing sensation, the... | Anna Larpent | William Mason | Caractacus | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Ellinor, or the World as it is, by M.A.Hanway. 4 vols. An entertaining production written in a light, easy style [edi... | Ellen Weeton | Mary Ann Hanway | Ellinor, or the World as it is (A Novel in Four Volumes) | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'The Royal Sufferers, or Intrigues at the Close of the 18th Century. by J.Agg. 3 vols.' [no commentary on the text: pa... | Ellen Weeton | John Agg | The Royal Sufferer; or, Intrigues at the close of | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Finished the last "Tales of My Landlord" of which the fourth volume is the worst. I think Walter Scott has the peculi... | Benjamin Newton | Walter Scott | Tales of my Landlord or Black Dwarf and old Mortal | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Saw the death of Sir S. Romilly by his own hand in a feverish frenzy in the "St James' Chronicle" this morning, in co... | Benjamin Newton | n/a | St James' Chronicle | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Tuckey's Voyage to the Congo or Zaire, seems to have brought on the mortality that precailed in his crew by slee... | Benjamin Newton | James Hingston Tuckey | Narrative of an expedition to explore the river Za | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'The thermometer never being above 80 or under 69 and the "St James' Chronicle" says today that while British troops w... | Rev Benjamin Newton | n/a | St. James' Chronicle | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | 'the papers announce the death of the King of Wurtemberg'. | Benjamin Newton | n/a | [newspapers] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 1900-1945 | 'Herman Melville's "The Green Hand" he had read but it "was not much use to me" - a phrase which suggests that already... | John Masefield | Herman Melville | The Green Hand | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Herman Melville's "The Green Hand" he had read but it "was not much use to me" - a phrase which suggests that already... | John Masefield | Herman Melville | Moby Dick | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'One book... stimulated the poet beyond all others; it became, in a way, a key to the rest of his reading for some tim... | John Masefield | George du Maurier | Trilby | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'One book... stimulated the poet beyond all others; it became, in a way, a key to the rest of his reading for some tim... | John Masefield | Alexandre Dumas (pere) | The Three Musketeers | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'One book... stimulated the poet beyond all others; it became, in a way, a key to the rest of his reading for some tim... | John Masefield | Laurence Sterne | A Sentimental Journey | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'One book... stimulated the poet beyond all others; it became, in a way, a key to the rest of his reading for some tim... | John Masefield | Charles Darwin | The Origin of Species | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'After "Trilby" came the effect of "Peter Ibbetson". "It came to me", writes the poet of this book, "just when I neede... | John Masefield | George du Maurier | Peter Ibbetson | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'After "Trilby" came the effect of "Peter Ibbetson". "It came to me", writes the poet of this book, "just when I neede... | John Masefield | Francois Villon | | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'After "Trilby" came the effect of "Peter Ibbetson". "It came to me", writes the poet of this book, "just when I neede... | John Masefield | Alfred Louis Charles de Musset | | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'the young poet began to wonder "who was this de Quincey, and what sort of a pen had he?'" From "The Confessions of an... | John Masefield | Thomas de Quincey | Confessions of an English Opium Eater | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'The essays of Steele and Addison, whose prose has so greatly influenced his own, seem to have impressed but, at this ... | John Masefield | Richard Steele | [essays] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'The essays of Steele and Addison, whose prose has so greatly influenced his own, seem to have impressed but, at this ... | John Masefield | Joseph Addison | [essays] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'The essays of Steele and Addison, whose prose has so greatly influenced his own, seem to have impressed but, at this ... | John Masefield | Homer | Odyssey | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | "'On first reading Shelley", he writes, "I told myself that this was a new kind of verse, such as I had not known exis... | John Masefield | Percy Bysshe Shelley | The Revolt of Islam | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 1900-1945 | ''"My masters... in poetry, were Swinburne and Meredith among the living, Rossetti, Matthew Arnold and Robert Browning... | John Masefield | Edward Fitzgerald | | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 1900-1945 | ''"My masters... in poetry, were Swinburne and Meredith among the living, Rossetti, Matthew Arnold and Robert Browning... | John Masefield | George Meredith | | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 1900-1945 | ''"My masters... in poetry, were Swinburne and Meredith among the living, Rossetti, Matthew Arnold and Robert Browning... | John Masefield | Dante Gabriel Rossetti | | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 1900-1945 | ''"My masters... in poetry, were Swinburne and Meredith among the living, Rossetti, Matthew Arnold and Robert Browning... | John Masefield | Matthew Arnold | | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 1900-1945 | ''"My masters... in poetry, were Swinburne and Meredith among the living, Rossetti, Matthew Arnold and Robert Browning... | John Masefield | Robert Browning | | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 1900-1945 | ''"My masters... in poetry, were Swinburne and Meredith among the living, Rossetti, Matthew Arnold and Robert Browning... | John Masefield | Marie-Henri Beyle (Stendhal) | | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 1900-1945 | ''"My masters... in poetry, were Swinburne and Meredith among the living, Rossetti, Matthew Arnold and Robert Browning... | John Masefield | Gustave Flaubert | | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 1900-1945 | ''"My masters... in poetry, were Swinburne and Meredith among the living, Rossetti, Matthew Arnold and Robert Browning... | John Masefield | Jean-Marie-Mathias-Philippe-Auguste comte de Villiers de l'Isle-Adam | | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 1900-1945 | ''"My masters... in poetry, were Swinburne and Meredith among the living, Rossetti, Matthew Arnold and Robert Browning... | John Masefield | Guy de Maupassant | | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 1900-1945 | ''"My masters... in poetry, were Swinburne and Meredith among the living, Rossetti, Matthew Arnold and Robert Browning... | John Masefield | Prosper Merimee | | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 1900-1945 | ''"My masters... in poetry, were Swinburne and Meredith among the living, Rossetti, Matthew Arnold and Robert Browning... | John Masefield | Walter Pater | | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Before his departure for his native land he had read some of Dickens and Stevenson... and William Morris. John Masefi... | John Masefield | Charles Dickens | | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Before his departure for his native land he had read some of Dickens and Stevenson... and William Morris. John Masefi... | John Masefield | Robert Louis Stevenson | | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Before his departure for his native land he had read some of Dickens and Stevenson... and William Morris. John Masefi... | John Masefield | William Morris | | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 1900-1945 | 'Fine writing and realism were what John Masefield was after in prose. In poetry, it was the upsurge of feeling and rh... | John Masefield | Algernon Charles Swinburne | Chastelard | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 1900-1945 | 'Fine writing and realism were what John Masefield was after in prose. In poetry, it was the upsurge of feeling and rh... | John Masefield | Algernon Charles Swinburne | [poem on the death of Baudelaire] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | [opinion of Thomson's Edward and Elinora, entered in diary]: 'A most affecting tale, pleasingly tender - fraught with ... | Anna Larpent | James Thomson | Edward and Elinora | Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Masefield was already a well-read man when, at the age of twenty-one, he came across the works of Yeats, whose discip... | John Masefield | Wiliam Butler Yeats | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'I returned home and read four chapters of Winn's abridgement of Lock[e] on the human understanding. The transition fr... | Anna Larpent | John Locke | Essay on human understanding | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | [note in diary upon finishing Mackintosh's "Vindiciae Gallicae"]: 'As far as I am a Judge I think this work very well ... | Anna Larpent | James Mackintosh | Vindiciae Galliciae | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 1900-1945 | '[Aneurin Bevan] burrowed through the Tredegar Workmen's Institute Library, and acquired his characteristically grandi... | Aneurin (Nye) Bevan | [n/a] | Roget's Thesaurus | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 1900-1945 | '[Aneurin Bevan] burrowed through the Tredegar Workmen's Institute Library, and acquired his characteristically grandi... | Aneurin (Nye) Bevan | Friedrich Nietzsche | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 1900-1945 | '[Aneurin Bevan] burrowed through the Tredegar Workmen's Institute Library, and acquired his characteristically grandi... | Aneurin (Nye) Bevan | F.H. Bradley | Appearance and Reality | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'I went through that extraordinary work of Lord Monboddo on the "Origin of Language". I was entertained and instructed... | Anna Larpent | Lord Monboddo | Of the origin and progress of language | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 1900-1945 | '[Aneurin Bevan] burrowed through the Tredegar Workmen's Institute Library, and acquired his characteristically grandi... | Aneurin (Nye) Bevan | Immanuel Kant | Groundwork of the Metaphysic of Morals | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 1900-1945 | '[Aneurin Bevan] burrowed through the Tredegar Workmen's Institute Library, and acquired his characteristically grandi... | Aneurin (Nye) Bevan | Thorstein Veblen | The Theory of the Leisure Class | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Staying at a house in Kings Thorpe, Northamptonshire in 1780, Anna began reading "Les milles et une nuits" after a co... | Anna Larpent | | Les mille et une nuits | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [the 'intellectual' clique within the Clarion Scouts, including Edwin Muir] "followed the literary and intellectual de... | Edwin Muir | Henri Bergson | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [the 'intellectual' clique within the Clarion Scouts, including Edwin Muir] "followed the literary and intellectual de... | Edwin Muir | [probably] Georges-Eugene Sorel | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [the 'intellectual' clique within the Clarion Scouts, including Edwin Muir] "followed the literary and intellectual de... | Edwin Muir | Havelock Ellis | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [the 'intellectual' clique within the Clarion Scouts, including Edwin Muir] "followed the literary and intellectual de... | Edwin Muir | John Galsworthy | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [the 'intellectual' clique within the Clarion Scouts, including Edwin Muir] "followed the literary and intellectual de... | Edwin Muir | Joseph Conrad | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [the 'intellectual' clique within the Clarion Scouts, including Edwin Muir] "followed the literary and intellectual de... | Edwin Muir | Edward Morgan Forster | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [the 'intellectual' clique within the Clarion Scouts, including Edwin Muir] "followed the literary and intellectual de... | Edwin Muir | James Joyce | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [the 'intellectual' clique within the Clarion Scouts, including Edwin Muir] "followed the literary and intellectual de... | Edwin Muir | David Herbert Lawrence | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [the 'intellectual' clique within the Clarion Scouts, including Edwin Muir] "followed the literary and intellectual de... | Edwin Muir | Ezra Pound | article in The New Age | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | [Muir undertook 'intense study of Nietzsche'] "I tried, when I came to Nietzsche's last works, 'The Twilight of the Id... | Edwin Muir | Friedrich Nietzsche | The Twilight of the Idols | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [Muir undertook 'intense study of Nietzsche'] "I tried, when I came to Nietzsche's last works, 'The Twilight of the Id... | Edwin Muir | Friedrich Nietzsche | Ecce Homo | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Though Anna studied pious works almost constantly, she almost never commented in her diary on her religious reading .... | Anna Larpent | | [sermons] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'She used passages from Defoe's "Tour through the whole island of Great Britain" to prepare her two boys for a visit t... | Anna Larpent | Daniel Defoe | Tour through the whole island of Great Britain | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | [We then read aloud a dialogue on taste by Mr Ramsay, a lively original book with some entertaining and instructive re... | Anna Larpent | Ramsay | a dialogue on taste | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'On 9 April 1792 Anna Margaretta Larpent rose at 7.30, a little earlier than her usual, "spent some time", as she desc... | Anna Larpent | Thomas Paine | Rights of man | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'In October 1792... the Larpents were reading Joseph Priestley on "The origin of government" "rather to lead conversat... | Anna Larpent | Joseph Priestley | On the origin of government | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'In October 1792... the Larpents were reading Joseph Priestley on The Origin of government 'rather to lead conversatio... | John Larpent | Joseph Priestley | On the origin of government | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'In a ritual that was to be repeated throughout the holidays, Anna and John [her son] read passages from an instructiv... | John Larpent | Sarah Trimmer | Sacred history | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'In a ritual that was to be repeated throughout the holidays, Anna and John [her son] read passages from an instructiv... | Anna Larpent | Sarah Trimmer | Sacred history | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Larpent listened while her husband and stepson read aloud to her from the newspapers and Sutherland's "Tour of Consta... | stepson of Anna Larpent | Sutherland | Tour of Constantinople | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'While her friends were engaged in different sorts of women's work... she read them a great favourite, the sentimental... | Anna Larpent | Pierre Marivaux | Marienne | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'In the month of April 1792... Anna read Richardson's "Clarissa" for the second time - "the style is prolix, the manne... | Anna Larpent | Samuel Richardson | Clarissa | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '[Charlie] Lahr lent [Bonar] Thompson Andre Gide and "A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man". "It was wonderful for ... | Bonar Thompson | James Joyce | A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '[Charlie] Lahr lent [Bonar] Thompson Andre Gide and "A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man". "It was wonderful for ... | Bonar Thompson | Andre Gide | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Soon Pritchett was reading Penny Poets editions of "Paradise Regained", Wordsworth's "Prelude", Cowper, and Coleridge... | Victor Sawdon Pritchett | John Milton | Paradise Regained | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Soon Pritchett was reading Penny Poets editions of "Paradise Regained", Wordsworth's "Prelude", Cowper, and Coleridge... | Victor Sawdon Pritchett | William Wordsworth | Prelude, The | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Soon Pritchett was reading Penny Poets editions of "Paradise Regained", Wordsworth's "Prelude", Cowper, and Coleridge... | Victor Sawdon Pritchett | William Cowper | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Soon Pritchett was reading Penny Poets editions of "Paradise Regained", Wordsworth's "Prelude", Cowper, and Coleridge... | Victor Sawdon Pritchett | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '[Pritchett] was... unprepared for the intimidating greatness of Ruskin's "Modern Painters"... "There was too much to ... | Victor Sawdon Pritchett | John Ruskin | Modern Painters | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'as an office boy, Pritchett tried to read widely and dreamt of an escape to Bohemia. But his knowledge of the Latin Q... | Victor Sawdon Pritchett | George du Maurier | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'as an office boy, Pritchett tried to read widely and dreamt of an escape to Bohemia. But his knowledge of the Latin Q... | Victor Sawdon Pritchett | W.J. Locke | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'as an office boy, Pritchett tried to read widely and dreamt of an escape to Bohemia. But his knowledge of the Latin Q... | Victor Sawdon Pritchett | Hilaire Belloc | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '...he confessed that he could not understand a word of Gertrude Stein.' | Arnold Bennett | Gertrude Stein | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'When Middleton Murry attacked George Moore in an editorial of the "Adelphi" in April 1924, he [Arnold Bennett] wrote ... | Arnold Bennett | John Middleton Murry | Wrap me up in my Aubusson Carpet | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | '...he continued to . . . reassess his first loves, such as Balzac, whom he begins to doubt: in May 1926 he finds him ... | Arnold Bennett | Balzac | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '. . .he was annoyed with Capes for misquoting his enthusiasm for Joyce in an advertisement for "Portrait of the Artis... | Arnold Bennett | | | Print: Advertisement |
| 1900-1945 | 'He was annoyed by some of Priestley's comments in "The Mercury" (February 1924) as he notes in his journal . . .' | Arnold Bennett | J.B. Priestley | Mercury, The | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | 'Bernard Kops, the son of an immigrant leather worker, had a special understanding of the transition from from autodid... | Bernard Kops | William Shakespeare | The Tempest | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Bernard Kops, the son of an immigrant leather worker, had a special understanding of the transition from from autodid... | Bernard Kops | Matthew Arnold | The Forsaken Merman | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Bernard Kops, the son of an immigrant leather worker, had a special understanding of the transition from from autodid... | Bernard Kops | Rupert Brooke | Grantchester | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Bernard Kops, the son of an immigrant leather worker, had a special understanding of the transition from from autodid... | Bernard Kops | Thomas Stearns Eliot | The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Bernard Kops, the son of an immigrant leather worker, had a special understanding of the transition from from autodid... | Bernard Kops | Thomas Stearns Eliot | 'The Waste Land' | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'After Stalingrad, [Bernard Kops] immersed himself in Russian literature. A GI dating his sister introduced him to Wal... | Bernard Kops | [unknown] | [Russian literature] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'After Stalingrad, [Bernard Kops] immersed himself in Russian literature. A GI dating his sister introduced him to Wal... | Bernard Kops | Walt Whitman | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'After Stalingrad, [Bernard Kops] immersed himself in Russian literature. A GI dating his sister introduced him to Wal... | Bernard Kops | Emily Dickinson | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '"Reflection: It is presumably a bad thing to look through articles, reviews, etc. to find one's own name. Yet I often... | Virginia Woolf | | Times Literary Supplement, The | Print: Newspaper, Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | 'There Bennett worked on his novel, read Dreiser and Balzac, . . .' | Arnold Bennett | Theodore Dreiser | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Although Bennett had reservations about the book, he had enjoyed it, and had at once written to tell his friend so'. | Arnold Bennett | H.G. Wells | The World of William Clissold | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'D. H. Lawrence . . . reviewed the novel [The World of William Clissold by Wells] in the "Calendar" of October 1926, i... | Arnold Bennett | D.H. Lawrence | [review of H.G. Wells's "The World of William Clissold"] | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1600-1699 | "In 1617 the Countess [of Dorset, Pembroke, and Montgomery] noted recreational books that she was reading:
"'Began ... | Anne Clifford, Countess of Dorset, Pembroke, and Montgomery | George Sandys | A Relation of a Journey begun Anno Dom. 1610 | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | "In 1617 the Countess [of Dorset, Pembroke, and Montgomery] noted recreational books that she was reading:
"'Began ... | Anne Clifford, Countess of Dorset, Pembroke, and Montgomery | Geoffrey Chaucer | | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | " ... Lady Anne [Clifford] ... read Robert Parsons's Resolutions, Thomas Sorocold's Supplications of Saints, a 'lady's... | Lady Anne Clifford | Robert Parson | The first booke of the Christian exercise, appertayning to resolution | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | " ... Lady Anne [Clifford] ... read Robert Parsons's Resolutions, Thomas Sorocold's Supplications of Saints, a 'lady's... | Lady Anne Clifford | Thomas Sorocold | Supplications of Saints; A booke of prayers: ... Wherein are three most excellent prayers made by Queene Elizabeth | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | " ... Lady Anne [Clifford] ... read Robert Parsons's Resolutions, Thomas Sorocold's Supplications of Saints, a 'lady's... | Lady Anne Clifford | | "lady's book of praise of a solitary life" | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | " ... Lady Anne [Clifford] ... read Robert Parsons's Resolutions, Thomas Sorocold's Supplications of Saints, a 'lady's... | Lady Anne Clifford | | "book of the preaparation to the sarament" | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 1800-1849 | Henry Cooke, in evidence to the Commissioners on Education in Ireland in 1825 [regarding books available in Irish scho... | Henry Cooke | Richard Johnson | The Seven Champions of Christendom and Destruction of Troy | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 1800-1849 | Henry Cooke, in evidence to the Commissioners on Education in Ireland in 1825 [regarding books available in Irish scho... | Henry Cooke | | Hero and Leander | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 1800-1849 | Henry Cooke, in evidence to the Commissioners on Education in Ireland in 1825 [regarding books available in Irish scho... | Henry Cooke | | Gesta Romanorum | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 1800-1849 | Henry Cooke, in evidence to the Commissioners on Education in Ireland in 1825 [regarding books available in Irish scho... | Henry Cooke | | Seven wise masters | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 1800-1849 | Henry Cooke, in evidence to the Commissioners on Education in Ireland in 1825 [regarding books available in Irish scho... | Henry Cooke | | Chinese tales | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 1800-1849 | Henry Cooke, in evidence to the Commissioners on Education in Ireland in 1825 [regarding books available in Irish scho... | Henry Cooke | | Parismos and Parismenes | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 1800-1849 | Henry Cooke, in evidence to the Commissioners on Education in Ireland in 1825 [regarding books available in Irish scho... | Henry Cooke | Richard Johnson | The honour or chivalry; or, the famous history of Don Belianis of Greece | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 1800-1849 | Henry Cooke, in evidence to the Commissioners on Education in Ireland in 1825 [regarding books available in Irish scho... | Henry Cooke | | The History of Captain Freney | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'On 9 February he read in the paper news that turned his mind from the future to the past. His old friend George Stur... | Arnold Bennett | | | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | 'it was many, many years before any of us was able to look with unprejudiced eyes at anything Scotch again. Always exc... | Gwen Raverat | Walter Scott | [novels] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'He travelled alone, by train, . . . reading "The Brothers Karamazov" for the fourth time'. | Arnold Bennett | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | Brothers Karamazov, The | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Bennett had seen a placard announcing its publication in Cassell's "Storyteller" magazine on Victoria Station just be... | Arnold Bennett | | | Print: Advertisement, Poster |
| 1900-1945 | 'Bennett, Dorothy, and the Board of Sloane Productions Ltd read all the notices the next day and found them satisfacto... | Arnold Bennett | | | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | 'There is a pleasant story of how [Aunt Cara] once set a Jebb niece to read "Paradise Lost" aloud to herself and her s... | [unknown] Jebb | John Milton | Paradise Lost | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'There were some problems which I never solved in all my youth. For instance, there was Gloucester's Natural Son in Ki... | Gwen Raverat | William Shakespeare | King Lear | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 1900-1945 | 'David Copperfield was puzzling, too. He was a 'posthumous child' and was born with a 'caul'. The French dictionary, t... | Gwen Raverat | Charles Dickens | David Copperfield | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 1900-1945 | 'David Copperfield was puzzling, too. He was a 'posthumous child' and was born with a 'caul'. The French dictionary, t... | Gwen Raverat | William Makepeace Thackeray | Henry Esmond | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Every time I re-read "Emma" I see more clearly that we must be somehow related to the Knightleys of Donwell Abbey; bo... | Gwen Raverat | Jane Austen | Emma | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 1900-1945 | 'It was here, at No. 31, that I discovered Bewick, one afternoon while Aunt Etty was having her rest. I remember lying... | Gwen Raverat | Thomas Bewick | | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 1900-1945 | 'One would be called upon to read aloud, say, Wordsworth's "Excursion" with her - Wordsworth was her religion - but on... | Gwen Raverat | William Wordsworth | Excursion, The | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'we first drew the curtains all round her four-post bed, so that it was quite dark inside; and then, having pulled the... | Henrietta Litchfield | Jean Ingelow | Don John | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Lovely books she read to us...:"The Wide Wide World", with all the religion and deaths from consumption left out, and... | Henrietta Litchfield | Susan Warner | The Wide Wide World | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Lovely books she read to us...:"The Wide Wide World", with all the religion and deaths from consumption left out, and... | Henrietta Litchfield | Frederick Marryat | Masterman Ready | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Lovely books she read to us...:"The Wide Wide World", with all the religion and deaths from consumption left out, and... | Henrietta Litchfield | Charlotte Mary Yonge | The Little Duke | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Lovely books she read to us...:"The Wide Wide World", with all the religion and deaths from consumption left out, and... | Henrietta Litchfield | Harriet Martineau | Settlers at Home | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Lovely books she read to us...:"The Wide Wide World", with all the religion and deaths from consumption left out, and... | Henrietta Litchfield | Frederick Marryat | The Children of the New Forest | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Lovely books she read to us...:"The Wide Wide World", with all the religion and deaths from consumption left out, and... | Henrietta Litchfield | Elizabeth Anna Hart | The Runaway | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Lovely books she read to us...:"The Wide Wide World", with all the religion and deaths from consumption left out, and... | Henrietta Litchfield | George Macdonald | The Princess and the Goblin | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'He even found time to be as courteous and helpful as ever to old friends, reading through, for instance, William Roth... | Arnold Bennett | William Rothenstein | Men and Memories | Manuscript: typescript |
| 1900-1945 | 'He returned to London to . . . Somerset Maugham's "Cakes and Ale", which he admired . . .' | Arnold Bennett | W Somerset Maugham | Cakes and Ale | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'He returned to London to . . . Lawrence's "Virgin and the Gipsy", which he admired even more [than "Cakes and Ale"].' | Arnold Bennett | D.H. Lawrence | Virgin and the Gipsy, The | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'He had been reading, she said, J.W. Dunne's "Experiment with Time" - also Einstein and Addington.' | Arnold Bennett | J.W. Dunne | Experiment with Time, An | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'A novel by Thomas Holcroft, "Anna St Ives", dismissed as "sad stuff I cannot read on".' | Anna Larpent | Thomas Holcroft | Anna St Ives | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | [in April 1792 Larpent read] 'Smellie's "Philosophy of Nature" [sic] which she considered poorly organized but of suff... | Anna Larpent | William Smellie | Philosophy of Natural History | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 1800-1849 | 'Anna Larpent's diary mentions over 440 titles, including forty-six English novels (She preferred those by women or wo... | Anna Larpent | various | various | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'The story of Percy is simple, pathetic, distressing, this worked up to the most moving height of distress; the power ... | Anna Larpent | Hannah More | Percy | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'With a fine imagination and command of Language Charlotte Smith cannot write without Interest [.] this is an odd work... | Anna Larpent | Charlotte Smith | Desmond | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'reasons out of Aristotle Mechanicks which I had very lately read' [explain a vision]. | Henry More | Aristotle | Mechanicks | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | [Anna Seward on Thomas Gisborne's conduct books]: 'too strict'; they 'might have been more generally useful upon a les... | Anna Seward | Thomas Gisborne | [conduct books] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | '. . . You must, doubtless, have seen in the Gazette the account of 2 ships appearing in the north of Russia which are... | Frances Burney | | | Print: Newspaper |
| 1700-1799 | '. . . the Morning Post had yesterday this Paragraph?We hear Lieutenant Burney has succeeded to the command of Capt. C... | Frances Burney | | | Print: Newspaper |
| 1700-1799 | Adrian Johns notes "the extensive record of John Byrom's days in the 1720s spent 'reading in a pamphlet shop,' 'readin... | John Byrom | | | Print: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | Adrian Johns notes "the extensive record of John Byrom's days in the 1720s spent 'reading in a pamphlet shop,' 'readin... | John Byrom | | | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Adrian Johns notes "the extensive record of John Byrom's days in the 1720s spent 'reading in a pamphlet shop,' 'readin... | John Byrom | | books | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Adrian Johns notes "the extensive record of John Byrom's days in the 1720s spent 'reading in a pamphlet shop,' 'readin... | John Byrom | | | Print: Unknown |
| 1600-1699 | "... [during the 1660s] eminent Stationer Benjamin Tooke said he had seen 'several quires' of a seditious work lying v... | Benjamin Tooke | | seditious book | Print: unbound printed sheets |
| 1600-1699 | "In 1630 [William] Prynne saracastically claimed [in Lame Giles his Haltings 2-3] that he had 'repaired to the Printin... | anon ("others") | Giles Widdowes | Lawlesse Kneelesse Schismaticall Puritan | Print: Book, proof copy |
| 1600-1699 | Reading James Harrington, The Common-Wealth of Oceana, Henry Oldenburg "took notes only from the 'Preliminaries'." | Henry Oldenburg | James Harrington | The Common-Wealth of Oceana | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 1700-1799 | " ... the crypto-Jacobite virtuoso John Byrom used laudanum to treat his sister, Ellen, after noting that she had been... | Ellen | Clarendon | | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | "The young [John] Rogers had 'read every day,' he recalled ... He learned his catechism by heart ... wrote down the se... | John Rogers | | transcribed sermons | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1600-1699 | "The young [John] Rogers had 'read every day,' he recalled ... He learned his catechism by heart ... wrote down the se... | John Rogers | | morning and evening prayers | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | "The young [John] Rogers had 'read every day,' he recalled ... He learned his catechism by heart ... wrote down the se... | John Rogers | | The Bible | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | "Francis Bishop [a member of the preacher John Rogers's Dublin congregation in the early 1650s], condemned to be shot,... | Francis Bishop | | The Bible | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | "Hugh Leeson [a member of the preacher John Rogers's Dublin congregation in the early 1650s] ... was first 'wrought up... | anon | | The Bible | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | Adrian Johns recounts how, in a dream "at around the time of the outbreak of the Civil War," Henry More saw "a series ... | Henry More | Aristotle | Mechanics | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | Adrian Johns recounts how, in a dream "at around the time of the outbreak of the Civil War," Henry More saw "a series ... | Henry More | Ptolemy | Geographia | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia]: one ms note at the end of the text: 'You are a story [?] teller I ... said Mr Joseph Emin'. Some of the ... | John Drummond Erskine | Joseph Emin | The life and adventures of Joseph Emin, an Armenian. Written in English by himself | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Carter and Talbot read fiction and corresponded about it, including "Roderick Random", the novels of Eliza Haywood, F... | Catherine Talbot | | french romances | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Carter and Talbot read fiction and corresponded about it, including "Roderick Random", the novels of Eliza Haywood, F... | Catherine Talbot | Tobias Smollett | Roderick Random | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Carter and Talbot read fiction and corresponded about it, including "Roderick Random", the novels of Eliza Haywood, F... | Catherine Talbot | 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... | Catherine Talbot | Sarah Fielding | various works | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Carter and Talbot read fiction and corresponded about it, including "Roderick Random", the novels of Eliza Haywood, F... | Catherine Talbot | | French romances | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | '[Elizabeth Carter and Catherine Talbot] read and admired the work of Elizabeth Rowe, and questioned each other excite... | Catherine Talbot | Katherine Phillips | works | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | '[Elizabeth Carter and Catherine Talbot] read and admired the work of Elizabeth Rowe, and questioned each other excite... | Catherine Talbot | Elizabeth Rowe | works | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 1800-1849 | [Marginalia]: form of marks in text with marginal note e.g. p.82 the word 'abita' in the text is underlined with 'abdi... | John Drummond Erskine | Ovid | Metamorphoses, in fifteen books, with the arguments and notes of John Minellius translated into English, to which is marginally added, a prose version ? For the use of schools. By Nathan Bailey | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'One day Maud stood in front of Grandfather's bookshelves in the parlour and made up her mind that she would read ever... | Alexander Macneill | | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'One day Maud stood in front of Grandfather's bookshelves in the parlour and made up her mind that she would read ever... | Alexander Macneill | | [newspaper from Charlottetown] | Print: Newspaper, Daily |
| 1850-1899 | [Marginalia]: p. 465 has a bookmark and marginal mark against item 'Regimen'; opposite the half-title there is referen... | Magdalene Sharpe Erskine | Alexander Macaulay | A dictionary of medicine, designed for popular use | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 1800-1849 | [Marginalia]: ms note at foot of p.8 of Appendix: 'J. Claver ...[ J. Clavering is the first signatory of the letter on... | N.S. Cornith | Joseph Price | Letter to Edmund Burke, Esq; on the latter part of the late report of the Select Committee on the state of justice in Bengal. With some curious particulars and original anecdotes concerning the forgery committed by Maha Rajah Nundcomar Bahadar[...] | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | Adrian Johns discusses John Flamsteed's (disapproving) reading of Edmond Halley, Catalogus Stellarum Australium. | John Flamsteed | Edmond Halley | Catalogus Stellarum Australium, sive Supplementum Catalogi Tychonici exhibens longitudines et latitudines stellarum fixarum ... | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | "Foremost among ... [John Flamsteed's] critics was ... [Robert] Hooke, whose Cometa Flamsteed read with disdain ... [s... | John Flamsteed | Robert Hooke | Cometa | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | "[Isaac] Newton had gained international renown following the publication of his Principia in 1679 ... [attaining] som... | anon | Isaac Newton | Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Adrian Johns discusses John Flamsteed's reading of sheets 1 and 3 of his star catalogue (submitted for printing withou... | John Flamsteed | John Flamsteed | sections of catalogue of stars | Print: sheets |
| 1700-1799 | Adrian Johns describes how "[Edmond] Halley ... [took] to 'correcting' the copy [of John Flamsteed's star catalogue] i... | Edmond Halley | John Flamsteed | catalogue of stars | |
| 1600-1699 | [Marginalia]: 5 pp of ms notes on the original binding pages, some difficult to decipher. Appear to be recipes eg 'Tak... | Andrew Greirson | Nicholas Culpeper | Pharmacopoeia Londinensis | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia]: marginal pencil annotations throughout the book, either English or Persian, mainly appear to comment or ... | John Drummond Erskine | Stephen Weston | A specimen of the conformity of the European languages | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I have only now realised that the reason Blind Pew in "Treasure Island" frightened me so extremely was that I gave hi... | Gwen Raverat | Robert Louis Stevenson | Treasure Island | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 1900-1945 | 'Aunt Ellen and her friends seemed to me wonderfully up-to-date and literary. She used to read Stevenson and Henley to... | Ellen Crofts | Robert Louis Stevenson | | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 1900-1945 | 'Aunt Ellen and her friends seemed to me wonderfully up-to-date and literary. She used to read Stevenson and Henley to... | Ellen Crofts | (probably) William Ernest Henley | | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 1900-1945 | 'I could read "The Daisy Chain" or "The Wide Wide World", and just take the religion as the queer habits of those sort... | Gwen Raverat | Charlotte Mary Yonge | The Daisy Chain | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 1900-1945 | 'I could read "The Daisy Chain" or "The Wide Wide World", and just take the religion as the queer habits of those sort... | Gwen Raverat | Susan Warner | The Wide Wide World | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I learnt with interest all about David and read Browning's "Saul" with "an intelligent scripture mistess".' | Gwen Raverat | Robert Browning | Saul | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I learnt with interest all about David and read Browning's "Saul" with "an intelligent scripture mistess".' | Gwen Raverat | | Bible, The | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Aunty Etty wrote of E.M. Forster, "His novel is really NOT good; and it's too unpleasant for the girls to read. I ver... | Henrietta Darwin | Edward Morgan Forster | | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 1900-1945 | Leon Edel, introducing vol 1 of Henry James's Letters: " ... [By the end of his life Henry James] had read Flaubert's ... | Henry James | Gustave Flaubert | correspondence | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 1900-1945 | Leon Edel, introducing vol 1 of Henry James's Letters: "[Edmund Gosse] had written biographies which James had critici... | Henry James | Edmund Gosse | biographies | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 1900-1945 | Leon Edel, introducing vol 1 of Henry James's Letters, on James's feelings regarding publication of letters: "He oppos... | Henry James | Robert Louis Stevenson | Letters | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Noted by Leon Edel in "Brief Chronology" of Henry James: "1860: Returns to Newport ... Reads Balzac and Merimee." | Henry James | Honore de Balzac | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Noted by Leon Edel in "Brief Chronology" of Henry James: "1860: Returns to Newport ... Reads Balzac and Merimee." | Henry James | Prosper Merimee | unknown | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | Henry James to Thomas Sergeant Perry, from school in Geneva, 26 January 1860: 'I fully intended to study Greek when I ... | Henry James | unknown | unknown | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | Henry James to Thomas Sergeant Perry, 27 March 1860: 'You asked me in one of your letters whether there were many Engl... | Henry James | | magazines and newspapers | Print: Newspaper, Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | Henry James to Thomas Sergeant Perry, 27 March 1860: "You asked me in one of your letters whether there were many Engl... | Henry James | | Cornhill Magazine | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | Henry James to Thomas Sergeant Perry, 27 March 1860: "Have you ever read 'Eothen' a book of Eastern travels. I have j... | Henry James | A. W. Kinglake | Eothen | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Henry James to Thomas Sergeant Perry, from home of host family in Bonn, Sunday 5 August 1860: "[on Wednesday morning] ... | Henry James | | The British Chronicle | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | Henry James to Thomas Sergeant Perry, from home of host family in Bonn, Sunday 5 August 1860: "[on Wednesday morning] ... | Henry James | | bound weekly newspapers | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | Henry James to Thomas Sergeant Perry, from home of host family in Bonn, Sunday 5 August 1860: "[on Wednesday morning] ... | Henry James | Lady Mary Wortley Montagu | Letters | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Henry James to Thomas Sergeant Perry, from home of host family in Bonn, Sunday 5 August 1860: "[on Wednesday morning] ... | Henry James | Friedrich von Schiller | Maria Stuart | Print: Book |
| | [Marginalia]: ms annotations in form of numbers in margin from p.27- p.655 - as if reference system (they are in numer... | Henry Fox | William Camden | The history of the most renowned and victorious princess Elizabeth, late Queen of England | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Henry James to Thomas Sergeant Perry, 18 April 1864: "I got Browning's plays from J[ohn].'s [La Farge] and have been r... | Henry James | Robert Browning | plays | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Henry James to Charles Eliot Norton of the North American Review, offering book review, 9 August 1864: "I have just be... | Henry James | Maurice de Guerin | Journals/Letters | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Henry James to Charles Eliot Norton of the North American Review, offering book review, 9 August 1864: "I have just be... | Henry James | Eugenie de Guerin | Journals and Letters | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Henry James to Thomas Sergeant Perry, 28 October 1864: "What are you reading? I have just read Vaughan's Eng. Revolut... | Henry James | Vaughan | English Revolutions in Religion | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | Henry James to Charles Eliot Norton, 28 February 1866: " ... allow me to retract my proposal to deal critically with M... | Henry James | Harriet Beecher Stowe | [two or three works] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Henry James to Thomas Sergeant Perry, from Cambridge, Mass., 15 August 1867: "Here I have been ... all summer and here... | Henry James | unknown | unknown | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | Henry James to Thomas Sergeant Perry, from Cambridge, Mass., 20 September 1867: "I had just been reading, when your le... | Henry James | Hippolyte Taine | Notes sur Paris, Vie et opinions de M. Frederic-Thomas Graindorge | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Henry James to Thomas Sergeant Perry, from Cambridge, Mass., 20 September 1867: "I had just been reading, when your le... | Henry James | Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve | Nouveaux lundis | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Henry James to Thomas Sergeant Perry, from Cambridge, Mass., 20 September 1867: "I read recently, by the way ... [Geor... | Henry James | George Sand | Memoirs | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Henry James to Thomas Sergeant Perry, from Cambridge, Mass., 20 September 1867: "In English I have read nothing new, e... | Henry James | Matthew Arnold | New Poems | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Henry James to William James, 22 November 1867: "I recd. about a fortnight ago -- your letter with the review of Grimm... | Henry James | William James | Review of Herman Grimm, Unuberwundliche Machte | Manuscript: Letter |
| 1850-1899 | Henry James to Thomas Sergeant Perry, 27 March 1868: "I read more or less, of course, but nothing noteworthy. A good ... | Henry James | unknown | French texts | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Leon Edel, introducing Henry James's letters from 1869-70: " [James] traveled in 1869, reading Goethe, Stendhal, the P... | Henry James | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Leon Edel, introducing Henry James's letters from 1869-70: " [James] traveled in 1869, reading Goethe, Stendhal, the P... | Henry James | Stendhal | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Leon Edel, introducing Henry James's letters from 1869-70: " [James] traveled in 1869, reading Goethe, Stendhal, the P... | Henry James | Charles de Brosses | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Leon Edel, introducing Henry James's letters from 1869-70: " [James] traveled in 1869, reading Goethe, Stendhal, the P... | Henry James | Nathaniel Hawthorne | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Do not fail to get the Literary Supplement to the New York Times for Oct 4th & see W.L. Alden?s extraordinary appreci... | Arnold Bennett | W.L. Alden | article/review of "Anna of the Five Towns" | Print: Newspaper, Literary Supplement |
| 1700-1799 | 'The Persons who have seen [the manuscript of "Clarissa"], and whom I could not deny, are Dr Heylin, and his Lady, bot... | John Heylin | Samuel Richardson | Clarissa | Manuscript: Unknown, early MS version |
| 1700-1799 | 'The Persons who have seen [the manuscript of "Clarissa"], and whom I could not deny, are Dr Heylin, and his Lady, bot... | John Freke | Samuel Richardson | Clarissa | Manuscript: Unknown, early MS version |
| 1700-1799 | 'I am glad that Cowley takes his turn with you. Cowley has great merit with me; and the greater, as he is out of fashi... | Susanna Highmore | Abraham Cowley | | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'I don't wonder that you are in such raptures with Spenser! What an imagination! What an invention! What painting! Wha... | Susanna Highmore | Edmund Spenser | | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 1800-1849 | [Marginalia]: marginal and text pencil annotations throughout, all relating to different uses of language e.g. p. 3 af... | John Drummond Erskine | James Beattie | Scoticisms arranged in alphabetical order | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia]: some marginal and text pencil annotations to pp 408-438 only, e.g: p. 408 'Prop.1 Prices are in proport... | John Drummond Erskine | James Steuart | An inquiry into the principles of political oeconomy | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Henry James to Alice James, 31 August 1869, on walking in Switzerland and Italy: "[after crossing Bernadine pass] I ..... | Henry James | Harriet Beecher Stowe | Old Town Folks | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Henry James to Alice James, 31 August 1869, from Lake Como: "I read yesterday in the Times the news of the defeat of t... | Henry James | | The Times | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | Henry James to Alice James, 8 November (letter begun 7 November) 1869: "I have of course no company but my own [in Rom... | Henry James | Stendhal | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Henry James to William James, 1 January 1870 (letter begun 27 December 1869): " ... I felt a most refreshing blast of ... | Henry James | Henry James Sr | "reply to a 'Swedenborgian'" | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | Henry James to Henry James Sr, 14 January 1870: "With your letter [of 22 December 1869] came two Nations, with your Sw... | Henry James | Henry James Sr | articles on Swedenborg | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | Henry James to Henry James Sr, 14 January 1870: "With your letter [of 22 December 1869] came two Nations, with your Sw... | Henry James | Henry James Sr | "Is Marriage Holy?" | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | Henry James to Henry James Sr, 14 January 1870: "I read in the last Atlantic Lowell's poem and Howells's Article." | Henry James | Robert Lowell | poem | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | Henry James to Henry James Sr, 14 January 1870: "I read in the last Atlantic Lowell's poem and Howells's Article." | Henry James | William Dean Howells | "A Pedestrian Tour" | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | Henry James to William James, 8 March 1870: "During the past month I have been ... reading among other things Browning... | Henry James | Robert Browning | The Ring and the Book | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Henry James to William James, 8 March 1870: "During the past month I have been ... reading among other things Browning... | Henry James | Charles de Brosses | Lettres familieres ecrites d'Italie en 1739 et 1740 | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Henry James to William James, 8 March 1870: "During the past month I have been ... reading among other things Browning... | Henry James | Henry Crabbe Robinson | Memoirs | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Henry James to William James, 8 March 1870: "During the past month I have been ... reading among other things Browning... | Henry James | Charles-Augustin Saint-Beuve | unknown | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | Henry James to Grace Norton, 26 September 1870, regarding process of Italian unification: "[A] reflection I have ... v... | Henry James | | newspapers | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | Henry James to Grace Norton, 26 September 1870: "[At home in Cambridge] I take so much satisfaction in reading the pap... | Henry James | | newspapers | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | Henry James, in letter to Charles Eliot Norton, 16 January 1871, mentions "just having read in the Fortnightly for Dec... | Henry James | F. Harrison | article on Bismarck | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | Henry James, in letter to Charles Eliot Norton, 16 January 1871, mentions "just having read in the Fortnightly for Dec... | Henry James | J. Morley | article on Byron | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | Henry James to Grace Norton, 16 July 1871: "I have been looking up Innsbruck in various works at the Athenaeum, so tha... | Henry James | unknown | various works (dealing with Innsbruck) | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | Henry James to Grace Norton, 16 July 1871: "My chronic eastward hankerings and hungerings have been very much quickene... | Henry James | Leslie Stephen | The Playgrounds of Europe | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Henry James to Grace Norton, 16 July 1871, describing life at family home: " ... I make a very pleasant life of it. I... | Henry James | unknown | "lightish books" | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Henry James to Charles Eliot Norton, 9 August 1871: "Every now and then I vaguely scheme to take up my valises and wal... | Henry James | | timetables | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | Henry James to Charles Eliot Norton, 4 February 1872: "You, like all the world here I suppose, have been reading Fors... | Henry James | John Forster | Life of Charles Dickens | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | " ... [Henry James] would [after 1872] be a close reader of Renan ... whom he later met." | Henry James | Joseph Ernest Renan | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Henry James to William James, 28 September 1872 (letter begun 22 September): " ... I read the Figaro every day, religi... | Henry James | | Le Figaro | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | Henry James to William James, 28 September 1872 (letter begun 22 September): "I read your Taine and admired, though bu... | Henry James | William James | Review of Hippolyte Taine, "On Intelligence" | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | Henry James to William James, 8 January 1873: "Yesterday came an Atlantic with my Bethnal Green notice and its other r... | Henry James | | The Atlantic, including articles by Henry James and William Dean Howells | Print: Serial / periodical, Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | Henry James to William James, 8 January 1873, on meeting with Mrs Kemble on previous evening: "She is very magnificent... | Frances Anne Kemble | William Shakespeare | A Midsummer Night's Dream | Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | Henry James to Mrs Henry James Sr, 26 January 1873: "I trust indeed [Edward S.] Stokes will be hanged [for murder of J... | Henry James | | Roman newspapers | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | Henry James to Mrs Henry James Sr, 17 February 1873: "I read Italian regularly for a short time daily and find it very... | Henry James | unknown | Italian texts | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | Henry James to Mrs Henry James Sr, 24 March 1873: "Thank him [Henry James Sr] ... greatly for his story of Mr Webster.... | Henry James | Henry James Sr | anecdote/account ("story of Mr Webster") | Manuscript: Sheet |
| 1850-1899 | Henry James to William James, 9 April 1873: "Your letter was full of points of great interest. Your criticism on Midd... | Henry James | William James | "criticism of Middlemarch" | Manuscript: Letter |
| 1800-1849 | 'He [the new apprentice] made selections from the Old and New Testament history, which he read aloud, and upon which h... | Martin | n/a | Old and New Testament | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'As the trade we did... was not sufficient to require my continual attention, I found time to read a good many of the ... | Charles Manby Smith | Tom Paine | Age of Reason | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'As the trade we did... was not sufficient to require my continual attention, I found time to read a good many of the ... | Charles Manby Smith | Bishop Watson | Apology for the bible | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I rose with a heavy heart on the Sunday morning, and read mechanically a chapter in the little Bible in which my moth... | Charles Manby Smith | [n/a] | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Upon one of the interminable book-stalls, or rather book-walls, which displayed their leafy barrens along the quays o... | Charles Manby Smith | William Cobbett | [French Grammar] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Upon one of the interminable book-stalls, or rather book-walls, which displayed their leafy barrens along the quays o... | Charles Manby Smith | [unknown] | [French pocket dictionary] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Upon one of the interminable book-stalls, or rather book-walls, which displayed their leafy barrens along the quays o... | Charles Manby Smith | [n/a] | Testament | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Upon one of the interminable book-stalls, or rather book-walls, which displayed their leafy barrens along the quays o... | Charles Manby Smith | [n/a] | Telemaque | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | 'In the course of a fortnight I could manage, with the help of a dictionary, to read the advertisements in the French ... | Charles Manby Smith | [n/a] | [newspaper advertisements] | Print: Advertisement, Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | 'One day, [after] an hour's study, I managed to get all the meaning of an advertisement in the Moniteur...' | Charles Manby Smith | [n/a] | Moniteur | Print: Advertisement, Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | "'ne morning as we were sitting at breakfast, about 9 o'clock, ... in the garden, the postman, who had been knocking a... | Charles Manby Smith | Dr D of Prospect Villa | [letter] | Manuscript: Letter |
| 1800-1849 | [Smith describes evening activities while working as the private printer of Dr D.]
'Sometimes I played dices with m... | Charles Manby Smith | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Smith describes evening activities while working as the private printer of Dr D.]
'By the middle of March 1831, I ... | Charles Manby Smith | Dr D | [manuscript of his book] | Manuscript: manuscript of book |
| 1800-1849 | '"The Times" newspaper was taken in daily, and it was the office of each compositor in town to read the debates and le... | Charles Manby Smith | [n/a] | The Times | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | Henry James to Sarah Butler Wister, 11 May 1873 (letter begun 9 May): "I have seen some newspaper mention of [Aimee Ol... | Henry James | | newspaper | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | Henry James, in letter to William James, 19 May 1873, mentions receiving and reading a "scrap from the Advertiser" (en... | Henry James | | comments on Henry James's April 1873 North American Review article on Theophile Gautier | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | Henry James to William Dean Howells, 22 June 1873: "I heard from my mother a day or two since that your book is having... | Henry James | William Dean Howells | A Chance Acquaintance (fifth part) | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Henry James to William Dean Howells, 22 June 1873: "I've just seen Aldrich's Marjory Daw in the Revue looking as natur... | Henry James | Thomas Bailey Aldrich | Marjory Daw | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | Henry James to William Dean Howells, 9 September 1873, regarding Howells's A Chance Acquaintance (just published): "I ... | Henry James | William Dean Howells | A Chance Acquaintance | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Henry James to William Dean Howells, 9 January 1874, regarding first half of "tale" (Eugene Pickering) being sent in s... | Henry James | Henry James | Eugene Pickering | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | Henry James to Grace Norton, 14 January 1874, describing daily routine in Florence: "I write more or less in the morni... | Henry James | unknown | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Henry James to William Dean Howells, 3 May 1874: "Of Aldrich's tale, I'm sorry to say I've lost the thread, through mi... | Henry James | Thomas Bailey Aldrich | story | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | Henry James to Sarah Butler Wister, 29 July 1874: "I cut out of the Galignani the other day, to send you, a paragraph ... | Henry James | | wedding announcement | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | Henry James to William Dean Howells, 13 January 1875: "I have been staying at Mrs. Owen Wister's and having Fanny Kemb... | Fanny Kemble | Pedro Calderon de la Barca | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Henry James to Sarah Butler Wister, 23 January 1875: " ... I have had nothing since my return to town that is worth yo... | Henry James | unknown | "dullish books" | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Henry James to William Dean Howells, 19 or 26 March 1875: "I read this morning your notice of A Passionate Pilgrim ...... | Henry James | William Dean Howells | review of Henry James, A Passionate Pilgrim | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 | Henry James to E. C. Stedman, 1 September 1875: "My pretentions, in attenpting to talk about Tennyson [in review of Qu... | Henry James | Alfred Tennyson | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 1800-1849 | [Marginalia]: pencil annotation at the end of the text of v.1 (ie p. 378): 'And this is given as the character of Loui... | John Drummond Erskine | Jean de La Bruyere | Les caracteres de Theophraste et de La Bruyere, avec des notes par M. Coste | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 1800-1849 | [Marginalia]: ms annotations in pencil on several pages eg: p. 47 at foot of page 'The English usually divide the Days... | John Drummond Erskine | John Sinclair | Observations on the Scottish dialect. By John Sinclair | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Henry James to Thomas Seregant Perry, 25 November 1883: "Her [Louise-Florence d'Epinay's] Memoirs I read years ago ..." | Henry James | Louise-Florence d'Epinay | Memoirs | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Henry James to Thomas Seregant Perry, 25 November 1883: "I have just been reading the two last [sixth and seventh] vol... | Henry James | Countess Claire-Elisabeth de Remusat | Correspondence (vols 6 and 7) | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Henry James to Thomas Seregant Perry, 25 November 1883: "Yes, I have read Trollope's autobiography and regard it as on... | Henry James | Anthony Trollope | Autobiography | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Henry James to Thomas Seregant Perry, 25 November 1883: "I shall thank you for the Senilia -- though I have been readi... | Henry James | Ivan Turgenev | Senilia | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 19 June 1884: Henry James writes (in French) to Alphonse Daudet about having read and enjoyed Daudet's Sapho. | Henry James | Alphonse Daudet | Sapho | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Henry James to Francis Parkman, 24 August 1884: " ... I cannot hold my hand from telling you ... with what high apprec... | Henry James | Francis Parkman | Montcalm and Wolfe | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Henry James to Violet Paget, 21 October 1884: "I have just been reading the new instalment (conclusion) of Froude's Ca... | Henry James | James Anthony Froude | Life of Carlyle (concluding instalments) | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Henry James to Violet Paget (Vernon Lee), 21 October 1884: "I have just been reading your Euphorion, and I find it suc... | Henry James | Vernon Lee | Euphorion | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Henry James to Grace Norton, 3 November 1884: "I have read with enjoyment your various articles ..." | Henry James | Grace Norton | [unidentified articles] | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | Henry James to Robert Louis Stevenson, 5 December 1884: "I read only last night your paper in the December Longman's i... | Henry James | Robert Louis Stevenson | article | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | Henry James to Mrs Humphry Ward, 9 December 1884: "I read ... [Miss Bretherton] with great interest and pleasure ..." | Henry James | Mrs Humphry Ward | Miss Bretherton | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Henry James to William James, 2 January 1885: "Three days ago ... came the two copies of Father's (and your) book ... ... | Henry James | Henry James Sr and William James | The Literary Remains of the Late Henry James | Print: Book, Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | Henry James to William James, 15 February 1885: "You don't tell me whether you had any rejoinder from Godkin to the le... | Henry James | E. L. Godkin | review of The Literary Remains of the Late Henry James | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | Henry James to Violet Paget (Vernon Lee), 10 May 1885: "I read Miss B[rown]. with eagerness ... as soon as I received ... | Henry James | Vernon Lee | Miss Brown | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Henry James to Violet Paget (Vernon Lee), 10 May 1885: "I read Miss B[rown]. with eagerness ... as soon as I received ... | Henry James | Vernon Lee | Miss Brown | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Henry James to Theodore E. Child, 13 May 1885: " ... the only thing I have read from la-bas [ie France] is the wondrou... | Henry James | Emile Zola | Germinal | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Henry James to Theodore E. Child, 30 May 1885: "I ought already to have thanked you for your friendly thought and deli... | Henry James | Guy de Maupassant | Bel-Ami | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Henry James to William James, 24 July 1885: "I read in the papers here of long and intense heat in the US ..." | Henry James | | newspapers | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | Henry James to Robert Louis Stevenson, 2 August 1886: "Since I saw you [on Sunday 1 August] I have finished Solomon an... | Henry James | H. Rider Haggard | King Solomon's Mines | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Henry James to Robert Louis Stevenson, 2 August 1886: "Since I saw you [on Sunday 1 August] I have finished Solomon an... | Henry James | H. Rider Haggard | She | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Henry James to Charles Eliot Norton, 6 December 1886: "I ought long ago to have thanked you for your very substantial ... | Henry James | Thomas Carlyle | The Early Letters of Carlyle | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Henry James to Wiliam Dean Howells, 7 December 1886: "The last thing I did before leaving London three days and a half... | Henry James | William Dean Howells | The Minister's Charge | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Henry James to George du Maurier, 2 March 1887: "I have guessed from one or two stray copies of Punch that have fallen... | Henry James | | Punch | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | Henry James to William James, 5 October 1887 (in letter begun 1 October 1887): "I hadn't seen ... [W. D. Howells's] 't... | Henry James | William Dean Howells | article | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 23 February 1888: Henry James writes (in French) to Paul Bourget on having read and enjoyed Bourget's Mensonges. | Henry James | Paul Bourget | Mensonges | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Henry James to Robert Louis Stevenson, 31 July 1888: "The incorporated society of authors ... gave a dinner the other ... | Henry James | | The Times | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | Henry James to Robert Louis Stevenson, 31 July 1888: "Edmund Gosse has sent me his clever little life of Congreve, jus... | Henry James | Edmund Gosse | Life of Congreve | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Henry James to Wiliam James, 29 November 1888: " ... I have had in my hands the earlier sheets of the Master of Ballan... | Henry James | Robert Louis Stevenson | The Master of Ballantrae | Manuscript: Sheet |
| 1900-1945 | 'Rudie inspired in all his children a love of literature, reading aloud to them from his own favourites, the great Vic... | Rosamond Lehmann | Hans Andersen | [fairy tales] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Rudie inspired in all his children a love of literature, reading aloud to them from his own favourites, the great Vic... | Rosamond Lehmann | Edith Nesbit | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Rudie inspired in all his children a love of literature, reading aloud to them from his own favourites, the great Vic... | Rosamond Lehmann | Comtesse de Segur | Les Petites Filles Mod?les | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Rudie inspired in all his children a love of literature, reading aloud to them from his own favourites, the great Vic... | Rosamond Lehmann | | [adult novels] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'To her father she wrote about her term work, the poetry she was reading and with details about new publications. "Do"... | Rosamond Lehmann | Thomas Hardy | [poem in the London Mercury] | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | 'To her father she wrote about her term work, the poetry she was reading and with details about new publications. "Do"... | Rosamond Lehmann | Rupert Brooke | [poem(s) in the London Mercury] | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | [Lehmann and her first husband, Leslie Runcimann] 'were great readers, particularly of modern novelists such as Huxley... | Rosamond Lehmann | Aldous Huxley | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [Lehmann and her first husband, Leslie Runcimann] 'were great readers, particularly of modern novelists such as Huxley... | Rosamond Lehmann | David Herbert Lawrence | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [Lehmann and her first husband, Leslie Runcimann] 'were great readers, particularly of modern novelists such as Huxley... | Rosamond Lehmann | William Alexander Gerhardi(e) | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Steeped in the fiction of the last century ("I was singularly ill read in fiction published in the twentieth century"... | Rosamond Lehmann | | [nineteenth century fiction by women] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [Lehmann's novel "Dusty Answer" has a structure] 'possibly derived from May Sinclair's bleak and brilliant portrait of... | Rosamond Lehmann | May Sinclair | Life and Death of Harriet Frean | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [Virginia Woolf's] 'masterpiece, in Rosamond's opinion, was her biography of Roger Fry, although the novels were also ... | Rosamond Lehmann | Virginia Woolf | Roger Fry: A Biography | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [Virginia Woolf's] 'masterpiece, in Rosamond's opinion, was her biography of Roger Fry, although the novels were also ... | Rosamond Lehmann | Virginia Woolf | To the Lighthouse | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Through her old friendship with Stephen Tennant, Rosamond became devoted to his lover, Siegfried Sassoon, whose work ... | Rosamond Lehmann | Siegfried Sassoon | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'her main intellectual interests were always literary, and as a novelist she was predominantly engaged in the business... | Rosamond Lehmann | Thomas Stearns Eliot | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'her main intellectual interests were always literary, and as a novelist she was predominantly engaged in the business... | Rosamond Lehmann | Roy Fuller | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'her main intellectual interests were always literary, and as a novelist she was predominantly engaged in the business... | Rosamond Lehmann | Wystan Hugh Auden | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'her main intellectual interests were always literary, and as a novelist she was predominantly engaged in the business... | Rosamond Lehmann | Cecil Day Lewis | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'her main intellectual interests were always literary, and as a novelist she was predominantly engaged in the business... | Rosamond Lehmann | William Faulkner | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'her main intellectual interests were always literary, and as a novelist she was predominantly engaged in the business... | Rosamond Lehmann | Ford Madox Ford | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'her main intellectual interests were always literary, and as a novelist she was predominantly engaged in the business... | Rosamond Lehmann | Ivy Compton Burnett | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'her main intellectual interests were always literary, and as a novelist she was predominantly engaged in the business... | Rosamond Lehmann | Sylvia Townsend Warner | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'her main intellectual interests were always literary, and as a novelist she was predominantly engaged in the business... | Rosamond Lehmann | Elizabeth Bowen | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'her main intellectual interests were always literary, and as a novelist she was predominantly engaged in the business... | Rosamond Lehmann | Jean Rhys | Voyage in the Dark | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [Rosamond Lehmann wrote in her memoir, "Swan at Evening"] "I took down and re-read "The Four Quartets", the sublime, u... | Rosamond Lehmann | Thomas Stearns Eliot | The Four Quartets | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 1800-1849 | [Marginalia]: some pencil marks and marginal ms notes throughout the text. Generally they highlight points of grammar ... | John Drummond Erskine | William Jones | Grammar of the Persian Language, A | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 1800-1849 | [Marginalia]: pen annotations on binding pages appear to be page references to a number of topics eg: "Jesseigne"; "Ra... | John Drummond Erskine | Francois Bernier | History of the late revolution of the empire of the Great Mogol, The | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'By the way the reviews of "Leonora" in Athenaeum, Sketch, & T.P.?s Weekly have much pleased me. The swine on the Chr... | Arnold Bennett | | [reviews] | Print: Newspaper, Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | 'And another early serial of mine, which he [Tillotson] bought, is just beginning in La Sera, of Milan. I had the adv... | Arnold Bennett | | | Print: Advertisement |
| 1900-1945 | 'I notice that Chatto is leaving "Hugo" out of his advertising list. . . . He has a permanent advertisement in today?... | Arnold Bennett | | | Print: Advertisement, Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'It ["Hugo"] was also left out of his [Andrew Chatto's] advt in the Times on Friday. Perhaps you can ascertain the re... | Arnold Bennett | | | Print: Advertisement, Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | 'I have read through the 12 lessons of the Literary Correspondence College, & made a few corrections & suggestions, & ... | Arnold Bennett | | | Print: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'You will receive in a few days the typescript of the novel of your new client, Mrs Farley, 16 rue de la Paix. . . . ... | Arnold Bennett | Agnes Farley | Ashdod | Manuscript: typescript |
| 1900-1945 | 'Conrad?s book, though of course very distinguished, is not as good as his last.'
| Arnold Bennett | Joseph Conrad | Secret Agent, The | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Do you want Frank Harris? If so, I think I could bring him into the fold. . . . His last book "The Bomb" (which is ... | Arnold Bennett | Frank Harris | Bomb, The | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'He [Frank Harris] has two or three books unpublished; including one on Shakespeare which is probably the most penetra... | Arnold Bennett | Frank Harris | | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'He [Waugh] told me he expected the book to keep on selling. You might give him to understand that the eyes of Europe ... | Arnold Bennett | | | Print: Newspaper, Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | '[W.L. George] wrote a good little book on modern France. This is all I know of his work, except newspaper articles.'... | Arnold Bennett | W.L. George | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I have this day despatched to you in two book packets, a copy of "The Regent". You may take it positively from me th... | Arnold Bennett | Arnold Bennett | Regent, The | Manuscript: manuscript of new novel (typescript?) |
| 1900-1945 | 'By the way, My Journal is now in its eighteenth volume, and almost the whole of it is yet in manuscript. Whenever I ... | Arnold Bennett | Arnold Bennett | Journal | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'It ["The Price of Love"] and ?Sinister Street? were, he told me, the only works of fiction he [Henry James] had read ... | Henry James | Arnold Bennett | Price of Love, The | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I asked James if he had read Shaw?s Manifesto. He said "I have it here and have made several attempts, but his horri... | Henry James | G. B. Shaw | Common Sense about the War | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | 'I infinitely regret to say that having read the 2 vols of "Sinister Street", I don?t think it is permanent work; the ... | Arnold Bennett | Compton McKenzie | Sinister Street | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 |
'I return the draft contract. It seems to me that the alteration in clause 3 practically abolishes the stock rights... | Arnold Bennett | | legal contract | Print: draft legal contract |
| 1900-1945 |
The contract is not entirely in my favour, and neither you nor any other experienced manager would be so foolish a... | Arnold Bennett | | legal contract | Print: draft legal contract |
| 1900-1945 | 'If Machen?s onslaught is worse than Jimmy Douglas?s in the ?Star?, it will be a treat.'
| Arnold Bennett | James Douglas | | Print: Newspaper |
| 1700-1799 1800-1849 | ?My father, as before stated, was a reader, and amongst other books which he now read, was Pain?s [sic] "Rights of Man... | Daniel Bamford | Thomas Paine | Age of Reason | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I have received some copies of "The Roll Call". They are odious in a very high degree. I do not complain of the qua... | Arnold Bennett | Arnold Bennett | The Roll Call | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I have received some copies of 'The Roll Call'. They are odious in a very high degree. I do not complain of the qua... | Arnold Bennett | Arnold Bennett | The Roll Call | Manuscript: proofs |
| 1850-1899 | In letter to Violet Paget (Vernon Lee) of 27 April 1890, Henry James thanks her for Hauntings, her book of ghost stori... | Henry James | Vernon Lee | Hauntings | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Swinnerton feels sure that C & W would be willing to publish a new edition of "How to become an Author". I gave him ... | Frank Swinnerton | Arnold Bennett | How to Become an Author | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Henry James to William Dean Howells, from Milan, 17 May 1890: " ... I have been reading the Hazard of New Fortunes ...... | Henry James | William Dean Howells | A Hazard of New Fortunes vol 1 | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Henry James to William Dean Howells, from Milan, 17 May 1890: " ... I have been reading the Hazard of New Fortunes ...... | Henry James | William Dean Howells | A Hazard of New Fortunes vol 2 | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Henry James to Henrietta Reubell, 7 July 1890: "I have read Notre Coeur but haven't looked at Bourget in the Figaro." | Henry James | Guy de Maupassant | Notre Coeur | Print: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'I have just read the latter. ["The Lost Girl".] It is very remarkable indeed, and would be great if it had a real the... | Arnold Bennett | D.H. Lawrence | Lost Girl, The | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | In letter of 19 October 1890, Henry James writes (in French) to Urbain Mengin on having read Paul Bourget's new novel ... | Henry James | Paul Bourget | Coeur de Femme | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | Henry James to Robert Louis Stevenson, 12 January 1891: "To-day what I am grateful for is your new ballad-book, which ... | Henry James | Robert Louis Stevenson | Ballads | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Henry James to Robert Louis Stevenson, 12 January 1891: "I read with unrestrictive relish the first chapters of your p... | Henry James | Robert Louis Stevenson | The South Seas | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Henry James to Robert Louis Stevenson, 13 January 1891 (in letter begun 12 January 1891): "Since yesterday I have ... ... | Henry James | Robert Louis Stevenson | Ballads | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I read the scenario of "The Old Wives" Tale.'
| Arnold Bennett | unknown | Old Wives' Tale, The | Manuscript: Sheet, typescript film scenario |
| 1850-1899 | Henry James to William James, 6 February 1891: " ... I blush to say I haven't had freedom of mind or cerebral freshnes... | Henry James | William James | Principles of Psychology | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Henry James to Edmund Gosse, 28 April 1891: "I return the Ibsenite volume with many thanks -- especially for the oppor... | Henry James | Edmund Gosse | Preface to Vol 1 of Ibsen, Works | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Henry James to Edmund Gosse, 28 April 1891: "I return the Ibsenite volume with many thanks -- especially for the oppor... | Henry James | Henrik Ibsen | Rosmersholm | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Henry James to Edmund Gosse, 28 April 1891: "I return the Ibsenite volume with many thanks -- especially for the oppor... | Henry James | Henrik Ibsen | Ghosts | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I congratulate you on ?Prohack?. It is brilliant and I have read it with intense admiration.'
| Algernon Methuen Marshall | Arnold Bennett | Mr Prohack | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'On Saturday I saw for the first time an advertisement of this book, [Lilian] which I suppose has been out for quite a... | Arnold Bennett | | | Print: Advertisement |
| 1850-1899 | 'I read Wilhelm Meister aloud, and then G. read part of the Merchant of Venice' | George Henry Lewes | William Shakespeare | The Merchant of Venice | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Ill all day and unable to go out. G. finished Romeo and Juliet'. | George Henry Lewes | William Shakespeare | Romeo and Juliet | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'G. read Julius Caesar aloud, as far as Caesar's appearance in the senate house. Very much struck with the masculine s... | George Henry Lewes | William Shakespeare | Julius Caesar | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | ''Finished Minna von Barnhelm... G. began Antony and Cleopatra'. | George Henry Lewes | William Shakespeare | Antony and Cleopatra | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read Italianische Reise - Residence in Naples. Pretty passage about a star seen through a chink in the ceiling as he ... | George Henry Lewes | William Shakespeare | Henry IV | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | Henry James to Robert Louis Stevenson, 15 April 1892: "I send you by this post the magnificent Memoires de Marbot, whi... | Henry James | Marcelin Marbot | Memoires | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Henry James to Robert Louis Stevenson, 15 April 1892: "... I have just read the last page of the sweet collection of s... | Henry James | Robert Louis Stevenson | Across the Plains | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Henry James to Charles Eliot Norton, 4 July 1892: "Have you read any of ... [Paul Bourget's] novels? If you haven't, ... | Henry James | Paul Bourget | La Terre promise | Manuscript: Sheet, proofs |
| 1850-1899 | Henry James to Robert Louis Stevenson, 8 June 1893: "It was only when I came back [from travels abroad] the other day ... | Henry James | Robert Louis Stevenson | Island Nights | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Henry James to Charles Eliot Norton, 15 November 1893: "The two beautiful volumes of dear J[ames] R[ussell] L[owell] c... | Henry James | James Russell Lowell | Letters of James Russell Lowell | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Henry James, in 28 January 1894 letter to John Hay, explains how he learned of the manner of the death of Constance Fe... | Henry James | | cutting from Venetian newspaper | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | Henry James, in letters to his brother, and sister-in-law, Mr and Mrs William James (25 May 1894; 28 May 1894) discuss... | Henry James | Alice James | The Diary of Alice James | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Henry James to Edmund Gosse, 22 August 1894: " ... I have vowed not to open Lourdes [by Zola] till I shall have closed... | Henry James | George Meredith | Lord Ormont and His Aminta | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Henry James, in letter of 13 December 1894 to Edmund Gosse, returns, and discusses reading (with enthusiasm) Gosse's a... | Henry James | Edmund Gosse | "paper on Pater" | Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | Henry James to Edmund Gosse, 27 December 1894: "I have been reading with the liveliest -- and almost painful -- intere... | Henry James | Horatio Brown | Memoir of John Addington Symonds | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Henry James writes (in French) on 12 February 1895 to Alphonse Daudet, on having read and enjoyed Daudet's new novel [... | Henry James | Alphonse Daudet | Petite Paroisse | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Henry James writes (in French) on 12 February 1895 to Alphonse Daudet, on having read and enjoyed Daudet's new novel [... | Henry James | Alphonse Daudet | Sapho | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Henry James writes (in French) on 12 February 1895 to Alphonse Daudet, on having read and enjoyed Daudet's new novel [... | Henry James | Alphonse Daudet | L'Immortel | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Henry James to Henry James Sr., from Paris, 20 December 1875: "I find the political situation here very interesting an... | Henry James | | newspapers | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | Henry James to Henry James Sr., from Paris, 20 December 1875: "I see both the Debats and the Temps every day ..." | Henry James | | Debats | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | Henry James to Henry James Sr., from Paris, 20 December 1875: "I see both the Debats and the Temps every day ..." | Henry James | | Temps | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | Henry James to William Dean Howells, 3 February 1876: "Why won't you tell me the name of the author of the very charmi... | Henry James | anon | Review of Henry James, Roderick Hudson | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | Henry James to Alice James, 22 February, 1876: "Of course you have read Daniel Deronda, and I hope you have enjoyed it... | Henry James | George Eliot | Daniel Deronda | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Henry James to Mrs. Henry James Sr., 8 May 1876: "I have been reading Macaulay's Life with extreme interest and entert... | Henry James | Thomas Babington Macaulay | Life | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Henry James to Mrs. Henry James Sr., 8 May 1876: "... [Daniel Deronda] disappoints me as it goes on -- the analysing a... | Henry James | George Eliot | Daniel Deronda | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | Henry James to Wiliam James, 28 February 1877: " ... [Henry Sidgwick] has read Roderick Hudson (!) and asked me to sto... | Henry Sidgwick | Henry James | Roderick Hudson | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | Henry James to Alice James, 2 March 1877: "It is very late at night and I am in the delightful great drawingroom of th... | Henry James | | magazines | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | Henry James to Mrs John Rollin Tilton, 3 April 1878: " ... even in Rome I could not have done more than piangere over ... | Henry James | | The Times | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | Henry James to Charles Eliot Norton, 17 November 1878: "I have lately been reading Burkhardt's Renaissance and feeling... | Henry James | Jacob Burkhardt | The Civilisation of the Renaissance in Italy | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'went to dine at the Hotel de l'Europe. I took Iphigenia to read. Italianische Reise until Dessoir came. He read us th... | George Henry Lewes | William Shakespeare | The Merchant of Venice | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read Hermann and Dorothea - 4 first books. G read 2nd Part of Henry IV'. | George Henry Lewes | William Shakespeare | Henry IV, Part II | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Began Tasso aloud. G. read two acts of As You Like It'. | George Henry Lewes | William Shakespeare | As You Like It | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read aloud Heine's "Gotter im Exil" and some of his poems. G. read aloud Lear'. | George Henry Lewes | William Shakespeare | King Lear | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read at dinner Goethe's account of his relations with Herder at Strasburg in "Dichtung und Warheit". Continued aloud ... | George Henry Lewes | Thomas [?] Knight | [studies of Shakespeare] | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Began Stahr's "Torso"... G read "Coriolanus". I read some of "Stahr" to him, but we found it too long wided a style f... | George Henry Lewes | William Shakespeare | Coriolanus | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'G. read some of "Twelfth Night", but his head got bad and he was obliged to leave off' | George Henry Lewes | William Shakespeare | Twelfth Night | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia]: substantial annotations on several pages, usually associated with marked passages in the text: eg p. 8 p... | John Drummond Erskine | John Wheatley | Remarks on currency and commerce | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Not well. G began Midsummer Night's Dream. I went to bed early.' | George Henry Lewes | William Shakespeare | A Midsummer Night's Dream | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read the wondrously beautiful "Romische Elegien" again and some of the Venetian epigrams. G. began Winter's Tale'. | George Henry Lewes | William Shakespeare | A Winter's Tale | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'G. read Richard III'. | George Henry Lewes | William Shakespeare | Richard III | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia]: substantially annotated throughout usually in the form of marks (| or *) in the text, to highlight point... | John Drummond Erskine | William Jones | Poeseos Asiaticae commentariorum libri sex, cum appendice; subjicitur Limon seu miscellaneorum liber: auctore Gulielmo Jones | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 1800-1849 | [Marginalia]: has a ms annotation (of 4 lines) on each inside cover, one in Latin and one possibly in Persian. These ... | John Drummond Erskine | Horace | Quinti Horatii Flacci opera. Interpretatione et notis illustravit Ludovicus Desprez, ... Huic editioni accessere vita Horatii cum Dacerii notis, ejusdem chronologia Horatiana, & praefatio de satira Romana | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Henry James to Grace Norton, 4 January 1879: "Half the human race, certainly every one that one has ever heard of, app... | Henry James | | Visitors' books | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | Henry James to Grace Norton, 4 January 1879: "I am afraid the ancient savagery of the New England clime has come back ... | Henry James | | American newspaper telegrams | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | Henry James to Mrs Henry James Sr., 18 January 1879: "I have just been reading ... [William James's] two articles -- t... | Henry James | William James | article on "Brute and Human Intellect" | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | Henry James to Mrs Henry James Sr., 18 January 1879: "I have just been reading ... [William James's] two articles -- t... | Henry James | William James | article | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | Henry James to Mrs F. H. Hill, 21 March 1879, on his characterisation of Lord Lambeth in Daisy Miller: "That he says '... | Henry James | Henry James | Daisy Miller | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Henry James to W. D. Howells, 7 April 1879: "The amazingly poor little notice of your novel in the last (at least my l... | Henry James | William Dean Howells | The Lady of the Aroostook | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Henry James to Mrs Henry James Sr., 8 April 1879: "I have received father's book from Trubner -- but really to read it... | Henry James | Henry James Sr | [book] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Henry James to Henry James Sr.,11 October 1879: "I sent Alice the other day, unread, a novel (Jacques Vingtras by Jule... | Henry James | Jules Valles | Jacques Vingtras | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Henry James to Henry James Sr., 11 January 1880: "I know there are quite too many 'I's' in my Sainte-Beuve -- they sho... | Henry James | Henry James | review of Correspondence de C. A. Sainte-Beuve | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | Henry James to William Dean Howells, 18 April 1880: "I read your current novel with pleasure, but I don't think the su... | Henry James | Wiliam Dean Howells | The Undiscovered Country | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | Henry James to Mrs Henry James Sr., 20 July 1880: "This letter is of course addressed equally to father and you, but y... | Henry James | unknown | [extracted texts] | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | Henry James to Wiliam Dean Howells, 20 July 1880; "I am much obliged to you for the pretty volume of the Undiscovered,... | Henry James | William Dean Howells | The Undiscovered Country | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Henry James to Grace Norton, 26 July 1880: "I read in theTimes that you are roasting alive in the U.S.A. ..." | Henry James | | The Times | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | Henry James to Grace Norton, 7 November 1880: ' ... please tell Charles [Norton] I am to write to him in a day or two ... | Henry James | Charles Eliot Norton | Historical Studies of Church Building in the Middle Ages: Venice, Siena, Florence | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Henry James to Mrs Henry James Sr., 16 March 1881: "I have of course read Grant Allen in the March Atlantic and think ... | Henry James | Grant Allen | article (?in response to work by William James) | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | Henry James to William Dean Howells, 4 October 1881, on Howells's new story, Dr Breen's Practice: "I won't forego the ... | Henry James | Wiliam Dean Howells | Dr. Breen's Practice | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | Leon Edel notes: "In the weeks after his mother's death H[enry]J[ames] converted 'Daisy Miler' into a play, and before... | Henry James | Henry James | Daisy Miller | Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | Henry James to William Dean Howells, 27 November 1882: "I see in the last Academy that you have never seen the magazin... | Henry James | | The Academy | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | Henry James to William Dean Howells, 27 November 1882: "Of the articles in the Saturday Review and Punam's Monthly [ap... | Henry James | | The Saturday Review | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | Henry James to William James, 1 January 1883, on having received William's farewell letter to their father too late fo... | Henry James | William James | letter to Henry James Sr | Manuscript: Letter |
| 1850-1899 | Henry James to G. W. Smalley, 21 February 1883: "I have just been reading in the Tribune your letter of Jan. 25, in wh... | Henry James | G. W. Smalley | article on American novels | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | Henry James to George Pellew, 23 June 1883: 'I found your thin red book [on Jane Austen] on my table when I came in la... | Henry James | George Pellew | dissertation on Jane Austen's novels | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 1800-1849 | [Marginalia]: Three entries (Perth, Haddington and Fife & Kinross) have been annotated with some extra information ex.... | Francis Wemyss | Mostyn John Armstrong | Scotch Atlas; or description of the kingdom of Scotland: divided into counties, with the subdivisions of sherifdoms; shewing their respective boundaries and extent, soil, produce, ... also their cities, chief towns, seaports, mountains, ... | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Adams's grandmother?s nephew sent newspapers to her on weekly basis, first the Weekly Dispatch; this was in time repl... | William Edwin Adams | [n/a] | Weekly Dispatch | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | [Adams's grandmother?s nephew sent newspapers to her on weekly basis, first the 'Weekly Dispatch'; this was in time re... | William Edwin Adams | [n/a] | The Examiner | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | ?There was and is so judicious a blending of light and heavy literature in "Chambers?s Journal" that their periodical ... | William Edwin Adams | [n/a] | Chambers's Journal | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | ?There was and is so judicious a blending of light and heavy literature in "Chambers?s Journal" that their periodical ... | William Edwin Adams | Charles Knight | Penny Magazine | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | ?There was and is so judicious a blending of light and heavy literature in "Chambers?s Journal" that their periodical ... | William Edwin Adams | [n/a] | Family Herald | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | ?There was and is so judicious a blending of light and heavy literature in "Chambers?s Journal" that their periodical ... | William Edwin Adams | G.W.M. Reynolds | Reynolds's Miscellany | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | ?Excepting "Pilgrim?s Progress", "Gulliver?s Travels" and the "Arabian Nights", I saw and read none of the books which... | William Edwin Adams | John Bunyan | Pilgrim's Progress | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | ?Excepting "Pilgrim?s Progress", "Gulliver?s Travels" and the "Arabian Nights", I saw and read none of the books which... | William Edwin Adams | Jonathan Swift | Gulliver's Travels | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | ?Excepting "Pilgrim?s Progress", "Gulliver?s Travels" and the "Arabian Nights", I saw and read none of the books which... | William Edwin Adams | anon | Arabian Nights | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | ?Great was our delight, too, when chance opportunities came in the way of such of us as could read. An opportunity of... | William Edwin Adams | William Shakespeare | [plays] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | ?A situation as an errand boy at a bookseller?s was then found for me. A circulating library was attached to the busin... | William Edwin Adams | Eliot Warburton | Crescent and the Cross | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | ?A situation as an errand boy at a bookseller?s was then found for me. A circulating library was attached to the busin... | William Edwin Adams | Alfred, Lord Tennyson | [poems] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | ?One Sunday afternoon, the usual call was made for our ramble in the fields. Word was sent to the callers that their o... | William Edwin Adams | Edward Young | The Complaint: or night thoughts | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | ?If I did not at that time educate myself, I at least did the next best thing. I tried to. English was picked up from ... | William Edwin Adams | John Cobbett | Cobbett's Grammar | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | ?If I did not at that time educate myself, I at least did the next best thing. I tried to. English was picked up from ... | William Edwin Adams | John Cassell | Popular Educator | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | ?? the shining events in Paris and the newer literature that began to be issued saw the young men of my age wild with ... | William Edwin Adams | Thomas Paine | The Rights of Man | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | ?The "Morning Star" was at that time the leading Radical daily in London ? almost the only Radical daily, indeed. It w... | William Edwin Adams | [n/a] | Morning Star | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia]; Several pp of ms notes copied from another related work laid into v.1. Notes are entitled 'Extract from ... | John Drummond Erskine | Bernard de Montfaucon | Antiquity explained, and represented in sculptures, by the learned Father Montfaucon, translated into English by David Humphreys, | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia]: very brief annotations, bookmarks and marginal marks, indicating active use when on visit to Paris. Also... | Magdalene Erskine | Bernard de Montfaucon | Antiquity explained, and represented in sculptures, by the learned Father Montfaucon, translated into English by David Humphreys | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I have begun the Eumenides, having finished the Choephorae. We are reading Wordsworth in the evenings - at least G. i... | George Henry Lewes | William Wordsworth | | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'G. has finished "the Excursion", which repaid us for going to the end by an occasional fine passage even to the last.' | George Henry Lewes | William Wordsworth | Excursion, The | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '[Barrett Wendell] has [...] sent me his new book on Shakespeare, in which I have been (I had read some laudatory noti... | Henry James | unknown | review of Barrett Wendell's critical study of Shakespeare | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | '[Barrett Wendell] has [...] sent me his new book on Shakespeare, in which I have been (I had read some laudatory noti... | Henry James | Barrett Wendell | critical study of Shakespeare | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Henry James to Francis Boott, 11 October 1895: 'This is but a p.s. of three lines to the letter I posted to you yester... | Henry James | | The Times | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | Henry James to Edward Holton James, 15 February 1896: 'For the two stories in the "Harvard Magazine" I am [...] gratef... | Henry James | Edward Holton James | two stories | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | Henry James, in 25 July 1896 letter to Edmund Gosse, praises Pierre Louys' novel "Aphrodite: moeurs antiques", which h... | Henry James | Pierre Louys | Aphrodite: moeurs antiques | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Henry James to Edmund Gosse, 25 July 1896: '"Rome" is of a [italics] lourdeur [end italics] -- as I read it here at t... | Henry James | Emile Zola | Rome | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Henry James to Edmund Gosse, 28 August 1896: 'The only thing that befell me [on recent week in London, from 15 August]... | Henry James | Alphonse Daudet | article on death of Edmond de Goncourt | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | Henry James writes (in French) to Maurice Barres, in praise of "Du Sang, de la Volupte et de la Mort", a copy of which... | Henry James | Maurice Barres | Du Sang, de la Volupte et de la Mort | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | In postscript to his letter of 3 July 1897 to Ellen Temple Hunter, Henry James tells anecdote about 'yesterday afterno... | Henry James | Edward Fitzgerald | Letters | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Henry James thanks Arthur Christopher Benson for letting him borrow and read his 'Diary', in letter of 1 October 1897:... | Henry James | Arthur Christopher Benson | Diary | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Related ms notes laid into book - two small notes about distances, properties, owners, and other features either on s... | Agnes Halkerston | James Duncan | Scotch itinerary, containing the roads through Scotland on an new plan, with copious observations for the entertainment of travellers, The | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Henry James to William James, 20 April 1898: 'I scarcely know what the newpapers say [about the Spanish-American war] ... | Henry James | | The Times | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | Henry James to Antonio de Navarro, 15 June 1898: 'Well, my dear Tony, I have read your ms. [...] It is Hans Andersenes... | Henry James | Antonio de Navarro | MS story | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Despite his grandmother's strictures on reading, Davies read widely. His first attraction was to the penny dreadfuls ... | William Henry Davies | unknown | [Penny Dreadfuls] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Despite his grandmother's strictures on reading, Davies read widely. His first attraction was to the penny dreadfuls ... | William Henry Davies | Walter Scott | [from 'The Lady of the Lake'] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Despite his grandmother's strictures on reading, Davies read widely. His first attraction was to the penny dreadfuls ... | William Henry Davies | unknown | 'The Soldier of the Legion lay dying in Algiers | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Despite his grandmother's strictures on reading, Davies read widely. His first attraction was to the penny dreadfuls ... | William Henry Davies | William Shakespeare | [extracts in school textbook] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Despite his grandmother's strictures on reading, Davies read widely. His first attraction was to the penny dreadfuls ... | William Henry Davies | unknown | [didactic poems] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'In the [italics]Autobiography[end italics] he tells us of the impact of Byron on him and his friend Dave: "His influe... | William Henry Davies | George Gordon, Lord Byron | | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'In the [italics]Autobiography[end italics] he tells us of the impact of Byron on him and his friend Dave: "His influe... | William Henry Davies | Percy Bysshe Shelley | | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'In the [italics]Autobiography[end italics] he tells us of the impact of Byron on him and his friend Dave: "His influe... | William Henry Davies | Christopher Marlowe | | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'In the [italics]Autobiography[end italics] he tells us of the impact of Byron on him and his friend Dave: "His influe... | William Henry Davies | William Shakespeare | [works not reproduced in schoolbooks] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'In the [italics]Autobiography[end italics] he tells us of the impact of Byron on him and his friend Dave: "His influe... | William Henry Davies | William Wordsworth | | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'In the [italics]Autobiography[end italics] he tells us of the impact of Byron on him and his friend Dave: "His influe... | [Dave, friend of W.H. Davies] anon | George Gordon, Lord Byron | | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | [When in hospital in Renfrew, Canada, W.H. Davies] 'commented on the inappropriateness of some of the reading matter s... | William Henry Davies | unknown | Freddie's Friend | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | [When in hospital in Renfrew, Canada, W.H. Davies] 'commented on the inappropriateness of some of the reading matter s... | William Henry Davies | unknown | Little Billie's Button | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | [When in hospital in Renfrew, Canada, W.H. Davies] 'commented on the inappropriateness of some of the reading matter s... | William Henry Davies | unknown | Sally's Sacrifice | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Henry James writes (in French) in letter of 26 September 1898 to Paul Bourget of reading Pierre Louys' novel "La Femme... | Henry James | Pierre Louys | La Femme et le Pantin | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Henry James writes (in French) in letter of 26 September 1898 to Paul Bourget of having read and admired a novel by Ma... | Henry James | Matilda Serao | [unidentified novel] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Henry James to Minnie Bourget, 8 April 1899: 'I have been reading "Jean d'Agreve" with a mixture of recognitions and r... | Henry James | E.M. De Vogüé | Jean d'Agreve | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Henry James to Charles Eliot Norton, 28 November 1899 (in letter begun 24 November 1899): 'I gather [...] that you hav... | Henry James | J. W. Mackail | The Life of William Morris | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 1900-1945 | Henry James to Mrs Everard Cotes, 26 January 1900, on (published) novel she has written and sent to him: 'Your book is... | Henry James | Mrs Everard Cotes | His Honour and a Lady | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 1900-1945 | Henry James to H. G. Wells, 29 January 1900: 'It was very graceful of you to send me your book -- I mean the particula... | Henry James | H. G. Wells | The Time Machine | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 1900-1945 | Henry James to Katherine Prescott Wormeley, 8 February 1900, thanking her for sending him a proof copy of her preface ... | Henry James | Katherine Prescott Wormeley | MS notes to Balzac's Letters | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 1900-1945 | Henry James to Katherine Prescott Wormeley, 8 February 1900, thanking her for sending him a proof copy of her preface ... | Henry James | Katherine Prescott Wormeley | Preface [on Balzac] | Print: proof |
| 1850-1899 1900-1945 | Henry James to Katherine Prescott Wormeley, 8 February 1900, thanking her for sending him a proof copy of her preface ... | Henry James | Honore de Balzac | Un Roman d'Amour | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 1900-1945 | Henry James to Katherine Prescott Wormeley, 8 February 1900, thanking her for sending him a proof copy of her preface ... | Henry James | Honore de Balzac | Lettres a l'Etrangere | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Henry James to Paul Bourget, 15 May 1900, thanking him for copy of his collection of tales, Drames de Famille: 'I have... | Henry James | Paul Bourget | Drames de Famille | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Henry James to Mrs William James, 22 May 1900: 'Thank you [...] for telling me of Santayana's book (P. and R.) which h... | Henry James | George Santayana | Interpretations of Poetry and Religion | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Henry James to Ford Madox Hueffer, 23 May 1900, thanking him for copy of his newly published volume of verse: 'I think... | Henry James | Ford Madox Hueffer | Poems for Pictures | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Henry James to William Dean Howells, 29 June 1900: '[...] I've been, of late, reading you again as continuously as pos... | Henry James | William Dean Howells | Ragged Lady | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Henry James to William Dean Howells, 29 June 1900: '[...] I've been, of late, reading you again as continuously as pos... | Henry James | William Dean Howells | Their Silver Wedding Journey | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Henry James to William Dean Howells, 29 June 1900: '[...] I've been, of late, reading you again as continuously as pos... | Henry James | William Dean Howells | 'Pursuit of the Piano' (short story) | Print: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | Henry James to W. Morton Fullerton, 9 August 1901: 'You speak of your "Cornhill" article as one always speaks and feel... | Henry James | W. Morton Fullerton | article | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | Henry James to William Dean Howells, 10 August 1901: 'Ever since receiving and reading your elegant volume of short ta... | Henry James | William Dean Howells | A Pair of Patient Lovers | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Henry James to Sarah Orne Jewett, 5 October 1901: 'Let me not [...] delay to thank you for your charming and generous ... | Henry James | Sarah Orne Jewett | The Tory Lover | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Henry James to Rudyard Kipling, 30 October 1901: 'I can't lay down "Kim" without wanting much to write to you [...] I ... | Henry James | Rudyard Kipling | Kim | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Henry James to Graham Balfour, 15 November 1901: 'Into my rural backwater books float a bit slowly and circuitously, s... | Henry James | Graham Balfour | Life of Robert Louis Stevenson | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Henry James to Owen Wister, 7 August 1902: 'I have been reading "The Virginian" and I am moved to write to you. You d... | Henry James | Owen Wister | The Virginian | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Henry James, in letter to Edith Wharton of 17 August 1902, writes to her of 'lately having read "The Valley of Decisio... | Henry James | Edith Wharton | The Valley of Decision | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Henry James to W. Morton Fullerton, 7 November 1902: 'Your two little periodicals have just come in [...] I immediatel... | Henry James | unknown | article on Zola | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | Henry James to Sarah Butler Wister, 21 December 1902: ' [...] as for the "Morgesons" and "Two Men," I read them long y... | Henry James | Elizabeth Drew Stoddard | The Morgesons | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | Henry James to Sarah Butler Wister, 21 December 1902: ' [...] as for the "Morgesons" and "Two Men," I read them long y... | Henry James | Elizabeth Drew Stoddard | Two Men | Print: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | Henry James to Urbain Mengin, 1 January 1903: 'Your great handsome wide-margined large-printed, yellow-covered "Italie... | Henry James | Urbain Mengin | Italie des Romantiques | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Henry James to Howard Sturgis, 8 November 1903: 'I send you back the blooming proofs [of Sturgis's novel "Belchamber"]... | Henry James | Howard Sturgis | Belchamber | Print: In proof |
| 1900-1945 | Henry James to Howard Sturgis, 8 November 1903: 'I send you back the blooming proofs [of Sturgis's novel "Belchamber"]... | Henry James | Howard Sturgis | A Sketch from Memory | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | Henry James to Viscount Garnet Wolseley, 7 December 1903: 'I feel I must absolutely not have passed these several last... | Henry James | Viscount Garnet Wolseley | The Story of a Soldier's Life | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 1900-1945 | Henry James to Grace Norton, 13 December 1903: 'Lowes Dickinson, whom you [...] mention [in her most recent letter to ... | Henry James | Goldsworthy Lowes Dickinson | [book on Greek history] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Henry James to H. G. Wells, 24 January 1904: 'I've [italics] wanted [end italics], day after day, to write -- wanted t... | Henry James | H. G. Wells | Mankind in the Making | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Henry James to H. G. Wells, 24 January 1904: 'I've [italics] wanted [end italics], day after day, to write -- wanted t... | Henry James | H. G. Wells | Twelve Stories and a Dream | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Henry James to Edith Wharton, 8 February 1905: '[...] your good letter has found me on the very point of writing to yo... | Henry James | Edith Wharton | The House of Mirth (second instalment) | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | Henry James to Edith Wharton, 8 November 1905, in praise of the conclusion to "The House of Mirth": 'Half an hour ago,... | Henry James | Edith Wharton | The House of Mirth (final instalment) | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | Henry James to H. G. Wells, 19 November 1905, in praise of two works recently sent by Wells: 'I found your first munif... | Henry James | H. G. Wells | A Modern Utopia | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Henry James to H. G. Wells, 19 November 1905, in praise of two works recently sent by Wells: 'I found your first munif... | Henry James | H. G. Wells | Kipps | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Henry James to William James, 23 November 1905: 'I can read [italics]you[end italics] with rapture -- having three wee... | Henry James | William James | [Unidentified recently published writings] | Print: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | Henry James to Paul Bourget 21 December 1905, thanking him for copy of "Les Deux Soeurs": 'This volume I read with imm... | Henry James | Paul Bourget | Les Deux Soeurs | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Henry James to the Earl of Lovelace, 14 January 1906: 'I left home at Christmas for a few weeks' stay, which became a ... | Henry James | Ralph Gordon Noel King, second Earl of Lovelace | Astarte | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Henry James to the Earl of Lovelace, 14 January 1906, thanking him for a copy of "Astarte", Lovelace's account of his ... | Henry James | various | Byron family papers | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | Henry James, in 1 November 1906 letter to Joseph Conrad, writes of having just read and admired "The Mirror of the Sea". | Henry James | Joseph Conrad | The Mirror of the Sea | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Henry James to H. G. Wells, 8 November 1906: 'I came back last night from five days in London to find your so generous... | Henry James | H. G. Wells | The Future in America | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Henry James writes to Paul Bourget (in French) in a letter of 19 December 1906, of having enjoyed his "Etudes et Portr... | Henry James | Paul Bourget | Etudes et portraits | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Henry James writes to Paul Bourget (in French) in a letter of 19 December 1906, of having read his article on Ferdinan... | Henry James | Paul Bourget | article on Ferdinand Brunetiere | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | Henry James to Elizabeth Jordan, 3 May 1907: 'you sent me Mrs. Phelps Ward's contribution to the "Whole Family" -- whi... | Henry James | Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward | The Whole Family (chapter) | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 | Henry James to Elizabeth Jordan, 3 May 1907, in response to her question about his favourite fairy stories when a chil... | Henry James | various | [unidentified book of fairy stories] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Henry James to Clare Benedict, 13 September 1907: 'Returning to this place [Lamb House, Rye] early in July after a lon... | Henry James | Clare Benedict | "Roderick Eaton's Children" | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 1900-1945 | Leon Edel notes, regarding Henry James's letter to James B. Pinker of 14 October 1907: 'The eminent actor Johnston For... | Johnston Forbes-Robertson | Henry James | "Covering End" | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Henry James to William James, 17 October 1907: 'Why the devil I didn't write to you after reading your "Pragmatism" [.... | Henry James | William James | Pragmatism: A New Name for Some Old Ways of Thinking | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Henry James to William James, 17 October 1907: 'Why the devil I didn't write to you after reading your "Pragmatism" [.... | Henry James | William James | journal articles on psychology | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | Henry James to Edith Wharton, 24 November 1907: 'I have read "The Fruit [of the Tree", in copy sent by Wharton][...] w... | Henry James | Edith Wharton | The Fruit of the Tree | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Henry James to Hugh Walpole, 13 May 1910: 'I "read," in a manner, "Maradick" -- [...] Your book has a great sense and ... | Henry James | Hugh Walpole | Maradick at Forty | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Henry James to Hugh Walpole, 15 April 1911: 'I congratulate you ever so gladly on Mr. Perrin -- I think the book repre... | Henry James | Hugh Walpole | Mr. Perrin and Mr. Traill | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Henry James to Professor Josiah Royce, 30 June 1911: 'I snatch too hurried a moment to express to you my great appreci... | Henry James | Josiah Royce | Phi Beta address on the work and influence of William James | Print: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | Henry James to Hugh Walpole, 13 October 1911: 'I have just been reading the "Standard" [containing Walpole's review of... | Henry James | Hugh Walpole | review of Henry James, The Outcry | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | Henry James to Mrs W. K. Clifford, 18 May 1912: 'I am reading the Green Book in bits -- as it were -- the only way in ... | Henry James | unknown | "the Green Book" | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Henry James to Mrs W. K. Clifford, 18 May 1912: 'I find G. W. [Mrs Clifford's recent novel] very brisk and alive, but ... | Henry James | Mrs W. K. Clifford | The Getting Well of Dorothy | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Henry James to Hugh Walpole, 19 May 1912: 'A. Benett [sic] I've never to this day beheld -- and certain [italics]Ameri... | Henry James | Arnold Bennett | articles | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | Henry James to Edmund Gosse, whilst suffering from illness, 10 October 1912: 'I receive with pleasure the small Swinbu... | Henry James | Edmund Gosse | life of Swinburne | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Henry James to Edmund Gosse, 10 October 1912:
'I have received within a day or two dear old George Meredith's "Let... | Henry James | George Meredith | Letters | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Henry James to Edmund Gosse, 10 October 1912:
'I have received within a day or two dear old George Meredith's "Let... | Henry James | H. G. Wells | Marriage | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Henry James to H. G. Wells, 18 October 1912, whilst suffering from shingles: 'you may not have forgotten that you kind... | Henry James | H. G. Wells | Marriage | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Henry James to Edmund Gosse, 9 November 1912: 'I received longer ago than I quite lke to give chapter and verse for yo... | Henry James | Edmund Gosse | Portraits and Sketches | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Henry James, in letter to Edmund Gosse, 9 November 1912, mentions 'having recently read [...] [Andrew Lang's] (in two ... | Henry James | Andrew Lang | The Maid of France, being the Story of the Life and Death of Jeanne d'Arc | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Henry James, in letter to Edmund Gosse, 9 November 1912, mentions 'having recently read [...] [Andrew Lang's] (in two ... | Henry James | Andrew Lang | compendium of English literature | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Henry James to Edith Wharton, 4 December 1912, whilst suffering from shingles: 'Your beautiful Book ["The Reef: A Nove... | Henry James | Edith Wharton | The Reef: A Novel | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Henry James to Hugh Walpole, 11 April 1913: 'I have [...] read -- with difficulty -- another Young Fiction of the day... | Henry James | Gilbert Cannan | Round the Corner | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Henry James to Hugh Walpole, 21 August 1913: 'I have been reading over Tolstoi's interminable "Peace and War" [sic] an... | Henry James | Leo Tolstoy | War and Peace | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Henry James to H. G. Wells, 21 September 1913, thanking him for a copy of his new novel, "The Passionate Friends": 'I ... | Henry James | H. G. Wells | The Passionate Friends | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Henry James to Hugh Walpole, 14 October 1913: 'I have just been re-reading over Tolstoi'. | Henry James | Leo Tolstoy | War and Peace | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Henry James to Andre Raffalovich, 7 November 1913: 'I thank you very kindly indeed for the volume of [Aubrey] Beardsle... | Henry James | Aubrey Beardsley | The Last Letters of Aubrey Beardsley | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Henry James to Compton Mackenzie, 21 January 1914: 'When I wrote to [James B.] Pinker I had only read "S[inister].S[tr... | Henry James | Compton Mackenzie | Sinister Street (vol.1) | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Henry James to Compton Mackenzie, 21 January 1914: 'When I wrote to [James B.] Pinker I had only read "S[inister].S[tr... | Henry James | Compton Mackenzie | Carnival | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Henry James to William Roughead, 29 January 1914:'I devoured the tender Mary Blandy [subject of one of Roughead's chro... | Henry James | William Roughead | chronicle of trial of Mary Blandy | Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | Henry James to Hugh Walpole, 5 February 1914: 'I have the volume [one by Walpole] (since last night), and shall attack... | Henry James | Joseph Conrad | Chance | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Henry James, in letter of 19 August 1914, thanks Edith Wharton for 'D'Annunzio's frenchified ode', which he has appare... | Henry James | Gabriele D'Annunzio | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Henry James, in letter of 21 November 1914 to Hugh Walpole, writes of his bemusement at the second volume of Compton M... | Henry James | Compton Mackenzie | Sinister Street (vol 2) | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Henry James to Hugh Walpole, 21 November 1914: '[H. G.] Wells has published a mere flat tiresomeness ("Sir Isaac Harma... | Henry James | H. G. Wells | Sir Isaac Harman's Wife | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Henry James to James B. Pinker, 6 January 1915: 'be thanked [...] for your conveyance to me of Arnold Bennett's health... | Henry James | H. G. Wells | critique of George Bernard Shaw, Common Sense about the War | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | Henry James to James B. Pinker, 6 January 1915: 'be thanked [...] for your conveyance to me of Arnold Bennett's health... | Henry James | Arnold Bennett | critique of George Bernard Shaw, Common Sense about the War | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | Henry James to James B. Pinker, 6 January 1915: 'I have had to settle down [...] to looking at almost nothing but "The... | Henry James | | The Times | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | Henry James to James B. Pinker, 6 January 1915: 'I have had to settle down [...] to looking at almost nothing but "The... | Henry James | | The Morning Post | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | Henry James to Edward Marsh, 28 March 1915: 'I take it very kindly indeed of you to have found thought and time to sen... | Henry James | Rupert Brooke | sonnets | Print: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | Henry James to Margot Asquith, 9 April 1915, thanking her for sending him her diary to read ('a few days ago'): 'I hav... | Henry James | Margot Asquith | Diary | Manuscript: Codex |
| 1900-1945 | Henry James to H. G. Wells, 6 July 1915: 'I was given yesterday at a club your volume "Boon, etc.", from a loose leaf ... | Henry James | H. G. Wells | Boon, The Mind of the Race, The Wild Asses of the Devil, and The Last Trump | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | [Marginalia]: brief ink additions to some 6 pp of the text e.g p.57 against XXXVIII is the note 'This act is ... to be... | Johannes [ie John] Chrystie | John Middleton | The laws and acts of the first Parliament | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia]: marginal marks (*) and dates throughout the guidebook, with v.2 more heavily marked than v.1.: eg. p.376... | Magdalene Erskine | Mariano Vasi | Itineraire instructif de Rome ancienne et moderne ? | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 1800-1849 | ?My father, as before stated, was a reader, and amongst other books which he now read, was Pain?s [sic] "Rights of Men... | Daniel Bamford | Thomas Paine | Rights of Man | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 1800-1849 | ?My father, as before stated, was a reader, and amongst other books which he now read, was Pain?s [sic] "Rights of Men... | Daniel Bamford | [unknown] | [theological works] | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia]: a drawing on a blank page at end of text relates to the topic. It is an unflattering portrait of a cleri... | John Drummond Erskine | Andrew Fuller | An apology for the late Christian missions to India | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 1800-1849 | [Marginalia]: ms notes on some 12pp, some ink, some pencil, most in English, some in Arabic. All are notes on points o... | John Drummond Erskine | John Richardson | Grammar of the Arabick language in which the rules are illustrated by authorities from the best writers; principally adapted for the service of the Honourable East India Company | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | ?There was and is so judicious a blending of light and heavy literature in "Chambers?s Journal" that their periodical ... | William Edwin Adams | [n/a] | [penny bloods] | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1700-1799 | 'During the first half year I was at this school Mr Gibson got Moliere's plays for me in 10 vols., French and English,... | John Marsh | Jean-Baptiste Poquelin | [plays] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | ?With this proposal I of course readily closed and accordingly the next day my father gave me the 1st vol of the "Univ... | John Marsh | John Campbell | The Universal History | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | ?With this proposal I of course readily closed and accordingly the next day my father gave me the 1st vol of the "Univ... | John Marsh | Rapin de Thoyras | History of England | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | ?With this proposal I of course readily closed and accordingly the next day my father gave me the 1st vol of the "Univ... | John Marsh | John Dryden | Virgil's husbandry; or, An essay on the Georgics | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | ?With this proposal I of course readily closed and accordingly the next day my father gave me the 1st vol of the "Univ... | John Marsh | Voltaire | Histoire de Charles XII | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | ?With this proposal I of course readily closed and accordingly the next day my father gave me the 1st vol of the "Univ... | John Marsh | Francois Fenelan | Les Aventures de Telemaque | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | ?With this proposal I of course readily closed and accordingly the next day my father gave me the 1st vol of the "Univ... | John Marsh | Alain Rene le Sage | Diable Boiteaux | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | ?With this proposal I of course readily closed and accordingly the next day my father gave me the 1st vol of the "Univ... | John Marsh | Virgil | Eneid | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | ?The day after this being the last of the year, I managed to finish reading Blackstone?s Commentaries and Goldsmith?s ... | John Marsh | William Blackstone | Commentaries on the laws of England | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | ?The day after this being the last of the year, I managed to finish reading Blackstone?s Commentaries and Goldsmith?s ... | John Marsh | Oliver Goldsmith | History of England from the earliest times to the death of George II | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | ?As during my confinement I amused myself with light reading, I now for the 1st time read the "Spiritual Quixote" (w?t... | John Marsh | Richard Graves | The spiritual Quixote: or the summer's ramble of Mr Geoffry Wildgoose | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | ?Being now became a constant attendant of the gent?n ringers once or twice a week, I ? began to aspire towards ringing... | John Marsh | members of the Society of London Scholars, J.D. and C.M. | Campanologia improved; or, the Art of ringing made easie | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | ?On our coming home & Candles being brought in he took up a volume of "Clarissa Harlowe" (w?ch we happen?d then all to... | John Marsh | Samuel Richardson | Clarissa | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'On Tuesday the 10th. I began reading Burret's "Theory of the Earth", w'ch I found in my library, in w'ch I soon becam... | John Marsh | Thomas Burnett | Theory of the Earth | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I am glad you ha[ve] attacked Hume. Your remarks are just as far as I can determine'. | John A. Carlyle | Hume | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'On Tuesday the 30th. I began reading for the 1st time Anson's "Voyage round the World", w'th which I was much amused ... | John Marsh | Richard Walter | Anson's Voyage round the World | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'The "Lounger" a new publication being a book now pretty much read, we at this time got it from Humphrey's library & M... | John Marsh | [n/a] | The Lounger | Print: Book, Serial / periodical |
| 1700-1799 | 'The next morning I took a ride to Stoke where Lady Louisa show'd me a paragraph she had cut out of the "Star", reflec... | John Marsh | [n/a] | Star, The | Print: Newspaper |
| 1700-1799 | 'Paine's "Rights of Man, or Answer to Burke" being now lately come out & much talked of, we got it in our society and ... | John Marsh | Thomas Paine | Rights of Man | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Having been lately interested in astronomical studies & been reading Ferguson and Bonnycastle on that science; I on ... | John Marsh | James Ferguson | His Astronomy explained on Sir Isaac Newton's Principles | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Having been lately interested in astronomical studies & been reading Ferguson and Bonnycastle on that science; I on ... | John Marsh | John Bonnycastle | An introduction to astronomy | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'On the Sunday follow'g (9th) ... we first heard a rumour of the massacre of the prisoners on the 2d & 3d at Paris, th... | John Marsh | [n/a] | [newspaper] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | Fanny Kemble, 22 July 1831, following record of discussion with her aunt Dall in which the prospect was raised of her ... | Fanny Kemble | Dante Alighieri | The Divine Comedy (Purgatorio) | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Fanny Kemble, 20 August 1832, on board ship to America: 'I have done more in the shape of work to-day, than any since ... | Fanny Kemble | Dante Alighieri | The Divine Comedy | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Fanny Kemble, 20 August 1832, on board ship to America: 'I have done more in the shape of work to-day, than any since ... | Fanny Kemble | unknown | German fable | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Fanny Kemble, 21 September 1832: 'The few critiques that I have seen upon our acting have been, upon the whole, laudat... | Fanny Kemble | anon | theatre reviews | Print: Newspaper, Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | Fanny Kemble, 21 September 1832: 'The few critiques that I have seen upon our acting have been, upon the whole, laudat... | Fanny Kemble | anon | theatre review in The Mirror | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | Fanny Kemble, 9 October 1832: 'I have begun Grahame's "History of America", and like it "mainly," as the old plays say'. | Fanny Kemble | Grahame | History of America | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'We certainly do not think it as a [italics] whole [end italics], equal to P. & P. - but it has many & great beauties.... | Francis William Austen | Jane Austen | Mansfield Park | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Not so clever as P.&P. - but pleased with it altogether. Liked the character of Fanny. Admired the Portsmouth Scene... | Edward Austen Knight | Jane Austen | Mansfield Park | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Fanny Kemble, 3 December 1832: 'After breakfast [on board steamboat] returned to my crib. As I was removing "Contarin... | Fanny Kemble | Benjamin Disraeli | Contarini Fleming (one of multiple volumes) | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Fanny Knight. - Liked it, in many parts, very much indeed, delighted with Fanny; - but not satisfied with the end - w... | Fanny Knight | Jane Austen | Mansfield Park | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Fanny Kemble, 3 December 1832: 'Arrived at Amboy [from New York], we disembarked [from steamboat] and bundled ourselve... | Fanny Kemble | unknown | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Anna liked it better than P.& P. - but not so well as S.&S. - could not bear Fanny. - Delighted with Mrs Norris, the ... | Anna Lefroy | Jane Austen | Mansfield Park | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Mrs James Austen, very much pleased. Enjoyed Mrs Norris particularly, & the scene at Portsmouth. Thought Henry Craw... | Anne Austen | Jane Austen | Mansfield Park | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Fanny Kemble, 3 December 1832: 'Arrived at the Mansion House [in Philadelphia], which I was quite glad to gain [after ... | Fanny Kemble | Benjamin Disraeli | Contarini Fleming | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'My Mother - not liked it so well as P. & P. - Thought Fanny insipid. Enjoyed Mrs. Norris.' | Cassandra Leigh Austen | Jane Austen | Mansfield Park | 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 |
| 1800-1849 | Fanny Kemble, journal letter to Harriet St. Leger, 27 June 1835, listing 'the books just now lying on my table, all of... | Fanny Kemble | Alfieri | Life | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Fanny Kemble, journal letter to Harriet St. Leger, 27 June 1835, listing 'the books just now lying on my table, all of... | Fanny Kemble | Washington Irving | A Tour on the Prairies | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Mr B.L. - Highly pleased with Fanny Price - & a warm admirer of the Portsmouth Scene. - Angry with Edmund for not be... | Benjamin Lefroy | Jane Austen | Mansfield Park | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Fanny Kemble, journal letter to Harriet St. Leger, 27 June 1835, listing 'the books just now lying on my table, all of... | Fanny Kemble | Dr Combe | Principles of Physiology | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Fanny Kemble, journal letter to Harriet St. Leger, 27 June 1835, listing 'the books just now lying on my table, all of... | Fanny Kemble | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe | Faust | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Fanny Kemble, journal letter to Harriet St. Leger, 27 June 1835, listing 'the books just now lying on my table, all of... | Fanny Kemble | Christopher Marlowe | Doctor Faustus | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Fanny Cage - did not much like it - not to be compared to P. & P. - nothing interesting in the Characters - Language ... | Fanny Cage | Jane Austen | Mansfield Park | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Fanny Kemble, journal letter to Harriet St. Leger, 27 June 1835, listing 'the books just now lying on my table, all of... | Fanny Kemble | George Gordon Lord Byron | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Fanny Kemble, journal letter to Harriet St. Leger, 27 June 1835, listing 'the books just now lying on my table, all of... | Fanny Kemble | Jeremy Taylor | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Fanny Kemble, journal letter to Harriet St. Leger, 27 June 1835: 'I read my Bible diligently every day'. | Fanny Kemble | | The Bible | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'The families at Deane - all pleased with it. Mrs Anna Harwood delighted with Mrs Norris & the green curtain.' | Anna Harwood | Jane Austen | Mansfield Park | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Fanny Kemble to Harriet St. Leger, 14 July 1844: 'I read but very little. My leisure is principally given to my Germa... | Fanny Kemble | unknown | German text/s | Print: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | 'On this day I began reading Darwin's "Zoonomia", w'ch I had lately proposed in the Book Society.' | John Marsh | Erasmus Darwin | Zoonomia | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Fanny Kemble, 20 April 1846: 'My friend has given me a charming little Sicilian song, of which the following is a free... | Fanny Kemble | Anon | [Sicilian song] | Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | 'On this day I finis'd Sullivan's "View of Nature" w'ch I had from the Library Society from w'ch & from the Book Socie... | John Marsh | Sir Richard Joseph Sullivan | A View of nature, in Letters to a Traveller among the Alps | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'On the next day (Tuesday 31st) I went to Canterbury in the coach & on the same evening in the diligence to Dover wher... | John Marsh | C B E Naubert | Hermann of Unna | 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"... | John Marsh | Ann Radcliffe | A Sicilian Romance | 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"... | John Marsh | Carl Philipp Moritz | Travels of a German through England in 1782 | 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"... | John Marsh | Carl Philipp Moritz | Travels of a German through England in 1782 | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'At this time to amuse myself in my confinement I read the "Life of Pope Sixtus 5th." w'ch Miss Poole ... lent me. My ... | John Marsh | [unknown] | Life of Pope Sixtus V | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'At this time to amuse myself in my confinement I read the "Life of Pope Sixtus 5th." w'ch Miss Poole ... lent me. My ... | John Marsh | [unknown] | Life of Pope Sixtus V | 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... | John Marsh | [unknown] | [various] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'On the next day (Saturday 9th) I went to Canterbury in the diligence, during w'ch I amused myself with reading part o... | John Marsh | Voltaire | Candide | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'On the next day (Saturday 9th) I went to Canterbury in the diligence, during w'ch I amused myself with reading part o... | John Marsh | William Godwin | Things as they are, or The Adventures of Caleb Williams | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | '...immediately afterwards went in the diligence to Margate during which I finished the eccentric performance of "Cale... | John Marsh | William Godwin | Things as they are, or The Adventures of Caleb Williams | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'To amuse myself during this solitary journey I got Cumberland's "Henry" (then a new publication)... Wishing to reach ... | John Marsh | Richard Cumberland | Henry | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'To amuse myself during this journey I brought the life of the eccentric Benvenuto Cellini to read in the chaise etc. ... | John Marsh | Benvenuto Cellini | The life of Benvenuto Cellini | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'The next day being wet, we staid [sic] within, when to amuse me I got the 2 last vols of the "Mysteries of Udolpho" (... | John Marsh | Ann Radcliffe | The Mysteries of Udolpho | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'The next day being wet, we staid [sic] within, when to amuse me I got the 2 last vols of the "Mysteries of Udolpho" (... | John Marsh | George Keate | Sketches from nature, taken and coloured on a journey to Margate | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'On Monday the 30th we went in the coach with... Mr Norman, with whom we dined at the Bolt & Tun, where John & I spent... | John Marsh | Matthew Lewis | The Monk | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'I on Friday the 16th went up in the coach to consult Mess'rs Bridges, Blake & other friends upon the matter, taking w... | John Marsh | Agnes Maria Bennett | The beggar girl and her benefactors | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'I rode to Brighton on my way back, where I spent the evening and slept at the Old Ship, amusing myself besides my nov... | John Marsh | [unknown] | [a novel] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'I spent the evening and slept at the Old Tree, a very poor inn in which I was forced to sleep in a double bedded room... | John Marsh | Alain-Rene Le Sage | The history of Vanillo Gonzales, surnamed the Merry Bachelor | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'I on Tuesday the 8th went in the afternoon to Fareham by the telegraph, where I spent the evening & slept at the Red ... | John Marsh | [anon] | Maria or The Vicarage | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | '... at the end of my fourth year I drew a small weekly salary one half of which my father allowed me for my own use..... | Charles Manby Smith | [unknown] | [various titles] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Smith joins a reading group of seven with a view to self-improvement] 'We got a good room, with such attendance as we... | Charles Manby Smith | [unknown] | [various] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Having now occasion to go into Kent on business, I on Friday the 10th. went in the coach with Mr Chaldecott and 4 oth... | John Marsh | Isaac d'Israeli | Varien; or Sketches of the Times | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Having finish'd my business in this neighbourhood, I on the next day (Friday the 24th) return'd to London in the coac... | John Marsh | Charlotte Smith | The Young Philosopher | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Having finish'd my business in this neighbourhood, I on the next day (Friday the 24th) return'd to London in the coac... | John Marsh | Jane West | The History of Ned Evans | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'I had, indeed been extremely anxious to hear of poor Pacchierotti, for the account of his Illness in the newspapers h... | Frances Burney | | [newspaper] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | 'Captain Austen. - liked it extremely, observing that though there might be more Wit in P & P - & an higher Morality i... | Captain Frank Austen | Jane Austen | Emma | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Mrs F.A. - liked & admired it very much indeed, but must still prefer P & P.' | [Mrs Francis] Austen | Jane Austen | Emma | 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 | 'Fanny K. - not so well as either P & P or M P. - could not bear Emma herself. Mr Knightley delightful. Should like ... | Fanny Knight | Jane Austen | Emma | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'My Mother - thought it more entertaining than M.P. - but not so interesting as P.& P. - No characters in it equal to ... | Cassandra Leigh Austen | Jane Austen | Emma | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Fanny Cage - liked it very much indeed & classed it between P & P & M.P.' | Fanny Cage | Jane Austen | Emma | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Countess Craven - admired it very much, but did not think it equal to P & P. - which she ranked as the very first of ... | [Countess] Craven | Jane Austen | Emma | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Henry Sanford - very much pleased with it - delighted with Miss Bates, but thought Mrs Elton the best-drawn Character... | Henry Sanford | Jane Austen | Emma | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Countess Morley - delighted with it.' | [Countess] Morley | Jane Austen | Emma | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Mr B. Lefroy - thought that if there had been more Incident, it would be equal to any of the others. -The Characters... | Benjamin Lefroy | Jane Austen | Emma | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Mr Jeffery (of the Edinburgh Review) was kept up by it three nights.' | Francis Jeffrey | Jane Austen | Emma | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I sat up till two, as I did last night, to finish "Pride and Prejudice". This novel I consider as one of the most ex... | Henry Crabb Robinson | Jane Austen | Pride and Prejudice | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'In the evening read the last volume of "Emma", a novel evincing great good sense, and an acute observation of human l... | Henry Crabb Robinson | Jane Austen | Emma | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I was reading to-day and I have since finished Miss Martineau's "Deerbrook", a capital novel though it is too full of... | Henry Crabb Robinson | Harriet Martineau | Deerbrook | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I was reading yesterday and to-day "Sense and Sensibility", which I resumed at the second volume. The last volume gre... | Henry Crabb Robinson | Jane Austen | Sense and Sensibility | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I went on with "Persuasion", finished it, began "Northanger Abbey", which I have now finished. These two novels have... | Henry Crabb Robinson | Jane Austen | Persuasion | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I went on with "Persuasion", finished it, began "Northanger Abbey", which I have now finished. These two novels have... | Henry Crabb Robinson | Jane Austen | Northanger Abbey | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have been reading "Emma". Everything Miss Austen writes is clever, but I desiderate something. There is a want of... | John Henry Newman | Jane Austen | Emma | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I am amusing myself with Miss Austin's [sic] novels. She has great power and discrimination in delineating common-pl... | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow | Jane Austen | [novels] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I am amusing myself with Miss Austin's [sic] novels. She has great power and discrimination in delineating common-pl... | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow | Laplace | Mecanique Celeste | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Sunday [2 Apr.] We went to St. James?s Church?heard a very indifferent Preacher, & returned to read better sermons of... | Frances Burney | unknown | [sermons] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'When we were speaking of Dr. Moore?s Travels, I told her that the Character of Mr. C.?reminded me of our friend Mr. S... | Frances Burney | John Moore | View of Society and Manners in France, Switzerland, and Germany: With Anecdotes Relating to Some Eminent Characters | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 | 'I haven't any right to criticise books and I don't often do it except when I hate them. I often want to criticise Ja... | Samuel Langhorne Clemens | Jane Austen | Pride and Prejudice | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'During my late visit to the Hammonds, they had acquainted me with the names of the principal characters amongst our f... | John Marsh | Sir Samuel Egerton Brydges | Arthur Fitz-Albani | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'On Wed'y the 24th I finish'd reading the new & popular novel of the "Irish Excursion", w'ch Mr Hayley had recommended... | John Marsh | [Anon] | The Irish Excursion, or I fear to tell you | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | '... my usual headache on the first day of travelling having come on before I got to Town, I felt by that time very li... | John Marsh | [n/a] | [local newspaper] | Print: Advertisement, Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | 'For some time before this I had found my eyes not so good as they had been, being now oblig'd to hold a book, when re... | John Marsh | [n/a] | [newspaper] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | 'We certainly do not think it ["Mansfield Park"] as a whole equal to P & P - but it has many & great beauties...' | Francis William Austen | Jane Austen | Pride and Prejudice | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | ["Mansfield Park" is] 'Not so clever as P & P - but pleased with it altogether' - Mr K. | Edward Austen Knight | Jane Austen | Pride and Prejudice | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Anna liked it ["Mansfield Park"] better than P & P - but not so well as S & S - could not bear Fanny.' | Anna Austen | Jane Austen | Pride and Prejudice | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Anna liked it ["Mansfield Park"] better than P & P - but not so well as S & S - could not bear Fanny' | Anna Austen | Jane Austen | Sense and Sensibility | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'My Mother - not liked it "[Mansfield Park"] so well as P. & P.' | Cassandra Leigh Austen | Jane Austen | Pride and Prejudice | 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 |
| 1800-1849 | 'Fanny Cage - did not much like it ["Mansfield Park"] - not to be compared with P. & P.' | Fanny Cage | Jane Austen | Pride and Prejudice | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Countess Craven - admired it ["Emma"] very much, but did not think it equal to P & P. - which she rqanked as the very... | [Countess] Craven | Jane Austen | Pride and Prejudice | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Stephen Duck's habits in reading whilst working, as recorded by Joseph Spence in 'A Full and Authentick Account of Ste... | Stephen Duck | | The Spectator | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1700-1799 | Queen Caroline's discovery of the poetry of Stephen Duck, as recorded by Joseph Spence in 'A Full and Authentick Accou... | Queen Caroline | Stephen Duck | poems | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | James Burn, on his first contact with literature after years of having seen none: '"In the latter end of the year of ... | James Dawson Burn | Chevalier Ramsay | Life of Cyrus | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Both John Harris and Mary Smith read the "Remains of Henry Kirke White" "with great delight", and Thomas Carter actua... | John Harris | Henry Kirke White | The Remains of Henry Kirke White | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 | David Vincent notes how it was in the poetry of Burns and Byron that the nineteenth-century labourer Benjamin Brierley... | Benjamin Brierley | George Gordon, Lord Byron | | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 | David Vincent notes how it was in the poetry of Burns and Byron that the nineteenth-century labourer Benjamin Brierley... | Benjamin Brierley | Robert Burns | | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 | The nineteenth-century labourer Benjamin Brierley would recall in his 1886 memoir having read the poetry of Byron and ... | Benjamin Brierley | George Gordon, Lord Byron | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 | The nineteenth-century labourer Benjamin Brierley would recall in his 1886 memoir having read the poetry of Byron and ... | Benjamin Brierley | Robert Burns | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | John Clare, writing in 1821, on his attempt to use a school primer to help improve his written English:
'"Borrowing... | John Clare | | 'Spelling Book' (grammar) | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Alida [Klementaski], like Mrs [Catherine] Dawson Scott, had read "The Farmer's Bride" in 1912, and had not forgotten ... | Catherine Dawson Scott | Charlotte Mew | "The Farmer's Bride" | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | 'In the July of 1918 a copy of "The Farmer's Bride" arrived in [Sydney] Cockerell's vast daily post, with a stiff litt... | Sydney Cockerell | Charlotte Mew | The Farmer's Bride | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '[Sydney] Cockerell [...] busied himself with sending "The Farmer's Bride" to everyone he could think of [...] Wilfred... | Wilfred Scawen Blunt | Charlotte Mew | The Farmer's Bride | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'In 1916 one of the tasks of the second Mrs Hardy was to read aloud in the evenings at their Dorchester home, Max Gate... | Florence Hardy | Charlotte Mew | The Farmer's Bride | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Siegfried Sassoon [...] bought [Sydney] Cockerell the first number of [Harold] Monro's new shilling magazine, "The Mo... | Sydney Cockerell | Charlotte Mew | "Sea Love" | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | 'In the summer [of 1926] [...] [Charlotte Mew and her sister Caroline Frances Ann] were both reading [italics]Gentleme... | Caroline Frances Anne Mew | Anita Loos | Gentlemen Prefer Blondes | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | After Thomas Hardy's death on 11 January 1928, his literary executor Sydney Cockerell 'asked Florence [Hardy] to read ... | Florence Hardy | Thomas Hardy | Memoirs | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | '[in 1811] Reginald Heber reads and praises "War and Peace".' | Reginald Heber | Felicia Dorothea Browne | War and Peace -- A Poem. Written at the age of Fifteen | Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | ?Pray, said Mr Thrale, do you read much??
?When I can meet with large Print,? answered the old Gentleman.
?Did you e... | Henry Thrale | Frances Burney | Evelina | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Well,? at the Lower Rooms we saw this Woman, ? whose Face carries an affirmation of all this account, ? it is bold, h... | Frances Burney | Samuel Richardson | Clarissa | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'When I come here we play at battlecock and shuttledore and mama reads Shakespear in the evening[.] When she goes with... | Henrietta Frances Ponsonby | Shakespeare | unknown | Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | 'Ask Miss Trimmer when it is have you done Clarissa you will be surprised to see so many little dabs of Letters, but i... | Lady Caroline Lamb | Samuel Richardson | Clarissa | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | '. . . this Creature, whose nick Name here is Mrs. MacDevil will not, it seems, be slighted with impunity, & she put t... | Frances Burney | | Learned Lass, or the Poor Scholar's Garland! A Song. Tune, Black Joke. | Print: Newspaper |
| 1700-1799 | 'In the Evening we had Mrs. Lambert, who brought us a Tale, called Edwy & Edilda by the sentimental Clergyman Mr. Whal... | Frances Burney | Whalley | Edwy and Edilda: A Tale in Five Parts | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | ?"She has heard a great deal of you, ? & has seen some of your Letters" . . . I am [ital] very [ital] much concerned, ... | Anne Leigh | Frances Burney | [letters] | Manuscript: Letter |
| 1700-1799 | 'You may lately have seen her pretty often alluded to in the Morning Post, ?but pray who is the [ital] Dr. B [ital] in... | Frances Burney | | Morning Post | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have been keeping rather different hours--though the Priory is far from a late place [...] Wm. [Lady Caroline's hus... | Lady Caroline Lamb | Thomas Newton | Dissertations of the Prophecies with the Bible | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have been keeping rather different hours--though the Priory is far from a late place [...] Wm. [Lady Caroline's hus... | Lady Caroline Lamb | Thomas Sherlock | Sermons | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have been keeping rather different hours--though the Priory is far from a late place [...] Wm. [Lady Caroline's hus... | Lady Caroline Lamb | David Hume | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have been keeping rather different hours--though the Priory is far from a late place [...] Wm. [Lady Caroline's hus... | Lady Caroline Lamb | William Shakespeare | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'How pretty I think your verses they express so exactly what I felt but could not find words to speak [...]' | Lady Caroline Lamb | Lady Georgiana Morpeth | unknown | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'Donna che tanto al mio bel sol piacesti
Che ancor d'preggi tuoi parla sovente
Lodando ora il bel crine, ora il ride... | Lady Caroline Lamb | Faustina Maratti Zappi | Donna che tanto al mio bel sol piacesti | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have really been so occupied with the sorrows of Mary Queen of Scots you must excuse my not have written before. I... | Lady Caroline Lamb | William Robertson | History of Scotland | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have also read the Modern Philosophers, which in spight [sic] of a little vulgarity & too much sameness, I like ext... | Lady Caroline Lamb | Elizabeth Hamilton | Memoirs of Modern Philosophers | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'We have all been reading le Siege de la Rochelle. As I leave others to make their own remarks, I shall only tell you... | Lady Caroline Lamb | Stephanie de Genlis | Le Siege de la Rochelle, ou le malheur et la conscience | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Felicia Hemans to John Lodge, July 1831, on visit to Woodstock, Ireland: 'Amongst other persons of the party was Mr He... | Henry Tighe | Felicia Hemans | "The Graves of a Household" | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Joanna Baillie to Felicia Hemans, 11 May 1827: 'Yesterday your American volume from the Author was put into my hands, ... | Joanna Baillie | Felicia Hemans | American edition comprising two collections of poetical works | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I began Sir John Mo[o]res letters again and am very much struck if the account is true with the bad management there ... | Lady Caroline Lamb | Sir John Moore | A Narrative of the Campaign of the British Army in Spain | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have read the rights of Woman, am become a convert think dissipation great folly & shall remain the whole year disc... | Lady Caroline Lamb (nee Ponsonby) | Mary Wollstonecraft | A Vindication of the Rights of Woman | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | '[L]ittle else travels down to me my Cousins & Virtuous friends not being over addicted to scribbling--do not think I ... | Lady Caroline Lamb | Mary Wollstonecraft | A Vindication of the Rights of Woman | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I read the new Testament in Greek with great success & am edified with the slow but sure progress I make in that lang... | Lady Caroline Lamb | [n/a] | New Testament | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Miss Clarissa Harlowe is just dead & I really am so much discomposed at it & at Lovelaces grief to whom I do not thin... | Lady Caroline Lamb | Samuel Richardson | Clarissa | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Childe Harold
I have read your Book & cannot refrain from telling you that I think it & all those whom I live with &... | Lady Caroline Lamb | George Gordon, Lord Byron | Childe Harold's Pilgrimage | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | '"perchance my dog will whine in vain
"Till fed my stranger hands--
"But long e'er I come back again
"he'd tear me ... | Lady Caroline Lamb | George Gordon, Lord Byron | Childe Harold's Pilgrimage | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 1800-1849 | 'ricordati di Biondetta [...] [the sale of] Newstead--that is a pity--why not have kept it & taken Biondetta there & h... | Lady Caroline Lamb | Jacques Cazotte | Le diable amoreux | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Miss Edg[e]worth must not be run down because she has like most people misunderstood her own powers--she never can pr... | Lady Caroline Lamb | Maria Edgeworth | Patronage [probably] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 1800-1849 | 'Miss Edg[e]worth must not be run down because she has like most people misunderstood her own powers--she never can pr... | Lady Caroline Lamb | George Crabbe | Poems | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | '"Gull" & the Bulbul and a young Galeongee are just so many baits to draw sneers--which however disposed are always be... | Lady Caroline Lamb | George Gordon Lord Byron | Bride of Abydos | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | '"Gull" & the Bulbul and a young Galeongee are just so many baits to draw sneers--which however disposed are always be... | Lady Caroline Lamb | George Gordon Lord Byron | The Corsair | Print: Book, Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'How you surprise me--write me but one word more [--] it is not true that he [Byron] sent word to you that he was very... | Lady Caroline Lamb | George Gordon Lord Byron | Lines to a Lady Weeping | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'I never saw two Women more in love with you than my favourite Lady Hamilton & her sister.
They talk of you in a mann... | Lady Caroline Lamb | George Gordon Lord Byron | unknown | Print: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 1800-1849 | 'I literally saw nothing but your ear for a whole hour one night--it is perfectly unlike any ear in Nature--& as Trist... | Lady Caroline Lamb | Laurence Sterne | The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 1800-1849 | 'Farewell Mephistocles--Luke Makey de la Touche Richard the 3 Valmont Machiavelli Napoleon [Prival?] the Wicked Duke o... | Lady Caroline Lamb | Choderlos de Laclos | Les Liaisons Dangereuses | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Farewell--not as you say so to your favourites or they to you--not as any Woman ever spoke that Word for they never m... | Lady Caroline Lamb | Robert Southey | Madoc | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I think I shall live to see the day--when some beautiful & innocent Lady Byron shall drive to your door [...] I reall... | Lady Caroline Lamb | George Gordon Lord Byron | The Giaour | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'I cried over Meg Merrilies when she met Brown again--at a little Inn at Cumberland & my tears are not apt to flow'. | Lady Caroline Lamb | Walter Scott | Guy Mannering | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I entirely deprecate your opinion concerning Manwaring [sic--Mannering] or sooner the opinion you had borrowed for I ... | Lady Caroline Lamb | Walter Scott | Guy Mannering | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I entirely deprecate your opinion concerning Manwaring [sic--Mannering] or sooner the opinion you had borrowed for I ... | Lady Caroline Lamb | Walter Scott | Waverly | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Many a dull thing goes down by a puff--& all in all is fame Witness the Hebrew Melodies which I have though you did n... | Lady Caroline Lamb | George Gordon Lord Byron | Hebrew Melodies | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | '"She walks in beauty like the night," for example--if Mr. Twiss had written it how we should have laughed! Now we can... | Lady Caroline Lamb | George Gordon Lord Byron | Hebrew Melodies--"She walks in beauty" | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'At a moment of such deep agony & I may add shame--when utterly disgraced judge Byron what my feelings must be at Murr... | Lady Caroline Lamb | George Gordon Lord Byron | Stanzas to Augusta | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | '[B]e not thrown into wild delight because his genius has shone forth--misfortune & rage have occasioned this & whenev... | Lady Caroline Lamb | George Gordon Lord Byron | Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, Canto the Third | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 1800-1849 | '[B]e not thrown into wild delight because his genius has shone forth--misfortune & rage have occasioned this & whenev... | Lady Caroline Lamb | Homer | unknown | |
| 1700-1799 1800-1849 | '[B]e not thrown into wild delight because his genius has shone forth--misfortune & rage have occasioned this & whenev... | Lady Caroline Lamb | Dante Alighieri | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 1800-1849 | '[B]e not thrown into wild delight because his genius has shone forth--misfortune & rage have occasioned this & whenev... | Lady Caroline Lamb | Virgil | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 1800-1849 | '[B]e not thrown into wild delight because his genius has shone forth--misfortune & rage have occasioned this & whenev... | Lady Caroline Lamb | John Milton | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | '[B]e not thrown into wild delight because his genius has shone forth--misfortune & rage have occasioned this & whenev... | Lady Caroline Lamb | John Dryden | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 1800-1849 | '[B]e not thrown into wild delight because his genius has shone forth--misfortune & rage have occasioned this & whenev... | Lady Caroline Lamb | Edmund Spenser | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 1800-1849 | '[B]e not thrown into wild delight because his genius has shone forth--misfortune & rage have occasioned this & whenev... | Lady Caroline Lamb | Thomas Gray | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 1800-1849 | '[B]e not thrown into wild delight because his genius has shone forth--misfortune & rage have occasioned this & whenev... | Lady Caroline Lamb | Oliver Goldsmith | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 1800-1849 | '[B]e not thrown into wild delight because his genius has shone forth--misfortune & rage have occasioned this & whenev... | Lady Caroline Lamb | Toquato Tasso | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | '[A]nd so you have never heard of Beppo--I think you said so at Devonshire House supper. Now Heaven fail in granting ... | Lady Caroline Lamb | George Gordon Lord Byron | Beppo | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 1800-1849 | '[A]nd so you have never heard of Beppo--I think you said so at Devonshire House supper. Now Heaven fail in granting ... | Lady Caroline Lamb | Jonathan Swift | unknown | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'How very very clever I think Beppo--I am quite sure it is his [Byron's]--& still more that Mr. Frere never could have... | Lady Caroline Lamb | George Gordon Lord Byron | Beppo | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Do you remember when Jeannie Deans went to London for her sister the gentle Gertie [sic--Geordie] Robertson gave her ... | Lady Caroline Lamb | Walter Scott | The Heart of Midlothian | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I know that during Elections songs & squibs are fair on each side & much bad wit & many severe things must be said--b... | Lady Caroline Lamb | | The Statesman | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have been reading for the first time 2 of yr Tales & am delighted with them. They not only amuse & interest & affe... | Lady Caroline Lamb | Amelia Opie | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 1800-1849 | 'I have made it [the plot of a novel she is writing] two stories--principle or the Brothers is full of events rather t... | Lady Caroline Lamb | Mathew (Monk) Lewis | The Monk | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | '... he devotes a whole serious and excellent essay to an exploration of the fame of Silas Hocking, who wrote novels c... | Arnold Bennett | Silas Hocking | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'With the Marriotts, Bennett found himself among friends. This was a cultured household, with musical evenings, improv... | Arnold Bennett | unknown | unknown | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'I read in a chinese book today--converse with clever people when I say a chinese Book I mean a book with 2 chinese st... | Lady Caroline Lamb | unknown | Shadows in the Water | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I read in a chinese book today--converse with clever people when I say a chinese Book I mean a book with 2 chinese st... | Lady Caroline Lamb | unknown | [chinese story] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | '[Y]ou interested me very much about Coleridge--I wish I had ever known him--his translation of Wallenstein is in my o... | Lady Caroline Lamb | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Wallenstein | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | '[A]sk Ld M[orpeth] to read you the lost Peri & see the lines about the boy kneeling & the man of crime are not passin... | Lady Caroline Lamb | Thomas Moore | Lalla Rookh | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | '[W]ould to God I had been an Adam Blair & not a Mrs Campbell [...] I am only miserable--because I dare not die--and l... | Lady Caroline Lamb | J.G. Lockhart | Some Passages is the Life of Mr. Adam Blair | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Bennett needed a guide when he travelled abroad - and his Florentine Journal is touchingly full of his delightful eff... | Arnold Bennett | Karl Baedeker | [guidebook on Florence] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'They would talk French, eat in French restaurants, read French newspapers and visit the British Museum together.' | Arnold Bennett | | [French newspapers] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | '"drudge like Selden days & nights
And in the Endless labour die"'. | Lady Caroline Lamb | Richard Bentley | A Reply to a Copy of Verses made in Imitation of Ode II Book III of Horace. | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | '[T]he few men who are about me are all eager to get yr books but what has vexd me is that the 2 children & 4 young Wo... | Lady Caroline Lamb | William Godwin | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I told Murray to tell you that I read his journal with sorrow & perhaps with anger'. | Lady Caroline Lamb | George Gordon Lord Byron | [Memoirs] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'I must tell you that Lord Byron said Mrs Lee [Augusta Leigh?] & Lady Byron had read all my letters [and] verses'. | Lady Annabella Byron (n?e Milbanke) | Lady Caroline Lamb | [letters and verses] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'From fine I turned to applied art, diverted by a periodical called The Girl's Own Paper. For a long period this month... | Arnold Bennett | | Girl's Own | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | [reminiscing about the Ugly Duckling, first story he remembers reading when he was 6 or so] 'When the ugly duckling at... | Arnold Bennett | Anon | Ugly Duckling | Print: Book |
| | 'The description of his [the character Darius Clayhanger in Clayhanger] labours as a child, and his days in the workho... | Arnold Bennett | William Shaw | When I was a child, recollections from an old potter | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | [Arnold Bennett's father] 'encouraged them to read. As soon as he had any money he began to buy books, and one of the ... | Arnold Bennett | unknown | various | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'In these last years in the Five Towns, before he left for London, Bennet claims to have done little reading, apart fr... | Arnold Bennett | Ouida | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'In these last years in the Five Towns, before he left for London, Bennet claims to have done little reading, apart fr... | Arnold Bennett | Emile Zola | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'he entered a competition held by Tit-Bits. The prize money was twenty guineas, and it was offered for a "humorous con... | Arnold Bennett | Grant Allen | What's bred in the bone | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'Bennett selected the things that interested him - notably novelists such as Henry James, Thomas Hardy, and his friend... | Arnold Bennett | Henry James | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Bennett selected the things that interested him - notably novelists such as Henry James, Thomas Hardy, and his friend... | Arnold Bennett | Thomas Hardy | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Bennett selected the things that interested him - notably novelists such as Henry James, Thomas Hardy, and his friend... | Arnold Bennett | George Paston | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Bennett selected the things that interested him - notably novelists such as Henry James, Thomas Hardy, and his friend... | Arnold Bennett | H G Wells | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Six weeks since I received your letter! ... I have no great interest in the theory of our sacred art.' | Arnold Bennett | George Sturt | letter | Manuscript: Letter |
| 1850-1899 1900-1945 | 'he claimed that he had not thought of using them [the Potteries] as fiction until he read another man's work of ficti... | Arnold Bennett | George Moore | A Mummer's Wife | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 1900-1945 | 'A Mummer's Wife [title in italics] had impressed him very much with its power and its Staffordshire setting.' | Arnold Bennett | George Moore | A Mummer's Wife | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'G. finished reading "Seraphime" aloud to me'. | George Henry Lewes | [unknown] | Seraphime | Print: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | John Playfair to Mary Berry, 8 May 1796: 'I waited with much impatience for the "Life and Miscellaneous Works of Gibbo... | John Playfair | | The Life and Miscellaneous Works of Gibbon | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | John Playfair to Mary Berry, 8 May 1796: 'I have lately seen a posthumous work of Condorcet's; it is a very curious bo... | John Playfair | Condorcet | [unidentified posthumously-published work] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 1800-1849 | Lady Theresa Lewis's note to a reference in Mary Berry's journals to The Honourable Caroline Howe (who died in 1814, a... | The Honourable Caroline Howe | unknown | Classical Greek texts | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 1800-1849 | Lady Theresa Lewis's note to a reference in Mary Berry's journals to The Honourable Caroline Howe (who died in 1814, a... | The Honourable Caroline Howe | unknown | Latin texts | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Mary reads greek and Political Justice.' | Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin | unknown | [Greek] | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'Shelley draws & Mary reads the monk all evening.' | Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin | Matthew Gregory Lewis | The Monk: a romance | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'read two odes of Anacreon before breakfast'. | Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin | Anacreon | [odes] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read St. Godwin - it is ineffably stupid.' | Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin | Edward du Bois | St. Godwin: a tale of the sixteenth, seventeenth and eighteenth centuries by Count Reginald St. Leon | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'on his eighth birthday, 27 February 1920, an ox-cart drew up outside Everleas Lodge with a present for him - a huge p... | Lawrence Durrell | William Makepeace Thackeray | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'on his eighth birthday, 27 February 1920, an ox-cart drew up outside Everleas Lodge with a present for him - a huge p... | Lawrence Durrell | Robert Smith Surtees | [probably] Jorrocks's Jaunts and Jollities | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Kipling had now been supplemented with Henty, Ballantyne, Rider Haggard and John Buchan, all with their own tales of... | Lawrence Durrell | Rudyard Kipling | Kim | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Kipling had now been supplemented with Henty, Ballantyne, Rider Haggard and John Buchan, all with their own tales of... | Lawrence Durrell | George Alfred Henty | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Kipling had now been supplemented with Henty, Ballantyne, Rider Haggard and John Buchan, all with their own tales of... | Lawrence Durrell | Robert Michael Ballantyne | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Kipling had now been supplemented with Henty, Ballantyne, Rider Haggard and John Buchan, all with their own tales of... | Lawrence Durrell | Henry Rider Haggard | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Kipling had now been supplemented with Henty, Ballantyne, Rider Haggard and John Buchan, all with their own tales of... | Lawrence Durrell | John Buchan | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [a teacher at St Edmunds Scool, Canterbury] 'encouraged him by supplying him regularly with the literary pages of Le ... | Lawrence Durrell | [n/a] | Le Figaro | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | 'The fresh-sounding work of the war generation, which began to appear in the late 1920s and early 1930s, provided him ... | Lawrence Durrell | Aldous Huxley | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The fresh-sounding work of the war generation, which began to appear in the late 1920s and early 1930s, provided him ... | Lawrence Durrell | H.G. Wells | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The fresh-sounding work of the war generation, which began to appear in the late 1920s and early 1930s, provided him ... | Lawrence Durrell | Richard (pseud.) Aldington [real name] | Death of a Hero | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The fresh-sounding work of the war generation, which began to appear in the late 1920s and early 1930s, provided him ... | Lawrence Durrell | Richard (pseud.) Aldington [real name] | [poetry] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The fresh-sounding work of the war generation, which began to appear in the late 1920s and early 1930s, provided him ... | Lawrence Durrell | Edith Sitwell | [poetry] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The fresh-sounding work of the war generation, which began to appear in the late 1920s and early 1930s, provided him ... | Lawrence Durrell | unknown Nichols | [poetry] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The fresh-sounding work of the war generation, which began to appear in the late 1920s and early 1930s, provided him ... | Lawrence Durrell | Siegfried Sassoon | [poetry] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The fresh-sounding work of the war generation, which began to appear in the late 1920s and early 1930s, provided him ... | Lawrence Durrell | Robert Graves | [poetry] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The fresh-sounding work of the war generation, which began to appear in the late 1920s and early 1930s, provided him ... | Lawrence Durrell | Thomas Stearns Eliot | [poetry] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The fresh-sounding work of the War generation, which began to appear in the late 1920s and early 1930s, provided him ... | Lawrence Durrell | David Herbert Lawrence | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'He lapped up those French writers who kicked against those conventions - Rabelais, Villon, Baudelaire, Rimbaud' | Lawrence Durrell | Francois Rabelais | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'He lapped up those French writers who kicked against those conventions - Rabelais, Villon, Baudelaire, Rimbaud' | Lawrence Durrell | Francois Villon | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'He lapped up those French writers who kicked against those conventions - Rabelais, Villon, Baudelaire, Rimbaud' | Lawrence Durrell | Charles Pierre Baudelaire | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'He lapped up those French writers who kicked against those conventions - Rabelais, Villon, Baudelaire, Rimbaud' | Lawrence Durrell | Arthur Rimbaud | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'like any bright young intellectual of his day, he was greatly influenced by Freud and writers on sex, such as Haveloc... | Lawrence Durrell | Sigmund Freud | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'like any bright young intellectual of his day, he was greatly influenced by Freud and writers on sex, such as Haveloc... | Lawrence Durrell | Havelock Ellis | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'like any bright young intellectual of his day, he was greatly influenced by Freud and writers on sex, such as Haveloc... | Lawrence Durrell | Norman Haire | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Durrell's studies at the British Museum turned even further towards the Elizabethans. He took in Sidney, Marlowe, Nas... | Lawrence Durrell | Philip Sidney | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Durrell's studies at the British Museum turned even further towards the Elizabethans. He took in Sidney, Marlowe, Nas... | Lawrence Durrell | Christopher Marlowe | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Durrell's studies at the British Museum turned even further towards the Elizabethans. He took in Sidney, Marlowe, Nas... | Lawrence Durrell | Thomas Nashe | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Durrell's studies at the British Museum turned even further towards the Elizabethans. He took in Sidney, Marlowe, Nas... | Lawrence Durrell | Robert Greene | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Durrell's studies at the British Museum turned even further towards the Elizabethans. He took in Sidney, Marlowe, Nas... | Lawrence Durrell | Cyril Tourneur | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Durrell's studies at the British Museum turned even further towards the Elizabethans. He took in Sidney, Marlowe, Nas... | Lawrence Durrell | Peel | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'He was also interesting himself in poets such as Keats, Fitzgerald and Yeats'. | Lawrence Durrell | John Keats | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'He was also interesting himself in poets such as Keats, Fitzgerald and Yeats'. | Lawrence Durrell | William Butler Yeats | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'He was also interesting himself in poets such as Keats, Fitzgerald and Yeats'. | Lawrence Durrell | Edward Fitzgerald | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'He consumed works of western philosophy, from Rousseau to Wyndham Lewis. All this he added to his diet of sexology - ... | Lawrence Durrell | Jean Jacques Rousseau | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'He consumed works of western philosophy, from Rousseau to Wyndham Lewis. All this he added to his diet of sexology - ... | Lawrence Durrell | Percy Wyndham Lewis | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'He consumed works of western philosophy, from Rousseau to Wyndham Lewis. All this he added to his diet of sexology - ... | Lawrence Durrell | Remy de Gourmont | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'He consumed works of western philosophy, from Rousseau to Wyndham Lewis. All this he added to his diet of sexology - ... | Lawrence Durrell | Donatien Alphonse-Fran?ois de Sade | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'He consumed works of western philosophy, from Rousseau to Wyndham Lewis. All this he added to his diet of sexology - ... | Lawrence Durrell | Richard Freiherr von Krafft-Ebing | [probably] Psychopathia Sexualis | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'He consumed works of western philosophy, from Rousseau to Wyndham Lewis. All this he added to his diet of sexology - ... | Lawrence Durrell | David Herbert Lawrence | Sea and Sardinia | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'He consumed works of western philosophy, from Rousseau to Wyndham Lewis. All this he added to his diet of sexology - ... | Lawrence Durrell | George Norman Douglas | South Wind | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Barclay Hudson, an American living near by, lent him a new novel to read. It was published in Paris by the Obelisk Pr... | Lawrence Durrell | Henry Miller | Tropic of Cancer | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read the wrongs of woman.' | Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley | Mary Wollstonecraft | The Wrongs of Woman; or Maria | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Posthumous works.' | Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin | Mary Wollstonecraft | Posthumous Works of the Author of a Vindication of the rights of woman | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Zastrozzi'. | Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Zastrozzi | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Finish St Leon.' | Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin | Wiiliam Godwin | St. Leon; a tale of the sixteenth century | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Caleb Williams.' | Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin | Wiiliam Godwin | Things as they are; or the Adventures of Caleb Williams | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I faintly remember going through Aesop's Fables, the first Greek book which I read. The Anabasis, which I remember be... | John Stuart Mill | Aesop | Fables | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Much of it [ie. 'the daily instruction I received'] consisted in the books I read by myself, and my father's discours... | John Stuart Mill | anon | The Annual Register | Print: Book, Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'He ['my father'] was fond of putting into my hands books which exhibited men of energy and resource in unusual circum... | John Stuart Mill | Philip Beaver | African memoranda relative to an attempt to establish a British settlement on the island of Bulama, on the western coast of Africa, in the year 1792. With a brief notice of the neighbouring tribes, soil, productions, &c. and some observations on the facil | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Much of it [ie. ?the daily instruction I received?] consisted in the books I read by myself, and my father?s discours... | John Stuart Mill | Gilbert Burnet | History of my Own Time | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'He [?my father?] was fond of putting into my hands books which exhibited men of energy and resource in unusual circum... | John Stuart Mill | Collins | [account of the first settlement of New South Wales] | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'At that time [?my eighth year?] I had read, under my father?s tuition, a number of Greek prose authors, among whom I ... | John Stuart Mill | Diogenes Laertius | Lives of the Philosophers | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Much of it [ie. ?the daily instruction I received?] consisted in the books I read by myself, and my father?s discours... | John Stuart Mill | Edward Gibbon | Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Much of it [ie. ?the daily instruction I received?] consisted in the books I read by myself, and my father?s discours... | John Stuart Mill | Robert Watson | History of the Reign of Philip II | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Much of it [ie. ?the daily instruction I received?] consisted in the books I read by myself, and my father?s discours... | John Stuart Mill | Robert Watson | History of Philip III | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Much of it [ie. 'the daily instruction I received'] consisted in the books I read by myself, and my father's discours... | John Stuart Mill | William Robertson | Histories | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Much of it [ie. ?the daily instruction I received?] consisted in the books I read by myself, and my father?s discours... | John Stuart Mill | David Hume | The History of England (presumably) | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Much of it [ie. ?the daily instruction I received?] consisted in the books I read by myself, and my father?s discours... | John Stuart Mill | Nathaniel Hooke | Roman History from the Building of Rome to the Ruin of the Commonwealth | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Much of it [ie. ?the daily instruction I received?] consisted in the books I read by myself, and my father?s discours... | John Stuart Mill | Charles Rollin | Ancient History | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Much of it [ie. ?the daily instruction I received?] consisted in the books I read by myself, and my father?s discours... | John Stuart Mill | Plutarch | Lives | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'At that time [my eighth year] I had read, under my father?s tuition, a number of Greek prose authors, among whom I re... | John Stuart Mill | Herodotus | Histories | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'At that time [my eighth year] I had read, under my father?s tuition, a number of Greek prose authors, among whom I re... | John Stuart Mill | Isocrates | Ad Nicoclem | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'At that time [my eighth year] I had read, under my father?s tuition, a number of Greek prose authors, among whom I re... | John Stuart Mill | Isocrates | Ad Demonicum | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'At that time [my eighth year] I had read, under my father?s tuition, a number of Greek prose authors, among whom I re... | John Stuart Mill | Lucian | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'At that time [my eighth year] I had read, under my father?s tuition, a number of Greek prose authors, among whom I re... | John Stuart Mill | Xenophon | Cyropaedia | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'At that time [my eighth year] I had read, under my father?s tuition, a number of Greek prose authors, among whom I re... | John Stuart Mill | Xenophon | Memorials of Socrates | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I faintly remember going through Aesop?s Fables, the first Greek book which I read. The Anabasis, which I remember be... | John Stuart Mill | Xenophon | The Anabasis | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I also read, in 1813, the first six dialogues (in the common arrangement) of Plato, from the Euthyphron to the Theaet... | John Stuart Mill | Plato | Euthyphro | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I also read, in 1813, the first six dialogues (in the common arrangement) of Plato, from the Euthyphron to the Theaet... | John Stuart Mill | Plato | Theaetetus | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I also read, in 1813, the first six dialogues (in the common arrangement) of Plato, from the Euthyphron to the Theaet... | John Stuart Mill | Plato | dialogues | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'He [?my father?] also made me read, and give him a verbal account of, many books which would not have interested me s... | John Stuart Mill | John Millar | Historical View of the English Government | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'He [?my father?] also made me read, and give him a verbal account of, many books which would not have interested me s... | John Stuart Mill | John Rutty | History of the Rise and Progress of the People called Quakers in Ireland | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'He [?my father?] also made me read, and give him a verbal account of, many books which would not have interested me s... | John Stuart Mill | William Sewell | The History of the Rise, Increase, and Progress, of the Christian People Called Quakers | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'He [?my father?] also made me read, and give him a verbal account of, many books which would not have interested me s... | John Stuart Mill | Johann Lorenz von Mosheim | An Ecclesiastical History, Ancient and Modern, from the Birth of Christ, to the Beginning of the Present Century | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'He [?my father?] also made me read, and give him a verbal account of, many books which would not have interested me s... | John Stuart Mill | Thomas McCrie | Life of John Knox | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'About this period, Mr Tymms sent down for inspection the proof of his Acct. of Northamptonshire for the Family Topogr... | John Cole | Tymms | Family Topographer | Print: Proof |
| 1800-1849 | '... I took up a London paper, and the first object in it which struck my eye, was the death of Charles Lamb. I felt i... | John Cole | anon | newspaper | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read letter from Rev R Garvey of Lincoln (?) reps. Lecture'. | John Cole | R Garvey | letter | Manuscript: Letter |
| 1800-1849 | 'Craster letter received'.. | John Cole | unknown | letter | Manuscript: Letter |
| 1800-1849 | 'Day wet - read'. | John Cole | unknown | unknown | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'Scriptures and Natural history readings'. | John Cole | | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'In this month read Poems by one of the authors and Poems for youth. By a family circle.' | John Cole | unknown | [poems] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read the month in Honitt's "Book of the seasons".' | John Cole | Honitt | Book of the seasons | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | John Playfair to Mary Berry, from Cambridge, 28 September 1804:
'In going into a great library, it often occurs to... | John Playfair | | Theatrum Cometicum | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Mary Berry, Journal, 3 September 1808: 'In the evening Mr. Morritt read to us one of Massinger's plays ("The Duke of M... | John B. S. Morritt | Philip Massinger | The Duke of Milan | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Mary Berry, Journal, 5 September 1808: 'In the evening Mr. Morritt continued reading the "Duke of Milan." He reads ve... | John B. S. Morritt | Philip Massinger | The Duke of Milan | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Mary Berry, Journal, 6 September 1808: 'In the evening Mr. Morritt began reading another of Massinger's plays [having ... | John B. S. Morritt | Philip Massinger | The Fatal Dowry | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Mary Berry, Journal, 31 March 1810: 'Mr Sydney Smith with me in the morning, looking critically over my Preface [to he... | The Rev. Sydney Smith | Mary Berry | Preface to edition of Letters of Madame du Deffand | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Mary Berry, Journal, 31 March 1810: 'Mr Sydney Smith with me in the morning, looking critically over my Preface [to he... | The Rev. Sydney Smith | Mary Berry | Life of Madame du Deffand | Manuscript: 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 |
| 1800-1849 | John Playfair to Mary Berry, 22 September 1810, in response to her edition of the Letters of Madame du Deffand, receiv... | John Playfair | Mary Berry | Preface and notes to Letters of Madame du Deffand | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | John Playfair to Mary Berry, 22 September 1810, in response to her edition of the Letters of Madame du Deffand, receiv... | John Playfair | Madame du Deffand | Letters | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Mary Berry, Journal, 8 June 1811: 'Went to Lady Cork's. A curious party, where, by way of something to do, she had [J... | John Thelwall | John Milton | 'Invocation to Light' | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Finish Caleb Williams - read to Jane. | Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin | William Godwin | Things as the are, or, the Adventures of Caleb Williams | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'In the evening read memoirs of Voltaire.' | Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin | Voltaire | Memoirs of the life of Voltaire written by himself | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Zadig.' | Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin | Voltaire | Zadigi ou la destinee | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read the life of Alfieri.' | Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin | Victor Alfieri | Memoirs of the life & writings of Victor Alfieri...written by himself | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Finish the life of Alfieri'. | Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin | Victor Alfieri | Memoirs of the life & writings of Victor Alfieri...written by himself | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Louvets memoires' | Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin | Jean Baptiste Louvet de Couvray | Narrative of the dangers to which I have been exposed, since the 31st of May 1793 | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read aloud to Jane.' | Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin | unknown | unknown | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read all evening.' | Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin | unknown | unknown | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read aloud to Jane in the evening.' | Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin | unknown | unknown | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read I don't know what.' | Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin | unknown | unknown | Print: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 1800-1849 | 'Seward had been reading a five-volume edition of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu's letters, and she had confessed her irrit... | Anna Seward | Mary Wortley Montagu | [Letters] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'As Catherine Talbot later remarked of the "Odyssey", "Mr Pope's verse can give dignity to a peg or a pig, and the div... | Catherine Talbot | Homer | Odyssey | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'After reading Pope's "Illiad", the sixteen-year-old Burney confided in her journal that "I was never so charm'd with ... | Frances Burney | Homer | Iliad | 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 1800-1849 | '[Anna Seward's] training was not necessarily less rigorous for being informal and solitary. Seward scoffed at a male ... | Anna Seward | William Shakespeare | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 1800-1849 | '[Anna Seward's] training was not necessarily less rigorous for being informal and solitary. Seward scoffed at a male ... | Anna Seward | John Milton | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 1800-1849 | '[Anna Seward's] training was not necessarily less rigorous for being informal and solitary. Seward scoffed at a male ... | Anna Seward | Mark Akenside | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 1800-1849 | '[Anna Seward's] training was not necessarily less rigorous for being informal and solitary. Seward scoffed at a male ... | Anna Seward | Erasmus Darwin | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 1800-1849 | '[Anna Seward's] training was not necessarily less rigorous for being informal and solitary. Seward scoffed at a male ... | Anna Seward | Thomas Gray | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 1800-1849 | [Anna Seward protested against criticism of Pope]'To... poet John Morfitt, she retorts: "It is not true of Pope that h... | Anna Seward | Alexander Pope | Satires | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 1800-1849 | [Anna Seward protested against criticism of Pope]'To... poet John Morfitt, she retorts: "It is not true of Pope that h... | Anna Seward | Alexander Pope | [Ethic Epistles] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 1800-1849 | [Anna Seward protested against criticism of Pope]'To... poet John Morfitt, she retorts: "It is not true of Pope that h... | Anna Seward | Alexander Pope | Dunciad | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 1800-1849 | [Anna Seward protested against criticism of Pope]'To... poet John Morfitt, she retorts: "It is not true of Pope that h... | Anna Seward | Alexander Pope | Essay on Man | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 1800-1849 | 'When Erasmus Darwin espouses the late-century opinion that "poetry admits of few abstract terms", Seward replies, "po... | Anna Seward | Alexander Pope | Rape of the Lock, The | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Anne Damer, travelling in France, to Mary Berry, 24 April 1791, on encounter with de Broc, the mayor of Bayonne, 'the ... | Anne Damer | de Broc | A L'Orateur Fox | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'At ten the poor infant was reading Smollett's History... She summed up her impression with scornful lucidity: "There ... | Anne Isabella (Annabella) Milbanke | Tobias Smollett | Complete History of England | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'there was always poetry. Campbell, just then at the top of his short-lived vogue; Ossian, the unreadable of to-day; M... | Anne Isabella (Annabella) Milbanke | Thomas Campbell | [poetry] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'there was always poetry. Campbell, just then at the top of his short-lived vogue; Ossian, the unreadable of to-day; M... | Anne Isabella (Annabella) Milbanke | Ossian (pseud.) | [poetry] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Annabella was now reading Cowper's "Iliad" and annotating evey second line; she was studying Alfieri with the family-... | Anne Isabella (Annabella) Milbanke | Homer | Iliad | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Annabella was now reading Cowper's "Iliad" and annotating evey second line; she was studying Alfieri with the family-... | Anne Isabella (Annabella) Milbanke | Vittorio Alfieri | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Annabella was now reading Cowper's "Iliad" and annotating evey second line; she was studying Alfieri with the family-... | Anne Isabella (Annabella) Milbanke | Frances Burney | Evelina | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Annabella was now reading Cowper's "Iliad" and annotating evey second line; she was studying Alfieri with the family-... | Anne Isabella (Annabella) Milbanke | William Wordsworth | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Annabella was now reading Cowper's "Iliad" and annotating evey second line; she was studying Alfieri with the family-... | Anne Isabella (Annabella) Milbanke | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Annabella was now reading Cowper's "Iliad" and annotating evey second line; she was studying Alfieri with the family-... | Anne Isabella (Annabella) Milbanke | Robert Southey | Madoc | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'She read enormously, finding time and energy we wonder how. A list of her books makes the unregenerate blood run cold... | Anne Isabella (Annabella) Milbanke | Maria Edgeworth | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'She read enormously, finding time and energy we wonder how. A list of her books makes the unregenerate blood run cold... | Anne Isabella (Annabella) Milbanke | William Beckford | Vathek | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'She read enormously, finding time and energy we wonder how. A list of her books makes the unregenerate blood run cold... | Anne Isabella (Annabella) Milbanke | George Gordon, Lord Byron | Childe Harold's Pilgrimage | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'She read enormously, finding time and energy we wonder how. A list of her books makes the unregenerate blood run cold... | Anne Isabella (Annabella) Milbanke | Edmund Spenser | The Faerie Queene | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'She read a great deal, among her books being one called "Pride and Prejudice", "Which is at present the fashionable n... | Anne Isabella (Annabella) Milbanke | Jane Austen | Pride and Prejudice | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Letter from Lord Byron to Annabella Milbanke, Feb 15 1814]. 'In my letter of ye 12th in answer to your last I omitted... | George Gordon, Lord Byron | John Locke | Treatise on the Reasonableness of Christianity | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Letter from Lord Byron to Annabella Milbanke, Feb 15 1814]. 'In my letter of ye 12th in answer to your last I omitted... | George Gordon, Lord Byron | Joseph Butler | Analogy of Religion | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Letter from Lord Byron to Annabella Milbanke, Feb 15 1814]. 'In my letter of ye 12th in answer to your last I omitted... | George Gordon, Lord Byron | [n/a] | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'she asked [Byron] to recommend her some books of modern history. At present she was reading Sismondi's "Italian Repub... | Anne Isabella (Annabella) Milbanke | J.C. de Sismondi | history of the Italian republics;: Being a view of the origin, progress, and fall of Italian freedom, A | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'she asked [Byron] to recommend her some books of modern history. At present she was reading Sismondi's "Italian Repub... | Anne Isabella (Annabella) Milbanke | George Gordon, Lord Byron | Lara | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Letter from Byron to Annabella Milbanke, Aug 25th 1814]. 'You can hardly have a better modern work than Sismondi's, b... | George Gordon, Lord Byron | J.C. de Sismondi | history of the Italian republics;: Being a view of the origin, progress, and fall of Italian freedom, A | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Letter from Byron to Annabella Milbanke, Aug 25th 1814]. 'You can hardly have a better modern work than Sismondi's, b... | George Gordon, Lord Byron | Jean Charles de Sismondi | Litt?rature du midi de l'Europe | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Letter from Byron to Annabella Milbanke, Aug 25th 1814]. 'You can hardly have a better modern work than Sismondi's, b... | George Gordon, Lord Byron | Edward Gibbon | Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Letter from Byron to Annabella Milbanke, Aug 25th 1814]. 'You can hardly have a better modern work than Sismondi's, b... | George Gordon, Lord Byron | Watson | [book on Philip of Spain] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Letter from Byron to Annabella Milbanke, Aug 25th 1814]. 'You can hardly have a better modern work than Sismondi's, b... | George Gordon, Lord Byron | William Coxe | History of the House of Austria | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Letter from Byron to Annabella Milbanke, Aug 25th 1814]. 'You can hardly have a better modern work than Sismondi's, b... | George Gordon, Lord Byron | William Coxe | Memoirs of the Bourbon Kings of Spain | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Letter from Byron to Annabella Milbanke, Aug 25th 1814]. 'You can hardly have a better modern work than Sismondi's, b... | George Gordon, Lord Byron | Rene Aubert de Vertot | [book(s) on Revolutions] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Letter from Byron to Annabella Milbanke, Aug 25th 1814]. 'You can hardly have a better modern work than Sismondi's, b... | George Gordon, Lord Byron | [unknown] | [30 vol. History of 'Conjurazioni] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Letter from Byron to Anabella Milbanke, 28 Nov 1814]. 'I think Southey's "Roderick" as near perfection as poetry can ... | George Gordon, Lord Byron | Robert Southey | Roderick | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'she was reading Dryden's "Don Sebastian", which treats of incest, and happened to ask Byron a question. He said angri... | Anne Isabella (Annabella), Baroness Byron | John Dryden | Don Sebastian | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'they read books together and discussed them; Scott's "Lord of the Isles" was sent to Byron by Murray. It they did not... | Anne Isabella (Annabella), Baroness Byron | Walter Scott | Lord of the Isles | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'they read books together and discussed them; Scott's "Lord of the Isles" was sent to Byron by Murray. It they did not... | George Gordon, Lord Byron | Walter Scott | Lord of the Isles | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'He was reading an article by Darwin on Diseased Volition' | George Gordon, Lord Byron | unknown Darwin | [article on 'Diseased Volition'] | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'she was reading Leigh Hunt's "Rimini", and copied a passage of twenty lines on the character of Giovanni - evidently ... | Anne Isabella (Annabella), Baroness Byron | Leigh Hunt | Rimini | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'Annabella could read the new novels, "Northanger Abbey" and "Persuasion" (recommended by Augusta, and contrast that k... | Anne Isabella (Annabella), Baroness Byron | Jane Austen | Northanger Abbey | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Annabella could read the new novels, "Northanger Abbey" and "Persuasion" (recommended by Augusta, and contrast that k... | Anne Isabella (Annabella), Baroness Byron | Jane Austen | Persuasion | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Early in July appeared the first part of "Don Juan". "The impression was not so disagreeable as I expected", wrote An... | Anne Isabella (Annabella), Baroness Byron | George Gordon, Lord Byron | Don Juan | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'Early in 1831 there is the following entry in a diary: "Read to Ada the beautiful lines on Greece in 'The Giaour', th... | Anne Isabella (Annabella), Baroness Byron | George Gordon, Lord Byron | The Giaour | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Early in 1831 there is the following entry in a diary: "Read to Ada the beautiful lines on Greece in 'The Giaour', th... | Anne Isabella (Annabella), Baroness Byron | George Gordon, Lord Byron | Fare Thee Well | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Early in 1831 there is the following entry in a diary: "Read to Ada the beautiful lines on Greece in 'The Giaour', th... | Anne Isabella (Annabella), Baroness Byron | George Gordon, Lord Byron | [a Satire - on Annabella?] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | '[Annabella] had been reading Harriet Martineau's "Five Years of Youth", and wrote to a friend: "it is very good - chi... | Anne Isabella (Annabella), Baroness Byron | Harriet Martineau | Five Years of Youth: or, Sense and Sentiment | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'It was through the reading of his narrative poem, "Within and Without" (published in 1855, but written a few years ea... | Anne Isabella (Annabella), Baroness Byron | George Macdonald | Within and Without | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Mary Berry, Journal, 28 May 1812: 'In the evening the Princess [?of Wales] read to us "Amelie de Mansfeldt."' | Caroline of Brunswick-Wolfenb?ttel Princess of Wales | Madame de Cottin | Amelie de Mansfeldt | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Mary Berry, Journal, 29 May 1812: '[Princess Charlotte] left between nine and ten o'clock [pm]. The Princess [?of Wal... | Caroline of Brunswick-Wolfenb?ttel Princess of Wales | Madame de Cottin | Amelie de Mansfeldt | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read all evening' | Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read in the greek grammar' | Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin | [unknown] | [Greek Grammar] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read and work in the evening' | Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read in the morning and work' | Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read in the Greek grammar' | Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin | [unknown] | [Greek Grammar] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read a little in the Greek grammar' | Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin | [unknown] | [Greek Grammar] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read a part of St Leon' | Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin | William Godwin | St. Leon; a tale of the sixteenth century | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Work and read in the evening' | Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read a little of Petronius - a most detestable book' | Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin | Petronius | Satyricon | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'In the evening read Louvet's memoirs' | Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin | Jean-Baptiste Louvet de Couvray | Narrative of the dangers to which I have been exposed, since the 31st of May 1793 | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Louvet's memoirs all day' | Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin | Jean-Baptiste Louvet de Couvray | Narrative of the dangers to which I have been exposed, since the 31st of May 1793 | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Finish Louvet's memoirs' | Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin | Jean-Baptiste Louvet de Couvray | Narrative of the dangers to which I have been exposed, since the 31st of May 1793 | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Write and read' | Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Brooks loved literature, and during their long walks together he introduced Willie to the most important contemporary... | John Ellingham Brooks | John Henry, Cardinal Newman | [theological works] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Brooks loved literature, and during their long walks together he introduced Willie to the most important contemporary... | John Ellingham Brooks | George Meredith | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Brooks loved literature, and during their long walks together he introduced Willie to the most important contemporary... | John Ellingham Brooks | Walter Pater | Imaginary Portraits | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Brooks loved literature, and during their long walks together he introduced Willie to the most important contemporary... | John Ellingham Brooks | Algernon Charles Swinburne | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Brooks loved literature, and during their long walks together he introduced Willie to the most important contemporary... | John Ellingham Brooks | Edward Fitzgerald (trans.) | Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, The | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | The Hon.J. W. Ward to Mary Berry, 11 May 1814: 'I have bought Mr Schlegel's book about the drama, which they have tran... | The Hon. J. W. Ward | Schlegel | work on drama | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Joanna Baillie to Mary Berry, 24 July 1819: 'Your "Life of Lady Russell," as far as my acquaintance extends, gives gen... | Joanna Baillie | Mary Berry | Life of Lady Russell | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | The Hon. James Abercrombie to Mary Berry, 5 January 1820: 'I am reading Coxe's "Life of Marlborough;" the subject, in ... | The Hon. James Abercrombie | Coxe | Life of Marlborough | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Joanna Baillie to Mary Berry, 24 April 1828, acknowledging receipt, the previous day, of her copy of Berry's "The Comp... | Joanna Baillie | Mary Berry | Introduction to The Comparative View of Social Life in France and England | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Joanna Baillie to Mary Berry, 9 June 1828: 'I have read your "View of the Social Life, &c.," twice; and it has lost no... | Joanna Baillie | Mary Berry | The Comparative View of Social Life in France and England (vol.1) | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Joanna Baillie to Mary Berry, [1831]: 'I have just read your proof-sheet [of second volume of Berry's "Comparative Vie... | Joanna Baillie | Mary Berry | The Comparative View of Social Life in France and England (vol 2) | Print: In proof |
| 1800-1849 | The Rev. Sydney Smith to Mary Berry, [1840]: 'I am reading again Madame du Deffand.' | Rev. Sydney Smith | Madame du Deffand | Letters | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Lord Francis Jeffrey to Mary Berry, [1842]: 'I have been amusing myself lately by looking over the catalogue of the St... | Lord Francis Jeffrey | unknown | Catalogue of Strawberry Hill collections | Print: Book, catalogue |
| 1800-1849 | Lord Francis Jeffrey to Mary Berry, 22 April 1842 ('Friday Evening'): 'I have just been reading over your admirable le... | Lord Francis Jeffrey | Mary Berry | Letter to Lord Francis Jeffrey | Manuscript: Letter |
| 1800-1849 | Lord Francis Jeffrey to Mary Berry, 23 April 1842 (in letter begun 22 April): 'I still read a good deal [...] I have j... | Lord Francis Jeffrey | | The Edinburgh Review | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | Lord Francis Jeffrey to Mary Berry, 23 April 1842 (in letter begun 22 April): 'I still read a good deal [...] I have j... | Lord Francis Jeffrey | Thomas Babington Macaulay | article on Frederick of Prussia | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | Sydney Smith to Mary Berry, [1843]: 'I saw a piece of news the other day, in which a gentleman made his good fortune k... | The Rev. Sydney Smith | | Church appointment notice | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | 'Palm Sunday
Appropriate readings this week from Mant (?) [sic] &c.' | John Cole | Richard Mant | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Dr Sandford's lecture on Good Friday.' | John Cole | Dr Sanford | lecture on Good Friday | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Butcher's Sermon "He is risen" &&'. | John Cole | Butcher | Sermon 'He is risen' | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'Inspected Mr Dash's large collection of books.' | John Cole | | various | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Evening - suitable readings'. | John Cole | unknown | ['suitable readings'] | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'Observing a new entrance gate, inscribed Jesus' Hospital [underlined], we were invited to enter the gate, and discove... | John Cole | unknown | [Inscription over entrance gate] | Print: Incription on gate |
| 1800-1849 | 'Letters were at home awaiting me, intimating that John was about to leave Leamington.' | John Cole Jr | John Cole | letters | Manuscript: Letter |
| 1800-1849 | 'We are now reading at the tea table, Evan's Tourist.' | John Cole | Evans | Tourist | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read in Evan's Tourist. The vulgar pronunciation of Brumidgham is nearer the true derivation than the modern name of ... | John Cole | Evans | Tourist | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'In the evening a change came on, a slight thunderstorm, during which a beautiful rain-bow appeared, when we read Dr B... | John Cole | Belfrage | The Rainbow | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'After the service we inspected the monument of Thomas Robinson... The Saviour appearing in the clouds with an open bo... | John Cole | | [Scripture] | Print: Monument of Thomas Robinson, St Mary's Church, Leicester (Sculptor, Bacon) |
| 1800-1849 | 'During our readings at our lodgings, Dr Clarke's Lake of Riberias formed an interesting portion. King's Hymns too wer... | John Cole | Clarke | Lake of Tiberias | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'During our readings at our lodgings, Dr Clarke's Lake of Riberias formed an interesting portion. King's Hymns too wer... | John Cole | King | Hymns | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read "The Telegraph" in Evans.' | John Cole | Evans | The Telegraph | |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read a letter of interest from G Danes Esq.' | John Cole | G Danes | letter | Manuscript: Letter |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read "Annals of my village" - the month.' | John Cole | Mary Roberts | Annals of my Village | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read a portion of Sir R Phillips' Personal tour.' | John Cole | Sir R Phillips | Personal Tour | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'For the benefit of my children read "Wonders of the human body" [underlined] describing and explaining by diagram the... | John Cole | anon | Wonders of the human body | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'For the benefit of my children read "Wonders of the human body" [underlined] describing and explaining by diagram the... | John Cole | Pulley | Etymological compendium | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Natural History of Rabbit. On looking over "The Penny magazine" I met with the following useful piece by my frie... | John Cole | Rhind | Natural history of the Rabbit | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'On looking over "The Penny magazine" I met with the following useful piece by my friend James' [?Edmeston]. | John Cole | James [?] Edmeston | The penny magazine | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read in Phillips' Tour. He writes "Bedford presents 'objects of exhaustless eulogy' when referring to the different c... | John Cole | Phillips | Tour | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Continued "Wonders of the human body" and began again Watson's "Intimations and evidences of a future state. Studied ... | John Cole | Watson | Intimations and evidences of a future state | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Harriet Martineau, on a response to her series of "Tales", denounced as 'improper' in the Quarterly Review, by a woman... | anon | Harriet Martineau | volume containing "Garveloch" stories | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'S. reads rights of Man. C. in an ill humour - she read the Italian'. | Clara Mary Jane (Claire) Clairmont | Ann Radcliffe | Italian; or, the Confession of the Black Penitents, The | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'In the room is a library to which we can at any time resort, consisting of Tillotson, Blair, Howe and Watt's Sermons,... | John Cole | Samuel Johnson | [poems] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'In the room is a library to which we can at any time resort, consisting of Tillotson, Blair, Howe and Watt's Sermons,... | John Cole | Hugh Blair | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'In the room is a library to which we can at any time resort, consisting of Tillotson, Blair, Howe and Watt's Sermons,... | John Cole | Charles Rollin | The ancient history of the Egyptians | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'In the room is a library to which we can at any time resort, consisting of Tillotson, Blair, Howe and Watt's Sermons,... | John Cole | James Hervey | Meditations and contemplations | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'In the room is a library to which we can at any time resort, consisting of Tillotson, Blair, Howe and Watt's Sermons,... | John Cole | William Sherlock | Meditations and A practical discourse concerning death | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'On looking in at the shop window, which was well stocked and elegant, we perceived a notice announcing that a Riblic ... | John Cole | [n/a] | [notice] | Print: Advertisement, Poster, Notice on shop window |
| 1800-1849 | 'Called one morning on the Rev S Hilliard & saw Bunyan's "Pitcher" and several pages of his writings in some documents... | John Cole | John Bunyan | [Pitcher and writings] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read in Sir Phillip's "Personal Tour" - curios of natural history... Read a portion of Blair on death.' | John Cole | Sir Richard Phillips | Personal Tour | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 |
'Read in Sir Phillip's "Personal Tour" - curios of natural history... Read a portion of Blair on death.' | John Cole | Anon | Curios of natural history | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read in Sir Phillip's "Personal Tour" - curios of natural history... Read a portion of Blair on death.' | John Cole | Hugh Blair | A sermon on the death of Christ | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read some descriptions of West Indies.' | John Cole | [unknown] | [descriptions of the West Indies] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Aftn. Suitable readings & social prayers. Read a sermon by the Revd E. Butcher.' | John Cole | E Butcher | [sermon] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Aftn. Suitable readings & social prayers. Read a sermon by the Revd E. Butcher.' | John Cole | [Anon] | [suitable readings] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read a portion of Sir R Phillips "Tour".' | John Cole | Richard Phillips | Tour | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read acct of the "Tailor Bird".' | John Cole | [unknown] | [Account of the Tailor Bird] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read portions if Sir Rd Phillip's "Tour" and Journal.' | John Cole | Richard Phillips | Tour | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read portions if Sir Rd Phillip's "Tour" and Journal.' | John Cole | Richard Phillips | Journal | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read portions if Sir Rd Phillip's "Tour".' | John Cole | Richard Phillips | Tour | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read an acct of the walkers of Rotherham in Sir Rich'd's book. I knew them well at Scarborough i.e. the descendents o... | John Cole | Richard Phillips | Tour | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Harriet Martineau, on plans for, and execution of, her work on Toussaint L'Ouverture: 'I went to my confidante, with a... | anon | Harriet Martineau | work on Toussaint L'Ouverture | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'At a concert at the Hanover Square Rooms, some time before [Queen Victoria's accession] (I forget what year it was) t... | Princess Victoria | Harriet Martineau | Stories including "Ella of Garveloch" | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | '[A friend] one day desired to be allowed to see and criticise the first chapter of my [Harriet Martineau's] "Retrospe... | anon | Harriet Martineau | Retrospect of Western Travel | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Harriet Martineau to 'Mr Atkinson', 21 November 1847: 'I saw a sort of scared smile on Mrs. ----'s face the other day,... | anon | Harriet Martineau | articles on Household Education | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | Harriet Martineau on the death of a Town Missionary acquaintance of hers:
'A friend of his at Birmingham wrote to ... | anon | Harriet Martineau | Letter | Manuscript: Letter |
| 1850-1899 | 'On the 8th of May [1851], I [Harriet Martineau] went for a fortnight to stay with some friends, between whom and myse... | anon | Auguste Comte | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Maria Weston Chapman on Harriet Martineau's story 'Mary and her Grandmother': 'I found it in the [italics]mansarde[end... | Maria Weston Chapman | Harriet Martineau | Mary and her Grandmother | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'I read at night in the G[reek or Great]Testament but for a very short while'. | John Jones | [n/a] | [Greek or Great?] Testament | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Read over Rosewell's "Life 7 Tryal" 8vo 17[18]'. | Anthony Hammond | Samuel Rosewell | The Arraignment and Tryal of T. Rosewell, for High Treason | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 1800-1849 | [Written on end papers of manuscript book of Dawson's diary] 'this book was Read with much Interest by me May 1864, th... | Francis Cain | John Dawson | John Dawson's Diary, Volume One, 1722-30, 1731-40. | Manuscript: Sheet |
| 1800-1849 | Lord Jeffrey to 'Mr. Empson', December 1840: 'I have read Harriet [Martineau]'s first volume [of "The Hour and the Man... | Francis Jeffrey | Harriet Martineau | The Hour and the Man (vol. I) | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Florence Nightingale to Jane Martineau, 29 June 1876: 'I have thought of "The Hour and the Man" as the finest historic... | Florence Nightingale | Harriet Martineau | The Hour and the Man | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'As my love of books became known, I was made free of such libraries as the neighbours possessed which led to me readi... | Hannah Mitchell | [unknown] | [old-fashioned theological works] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'As my love of books became known, I was made free of such libraries as the neighbours possessed which led to me readi... | Hannah Mitchell | [unknown] | [early Methodist magazines] | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'As my love of books became known, I was made free of such libraries as the neighbours possessed which led to me readi... | Hannah Mitchell | [unknown] | [cookery books] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'As my love of books became known, I was made free of such libraries as the neighbours possessed which led to me readi... | Hannah Mitchell | [unknown] | [tales of murder and robbery] | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'As my love of books became known, I was made free of such libraries as the neighbours possessed which led to me readi... | Hannah Mitchell | Horace Walpole | The Castle of Ontranto | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'As my love of books became known, I was made free of such libraries as the neighbours possessed which led to me readi... | Hannah Mitchell | [unknown] | History of England | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'In another house I found a tattered copy of Scott's "Kenilworth" and a quite new copy of "Cranford". Among some old b... | Hannah Mitchell | Sir Walter Scott | Kenilworth | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'In another house I found a tattered copy of Scott's "Kenilworth" and a quite new copy of "Cranford". Among some old b... | Hannah Mitchell | Elizabeth Gaskell | Cranford | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'In another house I found a tattered copy of Scott's "Kenilworth" and a quite new copy of "Cranford". Among some old b... | Hannah Mitchell | [unknown] | Adam's First Wife | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Transcribed into a ms volume] Title 'Lines by Mrs Hemans'; Text 'Bring flowers, young flowers, for the festal board/ ... | Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine | Felicia Dorothea Browne Hemans | Bring flowers | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 | [Item transcribed into commonplace book]: Title = 'The season of death' Text = 'Leaves have their time to fall/ And fl... | Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine | Anonymous | The season of death | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'I do not claim that I understood all Wordsworth's poems but I liked the descriptive parts and committed to memory all... | Hannah Mitchell | William Wordsworth | [Poems] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'The only poetry we had read were short poems in the local paper, which my mother called "verse". But I knew it meant ... | Hannah Mitchell | [unknown-probably various contributors] | [poems in newspaper] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'One of them asked me if I was fond of reading and told me that she herself wrote books and was staying in the neighbo... | Hannah Mitchell | Mary Humphrey Ward | The History of David Grieve | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I also found a small library, which meant that many copper really needed for food were spent on borrowing books. At t... | Hannah Mitchell | Mrs. Henry Wood | [novels] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I also found a small library, which meant that many copper really needed for food were spent on borrowing books. At t... | Hannah Mitchell | Sir Walter Scott | [works] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I also found a small library, which meant that many copper really needed for food were spent on borrowing books. At t... | Hannah Mitchell | [unknown] | [poetry] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I also found a small library, which meant that many copper really needed for food were spent on borrowing books. At t... | Hannah Mitchell | [unknown] | [history] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I attended Sunday school with the daughter of the house, finding my enforced study of the Bible very valuable to me.' | Hannah Mitchell | [n/a] | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'When I was living in Sallie's home one of the male boarders who called himself a Socialist showed me some articles in... | Hannah Mitchell | Robert Blatchford | Nunquam | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'Later on, when Blatchford and his friends, A. M. Thompson, E. F. Fay and Montague Blatchford founded the Socialist we... | Hannah Mitchell | [n/a] | The Clarion | Print: Newspaper, Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 1900-1945 |
'I have just read "Mrs. Pankhurst's Own Story" and Mrs. Swanwick's autobiography, "I have been Young". Both books sh... | Hannah Mitchell | Emmeline Pankhurst | My Own Story | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 1900-1945 | 'I have just read "Mrs. Pankhurst's Own Story" and Mrs. Swanwick's autobiography, "I have been Young". Both books show... | Hannah Mitchell | Helena Swanwick | I have been Young | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Fortunately for me, about this time I read two books by Joseph Macabe, an ex-Catholic priest, "The Religion of Women"... | Hannah Mitchell | Joseph Macabe | The Religion of Women | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Fortunately for me, about this time I read two books by Joseph Macabe, an ex-Catholic priest, "The Religion of Women"... | Hannah Mitchell | Joseph Macabe | Women in Political Evolution | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Subsequently I recieved a curiously worded scroll addressed to "Our trusty and well beloved Hannah Maria Mitchell." T... | Hannah Mitchell | [unknown] | [To our trusty and well beloved Hannah Maria Mitchell] | Manuscript: Sheet |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 | [Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: Title = 'The Voice of Spring'; Text = 'I come, I come ! ye have call'd me ... | Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine | Felicia Hemans | The voice of spring | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 | [Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: Title = 'Strangers by Lord Byron'; Text = 'When coldness wraps this suffer... | Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine | George Gordon, Lord Byron | When coldness wraps this suffering clay | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 | [Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: Title = 'Epitaph on an idiot'; Text = 'If innocence has its reward in heav... | Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine | Anon | Epitaph on an Idiot | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 | [Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: Untitled; Text = 'To sigh, yet feel no pain; /To weep - yet scarce know wh... | Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine | [Thomas] [Moore] | [The Blue Stocking] | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 | [Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: Untitled; Text = 'Marriage from love, like vinegar from wine/ A sad, sour,... | Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine | [George Gordon, Lord] [Byron] | [Don Juan - Canto the Third] | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 | [Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: Title = 'On vaccination'; Text [prose followed by verse] = 'A Mr Stewart w... | Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine | [James?] Beresford | [On vaccination] | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 | [Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: Title = 'Night'; Text 'Night is the time for rest/ How sweet, when labors ... | Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine | [James?] Montgomery | Night | Print: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 1800-1849 | 'No private reading except a little in "Eusebia de Praeparatio Evangelica"'. | John Jones | Eusebius | De Praeparatio Evangelica | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 1800-1849 | 'The natural theology of Dr. Paley is so generally recommended and read in this University, that I need not here insis... | John Kidd | William Paley | Natural Theology | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | '...the inside of the lid of it was lined with sheets of what I now know to have been a sensational novel. It was of c... | Edmund Gosse | [unknown] | [sensational novel] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'And with that, dismissing the subject, I dived again into the unplumbed depths of the "Penny Cyclopaedia"'. | Edmund Gosse | Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge | The Penny Cyclopaedia | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'I read the Bible everyday, and at much length; also, -with what I cannot but think some praiseworthy patience, - a bo... | Edmund Gosse | [n/a] | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I read the Bible everyday, and at much length; also, - with what I cannot but think some praiseworthy patience, - a b... | Edmund Gosse | Benjamin Wills Newton | Thoughts on the Apocalypse | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I came across a piece of verse which exercised a lasting influence on my taste. It was called "The Cameronian's Dream... | Edmund Gosse | James Hyslop | The Cameronian's Dream | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'There was, for instance, a writer on prophecy called Jukes, of whose works each of my parents was inordinately fond, ... | Edmund Gosse | Andrew John Jukes | The law of the offerings in Leviticus | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Later on, a publication called the "Penny Cyclopaedia" became my daily, and for a long time almost my sole study...' | Edmund Gosse | Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge | The Penny Cyclopaedia | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 | [Transcription from a commonplace book]: Title = 'Epitaph on a tomb in Melrose Abbey'; text [4 lines] = 'The yerthe wa... | Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine | Anon | Epitaph on a tomb in Melrose Abbey | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 | [Transcription from a commonplace book]: [Title]'Translation of an Arabic Ode'; [text]'When mortal hands thy peace des... | Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine | Anon | [Translation of an Arabic Ode] | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'She [Lady Caroline Lamb] wrote at length to defend herself to [Thomas] Medwin, whom she treats respectfully, though s... | Lady Caroline Lamb | Thomas Medwin | Journal of the Conversations of Lord Byron | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'With the most intense interest I have just finished your Book which does you credit as to the manner in which it is e... | Lady Caroline Lamb | Thomas Medwin | Journal of the Conversations of Lord Byron | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I read his own [Byron's] memoirs before Murray burnt them.' | Lady Caroline Lamb | George Gordon, Lord Byron | [Memoirs] | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'pray have you read Medwin's Book--the part respecting me gives me much pain--this is strange--why need I care--I do h... | Lady Caroline Lamb | Thomas Medwin | ournal of the Conversations of Lord Byron | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | '"I however still love the hand upraised to shed my blood."' | Lady Caroline Lamb | Alexander Pope | Essay on Man | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 | [Transcription from a commonplace book]: [Title]'The Ton'; [Text] 'I ask not L ...[?] wealth or power/ A Gascoigne's f... | Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine | Anon | [The Ton] | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 | [Transcription from a commonplace book]: [Untitled]; [Text = prose introduction followed by verse] 'During the trouble... | Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine | [Robert] [Burns] | [Lady Mary Anne] | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 | [Transcription from a commonplace book]: [Untitled]; [Text] 'Farewell, oh farewell; my heart it is sair/ Farewell oh f... | Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine | Anon | [unknown] | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | [Transcription from a commonplace book]: [Title] 'Ode to the closing year'; [Text] 'Oh why should I attempt to ring/Th... | Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine | Anon | Ode to the closing year | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | ?for Hamlet & the trifling of his favour
Hold it a fashion and a Toy in blood;
A violet in the youth of primy nature... | Lady Caroline Lamb | William Shakespeare | Hamlet | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | '[I] could not like the "Paradise of Coquettes"'. | Lady Caroline Lamb | Thomas Brown | Paradise of Coquettes | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'Twould make a Paradise of Hell--
& fill even Heaven itself with woe[...]' | Lady Caroline Lamb | John Milton | Paradise Lost | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | ?There are good characters I think in Guy [Mannering] ? the Scotch Lawyer ? the Farmer ? [...] the Gipsies[sic] & Brow... | Lady Caroline Lamb | Sir Walter Scott | Guy Mannering | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | ?There are good characters I think in Guy [Mannering] ? the Scotch Lawyer ? the Farmer ? [...] the Gipsies[sic] & Brow... | Lady Caroline Lamb | Sir Walter Scott | Waverley | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | ?[N]ow that the Newspaper is so interesting it is difficult to read at all' | Lady Caroline Lamb | [n/a] | [newspaper] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | ?Dear Sir,
if you had condescended to write a few lines with these copy Books I should have had greater pleasure in r... | Lady Caroline Lamb | [unknown] | [copy books] | Manuscript: Copy Books |
| 1800-1849 | 'do you ever read the Augustan Review it is stupid though[underlined] it thinks me so - & yet be afraid I like it beca... | Lady Caroline Lamb | [unknown] | Review of Glenarvon in the Augustan Review | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | 'ELLEN: looks up from the "Sketch", which she has been reading: "How do you pronounce M-Y-R-R-H"?' | Ellen | [unknown] | Sketch | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 | [Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: [Title] 'Lines addressed to a Lady who had suffered much and long afflicti... | Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine | Anon | Lines addressed to a Lady who had suffered much and long affliction | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 | [Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: [Title] 'The grave of a poetess (Mrs` Tighe at Woodstock near Kilkenny)'; ... | Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine | [Felicia Dorothea Browne] [Hemans] | The grave of a poetess | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 | [Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: [Title] 'Mary, Queen of Scots' farewell to France'; [text] 'Adieu, plaisan... | Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine | [Anne Gabriel] [De Querlon]? | [Adieu] | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 | [Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: [Title] 'England'; [text] 'The late excellent Dr Clark thus apostrophizes ... | Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine | Dr Clark | [unknown] | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 | [Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: [Title] 'The Record'; [text] 'He sleeps, his head upon his sword/ His sold... | Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine | Letitia Elizabeth Landon | The record | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | [transcribed in Lady Caroline's hand]: ?From Crabbe
Minutely trace Man?s life; year after year,
Through all his days... | Lady Caroline Lamb | George Crabbe | Tale II, 'The Parting Hour' | Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'D. went. N. said he wasn't going to sleep, because it was too uncomfortable; would read a book. He read "Low Company"... | | [unknown] | Low Company | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Transcribed in Lady Caroline's hand]: ?["]The Lamb thy riot dooms to bleed today
Had he thy ['thy' is underlined] re... | Lady Caroline Lamb | Alexander Pope | An Essay on Man, Epistle I | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 | [Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: [Title] 'The Lily'; [text] 'How withered, perished seems the form/ Of you ... | Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine | Maria Tighe | The lily | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 | [Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: [Title] 'Evening's daughter'; [text] 'Come, evening gale! The crimson rose... | Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine | George Croly | Evening's daughter | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 | [Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: [Title] 'From the Troubadour by L.E.L.'; [text] 'A poetical sketch of a pi... | Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine | Letitia Elizabeth Landon | The Troubadour [extract] | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | [Transcribed in Lady Caroline's hand]: ?From Nature & Art
There is a word in the vocabulary more bitter, more direful... | Lady Caroline Lamb | Elizabeth Inchbald | Nature and Art | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 | [Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: [Title] 'On Friendship'; [Text] 'There are different modes of obligation a... | Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine | Anon | [On Friendship] | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | [transcribed in what appears to be Lady Caroline's hand]: 'With modest sidelong look and downcase glance / Behold the... | Lady Caroline Lamb | Richard Brinsley Sheridan | 'The Walse' also entitled 'The Waltz' | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 | [Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: [Title] 'Country and Town [by] H. Smith'; [Text] 'Horrid, in country shade... | Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine | H. Smith | Country and Town | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | [transcribed in what seems to be Lady Caroline's hand]:
'If guardian Powers preside above
Who still extend to virtu... | Lady Caroline Lamb | William Robert Spencer | Urania | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | [transcription of Moore's poem 'Gazel' in what seems to be Lady Caroline's Hand] | Lady Caroline Lamb | Thomas Moore | 'Gazel' | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | [transcibed in what seems to be Lady Caroline's hand]: 'What is Majesty without its externals?-- / by Burke' | Lady Caroline Lamb | Edmund Burke | [unknown] | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 | [Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: Title 'Address to Lord Byron by Dr Lamartine'; [Text] 'Toi, dont le monde ... | Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine | Alphonse Marie Louis de Lamartine | [L'Homme] | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 | [Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: Title 'Lines on Home'; [Text] 'That is not home, where day by day/ I wear ... | Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine | Anon | Lines on Home | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 | [Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: Title 'The Comet'; [Text] 'O'er the blue heavens majestic & alone/ He trea... | Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine | Henry Neele | The comet | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 | [Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: [ Untitled]; [Text] 'In the morning of life when its cares are unknown/ a... | Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine | Thomas Moore | [unknown] | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 | [Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: [Title] 'The Illuminated City' ; [Text] 'The hills all glow'd with a festi... | Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine | Felicia Dorothea Browne Hemans | The illuminated city | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 | [Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: [Title] 'From the Forest Sanctuary'; [Text] 'But the dark hours wring fort... | Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine | Felicia Dorothea Browne Hemans | The forest sanctuary | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 | [Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: [Untitled] ; [Text] 'Que fais tu la seul et reveur?/ Je m'entretiens avec ... | Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine | Anon | [unknown] | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 | [Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: [Title] 'Poesie di Ossian [by] Cartoue'; [Text] 'O tu che luminoso erri e... | Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine | [unknown] | Poesie di Ossian | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 | [Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: [Title] 'The old Maid's prayer to Diana'; [Text] 'Since thou and the stars... | Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine | [Mary] [Tighe] | The old Maid's prayer to Diana | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 | [Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: [Title] 'Lord Byron ? From "The Course of Time"'; [Text] '... He touched ... | Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine | [Robert] [Pollock] | The Course of Time [extract] | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 | [Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: [Title] 'Genius ? From "The Dead and the Living"'; [Text] 'Oh genius thou... | Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine | Anon | The Dead and the Living [extract] | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 | [Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: [Untitled] ; [Text] 'And the lady prayed in heaviness/ That looked not for... | Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine | William Wordsworth | [The force of prayer; or, the founding of Bolton Abbey] | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 | [Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: [Title] 'My Birthday [by] Moore'; [Text] 'My Birthday! what a different so... | Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine | Thomas Moore | My Birthday | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 | [Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: [Title] 'To my mother [by] Moore'; [Text] 'They tell us of an Indian tree/... | Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine | Thomas Moore | To my mother | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 | [Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: [Title] 'Resignation'; [Text] 'Be hushed each sigh whose murmering moan/ O... | Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine | Anon | Resignation | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 | [Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: [Untitled] ; [Text] 'There is another kind of virtue/ that may find employ... | Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine | Joseph Addison | [Spare Time] | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 | [Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: [Title] 'Journal of an Annuyee' ; [Text] 'Is it sorrow which makes our exp... | Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine | Anon | Journal of an Annuyee | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 | [Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: [Untitled];[Text] 'Souls of the just! whose truth and love,/ Like light an... | Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine | Anon | [unknown] | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 | [Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: [Untitled]; [Text]'They sin who tell us love can die/ With life all other ... | Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine | [Robert] Southey | [The curse of Kehama, canto X] | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 | [Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: [Untitled]; [Text]'There are those to whom a sense of religion/ has come i... | Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine | [Walter] [Scott] | [The monastery] | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 | [Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: [Untitled]; [Text]' ?Oh! ask not, hope not thou too much/ of sympathy belo... | Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine | [Felicia Dorothea Browne] [Hemans] | [Kindred hearts] | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 | [Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: [Untitled]; [Text] 'Oh that I had the wings of a dove/ that I might flee a... | Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine | John Malcolm | [untitled] | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 | [Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: [Untitled]; [Text]' "La Belle France" has no more pretensions to beauty/ t... | Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine | [Anon] | Matilde a novel | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 | [Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: [Untitled]; [Text]' Count oe'r the days whose happy flight/ Is shared with... | Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine | [Anon] | [untitled] | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 | [Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: [Untitled]; [Text]' ? Now I feel/ What high prerogatives belong to Death/ ... | Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine | Felicia Dorothea Browne Hemans | [untitled] | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 | [Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: [Title] 'The Eve of the Battle'; [Text] 'Before tomorrow's sun/ dispels th... | Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine | G.I. C..... | The Eve of the Battle | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 | [Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: [Title] 'A Highland Salute to the Queen/ Air Roderigh Vich Alpine dhu, ho... | Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine | [Anon] | A Highland Salute to the Queen | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 | [Item transcribed into a commonplace book]; [Title] "The Star of Missions"; [Text] "Behold the Mission Star's soul gla... | Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine | [Anon] | The Star of Missions | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 | [Item transcribed into a commonplace book]; [Untitled]; [Text] "Qu'est ce qui fait le bonheur ou le malheur/ de notre ... | Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine | [Anon] | unknown | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 | [Item transcribed into a commonplace book]; [Title] "Lines on Mountghaine[?] by Innes[?], Mrs Gordon's butler"; [Text]... | Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine | Innes[?] | Lines on Mountghaine [?] | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 | [Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: [Title] 'Farewell to the Year/ by Luis Baylon [?], translated by J.G. Lock... | Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine | Luis Baylon | Farewell to the Year | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 | [Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: [Title] 'Worsted Work'; [Text] 'Oh! Talk not of it lightly in an tone of s... | Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine | [Maria] Abdy | Worsted work | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 | [Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: [Title] 'Lines/ by the Rev. M. Vicary'; [Text] 'There is a bark [?] unseen... | Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine | M. Vicary | Lines | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 | [Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: [Title] 'The dead friend'; [Text] 'Not to the grave, not to the grave, my... | Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine | [Anon] | The dead friend | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 | [Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: [Title] 'Adieu/ John Mackintosh/ The earnest student'; [Text] 'Adieu to Go... | Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine | John Mackintosh | Adieu | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 | [Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: [Title] 'To one at rest/ by the author of/ the Three Wakings'; [Text] 'And... | Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine | [Elizabeth Rundle] [Charles] | To one at rest | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 | [Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: [Untitled]; [Text] 'Weep not, tho' lonely and wild be thy path/ And the st... | Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine | Anonymous | [untitled] | Print: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'on his eighth birthday, 27 February 1920, an ox-cart drew up outside Everleas Lodge with a present for him - a huge p... | Lawrence Durrell | Charles Dickens | Pickwick Papers | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Letter 255
April 7th 1940
'I?ve got this sudden craze for the Michael Angelo Sonnetts & have set about half a dozen ... | Benjamin Britten | Michelangelo Buonarrotti | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Letter 292
7 October 1940
Referring to the Blitz on London:
'I see in to-day?s [New York] "Times" that you had a ni... | Benjamin Britten | [n/a] | New York Times | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | 'Afternoon: read one of Blair's Sermons.' | John Cole | Blair | Sermons | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I was invited on one occasion to Mr Champley's, in Newborough, where I saw a specimen of Etty's peculiar painting in ... | John Cole | [unknown] | Royal Academy Catalogue | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'On the circular table in the centre of the room was placed among other books an album, and Mr Storey being called awa... | John Cole | [unknown] | [album] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'The evening before I left, walked to Falsgrave and on making a call looked over Perceval's "Account of Ceylon".' | John Cole | Perceval | Account of Ceylon | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'To tea at my friend Cape's and looked over his mss.' | John Cole | Thomas Cape | [private writing] | Manuscript: Sheet, mss |
| 1800-1849 | 'On looking over the Articles of a General Factor in the village, where I was transacting some business, a little book... | John Cole | John Edwards | Recollections of Filey | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'At this later place [Lincoln] we arrived at about 10 in the evening. Tea and bed were then in request, with a small p... | John Cole | [n/a] | [newspaper] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | 'Roved around Northampton and stepped into most of the booksellers' shops to examine new works, etc, and made extracts... | John Cole | [unknown authors] | [various titles] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Procured the loan of Bridge's [sic] "History of Northamptonshire" from Birdsall's Library in order to consult it for ... | John Cole | Bridges | History of Northamptonshire | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'After tea walked home, and went through, with my family, our usual Sunday evening devotions, consisting of sermon rea... | John Cole | [unknown] | [sermons] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'The hours from seven to nine were spent in reading some useful and entertaining books such as Addison's works and par... | Prince George | Joseph Addison | [Political works] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'One afternoon his eye caught Paine's "Rights of Man", and he picked it up and began to study it intently. Absorbed, h... | King George III | Thomas Paine | The Rights of Man | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | '"Yes," bolted out Mrs. Bowdler, "Harriet is one of the greatest admirers of 'Evelina'."
These sort of abrupt speeche... | Henrietta Maria (Harriet) Bowdler | Frances Burney | Evelina | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Besides their own Family we met Mr Jerningham, the Poet. I have lately been reading his poems,- if [italics] his [cl... | Frances Burney | Jerningham | 'Poems on Various Subjects' or 'Fugitive Poetical Pieces' or poems separately published. | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'No work of fiction could be read unless approved by their mother* ... [footnote] * An exception was made in the case ... | Princess Elizabeth | Fanny Burney | Camilla | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | '... it is his son that is the Rev. Henry Harrington who published those very curious, entertaining & valuable remains... | Frances Burney | Henry Harrington | Nugae Antiquae | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I will not tell you my exact state of health day by day, but will give you a diary of my reading, which is perhaps a ... | Donald William Alers Hankey | Alphonse Daudet | Tartarin sur les Alpes | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I will not tell you my exact state of health day by day, but will give you a diary of my reading, which is perhaps a ... | Donald William Alers Hankey | Pearl Mary Theresa Craigie | Letters from a Silent Study | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I will not tell you my exact state of health day by day, but will give you a diary of my reading, which is perhaps a ... | Donald William Alers Hankey | Charles Dickens | The Pickwick Papers | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I will not tell you my exact state of health day by day, but will give you a diary of my reading, which is perhaps a ... | Donald William Alers Hankey | William Makepeace Thackeray | The History of Henry Esmond | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I will not tell you my exact state of health day by day, but will give you a diary of my reading, which is perhaps a ... | Donald William Alers Hankey | Joseph Butler | Analogy of Religion, Natural and Revealed, to the Constitution and Course of Nature | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I will not tell you my exact state of health day by day, but will give you a diary of my reading, which is perhaps a ... | Donald William Alers Hankey | Thomas Jonathan Jackson | [Military History] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I would like you to read a little book called "The Forerunner", by Merejkowski, published by Constable. It is about ... | Donald William Alers Hankey | Dimitri Merejkowski | The Forerunner, the romance of Leonardo da Vinci | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'As regards books, such a lot depends on what sort of life you are leading. I always relish Ingram's terse epigrammat... | Donald William Alers Hankey | Brooke Foss Westcott | Introduction to the Study of the Gospels | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Don't worry about me; at last I am a serious soldier. I have a pile of books on ordnance, and gunnery, and ammunitio... | Donald William Alers Hankey | Sir William Francis Patrick Napier | History of the War in the Peninsular | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I have been reading the "Life of Dr. Johnson", and in a letter of his to a friend on the death of his mother I found ... | Donald William Alers Hankey | James Boswell | The Life of Samuel Johnson | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Curiously enough I arrived at this result by the aid of an R. C. book, called "The Spiritual Combat". The motto of ... | Donald William Alers Hankey | Dom Lorenzo Scupoli | The Spiritual Combat | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'In future I hope that instead of saying as the fat boy in "Pickwick" does "I wants to make yer flesh creep," when I h... | Donald William Alers Hankey | Charles Dickens | The Pickwick Papers | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Many thanks for the cuttings on higher criticism. I can't help thinking that this movement is larely the result of t... | Donald William Alers Hankey | [unknown] | [unknown - on Higher criticism] | Print: Unknown, cuttings |
| 1900-1945 | 'Many thanks for the cuttings on higher criticism. I can't help thinking that this movement is larely the result of t... | Donald William Alers Hankey | Dr Robert William Dale | The Doctrine of Atonement | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Many thanks for the cuttings on higher criticism. I can't help thinking that this movement is larely the result of t... | Donald William Alers Hankey | Charles Gore | Prayer and the Lord's Prayer | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Many thanks for the cuttings on higher criticism. I can't help thinking that this movement is larely the result of t... | Donald William Alers Hankey | Brooke Foss Westcott | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Don't worry about me; at last I am a serious soldier. I have a pile of books on ordnance, and gunnery, and ammunitio... | Donald William Alers Hankey | [unknown] | [essay on rifling] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'So much for Mrs Piozzi. I had some thoughts of writing the whole of my letter in her stile [sic], but I beleive [sic]... | Jane Austen | Hester Lynch Piozzi | Letters to and from the late Samuel Johnson | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'He [Edward Austen] made an important purchase Yesterday; no less than a pair of Coach Horses; his friend Mr Evelyn fo... | Jane Austen | Jonathan Swift | Gulliver's Travels | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Having just finished the first volume of les Veillees du Chateau, I think it a good opportunity of beginning a letter... | Jane Austen | Madame de Genlis | les Veillees du Chateau | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I am reading Henry's History of England, which I will repeat to you in any manner you may prefer, either in a loose, ... | Jane Austen | Robert Henry | History of Great Britain | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'James is the delight of our lives; he is quite an uncle Toby's annuity to us.' | Jane Austen | Laurence Sterne | Tristram Shandy | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'He [James, the Austens' servant] has that the laudable thirst I fancy for Travelling, which in poor James Selby was s... | Jane Austen | Samuel Richardson | Sir Charles Grandison | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Jenny & James [the Austen's servants] are walked to Charmouth this afternoon; - I am glad to have such an amusement f... | Jane Austen | | newspaper | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | 'The papers announce the Marriage of the Rev: Edward Bather, Rector of some place in Shropshire to a Miss Emma Halifax.' | Jane Austen | | newspaper | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | 'I am glad you recommended "Gisborne", for having begun, I am pleased with it, and I had quite determined not to read ... | Jane Austen | Thomas Gisborne | An Enquiry into the Duties of the Female Sex | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I could not do without a Syringa, for the sake of Cowper's Line.' | Jane Austen | William Cowper | The Task | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'What a Contretems [sic]! in the language of France; What an unluckiness! in that of Mde Duval.' | Jane Austen | Frances Burney | Evelina | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'We are reading Clarentine, & are surprised to find how foolish it is. I remember liking it much less on a 2d reading ... | Jane Austen | Sarah Harriet Burney | Clarentine, A Novel | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'There, I flatter myself I have constructed you a Smartish Letter, considering my want of Materials. But like my dear ... | Jane Austen | Samuel Johnson | Letter to Boswell, 4 July 1774 | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'We are reading Barretti's other book, & find him dreadfully abusive of poor Mr Sharpe.' | Jane Austen | Joseph Baretti | Account of the Manners and Customs of Italy | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have read Mr Jefferson's case to Edward [Austen], and he desires to have his name set down for a guinea and his wif... | Jane Austen | Revd T. Jefferson | Request for subscribers for "Two Sermons" | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'This is a sad story about Mrs Powlett. I should not have suspected her of such a thing. - She staid the Sacrament I r... | Jane Austen | | [newspaper] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | 'On the subject of matrimony, I must notice a wedding in the Salisbury paper, which has amused me very much, Dr Phillo... | Jane Austen | | newspaper | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | 'Has your newspaper given a sad story of a Mrs Middleton, wife of a Farmer in Yorkshire, her sister & servant being al... | Jane Austen | | newspaper | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | 'To set against your new Novel, of which nobody ever heard before & perhaps never may again, We have got "Ida of Athen... | Jane Austen | Sydney Owenson | The Wild Irish Girl | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I am gratified by her [Fanny Knight] having pleasure in what I write - but I wish the knowledge of my being exposed t... | Fanny Knight | Jane Austen | unidentified work in MS | Manuscript: novel in MS |
| 1800-1849 | 'The Portsmouth paper gave a melancholy history of a poor Mad Woman, escaped from Confinement, who said her Husband & ... | Jane Austen | | Hampshire Telegraph | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | 'I congratulate Edward [JA's brother] on the Weald of Kent Canal-Bill being put off till another Session, as I have ju... | Jane Austen | | Newspaper report on Parliamentary Sessions | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | 'You certainly must have heard, before I can tell you, that Col. Orde has married our cousin, Margt Beckford, the Marc... | Jane Austen | | Newspaper report | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | 'We began Pease on Sunday, but our gatherings are very small - not at all like the gathering in the Lady of the Lake.' | Jane Austen | Walter Scott | The Lady of the Lake | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | In a joking letter to her niece, Anna Austen, Jane Austen writes, 'Miss Jane Austen begs her best thanks may be convey... | Jane Austen | Rachel Hunter | Lady Maclairn, the Victim of Villainy | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I well remember, and I sometimes think of it with tears, bringing to my lodgings Rollin's "Ancient History", in six v... | John B. Gough | Charles Rollin | Ancient History | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I well remember, and I sometimes think of it with tears, bringing to my lodgings Rollin's "Ancient History", in six v... | John B. Gough | Wiley and Putnam (eds) | Library of Choice Reading | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'The "Morning Chronicle" says the troops are to be withdrawn from France.' | Benjamin Newton | [n/a] | The Morning Chronicle | Print: Newspaper |
| 1700-1799 | 'One of your brothers was brought to a liking of reading by my putting some Books which I had told amusing stories out... | Alexander Monro | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Silent appears a strange epithat for dust- it is in truth what is called at school a botch, brick dust or even saw-du... | Charlotte Sussannah Fry | Samuel Rogers | 'The Pleasures of Memory' in Poems by Samuel Rogers | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Silent appears a strange epithat for dust- it is in truth what is called at school abotch, brick dust or even saw-dus... | Charlotte Sussannah Fry | Thomas Gray | Elegy Written in A Country Churchyard | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Letter to Barbara Leigh Smith from Bessie Raynor Parkes, 19 March 1856: 'What shall I say about Goethe? When I have do... | Bessie Raynor Parkes | George Henry Lewes | Life of Goethe | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'The greatest pleasure I have lately had has been the perusal of the 2 last volumes of Froude's Carlyle.' | Henry James | James Anthony Froude | Thomas Carlyle: A History of his Life in London, 1 | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | '"The Child of Earth" by the Hon. Mrs Norton Fainter Her Slow Step falls from day to day... Otley - February 15th 183... | Benjamin Beanlands | Caroline Elizabeth Sarah Norton | The Child of Earth | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'The Minstrel Boy' 'The Minstrel Boy to the war is gone, /... Moore. Benj. Beanlands, Otley, December 1831' | Benjamin Beanlands | Thomas Moore | The Minstrel Boy | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | '1831' 'Farewell to 1831 year of Whig Ministry of Shen reform... Extracted from Fraser's Magazine by Benj. Beanlands' | Benjamin Beanlands | [n/a] | Fraser's Magazine For Town and Country | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1700-1799 | 'about this time I began to practis accounts, I bought a Book, & Slate, and got somebody to set me a gate at the begin... | Benjamin Shaw | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'god was Merciful & spoke Peace to my Soul, & now I found that with god which Passeth all understanding, & rejoiced al... | Benjamin Shaw | [n/a] | Bible ['the scriptures'] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'the last weeks paper stated, that 200, 000 were out of work within 20 miles of manchester, &c, & the long drought is ... | Benjamin Shaw | [n/a] | [Newspaper] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | 'She delighted in Singing, & Prayer, & reading the Scriptures, Particularly the 14 Chapter of John &c- this was a favo... | Hannah Shaw | [n/a] | Bible ['the Scriptures'] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | '[Part of a description of his wife] very impatient of contradiction, Reproof She cannot Brook- Milton' [This is a mis... | Benjamin Shaw | John Milton | Paradise Lost | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'transcript of passages from chapter 4 under the commonplce book heading "non jurors"' | John Fortescue Aland | Nathaniel Marshall | A defence of our constitution in church and state | Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | 'We had much talk among us of Chatterton, &, as he was best known in this part of the world, I attended particularly t... | Henry Harington | Thomas Chatterton | The Rowley poems | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | '. . . but I am going to the Library immediately for the Book, -though I assure you I read it all when it first came ... | Anna Maria Lawes | Frances Burney | Evelina | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'My journey lay over the field of Thrasymenus, and as soon as the sun rose, I read Livy's description of the scene [..... | Thomas Babington Macaulay | Livy (Titus Livius) | History of Rome Book XIII | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'a wet day have finished the life of savage in Johnsons "lives of the poets"' | John Clare | Samuel Johnson | The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have been dipping into "the miserys of human life" here & there' | John Clare | James Beresford | The Miseries of Human Life | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Lookd over the magaze for amusement [...] the letter on mackadamizing is good - the review on Walladmoor is 30 pages ... | John Clare | Thomas de Quincey | The London Magazine: Review of Walladmor by Scott | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'Lookd over a new vol of provincial poems by a neighbouring poet Bantums "Excursions of Fancy" and poor fancys I find ... | John Clare | John Banton | Excursions of Fancy | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Hazlitts "lectures on the poets" [...] he is one of the very best prose writers of the present day [...]' | John Clare | William Hazlitt | Lectures on the English Poets | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Continued to read Hazlitt - I like his lectures on the poets better than those on the comic writers and on Shaksperr ... | John Clare | William Hazlitt | A View of the English Stage | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Recievd the "London Magazine" by my friend Henderson who bought if from town with him a very dull no [.] [...] the ar... | John Clare | [n/a] | The London Magazine | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'Continued to read Hazlitt - I like his lectures on the poets better than those on the comic writers and on Shaksperr ... | John Clare | William Hazlitt | Lectures on the English Comic Writers | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Got a parcel from London "Eltons Brothers" "Allins Grammar" gifts of the authors: and Esrkines "internal evidences of... | John Clare | Thomas Erskine | Remarks on the Internal Evidence for the Truth | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Lookd in the poems of Coleridge, Lamb and Loyde - Colridges monody on Chatterton is beautiful but his sonnets are not... | John Clare | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Poems on Various Subjects | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read in Shakspear "The Midsummer Nights Dream" for the first time - I have still got 3 parts out of 4 plays to read y... | John Clare | William Shakespeare | Midsummer Night's Dream | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Bacons essay on the idea of compleat garden divided into every month of the year [...] What beautiful essays the... | John Clare | Francis Bacon | Essays | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'read some pages in Shakspear - turnd over a few leaves of Knoxes Essays' | John Clare | Vicesimus Knox | Essays Moral and Literary | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'read Shakspears "Henry The Fifth" of which I have always been very fond from almost a boy I first met with it in an o... | John Clare | William Shakespeare | Henry The Fifth | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read "Macbeth" what a soul thrilling power hovers about this tragedy I have read it over about twenty times' | John Clare | William Shakespeare | Macbeth | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read in the afternoon Erskines "Evidence of Revealed Religion" and find in it some of the best reasoning in favour of... | John Clare | Thomas Erskine | Remarks on the Internal Evidence | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Continued to read Hazlitt - I like his lectures on the poets better than those on the comic writers and on Shakspear ... | John Clare | William Hazlitt | Characters of Shakespeare's Plays | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'lookd into "Maddox on the culture of flowers" and the "Flora Domestica" which with a few improvments and additions wo... | John Clare | James Maddock | The Florist's Directory | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'lookd into "Maddox on the culture of flowers" and the "Flora Domestica" which with a few improvments and additions wo... | John Clare | Elizabeth Kent | Flora Domestica | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read "Solomons Song" and beautiful as some of the images of that poem are some of them are not recognisable in my jud... | John Clare | [n/a] | Solomon's Song | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read over the magazine [received from London on Sunday 7 Nov] the review of Lord Byrons conversations is rather enter... | John Clare | [n/a] | The London Magazine | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'read in Southeys "Wesley"' | John Clare | Robert Southey | The life of Wesley | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read some passages in the poems of Tannahill some of his songs are beautiful particularly "Loudons bonny woods and br... | John Clare | Robert Tannahill | Poems and Songs Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'A ryhming school master is the greatest bore in literature the following ridiculous advertisement proves the assertio... | John Clare | [n/a] | Stamford Mercury | Print: Advertisement, Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | 'Newspaper Miracles Wonders Curiositys etc under these heads I shall insert anything I can find worth reading and laug... | John Clare | [n/a] | Stamford Mercury | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | 'Lookd into Miltons "Paradise Lost" I once read it thro when I was a boy at the time I liked the "Death of Abel" bette... | John Clare | John Milton | Paradise Lost | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Lookd into Thompsons Winter there is a freshness about it I think superior to the others [...] the following minute d... | John Clare | James Thomson | The Seasons (Winter) | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Recieved a letter from Mrs Emmerson and a "Literary Gazette" from somebody in which is a review of an unsuccesful att... | John Clare | [n/a] | Literary Gazette | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Recieved a news paper from Montgomery in which my poem of the "Vanitys of Life" was inserted with an ingenius and fla... | John Clare | [n/a] | The Iris | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | 'Recieved a parcel from Hessey with the "Magazine" & a leaf of the new poems also a present of Miss Kents "Sylvan Sket... | John Clare | Elizabeth Kent | Sylvan Sketches or a Companion to the Park | Print: Book, Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | [quotes from 4 separate stories] 'Stamford Mercury' '"A black birds nest with four young ones was found a few days ago... | John Clare | [n/a] | Stamford Mercury | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | 'Saw a reciept to mend broken china in the "Stamford Mercury" [...] news papers have been famous for hyperbole and the... | John Clare | [n/a] | Stamford Mercury | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read in old Tusser with whose quaint ryhmes I have often been entertaind [...] he seems to have felt a taste for incl... | John Clare | Thomas Tusser | Five Hundred Points of Good Husbandry | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'News paper wonders - "There is now living at Barton an old lady of the name of Faunt who has nearly attaind the great... | John Clare | [n/a] | Stamford Mercury | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read some passages in the poems of Tannahill some of his songs are beautiful particularly "Loudons bonny woods and br... | John Clare | Robert Tannahill | Poems and Songs Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Recieved the April and May ma[ga]zine from London with a letter from Hessey and one from Vandyke [...] the magazine i... | John Clare | [n/a] | London Magazine | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'Extracts from the "Stamford Mercury"' [copies two stories] | John Clare | [n/a] | Stamford Mercury | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | 'At a meeting of florists held at the Old Kings Head at Newark last week prizes were adjudged as follows' [quotes resu... | John Clare | [n/a] | Stamford Mercury | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | 'News paper odditys [quotes article on salt mine in Poland] "Stamford Mercury"' | John Clare | [n/a] | Stamford Mercury | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | 'read some pages in Shakspear - turnd over a few leaves of knoxes essays' | John Clare | William Shakespeare | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Lookd into the two vols of Sermons from Lord R. the texts are well selected and the sermons are plainly and sensibly ... | John Clare | Anonymous | Eighteen Sermons Intended to Establish | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Went to Milton saw a fine Edition of Leniuses Botany [...] saw also a beautiful book on insects with the plants they ... | John Clare | John Curtis | British Entomology ... Insects Found in Great Britain | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Parish officers are modern savages as the following fact will testifye - Crowland Abbey "Certain surveyors have latel... | John Clare | [n/a] | Stamford Mercury | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have been reading over Mrs Barbaulds "Lessons for Childern" to my eldest child who is continually tearing me to rea... | John Clare | Anna Laetitia Barbauld | Lessons for Children from Two to Three Years Old | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Recieved a letter & present of books from Lord Radstock containing Hannah Moores "Spirit of Prayer" - Bp Wilsons "Max... | John Clare | Richard Watson | An Apology for the Bible, in a Series of Letters | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Had a double Polanthus & single white Hepatica sent me from Stamford round which was rapped a curious prospectus of a... | John Clare | William Hone | Prospectus for 'The Every-Day Book' | Print: Advertisement |
| 1800-1849 | 'Recieved a parcel from Holbeach with a letter and the Scientific Receptacle from J. Savage - they have inserted my po... | John Clare | [n/a] | The Scientific Receptacle | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | '"The Lingfield and Crowhurst Choir sung several select pieces from Handel in the cavity of a yew tree [continues for ... | John Clare | [n/a] | Stamford Mercury | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | 'Saw in the Stamford paper that the lost leaf of "Dooms day book" was found and had no time to copy out the account' | John Clare | [n/a] | Stamford Mercury | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | 'A salmon near ['near' in italics] 20 lbs weight ...' 'Stamford Mercury' | John Clare | [n/a] | Stamford Mercury | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | 'The catholics have lost their bill once more [they] shoud when one beholds the following sacred humbugs [...] From "N... | John Clare | [n/a] | Stamford Mercury | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | 'The following advertisement is from the "Observer" of Sunday May 22 1825. "Just published the speech of his Royal Hig... | John Clare | [n/a] | The Observer | Print: Advertisement, Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read a continuation of a good paper in the London on "A Poor Students Struggles thro Cambridge" ["The Struggles of a ... | John Clare | unknown | The Struggles of a Senior Wrangler | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'Recieved another parcel from Hessey [...] a present of "Aytons Essays" a young writer of great promise which was kill... | John Clare | Richard Ayton | Essays and Sketches of Character | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | '"A hive of bees natives of New South Wales [...] The bees are very small and have no sting but their honey is peculia... | John Clare | [n/a] | Stamford Mercury | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | 'lent Miss Fanny Knowlton Bloomfields "Hazlewood Hall & Remains" & Aytons "Essays" - Got a look at Gilleads of Spaldin... | John Clare | G Gilleade | Allworth Abbey; or Christianity Triumphant | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'a newspaper lye of the first order - "Mr Gale of Holt in the parish of Bradford Witts has at present a Pear of the ja... | John Clare | [n/a] | Stamford Mercury | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | 'Recieved the 28 No of the "Everyday book" in which is inserted a poem of mine' | John Clare | William Hone | The Every-Day Book | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'More wonders from the "Mercury" "A clergyman of the established church name Benson now attracts larger congregations ... | John Clare | [n/a] | Stamford Mercury | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | '"The story of Eyes and No Eyes in Evenings at Home is intended only to illustrate the difference between inattention ... | John Ruskin | John Aikin | Evenings at Home | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I must include. under the general title of these [fairy legends], the stories in "Evenings at Home" of the Transmigra... | John Ruskin | John Aikin | Evenings at Home | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [footnote includes a quote from Evenings and the following:] 'Nevertheless, the germs of all modern conceit and error ... | John Ruskin | John Aikin | Evenings at Home | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'We have heard a boy of nine years old, who had never been taught elocution by any reading-master, read simple, pathet... | [ a boy known to Maria Edgeworth | John Aikin | Evenings at Home | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'During those melancholy weeks at Pimlico, I read aloud another work of the same nature as those of Habershon and Juke... | Edmund Gosse | Bishop Edward Elliott | Horae Apocalypticae | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'At other times, I dragged a folio volume of the "Penny Cyclopaedia" up to the studywith me, and sat there reading suc... | Edmund Gosse | Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge | The Penny Cyclopaedia | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'When in years to come, I read "Dombey and Son", certain features of Mrs Pipchin did irresistibly remind me of my exce... | Edmund Gosse | Charles Dickens | Dombey and Son | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | '...and we now started Latin, in a little eighteenth-century reading book, out of which my Grandfather had been taught... | Edmund Gosse | [unknown] | [Latin Grammar] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'climbing to the top of a bookcase, [he] brought down a thick volume and presented it to me. "You'll find all about th... | Edmund Gosse | Michael Scott | Tom Cringle's Log | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Accordingly, it was announced that the reading of Shakespeare would be one of our lessons, and on the following after... | Edmund Gosse | William Shakespeare | Merchant of Venice | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | '...but she procured for me a copy of "Pickwick", by which I was instantly and gloriously enslaved. My shouts of laugh... | Edmund Gosse | Charles Dickens | Pickwick Papers | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | '...a small thick volume, bound in black morocco, and comprising four reprinted works of the eighteenth century. Gloom... | Edmund Gosse | Dr. Edward Young | The Last Day | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | '...a small thick volume, bound in black morocco, and comprising four reprinted works of the eighteenth century. Gloom... | Edmund Gosse | Robert Blair | The Grave | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | '...a small thick volume, bound in black morocco, and comprising four reprinted works of the eighteenth century. Gloom... | Edmund Gosse | Bishop Beilby Porteus | Death | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | '...a small thick volume, bound in black morocco, and comprising four reprinted works of the eighteenth century. Gloom... | Edmund Gosse | Samuel Boyse | The Deity | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'My mother then received from her earlier home certain volumes, among which was a gaudy gift-book of some kind, contai... | Edmund Gosse | [unknown] | [volume of engravings] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'On the day in question, I was unable to endure the drawing-room meeting to its close, but, clutching my volume of the... | Edmund Gosse | Samuel Boyse | The Deity | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'My Father possessed a copy of Bailey's "Etymological Dictionary", a book published early in the eighteenth century. O... | Edmund Gosse | Bailey (ed.) | Etymological Dictionary | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'It was in my fifteenth year that I became again, this time intelligently, aquainted with Shakespeare. I got hold of a... | Edmund Gosse | William Shakespeare | The Tempest | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'It was in my fifteenth year that I became again, this time intelligently, aquainted with Shakespeare. I got hold of a... | Edmund Gosse | William Shakespeare | The Merchant of Venice | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'It was in my fifteenth year that I became again, this time intelligently, aquainted with Shakespeare. I got hold of a... | Edmund Gosse | William Shakespeare | Cymbeline | 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 |
| 1700-1799 | Letter xiv- "On Buffon's natural history" is a critique of the work | John Aikin | Georges-Louis Leclerc Buffon | Histoire Naturelle | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'By some one of these publications, but most probably from the last-mentioned [i.e. Withering], Mr.Aikin was inspired ... | John Aikin | Dr. Withering | Botanical description of British Plants | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Writing to his sister, Aikin comments on Knox: 'His great fault, I think, is setting out with too confined a view of t... | John Aikin | Knox | [on education] | Unknown |
| 1850-1899 1900-1945 | Sir John Hammerton looking back on his early days in Glasgow when he left school and became a correspondence clerk, he... | Sir John Hammerton | Joseph Addison | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 1900-1945 | Sir John Hammerton looking back on his early days in Glasgow when he left school and became a correspondence clerk, he... | Sir John Hammerton | Oliver Goldsmith | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 1900-1945 | Sir John Hammerton looking back on his early days in Glasgow when he left school and became a correspondence clerk, he... | Sir John Hammerton | Francis Bacon | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 1900-1945 | Sir John Hammerton looking back on his early days in Glasgow when he left school and became a correspondence clerk, he... | Sir John Hammerton | Richard Steele | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 1900-1945 | Sir John Hammerton looking back on his early days in Glasgow when he left school and became a correspondence clerk, he... | Sir John Hammerton | Thomas De Quincey | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 1900-1945 | Sir John Hammerton looking back on his early days in Glasgow when he left school and became a correspondence clerk, he... | Sir John Hammerton | Charles Lamb | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | '...one classical in my early days, called "Evenings at Home". It contained, among many well-written lessons, one, und... | John Ruskin | John Aikin | Evenings at home | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 5 Feb 1836 Mary Birch To John Birch (son) 'How kind it was in you to copy that appropriate passage in Locke; and I, wi... | John Birch | John Locke | Essays | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'How pleasing Atterbury's softer hour! How shin'd the Soul unconquer'd in the Tower!' Pope. | Frances Hamilton | R. Atterbury (Bishop of Rochester) | The Epistolacy Correspondence. Speeches and Miscellanies with historical notes | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | The reader listed the contents of this publication. Vol 1. The Second Edition.
'Poems. Ode to Hope. Elegy on the deat... | Frances Hamilton | [unknown] | Poems and Essays by a Lady Lately Deceased | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Two very long quotations:
1. 'Speech is as subject to interpretation there is so great a difference between indescr... | Frances Hamilton | M. de Secondat, Baron de Montequieu | Spirit of Laws | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Remark that this publication was 'Abt the Test Act', so presumably read it. | Frances Hamilton | John Mead | [Sermon about Wakefield's Address to the Inhabitants of Nottingham] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | an Observation 'By those who profess a knowledge of human Nature, the real causes of deep and continued dissension wil... | Frances Hamilton | [unknown] | The Christian Church from the Earliest Period to the Present Time | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | content of this letter described 'as objected' in a pamphlet recommended by his Lordship 1789 (presumably the reader h... | Frances Hamilton | [unknown] | A Letter to Earl Stanhope | |
| 1700-1799 | 'Vol 1 containing Prometheus Chain'd, The Supplicants, The Seven Chiefs against Thebes.
'Vol 2 Agamemnon.
N.B. A ... | Frances Hamilton | Aeschylus | The Tragedies of Aeschylus | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 24 Oct 1788:
'Smith's version of Longinus on the Sublime, a translation with notes and observations - is a credit to ... | Frances Hamilton | Rev William Smith | Poetic Works including his version of Longinus on the Sublime | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 13 Dec 1788
Another long quotation from Smith's translation:
'The Sublime is a certain force in discourse... from th... | Frances Hamilton | Rev William Smith | Poetic Works including his version of Longinus on the Sublime | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Long description of character of Sir Keneth (?) Digby.
'By his eager pursuit of knowledge seemed to be born only for... | Frances Hamilton | Rev J Granger | Biographical History of England from Egbert the Great to the Revolution, with a preface. Vol 1 and 2 | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Long description of the character of Duke Sully by Henry 4th of France:
'his temper harsh, unpatient, obstinate, too ... | Frances Hamilton | [unknown] | Memoirs of Maximillion de Baltiure, Duke of Sully, Prime Minister to Henry the Great | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Your common student wrote to me about Blackwood's Magazine, shewing who wrote in it and who spoke of it; he talks abo... | [unknown student] anon | Walter Scott | Kenilworth | Print: BookManuscript: Letter |
| 1800-1849 | 'Your common student wrote to me about Blackwood's Magazine, shewing who wrote in it and who spoke of it; he talks abo... | [unknown student] anon | | Blackwood's magazine | Print: Serial / periodicalManuscript: Letter |
| 1850-1899 | 'There were numbers of a paper called, I think, "The Christian World", dating from several years back. They contained ... | Edwin Muir | [n/a] | The Christian World | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'There was also a thick volume bound in calf and containing a verbatim report of a controversy between a Protestant di... | Edwin Muir | [unknown] | [volume about theological debate] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'There was a novel about young women, which I think now must have been "Sense and Sensibility": I could make nothing o... | Edwin Muir | Jane Austen | Sense and Sensibility | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'And the monthly parts of "The Scots Worthies" which my father had carried with him from Sanday, and which were now in... | Edwin Muir | John Howie | The Scots Worthies | Print: Serial / periodical, bound by father into a volume |
| 1850-1899 | ''I read all my new school books as soon as I got them; I read "The People's Journal", "The People's Friend", and "The... | Edwin Muir | [unknown] | [school books] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | ''I read all my new school books as soon as I got them; I read "The People's Journal", "The People's Friend", and "The... | Edwin Muir | [n/a] | The People's Journal | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | ''I read all my new school books as soon as I got them; I read "The People's Journal", "The People's Friend", and "The... | Edwin Muir | [n/a] | The People's Friend | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | ''I read all my new school books as soon as I got them; I read "The People's Journal", "The People's Friend", and "The... | Edwin Muir | [n/a] | The Christian Herald | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | ''I read all my new school books as soon as I got them; I read "The People's Journal", "The People's Friend", and "The... | Edwin Muir | [unknown] | Sunday Stories | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | ''I read all my new school books as soon as I got them; I read "The People's Journal", "The People's Friend", and "The... | Edwin Muir | [unknown] | [novels] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | ''I read all my new school books as soon as I got them; I read "The People's Journal", "The People's Friend", and "The... | Edwin Muir | [n/a] | The Penny Magazine | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'Out of all that reading only one memory survives now. The story itself I have forgotten but the scene was laid in Ita... | Edwin Muir | [unknown] | [story] | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 1900-1945 | 'Out of all that reading only one memory survives now. The story itself I have forgotten but the scene was laid in Ita... | Edwin Muir | Robert Louis Stevenson | Treasure Island | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 1900-1945 | 'There was another impression, almost as horrible, but this time it was caused by an illustration, not a story. Suther... | Edwin Muir | [n/a] | The Police News | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 1900-1945 | 'I do not know whether it was a benefit of a calamity when my brother Willie, out of pure kindness, began taking "Chum... | Edwin Muir | [n/a] | The Boy's Own Paper | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 1900-1945 | 'I do not know whether it was a benefit of a calamity when my brother Willie, out of pure kindness, began taking "Chum... | Edwin Muir | [n/a] | Chums | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'when I was eleven a school history-book containing biographies of Sir Thomas More, Sir Philip Sidney, and Sire John E... | Edwin Muir | [n/a] | [School history book] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'when I was eleven a school history-book containing biographies of Sir Thomas More, Sir Philip Sidney, and Sire John E... | Edwin Muir | Felicia Dorothea Hemans | Casabianca | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'when I was eleven a school history-book containing biographies of Sir Thomas More, Sir Philip Sidney, and Sire John E... | Edwin Muir | Thomas Campbell | Lord Ullin's Daughter | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'when I was eleven a school history-book containing biographies of Sir Thomas More, Sir Philip Sidney, and Sire John E... | Edwin Muir | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow | Excelsior | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 1900-1945 | 'Then, when I was twelve we had a really good poetry book which contained extracts from "The Excursion", part of "Chil... | Edwin Muir | William Wordsworth | The Excursion | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 1900-1945 | 'Then, when I was twelve we had a really good poetry book which contained extracts from "The Excursion", part of "Chil... | Edwin Muir | George Gordon, Lord Byron | Childe Harold's Pilgrimage | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 1900-1945 | 'Then, when I was twelve we had a really good poetry book which contained extracts from "The Excursion", part of "Chil... | Edwin Muir | John Keats | The Eve of Saint Agnes | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 1900-1945 | 'Then, when I was twelve we had a really good poetry book which contained extracts from "The Excursion", part of "Chil... | Edwin Muir | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Adonais: An elegy on the death of John Keats | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 1900-1945 | 'Then, when I was twelve we had a really good poetry book which contained extracts from "The Excursion", part of "Chil... | Edwin Muir | Robert Browning | The Pied Piper of Hamelin | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 1900-1945 | 'Then, when I was twelve we had a really good poetry book which contained extracts from "The Excursion", part of "Chil... | Edwin Muir | Matthew Arnold | Tristram and Iseult | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 1900-1945 | 'one day in Kirkwall my brother Johnnie, who had gone to work in a shop there, gave me three pennies to spend, and I w... | Edwin Muir | Matthew Arnold | [selection of poems] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 1900-1945 | 'one day in Kirkwall my brother Johnnie, who had gone to work in a shop there, gave me three pennies to spend, and I w... | Edwin Muir | William Shakespeare | As You Like It | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 1900-1945 | 'one day in Kirkwall my brother Johnnie, who had gone to work in a shop there, gave me three pennies to spend, and I w... | Edwin Muir | William Morris | The Earthly Paradise | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 1900-1945 | 'One day I saw a life of Carlyle in a bookshop window in Kirkwall and begged a shilling from my mother to buy it; but ... | Edwin Muir | [unknown] | [book on Wallace and Bruce] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 1900-1945 | 'I wasted a great deal of time in wrong reading from eleven to fourteen, always hoping for the enjoyment which rarely ... | Edwin Muir | Victor Hugo | Notre Dame de Paris | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 1900-1945 | 'I wasted a great deal of time in wrong reading from eleven to fourteen, always hoping for the enjoyment which rarely ... | Edwin Muir | Nathaniel Hawthorne | The Scarlet Letter | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 1900-1945 | 'I wasted a great deal of time in wrong reading from eleven to fourteen, always hoping for the enjoyment which rarely ... | Edwin Muir | Thomas Carlyle | French Revolution | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 1900-1945 | 'Curiously enough the story I remember best is a grotesque and rather silly one which appeared in an annual almanac is... | Edwin Muir | [unknown] | [story about the origin of Orkney and Shetland Islands] | Print: Serial / periodical, almanac |
| 1850-1899 | 'there was nothing in the house which was worth reading, apart from the Bible, "The Pilgrim's Progress", "Gulliver's T... | Edwin Muir | [n/a] | The Bible | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'there was nothing in the house which was worth reading, apart from the Bible, "The Pilgrim's Progress", "Gulliver's T... | Edwin Muir | John Bunyan | Pilgrim's Progress | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'there was nothing in the house which was worth reading, apart from the Bible, "The Pilgrim's Progress", "Gulliver's T... | Edwin Muir | Jonathan Swift | Gulliver's Travels | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'there was nothing in the house which was worth reading, apart from the Bible, "The Pilgrim's Progress", "Gulliver's T... | Edwin Muir | Robert Michael Ballantyne | Hudson Bay: or, Life in the Wilds of North America | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'but I was reading "Les Miserables", and consoled myself with the thought that I was too capable of loving noble things.' | Edwin Muir | Victor Hugo | Les Miserables | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Yet learn to read I did, for when I was ill in bed at the age of seven, our doctor lent me Ruskin's "King of the Gold... | Norman Nicholson | John Ruskin | King of the Golden River | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'On incident stays clear in my mind. It was on one of the rare days, other than Christmas and New Year, when my grandm... | Norman Nicholson | [unknown] | History of the World War | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'On incident stays clear in my mind. It was on one of the rare days, other than Christmas and New Year, when my grandm... | John Slater | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'When, in my schooldays, I read H.G. Wells's "Kipps", I recognised it as in some ways a portrait of my father.' | Norman Nicholson | H.G. Wells | Kipps | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'When, a year or two later, we read "Julius Caesar" at school, I recognised the scene immediately... I did not find it... | Norman Nicholson | William Shakespeare | Julius Caesar | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Until then, all the books I possessed had been children's annuals and the like. Except for "Robinson Crusoe", very fe... | Norman Nicholson | Daniel Defoe | Robinson Crusoe | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'We had met Dickens before, but only "The Old Curiosity Shop" and "The Chimes", both of which, in their mean little sc... | Norman Nicholson | Charles Dickens | The Old Curiosity Shop | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'We had met Dickens before, but only "The Old Curiosity Shop" and "The Chimes", both of which, in their mean little sc... | Norman Nicholson | Charles Dickens | The Chimes | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I do not know whether Mr Wilson read "Pickwick" right through, but I certainly did. My copy bears a plate inside the ... | Norman Nicholson | Charles Dickens | The Pickwick Papers | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I do not know whether Mr Wilson read "Pickwick" right through, but I certainly did. My copy bears a plate inside the ... | Norman Nicholson | Charles Dickens | Barnaby Rudge | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I do not know whether Mr Wilson read "Pickwick" right through, but I certainly did. My copy bears a plate inside the ... | Norman Nicholson | Charles Dickens | Dombey and Son | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I do not know whether Mr Wilson read "Pickwick" right through, but I certainly did. My copy bears a plate inside the ... | Norman Nicholson | Charles Dickens | Nicholas Nickleby | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I do not know whether Mr Wilson read "Pickwick" right through, but I certainly did. My copy bears a plate inside the ... | Norman Nicholson | Charles Dickens | Great Expectations | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'When, years later, I first read "Lady Chatterley's Lover", I did not feel that I was being liberated into a new frank... | Norman Nicholson | D.H. Lawrence | Lady Chatterley's Lover | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The beautiful and disturbing feminine shapes which I sometimes saw in the photographic section of "The Sketch" and "T... | Norman Nicholson | [n/a] | The Sketch | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | 'The beautiful and disturbing feminine shapes which I sometimes saw in the photographic section of "The Sketch" and "T... | Norman Nicholson | [n/a] | The Tatler | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | 'So that, whatever may have been its deeper cause, the love which filled my imagination was of a kind that seemed, to ... | Norman Nicholson | Charles Dickens | David Copperfield | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'So that, whatever may have been its deeper cause, the love which filled my imagination was of a kind that seemed, to ... | Norman Nicholson | Thomas Hardy | Under the Greenwood Tree | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'So that, whatever may have been its deeper cause, the love which filled my imagination was of a kind that seemed, to ... | Norman Nicholson | [n/a] | The Woman's Weekly | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | 'So that, whatever may have been its deeper cause, the love which filled my imagination was of a kind that seemed, to ... | Norman Nicholson | John Keats | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'So that, whatever may have been its deeper cause, the love which filled my imagination was of a kind that seemed, to ... | Norman Nicholson | Alfred, Lord Tennyson | Maud [and other poems?] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Tom... introduced me to Poe's "Tales", to my first detective stories and to the early novels of H.G. Wells.' | Norman Nicholson | Edgar Allan Poe | [Tales] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Tom... introduced me to Poe's "Tales", to my first detective stories and to the early novels of H.G. Wells.' | Norman Nicholson | [unknown] | [detective stories] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Tom... introduced me to Poe's "Tales", to my first detective stories and to the early novels of H.G. Wells.' | Norman Nicholson | H.G. Wells | [early novels] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'After the examination, when we were expected to feel free as hares, we all flopped with reaction. There seemed just n... | Norman Nicholson | H.G. Wells | Kipps | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I had not heard of "Wind in the Willows" until I read it during the summer holiday of my seventeenth year!' | Norman Nicholson | Kenneth Grahame | The Wind in the Willows | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The [reference room of the public library] was almost airless, catarrhal from the fumes of the coke-stove, musty and ... | Norman Nicholson | [n/a] | The Encyclopedia Britannica | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The [reference room of the public library] was almost airless, catarrhal from the fumes of the coke-stove, musty and ... | Norman Nicholson | [n/a] | Dictionary of National Biography | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Our syllabus was large, covering at least twelve set books: two plays of Shakespeare's, two volumes of Milton and two... | Norman Nicholson | William Shakespeare | [plays] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Our syllabus was large, covering at least twelve set books: two plays of Shakespeare's, two volumes of Milton and two... | Norman Nicholson | John Milton | [unknown works] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Our syllabus was large, covering at least twelve set books: two plays of Shakespeare's, two volumes of Milton and two... | Norman Nicholson | John Keats | [unknown works] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Our syllabus was large, covering at least twelve set books: two plays of Shakespeare's, two volumes of Milton and two... | Norman Nicholson | Geoffery Chaucer | [unknown works] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Our syllabus was large, covering at least twelve set books: two plays of Shakespeare's, two volumes of Milton and two... | Norman Nicholson | Richard Brinsley Sheridan | [unknown works] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Our syllabus was large, covering at least twelve set books: two plays of Shakespeare's, two volumes of Milton and two... | Norman Nicholson | Charles Lamb | [unknown works] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Our syllabus was large, covering at least twelve set books: two plays of Shakespeare's, two volumes of Milton and two... | Norman Nicholson | Sir Walter Scott | Old Mortality | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Our syllabus was large, covering at least twelve set books: two plays of Shakespeare's, two volumes of Milton and two... | Norman Nicholson | [n/a] | The Golden Treasury | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Our syllabus was large, covering at least twelve set books: two plays of Shakespeare's, two volumes of Milton and two... | Norman Nicholson | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | [poems extracts] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Our syllabus was large, covering at least twelve set books: two plays of Shakespeare's, two volumes of Milton and two... | Norman Nicholson | Percy Bysshe Shelley | [poems extracts] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Our syllabus was large, covering at least twelve set books: two plays of Shakespeare's, two volumes of Milton and two... | Norman Nicholson | George Gordon, Lord Byron | [poems extracts] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Our syllabus was large, covering at least twelve set books: two plays of Shakespeare's, two volumes of Milton and two... | Norman Nicholson | William Wordsworth | [poems extracts] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I began now to borrow from the Sanatorium Library books on nature and the countryside -Hardy, Hudson, Jefferies, Gilb... | Norman Nicholson | Thomas Hardy | [nature and the countryside] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I began now to borrow from the Sanatorium Library books on nature and the countryside -Hardy, Hudson, Jefferies, Gilb... | Norman Nicholson | Hudson | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I began now to borrow from the Sanatorium Library books on nature and the countryside -Hardy, Hudson, Jefferies, Gilb... | Norman Nicholson | Jefferies | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I began now to borrow from the Sanatorium Library books on nature and the countryside -Hardy, Hudson, Jefferies, Gilb... | Norman Nicholson | Gilbert White | [natural history] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I began now to borrow from the Sanatorium Library books on nature and the countryside -Hardy, Hudson, Jefferies, Gilb... | Norman Nicholson | [unknown] | [books on birds, animals, snakes, trees] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'a circumstance occurd which nearly stopd me from writing even for my own amusement borrowing a school book of a com... | John Clare | Daniel Fenning | The universal spelling-book: or, a new and easy guide to the English Language. Containing I Tables of Words [...] V Chronological Tables of the Succession of the Kings of England [...] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'We quite run over with Books. She [JA's mother] has got Sir John Carr's Travels in Spain from Miss B. & I am reading... | Cassandra Leigh Austen | John Carr | Descriptive Travels in the Southern and Eastern Parts of Spain and the Balearic Isles, in the year 1809 | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'We quite run over with Books. She [JA's mother] has got Sir John Carr's Travels in Spain from Miss B. & I am reading... | Jane Austen | Sir Charles William Pasley | Essay on the Military Policy and Institutions of the British Empire | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'We quite run over with Books. She [JA's mother] has got Sir John Carr's Travels in Spain from Miss B. & I am reading... | Jane Austen | Thomas Clarkson | History of the Abolition of the African Slave Trade | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'We quite run over with Books. She [JA's mother] has got Sir John Carr's Travels in Spain from Miss B. & I am reading... | Jane Austen | Claudius Buchanan | Christian Researches in Asia | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Upon Mrs Digweed's mentioning that she had sent the Rejected Addresses to Mr Hinton, I began talking to her a little ... | Jane Austen | James and Horatio Smith | Rejected Addresses; or the new Theatrum Poetarum | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'The Papillons have now got the Book [J & H Smith's "Rejected Addresses"] and like it very much; their niece Eleanor h... | Eleanor Papillon | James and Horatio Smith | Rejected Addresses; or the new Theatrum Poetarum | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'And what are their Biglands & their Barrows, their Macartneys & Mackenzies, to Capt. Pasley's Essay on the Military P... | Jane Austen | John Bigland | System of Geography and History | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'And what are their Biglands & their Barrows, their Macartneys & Mackenzies, to Capt. Pasley's Essay on the Military P... | Jane Austen | John Barrow (ed.) | Lord Macartney's Journal of the Embassy to China | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'And what are their Biglands & their Barrows, their Macartneys & Mackenzies, to Capt. Pasley's Essay on the Military P... | Jane Austen | Sir George Steuart Mackenzie | Travels in Iceland | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Miss Benn dined with us on the very day of the Books [copies of "Pride and Prejudice"] coming, & in the eveng we set ... | Jane Austen | Jane Austen | Pride and Prejudice | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Our 2d evening's reading to Miss Benn had not pleased me so well, but I beleive [sic] something must be attributed to... | Cassandra Leigh Austen | Jane Austen | Pride and Prejudice | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I am exceedingly pleased that you can say what you do, having gone thro' the whole work ["Pride and Prejudice"] - & F... | Cassandra Austen | Jane Austen | Pride and Prejudice | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I am exceedingly pleased that you can say what you do, having gone thro' the whole work ["Pride and Prejudice"] - & F... | Fanny Knight | Jane Austen | Pride and Prejudice | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I suppose all the World is sitting in Judgement upon the Princess of Wales's Letter. Poor Woman, I shall support her ... | Jane Austen | Princess Caroline of Brunswick-Wolfenb?ttel | published letter about the status of her marriage to the Prince of Wales | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | 'I wonder whether you happened to see Mr Blackall's marriage in the Papers last Janry. [italics] We [end italics] did... | Jane Austen | | Hampshire Telegraph, Births, Marriages and Deaths section | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | 'And Mr Hastings - I am quite delighted with what such a Man writes about it ["Pride and Prejudice"]. - Henry sent him... | Warren Hastings | Jane Austen | Pride and Prejudice | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Fanny & I are to go on with Modern Europe together, but hitherto have advanced only 25 Pages, something or other has ... | Jane Austen | John Bigland | Letters on the Modern History and Political Aspect of Europe | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 1800-1849 | 'I am now alone in the Library, Mistress of all I survey - at least I may say so & repeat the whole poem if I like it,... | Jane Austen | William Cowper | Verses supposed to have been written by Alexander Selkirk | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 1800-1849 | 'It puts me in mind of the account of St Paul's Shipwreck, where all are said by different means to reach the Shore in... | Jane Austen | | Acts 27:44 | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I am looking over Self-Control again, & my opinion is confirmed of its' [sic] being an excellently-meant, elegantly-w... | Jane Austen | Mary Brunton | Self Control | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'No; I have never seen the death of Mrs Crabbe. I have only just been making out from one of his prefaces that he prob... | Jane Austen | George Crabbe | preface to The Borough | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'I had the boy up tonight for his sister to teach him to put me to bed, and I heard him read, which he doth pretty well.' | Wayneman Birch | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'We did not begin reading [the proof-sheets of "Mansfield Park"] till Bentley Green. Henry's approbation hitherto is ... | Henry Austen | Jane Austen | Mansfield Park | Manuscript: Sheet, proof sheets |
| 1800-1849 | 'I finished the Heroine last night & was very much amused by it. I wonder James did not like it better. It diverted me... | Jane Austen | Eaton Stannard Barrett | The Heroine; or, Adventures of Cherubina | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'It is Eveng. We have drank tea & I have torn through the 3d vol. of the Heroine, & do not think it falls off. - It is... | Jane Austen | Eaton Stannard Barrett | The Heroine; or, Adventures of Cherubina, third volume | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Henry is going on with Mansfield Park; he admires H. Crawford - I mean properly - as a clever, pleasant Man.' | Henry Austen | Jane Austen | Mansfield Park | Manuscript: Sheet, proof sheets |
| 1600-1699 | ''This day the parson read a proclamacion at church for the keeping of Wednesday next, the 30th of January, a fast for... | anon | [unknown] | A proclamation for observation of the thirtieth day of January as a day of fast and humiliation according to the late act of parliament for that purpose | Print: Handbill |
| 1800-1849 | 'Extracted from Bridges. Looked over the Acct. of Croyland Abbey, which supplied me with a hint for the Acct. of Welli... | John Cole | Ian Bridges | History of Northamptonshire | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Extracted from Bridges. Looked over the Acct. of Croyland Abbey, which supplied me with a hint for the Acct. of Welli... | John Cole | J.D. Parry | History and Description of Woburn and its Abbey | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read B[ishop]. Andrew's Devotions & various other prayers. Read Blair's Sermon 'On our ignorance of good & evil in th... | John Cole | Lancelot Andrewes | Devotions | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read B[isho]p Andrew's Devotions & various other prayers. Read Blair's Sermon 'On our ignorance of good & evil in thi... | John Cole | Hugh Blair | Sermons | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read B[isho]p Andrew's Devotions & various other prayers. Read Blair's Sermon 'On our ignorance of good & evil in thi... | John Cole | Jacob Bryant | On the plagues of Egypt | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read B[isho]p Andrew's Devotions & various other prayers. Read Blair's Sermon 'On our ignorance of good & evil in thi... | John Cole | John Tillotson | Sermon | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read B[isho]p Andrew's Devotions & various other prayers. Read Blair's Sermon 'On our ignorance of good & evil in thi... | John Cole | Edmaston | Sonnet | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read November in "Annals of my Village".' | John Cole | Mary Roberts | Annals of my Village | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Looked over Piercy's Retford and Benick's Birds - the birds are admirable; beyond all praise; they appear to be all l... | John Cole | J.S. Piercy | History of Retford | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Looked over Piercy's Retford and Benick's Birds - the birds are admirable; beyond all praise; they appear to be all l... | John Cole | Thomas Benick | History of British Birds | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Looked over Piercy's Retford and Benick's Birds - the birds are admirable; beyond all praise; they appear to be all l... | John Cole | John Hornsey | English Exercises, orthographical and grammatical in two parts | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read an Acct of the celebration of the Games in the Colloseum at Rome.' | John Cole | unknown | [Account of the Games in the Colosseum at Rome] | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Blair's sermon on the Divine Presence, with other appropriate proceedings. Evening had social prayers and read a... | John Cole | Hugh Blair | Sermon | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Blair's sermon on the Divine Presence, with other appropriate proceedings. Evening had social prayers and read a... | John Cole | unknown | Sermon | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read St Limerick's Bells, "The word we have not seen", and sev.l other interesting pieces.' | John Cole | unknown | St Limerick's Bells | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read St Limerick's Bells, "The word we have not seen", and sev.l other interesting pieces.' | John Cole | unknown | The word we have not seen | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'Looked into Pulleyn's Etymological Compendium for Maps &c.' | John Cole | William Pulleyn | Etymological Compendium for Maps | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Used B[isho]p Andrew's exct Prayers both mg & aftn - read one of Blair's sermons morng. Evg read one of B[isho]p Moor... | John Cole | Lancelot Andrewes | Prayers | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'Used B[isho]p Andrew's exct Prayers both mg & aftn - read one of Blair's sermons morng. Evg read one of B[isho]p Moor... | John Cole | Hugh Blair | Sermons | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'Used B[isho]p Andrew's exct Prayers both mg & aftn - read one of Blair's sermons morng. Evg read one of B[isho]p Moor... | John Cole | Bishop Moore | Sermons | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'Do not be angry with me for beginning another Letter to you. I have read the Corsair, mended my petticoat, & have no... | Jane Austen | George Gordon, Lord Byron | The Corsair | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Henry has this moment said that he likes my M[ansfield] P[ark] better & better; - he is in the 3d vol. - I beleive [s... | Henry Austen | Jane Austen | Mansfield Park (3rd volume) | Manuscript: Sheet, proof sheets |
| 1800-1849 | 'Henry has finished Mansfield Park, & his approbation has not lessened. He found the last half of the last volume [it... | Henry Austen | Jane Austen | Mansfield Park (last half of last volume) | Manuscript: Sheet, proof sheets |
| 1800-1849 | 'My dear Anna - I am very much obliged to you for sending your M.S. [a story by Anna Austen that remained unfinished a... | Jane Austen | Anna Austen | [unpublished story] | Manuscript: Sheet |
| 1800-1849 | 'We have just finished the 1st of the 3 Books I had the pleasure of receiving yesterday; I read it aloud - & we are al... | Jane Austen | Anna Austen | [unpublished story] | Manuscript: Sheet |
| 1800-1849 | 'Now we have finished the 2d book - or rather the 5th - I do think you had better omit Lady Helena's postscript; - to ... | Jane Austen | Anna Austen | [unpublished story] | Manuscript: Sheet |
| 1800-1849 | 'We are reading the last book. - They must be two days going from Dawlish to Bath; They are nearly 100 miles apart'. | Jane Austen | Anna Austen | [unpublished story] | Manuscript: Sheet |
| 1800-1849 | 'Thursday. We finished it last night, after our return from drinking tea at the Great House. - The last Chapter does n... | Jane Austen | Anna Austen | [unpublished story] | Manuscript: Sheet |
| 1800-1849 | 'We have been very much amused by your 3 books, but I have a good many criticisms to make - more than you will like [e... | Jane Austen | Anna Austen | [unpublished story] | Manuscript: Sheet |
| 1800-1849 | 'My dear Anna, I hope you do not depend on having your book back again immediately. I keep it that your G:Mama may he... | Jane Austen | Anna Austen | [unpublished story] | Manuscript: Sheet |
| 1800-1849 | 'Walter Scott has no business to write novels, especially good ones. - it is not fair. - He has Fame & Profit enough a... | Jane Austen | Walter Scott | [Poetry] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 1800-1849 | 'I am very fond of Sherlock's Sermons, prefer them to almost any.' | Jane Austen | Thomas Sherlock | Several Discourses Preached at the Temple Church | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'My dear Anna, I have been very far from finding your Book an Evil I assure you; I read it immediately - & with great ... | Jane Austen | Anna Lefroy | unpublished story | Manuscript: Sheet |
| 1800-1849 | 'My dear Caroline, I wish I could finish Stories as fast as you can. - I am much obliged to you for the sight of Olivi... | Jane Austen | Caroline Austen | unpublished story | Manuscript: Sheet |
| 1800-1849 | 'We have got "Rosanne" in our Society, and find it much as you describe it; very good and clever, but tedious. Mrs Ha... | Jane Austen | Laetitia Matilda Hawkins | Rosanne; or, a Father's Labour Lost | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'We have got "Rosanne" in our Society, and find it much as you describe it; very good and clever, but tedious. Mrs Ha... | Anna Lefroy | Laetitia Matilda Hawkins | Rosanne; or, a Father's Labour Lost | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Your official opinion of the Merits of "Emma", is very valuable & satisfactory.' | John Murray | Jane Austen | Emma | Manuscript: Sheet, MS of novel |
| 1800-1849 | 'Your late Works, Madam, and in particular Mansfield Park reflect the highest honour on your Genius & your Principles;... | Prince Regent | Jane Austen | Sense and Sensibility | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Your late Works, Madam, and in particular Mansfield Park reflect the highest honour on your Genius & your Principles;... | Prince Regent | Jane Austen | Pride and Prejudice | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Your late Works, Madam, and in particular Mansfield Park reflect the highest honour on your Genius & your Principles;... | Prince Regent | Jane Austen | Mansfield Park | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Accept my sincere thanks for the pleasure your Volumes have given me: in the perusal of them I felt a great inclinati... | James Stanier Clarke | Jane Austen | [novels] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'You were very good to send me Emma - which I have in no respect deserved. It is gone to the Prince Regent. I have re... | James Stanier Clarke | Jane Austen | Emma | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have been most anxiously waiting for an introduction to Emma, & am infinitely obliged to you for your kind recollec... | Countess of Morley | Jane Austen | Emma | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have been most anxiously waiting for an introduction to Emma, & am infinitely obliged to you for your kind recollec... | Countess of Morley | Jane Austen | Sense and Sensibility | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have been most anxiously waiting for an introduction to Emma, & am infinitely obliged to you for your kind recollec... | Countess of Morley | Jane Austen | Pride and Prejudice | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have been most anxiously waiting for an introduction to Emma, & am infinitely obliged to you for your kind recollec... | Countess of Morley | Jane Austen | Mansfield Park | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 1800-1849 | 'My dear Caroline, I am very glad to have an opportunity of answering your agreable [sic] little Letter. You seem to ... | Jane Austen | Stephanie Felicite Ducrest de St Albin Comtesse de Genlis | Olympe et Theophile | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I return you the Quarterly Reveiw [sic] with many Thanks. The Authoress of "Emma" has no reason I think to complain o... | Jane Austen | Walter Scott [anon] | review of Emma | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have been very much entertained by your story of Carolina & her aged Father, it made me laugh heartily, & I am part... | Jane Austen | Caroline Austen | unpublished story | Manuscript: Sheet |
| 1600-1699 | 'and so up and by the fireside we read a good part of the "Advice to a Daughter", which a simple Coxcombe hath wrote a... | John Creed | John Heydon | Advice to a daughter in opposition to the advice to a sonne... by Eugenius Theodidactus | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'In the interim walked on the Sands & when there the rain descended more heavily, I nevertheless searched up some seaw... | John Cole | unknown | Announcements of Lectures on Geology | Print: Poster |
| 1800-1849 | 'On turning to "The Magazine of Natural History" for March 1830, I find by Mr Dovaston's Account of his life in that M... | John Cole | Dovaston | [article on Thomas Bewick] | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'In a letter addressed to me, dated Newcastle Jan 5 1829 from his son, Robert Elliot Benick, thanking me for a copy of... | John Cole | Robert Benick | letter | Manuscript: Letter |
| 1800-1849 | 'Looked over Rhind's "Studies in Natural History", read a portion of the month in "Annals of my Village".' | John Cole | Rhind | Studies in Natural History | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Looked over Rhind's "Studies in Natural History", read a portion of the month in "Annals of my Village".' | John Cole | Mary Roberts | Annals of my Village | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Natural History of the Stickleback, which is a very interesting, though common fish.' | John Cole | Rhind | Natural History of the Stickleback | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read the extraordinary Acct of the Retirement of the Emperor Charles V.' | John Cole | unknown | [Account of the Retirement of the Emperor Charles V] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read one of Dr Tottie's Sermons "On the resurrection".' | John Cole | Dr Tottie | Sermon 'On the resurrection' | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Eve. We read one of Hervey's "The minstry of reconciliation" - again.' | John Cole | Hervey | The Minstry of Reconciliation | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Christmas Day. Read several Carols this day from the collection pub. by Parker.' | John Cole | Parker | [Collection of Carols] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'January 18. No letters: strike still on. A fine day. But what is that to me? I am an invalid. I spend my life in bed.... | Katherine Mansfield | William Shakespeare | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'January 14. "To be happy with you seems such an impossibility! It requres a luckier star than mine! It will never be.... | Katherine Mansfield | John Keats | Letters | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Shakespeare Notes. All's Well that Ends Well. The First Lord is worth attending to.... Hamlet: ...But I could write a... | Katherine Mansfield | William Shakespeare | All's Well that Ends Well | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Shakespeare Notes. All's Well that Ends Well. The First Lord is worth attending to.... Hamlet: ...But I could write a... | Katherine Mansfield | William Shakespeare | Hamlet | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Shakespeare Notes. All's Well that Ends Well. The First Lord is worth attending to.... Hamlet: ...But I could write a... | Katherine Mansfield | William Shakespeare | The Tempest | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Shakespeare Notes. All's Well that Ends Well. The First Lord is worth attending to.... Hamlet: ...But I could write a... | Katherine Mansfield | William Shakespeare | Romeo and Juliet | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Shakespeare Notes. All's Well that Ends Well. The First Lord is worth attending to.... Hamlet: ...But I could write a... | Katherine Mansfield | William Shakespeare | Twelfth Night | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Shakespeare Notes. All's Well that Ends Well. The First Lord is worth attending to.... Hamlet: ...But I could write a... | Katherine Mansfield | William Shakespeare | Antony and Cleopatra | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'January 1. Read W.J.D.'s poems. I feel very near to him in mind.' | Katherine Mansfield | W.J.D. | Poems | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'January 2...What I chiefly admire in Jane Austen is that what she promises, she performs, i.e. if Sir T. is to arrive... | Katherine Mansfield | Jane Austen | Mansfield Park | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'January 3...I read "The Tempest". The papers came. I over-read them. Tell the truth. I did no work. In fact I was mor... | Katherine Mansfield | William Shakespeare | The Tempest | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'January 3...I read "The Tempest". The papers came. I over-read them. Tell the truth. I did no work. In fact I was mor... | Katherine Mansfield | | [newspapers] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'January 4...I have read a good deal of "Cosmic Anatomy" and understood it far better. Yes, such a book does fascinat... | Katherine Mansfield | unknown | Cosmic Anatomy | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'January 4...I have read a good deal of "Cosmic Anatomy" and understood it far better. Yes, such a book does fascinat... | Katherine Mansfield | William Shakespeare | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'January 5... Read "Cosmic Anatomy". I managed to work a little.' | Katherine Mansfield | unknown | Cosmic Anatomy | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'January 5... J. and I read "Mansfield Park" with great enjoyment. I wonder if J. [Middleton Murry] is as content as h... | Katherine Mansfield | Jane Austen | Mansfield Park | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'January 6... Read Shakespeare, read "Cosmic Anatomy", read The Oxford Dictionary.' | Katherine Mansfield | William Shakespeare | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'January 6... Read Shakespeare, read "Cosmic Anatomy", read The Oxford Dictionary.' | Katherine Mansfield | unknown | Cosmic Anatomy | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'January 6... Read Shakespeare, read "Cosmic Anatomy", read The Oxford Dictionary.' | Katherine Mansfield | various | The Oxford English Dictionary | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'January 7... I read "Cosmic Anatomy", Shakespeare and the Bible. Jonah.' | Katherine Mansfield | unknown | Cosmic Anatomy | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'January 7... I read "Cosmic Anatomy", Shakespeare and the Bible. Jonah.' | Katherine Mansfield | William Shakespeare | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'January 7... I read "Cosmic Anatomy", Shakespeare and the Bible. Jonah.' | Katherine Mansfield | | The story of Jonah and the Whale | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'Thence with Mr Moore to the Wardrobe and there sat while my Lord was private with Mr Townsend about his accounts an h... | Henry Moore | Sir John Birkenhead | Cabala, or An impartial account of the non-conformists' private design | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'Home and stayed up a good while, examining Will in his Latin bible and my brother along with him in his Greeke. And s... | John Pepys | [n/a] | [Greek Bible] | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'Up and to my office, where all the morning - and part of it Sir J Mennes spent as he doth everything else, like a foo... | Sir John Mennes [or Minnes] | [unknown] | [anatomy of the body] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'February 5. Wrote at my story, read Shakespeare, Read Goethe, thought, prayed.' | Katherine Mansfield | William Shakespeare | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Arthur recalls that he could not read "properly" until he began school at the age of 9; he preferred his sister Anna ... | Anna Symons | Harriet Beecher Stowe | Uncle Tom's Cabin | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read occasionally during my walk in Macdiarmid's "Sketches of nature".' | John Cole | Macdiarmid | Sketches of Nature | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | On p. 206 (last page of text) 'Read Novr 13th/19th 1903
L A W' in pencil manuscript.
In addition, a bookplate on... | Laurence A Waldron | Henry Austin Dobson | Fanny Burney | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I am reading for the second [time] "The System of Nature", by Holbach and Diderot, if every one would read it, they w... | Anna Doyle Wheeler | Baron Paul Henrich Dietrich d'Holbach | Le Systeme de la nature | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | Heere is the well where waters flow,
To quench our heat of sinne,
Heere is the tree where truth doth grow
To lead o... | Susanna Beckwith | | The Bible, that is, etc. [Geneva Bible] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | St John's Antigua, July 19 1827
Your letter my Dear Fanny which appears to have been written in May I received yester... | John Page | [n/a] | [newspaper] | Print: Advertisement, Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | St John's Antigua, Jany 17 1828
My Dear Fanny
I have been amusing myself almost all morning in perusing several of ... | John Page | | [letters] | Manuscript: Letter |
| 1800-1849 | St John's Antigua, Augst 2 1829
My Dear Fanny
.... I suppose by this you are all reconsiled to the Catholicks. I see... | John Page | [n/a] | [newspaper] | Print: Newspaper |
| | Marginalia
Many pencil sidelines in the Introduction.
Donne, against l.52 "cf Good Friday"
Herbert, The Collar ... | Francis Robert Longworth-Dames | Herbert J C Grierson | Metaphysical Lyrics & Poems of the seventeenth century | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'But the Mother ... coming one Morning early into her Chamber, she found her Reading in a Book in Bed, at which the Da... | Ann Ketelbey | Robert Persons (or Parsons) | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | The boy is 'discontented ... because I cannot understand that which I reade'. The Devil Magirus 'expounded the places ... | anon [a boy] | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1500-1599 1600-1699 | She 'alledged many Scriptures, which she had never read, but only tumbling and tossing over the Bible ... Shee had a c... | Joan Drake | | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | From Anne Thackeray Ritchie's 'Memoir for Laura':
'One of the nicest things that ever happened to us when we were c... | Harriet Marian (Minny) Thackeray | Sir Henry Cole | The Home Treasury - Felix Summerly's Fairy Tale Book | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | From Anne Thackeray Ritchie's 'Memoir for Laura': 'One of the nicest things that ever happened to us when we were chil... | Anne Isabella Thackeray | Sir Henry Cole | The Home Treasury - Felix Summerly's Fairy Tale Book | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | '. H. Ewing's diary entry: 'In the evening Boy read Milton to me and I worked'. | Alexander (Rex) Ewing | John Milton | Paradise Lost [?] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | J. H. Ewing's diary entry: 'Boy read me Kingslake's account of the conflict [...] of the 2nd of Dec. Horribly interest... | Alexander (Rex) Ewing | Kingslake | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | J. H. Ewing diary entry: 'Last Chronicle of Barset' | Juliana Horatia Ewing | Anthony Trollope | Last Chronicle of Barset | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | J.H. Ewing's diary entry, July 23: 'Johnson's Meditations' | Juliana Horatia Ewing | Samuel Johnson | Prayers and Meditations [?] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | J. H. Ewing's diary entry, April 10 1869: 'Goulburn's Study of the Holy Scriptures' | Juliana Horatia Ewing | Edward Meyrick Goulburn | An Introduction to the Devotional Study of the Holy Scriptures | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | J.H. Ewing diary entry, Aug. 25 1869: 'Read Drew' | Juliana Horatia Ewing | Drew | [unknown] | Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | J.H. Ewing diary entry, July 13th 1869: 'Good Words'. | Juliana Horatia Ewing | [n/a] | Good Words | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | J. H. Ewing Diary entry, Aug 15 1869: 'Tracts for the Times' | Juliana Horatia Ewing | Rowland Elliott [?] | Tracts for the Times | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | From his diary, 29th September [1797]:
'Newspaper "Kelso Mail" begun to be taken this first week of October between K... | John Hastie | [n/a] | Kelso Mail | Print: Newspaper |
| 1700-1799 | ?Pray have you read Miss Burney?s Book?? Book? What Book is it?? cried the other. ? A Novel, answered Miss Lawes,? but... | Anna Maria Lawes | Frances Burney | Evelina | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | ?Miss Burney I am come to thank you for the vast entertainment you have given me; ? I am quite happy to see you,? I wi... | Susanna Dobson | Frances Burney | Evelina | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'He [Evelyn] read to me very much also of his discourse he hath been many years and now is about, about Guardenage; wh... | John Evelyn | John Evelyn | Elysium Britannicum | Manuscript: Sheet |
| 1600-1699 | 'He [Evelyn] read to me very much also of his discourse he hath been many years and now is about, about Guardenage; wh... | John Evelyn | John Evelyn | Thersander [probably] | Manuscript: Sheet |
| 1600-1699 | 'He [Evelyn] read to me very much also of his discourse he hath been many years and now is about, about Guardenage; wh... | John Evelyn | John Evelyn | [poems] | Manuscript: Sheet |
| 1600-1699 | 'He [Evelyn] read to me very much also of his discourse he hath been many years and now is about, about Guardenage; wh... | John Evelyn | John Evelyn | Celia afraid of an eagle | Manuscript: Sheet |
| 1700-1799 | 'a very dry day. I have nothing to say. Wrote to Fries and read "The Discovery of America" by Cortes'. | Eugenia Wynne | Hernan Cortes | Cartas de relacion [??] | Print: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'I read about one book per day.' | John H.S. Craig | various | various | Print: Advertisement, Book, Form, Handbill, Newspaper, Poster, Serial / periodical, Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Thanks for your letter & the book. A word in reference to the former.
I can?t boast that I discovered what purpo... | Arnold Bennett | Maurice Barres | Le Jardin de Berenice | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I first heard of Barr?s in an article by Edward Delille in the Fortnightly.'
| Arnold Bennett | Edward Delille | [article on Maurice Barres] | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | '. I first heard of Barr?s in an article be Edward Delille in the Fortnightly. Next I read a criticism of this very ... | Arnold Bennett | Anatole France | La Vie Litteraire | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Lastly there was a rather striking article in a recent Scribner on new ideas in French Literature generally in which ... | Arnold Bennett | | 'Scribner' | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | '. . . I have just finished Guy de Maupassant?s Bel Ami. One of the most obviously truthful, British-matron-shocking,... | Arnold Bennett | Guy de Maupassant | Bel-Ami | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | [Betsey]:'The gazettes from France were read this evening there was nothing remarquable in them. We began again "Les P... | Eugenia Wynne | Moliere [pseud.] | Les Precieuses Ridicules | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'we had reached a cell in the west wing, to which the first letter was addressed. The women were locked up in their ce... | anon | [unknown] | [letter] | Manuscript: Letter |
| 1850-1899 | 'In the laundry, the prisoner to whom the letter was given smiled gratefully in the clerk's face, as she thrust it int... | anon | [unknown] | [letter] | Manuscript: Letter |
| 1850-1899 | 'We were told that a Bible and Testament were placed at the head of each bed; and we saw one convict reading "Recreati... | anon | Rev Lewis Tomlinson | Recreations in Astronomy | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'We found some of the prisoners here engaged in reading, while waiting till the officers returned from their breakfast... | anon | Thomas Pearson | Infidelity; its Aspects, Causes and Agencies | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'We found some of the prisoners here engaged in reading, while waiting till the officers returned from their breakfast... | anon | [n/a] | Home Friend - a weekly miscellany | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'We found some of the prisoners here engaged in reading, while waiting till the officers returned from their breakfast... | anon | [n/a] | Saturday Magazine | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'We found some of the prisoners here engaged in reading, while waiting till the officers returned from their breakfast... | anon | Jonathan Edwards [?] | History of Redemption | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'We found some of the prisoners here engaged in reading, while waiting till the officers returned from their breakfast... | anon | [unknown] | Family Quarrel - an humble story | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | Recognised among the prisoners a once eminent City merchant, sentenced to transportation for fraud: 'This person, we w... | anon | [unknown] | [French and German language books] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'In one of the yards we noticed...an old man of eighty, with hair as white as the prison walls themselves, and which w... | anon | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'A big sailor-looking man with red whiskers growing under his chin, advanced to the hearer's desk. Not a word was spok... | anon | [unknown] | [unknown] | Manuscript: Sheet |
| 1850-1899 | 'Another - a lad with a bandage round his face, and heavy, dingy-coloured eyes - was sent back for having too many blo... | anon | [unknown] | [unknown] | Manuscript: Sheet |
| 1850-1899 | 'Once the head master had occasion to speak. A lad with ruddy skin, and light hair, had a defect in his speech, and co... | anon | [unknown] | [unknown] | Manuscript: Sheet |
| 1850-1899 | Schoolroom in the female prison at Tothill Fields:
'The warder, to let us see the acquirements of her scholars, bade ... | anon | [n/a] | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'A young man sat in the corner of another cell with his cheek leaning on his hand and his elbow resting on the table. ... | anon | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Schoolroom for juvenile males at Wandsworth Prison:
'One little pale-faced boy was reading his lesson to his kind-hea... | anon | [unknown] | [lesson: either Bible or school textbook] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Schoolroom for juvenile males at Wandsworth Prison:
'One little pale-faced boy was reading his lesson to his kind-hea... | anon | [n/a] | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Pictures from the cells at Wandsworth:
'Before leaving, on the third day of our visit, we visited the cell where the ... | anon | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Newgate Prison: Visiting the cells:
'We first went to Gallery B, occupied by penal servitude men. In one cell we saw ... | anon | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Newgate Prison: Visiting the cells:
'In another cell we saw a respectable looking man in middle life, seated at his t... | anon | [unknown] | [manuscripts] | Manuscript: Sheet |
| 1850-1899 | Horsemonger Lane Gaol - Visiting the cells:
'On looking into another cell, we saw a prisoner sentenced to penal servi... | anon | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'My pal was a typical Cockney recidivist who sold fruit on a coster's barrow between convictions and went crook when s... | anon | Charles Dickens | [works] | Print: Book, Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'What pleasure hast thou given me during the last few days! First your letter then your essay ?Fruit Blossom Time? & ... | Arnold Bennett | George Sturt | Fruit Blossom Time | Manuscript: Letter, Sheet |
| 1850-1899 | 'What pleasure hast thou given me during the last few days! First your letter then your essay "Fruit Blossom Time" & ... | Arnold Bennett | George Sturt | [unnamed novel] | Manuscript: Letter, Sheet |
| 1850-1899 | 'But happening to mention one day to my Editor that I thought "Occult" stories would go down well just now, & that I h... | Arnold Bennett | 'Par Un Initie' | Mysteres des Sciences Occultes | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'But in the case of a story like yours, which is over the heads of the foolish, amiable readers of our "bright little ... | Arnold Bennett | George Sturt | A Courting Umbrella | Manuscript: Sheet |
| 1700-1799 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Missing Sewell on her mother, Jane Sewell (nee Edwards; married 1802):
'She must have been naturally very ... | Jane Edwards | unknown | Novels | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Missing Sewell on her mother, Jane Sewell (nee Edwards; married 1802):
'She must have been naturally ver... | Jane Edwards | Samuel Richardson | Sir Charles Grandison | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Missing Sewell on her mother, Jane Sewell (nee Edwards; married 1802):
'She must have been naturally ver... | Jane Edwards | unknown | [Texts on history] | Print: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Missing Sewell on her mother, Jane Sewell (nee Edwards; married 1802):
'She must have been naturally ver... | Jane Edwards | Bayley | Dictionary | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Missing Sewell on being read to as a child by her mother, Jane Sewell (nee Edwards; married 1802):
'I can ... | Jane Sewell | Anson | Voyages | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Missing Sewell on being read to as a child by her mother, Jane Sewell (nee Edwards; married 1802):
'I can ... | Jane Sewell | Lemprier | Tour to Morocco | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Missing Sewell on being read to as a child by her mother, Jane Sewell (nee Edwards; married 1802):
'I can ... | Jane Sewell | unknown | History of Montezuma | 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 |
| 1850-1899 | 'six months later I read the following announcement in the "Daily Chronicle": "Yesterday a smart and well-dressed youn... | anon | [n/a] | Daily Chronicle | Print: Newspaper |
| 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 read for the second time a novel that Madame de B. brought for us, "Paul and Virginia", that is charming, but thoug... | Eugenia Wynne | Bernardin de St Pierre | Paul et Virginie | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'You may know that Mrs Humphry Ward is one of my literary bugbears. I have never really read any of her much-lauded w... | Arnold Bennett | Mrs. Humphry Ward | The Story of Bessie Cottrell | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | "'Every Day?s News', the last Pseudonym, contains this passage:??Literature was to him passion & a torment. . . . the ... | Arnold Bennett | C.E. Francis | Every Day's News | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | '(I am tempted, by the way, to say that 'On the Eve' is the finest novel I have ever read. I must lend it you. Its s... | Arnold Bennett | Ivan Sergevich Turgenev | On the Eve | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'I read several elegies today, two of Shore the one on the death of his wife, the other on the loss of his child. His ... | Eugenia Wynne | John Shore | [elegies on deaths of wife and child] | Print: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | 'I read several elegies today, two of Shore the one on the death of his wife, the other on the loss of his child. His ... | Eugenia Wynne | William Henry Lyttelton | [probably] A Monody to the Memory of lady Lyttelton. Written in the Year 1747 | Print: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | 'Rain again and rain forever. I read a great deal of Robertson's "History of Scotland". I cannot forgive Elizabeth's b... | Eugenia Wynne | William Robertson | The History of Scotland during the Reigns of Queen Mary and of King James VI till his Accession to the Crown of England | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'I read in the English newspapers an attempt has been made against the life of Louis XVIII as this unfortunate Prince ... | Eugenia Wynne | [n/a] | [English newspapers] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1700-1799 | 'I read a great deal of "Agathon" a very fine German novel taken from a grecian manuscript written by Wieland. It is v... | Eugenia Wynne | Christoph Martin Wieland | Agathon | Print: Book |
| 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 |
| 1800-1849 | 'Now that you have finished Rollin, I think you ought to begin some other book on general literature, directed if poss... | John A. Carlyle | Charles Rollin | Histoire ancienne des Egyptiennes, des Carthaginois, des Assyriens, des Babyloniens, des Medes, des Perses, des Macedoniens, et des Grecs (6 vols) | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I return the first two volumes of Julia with many thanks - It seems to me, that the most proper way of testifying my ... | Jane Bailie Welsh | Jean Jacques Rousseau | Julie, ou la nouvelle Heloise | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have read the Tragedies - I thank you for them - they are Byron's. Need I praise them. I have also read your eloqu... | Jane Bailie Welsh | Unknown | [Tragedies] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have read the Tragedies - I thank you for them - they are Byron's. Need I praise them. I have also read your eloqu... | Jane Bailie Welsh | Thomas Carlyle | Criticism on Faust (working title) | Manuscript: Sheet, Draft of essay due to be published in the Review |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have finished Julia - Divine Julia! What a finshed picture of most sublime virtue!' | Jane Bailie Welsh | Jean Jacques Rousseau | Julie, ou La Nouvelle Heloise | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | '28th - Sunday morning. A bright morning but no land in sight. Found the "United Irishman" of yesterday in my cabin. T... | John Mitchel | [n/a] | United Irishman | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'Drew my chair to the door, sat down in the sun, and spent an hour or two in reading the "Merry Wives of Windsor". Tha... | John Mitchel | William Shakespeare | Merry Wives of Windsor | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'The routine of the "Scourge" has grown familiar; and one tires of unbroken fine weather and smooth seas. No resource ... | John Mitchel | Richard Henry Dana | Two years before the mast | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'The routine of the "Scourge" has grown familiar; and one tires of unbroken fine weather and smooth seas. No resource ... | John Mitchel | Mary Schweidler | The Amber Witch | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Reading - for want of something better - "Macaulay's Essays". He is a born Edinburgh Reviewer, this Macaulay; and, in... | John Mitchel | Thomas Babington Macaulay | Essays | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'After breakfast, when the sun burned too fiercely on deck, went below, threw off coat and waistcoat for coolness, and... | John Mitchel | Thomas Babington Macaulay | Essays [on Bacon] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Steamer from Southampton docked at Bermuda, bringing English newspapers up to date of 2nd June:
'Our second lieutenan... | John Mitchel | [n/a] | Morning Post | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | 'The chaplain had left me about half an hour, and I was sitting at an open window reading Livy and drinking grog, begi... | John Mitchel | Livy | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Here I have been reading an account of Abyssinia, being a volume of the "Family Library", wherein you travel one stag... | John Mitchel | [unknown] | [Abyssinia] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Two other volumes of the same Library, to wit: "Palestine", edited by Dr Russell, and "Persia", by Frazer, I have als... | John Mitchel | Russell (ed.) | [Palestine] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Two other volumes of the same Library, to wit: "Palestine", edited by Dr Russell, and "Persia", by Frazer, I have als... | John Mitchel | Frazer (ed.) | [Persia] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | ''4th-11th- Reading Homer and basking in the sun upon the sea side of the breakwater. Weather delicious. Have also bee... | John Mitchel | Dean Swift | [Captain Crichton's autobiography] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | ''4th-11th- Reading Homer and basking in the sun upon the sea side of the breakwater. Weather delicious. Have also bee... | John Mitchel | William Gifford | [autobiography] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | ''4th-11th- Reading Homer and basking in the sun upon the sea side of the breakwater. Weather delicious. Have also bee... | John Mitchel | Thomas Elwood | [autobiography] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | ''4th-11th- Reading Homer and basking in the sun upon the sea side of the breakwater. Weather delicious. Have also bee... | John Mitchel | Homer | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Three weeks of sickness, sleepness nights, and dismal days: and the "light" reading that I have been devouring I find... | John Mitchel | Alexandre Dumas | Three Mousequetaires | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Three weeks of sickness, sleepness nights, and dismal days: and the "light" reading that I have been devouring I find... | John Mitchel | Alexandre Dumas | Marquis de Letoriere | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Three weeks of sickness, sleepness nights, and dismal days: and the "light" reading that I have been devouring I find... | John Mitchel | William Harrison Ainsworth | Windsor Castle | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Three weeks of sickness, sleepness nights, and dismal days: and the "light" reading that I have been devouring I find... | John Mitchel | Douglas Jerrold | St Giles and St James | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'This evening, after dusk, as I sat at my window, looking drearily out on the darkening waters, something was thrown f... | John Mitchel | [n/a] | [London newspaper] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | 'Of the state of public opinion in Ireland, and the spirit shown by the surviving organs thereof, I have but this indi... | John Mitchel | [n/a] | Freeman's Journal | Print: Newspaper, Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have omitted, of late, to set down the titles of - for want of a better name I must call them - books, that I have ... | John Mitchel | Madame Pichler | [Siege of Vienna] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have omitted, of late, to set down the titles of - for want of a better name I must call them - books, that I have ... | John Mitchel | [George] [Allan?] | [biography of Walter Scott] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have omitted, of late, to set down the titles of - for want of a better name I must call them - books, that I have ... | John Mitchel | Dr Memes [pseud?] | [Life of William Cowper] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'And have I read no books, then, save bad ones? That I have. Amongst those sent to me from home is an old Dublin copy ... | John Mitchel | Francois Rabelais | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'And have I read no books, then, save bad ones? That I have. Amongst those sent to me from home is an old Dublin copy ... | John Mitchel | Claudius Galen | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'With Shakespeare also I hold much gay and serious intercourse; and I have read, since coming here, three or four dial... | John Mitchel | William Shakespeare | [various titles] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'With Shakespeare also I hold much gay and serious intercourse; and I have read, since coming here, three or four dial... | John Mitchel | Plato | Dialogues | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'With Shakespeare also I hold much gay and serious intercourse; and I have read, since coming here, three or four dial... | John Mitchel | Aristotle? | Politeia | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'One of the last books I have laid hands on is Lieutenant Burnes's (afterwards Sir Alexander Burnes) "Journey through ... | John Mitchel | Sir Alexander Burnes | [Journey through Bokhara and Voyage up the Indus] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Several newspapers have come to hand; also "Blackwood's Magazine" for October. "Blackwood" has a long article on Iris... | John Mitchel | [n/a] | [newspapers] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | 'Several newspapers have come to hand; also "Blackwood's Magazine" for October. "Blackwood" has a long article on Iris... | John Mitchel | [n/a] | Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read "Antony and Cleopatra".' | John Mitchel | William Shakespeare | Antony and Cleopatra | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Get on but slowly with my translation of the "Politeia": and nearly repent that I began it; for I lack the energy and... | John Mitchel | Aristotle? | Politeia | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Dawdling over Keightley's history of the war in Greece, compiled out of all the newspapers and all the memoirs. Full ... | John Mitchel | Thomas Keightley | History of the War of Independence in Greece | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Then I have been turning lazily over the pages of a certain "magazine" called the "Saturday Magazine", which the wort... | John Mitchel | [n/a] | Saturday Magazine | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'Tired to death of reading books - at least all books of an instructive sort - and have now been devouring (for about ... | John Mitchel | Walter Scott | Ivanhoe | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Tired to death of reading books - at least all books of an instructive sort - and have now been devouring (for about ... | John Mitchel | Walter Scott | The Heart of the Mid-Lothian | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Have been reading in "Tait's Magazine" an elaborate review of a new book by the indefatigable Government literator, M... | John Mitchel | [uknown] | Tait's Edinburgh Magazine [review of Macaulay's History of England] | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'Have been reading in "Tait's Magazine" an elaborate review of a new book by the indefatigable Government literator, M... | John Mitchel | Thomas Babington Macaulay | History of England | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have just been gratified (no matter how or by whom) with a sight of some newspapers, which announce, among other th... | John Mitchel | [n/a] | [newspaper] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | 'The Doctor has sent into my cabin a "Daily News", which came by the mail on Sunday' [general discussion of its conten... | John Mitchel | [n/a] | Daily News | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | '27th - I have just had a visit from two American ship-captains, whose vessels lie here. They approached me most rever... | John Mitchel | [n/a] | Freeman's Journal | Print: Newspaper, Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'The enemy thinks I am dead. In a parliamentary report in one of the papers, I read that the Home Secretary, replying ... | John Mitchel | [n/a] | [newspaper] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have got Cape newspapers for the last two months, and have been reading of the proceedings of the various anti-conv... | John Mitchel | [n/a] | [newspaper] | Print: Newspaper |
| 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 |
| 1800-1849 | 'A ship has arrived from England, but does not carry our destiny. Two weekly newspapers. News from Europe up to the 11... | John Mitchel | [n/a] | [newspaper] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 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 | 'Have been reading the "Quarterly Review" on Lyell's tour in North America. The "Quarterly" rejoices, quite generously... | John Mitchel | [unknown] | Quarterly Review | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'I have seen extracts from the new "Nation". Mr Duffy can hardly find words for his disgust, his contempt, "his utter ... | John Mitchel | [Duffy] | Nation | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 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 | 'I have seen extracts from the new "Nation". Mr Duffy can hardly find words for his disgust, his contempt, "his utter ... | John Mitchel | [n/a] | The Times | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'The Cork "Southern Reporter" echoes the new "Nation", and even tries to go beyond it in treason. Mr Barry quarrels wi... | John Mitchel | [Barry] | Southern Reporter | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'One number of the "Irishman" has come to my hands: it is published at No. 4 D'Olier Street, and by Fulham; and the ed... | John Mitchel | Joseph Brennan (ed) | Irishman | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 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 | Eleanor L. Sewell, niece of Elizabeth Missing Sewell, in chapter 20 of [italics]The
Autobiography of Elizabeth Missi... | Eleanor L. Sewell | Elizabeth Missing Sewell | works | Print: Unknown |
| 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 |
| 1850-1899 | 'But from yesterday's "Commercial Advertiser" I will copy two letters, the reading of which and the consultation there... | John Mitchel | [n/a] | Commercial Advertiser | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'The Cape papers give extracts from the Van Diemen's Land papers, by which I find that O'Brien, Meagher, O'Donoghue, a... | John Mitchel | [n/a] | [Newspapers] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'Lord Grey's despatches have arrived...[prisoners gather to hear proclamation read aloud] when Captain Bance unfolded ... | Captain Bance | Lord Grey | [Dispatch from the Government respecting fate of convicts on ship] | Manuscript: Sheet |
| 1850-1899 | 'I have seen some English papers: this Cape affair has caused wonderful excitement and indignation: a horrid insult ha... | John Mitchel | [n/a] | The Times [and other English newspapers] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'I have got the Cape newspapers, with their advertising columns full of "the Dinner", "the Illuminations", in large ca... | John Mitchel | [n/a] | [newspapers] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'Some Hobart Town newspapers have come on board. O'Brien is still in very close confinement on an island off the east ... | John Mitchel | [n/a] | [newspapers] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'To my utter amazement, I had a letter to-day from Patrick O'Donohue, who has been permitted to live in the city of Ho... | John Mitchel | Patrick O'Donohue (editor) | Irish Exile | Print: Newspaper, Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'Some Irish newspapers. I can hardly bear to look into them. But John Knox [John Martin] diligently scans them, with m... | John Martin | [n/a] | [Irish newspapers] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'When the circumstances of my arrest came to be known, some of the newspapers commented severely on the harshness of t... | John Mitchel | [n/a] | Colonial Times | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'Yesterday I saw in one of the Van Diemen's Land papers, an extract from some London periodical, in which, as usual, g... | John Mitchel | [n/a] | [newspaper] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'I have just read Marie Corelli?s new book?my first of hers. I can now understand both her popularity & the critics? ... | Arnold Bennett | Marie Corelli | Sorrows of Satan | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'In my new vol. of the Edinburgh Stevenson, there is a luminous essay, reprinted for the first time from a Fortnightly... | Arnold Bennett | Robert Louis Stevenson | Some technical elements of style in literatue | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | '. . . have you got Roget?s Thesaurus of English words and phrases? It is the most wonderful machine for getting at w... | Arnold Bennett | Dr Peter Mark Roget | Thesaurus | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'My favourite masters & models: 1. Turgenev, a royal first (you must read 'On the Eve'?flawless I tell you. Bring bac... | Arnold Bennett | Ivan Sergevich Turgenev | On the Eve | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'My favourite masters & models: 1. Turgenev, a royal first (you must read 'On the Eve'?flawless I tell you. Bring bac... | Arnold Bennett | Guy de Maupassant | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | '. . . I learnt this from the brothers de Goncourt. I must get you to read their 'Renee Mauperin'. To study the prin... | Arnold Bennett | Edmund and Jules de Goncourt | Renee Mauperin | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'My favourite masters & models: 1. Turgenev, a royal first (you must read 'On the Eve'?flawless I tell you. Bring ba... | Arnold Bennett | George Moore | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'My favourite masters & models: 1. Turgenev, a royal first (you must read 'On the Eve'?flawless I tell you. Bring bac... | Arnold Bennett | Robert Louis Stevenson | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'You might, if you care, read my criticism of Hardy?s new novel in Wednesday next?s Woman ?though it contains little a... | Arnold Bennett | Thomas Hardy | Jude the Obscure | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'My reviewing has been mixing me up with literary folk lately. One ?George Paston? (niece of John Addington Symonds) ... | Arnold Bennett | George Paston | A Modern Amazon, A Bread and Butter Miss, A Study in Prejudices | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I couldn?t get her [?George Paston?] to give George Moore a good word. I have just been reading his first novel.'
| Arnold Bennett | George Moore | A Modern Lover | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'The evening was very stupid as both Betsey and Justine did not talk one being asleep and the other busily employed re... | Justina Wynne | [n/a] | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I have just read Turgenev?s Smoke. Man, we have more to learn in mere technique from Turgenev than from any other so... | Arnold Bennett | Ivan Sergevich Turgenev | Smoke | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | "'On the Eve' is more than a nice novel; it is a great novel. I think that if I could read it in Russian I should set... | Arnold Bennett | Ivan Sergevich Turgenev | On the Eve | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I am just reading 'Germinie Lacerteux,' the masterpiece (I fancy) of the de Goncourts.'
| Arnold Bennett | Edmond and Jules de Goncourt | Germinie Lacerteux | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'What a lift for 'The Golden Age' in today?s Chronicle.' | Arnold Bennett | A.C. Swinburne | review of 'The Golden Age' | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'For exercise I have just ridden over to Ken?s for your novel, though I am so busy I haven?t time to read it today. I... | Arnold Bennett | George Sturt | A Year's Exile | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Well, Sir, I have read your novel, & I am ready to bet a guinea to a gooseberry that, if read by Street, it will not ... | Arnold Bennett | George Sturt | A Year's Exile | Manuscript: Sheet |
| 1850-1899 | 'He said, handing me a document, ?Here is the report on your novel.? I read it. It was very laudatory on all counts, ... | Arnold Bennett | John Buchan | Reader's report on an [unspecified] novel by Bennett | Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Turgenev has forestalled you. & a bit to spare, in ?A Sportsman?s Sketches?, which you shall take home with you next ... | Arnold Bennett | Ivan Sergevich Turgenev | A Sportsman's Sketches | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'It being Sunday, we read prayers from a Bible and a Prayer Book that were picked up on the field at Bhoodkhak. The se... | Florentia Sale | | Bible and Prayer Book | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Ever read Stendhal?s ?Physiologie de l?amour?? If not, do. 1 franc is the price. It is vivacious, epigrammatic, & ... | Arnold Bennett | Stendhal | De l'amour | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Monday 26 October
'we are sailing this Morning 9 miles a hour if we go on at that rate we shall soone be ther i Don't... | anon | [n/a] | [funeral service] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Dec 9
'Sunday, Had a swim then breakfast and kikied anchor bound for [indecipherable]. Read "Death Notch the Avenging... | Newton Barton | [unknown] | Death Notch the Avenging Rancher | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have finished "A Winter in Town", and think that if it was written in two volumes instead of three it would be a ve... | Eugenia Wynne | Thomas Skinner Surr | A Winter in London, or Sketches of Fashion | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'The individual...was a fellow-worker of mine for nigh two years in Dartmoor. He had, in his younger days, passed thro... | anon | Homer | Illiad | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'The individual...was a fellow-worker of mine for nigh two years in Dartmoor. He had, in his younger days, passed thro... | anon | Blaise Pascal | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'The individual...was a fellow-worker of mine for nigh two years in Dartmoor. He had, in his younger days, passed thro... | anon | Jean de La Fontaine | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'The individual...was a fellow-worker of mine for nigh two years in Dartmoor. He had, in his younger days, passed thro... | anon | [unknown] | [pestilent literature of rascaldom] | Print: Book, Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'Certain events (which I will relate when I see you?may it be soon) at the office have given me an idea for another no... | Arnold Bennett | Edmond de Goncourt | Madame Gervaisais | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'P.S. I also return the voyage diary. It is excellent, & I was very pleased with it.' | Arnold Bennett | George Sturt | voyage diary | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | "I am now myself in cap III of 'Sentimental Tommy'. So far, it strikes me, as it struck me before in 'Scribner', as a... | Arnold Bennett | J.M. Barrie | Sentimental Tommy | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Barrie?s 'Margaret Ogilvy', though a trifle loose in the mere writing, is a divine thing, my boy?sort of book that im... | Arnold Bennett | J.M. Barrie | Margaret Ogilvy/by her son | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Dear Mr Lane,
I must apologise for not returning 'King Noanett'. But I have been so awfully busy lately that I have... | Arnold Bennett | Frederic Jessup Stimson | King Noanett:A Story of Old Virginia and the Massachusetts Bay | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I wait only for one little incident to shape itself and then I can march on up to, & right through, my great revival ... | Arnold Bennett | Harold Frederic | Illumination, or, The damnation of Theron Ware | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I have never (in his prose work) found a trace of the artist?s passion for words & loving care over them; & in his po... | Arnold Bennett | Rudyard Kipling | The Long Trail | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I have Dupuy?s 'Les Grand Maitres de la literature russe', which strikes me as being platitudinous & not very informi... | Arnold Bennett | Ernest Dupuy | Les Grand Maitres de la litterature russe | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I have Dupuy?s 'Les Grand Maitres de la literature russe', which strikes me as being platitudinous & not very informi... | Arnold Bennett | Marie Eugene Melchior de Vogue | Le Roman russe | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I saw Lane for a few brief moments last night. He showed me a second report on Bettesworth, by G.S. Street. It was ... | Arnold Bennett | G. S. Street | reader's report on "Bettesworth" | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'My sole solaces have been Dumas, & Nolan?s delightful companionship at Brussels.' | Arnold Bennett | Alexandre Dumas | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I feel conscious of sin in regard to your manuscripts. With reference to An Unequal Yoke I knew that Young was bitte... | Arnold Bennett | Mrs H. H. Penrose | The Unequal Yoke | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'I feel conscious of sin in regard to your manuscripts. With reference to An Unequal Yoke I knew that Young was bitte... | Arnold Bennett | Mrs H. H. Penrose | Chubby, A Nuisance, A Study of Child-life | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'For a long time I have been intending to write to you, & express my appreciation of your work, & also to ask what is ... | Arnold Bennett | H.G. Wells | The Time Machine | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'For a long time I have been intending to write to you, & express my appreciation of your work, & slso to ask what is ... | Arnold Bennett | H.G. Wells | The Cone in 'The Plattner Story and Others' | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'For a long time I have been intending to write to you, & express my appreciation of your work, & slso to ask what is ... | Arnold Bennett | H.G. Wells | The Invisible Man | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I am quite sure there is an aspect of these industrial districts which is really grandiose, full of dark splendours, ... | Arnold Bennett | William Edwards Tirebuck | Miss Grace of All Souls | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I am quite sure there is an aspect of these industrial districts which is really grandiose, full of dark splendours, ... | Arnold Bennett | Henry Woodd Nevinson | In the Valley of Tophet | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Also to tell you that I have this morning read Kipling?s new book Captains Courageous, & that it is MAGNIFICENT.'
... | Arnold Bennett | Rudyard Kipling | Captains Courageous | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'With regard to your article, though admiring of the ingenuity of it, I yearned to tear the argument to rags. There i... | Arnold Bennett | George Sturt | A Note on Fiction | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'That Conrad book is magnificent.'
| Arnold Bennett | Joseph Conrad | The Nigger of the Narcissus | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'My Dear Wells, I owe you a good turn for pointing out Conrad to me. I remember I got his first book, Almayer?s Folly... | Arnold Bennett | Joseph Conrad | The Nigger of the Narcissus | 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 |
| 1850-1899 | 'Have you read de Maupassant?s '?tude sur Gustave Flaubert', preface to Bouvard et P?cuchet?from which I quote above? ... | Arnold Bennett | Guy de Maupassant | Etude sur Gustave Flaubert | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Just now I am reading a most excellent & very English novel, 'Lying Prophets', by Eden Phillpotts. I have lately got... | Arnold Bennett | Eden Phillpotts | Lying Prophets | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I reckon I can do something with Moore. . . I occupy the time of waiting in reading G.M. & making notes. The busin... | Arnold Bennett | George Moore | unknown | Print: Book |
| 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 |
| 1850-1899 | 'Of Dickens, dear friend, I know nothing. About a year ago, from idle curiosity, I picked up The Old Curiosity Shop, ... | Arnold Bennett | Charles Dickens | The Old Curiosity Shop | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I took up de Maupassant to inspire me into a new theme; got one in about 5 minutes, & in an hour had arrived at the d... | Arnold Bennett | Guy de Maupassant | unknown | 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 | 'I read 'A Year?s Exile' during the three hours? journey down here on Thursday afternoon, & have passed it on to Frank... | Arnold Bennett | George Sturt | A Year's Exile | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'You should get hold of Havelock Ellis?s new book Affirmations. It is all good; and there is an essay on Huysmans tha... | Arnold Bennett | Henry Havelock Ellis | Affirmations | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'As the writer of the recent article upon you in the 'Academy' I venture upon the intrusion of telling you personally... | Arnold Bennett | Allan Noble Monkhouse | A Deliverance | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Have you read Phillpotts? Children of the Mist? It is a great book.'
| Arnold Bennett | Eden Phillpotts | Children of the Mist | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'At the moment I am in the act of discovering ?W.B. Yeats?, the Irish poet, whose prose, to my mind, is just about equ... | Arnold Bennett | W.B. Yeats | The Celtic Twilight | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I am writing now because I must?to congratulate you on the short stories on the Pall Mall Magazine, which seem to imp... | Arnold Bennett | H.G. Wells | A Story of the Days to Come | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'Have you read Housman?s poems A Shropshire Lad? They are only immortal, that?s all. I take them as a tonic.'
| Arnold Bennett | A. E. Housman | A Shropshire Lad | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I slept a little and next morning being Friday amused myself in bed with the Times, the Daily Herald, the New Statesm... | Cyril Lionel Robert James | | newspapers | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | 'I am reading Hall's book, but will read it through before I say a word about it, for I find my opinion changes so muc... | Sydney Smith | Basil Hall | Travels in North America 1827-8 | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Have you read Hall's America? If you have, I hope you dislike it as much as I do. It is amusing but very unjust and u... | Sydney Smith | Basil Hall | Travels in North America 1827-8 | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I do not like your Tragedy; there is little interest in it; no material fault but the absence of anything very good. ... | Sydney Smith | T.H. Lister | Epicharis | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'I quite agree about Napier's book. I did not think that any man would venture to write so true, bold and honest a boo... | Sydney Smith | William Francis Patrick Napier | History of the Peninsular War | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read "Laurie Todd" by Galt. It is excellent; no surprising events, or very striking characters, but the humorous and ... | Sydney Smith | John Galt | Laurie Todd or the Settlers in the Woods | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read "Laurie Todd" by Galt. It is excellent; no surprising events, or very striking characters, but the humorous and ... | Sydney Smith | Lady Raffles | [memoir of her husband Sir Thomas Stamford Raffles] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Have you read Moore? I come in, I see, for a little notice once or twice. I find the Peer and Poet (and I knew it onl... | Sydney Smith | Thomas Moore | Life of Byron | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'We have read "Zohrab the Hostage" with the greatest pleasure. If you have not read it, pray do. I was so pleased with... | Sydney Smith | James Justinian Morier | Zohrab the Hostage | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I am always glad when a clever book has been written; not only because it pleases me, but because it is a new triumph... | Sydney Smith | (ed.) Lady Dacre | Recollections of a Chaperon | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Hamilton';s "America", it is quite excellent'. | Sydney Smith | Thomas Hamilton | Men and Manners in America | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I think you will like Sir James Mackintosh's Life; it is full of his own thoughts upon men, books and events, and I d... | Sydney Smith | Robert James Mackintosh | Memoirs of the Life of the Right Honourable Sir James Mackintosh | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have been reading aloud Beauvilliers book of Cookery. I find as I suspected that garlic is power; not in its despot... | Sydney Smith | Antoine Beauvilliers | L'Art de Cuisiner | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I am very desirous to read Mrs Trollope's Paris and the Parisians; her Tremordyn Cliff I read with considerable pleas... | Sydney Smith | Frances Milton Trollope | Tremordyn Cliff | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have read "Astoria" with great pleasure; it is a book to put in your library, as an entertaining, well written - [i... | Sydney Smith | Washington Irving | Astoria | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Get, and read, Macaulay's Papers upon the Indian courts and Indian Education. They are admirable for their talent and... | Sydney Smith | Thomas Babington Macaulay | [writings on Indian Courts and Education] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Nickleby is very good. I stood out against Mr Dickens as long as I could, but he has conquered me'. | Sydney Smith | Charles Dickens | Nicholas Nickleby | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Spry's account of India - and believe if you can (I do) that within 150 mles of Calcutta there is a nation of Ca... | Sydney Smith | Henry Harpur Spry | Modern India | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I am very deep in Lord Stowell's "Reports", and if it were wartime I should officiate as Judge of the Admiralty Court... | Sydney Smith | William, Baron Stowell Scott | [reports of cases in the Admiralty Court] | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'I am reading again Madame du Deffand. God forbid I should be as much in love with anybody (yourself excepted) as the ... | Sydney Smith | (ed.) Mary Berry | [letters of Mme. du Deffand to Horace Walpole] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I read Guizot's Washington in the Summer; nothing can be better, more succinct more judicious, more true more just; b... | Sydney Smith | M. Guizot | 'Washington: par M. Guizot' | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have read Susan Hopley - the incidents are improbable but the Book took me on - and I kept reading it'. | Sydney Smith | [Mrs] Crowe | Susan Hopley | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | I console myself with Doddridge's Expositor and "The Scholar Armed", to say nothing of a very popular book called "The... | Sydney Smith | Philip Doddridge | The Family Expositor | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | I console myself with Doddridge's Expositor and "The Scholar Armed", to say nothing of a very popular book called "The... | Sydney Smith | [anon] | The Scholar Armed | |
| 1800-1849 | I console myself with Doddridge's Expositor and "The Scholar Armed", to say nothing of a very popular book called "The... | Sydney Smith | [unknown] | The Dissenter Tripped Up | |
| 1800-1849 | 'Pray Read the first Vol of Elphinstone's India - the News from China gives me the greatest pleasure. I am for bombard... | Sydney Smith | Mountstuart Elphinstone | History of India | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'You should read Napier's two little volumes of the war in Portugal. He is an heroic fellow, equal to anything in Plut... | Sydney Smith | Charles Napier | An account of the war in Portugal between Don Pedro and Don Miguel | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read "A Life in the Forest", skipping nimbly; but there is much of good in it'. | Sydney Smith | unknown | A Life in the Forest | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Have you read Macaulay's Lays? they are very much liked. I have read some but I abor all Grecian and Roman subjects'. | Sydney Smith | Thomas Babington Macaulay | Lays of Ancient Rome | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Did you ever read Pere Goriot by Balzac or La Messe de L'Athee they are very good and perfectly readable for ladies a... | Sydney Smith | Honore de Balzac | Pere Goriot | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Did you ever read Pere Goriot by Balzac or La Messe de L'Athee they are very good and perfectly readable for ladies a... | Sydney Smith | Honore de Balzac | La Messe de l'Athee | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'You have been so used to these sort of impertinences, that I believe you will exuse me for saying how very much I am ... | Sydney Smith | Charles Dickens | Martin Chuzzlewit | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'I hope you like Horner's "Life". It succeeds extremely well here. It is full of all the exorbitant and impracticable ... | Sydney Smith | Leonard Horner | Memoirs and Correspondence of Francis Horner, M.P. | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Tell William Murray, with my kindest regards, to get for you, when he comes to town, a book called "Arabiniana, or Re... | Sydney Smith | Theobald Mathew | Arabiniana, or Remains of Mr Serjeant Arabin | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have just read Miss Martineau's "Sick Room". I cannot understand it. It is so sublime, and mystical that I frequent... | Sydney Smith | Harriet Martineau | Life in the Sick Room | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I think Channing an admirable writer, so much eloquence so much sense so much command of Language; yet admirable as h... | Sydney Smith | William Ellery Channing | [sermon on War] | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'Has Lord Grey read the Edinburgh Review? the article on Barrere is by Macaulay, that upon Lord St Vincent by Barrow; ... | Sydney Smith | [n/a] | Edinburgh Review | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Stanleys Life of Arneld, Twiss Life of Ld Eldon'. | Sydney Smith | Arthur Stanley | Life and Correspondence of Thomas Arnold | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Stanleys Life of Arneld, Twiss Life of Ld Eldon'. | Sydney Smith | Horace Twiss | Life of Lord Chancellor Eldon | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I think I have already mentioned to you the Life of Ld Eldon by Horace Twiss. It is not badly done, and I think it wo... | Sydney Smith | Horace Twiss | Life of Lord Chancellor Eldon | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I am beginning Burke's Letters or rather have gone through one volume but it is (I mean the Volume) full of details w... | Sydney Smith | (ed.) Richard Bourke | Correspondence of Burke | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Travels in the East called Eothen, they are by a Mr Kinglake of Taunton a Chancery Barrister, and are written in... | Sydney Smith | Alexander William Kinglake | Eothen, or Traces of Travel brought home from the East | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I think "Ireland and its Leaders" worth reading and beg of you to tell me who wrote it if you happen to know, for you... | Sydney Smith | Daniel Owen-Madden [published anon.] | Ireland and its Rulers Since 1829 | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Have you noticed the Abuse of St Pauls in the Times - I ws moved to write but kept Silence though it was pain and gri... | Sydney Smith | [n/a] | The Times | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Captain Marryats Settlement in Canada'. | Sydney Smith | Frederick Marryat | The Settlers in Canada | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Short way into the voyage, surgeon receives a letter from one of the convicts:
'He then mentions the influence which ... | anon | [unknown] | [the barren fig tree] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Short way into the voyage, surgeon receives a letter from one of the convicts:
'He then mentions the influence which ... | anon | [n/a] | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Short way into the voyage, surgeon receives a letter from one of the convicts:
'He then mentions the influence which ... | Colin Arrott Browning | [n/a] | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Confession of invalid convict George Day:
'I hope I prayed but found little peace, until I heard the doctor pressing ... | Colin Arrott Browning | [n/a] | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | One day, as Louis was leaving the hotel, he stopped to send a message up to my mother by one of the 'Buttons', as they... | anon | Robert Louis Stevenson | Treasure Island | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | A friend of mine, a Welsh blacksmith, was twenty-five years old and could neither read nor write, when he heard a chap... | anon | Daniel Defoe | Robinson Crusoe | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'There is a great Peer in our neighbourhood, who gives me the run of his library while he is in town; and I am fetchin... | Sydney Smith | August von Kotzebue | Das merkw?rdigste Jahr meines Lebens | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'With Madame de Staal's Memoirs, so strongly praised by the excellent Baron Grimm, I was a good deal disappointed: she... | Sydney Smith | Marguerite de Launay, Baronne de Staal | Memoires | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I see your name mentioned among the writers in Constable's Encyclopaedia; pray tell me what articles you have written... | Sydney Smith | Archibald Constable [ed.] | Encyclopaedia Britannica | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have now read three volumes of Madame de Sevigne - with a conviction that her letters are very much overpraised. Mr... | Sydney Smith | Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, Marquise de Sevigne | [Letters] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I always tell you all the books worth notice that I read, and I rather counsel you to read Jacob's "Spain", a book wi... | Sydney Smith | William Jacob | Travels in the South of Spain | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I always tell you all the books worth notice that I read, and I rather counsel you to read Jacob's "Spain", a book wi... | Sydney Smith | Benjamin Franklin | The Private Correspondence of Benjamin Franklin, L.L.D | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have just read Dugald Stewart's "Preliminary Dissertations". In the first place, it is totally clear of all his def... | Sydney Smith | Dugald Stewart | [Dissertation printed in the Encyclopaedia Britannica] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I speak of books as I read them, and I read them as I can get them. You are read up to twelve o' clock of the precedi... | Sydney Smith | [unknown] | [evidence of Elgin Marble Committee] | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'My astonishment was very great at readind Canning's challenge to the anonymous pamphleteer. If it were the first proo... | Sydney Smith | George Canning | [Canning's letter to newspapers attavking an anonymous pamphleteer (John Cam Hobhouse, it transpired), who had attacked him] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have read Georgel and must say I have seldom read a more stupid book. The first volume in which he relates what he ... | Sydney Smith | Jean Francois Georgel | M?moires pour servir ? l'histoire des ?v?nements de la fin du 18e si?cle depuis 1760 jusqu'en 1806?10 | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I recommend you to read the first and second volumes of the Abbe Georgel's Memoirs. You will suppose, from this advic... | Sydney Smith | Jean Francois Georgel | M?moires pour servir ? l'histoire des ?v?nements de la fin du 18e si?cle depuis 1760 jusqu'en 1806?10 | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'There is a grat difference of opinion about Scott's new novel. At Holland House it is much run down: I dare not oppos... | Sydney Smith | Walter Scott | The Heart of Midlothian | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I am very desirous to hear what your Vote is about Walter Scott; I think it excellent, quite as good as any of his no... | Sydney Smith | Walter Scott | The Heart of Midlothian | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Brougham's pamphlet accidentally happens to be very dull. It is not of much importance but there was no absolute nece... | Sydney Smith | Henry Brougham | A Letter to SIR SAMUEL ROMILLY, MP from H. BROUGHAM, Esq. MPFRS upon the Abuse of Charities | |
| 1800-1849 | 'I recommend you to read Hall, Palmer, Fearon and Bradburys Travels in America, particularly "Fearon". There is nothin... | Sydney Smith | Henry Fearon | Narrative of a Journey of Five Thousand Miles Through the Eastern and Western States of America | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I recommend you to read Hall, Palmer, Fearon and Bradburys Travels in America, particularly "Fearon". There is nothin... | Sydney Smith | John Bradbury | Travels in the Interior of America in the years 1809, 1810 and -1811 | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I recommend you to read Hall, Palmer, Fearon and Bradburys Travels in America, particularly "Fearon". There is nothin... | Sydney Smith | John Palmer | Journal of Travels in the United States of North America, and in Lower Canada, Performed in the Year 1817, &c. &c | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I recommend you to read Hall, Palmer, Fearon and Bradburys Travels in America, particularly "Fearon". There is nothin... | Sydney Smith | Francis Hall | Journal of Travels in the United States of North America | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Birkbeck's second book is not so good as his first. He deceives himself - says he wishes to deceive himself - and is ... | Sydney Smith | Morris Birkbeck | Notes on a Journey in America from the Coast of Virginia to the Territory of Illinois | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Birkbeck's second book is not so good as his first. He deceives himself - says he wishes to deceive himself - and is ... | Sydney Smith | Morris Birkbeck | Letters from Illinois | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I left Ecclefechan on the evening of Tuesday the 19th Decr on the top of the Glasgow Mail. Little occurred worthy of... | Unknown 'Scottish Gourmand' | n/a] | [newspaper] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | 'Rogers is in an indescribable agony about his poem. The Hollands have read and like it. The verses on Paestum are sai... | John Nicholas Fazackerly | Samuel Rogers | Human Life | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'Rogers has at length appeared; an old friend must be a good poet; but without reference to this feeling there are som... | Sydney Smith | Samuel Rogers | Human Life | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'Tell Lord Grey to read Bennet's pamphlet; it is a little long, but good and right in the main object. At the end is a... | Sydney Smith | Henry Grey Bennet | Letter to Viscount Sidmouth, Secretary of State for the Home Department, on the Transportation Laws, the State of the Hulks and of the Colonies in New South Wales | |
| 1800-1849 | 'Tell my Lord, if he wants to read a good savory ecclesiastical pamphlet, to read Jonas Dennis' "Concio Cleri", a book... | Sydney Smith | Jonas Dennis | Convocatio Cleri | |
| 1800-1849 | 'Lord Grey will like that article in the Edinburgh Review upon Universal Suffrage; it is by Sir James McIntosh. There ... | Sydney Smith | James McIntosh | [Review in Edinburgh Review of Bentham's Plan of Parliamentary Refom] | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'Lord Grey will like that article in the Edinburgh Review upon Universal Suffrage; it is by Sir James McIntosh. There ... | Sydney Smith | Edward Copleston | [Review in Edinburgh Review of Ricardo on Currency and Prinsep on Money] | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'Hallam's style does not appear to me so bad as it has been represented; indeed I am ashamed to say I rather think it ... | Sydney Smith | Arthur Hallam | History Of Europe During The Middle Ages | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have finished a short article of Heude's travels across the desert, from Bagdad to Constantinople'. | Sydney Smith | William Heude | A Voyage up the Persian Gulf and a Journey Overland from India to England | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have read no article but Ross which I like and Larrey which I do not dislike tho' I think it might have been made m... | Sydney Smith | unknown | [article in Edinburgh Review of Ross's Voyage to Baffin's Bay] | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have read no article but Ross which I like and Larrey which I do not dislike tho' I think it might have been made m... | Sydney Smith | unknown | [article in Edinburgh Review about Larrey's Memoires de Chirurgie Militaire] | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have been reading Galiani's correspondence. I had no conception that Abbes and ladies wrote to each other in such a... | Sydney Smith | Ferdinando Galiani | [Letters] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have read Galiani's letters, but they are so utterly insignificant, that there is nothing more to be said of them t... | Sydney Smith | Ferdinando Galiani | [Letters] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I am truly obliged by your kindness in sendng me the last novel of Walter Scott. It would be profanation to call him ... | Sydney Smith | Walter Scott | The Bride of Lammermoor | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Walter Scott seems to me the same sort of thing laboured in a very inferior way, and more careless, with many repetit... | Sydney Smith | Walter Scott | The Bride of Lammermoor | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I waited to thank you until I had read the novel. There is [italics] no doubt [end italics] of its success. There is ... | Sydney Smith | Walter Scott | Ivanhoe | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Have you read "Ivanhoe"? It is the least dull, and the most easily read through, of all Scott's novels; but there are... | Sydney Smith | Walter Scott | Ivanhoe | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'If you want to read an agreeable book, read Galownin's narrative of his confinement in and escape from Japan; and I t... | Sydney Smith | [Captain] Gollownin | Recollections of Japan, by Capt. Gollownin of the Russian Navy, author of the narrative of a three years' residence in that country | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'If you want to read an agreeable book, read Galownin's narrative of his confinement in and escape from Japan; and I t... | Sydney Smith | Daniel Defoe | Colonel Jack - The History and Remarkable Life Of the truly Honourable Col. Jacque, commonly call'd Col. Jack, who was Born a Gentleman, put 'Prentice to a Pick-Pocket, was Six and Twenty Years a Thief, and then Kidnapp'd to Virginia, Came back a Merchant | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I strongly recommend to you Captain Golownin's narrative of his imprisonment in Japan; it is one of the most entertai... | Sydney Smith | [Captain] Gollownin | Recollections of Japan, by Capt. Gollownin of the Russian Navy, author of the narrative of a three years' residence in that country | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I thank you very much for the entertainment I have received from your book. I should however have been afraid to marr... | Sydney Smith | Mary Berry | Some Account of the Life of Rachael Wriothesley, Lady Russell; followed by a Series of Letters from Lady Russell to her Husband | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I am much obliged by your present of The Monastery, which I have read, and which I must frankly confess I admire less... | Sydney Smith | Walter Scott | The Monastery | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have just read "The Abbot"; it is far above common novels, but of very inferior execution to his others, and hardly... | Sydney Smith | Walter Scott | The Abbot | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read, if you have not read, all Horace Walpole's letters, wherever you can find them; - the best wit ever published i... | Sydney Smith | Horace Walpole | [Letters] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have read Southey and think it so fair and reasonable a book, that I have little or nothing to say about it; so tha... | Sydney Smith | Robert Southey | The Life Of Wesley And Rise And Progress Of Methodism Including Remarks On The Life And Character Of John Wesley | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I am much obliged by your kindness in sending me The Pirate. You know how much I admire the genius of the author, but... | Sydney Smith | Walter Scott | The Pirate | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'You must have had a lively time at Edinburgh from this "Beacon". But Edinburgh is rather too small for such explosion... | Sydney Smith | [unknown] | The Beacon | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 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 |
| 1800-1849 | 'I read a pamphlet of Cockburn's; rather good'. | Sydney Smith | Cockburn | [pamphlet] | |
| 1800-1849 | 'Many thanks for Nigel; a far better novel than The Pirate, though not of the highest order of Scott's novels. It is t... | Sydney Smith | Walter Scott | The Fortunes of Nigel | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I think Adam Blair beautifully done?quite beautifully. It is not every lady who confesses she reads it; but if you ha... | Sydney Smith | John Gibson Lockhart | Some Passages in the Life of Mr Adam Blair Minister of the Gospel at Cross-Meikle | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'A good novel, but not so good as either of the two last, and not good enough for such a writer. The next must be bett... | Sydney Smith | Walter Scott | Peveril of the Peak | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I hope you have read and admired Doblado. To get a Catholic Priest who would turn King's Evidence is a prodigious pie... | Sydney Smith | Joseph Blanco White | Doblado's Letters from Spain | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Many thanks for St Ronan, by far the best that has appeared for some time,?I mean the best of Sir Walter?s, and there... | Sydney Smith | Walter Scott | St Ronan's Well | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I did not write one syllable of Hall's book. When first he showed me his manuscript, I told him it would not do; it w... | Sydney Smith | Basil Hall | Extracts from a Journal Written on the Coasts of Chile, Peru, and Mexico | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I do not like Madame Bertin, I suspect all such books'. | Sydney Smith | Jacques Peuchet | Memoires de mademoiselle Bertin sur la Reine Marie-Antoinette | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Have you read Mathilda? If you have, you will not tell me what you think of it, you are as cautious as Wishaw. I ment... | Sydney Smith | Constantine Henry Phipps, Lord Normanby | Matilda | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I can make nothing of Craniology, for this reason: [Smith then discusses why he is not convinced by the idea] But to ... | Sydney Smith | George Combe | [probably] A System of Phrenology | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Pray read Agar Ellis's ' Iron Mask;' not so much for that question [that of old age], though it is not devoid of curi... | Sydney Smith | George Agar-Ellis, Lord Dover | The true history of the state prisoner, Commonly called the Iron Mask | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have received from you within these few months some very polite and liberal presents of new publications ; and thou... | Sydney Smith | William Pitt Scargill [anon.] | Elizabeth Evanshaw | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have received from you within these few months some very polite and liberal presents of new publications ; and thou... | Sydney Smith | [anon.] | Three Months in Ireland. By an English Protestant | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have read Knight's pamphlet. Pretty good, though I think, if I had seen as much, I could have told my story better'. | Sydney Smith | Henry Gally Knight | Foreign and Domestic View of the Catholic Question | |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have been reading the Duke of Rovigo - a fool, a Villain, and as dull as it is possible for any book to be about Bu... | Sydney Smith | Anne Jean Marie Rene Savary | The Memoirs of the Duke of Rovigo | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'You should read Cle account of the treatment of Louis 16th; it is well written'. [words in <> oblit... | Sydney Smith | Clery | Journal | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'I am glad you were pleased with Clery. As I have succeeded in one recommendation, I will take the liberty of making a... | Sydney Smith | Benjamin Thomson, Count von Rumford | Essays, Political, Economical and Philosophical | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Dr Rennel has published two or three Sermons lately which I would advise you to buy: they are written in a style of f... | Sydney Smith | Thomas Rennel [ed.] | [Sermons] | Print: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | 'You must get La Peyrouse's Voyage - and Vancouver's, and a book just come out on practical education by a Mr Edgewort... | Sydney Smith | Jean-Fran?ois de Galaup de la Perouse | Voyage de la Perouse autour du monde | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'You must get La Peyrouse's Voyage - and Vancouver's, and a book just come out on practical education by a Mr Edgewort... | Sydney Smith | George Vancouver | A Voyage Of Discovery To The North Pacific Ocean And Round The World In Which The Coast of North-West America Has Been Carefully Examined And Accurately Surveyed. Undertaken by His Majesty's Command | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Read Parr's sermon and tell me how you like it. I think it dull, with occasional passages of Eloquence. His notes are... | Sydney Smith | Samuel Parr | 'Spital Sermon' | |
| 1700-1799 1800-1849 | '...Sir Joshua Reynolds's Lectures. Mitford's History of Greece. Orme's History of Hindoostan. Vertot's Revolutions of... | Sydney Smith | Joshua Reynolds | Lectures | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 1800-1849 | '...Sir Joshua Reynolds's Lectures. Mitford's History of Greece. Orme's History of Hindoostan. Vertot's Revolutions of... | Sydney Smith | William Mitford | History of Greece | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 1800-1849 | '...Sir Joshua Reynolds's Lectures. Mitford's History of Greece. Orme's History of Hindoostan. Vertot's Revolutions of... | Sydney Smith | Robert Orme | History of Hindustan | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 1800-1849 | '...Sir Joshua Reynolds's Lectures. Mitford's History of Greece. Orme's History of Hindoostan. Vertot's Revolutions of... | Sydney Smith | Rene Aubert Vertot | Revolutions of Portugal, The | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 1800-1849 | '...Sir Joshua Reynolds's Lectures. Mitford's History of Greece. Orme's History of Hindoostan. Vertot's Revolutions of... | Sydney Smith | Rene Aubert Vertot | History of the revolutions in Sweden, occasioned by the change of religion, and alteration of the government in that kingdom | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 1800-1849 | '...Sir Joshua Reynolds's Lectures. Mitford's History of Greece. Orme's History of Hindoostan. Vertot's Revolutions of... | Sydney Smith | Jacques Benigne Bossuet | Oraisons Funebres | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 1800-1849 | '...Sir Joshua Reynolds's Lectures. Mitford's History of Greece. Orme's History of Hindoostan. Vertot's Revolutions of... | Sydney Smith | Jean Baptiste Massillon | 'Petite Careme' | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 1800-1849 | '...Sir Joshua Reynolds's Lectures. Mitford's History of Greece. Orme's History of Hindoostan. Vertot's Revolutions of... | Sydney Smith | Isaac Barrow | [Select Sermons] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 1800-1849 | '...Sir Joshua Reynolds's Lectures. Mitford's History of Greece. Orme's History of Hindoostan. Vertot's Revolutions of... | Sydney Smith | Edmund [??] Barrow | [??] Speech on conciliation with the American colonies | Print: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 1800-1849 | '...Sir Joshua Reynolds's Lectures. Mitford's History of Greece. Orme's History of Hindoostan. Vertot's Revolutions of... | Sydney Smith | Archibald Alison | Essays on the Nature and Principles of Taste | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have as yet read very few articles in the Edinburgh Review, having lent it to a sick countess, who only wished to r... | Sydney Smith | [n/a] | Edinburgh Review | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'I think Miss Berry's introduction of matter so offensive to the living very injudicious and blameable. You may be rig... | Sydney Smith | Mary Berry (ed.) | [Letters of Mme du Deffand to Horace Walpole and to Voltaire] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have read since I saw you Burke's works, some books of Homer, Suetonius, a great deal of agricultural reading, Godw... | Sydney Smith | Edmund Burke | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have read since I saw you Burke's works, some books of Homer, Suetonius, a great deal of agricultural reading, Godw... | Sydney Smith | Homer | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have read since I saw you Burke's works, some books of Homer, Suetonius, a great deal of agricultural reading, Godw... | Sydney Smith | Suetonius | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have read since I saw you Burke's works, some books of Homer, Suetonius, a great deal of agricultural reading, Godw... | Sydney Smith | Adam Smith | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have read since I saw you Burke's works, some books of Homer, Suetonius, a great deal of agricultural reading, Godw... | Sydney Smith | William Godwin | The Inquier: Reflections on Education, Manners and Literature | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have just been reading Allen's account of your Administration. Very well done, for the cautious and decorous style;... | Sydney Smith | John Allen | [article in the Annual Register, 1806] | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have read the Budget today and am in low spirits at the provoking prosperity of the country. It is impossible to ru... | Sydney Smith | [n/a] | [The Budget] | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'I am reading Locke in my old age never having read him in my youth, a fine satisfactory sort of fellow but very long ... | Sydney Smith | John Locke | [Works] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'It was my intention to review Ferriar's "Theory of Apparitions"; but it is such a null, frivolous book, that it is im... | Sydney Smith | John Ferriar | Essay Towards a Theory of Apparitions | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'after reading half thro' Porter's "Russian Campaign", I found it to be such an incorrigible mass of folly and stupidi... | Sydney Smith | Robert Ker Porter | Account of the Last Russian Campaign | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'after reading half thro' Porter's "Russian Campaign", I found it to be such an incorrigible mass of folly and stupidi... | Sydney Smith | Isaac Milner | [Controversy with Marsh on Auxiliary Bible Society] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have not read Miss Edgeworth's novel nor have I much opinion of her powers of execution saving and excepting Irish ... | Sydney Smith | Maria Edgeworth | Eunice | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Reader makes several references to the work: V.1, p.9, p.15, p.25, p.142; V.2 p.200. eg.: V.1 p.9 'Well, now I was ver... | Anne Grant [nee MacVicar] | Homer | Odyssey | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 1800-1849 | Reader makes several references to the work: V.1, p.9, p.19, p.167, p.192; V.2 p.145, p.162, p.177; V.3 p.145. eg.: V.... | Anne Grant [nee MacVicar] | Edward Young | Night thoughts | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Anne Grant to Miss Harriet Reid, April 28 1773: 'Well, now I was very sure I would not smile this summer, nor yet read... | Anne Grant [nee MacVicar] | | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I have perused his [Eden Philpott's] agreeable verse in February Pall Mall Mag. I think that while Halkett has done ... | Arnold Bennett | Eden Phillpotts | unknown | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | 'I have just been looking, with surprise & pleasure, at this week?s 'Woman'. It is really very good.' | Arnold Bennett | | Woman | Print: Newspaper, Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | ". . . you have helped to forward the sublime principles involved in the admirable chapter on the Parrot-woman in 'Th... | Arnold Bennett | G. B. Shaw | The Quintessence of Ibsenism | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '. . . I am charmed with a serial of mine now running with great ?clat & Reginald Cleaver?s illustrations, in a sheet ... | Arnold Bennett | Arnold Bennett | | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | 'If you have not read "The Believing Bishop" by Havergall Bates (whoever he may be) [George Allen] let me recommend i... | Arnold Bennett | Havergall Bates | The Believing Bishop | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'This enclosed article is the third of yours that I have read. The first (about modelling) was about the most imperso... | Arnold Bennett | Thomas Lloyd Humbertstone | [article] | Manuscript: Sheet |
| 1900-1945 | 'I perceive you couldn?t keep your new house out of the "Fortnightly"! This third article is the best yet. I have ne... | Arnold Bennett | H. G. Wells | Anticipations | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | 'I have not even yet made up my mind about Dickens, & I am glad that so far I have never expressed an opinion about hi... | Arnold Bennett | Charles Dickens | David Copperfield | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I have not even yet made up my mind about Dickens, & I am glad that so far I have never expressed an opinion about hi... | Arnold Bennett | Charles Dickens | The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Lately I have been reading Wordsworth with joy, for almost the first time. "Michael" quite overcame me by its perfec... | Arnold Bennett | William Wordsworth | 'Michael' | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I note lately the evidence of an extraordinary activity on your part. Perhaps you have observed how difficult it is ... | Arnold Bennett | H. G. Wells | unknown | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | 'I note lately the evidence of an extraordinary activity on your part. Perhaps you have observed how difficult it is ... | Arnold Bennett | H. G. Wells | unknown | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | 'I think the article on Sir John Gorst is able & shows a sufficient grasp of the subject; the tone of it also seems to... | Arnold Bennett | Thomas Lloyd Humberstone | Coventry | Manuscript: Sheet |
| 1900-1945 | 'I think the article on Sir John Gorst is able & shows a sufficient grasp of the subject; the tone of it also seems to... | Arnold Bennett | Thomas Lloyd Humberstone | article on Sir John Gorst | Manuscript: Sheet |
| 1900-1945 | 'I have read [The First Men on the Moon] in Strand, & hasten to insult & annoy you by stating that the last two instal... | Arnold Bennett | H. G. Wells | The First Men on the Moon | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | 'I gather from a review that the conclusion of the book has not been printed in the Fortnightly?& this the most intere... | Arnold Bennett | unknown | Review of H.G. Wells' The First Men on the Moon | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'With my London-Matric knowledge of German I have struggled through the appreciation of you in 'Die Zeit.' | Arnold Bennett | Fr Graz | in Die Zeit | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | 'Have you read the fist Realistic Scotch Novel?The House with the Green Shutters? It is not first class but it is glo... | Arnold Bennett | George Douglas (pseud. of George Douglas Brown, 1869-1902) | The House with the Green Shutters | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '. . . I do not at the moment see how I can be of advantage to a Schoolmaster's Year Book. I think fancy articles are... | Arnold Bennett | | The Literary Year Book | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Just now I am reading nightly in bed Boswell?s "Life of Johnson". I suppose you know it by heart. Without doubt it ... | Arnold Bennett | James Boswell | Life of Johnson | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | ''I am glad to be able to praise your article in this month?s Cornhill with less reserve than you praise my novel.' | Arnold Bennett | George Sturt | Some Peasant Women | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1700-1799 1800-1849 | Quotes Shakespeare throughout work:V.1 p.55,p.62,p.86, p.105,p.126; V.2 p.55,p.89,p.199; V.3 p.176 eg. V.1. p.105 Lett... | Anne Grant [nee MacVicar] | William Shakespeare | various | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 1800-1849 | Quotes Milton throughout work:V.1 pp 25,75,90,101,169,190; V.2 pp118,206; V.3 p.87. Ex. Letter XI To Miss Reid, Glasg... | Anne Grant [nee MacVicar] | John Milton | [Works] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Letter II to Miss Harriet Reid of Glasgow, April 28 1773 '?he shewed so much ingenuity in discovering faults in every ... | Anne Grant [nee MacVicar] | Laurence Sterne | Sentimental Journey | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Letter XLIII To Miss Dunbar, Boath/ Laggan April 11, 1803, 'Surely you have seen Sterne?s Letters to Eliza; if not, do... | Anne Grant [nee MacVicar] | Laurence Sterne | [Letters from Yorick to Eliza?] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Hogg reads the life of Goldoni aloud' | Thomas Jefferson Hogg | John Black (trans.) | Memoirs of Goldoni (the celebrated Italian Dramatist) written by himself | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'in the evening Hogg reads Gibbon to me (393)'. | Thomas Jefferson Hogg | Edward Gibbon | History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Hogg reads Gibbon to me - go to Bullocks Museum - see the birds - return at 4 - work and H reads Gibbon aloud (finish... | Thomas Jefferson Hogg | Edward Gibbon | History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'read man as he is - Hogg comes and reads Rokeby to me'. | Thomas Jefferson Hogg | Walter Scott | Rokeby; a poem | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Jefferson reads Don Quixote - C. reads Gibbon - S. finishes the 17th canto of Orlando Furioso - Read Voltaire's Essay... | Thomas Jefferson Hogg | Miguel de Cervantes | Don Quixote | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Reader makes 4 references to the work V.1 pp 61,64; V.2 pp 4, 251. Eg. p. 61 'The sun shone on our social repast, but ... | Anne Grant [nee MacVicar] | James Thomson | The seasons | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Letter to Miss Ewing, November 14, 1778 '? the former [ie Highlanders] indeed are a people never to be known unless yo... | Anne Grant [nee MacVicar] | Tobias Smollett | The expedition of Humphrey Clinker | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Letter to Miss Reid May 17,1773 'As far as a mountain can resemble a man, it resembles the person Smollet has marked o... | Anne Grant [nee MacVicar] | Tobias Smollett | Roderick Random | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Reader makes 4 references to Gray's works V.1 p.73 (Ode to adversity), p. 91 (The progress of poesy); v.2 p.55 (The fa... | Anne Grant [nee MacVicar] | Thomas Gray | [Poems] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Letter to Mrs Macintosh September 9 1797 'The cheerfulness of our work-people, and the soft serenity of the air, durin... | Anne Grant [nee Macvicar] | James Thomson | The Seasons | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Letter to Miss Reid May 24 1773 'O! how I wished for some one to share a luxury that wealth cannot purchase, and that ... | Anne Grant [nee MacVicar] | William Shenstone | [An ode to the late Duchess of Somerset] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Letter to Miss Ourry June 4 1791 'Her sister, in whose arms she died, was immediately seized with the same disorder, a... | Anne Grant [nee MacVicar] | William Shenstone | [Elegy 15] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Letter to Miss Ourry June 4 1791 'My dear, you will excuse this digressive tribute to departed excellence. What havoc ... | Anne Grant [nee MacVicar] | Walter Scott | [Elegy 1] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Letter to Miss Ewing June 10 1774 'Yet I should like none of these climates, where
?Winter lingering chills the lap ... | Anne Grant [nee MacVicar] | Oliver Goldsmith | [The traveller] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Letter to Collector MacVicar, May 28 1773 'Since I wrote to you last, I have been most intent on biography, and quite ... | Anne Grant [nee MacVicar] | unknown | [Biographies including ones of Peter the Great and of Oliver Cromwell] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Letter to Collector MacVicar, May 30 1773 'I will no longer bewilder myself among figures, for I see you ready to comp... | Anne Grant [nee MacVicar] | Samuel Butler | Hudibras | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Letter to Collector MacVicar, June 20 1773 'In the mean time I hope the best, and endeavour to pursue Oliver Cromwell ... | Anne Grant [nee MacVicar] | Oliver Goldsmith | The vicar of Wakefield | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Letter to Miss Ewing, May 1777, 'You will think me very fanciful, investing plants with sentiment, but you may trust m... | Anne Grant [nee MacVicar] | Harvey | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Letter to Miss Ewing, May 1777, ' ? this other princely seat of the Athol family forms, at this moment, opposite my wi... | Anne Grant [nee MacVicar] | William Collins | Ode occasion'd by the death of Mr Thomson | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Letter to Miss Ewing, August 10 1778 'When I am a czarina of some new discovered region, one of my first edicts shall ... | Anne Grant [nee MacVicar] | Alexander Pope | The Dunciad | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Letter to MIss Ewing August 10 1778 '? I resume my wonted pleasure of contemplating the calm bosom of my own lake, the... | Anne Grant [nee MacVicar] | James Beattie | The minstrel; or , the progress of genius | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Letter to MIss Ewing September 21, 1778 'Were I not afraid of the imputation of pedantic affectation, I could make thi... | Anne Grant [nee MacVicar] | Marcus Tullius Cicero | Fortieth oration | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Letter to MIss Ewing October 3, 1778 'I am glad you were so well entertained at the Fairley by my old acquaintance Cla... | Anne Grant [nee MacVicar] | Samuel Richardson | Clarissa | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Letter to Miss Ewing October 3 1778 'He is an uncommon, indeed I may say, an exalted character; one of those of whom P... | Anne Grant [nee MacVicar] | [Edward?] [Young?] | [Satire VI?] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Letter to Miss Ewing October 3 1778 'Modern history indeed refutes my wise conclusions, by presenting us with an almos... | Anne Grant [nee MacVicar] | Alexander Pope | Essay on man | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Letter to Miss Ewing November 14 1778 'I have cut all the leaves out of a great old goose of a book, and there I have... | Anne Grant [nee MacVicar] | James Beattie | Poems | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Letter to Miss Ewing April 18, 1779 'I do not know whether you will view this in the same light, but I think it is the... | Anne Grant [nee MacVicar] | Jean Jacques Rousseau | Eliosa | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Letter to Miss Ourry July 13, 1779 'The sublime and solid consolations which true religion and right reason afford, ar... | Anne Grant [nee MacVicar] | [Edward?] [Young?] | [?Night Thoughts] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Letter to Mrs Smith August 7 1784 'You and he too have this in common, that you both appear to most advantage on pape... | Anne Grant [nee MacVicar] | William Collins | Address to simplicity | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Letter to Mrs Smith August 19 1785 'So much for this subject. Rochefoucault says, very ill-naturedly, that people alw... | Anne Grant [nee MacVicar] | Rochefoucault | [Maxims and moral reflections?] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Letter to Mrs Brown March 9 1789 'As low as you rate your critical abilities, they have altogether captivated and dazz... | Anne Grant [nee MacVicar] | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe | The Sorrows of Young Werter | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Letter to Mrs Smith May 26 1789 'Pray read Dr Gregory?s Comparative View, &c. and observe particularly the last sectio... | Anne Grant [nee MacVicar] | John Gregory | A comparative view of the state and faculties of man with those of the animal world | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Letter to Miss Ourry March 27 1791 'I am very fond of the lower class of people; they have sentiment, serious habits, ... | Anne Grant [nee MacVicar] | Tobias Smollett | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Letter to Miss Ourry March 27 1791 'I am very fond of the lower class of people; they have sentiment, serious habits, ... | Anne Grant [nee MacVicar] | Oliver Goldsmith | The traveller | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Letter to Mrs Ourry September 8 1791 'The twin sister of my Petrina has been very unwell. I regarded her danger with c... | Anne Grant [nee MacVicar] | Robert Burns | To ruin | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Letter to Miss Ourry October 30 1791 'This, no doubt, forms no pleasant chain of dependences, but in this, as in many ... | Anne Grant [nee MacVicar] | Alexander Pope | Essay on man | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Letter to Miss Ourry January 2 1794 'Then I have not put B. to school, or done half of what I meant.- I have seen Mary... | Anne Grant [nee MacVicar] | Mary Wollstonecroft | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Letter to Miss Ourry January 2 1794 'Then I have not put B. to school , or done half of what I meant.- I have seen Mar... | Anne Grant [nee MacVicar] | Jean Jacques Rousseau | [?Emile] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Marginal notes in a seventeenth-century Bible by three males, presumably brothers and probably children. The notes are... | Stephen Solly | | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Letter to Mrs F--R (formerly Miss Ourry) April 11 1795 ??Innovation disconcerts us; new lights blind us; we detest the... | Anne Grant [nee MacVicar] | Helen Maria Williams | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Letter to Mrs Macintosh June 19 1796 'At length I set up my rest under a broad spreading cedar, beside the statue of D... | Anne Grant [nee MacVicar] | John Dryden | [Tales from Chaucer] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Letter to Mrs Macintosh October 3 1796 'Have you read Lord Gardenstone?s Sketches, or detailed observations, I believe... | Anne Grant [nee MacVicar] | Francis Garden, Lord Gardenstone | [Sketches?] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Letter to Mrs F--R , April 7 1797 'They are very happy too in their eldest son, who promises to be all that they praye... | Anne Grant [nee MacVicar] | Jonathan Swift | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 1800-1849 | Letter to Mrs Macintosh November 23 1800 'Nay, I find the relapse to calm sorrow, a relief from constant perturbation... | Anne Grant [nee MacVicar] | James Macpherson | The poems of Ossian | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 1800-1849 | Letter to Miss Dunbar April 25 1802 '?Now I have to satisfy you as to my favourite poem of Burns. Doubtless the Daisy... | Anne Grant [nee MacVicar] | Robert Burns | [Poems] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 1800-1849 | Letter to Miss Dunbar May 4 1802 'I cannot tell you how much I admire and despise Peter*. He is every way original, a... | Anne Grant [nee MacVicar] | Peter Pindar | [Poems] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 1800-1849 | Letter to Miss Dunbar October 1802 'I don?t know whether I remarked to you before, that I never knew a creature who e... | Anne Grant [nee MacVicar] | Alexander Pope | Eloisa to Abelard | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 1800-1849 | Letter to Miss Dunbar April 11 1803 'Surely you have seen Sterne?s Letters to Eliza; if not, do without delay read th... | Anne Grant [nee MacVicar] | Laurence Sterne | [Letters from Yorick to Eliza?] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Letter to Miss Dunbar May 1802 [see note] 'I will give you my opinion, such as it will be after a hasty perusal, of t... | Anne Grant [nee MacVicar] | William Hayley | [Life and letters of William Cowper] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Letter to Miss Dunbar May 1802 [see note] 'I will give you my opinion, such as it will be after a hasty perusal, of t... | Anne Grant [nee MacVicar] | William Cowper | The task | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 1800-1849 | Letter to Miss Dunbar May 1802 [see note] 'Did I tell you I read "Campbell?s Pleasures of Hope" at Wells and was charm... | Anne Grant [nee MacVicar] | Thomas Campbell | Pleasures of hope | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Letter to Miss Dunbar May 17 1803 'You must have felt some of the pains and penalties of authorship, to have any ideas... | Anne Grant [nee MacVicar] | Elizabeth Rose of Kilravock | unknown | Unknown |
| 1700-1799 1800-1849 | Letter to Mrs F--R July 1803 'Think of the dignity and interest attached to a character, that can relish the pure ple... | Anne Grant [nee MacVicar] | Jonathan Swift | Gulliver's Travels | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Letter to Mrs F--R July 1803 'Have you read Hayley?s life of that dear amiable saint, Cowper? I have no patience with... | Anne Grant [nee MacVicar] | William Hayley | Life and letters of William Cowper | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Letter to Mrs Ourry September 1791 'Clanship, doubtless, narrows the affections, and produces many absurd and unpleasi... | Anne Grant [nee MacVicar] | ["Parisian philosophers"] | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The book which I had ordered had arrived and gives me the same exciting feeling when I glance into it - I have told ... | Lesley Edna Moore | Sinclair Lewis | Dodsworth | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Letter to Collector MacVicar June 30 1773 'I will not tire you with the detail of all the little circumstances that gr... | Anne Grant [nee MacVicar] | John Milton | Paradise lost | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Letter to Miss Ourry March 10 1775 'I had indeed heard that the 15th were under orders for America, but did not dream ... | Anne Grant [nee MacVicar] | | [Newspapers] | Print: Newspaper |
| 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 |
| 1700-1799 1800-1849 | Letter to Mrs F----R. May 9 1800?? I declare, had I my pilgrimage to begin anew through the wilderness, I would not gi... | Anne Grant [nee Macvicar] | Thomas Gray | Elegy written in a country churchyard | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Letter to Miss Ourry Oct 14 1791 'This temporary triumph of irreligion and false philosophy will tear the mark off th... | Anne Grant [nee Macvicar] | David Hume | Essay concerning human understanding | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | A miscellany of verse, [St John's College, Cambridge, MS S.23] from about 1640, shows evidence of ownership and engage... | John Nutting | various | Miscellany of verse | Manuscript: Codex |
| 1900-1945 | 'Yes I know Sudermann ? his play ?Magda? was one of Mrs Pat. Campbell?s great parts ? and I believe he was the author ... | Winifred Agnes Moore | Susan Glaspell | Road to the Temple | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Yes I know Sudermann ? his play ?Magda? was one of Mrs Pat. Campbell?s great parts ? and I believe he was the author ... | Winifred Agnes Moore | C.E. Montague | Right off the Map | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Yes I know Sudermann ? his play ?Magda? was one of Mrs Pat. Campbell?s great parts ? and I believe he was the author ... | Winifred Agnes Moore | Rose Macauley | Keeping Up Appearances | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Yes I know Sudermann ? his play ?Magda? was one of Mrs Pat. Campbell?s great parts ? and I believe he was the author ... | Winifred Agnes Moore | Olwen Ward Campbell | Shelley and the Unromantics | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 1900-1945 | 'Yes I know Sudermann ? his play ?Magda? was one of Mrs Pat. Campbell?s great parts ? and I believe he was the author ... | Winifred Agnes Moore | Hermann Sudermann | The Song of Songs | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Harold gave me the ?Definitive Edition? of the Week-end Book for Xmas. It has drawings by Rutherston, and will be ve... | Winifred Agnes Moore | Carl Van Vechten | Nigger Heaven | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I have been reading a very fine essay by Rebecca West, ?The Strange Necessity?. It is on the nature of Art ? and even... | Winifred Agnes Moore | Rebecca West | The Strange Necessity | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I?m glad you like the Shaw. Stanley bought me one of the early editions ? I haven?t read it through yet ? I?m tryin... | Winifred Agnes Moore | Oswald Spengler | Decline of the West | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I?m glad you like the Shaw. Stanley bought me one of the early editions ? I haven?t read it through yet ? I?m tryin... | Winifred Agnes Moore | Marcel Proust | Du Cote de Chez Swann | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I also have been reading ?All Quiet?. Stanley and I stood for an hour outside my hotel at midnight in Southampton Ro... | Winifred Agnes Moore | Erich Maria Remarque | All Quiet on the Western Front | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I am at present reading Julian Benda?s ?Belphegor?, a plea for a return to intellectual standards as against the Berg... | Winifred Agnes Moore | Julian Benda | Belphegor | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I am really set up with these books, and ?Les Nouvelles?. I do no other reading ? for it keeps up my language and k... | Winifred Agnes Moore | | [French newspapers] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | 'I am really appreciating all the books and seem at the moment to be reading only French. I have not by any means ex... | Winifred Agnes Moore | unknown | Mahatma Gandhi | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I am really appreciating all the books and seem at the moment to be reading only French. I have not by any means ex... | Winifred Agnes Moore | Katherine Mayo | Mother India | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I?m so glad you got your books. But I knew as far as a ?yarn? was concerned it was your book. Oakroyd is a masterp... | Winifred Agnes Moore | unknown | Oakroyd | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I enjoy thoroughly ?Les Nouvelles? ? it is most useful to me also ? and ?Gringoire? is good for me ? it tempers my Fr... | Winifred Agnes Moore | | [French newspapers] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | 'I enjoy thoroughly ?Les Nouvelles? ? it is most useful to me also ? and ?Gringoire? is good for me ? it tempers my Fr... | Winifred Agnes Moore | Theodore de Banville | Gringoire | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I enjoy thoroughly ?Les Nouvelles? ? it is most useful to me also ? and ?Gringoire? is good for me ? it tempers my Fr... | Winifred Agnes Moore | unknown | Le Blois Vert | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The book will give me the greatest delight. I am getting a bit past ?yarns? ? but I enjoyed ?Matador? because it is... | Winifred Agnes Moore | Margaret Steen | Matador | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'One must know Hemingway if one is to understand post war writing. I read too ?The Open Secret?. Oliver Onions was... | Winifred Agnes Moore | Oliver Onions | The Open Secret | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I am busy also getting through the Keynes book, and chuckling over the fact that he wrote this book to make clear tha... | Winifred Agnes Moore | John Maynard Keynes | The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I am busy also getting through the Keynes book, and chuckling over the fact that he wrote this book to make clear tha... | Winifred Agnes Moore | Arthur Cecil Pigou | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I?m so glad that ?D?senchantement? pleases you. Apart from the subject Montague writes so beautifully ? and to me i... | Winifred Agnes Moore | Montague | D?senchantement | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I have just read Gabouis ?Perfide Albion ? Entente Cordial?, quite good and informative ? this in English from the lo... | Winifred Agnes Moore | Gabouis | Perfide Albion ? Entente Cordial | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I have just read Gabouis ?Perfide Albion ? Entente Cordial?, quite good and informative ? this in English from the lo... | Winifred Agnes Moore | Francois Mauriac | Les Anges Noirs | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I have just read Gabouis ?Perfide Albion ? Entente Cordial?, quite good and informative ? this in English from the lo... | Winifred Agnes Moore | Alexander Werth | Before Munich | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I have just read Gabouis ?Perfide Albion ? Entente Cordial?, quite good and informative ? this in English from the lo... | Winifred Agnes Moore | Deladier | [collection of speeches] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I have just read Gabouis ?Perfide Albion ? Entente Cordial?, quite good and informative ? this in English from the lo... | Winifred Agnes Moore | Paul Maraud | Rond Point des Champs Elys?es | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I have just read Gabouis ?Perfide Albion ? Entente Cordial?, quite good and informative ? this in English from the lo... | Winifred Agnes Moore | Philip Carr | The French at Home | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I am very busy with small things ? but am hoping to keep more to my books in future. I am making a really exhaustiv... | Winifred Agnes Moore | unknown | Life of Turgot | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I am very busy with small things ? but am hoping to keep more to my books in future. I am making a really exhaustiv... | Winifred Agnes Moore | Albert Guerard | French Civilisation; Foundations to end of Middle Ages | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'For relief I have had a life of Orage ? by someone who evidently had a great admiration for him, but only knew him pe... | Winifred Agnes Moore | unknown | Life of Orage | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'To return to my reading at the moment ? I have another book of Ford Madox Ford?s ? oh ! a lovely one, called ?Provenc... | Winifred Agnes Moore | Ford Madox Ford | Provence | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Stanley sent me a wonderful book of Gollanzc ?The Musical Companion? edited by Bacharach. Did you meet Bacharach ev... | Winifred Agnes Moore | A.L. Bacharach | The Musical Companion | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Now about my reading, -- I have L?on Daudet?s ?Clemenceau?. The book is more interesting to me for the light it thr... | Winifred Agnes Moore | Leon Daudet | Clemenceau | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I have just completed Havelock Ellis? ?From Rousseau to Proust?, a kind of psychological survey of the ?subjective? w... | Winifred Agnes Moore | Havelock Ellis | From Rousseau to Proust | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Of course I read a great deal. I still continue my studies of French historical development. I have the best new ... | Winifred Agnes Moore | D.W. Brogan | The Development of Modern France | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Of course I read a great deal. I still continue my studies of French historical development. I have the best new ... | Winifred Agnes Moore | Edna Ferber | A Peculiar Treasure | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | A miscellany of verse, [St John's College, Cambridge, MS S.23] from about 1640, shows evidence of ownership and engage... | John Susan | various | Miscellany of verse | Manuscript: Codex |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have read since last October a good deal of the history relating to the East - [including] .. Revisky on Hafiz...' | Mountstuart Elphinstone | Revisky | Hafiz | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have read since last October a good deal of the history relating to the East - [including] .. Timur's Institutes...' | Mounstuart Elphinstone | Timur | Institutes | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have read since last October a good deal of the history relating to the East - [including] .. The Proceedings of th... | Mountstuart Elphinstone | unknown | The Proceedings of the Secret Committee | 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 | 'I have read since last October a good deal of the history relating to the East - [including] .. Orme's Hindustan (a s... | Mountstuart Elphinstone | Orme | Hindustan | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'This modern fashion [in the study of poetry in schools] of treating noble thoughts, feelings, and principles, set for... | anon | William Wordsworth | The Excursion (excerpts) | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have read since last October a good deal of the history relating to the East - [including] .. Strachey's "Narrative... | Mountstuart Elphinstone | Henry Strachey | A narrative of the mutiny of the officers of the army in Bengal in ... 1766 | 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 | 'I have read since last October a good deal of the history relating to the East - [including] .. Sale's "Preliminary D... | Mountstuart Elphinstone | George Sale | Preliminary discourse to the Koran | 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 |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have read since last October a good deal of the history relating to the East - [including] .. "Jones's "Commentarii... | Mountstuart Elphinstone | [William?] Jones | Commentarii | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have read since last October a good deal of the history relating to the East - [including] .. Gilchrist's "Grammar"... | Mountstuart Elphinstone | Gilchrist | Grammar | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have read since last October a good deal of the history relating to the East - [including] .. Sa'adi's "Gulistan" t... | Mountstuart Elphinstone | Sa'adi | Bostan | Print: Book |
| 1500-1599 | Marginal notes appear throughout this book, on almost every page. These notes range from comments written in Latin sho... | anon | Petrus de Palude [?] | Sermones thesauri novi de tempore | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'But that which most of all increast [sic] my knowledg [sic] was my daily reading to my Lady, Poems of all sorts and P... | Hannah Woolley | unknown | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'But that which most of all increast [sic] my knowledg [sic] was my daily reading to my Lady, Poems of all sorts and P... | Hannah Woolley | unknown | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have read since last October a good deal of the history relating to the East ... Of Hafiz, I read 143 Odes in succe... | Mountstuart Elphinstone | Hafiz | Odes | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have read since last October a good deal of the history relating to the East ... I read some of the "Masnavi" of Ja... | Mountstuart Elphinstone | Jalaluddin | Masnavi | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have read since last October a good deal of the history relating to the East ... : not much of books not connected ... | Mountstuart Elphinstone | unknown | Port Royal Greek Grammar | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have read since last October a good deal of the history relating to the East ... : not much of books not connected ... | Mountstuart Elphinstone | Homer | Odyssey | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have read since last October a good deal of the history relating to the East ... : not much of books not connected ... | Mountstuart Elphinstone | Herodotus | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have read since last October a good deal of the history relating to the East ... : not much of books not connected ... | Mountstuart Elphinstone | unknown | Eton Selecta | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have read since last October a good deal of the history relating to the East ... : not much of books not connected ... | Mountstuart Elphinstone | Phaedrus | [Works] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have read since last October a good deal of the history relating to the East ... : not much of books not connected ... | Mountstuart Elphinstone | Virgil | Georgics | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have read since last October a good deal of the history relating to the East ... : not much of books not connected ... | Mountstuart Elphinstone | Horace | [Works] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have read since last October a good deal of the history relating to the East ... : not much of books not connected ... | Mountstuart Elphinstone | Petronius | [Works] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have read since last October a good deal of the history relating to the East ... : not much of books not connected ... | Mountstuart Elphinstone | [Torquato] Tasso | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have read since last October a good deal of the history relating to the East ... : not much of books not connected ... | Mountstuart Elphinstone | unknown | [Italian Grammar] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have read since last October a good deal of the history relating to the East ... : not much of books not connected ... | Mountstuart Elphinstone | [Niccolo] Machiavelli | [Works] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have read since last October a good deal of the history relating to the East ... : not much of books not connected ... | Mountstuart Elphinstone | [Francis] Bacon | Essays | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have read since last October a good deal of the history relating to the East...: not much of books not connected wi... | Mountstuart Elphinstone | [David] Hume | Dialogue on natural religion | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have read since last October a good deal of the history relating to the East...: not much of books not connected wi... | Mountstuart Elphinstone | [George] Berkeley | The principles of human knowledge | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'So home to dinner, and to discourse with my brother upon his translation of my Lord Bacon's "Faber Fortunae" which I ... | John Pepys | Francis Bacon | Faber Fortunae | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have read since last October a good deal ot the history relating to the East ...: not much of books not connected w... | Mountstuart Elphinstone | [Conyers] Middleton | A free enquiry | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have read since last October a good deal of the history relating to the East ...: not much of books not connected w... | Mountstuart Elphinstone | [Conyers] Middleton | A letter from Rome | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have read since last October a good deal ot the history relating to the East ...: not much of books not connected w... | Mountstuart Elphinstone | [Conyers] Middleton | [Dissertations in Latin and English] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have read since last October a good deal of the history relating to the East ...: not much of books not connected w... | Mountstuart Elphinstone | [Conyers] Middleton | [Cicero] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have read since last October a good deal of the history relating to the East ...: not much of books not connected w... | Mountstuart Elphinstone | [Jean-Antoine-Nicolas de Caritat, marquis de] Condorcet | The Human Understanding | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have read since last October a good deal of the history relating to the East ...: not much of books not connected w... | Mountstuart Elphinstone | [William] Warburton | Tracts by Warburton and 'A Warburtonian' | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have read since last October a good deal of the history relating to the East ...: not much of books not connected w... | Mountstuart Elphinstone | Virgil | [Works] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have read since last October a good deal of the history relating to the East ...: not much of books not connected w... | Mountstuart Elphinstone | Virgil | [Works] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have read since last October a good deal of the history relating to the East ...: not much of books not connected w... | Mountstuart Elphinstone | [Carlo] Denina | Revolutions of Literature | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have read since last October a good deal of the history relating to the East ...: not much of books not connected w... | Mountstuart Elphinstone | [Samuel] Johnson | Lives [of the most eminent English poets] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have read since last October a good deal of the history relating to the East ...: not much of books not connected w... | Mountstuart Elphinstone | [James] Boswell | Life of [Samuel] Johnson | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have read since last October a good deal of the history relating to the East ...: not much of books not connected w... | Mountstuart Elphinstone | Voltaire | Louis XIV | 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 |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have read since last October a good deal of the history relating to the East...: not much of books not connected wi... | Mountstuart Elphinstone | [John?] Aikin | Essay on the use of natural history | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have read since last October a good deal of the history relating to the East...: not much of books not connected wi... | Mountstuart Elphinstone | John Milton | Paradise Lost | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have read since last October a good deal of the history relating to the East...: not much of books not connected wi... | Mountstuart Elphinstone | John Milton | Paradise Regained | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have read since last October a good deal of the history relating to the East...: not much of books not connected wi... | Mountstuart Elphinstone | Waller | [Poems] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have read since last October a good deal of the history relating to the East...: not much of books not connected wi... | Mountstuart Elphinstone | Cowley | [Poems] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have read since last October a good deal of the history relating to the East...: not much of books not connected wi... | Mountstuart Elphinstone | Butler | [Poems] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have read since last October a good deal of the history relating to the East...: not much of books not connected wi... | Mountstuart Elphinstone | Denham | [Poems] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have read since last October a good deal of the history relating to the East...: not much of books not connected wi... | Mountstuart Elphinstone | Pope | [Poems] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have read since last October a good deal of the history relating to the East...: not much of books not connected wi... | Mountstuart Elphinstone | Dryden | [Poems] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have read since last October a good deal of the history relating to the East...: not much of books not connected wi... | Mountstuart Elphinstone | [William] [Gifford] | The Baviad and the Maeviad | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have read since last October a good deal of the history relating to the East...: not much of books not connected wi... | Mountstuart Elphinstone | [Erasmus] Darwin | Botanic Garden | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have read since last October a good deal of the history relating to the East...: not much of books not connected wi... | Mountstuart Elphinstone | [William] [Mason] | Caractacus | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have read since last October a good deal of the history relating to the East...: not much of books not connected wi... | Mountstuart Elphinstone | John Milton | [Latin poems] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have read since last October a good deal of the history relating to the East...: not much of books not connected wi... | Mountstuart Elphinstone | Jean de La Fontaine | [Poems] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have read since last October a good deal of the history relating to the East...: not much of books not connected wi... | Mountstuart Elphinstone | [Friedrich] Schiller | The robbers [and two other plays] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have read since last October a good deal of the history relating to the East...: not much of books not connected wi... | Mountstuart Elphinstone | Gesner | Idylls | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have read since last October a good deal of the history relating to the East...: not much of books not connected wi... | Mountstuart Elphinstone | [Nicolas] Boileau[-Despreaux] | Satires [and other works] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have read since last October a good deal of the history relating to the East...: not much of books not connected wi... | Mountstuart Elphinstone | Horace Walpole | [Works] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have read since last October a good deal of the history relating to the East...: not much of books not connected wi... | Mountstuart Elphinstone | [Thomas] Jefferson | Virginia [Notes on state of] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have read since last October a good deal of the history relating to the East...: not much of books not connected wi... | Mountstuart Elphinstone | [David] Ramsay | Revolution of South Carolina [The history of the] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Well Sir - I have to thank you for your last, which certainly is the most tasteful Epistle I ever, in my life, receiv... | Jane Baillie Welsh | Thomas Carlyle | Letter dated 13 February 1822 | Manuscript: Letter |
| 1800-1849 | 'I thought to rise at five on Thursday morning, but fatigue made my head bad. I slept till nine - I opened "Mary Stew... | Jane Baillie Welsh | Friedrich Schiller | Mary Stewart | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'At noon dined well, and my brother and I to write over once more with my own hand my Catalogue of books, while he rea... | John Pepys | Samuel Pepys | [Catalogue of books] | Manuscript: Sheet |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have read since last October a good deal of the history relating to the East ... not much of books not connected wi... | Mountstuart Elphinstone | [Samuel] [Parr] | Bellendenus [preface to] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have read since last October a good deal of the history relating to the East ... not much of books not connected wi... | Mountstuart Elphinstone | Japher | Farriery | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have read since last October a good deal of the history relating to the East ... not much of books not connected wi... | Mountstuart Elphinstone | unknown | Life of Major Geshpill | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have read since last October a good deal of the history relating to the East ... not much of books not connected wi... | Mountstuart Elphinstone | Bernardin de Saint-Pierre | Etudes de la Nature [abstract of] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have read since last October a good deal of the history relating to the East ... not much of books not connected wi... | Mountstuart Elphinstone | | The Nation | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have read since last October a good deal of the history relating to the East ... not much of books not connected wi... | Mountstuart Elphinstone | unknown | [Novels innumerable] | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'And by and by to Sir W. Batten, and there he and I and J. Mennes and W. Penn did read and sign with great liking' | Sir John Minnes | Samuel Pepys | [report on the case of Mr Carcasse] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | "Many thanks for 'Mankind in the Making'. Like 'Anticipations' it is very wonderful, and very uneven." | Arnold Bennett | H. G. Wells | Mankind in the Making | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'When I landed at Newhaven a few days ago, the first printed thing that caught my eye was a newspaper placard: "Vice i... | Arnold Bennett | | Vice in the Potteries: Shocking Details | Print: newspaper placard |
| 1900-1945 | 'Just before leaving Paris I read the first instalment of "F. of G." in Pearson?s & thought it extremely good, barrin... | Arnold Bennett | H. G. Wells | The Food of the Gods | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | 'I do not think "Romance" is good. In fact it isn?t & I don?t care who knows it. Ever read Dostoevsky?s Crime and Pu... | Arnold Bennett | Joseph Conrad | Romance | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I do not think "Romance" is good. In fact it isn?t & I don?t care who knows it. Ever read Dostoevsky?s "Crime and P... | Arnold Bennett | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | Crime and Punishment | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'And that reminds me that your last Strand story was really admirable. A little faint towards the end I thought, but ... | Arnold Bennett | H. G. Wells | The Country of the Blind | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | 'I am disposed to agree with your own estimate of "Scepticism of the Instrument". I don?t, however, think that your t... | Arnold Bennett | H. G. Wells | Scepticism of the Instrument | |
| 1900-1945 | "I am disposed to agree with your own estimate of 'Scepticism of the Instrument'. I don?t, however, think that your t... | Arnold Bennett | H. G. Wells | Scepticism of the Instrument | Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'Many thanks for the book. [A Modern Utopia.] If it was a novel I could say something useful about it, but as it isn?t... | Arnold Bennett | H. G. Wells | A Modern Utopia | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The only real seizable fault that I can find in Kipps is the engagement to Helen, which entirely failed to convince m... | Arnold Bennett | H. G. Wells | Kipps | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '. . . By the way your Westminster Gazette article was magnificent, & filled me with holy joy.' | Arnold Bennett | H. G. Wells | 'The Schoolmaster and the Empire | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | '. . . now I see the announcement of your articles in the Tribune . . . ' | Arnold Bennett | H. G. Wells | | Print: Advertisement, Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | 'Your Chicago article was very good.' | Arnold Bennett | H. G. Wells | unknown | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | '. . . every evening after dinner he read "Whom God Hath Joined" . . . to Agnes and me. [Eleanor Green] I remember obj... | Arnold Bennett | Arnold Bennett | Whom God Hath Joined | Manuscript: or published book? |
| 1900-1945 | 'What price Bart Kennedy on America in the Daily Mail?' | Arnold Bennett | Bart Kennedy | America Revisited | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | 'And you never will persuade the people who don?t matter that the close of the 'Comet' is not profoundly immoral.' | Arnold Bennett | H. G. Wells | In the Days of the Comet | Print: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'I feel that I can struggle on without Madame de Stael; but 'Adolphe' is an undiluted masterpiece.'
| Arnold Bennett | Benjamin Constant | Adolphe | Print: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'Many thanks for your letter & the 2 numbers. I think the paper is very interesting.' | Arnold Bennett | | New Age | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | 'The N.A. is not advocating immediately practical ideas. It is preparing opinion for ideas which will in future be pr... | Arnold Bennett | unknown | review of 'The Real India' | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | 'I have just read Mr. Nevile Foster?s first article on The Universal Machine, which is chiefly a criticism of some of ... | Arnold Bennett | Nevile Foster | The Universal Machine | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | '. . . for a month past I have been travelling in the South and have read no paper, almost, except the "D?peche de To... | Arnold Bennett | | Depeche de Toulouse | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | 'I am reading "1st & Last" which arrived a few days ago. As it isn?t a novel I can?t pontificate on it. However, whe... | Arnold Bennett | H. G. Wells | First and Last Things | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Orage has sent me your communication as to Frank Harris. Naturally I was the reviewer. Harris was much moved by the... | Arnold Bennett | Frank Harris | The Bomb | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I wish I hadn?t read the first part of 'Tono-Bungay' so often. I shall have to read it yet again in order to get the... | Arnold Bennett | H.G. Wells | Tono Bungay | Print: Book, proofs of novel |
| 1900-1945 | 'Dear Edward Garnett,
(For I suppose it is you who have written the very masterly review of my novel in the Nation.).... | Arnold Bennett | Edward Garnett | review of 'The Old Wives' Tale' | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | 'Do you know the prose of Wilfred Whitten? If not read pp. 229-30 of Mrs. Laurence Binyon?s Nineteenth Century Prose ... | Arnold Bennett | Mrs Laurence Binyon | Nineteenth Century Prose | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Your introductions to Turgenev?s novels were an event in my history?if that interests you.'
| Arnold Bennett | Edward Garnett | introductions to novels by Turgenev | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I made the mistake of reading your Shakespeare play before your Shakespeare criticism. So I had to read the play aga... | Arnold Bennett | Frank Harris | Shakespeare and his Love | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'I made the mistake of reading your Shakespeare play before your Shakespeare criticism. So I had to read the play aga... | Arnold Bennett | Frank Harris | The Man Shakespeare | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'I made the mistake of reading your Shakespeare play before your Shakespeare criticism. So I had to read the play aga... | Arnold Bennett | S.T. Coleridge | Shakesperian Criticism (?) | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I got your book & letter this morning, & another letter on Friday. To my regret I have already swallowed the book, &... | Arnold Bennett | Frank Harris | Unpath'd Waters | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Has it ever occurred to you what a fine story, really, "The Procurator of Judaea" might have been if Anatole France h... | Arnold Bennett | Anatole France | The Procurator of Judaea | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I violently disagree with you as to El?mir Bourges. I defy you to put your hand on your heart & say you have read th... | Arnold Bennett | El?mir Bourges | La Nef | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Scott was the first great writer to draw me under his spell - the first to open for me the golden gates of poetry and... | William Henry Hudson | Sir Walter Scott | Ivanhoe | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Scott was the first great writer to draw me under his spell - the first to open for me the golden gates of poetry and... | William Henry Hudson | Sir Walter Scott | The Lay of the Last Minstrel | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'and Creed did also repeat to me some of the substance of letters of old Burleigh in Queen Elizabeth's time which he h... | John Creed | [unknown] | Cabala, sive Scrinia Sacra | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'and so the women and W. Hewer and I walked upon the Downes, where a flock of sheep was, and the most pleasant and inn... | anon | [n/a] | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'He [Frank Harris] has written a book drawing the character of Shakespeare from the plays. Part of it has been private... | Arnold Bennett | Frank Harris | The Man Shakespeare | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I have also been making a study of "The Country House". You are one of the most cruel writers that ever wrote Englis... | Arnold Bennett | John Galsworthy | The Country House | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The receipt of your song gave me very great pleasure. I cannot criticize it. In fact it took me all my time to read... | Arnold Bennett | Cedric Sharpe | Song | Manuscript: Sheet |
| 1900-1945 | 'There is only one trouble about the proofs. That is: the title is wrong. (This not your fault, but some copyist?s.)... | Arnold Bennett | Arnold Bennett | Helen with the High Hand | Manuscript: Codex |
| 1900-1945 | 'I don?t see how poetry can be "orchestral". I have only read a few things of Ren? Ghil?s. I am all for Verhaeren.' | Arnold Bennett | Ren Ghil | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I don?t see how poetry can be "orchestral". I have only read a few things of Ren? Ghil?s. I am all for Verhaeren.' | Arnold Bennett | Emile Verhaeren | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'And when you produced your really adorable notice of "What the Public Wants", I more than ever wanted to fall on you... | Arnold Bennett | | Westminster Gazette | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | 'There is nothing whatever of serious or permanent value in anything that Rostand ever wrote.' | Arnold Bennett | Edmund Rostand | unknown | Unknown |
| 1600-1699 | 'By and by I got him to read part of my Lord Cooke's chapter of Treason, which is mighty well worth reading and doth i... | Henry Moore | Sir Edward Coke | Institutes of the laws of England | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I must say the various editions of the M.G. are a deep mystery. Yesterday in the "London" edition, not a word (excep... | Arnold Bennett | | Manchester Guardian | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | 'I have already [read] The Song of Songs , and commented on it, a long time ago. As to the translation let me tell yo... | Arnold Bennett | Hermann Sudermann | The Song of Songs | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The New M is a magnificent work.' | Arnold Bennett | H. G. Wells | The New Machiavelli | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Hence I give myself the pleasure of writing to you in order to acknowledge your "Easy Chair" article in this month?s ... | Arnold Bennett | William Dean Howells | 'Easy Chair' column | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | Report of Inspector of Prisons on Reading Gaol - interviews with prisoners on progress in learning and reading at the ... | anon | [n/a] | New Testament | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Report of Inspector of Prisons on Reading Gaol - interviews with prisoners on progress in learning and reading at the ... | anon | [n/a] | New Testament | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Report of Inspector of Prisons on Reading Gaol - interviews with prisoners on progress in learning and reading at the ... | anon | [n/a] | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Report of Inspector of Prisons on Reading Gaol - interviews with prisoners on progress in learning and reading at the ... | anon | [n/a] | New Testament | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Report of Inspector of Prisons on Reading Gaol - interviews with prisoners on progress in learning and reading at the ... | anon | [n/a] | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Report of Inspector of Prisons on Reading Gaol - interviews with prisoners on progress in learning and reading at the ... | anon | [n/a] | New Testament | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Report of Inspector of Prisons on Reading Gaol - interviews with prisoners on progress in learning and reading at the ... | anon | [n/a] | New Testament | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | The Weekly Return of Lessons repeated by Prisoners at Reading Gaol from 25 May to 1 June 1850. (Report of the schoolma... | G.N. | [n/a] | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | The Weekly Return of Lessons repeated by Prisoners at Reading Gaol from 25 May to 1 June 1850. (Report of the schoolma... | F.J.N. | [n/a] | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Extracts from the journal of Joseph Kingsmill:
30 October: Kingsmill visits man convicted for forgery on Austrian G... | anon | [n/a] | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Extracts from the journal of Joseph Kingsmill:
30 October: 'A very deaf prisoner was allowed a visit today from his... | anon | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Visit from cell to cell:
'2. A vagrant tumbler, and low thief - naturally very shrewd, but from his habits of life,... | anon | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Visit from cell to cell:
'9. A prizefighter. Under a false name he was convicted of highway robbery, innocent, he a... | anon | [n/a] | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Visit from cell to cell:
'15. A farm labourer, of good capacity, who, having mastered here the alphabet and the art... | anon | [unknown] | [book on the Protestant martyrs] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Visit from cell to cell:
'25. A letter-carrier, for a post-office felony. A man of dissolute and drunken habits; a ... | anon | [n/a] | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Causes of their own crime, stated by convicts:
'37. I became acquainted with some young fellows who had less regard... | anon | [unknown] | [novels] | Print: Book, Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | Causes of their own crime, stated by convicts:
'37. I became acquainted with some young fellows who had less regard... | anon | [n/a] | [Sunday newspapers] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | Causes of their own crime, stated by convicts:
'41. Low company, a harsh schoolmaster, attending theatres, reading ... | anon | [unknown] | [novels and romances] | Print: Book, Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | 'I am particularly glad to have, from you, your new book, with its inscription. I thank you very much. For years I h... | Arnold Bennett | Andre Gide | Nouveaux Pr?textes | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I have read your prodigious & all-embracing "Love?s Pilgrimage". I should very strongly resent its being censored in... | Arnold Bennett | Upton Sinclair | Love's Pilgrimage | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I anticipate that you will permit me to say a very few words about the article in your last issue criticizing the edi... | Arnold Bennett | | Spectator | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | 'I am obliged to you for the "Hortulus Anime". I have not had time to examine it carefully, but so far as I have seen... | Arnold Bennett | unknown | Hortulus Anime | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I send by parcel post two other jobs: One is "Roget?s Thesaurus". This is a book that I use every day, fairly rou... | Arnold Bennett | Dr Peter Mark Roget | Thesaurus | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | &'Wednesday Aug. 17th. [...] We [Claire Clairmont, P. B. Shelley, and Mary Godwin] fled away
[from dirty hotel at vi... | Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin | unknown | unknown | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'A prisoner on his admission could read but very imperfectly; his Bible he almost had never read before, and indeed kn... | anon | [n/a] | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Monday Oct. 24th. Rise at eight [...] M. reads aloud She stoops to [C]onquer -- She sets out to
see Shelley at ele... | Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin | Oliver Goldsmith | She Stoops to Conquer | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Accounts of prisoners:
'I.N., 21, Reg. no. 491. - Convicted of a felony. - I found this criminal entirely ignorant ... | I.N. | [n/a] | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Accounts of prisoners:
'The writer of the following exercise was entirely ignorant of the contents of the Bible, an... | anon | [n/a] | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Accounts of prisoners:
'I have never met with a less promising character than the writer of the two following exerc... | anon | [n/a] | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Accounts of prisoners:
T.N., Reg no. 311. 'A boy 17 years of age, whose father had been several times in prison ...... | T.N. | [n/a] | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Details of prisoners committed with history of insanity: (presented in tabular form)
Reg. no. 87: 'An uncle died insa... | anon [87] | [n/a] | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Details of prisoners committed with history of insanity: (presented in tabular form)
Reg. no. 240: 'Sister a lunatic.... | anon [240] | [n/a] | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Details of prisoners committed with history of insanity: (presented in tabular form)
Reg. no. 264: 'An uncle deranged... | anon [264] | [n/a] | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Details of prisoners committed with history of insanity: (presented in tabular form)
Reg. no. 26: 'Brother of No. 264... | anon [26] | [n/a] | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Details of prisoners committed with history of insanity: (presented in tabular form)
Reg. no. 505: 'An aunt insane. C... | anon [505] | [n/a] | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Details of prisoners committed with history of insanity: (presented in tabular form)
Reg. no. 353: 'Father had been i... | anon [353] | [n/a] | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Details of prisoners committed with history of insanity: (presented in tabular form)
Reg. no. 670: 'An uncle in a lun... | anon [670] | [n/a] | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Details of prisoners committed with history of insanity: (presented in tabular form)
Reg. no. 734: 'Sister a lunatic.... | anon [734] | [n/a] | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Details of prisoners committed with history of insanity: (presented in tabular form)
Reg. no. 792: 'Brother died late... | anon [792] | [n/a] | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Details of prisoners committed with history of insanity: (presented in tabular form)
Reg. no. 839: 'An uncle insane. ... | anon [839] | [n/a] | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Details of prisoners committed with history of insanity: (presented in tabular form)
Reg. no. 814: 'A sister died in ... | anon [814] | [n/a] | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The only account that I have seen of the accident, in the "Figaro", is inaccurate in every detail except the number o... | Arnold Bennett | | Figaro | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | 'Many thanks for your letter and the book. I read the book at once, d?un trait. This is praise, I think! It reminds... | Arnold Bennett | Andr Gide | Isabelle | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Many thanks for your letter and the book. I read the book at once, d?un trait. This is praise, I think! It reminds... | Arnold Bennett | Eugene Fromentin | Dominique | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I have got the plaquette of St. L?ger L?ger?s poems. Very interesting. The St. Catherine?s Press is terrible for mi... | Arnold Bennett | Alexis Saint-L?ger L?ger | Eloges | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | "Je relis 'Tom Jones'. En effet, c'est ?patant". [I am re-reading "Tom Jones". In fact, it is astonishing']
| Arnold Bennett | Henry Fielding | Tom Jones | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'It may astonish you to learn that even thirty years ago?and more?"Harper?s" used to penetrate monthly into the savage... | Arnold Bennett | W.D. Howells | unknown | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | 'It may astonish you to learn that even thirty years ago?and more?"Harper?s" used to penetrate monthly into the savage... | Arnold Bennett | Russell Lowell | unknown | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | 'In reply to Mr. Archer?s letter, the authors? procedure, as regards the year 1860, was this. They practically read t... | Arnold Bennett | | Punch | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | 'I return the proofs by registered bookpost. I have read them with care. I have of course confined my observations t... | Arnold Bennett | H. G. Wells | Marriage | Manuscript: Codex |
| 1800-1849 | 'Sunday Dec. [...] 17th. [...] Rainy day Read Cox's [sic] Guide to Italy -- Mary reads aloud 1st
Canto of Tasso'. | Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley | Torquato Tasso | La Gerusalemme liberata | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Took a ramble, a Cup of Coffee at Purcell's. A look at the last number of Punch in the Mechanics' | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | Punch | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'Went to the Mechanics Reading Room for a short time but could not compose my mind to profit much by the Books or Pape... | John Buckley Castieau | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'The Presbyterian Minister came and read prayers to the prisoners.' | anon | | prayers | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Left Black's and fell in with Wm Lotherington and Perrot this was about eleven o clock they came home with me, and we... | John Buckley Castieau | William Shakespeare | [plays] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I saw by the Bills that The Stranger was to be played to-night and as in duty bound I went to fulfil my promise to Mr... | John Buckley Castieau | [unknown] | [playbill] | Print: Handbill, Poster, playbill |
| 1850-1899 | 'The Presbyterian Minister read prayers and addressed the Protestants' | anon | | prayers | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Before returning home I went to the Reading Room of the Mechanics Institute where after indulging in a little very li... | John Buckley Castieau | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'The Presbyterian Minister read prayers to the prisoners, and afterwards preached a sermon.' | anon | | prayers | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Peeped in at the Mechanics and read a book for half an hour.' | John Buckley Castieau | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'The Catholic Prisoners had prayers and an exhortation read to them during the day.' | anon | | prayers and exhortation | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Mather called about 7 o clock, went with him to get a cup of coffee at Purcells, and afterwards he accompanied me to ... | John Buckley Castieau | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Prayers were read to the Catholic prisoners' | anon | | prayers | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Stopped at home all the evening really fascinated with Bulwer's "My Novel", got in fact so excited with the story tha... | John Buckley Castieau | Edward Bulwer Lytton | My Novel | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'In the evening I called at the Mechanics and after reading for a little time went upstairs and heard a lecture by Dr ... | John Buckley Castieau | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Came home read a little of my Novel smoked a Cigar and went quietly to bed.' | John Buckley Castieau | Edward Bulwer Lytton | My Novel | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'In the evening spent a very pleasant hour in the Reading Room of the Mechanics looking over the Magazines that arrive... | John Buckley Castieau | [unknown] | [magazines] | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'Spent the evening at the Mechanics, read a Review in Blackwood of Barnum's work "The Life of a Showman" the critic sh... | John Buckley Castieau | [unknown] | Blackwood's Magazine | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read for an hour at the Mechanics.' | John Buckley Castieau | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'I read aloud several pages of Martin Chuzzlewit & rather flattered myself I gave expression to the author's nicest s... | John Buckley Castieau | Charles Dickens | Martin Chuzzlewit | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read a little of Dombey & Son which I had lent me last evening by Mr Reed.' | John Buckley Castieau | Charles Dickens | Dombey and Son | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read for an hour or so & then turned into bed' | John Buckley Castieau | Charles Dickens | Dombey and Son | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Rather a dirty day, it being a holiday out of doors I felt lazily inclined myself & did nothing but read during the d... | John Buckley Castieau | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read for an hour at the Mechanics Institute in the evening & afterwards went over the New Theatre.' | John Buckley Castieau | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'I read for half an hour at the Mechanics. This was the first part of the evening.' | John Buckley Castieau | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Felt in a very miserable mood during the evening, took a stroll had a peep into the library of the Mechanics Institut... | John Buckley Castieau | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'After Tea I took a stroll through the town and then went to Collingwood on my return I looked in at the Reading Room ... | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | Argus | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'The Presbyterian Minister read prayers and delivered an Address to the Protestant prisoners.' | anon | | prayers | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read the Argus at the Mechanics Reading Room & came home to bed before ten.' | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | Argus | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read for a time at the Mechanics Institute had some soup at William's restaurant & went to bed about ten o clock.' | John Buckley Castieau | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read for a short time at the Mechanics, afterwards met Mr Read went home with him and chatted for an hour or so then... | John Buckley Castieau | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'The Presbyterian Minister read prayers to the prisoners.' | anon | | prayers | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read the papers at the Mechanics Institute.' | John Buckley Castieau | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Came home took tea read a little thought a little yawned a great deal and then spite of the rain went out.' | John Buckley Castieau | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read the papers at the Mechanics.' | John Buckley Castieau | [unknown] | [newspapers] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'After I had been in bed two or three hours I woke finding the room shaking very much. I at first fancied some one was... | John Buckley Castieau | [unknown] | [newspapers] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read for half an hour at the Mechanics.' | John Buckley Castieau | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Spent a good deal of to day in reading "The Heir at Law" a Comedy proposed to be played by the Garrick Club. I have e... | John Buckley Castieau | George Coleman | The Heir at Law | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read for an hour at the Mechanics Institution, walked round the town & got home to bed before ten o clock.' | John Buckley Castieau | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read the papers at the Mechanics Institution.' | John Buckley Castieau | [unknown] | [newspapers] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'After Tea I took a stroll called in at the Mechanics Institution & read the Papers, went down to the Royal, met Day &... | John Buckley Castieau | [unknown] | [newspapers] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'After four o clock took a stroll, read the papers at the Mechanics & then called at Joe's Office.' | John Buckley Castieau | [unknown] | [newspapers] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'Saw Mr Mather, he told me there's (sic) was a letter in the Argus about my establishment. I went with him to his quar... | John Buckley Castieau | [unknown] | Argus | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'Went home with Messrs Reed & then got back to my quarters. Studied a little of my part in the Heir at Law, saw all wa... | John Buckley Castieau | George Coleman | Heir at Law | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'The presbyterian minister read prayers to the prisoners.' | anon | | prayers | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'The Argus printed this morning a very stinging article upon the Melbourne Police Bench and was especially severe upon... | John Buckley Castieau | [unknown] | Argus | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'Called upon Nield in the evening and after a walk we came to my quarters and read the Parts we have in The Heir at Law.' | John Buckley Castieau | George Coleman | The Heir at Law | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Came home, read from my new purchases for an hour & went to bed' | John Buckley Castieau | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'as soon as he was gone I finished Cigar read a few Pages of "Tom Jones" & went to bed.' | John Buckley Castieau | Henry Fielding | Tom Jones | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Punch's Almanack was published this morning. I purchased a copy. The engravings are very creditably executed, but th... | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | Punch | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'Neild walked home with me & we had a pleasant chat on various subjects. I showed him "Suffolk's" Bible & told him a l... | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read a chapter or two of Zimmermann on Solitude, and with that & ordinary business employed myself till four o clock.' | John Buckley Castieau | Johann Georg Zimmermann | Solitude | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Sat Reading till twelve o clock then went to bed.' | John Buckley Castieau | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Neild took tea with me & sat talking & reading during the evening.' | John Buckley Castieau | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'We went for a stroll about nine & continued walking till a little past ten. Came home then & after reading a short t... | John Buckley Castieau | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Returned home to tea & then amused myself for an hour with the second volume of the "Noctis Ambrosianae" which I purc... | John Buckley Castieau | John Wilson | Noctes Ambrosianae | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Called upon Joe & chatted for some time with him, read a letter which Harriette had sent.' | John Buckley Castieau | Harriette | [letter] | Manuscript: Letter |
| 1850-1899 | 'Went for early stroll, called at Mr Reed's & read The Age' | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | The Age | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read The Age at Mr Reed's the first thing in the morning. Came home had breakfast & transacted ordinary business.' | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | The Age | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'Had very little work to do to day & employed myself in Reading & writing.' | John Buckley Castieau | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Employed myself during the day in reading & studying the French Grammar, as we are to have a lesson from Lefarge this... | John Buckley Castieau | [unknown] | [French Grammar] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Went for a short stroll. Called at the Main Gaol, then returned by Collins Street. Called at Reed's and looked over... | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | The Age | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'Went to the Deputy Sheriff's about ten o clock & had a look at the newspapers [he] received by the mornings mail.' | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | [newspapers] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read the newspapers at Mr Brett's House.' | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | [newspapers] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'Sat at home in the evening mourning over my face and lazily reading the improbabilities of Allan Poe, went to bed ver... | John Buckley Castieau | Edgar Allan Poe | [Allan Poe] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Received two papers from Joe & read in one of them a good account of the proceedings of the Garrick Club could not he... | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | [newspaper] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'Spent the evening at home in reading & writing.' | John Buckley Castieau | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Received a letter from Emma and some papers from Joe. In Emma's letter there was an Extraordinary published by one o... | John Buckley Castieau | [unknown] | [newspaper cutting] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'Spent the evening at home doing nothing except lazily read & write.' | John Buckley Castieau | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Received three newspapers & Punch all from Neild. The newspapers contained an account of a Performance by the Garric... | John Buckley Castieau | [unknown] | [newspapers] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'In the evening I read a little & so got bedtime to come round.' | John Buckley Castieau | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Spent the evening at home reading "Night & Morning".' | John Buckley Castieau | Edward Bulwer Lytton | Night and Morning | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Stayed at home and amused myself with reading & sleeping at intervals during the evening. Went very early to bed.' | John Buckley Castieau | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'This morning on reading the Ovens & Murray Advertiser with the usual ... which that not over bright piecemeal Organ g... | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | Ovens & Murray Advertiser | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'The Ovens & Murray Advertiser appeared to day & made me the [?]. It entirely exonerated me from the charges preferred... | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | Ovens & Murray Advertiser | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'Spent the evening at home, amused myself with reading.' | John Buckley Castieau | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Transacted ordinary business during the day & spent the evening at home lazily reading a book.' | John Buckley Castieau | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'The Ovens & Murray advertiser in its impression of this day announced Mr Cameron to be the successful candidate by a ... | John Buckley Castieau | [unknown] | Ovens and Murray Advertiser | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'In the evening walked as far as Martin's with Mr Murphy. Returned read while & then went to bed.' | John Buckley Castieau | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'The Constitution of this day contained a paragraph representing the desirability of a Beechworth Garrick Club being f... | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | The Constitution | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'came back to Beechworth saw all was right in the Gaol, and sat down quietly to read a Book.' | John Buckley Castieau | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'The evening was remarkably wet and there was no alternative but to stay at home. I read a little smoked a little dra... | John Buckley Castieau | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Edward Moulton-Barrett to his sister Elizabeth Barrett, 24 June 1822:
'Mr. McSwiney dined with us yesterday and was... | Daniel McSwiney | Elizabeth Barrett | Greek epitaph | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Edward Moulton-Barrett to his sister Elizabeth Barrett, 24 June 1822:
'Mr. McSwiney dined with us yesterday and was... | Daniel McSwiney | Elizabeth Barrett | verses | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | John Kenyon to his distant relative Elizabeth Barrett, on the latter's An Essay on Mind (read in a copy borrowed from ... | Caroline Kenyon | Elizabeth Barrett | An Essay on Mind with Other Poems | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | John Kenyon to his distant relative Elizabeth Barrett, on the latter's An Essay on Mind (read in a copy borrowed from ... | John Kenyon | Elizabeth Barrett | An Essay on Mind with Other Poems | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Angela Bayford to Henrietta Moulton-Barrett, 16 May 1826:
'Emily lent the Essay on Mind to John Cumberlidge who rea... | John Cumberlidge | Elizabeth Barrett | An Essay on Mind, with Other Poems | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | John Ramsay to James Graham-Clarke, 14 October 1826:
'Some time ago I sent a Copy of the little work of your highly... | anon | Elizabeth Barrett | An Essay on Mind, with Other Poems | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Henrietta Moulton-Barrett to Elizabeth Barrett, 24 February 1827:
'About an hour after your departure [for Eastnor ... | Henrietta Moulton-Barrett | Maria Edgeworth | Harry and Lucy | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, 16 May 1829:
'I had a very obliging letter from Mr Barker yesterday, to tell... | John Jebb | Elizabeth Barrett | poems | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Henrietta Moulton-Barrett, to Elizabeth Barrett, c.4 October 1830:
'For the last three hours [Arabella, reader's si... | Henrietta Moulton-Barrett | unknown | Life of Napoleon | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Angela Bayford to Henrietta Moulton-Barrett, 23 June 1827:
'I am glad Ba [Elizabeth Barrett] is so pleased with Irv... | anon | Irving | preface | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Robert Browning to William Johnson Fox, ?28 March 1833:
'You must not think me too incroaching, if I make the getti... | anon | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Rosalind and Helen, a Modern Eclogue | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | John Stuart Mill to W. J. Fox, c.25 June 1833:
'I send "Pauline," having done all I could, which was to annotate co... | John Stuart Mill | Robert Browning | Pauline | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Mary Russell Mitford to Lady Dacre, 3 July 1836, on Elizabeth Barrett:
'The "Essay on Mind" which she sent me [...]... | Henry Cary | Elizabeth Barrett | An Essay on Mind | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Thomas Noon Talfourd to Elizabeth Barrett, 2 June 1838:
'Mr Serjt Talfourd presents his compliments to Miss Barrett... | Thomas Noon Talfourd | Elizabeth Barrett | The Seraphim | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Robert Browning to Euprhasia Fanny Haworth, ?25 April 1839:
'You read Balzac's "Scenes" etc -- he is publishing one... | Euphrasia Fanny Haworth | Honore de Balzac | "Scenes" | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 17 June 1839:
'I mean to make an extract of your legal admirations and s... | George Goodin Moulton-Barrett | Sir Edward Coke | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'This unfortunate O'Meara, It was the merest chance he was not sent to extend his localities in the Highlands. I woul... | Jane Baillie Welsh | Barry Edward O'Meara | Napoleon in Exile; or, A Voice from St Helena | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I liked Milman's books better than your scanty recommendation led me to expect- The gentleman is certainly a poet - h... | Jane Baillie Welsh | Henry Hart Milman | Samor, the Lord of the Bright City | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have just this instant finished the O'Meara - and have no time to write. You quite distress me by sending me so ma... | Jane Baillie Welsh | Barry Edward O'Meara | Napoleon in Exile; or, A Voice from Saint-Helena | Print: Book, Volume 2 of 2Manuscript: Letter |
| 1800-1849 | 'There is no plainer way of testifying my entire approval of the matter contained in your last letter than rigidly adh... | Jane Baillie Welsh | Edward Hyde (Earl of Clarendon) | History of the Rebellion and Civil Wars in England, | Print: BookManuscript: Letter |
| 1800-1849 | 'There is no plainer way of testifying my entire approval of the matter contained in your last letter than rigidly adh... | Jane Baillie Welsh | Charles Rollin | The Ancient History | Print: BookManuscript: Letter |
| 1800-1849 | 'During the last week I have also read the latter half of 'Maria Stuart' - some scenes of Alfieri - and a portion of '... | Jane Baillie Welsh | Friedrich Schiller | Maria Stuart | Print: BookManuscript: Letter |
| 1800-1849 | 'During the last week I have also read the latter half of 'Maria Stuart' - some scenes of Alfieri - and a portion of '... | Jane Baillie Welsh | Vittorio Alfieri | Unknown | Print: BookManuscript: Letter |
| 1800-1849 | 'During the last week I have also read the latter half of 'Maria Stuart' - some scenes of Alfieri - and a portion of '... | Jane Baillie Welsh | Publius Cornelius Tacitus | Unknown | Print: BookManuscript: Letter |
| 1800-1849 | Arabella Moulton-Barrett to Samuel Moulton-Barrett, 15 August 1839:
'Georgie [brother] is at Torquay, & he wrote ou... | George Goodin Moulton-Barrett | Elizabeth Barrett | 'The Legend of the Browne Rosarie' | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 1900-1945 | Considerable marginalia in pencil in English, especially on the following pages: 30, 186, 216, 220-224. | Vernon Lee | Grant Allen | Physiological Aesthetics | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Considerable marginalia in pencil in English throughout. | Vernon Lee | Mary Arnold-Forster | Studies in Dreams | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 1900-1945 | Some textual marginalia in pencil in French on pages 173 and 176, and pencil marks throughout. | Vernon Lee | Lucien Arreat | Les croyances des demain | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 1900-1945 | Textual marginalia in pencil in French on page 46 only, and some pencil marks in the margins throughout. | Vernon Lee | Lucien Arreat | Memoire et imagination | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 1900-1945 | Textual marginalia in pencil in French in the second half of the volume (Arreat's translation of Hirth) only. | Vernon Lee | Georges Hirth | Physiologie de l'art | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Some marginalia in pencil in English and French on the following pages: 97, 206, 241, 321. | Vernon Lee | (Eduard) Benjamin Baillaud | De la methode dans les sciences | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Marginalia in pencil in French on page 191 only; some vertical pencil marks in the margins elsewhere. | Vernon Lee | (Eduard) Benjamin Baillaud | De la methode dans les sciences, deuxieme serie | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Considerable marginal annotation in pencil in English throughout. | Vernon Lee | James Mark Baldwin | Mental Development in the Child and the Race: Methods and Processes | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 1900-1945 | Considerable marginal annotation in pencil in English throughout. | Vernon Lee | James Mark Baldwin | Social and Ethical Interpretations in Mental Development: a study in social psychology | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read Feb 1899' on flyleaf. Some marginalia in English and French on the following pages: 38, 47, 54, 65. | Vernon Lee | Gilbert Ballet | Le langage interieur, et les diverse formes de l'aphasie | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read Feb 1899' on flyleaf. Some marginalia in English and French on the following pages: 54, 75, 77, 110, 163. | Vernon Lee | Salomon Stricker | Du langage et de musique | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Considerable textual marginalia in English throughout. | Vernon Lee | William Bateson | Problems of Genetics | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 1900-1945 | Detailed notes at the front and considerable marginalia in both English and French throughout. | Vernon Lee | Albert Bazaillas | Musique et inconscience | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 1900-1945 | Some marginal notes in English and French throughout, especially pp.127-37 | Vernon Lee | Henri Etienne Beaunis | Les sensations internes | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 1900-1945 | Brief notes on the front flyleaf, and some marginal notes in English and French throughout. | Vernon Lee | Camille Bellaigue | Psychologie musicale | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Some marginal notes in French throughout. Given by the author to Vernon Lee. | Vernon Lee | Julien Benda | Le Bergsonisme ou une Philosophie de la Mobilit | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | A few marginal notes in pencil in English, thought not all are necessarily in Vernon Lee's hand. | Vernon Lee | A.C. Benson | Walter Pater | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Considerable marginal notes in pencil in English and French throughout; summary index of notes on the title page and f... | Vernon Lee | Henri Bergson | L'evolution creatrice | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I must own that Virgil's "Envy" and Spenser's "Cave of Error" are my aversion, as well as some other most exquisitely... | Eleanor Anne Porden | Virgil | Envy | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I must own that Virgil's "Envy" and Spenser's "Cave of Error" are my aversion, as well as some other most exquisitely... | Eleanor Anne Porden | Edmund Spenser | The Faerie Queene | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Did you ever read "The City of the Plague"? If you have, did you not regret that so many passages, such pure poetry, ... | Eleanor Anne Porden | John Wilson | The City of the Plague | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'In truth I have read nothing these three months but "Strathallan," which I heard much of when it came out, but feel d... | Eleanor Anne Porden | unknown | Strathallan | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I was much better pleased with it ["Foscari"] than I expected, though I can truly add that my expectations were somew... | Eleanor Anne Porden | Mary Russell Mitford | Foscari | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'I should think the first volume of his [Sismondi's] "Literature du Midi de l'Europe" would be of some use in collater... | Eleanor Anne Porden | Sismondi | Literature du Midi de l'Europe | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'The short and simple annals of the poor, which have lately poured in such profusion from the Scottish press, I though... | Eleanor Anne Porden | John Galt | Annals of the Parish | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I think the public taste is not in any danger of relapsing into Arcadian pastorals, but I suspect these Caledonian pa... | Eleanor Anne Porden | George Crabbe | [poems] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | '...Washington Irving, too, has a few delightful fragments of equal fidelity, rendered elegant by the elegance of his ... | Eleanor Anne Porden | Washington Irving | Unknown | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'The first thing which struck me in your essays was the exact accordance between your printed and epistolary style. A... | Eleanor Anne Franklin | Mary Russell Mitford | Our Village: Sketches of Rural Character and Scenery | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'P.S. - I have seen no public notice of your book, except the advertisement a fortnight since.' | Eleanor Anne Franklin | | Advertisement for Our Village: Sketches of Rural Character and Scenery | Print: Advertisement |
| 1800-1849 | 'Dear Madam, Accept my best thanks for the copy of "Rienzi", and allow me to assure you that it has not been thrown aw... | Alexander Dyce | Mary Russell Mitford | Rienzi | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Let me tell you that I never see a paper professing to give literary news from England without anxiously looking for ... | Frances Trollope | Mary Russell Mitford | Our Village: Sketches of Rural Character and Scenery | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | 'In your delightful sketch of Grace Nugent I was much amused by the donkey messengers. Such mercuries are common in S... | Susanna Strickland | Mary Russell Mitford | Our Village: Sketches of Rural Character and Scenery | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'My dear Miss Mitford, I cannot employ the formal address of a stranger towards one who has inspired the vivid feeling... | Catharine M. Sedgwick | Mary Russell Mitford | Our Village: Sketches of Rural Character and Scenery | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I was not lucky enough to see Miss Sedgwick, but I will transcribe for you a passage from the journal of a lady, whic... | Fanny Trollope | unknown | journal | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'It has made me extravagant, for I have ordered the four other volumes. the work is perfectly unique. I know nothing ... | Fanny Trollope | Mary Russell Mitford | Our Village: Sketches of Rural Character and Scenery | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I was reading your inimitable description of Dora Creswell the other day to a friend of mine who was confined to his ... | Catharine M. Sedgwick | Mary Russell Mitford | Our Village: Sketches of Rural Character and Scenery | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Shall I confess to you that I have some dread of this wonderful lady [Harriet Martineau]...I agree with a good, simpl... | Catharine Sedgwick | Harriet Martineau | works on political economy | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Our little community have been delighting themselves with your "Belford Regis"; accept their untied thanks for it [..... | Catharine Sedgwick | Mary Russell Mitford | Belford Regis, or, Sketches of a Country Town | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Your last book still rolls on, gathering golden opinions, and I for one thank you, for I have been passing the last f... | N.P. Willis | Mary Russell Mitford | Belford Regis, or, Sketches of a Country Town | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Heavily annotated, mainly in pencil in French (though some summary notes in English), throughout. Summary index of not... | Vernon Lee | Henri Bergson | Matiere et Memoire | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 1900-1945 | Heavily annotated, mainly in pencil in French (though some summary notes in English), throughout. Note on inside cover... | Vernon Lee | Henri Bergson | Essai sur les donn?es imm?diates de la conscience | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 1900-1945 | Some marginalia in pencil in French and English throughout. Bound together with Fr?d?ric Paulhan, 'Les ph?nom?nes affe... | Vernon Lee | Alexis Bertrand | La psychologie de l?effort: les doctrines contemporaines | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 1900-1945 | Some marginalia in pencil in French and English throughout. Bound together with Alexis Bertrand, 'La psychologie de l?... | Vernon Lee | Fr?d?ric Paulhan | Les ph?nom?nes affectifs et les lois de leur apparition | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 1900-1945 | Some considerable marginalia in pencil, mainly in English, but some in German throughout. | Vernon Lee | Theodor Billroth | Wer ist musikalisch? | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Some marginalia in pencil in French on the following pages:147-8, 154-5. | Vernon Lee | Alfred Binet | Les r?v?lations de l??criture d?apr?s un contr?le scientifique | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 1900-1945 | Considerable marginalia in pencil in English and French throughout. | Vernon Lee | Alfred Binet | La psychologie du raisonnement: recherches exp?rimentales par l?hypnotisme | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Some marginalia in pencil in French on the following pages: 14, 37, 44, 76, 88 | Vernon Lee | Pierre Bonnier | L'orientation | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Some marginalia in pencil in English on page 5 only. | Vernon Lee | Henry Noel Brailsford | A League of Nations | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Notes on flyleaf and marginalia in English in pencil throughout | Vernon Lee | Henry Noel Brailsford | The war of steel and gold: a study of the armed peace | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Considerable marginalia in pencil in English throughout the volume. There are notes in ink by Lujo Brentano on the rea... | Vernon Lee | Lujo Brentano | Der wirtschaftende mensch in der geschichte | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Considerable marginalia in pencil, mainly in English, but some in German, throughout the volume. This volume was given... | Vernon Lee | Lujo Brentano | Die Anf?nge des modernen Kapitalismus | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Considerable marginalia in pencil, mainly in English, in all three volumes. ?Ended reading Jan.22 XXVIII? on the insid... | Vernon Lee | Lujo Brentano | Eine geschichte de Wirtschaftlichen entwicklung Englands (3 vols) | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Considerable marginalia in pencil, mainly in English, in all three volumes. ?Finished reading this volume 29 Feb 1928?... | Vernon Lee | Lujo Brentano | Eine geschichte de Wirtschaftlichen entwicklung Englands (3 vols) | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Considerable marginalia in pencil, mainly in English, in all three volumes. Volume 3 is published in 1929. | Vernon Lee | Lujo Brentano | Eine geschichte de Wirtschaftlichen entwicklung Englands (3 vols) | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Some marginalia in pencil in English on the following pages only: 65, 232-3. | Vernon Lee | Joseph S. Bridges | Plant Study in School Field & Garden | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 1900-1945 | Some marginalia, mainly in French but some in English, throughout. | Vernon Lee | Jules Combarieu | Les rapports de la musique et de la po?sie: consid?r?es au point de vue de l?expression | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 1900-1945 | Detailed marginalia in French in pencil on the following pages: 49-51 | Vernon Lee | Julien-Noel Costantin | Les v?g?taux et les milieux cosmiques (adaptation ? ?volution) | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 1900-1945 | Heavily annotated, with considerable marginalia in pencil in both English and Italian. Summary of responses (with page... | Vernon Lee | Benedetto Croce | Estetica: Come scienza dell?espressione e linguistica generale | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Some marginalia in English in pencil, especially on the following pages: 47, 51, 63, 177-8 | Vernon Lee | Theodor Dahmen | Die Theorie des sch?nen von dem bewegungsprincip abgeleitete ?sthetik | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I collected my thoughts. My ideas about prison came from American films, and I envisaged cells of which one side wou... | Diana Mosley | Lytton Strachey | Elizabeth and Essex | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'There was one [thought like a hornet] zooming in The Times this morning - a woman's voice saying, "Women have not a w... | Virginia Woolf | | The Times | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | 'These last two nights have been the most fearful of the war. The Battle of Britain is raging round us. Tonight cont... | Sidney Webb | unknown | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Gratifying letter from John Fossett: "Very many thanks for two instalments of diary. Joan and I derived hours of ple... | John Fossett | Vere Hodgson | MS diary | Manuscript: Sheet |
| 1800-1849 | 'Two of your love poems are supremely beautiful -
O let not words, the callous shell of thought
& I will not say my... | Richard Monckton Milnes | Richard Monckton Milnes | Poetry for the People | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Marginalia in pencil in English on the following pages: 59, 208, 211, 256. | Vernon Lee | Charles Darwin | The Descent of Man and Selection in Relation to Sex | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Detailed notes on the front flyleaf and half-title page, and extensive marginalia in pencil in French throughout. | Vernon Lee | Lionel Dauriac | Essai sur l'esprit musical | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Some marginal annotation in pencil in English throughout the volume, and summary notes on the inside front cover. | Vernon Lee | Hans Driesch | The History & Theory of Vitalism | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Some marginal annotation in pencil in English and French throughout the volume. | Vernon Lee | Georges Dumas | La tristesse et la joie | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 1900-1945 | Some marginal annotation in pencil in French throughout the volume. | Vernon Lee | Emile Durkheim | De la division du travail social: ?tude sur l?organisation des soci?t?s sup?rieures | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Some marginal annotation in pencil in English throughout the volume; read January 1925 | Vernon Lee | Beatrice Edgell | Theories of Memory | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 1900-1945 | Some marginal annotation in pencil in English throughout the volume. | Vernon Lee | Henry Fawcett | Manual of Political Economy | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 1900-1945 | Some marginal annotation in pencil in English and French throughout the volume; a brief summary of notes on the front ... | Vernon Lee | Charles F?r | Sensations et Mouvement: ?tudes exp?rimentale de psycho-m?canique | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Some marginal annotation in pencil in English on the following pages only: 256, 265-6, 274. | Vernon Lee | Charles W. Ferguson | The Confusion of Tongues: a review of modernisms | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Summary index in pencil in Vernon Lee's hand on page 244. | Vernon Lee | Guđmundur Finnbogason | L'intelligence sympathetique | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Much marginalia in pencil, mainly in French but some in English, throughout the volume; summary notes on the rear end ... | Vernon Lee | Jacques Vontade | L??me des Anglais (Hypoth?ses Impertinentes) | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Much marginalia in pencil in English throughout the volume. 'Finished reading Giovedi Santi 1929' written on the half-... | Vernon Lee | Henry Ford | My Life and Work | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Brief notes in pencil on the front flyleaf, and some marginalia on the following pages only (all in English): 32, 34. | Vernon Lee | F.W. Gamble | The Animal World | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 1900-1945 | Brief marginal notes in pencil in English throughout the volume. | Vernon Lee | Patrick Geddes | The Evolution of Sex | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Brief marginal notes in pencil in English throughout the volume. | Vernon Lee | Patrick Geddes | Evolution | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Brief summary of notes on inside front cover, and marginalia in pencil in English throughout the volume. | Vernon Lee | Charlotte Perkins Gilman | Human Work | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Some marginalia in pencil in English throughout the volume. | Vernon Lee | Charlotte Perkins Gilman | The Home: Its Work and Influence | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Detailed summary of notes on front inside cover, flyleaf, title page, half-title page, first page of text, and rear in... | Vernon Lee | Rudolf Goldscheid | H?herentwicklung und Menschen?konomie: grundlegung der sozialbiologie | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Summary of notes on the half-title page and rear papers. Heavily annotated, with marginalia in both English and German... | Vernon Lee | Rudolf Goldscheid | Entwicklungswerttheorie, Entwicklungs?konomie, Menschen?konomie | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Notes in pencil in the rear inside cover, and some light marginalia in pencil throughout the volume; this is extensive... | Vernon Lee | Edwin S. Goodrich | Living Organisms: An Account of their Origin & Evolution | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 1900-1945 | Heavy marginal annotation in pencil, almost always in English, throughout the volume. | Vernon Lee | Karl Groos | Einleitung in die Aesthetik | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Heavy marginal annotation in pencil, almost always in English, throughout the volume. There are detailed notes with pa... | Vernon Lee | Karl Groos | Der Aesthetische Genuss | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Some marginal annotation in pencil and ink in English on the following pages only: 15, 17, 28. | Vernon Lee | Karl Groos | Die Lehre vom umfassenden Seelenein | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Only one marginal gloss ('good') written in pencil on one page only. Note that this book does not have page numbers. | Vernon Lee | Karl Groos | Die Befreiungen der Seele | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Considerable marginalia, mainly in English but some in German, throughout the volume. Detailed notes on the rear insid... | Vernon Lee | Karl Groos | Das Seelenleben des Kindes | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, 2 April 1842:
'As to your kind desire to hear whatever in the way of favorab... | John Kenyon | Elizabeth Barrett | 'Some Account of the Greek Christian Poets' | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, 2 April 1842:
'As to your kind desire to hear whatever in the way of favorab... | Richard Hengist Horne | Elizabeth Barrett | 'Some Account of the Greek Christian Poets' | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'In the month of July 1842, as I was passing the site of the Royal Exchange, then in course of re-erection after being... | Mary Ann Ashford | [unknown] | [advertisement] | Print: Advertisement, Broadsheet, Poster |
| 1800-1849 | 'for although female servants form a large class of Her Majesty's subjects, I have seen but little of them or their af... | Mary Ann Ashford | [unknown] | [newspapers] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | 'for although female servants form a large class of Her Majesty's subjects, I have seen but little of them or their af... | Mary Ann Ashford | [unknown] | [tracts published by the Religious Tract Society] | Print: Broadsheet |
| 1800-1849 | 'In a short time after, I procured the "Life of Susan Hopley", and felt disappointed at finding it to be a work of fic... | Mary Ann Ashford | Catherine Crowe | Susan Hopley; or the Adventures of a Maid Servant | Print: Book, Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'Before leaving the cotton mill I had the good fortune to make my first acquaintance with the earlier works of Charles... | Benjamin Brierley | [John] [Cleave] | Cleave's Weekly Police Gazette | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | 'Before leaving the cotton mill I had the good fortune to make my first acquaintance with the earlier works of Charles... | Benjamin Brierley | Charles Dickens | Pickwick Papers | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | Francis Horner to his sister, 26 October 1815:
'I told you I was reading Don Roderick the Goth; and notwithstanding... | Francis Horner | Robert Southey | Roderick, the Last of the Goths | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 25 March 1843:
'Mr Kenyon came to see me yesterday [...] and he brought ... | John Kenyon | William Wordsworth | letter to Crabbe Robinson | Manuscript: Letter |
| 1700-1799 1800-1849 | 'She often talked to us of her studies as a girl; how she used not only to devour novels and read Sir Charles Grandiso... | Jane Edwards | Samuel Richardson | Sir Charles Grandison | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 1800-1849 | 'She often talked to us of her studies as a girl; how she used not only to devour novels and read Sir Charles Grandiso... | Jane Edwards | [unknown] | [history] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 1800-1849 | 'She often talked to us of her studies as a girl; how she used not only to devour novels and read Sir Charles Grandiso... | Jane Edwards | [unknown] | [great poets' works] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 1800-1849 | 'She often talked to us of her studies as a girl; how she used not only to devour novels and read Sir Charles Grandiso... | Jane Edwards | Bayley | [Dictionary] | 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 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 | 'when we went to bed she [Sewell's mother] would go upstairs with us and read to us whilst we were being undressed, be... | Jane Sewell | Richard Walter | Voyage Around the World by George Anson | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'when we went to bed she [Sewell's mother] would go upstairs with us and read to us whilst we were being undressed, be... | Jane Sewell | William Lempriere | Tour from Gibraltar to Tangier, Sallee, Mogodore, Santa Cruz, and Taruant ; and thence over Mount Atlas to Morocco | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'when we went to bed she [Sewell's mother] would go upstairs with us and read to us whilst we were being undressed, be... | Jane Sewell | [unknown] | History of Montezuma | 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 | 'Everything in the Bible that was at all perplexing was turned into a stumbling-block, and came before me, not only du... | Eliazbeth Missing Sewell | [n/a] | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Miss Aldridge gave us Henry's "Communicant's Companion" - a fearful book filled with questions which it would have ta... | Eliazbeth Missing Sewell | Matthew Henry | Communicant's Companion | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Benjamin Robert Haydon to Elizabeth Barrett, 28 April 1843:
'I have been sadly shocked at Reading Wilkie[']s life, ... | Benjamin Robert Haydon | unknown | 'life' of David Wilkie | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 1800-1849 | Benjamin Robert Haydon to Elizabeth Barrett, 28 April 1843:
'I have been sadly shocked at Reading Wilkie[']s life, ... | Benjamin Robert Haydon | Benjamin Robert Haydon | journal | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Benjamin Robert Haydon to Elizabeth Barrett, 17 May 1843:
'[David Wilkie] was amiable & affectionate -- and when I ... | Benjamin Robert Haydon | | notice of death of David Wilkie (on 1 June 1841) | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | Benjamin Robert Haydon to Elizabeth Barrett, 6 June 1843:
'I read Vasari, all day -- yesterday[.] Why are Vasari's ... | Benjamin Robert Haydon | Giorgio Vasari | Delle vite de piu eccelenti pittori, scultori, ed archittetori | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Richard Hengist Horne, 9 June 1843:
'A gentleman, a poet, a correspondent, at large intervals,... | anon | Philip James Bailey | Festus | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Benjamin Robert Haydon to Elizabeth Barrett, 18 June 1843:
'My dear Child is varying but no cough -- What a dear sw... | Mary Mordwinoff Haydon | George Gordon, Lord Byron | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Katherine Cockell to Elizabeth Barrett, 30 June 1843:
'I could not put Orion out of my hands for my needful food, -... | Katherine Cockell | Richard Hengist Horne | Orion | 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 | Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 6 July 1843:
'Mr Kenyon came yesterday -- & he had just been reading, he... | John Kenyon | Jane Austen | Pride and Prejudice | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Richard Hengist Horne, 7 July 1843:
'Mr Kenyon was with me yesterday, and praised "Orion" most... | John Kenyon | Richard Hengist Horne | Orion | 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 | 'The elements of botany on the Linnaean system was another of my attempted acquirements, but I am afraid my studies we... | Elizabeth Missing Sewell | [unknown] | [Linnaean botany book] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'The elements of botany on the Linnaean system was another of my attempted acquirements, but I am afraid my studies we... | Elizabeth Missing Sewell | Walter Scott | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'The elements of botany on the Linnaean system was another of my attempted acquirements, but I am afraid my studies we... | Elizabeth Missing Sewell | George Gordon, Lord Byron | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'We were at the old vicarage, which had then only one sitting room, or at least only one which we could use, for the f... | Elizabeth Missing Sewell | Walter 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 | '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 | '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 | '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 | 'Colonel Forbes has not in appearance, position and surroundings the least resemblance to his prototype; yet that the ... | anon. | Elizabeth Missing Sewell | Katherine Ashton | 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 |
| 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 Richard Hengist Horne, 7 August 1843:
'I heard of Orion the other day being admired at the fir... | Anna Brownell Jameson | Richard Hengist Horne | Orion | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'By the way, Wells?s new novel 'Marriage', of which I have just read the proofs, contains more intimate conveyances of... | Arnold Bennett | H.G. Wells | Marriage | Manuscript: Codex, proofs |
| 1900-1945 | 'I think you should like 'La Nouvelle Revue Francaise' (31 Rue Jacob, Paris. 1 fr 50c. monthly). The critical articl... | Arnold Bennett | | La Nouvelle Revue Francaise | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | 'A copy of the latest annual report of the Royal Literary Fund was recently forwarded to me from headquarters, and I h... | Arnold Bennett | | Royal Literary Fund annual report | Print: report |
| 1900-1945 | 'I have been reading the singular article on myself, signed ?C.S.?, in your first issue.' | Arnold Bennett | Charles Sarolea | 'Everyman' magazine | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | 'The subject of "La Maison Tellier" is the licensed brothel and its inmates'. | Arnold Bennett | Guy de Maupassant | La Maison Tellier | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I read 'Higuerota' again not long since, I always think of that book as 'Higuerota', the said mountain being the pri... | Arnold Bennett | Joseph Conrad | Nostromo | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '. . . when I recall the quiet domestic scenes behind the shop in 'The Secret Agent' here is rather the sort of thing ... | Arnold Bennett | Joseph Conrad | The Secret Agent | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '. . . when I recall the quiet domestic scenes behind the shop in 'The Secret Agent' here is rather the sort of thing ... | Arnold Bennett | Joseph Conrad | Under Western Eyes | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '. . . when I recall the quiet domestic scenes behind the shop in 'The Secret Agent' here is rather the sort of thing ... | Arnold Bennett | Joseph Conrad | The Secret Sharer | Print: Book |
| 1500-1599 | '[Roger] Ascham (1515-68) [...] visited the ill-fated Lady Jane Grey (1537-54) in 1550 and
describes in [italics]The... | Lady Jane Grey | Plato | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Richard Hengist Horne to Elizabeth Barrett, 27 January 1844:
'Do you know Mrs Norton's poetry? Much I have seen, I ... | Richard Hengist Horne | Caroline Elizabeth Sarah Norton | poems | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Richard Hengist Horne to Elizabeth Barrett, letter postmarked 15 February 1844:
'Do you happen to know anything of ... | Richard Hengist Horne | Wiliam Carleton | 'tales' (extracts) | Print: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'I have before me as I write a photo by Sir Aurel Stein showing the body of a man of Turfan buried fifteen centuries a... | Martin Louis Alan Gompertz ('Ganpat') | Sir Aurel Stein | unknown | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Bryan Waller Procter to Robert Browning, ?26 March 1844:
'I got your play last night then read it with very great p... | Bryan Waller Procter | Robert Browning | Colombe's Birthday | Print: In proof copy |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 12 July 1844:
'I heard the other day that "Agathonia" was Mrs Gore's! [.... | Henry Crabb Robinson | Catherine Gore | Agathonia | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia in Keats' annotated copy of "Paradise Lost"]: 'The Genius of Milton, more particularly in respect to its s... | John Keats | John Milton | Paradise Lost | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia in Keats's annotated copy of "Paradise Lost" on "The Argument"]: There is a greatness which the "Paradise ... | John Keats | John Milton | Paradise Lost | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia in Keats's annotated copy of "Paradise Lost" on the opening]: 'There is always a great charm in the openin... | John Keats | John Milton | Paradise Lost | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia in Keats's annotated copy of "Paradise Lost" in Book 1, lines 53-75]. Keats underlines the following phras... | John Keats | John Milton | Paradise Lost | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia in Keats's annotated copy of "Paradise Lost" in Book 1, lines 318-21]: Keats underlines the line 'To slumb... | John Keats | John Milton | Paradise Lost | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia in Keats's annotated copy of "Paradise Lost" in Book 1, lines 527-67]: Keats underlines the lines from 'th... | John Keats | John Milton | Paradise Lost | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia in Keats's annotated copy of "Paradise Lost" in Book 1, lines 591-9]: Keats underlines the lines from 'his... | John Keats | John Milton | Paradise Lost | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia in Keats's annotated copy of "Paradise Lost" in Book 1, lines 710-30]: Keats underlines the lines from 'An... | John Keats | John Milton | Paradise Lost | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia in Keats's annotated copy of "Paradise Lost" in Book 2, lines 546-61]: Keats underlines the following: the... | John Keats | John Milton | Paradise Lost | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Moreover I have been reading Meredith's letters - undoubtedly one of the masterpieces of English literature -especial... | Arnold Bennett | George Meredith | Letters vol 1 | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I return the proofs. As before, all suggestions are tentative. . . .I should judge it to be rather better thatn Mar... | Arnold Bennett | H.G. Wells | The Passionate Friends | Print: BookManuscript: Codex, proofs of book |
| 1900-1945 | '. . . I send you a book which I picked up as a bargain in the catalogue of a second-hand bookseller, You will see t... | Arnold Bennett | unknown | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I was glad to see your hand, as it forced me to write to you. About 5 or 6 weeks ago I had the impulse to write to y... | Arnold Bennett | John Squire | The Three Hills | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I recommend to you Laurent Tailhade. (Such trifles as ?Place des Victoires? which I would give my head to have writt... | Arnold Bennett | Laurent Tailhade | Poemes aristophanesques | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'You shock me. Not by liking "The Way of all Flesh", but by liking "The Devil?s Garden" and "Fortitude" . . . . it ... | Arnold Bennett | Samuel Butler | The Way of all Flesh | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'You shock me. Not by liking "The Way of all Flesh", but by liking "The Devil?s Garden" and "Fortitude" . . . . it ... | Arnold Bennett | W.B. Maxwell | The Devil's Garden | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'You shock me. Not by liking "The Way of all Flesh", but by liking "The Devil?s Garden" and "Fortitude" . . . . it ... | Arnold Bennett | Hugh Walpole | Fortitude | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'You shock me. Not by liking "The Way of all Flesh", but by liking "The Devil?s Garden" and "Fortitude" . . . . it ... | Arnold Bennett | Hugh Walpole | Mr Perrin and Mr Traill | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'You have been looking for the wrong things in "The Passionate Friends", & failing to see the right things.' | Arnold Bennett | H. G. Wells | The Passionate Friends | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I like "The Dark Flower" very much, & wrote to tell Galsworthy so?a thing I have never done before about a book of hi... | Arnold Bennett | John Galsworthy | The Dark Flower | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'It seems to me you had better read some good novels in which there is no slush nor tush. You might read "Bubu de Mont... | Arnold Bennett | C.L. Philippe | Bubu de Montparnasse | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'It seems to me you had better read some good novels in which there is no slush nor tush. You might read "Bubu de Mont... | Arnold Bennett | J.H. Rosny | Dans les rues | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'In your issue of August 29th, reviewing war literature, you say: "Almost without exception during the last fortnight... | Arnold Bennett | | The New Statesman | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | 'As to applicants having received better treatment from Poor Law Guardians than from the Fund, My authority was a deta... | Arnold Bennett | | Manchester Guardian | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | 'I have nearly finished "Confession d?un homme d?aujourd?hui". It is very good and helped me to pass a difficult Sund... | Arnold Bennett | Abel Hermant | Confessions d'un homme d'aujourdhui | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'How soon are you going to use that contribution by my friend Miss Pauline Smith? I think that last week?s issue was ... | Arnold Bennett | | New Statesman | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | 'I think "The Genius" is a pretty good book.' | Arnold Bennett | Theodore Dreiser | The Genius | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'I finished Rollin before these people came. I am quite distressed about my memory - after all the time and pains I h... | Jane Baillie Welsh | Charles Rollin | The History of the Arts and Sciences of the Ancients | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'You did not mean me to return your story? I hope not - I shall soon be able to say it by heart - how I envy you! I ... | Jane Baillie Welsh | Thomas Carlyle | Cruthers and Johnson | Print: BookManuscript: Sheet |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have finished William Tell - and mean to commence Turandot on Monday - I could read Schiller for ever - who but him... | Jane Baillie Welsh | Friedrich Schiller | William Tell | Print: BookManuscript: Sheet |
| 1800-1849 | 'Metastatio is improving I finish Themistocles and the second book of Annals today also - what tempted you to send me ... | Jane Baillie Welsh | Pietro Antonio Domenico Bonvantura Trapassi (AKA Metastatio) | Unknown | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Besides the highland impediment we have had daily visitors for a whole fortnight so I have got nothing read except Tu... | Jane Baillie Welsh | Gozzi Carlo | Turnadot, Princess of China | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Besides the highland impediment we have had daily visitors for a whole fortnight so I have got nothing read except Tu... | Jane Baillie Welsh | Comte Emmanuel Dieudonne de Las Cases | Memorial de Sainte Helene | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I am staggering through Goethe as fast as I can - that is very slowly - Schiller was nothing to this - Goe[z] puzzled... | Jane Baillie Welsh | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe | Stella | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I am staggering through Goethe as fast as I can - that is very slowly - Schiller was nothing to this - Goe[z] puzzled... | Jane Baillie Welsh | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe | Clavigo, a Tragedy | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have read no more of Boccac[c]io than his description of the plague which is extremely powerful from the hesitation... | Jane Baillie Welsh | Giovanne Boccaccio | Decomerone o ver Cento Novelle | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have finished the second voluime of Gibbon the article on Christianity is real capital - Goethe gets no easier. I ... | Jane Baillie Welsh | Edward Gibbon | Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have finished the second volume of Gibbon the article on Christianity is real capital - Goethe gets no easier. I a... | Jane Baillie Welsh | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe | Egmont | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Boccac[c]io I return! - I have read the introduction and three of the tales which I took by chance from different par... | Jane Baillie Welsh | Giovanne Boccaccio | Decomerone o ver Cento Novelle | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I am busy with the fourth volume of Gibbon and Machiavelli's discourses on Livy. He is the only Italian that has int... | Jane Baillie Welsh | Edward Gibbon | Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I am busy with the fourth volume of Gibbon and Machiavelli's discourses on Livy. He is the only Italian that has int... | Jane Baillie Welsh | Niccolo Macchiavelli | Discourses on Livy | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I am busy with Gibbon, my adorable's life of Necker (not yours) and Fiesko. Either Schiller's prose is much more diff... | Jane Baillie Welsh | Germaine de Stael | Life of Necker [Jacques?] | Print: BookManuscript: Letter |
| 1800-1849 | 'I am busy with Gibbon, my adorable's life of Necker (not yours) and Fiesko. Either Schiller's prose is much more diff... | Jane Baillie Welsh | Friedrich Schiller | Fiesco Or, The Conspiracy of Genoa: an Historical Tragedy | Print: BookManuscript: Letter |
| 1800-1849 | 'Tell me - did you write the critic [critique] on his [Edward Irving's] book, which appeared in the Sunday Times - I h... | Jane Baillie Welsh | Anon | Review of Edward Irving's The Orations and the Arguments For Judgment To Come | Print: NewspaperManuscript: Letter |
| 1800-1849 | 'We have a little French story in the house, called [underlined] Elizabeth [end underlining], much admired and praised... | Anna Wilbraham | Marie "Sophie" Cottin | Elisabeth, ou les Exiles de Siberie | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | '[Rev Charles Burney's] Abridgement of Pearson's Exposition of the Creed, is printed, though not yet published. He gav... | Marianne Francis | Joseph Butler | Analogy of Religion, Natural and Revealed, to the constitution and course of Nature | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | '[Rev Charles Burney's] Abridgement of Pearson's Exposition of the Creed, is printed, though not yet published. He gav... | Marianne Francis | John Locke | Essay Concerning Humane Understanding, An | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have not read "Self control", and am determined not to read it, till my own eternal rubbish is concluded. I was a w... | Joanne Jardine | Mary Brunton | Self-control | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | '[Henry Fothergill Chorley] had seen a notice of the Brownings' marriage that appeared in the 28
September 1846 issu... | Henry Fothergill Chorley | | notice of marriage of Robert and Elizabeth Barrett Browning | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | Dante Gabriel Rossetti to Robert Browning, 17 October 1847:
'It is now two or three months ago that I met, at the B... | Dante Gabriel Rossetti | Robert Browning | Pauline, a Fragment of a Confession | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | John Forster to Sarianna Browning, 21 September 1846:
'You cannot imagine the surprise with which I saw this mornin... | John Forster | | Notice of marriage of Robert and Elizabeth Barrett Browning | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'The other main diversions of the voyage resolved themselves into reading unimportant novels aloud, by pairs, on the ... | George Warrington Steevens | unknown | unknown [novels] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Virginia Stephen to Thoby Stephen, 2 November 1901:
'I have been reading Marlow [sic], and I was so much more impre... | Virginia Stephen | Christopher Marlowe | Doctor Faustus | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Virginia Stephen to Thoby Stephen, 2 November 1901:
'I have been reading Marlow [sic], and I was so much more impre... | Virginia Stephen | Christopher Marlowe | Edward II | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Virginia Stephen to Thoby Stephen, 2 November 1901:
'I have been reading Marlow [sic], and I was so much more impre... | Virginia Stephen | William Shakespeare | Cymbeline | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Virginia Stephen to Violet Dickinson, 1 October 1905:
'We have had visitors for the last 4 weeks [...] I have writt... | Virginia Stephen | | eighteenth-century texts | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '[Virginia Stephen] was reading Walter Savage Landor's Pericles and Aspasia (1836), and writing,
as was her habit du... | Virginia Stephen | Walter Savage Landor | Pericles and Aspasia | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Virginia Stephen to Violet Dickinson, 25 December 1906:
'I am reading now a book by Renan called his Memories of Ch... | Virginia Stephen | Ernest Renan | Cahiers de Jeunesse | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Virginia Stephen to Violet Dickinson, 25 December 1906:
'I am reading now a book by Renan called his Memories of Ch... | Virginia Stephen | Christina Rossetti | poems | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Virginia Stephen to Violet Dickinson, 25 December 1906:
'I am reading now a book by Renan called his Memories of Ch... | Virginia Stephen | John Keats | poems | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Virginia Stephen to Violet Dickinson, ?30 December 1906:
'I have been reading Keats most of the day. I think he is ... | Virginia Stephen | John Keats | poems | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Virginia Stephen to Clive Bell, 18 August 1907:
'I am reading Henry James on America; and feel myself as one embalm... | Virginia Stephen | Henry James | The American Scene | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Virginia Stephen to Clive Bell, 19 August 1908:
'I split my head over Moore every night, feeling ideas travelling t... | Virginia Stephen | G. E. Moore | Principia Ethica | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Virginia Woolf, on her honeymoon, to Lytton Strachey, 1 September 1912:
'You can't think with what a fury we fall o... | Virginia Woolf | | 'new novels' | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Virginia Woolf, on her honeymoon, to Lytton Strachey, 1 September 1912:
'You can't think with what a fury we fall o... | Virginia Woolf | Fyodor Dostoevsky | Crime and Punishment | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Virginia Woolf, on her honeymoon, to Lytton Strachey, 1 September 1912:
'You can't think with what a fury we fall o... | Leonard Woolf | Arnold Bennett | An Old Wives Tale | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Virginia Woolf to Violet Dickinson, 11 April 1913:
'[italics]I've[end italics] never met a writer who didn't nurse ... | Virginia Woolf | George Meredith | letters | Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'Clive Bell's Art had been published in February 1914. It propounded the concept of "Significant
form", but Virginia... | Virginia Woolf | Clive Bell | Art | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Virginia Woolf to Lytton Strachey, 22 October 1915:
'I should think I had read 600 books since we met. Please tell ... | Virginia Woolf | Henry James | 'works' | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Virginia Woolf to Lytton Strachey, 22 October 1915:
'I should think I had read 600 books since we met. Please tell ... | Virginia Woolf | Fyodor Dostoevsky | The Insulted and Injured | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Virginia Woolf to Margaret Llewelyn Davies, 23 January 1916:
'I've been reading Carlyle's Past and Present [1843], ... | Virginia Woolf | Thomas Carlyle | Past and Present | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Virginia Woolf to Margaret Llewelyn Davies, 23 January 1916:
'I've been reading Carlyle's Past and Present [1843], ... | Virginia Woolf | | The Times | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | Virginia Woolf to Saxon Sydney-Turner, 25 February 1918:
'Asheham is very lovely at the moment. I started upon Soph... | Virginia Woolf | Sophocles | Electra | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Virginia Woolf to Saxon Sydney-Turner, 25 February 1918:
'Asheham is very lovely at the moment. I started upon Soph... | Virginia Woolf | Leonard Merrick | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Virginia Woolf to Saxon Sydney-Turner, 25 February 1918:
'I daresay you share my feeling that Asheham is the best p... | Virginia Woolf | William Shakespeare | Measure for Measure | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 1900-1945 | Virginia Woolf to Lytton Strachey, 12 October 1918:
'I read the Greeks, but I am extremely doubtful whether I under... | Virginia Woolf | | classical Greek literature | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 1900-1945 | Virginia Woolf to Lytton Strachey, 12 October 1918:
'I read the Greeks, but I am extremely doubtful whether I under... | Virginia Woolf | John Milton | complete works | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 1900-1945 | Virginia Woolf to Lytton Strachey, 30 November 1919:
'I'm in the 2nd vol. of Ethel Smyth. I think she shows up triu... | Virginia Woolf | Ethel Smyth | Impressions that Remained (vol. 2) | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Virginia Woolf to Molly MacCarthy, 20 June 1921:
'I am reading the Bride of Lammermoor -- by that great man Scott: ... | Virginia Woolf | Walter Scott | The Bride of Lammermoor | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Virginia Woolf to Molly MacCarthy, 20 June 1921:
'I am reading the Bride of Lammermoor -- by that great man Scott: ... | Virginia Woolf | D. H. Lawrence | Women in Love | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Virginia Woolf to Janet Case, 20 March 1922:
'Literature still survives. I've not read K. Mansfield [The Garden Pa... | Virginia Woolf | Katherine Mansfield | Bliss | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Virginia Woolf to Clive Bell,14 April 1922:
'Now Mr Joyce ... yes, I have fallen; to the extent of four pounds too.... | Leonard Woolf | James Joyce | Ulysses | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Virginia Woolf to Roger Fry, 6 May 1922:
'I have the most violent cold in the whole parish. Proust's fat volume com... | Virginia Woolf | Marcel Proust | A l'ombre des jeunes filles en fleurs | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Virginia Woolf to Ottoline Morrell, 18 August 1922:
'Poor Rebecca West's novel bursts like an over stuffed sausage.... | Virginia Woolf | Rebecca West | The Judge | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Virginia Woolf to Ottoline Morrell, 18 August 1922:
'Poor Rebecca West's novel bursts like an over stuffed sausage.... | Virginia Woolf | Henry James | The Wings of a Dove | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Virginia Woolf to Ottoline Morrell, 18 August 1922:
'Poor Rebecca West's novel bursts like an over stuffed sausage.... | Virginia Woolf | James Joyce | Ulysses | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Virginia Woolf to Mary Hutchinson, c. 18 April 1923:
'I am reading Proust, I am reading Rimbaud. I am longing to wr... | Virginia Woolf | Marcel Proust | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Virginia Woolf to Mary Hutchinson, c. 18 April 1923:
'I am reading Proust, I am reading Rimbaud. I am longing to wr... | Virginia Woolf | Rimbaud | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Virginia Woolf to Gwen Raverat, 11 March 1925:
'I don't think you would believe how it moves me that you and Jacque... | Gwen Raverat | Virginia Woolf | Mrs Dalloway | Print: Unknown, In proof copy |
| 1900-1945 | Virginia Woolf to Vita Sackville-West, 17 February 1926:
'Why are all professors of English literature ashamed of E... | Virginia Woolf | Walter Raleigh | Letters | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Virginia Woolf to Vita Sackville-West, 9 October 1927:
'I am reading Knole and The Sackvilles. Dear me; you know a ... | Virginia Woolf | V. Sackville-West | Knole and the Sackvilles | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Virginia Woolf to Vita Sackville-West, 30 August 1928:
'I am happy because it is the loveliest August [...] I read ... | Virginia Woolf | Marcel Proust | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Virginia Woolf to Vita Sackville-West, 30 August 1928:
'I am happy because it is the loveliest August [...] I read ... | Virginia Woolf | Henry James | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Virginia Woolf to Vita Sackville-West, 30 August 1928:
'I am happy because it is the loveliest August [...] I read ... | Virginia Woolf | Fyodor Dostoevsky | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Virginia Woolf to Vita Sackville-West, 8 January 1929:
'I've been reading Balzac, and Tolstoy. Practically every sc... | Virginia Woolf | Honore de Balzac | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Virginia Woolf to Vita Sackville-West, 8 January 1929:
'I've been reading Balzac, and Tolstoy. Practically every sc... | Virginia Woolf | Leo Tolstoy | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Virginia Woolf to Vita Sackville-West, 8 January 1929:
'I've been reading Balzac, and Tolstoy. Practically every sc... | Virginia Woolf | Leo Tolstoy | Anna Karenina | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Virginia Woolf to Mary Hutchinson, 6 May 1929:
'We are down here [Monks House, Rodmell] to see about making a new r... | Virginia Woolf | Ronald Firbank | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Virginia Woolf to Vita Sackville-West, 17 September 1929:
'I've only read 30 pages of Rebecca [West] [...] I agree ... | Virginia Woolf | Rebecca West | Harriet Hume | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Virginia Woolf to Ethel Smyth, 20 April 1931:
'I'm reading Lawrence, Sons and Lovers, for the first time'.
... | Virginia Woolf | D. H. Lawrence | Sons and Lovers | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Virginia Woolf to Ethel Smyth, 20 April 1931:
'Stella Benson I don't read because what I did read seemed to me all ... | Virginia Woolf | Stella Benson | | Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | Virginia Woolf to Vita Sackville-West, 24 May 1931:
'I've wasted 4 days when I wanted to write. And I've spent them... | Virginia Woolf | Princess Daisy of Pless | From My Private Diary | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Virginia Woolf to Hugh Walpole, 8 November 1931:
'I'm reading Middlemarch with even greater pleasure than I remembe... | Virginia Woolf | George Eliot | Middlemarch | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Virginia Woolf to Hugh Walpole, 8 November 1931:
'I'm reading Middlemarch with even greater pleasure than I remembe... | Virginia Woolf | Ford Madox Ford | Thus to Revisit | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Virginia Woolf to Lytton Strachey, 10 December 1931:
'I read As you like it the other day and was almost sending yo... | Virginia Woolf | William Shakespeare | As You Like It | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Virginia Woolf to Vita Sackville-West, 18 October 1932:
'My Elizabeth [Bowen] comes to see me, alone, tomorrow. I r... | Virginia Woolf | Elizabeth Bowen | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Virginia Woolf to Ethel Smyth, c.28 December 1932:
'D'you know I get such a passion for reading sometimes its like ... | Virginia Woolf | Axel Munthe | The Story of San Michele | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Virginia Woolf to Ethel Smyth, c.28 December 1932:
'D'you know I get such a passion for reading sometimes its like ... | Virginia Woolf | Stella Benson | Tobit Transplanted | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Virginia Woolf to Quentin Bell, 26 July 1933:
'I'm sending you a book of short stories; one -- by [James] Joyce -- ... | Virginia Woolf | James Joyce | short story | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Virginia Woolf to Quentin Bell, 26 November 1933:
'I read your letter with great pleasure in Time and Tide; it seem... | Virginia Woolf | Quentin Bell | letter | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | Virginia Woolf to Vanessa Bell, 3 May 1934:
'We only got the Times yesterday and read about George [Duckworth]. Wel... | Virginia Woolf | | report of death of Sir George Duckworth | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | Virginia Woolf to Ethel Smyth, 21 May 1934:
'So I came back lit the fire; and read Proust, which is of course so ma... | Virginia Woolf | Marcel Proust | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Virginia Woolf to Ethel Smyth, 21 May 1934:
'I lit the fire and read Mrs Wharton; Memoirs and she knew Mrs Hunter [... | Virginia Woolf | Edith Wharton | A Backward Glance | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Virginia Woolf to Stephen Spender, 10 July 1934:
'I'm so happy that you read the Lighthouse with pleasure, when the... | Stephen Spender | Virginia Woolf | To the Lighthouse | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Virginia Woolf to Ethel Smyth, 8 January 1935:
'We had a children's party and I judged the clothes. All the mothers... | Virginia Woolf | | The Bible | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Virginia Woolf to Ethel Smyth, 8 January 1935:
'We had a children's party and I judged the clothes. All the mothers... | Virginia Woolf | Ernest Renan | St Paul | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Virginia Woolf to Ethel Smyth, 8 January 1935:
'We had a children's party and I judged the clothes. All the mothers... | Virginia Woolf | | New Testament | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Virginia Woolf to Hugh Walpole, 8 February 1936:
'I'm reading David Copperfield for the 6th time with almost comple... | Virginia Woolf | Charles Dickens | David Copperfield | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'In Thomas Wright's Life of Charles Dickens (1935), Virginia [Woolf] had read about the novelist's
affair with the a... | Virginia Woolf | Thomas Wright | Life of Charles Dickens | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Virginia [Woolf] read at least three of Colette's books, two of autobiography (Mes
Apprentissages, 1934, Sido, 1929... | Virginia Woolf | Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette | Sido | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Virginia Woolf to Ethel Smyth, 18 September 1936:
'The Prelude. Have you read it lately? Do you know, it's so good,... | Virginia Woolf | William Wordsworth | The Prelude | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Virginia Woolf to Julian Bell, 14 November 1936:
'Politics are still raging faster and fiercer [...] Leonard is try... | Leonard Woolf | Bertrand Russell | Which Way to Peace? | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Virginia Woolf to Lady Ottoline Morrell, 27 June 1937:
'If you want sheer joy read [Congreve]; if you dont want any... | Virginia Woolf | George Sand | Memoires (vol 5) | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Virginia Woolf to Leonard Woolf, 14 July 1936:
'A very good, though very dull day. No headache this morning, brain ... | Virginia Woolf | Thomas Babington Macaulay | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Virginia Woolf to Vita Sackville-West, 3 May 1938:
'I am reading for the first time a book which I think a very goo... | Virginia Woolf | Bernard Mandeville | The Fable of the Bees; or, Private Vices, Publick Benefits | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Virginia Woolf to Ethel Smyth, 29 August 1938:
'Just finished Lady Fred Cavendish's diaries: no vigour, no insight,... | Virginia Woolf | Lady Frederick Cavendish | The Diary of Lady Frederick Cavendish | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Virginia Woolf to Vanessa Bell, Monday 3 October 1938:
'Yesterday the Keynes came to tea. Maynard had already summe... | John Maynard Keynes | John Maynard Keynes | article on the Munich Crisis | Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | Virginia Woolf to May Sarton, 2 February 1939:
'I have been so steeped in modern manuscripts that I was losing all ... | Virginia Woolf | Geoffrey Chaucer | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Virginia Woolf to Shena, Lady Simon, 22 January 1940:
'I've had too many distractions to write [...] But not too ma... | Virginia Woolf | Shena, Lady Simon | paper on women and war | Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | Virginia Woolf to Ethel Smyth, 1 February 1940:
'I'd like to look at South Riding [...] W[inifred]. H[oltby]. was a... | Virginia Woolf | Winifred Holtby | study on Virginia Woolf | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Virginia Woolf to Ethel Smyth, 1 February 1940:
'Reading Burke. Reading Gide.' | Virginia Woolf | Edmund Burke | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Virginia Woolf to Ethel Smyth, 1 February 1940:
'Reading Burke. Reading Gide.' | Virginia Woolf | Andre Gide | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Virginia Woolf to Ethel Smyth, 17 May 1940:
'D'you know what I find? -- reading a whole poet is consoling: Coleridg... | Virginia Woolf | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Virginia Woolf to Benedict Nicolson, 13 August 1940:
'[opens] Just as I began to read your letter, an air raid warn... | Virginia Woolf | Benedict Nicolson | letter to Virginia Woolf | Manuscript: Letter |
| 1900-1945 | Virginia Woolf to Benedict Nicolson, 13 August 1940:
'[opens] Just as I began to read your letter, an air raid warn... | Benedict Nicolson | Virginia Woolf | Roger Fry | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'You talk of reading "a very old book": Boswell's Tour to the Hebrides. Why that's a [underlined] chickn [sic, underli... | Anna Grosvenor | James Boswell | Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides with Samuel Johnson, LL.D. | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I like the story very very much - in fact, I began reading it after you left...went out for a walk, thinking of it al... | Virginia Woolf | Vita Sackville-West | Seducers in Ecuador | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1500-1599 | ?Reed by me N. Hughes 1595 ? noember?
| N. Hughes | John Davis | The World's Hydrographical Description | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Saturday 2 January 1915: 'I read Guy Mannering upstairs for 20 minutes'. | Virginia Woolf | Walter Scott | Guy Mannering | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Tuesday 19 January 1915:
'I'm reading The Idiot. I cant bear the style of it very often; at the same time, he seem... | Virginia Woolf | Fyodor Dostoevsky | The Idiot | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Tuesday 19 January 1915:
'I'm reading The Idiot. I cant bear the style of it very often; at the same time, he seem... | Virginia Woolf | Jules Michelet | Histoire de France | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Tuesday 19 January 1915:
'I'm reading The Idiot. I cant bear the style of it very often; at the same time, he seem... | Virginia Woolf | Fanny Kemble | 'Life' | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Tuesday 19 January 1915:
'I'm reading The Idiot. I cant bear the style of it very often; at the same time, he seem... | Virginia Woolf | Alexander Pope | The Rape of the Lock | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Wednesday 20 January 1915: 'I read Essay upon Criticism waiting for my train at Hammersmith.
The classics make the t... | Virginia Woolf | Alexander Pope | Essay on Criticism | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Thursday 21 January 1915: 'I went to the London Library [...] Here I read Gilbert Murray on
Immortality, got a book ... | Virginia Woolf | Alexander Pope | Epistle to Dr Arbuthnot | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Thursday 21 January 1915: 'I went to the London Library [...] Here I read Gilbert Murray on
Immortality, got a book ... | Virginia Woolf | Gilbert Murray | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Monday 25 January 1915: 'I have been very happy reading father on Pope, which is very witty
& bright -- without a si... | Virginia Woolf | Leslie Stephen | critical work on Pope | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Saturday 30 January 1915: '[Leonard] was kept late at Hampstead: didn't get home till 10.15
[...] He read Janet "The... | Leonard Woolf | Leonard Woolf | 'The Three Jews' | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | Sunday 31 January 1915: 'After tea [...] I started reading The Wise Virgins, & I read it straight
on until bedtime, ... | Virginia Woolf | Leonard Woolf | The Wise Virgins, A Story of Words, Opinions, and a Few Emotions | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | Sunday 14 February 1915: 'I am now reading a later volume of Michelet, which is superb, &
the only tolerable history... | Virginia Woolf | Jules Michelet | Histoire de France | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Friday 2 November 1917: 'I find it impossible to read after a railway journey; I cant open
Dante or think of him wit... | Virginia Woolf | | The Times | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | Monday 12 November 1917: 'I went to Mudies, & got The Leading Note, in order to examine
into R.T. more closely [...]... | Virginia Woolf | Rosalind Murray | The Leading Note | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Thursday 22 November 1917: 'Ottoline keeps me [...] devoted to her "inner life"; which made
me reflect that I haven'... | Ottoline Morrell | Ottoline Morrell | journal | Manuscript: Codex |
| 1900-1945 | Wednesday 5 December 1917: 'L[eonard]. reading Life of Dilke [...] I'm past the middle of
Purgatorio, but find it st... | Leonard Woolf | Stephen Gwynne and Gertrude Tuckwell | Life of Sir Charles Wentworth Dilke | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Wednesday 5 December 1917: 'L[eonard]. reading Life of Dilke [...] I'm past the middle of
Purgatorio, but find it st... | Virginia Woolf | Dante Alighieri | Purgatorio | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Friday 7 December 1917: 'I ended my afternoon in one of the great soft chairs at Gordon
Square [...] I sat alone for... | Virginia Woolf | unknown | 'book on Children & Sex' | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Friday 14 December 1917: 'Today we went to see Philip at Fishmongers Hall [being used as
military hospital] [...] a ... | anon | unknown | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Friday 18 January: 'Toynbees & Kot. to dinner on Tuesday [15 January]; & that afternoon Lady
Strachey read to us -- ... | Jane Maria, Lady Strachey | Ben Jonson | masques | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Friday 18 January: 'Toynbees & Kot. to dinner on Tuesday [15 January]; & that afternoon Lady
Strachey read to us -- ... | Jane Maria, Lady Strachey | Captain Ronald A. Hopwood | 'The Old Way' | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Many thanks for your delightful letter. I am glad you are in the midst of delightful scenery and Aurora Leigh.' | Richard Reginald Harding | Elizabeth Barrett Browning | Aurora Leigh | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'In bed I have been fuming over your assumption that my liking for the poet Crabbe is avowed. I assure you I bought a... | Virginia Woolf | George Crabbe | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Somebody sent Ben an unexpurgated edition of Gulliver for Xmas. He had read most of it before I discovered. It was ... | Benedict Nicolson | Jonathan Swift | Gulliver's Travels | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 10 December 1917: 'My afternoon was very nearly normal; to Mudies, tea in an A.B.C. reading a life of Gaudier Brzeska'. | Virginia Woolf | Ezra Pound | Gaudier-Brzeska. A Memoir | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 24 January 1918: 'To the Club, where I found Lytton by himself, & not feeling inclined for talk we read our papers nea... | Virginia Woolf | | newspapers | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | 24 January 1918: 'To the Club, where I found Lytton by himself, & not feeling inclined for talk we read our papers nea... | Lytton Strachey | | newspapers | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | 27 January 1918: 'Desmond has read some of the Newcomes lately: finds no depth, but a charming rippling conventional p... | Desmond MacCarthy | William Makepeace Thackeray | Memoirs of a Most Respectable Family | Print: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 2 March 1918: '[On 19 February] we went to Asheham [...] I saw no-one; for 5 days I wasn't in a state for reading [due... | Virginia Woolf | John, Viscount Morley | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 2 March 1918: '[On 19 February] we went to Asheham [...] I saw no-one; for 5 days I wasn't in a state for reading [due... | Virginia Woolf | William Shakespeare | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 5 April 1918: 'Off we went to Asheham on Thursday [21 March] [...] my memory is most centred
upon an afternoon readi... | Virginia Woolf | William Wordsworth | 'Lines Written in Early Spring, 1798' | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 1 May 1918: 'On Sunday [28 April] Desmond came to dinner [...] Late at night he took to
reading Joyce's ms. aloud, &... | Desmond MacCarthy | James Joyce | Ulysses | Manuscript: Codex |
| 1900-1945 | 27 June 1918: 'At the Club yesterday I picked up the Times & read of Aunt Minna's death 2
days ago at Lane End [...]... | Virginia Woolf | | notice of death of Sarah Emily Duckworth | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | 2 July 1918: 'I was reading Macaulay's Life over my tea [...] when Mrs Woolf [husband's
sister-in-law] was announced.' | Virginia Woolf | George Otto Trevelyan | The Life and Letters of Lord Macaulay | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 23 July 1918: 'Jack Hills & Pippa dined here [...] To my surprise [...] he knows about Georgian
poetry, & has read L... | John Waller Hills | Lytton Strachey | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '...I'm sitting in an old silk petticoat at the moment with a hole in it, and the top part of another dress with a hol... | Virginia Woolf | Thomas de Quincey | Impassioned Prose | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Editor's note reads 'V[irginia] W[oolf] must have been reading William Michael Rossetti's 1904 edition of The
Poetic... | Virginia Woolf | William Michael Rossetti | Memoir of Christina Rossetti | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 7 August 1918: 'Our excitement [has been] the return of the servants from Lewes last night,
with [...] the English r... | Virginia Woolf | Katherine Mansfield | 'Bliss' | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | 7 August 1918: 'I was very glad to go on with my Byron [...] I'm amused to find how easily I can
imagine the effect ... | Virginia Woolf | unknown | life of Byron | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The whole book is full of nooks and corners which I enjoy exploring. Sometimes one wants a candle in one's hand thoug... | Virginia Woolf | Vita Sackville-West | Passenger to Teheran | Manuscript: Sheet, Earlier in the letter Virginia Woolf describes the form of the text she read as 'the second batch of proofs'. |
| 1800-1849 | 'For the last ten days I have been getting on again in good style. I have finished Charles and am in the second volum... | Jane Baillie Welsh | William Robertson | Charles V | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'For the last ten days I have been getting on again in good style. I have finished Charles and am in the second volum... | Jane Baillie Welsh | unknown | History of America | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The day before I left I read in the Times that I had won the most insignificant and ridiculous of prizes but I have h... | Virginia Woolf | | The Times | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | 7 January 1920: 'Reading Empire & Commerce to my genuine satisfaction, with an impartial delight in the closeness, pas... | Virginia Woolf | Leonard Woolf | Empire and Commerce in Africa. A Study in Economic Imperialism | Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 6 March 1920: 'On Thursday, dine with the MacCarthys, & the first Memoir Club meeting [hosted by MacCarthys]. A highly... | Sydney Waterlow | Sydney Waterlow | autobiographical essay | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 6 March 1920: 'On Thursday, dine with the MacCarthys, & the first Memoir Club meeting [hosted by MacCarthys]. A highly... | Vanessa Bell | Vanessa Bell | autobiographical essay | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 6 March 1920: 'On Thursday, dine with the MacCarthys, & the first Memoir Club meeting [hosted by MacCarthys]. A highly... | Duncan Grant | Duncan Grant | autobiographical essay | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 6 March 1920: 'On Thursday, dine with the MacCarthys, & the first Memoir Club meeting [hosted by MacCarthys]. A highly... | Duncan Grant | Duncan Grant | autobiographical essay | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 20 April 1920: 'Saw the birth of Ka's son in the Times this morning, & feel slightly envious all day in consequence.' | Virginia Woolf | | Notice of birth of Mark Arnold-Foster | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | Tuesday 10 August 1920: 'Reading Don Q. still -- I confess rather sinking in the sand -- rather soft going [...] but h... | Virginia Woolf | Miguel de Cervantes | Don Quixote | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Thursday 19 August 1920: 'Yesterday [...] read [Sophocles'] Trachiniae with comparative ease -- always comparative -- ... | Virginia Woolf | Sophocles | Trachiniae | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Tuesday 25 January 1921: 'K. M. (as the papers call her) swims from triumph to triumph in the reviews; save that [J. C... | Virginia Woolf | Katherine Mansfield | unknown | Print: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | Friday 15 April 1921: 'I have been lying recumbent all day reading Carlyle, and now Macaulay, first to see if Carlyle ... | Virginia Woolf | Thomas Carlyle | 'reminiscences' | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Friday 15 April 1921: 'I have been lying recumbent all day reading Carlyle, and now Macaulay, first to see if Carlyle ... | Virginia Woolf | Thomas Babington Macaulay | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Sunday 15 May 1921: 'I read 4 pages of sneer & condescending praise of me in the Dial the other day. Oddly enough, I h... | Virginia Woolf | Kenneth Burke | 'The Modern English Novel Plus' (review of Virginia Woolf, NIght and Day, and The Voyage Out | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | Monday 12 September 1921: 'I have finished the Wings of the Dove, & make this comment. His [Henry James's] manipulatio... | Virginia Woolf | Henry James | The Wings of a Dove | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Thursday 15 September 1921: 'I have been dabbling in K.M.'s stories, & have to rinse my mind -- in Dryden? Still, if s... | Virginia Woolf | Katherine Mansfield | stories | Print: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | Monday 6 February 1922: 'What a sprightly journalist Clive Bell is! I have just read him, & see how my sentences would... | Virginia Woolf | Clive Bell | [journalism] | Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | Tuesday 14 February 1922: 'I am reading [in convalescence, following week of illness] Moby Dick: Princesse de Cleves; ... | Virginia Woolf | Herman Melville | Moby Dick | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Tuesday 14 February 1922: 'I am reading [in convalescence, following week of illness] Moby Dick: Princesse de Cleves; ... | Virginia Woolf | Madame de La Fayette | La Princesse de Cleves | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Tuesday 14 February 1922: 'I am reading [in convalescence, following week of illness] Moby Dick: Princesse de Cleves; ... | Virginia Woolf | Walter Scott | Old Mortality | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Tuesday 14 February 1922: 'I am reading [in convalescence, following week of illness] Moby Dick: Princesse de Cleves; ... | Virginia Woolf | Lady Gwendolyn Cecil | The Life of Robert, Marquis of Salisbury | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Tuesday 14 February 1922: 'I am reading [in convalescence, following week of illness] Moby Dick: Princesse de Cleves; ... | Virginia Woolf | Cecil Torr | Small Talk at Wreyland (vol 1 and/or 2) | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Tuesday 14 February 1922: 'I am reading [in convalescence, following week of illness] Moby Dick: Princesse de Cleves; ... | Virginia Woolf | unknown | Life of Tennyson | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Tuesday 14 February 1922: 'I am reading [in convalescence, following week of illness] Moby Dick: Princesse de Cleves; ... | Virginia Woolf | unknown | Life of [?Samuel] Johnson | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Wednesday 15 February 1922:
'Of my reading I will now try to make some note.
'First Peacock; Nightmare Abbey, &... | Virginia Woolf | Thomas Love Peacock | Nightmare Abbey | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Wednesday 15 February 1922:
'Of my reading I will now try to make some note.
'First Peacock; Nightmare Abbey, &... | Virginia Woolf | Thomas Love Peacock | Crotchet Castle | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Wednesday 15 February 1922:
'Of my reading I will now try to make some note.
'First Peacock; Nightmare Abbey, &... | Virginia Woolf | Walter Scott | Old Mortality | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Wednesday 15 February 1922:
'Of my reading I will now try to make some note.
'First Peacock; Nightmare Abbey, &... | Virginia Stephen | Thomas Love Peacock | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Saturday 18 February 1922: 'According to the papers, the cost of living is now I dont know how much lower than last ye... | Virginia Woolf | George Gordon, Lord Byron | Lord Byron's Correspondence | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Saturday 18 February 1922: 'I want to read Byron's Letters, but I must go on with La Princesse de Cleves. This masterp... | Virginia Woolf | Madame de la Fayette | La Princesse de Cleves | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Saturday 18 February 1922: 'Within the last few minutes I have skimmed the reviews in the New Statesman; between coffe... | Virginia Woolf | | The New Statesman | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | Saturday 18 February 1922: 'Within the last few minutes I have skimmed the reviews in the New Statesman; between coffe... | Virginia Woolf | | The Nation | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'Is there any decent review of Meister? I have seen only one, in the London Magazine, it did not make me angry- I sho... | Jane Baillie Welsh | Thomas De Quincey | Review of Carlyle's translation of Goethe's Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship | Print: Serial / periodicalManuscript: Letter |
| 1800-1849 | 'My present sojourn is the most distressing you can imagine: the weather is so bad that one cannot cross the threshold... | Jane Baillie Welsh | Unknown (trad) | Jack The Giant Killer | Print: BookManuscript: Letter |
| 1800-1849 | 'My present sojourn is the most distressing you can imagine: the weather is so bad that one cannot cross the threshold... | Jane Baillie Welsh | Mary Martha Sherwood | The Wishing Cap | Print: BookManuscript: Letter |
| 1800-1849 | 'My present sojourn is the most distressing you can imagine: the weather is so bad that one cannot cross the threshold... | Jane Baillie Welsh | Unknown | Blue Beard | Print: BookManuscript: Letter |
| 1900-1945 | 'I'm reading an Oxford undergraduate ms novel, and his hero says "Do you know these lines from The Land, the finest po... | Virginia Woolf | unknown | [ms novel] | Manuscript: Codex |
| 1900-1945 | Tuesday 31 August 1920: 'Finished Sophocles this morning -- read mostly at Asheham.' | Virginia Woolf | Sophocles | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Wednesday 15 September 1920: 'Blessed with fine weather, I could look from my window, through the vine leaves, & see L... | Lytton Strachey | Vittorio Alfieri | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Wednesday 15 September 1920: 'Blessed with fine weather, I could look from my window, through the vine leaves, & see L... | Lytton Strachey | Virginia Woolf | The Voyage Out | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Sunday 5 December 1920: 'My brain is tired of reading Coleridge. Why do I read Coleridge? It is partly the result of E... | Virginia Woolf | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Wednesday 10 August 1921: 'I may well ask, what is truth? And I cant ask it in my natural tones, since my lips are wet... | Virginia Woolf | Edmund Gosse | Books on the Table | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [Following transcription of two substantial paragraphs, in which Leigh Hunt describes Coleridge] '[this] is all I can ... | Virginia Woolf | Leigh Hunt | The Autobiography of Leigh Hunt | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 15 February 1922: 'I thought to myself, as Lytton was talking, Now I will remember this & write it down in my diary to... | Lytton Strachey | anon | advertisement/announcement on racing | Print: Poster |
| 1900-1945 | Friday 23 June 1922: 'Eliot dined last Sunday & read his poem. He sang it & chanted it rhythmed it. It has great beaut... | Thomas Stearns Eliot | Thomas Stearns Eliot | The Waste Land | Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | Wednesday 16 August 1922: 'I have read 200 pages [of Ulysses] so far -- not a third; & have been amused, stimulated, c... | Virginia Woolf | James Joyce | Ulysses | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Tuesday 22 August 1922: ''Boen [Hawkesford] came to tea on Sunday [...] She is changing; reading Bliss under [Edward] ... | Boen Hawkesford | Katherine Mansfield | Bliss | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Thursday 7 September 1922: 'L[eonard]. put into my hands a very intelligent review of Ulysses, in the American Nation,... | Virginia Woolf | Gilbert Seldes | Review of James Joyce, Ulysses | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | Wednesday 6 September 1922: 'I finished Ulysses, & think it a mis-fire. Genius it has I think; but of the inferior wat... | Virginia Woolf | James Joyce | Ulysses | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 1900-1945 | Tuesday 12 September: 'Lytton drove off an hour ago; I have been sitting here, unable to read or collect myself -- suc... | Lytton Strachey | Hester Lynch Piozzi (Thrale) | Anecdotes of the Late Doctor Johnson | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Tuesday 12 September: 'Lytton drove off an hour ago; I have been sitting here, unable to read or collect myself -- suc... | Lytton Strachey | Stephen Hobhouse and A. Fenner Brockway, eds | English Prisons Today. Being the Report of the Prison System Enquiry Committee | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Saturday 17 March 1923: 'Written, for a wonder, at 10 o'clock at night [...] my brain saturated with the Silent Woman.... | Virginia Woolf | Ben Jonson | Epicoene, or The Silent Woman | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Thursday 30 Auguust: 'My goodness, the wind! Last night we looked at the meadow trees, flinging about [...] I read suc... | Virginia Woolf | Elizabeth Gaskell | Wives and Daughters | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Friday 15 August 1924: 'When I was 20 I liked 18th Century prose; I liked Hakluyt, Merimee. I read masses of Carlyle, ... | Virginia Stephen | unknown | '18th Century prose' | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Friday 15 August 1924: 'When I was 20 I liked 18th Century prose; I liked Hakluyt, Merimee. I read masses of Carlyle, ... | Virginia Stephen | Richard Hakluyt | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Friday 15 August 1924: 'When I was 20 I liked 18th Century prose; I liked Hakluyt, Merimee. I read masses of Carlyle, ... | Virginia Stephen | Prosper Merimee | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Friday 15 August 1924: 'When I was 20 I liked 18th Century prose; I liked Hakluyt, Merimee. I read masses of Carlyle, ... | Virginia Stephen | Thomas Carlyle | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Friday 15 August 1924: 'When I was 20 I liked 18th Century prose; I liked Hakluyt, Merimee. I read masses of Carlyle, ... | Virginia Stephen | Walter Scott | Letters | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Friday 15 August 1924: 'When I was 20 I liked 18th Century prose; I liked Hakluyt, Merimee. I read masses of Carlyle, ... | Virginia Stephen | J. G. Lockhart | Life of Walter Scott | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Friday 15 August 1924: 'When I was 20 I liked 18th Century prose; I liked Hakluyt, Merimee. I read masses of Carlyle, ... | Virginia Stephen | Edward Gibbon | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Friday 15 August 1924: 'When I was 20 I liked 18th Century prose; I liked Hakluyt, Merimee. I read masses of Carlyle, ... | Virginia Stephen | unknown | biographical works | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Friday 15 August 1924: 'When I was 20 I liked 18th Century prose; I liked Hakluyt, Merimee. I read masses of Carlyle, ... | Virginia Stephen | Percy Bysshe Shelley | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Sunday 17 May 1925: 'Yesterday we had tea with Margaret in her new house [...] She is severe to Lilian [Harris, her co... | Margaret Caroline Llewelyn Davies | Ethel M. Dell | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Sunday 17 May 1925: 'Yesterday we had tea with Margaret in her new house [...] She is severe to Lilian [Harris, her co... | Margaret Caroline Llewelyn Davies | Charles Dickens | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Monday 21 December 1925: 'I read her [Vita Sackville-West's] poem; which is more compact, better seen & felt than anyt... | Virginia Woolf | Vita Sackville-West | On the Lake | Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | Saturday 27 February 1926: 'Mrs. Webb's book has made me think a little what I could say of my own life. I read some o... | Virginia Woolf | Virginia Woolf | 1923 diary | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | Saturday 27 February 1926: 'Mrs. Webb's book has made me think a little what I could say of my own life. I read some o... | Virginia Woolf | Beatrice Webb | My Apprenticeship | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Wednesday 24 March 1926: 'These disjointed reflections I scribble on a divine, if gusty, day; being about, after readi... | Virginia Woolf | Leo Tolstoy | Anna Karenina | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Thursday 1 July: '[in library of Robert Bridges, during visit to Morrell family at Garsington] I asked to see the Hopk... | Virginia Woolf | Gerard Manley Hopkins | [manuscripts] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'Owing to his giving me the books, am now reading C by M. Baring. I am surprised to find it as good as it is. But how ... | Virginia Woolf | Maurice Baring | C | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'And the book came. And I've read one or two of the new ones. And I liked them yes - I liked the one to Enid Bagnold... | Virginia Woolf | Vita Sackville-West | Collected Poems | Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'I've been walking on the marsh and found a swan sitting in a Saxon grave. This made me think of you. Then I came ba... | Virginia Woolf | Kenneth Clark | unknown | Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'I've not read it (and I dont suppose you'd care a damn to know what I thought, if I thought about it considered as a ... | Virginia Woolf | Vita Sackville-West | Country Notes | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Saturday 31 July [entry headed 'My Own Brain,' and beginning 'Here is a whole nervous breakdown in miniature']: 'A des... | Virginia Woolf | Robert Bridges | unknown | Print: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | Saturday 31 July [entry headed 'My Own Brain,' and beginning 'Here is a whole nervous breakdown in miniature']: 'A des... | Virginia Woolf | Dante Alighieri | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Tuesday 28 September 1926: 'Intense depression: I have to confess that this has overcome me several times since Septem... | Virginia Woolf | Geoffrey Scott | The Architecture of Humanism. A Study in the History of Taste | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Saturday 12 February 1927: 'Vita's prose is too fluent. I've been reading it, & it makes my pen run. When I've read a ... | Virginia Woolf | V. Sackville-West | Passenger to Teheran | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Saturday 18 June 1927: 'I read -- any trash. Maurice Baring; sporting memoirs.' | Virginia Woolf | Maurice Baring | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Saturday 18 June 1927: 'I read -- any trash. Maurice Baring; sporting memoirs.' | Virginia Woolf | unknown | 'sporting memoirs' | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Tuesday 20 September 1927: 'I opened the Morning Post & read the death of Philip Ritchie [...] I think for the first t... | Virginia Woolf | | Notice of death of the Hon. Philip Charles Thomson Ritchie | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | Tuesday 24 April 1928: 'I was reading Othello last night, & was impressed by the volley & volume & tumble of his words... | Virginia Woolf | William Shakespeare | Othello | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Tuesday 24 April 1928: 'I was reading Othello last night, & was impressed by the volley & volume & tumble of his words... | Virginia Woolf | unknown | French texts | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Sunday 25 November 1928: 'I took Essex & Eth (Lytton's) down [to Rodmell] to read, & Lord forgive me! -- find it a poo... | Virginia Woolf | Lytton Strachey | Elizabeth and Essex | Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | Monday 2 September 1929: 'I have just read a page or two out of Samuel Butler's notebooks to take the taste of Alice M... | Virginia Woolf | Samuel Butler | Notebooks | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Monday 2 September 1929: 'I have just read a page or two out of Samuel Butler's notebooks to take the taste of Alice M... | Virginia Woolf | Viola Meynell | Alice Meynell. A Memoir | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Wednesday 23 October 1929: 'Since I have been back [apparently to London, from Sussex home] I have read Virginia Water... | Virginia Woolf | Elizabeth Jenkins | Virginia Water | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Wednesday 23 October 1929: 'Since I have been back [apparently to London, from Sussex home] I have read Virginia Water... | Virginia Woolf | John Middleton Murry | God: an Introduction to the Science of Metabiology | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Wednesday 23 October 1929: 'Since I have been back [apparently to London, from Sussex home] I have read Virginia Water... | Virginia Woolf | Jean Racine | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Monday 18 November 1929: '[following argument with cook] My mind is like a gum when an aching tooth has been drawn. I ... | Virginia Woolf | Augustine Biirrell | ?Collected Essays, 1880-1920 | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'V[irginia] W[oolf] made notes (see Holograph Reading Notes, vols XI and XII in the Berg Collection) on George Puttenh... | Virginia Woolf | George Puttenham | The Arte of English Poesie | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'V[irginia] W[oolf] made notes (see Holograph Reading Notes, vols XI and XII in the Berg Collection) on George Puttenh... | Virginia Woolf | William Webbe | A Discourse of English Poetrie | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'V[irginia] W[oolf] made notes (see Holograph Reading Notes, vols XI and XII in the Berg Collection) on George Puttenh... | Virginia Woolf | Gabriel Harvey | Works | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'V[irginia] W[oolf] made notes (see Holograph Reading Notes, vols XI and XII in the Berg Collection) on George Puttenh... | Virginia Woolf | Gabriel Harvey | Commonplace Book | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'V[irginia] W[oolf] made notes (see Holograph Reading Notes, vols XI and XII in the Berg Collection) on George Puttenh... | Virginia Woolf | Gabriel Harvey | Letter Book, 1573-1580 | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Sunday 8 December 1929: 'It was the Elizabethan prose writers I loved first & most wildly, stirred by Hakluyt, which f... | Virginia Stephen | Richard Hakluyt | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Sunday 26 January 1930: 'We have been at Rodmell [...] At night I read Lord Chaplin's life.' | Virginia Woolf | | 'Lord Chaplin's life' | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Monday 3 March 1930: 'Rodmell again [...] Suppose health were shown on a thermometer I have gone up 10 degrees since y... | Virginia Woolf | E. F. Benson | Dodo | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Monday 3 March 1930: 'Molly Hamilton writes a d----d bad novel. She has the wits to construct a method of telling a st... | Virginia Woolf | Molly Hamilton | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Wednesday 20 August 1930: 'I am reading Dante, & I say, yes, this makes all writing unnecessary [...] I read the Infer... | Virginia Woolf | Dante Alighieri | Inferno | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Thursday 28 August 1930: 'I am reading R. Lehmann, with some interest & admiration -- she has a clear hard mind, beati... | Virginia Woolf | Rosamund Lehmann | A Note in Music | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Wednesday 24 September 1930: 'I am reading Dante; & my present view of reading is to elongate immensely. I take a week... | Virginia Woolf | Dante Alighieri | La Divina Commedia | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Saturday 27 December 1930: 'We came down [to Rodmell] on Tuesday, & next day my cold was the usual influenza, & I am i... | Virginia Woolf | Daniel Defoe | A Tour through the Whole Island of Great Britain | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Saturday 27 December 1930: 'We came down [to Rodmell] on Tuesday, & next day my cold was the usual influenza, & I am i... | Virginia Woolf | Archibald Hamilton Rowan | The Autobiography of Archibald Hamilton Rowan | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Saturday 27 December 1930: 'We came down [to Rodmell] on Tuesday, & next day my cold was the usual influenza, & I am i... | Virginia Woolf | E. F. Benson | As We Were: A Victorian Peep-Show | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Saturday 27 December 1930: 'We came down [to Rodmell] on Tuesday, & next day my cold was the usual influenza, & I am i... | Virginia Woolf | James Jeans | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Saturday 27 December 1930: 'We came down [to Rodmell] on Tuesday, & next day my cold was the usual influenza, & I am i... | Virginia Woolf | The Rev. John Skinner | The Journal of a Somerset Rector | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Saturday 27 December 1930: 'We came down [to Rodmell] on Tuesday, & next day my cold was the usual influenza, & I am i... | Virginia Woolf | Queen Victoria | Letters | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I breakfasted luxuriously in my tent off porridge, fried ham and tea and afterwards read "Pickwick Papers", pausing n... | Frank Smythe | Charles Dickens | The Pickwick Papers | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I sat up late reading of Mr. Jingle's artifices, until at last I began to speculate drowsily as to that gentleman's p... | Frank Smythe | Charles Dickens | The Pickwick Papers | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Thanks to the efficiency of Mr Kydd, we were overtaken here by a runner, and spent a pleasant half-hour in the shade ... | Frank Smythe | | newspapers | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | 'They arrived late that evening bringing letters from home, and newspapers. As regards the world's news I confess that... | Frank Smythe | | newspapers | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | 'I lay in my sleeping bag reading Mr.Richard Aldington's cynical book "Death of a Hero". it is an admirable work but I... | Frank Smythe | Richard Aldington | Death of a Hero | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Fortunately Peter had lots of reading matter and he loaned me "Doctor Johnson".' | Frank Smythe | James Boswell | A Life of Samuel Johnson | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'One day, the Princess showed me a large book, in which she had written characters of a great many of the leading pers... | Princess Caroline Princess of Wales | Princess Caroline Princess of Wales | [verbal sketches of well known people] | Manuscript: MS book |
| 1800-1849 | 'The Princess often read aloud. It was difficult to understand her germanised French, and still more, her composite En... | Princess Caroline Princess of Wales | Frederica Sophia Wilhelmina Princess Royal of Prussia | MEMOIRS OF FREDERICA SOPHIA WILHELMINA, Princess Royal of Prussia, Margravine of Bareith, sister of Frederick the Great | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Her Royal Highness once read through the whole of 'Candide' to one of her ladies, who told me her opinion of it, whic... | Princess Caroline Princess of Wales | Voltaire | Candide | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'She finished reading to me the rest of the papers and correspondence, which at present occupy so much of her thoughts' | Princess Caroline Princess of Wales | | [papers and correspondence] | Manuscript: Personal papers relating to her marriage, banishment, her supposed adultery and that of her husband, etc. |
| 1900-1945 | 'Before we turned in Raymond, at Hugh's suggestion, read aloud Norton's 1924 despatch, in which he summoned up the pos... | (Charles) Raymond Greene | Edward Felix Norton | despatch | Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'I am glad to hear you are giving Macaulay a turn. I believe, though it sounds rude and foolish, nothing will do you m... | Sidney Colvin | Thomas Babington Macaulay | unknown | Print: Book, Articles in the Edinburgh Review? |
| 1900-1945 | 'I sat in my rickety camp chair which had been artfully and ingeniously repaired by [Sherpa] Wangdi to prevent it fall... | Frank Smythe | William Shakespeare | Sonnets | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'There was nothing for me to do but lie in my sleeping bag,write up my botanical notes, read and in between whiles eat... | Frank Smythe | | newspapers and weekly magazines | Print: Newspaper, Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | Friday 14 February 1931: 'Janet Case yesterday [...] I suppose over 70 now [...] She clings to youth. "But we never se... | Janet Case | T. S. Eliot | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Monday 20 April 1931: 'Arrived [at La Rochelle] at 7.30 -- so quick one drives: I forgot our 2 punctures. One at Thoua... | Virginia Woolf | D. H. Lawrence | Sons and Lovers | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Thursday 28 May 1931: 'Disappointed, reading lightly through, by The man who died, D.H.L.'s last. Reading Sons and Lov... | Virginia Woolf | D. H. Lawrence | The Man Who Died | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Tuesday 7 July 1931: 'I am reading Don Juan; & dispatch a biography every two days.' | Virginia Woolf | George Gordon, Lord Byron | Don Juan | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Tuesday 7 July 1931: 'I am reading Don Juan; & dispatch a biography every two days.' | Virginia Woolf | unknown | biographies | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Tuesday 1 September 1931: 'And so a few days of bed & headache & overpowering sleep, sleep descending inexorable as I ... | Virginia Woolf | Hugh Walpole | Judith Paris | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Tuesday 1 September 1931: 'And so a few days of bed & headache & overpowering sleep, sleep descending inexorable as I ... | Virginia Woolf | Walter Scott | Ivanhoe | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Vanessa [Bell] wrote [to her sister Virginia Woolf] from Charleston (n.d., Berg [Collection]): "I have been for the l... | Vanessa Bell | Virginia Woolf | The Waves | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 25 December 1931: 'After writing the last page, Nov. 16th, I could not go on writing without a perpetual headache; & s... | Virginia Woolf | Goethe | Faust | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 25 December 1931: 'After writing the last page, Nov. 16th, I could not go on writing without a perpetual headache; & s... | Virginia Woolf | Benjamin Disraeli | Coningsby | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Tuesday 2 February 1932: 'I am reading Wells' science of life, & have reached the hen that became a cock or vice versa.' | Virginia Woolf | H. G. Wells | The Science of Life | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Thursday 11 February 1932: 'My mind is set running upon A Knock on the Door (whats its name?) owing largely to reading... | Virginia Woolf | H. G. Wells | The Work, Wealth, and Happiness of Mankind | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Monday 2 May 1932: 'Well it is five minutes to ten: but where am I, writing with pen & ink? Not in my studio. In the g... | Leonard Woolf | unknown | Greek grammar | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Sunday 8 May 1932: 'Here it is, the last evening [of holiday in Greece]; very hot, very dusty. The loudspeaker is bray... | Leonard Woolf | Ethel Smyth | A Three-Legged Tour in Greece | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Sunday 8 May 1932: 'I've scarcely read [on holiday in Greece] [...] only Roger's Eastman, & Wells, & Murry.' | Virginia Woolf | Max Eastman | The Literary Mind: Its Place in an Age of Science | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Sunday 8 May 1932: 'I've scarcely read [on holiday in Greece] [...] only Roger's Eastman, & Wells, & Murry.' | Virginia Woolf | H. G. Wells | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Sunday 8 May 1932: 'I've scarcely read [on holiday in Greece] [...] only Roger's Eastman, & Wells, & Murry.' | Virginia Woolf | John Middleton Murry | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Wednesday 11 May: 'again this heroism in the attempt at pen & ink: but I am tired of reading Rousseau: it is 6 o'clock... | Virginia Woolf | Jean-Jacques Rousseau | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'The Princess received a letter of twenty-eight pages, from the Princess Charlotte, which looked like the writing of a... | Princess Caroline Princess of Wales | Princess Charlotte | Letter | Manuscript: Letter |
| 1800-1849 | 'She read one of Madame de Stael's [italics] Petits Romans [end italics], which I had lent her, and which she told me ... | Princess Caroline Princess of Wales | Anne Louise Germaine de Stael Holstein | Petits Romans | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'She reads a great deal, and buys all new books' | Princess Caroline Princess of Wales | | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I am sorry to mention that [Lord Byron's] last poem upon "The Decadence of Bonaparte", is worthy neither his pen nor ... | Princess Caroline Princess of Wales | George Gordon, Lord Byron | 'Ode to Napoleon Buonaparte' | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'What do you think of the "Wardour", by Madame d'Arblais [sic]? It has only proved to us that she forgot her English; ... | Princess Caroline Princess of Wales | Frances Burney, Madame d'Arblay | Wanderer, The | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'What do you think of the "Wardour", by Madame d'Arblais [sic]? It has only proved to us that she forgot her English; ... | Princess Caroline Princess of Wales | Frances Burney | Evelina | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | In Diary of Virginia Woolf, facing page on which entry for 20 August 1932 and beginning of entry for 2 September writt... | Virginia Woolf | Alexis de Tocqueville | Souvenirs | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | In Diary of Virginia Woolf, facing page on which entry for 20 August 1932 and beginning of entry for 2 September writt... | Virginia Woolf | Lord Kilbracken | Reminiscences | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | In Diary of Virginia Woolf, facing page on which entry for 20 August 1932 and beginning of entry for 2 September writt... | Virginia Woolf | George Bernard Shaw | Pen Portraits and Reviews | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | In Diary of Virginia Woolf, facing page on which entry for 20 August 1932 and beginning of entry for 2 September writt... | Virginia Woolf | Douglas Ainslie | Adventures Social and Literary | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | In Diary of Virginia Woolf, facing page on which entry for 20 August 1932 and beginning of entry for 2 September writt... | Virginia Woolf | V. Sackville-West | 'novel' | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | In Diary of Virginia Woolf, facing page on which entry for 20 August 1932 and beginning of entry for 2 September writt... | Virginia Woolf | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | poems | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | In Diary of Virginia Woolf, facing page on which entry for 20 August 1932 and beginning of entry for 2 September writt... | Virginia Woolf | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | letters | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Sunday 2 October 1932: 'I am [...] reading DHL. with the usual sense of frustration. Not that he & I have too much in ... | Virginia Woolf | D. H. Lawrence | The Letters of D. H. Lawrence | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Wednesday 13 July 1932: 'Old Joseph Wright & Lizzie Wright are people I respect. Indeed I do hope the 2nd vol. will co... | Virginia Woolf | Elizabeth Wright | The Life of Joseph Wright (vol 1) | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Sunday 15 January 1933: 'I am reading Parnell.' | Virginia Woolf | R. Barry O'Brien | The Life of Charles Stuart Parnell | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Sunday 14 May 1933: 'I am reading -- skipping -- the Sacred Fount [by Henry James] -- about the most inappropriate of ... | Virginia Woolf | Henry James | The Sacred Fount | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Sunday 21 May 1933: 'Tonight sitting at the open window of a secondrate inn in Draguignan [...] I dip into Creevey; L[... | Virginia Woolf | Thomas Creevey | The Creevey Papers | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Sunday 21 May 1933: 'Tonight sitting at the open window of a secondrate inn in Draguignan [...] I dip into Creevey; L[... | Leonard Woolf | J. G. Frazer | The Golden Bough | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Monday 26 June 1933: 'The present moment. 7 o'clock on June 26th: [...] I after reading Henry 4 Pt one saying whats th... | Virginia Woolf | William Shakespeare | Henry IV Part 1 | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Monday 26 June 1933: 'The present moment. 7 o'clock on June 26th: [...] I after reading Henry 4 Pt one saying whats th... | Virginia Woolf | Leopardi | [poem] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Friday 7 July 1933: 'Being headachy [...] I have spent the whole morning reading old diaries, and am now (10 to 1) muc... | Virginia Woolf | Virginia Woolf | diaries | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | Wednesday 26 July 1933: 'When I cant write of a morning -- as now -- I try to tune myself on other books: couldnt sett... | Virginia Woolf | Florence Hardy | Life of Thomas Hardy | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Saturday 12 August 1933: 'I've been reading Faber on Newman; compared his account of a nervous breakdown; the refusal ... | Virginia Woolf | Geoffrey Cust Faber | A Character Study of the Oxford Movement | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Wednesday 16 August 1933: 'I want to discuss Form, having been reading Turgenev [goes on to make remarks on this topic]'. | Virginia Woolf | Turgenev | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Thursday 24 August 1933: 'I have spent the morning reading the Confessions of Arsene Houssaye left here yesterday by C... | Virginia Woolf | Arsene Houssaye | Confessions | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Satirday 2 September 1933: 'I am reading with extreme greed a book by Vera Britain [sic], called The Testament of Yout... | Virginia Woolf | Vera Brittain | Testament of Youth | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 23 September 1933: 'I am reading Margot [Oxford] -- "V W our greatest English authoress;" Molly Hamilton on Webbs: & T... | Virginia Woolf | Margot Oxford | More Memories | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 23 September 1933: 'I am reading Margot [Oxford] -- "V W our greatest English authoress;" Molly Hamilton on Webbs: & T... | Virginia Woolf | Mary Agnes Hamilton | Sidney and Beatrice Webb | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 5 October 1933: 'I spent yesterday in bed; headache; infinite weariness up my back; clouds forming in my neck; half as... | Virginia Woolf | Marguerite Steen | Hugh Walpole: A Study | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Our library too was a weighty affair. Shipton had the longest novel that had been published in recent years, Warren a... | Frank Smythe | Charles Dickens | Martin Chuzzlewit | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Our library too was a weighty affair. Shipton had the longest novel that had been published in recent years, Warren a... | Noel Odell | John Ruskin | The Stones of Venice | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | His reading this summer included much Browning, Turgenev's Smoke and Kenneth Grahame's Golden Age ('which surely is th... | John Buchan | Kenneth Grahame | Golden Age | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | His reading this summer included much Browning, Turgenev's Smoke and Kenneth Grahame's Golden Age ('which surely is th... | John Buchan | Ivan Turgenev | Smoke | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | His reading this summer included much Browning, Turgenev's Smoke and Kenneth Grahame's Golden Age ('which surely is th... | John Buchan | Robert Browning | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'At this precise moment I am feeling mightily morose, owing to my having foolishly embarked on Robert Elsmere and Tom ... | John Buchan | Mary Augusta (Mrs Humphry) Ward | Robert Elsmere | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'At this precise moment I am feeling mightily morose, owing to my having foolishly embarked on Robert Elsmere and Tom ... | John Buchan | Henry Fielding | Tom Jones | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Your descriptions of your travels do indeed set my feet moving, and my heart longing to see all you have seen; and th... | Susan Ferrier | George Gordon, Lord Byron | Corsair, The | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I am now labouring very hard at "Patronage", which, I must honestly confess, is the greatest lump of cold lead I ever... | Susan Ferrier | Maria Edgeworth | Patronage | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Among the mail was "The Times" Special Coronation Supplement. The men were vastly intrigued with the pictures.
"Tha... | Frank Smythe | | The Times Special Coronation Supplement | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | 'I send you a new novel of Madame de Genlis' 'Mademoiselle de la Fayette'. I think it will interest and amuse you at t... | Princess Caroline, Princess of Wales | Stephanie Felicite Ducrest de St-Aubin, comtesse de Genlis | Mademoiselle de La Fayette : ou le siecle de Louis XIII | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I send you a new novel of Madame de Genlis' 'Mademoiselle de la Fayette'. I think it will interest and amuse you at t... | Princess Caroline, Princess of Wales | Stephanie Felicite Ducrest de St-Aubin, comtesse de Genlis | Les voeux temeraires : ou L' enthousiasme | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'As you like sometimes high treason, I send you a copy of the verses written by Lord Byron on the discovery of the bod... | Princess Caroline, Princess of Wales | George Gordon, Lord Byron | [possibly lines from 'The Corsair' =- 'Weep, Daughter of a Royal Line'] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'works of imagination are really becoming too reasonable to be very entertaining. Formerly, in [italics] my time [end ... | Susan Ferrier | Jane Austen | Emma | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'works of imagination are really becoming too reasonable to be very entertaining. Formerly, in [italics] my time [end ... | Susan Ferrier | Frances Jacson | Rhoda | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Of the excellence of the devotions in the little volume you were so good as to send me, there cannot be two opinions,... | Anne Grant | | [volume of religious meditations] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'My instinct first led me to Dharmsala [sic], for many years the home of my uncle Robert Shaw who [...] was the first ... | Francis Younghusband | unknown | unknown | Print: Book, manuscripts also mentioned |
| 1850-1899 | 'I had an opportunity once of reading, side by side,the despatches of the Chinese commander (published in the "Peking ... | Francis Younghusband | | Peking Gazette | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'Any one can imagine the fearful monotony of those long dreary marches seated on the back of a slow and silently movi... | Francis Younghusband | unknown | unknown | Print: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | Thursday 7 December 1933: 'I was walking through Leicester Sqre -- how far from China -- just now when I read Death of... | Virginia Woolf | | announcement of death of Stella Benson | Print: Poster |
| 1900-1945 | Tuesday 16 January: 'I have let all this time -- 3 weeks at Monks [House, Sussex residence] -- slip because I was ther... | Virginia Woolf | Andrew Marvell | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Tuesday 30 January 1934: 'Yesterday I went to Shapland about my watch bracelet [...] came back; sat; talked; Julian [B... | Virginia Woolf | Arthur Young | Travels in France during the Years 1787, 1788, and 1789 | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Wednesday 14 February: '10 days recumbent [with headache], sleeping, dreaming, dipping into oh dear how many different... | Virginia Woolf | Arthur Young | Travels in France during the Years 1787, 1788, and 1789 | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Wednesday 14 February: '10 days recumbent [with headache], sleeping, dreaming, dipping into oh dear how many different... | Virginia Woolf | Arthur Young | Travels in France during the Years 1787, 1788, and 1789 | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Wednesday 14 February: '10 days recumbent [with headache], sleeping, dreaming, dipping into oh dear how many different... | Virginia Woolf | William Makepeace Thackeray | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Wednesday 14 February: '10 days recumbent [with headache], sleeping, dreaming, dipping into oh dear how many different... | Virginia Woolf | Lord Berners | First Childhood | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Wednesday 14 February: '10 days recumbent [with headache], sleeping, dreaming, dipping into oh dear how many different... | Virginia Woolf | Ernest de Selincourt | Dorothy Wordsworth | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Wednesday 14 February: '10 days recumbent [with headache], sleeping, dreaming, dipping into oh dear how many different... | Virginia Woolf | J. E. Neale | Queen Elizabeth | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Tuesday 1 May 1934: 'L. opening the first Times to come our way, said George Duckworth is dead. So he is. And I feel t... | Leonard Woolf | | report of death of George Duckworth | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | Saturday 21 July 1934: 'I am reading Sh[akespea]re plays the fag end of the morning. Have read, Pericles, Titus Andron... | Virginia Woolf | William Shakespeare | Pericles | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Saturday 21 July 1934: 'I am reading Sh[akespea]re plays the fag end of the morning. Have read, Pericles, Titus Andron... | Virginia Woolf | William Shakespeare | Titus Andronicus | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Saturday 21 July 1934: 'I am reading Sh[akespea]re plays the fag end of the morning. Have read, Pericles, Titus Andron... | Virginia Woolf | William Shakespeare | Coriolanus | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'T. S. Eliot's The Rock. A Pageant Play had been performed at Sadler's Wells Theatre 28 May-9 June [1934] in aid of th... | Virginia Woolf | T. S. Eliot | The Rock. A Pageant Play | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Tuesday 24 July 1934: 'Dinner last night at the Hutchinsons [...] Tom [Eliot] read Mr Barker's poems, chanting, intoni... | Thomas Stearns Eliot | George Barker | poems | Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | Tuesday 21 August 1934: 'I read Une Vie last night, & it seemed to me rather marking time & watery -- heaven help me -... | Virginia Woolf | Guy de Maupassant | Une Vie | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Thursday 30 August 1934: 'No letters at all this summer. But there will be many next year, I predict. And I dont mind;... | Virginia Woolf | Ex-Detective Sergeant B. Leeson | Lost London. The Memoirs of an East End Detective | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Thursday 30 August 1934: 'No letters at all this summer. But there will be many next year, I predict. And I dont mind;... | Virginia Woolf | Saint-Simon | Memoirs | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Thursday 30 August 1934: 'No letters at all this summer. But there will be many next year, I predict. And I dont mind;... | Virginia Woolf | Henry James | Preface, Portrait of a Lady | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Thursday 30 August 1934: 'No letters at all this summer. But there will be many next year, I predict. And I dont mind;... | Virginia Woolf | Andre Gide | Pages de Journal, 1929-1932 | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Tuesday 2 October 1934:
'Books read or in reading [over summer 1934]:
Sh[akespea]re. Troilus.
... | Virginia Woolf | William Shakespeare | Troilus and Cressida | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Tuesday 2 October 1934:
'Books read or in reading [over summer 1934]:
Sh[akespea]re. Troilus.
... | Virginia Woolf | William Shakespeare | Pericles | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Tuesday 2 October 1934:
'Books read or in reading [over summer 1934]:
Sh[akespea]re. Troilus.
... | Virginia Woolf | William Shakespeare | The Taming of the Shrew | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Tuesday 2 October 1934:
'Books read or in reading [over summer 1934]:
Sh[akespea]re. Troilus.
... | Virginia Woolf | William Shakespeare | Cymbeline | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Tuesday 2 October 1934:
'Books read or in reading [over summer 1934]:
Sh[akespea]re. Troilus.
... | Virginia Woolf | Guy de Maupassant | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Tuesday 2 October 1934:
'Books read or in reading [over summer 1934]:
Sh[akespea]re. Troilus.
... | Virginia Woolf | Charles de Vigny | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Tuesday 2 October 1934:
'Books read or in reading [over summer 1934]:
Sh[akespea]re. Troilus.
... | Virginia Woolf | Saint-Simon | Memoirs | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Tuesday 2 October 1934:
'Books read or in reading [over summer 1934]:
Sh[akespea]re. Troilus.
... | Virginia Woolf | Andre Gide | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Tuesday 2 October 1934:
'Books read or in reading [over summer 1934]:
Sh[akespea]re. Troilus.
... | Virginia Woolf | John Cowper Powys | Autobiography | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Tuesday 2 October 1934:
'Books read or in reading [over summer 1934]:
Sh[akespea]re. Troilus.
... | Virginia Woolf | H. G. Wells | Experiment in Autobiography | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Tuesday 2 October 1934:
'Books read or in reading [over summer 1934]:
Sh[akespea]re. Troilus.
... | Virginia Woolf | Sylvia Leonora Brook, Ranee of Sarawak | Good Morning and Good Night | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Tuesday 2 October 1934:
'Books read or in reading [over summer 1934]:
Sh[akespea]re. Troilus.
... | Virginia Woolf | Bonamy Dobree | Modern Prose Style | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Tuesday 2 October 1934:
'Books read or in reading [over summer 1934]:
Sh[akespea]re. Troilus.
... | Virginia Woolf | Alice James | Alice James: Her Brothers -- Her Journal | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Sunday 14 October 1934: 'I cant write. When will my brain revive? in 10 days I think. And it can read admirably. I beg... | Virginia Woolf | James Thomson | The Seasons | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Sunday 14 October 1934: 'I cant write. When will my brain revive? in 10 days I think. And it can read admirably. I beg... | Virginia Woolf | Edward Sackville-West | The Sun in Capricorn | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Monday 15 October 1934, during period of depression: 'I am as slack as a piece of macaroni: & in this state cant shake... | Virginia Woolf | unknown | life of James Boswell | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Wednesday 17 October 1934: 'I am so sleepy. Is this age? I cant shake it off. And so gloomy. Thats [writing] the end o... | Virginia Woolf | Virginia Woolf | diaries | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | Monday 29 October 1934: 'Reading Antigone. How powerful that spell is still -- Greek. Thank heaven I learnt it young -... | Virginia Woolf | Sophocles | Antigone | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Wednesday 21 November 1934: 'I am reading, with interest & distaste, Wells'.
| Virginia Woolf | H. G. Wells | Experiment in Autobiography | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Tuesday 1 January 1935: 'I had a lovely old years walk yesterday [...] & then in to Lewes to take the car to Martins [... | Virginia Woolf | Ernest Renan | St Paul | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Tuesday 1 January 1935: 'I had a lovely old years walk yesterday [...] & then in to Lewes to take the car to Martins [... | Virginia Woolf | | newspapers | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | Tuesday 1 January 1935: 'I had a lovely old years walk yesterday [...] & then in to Lewes to take the car to Martins [... | Virginia Woolf | | Acts of the Apostles | Print: Book |
| | Sunday 6 January 1935: 'We lunched with Maynard & Lydia [Keynes] [...] talked about [...] Wells -- [Maynard] had read ... | John Maynard Keynes | H. G. Wells | Experiment in Autobiography | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Sunday 6 January 1935: 'We lunched with Maynard & Lydia [Keynes] [...] talked about [...] Wells -- [Maynard] had read ... | John Maynard Keynes | George Bernard Shaw | letter to John Maynard Keynes, 11 December 1935 | Manuscript: Letter |
| 1900-1945 | Wednesday 23 January 1935: 'I am reading the Faery Queen [sic] -- with delight. I shall write about it.' | Virginia Woolf | Edmund Spenser | The Faerie Queene | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Monday 11 March 1935: 'I am reading Chateaubriand; & to my joy find I can read an Italian novel for pleasure, currentl... | Virginia Woolf | Chateaubriand | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Monday 11 March 1935: 'I am reading Chateaubriand; & to my joy find I can read an Italian novel for pleasure, currentl... | Virginia Woolf | unknown | 'Italian novel' | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Sunday 14 April 1935: 'Now for Alfieri & Nash & other notables: so happy I was reading alone last night [...] I read A... | Virginia Woolf | Vittorio Alfieri | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Sunday 14 April 1935: 'Now for Alfieri & Nash & other notables: so happy I was reading alone last night [...] I read A... | Virginia Woolf | John Summerson | John Nash, Architect to King George IV | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Sunday 14 April 1935: 'Now for Alfieri & Nash & other notables: so happy I was reading alone last night [...] I read A... | Virginia Woolf | Annie S. Swan | My Life | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Saturday 20 April 1935: 'The scene has now changed to Rodmell [...] Good Friday was a complete fraud -- rain & more ra... | Virginia Woolf | Stephen Spender | The Destructive Element | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Belchamber (1904) by Howard ("Howdie") Overing Sturgis (1855-1920), a prosperous American expatriate, has for its pri... | Virginia Woolf | Howard Overing Sturgis | Belchamber | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Thursday 9 May 1935: 'Sitting in the sun outside the German Customs. A car with the swastika on the back window has ju... | Virginia Woolf | D. H. Lawrence | Aaron's Rod | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Monday 20 May 1935: 'Quentin bought an Italian paper & read of [T. E.] Lawrence's death.' | Quentin Bell | anon | report of death of T. E. Lawrence | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | Sunday 26 May 1935: 'I'm writing at Aix-en-Provence on a Sunday evening [...] I'm dipping into K.M.'s letters, Stendha... | Virginia Woolf | Katherine Mansfield | The Letters of Katherine Mansfield | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Sunday 26 May 1935: 'I'm writing at Aix-en-Provence on a Sunday evening [...] I'm dipping into K.M.'s letters, Stendha... | Virginia Woolf | Stendhal | 'on Rome' | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Friday 31 May 1935: 'Some good German woman sends a pamphlet on me, into which I couldnt resist looking, though nothin... | Virginia Woolf | Ruth Gruber | Virginia Woolf: A Study | |
| 1900-1945 | Thursday 29 August 1935: 'Reading Miss Mole, Abbe Dunnet (good), an occasional bite at Hind & Panther'. | Virginia Woolf | Emily Hilda Young | Miss Mole | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Thursday 29 August 1935: 'Reading Miss Mole, Abbe Dunnet (good), an occasional bite at Hind & Panther'. | Virginia Woolf | Abbe Dunnet | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Thursday 29 August 1935: 'Reading Miss Mole, Abbe Dunnet (good), an occasional bite at Hind & Panther'. | Virginia Woolf | John Dryden | The Hind and the Panther | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Saturday 31 August 1935: 'Read Hind & Panther. D.H.L. by E. (good) & slept.' | Virginia Woolf | John Dryden | The Hind and the Panther | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Saturday 31 August 1935: 'Read Hind & Panther. D.H.L. by E. (good) & slept.' | Virginia Woolf | Jessie Chambers | D. H. Lawrence: A Personal Record | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Saturday 7 September 1935: 'A heavenly quiet morning reading Alfieri by the open window & not smoking [...] I've stopp... | Virginia Woolf | John Bailey | John Bailey, 1864-1931, Letters and Diaries | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Saturday 7 September 1935: 'A heavenly quiet morning reading Alfieri by the open window & not smoking [...] I've stopp... | Virginia Woolf | Vittorio Alfieri | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Saturday 7 September 1935: 'A heavenly quiet morning reading Alfieri by the open window & not smoking [...] I've stopp... | Virginia Stephen | William Cowper | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Friday 13 September 1935: 'Reading Love for Love, Life of Anthony Hope, &c.' | Virginia Woolf | William Congreve | Love for Love | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Friday 13 September 1935: 'Reading Love for Love, Life of Anthony Hope, &c.' | Virginia Woolf | Sir Charles Mallett | Anthony Hope and His Books | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [?] Sunday 29 September 1935: 'Yesterday I [...] read the Lovers Melancholy & skimmed the top of the words; & want to ... | Virginia Woolf | John Ford | The Lover's Melancholy | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [?] Sunday 29 September 1935: 'Yesterday I [...] read the Lovers Melancholy & skimmed the top of the words; & want to ... | Virginia Woolf | Mrs Easdale | Middle Age: 1885-1932 | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Many thanks for the inscribed D.F. ['The Dark Forest'] Overwork has delayed me much with it. I thought the opening r... | Arnold Bennett | Hugh Walpole | The Dark Forest | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Thank you for sending me a copy of the United Methodist containing the article "Books and Bookmen", which deals with ... | Arnold Bennett | Charles Shaw | When I was a Child | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Thank you for sending me a copy of the United Methodist containing the article "Books and Bookmen", which deals with ... | Arnold Bennett | | United Methodist | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | 'In the issue for December 23rd, 1915 of the NewYork "Nation" there is an extremely fine article on me by Stuart P. Sh... | Arnold Bennett | Stuart P. Sherman | [article on Arnold Bennett] | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | 'I don?t know whether the translation from the Russian, "The Golovleff Family", (published by Knopf out your way) is a... | Arnold Bennett | Mikhail Evgrafovich Saltuikov | The Golovleff Family | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I like this book very much. ["Mr. Britling Sees It Through"] It is extremely original & sympathetic, & the scenes tha... | Arnold Bennett | H.G. Wells | Mr Britling Sees It Through | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I have at length had an opportunity to read "The Farm Servant". At first I thought it wasn?t going to be anything ve... | Arnold Bennett | E.H. Anstruther | The Farm Servant | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | '...he read "360 pages of Plato (Bekker's text) in a fortnight" . . . and ten days later reported "I have finished Pla... | John Buchan | Plato | unknown | Print: Book, scholarly edition |
| 1900-1945 | 'And I have read Dreiser?s "The Financier", which I could never get hold of till the other day. This book, despite its... | Arnold Bennett | Theodore Dreiser | The Financier | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'In your "Literary Notes and News" of Monday you state that George Smith paid
Browning ?12,500 for the first five yea... | Arnold Bennett | | 'Literary Notes and News' | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | 'In your "Literary Notes and News" of Monday you state that George Smith paid
Browning ?12,500 for the first five yea... | Arnold Bennett | | Westminster Gazette | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | Thursday 7 January 1915: 'We [Virginia Woolf and Janet Case] talked about [...] life in London & Hardy's poems which s... | Janet Case | Thomas Hardy | poems | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Thursday 14 March 1915: 'If I'd written this diary last night which I was too excited to do, I should have left a row ... | Virginia Woolf | | Star | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | Tuesday 3 September 1918: 'Last night, L[eonard]. read Hardy's poems aloud.' | Leonard Woolf | Thomas Hardy | poems | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Tuesday 10 September 1918: 'My intellectual snobbishness was chastened this morning by hearing from Janet [Case] that ... | Janet Case | Miguel de Cervantes | Don Quixote | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Tuesday 10 September 1918: 'My intellectual snobbishness was chastened this morning by hearing from Janet [Case] that ... | Janet Case | John Milton | Paradise Lost | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Tuesday 10 September 1918: 'Though I am not the only person in Sussex who reads Milton, I mean to write down my impres... | Virginia Woolf | John Milton | Paradise Lost | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Saturday 15 March 1919: '[Mary Agnes Hamilton] told me a curious thing about the sensibilities of my family -- Adrian ... | Adrian Stephen | Virginia Woolf | The Voyage Out | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Sunday 20 April 1919: 'In the idleness which succeeds [writing] any long article [...] I got out this diary, & read as... | Virginia Woolf | Virginia Woolf | Diary | Manuscript: Codex |
| 1850-1899 1900-1945 | Thursday 12 September 1919: 'Writing has been done under difficulties. I was making way with my new experiment, when I... | Virginia Woolf | Sir Thomas Browne | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Sunday 21 September 1919: 'By paying 5/ I have become a member of the Lewes public library. It is an amusing place -- ... | Virginia Woolf | Mrs Humphry Ward | A Writer's Recollections | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'A Writer's Recollections, by Mrs Humphry Ward, had been published in the autumn of 1918. V[irginia] W[oolf] had read ... | Virginia Woolf | Mrs Humphry Ward | A Writer's Recollections | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Sunday 28 December 1919, following illness with influenza: 'I've read two vast volumes of the Life of Butler; & am rac... | Virginia Woolf | Henry Festing Jones | Samuel Butler, Author of Erewhon (1835-1902): A Memoir | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Sunday 28 December 1919, following illness with influenza: 'I've read two vast volumes of the Life of Butler; & am rac... | Virginia Woolf | Charles Greville | Memoirs | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Sunday 5 January 1936: 'My head is quiet today, soothed by reading the Trumpet Major last night'. | Virginia Woolf | Thomas Hardy | The Trumpet-Major | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Sunday 11 January 1936: 'A very fine day [...] I read Borrow's Wild Wales, into which I can plunge head foremost [...]... | Virginia Woolf | George Borrow | Wild Wales | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Sunday 11 January 1936: 'A very fine day [...] I read Borrow's Wild Wales, into which I can plunge head foremost [...]... | Virginia Woolf | Harry J. Greenwall | The Strange Life of Willy Clarkson | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Tuesday 25 February 1936: 'I've had headaches. Vanquish them by lying still & binding books & reading D. Copperfield.' | Virginia Woolf | Charles Dickens | David Copperfield | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Saturday 29 February 1936: 'I read Quennel [sic] on Byron: dont like that young mans clever agile thin blooded mind'. | Virginia Woolf | Peter Quennell | Byron. The Years of Fame | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Sunday 21 June 1936, during composition of The Years: 'A very strange, most remarkable summer [...] I am learning my c... | Virginia Woolf | Gustave Flaubert | letters | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Friday 27 November 1936, following lunch at Claridges with others including Sir Ronald Storrs: 'Sir R. Storrs. [...] s... | Sir Ronald Storrs | Dante Alighieri | Divine Comedy | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Friday 27 November 1936, following lunch at Claridges with others including Sir Ronald Storrs: 'Sir R. Storrs. [...] s... | Sir Ronald Storrs | Homer | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Friday 27 November 1936, following lunch at Claridges with others including Sir Ronald Storrs: 'Sir R. Storrs. [...] s... | Sir Ronald Storrs | William Shakespeare | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Friday 27 November 1936: 'Dined alone, read Sir T. Browne's letters.' | Virginia Woolf | Sir Thomas Browne | letters | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Wednesday 24 February 1937: 'Started reading French again: Misanthrope & Colette's memoirs given me last summer by Jan... | Virginia Woolf | Colette | Mes Apprentisages | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Wednesday 24 February 1937: 'Started reading French again: Misanthrope & Colette's memoirs given me last summer by Jan... | Virginia Woolf | Moliere | Le Misanthrope | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Monday 8 March 1937: 'What I noticed on the walk to Cockfosters [on 6 March] were: [records various observations] [...... | Virginia Woolf | Leo Tolstoy | What Then Must We Do? | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Friday 19 March 1937: '"They" say almost universally that The Years is a masterpiece [...] The praise chorus began yes... | Virginia Woolf | Howard Spring | review of Virginia Woolf, The Years | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | '[Scott] denies "Waverly" [sic] which it behoves him to do for a while at least; indeed I do not think he will ever ac... | George Gordon, Lord Byron | Walter Scott | Waverley; or, 'Tis Sixty Years Since | Print: Book, Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | 'Have you read Frank Harris?s privately published Life & Confessions of Oscar Wilde? It is a strange & powerful book,... | Arnold Bennett | Frank Harris | Oscar Wilde: His Life and Confessions | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Have you read Frank Harris?s privately published Life & Confessions of Oscar Wilde? It is a strange & powerful book,... | Arnold Bennett | Anton Chekhov | The Tales of Tchehov | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I think MacGill has written one or two excellent things on the Push. [Patrick MacGill, The Great Push , 1916] I do ... | Arnold Bennett | Patrick MacGill | The Great Push | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have read Roderick over and over again and am the more and more convinced that it is the noblest Epic poem of the a... | Francis Jeffrey | Robert Southey | Roderick, The Last of the Goths | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I suppose you have heard what a crushing review [Jeffrey] has given [Wordsworth]. I still found him persisting in his... | Francis Jeffrey | William Wordsworth | Excursion, The | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'You ought to read "He looked in my Window" by Robert Halifax (publ. by Chatto & Windus). It is really remarkable.' | Arnold Bennett | Robert Halifax | He Looked in my Window | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'A slight work, but just about perfect. In fact I do not know how to find fault with it. ["Nocturne", 1917] . . . An... | Arnold Bennett | Frank Swinnerton | Nocturne | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'A slight work, but just about perfect. In fact I do not know how to find fault with it. ["Nocturne", 1917] . . . An... | Arnold Bennett | Emily Bronte | Wuthering Heights | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I am extremely busy & my novel isn?t getting a fair chance. I solace myself with the "note books" of Samuel Butler.' | Arnold Bennett | Samuel Butler | Notebooks | Print: Book |
| | 'I had a note from Mr Jeffery [sic] on the very day after [Hogg's The Pilgrims of the Sun] was published who is not go... | Francis Jeffrey | James Hogg | Pilgrims of the Sun, The | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Friday 2 April 1937: ''Maynard is reading The Years. & is enthusiastic.' | John Maynard Keynes | Virginia Woolf | The Years | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Sunday 4 April 1937: 'Reading Balzac with great pleasure. Novel reading power is coming back.' | Virginia Woolf | Honore de Balzac | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Tuesday 25 May 1937, in account of travels in France, 7-23 May 1937: 'At Rodez the best hotel in the world [...] Readi... | Virginia Woolf | George Sand | Elle et Lui | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Tuesday 25 May 1937, in account of travels in France, 7-23 May 1937: 'Reading Beckford by [Guy] Chapman [1937] -- but ... | Virginia Woolf | Guy Chapman | Beckford | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Monday 1 June 1937: 'I should make a note of Desmond [MacCarthy]'s queer burst of intimacy the other evening [...] las... | Desmond MacCarthy | Desmond MacCarthy | lecture on Sir Leslie Stephen | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'My two articles in your work has [sic] been very much praised in this country. Prof. Wilson said in a very large publ... | John Wilson | James Hogg | 'Cameronian Preacher's Tale, The' | Print: Book, Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | Thursday 15 April 1937: 'Reading Balzac: reading A. Birrell's memoirs'. | Virginia Woolf | Honore de Balzac | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Thursday 15 April 1937: 'Reading Balzac: reading A. Birrell's memoirs'. | Virginia Woolf | Augustine Birrell | Things Past Redress | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Thursday 24 June 1937: 'A letter from Ott. [...] She has been [italics]very[end italics] ill [following stroke] [...] ... | Lady Ottoline Morrell | Henry James | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Tuesday 30 November 1937: 'Reading Chateaubriand now, bought in 6 fine vols for one guinea at Cambridge'. | Virginia Woolf | Francois-Rene Vicomte de Chateaubriand | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Sunday, 19 June 1937, during holiday to Scotland and Border country: 'I have been reading translations of Greek verse,... | Virginia Woolf | unknown | Greek verse | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Thursday 1 September 1937: 'A violent attack on 3 Gs in Scrutiny by Q. Leavis. I dont think it gave me an entire singl... | Virginia Woolf | Queenie Leavis | Review of Virginia Woolf, Three Guineas | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | Thursday 22 September 1938: 'I was just getting into the old, very old, rhythm of regular reading, first this book the... | Virginia Woolf | Madame de Sevigne | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Thursday 22 September 1938: 'I was just getting into the old, very old, rhythm of regular reading, first this book the... | Virginia Woolf | Siegfried Sassoon | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Tuesday 15 November 1938: 'My one quiet evening since Thursday. Read Chaucer.' | Virginia Woolf | Geoffrey Chaucer | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Wednesday 16 November 1938: 'Dinner at Clive [Bell]'s [...] we all talked: about Jews: about Clive's lunch party with ... | Leonard Woolf | | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Tuesday 17 January 1939: 'Yesterday I went to the London Library [...] read Tom [Eliot]'s swan song in the Criterion [... | Virginia Woolf | T. S. Eliot | valedictory editorial article | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | Tuesday 17 January 1939: 'Yesterday I went to the London Library [...] read Tom [Eliot]'s swan song in the Criterion [... | Virginia Woolf | Eugene Delacroix | Journal de Eugene Delacroix | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Thursday 9 February 1939: 'Looking at my old Greek diary I was led to speculate [...] I won't budge from the scheme th... | Virginia Woolf | Virginia Woolf | Diary (17 May 1932) | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | Tuesday 28 February 1939: 'I have just read [Shelley's] Mont Blanc, but cant make it "compose": clouds perpetually ove... | Virginia Woolf | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Mont Blanc | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Thursday 16 March 1939: 'Yesterday in Bond Street where I finally did lay out £10 on clothes, I saw a crowd round a c... | Virginia Woolf | T. S. Eliot | The Family Reunion | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Wednesday 22 March 1939: 'Tom sent me his play, Family Reunion. No, it don't do. I read it over the week end. It start... | Virginia Woolf | T. S. Eliot | The Family Reunion | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Wednesday 22 March 1939: 'Reading Eddie Marsh.' | Virginia Woolf | Sir Edward Marsh | A Number of People | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Tuesday 11 April 1939: 'I am reading Dickens; by way of a refresher. how he lives; not writes: both a virtue & a fault... | Virginia Woolf | Charles Dickens | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Tuesday 11 April 1939: 'I am reading Dickens; by way of a refresher. how he lives; not writes: both a virtue & a fault... | Virginia Woolf | Rochefoucauld | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Thursday 13 April 1939: 'I read about 100 pages of Dickens yesterday, & see something vague about the drama & fiction:... | Virginia Woolf | Charles Dickens | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Saturday 29 April 1939: 'Yesterday I went out [...] to walk in London [makes various observations] [...] So into Canno... | Virginia Woolf | Adolf Hitler | Speech denouncing 1935 Anglo-German Naval Agreement and 1934 German-Polish Non-Agression Pact | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | Saturday 29 April 1939: 'Yesterday I went out [...] to walk in London [makes various observations] [...] So into Canno... | Virginia Woolf | Geoffrey Chaucer | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Thursday 13 July 1939: 'A bad morning [...] 2 hours at M[ecklenburgh]S[quare].[...] A grim thought struck me: wh. of t... | Virginia Woolf | Blaise Pascal | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Thursday 13 July 1939: 'A bad morning [...] 2 hours at M[ecklenburgh]S[quare].[...] A grim thought struck me: wh. of t... | Virginia Woolf | Walter Pater | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Friday 28 July 1939: 'Reading Gide's diaries, recommended by poor death mask Eddie [Sackville-West]. An interesting kn... | Virginia Woolf | Andre Gide | Andre Gide's Journal 1885-1939 | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Monday 11 September 1939: 'I have just read 3 or 4 Characters of Theophrastus, stumbling from Greek to English, & may ... | Virginia Woolf | Theophrastus | 'Characters' | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Saturday 2 December 1939: 'Began reading Freud last night; to enlarge the circumference. to give my brain a wider scop... | Virginia Woolf | Sigmund Freud | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Friday 8 December 1939: 'Shopping -- tempted to buy jerseys & so on. I dislike this excitement. yet enjoy it. Ambivale... | Virginia Woolf | Sigmund Freud | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Sunday 17 December 1939: 'We ate too much hare pie last night; & I read Freud on Groups [...] I'm reading Ricketts dia... | Virginia Woolf | Sigmund Freud | Group Psychology | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Sunday 17 December 1939: 'We ate too much hare pie last night; & I read Freud on Groups [...] I'm reading Ricketts dia... | Virginia Woolf | Charles Ricketts | Self-Portrait, Taken from the Letters & Journals of Charles Ricketts, RA | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Sunday 17 December 1939: 'We ate too much hare pie last night; & I read Freud on Groups [...] I'm reading Ricketts dia... | Virginia Woolf | Lord Herbert | Letters and Diaries of Henry, Tenth Earl of Pembroke and his Circle, 1734-80 | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Sunday 17 December 1939: 'We ate too much hare pie last night; & I read Freud on Groups [...] I'm reading Ricketts dia... | Virginia Woolf | William Shakespeare | The Ages of Man: Shakespeare's Image of Man and Nature | 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 |
| 1900-1945 | 'I forgot in my last letter to say that I found Beer’s book very good, certainly useful to me. [Clifford Beer, "A M... | Arnold Bennett | Clifford Beer | A Mind That Found Itself | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Wednesday 3 January 1940: 'I have just put down Mill's autobiography, after copying certain sentences in the volume I ... | Virginia Woolf | John Stuart Mill | Autobiography | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Friday 9 February 1940: 'For some reason hope has revived. Now what served as bait? [...] I think it was largely readi... | Virginia Woolf | Winifred Holtby | South Riding | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Friday 9 February 1940: 'For some reason hope has revived. Now what served as bait? [...] I think it was largely readi... | Virginia Woolf | Edmund Burke | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Thursday 7 March 1940: 'A fortnight -- well on Saturday it will be a fortnight -- with influenza [...] before getting ... | Virginia Woolf | anon | mock epitaph for Virginia Woolf | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | Thursday 7 March 1940: 'A fortnight -- well on Saturday it will be a fortnight -- with influenza [...] before getting ... | Virginia Woolf | Henry Havelock Ellis | My Life | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Thursday 22 March 1940: 'I read Tolstoy at Breakfast -- Goldenweiser, that I translated with Kot in 1923 & have almost... | Virginia Woolf | A. B. Goldenveizer | Talks with Tolstoi | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Thursday 22 March 1940: 'I read Tolstoy at Breakfast -- Goldenweiser, that I translated with Kot in 1923 & have almost... | Virginia Stephen | Leo Tolstoy | War and Peace | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Sunday 31 March 1940: 'S[ense]. & S[ensibility]. all scenes. very sharp. Surprises. masterly [...] Very dramatic. Plot... | Virginia Woolf | Jane Austen | Sense and Sensibility | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Wednesday 29 May 1940: 'Reading masses of Coleridge & Wordsworth letters of a night -- curiously untwisting & burrowin... | Virginia Woolf | William Wordsworth | letters | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Wednesday 29 May 1940: 'Reading masses of Coleridge & Wordsworth letters of a night -- curiously untwisting & burrowin... | Virginia Woolf | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | letters | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Wednesday 29 May 1940: 'Reading masses of Coleridge & Wordsworth letters of a night -- curiously untwisting & burrowin... | Virginia Woolf | G. K. Chesterton | Thomas Aquinas | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Friday 31 May 1940: 'Began Balzac, Vautrin.' | Virginia Woolf | Honore de Balzac | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Thursday 13 June 1940: '[Lord] Haw-Haw, objectively announcing defeat -- victory on his side of the line, that is -- a... | Virginia Woolf | William Wordsworth | letters | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Saturday 22 June 1940: 'On the down at Bugdean I found some green glass tubes [...] And I read my Shelley at night. Ho... | Virginia Woolf | Percy Bysshe Shelley | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Friday 5 July 1940: 'Why should I be bothering myself with Coleridge I wonder -- Biog. Lit. & then with father's essay... | Virginia Woolf | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Biographia Literaria | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Friday 5 July 1940: 'Why should I be bothering myself with Coleridge I wonder -- Biog. Lit. & then with father's essay... | Virginia Woolf | Sir Leslie Stephen | essay on Coleridge | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Wednesday 28 August 1940: 'I should say, to placate V[irginia].W[oolf]. when she wishes to know what was happening in ... | Virginia Woolf | | Scrutiny | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | Saturday 14 September 1940: 'I am reading Sevigne: how recuperative last week [during heavy air raids]; gone stale a l... | Virginia Woolf | Madame de Sevigne | letters | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Saturday 14 September 1940: 'I am reading Sevigne: how recuperative last week [during heavy air raids]; gone stale a l... | Virginia Woolf | Henry Williamson | Goodbye West Country | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Monday 16 September 1940: 'Have been dallying with Mr Williamson's Confessions, appalled by his ego centricity [...] H... | Virginia Woolf | Henry Williamson | Goodbye West Country | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Tuesday 17 September 1940: 'Yesterday in the Public Library I took down a book of Peter Lucas's criticism [...] London... | Virginia Woolf | F. L. Lucas | Studies French and English | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Saturday 21 September 1940: 'I have forced myself to overcome my rage at being beaten at Bowls & my fulminations again... | Virginia Woolf | Jules Michelet | Histoire de France | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Saturday 26 October 1940: '"The complete Insider" -- I have just coined this title to express my feeling towards Georg... | Virginia Woolf | Jules Michelet | Histoire de France vol.15 | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Saturday 26 October 1940: '"The complete Insider" -- I have just coined this title to express my feeling towards Georg... | Virginia Woolf | G. M. Trevelyan | History of England | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Friday 1 November 1940: 'My Times book this week is E. F. Benson's last autobigraphy [...] I learn there the perils of... | Virginia Woolf | E. F. Benson | Final Edition, an Informal Autobiography | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Friday 15 November 1940: 'I had a gaping raw wound too reading my essay in N.W. Why did I? Why come to the top when I ... | Virginia Woolf | Virginia Woolf | 'The Leaning Tower' | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Friday 15 November 1940: 'I am reading Read's Aut[obiograph]y: a tight packed unsympathetic mind, all good cabinet mak... | Virginia Woolf | Herbert Read | Annals of Innocence and Experience | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Monday 18 November 1940: 'These queer little sand castles, I was thinking; I was finishing Herbert Read's autobiograph... | Virginia Woolf | Herbert Read | Annals of Innocence and Experience | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Sunday 29 December 1940: 'I detest the hardness of old age --I feel it. I rasp. I'm tart.
'The foot less prompt to ... | Virginia Woolf | Matthew Arnold | Thyrsis | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Wednesday 1 January 1941: 'On Sunday night, as I was reading about the great fire, in a very accurate detailed book, L... | Virginia Woolf | anon | account of the Great Fire of London | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Thursday 9 January 1941: 'Desmond's book has come. Dipping I find it small beer. Too Irish, too confidential, too slop... | Virginia Woolf | Desmond MacCarthy | Drama | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Wednesday 15 January 1941:
'Joyce is dead -- Joyce about a fortnight younger than I am. I remember Miss Weaver, in... | Katherine Mansfield | James Joyce | Ulysses | Manuscript: Typescript |
| 1900-1945 | Monday 20 January 1941: 'Reading Gide. La Porte Etroite [1909] feeble, slaty, sentimental.' | Virginia Woolf | Andre Gide | La Porte Etroite | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'We have had a very blowing night [...] I was set this morning very gingerly by the fire-side in an elbow chair I had ... | Janet Schaw | unknown | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'The dead lights [shutters used to protect ships' interiors during storms at sea]were no sooner up and a candle made f... | Fanny Rutherfurd | Henry Home, Lord Kames | Elements of Criticism | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'The dead lights [shutters used to protect ships' interiors during storms at sea]were no sooner up and a candle made f... | Fanny Rutherfurd | Henry Home, Lord Kames | Elements of Criticism | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Several of the officers [participating in military review at Wilmingtown] came up to dine, amongst others Coll: Howe,... | Janet Schaw | William Shakespeare | Henry IV | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'I have seen a newspaper published by the [Wilmington] committee's order, where the whole story of the battle [of Bunk... | Janet Schaw | | newspaper | Print: Newspaper |
| 1700-1799 | 'I was yesterday at Belleim, the winter palace of the King [of Portugal] [...] The house is by no means fine, and did ... | Janet Schaw | Sir William Chambers | A Dissertation on Oriental Gardening | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Julia Martin, 11 January 1845: 'Mr Kenyon has read to me an extract from a private letter -- addr... | John Kenyon | Harriet Martineau | extract from letter to Edward Moxon, reporting seance | Manuscript: Letter |
| 1900-1945 | 'I have been reading Marlow, and I was so much more impressed by him than I thought I should be, that I read Cymbeline... | Virginia Stephen | William Shakespeare | Cymbeline | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Tomorrow I go on to Ben Jonson, but I shan't like him as much as Marlow. I read Dr Faustus...' | Virginia Stephen | Christopher Marlowe | Dr Faustus | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Tomorrow I go on to Ben Jonson, but I shan't like him as much as Marlow. I read Dr Faustus, and Edward II...' | Virginia Stephen | Christopher Marlowe | Edward II | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'If it had not been for Dugald Gilchrist who reads any thing (or nothing) and wears spectacles besides, I should undou... | Jane Baillie Welsh | Leigh Hunt | The Wishing Cap | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 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 | ''Libbie Marsh' I send too; one of my cousins liked it so much that I gave it to her, and she published it on her own ... | Fanny | Elizabeth Gaskell | Libbie Marsh's Three Eras | 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 |
| 1800-1849 | 'I felt rather lonely this Morning at breakfast so I went and unbox'd a Shakspeare - "There's my Comfort". | John Keats | William Shakespeare | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Just now I opened Spencer, and the first Lines I saw were these.-
"The noble Heart that harbors vertuous thought,
A... | John Keats | Edmund Spenser | The Faerie Queene | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'She [Gaskell's daughter 'Meta' or Margaret Emily] is [italics] quite [end italics] able to appreciate any book I am r... | Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell | John 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 | 'I am so glad you liked 'Ruth'. I was so anxious about her, and took so much pains over writing it, that I lost my own... | R. Monckton Milnes | Elizabeth Gaskell | Ruth | Print: Book |
| 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 | 'She [Florence Nightingale] never reads any books now. she has not time for it, to begin with; and secondly she says l... | Florence Nightingale | Christian Charles Josias, Baron von Bunsen | | Print: Book |
| 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 |
| 1900-1945 | Monday 12 September 1937: '[At Memoir Club meeting] Maynard read a very packed profound & impressive paper so far as I... | John Maynard Keynes | John Maynard Keynes | 'Memoir Club' paper | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | Sunday 3 September 1939: 'This is I suppose certainly the last hour of peace. The time limit is out at 11. P[rime]M[in... | Virginia Woolf | R. H. Tawney | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Friday 6 October 1939: 'I compose articles on Lewis Carroll & read a great variety of books -- Flaubert's life, R[oger... | Virginia Woolf | Francis Steegmuller | Flaubert and Madame Bovary. A Double Portrait | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Friday 6 October 1939: 'I compose articles on Lewis Carroll & read a great variety of books -- Flaubert's life, R[oger... | Virginia Woolf | Jacques Emile Blanche | More Portraits of a Lifetime, 1918-38 | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Friday 6 October 1939: 'I compose articles on Lewis Carroll & read a great variety of books -- Flaubert's life, R[oger... | Virginia Woolf | Roger Fry | Last Lectures | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Friday 6 October 1939: 'I compose articles on Lewis Carroll & read a great variety of books -- Flaubert's life, R[oger... | Virginia Woolf | | 'life of Erasmus' | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Wednesday 25 October 1939: 'As a journalist I'm in demand [...] To relax I read Little Dorrit [...] Gerald Heard's boo... | Virginia Woolf | Charles Dickens | Little Dorrit | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Wednesday 25 October 1939: 'As a journalist I'm in demand [...] To relax I read Little Dorrit [...] Gerald Heard's boo... | Virginia Woolf | Gerald Heard | Pain, Sex and Time: A New Outlook on Evolution and the Future of Man | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I return to you these verses (of which I have taken a copy) with many thanks. I am always glad of your scraps of inte... | Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell | | [verses] | Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'I dreaded lest the Prof: should involve anything with M. Heger - I had heard her say it related to her Brussels life,... | Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell | Charlotte 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 |
| 1900-1945 | 'I understand from Mr. Bagguley that it is you who are the craftsman of the binding of the "Candide" which he has been... | Arnold Bennett | Voltaire | Candide | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I don’t think I have concealed from you my opinion that "Fortitude" and "The Duchess" [The Duchess of Wrexe] are n... | Arnold Bennett | Hugh Walpole | Fortitude | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I don’t think I have concealed from you my opinion that "Fortitude" and "The Duchess" [The Duchess of Wrexe] are n... | Arnold Bennett | Hugh Walpole | The Duchess of Wrexe | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I do not think that "Victory" is anything like equal to "Chance". In fact it is not first-rate Conrad, "Chance" is. ... | Arnold Bennett | Joseph Conrad | Victory | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I do not think that "Victory" is anything like equal to "Chance". In fact it is not first-rate Conrad, "Chance" is. ... | Arnold Bennett | Joseph Conrad | Chance | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I do not think that "Victory" is anything like equal to "Chance". In fact it is not first-rate Conrad, "Chance" is. ... | Arnold Bennett | H. G. Wells | Bealby | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Spender [J.A. Spender, editor of the Westminster Gazette] has recently introduced me to Thucydides & I think he is th... | Arnold Bennett | Thucydides | [Histories] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I doubt if you ought to call France & Flaubert "dry". "L’Education Sentimentale" ought to be read with ease. Ditto... | Arnold Bennett | Gustave Flaubert | L'Education Sentimentale | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I doubt if you ought to call France & Flaubert "dry". "L’Education Sentimentale" ought to be read with ease. Ditto... | Arnold Bennett | Gustave Flaubert | Un Coeur Simple | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I doubt if you ought to call France & Flaubert "dry". "L’Education Sentimentale" ought to be read with ease. Ditto... | Arnold Bennett | Anatole France | La Rotisserie de la reine Pédauque | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I doubt if you ought to call France & Flaubert "dry". "L’Education Sentimentale" ought to be read with ease. Ditto... | Arnold Bennett | Anatole France | Thais | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I doubt if you ought to call France & Flaubert "dry". "L’Education Sentimentale" ought to be read with ease. Ditto... | Arnold Bennett | Charles Louis Philippe | Bubu de Montparnasse | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I doubt if you ought to call France & Flaubert "dry". "L’Education Sentimentale" ought to be read with ease. Ditto... | Arnold Bennett | Lytton Strachey | Eminent Victorians | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The weather is damnable, especially when one has neither car nor taxi. I read ¼ of "Nicholas Nickleby" yesterday be... | Arnold Bennett | Charles Dickens | Nicholas Nickleby | 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 |
| 1900-1945 | 'I have pleasure in stating that Mr. T.S. Eliot (whom I understand to be a candidate for a commission in the Quarterma... | Arnold Bennett | T. S. Eliot | unknown | 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 |
| 1900-1945 | 'Do you read the Sunday Times? It is a poor paper, but has great military articles by Spenser Wilkinson, one of the f... | Arnold Bennett | Spencer Wilkinson | Sunday Times articles | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | 'Have you read Dolly Richardson’s "Backwater"? If not, do. It is a book.' | Arnold Bennett | Dorothy M. Richardson | Backwater | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'This is a very good number. The Wells review seems most just, but I haven’t yet finished the book. [The Soul of a... | Arnold Bennett | H. G. Wells | The Soul of a Bishop | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'This is a very good number. [The New Statesman]. The Wells review seems most just, but I haven’t yet finished the ... | Arnold Bennett | | The New Statesman | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | 'I should have read S.& H. [Shops and Houses] earlier, despite J. & P. , but I couldn’t get the book off Marguerite.... | Arnold Bennett | Frank Swinnerton | Shops and Houses | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I should have read S.& H. [Shops and Houses] earlier, despite J. & P. , but I couldn’t get the book off Marguerite.... | Arnold Bennett | Frank Swinnerton | On the Staircase | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Pardon my frankness. This is most distinctly an idea for a play. And you have put everything into it except the pla... | Arnold Bennett | E.V. Lucas | The Sane Star | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'I have just seen (quoted in the National News) the following extract from "Gerald Cumberland’s" A Book of Reminisce... | Arnold Bennett | | National News | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'By the way, we all admire _very greatly_ your beautiful little poem in the Boston Book. I
dare say you
don't car... | Florence De Quincey | James T. Fields | "On a Book of Sea-Mosses. Sent to an Eminent English Poet" in The Boston Book, being Specimens of Metropolitan Literature | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'By the way, we all admire _very greatly_ your beautiful little poem in the Boston Book. I
dare say you
don't car... | Florence De Quincey | Nathaniel Hawthorne | "Drowne's Wooden Image" in The Boston Book, being Specimens of Metropolitan Literature | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'By the way, we all admire _very greatly_ your beautiful little poem in the Boston Book. I
dare say you
don't car... | Florence De Quincey | Henry W. Longfellow | "Footprints of Angels" in The Boston Book, being Specimens of Metropolitan Literature | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'How [italics] very [end italics] interesting the report of the Sanitary Commission is? it tells one so very much one ... | Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell | [n/a] | [Report of the Sanitary Commission] | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'I want you to tell me what Genl Butler really is - whether an "Our Hero" as a paper in the Atlantic called him; or an... | Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell | [n/a] | Atlantic 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 | '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... | John Ruskin | 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 |
| 1900-1945 | 'Baccae [sic] is far and away the best play of Euripides I have read.' | Virginia Woolf | Euripides | The Bacchae | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I am just finishing the Life of B[urne-]. J[ones]. which begins to bore me slightly-not the Life, which is excellent,... | Virginia Woolf | Julia Mary Cartwright Ady | The Life and Works of Edward Burne-Jones, bart. | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I am reading, 'Your Life in 15 Century' Mrs J. R. Green.' | Virginia Woolf | Alice Stopford Green | Town Life in the Fifteenth Century | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I am reading, ... "Life" of William Morris.' | Virginia Woolf | J.W. Mackail | Life of William Morris | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I am reading, ... Layard's Nineveh.' | Virginia Woolf | Austen Henry Layard | Nineveh | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I am reading, ... "History of Music."' | Virginia Woolf | unknown | [History of Music] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I am reading, ... "Not Wisely but too Well" by Miss Rhoda Broughton.' | Virginia Woolf | Rhoda Broughton | Not Wisely but Too Well | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I am reading, ... 2 bound volumes of the Windsor Magazine which I hire for 2d a week, a ridiculously cheap price.' | Virginia Woolf | | The Windsor Magazine: An Illustrated Monthly for Men and Women | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | '...- I spend 5 days of precious time toiling through Henry James' subtleties for Mrs Lyttleton, and write a very hard... | Virginia Woolf | Henry James | The Golden Bowl | Print: Book |
| 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 | '[italics] Whose [end italics] history of the F. Revolution are you reading?' | Marianne Gaskell | [unknown] | [a history of the French Revolution] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I am afraid I never told you that I did not mind your reading Jane Eyre'. | Marianne Gaskell | Charlotte Bronte | Jane Eyre | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'All we know as yet is from the TIMES, speaking of deaths from cholera in 5th reg. "Senior Captain Duckworth dead". "P... | Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell | [n/a] | Times, 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 |
| 1700-1799 | 'Having been upon a tour in Scotland I did not receive your book till my arrival at York & was unwilling to answer you... | Henry Vassal Fox, Lord Holland | George Crabbe | Parish Register, The | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Having been upon a tour in Scotland I did not receive your book till my arrival at York & was unwilling to answer you... | Henry Vassal Fox, Lord Holland | George Crabbe | Library, The | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Having been upon a tour in Scotland I did not receive your book till my arrival at York & was unwilling to answer you... | Henry Vassal Fox, Lord Holland | George Crabbe | Village, The | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I will not mention my own nor my son's Judgment upon the Poem, which in spite of my Prohibition he stole for a solita... | John Crabbe | Walter Scott | Lord of the Isles, The | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '(Florence MacCunn. [italics] Sir Walter Scott's Friends [end italics] Wm. Blackwood 1909) I have just finished this e... | Antonia White | Florence MacCunn | Sir Walter Scott's Friends | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '(Florence MacCunn. [italics] Sir Walter Scott's Friends [end italics] Wm. Blackwood 1909) I have just finished this e... | Antonia White | David Herbert Lawrence | [Letters] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '(Florence MacCunn. [italics] Sir Walter Scott's Friends [end italics] Wm. Blackwood 1909) I have just finished this e... | Antonia White | David Herbert Lawrence | [works] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '(Florence MacCunn. [italics] Sir Walter Scott's Friends [end italics] Wm. Blackwood 1909) I have just finished this e... | Antonia White | Thomas Carlyle | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '(Florence MacCunn. [italics] Sir Walter Scott's Friends [end italics] Wm. Blackwood 1909) I have just finished this e... | Antonia White | J. Soames | [article on Lawrence in 'Life and Letters] | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | 'I am reading Carlyle as usual. What a man! ... When I read men like C., I pant along happily at their skirts, thinkin... | Antonia White | Thomas Carlyle | [Works] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I have been in bed 9 days now and still must not get up. My one enjoyment is in reading the letters of Carlyle and Ja... | Antonia White | Jane Welsh | [letters to Carlyle] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Still in bed. Have finished the love letters and left my pair on the brink of marriage... [She] is as lively and hare... | Antonia White | Jane Welsh | [letters to Carlyle] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Leonard Woolf to Lytton Strachey, 20 March 1901:
'It is late, quite late & I have been sitting all the evening over... | Leonard Woolf | | The Book of Job | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Leonard Woolf to Lytton Strachey, 9 April 1901:
'I have been in the wilderness to-day but before I end I must tell ... | Leonard Woolf | Charles Marriott | The Column | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Leonard Woolf to Lytton Strachey, 1 September 1901:
'London in August! [...] I like it because I choose it by refus... | Leonard Woolf | Honore De Balzac | Le Pere Goriot | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Leonard Woolf to Lytton Strachey, 4 January 1902:
'Beppo is an innovation is he not? [...] if there are five acts o... | Leonard Woolf | Thomas Kyd | The Spanish Tragedy | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Leonard Woolf to Lytton Strachey, 4 January 1902:
'I sent the Goth [i.e. Thoby Stephen] a cutting from a newspaper ... | Leonard Woolf | | The Pall Mall Gazette | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | Leonard Woolf to Lytton Strachey, 1 April 1902:
'I have read nothing [over Easter vacation] except a book by the ne... | Leonard Woolf | Maxim Gorky | Foma Gordyeeff | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Leonard Woolf to Lytton Strachey, 8 April 1902:
'I was glad to hear you had really read it [Le Pere Goriot] & I agr... | Lytton Strachey | Honore de Balzac | Le Pere Goriot | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Leonard Woolf to Lytton Strachey, 13 July 1902:
'[italics]I[end italics] dribble on among Aristotle, golf & Byron. ... | Leonard Woolf | George Gordon, Lord Byron | 'Turkish Tales' | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Leonard Woolf to Lytton Strachey, 13 July 1902:
'[italics]I[end italics] dribble on among Aristotle, golf & Byron. ... | Leonard Woolf | George Gordon, Lord Byron | Letters | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Leonard Woolf to Lytton Strachey, 13 July 1902:
'[italics]I[end italics] dribble on among Aristotle, golf & Byron. ... | Leonard Woolf | Joris Karl Huysmans | A Rebours | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Leonard Woolf to Lytton Strachey, 2 January 1903:
'I don't think my December list of books read equals yours. It in... | Leonard Woolf | George Bernard Shaw | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Leonard Woolf to Lytton Strachey, 2 January 1903:
'I don't think my December list of books read equals yours. It incl... | Leonard Woolf | Arthur Schopenhauer | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Leonard Woolf to Lytton Strachey, 2 January 1903:
'I don't think my December list of books read equals yours. It in... | Leonard Woolf | Barry Pain | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Leonard Woolf to Lytton Strachey, 2 January 1903:
'I don't think my December list of books read equals yours. It in... | Leonard Woolf | Robert Browning | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Leonard Woolf to Lytton Strachey, 2 January 1903:
'I don't think my December list of books read equals yours. It in... | Leonard Woolf | Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Leonard Woolf to Lytton Strachey, 2 January 1903:
'I don't think my December list of books read equals yours. It in... | Leonard Woolf | Oscar Wilde | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Leonard Woolf to Lytton Strachey, 2 January 1903:
'I don't think my December list of books read equals yours. It in... | Leonard Woolf | Gustave Flaubert | Madame Bovary | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Leonard Woolf to Lytton Strachey, 2 January 1903:
'I don't think my December list of books read equals yours. It in... | Leonard Woolf | | A Manual of Ethics | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Leonard Woolf to Lytton Strachey, 2 January 1903:
'I don't think my December list of books read equals yours. It in... | Leonard Woolf | William Shakespeare | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Leonard Woolf to Saxon Sydney-Turner, 20 June 1903:
'Are you in London & are you going to bring your [cricket] team... | Leonard Woolf | George Stout | [on Psychology] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Leonard Woolf to Lytton Strachey, 28 December 1904:
'I am sitting in the hotel garden surrounded by strange trees &... | Leonard Woolf | | Times Literary Supplement | Print: Newspaper, Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | Leonard Woolf to Lytton Strachey, 27 January 1905:
'I sit in the Kachcheri [a government office] most of the day & ... | Leonard Woolf | Henry James | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Leonard Woolf to Desmond MacCarthy, 26 February 1905:
'The books you gave me were a godsend at once. I had to trave... | Leonard Woolf | William Shakespeare | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Leonard Woolf to Lytton Strachey, 5 March 1905:
'De Vigny has come. I haven't read him all, but I'm rather disappoi... | Leonard Woolf | Alfred de Vigny | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Leonard Woolf to Lytton Strachey, 5 March 1905:
'De Vigny has come. I haven't read him all, but I'm rather disappoi... | Leonard Woolf | R. B. O'Brien | The Life of Parnell | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Leonard Woolf to Lytton Strachey, 5 March 1905:
'De Vigny has come. I haven't read him all, but I'm rather disappoi... | Leonard Woolf | R. B. O'Brien | The Life of Russell | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Leonard Woolf to Lytton Strachey, 5 March 1905:
'De Vigny has come. I haven't read him all, but I'm rather disappoi... | Leonard Woolf | Benjamin Disraeli | Coningsby | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Leonard Woolf to Lytton Strachey, 5 March 1905:
'De Vigny has come. I haven't read him all, but I'm rather disappoi... | Leonard Woolf | Voltaire | La Dictionnaire Philosophique | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Leonard Woolf to Lytton Strachey, 4 June 1905:
'I live, I believe you know, with [Bernard] Dutton. He could only ex... | Leonard Woolf | Denis Diderot | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Leonard Woolf to Lytton Strachey, 23 July 1905:
'I have just finished The Golden Bowl & am astounded. Did he invent... | Leonard Woolf | Henry James | The Golden Bowl | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Leonard Woolf to Lytton Strachey, 3 September 1905:
'Euphrosne arrived. It is a queer medley. There are only 3 thin... | Leonard Woolf | Clive Bell, Walter Lamb, Lytton Strachey, Saxon Sydney-Turner, Leonard Woolf et al | Euphrosne | Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | Leonard Woolf to Lytton Strachey, 29 October 1905:
'The taupe sent his book to me last week. It is really extraordi... | Leonard Woolf | E. M. Forster | Where Angels Fear to Tread | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Leonard Woolf to Lytton Strachey, 13 January 1906:
'I have practically settled down for two weeks here [...] it is ... | Leonard Woolf | Voltaire | Letters | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Leonard Woolf to Lytton Strachey, 13 January 1906:
'I have practically settled down for two weeks here [...] it is ... | Leonard Woolf | Joris Karl Huysmans | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Leonard Woolf to Lytton Strachey, 13 January 1906:
'I have practically settled down for two weeks here [...] it is ... | Leonard Woolf | Henry James | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I am re-reading "Anna Karenina" with great pleasure and only wish I could attempt a book on a scale like that. So man... | Antonia White | Leo Tolstoy | Anna Karenina | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'A week in Edinburgh looking up Carlyle MSS before Christmas' | Antonia White | [unknown] | [MSS by or about Carlyle] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'At present sunk deep in Harriet Martineau: very much attracted in spite of her complacent priggishness and self-right... | Antonia White | Harriet Martineau | [works] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The more I go into Jane, the more, in a way, she repels me. The Love-Letters, read for the 3rd time, show [italics] h... | Antonia White | Jane Welsh | [letters to Carlyle] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '[included in diary entry] SANTAYANA ('Reason in Common Sense')
"There may well be intense consciousness in the total... | Antonia White | George Santayana | Reason in Common Sense | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '[included in diary entry] [italics] Keats [end italics] (Letter to Geo and Thos Keats Dec 28 1817)
"negative capabil... | Antonia White | John Keats | [Letters] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I rarely take a book about with me now and Keats' letters have lasted me nearly two months'. | Antonia White | John Keats | [Letters] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Reading (except the Field book on child psychology...) too indigestible. Even H[umphrey] J[ennings]'s innocuous [ital... | Antonia White | Field | [book on child psychology] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Reading (except the Field book on child psychology...) too indigestible. Even H[umphrey] J[ennings]'s innocuous [ital... | Antonia White | Humphrey Jennings | Little town in France | Print: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'Remember with great pleasure weeks recovering from abortion in 1924 and for once holding my life in suspension, not w... | Antonia White | Marcel Proust | [works] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I have read Tom's [note]book. I had no right to perhaps, without telling him but he has read mine and I did. It gave ... | Antonia White | Tom Hopkinson | [diary notebook] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'For days I've been trying to copy out that passage - pages from Heseltine [Peter Warlock, the composer]'s letters: th... | Antonia White | Peter Warlock | [letters] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'On my First Communion day, November 21st 1914, I felt nothing at the actual receiving of the sacrament but in reading... | Antonia White | Francis Thompson | [poems] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Read [italics] The Captain's Doll [end italics] [D.H. Lawrence] again (about the 8th time I think) and like it better... | Antonia White | David Herbert Lawrence | Captain's Doll, The | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '[a young Quaker] has made me read Woolman's journal which I found very genuine and moving but not so [italics] boulev... | Antonia White | John Woolman | Journal of John Woolman | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '[she thinks her own writing] was almost always imitation of what I had read. I realised the immense difference betwee... | Antonia White | Charlotte d'Erlanger | [unknown] | Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'I have just been reading the record of a dangerous voyage, [italics] Malte Laurids Brigg [end italics]. Yet Rilke ret... | Antonia White | Rainer Maria Rilke | Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge, The | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'It is strange that in poetry, when I was eleven, I had what I can only call my first revelation from which I emerged ... | Antonia White | Rainer Maria Rilke | Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge, The | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'It is strange that in poetry, when I was eleven, I had what I can only call my first revelation from which I emerged ... | Antonia White | [unknown] | [poetry] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'At the moment, in a sense, "art" means nothing whatever to me. I cannot read (except trash) look at pictures, listen ... | Antonia White | [unknown] | ['trash'] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'When I read Rilke I seem to understand her ['Roberta's] death... she really had carried it about with her, nourished ... | Antonia White | Rainer Maria Rilke | [works] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I read voraciously the lives of painters and the journals of poets. I am nourished and nourished but I bring forth no... | Antonia White | [unknown] | ['lives of painters'] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I read voraciously the lives of painters and the journals of poets. I am nourished and nourished but I bring forth no... | Antonia White | [unknown] | ['journals of poets'] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '[in journal entry] from E.O. S[iepmann]'s notebook
Free spirit liable to possession or obsession...
Debauchery is t... | Antonia White | Eric Siepmann | [notebook] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'Every day I become more aware of the extraordinary interpenetration of people's lives. I think of the share Emily had... | Antonia White | Tom Hopkinson | I have been Drowned | Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'Every day I become more aware of the extraordinary interpenetration of people's lives. I think of the share Emily had... | Antonia White | Djuna Barnes | Nightwood | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Every day I become more aware of the extraordinary interpenetration of people's lives. I think of the share Emily had... | Antonia White | Emily | [poems entitled 'Melville' and 'The Creation'] | Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'Reading the Father Zossima chapter ['The Brothers Karamazov'] I felt the confessor-saint fulfilled exactly the same f... | Antonia White | Fyodor Dostoevsky | Brothers Karamazov, The | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'By reading Frances' letters to Tom I have learnt a great deal about Frances and a great deal about Tom. They are not ... | Antonia White | Frances Grigson | [letters to Tom Hopkinson] | Manuscript: Letter |
| 1900-1945 | 'Up to dinner, talking to Emily, practising the piano, playing with the children, reading Hoare's admirable article on... | Antonia White | Hoare | [article on Rimbaud] | Print: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'Up to dinner, talking to Emily, practising the piano, playing with the children, reading Hoare's admirable article on... | Antonia White | [n/a] | Vogue | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | 'I love Emily and am too much afraid of hurting her. Her book ['The Tigron' - unpublished] is so very personal to her.... | Antonia White | Emily Coleman | Tigron, The | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'When she [Emily Coleman] reads and loves anything she makes it part of her, underlining with a peculiar heaviness... ... | Antonia White | William Wordsworth | [Poems] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I am surprised to find that though suspicious of surrealist dogma I like some of their work, notably and unexpectedly... | Antonia White | Andre Breton | Nadja | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Heaven knows there is enough infantile cruelty in his [Basil Nicholson's] book'. | Antonia White | Basil Nicholson | Business is Business | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'My chief pleasure at the moment is Darwin's [italics] Voyage of the Beagle [end italics]... it is so fresh, so clear,... | Antonia White | Charles Darwin | Voyage of the Beagle, The | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Reading Darwin's [book] I wish I had loved objective things and looked at them when I was a child instead of feeding ... | Antonia White | Charles Darwin | Voyage of the Beagle, The | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The clerk who cashes my cheques at the bank is quite a bright, intelligent-looking boy. To-day I had a copy of [itali... | Antonia White | Gustave Flaubert | Bouvard et Pecuchet | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Her [Laura Riding's] talent I cannot judge, having seen too little. Much of what I have seen seems a nervous and comp... | Antonia White | Laura Riding | [unknown] | Print: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'I feel a curious kinship with, dislike of, yet pity for Katherine Mansfield, whose letters I am reading again. I see ... | Antonia White | Katherine Mansfield | [letters] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Down here with my mother I feel that nothing can be so preposterous, so undignified as "love". I have been reading he... | Antonia White | Christine Botting | [diary] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | '[Susan] is reading [italics] Frost [end italics]. She was terrified by the story of the lost child in the cellar.' | Susan Glossop | Antonia White | Frost at Midnight | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I read one of the green volumes of notes [diary] to him [Ian] (Sept to Nov 1937). It interested him very much, said i... | Antonia White | Antonia White | [diary] | Manuscript: Codex, green notebook |
| 1900-1945 | 'I am so much enjoying [italics] The Mill on the Floss [end italics] but would so much like to earn the right to read ... | Antonia White | George Eliot [pseud.] | Mill on the Floss, The | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I have just finished [italics] The Mill on the Floss[end italics]. Reading it and [italics] Adam Bede [end italics] h... | Antonia White | George Eliot [pseud.] | Mill on the Floss, The | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I have just finished [italics] The Mill on the Floss[end italics]. Reading it and [italics] Adam Bede [end italics] h... | Antonia White | George Eliot [pseud.] | Adam Bede | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I have just finished [italics] The Mill on the Floss[end italics]. Reading it and [italics] Adam Bede [end italics] h... | Antonia White | George Eliot [pseud.] | Middlemarch | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I have just finished [italics] The Mill on the Floss[end italics]. Reading it and [italics] Adam Bede [end italics] h... | Antonia White | [unknown] | [a life of George Eliot] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'D.H. Lawrence draws so heavily on his own life - yet how often the best and freest part of his writing is his inventi... | Antonia White | David Herbert Lawrence | Captain's Doll, The | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I have been reading again the notes I made this time last year about Basil. Somehow more truth and less distortion ge... | Antonia White | Antonia White | [diary notebooks] | Manuscript: Codex, notebook |
| 1900-1945 | 'I have just begun Forster's Life of Dickens again. I did not finish it before. I think that will start me off for the... | Antonia White | John Forster | Life of Charles Dickens, The | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'While admiring Tom's book ['The Man Below', 1939] I have great pleasure in finding its weaknesses and though I cannot... | Antonia White | Tom Hopkinson | Man Below, The | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'I had hoped to have a clear head here - to get on with German, Italian, etc. and to read some history. But I have bee... | Antonia White | Leo Tolstoy | War and Peace | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I had hoped to have a clear head here - to get on with German, Italian, etc. and to read some history. But I have bee... | Antonia White | Arthur Conan Doyle | [Sherlock Holmes Stories] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I had hoped to have a clear head here - to get on with German, Italian, etc. and to read some history. But I have bee... | Antonia White | Emily Coleman | [unknown] | Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'I think I am not [italics] serious [end italics] enough! Sometimes when I look through the [italics] New Statesman [e... | Antonia White | [n/a] | New Statesman, The | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | 'I have been struck by finding the same thought within a few days in two very different places - in George Eliot and i... | Antonia White | George Eliot | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I have been struck by finding the same thought within a few days in two very different places - in George Eliot and i... | Antonia White | [n/a] | [an American magazine] | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | 'The shock last night when Ian was cold and unenthusiastic about the first bit of the book which I'd managed to write.... | Ian Henderson | Antonia White | [MS fiction] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'Reading George Sand's and Flaubert's letters. Her warmth, geniality, tolerance compared to his anxiety, narrowness, f... | Antonia White | George Sand | [letters to and from Flaubert] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I was idly looking at [italics] Jacob's Room [end italics] tonight. It exasperated yet charmed me. Here was an attemp... | Antonia White | Virginia Woolf | Jacob's Room | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'In the fog the safest guide is a blind man. This is a [italics] sortes [end italics] from Julien Green to whose journ... | Antonia White | Julien Green | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'There is a peculiar flavour about Catholic writings which I still find repellent. [George] Tyrell is the only modern ... | Antonia White | George Tyrrell | [Jesuit writings] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'There is a peculiar flavour about Catholic writings which I still find repellent. [George] Tyrell is the only modern ... | Antonia White | [unknown] | [Catholic texts] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'After a long time, I felt impelled to read through this book again in the hopes of finding some clues.' [AW has falle... | Antonia White | Antonia White | [diaries] | Manuscript: Codex, notebook |
| 1900-1945 | 'It's the old thing which came up so clearly in analysis as I see reading through these notes - the [italics] keeping ... | Antonia White | Antonia White | [diaries] | Manuscript: Codex, notebook |
| 1900-1945 | 'Dreamy and compulsive lately: cram myself with reading, put off all activities'. | Antonia White | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [symptoms of depression include] 'Outward signs: maniacal reading, either pure escapism or... the search for the magic... | Antonia White | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'One is driven back to the Gospels and one does not know how to interpret them' [writing of her desire to understand t... | Antonia White | [n/a] | [Gospels] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The more I read of theology, Church History, apologetics, philosophy, scripture interpretation, the more hopelessly a... | Antonia White | [unknown] | [writings about religion, Church History, etc] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The more I read of theology, Church History, apologetics, philosophy, scripture interpretation, the more hopelessly a... | Antonia White | Walter Hylton | Scala Perfectionis, or Ladder of Perfection | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The more I read of theology, Church History, apologetics, philosophy, scripture interpretation, the more hopelessly a... | Antonia White | Julian of Norwich | Sixteen Revelations of Divine Love | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Leonard Woolf to Robert Trevlyan, 11 February 1906:
'Very many thanks for Fry's book [The Discourses of Sir Joshua ... | Leonard Woolf | Roger Fry | The Discourses of Sir Joshua Reynolds | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Leonard Woolf to Saxon Sydney-Turner, 27 August 1906:
'I am camping out in a tent in the wilderness. I told you I b... | Leonard Woolf | Charles Dickens | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Leonard Woolf to Lytton Strachey, 4 November 1906:
'I was reading La Bruyere today with the irritation against [Joh... | Leonard Woolf | Jean de la Bruyere | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Leonard Woolf to Lytton Strachey, 28 April 1907:
'Today my head is whirring with slight fever. Since I wrote that I... | Leonard Woolf | Sir George Otto Trevelyan | The Competition Wallah | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Leonard Woolf to Lytton Strachey, 7 July 1907:
'My brother sent me The Longest Journey. Don't you think it is an as... | Leonard Woolf | E. M. Forster | The Longest Journey | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Leonard Woolf to Lytton Strachey, 15 September 1907:
'I have just read [Francis Cornford's] Thucydides Mythistoricu... | Leonard Woolf | Francis Cornford | Thucydides Mythistoricus | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Leonard Woolf to Lytton Strachey, 29 September 1907:
'I read Madame Bovary again as I went up to Hatton in the trai... | Leonard Woolf | Gustave Flaubert | Madame Bovary | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Leonard Woolf to Lytton Strachey, 25 November 1908:
'I have been reading Forster's last book [A Room with a View] &... | Leonard Woolf | E. M. Forster | A Room with a View | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Leonard Woolf to G. E. Moore, 4 January 1909:
'I don't think you realize how pleased I was to get your letter & pap... | Leonard Woolf | G. E. Moore | 'Professor James' "Pragmatism"' | Print: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | Leonard Woolf to Lytton Strachey, postscript to letter postmarked 1 February 1909:
'I never thanked you for the boo... | Leonard Woolf | Guy de Maupassant | 'tale' | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Leonard Woolf to Lytton Strachey, postscript to letter postmarked 1 February 1909:
'I never thanked you for the boo... | Leonard Woolf | Earl of Cromer | Modern Egypt | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Leonard Woolf to Lytton Strachey, 9 February 1911:
'The Times gave me quite a shock the other day to see that A. S.... | Leonard Woolf | | The Times | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | Leonard Woolf to Lytton Strachey, 2 August 1911:
'Les Freres Karamazov is one of the greatest of novels [...] Have ... | Leonard Woolf | Fyodor Dostoevsky | The Brothers Karamazov | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Leonard Woolf to Lytton Strachey, 2 August 1911:
'Les Freres Karamazov is one of the greatest of novels [...] Have ... | Leonard Woolf | Fyodor Dostoevsky | Les Freres Karamazov | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Leonard Woolf to Virginia Stephen, 29 April 1912:
'I've read two of your MSS from one of which at any rate one can ... | Leonard Woolf | Virginia Stephen | fiction MSS | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | Leonard Woolf to Saxon Sydney-Turner, 1 September 1912:
'No one has ever given or lent me anything more useful than... | Leonard Woolf | | Spanish dictionary | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Leonard Woolf to Molly MacCarthy, 28 September 1912:
'Virginia is very lazy, she's lying on a sofa eating chocolate... | Virginia Woolf | | The Strand Magazine | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | Leonard Woolf to Lytton Strachey, describing routine at home at Asheham, 25 April 1913:
'After dinner Virginia read... | Virginia Woolf | | The Life of Mrs Humphry Ward | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Leonard Woolf to Lytton Strachey, describing routine at home at Asheham, 25 April 1913:
'After dinner Virginia read... | Leonard Woolf | | Poor Law Minority Report | Print: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | Leonard Woolf to Virginia Woolf, 12 March 1914:
'I am sitting here alone, Lytton [Strachey] in the next room writin... | Leonard Woolf | | The Times | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | Leonard Woolf to Virginia Woolf, 12 March 1914:
'I am sitting here alone, Lytton [Strachey] in the next room writin... | Leonard Woolf | | The Times Literary Supplement | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | Leonard Woolf to Virginia Woolf, 13 March 1914:
'Lytton read me last night what he had written about Manning. It's ... | Giles Lytton Strachey | Lytton Strachey | Life of Cardinal Manning | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | Leonard Woolf to Virginia Woolf, 13 March 1914:
'Another amusing book I looked at here is Hurrell Froude's Remains.... | Leonard Woolf | Hurrell Froude | Remains | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Leonard Woolf to Virginia Woolf, 13 March 1914:
'Another amusing book I looked at here is Hurrell Froude's Remains.... | Leonard Woolf | John Henry Newman | Apologia pro vita sua | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Leonard Woolf to Lytton Strachey, 27 October 1916:
'I return the MS which I thought amazingly good. It made me laug... | Leonard Woolf | Lytton Strachey | Life of Dr Arnold | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | Leonard Woolf to Virginia Woolf, 24 April 1923:
'I am on the train from Victoria to Richmond after a very easy jour... | Leonard Woolf | | report of death of Samuel Garrett | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | Leonard Woolf to Virginia Woolf, 25 September 1928:
'It began to rain [...] yesterday afternoon [...] Quentin [Bell... | Leonard Woolf | Dorothy Osborne | The Letters of Dorothy Osborne to William Temple | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Leonard Woolf to T. S. Eliot, 5 May 1930:
'You are the only living poet I can read twice; only in your case I canno... | Leonard Woolf | T. S. Eliot | Ash Wednesday | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Leonard Woolf to Robert Trevelyan, 8 January 1941:
'I want to say how much we enjoyed your Epistle. In these days o... | Leonard Woolf | Horace | Satires | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Leonard Woolf to Robert Trevelyan, 8 January 1941:
'I want to say how much we enjoyed your Epistle. In these days o... | Leonard Woolf | | Classical Greek texts | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Leonard Woolf to Lytton Strachey, 22 September 1918:
'V[irginia]. induced me to buy The King's English, a book whic... | Leonard Woolf | H. W. Fowler and F. G. Fowler | The King's English | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Leonard Woolf to Lytton Strachey, 22 September 1918:
'V[irginia]. induced me to buy The King's English, a book whic... | Leonard Woolf | Marie Corelli | extracts from novels | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Leonard Woolf to Edmund Blunden, 14 August 1924:
'I admired your book on Clare very much. It passed through my hand... | Leonard Woolf | John Clare | Madrigals & Chronicles: Being newly found Poems written by John Clare | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Leonard Woolf to Frank Hardie, 11 October 1933:
'Many thanks for your letter and for the copy of your article which... | Leonard Woolf | Frank Hardie | 'Youth, Socialism and Peace' | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | Robert Offley Ashburton Crewe-Milnes, Marquess of Crewe, to Leonard Woolf, 29 July 1940:
'I read your article on th... | Robert Offley Ashburton Crewe-Milnes | Leonard Woolf | article on 'the politician and the intellectual' | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | Leonard Woolf to Roberta Rubenstein, 14 December 1968:
'What is your evidence for saying that Virginia had never re... | Leonard Woolf | Turgenev | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Leonard Woolf to Roberta Rubenstein, 14 December 1968:
'What is your evidence for saying that Virginia had never re... | Leonard Woolf | Leo Tolstoy | Anna Karenina | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | '[start of this passage found in database entries 9840-2] 'It was a letter from Lord [italics] Bolingbroke [end itali... | Jonathan Swift | Alexander Pope | Dunciad | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | [Pilkington tells how her poem on 'Paper' was seen by a 'Lady of Distinction'] 'She would examine what I had been scri... | 'a Lady of Distinction' | Laetitia Pilkington | Paper | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | [Pilkington tells how her poem on 'Paper' was seen by a 'Lady of Distinction'] 'She would examine what I had been scri... | Anne Wainwright | Laetitia Pilkington | Paper | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | [Pilkington tells how her poem on 'Paper' was seen by a 'Lady of Distinction'] 'She would examine what I had been scri... | John, Baron Wainwright | Laetitia Pilkington | Paper | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | [Letter from Jonathan Swift, Pilkington having sent him her verses on paper - printed in a London newspaper, attribute... | Jonathan Swift | Laetitia Pilkington | Paper | Print: Newspaper |
| 1700-1799 | [Letter from Jonathan Swift, Pilkington having sent him her verses on paper - printed in a London newspaper, attribute... | Jonathan Swift | Laetitia Pilkington | Sent with a Quill to Dr Swift | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | [Matthew Pilkington was in England and was staying with Pope, upon Swift's recommendation. Having received a letter in... | Jonathan Swift | Matthew Pilkington | [letter to Laetitia Pilkington, about Pope] | Manuscript: Letter |
| 1700-1799 | [Pilkington having annoyed Swift by remembering one of his poems and reciting it to others, he decided to test her mem... | Jonathan Swift | Samuel Butler | Hudibras | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'On the other hand, the most pleasurable thing, which has befallen me was receiving two packets, from England, in the ... | Jane Baillie Welsh | Various | Autographs | Manuscript: Autographs |
| 1800-1849 | 'Well! Dearest you have criticised my letter - it is now my turn to criticise yours. Be patient, then, and good-temp... | Jane Baillie Welsh | Thomas Carlyle | Letter dated 20th January 1825 | Manuscript: Letter |
| 1700-1799 | [LP reproduces her poem 'To the Right Hon. Henry Pelham, Esq.] 'I shewed these lines to Mr [italics] Cibber [end itali... | Henry Pelham | Laetitia Pilkington | To the Right Hon. Henry Pelham, Esq. | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | 'Every Poem, as I occasionally introduced them, he [Colley Cibber] made me give him a Copy of, and communicated them t... | Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield | Laetitia Pilkington | [Poems] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | [Edmond Curll said to LP] 'I have received from [italics] Ireland [end italics], from your Husband, the Life of Alderm... | Edmond Curll | Matthew Pilkington | [Life of Barber] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | '[Sir Hans Sloane] considered my Letter over, and finding, by the contents, Doctor [italics] Mead [end italics] recomm... | Hans Sloane | Laetitia Pilkington | [Letter] | Manuscript: Letter |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have had a letter from Mrs Montague and, (which is still more extraordinary) I have answered it. What on earth did ... | Jane Baillie Welsh | Mrs Montagu | Letter | Manuscript: Letter |
| 1800-1849 | 'I am very curious to see Mrs Montagu's catalogue of duties: so take care that you do not light your pipe with the let... | Jane Baillie Welsh | Mrs Montagu | Letter dated 13 June | Manuscript: Letter |
| 1800-1849 | I had two sheets from Mrs Montagu the other day trying to prove to me that I knew nothing at all of my own heart (Merc... | Jane Baillie Welsh | Mrs Montagu | Letter dated 3 July | Manuscript: Letter |
| 1800-1849 | 'My dearest
I thought to write to you from this place with joy; I write with shame and tears. The enclosed letter,... | Jane Baillie Welsh | Mrs Montagu | Letter dated 20 July | Manuscript: Letter |
| 1800-1849 | 'My own, best, dearest Love
I do believe I should have gone out of my senses, if your letter had been a day longer of... | Jane Baillie Welsh | Thomas Carlyle | Letter dated 29th July 1825 | Manuscript: Letter |
| 1900-1945 | 'After dinner, (a delicious dinner), Virginia read us her memoir of Old Bloomsbury. She had read it to me already at ... | Virginia Woolf | Virginia Woolf | "memoir of Old Bloomsbury" | Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | E. M. Forster to Alice Clara Forster, 13 February 1898:
'Have you read Crockett's new book, the Adventures of Sir T... | Edward Morgan Forster | Samuel Rutherford Crockett | The Surprising Adventures of Sir Toady Lion | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | E. M. Forster to Laura Mary Forster, 3 March 1898:
'I will tell how I spent my prize money. I got Browning's Poems ... | Edward Morgan Forster | Jane Austen | Northanger Abbey | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | E. M. Forster to Laura Mary Forster, 3 March 1898:
'I have just read a paper to the Classical Society on "The Greek... | Edward Morgan Forster | Edward Morgan Forster | "The Greek Feeling for Nature" | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | E. M. Forster to Laura Mary Forster, 7 May 1899:
'Thank you very much [...] for the Punches & Antiquaries which I m... | Edward Morgan Forster | | Punch | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | E. M. Forster to Laura Mary Forster, 7 May 1899:
'Thank you very much [...] for the Punches & Antiquaries which I m... | Edward Morgan Forster | | The Antiquary: A Magazine Devoted to the Study of the Past | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | E. M. Forster to Laura Mary Forster, 7 May 1899:
'Thank you very much [...] for the Punches & Antiquaries which I m... | Edward Morgan Forster | | Nature Notes | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | E. M. Forster to Alice Clara Forster, ?summer 1899:
'I hear much of Mr Dimbleby, and have tried to read his books. ... | Edward Morgan Forster | Jabez Bunting Dimbleby | | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | E. M. Forster to George Barger, 27 July 1899:
'I have had a good time in Scotland & here [Northumberland] & go home... | Edward Morgan Forster | Henry James | Portrait of a Lady | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | E. M. Forster to George Barger, 27 July 1899:
'I have had a good time in Scotland & here [Northumberland] & go home... | Edward Morgan Forster | Maurice Hewlett | The Forest Lovers: A Romance | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | E. M. Forster to Alice Clara Forster, 5 November 1899:
'I have been reading Bernard Shaw's plays. Wonderfully cleve... | Edward Morgan Forster | George Bernard Shaw | plays | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | E. M. Forster to Alice Clara Forster, 9 April 1905:
'At 2.45 I and Herr Steinweg [German tutor employed by the Coun... | Edward Morgan Forster | | 'The Child's first Lesebuch' | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | E. M. Forster to Alice Clara Forster, 9 April 1905:
'Elizabeth [employer] has lent me Erewhon which I am enjoying.' | Edward Morgan Forster | Samuel Butler | Erewhon; or, Over the Range | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | E. M. Forster to Arthur Cole, 11 April 1905:
'Have you read Erewhon? Now I'm at Marius the Epicurean.' | Edward Morgan Forster | Walter Pater | Marius the Epicurean | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | E. M. Forster to Alice Clara Forster, 2 July 1905:
'In the evening I read Elizabeth [employer] "Emma". Liebeth [emp... | Edward Morgan Forster | Jane Austen | Emma | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | E. M. Forster to Arthur Cole, 7 July 1905, following satirical account of English travellers met the previous day:
... | Edward Morgan Forster | Jane Austen | Northanger Abbey | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | E. M. Forster to Arthur Cole, 7 July 1905, following satirical account of English travellers met the previous day:
... | Edward Morgan Forster | Anatole France | Thais | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 1900-1945 | E. M. Forster to Edward Joseph Dent, 3 Ocotber 1906:
'You would hardly know me, so violently has Chartres gothicise... | Edward Morgan Forster | Joris-Karl Huysmans | La Cathedrale | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | E. M. Forster to Edward Garnett, 28 October 1907:
'You said I might write to you about The Breaking Point. I think ... | Edward Morgan Forster | Edward Garnett | A Censored Play: The Breaking Point | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | E. M. Forster to Hugh Walpole, 19 July 1908:
'I can say without preamble that it's good -- the theme is ample and f... | Edward Morgan Forster | Hugh Walpole | The Wooden Horse / 'The House of the Trojans' | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | E. M. Forster to Malcolm Darling, 10 February 1910:
'I left off the last [letter to Darling] saying that I was goin... | Edward Morgan Forster | Ernest B. Havell | Indian Sculpture and Painting ... with an Explanation of Their Motives and Ideals | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | E. M. Forster to Ottoline Morrell, 2 April 1910:
'I am reading Les Freres Karamazov, but am so far a little disappo... | Edward Morgan Forster | Fyodor Dostoevsky | The Brothers Karamazov | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'She sulked for four and twenty hours, and then wrote me a long epistle; wherein she demonstrated (not by geometrical ... | Jane Baillie Welsh | Grace Baillie Welsh | Letter | Manuscript: Letter |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have had an answer from Mrs Montagu full of rhetoric, and kindness; but no matter for the rhetoric! She is good to... | Jane Baillie Welsh | Mrs Montagu | letter | Manuscript: Letter |
| 1700-1799 | [Two gentlemen came in to LP's shop and saw her with an MS volume of her Memoirs open in front of her; they inquired a... | an earl | Laetitia Pilkington | [Memoirs and Poems] | Manuscript: volume |
| 1900-1945 | E. M. Forster to Malcolm Darling, 15 April 1910:
'Just now I am enthralled by Gibbon's Autobiography. There are pas... | Edward Morgan Forster | Edward Gibbon | Autobiography | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | E. M. Forster to Malcolm Darling, 29 June 1910:
'I am reading Manucci's "Storia do Mogor" -- a most entertaining bo... | Edward Morgan Forster | Niccolo Manucci | Storia do Mogor; or Mogul India, 1653-1708 | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | E. M. Forster to Malcolm Darling, 12 August 1910:
'Do you get any time for reading? I am taking huge chunks of Mat ... | Edward Morgan Forster | Matthew Arnold | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | E. M. Forster to Syed Ross Masood, mid-January 1911:
'I am reading Lyall's hand book about the English in India -- ... | Edward Morgan Forster | Sir Alfred C. Lyall | British Dominion in India | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | E. M. Forster to Syed Ross Masood, mid-January 1911:
'I am reading Lyall's hand book about the English in India -- ... | Edward Morgan Forster | Alice Perrin | Idolatry | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | E. M. Forster to Syed Ross Masood, mid-January 1911:
'I am reading Lyall's hand book about the English in India -- ... | Edward Morgan Forster | Alice Perrin | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'E[dward]M[organ]F[orster] was reading, as well, Lyall's Asiatic Studies: Religious and Social (1882) and G. F. I. Gra... | Edward Morgan Forster | Sir Alfred C. Lyall | Asiatic Studies: Religious and Social | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'E[dward]M[organ]F[orster] was reading, as well, Lyall's Asiatic Studies: Religious and Social (1882) and G. F. I. Gra... | Edward Morgan Forster | G. F. I. Graham | The Life and Works of Syed Ahmed Khan | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | E. M. Forster to Malcolm Darling, 29 July 1911:
'I have been reading Kipling's child's history of England with ming... | Edward Morgan Forster | Rudyard Kipling | Puck of Pook's Hill | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | E. M. Forster to Malcolm Darling, 29 July 1911:
'I have been reading Kipling's child's history of England with ming... | Edward Morgan Forster | H. G. Wells | The New Machiavelli | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | E. M. Forster to Malcolm Darling, 29 July 1911:
'I have been reading Kipling's child's history of England with ming... | Edward Morgan Forster | Rosalind Murray | The Leading Note | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | E. M. Forster to Malcolm Darling, 29 July 1911:
'I have been reading Kipling's child's history of England with ming... | Edward Morgan Forster | A. Felix Wedgwood | The Shadow of a Titan | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | E. M. Forster to Malcolm Darling, 29 July 1911:
'When you have a spare day [...] do send me some Indian papers -- t... | Edward Morgan Forster | Valentine Chiriol | Indian Unrest | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 1900-1945 | E. M. Forster to Jessica Darling, 24 September 1911:
'It's something to be near fine country [Simla] [...] Whether ... | Edward Morgan Forster | Thomas Hardy | novels | Print: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | E. M. Forster to Forrest Reid, 31 January 1912:
'I have read The Bracknels, and wish to thank you for it [...] it d... | Edward Morgan Forster | Forrest Reid | The Bracknels | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | E. M. Forster to Jessica Darling, 6 February 1912:
'Before I get off books, I will put down the names of one or two... | Edward Morgan Forster | George Moore | Ave | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | E. M. Forster to Jessica Darling, 6 February 1912:
'Before I get off books, I will put down the names of one or two... | Edward Morgan Forster | G. L. Strachey | Landmarks in French Literature | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | E. M. Forster to Jessica Darling, 6 February 1912:
'Before I get off books, I will put down the names of one or two... | Edward Morgan Forster | J. T. Sheppard | Greek Tragedy | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | E. M. Forster to Jessica Darling, 6 February 1912:
'Before I get off books, I will put down the names of one or two... | Edward Morgan Forster | Mme Augustine Bulteau | L'Ame des Anglais | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | E. M. Forster to Jessica Darling, 6 February 1912:
'Before I get off books, I will put down the names of one or two... | Edward Morgan Forster | Andre Chevrillon | Dans L'Inde | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | E. M. Forster to Jessica Darling, 6 February 1912:
'Before I get off books, I will put down the names of one or two... | Edward Morgan Forster | Forrest Reid | The Bracknels | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | E. M. Forster to Jessica Darling, 6 February 1912:
'Before I get off books, I will put down the names of one or two... | Edward Morgan Forster | Lascelles Abercrombie | Emblems of Love | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | E. M. Forster to Jessica Darling, 6 February 1912:
'Before I get off books, I will put down the names of one or two... | Edward Morgan Forster | Edith Wharton | Ethan Frome | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | E. M. Forster to Jessica Darling, 6 February 1912:
'Before I get off books, I will put down the names of one or two... | Edward Morgan Forster | Max Beerbohm | Zuleika Dobson | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | E. M. Forster to S. R. Masood, 8 March 1912:
'Have just dined with the Morisons -- a very interesting evening, and ... | Edward Morgan Forster | Miss Wright | poem | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | E. M. Forster to Malcolm Darling, 12 March 1912:
'I seem to have read several good books -- William James's Memorie... | Edward Morgan Forster | William James | Memories and Studies | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | E. M. Forster to Malcolm Darling, 12 March 1912:
'I seem to have read several good books -- William James's Memorie... | Edward Morgan Forster | Walter de la Mare | The Return | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | E. M. Forster to Malcolm Darling, 12 March 1912:
'I seem to have read several good books -- William James's Memorie... | Edward Morgan Forster | Amber Reeves | The Reward of Virtue | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | E. M. Forster to Leonard Woolf, before 24 May 1912:
'Dear Woolf
'It's a good story. Try the English Review -- I ... | Edward Morgan Forster | Leonard Woolf | story | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | E. M. Forster to Forrest Reid, 19 June 1912:
'The day before yesterday I read The Ghost Ship by R. Middleton [...] ... | Edward Morgan Forster | Richard Barham Middleton | 'The Ghost Ship' | |
| 1900-1945 | E. M. Forster to Forrest Reid, 13 December 1912:
'I have read Following Darkness again, and am happier than I can t... | Edward Morgan Forster | Forrest Reid | Following Darkness | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | E. M. Forster to Forrest Reid, 2 February 1913:
'I sent F[ollowing].D[arkness]. to a woman of another kind [i.e. th... | anon | Forrest Reid | Following Darkness | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | [LP recounts, addressing Matthew Pilkington, how she was invited to a Dublin widower's house and in the parlour] 'a Ge... | a gentleman | Laetitia Pilkington | Memoirs | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'There is an awfully good little book on English wild flowers with good clear illustrations, but it costs 7/6. Is it w... | Esther Gwendolyn, "Stella" Bowen | [unknown] | [book on wild flowers] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The enclosed press cuttings have just arrived via Clifford. I've read 'em. It might be a good plan to give The Author... | Esther Gwendolyn, 'Stella' Bowen | [n/a] | [press cuttings - subject unknown] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | 'The [underlined] whole [end underlining] trouble [in Bowen's relationships with her friends Phyllis and Clifford] is ... | Esther Gwendolyn 'Stella' Bowen | Clifford Bax | [poems] | Print: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'The [underlined] whole [end underlining] trouble [in Bowen's relationships with her friends Phyllis and Clifford] is ... | Esther Gwendolyn 'Stella' Bowen | Phyllis Reid | [poems] | Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'The Daily mail has persistent articles about Stabilisation at 100' [reference to currency fluctuations] | Esther Gwendolyn, 'Stella' Bowen | [n/a] | Daily Mail, The | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | 'I have just read a very bad book by Edith Wharton & am cross with it for being bad because I thougt she never [underl... | Esther Gwendolyn, 'Stella' Bowen | Edith Wharton | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'a fervent young admirer exclaimed: "By Jove, the [underlined] Good Soldier [end underlining] is the finest novel in t... | John Rodker | Ford Madox Ford | Good Soldier, The | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The last mail brought me your Dedicatory letter. I am [underlined] so [end underlining] touched & so very very proud.... | Esther Gwendolyn, 'Stella' Bowen | Ford Madox Ford | [dedicatory letter to 'The Good Soldier'] | Manuscript: Letter |
| 1900-1945 | 'I read about your earlier dinner quite by accident in "Books" - & by the way I have never had the copy with your Step... | Esther Gwendolyn, 'Stella' Bowen | Isabel Paterson | [column in ] New York Herald Tribune Books | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | 'I read about your earlier dinner quite by accident in "Books" - & by the way I have never had the copy with your Step... | Esther Gwendolyn, 'Stella' Bowen | Ford Madox Ford | [unknown article about Ezra Pound] | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | 'I read about your earlier dinner quite by accident in "Books" - & by the way I have never had the copy with your Step... | Esther Gwendolyn, 'Stella' Bowen | Ernest Hemingway | Sun Also Rises, The | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I read about your earlier dinner quite by accident in "Books" - & by the way I have never had the copy with your Step... | Esther Gwendolyn, 'Stella' Bowen | Violet Hunt | I Have This to Say | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I have inspected all the work the binder has done for you and as far as I can rember it seems to be what you ordered.... | Esther Gwendolyn, 'Stella' Bowen | Ford Madox Ford | Thus to Revisit | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'first let me say how splendid I think the "Last Post" is. (By the way, Duckworth has acknowledged receipt of MSS, so ... | Esther Gwendolyn, 'Stella' Bowen | Ford Madox Ford | Last Post, The | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'I am very touched by all the tributes in your New Year's letter, & enormously pleased with The Last Post. I don't bel... | Esther Gwendolyn, 'Stella' Bowen | Ford Madox Ford | Last Post, The | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Many thanks for the 3 chapters - they look entrancing, but I haven't had time to do more than glance at them as I've ... | Esther Gwendolyn, 'Stella' Bowen | Ford Madox Ford | [chapters from 'It Was the Nightingale'] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'I lay down on my bed and tried to improve my mind, reading articles about the political situation in the Pacific Ocea... | Janice Biala | [unknown] | [life and letters of Gauguin] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Ray Postgate has given me some [underlined] excellent [end underlining] reviews of it was the Nightingale by Isabel P... | Esther Gwendolyn, 'Stella' Bowen | Isabel Paterson | [review of 'It Was The Nightingale' in] New York Herald Tribune Book Review | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | 'Ray Postgate has given me some [underlined] excellent [end underlining] reviews of it was the Nightingale by Isabel P... | Esther Gwendolyn, 'Stella' Bowen | W.R. Benet | 'Uncle Ford' | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | 'Mummy is now reading "[T]he Time of Man", so you can't have it back just yet: but you'll get it some day'. | Esther Gwendolyn, 'Stella' Bowen | Elizabeth Madox Roberts | Time of Man, The | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Sydney [Larkin's father] gave him free run of his library and his appetite for books grew enormously. "Thanks to my f... | Sydney Larkin | Thomas Hardy | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Sydney [Larkin's father] gave him free run of his library and his appetite for books grew enormously. "Thanks to my f... | Sydney Larkin | Arnold Bennett | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Sydney [Larkin's father] gave him free run of his library and his appetite for books grew enormously. "Thanks to my f... | Sydney Larkin | Oscar Wilde | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Sydney [Larkin's father] gave him free run of his library and his appetite for books grew enormously. "Thanks to my f... | Sydney Larkin | Samuel Butler | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Sydney [Larkin's father] gave him free run of his library and his appetite for books grew enormously. "Thanks to my f... | Sydney Larkin | George Bernard Shaw | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Sydney [Larkin's father] gave him free run of his library and his appetite for books grew enormously. "Thanks to my f... | Sydney Larkin | David Herbert Lawrence | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Sydney [Larkin's father] gave him free run of his library and his appetite for books grew enormously. "Thanks to my f... | Sydney Larkin | Aldous Huxley | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Sydney [Larkin's father] gave him free run of his library and his appetite for books grew enormously. "Thanks to my f... | Sydney Larkin | Katherine Mansfield | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Have you read your sister in laws Doges Farm? Well that describes much the same sort of country that this is; and yo... | Virginia Woolf | Margaret Symonds | Days Spent on a Doge's Farm | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'My real object in writing is to make a confession-which is to take back a whole cartload of goatisms which I used at ... | Virginia Woolf | William Shakespeare | Cymbeline | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'However, to make up, the Times has sent me two trashy books, about Thackeray and Dickens and I may write 1500 words o... | Virginia Woolf | Lewis Melville | The Thackeray Country | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'However, to make up, the Times has sent me two trashy books, about Thackeray and Dickens and I may write 1500 words o... | Virginia Woolf | F. G. Kitton | The Dickens Country | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Have you read a book called Dr Antonio by Ruffini (translated fr the Italian) If not do so now if possible. We have... | Cornelia Sorabji | Ruffini | Dr Antonio | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'We are in the far west.
The journey North was a long one – from 9 am till 6.30
I had a Browning & Thackeray, a C... | Cornelia Sorabji | Browning | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'We are in the far west.
The journey North was a long one – from 9 am till 6.30
I had a Browning & Thackeray, a C... | Cornelia Sorabji | Thackeray | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'We are in the far west.
The journey North was a long one – from 9 am till 6.30
I had a Browning & Thackeray, a C... | Cornelia Sorabji | | Criminal Digest | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | E. M. Forster to Laura Mary Forster, 19 February 1913:
'Do you know Sleeman's Rambles & Recollections of an Indian ... | Edward Morgan Forster | Sir William Sleeman | Rambles and Recollections of an Indian Official | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | E. M. Forster to Malcolm Darling, 6 November 1914:
'I am not a Pro-German [...] I have read the White Paper, and Cr... | Edward Morgan Forster | John Adam Cramb | Germany and England | |
| 1900-1945 | E. M. Forster to Malcolm Darling, 6 November 1914:
'I am not a Pro-German [...] I have read the White Paper, and Cr... | Edward Morgan Forster | General Friedrich Adam Julius von Bernhardi | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | E. M. Forster to Malcolm Darling, 6 November 1914:
'I am not a Pro-German [...] I have read the White Paper, and Cr... | Edward Morgan Forster | | 'White Paper' | Print: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | E. M. Forster to Malcolm Darling, 6 November 1914:
'Just now I sit in the N[ational]. G[allery]. having studied a n... | Edward Morgan Forster | | notice on wartime safety measures | Print: ?poster ('notice') |
| 1900-1945 | E. M. Forster to Edward Joseph Dent, 6 March 1915:
'You can scarcely imagine the loneliness of such an effort as th... | Sydney Waterlow | E. M. Forster | Maurice | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia]: several pencil and ink annotations (some fading to illegibility) throughout text, usually of the form of... | John Drummond Erskine | Niccolo Machiavelli | The works of Nicholas Machiavel, secretary of state to the republic of Florence. Newly Translated from the Originals; Illustrated with Notes, Anecdotes, Dissertations, and the Life of Machiavel, Never before published; And Several New Plans .... | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | E. M. Forster to Edward Joseph Dent, 6 March 1915:
'I have not read Platen yet [...] German's a labour. I liked Hol... | Edward Morgan Forster | Johann Christian Friedrich Holderlin | Hyperion | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | E. M. Forster to Edward Joseph Dent, 6 March 1915:
'I have not read Platen yet [...] German's a labour. I liked Hol... | Edward Morgan Forster | D. H. Lawrence | The White Peacock | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | E. M. Forster to Malcolm Darling, 2 August 1915:
'I read (and sometimes write) the New Statesman [...] also the Mor... | Edward Morgan Forster | | The New Statesman | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | E. M. Forster to Malcolm Darling, 2 August 1915:
'I read (and sometimes write) the New Statesman [...] also the Mor... | Edward Morgan Forster | | The Morning Post | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | E. M. Forster to Malcolm Darling, 2 August 1915:
'I read (and sometimes write) the New Statesman [...] also the Mor... | Edward Morgan Forster | James Arthur Balfour | 'What Our Fleet Has Done' | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | E. M. Forster to Malcolm Darling, 2 August 1915:
'I read (and sometimes write) the New Statesman [...] also the Mor... | Edward Morgan Forster | Count Ernst von Reventlow | 'A Year of Naval Warfare' | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | E. M. Forster to Florence Barger, 2 July 1916:
'I talk to patients [at Red Cross centre, Alexandria]; with one of t... | Frank Vicary | Dickinson | | Print: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | E. M. Forster to Florence Barger, 2 July 1916:
'I talk to patients [at Red Cross centre, Alexandria]; with one of t... | Frank Vicary | George Bernard Shaw | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | E. M. Forster to Goldsworthy Lowes Dickinson, 28 July 1916:
'I still like my work [as Red Cross worker tracing miss... | Frank Vicary | Goldsworthy Lowes Dickinson | The Meaning of Good | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | E. M. Forster to Goldsworthy Lowes Dickinson, 28 July 1916:
'I still like my work [as Red Cross worker tracing miss... | Frank Vicary | Goldsworthy Lowes Dickinson | Letters from John Chinaman | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | E. M. Forster to Malcolm Darling, 6 August 1916:
'I saw from the Hospital Lists that an officer from Lovats Scouts ... | Edward Morgan Forster | Bridget McLagan (i.e. Mary Borden Turner) | 'Bombardment' | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | E. M. Forster to Malcolm Darling, 6 August 1916:
'I saw from the Hospital Lists that an officer from Lovats Scouts ... | Edward Morgan Forster | Bridget McLagan (i.e. Mary Borden Turner) | 'Rousbrugge' | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | E. M. Forster to Laura Mary Forster (aunt), 25 August 1916:
'Your welcome letter to Darkest Africa has been followe... | Edward Morgan Forster | | 'Missionary magazine' | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | E. M. Forster to Laura Mary Forster (aunt), 25 August 1916:
'Your welcome letter to Darkest Africa has been followe... | Edward Morgan Forster | Henry James | What Maisie Knew | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | E. M. Forster to Laura Mary Forster (aunt), 1 January 1917:
'For the last hour I have occupied myself with copying ... | Edward Morgan Forster | John Milton | | Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | E. M. Forster to Laura Mary Forster (aunt), 1 January 1917:
'For the last hour I have occupied myself with copying ... | Edward Morgan Forster | Walter Pater | Marius the Epicurean | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | E. M. Forster to Wilson Plant, 14 February 1917:
'Not many books here [...] I have been enjoying Bridges and sticki... | Edward Morgan Forster | Robert Bridges, ed. | [possibly] The Spirit of Man: An Anthology in English & French from the Philosophers and Poets made by the POet Laureate in 1915 & dedicated by gracious permission to His Majesty the King | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | E. M. Forster to Wilson Plant, 14 February 1917:
'Not many books here [...] I have been enjoying Bridges and sticki... | Edward Morgan Forster | Emil Zola | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | E. M. Forster to Wilson Plant, 14 February 1917:
'Like you I am a great admirer of D. H. Lawrence [...] The Rainbow... | Edward Morgan Forster | D. H. Lawrence | The Rainbow | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | E. M. Forster to Goldsworthy Lowes Dickinson, 5 May 1917:
'I am anxious to re-read a little history and see how its... | Edward Morgan Forster | Edward Gibbon | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | E. M. Forster to Florence Barger,30 September 1917:
'Thanks for The Feet of the Young Men, but I wish I hadn't dock... | Edward Morgan Forster | | The Feet of the Young Men | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | E. M. Forster to Florence Barger,30 September 1917:
'Thanks for The Feet of the Young Men, but I wish I hadn't dock... | Edward Morgan Forster | Benedict Spinoza | Ethics | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | E. M. Forster to Robert Trevelyan, 29 January 1918:
'I am already deep in The Piddle Years [sic]. I never find Henr... | Edward Morgan Forster | Henry James | The Middle Years | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | E. M. Forster to Robert Trevelyan, 29 January 1918:
'I have been reading Racine and Claudel.' | Edward Morgan Forster | Jean Baptiste Racine | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | E. M. Forster to Robert Trevelyan, 29 January 1918:
'I have been reading Racine and Claudel.' | Edward Morgan Forster | Paul Claudel | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | E. M. Forster to Robert Trevelyan, 29 January 1918:
'Lucretius has come -- I like him very much.' | Edward Morgan Forster | Robert Trevelyan | Translations from Lucretius | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'Florence [Barger] has read Edward Carpenter's My Days and Dreams: Being Autobiographical Notes (1916).' | Florence Barger | Edward Carpenter | My Days and Dreams: Being Autobiographical Notes | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | E. M. Forster to Siegfried Sassoon, 2 May 1918:
'Have just finished The Sense of the Past, and though it's so obscu... | Edward Morgan Forster | Henry James | The Sense of the Past | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | E. M. Forster to Siegfried Sassoon, 3 August 1918:
'Re the poets you mention I have read some of them both. I liked... | Edward Morgan Forster | Robert Graves | | Print: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | E. M. Forster to Siegfried Sassoon, 3 August 1918:
'Re the poets you mention I have read some of them both. I liked... | Edward Morgan Forster | Robert Malise Bowyer Nichols | | Print: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | E. M. Forster to Robert Trevelyan, 23 August 1918:
'Thank you for your poem on Confuscius [sic]. It amused me very ... | Edward Morgan Forster | Robert Trevelyan | | Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | E. M. Forster to Forrest Reid, 10 January 1919:
'Some of your stories I have read before, but I am enjoying and adm... | Edward Morgan Forster | Forrest Reid | 'Kenneth' | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | E. M. Forster to Forrest Reid, 10 January 1919:
'Some of your stories I have read before, but I am enjoying and adm... | Edward Morgan Forster | Forrest Reid | 'The Trial of Witches' | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [From SHR's introduction] 'The assistance to her husband in his professional duties consisted, so we are told in anoth... | Anne Romilly | [unknown] | [legal briefs] | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'Or perhaps she [Madame de Stael] may wish to have it appear as if she thought so [that English women were less uncout... | Anne Romilly | Germaine de Stael | Corinne, or Italy | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have seen a letter from a Gentleman in Sweden which proves that her [Madame de Stael's] Anglomania did not first ar... | Anne Romilly | [unknown] | [letter to Madame de Stael] | Manuscript: Letter |
| 1800-1849 | 'The pleasure we had in reading "Patronage" has been even increased by reading the [torn and illegible] but I should n... | Anne Romilly | [unknown] | [novel by a lady novelist] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'The pleasure we had in reading "Patronage" has been even increased by reading the [torn and illegible] but I should n... | Anne Romilly | Maria Edgeworth | Patronage | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have not been able to discover the author of the article in the Quarterly that you mention. We all admired it very ... | Anne Romilly | [n/a] | Quarterly Review | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'Benjamin Constant is writing some of the most successful pamphlets of the day, particularly one in favour of the libe... | Anne Romilly | Henri-Benjamin Constant-de Rebecque | [pamphlet on press freedom] | |
| 1800-1849 | 'Benjamin Constant is writing some of the most successful pamphlets of the day., particularly one in favour of the lib... | Anne Romilly | Gallois | [pamphlet on press freedom] | |
| 1800-1849 | 'If the Quarterly Reviewers should not think proper to publish it [an article by Edgeworth] Sir Saml wishes you would ... | Anne Romilly | Maria Edgeworth | [review of 'Les Peines et les Recompenses'] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'If the Quarterly Reviewers should not think proper to publish it [an article by Edgeworth] Sir Saml wishes you would ... | Anne Romilly | [n/a] | Philanthropist, The | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'I am afraid that we do not admire "Waverley" as much as it deserves. The praise you give it would almost induce me to... | Anne Romilly | Walter Scott | Waverley; or, Tis Sixty Years Since | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I wish you had been present when I opened the parcel and read the title page, the exclamations, the elevated voices, ... | Anne Romilly | Maria Edgeworth | [title page of a children's book] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'We were very much pleased with Mr Lovell Edgeworth's narrative which Mrs Marcet showed us, a very little addition fro... | Anne Romilly | Richard Lovell Edgeworth | [a narrative] | Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | Gone on with Comparetti Vergilio nel Medio Evo. Bourget’s Physiologie de l’Amour. [next unclear] Dumas Nouveaux En... | Vernon Lee | Domenico Comparetti | Vergileo nel Medio Evo | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Gone on with Comparetti Vergilio nel Medio Evo. Bourget’s Physiologie de l’Amour. [next unclear] Dumas Nouveaux En... | Vernon Lee | Paul Bourget | Physiologie de l'Amour Moderne | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Gone on with Comparetti Vergilio nel Medio Evo. Bourget’s Physiologie de l’Amour. [next unclear] Dumas Nouveaux En... | Vernon Lee | Alexandre Dumas | Nouveaux Entre'actes | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Gone on with Comparetti Vergilio nel Medio Evo. Bourget’s Physiologie de l’Amour. [next unclear] Dumas Nouveaux En... | Vernon Lee | Theodule Ribot | Les Maladies de la Volonte | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Gone on with Comparetti Vergilio nel Medio Evo. Bourget’s Physiologie de l’Amour. [next unclear] Dumas Nouveaux En... | Vernon Lee | Gustave Flaubert | Correspondance | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Gone on with Comparetti Vergilio nel Medio Evo. Bourget’s Physiologie de l’Amour. [next unclear] Dumas Nouveaux En... | Vernon Lee | Charles Arthur Mercier | Sanity and Insanity | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Gone on with Comparetti Vergilio nel Medio Evo. Bourget’s Physiologie de l’Amour. [next unclear] Dumas Nouveaux En... | Vernon Lee | Emile Zola | La Fortune des Rougon | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Gone on with Comparetti Vergilio nel Medio Evo. Bourget’s Physiologie de l’Amour. [next unclear] Dumas Nouveaux En... | Vernon Lee | Emile Zola | Son Excellence Eugene Rougon | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Gone on with Comparetti Vergilio nel Medio Evo. Bourget’s Physiologie de l’Amour. [next unclear] Dumas Nouveaux En... | Vernon Lee | Pierre Loti | Le Roman d'un Enfant | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'One amongst the innumerable excellent things I have learnt from Practical Education is to consider what is passing in... | Anne Romilly | Maria Edgeworth | Practical Education | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Mr Rocca's "Memoirs sur la guerre Des Francois en Espagne" [sic] is just out. I have only read a very few pages but t... | Anne Romilly | Albert Jean Michel de Rocca | Mémoires sur la guerre des Français en Espagne | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'The "Edinburgh Review" will have praised "Waverley" to your hearts content. I think however they left out one of the ... | Anne Romilly | [unknown] | Edinburgh Review [review of 'Waverley'] | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'The "Edinburgh Review" will have praised "Waverley" to your hearts content. I think however they left out one of the ... | Anne Romilly | Walter Scott | Waverley | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'The "Edinburgh Review" will have praised "Waverley" to your hearts content. I think however they left out one of the ... | Anne Romilly | Walter Scott | Lord of the Isles, The | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'The "Edinburgh Review" will have praised "Waverley" to your hearts content. I think however they left out one of the ... | Anne Romilly | Walter Scott | Lady of the Lake, The | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'The "Edinburgh Review" will have praised "Waverley" to your hearts content. I think however they left out one of the ... | Anne Romilly | Walter Scott | Marmion | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Since I wrote the first two pages of this letter I have read Eugene and Guilliaume, and quite agree with you. Pray co... | Anne Romilly | Mary Brunton | Discipline | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Since I wrote the first two pages of this letter I have read Eugene and Guilliaume, and quite agree with you. Pray co... | Anne Romilly | Albert Jean Michel de Rocca | Mémoires Sur La Guerre Des Français En Espagne | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Since I wrote the first two pages of this letter I have read Eugene and Guilliaume, and quite agree with you. Pray co... | Anne Romilly | [unknown] | Eugene | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Goldsmiths description of the Appennines is exact - "Woods over Woods in [italics] gay theatric pride [end italics]".... | Anne Romilly | Oliver Goldsmith | Traveller, The; or, A Prospect of Society | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'Mr Schlegel's Essays are most certainly worth reading, altho' you will not entirely agree with him in many of his opi... | Anne Romilly | August Wilhelm von Schlegel | [Essays] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I send you some lines which he [Lord Byron] printed but did not publish, and which were handed about [italics] confid... | Anne Romilly | George Gordon, Lord Byron | Fare thee well | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'I send you some lines which he [Lord Byron] printed but did not publish, and which were handed about [italics] confid... | Anne Romilly | George Gordon, Lord Byron | Sketch from Private Life, A | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'I send you some lines which he [Lord Byron] printed but did not publish, and which were handed about [italics] confid... | Anne Romilly | [n/a] | Morning Chronicle | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | 'For once I must think differently from Mr Edgeworth. I have none of the fears that he has for the fate of "Little Pla... | Anne Romilly | Stéphanie Félicité Ducrest de St-Aubin, comtesse de Genlis | [children's plays] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'For once I must think differently from Mr Edgeworth. I have none of the fears that he has for the fate of "Little Pla... | Anne Romilly | Maria Edgeworth | Old Poz | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have read both Emma and [torn and illegible]. In the first there is so little to remember, and in the last so much ... | Anne Romilly | Jane Austen | Emma | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have read both Emma and [torn and illegible]. In the first there is so little to remember, and in the last so much ... | Anne Romilly | [unknown] | [unidentified novel] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'By the bye have you read Mr C.'s "Adolphe"? It divides the whole world, and I think the general opinion seems to be t... | Anne Romilly | Benjamin Constant | Adolphe | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I imagine "Glenarvon" has lost much of its merit in your eyes from not being acquainted with the different persons in... | Anne Romilly | Caroline Lamb | Glenarvon | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | '[Maria Edgeworth's brother] talked a great deal of you and of "Glenarvon". Have you read the preface of the second ed... | Anne Romilly | Caroline Lamb | Glenarvon | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | '[Maria Edgeworth's brother] talked a great deal of you and of "Glenarvon". Have you read the preface of the second ed... | Anne Romilly | | [newspaper extract of Preface to "Glenarvon"] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | 'Have you not been delighted with Mrs Marcet? What an extraordinary work for a woman! Everybody who understands the su... | Anne Romilly | Jane Haldimand Marcet | Conversations on Political Economy | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Have you read Lord Byron and his horrid Incantation? Can you doubt but that it is intended as a curse on his wife? He... | Anne Romilly | George Gordon, Lord Byron | Manfred | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Have you read Lord Byron and his horrid Incantation? Can you doubt but that it is intended as a curse on his wife? He... | Anne Romilly | George Gordon, Lord Byron | Childe Harold | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Have you read Lord Byron and his horrid Incantation? Can you doubt but that it is intended as a curse on his wife? He... | Anne Romilly | George Gordon, Lord Byron | Darkness | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'Pray read "Tales of my Landlord". They are charming. I think there can be no doubt but that they are written by the A... | Anne Romilly | Walter Scott | Tales of my Landlord | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'His letters [PB Shelley's in relation to his desertion of his wife] were really curious. A more singular display of t... | Anne Romilly | Percy Bysshe Shelley | [letters to his wife Harriet] | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'His letters [PB Shelley's in relation to his desertion of his wife] were really curious. A more singular display of t... | Anne Romilly | [n/a] | [newspaper] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | 'What a pity it is that Mr B[entham] carries this oddity of language [which AR has just been joking about] into his wo... | Anne Romilly | Jeremy Bentham | [works] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'How merciless and ungentlemanlike the"Quarterly Review" is upon Lady Morgan! It is the only thing that could have mad... | Anne Romilly | Sydney Morgan | France | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'How merciless and ungentlemanlike the"Quarterly Review" is upon Lady Morgan! It is the only thing that could have mad... | Anne Romilly | [n/a] | Quarterly Review | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | [following transcribed passage on 'gravity,' from Tristram Shandy I.ii]
'Insight vitiated by instinct of self defen... | Edward Morgan Forster | Laurence Sterne | The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'More I reflect on the novel the higher I place it: attempts to read Swift, Miss Burney, Smollett, place it on a pinna... | Edward Morgan Forster | Jonathan Swift | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'More I reflect on the novel the higher I place it: attempts to read Swift, Miss Burney, Smollett, place it on a pinna... | Edward Morgan Forster | Frances Burney | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'More I reflect on the novel the higher I place it: attempts to read Swift, Miss Burney, Smollett, place it on a pinna... | Edward Morgan Forster | Tobias Smollett | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | In Commonplace Book entries made during 1926, E. M. Forster comments upon, and transcribes passages from, Defoe's Mol... | Edward Morgan Forster | Daniel Defoe | Moll Flanders | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '[Percy Lubbock] thinks ["The Craft of Fiction" -- a sensitive yet poor spirited book] that the aim of a novel should ... | Edward Morgan Forster | Percy Lubbock | The Craft of Fiction | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Impossible to read a Meredith as simply and fairly as a Fielding, with one eye fixed on the author's interests and th... | Edward Morgan Forster | Henry Fielding | Tom Jones | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Impossible to read a Meredith as simply and fairly as a Fielding, with one eye fixed on the author's interests and th... | Edward Morgan Forster | George Meredith | Evan Harrington | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Among entries made in 1926 in E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book is a passage from Vanbrugh, The Provok'd Wife III.i (op... | Edward Morgan Forster | John Vanbrugh | The Provok'd Wife | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Robinson Crusoe an English book -- and only the English could have accepted it as adult literature: comforted by feel... | Edward Morgan Forster | Daniel Defoe | Robinson Crusoe | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Robinson Crusoe an English book -- and only the English could have accepted it as adult literature: comforted by feel... | Edward Morgan Forster | Daniel Defoe | Robinson Crusoe | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Gulliver is Robinson Crusoe in Fairy Land [...]
'[quotes] He said the [italics]Struldbrugs[end italics] commonly ... | Edward Morgan Forster | Jonathan Swift | Gulliver's Travels | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Clarissa Harlowe. Have read 1/3 of [...] Certainly I am bored, but the book is not tedious through repetition -- the ... | Edward Morgan Forster | Samuel Richardson | Clarissa, or The History of a Young Lady | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Among texts discussed and quoted from at length in 1926 Commonplace Book of E. M. Forster is Henry James, The Ambassad... | Edward Morgan Forster | Henry James | The Ambassadors | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Among texts discussed and quoted from in 1926 Commonplace Book of E. M. Forster is Norman Douglas, D. H. Lawrence and ... | Edward Morgan Forster | Norman Douglas | D. H. Lawrence and Maurice Magnus: A Plea for Better Manners | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Among texts discussed and quoted from in 1926 Commonplace Book of E. M. Forster is Herman Melville, Billy Budd, with r... | Edward Morgan Forster | Herman Melville | Billy Budd | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Great Expectations. Alliance between atmosphere and plot (the convicts) make it more solid and satisfactory than anyt... | Edward Morgan Forster | Charles Dickens | Great Expectations | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Remarks in E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book of 1926 include 'Nearly all novels go off at the end,' with examples inclu... | Edward Morgan Forster | Sylvia Townsend Warner | Lolly Willowes | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Remarks in E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book of 1926 include 'Nearly all novels go off at the end,' with further commen... | Edward Morgan Forster | David Garnett | A Man in the Zoo | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Remarks in E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book of 1926 include 'Nearly all novels go off at the end,' with further commen... | Edward Morgan Forster | David Garnett | Lady into Fox | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Remarks in E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book of 1926 include 'Nearly all novels go off at the end,' with further commen... | Edward Morgan Forster | David Garnett | The Sailor's Return | Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | Remarks in E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book of 1926 include 'Nearly all novels go off at the end,' with further commen... | Edward Morgan Forster | Oliver Goldsmith | The Vicar of Wakefield | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'When she [Katherine Hamilton, sister of Elizabeth] is not employed about something necessary and useful, she entertai... | Katherine Hamilton | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'The Reverend Dr Douglas, now Bishop of Salisbury, to whom I am indebted for some obliging communications, was then a ... | John Douglas | Samuel Johnson | London: A Poem in Imitation of the Third Satire of Juvenal | Print: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | 'This Epitaph [on 'Philips, a musician'] is so exquisitely beautiful that I remember even Lord Kames, strangely prejud... | Henry Home, Lord Kames | Samuel Johnson | Epitaph on Philips, a Musician | Print: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | '[extract of a letter from the Earl of Orrery to Dr Birch] I have just now seen the specimen of Mr Johnson's dictionar... | John Boyle, 5th Earl of Orrery | Samuel Johnson | [Plan or prospectus for his dictionary] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | '[Robert Dodsley] then told Dr Adams, that Lord Chesterfield had shewn him the letter [in which Johnson refused his pa... | Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield | Samuel Johnson | [letter from Johnson to Lord Chesterfield] | Manuscript: Letter |
| 1700-1799 | 'I remember when the [italics] Literary Property [end italics] of those letters [Lord Chesterfield's to his son] was c... | Henry Dundas | Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield | Letters to his Son | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Entries in E. M. Forster, Commonplace Book (1926) include passage on character in tragedy from Aristotle, Poetics. | Edward Morgan Forster | Aristotle | Poetics | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Transcribed in E. M. Forster, Commonplace Book (1927):
'What is principle to me? I am a Pitt. -- Lady Hester Stanho... | Edward Morgan Forster | Max Beerbohm | Letter to Lytton Strachey | Manuscript: Letter |
| 1900-1945 | 'An hour won. Dryden's Epistles read for pleasure September night windy, dark, warm, and I have read the Epistles of D... | Edward Morgan Forster | John Dryden | Epistles | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | In Commonplace Book for 1927 E. F. Forster transcribes passage on time from vol. I, ch.iv of Thomas Mann, The Magic Mo... | Edward Morgan Forster | Thomas Mann | The Magic Mountain | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Elusiveness. Shut up always in the same carcase, one is puzzled by this charge, which is brought against me not only ... | Edward Morgan Forster | J. B. Priestley | article on E. M. Forster | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | Passages transcribed in E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book for 1927 include Oscar Browning's reflections, quoted in H. E... | Edward Morgan Forster | H. E. Wortham | Oscar Browning | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Transcribed in E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book for 1927:
'I love me, I love me, I'm wild about myself,
I love me,... | Edward Morgan Forster | | 'I love me' (song lyric) | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Under heading 'Peer Gynt': 'The main ideas of this great and bitter poem become clearer at this last hasty reading (3-... | Edward Morgan Forster | Henrik Ibsen | Peer Gynt | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 1900-1945 | Under heading 'Peer Gynt': 'The main ideas of this great and bitter poem become clearer at this last hasty reading (3-... | Edward Morgan Forster | Henrik Ibsen | Peer Gynt | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Peace has been lost on the earth and only lives outside it, in places where my imagination has not been trained to fo... | Edward Morgan Forster | E. M. Forster | short stories | Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | Passages transcribed into E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book (1928) include reflections on lovers' perceptions from Fran... | Edward Morgan Forster | Francois Mauriac | Le Desert de l'Amour | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Passages transcribed into E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book (1928) include reflections on lovers' perceptions from Fran... | Edward Morgan Forster | Francois Mauriac | La Pharisienne | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Passages transcribed into E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book (1928) include remarks on spatial relations between man, at... | Edward Morgan Forster | A. S. Eddington | Stars and Atoms | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Passages transcribed into E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book (1928) include character Margaret's remarks on married life... | Edward Morgan Forster | Thomas Deloney | The Gentle Craft part II | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Passages transcribed into E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book (1929) include section from Horace Walpole's letter of 13 N... | Edward Morgan Forster | Horace Walpole | Letter to George Montagu, 13 November 1760 | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Eddington (5.1.29). After reading his Nature of the Physical World as carefully as I can, the new ideas become more p... | Edward Morgan Forster | A. S. Eddington | The Nature of the Physical World | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Transcribed into E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book (1929):
'It does not mattter what men say in words so long as the... | Edward Morgan Forster | A. N. Whitehead | Science and the Modern World | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Passages transcribed into E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book (1929) include anecdotes on pigmies from Ernest Hubert Lewi... | Edward Morgan Forster | Ernest Hubert Lewis Schwarz | The Kalahari and its Native Races | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | ' "Impressions and experiences which are important for the man may take no place in the poetry, and those which become... | Edward Morgan Forster | T. S. Eliot | 'Tradition and the Individual Talent' | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Passages transcribed into E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book (1929-30) include descriptions and reflections on vagrants... | Edward Morgan Forster | Anton Chekhov | 'Uprooted' | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Raw February Afternoon 2-30 [...] Reading Vaughan [quotes two stanzas beginning 'Thou art a moon-like toil'] [...] R... | Edward Morgan Forster | Henry Vaughan | 'Quickness' | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Raw February Afternoon 2-30 [...] Reading Vaughan [quotes two stanzas beginning 'Thou art a moon-like toil'] [...] R... | Edward Morgan Forster | F. L. Lucas | 'The Graces' | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Raw February Afternoon 2-30 [...] Thought, after reading little Cyril Conolly [sic], of the new generation knocking a... | Edward Morgan Forster | Cyril Connolly | | Print: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'L'Heroisme consiste a ne pas permettre au corps de renier les impudences de l'esprit
'runs an epigram of Maurois w... | Edward Morgan Forster | Andre Maurois | Byron | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Have been trying to read Solent Wolf [sic] again -- duck-weed and spittle unrelieved [...] No wonder that those Hardy... | Edward Morgan Forster | John Cowper Powys | Wolf Solent | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'In front of the fire, the little plump cook read the evening paper aloud to the housemaid.
"'The Queen is now aslee... | anon [a cook] | | evening paper | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | Passages transcribed in E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book (1930) include three stanzas (beginning 'Old warder of these ... | Edward Morgan Forster | Alfred Tennyson | In Memoriam | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Passages transcribed in E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book (1930) include Tennyson, 'A Farewell'. | Edward Morgan Forster | Alfred Tennyson | 'A Farewell' | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Passages transcribed in E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book (1930) include Poem LII ('Far in a western brookland') of A. ... | Edward Morgan Forster | A. E. Housman | Poem LII ('Far in a western brookland') | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Texts discussed in E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book (1930) include Corneille, Trois Discours ('Sur le poeme dramatique... | Edward Morgan Forster | Pierre Corneille | Trois Discours | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Texts discussed, and quoted from at length, in E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book (1930) include The Conquest of Granada... | Edward Morgan Forster | John Dryden | The Conquest of Granada | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Texts discussed, and quoted from at length, in E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book (1930) include The Conquest of Granada... | Edward Morgan Forster | John Dryden | An Essay of Heroic Plays | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Rodogune 1646. Despite indistinct and I believe undistinguished diction, this is the most moving and exciting play of... | Edward Morgan Forster | Pierre Corneille | Rodogune | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Texts discussed and quoted from in E. M. Forster, Commonplace Book (1930) include John Dryden, Preface to The Maiden Q... | Edward Morgan Forster | John Dryden | Preface, The Maiden Queen | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Texts discussed and quoted from at length in E. M. Forster, Commonplace Book (1930) include Samuel Johnson, Rasselas, ... | Edward Morgan Forster | Samuel Johnson | Rasselas | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Texts discussed and quoted from at length in E. M. Forster, Commonplace Book (1930) include Samuel Johnson, Life of Sa... | Edward Morgan Forster | Samuel Johnson | Life of [Richard] Savage | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Texts discussed and quoted from in E. M. Forster, Commonplace Book (1930) include Samuel Johnson, Preface to the Engli... | Edward Morgan Forster | Samuel Johnson | Preface to Dictionary | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Texts discussed and quoted from in E. M. Forster, Commonplace Book (1930) include Samuel Johnson, Preface to the Engli... | Edward Morgan Forster | Samuel Johnson | Plan [for Dictionary] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [under heading 'Johnson on Othello]: 'Consulted original ed. to see if Raleigh misses out much. Naturally J. is stupid... | Edward Morgan Forster | Samuel Johnson | remarks on Othello | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [under heading 'Johnson on Othello]: 'Consulted original ed. to see if Raleigh misses out much. Naturally J. is stupid... | Edward Morgan Forster | Walter Raleigh, ed. | Johnson on Shakespare | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [under heading 'Battle of the Books']: 'How I dislike Swift, and how is it possible to take this ill tempered ill info... | Edward Morgan Forster | Jonathan Swift | The Battle of the Books | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [under heading 'Battle of the Books']: 'How I dislike Swift, and how is it possible to take this ill tempered ill info... | Edward Morgan Forster | Jonathan Swift | A Tale of a Tub | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Texts on which detailed notes made in E. M. Forster, Commonplace Book (1930) include Boileau, L'Art Poetique, comments... | Edward Morgan Forster | Nicolas Boileau | L'Art Poetique | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Dante, De Vulgari Eloquentia 1309 (?) which I'd never read and now only have in translation, must have been written e... | Edward Morgan Forster | Dante Alighieri | De Vulgari Eloquentia | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Shaw's St Joan and Joyce's Ulysses into which I looked today (8-11-30) made me ashamed of my own writing. They have s... | Edward Morgan Forster | George Bernard Shaw | Saint Joan | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Shaw's St Joan and Joyce's Ulysses into which I looked today (8-11-30) made me ashamed of my own writing. They have s... | Edward Morgan Forster | James Joyce | Ulysses | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [entered in E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book (1930), underneath quoted passage opening 'I wonder what morality is, whe... | Edward Morgan Forster | J. A. Symonds | | Manuscript: Unknown, Copied from earlier transcription in Forster's hand. |
| 1900-1945 | [entered in E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book (1930), underneath quoted passage opening 'I wonder what morality is, whe... | Edward Morgan Forster | J. A. Symonds | | Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | Texts quoted from at length in E. M. Forster, Commonplace Book (1931) include Henry James, Letters, passages from whic... | Edward Morgan Forster | Henry James | The Letters of Henry James (vol.I) | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Aubrey in young John Collier's book of selections has reminded me of the value of the quaint and the charming: they m... | Edward Morgan Forster | John Aubrey | The Scandal and Credulities of John Aubrey | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Texts from which passages quoted in E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book, 1931-32, include remarks on animal genitalia in ... | Edward Morgan Forster | Voltaire | Des Singularites de la Nature | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Passages quoted in E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book, 1932, include this remark from Charles F. Richardson 'Critical In... | Edward Morgan Forster | Charles F. Richardson | 'Critical Introduction' | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Under heading 'Invocation of Poetry by Rhetoric':
'A mass of dead words is set spinning, then kindles. [italics]Or[... | Edward Morgan Forster | William Shakespeare | Romeo and Juliet | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'We do not much like Mr Cooper's new Sermons; they are fuller of Regeneration & Conversion than ever - with the additi... | Jane Austen | Edward Cooper | Two Sermons Preached at Wolverhampton | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Uncle Henry writes very superior Sermons. You & I must try to get hold of one or two & put them into our Novels; it w... | Jane Austen | Henry Austen | Sermons | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Uncle Henry writes very superior Sermons. You & I must try to get hold of one or two & put them into our Novels; it w... | Jane Austen | Walter Scott | The Antiquary | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Your Anne is dreadful - . But nothing offends me so much as the absurdity of not being able to pronounce the word Shi... | Jane Austen | Caroline Austen | unpublished manuscript story | Manuscript: Sheet |
| 1800-1849 | 'We have been reading the "Poet's Pilgrimage to Waterloo," & generally with much approbation. Nothing will please all ... | Jane Austen | Robert Southey | Poet's Pilgrimage to Waterloo | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'His Majesty then talked of the controversy between Warburton and Lowth, which he seemed to have read, and asked Johns... | George III of England | [unknown] | [Lowth-Warburton controversy] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'My dearest Fanny, You are inimitable, irresistable. You are the delight of my Life. Such Letters, such entertaining L... | Jane Austen | Fanny Knight | Letters | Manuscript: Letter |
| 1700-1799 | 'A Lady of Norfolk, by a letter to my friend Dr. Burney, has favoured me with the following solution [to the question ... | Reverend Christian | Kenneth Macaulay | History of St Kilda | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'After dinner our conversation first turned upon Pope. Johnson said, his characters of men were admirably drawn, those... | Alexander Pope | Samuel Johnson | London: A Poem in Imitation of the Third Satire of Juvenal | Print: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | Passages transcribed at length in E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book (1932) include reflections by Indu Rakshit on 'the ... | Edward Morgan Forster | Indu Rakshit | | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | Passages transcribed at length in E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book (1932) include extract from Voltaire, Charles XII B... | Edward Morgan Forster | Voltaire | Histoire de Charles XII (Book 3) | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Passages transcribed in E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book (1935) include (from chapter 15 of Christopher Isherwood, Mr ... | Edward Morgan Forster | Christopher Isherwood | Mr Norris Changes Trains | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Passages transcribed in E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book (1935) include reflections on associations of placenames and ... | Edward Morgan Forster | Ernest Hemingway | A Farewell to Arms | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Passages transcribed in E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book (1935-6) include two quotations from Herman Melville, Mardi. | Edward Morgan Forster | Herman Melville | Mardi | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Passages transcribed in E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book (1935-6) include quotation from letter of Herman Melville to ... | Edward Morgan Forster | Herman Melville | Letter to Nathaniel Hawthorne, ?1 June 1851 | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Passages transcribed in E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book (1935-6) include quotation from Norman Douglas, Together, ope... | Edward Morgan Forster | Norman Douglas | Together | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'A clean table and proper lighting make me solider, I find. Tonight I have swept all the rubbish off my board and read... | Edward Morgan Forster | Sophocles | Oedipus Tyrannus | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Passages transcribed into E. M. Forster, Commonplace Book (1937) include part of Le Morte D'Arthur, XX.3, opening: ' "... | Edward Morgan Forster | Thomas Malory | Le Morte D'Arthur | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Passages transcribed into E. M. Forster, Commonplace Book (1937) include Zechariah I.ii:
'And they answered the Ang... | Edward Morgan Forster | | Book of Zechariah | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Passages transcribed into E. M. Forster, Commonplace Book (1937) include five extracts from letters of Ibsen, noted as... | Edward Morgan Forster | Henrik Ibsen | passages from The Correspondence of Henrik Ibsen | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | Passages transcribed into E. M. Forster, Commonplace Book (1937) include extract from Cowley's Essay No. 5 ('The Garde... | Edward Morgan Forster | Abraham Cowley | Essay no. 5 ('The Garden') | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Passages transcribed into E. M. Forster, Commonplace Book (1937) include the description of the death of Mr Badman's ... | Edward Morgan Forster | John Bunyan | The Life and Death of Mr Badman | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Passages transcribed into E. M. Forster, Commonplace Book (1937) include reflections upon benefits of reading both dev... | Edward Morgan Forster | Jean de la Bruyere | 'Du Coeur' | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Passages transcribed at length into E. M. Forster, Commonplace Book (1937) include the description of the suicide of J... | Edward Morgan Forster | John Bunyan | The Life and Death of Mr Badman | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Passages transcribed at length into E. M. Forster, Commonplace Book (1937-38) include extracts on the art and literatu... | Edward Morgan Forster | Jean Freville, trans. and ed. | Sur la Litterature et l'Art: Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Passages transcribed at length into E. M. Forster, Commonplace Book (1938) include Hitler's 18 July 1937 'address at M... | Edward Morgan Forster | Adolf Hitler | address on national art | Print: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | Passages transcribed at length into E. M. Forster, Commonplace Book (1938) include 'Lenin-cum-Stalin on literature. Be... | Edward Morgan Forster | V. I. Lenin and Josef Stalin | (excerpted) writings on literature | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Passages transcribed into E. M. Forster, Commonplace Book (1938) include Ruskin's remarks on Claude and the Poussins a... | Edward Morgan Forster | John Ruskin | The Stones of Venice (vol 1 chapter 1) | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Passages transcribed into E. M. Forster, Commonplace Book (1938) include General R. T. Wilson's account of five Britis... | Edward Morgan Forster | General Sir Robert Thomas Wilson | History of the British Expedition to Egypt | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Passages transcribed into E. M. Forster, Commonplace Book (1938) include criticisms of practices of editors of Renaiss... | Edward Morgan Forster | William Gifford | Memoir of Ben Jonson | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 1900-1945 | Passages transcribed into E. M. Forster, Commonplace Book (1938) include criticisms of practices of editors of Renaiss... | Thomas Babington Macaulay | William Gifford | Memoir of Ben Jonson | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 1900-1945 | Under heading 'Early Greek Science. -- And Lucretius':
'Farington (Science and Politics in the Ancient World) think... | Edward Morgan Forster | Benjamin Farington | Science and Politics in the Ancient World | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 1900-1945 | Under heading 'Early Greek Science. -- And Lucretius':
'Farington (Science and Politics in the Ancient World) think... | Edward Morgan Forster | F. M. Cornford | From Religion to Philosophy | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 1900-1945 | Passages transcribed at length into E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book (1938) include 'The Rev. John Newton on the Messi... | Edward Morgan Forster | John Newton | Sermon IV ('The Lord Coming to His Temple') | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 1900-1945 | Passages transcribed into E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book (1938-40) include three quotations from the Dunciad (addres... | Edward Morgan Forster | Alexander Pope | The Dunciad (books I and II) | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 1900-1945 | 'Dispsychus -- read after many hesitations -- is not clear what world it opposes to the spirit: the world of action or... | Edward Morgan Forster | Arthur Hugh Clough | Dipsychus | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 1900-1945 | Passages quoted in E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book (1940) include remarks on value of cultural works for successive g... | Edward Morgan Forster | John Emerich Edward Dalberg Lord Acton | A Lecture on the Study of History | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 1900-1945 | Passages quoted in E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book (1940) include remarks on value of cultural works for successive g... | Edward Morgan Forster | William Wordsworth | The Prelude | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 1900-1945 | Passages quoted in E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book (1940) include remarks on value of cultural works for successive g... | Edward Morgan Forster | William Wordsworth | 'Sonnet on Napoleon' | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 1900-1945 | Passages quoted at length in E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book (1940) include three extracts from the Letters of Madame... | Edward Morgan Forster | Madame de Sevigne | Letters | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Passages transcribed in E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book (1940-41) under heading 'Eighteenth Centuriana' include repor... | Edward Morgan Forster | R. W. Ketton-Cremer | Horace Walpole: A Biography | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [under heading Voltaire's Zaide] 'The warmth of feeling between Z. and Orasmane, the easiness of the action (except in... | Edward Morgan Forster | Voltaire | Zaide | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Passages transcribed into E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book (1941) include remarks on bigotry (opening 'Bigotry is an o... | Edward Morgan Forster | Ernest Hemingway | For Whom the Bell Tolls | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Transcribed in E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book (1941), under heading 'Wordsworth on Machinery':
'"Nor shall your p... | Edward Morgan Forster | William Wordsworth | Sonnets of the Imagination XLII | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Passages transcribed in E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book (1941) include speech about Christmas by Dolly Winthrop in ch... | Edward Morgan Forster | George Eliot | Silas Marner | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Passages transcribed in E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book (1941) include stanza 7 of Malherbe, 'Consolation a Monsieur ... | Edward Morgan Forster | Francois de Malherbe | 'Consolation a Monsieur du Perier, sur la Mort de sa Fille' | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Passages transcribed in E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book (1941) include stanza 32 of Malherbe, 'Pour le Roi, allant ch... | Edward Morgan Forster | Francois de Malherbe | 'Pour le Roi, allant chatier la Rebellion des Rochelois' | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Passages transcribed in E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book (1941) include remark that '[Christ] was the Son of Man, beca... | Edward Morgan Forster | Gerald Heard | The Creed of Christ: An Interpretation of the Lord's Prayer | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The Disappointment of God.
'The Times, in an article with this title, announced that though God is certainly disap... | Edward Morgan Forster | | 'The Disappointment of God' | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | 'Sylvia's Lovers 1863, though I have not finished it, has been an eye-opener after the twitterings of Cranford. The se... | Edward Morgan Forster | Elizabeth Gaskell | Sylvia's Lovers | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Passages transcribed in E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book (1942) include remarks by H. A. L. Fisher beginning: 'Men wis... | Edward Morgan Forster | H. A. L. Fisher | A History of Europe | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Passages transcribed in E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book (1942) include Ruskin's remark, from a Slade Lecture (with fi... | Edward Morgan Forster | John Ruskin | 'The Pleasures of Deed' (Lecture II in series 'The Pleasures of England') | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Passages transcribed in E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book (1942) include remark by Courier, opening 'Les gendarmes sont... | Edward Morgan Forster | Paul-Louis Courier | 'Petition pour les Villageois que l'on empeche de Danser' (1822) | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Passages transcribed in E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book (1942) include remark by Paul Valery opening 'L'Histoire est ... | Edward Morgan Forster | Paul Valery | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Passages transcribed (and translated) in E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book (1942) include remarks on conquerors' imposi... | Edward Morgan Forster | St Augustine | De Civitate Dei | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'That detestable father [italics]St Jerome[end italics], thus reacts to the Fall of Rome:--
'[...] When the refugee... | Edward Morgan Forster | Thomas Hodgkin | Italy and Her Invaders 376-476 (vol. I) | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'That detestable father [italics]St Jerome[end italics], thus reacts to the Fall of Rome:--
'[...] When the refugee... | Edward Morgan Forster | Virgil | Aeneid (Book II) | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | From Diary of E. M. Forster, 8 September 1940:
'London Burning! I watched this event from my Chiswick flat last nig... | Edward Morgan Forster | George Eliot | Middlemarch | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [Following notes on 'squabble' between SS. Jerome and Augustine]
'Extracted from ch. iv of Lecky's "Morals from Aug... | Edward Morgan Forster | W. E. H. Lecky | History of European Morals from Augustus to Charlemagne | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'St Augustine, Some scattered notes.
'Have glanced at his work On Marriage & Concupiscence, part of his attack on t... | Edward Morgan Forster | St Augustine | 'On Marriage and Concupiscence' | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [Following notes on life and thought of Pelagius] 'From a good article in the Biographie Universelle.' | Edward Morgan Forster | Michaud | article on Pelagius | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [Following heading 'St Augustine'] 'Some questions raised rather than solved in Figges' [sic] "Political Aspects of th... | Edward Morgan Forster | John Neville Figgis | The Political Aspects of St Augustine's City of God | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Texts quoted from and discussed at length in E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book (1942) include St Jerome, Letters ('Loeb... | Edward Morgan Forster | St Jerome | Select Letters of St Jerome | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'St Basil (329-379) [...] is a Father easily disposed of, and a glance at the second volume of letters in Loeb shall s... | Edward Morgan Forster | St Basil | Letters (vol.II) | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Forster's material on the Sophists and others is drawn from part II ("Byzantium A.D. 313-565") of F. A. Wright's A Hi... | Edward Morgan Forster | F. A. Wright | A History of Later Greek Literature | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [following heading Sophocles of Constantinople] 'I have run through his Ecclesiastical History with amusement and with... | Edward Morgan Forster | Socrates of Constantinople | Ecclesiastical History | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [following heading 'Bakunin (1814-1876)] 'Reading Carr's pitiless and ungenerous account of him, I am often carried ou... | Edward Morgan Forster | E. H. Carr | Michael Bakunin | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Texts from which passages transcribed at length in E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book (1942-1943) include Marcel Proust,... | Edward Morgan Forster | Marcel Proust | Le Temps Retrouve | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'In his diary (1 March 1922) Forster recorded, while on the boat returning from India, his early impressions of Proust... | Edward Morgan Forster | Marcel Proust | Du Cote de chez Swann | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Passages transcribed in E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book (1943) include reflections on Australia from Charles Darwin's... | Edward Morgan Forster | Charles Darwin | The Voyage of the Beagle | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Passages transcribed in E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book (1943) include anecdote about Boer prisoners and their guards... | Edward Morgan Forster | A. P. Wavell | Allenby: Soldier and Statesman | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'La Silence de la Mer by "Vercors" (Schlumberger?) was given me by Raymond Mortimer yesterday and read without much ad... | Edward Morgan Forster | Jean Bruller | Le Silence de la Mer | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'La Silence de la Mer by "Vercors" (Schlumberger?) was given me by Raymond Mortimer yesterday and read without much ad... | Edward Morgan Forster | Jean Giono | 'Prelude de Pan' | Print: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'La Silence de la Mer by "Vercors" (Schlumberger?) was given me by Raymond Mortimer yesterday and read without much ad... | Edward Morgan Forster | Honore de Balzac | Illusions perdues | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'La Silence de la Mer by "Vercors" (Schlumberger?) was given me by Raymond Mortimer yesterday and read without much ad... | Edward Morgan Forster | Andre Gide | Journal | Print: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | Poems transcribed in E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book (1943) include Stefan George's verses opening 'Du schlank und re... | Edward Morgan Forster | Stefan George | 'Du schlank un rein wie eine flamme' | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Poems transcribed in E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book (1943) include Stefan George's verses opening 'Du schlank und re... | Edward Morgan Forster | Charles Baudelaire | 'Hymne' ('A la tres-chere, a la tres-belle') | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The Ordeal of Mark Twain by a bothered and bothering American of the psychoanalysing 20s has succeeded in bothering m... | Edward Morgan Forster | Van Wyck Brooks | The Ordeal of Mark Twain | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [under heading 'Lord Acton Some "shining precepts" for the historical student]
E. M. Forster transcribes passage op... | Edward Morgan Forster | John Emerich Edward Dalberg Lord Acton | A Lecture on the Study of History | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Noted by E. M. Forster in his Commonplace Book (1944), beside quoted lines 'Thought shall be the harder / Heart the ke... | Edward Morgan Forster | Arnold Toynbee | A Study of History (vol I) | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Transcribed by E. M. Forster in his Commonplace Book (1944):
'On Hydon's top there is a cup
And in that cup there ... | Edward Morgan Forster | | A Handbook for Travellers in Surrey, Hampshire and the Isle of Wight | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Passages in E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book (1944) include two short quotations, from Bede ('Two most wicked spirits ... | Edward Morgan Forster | Bede | Ecclesiastical History (Bk 5 ch 13) | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Passages in E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book (1944) include two short quotations, from Bede ('Two most wicked spirits ... | Edward Morgan Forster | Henri-Frederic Amiel | Fragments d'un Journal Intime | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Passages in E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book (1944) include description of domestic life from Charles Waterton, Wander... | Edward Morgan Forster | Charles Waterton | Wanderings in South America | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Passages in E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book (1944-45) include account of Ancient Egyptian burial customs, as discover... | Edward Morgan Forster | Samuel Henley | Appendix no. 2 | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Passages in E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book (1945) include extracts (on transience of pleasure in nature) from Ruskin... | Edward Morgan Forster | John Ruskin | Introduction to Notes on Turner drawings | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'Janet Fraser . . . had gone out to the fields with a young female companion, and sat down to read the Bible . . . [Go... | Janet Fraser | | Bible - Book of Isaiah | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | The Hon. Stephen Spring Rice to Alfred Tennyson, 27 November 1833:
'I have read Wilhelm Meister for the first time,... | The Hon. Stephen Spring Rice | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe | Wilhelm Meister | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I again took up Dr Whitehead's Life of Mr Wesley, and as I saw by the title-page that it contained an account of Mr W... | James and Mary Lackington | John Whitehead | The Life of the Rev John Wesley | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Edmund Lushington writes]
'At Xmas 1841 I went for a few days' holiday from Glasgow to Kent and spent the time mos... | Edmund Lushington | Alfred Tennyson | 'In Memoriam' verses | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | Henry Hallam to Alfred Tennyson, on reading In Memoriam:
'I know not how to express what I have felt [...] I do not... | Henry Hallam | Alfred Tennyson | In Memoriam | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Henry Taylor to Alfred Tennyson, 17 November 1852:
'I have read your ode ("Death of the Duke of Wellington") [...] ... | Henry Taylor | Alfred Tennyson | Ode on the Death of the Duke of Wellington | Print: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | 'Next day I dined with Johnson at Mr. Thrale's. He attacked Gray, calling him a "dull fellow." Boswell. "I understand ... | Hester Lynch Thrale | Thomas Gray | [Odes] | Print: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | '[Letter from Johnson to Boswell] I have now three parcels of Lord Hailes's history, which I purpose to return all the... | Hester Lynch Thrale | James Boswell | Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | Vol 7
On the Griphi and Impromptus
(quotation) 'I was very large at my birth and likeways in old age; but very small... | Frances Hamilton | Abbot Barthelemu | Travels of Anacherbis the Younger in Greece during the middle of the fourth century before the Christian Era | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'A book I have a high opinion of' | Frances Hamilton | Dugald Stewart | Elements of the Philosophy of the Human Mind | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'I read The Government of the Country by D. O'Bryan.
N.B. a rebellious book.' | Frances Hamilton | D O'Bryan | The Government of the Country | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'He spoke slightingly of Dyer's "Fleece".— "The subject, Sir, cannot be made poetical. How can a man write poeticall... | Bennet Langton | James Grainger | Sugar Cane, The | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | 'We talked of Flatman's Poems; and Mrs. Thrale observed, that Pope had partly borrowed from him "The dying Christian t... | Hester Lynch Thrale | Thomas Flatman | [Poems] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'We talked of Flatman's Poems; and Mrs. Thrale observed, that Pope had partly borrowed from him "The dying Christian t... | Hester Lynch Thrale | Alexander Pope | 'Dying Christian to his Soul, The' | Print: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | 'Dr. Johnson and Mr. Wilkes talked of the contested passage in Horace's "Art of Poetry", "[italics] Difficile est prop... | John Wilkes | Horace | Ars poetica | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Dr. Johnson and Mr. Wilkes talked of the contested passage in Horace's "Art of Poetry", "[italics] Difficile est prop... | John Wilkes | James Boswell | [notes of conversation between Wilkes and Dr Johnson] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | ' [letter from Boswell to Johnson] I have not yet distributed all your books [presumably a new edition of the "Journey... | James Burnett, Lord Monboddo | Samuel Johnson | Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | ' [letter from Sir Alexander Dick to Johnson] I had yesterday the honour of receiving your book of your "Journey to th... | Alexander Dick | Samuel Johnson | Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | ' [letter from Sir Alexander Dick to Johnson] I had yesterday the honour of receiving your book of your "Journey to th... | Alexander Dick | James Boswell | An Account of Corsica: The Journal of a Tour to That Island, & Memoirs of Pascal Paoli | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'On Monday, September 15, Dr. Johnson observed, that every body commended such parts of his "Journey to the Western Is... | Edmund Burke | Samuel Johnson | Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'In the afternoon I tried to get Dr. Johnson to like the Poems of Mr. Hamilton of Bangour, which I had brought with me... | Andrew Erskine | William Hamilton | [poems] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'I have no doubt that a good many sermons were composed for Taylor [with whom Johnson and Boswell were staying] by Joh... | John Taylor | John Taylor | [sermon] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | 'Talking of Rochester's Poems, he said, he had given them to Mr. Steevens to castrate for the edition of the poets, to... | John Taylor | John Wilmot, Lord Rochester | [Poems] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'The Bishop said, it appeared from Horace's writings that he was a cheerful contented man. Johnson. "We have no reason... | Jonathan Shipley | Horace | | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Langton. "There is not one bad line in that poem [Goldsmith's 'The Traveller']— no one of Dryden's careless verses.... | Bennet Langton | Oliver Goldsmith | Traveller, The | Print: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | 'JOHNSON. "Sir William Temple was the first writer who gave cadence to English prose. Before his time they were carele... | Bennet Langton | Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon | | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'The following tribute was received [by Tennyson] from Scutari:
'"We had in hospital a man of the Light Brigade, on... | anon | Alfred Tennyson | The Charge of the Light Brigade | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 | 'At the end of the year [1855] an unknown Nottingham artizan [sic] came to call. My father asked him to dinner and at ... | anon | | texts used in teaching self to read | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | Henry Taylor to Alfred Tennyson, 31 July 1855:
'I thank you much for sending me "Maud." I have only read it twice, ... | Henry Taylor | Alfred Tennyson | Maud | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'His [Wilfred Owen's] literary interests must always have been a mystery to her, although she admired them, for her ow... | Susan Owen | | [light novels] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'His [Wilfred Owen's] literary interests must always have been a mystery to her, although she admired them, for her ow... | Susan Owen | John Oxenham [pseud.] | [light novels] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'He begged of General Paoli to repeat one of the introductory stanzas of the first book of Tasso's "Jerusalem", which ... | Filippo Antonio Pasquale di Paoli | Torquato Tasso | Gerusalemme Liberata | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'He begged of General Paoli to repeat one of the introductory stanzas of the first book of Tasso's "Jerusalem", which ... | Filippo Antonio Pasquale di Paoli | Thucydides | History of the Peloponnesian War, | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'He begged of General Paoli to repeat one of the introductory stanzas of the first book of Tasso's "Jerusalem", which ... | Filippo Antonio Pasquale di Paoli | Homer | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 | Benjamin Jowett to Alfred Tennyson [1858]:
'I have great pleasure in sending some books which I hope you will accep... | Benjamin Jowett | Hegel | Philosophy of History | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 | Benjamin Jowett to Alfred Tennyson [1858]:
'I have great pleasure in sending some books which I hope you will accep... | Benjamin Jowett | Bunsen | work on Bible | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 | Lord Dufferin to Alfred Tennyson [1858]:
'For the first 20 years of my life I not only did not care for poetry, but... | Helen Selina Sheridan Blackwood | John Dryden | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 | Lord Dufferin to Alfred Tennyson [1858]:
'For the first 20 years of my life I not only did not care for poetry, but... | Helen Selina Sheridan Blackwood | Alexander Pope | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 | Lord Dufferin to Alfred Tennyson [1858]:
'For the first 20 years of my life I not only did not care for poetry, but... | Helen Selina Sheridan Blackwood | George Gordon Lord Byron | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 | Lord Dufferin to Alfred Tennyson [1858]:
'For the first 20 years of my life I not only did not care for poetry, but... | Helen Selina Sheridan Blackwood | Edward Young | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 | Lord Dufferin to Alfred Tennyson [1858]:
'For the first 20 years of my life I not only did not care for poetry, but... | Helen Selina Sheridan Blackwood | Cowper | | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | The Duke of Argyll to Alfred Tennyson, 14 July 1859:
'I think my prediction is coming true, that your "Idylls of th... | Thomas Babington Macaulay | Alfred Tennyson | Guinevere | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | The Duke of Argyll to Alfred Tennyson, 14 July 1859:
'I think my prediction is coming true, that your "Idylls of th... | Thomas Babington Macaulay | Alfred Tennyson | The Maid of Astolat | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Benjamin Jowett to Alfred Tennyson, 17 July 1859:
'Thank you many times for your last: I have read it through with ... | Benjamin Jowett | Alfred Tennyson | The Maid of Astolat | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Benjamin Jowett to Alfred Tennyson, 17 July 1859:
'Thank you many times for your last: I have read it through with ... | Benjamin Jowett | Alfred Tennyson | The Lily Maid | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | H. R. H. Prince Albert to Alfred Tennyson, 17 May 1860:
'Will you forgive me if I intrude upon your leisure with a ... | Prince Albert | Alfred Tennyson | Idylls of the King | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Jan. 19th. [1862] Princess Alice wrote to my father about the Dedication of the "Idylls" to [her father] the Prince C... | Queen Victoria | Alfred Tennyson | Dedication, Idylls of the King | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | The Crown Princess of Prussia to Alfred Tennyson, 23 February 1862:
'The first time I ever heard the "Idylls of the... | Prince Albert | Alfred Tennyson | Guinevere | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Alfred Tennyson to the Duke of Argyl, 3 March 1862:
'Your letter a little dismayed me, for, as you in the prior one... | Queen Victoria | Alfred Tennyson | In Memoriam | Print: Book |
| | 'RAMSAY. "I suppose Homer's 'Iliad' to be a collection of pieces which had been written before his time. I should like... | Allan Ramsay | Homer | Iliad | Print: Book |
| | 'RAMSAY. "I suppose Homer's 'Iliad' to be a collection of pieces which had been written before his time. I should like... | Allan Ramsay | | [books of Job and Ruth] | Print: Book |
| | 'Johnson this year expressed great satisfaction at the publication of the first volume of "Discourses to the Royal Aca... | Catherine II of Russia | Joshua Reynolds | Discourses Delivered at the Royal Academy | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'A district visitor was delivering tracts among a large meeting of some poor folk to whom she had lately read part of ... | anon | Alfred Tennyson | Enoch Arden | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | W. G. Clark, on a reader of Tennyson's 'The Northern Farmer':
'[?W. H.] Thompson has been staying at Fryston, where... | anon | Alfred Tennyson | The Northern Farmer | Manuscript: Unknown, In hand of 'Mr Creyke.' |
| | 'shall insert as a literary curiosity. [The letter is given. It begins as follows]
"TO JAMES BOSWELL, ESQ.
DEAR S... | Allen, 1st Earl Bathurst | Alexander Pope | Essay on Man | Print: Book |
| | 'shall insert as a literary curiosity. [The letter is given. It begins as follows]
"TO JAMES BOSWELL, ESQ.
DEAR S... | Allen, 1st Earl Bathurst | Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke | [alleged MS prose version of Pope's 'Essay on Man'] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | '[from the Johnsoniana imparted by Bennet Langton to Boswell in 1780] 'A gentleman, by no means deficient in literatur... | Bennet Langton | Clenardus | Greek Grammar | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | '[from the Johnsoniana imparted by Bennet Langton to Boswell in 1780] Mr. Langton, when a very young man, read Dodsley... | Bennet Langton | Robert Dodsley | Cleone, a Tragedy | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | [from Bennet Langton's collection of Johnsoniana passed to Boswell in 1780] 'He mentioned with an air of satisfaction ... | Giuseppe Marc'Antonio Baretti | Mr Grove | [articled in 'The Spectator'] | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1700-1799 | '[Croft's 'Life of Young, adapted by Johnson for his 'Life'] has always appeared to me to have a considerable share of... | Edmund Burke | Herbert Croft | Life of Young | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'A clergyman at Bath wrote to him, that in "The Morning Chronicle", a passage in "The Beauties of Johnson" [unauthoris... | Lancelot St Albyn | Samuel Johnson | [excerpt from a work, reprinted in the Bath 'Morning Chronicle'] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | 'Thank you for Herder which came in the nick of time; as I had just heard the last oracle of Nathan, and was ennuying ... | Jane Baillie Welsh | Torquato Tasso | Aminta | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Johnson asked Richard Owen Cambridge, Esq., if he had read the Spanish translation of Sallust, said to be written by ... | Richard Owen Cambridge | Sallust | | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Early childhood reminisences:
'my deep impression is that she was a Holy, devoted follower of the Lord Jesus, but her... | Catherine Gurney | [n/a] | Scriptures | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Early childhood reminisences:
'my deep impression is that she was a Holy, devoted follower of the Lord Jesus, but her... | Catherine Gurney | [n/a] | Psalms | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'After they all went I came and wrote my journal and sat with cousin Priscilla and we read till dinner' | Priscilla Hannah Gurney | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Mrs. Kennicot related, in his [Johnson's] presence, a lively saying of Dr. Johnson to Miss Hannah More, who had expre... | Hannah More | John Milton | Paradise Lost | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Mrs. Kennicot related, in his [Johnson's] presence, a lively saying of Dr. Johnson to Miss Hannah More, who had expre... | Hannah More | John Milton | [Sonnets] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'At ten o'clock we all met in the study and my father read to us. - I fear my mind is not sufficiently obedient to its... | John Gurney | [unknown] | [unknown, probably religious, Bible?] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Whilst confined by his last illness, it was his regular practice to have the church-service read to him, by some atte... | John Hoole | | the Litany | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [the curriculum at the Dragon School] included much memorizing of poetry, particularly Tennyson's 'Ulysses' and 'Morte... | John Betjeman | Alfred, Lord Tennyson | 'Ulysses' | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [the curriculum at the Dragon School] included much memorizing of poetry, particularly Tennyson's 'Ulysses' and 'Morte... | John Betjeman | Alfred, Lord Tennyson | 'Morte d'Arthur' | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The poets John read at Highgate Junior School included Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Thomas Campbell and Edgar Allan Poe'. | John Betjeman | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The poets John read at Highgate Junior School included Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Thomas Campbell and Edgar Allan Poe'. | John Betjeman | Edgar Allan Poe | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The poets John read at Highgate Junior School included Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Thomas Campbell and Edgar Allan Poe'. | John Betjeman | Thomas Campbell | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'John was not only reading and quoting Lord Alfred Douglas at Marlborough. Ernest Betjeman [his father] was scandalize... | John Betjeman | Alfred Douglas | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '[quotation from Maurice Bowra's Memoirs] The first time I met him [John Betjeman] he talked fluently about half forgo... | John Betjeman | Ebeneezer Elliott | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '[quotation from Maurice Bowra's Memoirs] The first time I met him [John Betjeman] he talked fluently about half forgo... | John Betjeman | Henry Taylor | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '[quotation from Maurice Bowra's Memoirs] The first time I met him [John Betjeman] he talked fluently about half forgo... | John Betjeman | Philip James Bailey | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '[quotation from Maurice Bowra's Memoirs] The first time I met him [John Betjeman] he talked fluently about half forgo... | John Betjeman | Lewis Morris | | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Rousseau says that the Man who finding his Affairs embarrassed - puts an end to his own Life; is like one who finding... | Hester Lynch Thrale | Jean Jacques Rousseau | La Nouvelle Heloise | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'My Father had made me translate the Life of Cervantes prefixed to Don Quixote from the Spanish by way of exercise whe... | Hester Lynch Salusbury | | Life of Cervantes | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'With regard to little French Epitaphs I have always had an Itch to translate them, & some times have fancied that I c... | Hester Lynch Thrale | | [French epitaphs] | Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | 'Doctor Collier used to say that although Milton was so violent a Whig himself, he was obliged to write his poem upon ... | Hester Lynch Thrale | John Milton | Paradise Lost | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | '[having given the text of Parker's poem 'To Miss Salusbury', Mrs Thrale writes] For a long Time I believed this Conce... | Hester Lynch Salusbury | Dr Parker | 'To Miss Salusbury' | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | '[having given the text of Parker's poem 'To Miss Salusbury', Mrs Thrale writes] For a long Time I believed this Conce... | Hester Lynch Thrale | | Greek Anthology | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | '[having given the text of Parker's poem 'To Miss Salusbury', Mrs Thrale writes] For a long Time I believed this Conce... | Hester Lynch Thrale | Dominique Bouhours | La manière de bien penser dans les ouvrages d'esprit | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'the famous Tristram Shandy itself is not absolutely original: for when I was at Derby in the Summer of 1774 I strolle... | Hester Lynch Thrale | Anon. | ife and Memoirs of Mr Ephraim Tristram Bates, commonly called Corporal Bates, a broken-hearted Soldier | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'the famous Tristram Shandy itself is not absolutely original: for when I was at Derby in the Summer of 1774 I strolle... | Hester Lynch Thrale | Laurence Sterne | ife and Opinions of Tristram Shandy | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'the Verses written by Bentley upon Learning & publish'd in Dodsley's Miscellanies - how like they are to Evelyn's Ver... | Hester Lynch Thrale | Robert Dodsley | Collection of Poems by Various Hands | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'the Verses written by Bentley upon Learning & publish'd in Dodsley's Miscellanies - how like they are to Evelyn's Ver... | Hester Lynch Thrale | John Dryden | Miscellanies | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'the Verses written by Bentley upon Learning & publish'd in Dodsley's Miscellanies - how like they are to Evelyn's Ver... | Hester Lynch Thrale | Boethius | Consolation of Philosophy | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'the Verses written by Bentley upon Learning & publish'd in Dodsley's Miscellanies - how like they are to Evelyn's Ver... | Hester Lynch Thrale | Francis Beaumont | Bonduca | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'the Verses written by Bentley upon Learning & publish'd in Dodsley's Miscellanies - how like they are to Evelyn's Ver... | Hester Lynch Thrale | Francis Beaumont | [Plays] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I must let off a little steam. I am wroth beyond expression about Mr Kirkham’s cheek in publishing our letters. I... | Cornelia Sorabji | Kirkham (ed.) | Reminiscences of Tennyson extracted from Cornelia's letters home | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'She announced among other things that Longfellow was her favourite poet. “Byron is nice too” she added “Especi... | Cornelia Sorabji | Walter Scott | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'She announced among other things that Longfellow was her favourite poet. “Byron is nice too” she added “Especi... | Cornelia Sorabji | Austin Dobson | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'The other day some people from “The Gentlewoman” came to interview me and wished to put an account if me into the... | Cornelia Sorabji | | The Spectator | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1700-1799 | '[Mrs Thrale gives the Spanish quotation] "Quien la ve no la e; quien no la ve, la ve".
I think the Jeu de Mots in t... | Hester Lynch Thrale | | [a Spanish play] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Doctor Marriott wrote the prettiest Verses in French of any Englishman I know'.[she then gives lengthy examples] | Hester Lynch Thrale | Dr Marriott | [French poems] | Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | 'How difficult it is to come at petty Literature! the long Note at the end of Pope's Odyssey is it seems written purpo... | Hester Lynch Thrale | Alexander Pope | Odyssey | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'The Tag at the close of the last Act of Cato is written by Mr Pope, and is apparently the worst Tag in the whole Play... | Hester Lynch Thrale | Joseph Addison | Cato | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'A Tutor was reading Lectures of Morality to his pupil at Oxford; one of the Lectures ended thus - Ubi desenit ethicus... | Hester Lynch Thrale | Lord Corke | [Letters] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Here is an odd Book come out to prove Falstaff was no Coward, when says Dr Johnson will one come forth to prove Iago ... | Hester Lynch Thrale | Maurice Morgan | Essay on the Dramatic Character of Sir John Falstaff | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Baretti used to read here with vast Avidity - do you remember all you read said I one day - Scarce a word replyed Bar... | Giuseppe Marc'Antonio Baretti | | | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | '[Mr Pepys] is admirably described by the same Words with which Menage describes Mr de Costar; C'est (dit il), le Gala... | Hester Lynch Thrale | Mr Pepys | [verses on Mrs Greville and Mrs Crewe] | Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | '[Mr Pepys] is admirably described by the same Words with which Menage describes Mr de Costar; C'est (dit il), le Gala... | Hester Lynch Thrale | Gilles Menage | Menagiana | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'The Famous Sonnet of Sir H: Wooton beginning. Ye meaner Beauties of the Night is likewise exquisitely pretty, and I s... | Hester Lynch Thrale | Henry Wooton | 'Ye meaner beauties of the night' | Print: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | 'The Famous Sonnet of Sir H: Wooton beginning. Ye meaner Beauties of the Night is likewise exquisitely pretty, and I s... | Giuseppe Marc'Antonio Baretti | Henry Wooton | 'Ye meaner beauties of the night' | Print: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | '[Mrs Thrale is about to give 'an Ode written when I was between sixteen and seventeen Years old'] As I read it over t... | Hester Lynch Thrale | Hester Lynch Salusbury | 'Irregular Ode on the English Poets' | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | '[Mrs Thrale is about to give 'an Ode written when I was between sixteen and seventeen Years old'] As I read it over t... | John Salusbury | Hester Lynch Salusbury | 'Irregular Ode on the English Poets' | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | '[Having given some verses 'To Miss Salusbury', thought to be by Sarah Fielding] These verses are nothing extraordinar... | Hester Lynch Thrale | Sarah Fielding | 'To Miss Salusbury' | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | 'he [Mr Hale] was a clever man enough too, valued himself on his Literature, and made some pretty verses. as for Examp... | Hester Lynch Thrale | William Hale | [translation of one of Martial's 'Epigrams'] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | 'I heard an odd Anecdote to Day of Fordyce the Dissenter, who wrote a few pretty little Essays lately call'd Sermons t... | Hester Lynch Thrale | James Fordyce | Sermons to Young Women | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia in Keats's annotated copy of "Paradise Lost", Book 3, Lines 51-9]: The management of this Poem is Apolloni... | John Keats | John Milton | Paradise Lost | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia in Keats's annotated copy of "Paradise Lost", Book 3, lines 135-7]: 'Hell is finer than this'. | John Keats | John Milton | Paradise Lost | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia in Keats's annotated copy of "Paradise Lost", Book 3, lines 487-9]: 'This part in its sound is unaccountab... | John Keats | John Milton | Paradise Lost | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia in Keats's annotated copy of "Paradise Lost", Book 3, lines 606-17]: Keats underlines the phrases and line... | John Keats | John Milton | Paradise Lost | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia in Keats's annotated copy of "Paradise Lost", Book 4, lines 1-5] Keats underlines the lines: "O for that w... | John Keats | John Milton | Paradise Lost | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia in Keats's annotated copy of "Paradise Lost", Book 4, lines 268-72] Keats underlines the lines: "Not that ... | John Keats | John Milton | Paradise Lost | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia in Keats's annotated copy of "Paradise Lost", Book 6, lines 58-9] Keats underlines "reluctant flames, the ... | John Keats | John Milton | Paradise Lost | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia in Keats's annotated copy of "Paradise Lost", Book 7, lines 420-34] Keats underlines the phrase "With clan... | John Keats | John Milton | Paradise Lost | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia in Keats's annotated copy of "Paradise Lost", Book 9, 41-7]: 'Had not Shakespeare liv'd?' | John Keats | John Milton | Paradise Lost | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia in Keats's annotated copy of "Paradise Lost", Book 9, 179-91]. Keats underlines the whole passage, excludi... | John Keats | John Milton | Paradise Lost | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'I used to like following Verses vastly upon Garrick and Barry's playing King Lear a l'envie till I heard from good au... | Hester Lynch Thrale | | [verses on Garrick's Lear] | Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | 'Here follows a Sonnet written by Giuseppe Pecio to call Voltaire into Italy; Lord Sandys read it here as excellent in... | Hester Lynch Thrale | Giuseppe Pecio | [sonnet to Voltaire] | Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | 'I saw there [at Hampton] likewise a sweet pretty little Copy of Verses from a Gentleman to his Wife on the Subject of... | Hester Lynch Thrale | | [verses to a wife, about a penknife] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | 'he [Herbert Lawrence] wrote some pretty Verses and said some clever Things and I have a Loss of his Acquaintance. The... | Hester Lynch Thrale | Herbert Lawrence | [poems] | Unknown |
| 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... | Hester Lynch Thrale | Thomas Gray | [Odes] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'the Ode to Indifference is a most superior Piece of elegant Writing The Occasion of it was however dreadfully unhappy... | Hester Lynch Thrale | Frances Greville | Ode to Indifference | Print: Unknown |
| 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... | Hester Lynch Thrale | Richard Cumberland | [Odes] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'In a Conversation the King of Prussia had once with Marshal Keith the latter quoted Scripture: why Keith have you bee... | James Francis Edward Keith | | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'I was told to-day that Joshua and Jesus are the very same Name. I never heard it before, and suppose it not commonly ... | Hester Lynch Thrale | John Milton | Paradise Lost | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Cob was once the general name the general English Word I mean for a Spider, Cobweb is still left from this Root, & I ... | Hester Lynch Thrale | Ben Jonson | Every Man in his Humour | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Even when Winifred could read with the effortless rapidity that she never lost, she found her own stories and poems m... | Winifred Holtby | | Christie's Old Organ, Jessica's First Prayer, A Peep Behind the Scenes | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'One late evening in the dim firelight of our rooms at Oxford after the War, she turned from reading aloud to me Swinb... | Winifred Holtby | Algernon Charles Swinburne | Super Flumina Babylonis | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'In "The Leviathan" of Thomas Hobbes, one of the seventeenth-century philosophers whom we had studied in our classes o... | Winifred Holtby | Thomas Hobbes | The Leviathan | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Before that illumined moment of rich inspiration, Winifred had been experimenting with other kinds of writing, and st... | Winifred Holtby | Walter Raleigh | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'During our Oxford years the works to which she turned most frequently were Shakepeare's "Richard II", Raleigh's "Disc... | Winifred Holtby | William Shakespeare | Richard II | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'one Day in the Year 1768 I saw some Verses with his name in a Magazine these are they [the poem follows] I thought th... | Hester Lynch Thrale | Samuel Johnson | [verses printed in the Gentleman's Magazine] | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1700-1799 | 'Of Swift's Style which I praised as beautiful he observed; that it had only the Beauty of a Bubble, The Colour says h... | Hester Lynch Thrale | Jonathan Swift | | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'We talked of Dryden - Buckingham's Play said I has hurt the Reputation of the Poet, great as he was; such is the forc... | Hester Lynch Thrale | George Villiers, 2nd Duke of Buckingham | Rehearsal, The | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'We were speaking of Young as a Poet; Young's works cried Johnson are like a miry Road, with here & there a Stepping S... | Hester Lynch Thrale | John Dryden | | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'We were speaking of Young as a Poet; Young's works cried Johnson are like a miry Road, with here & there a Stepping S... | Hester Lynch Thrale | Edward Young | | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'As my Peace has never been disturbed by the [italics] soft Passion [end italics], so it seldom comes into my head to ... | Hester Lynch Thrale | | Huetania | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'He was however very much nettled by Churchill's Satire that's certain; for he rejected him from among the Poets when ... | Hester Lynch Thrale | Charles Churchill | Prophecy of Famine, a Scots Pastoral | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'He was however very much nettled by Churchill's Satire that's certain; for he rejected him from among the Poets when ... | Hester Lynch Thrale | Charles Churchill | Ghost, The | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'that Piety which dictated the serious Papers in the Rambler will be for ever remembred [sic], for ever I think - reve... | Hester Lynch Thrale | Samuel Johnson | Rambler, The | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | Sir Henry Bedingfield, Bart., to Alfred Tennyson, 20 August 1875:
'As a great admirer of your genius, I eagerly rea... | Sir Henry Bedingfield, Bart. | Alfred Tennyson | Queen Mary | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Another favourite Passage too in the same Author [Metastasio's Adriano]; which Baretti made his Pupil - my eldest Da... | Hester Lynch Thrale | Samuel Johnson | [translation of lines from Metastasio's 'Adriano'] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | '[Dr Burney] could write admirable Verses had he Leisure and Inclination so to do. He has shewn me in Confidence a lit... | Hester Lynch Thrale | Charles Burney | [verses modelled on 'The Dunciad'] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | '[italics] My [end italics] Daughter Susan a Girl of seven Years old - said to me yesterday when we had done reading -... | Susan Thrale | | [a story book] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | '[italics] My [end italics] Daughter Susan a Girl of seven Years old - said to me yesterday when we had done reading -... | Susan Thrale | James Beattie | Essays on Poetry and Music | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Mr Seward has just brought me a very great Curiosity a Copy of English Verses written by Jones the Orientalist when o... | Hester Lynch Thrale | William Jones | [MS Ode on St Cecilia's Day] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | 'it was but last Week I read a new [sic] York Advertisement of Perfumery for the Ladies, Anodyne Necklaces for Teethin... | Hester Lynch Thrale | | [a New York newspaper] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1700-1799 | 'Doctor Grainger, Author of the fine Ode to Solitude printed in Dodsley's Miscellanies wrote a poem while he was in th... | Hester Lynch Thrale | James Grainger | 'Solitude: An Ode' | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'I myself like Smollet's Novels better than Fielding's; the perpetual Parody teizes one; - there is more Rapidity and ... | Hester Lynch Thrale | Tobias Smollett | | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'I myself like Smollet's Novels better than Fielding's; the perpetual Parody teizes one; - there is more Rapidity and ... | Hester Lynch Thrale | Henry Fielding | | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'I myself like Smollet's Novels better than Fielding's; the perpetual Parody teizes one; - there is more Rapidity and ... | Hester Lynch Thrale | Samuel Richardson | | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'I myself like Smollet's Novels better than Fielding's; the perpetual Parody teizes one; - there is more Rapidity and ... | Hester Lynch Thrale | Jean Jacques Rousseau | | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'For Sublimity & at the same time Familiarity with Life Nothing strikes one more than Clarendon's Account of the Fire ... | Hester Lynch Thrale | Edward Hyde, 1st earl of Clarendon | Continuation of the Life of Edward Earl of Clarendon | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'For Sublimity & at the same time Familiarity with Life Nothing strikes one more than Clarendon's Account of the Fire ... | Hester Lynch Thrale | Daniel Defoe | Journal of the Plague Year | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Mr Murphy's Grecian Daughter is I think unquestionably the best of all our modern Tragedies, & all its Merit is the P... | Hester Lynch Thrale | Arthur Murphy | Grecian Daughter, the: A tragedy | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Mr Murphy's Grecian Daughter is I think unquestionably the best of all our modern Tragedies, & all its Merit is the P... | Hester Lynch Thrale | Samuel Johnson | Irene: A Historical Tragedy | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Mr Murphy's Grecian Daughter is I think unquestionably the best of all our modern Tragedies, & all its Merit is the P... | Hester Lynch Thrale | Joseph Addison | Cato | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Mr Murphy's Grecian Daughter is I think unquestionably the best of all our modern Tragedies, & all its Merit is the P... | Hester Lynch Thrale | George Lillo | London Merchant, or the History of George Barnwell | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Mr Murphy's Grecian Daughter is I think unquestionably the best of all our modern Tragedies, & all its Merit is the P... | Hester Lynch Thrale | Henry Jones | Earl of Essex, The, a tragedy | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'One could not bear to read a Page of the Gentleman Instructed now, & yet what a favourite Book it was - can that ever... | Hester Lynch Thrale | William Darrell | Gentleman Instructed, In the Conduct of a Virtuous and Happy Life | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | '[Dr Parker] shewed me a little Poem written to himself by an old Clergyman of sixty nine Years old just upon the Acce... | Hester Lynch Thrale | | [verses written to Dr Parker by a clergyman] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | '[when Mrs Thrale was a child] The Duchess of Leeds likewise took an odd Delight in my excellent company, used to send... | Hester Lynch Salusbury | John Milton | | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'having shewed her [Sophia Streatfield] the other day three Translations of a few Verses written by Voltaire She immed... | Hester Lynch Thrale | Thomas Parnell | | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Doctor Hawkesworth has left a Tragedy in manuscript, which I have had the reading of, that I think capital; if want o... | Hester Lynch Thrale | John Hawkesworth | Rival, The | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | 'Doctor Hawkesworth has left a Tragedy in manuscript, which I have had the reading of, that I think capital; if want o... | Hester Lynch Thrale | John Hawkesworth | [Ode on life] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Doctor Hawkesworth has left a Tragedy in manuscript, which I have had the reading of, that I think capital; if want o... | Hester Lynch Thrale | John Hawkesworth | Amurath | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1700-1799 | 'Doctor Hawkesworth has left a Tragedy in manuscript, which I have had the reading of, that I think capital; if want o... | Hester Lynch Thrale | John Hawkesworth | Adventurer, The | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1700-1799 | 'Was I to make a Scale of Novel Writers I should put Richardson first, then Rousseau; after them, but at an immeasurab... | Hester Lynch Thrale | Samuel Richardson | | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Was I to make a Scale of Novel Writers I should put Richardson first, then Rousseau; after them, but at an immeasurab... | Hester Lynch Thrale | Jean Jacques Rousseau | | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Was I to make a Scale of Novel Writers I should put Richardson first, then Rousseau; after them, but at an immeasurab... | Hester Lynch Thrale | Tobias Smollett | Ferdinand Count Fathom | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Was I to make a Scale of Novel Writers I should put Richardson first, then Rousseau; after them, but at an immeasurab... | Hester Lynch Thrale | Charlotte Lennox | Female Quixote, The | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Was I to make a Scale of Novel Writers I should put Richardson first, then Rousseau; after them, but at an immeasurab... | Hester Lynch Thrale | Henry Fielding | Tom Jones | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Was I to make a Scale of Novel Writers I should put Richardson first, then Rousseau; after them, but at an immeasurab... | Hester Lynch Thrale | Henry Fielding | Joseph Andrews | Print: Book |
| | 'I was shewed a little Novel t'other Day which I thought pretty enough & set Burney to read it, little dreaming it was... | Hester Lynch Thrale | Frances Burney | Evelina | Print: Book |
| | 'I was reading today where Menage tells a story of a notable fellow in his native town Angers, who was such a bustler ... | Hester Lynch Thrale | Gilles Menage | Menagiana | Print: Book |
| | 'Johnson says the following 8 lines of Burney are actually sublime - they are the End of a dull copy of Verses enough,... | Hester Lynch Thrale | Charles Burney | [verses on death] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| | 'Lord Kaimes again tells us a wild Story of Savages who eat all their own children & have done so for six Hundred Year... | Hester Lynch Thrale | Henry Home, Lord Kames | Sketches of the History of Man | Print: Book |
| | 'Goldsmith talks of cows shedding their Horns, & Thompson makes his Hens and Chicks to be
Fed & defended by the fe... | Hester Lynch Thrale | Oliver Goldsmith | History of the Earth and Animated Nature | Print: Book |
| | 'Goldsmith talks of cows shedding their Horns, & Thompson makes his Hens and Chicks to be
Fed & defended by the fe... | Hester Lynch Thrale | James Thomson | Seasons, The - 'Spring' | Print: Book |
| | 'Goldsmith talks of cows shedding their Horns, & Thompson makes his Hens and Chicks to be
Fed & defended by the fe... | Hester Lynch Thrale | James Thomson | Seasons, The - 'Summer' | Print: Book |
| | 'Goldsmith talks of cows shedding their Horns, & Thompson makes his Hens and Chicks to be
Fed & defended by the fe... | Hester Lynch Thrale | Samuel Johnson | Irene: A Historical Tragedy | Print: Book |
| | 'Goldsmith talks of cows shedding their Horns, & Thompson makes his Hens and Chicks to be
Fed & defended by the fe... | Hester Lynch Thrale | Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon | Histoire Naturelle | Print: Book |
| | 'Goldsmith talks of cows shedding their Horns, & Thompson makes his Hens and Chicks to be
Fed & defended by the fe... | Hester Lynch Thrale | Thomas Pennant | History of Quadrupeds. | Print: Book |
| | '[Having given her verses 'A Tale for the Times'] This wild irregular Measure is a sort of Favourite with me, I learnt... | Hester Lynch Thrale | John Vanbrugh | Esop; a comedy | Print: Book |
| | 'I could not help thinking the other Day as I read the Epigram of Martial ending thus
Iam dic Posthume de tribus Ca... | Hester Lynch Thrale | Martial | Epigrams | Print: Book |
| | 'The two [italics] wittiest [end italics] things in our Language in Verse & Prose are Dr Young's Conjectures on Origin... | Hester Lynch Thrale | Edward Young | Conjectures on Original Composition. In a Letter to the Author of Sir Charles Grandison | Print: Book |
| | 'The two [italics] wittiest [end italics] things in our Language in Verse & Prose are Dr Young's Conjectures on Origin... | Hester Lynch Thrale | Jonathan Swift | The Bubble: A Poem; aka, The South Sea Project | Print: Serial / periodical |
| | 'The two [italics] wittiest [end italics] things in our Language in Verse & Prose are Dr Young's Conjectures on Origin... | Hester Lynch Thrale | Thomas Southern | Fatal marriage, The; or, the innocent adultery | Print: Book |
| | 'The two [italics] wittiest [end italics] things in our Language in Verse & Prose are Dr Young's Conjectures on Origin... | Hester Lynch Thrale | George Lillo | Fatal Curiosity: A True Tragedy of Three Acts | Print: Book |
| | 'The two [italics] wittiest [end italics] things in our Language in Verse & Prose are Dr Young's Conjectures on Origin... | Hester Lynch Thrale | John Vanbrugh | Provoked Husband, The | Print: Book |
| | 'The two [italics] wittiest [end italics] things in our Language in Verse & Prose are Dr Young's Conjectures on Origin... | Hester Lynch Thrale | William Congreve | Old Batchelor, The | Print: Book |
| | 'The two [italics] wittiest [end italics] things in our Language in Verse & Prose are Dr Young's Conjectures on Origin... | Hester Lynch Thrale | Joseph Addison | Cato | Print: Book |
| | 'The two [italics] wittiest [end italics] things in our Language in Verse & Prose are Dr Young's Conjectures on Origin... | Hester Lynch Thrale | Samuel Johnson | Irene: a Historical Tragedy | Print: Book |
| | 'The two [italics] wittiest [end italics] things in our Language in Verse & Prose are Dr Young's Conjectures on Origin... | Hester Lynch Thrale | William Congreve | Mourning Bride, The | Print: Book |
| | 'There was a very pleasant Copy of Verses ran about the Town that Year [1776], but I forgot to lay them up, & now I ha... | Hester Lynch Thrale | | 'Love Letter from Captain Roach to Mrs Rudd' | Manuscript: Unknown |
| | 'There was a very pleasant Copy of Verses ran about the Town that Year [1776], but I forgot to lay them up, & now I ha... | Hester Lynch Thrale | William Mason | 'Heroic Epistle to Sir William Chambers' | Print: Unknown |
| | '20: Jan: 1779.] My second Daughter Susanna Arabella who will not be nine Years old till next May, can at this Moment ... | Susanna Arabella Thrale | Moliere [pseud.] | Le Bourgeois gentilhomme | Print: Book |
| | '20: Jan: 1779.] My second Daughter Susanna Arabella who will not be nine Years old till next May, can at this Moment ... | Susanna Arabella Thrale | John Dryden | Song for St. Cecilia's Day | Print: Book |
| | '20: Jan: 1779.] My second Daughter Susanna Arabella who will not be nine Years old till next May, can at this Moment ... | Susanna Arabella Thrale | Alexander Pope | Ode for Music on St Cecilia's Day | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | From Hallam Tennyson's account 'Of My Father's Illness':
'Jan.15th. [1889] My father asked Jowett whether his faith... | Benjamin Jowett | Plato | Thaetetus | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 | From Hallam Tennyson's account 'Of My Father's Illness':
'During our cruise [on The Sunbeam, Lord Brassey's yacht] ... | Henry Hallam | Thomas Carlyle | The French Revolution | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | From Tennyson's notes on Demeter and Other Poems:
'A lady tells me that when she read "The Northern Cobbler" at a v... | anon | Alfred Tennyson | The Northern Cobbler | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | John Tyndall to Hallam Tennyson:
'On Monday the 10th [October, 1892], Miss Marryat, daughter of the celebrated nove... | John Tyndall | Dr Dabbs | account of death of Alfred Tennyson | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | John Tyndall to Hallam Tennyson (1893):
'Under the date of Sunday, 20th October, 1850, I find the following [journa... | John Tyndall | Alfred Tennyson | Poems including 'The Two Voices' | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | John Tyndall to Hallam Tennyson (1893):
'You were not born when the influence [of Alfred Tennyson] in my case began... | John Tyndall | Thomas Carlyle | Past and Present | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | John Tyndall to Hallam Tennyson (1893):
'It may be worth while to mention here how I first made the acquaintance of... | John Tyndall | Alfred Tennyson | Maud | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | John Tyndall to Hallam Tennyson (1893):
'It may be worth while to mention here how I first made the acquaintance of... | John Tyndall | Alfred Tennyson | Maud | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | John Tyndall to Hallam Tennyson (1893):
'In the year 1885 [...] were published Tiresias, and Other Poems, by Alfred... | John Tyndall | Alfred Tennyson | Tiresias and Other Poems | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Nobody reads Spenser's Pastorals, and they are exquisitely pretty; the Story in his February of the Oak and the Breer... | Hester Lynch Thrale | Edmund Spenser | Shepheardes Calendar, The | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'I have heard that Miss Cooper hearing She was to lose her Sight, set about getting the Night Thoughts by heart - so m... | Hester Lynch Thrale | Edward Young | Night Thoughts | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'I have heard that Miss Cooper hearing She was to lose her Sight, set about getting the Night Thoughts by heart - so m... | Hester Lynch Thrale | James Grainger | [unknown poem praising Young] | Print: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | 'her [Fanny Burney's] Scoundrel Bookseller having advertised the Sylph along with it [Evelina] lately, and endeavourin... | Hester Lynch Thrale | Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire | The Sylph: a Novel | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | '[Mrs Thrale gives some verses of hers about bathing] these Lines are imitated from some Verses in Ben Jonson's Volpon... | Hester Lynch Thrale | Ben Jonson | Volpone | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'I have this Moment put into my Hand a Poem concerning the Geranium Flower; tis not very long, and tis I think exceedi... | Hester Lynch Thrale | Andrew Erskine | [a poem on a Geranium] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | 'I had an Uncle Cornelius Ford my Mother's Brother continued he [Johnson] who on a Journey stopt to read an Inscriptio... | Cornelius Ford | | [an inscription] | Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | 'Fanny Burney has read me her new Comedy; nobody else has seen it except her Father, who will not suffer his Partialit... | Frances Burney | Frances Burney | The Witlings | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | 'There is no Reading that so changes the Scene upon one, and carries one so completely out of one's self I think, as A... | Hester Lynch Thrale | Thomas Burnet | Telluris Theoria Sacra | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'There is no Reading that so changes the Scene upon one, and carries one so completely out of one's self I think, as A... | Hester Lynch Thrale | William Whiston | Astronomical Year, The: Or an Account of the Great Year MDCCXXXVI. Particularly of the Late Comet, Which was foretold by Sir Isaac Newton | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | '[Mrs Thrale proposes writing a comedy, but] as I have not a Spark of Originality about me, I must take a French Model... | Hester Lynch Thrale | Philippe Nericault Destouches | L'Homme Singulier | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | '[Miss Sophia Pitches] died of a Disorder common enough to Young Women the desire of Beauty; She had I fancy taken Qua... | Hester Lynch Thrale | | [ladies memorandum books] | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1700-1799 | 'In Page 153 of the 2d Volume of Thraliana [p252], I hazarded a Conjecture that the Worms were often in old Times, & e... | Hester Lynch Thrale | | | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | '1: August 1779.] Johnson has been diverting himself with imitating Potter's Aeschylus in a translation of some verses... | Hester Lynch Thrale | Samuel Johnson | [burlesque translation of Euripides in the manner of Potter] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | '1: August 1779.] Johnson has been diverting himself with imitating Potter's Aeschylus in a translation of some verses... | Hester Lynch Thrale | Aeschylus | | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Burney has translated a provencale Ballad written by Thibout King of Navarre 500 Years ago, into the prettiest Englis... | Hester Lynch Thrale | Charles Burney | [translation of a provencale ballad] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | 'What a fine Book is "Law's Serious Call"! written with such force of Thinking, such purity of Style, & such penetrati... | Hester Lynch Thrale | William Law | Serious Call to a Devout and Holy Life | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'What a fine Book is "Law's Serious Call"! written with such force of Thinking, such purity of Style, & such penetrati... | Hester Lynch Thrale | Samuel Johnson | Rambler, The | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1700-1799 | '2 February 1780.] Here is Dr Pepys come with a Manuscript of Dr Spence's for Johnson's Use & Inspection now he is wri... | Hester Lynch Thrale | Joseph Spence | Anecdotes | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | 'Lord Bolingbroke said he learned Spanish so as to read & write Letters in it with only three Weeks Application, - Bar... | Hester Lynch Thrale | Joseph Spence | Anecdotes | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | 'When I read the Character of Cambray in this Collection, I could not keep from falling on my Knees to give God thanks... | Hester Lynch Thrale | Joseph Spence | Anecdotes | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | 'The two Stories of Marlboro's Avarice are very capital: Sr Godfrey's Dream is [a] good Thing too - they are all too l... | Hester Lynch Thrale | Joseph Spence | [Anecdotes] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | 'What Pope says of desultory Reading in a Conversation recorded by Spence is very happily expressed: that he was like ... | Hester Lynch Thrale | | | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Stopped at home during the evening. Butler paid me a visit & read one or two capital speeches from Phillip's life of ... | John Buckley Castieau | W.H. Curran | Life of J.P. Curran | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'What Pope says of desultory Reading in a Conversation recorded by Spence is very happily expressed: that he was like ... | Alexander Pope | | | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Stopped at home & read "The Newcomers" until nearly mid-night.' | John Buckley Castieau | William Makepeace Thackeray | The Newcomers | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read some numbers of Blackwood and enjoyed myself much more than I should have done had I been gadding about in the w... | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | Blackwood's | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'Remained at home in the evening amused myself with Reading.' | John Buckley Castieau | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | 'Of all the People I ever heard read Verse in my whole Life the best, the most perfect reader is the Bishop of Peterbo... | John Hinchcliffe | | [poetry] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Played Cricket in the afternoon. Attended a Lecture at the Mechanics Institute. Afterwards Read a little & then went ... | John Buckley Castieau | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | '"Ye Grots & Caverns shagg'd with horrid Thorn!" This Verse from Pope's Eloisa was originally Milton's - 'tis in Comus... | Hester Lynch Thrale | Alexander Pope | Eloisa to Abelard | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | '"Ye Grots & Caverns shagg'd with horrid Thorn!" This Verse from Pope's Eloisa was originally Milton's - 'tis in Comus... | Hester Lynch Thrale | John Milton | Comus: A Masque | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'The Simile to the rope Dancer in Prior's Alma is only a good Versification of Dryden's Thought in the preface to Fres... | Hester Lynch Thrale | Matthew Prior | Alma; or, The Progress of the Mind | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read at home in the evening till nearly eleven Then went down the Street.' | John Buckley Castieau | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | 'The Simile to the rope Dancer in Prior's Alma is only a good Versification of Dryden's Thought in the preface to Fres... | Hester Lynch Thrale | John Dryden | 'Preface' to Fresnoy's 'Art of Painting' | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Great article abusive of Wackerow appeared in Ovens & Murray this morning' | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | Ovens and Murray Advertiser | Print: Newspaper |
| 1700-1799 | 'The Simile to the rope Dancer in Prior's Alma is only a good Versification of Dryden's Thought in the preface to Fres... | Hester Lynch Thrale | Alexander Pope | Essay on Man | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'The Simile to the rope Dancer in Prior's Alma is only a good Versification of Dryden's Thought in the preface to Fres... | Hester Lynch Thrale | Abraham Cowley | Life and Fame | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Dined at Hall's. Came home & Read until I went to bed.' | John Buckley Castieau | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Went to bed at ten o clock. Got up in the night & Read could not sleep.' | John Buckley Castieau | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Spent the evening at Home. Read portion of Waverley.' | John Buckley Castieau | Walter Scott | Waverley | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Went for a little walk with Polly in the evening. Read & then went to bed.' | John Buckley Castieau | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read in the morning.' | John Buckley Castieau | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Was at home in the evening. Read a Portion of Rob Roy to Polly.' | John Buckley Castieau | Walter Scott | Rob Roy | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read Rob Roy in the evening.' | John Buckley Castieau | Walter Scott | Rob Roy | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Stopped at Home in the evening and read Rob Roy to Polly.' | John Buckley Castieau | Walter Scott | Rob Roy | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | ' Read at home during the evening.' | John Buckley Castieau | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read at home in the evening.' | John Buckley Castieau | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read the paper at Hutchinson's in the afternoon.' | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | [unknown - newspaper] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'I took a stroll as far as the Mechanics read the papers came home had some toddy & a bath & went to bed' | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | [unknown - newspaper] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'I was busy with prison business till past nine o clock, then I went to the Mechanics & read the papers, came home had... | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | [unknown - newspaper] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'In the evening went to the Mechanics & read the papers.' | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | [unknown - newspaper] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'Had a little barney with Polly, owing to my reading some cutting remarks by "a woman" "on women" in the Broadway Maga... | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | Broadway Magazine | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'Seemed to dread going to bed, everything smelling hot & stuffy, laid down for a time on the sofa, then got up & read ... | John Buckley Castieau | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'I read the Papers at [the Mechanics?]' | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | [unknown- newspaper] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'In the evening I strolled down to the Mechanics & had a glance at the pictures in the English comic periodicals. Th... | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | [unknown- periodicals] | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'In the evening went for a walk with Polly, called at the Mechanics & got some periodicals, took a turn through the Ea... | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | Australasian | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'Went to the Mechanics & read the Evening paper, not much news.' | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | [unknown - newspaper] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'In the evening went into town & read the papers, there was very little new & the town seemed quiet Bourke Street bein... | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | [unknown - newspaper] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'A leading article appeared in the Argus of this morning lauding the management of Dunedin Gaol & calling attention to... | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | Argus | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'Went in the evening to the Mechanics & read the papers, or rather tried to do so. The Church Assembly was sitting in ... | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | [unknown - newspaper] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'Went to the Mechanics this evening & had a look at the Herald.' | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | Evening Herald | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'Went to the Mechanics this evening & had a look at the papers, the Philarmonic (sic) people were practising so ready ... | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | [unknown - newspaper] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'My letter appeared in the Argus this morning & created quite a flutter.' [letter to the editor in response to the art... | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | Argus | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'In the Argus of this morning a Leading Article appeared in which "my taking an erroneous view of the meaning of a pre... | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | Argus | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'Looked in at the Mechanics & read a little in Punch & the papers, then came back to the Gaol' | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | [unknown - newspaper] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'Looked in at the Mechanics & read a little in Punch & the papers, then came back to the Gaol' | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | Punch | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'Went down to the Mechanics Institute this evening, the Library was shut up, found however all the English periodicals... | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | [English periodicals] | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'Went into town in the evening & read the papers.' | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | [unknown - newspaper] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'Went into town in the evening saw by the Ovens Paper of Thursday that Mrs Zincke gave birth to a little girl on the 2... | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | Ovens and Murray Advertiser | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | ' In the evening I went to the Mechanics & read the Evening Paper.' | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | [unknown - newspaper] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'Went into town in the evening & read the papers, on my return the girls were very jolly.' | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | [unknown - newspaper] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'In the evening went to the Mechanics & read the papers, returned had some beer & went to bed.' | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | [unknown - newspaper] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'I went to the Mechanics in the evening & read the papers.' | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | [unknown - newspaper] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read & idled during the afternoon till Telford made his appearance' | John Buckley Castieau | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'After tea I went for a walk, a very quiet stroll indeed, did not meet a soul I knew & did not open my mouth to speak.... | John Buckley Castieau | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Went into town in the evening to the Mechanics read the papers came home' | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | [unknown - newspaper] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'In the evening I went to the Mechanics & read the papers, came home after a stroll in Bourke Street' | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | [unknown - newspaper] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'Was at the Mechanics to-day went especially to see the Ovens & Murray & whether my "Copy" had been used, it did not a... | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | Ovens and Murray Advertiser | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read the Australasian & lounged upon the sofa after dinner till muster time.' | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | Australasian | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'Received two copies of the Ovens & Murray Advertiser. Glennon’s advertisement offering £25 Reward for the discove... | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | Ovens and Murray Advertiser | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'In the evening went to the Mechanics read in the Ovens & Murray a skit I had written some week or more since on “T... | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | Ovens and Murray Advertiser | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'In the evening went to the Mechanics & read the papers.' | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | [unknown - newspaper] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'Went to the Mechanics in the evening & read the papers, nothing particular.' | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | [unknown - newspaper] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'An answer to the letter I wrote to the Argus about Dunedin Gaol appeared to-day in the Argus signed “Robert Stout... | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | Argus | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'My letter in reply to Mr Stout appeared in the Argus.' [composed previous day] | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | Argus | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'In the evening went to the Mechanics & read the papers. Punch very fair & should improve now its competitors have be... | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | Punch | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'In the evening I went to the Mechanics & read the papers, returned home had a smoke & then went off to bed.' | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | [unknown - newspaper] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'In the evening I went to the Mechanics & read the papers, turning the Country ones over nervously for fear of finding... | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | [unknown - newspaper] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'In the evening I went to the Mechanics read the papers & then spent some time in searching among different periodical... | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | [unknown - newspaper] | Print: Newspaper, Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'after dinner we parted I had a look at the papers at the Mechanics & then came home.' | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | [unknown - newspaper] | Print: Newspaper, Serial / periodical |
| 1700-1799 | 'such is my Tenderness for Johnson, when he is out of my Sight I always keep his Books about me, which I never think o... | Hester Lynch Thrale | Samuel Johnson | | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'The Characters in the modern Comedies of Puff, Snake & Spatter are quite new, & peculiar to this age I think; it is t... | Hester Lynch Thrale | Richard Brinsley Sheridan | Critic, The | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'The Characters in the modern Comedies of Puff, Snake & Spatter are quite new, & peculiar to this age I think; it is t... | Hester Lynch Thrale | Richard Brinsley Sheridan | School for Scandal, The | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'The Characters in the modern Comedies of Puff, Snake & Spatter are quite new, & peculiar to this age I think; it is t... | Hester Lynch Thrale | Henry Fielding | Tom Jones | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'The Characters in the modern Comedies of Puff, Snake & Spatter are quite new, & peculiar to this age I think; it is t... | Hester Lynch Thrale | George Colman | Clandestine Marriage, The | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Johnson's newly written Lives are delightful, but he is too hard on Prior's Alma: he will be keenly reproached for hi... | Hester Lynch Thrale | Samuel Johnson | Lives of the Poets | Print: proof sheets |
| 1700-1799 | 'Johnson's newly written Lives are delightful, but he is too hard on Prior's Alma: he will be keenly reproached for hi... | Hester Lynch Thrale | Matthew Prior | Alma | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Johnson's newly written Lives are delightful, but he is too hard on Prior's Alma: he will be keenly reproached for hi... | Hester Lynch Thrale | Nicholas Rowe | Fair Penitent, The | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Johnson's newly written Lives are delightful, but he is too hard on Prior's Alma: he will be keenly reproached for hi... | Hester Lynch Thrale | Philip Massinger | Fatal Dowry, The | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Bruce of Abyssinia has been greatly ridiculed, particularly for trying to make the World believe that the people in A... | Hester Lynch Thrale | | [a book of travels dealing with Abyssinia] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'I see Mr Pope's skilful Adaptation of Names to his Spirits in the Rape of the Lock, and to his Mud-Nymphs in the Dunc... | Hester Lynch Thrale | Alexander Pope | Rape of the Lock, The | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'I see Mr Pope's skilful Adaptation of Names to his Spirits in the Rape of the Lock, and to his Mud-Nymphs in the Dunc... | Hester Lynch Thrale | Alexander Pope | Dunciad, The | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'The Sonnet of Mr des Yveteaux the odd Man who shut himself up with a Wench, & played Shepherd & Shepherdess when he w... | Hester Lynch Thrale | Nicolas Vauquelin Des Yveteaux | [a sonnet] | Print: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | 'The Sonnet of Mr des Yveteaux the odd Man who shut himself up with a Wench, & played Shepherd & Shepherdess when he w... | Hester Lynch Thrale | Walter Pope | Old Mans Wish, The | Print: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | 'the Story of Elmerick in Lillo's Play seems taken from the Conte d'Andre & Gertrude in the Chevreana, but perhaps Lil... | Hester Lynch Thrale | George Lillo | Elmerick; Or Justice Triumphant | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'the Story of Elmerick in Lillo's Play seems taken from the Conte d'Andre & Gertrude in the Chevreana, but perhaps Lil... | Hester Lynch Thrale | | Chevræana, ou Diverses Pensées | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'I must ask Baretti who translated the Sonnet of Anacreon into such pretty Italian Verse.' [some lines are given] | Hester Lynch Thrale | Anacreon | Anacreon to himself | Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | 'I was shewed a curious Thing today - a Letter written by Lord Strafford to his Daughter three Weeks before his Execut... | Hester Lynch Thrale | Lord Strafford | [letter to his daughter, 1641] | Manuscript: Letter |
| 1700-1799 | 'Greville draws Prose Characters incomparably well; that Man's book of Maxims &c. has not had credit enough in the Wor... | Hester Lynch Thrale | Richard Fulke Greville | Maxims, Characters, and Reflections | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Doctr Burney has translated the famous old French Chanson Militaire - [italics] all about Roland [end italics]: how h... | Hester Lynch Thrale | Charles Burney | [translation of a French Chanson] | Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | 'Psalmanazar wrote the Cosmogony, and the History of the Jews after his Conversion; how odd that he shold quote the Fo... | Hester Lynch Thrale | George Psalmanazar | [articles contributed to the 'Universal History'] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Man's Life being divided into five Acts like a Play - in the Sorberiana - what an Affinity it has to Shakespear's sev... | Hester Lynch Thrale | Samuel Joseph Sorbiere | Sorberiana | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'We have got a sort of literary Curiosity amongst us; the foul Copy of Pope's Homer, with all his old intended Verses,... | Hester Lynch Thrale | Alexander Pope | [MS of his translations of Homer] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | 'My second Daughter Susan has a surprising Turn for Letter-writing; her Compositions are really elegant, & She delight... | Susanna Arabella Thrale | Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sevigne | Letters | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'My second Daughter Susan has a surprising Turn for Letter-writing; her Compositions are really elegant, & She delight... | Susanna Arabella Thrale | Vincent de Voiture | Letters | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Mr Johnson believes nothing - the Hurricane which has torn Barbadoes to pieces, & is related so pathetically in the G... | Hester Lynch Thrale | | Gazette | Print: Newspaper |
| 1700-1799 | 'I love Johnson's Prose better than Addison's, I like the Dunciad beyond all Pope's Poems; I delight in Young's Satire... | Hester Lynch Thrale | Samuel Johnson | [prose works] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'I love Johnson's Prose better than Addison's, I like the Dunciad beyond all Pope's Poems; I delight in Young's Satire... | Hester Lynch Thrale | Joseph Addison | [prose works] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'I love Johnson's Prose better than Addison's, I like the Dunciad beyond all Pope's Poems; I delight in Young's Satire... | Hester Lynch Thrale | Alexander Pope | Dunciad, The | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'I love Johnson's Prose better than Addison's, I like the Dunciad beyond all Pope's Poems; I delight in Young's Satire... | Hester Lynch Thrale | Edward Young | Love of Fame, The Universal Passion | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'I love Johnson's Prose better than Addison's, I like the Dunciad beyond all Pope's Poems; I delight in Young's Satire... | Hester Lynch Thrale | Abraham Cowley | | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'I love Johnson's Prose better than Addison's, I like the Dunciad beyond all Pope's Poems; I delight in Young's Satire... | Hester Lynch Thrale | Jean de La Bruyere | | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'In evening I went into town & read the Papers at the Mechanics, nothing yet done about the formation of a new Ministr... | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | [unknown - newspaper] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | ' In Bourke Street I met Joe White & we commenced as usual chatting on different subjects. I asked what sort of a pla... | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | The Age | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'after tea went to the Mechanics & read the papers then came home' | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | [unknown - newspaper] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'I did not go out again but passed the time away in reading, amused the youngsters with some stories from Grimms Gobli... | John Buckley Castieau | Brothers Grimm | [fairy tales] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'The rest of the day I was mostly reading or playing with the children.' | John Buckley Castieau | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Went to the Mechanics in the evening & read the papers. McCulloch is forming a Ministry & asked the House to give hi... | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | [unknown - newspaper] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'Went to the Mechanics in the evening & read the papers. The Ministry not yet formed & the House adjourned till to-mo... | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | [unknown - newspaper] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'After tea I read some goblin stories to the youngsters, then I went to the Mechanics & read the papers. "Touchstone"... | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | [unknown - newspaper] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'After tea I read some goblin stories to the youngsters, then I went to the Mechanics & read the papers. "Touchstone"... | John Buckley Castieau | Brothers Grimm | [fairy tales] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'The Age which is bidding to be considered the Government Organ as it was during the old McCulloch Ministry is yet ver... | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | The Age | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'The Age which is bidding to be considered the Government Organ as it was during the old McCulloch Ministry is yet ver... | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | The Argus | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'The Age which is bidding to be considered the Government Organ as it was during the old McCulloch Ministry is yet ver... | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | The Telegraph | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | ' Went to the Mechanics this evening & read the papers' | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | [unknown - newspaper] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'In the evening I went to the Mechanics & read the papers' | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | [unknown - newspaper] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'Came home & bought the Extraordinary there was very little in it in fact no item that was to me of any importance at ... | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | The Extraordinary | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'A fine day. In the Gaol this morning a number of letters were found which were thrown over the wall for a prisoner w... | John Buckley Castieau | [convict] | [letters] | Manuscript: Letter |
| 1850-1899 | 'After Tea I went into town & spent an hour at the Mechanics saw some of the English Comic Journals the other magazine... | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | [English comic periodicals] | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'In the evening after tea I read a fairy tale to the Youngsters then went to the Mechanics & had a look at the Papers.' | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | [unknown - newspaper] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'In the evening after tea I read a fairy tale to the Youngsters then went to the Mechanics & had a look at the Papers.' | John Buckley Castieau | Brothers Grimm | [fairy tales] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'After muster I went to the Mechanics & read the papers for an hour or two' | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | [unknown - newspaper] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'After tea I read a fairy tale to the youngsters & then went to the Mechanics & read the papers.' | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | [unknown - newspaper] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'After tea I read a fairy tale to the youngsters & then went to the Mechanics & read the papers.' | John Buckley Castieau | Brothers Grimm | [fairy tales] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | After reading "Living Alone" in 1923, Winifred wrote Stella a letter of appreciation. When no answer arrived she conc... | Winifred Holtby | Stella Benson | Living Alone | Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | '"I read "The Runners" last week," he continued, and told her that he had advised John Lane to refuse it.' | John Priestley | Winifred Holtby | The Runners | Manuscript: Manuscript of an unpublished novel. |
| 1900-1945 | 'Winifred did not care, for she was reading Conrad's "Suspense" - a noble and spacious book which made the early ninet... | Winifred Holtby | Joseph Conrad | Suspense | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Dotty's two little girls are on a visit to us they came either yesterday or on the day previous. This evening I read... | John Buckley Castieau | Brothers Grimm | [fairy tales] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Dotty's two little girls are on a visit to us they came either yesterday or on the day previous. This evening I read... | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | [unknown - newspaper] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'Went to the Mechanics... & read the papers' | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | [unknown - newspaper] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'I went to the Mechanics in the evening & read the papers, then returned home had some more gin & water & went to bed.' | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | [unknown - newspaper] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | 'Jean's friend lent her George Moore's "Heloise and Abelard" - "one of the loveliest; all that my Wyclif book should h... | Winifred Holtby | George Moore | Heloise and Abelard | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'It came on to rain very fast this evening, however I went to the Mechanics & read the papers very little however in t... | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | Punch | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'I went to the Mechanics & read the papers. Touchstone has a Cartoon' | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | Touchstone | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'By the Argus of this morning I saw that Mr Wintle died last evening.' | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | Argus | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'Went to the Mechanics & read the papers nothing very particular in them.' | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | [unknown - newspaper] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'In the evening I went to the Mechanics & read the Ovens & Murray, saw that Evan Evans Louisa Wintle’s husband had p... | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | Ovens and Murray Advertiser | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'Went to the Mechanics & read the papers home by nine o clock' | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | [unknown - newspaper] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'After muster I went to the Mechanics read the papers & got some Blackwood's Magazines ... when I got home Polly had g... | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | [unknown - newspaper] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'After muster I went to the Mechanics read the papers & got some Blackwood's Magazines ... when I got home Polly had g... | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | Blackwood's | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'After tea I read to the youngsters & then went out for a walk, came back & read the Australasian' | John Buckley Castieau | [unknown] | [fairy tales?] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'After tea I read to the youngsters & then went out for a walk, came back & read the Australasian' | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | Australasian | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'In the evening went to the Mechanics & read the papers' | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | [unknown - newspaper] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'Went to the Mechanics & read the papers in the afternoon' | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | [unknown - newspaper] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'In the evening went to the Mechanics & poured over the papers. In the Evening Herald there was a paragraph stating "B... | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | Evening Herald | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | ''In the evening went to the Mechanics & poured over the papers. In the Evening Herald there was a paragraph stating "... | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | [unknown - comic periodicals] | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'Went into town after Muster & read the papers at the Mechanics, did not see any very great news in fact never remembe... | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | [unknown - newspaper] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'Went into town after Muster & read the papers at the Mechanics, did not see any very great news in fact never remembe... | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | Illustrated [?] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'After muster I went into town to the Mechanics & read the Papers, saw that the verdict against Draper had been upheld... | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | [unknown - newspaper] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'After tea did Harry's sums & then went to the Mechanics a second time skimmed the Weeklys' | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | [unknown - newspaper] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'Went to the Mechanics & read the papers between muster & Tea time.' | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | [unknown - newspaper] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'after tea I went to the Mechanics & read the papers' | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | [unknown - newspaper] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'I went to the Mechanics this evening & read the papers then took a stroll & came home.' | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | [unknown - newspaper] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'A great sensation in the Herald of this evening. In a fit of jealousy, a Mr Cook shot a Mrs Moss through the heart & ... | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | Evening Herald | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | From F. T. Palgrave's 'Personal Recollections' of Tennyson:
'On March 31st 1849, through the kindness of Henry Hall... | Francis Turner Palgrave | Alfred Tennyson | Poems | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | From F. T. Palgrave's 'Personal Recollections' of Tennyson:
'On March 31st 1849, through the kindness of Henry Hall... | Francis Turner Palgrave | Alfred Tennyson | The Princess | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'When one reads in Fenelon's last Letter to the Kings Confessor "Quand j'aurai l'honneur de voir Dieu, je lui demander... | Hester Lynch Thrale | Francois Fenelon | [Letters] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Doctor Burney has permitted me to write out this Imitation of an old French Tale written in the Year 1548. he has alw... | Hester Lynch Thrale | Charles Burney | 'St Peter and the Minstrel, a Tale' | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | 'I was reading Congreve's Way of the World two Evenings ago, the character of Petulant is borrowed from Shakespear's N... | Hester Lynch Thrale | William Congreve | Way of the World, The | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'I was reading Congreve's Way of the World two Evenings ago, the character of Petulant is borrowed from Shakespear's N... | Hester Lynch Thrale | William Shakespeare | Henry V | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Povoleri the Italian who dedicated the Tragedy of Rosmunda to me some years ago, has translated Gray's Church Yard El... | Giovanni Povoleri | Giovanni Povoleri | [translation of Gray's Elegy into Italian] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | '[Piozzi] brought me an Italian sonnet written in his praise by Marco Capello, which I instantly translated of course:... | Hester Lynch Thrale | Marco Capello | [sonnet about Piozzi] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | 'Dr Franklyn, the famous Franklyn contrived a Stove in such a Manner as to make the Flame descend instead of rising up... | Hester Lynch Thrale | Jonathan Odell | [verses on Franklin's stove] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | 'I was reading something of Swift one Day & commending him as a Writer - I cannot endure Swift replied my eldest Daugh... | Hester Lynch Thrale | Jonathan Swift | | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'I was however turning over Horace yesterday to look for the Expression [italics] tenui fronte [end italics] in Vindic... | Hester Lynch Thrale | Horace | '8th Ode' | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Here's a pretty Sonnet of Povoleri's; I must translate it. [the verse is given in Italian and English] over the Page ... | Hester Lynch Thrale | Giovanni Povoleri | [a sonnet on love and friendship] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | 'Here's a pretty Sonnet of Povoleri's; I must translate it. [the verse is given in Italian and English] over the Page ... | Hester Lynch Thrale | Abbate Buondelmonte | [a sonnet] | Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | 'Mrs John Hunter, Wife to the famous Anatomist has made a Base to the Tune [reputed to be North American Indian]; & se... | Hester Lynch Thrale | Anne Hunter | 'North American Death Song' | Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | 'as I looked in the Glass this Morning & kept Bouhours Maniere de bien penser in my Hand - like Swift's Vanessa
Who... | Hester Lynch Thrale | Dominique Bouhours | La maniere de bien penser dans les ouvrages d'esprit. Dialogues. | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'as I looked in the Glass this Morning & kept Bouhours Maniere de bien penser in my Hand - like Swift's Vanessa
Who... | Hester Lynch Thrale | Jonathan Swift | 'Cadenus and Vanessa' | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'In the evening the ladies went to St Peters church I staid at home & did Harry's sums then amused myself by reading a... | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | Bell's Elocutionist | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'In the evening the ladies went to St Peters church I staid at home & did Harry's sums then amused myself by reading a... | John Buckley Castieau | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'I read the papers at the Mechanics in the evening & brought home a book' | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | [unknown - newspaper] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'Went to the Mechanics & read the papers saw by the Herald Mr McMullen of Wangaratta died from the effects of a fall f... | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | Evening Herald | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'Stayed at Home all the evening reading “The Giraffe Hunters”.' | John Buckley Castieau | Mayne Reid | The Giraffe Hunters | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'After Muster went into Town & read the papers at the Mechanics ... I stayed at home & finished “The Giraffe Hunters... | John Buckley Castieau | Mayne Reid | The Giraffe Hunters | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'After Muster went into Town & read the papers at the Mechanics ... I stayed at home & finished “The Giraffe Hunters... | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | [unknown - newspaper] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1700-1799 | 'I have had put into my Hand the First Copy of Pope's Pastorals, with the gradual Alterations and Emendations marked i... | Hester Lynch Thrale | Alexander Pope | Pastorals | Manuscript: book |
| 1700-1799 | 'I have had put into my Hand the First Copy of Pope's Pastorals, with the gradual Alterations and Emendations marked i... | Hester Lynch Thrale | Alexander Pope | 'Third pastoral' | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'I have had put into my Hand the First Copy of Pope's Pastorals, with the gradual Alterations and Emendations marked i... | Hester Lynch Thrale | Virgil | 'Second Eclogue' | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Two days ago somebody shew'd me a Song written by the Duchess of Devonshire which began thus
Boy! bring my Flow'rs... | Hester Lynch Thrale | Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire | [a Song] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Went to the Mechanics & read the papers before tea, went again after tea & exchanged some books, came home & read til... | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | [unknown - newspaper] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'Went to the Mechanics & read the papers before tea, went again after tea & exchanged some books, came home & read til... | John Buckley Castieau | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | '[Fanny Burney's] new Novel called "Cecilia" is the Picture of Life such as the Author sees it: while therefore this M... | Hester Lynch Thrale | Frances Burney | Cecilia | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'After Muster I went to the Mechanics & read the papers then strolled through the town ... Did not go out on Saturday ... | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | Australasian | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'After Muster I went to the Mechanics & read the papers then strolled through the town ... Did not go out on Saturday ... | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | [unknown - newspaper] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1700-1799 | 'I have heard that all the kept Mistresses read Pope's Eloisa with singular delight - 'tis a great Testimony to its In... | Hester Lynch Thrale | Alexander Pope | Eloisa to Abelard | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'In the afternoon I read a story out of Grimm's Goblins to the little girls & after Muster as the weather was wet I st... | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | Ovens and Murray Advertiser | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'In the afternoon I read a story out of Grimm's Goblins to the little girls & after Muster as the weather was wet I st... | John Buckley Castieau | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'In the afternoon I read a story out of Grimm's Goblins to the little girls & after Muster as the weather was wet I st... | John Buckley Castieau | Brothers Grimm | [fairy tales] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'What a strange Book is Burton's "Anatomy of Melancholy"! & how it has been plunder'd! Milton took his Allegro and Pen... | Hester Lynch Thrale | Robert Burton | Anatomy of Melancholy, The | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'What a strange Book is Burton's "Anatomy of Melancholy"! & how it has been plunder'd! Milton took his Allegro and Pen... | Hester Lynch Thrale | John Milton | 'L'Allegro' | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'What a strange Book is Burton's "Anatomy of Melancholy"! & how it has been plunder'd! Milton took his Allegro and Pen... | Hester Lynch Thrale | John Milton | 'Il Penseroso' | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'What a strange Book is Burton's "Anatomy of Melancholy"! & how it has been plunder'd! Milton took his Allegro and Pen... | Hester Lynch Thrale | Richard Savage | Wanderer, The | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'What a strange Book is Burton's "Anatomy of Melancholy"! & how it has been plunder'd! Milton took his Allegro and Pen... | Hester Lynch Thrale | William Harrison | 'The Medicine, A Tale - for the Ladies' | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'In the afternoon I mustered & then sat reading till tea time. In the evening I went as usual to the Mechanics & read ... | John Buckley Castieau | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | 'What a strange Book is Burton's "Anatomy of Melancholy"! & how it has been plunder'd! Milton took his Allegro and Pen... | Hester Lynch Thrale | Samuel Johnson | [a story] | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'In the afternoon I mustered & then sat reading till tea time. In the evening I went as usual to the Mechanics & read ... | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | [unknown - newspaper] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1700-1799 | 'What a strange Book is Burton's "Anatomy of Melancholy"! & how it has been plunder'd! Milton took his Allegro and Pen... | Hester Lynch Thrale | William Shakespeare | Taming of the Shrew, The | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'The English Mail was telegraphed to day nothing very important in the Telegram published by the Argus' | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | Argus | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'Went to the Mechanics & read the papers saw in the Ovens & Murray that Kerferd in his letter stated every one connect... | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | Ovens and Murray Advertiser | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'In the afternoon after muster went to the Mechanics & read the papers. Melbourne Punch had a picture of the Tasmanian... | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | Melbourne Punch | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'After Muster went into town & read the Papers at the Mechanics' | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | [unknown - newspaper] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | ' In the Australasian of yesterday "The Peripatetic" announced his last article having as he said sold his office of F... | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | Australasian | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'After muster went to the Mechanics & had a look at the Evening Herald & at Melbourne Punch nothing startling in eithe... | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | Evening Herald | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'After muster went to the Mechanics & had a look at the Evening Herald & at Melbourne Punch nothing startling in eithe... | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | Melbourne Punch | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'After muster went to the Mechanics & had a look at the Evening Herald & at Melbourne Punch nothing startling in eithe... | John Buckley Castieau | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Went to the Mechanics & turned over the leaves of "Touchstone". There's nothing in it.' | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | Touchstone | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'Saw by the Ovens & Murray Advertiser that Butler is really about leaving Beechworth' | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | Ovens and Murray Advertiser | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'After muster I went to the Mechanics & read the Herald then came back & stayed at home the whole of the evening' | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | Evening Herald | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'After muster went to the Mechanics & read the evening Herald brought some periodicals away & got home in time for tea... | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | Evening Herald | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'After muster went to the Mechanics & read the evening Herald brought some periodicals away & got home in time for tea... | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | Blackwood's Magazine | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'Went to the Mechanics in the evening & read the papers. Mr Gordon a well known sporting man & a poet of some pretens... | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | [unknown - newspaper] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'I mustered at four o clock & after tea went into town & read the Evening Herald, with the exception of an Attempt at ... | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | Evening Herald | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'I went to the Mechanics, nothing of much importance or interest in the Evening Herald' | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | Evening Herald | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'After muster although it was raining & the weather was exceedingly unpleasant I went into town & read the papers at t... | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | [unknown - newspaper] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'After muster this afternoon I went into town & read the evening paper, Nothing particular in it, the newspaper boys w... | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | Evening Herald | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'Received newspaper from Beechworth nothing much except that Sixpenny nobblers are now general in the township.' | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | [unknown - newspaper] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'Came home read a story in Temple Bar, drank my grog smoked my pipe & went to bed' | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | Temple Bar | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'After muster I went to the Mechanics & read the Herald which was eagerly sought after for further intelligence concer... | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | Evening Herald | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'In the evening after Muster I went into Melbourne & read the papers. The English ones were on the table. Got home bef... | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | [unknown - newspaper] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'This evening I went to the Mechanics & read the Papers' | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | [unknown - newspaper] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'Last night at Hotham a woman was beaten to death my her husband. The woman it seems was addicted to drink & the man ... | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | [unknown - newspaper] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read a little, drank a little & smoked a good deal' | John Buckley Castieau | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Went to the Mechanics & then to the Yorick Club, not much in the Papers so I amused myself by looking through "The Su... | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | [unknown - newspaper] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'Went to the Mechanics & then to the Yorick Club, not much in the Papers so I amused myself by looking through "The Su... | John Buckley Castieau | club members | The Suggestion Book | Manuscript: Codex |
| 1850-1899 | 'Went to the Yorick Club in the evening & skimmed the papers' | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | [unknown - newspaper] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'After muster went to the Yorick Club & peeped at the papers came home to dinner' | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | [unknown - newspaper] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'I went to "the Mechanics" & when I returned I amused myself with reciting & reading aloud' | John Buckley Castieau | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Got some Beechworth Papers, great Leading Article regarding the dismissal of Stewart & the Turnkeys.' | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | [unknown - newspaper] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'In the evening I strolled down to the Mechanics & had a glance at the pictures in the English comic periodicals. Th... | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | [unknown - comic periodicals] | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'After Muster I went to the Mechanics & had a look at the Evening paper. There was nothing however particular in it.' | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | [unknown - newspaper] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read the Australasian, till Mr Wyburn & Miss Morphy put in an appearance' | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | Australasian | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'Was shocked to see by the Argus this morning that Mr Farie was dangerously ill & on enquiring at the office I found i... | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | Argus | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'Went to the Yorick Club this afternoon or rather evening stayed there & read a Review in Blackwood on [Lothair?] it w... | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | Blackwood's Magazine | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'went to the Yorick Club & read for a time' | John Buckley Castieau | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'called at the Yorick Club, read the papers, very little new in any of them' | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | [unknown - newspaper] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'went to the Yorick Club & had another look at the papers' | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | [unknown - newspaper] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'After muster I sat at home & read ... After tea I went into town & called at the "Mechanics" & afterwards at the "Yor... | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | Evening Herald | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'After muster I sat at home & read ... After tea I went into town & called at the "Mechanics" & afterwards at the "Yor... | John Buckley Castieau | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Went to the office this morning nothing new excepting that the Argus speaks of "Earl" as Second favourite for the Met... | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | Argus | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read all the evening & did not attempt to go out at all' | John Buckley Castieau | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'My foot was bad again to-day & I was obliged to be careful with it consequently I stayed at home & read nearly the wh... | John Buckley Castieau | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'After muster this afternoon I went to the Yorick Club & read some of the papers' | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | [unknown - newspaper] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read & smoked till about half past ten o clock, then went to bed' | John Buckley Castieau | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Went after muster to the Yorick. In the Herald of this evening "Castieau" was mentioned among the passengers in a Ste... | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | Evening Herald | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'A Paragraph appeared in both the Argus & the Age this morning about Harry's accident & the boy was of course as pleas... | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | The Age | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'A Paragraph appeared in both the Argus & the Age this morning about Harry's accident & the boy was of course as pleas... | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | Argus | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'After muster went into Melbourne & called at "the Yorick", had a look at Punch, there was a portrait of Dr Paley not ... | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | Punch | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'Came home to tea & as the weather was wet in the evening did not stir out but stayed at home & read till bed time' | John Buckley Castieau | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'I was left by myself & spent the time pretty comfortably reading some sketches by "Yates", then smoking & thinking fo... | John Buckley Castieau | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'The "Argus" of this morning was very interesting & it seems the more one think (sic) about the war the more astoundin... | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | Argus | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'After muster went to "The Yorick" & had a peep at some of the English papers "War" "War" "War" is the burden of them ... | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | [unknown - newspaper] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'After muster went to "The Yorick" & had a peep at some of the English papers "War" "War" "War" is the burden of them ... | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | Standard | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'In the Herald this evening there was a paragraph stating that thre of the Associates were dismissed & giving the name... | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | Evening Herald | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'At the Mechanics to day saw a paragraph about Harry's accident in the Ovens Murray Observer' | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | Ovens and Murray Advertiser | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'After tea I went to the Yorick Club & read the papers. In the Evening Herald was a remarkable circular from the Soli... | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | Evening Herald | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'During the day I read the War Supplement of the Australasian & made myself tolerably conversant with the particulars ... | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | Australasian | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'During the day I read the War Supplement of the Australasian & made myself tolerably conversant with the particulars ... | John Buckley Castieau | Benjamin Disraeli | Lothair | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read & smoked till about half past ten then went to bed & went sulkily to sleep feeling very miserable & dissatisfied... | John Buckley Castieau | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'went to the "Yorick" there was however no one there so I read for a time & then left' | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | [unknown] | Print: Newspaper, Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | John Ruskin to Alfred Tennyson, from Strasburg (1860):
'I have had the "Idylls" in my travelling desk ever since I ... | John Ruskin | Alfred Tennyson | Idylls of the King | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 | Benjamin Jowett to Emily Tennyson, May 1868:
'I am glad that Alfred is thinking of Hildebrand. I remember a long ti... | Benjamin Jowett | Bowden | Life of Hildebrand | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Went to the Mechanics in the evening & changed some books came home & read.' | John Buckley Castieau | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'then spent the rest of the morning in reading the Australasian & "All the Year round"' | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | Australasian | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'then spent the rest of the morning in reading the Australasian & "All the Year round"' | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | All the Year Round | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read nearly the whole of the day. Had four numbers of "Edwin Drood" & read them all, then in the evening went to the ... | John Buckley Castieau | Charles Dickens | Edwin Drood | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read nearly the whole of the day. Had four numbers of "Edwin Drood" & read them all, then in the evening went to the ... | John Buckley Castieau | Charles Dickens | Edwin Drood | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read nearly the whole of the day. Had four numbers of "Edwin Drood" & read them all, then in the evening went to the ... | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | Australasian | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'looked in at the Yorick, there was no one at all there however I stayed & read for some time came home had some toddy... | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | [unknown] | Print: Newspaper, Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'then went to the Mechanics, read the Ovens & Murray of Saturday last which contained a Supplement with a first rate c... | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | Ovens and Murray Advertiser | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'then went to "the Yorick" where I met Kane with whom I chatted for some time about "Supple" read the papers then came... | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | [unknown - newspaper] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'Saw by the Ovens & Murray that Alderdice & Fanny Young had got married, they have been courting for a long time' | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | Ovens and Murray Advertiser | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'went back to the Argus office where quite a crowd had assembled. Much excitement was occasioned by a placard which w... | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | [placard] | Print: Advertisement, Broadsheet, Poster |
| 1850-1899 | 'went back to the Argus office where quite a crowd had assembled. Much excitement was occasioned by a placard which w... | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | The Extraordinary (Argus) | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'After muster I went into town & spent a couple of hours at the Yorick reading "The Home News" particularly interestin... | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | The Home News | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read a great deal of the War news & was truly disgusted at the horrible things that have been enacted' | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | [unknown - newspaper] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'Went to the Yorick in the evening & stayed there for some time reading the last number of Edwin Drood & some English... | John Buckley Castieau | Charles Dickens | Edwin Drood | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'Went to the Yorick in the evening & stayed there for some time reading the last number of Edwin Drood & some English... | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | [unknown - newspaper] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'Went to the Yorick Club in the afternoon & read for some time' | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | [unknown] | Print: Newspaper, Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'then went to the Yorick where I stayed for a short time & had a look at the papers' | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | [unknown] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'Account in the papers of great floods at Ballaarat & other places, at Coleraine nine persons are said to have been dr... | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | [unknown - newspaper] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'Went into Melbourne in the evening, took a book to the Mechanics & read for a time at the Yorick' | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | [unknown] | Print: Newspaper, Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'In the evening went to the Mechanics changed some Periodicals, then went over to the Yorick & read for a time | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | [unknown] | Print: Newspaper, Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'Went to the Mechanics in the evening & changed a book, then went over to the Yorick did not stay long, looked through... | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | [unknown - newspaper] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'Mustered in the afternoon & then went to the Yorick where I did a little reading ... Came home soon & after a read & ... | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | [unknown] | Print: Newspaper, Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'Mustered in the afternoon & then went to the Yorick where I did a little reading ... Came home soon & after a read & ... | John Buckley Castieau | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'In the evening went to the Yorick, read for a time then took a walk up Bourke Street' | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | [unknown] | Print: Newspaper, Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'Went to the Yorick club this afternoon & read the Extraordinary the Mail having been Telegraphed to-day. Paris was a... | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | The Extraordinary (Argus) | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'Went to "The Yorick" & read the English Punches' | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | Punch | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'went to the Mechanics & turned over some of the "funny" periodicals' | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | [unknown - comic periodicals] | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'then went to the Yorick where I stayed & read an article in Blackwood' | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | Blackwood's Magazine | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'I read with horror of the brutual exhibitions of the Romans with their gladiators pitted against one another or oppos... | John Buckley Castieau | [unknown] | [Roman history] | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Came home sat down to read & did so for some time, then I went in for smoking & for gin & water' | John Buckley Castieau | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'I went into town this morning & read the Argus at the Yorick Club' | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | Argus | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'then to the Yorick at the latter place had a chat with Semple & Eville & a look at Punch' | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | Punch | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'Went into Melbourne after tea & changed a book at the Mechanics, then came home, read a novel for some time smoked a ... | John Buckley Castieau | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'In the evening went to the "Yorick" & read Punch & some of the papers' | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | Punch | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'After tea I went for a stroll & looked in at the Yorick Club, read some of the papers & Touchstone the last paper cam... | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | Touchstone | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'The Argus had a long detailed account of a row that took place between G.P. Smith & Bowman late member for Maryboroug... | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | [unknown] | Print: Newspaper, Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'The Argus had a long detailed account of a row that took place between G.P. Smith & Bowman late member for Maryboroug... | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | Argus | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'In the evening went to the Yorick & had a look at Punch & the Papers' | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | Punch | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'went into Melbourne after muster & stayed some time reading at the Yorick thought London Punch particularly good this... | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | Punch | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | ' I passed the morning reading the Australasian' | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | Australasian | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'Went into Melbourne in the morning & had a look at the Argus at the Yorick' | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | Argus | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'then read the papers at "The Yorick"' | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | [unknown - newspaper] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'An advertisement of Polly's appeared in the Argus this morning ... There was no appearance in the Argus of the articl... | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | Argus | Print: Advertisement, Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'I did not go out at all this evening but after tea sat reading till I was tired when Harry & I read together & then I... | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | Evening Herald | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'I did not go out at all this evening but after tea sat reading till I was tired when Harry & I read together & then I... | John Buckley Castieau | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'I went to the Club in the evening & read the papers for some time, then took a stroll & returned home' | John Buckley Castieau | [unknown] | [unknown - newspaper] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'soon after I took a walk as far as the Yorick. Purves was there & we had a little chat. I looked through "The Leader"... | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | The Leader | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'Some excitement as the English mail was expected & in the morning a report was spread that she had been [telegraphed?... | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | Argus | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'Went to the Yorick & read the English [papers?] or rather looked at the Pictures in them' | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | [unknown - newspaper] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'Called at the Yorick & read the papers' | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | [unknown - newspaper] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'I was sitting between one & two o'clock quietly enjoying a chapter in "Vanity Fair" when there was a bustling noise [... | John Buckley Castieau | William Makepeace Thackeray | Vanity Fair | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Long articles in the papers describing the escape. The Telegraph & Argus give fair reports, the Age was rather severe... | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | Age | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'Long articles in the papers describing the escape. The Telegraph & Argus give fair reports, the Age was rather severe... | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | Argus | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'Long articles in the papers describing the escape. The Telegraph & Argus give fair reports, the Age was rather severe... | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | Telegraph | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'After tea went into Melbourne & read the papers at the Yorick' | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | [unknown - newspaper] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'Went to the Yorick & read the papers, then after a look at Punch came home' | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | Punch | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'I have been reading "Vanity Fair" again & found it even more enjoyable than when I read it for the first time. I real... | John Buckley Castieau | William Makepeace Thackeray | Vanity Fair | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'In the evening I went to "the Yorick" & had a look at the papers. Came home & went on reading Vanity Fair.' | John Buckley Castieau | William Makepeace Thackeray | Vanity Fair | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'In the evening I went to "the Yorick" & had a look at the papers. Came home & went on reading Vanity Fair.' | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | [unknown - newspaper] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'Came home & finished "Vanity Fair" before tea-time.' | John Buckley Castieau | William Makepeace Thackeray | Vanity Fair | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Mustered this afternoon, then sat & read till tea time. After tea had more than an hour with the youngsters reading t... | John Buckley Castieau | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Mustered this afternoon, then sat & read till tea time. After tea had more than an hour with the youngsters reading t... | John Buckley Castieau | Brothers Grimm | [fairy tales] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Went to the Yorick Club in the evening & stayed there chatting & reading until nearly ten o'clock' | John Buckley Castieau | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Newspaper, Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'The Papers this morning contained a Telegram stating that Mr Charles Smyth the Acting Judge showed great strangeness ... | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | [unknown - newspaper] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'Got home a little after nine o'clock & after a little reading and two or three pipes had a bath & went to bed' | John Buckley Castieau | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Was favoured this morning by Post with an extract from the Pall Mall Gazette on the manner in which the punishment of... | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | Pall Mall Gazette | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'Was sorry to see in the Argus this morning that "Raecke's" private house was burnt down on Sunday evening last & that... | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | Argus | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'Was sorry to see in the Argus this morning that "Raecke's" private house was burnt down on Sunday evening last & that... | John Buckley Castieau | [unknown] | Handy Andy | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Went to the Club in the evening & had a look at Punch.' | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | Punch | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'I sat up smoking & reading with an occasional turn at nagging till nearly twelve o'clock' | John Buckley Castieau | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read The Australasian to myself & some little tales to the children & passed the evening away until past ten' | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | Australasian | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read The Australasian to myself & some little tales to the children & passed the evening away until past ten' | John Buckley Castieau | [unknown] | [fairy tales?] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Went into Melbourne & read the papers at "The Yorick" then took a turn through Bourke Street & then home' | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | [unknown - newspaper] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'then I went into town & called in at the Yorick to read the papers. Recently a youthful individual with innumerable b... | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | [unknown - newspaper] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'Was sorry to read in The Argus of this morning that "Tommy Hoyle" the well known Beechworth [?] met with an accident ... | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | Argus | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'Stayed talking with Sissy, Walter & Harry. Read to them for a little while & then looked over Harry's sums' | John Buckley Castieau | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Went to the Yorick in the afternoon. The Club however was unusually empty for Saturday afternoon & so I did not do mu... | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | [unknown - newspaper] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'While Polly was at Church I read many Tales to the little [children] until they were tired' | John Buckley Castieau | [unknown] | [fairy tales?] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Instead of mustering this afternoon I went to the Yorick. The men were however arguing politics & I held my tongue & ... | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | [unknown - newspaper] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'Went to "The Yorick" but did not stay longer than necessary to have a look at the Herald. The Victorians won the Cric... | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | Evening Herald | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'I was at "The Yorick" & had a good look at English Punch & The Graphic after which I came home.' | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | Punch | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'I was at "The Yorick" & had a good look at English Punch & The Graphic after which I came home.' | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | The Graphic | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'Received the Ovens & Murray. It contained the letter I wrote a few days since. I thought it read very so so but Polly... | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | Ovens and Murray Advertiser | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'Went into town & read the Newspapers at the Club' | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | [unknown - newspaper] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read some stories to the youngsters, about the only good thing I did to-day.' | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | [stories] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Went to the Club in the evening & read some of the papers' | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | [unknown - newspaper] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'Went to the Club. Skimmed some of the papers then purchased The Australasian' | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | [unknown - newspaper] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'In the evening after Mr & Mrs Hall were gone I went to the Yorick & read the papers then came home' | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | [unknown - newspaper] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'in the evening went to the Yorick where I spent some time in reading the papers' | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | [unknown - newspaper] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'A report in the Telegraph Newspaper this morning was to the effect that the Sheriff would probably be chosen from Mr ... | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | Telegraph | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'In the evening went to Melbourne & called at the Club where I had a look at Punch & the other papers ' | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | Punch | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'I worked in the Gaol in the morning for a time then lazily read ["Lalla Rookh"?] till dinner time' | John Buckley Castieau | Thomas Moore | Lalla Rookh: an oriental romance | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'after Muster went into town & read the papers at the Yorick' | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | [unknown - newspaper] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'went into the office where I wrote a little article in reply to a stupid Leader that appeared in The Telegraph of thi... | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | Telegraph | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'In the evening when the weather had taken up I went to the Club & read for some time, then came home' | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | [unknown] | Print: Newspaper, Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'When I got back Polly had gone to bed so I sat & read for an hour & then followed her up stairs. The book I was readi... | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | Blueskin, or the adventures of Jonathan Wild | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Commenced reading some awful rubbish there is in "Blueskin", a catch-penny thieves book which glorifies "Jack Sheppar... | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | Blueskin, or the adventures of Jonathan Wild | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'After Muster I went to the Club & stayed there reading for a short time, then came home to tea' | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | [unknown] | Print: Newspaper, Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'Stayed home all the evening. Amused myself reading until ten o'clock' | John Buckley Castieau | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Stayed at home nursing my cough this evening. Read "Jack Sheppard" or rather "Blueskin", smoked some strong tobacco &... | John Buckley Castieau | [unknown] | Blueskin, or the adventures of Jonathan Wild | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'In the evening I went to the "Yorick" & had a look over the newspapers' | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | [unknown - newspaper] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'After Muster went to the Yorick & read the papers until tea time' | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | [unknown - newspaper] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'After Muster went to the Yorick & read the papers, nothing very ... or interesting' | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | [unknown - newspaper] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'Went to the Yorick & read the papers, the only item in the Evening Herald of any consequence was the announcement of ... | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | Evening Herald | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'After Muster went to the Yorick & read the papers, then came home to tea.' | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | [unknown - newspaper] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'Found the youngsters had not gone to bed so aroused them by reading some little stories' | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | [fairy tales?] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Stayed at home this evening. Read a little to the children' | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | [fairy tales?] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'amused myself reading to myself & the youngsters.' | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | [fairy tales?] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | '"The Australasian" noticed my article in the Journal & so did the Ovens & Murray Advertiser each giving a short extra... | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | Australasian | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | '"The Australasian" noticed my article in the Journal & so did the Ovens & Murray Advertiser each giving a short extra... | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | Ovens and Murray Advertiser | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'Stayed at home all the evening, first amused myself with Reading, smoking & dreaming' | John Buckley Castieau | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'This evening's Herald gave the names of Duffy's Ministry' | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | Evening Herald | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'so went to the Club. There I glanced over the Weeklies & then came home' | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | [weekly newspapers] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'Went to the Yorick & read the papers then came home' | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | [unknown - newspapers] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'Polly played the Piano all the evening & I read' | John Buckley Castieau | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Was to-night reading Lemon's Story of "Wait for the End" and waited myself for the end which I did not reach until af... | John Buckley Castieau | Mark Lemon | Wait for the End | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'In the evening I amused myself with reading while Polly amused or instructed herself at the piano.' | John Buckley Castieau | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'On the Road bought an Extraordinary which was published this morning, the English Mail having arrived in the night. T... | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | The Extraordinary (Argus) | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'Mustered in the afternoon, then went to the Club & read the Evening Paper' | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | Evening Herald | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | Mustered in the afternoon & spent the evening reading & disagreeing' | John Buckley Castieau | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'In the evening went to "the Yorick" where I read the papers. Then came home & read till Polly came in' | John Buckley Castieau | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'In the evening went to "the Yorick" where I read the papers. Then came home & read till Polly came in' | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | [unknown - newspaper] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'Went to "the Yorick" & read the Papers, skimmed an Article in Cornhill & then came away home' | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | Cornhill | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'Have very little to write about to-day, everything was dull & quiet & peacable. The Weekly Papers helped to pass away... | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | Australasian | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'In the evening read for a while, then played Bezique with Mrs Castieau' | John Buckley Castieau | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'In the evening went to "the Yorick" & had a look at some of the papers' | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | [unknown - newspaper] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'After Muster read "Gil Blas" for a while, then played "Bezique" with Polly.' | John Buckley Castieau | Alain-Rene Le Sage | Gil Blas | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'after Muster wrote a page in my Diary & read until nearly five o'clock' | John Buckley Castieau | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'In the evening read "Gil Blas"' | John Buckley Castieau | Alain-Rene Le Sage | Gil Blas | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Stayed at home this evening & did nothing else but read. Mrs Robertson stayed till about eight o'clock but I did not ... | John Buckley Castieau | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'In the evening I was very lazily inclined & sat over "Gil Blas" for some time' | John Buckley Castieau | Alain-Rene Le Sage | Gil Blas | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'By the Ovens & Murray to-day we learnt the death of Mrs Telford, the poor lady died at last very suddenly. She has ho... | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | Ovens and Murray Advertiser | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'when I went into the house after Muster I found that Polly had gone away to Elsternwick with Harry, Sissy & Dotty so ... | John Buckley Castieau | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Mustered in the afternoon & read "Gil Blas" till tea was ready. After tea went to "the Yorick", read for a while & ch... | John Buckley Castieau | Alain-Rene Le Sage | Gil Blas | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Mustered in the afternoon & read "Gil Blas" till tea was ready. After tea went to "the Yorick", read for a while & ch... | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | [unknown] | Print: Newspaper, Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read some pieces of poetry to them this evening & was very pleased however to find how interested they were & how muc... | John Buckley Castieau | [unknown] | [Poems] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'In the evening I stayed at home, played "Snap" with Dotty & read some poetry & the Story of Le Fevre to please Harry' | John Buckley Castieau | [unknown] | [Poems] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'In the evening I stayed at home, played "Snap" with Dotty & read some poetry & the Story of Le Fevre to please Harry' | John Buckley Castieau | [unknown] | Le Fevre | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'At that time Winifred's Derbyshire contemporary, the poet and novelist Thomas Moult, was editing a series of "Modern ... | Winifred Holtby | Virginia Woolf | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'I walked into Robson's Shop the other day, and seeing a very fine Virgil was tempted to open it with something of Sup... | Hester Lynch Thrale | Virgil | Aeneid | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'I was reading to the Girls to day More's Acct of The King of Prussia's Severity to his favourite Valet who unable to ... | Hester Lynch Thrale | John Moore | View of Society and Manners in France, Switzerland and Germany | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Doctor Harrington told Seward, who told me; that Swift had taken his Tale of a Tub from Pallavicini upon Divorces, I ... | Hester Lynch Thrale | Jonathan Swift | Tale of a Tub, A | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'I must write out Johnson's Latin Version of the Messiah from Pope, I obtained the Copy of a Clergyman here, one Mr Gr... | Hester Lynch Thrale | Samuel Johnson | [translation into Latin of Pope's 'Messiah'] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | 'I was reading Derham's Astro, not his Astro, his Physico Theology; and can hardly help laughing when I see these simp... | Hester Lynch Thrale | William Derham | Physico-Theology, or, A Demonstration of the Being and Attributes of God, from His Works of Creation | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Mr James brought me some pretty Verses about Melancholy written by a Boy; Mr James tasting Verses in praise of Melanc... | Hester Lynch Thrale | | 'To Melancholy' | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | '[Mr Lysons] brought me these Old Verses one Day, I think they are to be found in a book called Paradise of dainty Dev... | Hester Lynch Thrale | | [verses beginning 'Pass gentelle Thought to her whom I love best'] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | 'The Story of Bond expiring in the character of Lusignan is prettily told in some of the French Memoires, but one had ... | Hester Lynch Thrale | | [French Memoirs] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Another writer D.J. rated highly was Thomas Hardy, whose novel "Jude the Obscure" he used to read and re-read with wh... | David John Thomas | Thomas Hardy | Jude the Obscure | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'According to Florrie [his mother] Dylan taught himself to read from second-rate comics such as "Rainbow"'. | Dylan Thomas | | Rainbow | Print: Serial / periodical, comic |
| 1900-1945 | 'Reading aloud meant group recitation, which Dylan hated. Chanting a poem in unison one afternoon, he put his hands ov... | Dylan Thomas | William Shakespeare | Richard II | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I wrote endless imitations, though I never thought them to be imitations but, rather wonderfully original things, lik... | Dylan Thomas | Thomas Browne | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I wrote endless imitations, though I never thought them to be imitations but, rather wonderfully original things, lik... | Dylan Thomas | Thomas de Quincey | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I wrote endless imitations, though I never thought them to be imitations but, rather wonderfully original things, lik... | Dylan Thomas | Henry Newbolt | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I wrote endless imitations, though I never thought them to be imitations but, rather wonderfully original things, lik... | Dylan Thomas | William Blake | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I wrote endless imitations, though I never thought them to be imitations but, rather wonderfully original things, lik... | Dylan Thomas | John Keats | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I wrote endless imitations, though I never thought them to be imitations but, rather wonderfully original things, lik... | Dylan Thomas | Christopher Marlowe | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I wrote endless imitations, though I never thought them to be imitations but, rather wonderfully original things, lik... | Dylan Thomas | William Shakespeare | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I wrote endless imitations, though I never thought them to be imitations but, rather wonderfully original things, lik... | Dylan Thomas | Emmuska Orczy | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I wrote endless imitations, though I never thought them to be imitations but, rather wonderfully original things, lik... | Dylan Thomas | David Herbert Lawrence | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I wrote endless imitations, though I never thought them to be imitations but, rather wonderfully original things, lik... | Dylan Thomas | Edgar Allan Poe | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I wrote endless imitations, though I never thought them to be imitations but, rather wonderfully original things, lik... | Dylan Thomas | | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I wrote endless imitations, though I never thought them to be imitations but, rather wonderfully original things, lik... | Dylan Thomas | | Chums Magazine | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | 'Let me say that the things that first made me love language and want to work [italics] in [end italics] it and [itali... | Dylan Thomas | | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Let me say that the things that first made me love language and want to work [italics] in [end italics] it and [itali... | Dylan Thomas | William Blake | Songs of Innocence | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Let me say that the things that first made me love language and want to work [italics] in [end italics] it and [itali... | Dylan Thomas | William Shakespeare | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Let me say that the things that first made me love language and want to work [italics] in [end italics] it and [itali... | Dylan Thomas | | [Border Ballads] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'She pinned it to her coat; and returned to London reading the 1349 closely-typed pages of St. John Ervine's recently ... | Winifred Holtby | St. John Ervine | God's Soldier | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'When "Seven Pillars of Wisdom" appeared at the end of July 1935, Winifred reviewed it in "Time and Tide".' | Winifred Holtby | Thomas Edward Lawrence | Seven Pillars of Wisdom | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'But perhaps her most appropriate comment on the end of Lawrence's tormented life had been made the previous year in a... | Winifred Holtby | Liddell Hart | T.E. Lawrence in Arabia and After | Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'On the flyleaf of her novel she quoted from V. Sackville-West's pastoral poem, "The Land", a verse which testified to... | Winifred Holtby | Vita Sackville-West | The Land | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'The weather was very wet all the evening so I was not able to go out & contented myself with reading Gil Blas till ne... | John Buckley Castieau | Alain-Rene Le Sage | Gil Blas | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'In the evening I stayed at home & read "Gil Blas" till it was time to go to bed' | John Buckley Castieau | Alain-Rene Le Sage | Gil Blas | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Mustered in the afternoon & then went to the Yorick where I read the papers.' | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | [unknown - newspaper] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'in the evening I went into town, called at the Yorick & looked at the Weeklies' | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | [unknown - newspaper] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'In the evening read a little of Antony Trollope's West Indies ' | John Buckley Castieau | Anthony Trollope | West Indies | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Had dinner & read until Muster time. After Muster read again till tea-time.' | John Buckley Castieau | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Received two Ovens & Murray Advertisers. They however contained very little new' | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | Ovens and Murray Advertiser | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'In the evening wrote a page in my Diary & dreamed away over "The Newcomes" until it was time to go to bed. The little... | John Buckley Castieau | William Makepeace Thackeray | The Newcomes | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'In the evening wrote a page in my Diary & dreamed away over "The Newcomes" until it was time to go to bed. The little... | John Buckley Castieau | [unknown] | [stories] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Went to the Club in the evening & read for a while, then came home & after reading for a while went to bed' | John Buckley Castieau | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Newspaper, Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'Went to the Club in the evening & read for a while, then came home & after reading for a while went to bed' | John Buckley Castieau | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Went to the Club & had a glance at the Illustrated Papers & Punch which arrived by this Mail' | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | Punch | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'I stayed at home amusing the children by reading a fairy tale to them. They seemed to take great interest inn the nar... | John Buckley Castieau | [unknown] | [fairy tales] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I stayed at home amusing the children by reading a fairy tale to them. They seemed to take great interest inn the nar... | John Buckley Castieau | Richard Harris Barham | Ingoldsby Legends | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'After Muster had tea & read the Evening Paper' | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | Evening Herald | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'then I went to the Club where I stayed & read an Article in Blackwood then came home' | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | Blackwood's Magazine | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'Sent Julia to church with the children & stopped at home myself & read a new Book of Trollope's, "The Vicar of Bullha... | John Buckley Castieau | Anthony Trollope | The Vicar of Bullhampton | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Played Bezique with Polly in the evening after I had read aloud three Acts of "She stoops to conquer".' | John Buckley Castieau | Oliver Goldsmith | She stoops to conquer | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'In the evening took Polly out for a little walk after I had finished reading [aloud?] "She stoops to conquer".' | John Buckley Castieau | Oliver Goldsmith | She stoops to conquer | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'In the evening I went to the Yorick & read some of the papers' | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | [unknown - newspaper] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'Went into the town in the evening & read the papers at the Club.' | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | [unknown - newspaper] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'after tea went to the Yorick where I stayed chatting to Jardine smith & Carrington some time. After they left I read ... | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | Fraser's Magazine | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'In The Argus this morning I was very sorry to see the death of Dempster's little boy recorded. This was the only son ... | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | Argus | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'Commenced reading a tale in Good Words "Oswald [?]"' | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | Good Words | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'Began to-night to read again "The Vicar of Wakefield" & was delighted with its quaint easy style, read two or three c... | John Buckley Castieau | Oliver Goldsmith | The Vicar of Wakefield | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Stayed at home this evening & after doing a little reading & visiting the pigs played Bezique with Polly till it was ... | John Buckley Castieau | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'In the Argus of this morning there was a leading article commenting on Duncan's appointment to the charge of the Gaol... | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | Argus | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'Mustered & then lazily read The Cloister & the Hearth by Read until Polly came home to tea' | John Buckley Castieau | Charles Reade | The Cloister and the Hearth | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Came home to tea & spent the evening reading "The Cloister & Hearth".' | John Buckley Castieau | Charles Reade | The Cloister and the Hearth | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Received a number of Ovens & Murray Advertisers this morning which however contained little of any consequence that I... | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | Ovens and Murray Advertiser | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'There was a notice on the Board that baths could be had at the Club at a charge of 3d each to pay for towells &c. I c... | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | [sign] | Manuscript: Sheet |
| 1850-1899 | 'There was a little rain before I got back to the Gaol, then I had dinner & read the Pickwick Papers till about nine o... | John Buckley Castieau | Charles Dickens | Pickwick Papers | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'This brought the time to past ten o'clock. Read, smoked, fidgetted & passed the time away till half past eleven, then... | John Buckley Castieau | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'then went to the Club & read the papers' | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | [unknown - newspaper] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'In the Evening paper this evening an account was given of two large fires at Sydney this morning, one of which destro... | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | Evening Herald | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'Got home about ten, sat reading till about twelve, & then went to bed.' | John Buckley Castieau | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'In the Evening Herald, of this night, there was a Report of an Argument before the Supreme Court with respect to Park... | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | Evening Herald | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'I went into town & read some of the papers at the Club, came home & soon went to bed' | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | [unknown - newspaper] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'After tea went with Polly into town & there heard a great commotion in the crowd & number of boys selling the Argus E... | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | The Extraordinary (Argus) | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'By the Argus we found that the Mail had been telegraphed at midnight. The Prince had been most dangerously ill but th... | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | Argus | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'Could not muster to-day but laid myself down on the Sofa & read' | John Buckley Castieau | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'in the evening I went to the Club & had a look at Melbourne Punch & one or two of the papers.' | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | Punch | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'In the evening went to the Club & on the Road called in at the Albion as I wanted to see the Ovens & Murray Advertise... | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | Ovens and Murray Advertiser | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'The English mail was telegraphed this afternoon ... Extraordinaries were being sold when we were coming home. I bough... | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | The Extraordinary (Argus) | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'in the evening went to the Club & after reading the papers took a walk & then came home' | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | [unknown - newspaper] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'In the evening went as usual to the Club & after skimming some of the English periodicals went for a little stroll wi... | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | [unknown - periodicals] | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'In the evening I went to the Club & after reading the papers started to keep an appointment I had made with Polly & M... | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | [unknown - newspaper] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'The ladies did not retire till after eleven & then I laid myself down on the sofa & tried to sleep. The mosquitoes ho... | John Buckley Castieau | Alexandre Dumas | Memoirs of a physician | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I was much disturbed this morning & was up reading at two o'clock the mosquitoes not allowing me to get to sleep' | John Buckley Castieau | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'In the Evening Herald published to night it was stated that Mr Dunn now Crown Prosecutor was to be made a County Cour... | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | Evening Herald | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'The Case of Blair V Clarson was commenced in the Supreme Court to day & from what I saw in The Herald the details are... | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | Evening Herald | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'After tea went to the Club where I ... read for a time then took a walk through the town & came home' | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | [unknown] | Print: Newspaper, Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'I mustered in the afternoon & in the evening went to the Club, where I stayed & read for some time' | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | [unknown] | Print: Newspaper, Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'Mustered in the afternoon, in the evening went to the Club & had a good look over the English Punches & Illustrated &... | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | Punch | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'In the evening went to the Club where I stayed for some time reading the Saturday Review. There was a capital article... | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | Saturday Review | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'In the Leader this evening was published an autobiography of John Wallace & his portrait was given away with each cop... | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | Leader | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'I had all the youngsters in my own charge. We got on however capitally for I found a nice story in Chatterbox which I... | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | Chatterbox | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'I had all the youngsters in my own charge. We got on however capitally for I found a nice story in Chatterbox which I... | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | Bible (New Testament) | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I had all the youngsters in my own charge. We got on however capitally for I found a nice story in Chatterbox which I... | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | [unknown - newspaper] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'I bought "The Age" as to-day it published a paper larger than "The Argus" for a penny & announced the intention of do... | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | The Age | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'Received four Ovens & Murray Advertisers. They contained however very little news though their telegrams are so full ... | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | Ovens and Murray Advertiser | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'McKinley & I walked into town & went to the Yorick together. After reading the papers Duerdin & I left for home & too... | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | [unknown - newspaper] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'Came home, drank a bottle of beer, smoked ever so many pipes, read a book, & built castles in the air till Polly & th... | John Buckley Castieau | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'There was a stinging article in the Age of this morning commenting upon the failings & peculiarities of the Judges' | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | The Age | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'Went into town in the evening & called at the Yorick. There I remained reading for some time then I took a walk as fa... | John Buckley Castieau | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Newspaper, Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'Went to the Club again in the evening & had a look over the [Home?] papers. The Illustrated & Graphic are full of Eng... | John Buckley Castieau | [unknown] | The Graphic | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'I read at Home to the little girls & boys till eight o'clock, then went to the Club' | John Buckley Castieau | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'There was a heavy article in the Argus this morning ... on the Government for the appointments they have made since t... | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | Argus | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'I read for a time to the little boys. They were very attentive & it was quite a pleasure to watch their earnest faces' | John Buckley Castieau | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Mustered in the afternoon & afterwards went to the Club. There I read the Herald until it was time to go home to tea' | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | Evening Herald | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'Received a number of papers from Beechworth. The Ovens & Murray has I think become rather duller since it has appeare... | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | Ovens and Murray Advertiser | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'I went to the Club where I looked through some of the ... Papers & then came away home. Stayed at home in the evening... | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | [unknown - newspaper] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'I went to the Club where I looked through some of the ... Papers & then came away home. Stayed at home in the evening... | John Buckley Castieau | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'After tea I read some story books that Mrs Parkin had kindly sent over for the amusement of baby' | John Buckley Castieau | [unknown] | [story books] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Received to-day six numbers of the Ovens & Murray Advertiser. There was nothing in any of them very interesting to an... | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | Ovens and Murray Advertiser | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'The Herald this evening contained the names of the new Ministry. Kerferd is Solicitor General, Casey Minister of Land... | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | Evening Herald | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'The Herald this evening contained the names of the new Ministry. Kerferd is Solicitor General, Casey Minister of Land... | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | Australasian | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'Went to the Club. In the Evening Herald there was a startling telegram from Ballaarat announcing that [six prisoners ... | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | Evening Herald | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'The Argus of this morning contained a manifesto from Alipius, Roman Catholic bishop of Melbourne calling upon good ch... | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | Argus | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'Received a week's Ovens & Murray Advertisers to-day. There was a very good skit in one. It was an account of "The fir... | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | Ovens and Murray Advertiser | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'Telo gave me "The Leader" with the Prison letters article. There was'ent much in it excepting the two guineas it gave... | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | Leader | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'While Darvall was with us this evening, Harry was anxious to show off his reading & so essayed a Piece. He was howeve... | John Buckley Castieau | William Edmondstoune Aytoun | The Execution of Montrose | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'While Darvall was with us this evening, Harry was anxious to show off his reading & so essayed a Piece. He was howeve... | John Buckley Castieau | George Gordon, Lord Byron | Childe Harold's Pilgrimage (Eve of Waterloo) | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Did not go out but read a little Byron & then played Bezique with Polly till it was bed time' | John Buckley Castieau | George Gordon, Lord Byron | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I read a little Byron for my own amusement then a number of Aesop's Fables for the amusement of the youngsters. The e... | John Buckley Castieau | George Gordon, Lord Byron | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I read a little Byron for my own amusement then a number of Aesop's Fables for the amusement of the youngsters. The e... | John Buckley Castieau | Aesop | Fables | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I read a little Byron for my own amusement then a number of Aesop's Fables for the amusement of the youngsters. The e... | John Buckley Castieau | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | '"Bowman" I see by this Evening's paper is to be Deputy Judge while Judge Hackett is doing the work of Judges Cope & N... | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | Evening Herald | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'Seven or eight numbers of the Ovens & Murray Advertiser came to hand to-day. In one of them I was sorry to read an ac... | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | Ovens and Murray Advertiser | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read a part of a very good novel, "Married beneath him". Heard Harry read & then played a Game of Bezique with Polly' | John Buckley Castieau | Mary Elizabeth Braddon | Married Beneath Him | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'went to the Club. Had a look at Punch & Vanity Fair & then left.' | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | Punch | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'went to the Club. Had a look at Punch & Vanity Fair & then left.' | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | Vanity Fair | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'Harry this evening commenced reading McAuley's (sic) History of England. He is getting a great deal too fond of Plays... | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | Australasian | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'After a quiet read for an hour or so I felt much more amiable & undertook to take baby out for a walk.' | John Buckley Castieau | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'in the evening went to the Club, read for a time & then came home ... Was reading at the Club some of the Articles in... | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | Public Opinion | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'I was much amused by one prisoner's letter that in the course of Duty I read to-day. The prisoner is in Gaol for beat... | John Buckley Castieau | [prisoner] | [letter] | Manuscript: Letter |
| 1850-1899 | 'In the evening I read to the youngsters out of Peter [Parley?] & then heard Harry read a Page of Macauley. Went into ... | John Buckley Castieau | John Buckley Castieau | diary | Manuscript: Codex |
| 1850-1899 | 'In the evening I read to the youngsters out of Peter [Parley?] & then heard Harry read a Page of Macauley. Went into ... | John Buckley Castieau | Peter Parley [pseud.] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Home then read some Reports from America on Prisoners Aid Societies & the good that had there been effected by them.' | John Buckley Castieau | [unknown] | [Reports from America on Prisoners Aid Societies] | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'The Argus had no report of the meeting yesterday for the establishing of a Discharged prisoners Aid Society. The Tele... | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | Argus | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'The Argus had no report of the meeting yesterday for the establishing of a Discharged prisoners Aid Society. The Tele... | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | Telegraph | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'The Argus had no report of the meeting yesterday for the establishing of a Discharged prisoners Aid Society. The Tele... | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | The Age | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'Was at home all the evening. Heard Sissy & Harry read, read a little myself & went off to bed tolerably early' | John Buckley Castieau | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read to the youngsters in the evening' | John Buckley Castieau | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'After Muster I went to the Club & had a look at the Weekly Papers' | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | [unknown - newspaper] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'I read a novel called the Guardian Angel to-day by the Author of "Elsie Vennor". It was quite up to the run of most n... | John Buckley Castieau | Oliver Wendell Holmes | Guardian Angel | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I read a novel called the Guardian Angel to-day by the Author of "Elsie Vennor". It was quite up to the run of most n... | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | [unknown - newspaper] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'I must not forget however I read out of "Good Words" a very amusing sketch of a Dutchman's troubles in London from th... | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | Good Words | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | 'This is a very good number. [New Statesman] The Wells review seems most just, but I haven’t yet finished the book... | Arnold Bennett | H.G. Wells | The Soul of a Bishop | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Harry importuned me to play Bezique, so we had a game & after it was over I took my book & Harry went to bed' | John Buckley Castieau | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'In the evening I read to the youngsters until it was time for them to go to bed.' | John Buckley Castieau | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I should have read S.& H. ["Shops and Houses"] earlier, despite J. & P. , but I couldn’t get the book off Marguerit... | Arnold Bennett | Frank Swinnerton | Shops and Houses | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'The Argus contained a full Report of a Lecture delivered the night previous at the Independent Church by the Church o... | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | Argus | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'I read a story in the evening to the youngsters & then heard Harry read for marks. We were engaged in a dialogue from... | John Buckley Castieau | [unknown] | [stories] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'It appeareth to me that you have attempted the impossible in 'The Secret City'. Therefore be not surprised if I thin... | Arnold Bennett | Hugh Walpole | The Secret City | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'In the evening went to the Club. There were several members present most of them engaged with the Periodicals lately ... | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | The Graphic | Print: Newspaper, Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'A file of Beechworth papers came to hand to-day. By them I see it is intended to hold a Local Exhibition at Beechwort... | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | Ovens and Murray Advertiser | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | 'I am reading 'Mr. Sponge’s Sporting Tour'. Rather good.' | Arnold Bennett | R.S. Surtees | Mr Sponge's Sporting Tour | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'The Australasian & the Age. Then read a little to the youngsters & at ten o'clock went to bed' | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | Australasian | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'The Australasian & the Age. Then read a little to the youngsters & at ten o'clock went to bed' | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | The Age | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'The Australasian & the Age. Then read a little to the youngsters & at ten o'clock went to bed' | John Buckley Castieau | [unknown] | [stories] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'was down in good time & had devoured my breakfast as well as the Australasian by a little past nine o'clock.' | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | Australasian | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'In the Evening I read a story from the Arabian Nights, then played a game of Bezique with Dotty.' | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | Arabian Nights, The | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I return "The Moon and Sixpence" and your criticism. I agree with your criticism but I do not think that you have la... | Arnold Bennett | W. Somerset Maugham | The Moon and Sixpence | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'This Evening was rather a lazy one. I read & afterwards played a game of Bezique with Polly, then went to bed' | John Buckley Castieau | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'In the Argus this morning there was a skit written in the style of "The Battle of Dorking". It was styled "The great ... | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | Argus | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | 'I regret that you have given up the "New Statesman". The old editor has returned from the war & the paper is in its ... | Arnold Bennett | | New Statesman | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'Mustered in the afternoon & then worked in the office for a couple of hours, employing myself first with my Diary & a... | John Buckley Castieau | [unknown] | [prison report] | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Mustered in the afternoon & then worked in the office for a couple of hours, employing myself first with my Diary & a... | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | [unknown] | Print: Newspaper, Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | re: 'September'
'This work is admirably conceived and just about perfectly constructed . . .
It is incomparably t... | Arnold Bennett | Frank Swinnerton | September | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Polly played sacred music & I read for a time to the youngsters.' | John Buckley Castieau | [unknown] | [stories] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 |
'Have you read the 'New Statesman' this week? If not, read it. I take pride in the fact that I more than anybody ... | Arnold Bennett | | New Statesman | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'Did not sleep at all well last night for I was haunted with the dread of the Papers making a mess of the Case of Weec... | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | [unknown - newspaper] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'I stayed at home in the evening & amused myself by reading.' | John Buckley Castieau | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'In the Argus of this morning there was a paragraph stating that the Governor of the Gaol referred to by Mr Duffy was ... | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | Argus | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'Was reading a good deal in the evening, then came into the Gaol & wrote up my Diary' | John Buckley Castieau | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'When we came home we did some reading & then Polly & I played three games of bagatelle of which I lost two' | John Buckley Castieau | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'In the evening played bagatelle & read portion of "A man made of money" one of Douglas Jerrold's stories that I think... | John Buckley Castieau | Douglas Jerrold | A man made of money | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'In the Argus of this morning there appeared the article I had written on "Prisons & Prisoners". It appeared to me to ... | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | Argus | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'The Evening Herald published an account of the trial of the Captain of the Carl at Sydney. The brutalities that took ... | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | Evening Herald | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'I stayed at home & after [reading] the paper smoked till I was sleepy then I went off to bed & was sleeping soundly w... | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | [unknown - newspaper] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'While Polly was away I read to Harry & Dotty one of the Ingoldsby's Legends' | John Buckley Castieau | Richard Harris Barham | Ingoldsby Legends | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Got to-day from Beechworth a number of different copies of the Ovens & Murray Advertiser. There was not very much in ... | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | Ovens and Murray Advertiser | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'This evening in the Herald there was a long paragraph about the needle-work done by the women in the Gaol work-room, ... | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | Evening Herald | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'I stayed at home & read' | John Buckley Castieau | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 |
'Speaking of the drama, you should read the preface to Shaw’s new book of plays. As a journalistic performance i... | Arnold Bennett | G. B. Shaw | Heartbreak House, Great Catherine, and Playlets About the War | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'then returned home & amused myself for an hour reading "Gil Blas".' | John Buckley Castieau | Alain-Rene Le Sage | Gil Blas | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'after four o'clock went to the Club. Read a lot of papers there & got home in good time for tea' | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | [unknown - newspaper] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 |
'I have now perused the L.M.I. & will inflict my views on you. It is on the whole what I should call a "sound" numb... | Arnold Bennett | | London Mercury | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | 'George Moore’s 'Avowals' is highly agreeable.' | Arnold Bennett | George Moore | Avowals | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I stayed up very late to-night reading Thackeray's scraps contributed in the olden days to Punch & Frazer's Magazine.... | John Buckley Castieau | William Makepeace Thackeray | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read some of Thackeray to Mrs Castieau & the youngsters this evening. The account of Master Augustus's visit to the p... | John Buckley Castieau | William Makepeace Thackeray | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Marcus Clarke commenced in this day's Weekly Times a series of articles under the title of "The Wicked World" or Melb... | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | Weekly Times | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | 'The more I read of H.G.’s 'Outline' the more staggered I am by it.' | Arnold Bennett | H. G. Wells | The Outline of History | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'Up this morning in good time & had a long read of the Argus before I went into the office.' | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | Argus | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'In the evening I read some little tit bits from Dr [Syntax?] to the youngsters' | John Buckley Castieau | [unknown] | Dr Syntax | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'There is no particular talk in this house except the slump in theatres, & the general & increasing badness of the 'Lo... | Arnold Bennett | | London Mercury | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'Got on in the evening the best way that I could, amusing myself for an hour or more in looking up some old papers & r... | John Buckley Castieau | John Buckley Castieau | [papers] | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'then went to the Club. Read for a time & then came home to tea, the Herald had a Paragraph pointing out the stupidity... | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | Evening Herald | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'In the evening I went to the Yorick & read quietly for a time.' | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | [unknown] | Print: Newspaper, Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | ‘Wayfarer’ expresses the ignorance of himself and his friends about the late Charles Garvice . . . He brackets C... | Arnold Bennett | | Nation | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | ‘Wayfarer’ expresses the ignorance of himself and his friends about the late Charles Garvice . . . He brackets C... | Arnold Bennett | Charles Garvice | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | ‘Wayfarer’ expresses the ignorance of himself and his friends about the late Charles Garvice . . . He brackets C... | Arnold Bennett | Florence Barclay | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'There was a tale in the Age of yesterday called "The wife's revenge" it was very well written & described a heartless... | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | The Age | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'Commenced as soon as I had been through the Gaol to read some of my Diary for 1871' | John Buckley Castieau | John Buckley Castieau | diary | Manuscript: Codex |
| 1900-1945 | '. . . There have been 2 supreme books since your regretted departure. G. Moore’s 'Avowals' and the letters of Ch... | Arnold Bennett | George Moore | Avowals | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'In the evening I went to the Club & had a long read, got home by about nine o'clock' | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | [unknown] | Print: Newspaper, Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | . . . There have been 2 supreme books since your regretted departure. G. Moore’s 'Avowals' and the letters of Che... | Arnold Bennett | Anton Chekhov | Letters | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'in the evening I did a little reading & went to bed early' | John Buckley Castieau | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Stayed at home drinking & smoking & doing a little reading till Polly returned with Godfrey from the theatre at twelv... | John Buckley Castieau | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Got up in a funk & sent for the Age, was delighted to find the Article about the Gaol was not inserted' | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | The Age | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'In the evening I read until the children & Miss McDermott went to bed, then I smoked away until ten o'clock went to b... | John Buckley Castieau | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'In the evening read away for some time & had some words with Polly on a very disagreeable subject' | John Buckley Castieau | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read during the evening & went to bed at about eleven' | John Buckley Castieau | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'I amused myself with reading a tale in Blackwood till nine o'clock' | John Buckley Castieau | [unknown] | Blackwood's Magazine | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'Was much annoyed by a Leading Article in The Argus about the Gaol & Penal Department' | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | Argus | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'In the Age this morning there was an Article on prison labor & Labor in the Melbourne Gaol particularly, it was evide... | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | The Age | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'read in the evening & went to bed early' | John Buckley Castieau | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'In the evening I read the papers & went to bed before ten o'clock.' | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | [unknown - newspaper] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'In the Argus of this morning was published Jardine Smith's Leader on the Gaol. It commenced with an Apology for a pre... | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | Argus | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'spent the evening at home reading' | John Buckley Castieau | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'In the evening I read a good deal to myself & then read with Dotty & afterwards with Harry' | John Buckley Castieau | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'in the afternoon amused myself as well as I could with the newspapers.' | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | [unknown - newspaper] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'I amused myself reading the Saturday Age' | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | The Age | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'A great Article was published in the Age newspaper this morning upon Prison labor this time the Castlemaine Gaol was ... | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | The Age | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'I had some books to read & when I could get anything at all like an easy position in bed I stayed satisfied.' | John Buckley Castieau | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'In the evening I amused myself by reading "Cast up from the Sea" a book written by Mr Baker the Explorer. It served w... | John Buckley Castieau | Baker | Cast up from the sea | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'After tea I went to the Athenaeum & read the papers in the reading room' | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | [unknown - newspaper] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'In the evening I sat down to read "the Vicar's Daughter" & got so interested in it that I began to read tit bits alou... | John Buckley Castieau | George MacDonald | The Vicar's Daughter | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'This evening after I had had my dinner I went to the Athenaeum & stayed reading for an hour' | John Buckley Castieau | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Newspaper, Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'In the evening I played a game of bagatelle with Dotty & a game of Bezique with Sissy & with that & "Monte Christo" m... | John Buckley Castieau | Alexandre Dumas | The Count of Monte Cristo | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Mustered in the afternoon & then went to the Athenaeum to read the papers' | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | [unknown - newspaper] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read at the Athenaeum.' | John Buckley Castieau | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Newspaper, Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'In the evening Harry & the girls went to Church, Polly & I sat reading by the fire till it was toddy time, then we ha... | John Buckley Castieau | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'after eight o'clock Harry & I went to "The Athenaeum" & after changing a book I went into the Reading room & had a lo... | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | [unknown - newspaper] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'In the evening went to the Athenaeum & looked at the papers, came home & read for a while then smoked a pipe & went o... | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | [unknown - newspaper] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'In the evening went to the Athenaeum & looked at the papers, came home & read for a while then smoked a pipe & went o... | John Buckley Castieau | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'before tea I took a stroll to the Athenaeum where I read the papers.' | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | [unknown - newspaper] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'Went to the Athenaeum and read the papers' | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | [unknown - newspaper] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'Went to The Athenaeum & read the papers' | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | [unknown - newspaper] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read for a long time. My eyes have been very weak of late & I found to-night that reading small print by gas-light di... | John Buckley Castieau | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Newspaper, Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'Mustered in the afternoon & then went to the Athenaeum where I read the papers' | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | [unknown - newspaper] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'Spent the evening over the fire reading most of the time although I did play a game of Bezique with Sissy & three gam... | John Buckley Castieau | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Between five & six Polly came down stairs & then I went off to the Athenaeum & read the papers' | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | [unknown - newspaper] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'Coming home I purchased The Australasian & the Leader. I bought "the Leader" because it contained the commencement of... | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | Leader | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'Did not muster but went to the Athenaeum to read the papers. Stayed at home in the evening & read for a while, then s... | John Buckley Castieau | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Did not muster but went to the Athenaeum to read the papers. Stayed at home in the evening & read for a while, then s... | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | [unknown - newspaper] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'Went to the Athenaeum & read the papers before tea. In the evening read Blackwood & afterwards had my chest painted w... | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | [unknown - newspaper] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'Went to the Athenaeum & read the papers before tea. In the evening read Blackwood & afterwards had my chest painted w... | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | Blackwood's Magazine | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'Went to the Athenaeum & read the papers' | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | [unknown - newspaper] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'The Newspapers full of [?] obtained from the Debate in the House last evening, the Argus very truthfully implied that... | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | Argus | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'Went to the Athenaeum & had a look at the papers, in the evening after tea read for a while & then played a game of B... | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | [unknown - newspaper] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'Went to the Athenaeum & had a look at the papers, in the evening after tea read for a while & then played a game of B... | John Buckley Castieau | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'I read in the Castlemaine Representative last evening that an old man named Joseph Hill who had been sent from here t... | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | Castlemaine Representative | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'In the papers this morning there was a melancholy account of the suicide of a man named Lennon' | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | [unknown - newspaper] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'Looked in at the Athenaeum & read the papers then came home to tea, in the evening read to Harry & heard him read, he... | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | [unknown - newspaper] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'Stayed for some time at the Athenaeum reading through the papers' | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | [unknown - newspaper] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'I stayed at home & read. In the afternoon I mustered & then sat for the rest of the day reading over the fire.' | John Buckley Castieau | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'I went to the Athenaeum & had a look at the English papers. There were a good many members assembled to do the same t... | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | [unknown - newspaper] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'At tea time however I came down stairs & after reading a while went into the office & attended to some duty' | John Buckley Castieau | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Went to the Athenaeum & had a look at the papers' | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | [unknown - newspaper] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'Went to the Athenaeum & read the papers.' | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | [unknown - newspaper] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'Went to the Athenaeum & had a look at the papers. In the evening read for a while & played a couple of games of cribb... | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | [unknown - newspaper] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'Went to the Athenaeum & had a look at the papers. In the evening read for a while & played a couple of games of cribb... | John Buckley Castieau | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read "George [Gaith?]" until Polly & Harry came home went to bed at about half past twelve o'clock' | John Buckley Castieau | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Went to the Athenaeum & read before tea time. In the evening smoked & read until it was time to go to bed' | John Buckley Castieau | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Went to the Athenaeum & read before tea time. In the evening smoked & read until it was time to go to bed' | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | [unknown - newspaper] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'I went to the Athenaeum after five o'clock & got home by tea time spent the evening reading.' | John Buckley Castieau | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'At Wangaratta we got the daily papers, in the Argus there was a [?] advocating my being sent to report on the prisons... | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | Argus | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'In the Age of this morning there appeared a short Leading article strongly advocating my being sent Home to see the E... | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | The Age | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'In the evening went to the Athenaeum & read the papers, got home by a little after eight' | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | [unknown - newspaper] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'This evening I was sitting quietly reading the Evening Herald when I noticed Polly show some considerable excitement ... | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | Evening Herald | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read newspapers & a novel nearly all day the weather being so unsettled that it was not deemed wise to go out.' | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | [unknown - newspaper] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read newspapers & a novel nearly all day the weather being so unsettled that it was not deemed wise to go out.' | John Buckley Castieau | [unknown] | [unknown - novel] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Stayed up late reading & smoking' | John Buckley Castieau | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Came back by the half past one train [from?] Town, after buying "Sarah Barnham" at [the?] Station. Amused myself by r... | John Buckley Castieau | [unknown] | Sarah Barnham | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Bought the Evening Herald. There was not much in it excepting an account of the injury done to one of the Turret guns... | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | Evening Herald | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'I stayed at Home the whole day & read "John Bull & his island"' | John Buckley Castieau | Max O'Rell | John Bull and his island | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Bought ["Life of Sarah Barnham"?] (Sara Bernhardt). (See entry for 24 August.) It is villanously scandalous & makes t... | John Buckley Castieau | [unknown] | Sarah Barnham | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I wrote up my Diary & read in the evening' | John Buckley Castieau | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Awoke early & as it was too soon to get up read for an hour in bed. Did not go to town to-day, read & wrote in the m... | John Buckley Castieau | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'In the evening commenced reading again a book called Five years in Penal Servitude. The book refers to English prison... | John Buckley Castieau | [unknown] | Five Years in Penal Servitude | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read & wrote till bed time' | John Buckley Castieau | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'In the evening read the papers' | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | [unknown - newspaper] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'Had something to eat & then read & smoked till after twelve o'clock.' | John Buckley Castieau | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Went to bed after reading for a long while' | John Buckley Castieau | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'A Paragraph appeared in the Argus to the effect that I was to retire & Brett to be appointed in my place' | John Buckley Castieau | [n/a] | Argus | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | 'Directly after breakfast, the 'Goodwife' and the Doctor evacuate this apartment, and retire up stairs to the drawing-... | Jane Baillie Welsh | Unknown | Unknown | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'The book ["Robert Elsmere"] had moved him [Gladstone] prfoundly and he felt impelled to combat the all too dangerous ... | Catherine Gladstone | Mary Augusta Ward | Robert Elsmere | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | '[letter from T.H. Huxley to Mrs Ward] You will think I have taken my time about thanking you for "David Grieve"; but ... | Thomas Henry Huxley | Mary Augusta Ward | David Grieve | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | '[letter from Henry James to Mrs Ward] I think the tale very straightforward and powerful - very direct and vivid, ful... | Henry James | Mary Augusta Ward | Bessie Costrell | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | '[during a riddle game at Mrs Ward's home, Stocks] Lord Acton, who had that day devoured ten books of Biblical critici... | John Dalberg-Acton, 1st Baron Acton | | [biblical criticism] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Byron was a great genius. 'Don' Juan is a terrific work. But there is scarcely a page of it which does not show tha... | Arnold Bennett | Lord Byron | Don Juan | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Byron was a great genius. 'Don' Juan is a terrific work. But there is scarcely a page of it which does not show tha... | Arnold Bennett | Sir Walter Scott | Quentin Durward | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Mrs Mary Berenson’s article on eighteenth century architecture in Spain most interestingly illustrates a principle ... | Arnold Bennett | Mary Berenson | [article on C18th architecture] | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | 'I enclose in this envelope a copy of the 'Economic Review of the Foreign Press'. . . . I know the periodical very w... | Arnold Bennett | | Economic Review of the Foreign Press | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | 'Can’t something be done to buck up the 'Lit. Suppl'.? It is getting duller & duller, though it always contains 1 o... | Arnold Bennett | | Times Literary Supplement | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | I do not agree with you as to Gibbs’ book. . . . I have not yet seen a good war book. Doyle if course is ridiculo... | Arnold Bennett | Philip Gibbs | Realities of War | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I do not agree with you as to Gibbs’ book. . . . I have not yet seen a good war book. Doyle if course is ridicul... | Arnold Bennett | Arthur Conan Doyle | The British Campaign in France and Flanders | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | John Wilson Croker to Mr Justice Jackson, 4 December 1856:
'I am pretty sure that the first eclogue and the first b... | John Wilson Croker | Virgil | Aeneid I | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | John Wilson Croker to Mr Justice Jackson, 4 December 1856:
'I am pretty sure that the first eclogue and the first b... | John Wilson Croker | Virgil | Eclogues I | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | John Wilson Croker to Mr Justice Jackson, 4 December 1856:
'I am pretty sure that the first eclogue and the first b... | John Wilson Croker | Alexander Pope | translations from Homer | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | John Wilson Croker to his wife, 28 July 1850:
'After dinner I read some of the letters written by Charles Long and ... | John Wilson Croker | Charles Long and Lord Mulgrave | letters to Lord Lonsdale | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Spencer Perceval to John Wilson Croker, 11 November 1810:
'I thank you for the sight of H[uskisson]'s pamphlet. I h... | Spencer Perceval | William Huskisson | 'The Question Concerning the Depreciation of our Currency Stated and Examined' | |
| 1800-1849 | John Wilson Croker to his wife, 20 July 1815:
'[General] Becker showed us a copy of Buonaparte's letter to the Prin... | John Wilson Croker | Napoleon Bonaparte | letter to the Prince Regent | Manuscript: Unknown, Copied. |
| 1800-1849 | John Wilson Croker to John Murray, 18 September 1816:
'I have read with great pleasure the poem you lent me [Childe... | John Wilson Croker | George Gordon, Lord Byron | Childe Harold III | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | John Wilson Croker to the Rev. George Croly, 28 November 1816:
'Though I have little time to read poetry,and notwit... | John Wilson Croker | George Gordon, Lord Byron | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | John Wilson Croker to the Rev. George Croly, 28 November 1816:
'Though I have little time to read poetry,and notwit... | John Wilson Croker | Walter Scott | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | John Wilson Croker to the Rev. George Croly, 28 November 1816:
'Though I have little time to read poetry,and notwit... | John Wilson Croker | John Dryden | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | John Wilson Croker to the Rev. George Croly, 28 November 1816:
'Though I have little time to read poetry,and notwit... | John Wilson Croker | Alexander Pope | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | John Wilson Croker to William Blackwood, 24 August 1819:
'I have received your last number [...] As a series of ess... | John Wilson Croker | | Blackwood's Magazine | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | John Wilson Croker to John Murray, 15 September 1819:
'Thank you for the perusal of the letter; it is not very good... | John Wilson Croker | George Gordon, Lord Byron | 'Letter to the Editor of My Grandmother's Review' | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | John Wilson Croker to John Murray, 18 July 1819:
'I am agreeably disappointed by finding "Don Juan" very little off... | John Wilson Croker | George Gordon, Lord Byron | Don Juan: cantos I-II | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | John Wilson Croker to John Murray, 18 July 1819:
'I had Crabbe's tales with me on shipboard, and they were a treasu... | John Wilson Croker | Crabbe | Tales | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | John Wilson Croker to Robert Peel, 24 December 1821:
'I have seen in the Courier the accounts from the Irish papers... | John Wilson Croker | | Courier | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | Lord Liverpool to John Wilson Croker, 23 August 1824:
'I am very much obliged to you for the specimen which you hav... | Robert Banks Jenkinson, second Earl of Liverpool | Horace Walpole | letters to Lord Hertford | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Lord Liverpool to John Wilson Croker, 23 August 1824:
'Who is Mr. Prior? I have read his "Life of Burke" with the g... | Robert Banks Jenkinson, second Earl of Liverpool | Prior | Life of Burke | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | From John Wilson Croker's Note Books, 24 October 1825:
'The first time I ever saw [Germaine de Stael] was at dinner... | John Wilson Croker | Camille Desmoulins | journal | Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'There was one German scholar with whom she had at any rate a lengthy correspondence - Dr Adolf Julicher, of Marburg, ... | Janet Penrose Ward | Adolf Julicher | An Introduction to the New Testament | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '[Mrs Ward] had found a task for Mrs Lyttelton's quick mind, to while away the too-long hours of that summer [while h... | Katherine Lyttelton | Joseph Joubert | Pensees | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | John Wilson Croker to Lord Hertford, 30 January 1833:
'Are you fond of a bit of superstition? One day last week, at... | John Wilson Croker | | report of death of Lord Exmouth | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | John Wilson Croker to his wife, whilst in Oxford for the installation of the Duke of Wellington as Chancellor of the U... | John Wilson Croker | | | Print: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | '[letter from General Hastings Anderson to Janet Trevelyan] What strikes me most in your mother's book ["Fields of Vic... | Hastings Anderson | Mary Augusta Ward | Fields of Victory | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I have read 100 pages of 'L. Leuwen'. [Lucien Leuwen] It is exceedingly fine, but I don’t yet class it with 'La Ch... | Arnold Bennett | Henri Beyle [Stendhal] | Lucien Leuwen | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I have read 100 pages of 'L. Leuwen'. [Lucien Leuwen] It is exceedingly fine, but I don’t yet class it with 'La Ch... | Arnold Bennett | Henri Beyle [Stendhal] | La Chartreuse de Parme | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Have you read 'The Pretty Lady'? It was while reading 'Isabelle' that the form of this novel suddenly presented itse... | Arnold Bennett | André Gide | Isabelle | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'It seems to me that I have to write to you in the same nagging strain as I do to Wells, In spite of my brotherly adm... | Arnold Bennett | Hugh Walpole | The Captives | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'About 2/3rds of this play is undoubtedly very fine. I think it weakens in structure in the 3rd act. . . . I only me... | Arnold Bennett | Robert Nichols | Guillty Souls | Print: completed draft of play |
| 1900-1945 | '. . . and I wish to tell you that it was the first chapters of 'A Mummer’s Wife' which opened my eyes to the romant... | Arnold Bennett | George Moore | A Mummer's Wife | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Pardon my forwardness, but I must tell you I think that 'Streaks' is another what-I-call-a-book. In fact I should say... | Arnold Bennett | Ethel Smyth | Streaks of Life | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Pardon my forwardness, but I must tell you I think that 'Streaks' is another what-I-call-a-book. In fact I should say... | Arnold Bennett | Ethel Smyth | Impressions that Remained | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | I am glad to see that today you give some figures to show what the coal strike is really about. The public seldom kno... | Arnold Bennett | | Express | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | I am glad to see that today you give some figures to show what the coal strike is really about. The public seldom kno... | Arnold Bennett | | Daily Herald | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | It is 1,000 pities the 'Express' didn’t get the Wells Washington stuff. His first 3 articles in the 'Mail' have bee... | Arnold Bennett | | Daily Mail | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | Your novel ['The Young Enchanted'] shows once more your most genuine and even devilish gift for narrative. By God yo... | Arnold Bennett | Hugh Walpole | The Young Enchanted | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | I have just borrowed a copy of 'Ulysses'. It appears to me to be jolly good, and it is certainly the most obscene gen... | Arnold Bennett | James Joyce | Ulysses | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Pontigny is not marked in the largest and best English atlas. But I had the wit to look for it in the 'Grand Larouss... | Arnold Bennett | | Grand Larousse | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | I have read 'Roasted Angels' and I now return it. It is a very unusual and even a very remarkable play. It is full ... | Arnold Bennett | H Hamer [anon] | Roasted Angels | |
| 1900-1945 | I have been re-reading 'Du Côté.' Well, it is marvellous. I have also been re-reading 'Anna Karenina'. Well, it i... | Arnold Bennett | Marcel Proust | Du Coté chez Swann | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | I have been re-reading 'Du Côté.' Well, it is marvellous. I have also been re-reading 'Anna Karenina'. Well, it i... | Arnold Bennett | Leo Tolstoy | Anna Karenina | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | I have been re-reading 'Du Côté.' Well, it is marvellous. I have also been re-reading 'Anna Karenina'. Well, it i... | Arnold Bennett | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | Les Freres Karamazov | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | I have not read 'La Garçonne'. I got about half way through it and then I had to give up, not because of its indecen... | Arnold Bennett | Victor Margueritte | La Garconne | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | I have not read 'La Garçonne'. I got about half way through it and then I had to give up, not because of its indecen... | Arnold Bennett | Paul Margueritte | Le Désastre | Print: Book |
| 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 | 'Mr Hawkins then read a summary review of Stopford Brooke's Tennyson & his Art of Modern Life which was much appreciated' | John Luther Hawkins | John Luther Hawkins | [paper of Stopford Brooke's 'Tennyson: His Art and Relation to Modern Life'] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Mr Hawkins then read a summary review of Stopford Brooke's Tennyson & his Art of Modern Life which was much appreciated' | John Luther Hawkins | Stopford Brooke | Tennyson: his Art and Relation to Modern Life | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'The following readings were also given:
The Forsaken Merman by Mrs Reynolds
Rugby Chapel by Miss Pollard & Dover B... | John Luther Hawkins | Matthew Arnold | 'Dover Beach' | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'The following readings were also given:
The Forsaken Merman by Mrs Reynolds
Rugby Chapel by Miss Pollard & Dover B... | Florence Hawkins | Matthew Arnold | 'Forsaken Merman, The' | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | John Wilson Croker to J. H. Jesse, 5 December 1843:
'I am much obliged by your kind attention in sending me your Se... | John Wilson Croker | J. H. Jesse | (apparently) Selwyn and His Contemporaries | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | John Gibson Lockhart to John Wilson Croker, 6 August 1846:
'The "Modern Timon" is not, I think, by a [italics]poet[... | John Gibson Lockhart | Edward Bulwer-Lytton | The New Timon | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | John Gibson Lockhart to John Wilson Croker, 16 December 1846:
'H[enry]. B[rougham]. spoke with bitterness [...] of ... | Henry Brougham | | Bedford Letters vol 3 | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | John Wilson Croker to Lord Stanley, 4 [?14] June 1847:
'I have had communicated to me the pages of a pamphlet, whic... | John Wilson Croker | anon | 'The Commercial Policy of Pitt and Peel' | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | John Gibson Lockhart to John Wilson Croker, 12 January 1849, on Macaulay's recently-published History of England:
'... | John Gibson Lockhart | Thomas Babington Macaulay | History of England, vols 1 and 2 | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | John Gibson Lockhart to John Wilson Croker, 12 January 1849, on Macaulay's recently-published History of England:
'... | John Gibson Lockhart | Grote | History of Greece | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | John Wilson Croker to Lord Brougham (1850-51):
'And so you are reading my Bozzy'. | Henry Brougham | James Boswell | Life of Samuel Johnson | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | John Wilson Croker to Lord Brougham, 22 February 1853:
'I fear that the Government of the country is likely to beco... | John Wilson Croker | Benjamin Disraeli | 'Buckinghamshire speeches' | Unknown |
| 1700-1799 1800-1849 | John Wilson Croker to Mr C. Phillips, 3 January 1854:
'As to my novel reading I confess that in my younger days I u... | John Wilson Croker | Charlotte Smith | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | John Wilson Croker to Mr C. Phillips, 3 January 1854:
'As to my novel reading I confess that in my younger days I u... | John Wilson Croker | Maria Edgeworth | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 | John Wilson Croker to Mr C. Phillips, 3 January 1854:
'As to my novel reading I confess that in my younger days I u... | John Wilson Croker | Theodore Hook | Gilbert Gurney | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 | John Wilson Croker to Mr C. Phillips, 3 January 1854:
'As to my novel reading I confess that in my younger days I u... | John Wilson Croker | Charles Dickens | short fictions | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 | John Wilson Croker to Mr C. Phillips, 3 January 1854:
'As to my novel reading I confess that in my younger days I u... | John Wilson Croker | Charles Dickens | novels | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | John Wilson Croker to John Murray jr, 14 February 1857:
'I have been so very ill as to have been unable until yeste... | John Wilson Croker | | article on Duke of Wellington | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1600-1699 | 'was buseed about that all day tell night, at which time Iohn Corrow praied and reed publeckly' | John Corrow | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'I kept my chamber, and hard Iohn Corrow and Mr Rhodes read to me' | John Corrow | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'I hard this day, after I had praied, Mr Rhodes read the booke of my lord Esixe treason, and I wrought: and so like wi... | John Corrow | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 | 'After praier I wrough, and hard Mr Rhodes and younge Coroow read' | John Corrow | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I wrote a fatherly letter to Hughie & told him the error of his ways & also that I didn’t like 'The Cath'. well eno... | Arnold Bennett | W.B. Maxwell | Spinster of this Parish | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | I wrote a fatherly letter to Hughie & told him the error of his ways & also that I didn’t like 'The Cath'. well eno... | Arnold Bennett | Hugh Walpole | The Cathedral | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | I wrote a fatherly letter to Hughie & told him the error of his ways & also that I didn’t like 'The Cath'. well eno... | Arnold Bennett | | Notable British Trials | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 |
Many thanks for the book on Methuselahs. ['Some Impressions of my Elders']Shame to say, I’ve only read myself in... | Arnold Bennett | Arnold Bennett | Some Impressions of my Elders | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | I am obliged for your letter and the enclosures. I return all the latter, together with my report and adjudication. ... | Arnold Bennett | Geoffrey Lapage | Tommy Fidler | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | I am obliged for your letter and the enclosures. I return all the latter, together with my report and adjudication. ... | Arnold Bennett | Geoffrey Bullough | From Bondage | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | I am obliged for your letter and the enclosures. I return all the latter, together with my report and adjudication. ... | Arnold Bennett | Kate Simmonds | The Best Policy | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | .. . . I have no prejudice against the young, rather the reverse, and yet I am looking in vain for a really good novel... | Arnold Bennett | H. G. Wells | Men Like Gods | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Pardon a word of unsolicited criticism about your venture. I think the contents are pretty creditable, but I think th... | Arnold Bennett | | Adelphi | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | The Lawrence is magnificent. Pity he is falling more & more into the trick of repeating a word or a phrase. It irrit... | Arnold Bennett | D.H. Lawrence | Trees and Babies and Papas and Mamas | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | The Lawrence is magnificent. Pity he is falling more & more into the trick of repeating a word or a phrase. It irrit... | Arnold Bennett | H.M. Tomlinson | The Estuary | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | The Lawrence is magnificent. Pity he is falling more & more into the trick of repeating a word or a phrase. It irrit... | Arnold Bennett | H.M. Tomlinson | The Estuary | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | The Lawrence is magnificent. Pity he is falling more & more into the trick of repeating a word or a phrase. It irrit... | Arnold Bennett | Katherine Mansfield | The Samuel Josephs | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | The Lawrence is magnificent. Pity he is falling more & more into the trick of repeating a word or a phrase. It irrit... | Arnold Bennett | | Mr Joiner and the Bible | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | I have a wonderful miniature edition of Byron’s 'Don Juan', illustrated, for you, with a staggering Victorian prefa... | Arnold Bennett | Lord Byron | Don Juan | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | It is not an article at all. [‘Adrien van de Venne’ in Studies (Dublin), June 1923] It is a romance, a drama, an... | Arnold Bennett | Thomas Bodkin | Adrien van de Venne | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | I’ll tell you what I think of ‘Golgotha’. I think it is a prodigious cataract of eloquence, managed with astoni... | Arnold Bennett | Robert Nichols | Golgotha & Co. | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | I’ll tell you what I think of ‘Golgotha’. I think it is a prodigious cataract of eloquence, managed with astoni... | Arnold Bennett | Aldous Huxley | On the Margin | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Your book on Dostoevsky (for which many thanks) has made a very considerable impression upon me. And yet you say almo... | Arnold Bennett | André Gide | Dostoevsky | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | After reading what you said about 'The Eternal Husband', I read that story again. Je le trouve un peu manqué, surtou... | Arnold Bennett | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | The Eternal Husband | 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' | Helen Rawlings | William Wordsworth | | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Readings from Wordsworth were then given by Mrs Smith, Mrs Rawlings, Mrs Edminson and Miss Wallis' | Constance Wallis | William Wordsworth | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Witness statement in trial for theft:
Benjamin Murray: 'I first saw the account of this robbery in the Dispatch news... | Benjamin Murray | [n/a] | Weekly Dispatch | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | Witness statement in trial for theft:
Benjamin Murray: 'I first saw the account of this robbery in the Dispatch news... | Benjamin Murray | [n/a] | [handbill] | Print: Handbill |
| 1800-1849 | Witness statement in trial for murder:
Henry Wignall: 'the 1st of January was Sunday—on the 1st of January I was in... | Henry Wignall | [n/a] | [newspaper] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | Witness statement in trial for deception:
John Dawson: 'about a year and nine months ago, I saw an advertisement in t... | John Dawson | [n/a] | The Times | Print: Advertisement, Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | Witness statement in trial for theft:
Mary Ann Hatton: 'On Saturday, the 30th of June, between one and two o'clock in... | Mary Ann Hatton | [n/a] | [newspaper] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | Witness statement in trial for theft:
Jonas Levy: 'I read in the newspaper that a man named Jones was taken up for s... | Jonas Levy | [n/a] | [newspaper] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | witness statement in trial for theft:
John Henry Bradley: 'I heard no more of it till I saw in the newspaper that th... | John Henry Bradley | [n/a] | [newspaper] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | witness statement in trial for theft:
William John Boden: 'Q. Where were you? A. In the parlour—the door was open... | William John Boden | [n/a] | [newspaper] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | witness statement in trial for theft:
Edmund Fargens: 'I afterwards saw a paragraph in the newspaper, in consequence... | Edmund Fargens | [n/a] | [newspaper] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | witness statement in trial for theft:
Esther Lane: 'she had had half a pint of beer, and been reading the newspaper' | Jane Barnett | [n/a] | [newspaper] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'The programme of selections from and papers on Kingsley was then proceeded with, C.E. Stansfield reading a paper on K... | Lilian Goadby | Charles Kingsley | | 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 | | 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... | Helen Rawlings | | 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 | 'A programme of the works of Robert Browning arranged by the committee appointed at the previous meeting was then ente... | Helen Rawlings | Robert Browning | 'Evelyn Hope' | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'A programme of the works of Robert Browning arranged by the committee appointed at the previous meeting was then ente... | Allan Goadby | Robert Browning | 'Garden Fancies' | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'A programme of the works of Robert Browning arranged by the committee appointed at the previous meeting was then ente... | Allan Goadby | Robert Browning | 'Master Hugues Of Saxe-Gotha' | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'The programme on Rudyard Kipling & his books was opened by the reading of a published paper on the author by H. M. Wa... | Allan Goadby | Rudyard Kipling | | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'The following programme of readings from Lewis Carroll's works as arranged by the committee of arrangements was then ... | Lilian Goadby | Lillian Goadby | [explanation of Jabberwock etymology] from Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'The following programme of readings from Lewis Carroll's works as arranged by the committee of arrangements was then ... | Allan Goadby | Lewis Carroll [pseud.] | [the Mad Tea Party, from] Alice's Adventures in Wonderland | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I have just read DH Lawrence's "Kangaroo". How I hated (in italics) it! Altho I think the Chapter about the War is we... | Ottoline Morrell | David Herbert Lawrence | Kangaroo | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | I will strive to let you have a note about André Maurois’s 'Ariel ou la vie de Shelley'. It is a very bright thing. | Arnold Bennett | André Maurois | Ariel: ou la vie de Shelley | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Now as regards the 'N.R.F'., am I unjust? All I know is that under Copeau, I panted monthly for the 'N.R.F'. Under Ri... | Arnold Bennett | | La Nouvelle Revue Francaise | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | Now as regards the 'N.R.F'., am I unjust? All I know is that under Copeau, I panted monthly for the 'N.R.F'. Under Ri... | Arnold Bennett | Marcel Jouhandeau | Clodomir l'assassin | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | 'We have just had a new edition of the works of Hale White (Mark Rutherford). It is a miserable and ill-printed editi... | Arnold Bennett | Mark Rutherford | The Novels of Mark Rutherford | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | My objection to the policy of the 'Express' of late is that I can’t understand it—nor have I met anyone else who ... | Arnold Bennett | | Express | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | On your recommendation I have just bought 'The Dance of Life' and am reading it. It repayeth perusal, & I thank thee... | Arnold Bennett | Havelock Ellis | The Dance of Life | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I cannot understand the small sale of 'Felix' ['Young Felix'] in this bloody country.' | Arnold Bennett | Frank Swinnerton | Young Felix | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Mr Edminson then made some interesting remarks on the subject of Shakespeare's [??] and portraits as an introduction ... | Helen Rawlings | William Shakespeare | Cymbeline | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Prisoner's statement in trial for murder:
Daniel Johncock: 'I read the Times newspaper, and read of the suicide of a... | Daniel Johncock | [n/a] | The Times | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | Witness statement in trial for theft:
George Martin: 'Q. You saw Martin leave the box and go to get the newspapers? A... | Ellen Martin | [n/a] | [newspaper] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | Witness statement in trial for theft:
John Scott: 'about one o'clock in the day on the 1st of May, I was in the Frenc... | John Scott | [n/a] | [newspaper] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | Witness statement in trial for theft:
Henry Theodore James: 'I did not go before the Magistrate on this matter—I sa... | Henry Theodore James | [n/a] | [newspaper] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | 'Mr W. H. Smith then read a paper on the life of John Ruskin'. | William Henry Smith | William Henry Smith | [Paper on Ruskin] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | '[Discussion of Ruskin] was followed by a reading by Mrs Ridges from "The Crown of Wild Olive". Mrs Stansfield read a ... | Blanche Ridges | John Ruskin | Crown of Wild Olive: Three Lectures on Work, Traffic and War | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Witness statement in trial for murder:
Richard John Moxey: '[Manning] said, "Is the wretch taken?"—I said I did not... | Richard John Moxey | [n/a] | [newspaper] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | 'The consideration of the Life & work of Wm Morris was opened by the reading of a short account of the Life by Mrs Goa... | Lilian Goadby | Lilian Goadby | [account of life of William Morris] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 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... | Blanche Ridges | Blanche Ridges | [paper on William Morris and socialism] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 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... | Blanche Ridges | William Morris | [political works] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Mr Stansfield read an interesting paper on "Tennyson & his books" & in continuation of the subject readings were give... | Florence Reynolds | Alfred, Lord Tennyson | poetry | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Mr Stansfield read an interesting paper on "Tennyson & his books" & in continuation of the subject readings were give... | Allan Goadby | Alfred, Lord Tennyson | poetry | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Mr Stansfield read an interesting paper on "Tennyson & his books" & in continuation of the subject readings were give... | John Ridges | Alfred, Lord Tennyson | 'Sir Galahad' | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Mr Stansfield read an interesting paper on "Tennyson & his books" & in continuation of the subject readings were give... | John Ridges | Alfred, Lord Tennyson | 'St Agnes' Eve' | 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... | Lilian Goadby | Lillian Goadby | [paper on Burns's life] | 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 | 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... | Helen Rawlings | Robert Burns | 'Cotter's Saturday Night' | 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 | Robert Burns | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Miss Goadby then read a paper entitled "A View of Thackeray from the Roundabout Papers" & readings from the same auth... | Sylvanus A. Reynolds | William Makepeace Thackeray | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The meeting at Ingleside on May 20th was of a very pleasant character, in that among other reasons it was devoted to ... | Helen Rawlings | Charles Lamb | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'A paper was then read by Mrs Goadby on Jane Austen followed by readings from her novels by Mrs Ridges, C.E. Stansfiel... | Blanche Ridges | Jane Austen | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'A paper was then read by Mrs Goadby on Jane Austen followed by readings from her novels by Mrs Ridges, C.E. Stansfiel... | Sylvanus A. Reynolds | Jane Austen | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'A paper was then read by Mrs Goadby on Jane Austen followed by readings from her novels by Mrs Ridges, C.E. Stansfiel... | Lilian Goadby | Lilian Goadby | [paper on Jane Austen] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'A paper was then read by Mrs Goadby on Jane Austen followed by readings from her novels by Mrs Ridges, C.E. Stansfiel... | Lilian Goadby | Jane Austen | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Mrs Ridges read an interesting paper on The Solitary Summer fully descriptive of the charm of the book.' | Blanche Ridges | Blanche Ridges | [paper on Elizabeth von Arnim's 'Solitary Summer'] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'Mrs Ridges read an interesting paper on The Solitary Summer fully descriptive of the charm of the book.' | Blanche Ridges | Elizabeth von Arnim | Solitary Summer, The | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | I want you to tell R.M. du Gard how highly I esteem 'Barois'. When I first bought it, ages ago, I was so impressed b... | Arnold Bennett | Roger Martin du Gard | Jean Barois | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | I want you to tell R.M. du Gard how highly I esteem 'Barois'. When I first bought it, ages ago, I was so impressed b... | Arnold Bennett | Valery Larbaud | Amants, heureux amants | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | I ought to have written to you before about 'Amants, heureux amants', which you were so kind as to send me. It is,... | Arnold Bennett | Valery Larbaud | Amants, heureux amants | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | I ought to have written to you before about 'Amants, heureux amants', which you were so kind as to send me. It is,... | Arnold Bennett | James Joyce | Ulysses | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | I have a collection of 8 short stories of hers, [Pauline Smith] all, in my opinion, fine. Middleton Murry would hav... | Arnold Bennett | Pauline Smith | The Little Karoo | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | I have a collection of 8 short stories of hers, [Pauline Smith] all, in my opinion, fine. Middleton Murry would hav... | Arnold Bennett | Pauline Smith | The Beadle | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Henry Hallam to George Grote, 7 December 1846:
'I have a good apology for writing to you so late about your "Histor... | Henry Hallam | George Grote | A History of Greece (vols 1 and 2) | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Henry Hallam to George Grote, 7 December 1846:
'I have a good apology for writing to you so late about your "Histor... | Henry Hallam | George Grote | A History of Greece (vols 1 and 2) | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Sarah Austin to Harriet Grote, wife to George Grote, 29 August 1847:
'His [Austin's husband John] great comfort, du... | John Austin | George Grote | A History of Greece | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | John Stuart Mill to George Grote, January 1849:
'I have just finished reading the two volumes with the greatest ple... | John Stuart Mill | George Grote | A History of Greece (vols 5 and 6) | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Eve stayed in to do her Bible Questions. As she was looking through the chapter on the deception of Isaac by Jacob an... | Evelyn Soutar | [n/a] | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Harriet Cavendish to unknown recipient (c.1796):
'G. is very much interested in the "black penitent" and is now rea... | Lady Georgina Cavendish | | 'the black penitent' | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Lady Harriet Cavendish to her sister, Lady Georgiana Morpeth (January 1803):
'I am now going for 2 or 3 hours to ex... | Selina Trimmer | | | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'Looking at Sismondi's "Italian Republics" an odd fit of industry came over me in the morning.' | John Ruskin | Jean Charles Leonarde Simonde de Sismondi | Italian Republics | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read a little more of "Amelia", which is about the worst planned story I ever read - no plan at all in fact; "Gil Bla... | John Ruskin | Henry Fielding | Amelia | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read a little more of "Amelia", which is about the worst planned story I ever read - no plan at all in fact; "Gil Bla... | John Ruskin | Alain-Rene Le Sage | Gil Blas | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read a little more of "Amelia", which is about the worst planned story I ever read - no plan at all in fact; "Gil Bla... | John Ruskin | Miguel de Cervantes | Don Quixote | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Looking at Galiffe's tour - he has a curious theory that the language of old Rome was Russian.' | John Ruskin | James Galiffe | Italy and its inhabitants: an account of a tour in that country in 1816 and 1817 | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Marryat's diary on Continent gives many interesting anecdotes of animals, but I am afraid to remember them, lest they... | John Ruskin | Captain Frederick Marryat | Diary in America | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I began the "Poissons" regularly; pretty hard work; finished "Kenilworth". I think Amy deserved her fate, she is unwo... | John Ruskin | Louis Agassiz | Recherches sur les poissons fossiles | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I began the "Poissons" regularly; pretty hard work; finished "Kenilworth". I think Amy deserved her fate, she is unwo... | John Ruskin | Walter Scott | Kenilworth: a romance | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have begun Alison's "Europe" - a pompous title, by the by, for an account of the Bedlam devilries of the French rev... | John Ruskin | Sir Archibald Alison | History of Europe | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Looking this evening at Jacob Bryant's remarks on history of Isaiah; fanciful, but very interesting.' | John Ruskin | Jacob Bryant | Treatise on the Authenticity of the Scriptures | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read the Clementina part of "Sir Charles Grandison". I have never met with anything which affected me so powerfully; ... | John Ruskin | Samuel Richardson | Sir Charles Grandison | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Note the following passages respecting Edom. Genes. xxxvi. Num. xx, 14, xxi, 4, xxiv, 18, xxxiii, 7. Judges v, 4. Deu... | John Ruskin | [n/a] | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Curious essay of Newman's I read some pages of - about the ecclesiastical miracles; full of intellect but doubtful in... | John Ruskin | John Henry Newman | Essay on the miracles recorded in Ecclesiastical History | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read some of Coleridge's "Friend", which gives one a higher notion of him than even his poetry' | John Ruskin | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Friend | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Dumas's "Essai de Statique Chimique" - clear but too short.' | John Ruskin | Jean-Baptiste Dumas | Essai de statique chimique des étres organisés | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read "King John" completely for the first time; I like the historical plays myself better than the pet ones. "Midsumm... | John Ruskin | William Shakespeare | King John | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read a little of the life of Baxter; very interesting, and apparently deserving Coleridge's recommendation. Dreadful ... | John Ruskin | W. Orme | Life and Times of Richard Baxter | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Note Baxter's opinion in describing George Lawson: "the ablest man of them all, or of almost any I know in England, e... | John Ruskin | W. Orme | Life and Times of Richard Baxter | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Much disappointed with Wilkie's life: he is a thoroughly low person and his biographer worse. I could not have imagin... | John Ruskin | Allan Cunningham | Life of Sir David Wilkie | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Much disappointed with Wilkie's life: he is a thoroughly low person and his biographer worse. I could not have imagin... | John Ruskin | Allan Cunningham | Lives of eminent British painters | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Note in the beginning of the "Phaedrus", in the speech attributed to Lysias, the ironical introduction of our Saviour... | John Ruskin | Plato | Phaedrus | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read a little Alison and much chemistry, but a little headachy and out of order.' | John Ruskin | Sir Archibald Alison | History of Europe | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Note Ezekiel 22.30. "I sought for a man among them, that should make up the hedge, and stand in the gap before me for... | John Ruskin | [n/a] | Bible (Ezekiel) | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read a little Alison and much chemistry, but a little headachy and out of order.' | John Ruskin | [unknown] | [chemistry] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read a little Plato; wrote a bit; and composed a good study for a vignette.' | John Ruskin | Plato | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read a little Plato; wrote a long letter to Brown; wrote a chapter of book; walked; read some Italian, and got some v... | John Ruskin | Plato | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read a little Plato; wrote a long letter to Brown; wrote a chapter of book; walked; read some Italian, and got some v... | John Ruskin | Gustav Friedrich Waagen | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read a little Plato; wrote a long letter to Brown; wrote a chapter of book; walked; read some Italian, and got some v... | John Ruskin | [unknown] | [Italian] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Have done some Plato - some Pliny - looked for Genus Chara (in Freshwater basin of Paris) everywhere and couldn't fin... | John Ruskin | Plato | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Have done some Plato - some Pliny - looked for Genus Chara (in Freshwater basin of Paris) everywhere and couldn't fin... | John Ruskin | Pliny | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Have done some Plato - some Pliny - looked for Genus Chara (in Freshwater basin of Paris) everywhere and couldn't fin... | John Ruskin | Alexis François Rio | De la Poesie chretienne dans son principle, dans sa matiere at dans ses formes | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read a little Italian. Finished first vol. Waagen.' | John Ruskin | Gustav Friedrich Waagen | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read a little Italian. Finished first vol. Waagen.' | John Ruskin | [unknown] | [Italian] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Got a good deal out of Waagen, but he is an intolerable fool - good authority only in matters of tradition.' | John Ruskin | Gustav Friedrich Waagen | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'read some Greek' | John Ruskin | [unknown] | [Greek] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'while in the "Artist and Amateur" I see a series of essays on beauty commenced, which seem as if they would anticipat... | John Ruskin | E.V. Rippingille [ed.] | Artist's and Amateur's Magazine | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'Blackguardly letter in "Art Union", and interesting one in Rippingille's thing, to be answered; the last at great len... | John Ruskin | E.V. Rippingille [ed.] | Artist's and Amateur's Magazine | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'Blackguardly letter in "Art Union", and interesting one in Rippingille's thing, to be answered; the last at great len... | John Ruskin | [unknown] | Art Union | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'a little reading of Southey's "Colloquies" with which I was much pleased.' | John Ruskin | Robert Southey | Sir Thomas More; or Colloquies on the Progress and Prospects of Society | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'find Rippingille all wrong in his "Essay on Beauty": shall have the field all open. All comfortable.' | John Ruskin | E.V. Rippingille | Artist's and Amateur's Magazine | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read a little "Faery Queene" also, but it is heavy, though with sweet lines occasionally.' | John Ruskin | Edmund Spenser | Faerie Queene, The | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read first number of Owen's "mammalia" in the evening.' | John Ruskin | Richard Owen | Fossil Mammalia | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read some Sir Joshua" | John Ruskin | Sir Joshua Reynolds | The Works of Sir Joshua Reynolds | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read some of "Clouds".' | John Ruskin | Aristophanes | Clouds, The | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Curious account in the "Witness" of a rock, 8 tons in weight, being carried three hundred yards over sand by ice.' | John Ruskin | [unknown] | Witness | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'Dull walk under cloudy sky; learned a few passages from "Clouds", as appropriate.' | John Ruskin | Aristophanes | Clouds, The | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read some of Spencer in the morning, and learned it, then some of Hooker.' | John Ruskin | Edmund Spenser [?] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read some of Spencer in the morning, and learned it, then some of Hooker.' | John Ruskin | Richard Hooker [?] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'read a little Sir Joshua' | John Ruskin | Sir Joshua Reynolds | The Works of Sir Joshua Reynolds | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | I offer you my sincere & almost violent congratulations on 'C'. I have been greatly impressed by it. It held me thr... | Arnold Bennett | Maurice Baring | C | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Shower over the Breven as I returned (after sitting under a vast rock, rich with Alpine rose, reading Mr Ritchie's tr... | John Ruskin | J.S. Davenport | Edward Irving and the Catholic Apostolic Church | Print: tract |
| 1900-1945 | I have now read 'Tunnel Trench'. The copy which you kindly gave me got lost—I don’t know how, but I obtained ano... | Arnold Bennett | Hubert Griffith | Tunnel Trench | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Many thanks for so kindly sending me your book. Of course I read the essay on myself when it appeared in the Mercury... | Arnold Bennett | J.B. Priestley | Figures in Modern Literature | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have been reading Berkeley's paper, no. 55, in the "Guardian". There is this curious inconsistency in it, that sett... | John Ruskin | George [?] Berkeley | Guardian | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'I read, as I was sitting at the window, during the sunset of one of the most burning and brilliant days I remember ou... | John Ruskin | [unknown] | Guardian | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | Many thanks for so kindly sending me your book. Of course I read the essay on myself when it appeared in the 'Mercur... | Arnold Bennett | J.B. Priestley | | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'In the reading of the psalms this morning, I was struck by the 5th and 6th verses of V, where the abhorrence or contr... | John Ruskin | [n/a] | Bible (Psalms) | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I noticed in Dante today, the two lines, "quali dal vento &c." (Inferno, book 7th, 12) as curiously describing the mo... | John Ruskin | Dante Alighieri | Inferno | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Note the definition of a critic in "Guardian" No.103: "A man who on all occasions is more attentive to what is wantin... | John Ruskin | [unknown] | Guardian | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'I must interrupt myself to note the 86th paper in the "Guardian" useful to my chapter on penetrative imagination.' | John Ruskin | [unknown] | Guardian | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | I think the 'C.N.' is fine. It is bound to make you respected among those whose respect alone is a comfort in moments... | Arnold Bennett | Margaret Kennedy | The Constant Nymph | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Note the passage in the 93rd paper of "Guardian" respecting our admiration of the oder of motions of heavenly bodies,... | John Ruskin | [unknown] | Guardian | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read the 8th of Jerem this morning. Note the 7th verse very beautiful, comparing Isaiah i. 3. The ninth verse too imp... | John Ruskin | [n/a] | Bible (Jeremiah) | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | I venture to write a very few words about your book on me. It has given me great pleasure. . . . The book is incomp... | Arnold Bennett | L.G. Johnson | Arnold Bennett of the Five Towns | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I was struck this morning, in comparing the poems of George Herbert with those of Henry Vaughan, by the perfect ease ... | John Ruskin | George Herbert | [poems] | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'I was struck this morning, in comparing the poems of George Herbert with those of Henry Vaughan, by the perfect ease ... | John Ruskin | Henry Vaughan | [poems] | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read a pamphlet by the Revd. George Smith, lent me by Macdonald: "Hints for the times", true and useful, but a painfu... | John Ruskin | George Smith | Hints for the times | |
| 1900-1945 | I venture to write a very few words about your book on me. It has given me great pleasure. . . . The book is incomp... | Arnold Bennett | Frederick Joseph Harvey Darton | Arnold Bennett | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I was struck today by the "minding himself to go afoot" in Acts xx. 13. It is interesting to see the Apostle, after l... | John Ruskin | [n/a] | Bible (Acts) | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | I do not know sufficient about Villiers de l’Isle Adam to advise you. His best known book is 'L’Eve Future'. I h... | Arnold Bennett | Philippe-August Villiers de L'Isle Adam | L'Eve Future | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I staid in and read Byron' | John Ruskin | George Gordon, Lord Byron | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have been abstracting the Book of Revelations. I was especially struck with the general appellation of the System o... | John Ruskin | [n/a] | Bible (Revelations) | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I never noticed the 45th of Jeremiah till today - it is singularly appicable to all ambitious dreaming at this time. ... | John Ruskin | [n/a] | Bible (Jeremiah) | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I read today in Galignani part of an acrimonious and of what I fear will become an indecent controversy between the A... | John Ruskin | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'As I opened the Bible today I was peculiarly struck with the well known, never enough known, passage, Prov. II. 3, 4:... | John Ruskin | [n/a] | Bible (Proverbs) | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Note in Psalm 27th, David's claim to spend all his life in the "house of the Lord" v.4 and following expressions abou... | John Ruskin | [n/a] | Bible (Psalms) | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'The more I read the psalms, the more it seems to me that Heathen, in such passages as Ps. XLVI. 6, 10, XLIII. 14, II.... | John Ruskin | [n/a] | Bible (Psalms) | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Anniversary of martyrdom of Ridley and Latimer. Curiously enough, I read J.C. Ryle's lecture on them in the morning, ... | John Ruskin | John Charles Ryle | [unknown] | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'First Sunday in new lodgings in Albyn place. Effie in bed. I read thoughtfully part of 1st Genesis, beginning a new c... | John Ruskin | [n/a] | Bible (Genesis) | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Glanced today through the life and diary of David Scott, a Scotch painter: a poor bravura creature, one of the Greek ... | John Ruskin | William Bell Scott | [memoir David Scott] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Confused about the various phrases: The Man, Gen. III. 24. Adam, and Ish, Isha, II. 23. What is the meaning of Abel?' | John Ruskin | [n/a] | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Restoration of Israel. Note 31st and 32nd Jeremiah: clear, unmistakeable, beautiful.' | John Ruskin | [n/a] | Bible (Jeremiah) | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'read some of Wilkinson's "Egypt".' | John Ruskin | Sir John Gardner Wilkinson | Egypt | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read a little of Bede's accounts of miracles of St Oswald, and much vexed and disgusted.' | John Ruskin | St Bede | An Ecclesiastical History of the English People | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Note today in Bible reading the charge to Abraham, "Walk before me, and be thou perfect". It means "sincere" in margi... | John Ruskin | [n/a] | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'It is curious that the first book I took up here, after my new testament, was the "Christian Year", and it opened at ... | John Ruskin | [n/a] | Christian Year | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read Channing on Napoleon' | John Ruskin | W.E. Channing | Remarks on the Character of Napoleon Bonaparte | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read "La dame aux cheveux gris" all the evening to my mother.' | John Ruskin | Henriette Cabrieres | La dame aux cheveux gris | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Wet all day. Read Andersen's tales. There is a strange mingling of false sentiment - unchildlike - with their delicat... | John Ruskin | Hans Christen Andersen | [tales] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Nothing much learned today except, by glance at the "Journal pour tous", the fact ascertained that French as well as ... | John Ruskin | [unknown] | Journal pour tous | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Reading "La Petite Fadette" all day, and able to think of nothing else. Nothing learned today but the finish and pass... | John Ruskin | George Sand | La Petite Fadette | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Reading "Le peche de M. Antoine", diluted and romantic; not good.' | John Ruskin | George Sand | Le peche de M. Antoine | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Nothing but going to the Louvre and reading George Sand. Note in the "Peche" first, Emile and Carpenter lying when it... | John Ruskin | George Sand | Le peche de M. Antoine | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Reading "Francois le Champi" all day to my mother; a beautiful tale. These three women, Madeline, Fanchon Fadette and... | John Ruskin | George Sand | Francois le Champi | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Orange dawn through clouds. Opened Bible at Isaiah XXXVII. 30.' | John Ruskin | [n/a] | Bible (Isaiah) | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | '4th Book of Plato's "Republic" at beginning, p. 420.' | John Ruskin | Plato | Republic | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'See in "Morning Post" of October 4th, 61, page 3, 3rd column, last article, results of Christianity and "Mr Close of ... | John Ruskin | [n/a] | Morning Post | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'Begin "Memorabilia" again. Read to p. 6.' | John Ruskin | Xenophon | Memorabilia | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'To p. 12 of "Memorabilia".' | John Ruskin | Xenophon | Memorabilia | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Observe accident in "Times" of June 17th, caused by caterpillar, Bombyx processionea of Reaumur.' | John Ruskin | [n/a] | The Times | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read Jeremiah I. in the morning, long since I looked in the Bible; the fresh eye and ear very useful.' | John Ruskin | [n/a] | Bible (Jeremiah) | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read ".'Dame aux Camelias" | John Ruskin | Alexandre ` Dumas | La Dame aux Camélias | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Morning, note Beza's blasphemous address to Henry IV: "O Dieu, laisse aller tone serviteur en paix, car mes yeux avan... | John Ruskin | Gaullieur | Histoire de Geneve | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Begin "Republic" for conclusive work' | John Ruskin | Plato | Republic | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Go on with "Republic", Book 1.' | John Ruskin | Plato | Republic | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Working on 8th and 3rd Books only, examining Plato's fearful judgement on invalids.' | John Ruskin | Plato | Republic | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read to end of p. 269.' | John Ruskin | Plato | Republic | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read to end of p. 270.' | John Ruskin | Plato | Republic | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read only Geology' | John Ruskin | [unknown] | [geology] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read Geology ... and Plato to p. 281. In which note that one great point is got at, respecting justice, that all "hur... | John Ruskin | [unknown] | [geology] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read Geology ... and Plato to p. 281. In which note that one great point is got at, respecting justice, that all "hur... | John Ruskin | Plato | Republic | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read geology' | John Ruskin | [unknown] | [geology] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read to children under tree.' | John Ruskin | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Note that the Prussians have to black their helmets and take off their epaulettes to prepare for battle "with lacquer... | John Ruskin | [n/a] | Daily Telegraph | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read "Anne Babi".' | John Ruskin | Jeremias Gotthelf | Anne Babi | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Take Wordsworth's lines, page 189, of Saturn and his system, for type of his wide, thoughtful, as opposed to Tennyson... | John Ruskin | William Wordsworth | The Excursion | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'In "Telegraph" of 31st June [sic] is a notice of the poisonous water of the pumps of London.' | John Ruskin | [n/a] | Telegraph | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read "Anne Babi" to my mother in evening' | John Ruskin | Jeremias Gotthelf | Anne Babi | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Mama up again, read nice bits of "Anne Babi" to her after dinner' | John Ruskin | Jeremias Gotthelf | Anne Babi | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Today began Plato's "Laws" again at breakfast and felt a little brighter.' | John Ruskin | Plato | Laws | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read an account of Dorothea Trudel's mother to my mother.' | John Ruskin | anon | Dorothea Trudel | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read Livy's account of Evander again I. 7. Remember "auctoritate magis quam imperio" and his mother Carmenta.' | John Ruskin | Livy | History of Rome | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Pleasant evening reading about Pultowa and Mazeppa to my mother.' | John Ruskin | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read "Bleak House" in evening' | John Ruskin | Charles Dickens | Bleak House | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I open psalter in evening at "respice de caelo et vide, et visita vineam istam".' | John Ruskin | [n/a] | Psalter | Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Finished "Henry the Fourth", 1st part.' | John Ruskin | William Shakespeare | Henry IV Part I | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read "Lady of Glynne" in evening.' | John Ruskin | Julia Cecilia Stretton | Lady of Glynne | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'finished "Lady of Glynne".' | John Ruskin | Julia Cecilia Stretton | Lady of Glynne | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Pleasant tea and "Nigel", but I much depressed all the afternoon.' | John Ruskin | Sir Walter Scott | Fortunes of Nigel | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read Epistle and Gospel for first Sunday in Lent, in evening. Note end of Gospel.' | John Ruskin | [n/a] | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Chess and "Quentin Durward".' | John Ruskin | Sir Walter Scott | Quentin Durward | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read "There shall meet you a man bearing a pitcher of water" &c. to "These make ready".' | John Ruskin | [n/a] | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Finished "Quentin Durward"' | John Ruskin | Sir Walter Scott | Quentin Durward | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Began "Tour de Jacob" again.' | John Ruskin | Jeremias Gotthelf | Tour de Jacob | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read 61st Psalm' | John Ruskin | [n/a] | Bible (Psalms) | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read 10th Psalm in Rose's book this morning; planned commentary on it.' | John Ruskin | [unknown] | [unknown] | Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | '37th Psalm in evening!' | John Ruskin | [n/a] | Bible (Psalms) | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read "Ivanhoe" to end in evening.' | John Ruskin | Sir Walter Scott | Ivanhoe | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read Jean Ingelow' | John Ruskin | Jean Ingelow | [poems?] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Strangely, instead of Plato, took up "Lady Audley's Secret" this morning.' | John Ruskin | Mary Elizabeth Braddon | Lady Audley's Secret | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read "All they garmets smell of myrrh, aloes and cassia" out of my book on top of the highest.' | John Ruskin | [n/a] | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Intending to read the parallel rendering of this verse in Bible psalms, I opened at Isaiah XXXIII, 17. My old Bible o... | John Ruskin | [n/a] | Bible (Isaiah) | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'The piece for yesterday was Ps. XLV. 8-12 with Isaiah XXXIII. 15-22. The piece for today Ps. XLV. 13 to end.' | John Ruskin | [n/a] | Bible (Psalms) | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read the gist of "Ecce Homo".' | John Ruskin | J.R. Seeley | Ecce Homo | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | I do not know sufficient about Villiers de l’Isle Adam to advise you. His best known book is 'L’Eve Future'. I h... | Arnold Bennett | Philippe-August Villiers de L'Isle Adam | L'Eve Future | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | I do not know sufficient about Villiers de l’Isle Adam to advise you. His best known book is 'L’Eve Future'. I h... | Arnold Bennett | Philippe-August Villiers de L'Isle Adam | Contes Cruels | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Dream of being at court of Louis XV, in consequence of reading "Ormond".' | John Ruskin | Maria Edgeworth | Ormond | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | I do not know sufficient about Villiers de l’Isle Adam to advise you. His best known book is 'L’Eve Future'. I h... | Arnold Bennett | Philippe-August Villiers de L'Isle Adam | Nouveaux Contes Cruels | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Alone with my mother in evening; read life of Byron' | John Ruskin | [unknown] | [life of Lord Byron] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Take Mr Lillyvick's "I don't think nothink at all of that langwidge" as an example of people's having "a right to the... | John Ruskin | Charles Dickens | Nicholas Nickleby | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Reading, Rusch all in forenoon' | John Ruskin | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Looked at Mrs Browning's "last poems" in evening; not so good as I thought, depressing me with doubts of my own judge... | John Ruskin | Elizabeth Barret Browning | [poems] | Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read 19th Proverbs and 10th Ecclesiasticus.' | John Ruskin | [n/a] | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read geology at my breakfast with my two loveliest flint-chalcedonies shining in the sun.' | John Ruskin | [unknown] | [geology] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read of Charles of Anjou and Manfred.' | John Ruskin | [unknown] | [history] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Then rested, and read Topffer's "Nouvelles Genevoises" - excellent talk but no "nouvelles".' | John Ruskin | Topffer | Nouvelles Genevoises | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I hardly know how the Monday past, chiefly in reading George Sand's "Madamoiselle de Merquem", and listening to noise... | John Ruskin | George Sand | Mademoiselle de Merquem | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'This morning, reading "Lady of Glynne".' | John Ruskin | Julia Cecilia Stretton | Lady of Glynne | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read old poems of 1848. I have gained something in these twenty-two years.' | John Ruskin | [unknown] | [poems] | Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | '"Midsummer Night's Dream" in evening' | John Ruskin | William Shakespeare | Midsummer Night's Dream | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read of Empress Theodora' | John Ruskin | [unknown] | [history] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'read economy of 12th century' | John Ruskin | [unknown] | [history] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Opened last night at 1st Chron. XVII. 23 and this morning at the 17th psalm. Then read my own day psalms in chapel. | John Ruskin | [n/a] | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Opened last night at 1st Chron. XVII. 23 and this morning at the 17th psalm. Then read my own day psalms in chapel. | John Ruskin | [n/a] | Bible (Psalms) | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I open at, and read, the 39th of Ezekiel, and secondly, by equal chance, at the 16th psalm.' | John Ruskin | [n/a] | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Looking back to my Father's diary - of which I have just 40 pages, which I shall page forthwith (and then dates of pa... | John Ruskin | [n/a] | Bible (Ezekiel) | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Looking back to my Father's diary - of which I have just 40 pages, which I shall page forthwith (and then dates of pa... | John Ruskin | John James Ruskin | diary | Manuscript: Codex |
| 1850-1899 | 'Opened 3rd of Tobit' | John Ruskin | [n/a] | Bible (Tobit) | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read 1st Chron. XVII and 17th Psalm.' | John Ruskin | [n/a] | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Took up Renan's "St Paul" as I was dressing, and read a little. A piece of epistle in smaller type caught my eye as I... | John Ruskin | Ernest Renan | St Paul | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Going to bed, I take up the Inn-table New Testament. It opens at "A little while and ye shall not see me, and again a... | John Ruskin | [n/a] | New Testament | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'And going to bed, after a little thinking over the Land question in "Fortnightly Review", got for my verse Isaiah XLI... | John Ruskin | [n/a] | Bible (Isaiah) | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'And going to bed, after a little thinking over the Land question in "Fortnightly Review", got for my verse Isaiah XLI... | John Ruskin | [n/a] | Fortnightly Review | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read the "Sir, come down ere my child die".' | John Ruskin | [n/a] | Bible (John) | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read Michael Angelo's "Pastoral".' | John Ruskin | Michael Angelo | Pastoral | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read chief part of Helps' "Conquerors of the New World".' | John Ruskin | Sir Arthur Helps | Conquerors of the New World | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Advertisement on Rocks of Hudson: "Use Binninger's Old London Dock Gin".' | John Ruskin | [n/a] | [advertisement] | Print: Advertisement |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read in Luke XXII, the last supper' | John Ruskin | [n/a] | Bible (Luke) | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read my Father's note of flowers at Chartreuse. 21.' | John Ruskin | John James Ruskin | diary | Manuscript: Codex |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read my Father's note on St George. p. 26' | John Ruskin | John James Ruskin | diary | Manuscript: Codex |
| 1850-1899 | 'Opened at Ecclesiasticus L. 17, reading on to 18, and, by chance, 8' | John Ruskin | [n/a] | Bible (Ecclesiastes) | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Yesterday after reading "Romance of Rose" thought much of the destruction of all my higher power of sentiment by late... | John Ruskin | [unknown] | Roman de la rose [?] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Began "Friedrich" to purpose and worked well.' | John Ruskin | Thomas Carlyle | History of Friedrich II of Prussia OR Frederick the Great | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Yesterday hard at "Friedrich", then walk to Tilberthwaite ravine with Joan and Arthur' | John Ruskin | Thomas Carlyle | History of Friedrich II of Prussia OR Frederick the Great | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Yesterday Mr Shields came and disturbed me, but I was glad to see him. Did some "Frederick" in spite' | John Ruskin | Thomas Carlyle | History of Friedrich II of Prussia OR Frederick the Great | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read Rouen missal with advantage' | John Ruskin | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Yesterday ... Worked at "Frederick".' | John Ruskin | Thomas Carlyle | History of Friedrich II of Prussia OR Frederick the Great | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Yesterday hard work on "Frederick"' | John Ruskin | Thomas Carlyle | History of Friedrich II of Prussia OR Frederick the Great | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read glacier theory and got interested in old things' | John Ruskin | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | '"Friedrich".' | John Ruskin | Thomas Carlyle | History of Friedrich II of Prussia OR Frederick the Great | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Foster's essays.' | John Ruskin | John Foster | [essays] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Worked a little on "Romance of Rose"' | John Ruskin | [unknown] | Roman de la rose [?] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Now my sweet Francis I have read your book in this Alpine district. . . . There is not, really, much fault to be fou... | Arnold Bennett | Francis Hackett | That Nice Young Couple | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | I enclose 2 brief notes about your 2 stories. There is not the slightest doubt in my mind that you can produce excell... | Arnold Bennett | Edward Knoblock | stories [unidentified] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | I noticed strangely few misprints in 'C.A.’s Pa'. though I had my malicious eye open for them. | Arnold Bennett | H. G. Wells | Christina Alberta's Father | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | I return the typescript of your book. ['Politicians and the Press'] You asked me to tell you whether I thought it was... | Arnold Bennett | Max Beaverbrook | Politicians and the Press | Manuscript: typescript |
| 1900-1945 | I have new books by Maurice Baring, Sylvia Lynd, and W Gerhardi lying unread and they are all coming to dinner on the ... | Arnold Bennett | | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | I’ve finished Baring’s 'Cat’s Cradle'. 770 large pages. Well, it isn’t so bad, though highly curious in tech... | Arnold Bennett | Maurice Baring | Cat's Cradle | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | I’ve finished Baring’s 'Cat’s Cradle'. 770 large pages. Well, it isn’t so bad, though highly curious in tech... | Arnold Bennett | Stendhal | Promenades dans Rome | 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 ... | Allan Goadby | Thomas Hood | Faithless Nelly Gray: A Pathetic Ballad | 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 ... | Allan Goadby | | Demon Sleep | 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 ... | Helen Rawlings | Thomas Moore | Lalla Rookh | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'At a meeting held at Grove House on Feb. 17 a discussion on the Soul of a People was opened by a paper by C. E. Stans... | Blanche Ridges | Edwin Arnold | Light of Asia | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'On board the steamer between Marseilles and Malta, besides reading "Hypatia", which was "too highly coloured" for his... | Arthur Penrhyn Stanley | Charles Kingsley | Hypatia | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'On board the steamer between Marseilles and Malta, besides reading "Hypatia", which was "too highly coloured" for his... | Arthur Penrhyn Stanley | Voltaire [pseud.] | Tancred | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'there is unlimited room for reading between these well-known and monotonous banks. The Prince set his mind on my read... | Arthur Penrhyn Stanley | Mrs Henry Wood | East Lynne | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Karnak which I chose for our first day has thoroughly answered... The Prince had already suggested what had already o... | Arthur Penrhyn Stanley | [n/a] | Psalms | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Everything seems to have been designed to develop the serious fold in her nature. At ten, the poor infant was reading... | Anne Isabella Milbanke | Tobias Smollett | History | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'In Seaham village lived a poet, "an unfortunate child of Genius," -- one Joseph Blacket, a cobbler's son, whom [Anne ... | Anne Isabella Milbanke | Joseph Blacket | poetry | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'In 1809 [Anne Isabella Milbanke] wrote the Lines supposed to be spoken at the Grave of Dermody. It is one of the earl... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Anne Isabella Milbanke | 'Lines Supposed to be Spoken at the Grave of Dermody' and other verses | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'Poetry and shoemaking were part of the daily round [for the young Anne Isabella Milbanke]; a grander ambition was tak... | Anne Isabella Milbanke | Horace | | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Glad to get back to my Testament' | John Ruskin | [n/a] | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I looked for this old diary and read by chance the entry on my birthday, 1873, with my father's "Apocrypha" to refer ... | John Ruskin | John Ruskin | diary | Manuscript: Codex |
| 1850-1899 | 'My week melting away fast, wholly in black cloud and east wind. But the verse for the 25th, in my brown book, did me ... | John Ruskin | [n/a] | [Biblical verse] | Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Yesterday a good day; finding money in drawers, and liking my drawings, and getting comfort out of letters and above ... | John Ruskin | [n/a] | [Biblical verses] | Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Morning text bad - "be not high-minded": the last text in the world for me, always ashamed of myself. But texts can't... | John Ruskin | [n/a] | [Biblical verses] | Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Today, much helped by my brown book' | John Ruskin | [n/a] | [Biblical verses] | Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Find invaluable passage of Voltaire on Lucifer and Liberty; article in dictionary on "Abus des mots". The Lucifer is ... | John Ruskin | Voltaire [pseud.] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Drew a little, and read a French novel, and am singularly better in health.' | John Ruskin | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read 1st of Zephaniah. I must now re-read my Bible, with my new mind.' | John Ruskin | [n/a] | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read Amos V and by Fors! Ecclesiasticus XXXIX.' | John Ruskin | [n/a] | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read end of Charles Dickens' "American Readings, &c; dreadful beyond words.' | John Ruskin | Charles Dickens | American Notes | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read Jeremiah XV. Note 18th verse.' | John Ruskin | [n/a] | Bible (Jeremiah) | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Yet I find wonderful things in Bible' | John Ruskin | [n/a] | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Re-read 1st of Michah carefully. The first nine verses are intelligible. Samaria, the capital, taken as representing ... | John Ruskin | [n/a] | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Chanced upon Isaiah 7th, 5, and read the chapter carefully' | John Ruskin | [n/a] | Bible (Isaiah) | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read from 8th to 12th of the 103rd Psalm and thought how true they would seem to me, if read in their precise negative' | John Ruskin | [n/a] | Bible (Psalms) | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read first of Zenphaniah. Leaping on threshold, what?' | John Ruskin | [n/a] | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'On this I open at 42nd Psalm - well - it may be so' | John Ruskin | [n/a] | Bible (Psalms) | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Chanced on Jeremiah IV. 23. The Uncreation by folly, of what had been created by wisdom' | John Ruskin | [n/a] | Bible (Jeremiah) | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Came on Isaiah XXI, and was puzzled with it' | John Ruskin | [n/a] | Bible (Isaiah) | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read Jeremiah IX. Compare entry on 18th' | John Ruskin | [n/a] | Bible (Jeremiah) | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | I read C.C. ['Cat's Cradle'] very carefully in a fortnight: about 50 pp. a day. It held me all right, though not quit... | Arnold Bennett | Maurice Baring | Cat's Cradle | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | I have now read 'Mr Moffat'. If the author is very young I regard it as a pretty sound book. Fundamentally true throu... | Arnold Bennett | Chester Francis Cobb | Mr Moffat | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read half of first Jeremiah. What does he mean by: "I am a child"?' | John Ruskin | [n/a] | Bible (Jeremiah) | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Thanks for your letter & 'The Polyglots'. I regret not to be able to agree with you as to the latter. I have read i... | Arnold Bennett | William Gerhardi | The Polyglots | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read story of Johanan the son of Kareah, Jerem. XLII, XLIII, XLIV.' | John Ruskin | [n/a] | Bible (Jeremiah) | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read first vision of Ezekiel.' | John Ruskin | [n/a] | Bible (Ezekiel) | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Then read 64th Isaiah.' | John Ruskin | [n/a] | Bible (Isaiah) | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read Lamentations IV. Compare 2nd verse with Isaiah LXIV. 8, and note that when God is the Potter, he can make gold o... | John Ruskin | [n/a] | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read piece of St John. "Before Abraham was, I am." The closing verse - "passing through the midst of them" - in its v... | John Ruskin | [n/a] | Bible (John) | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read the story of Asa - how intensely ill written and uselessly in Kings!' | John Ruskin | [n/a] | Bible (Kings) | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read pieces of the story of Jehoram and Ahaziah, the two sons of Ahab. Note that II Kings I. 17 would be entirely wro... | John Ruskin | [n/a] | Bible (Kings) | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Barrès is all right sometimes. The 'Jardin de Bérénice' is his best work. You ought to read Charles Louis Philipp... | Arnold Bennett | Maurice Barres | Jardin de Bérénice | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read the contingent promises to Solomon: conf. to Jeroboam. 1st Kings IX. 2, 4; XI. 38.' | John Ruskin | [n/a] | Bible (Kings) | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read 45th Isaiah. Recollect: "I have surnamed thee, though thou hast not known me", and conf. V. 13.' | John Ruskin | [n/a] | Bible (Isaiah) | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Barrès is all right sometimes. The 'Jardin de Bérénice' is his best work. You ought to read Charles Louis Philipp... | Arnold Bennett | Charles Louis Philippe | Bubu de Montparnasse | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read 27th Ecclesiasticus. Note V. 1, 2, 14, 15, 23, 24.' | John Ruskin | [n/a] | Bible (Ecclesiastes) | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Barrès is all right sometimes. The 'Jardin de Bérénice' is his best work. You ought to read Charles Louis Philipp... | Arnold Bennett | Roger Martin du Gard | Jean Barois | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Amos V. see vv. 10-11, 12, but note in it the special attack on the priesthood in Bethel and Gilgal. Compare ch. IV. ... | John Ruskin | [n/a] | Bible (Amos) | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Barrès is all right sometimes. The 'Jardin de Bérénice' is his best work. You ought to read Charles Louis Philipp... | Arnold Bennett | Colette | Chéri | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read the wonderful 51st of Jeremiah. Recollect vv. 5, 7, 17, 21-23, 63.' | John Ruskin | [n/a] | Bible (Jeremiah) | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read Wisdom of Solomon XV, XVI with great delight in this sunny, pure morning' | John Ruskin | [n/a] | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Psalm LI. 15; XVII. 1 and 15.' | John Ruskin | [n/a] | Bible (Psalms) | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Yesterday read 1st of Wisdom of Solomon.' | John Ruskin | [n/a] | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read chapter of Heliodorus.' | John Ruskin | Heliodorus | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Barrès is all right sometimes. The 'Jardin de Bérénice' is his best work. You ought to read Charles Louis Philipp... | Arnold Bennett | Anna Dostoevsky | Dostoevsky portrayed by his wife(?) | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read, by chance, Esdras II, VI, and read on to VIII. 48, 54.' | John Ruskin | [n/a] | Bible (Esdras) | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read II Esdras I to the marvellous clause of minor prophets.' | John Ruskin | [n/a] | Bible (Esdras) | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read II Esdras XIV to XV.' | John Ruskin | [n/a] | Bible (Esdras) | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'And the last verse I read, of my morning's reading, is Esdras II. XV. XVIII.' | John Ruskin | [n/a] | Bible (Esdras) | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | I have finished my novel . . . This is largely due to the exercises in 'The Culture of the Abdomen'. They are marve... | Arnold Bennett | F.A. Hornibrook | The Culture of the Abdomen | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | I have finished my novel . . . This is largely due to the exercises in 'The Culture of the Abdomen'. They are marve... | Arnold Bennett | | Eat and Grow Thin: The Mahdah Menus | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'read lessons and psalms for the day to her.' | John Ruskin | [n/a] | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'read a Dickens ghost story (the old nurse's) and so early to bed.' | John Ruskin | Charles Dickens | [ghost story] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | I’ve read 200 pp of 'Clissold'. Formless & wordy, I agree (introductory note foolish); but so far I think the book... | Arnold Bennett | H.G. Wells | The World of William Clissold | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Down after reading carefully and analysing a year of Scott's life (first at Ashtiel), to draw Francesca leaves.' | John Ruskin | [unknown] | [unknown] | Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Verse for today Esdras - no - Maccabees I. XIII. 30.' | John Ruskin | [n/a] | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Still in bed to breakfast, reading of Scott's early hours' | John Ruskin | [unknown] | [unknown] | Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | I’ve read 200 pp of 'Clissold'. Formless & wordy, I agree (introductory note foolish); but so far I think the book... | Arnold Bennett | John Galsworthy | The Silver Spoon | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read 45th Isaiah again, which strikes hard, for I have been striving with my Maker, this last month, sullenly' | John Ruskin | [n/a] | Bible (Isaiah) | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read 15th Esdras again, and 24th Ezekiel carefully' | John Ruskin | [n/a] | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read Moschele's life in bed to breakfast, delicious, and Part of II Esdras I.' | John Ruskin | [n/a] | Bible (Esdras) | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read Moschele's life in bed to breakfast, delicious, and Part of II Esdras I.' | John Ruskin | [unknown] | [Moschele's life] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'recovered in evening greatly, reading Scott's life and seeing Turner's Okehampton more beautiful than ever' | John Ruskin | [unknown] | [unknown] | Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read Ecclesiasticus XXVI - how lovely.' | John Ruskin | [n/a] | Bible (Ecclesiastes) | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | I have never thought very well of Bunin. I say this with the greatest respect for your opinion, and I admit that you ... | Arnold Bennett | Ivan Alexeyevich Bunin | The Gentleman from San Francisco | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Compare Wisdom of Solomon, of Egyptians, Ch. XVII.' | John Ruskin | [n/a] | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read diary of spring 1873 - what a change!' | John Ruskin | John Ruskin | diary | Manuscript: Codex |
| 1850-1899 | 'Come upon Wisdom, Ecclesiasticus II. 1-6.' | John Ruskin | [n/a] | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | I have never thought very well of Bunin. I say this with the greatest respect for your opinion, and I admit that you ... | Arnold Bennett | Ivan Alexeyevich Bunin | The Village | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Came on Ecclesiasticus XXIV, and noted references at p. 89 above, with which conf. Wisdom VII. 22 &C. and "The Wisdom... | John Ruskin | [n/a] | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read entry in this journal for 8th and 9th September!' | John Ruskin | John Ruskin | diary | Manuscript: Codex |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read again the lines p. 45 of last diary (Palmero book)' | John Ruskin | John Ruskin | diary | Manuscript: Codex |
| 1850-1899 | 'Today the morning psalms very good for me. 1st Collect. p. 83. Lincoln Psalter.' | John Ruskin | [n/a] | Psalter | Manuscript: Codex, editor's note: an illuminated manuscript belonging to Ruskin |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read, by chance, looking for Botany, the entry of 12th June last year - the trials of the just and scourges of the Si... | John Ruskin | John Ruskin | diary | Manuscript: Codex |
| 1850-1899 | 'For National debt read "Munera" page 32. Read the first statement of the principles of currency, "Munera" Chap. III 6... | John Ruskin | [unknown] | Munera | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Be not vexed that I have only just read 'Akhnaton'. Of late months I have had so much in the way of absolutely impera... | Arnold Bennett | Adelaide Philpotts | Akhnaton | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read Smith's "Wealth of Nations" in evening: the most naive assumption of Nature that ever was' | John Ruskin | Adam Smith | An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read IX of Book of Wisdom today' | John Ruskin | [n/a] | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'At "Rip Van Winkle" in evening, and much enjoyed it' | John Ruskin | Washington Irving | Rip Van Winkle | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I read Genesis XLVIII for beginning of "Life of Moses"' | John Ruskin | [n/a] | Bible (Genesis) | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read part of Abbot Samson in evening. The pilgrimage to Rome!' | John Ruskin | Thomas Carlyle | Past and Present | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'In afternoon, the trance-teaching, and the reading of "Marmion" with companions...' | John Ruskin | Sir Walter Scott | Marmion | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Sound sleep after walk and long reading of "Old Mortality".' | John Ruskin | Sir Walter Scott | Old Mortality | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | I have just written an introduction to a posthumous work of George Sturt’s (who generally wrote under the name of Ge... | Arnold Bennett | George Sturt | A Small Boy in the Sixties | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | I received your book some time ago, from the publishers. My life is made terrible by my 'Evening Standard' article. ... | Arnold Bennett | Louis Golding | Day of Atonement | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | I have read your novel, and as you were kind enough to send it to me, I hope you will not mind me giving my opinion of... | Arnold Bennett | J.B. Priestley | Benighted | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | I have read your novel, and as you were kind enough to send it to me, I hope you will not mind me giving my opinion of... | Arnold Bennett | J.B. Priestley | Adam in Moonshine | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Mrs Ridges followed with an address on Augustine Birrells Essays illustrated by copious illustrations selected from t... | Blanche Ridges | Blanche Ridges | [paper on Augustine Birrell's Essays] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'Mrs Ridges followed with an address on Augustine Birrells Essays illustrated by copious illustrations selected from t... | Blanche Ridges | Augustine Birrell | Essays About Men, Women And Books | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'A discussion of considerable interest took place on Rowntrees Poverty. Doubt was thrown by Mr Ridges and others upon ... | John Ridges | Benjamin Seebohm Rowntree | Poverty, A Study of Town Life | 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... | Florence Reynolds | Edmund Spenser | Faerie Queene | 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... | Henry Marriage Wallis | Edmund Spenser | Faerie Queene | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The meeting at Ingleside on April 29 1904 was devoted to the life & works of Emerson. Mrs Ridges read a paper on his ... | Blanche Ridges | Blanche Ridges | [paper on Emerson] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Yesterday a very happy Sunday, drawing a snailshell and with sweet evening home service and music, and reading Carlyl... | John Ruskin | Thomas Carlyle | History of Friedrich II of Prussia OR Frederick the Great | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Opened my father's Bible at the blessing of Aaron. Numbers VI. 26.' | John Ruskin | [n/a] | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Miss Blackwell's "Spiritism" horrible, like waking nightmare, read before going to bed.' | John Ruskin | Allan Kardec [pseud.] | Experimental Spritism | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read Wisdom of Solomon, Ch. IX: a little comforting' | John Ruskin | [n/a] | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Also the book of Numbers is woeful reading' | John Ruskin | [n/a] | Bible (Numbers) | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Yesterday all day at Lombardic Psalter. My book continually opening at p.98 rebukes me for being faint-hearted.' | John Ruskin | [n/a] | Psalter | Manuscript: Codex |
| 1850-1899 | 'Recovered from fit of quite cowardly despair by Habakkuk III. 16 to end; that chapter and most such are incomparably ... | John Ruskin | [n/a] | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read my Aosta letter and 104th Psalm in Vulgate - the geology of it quite perfect' | John Ruskin | [n/a] | Bible (Psalms) | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read, in the Hotel French Testament, Mark VIII. 33 to end' | John Ruskin | [n/a] | Bible (Mark) | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read Mark VIII. 33 to end again.' | John Ruskin | [n/a] | Bible (Mark) | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'finally concluding in reading a French novel' | John Ruskin | [unknown] | [French novel] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I was not going to open my mother's Bible to try Fors, but to read a Nativity; mechanically, looking at the Dome of t... | John Ruskin | [n/a] | Bible (Deuteronomy) | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Last night I was led to read "Expectans expectavi", and to understand it for the first time.' | John Ruskin | [unknown] | Expectans expectavi | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'read twelve chapters of "Mariegola"' | John Ruskin | [unknown] | Mariegola | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | '19th Psalm." | John Ruskin | [n/a] | Bible (Psalms) | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Work out Chap. VI of Corinthians' | John Ruskin | [n/a] | Bible (Corinthians) | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Eyes more weary than usual in reading a little by candlelight' | John Ruskin | [unknown] | [unknown] | Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'A grey, quiet morning. I up, lively enough: open at "Propterea benedixit te Deus in aeternum" and consider if really ... | John Ruskin | [n/a] | Bible (Psalms) | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I've been reading my general epistle of Jude in my old Bible' | John Ruskin | [n/a] | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Matthew XXIV, 45th, of All Rulers, giving "Meat", for next "Fors".' | John Ruskin | [n/a] | Bible (Matthew) | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read prayer of Daniel, Chap. IX: the most important of all prayers and prophecies in Old Testament. Of some consequen... | John Ruskin | [n/a] | Bible (Daniel) | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Terribly difficult bit of Plato' | John Ruskin | Plato | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | '"Frederick" reading in evening at once encouraging and dismal in the extreme.' | John Ruskin | Thomas Carlyle | History of Friedrich II of Prussia OR Frederick the Great | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'See noble passage on the greatest [Greek word], Plato, Laws, 42.' | John Ruskin | Plato | Laws | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read, fortunately, my St John's day extract, in "Ariadne", about dreams: helpful much again, now.' | John Ruskin | [unknown] | Ariadne | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read the 40th Psalm, with great hope I may take it to myself, led to it by an entry of 1st January' | John Ruskin | [n/a] | Bible (Psalms) | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I pretty well, and at Plato by 1/2 past six ... Plato, 117, of vain words &c., with the central laws read today, love... | John Ruskin | Plato | Laws | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Looked back to Plato on weaving, Laws V, p. 151.' | John Ruskin | Plato | Laws | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Greatly relieved in mind by resolving to stay, and reading former diary' | John Ruskin | John Ruskin | diary | Manuscript: Codex |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read 14th of Romans, perceiving clearly for the first time how the narrowness of St Paul's business continually misle... | John Ruskin | [n/a] | Bible (Romans) | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'read, this morning, pp. 15 to 18 of Broadlands book with great comfort.' | John Ruskin | John Ruskin | diary | Manuscript: Codex |
| 1850-1899 | 'At George Sand's "Marquise de Villemer", in evening, and enjoyed it.' | John Ruskin | George Sand | Marquise de Villemer | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read Ezekiel 34th' | John Ruskin | [n/a] | Bible (Ezekiel) | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read Genesis XXXI, noting infinite wonder and absurdity of Rachel's speech, V. 15. Same in Vulgate.' | John Ruskin | [n/a] | Bible (Genesis) | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'And now, thinking of the mischief done to my own life and how ti many thousand thousand, by dark desire, I open my fi... | John Ruskin | [n/a] | Bible (Corinthians) | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Today I began my Plato again, properly, at page 409, after an effort failing at p. 407.' | John Ruskin | Plato | Laws | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Yesterday was a culmination of all mischief, finding I had lost (temporarily, may the Fates and Fors'es grant) Sir Wa... | John Ruskin | John Ruskin | [notes] | Manuscript: Codex |
| 1850-1899 | 'In reading Horace at breakfast, planned the form in which to gather my work on him' | John Ruskin | Horace | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read this morning my entries early in 1877.' | John Ruskin | John Ruskin | diary | Manuscript: Codex |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read also Cardinal Wiseman on Chartres and the Chemise - very wonderful and delightful.' | John Ruskin | Cardinal Wiseman | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'This morning I have great pleasure in reading "Deucalion" before coffee' | John Ruskin | John Ruskin | Deucalion | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Opened, after writing this - meaning to take up "Deucalion", book took up Bible instead - at Job XI. 16, and read all... | John Ruskin | [n/a] | Bible (Job) | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Collingwood's poem, read last night, not without its meaning.' | John Ruskin | Cuthbert Collingwood | [poems] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read a bit of Ezra and referred to Haggai ii. 9: "In this place will I give peace".' | John Ruskin | [n/a] | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read in Machiavelli's "Florence" Cosmo de' Medici's sad saying before his death: keeping his eyes shut, his wife aski... | John Ruskin | Machiavelli | Florence | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read Hosea XII. 7-9' | John Ruskin | [n/a] | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Examined group of Psalms, 65 to 68.' | John Ruskin | [n/a] | Bible (Psalms) | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | Curiously threatening verses open for me just now in the Bible. I can still read my old one without spectacles. D.G. "... | John Ruskin | [n/a] | Bible (Corinthians) | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Slept well, and read grand book - "Darkness and Dawn" at coffee time.' | John Ruskin | anon | Darkness and Dawn: the peaceful birth of a new age | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Stayed in all yesterday in crashing rain, and was busy at something all day till 1 at night, except reading "World" o... | John Ruskin | [n/a] | World | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Stayed in all yesterday in crashing rain, and was busy at something all day till 1 at night, except reading "World" o... | John Ruskin | Octave Feuillet | La Petite Comtesse | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Stayed in all yesterday in crashing rain, and was busy at something all day till 1 at night, except reading "World" o... | John Ruskin | G. Baker | [Gladstone] | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'read 49th Psalm in 12th century psalter' | John Ruskin | [n/a] | Psalter | Manuscript: Codex |
| 1850-1899 | 'I up to coffee, reading "Omar Khayyam".' | John Ruskin | Edward Fitzgerald | Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Thunder, after reading "Natural History of Enthusiasm" and planning series of lectures.' | John Ruskin | Isaac Taylor | Natural History of Enthusiasm | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'read St Francis' Hymn of the Creatures to my infinite delight' | John Ruskin | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read Sir T. More in evening' | John Ruskin | Sir Thomas More | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'At Rose, reading "Roma Sotteranea".' | John Ruskin | [unknown] | Roma Sotternea | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I read Esdras II. 8 again with comfort and shame and wonder' | John Ruskin | [n/a] | Bible (Esdras) | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Paragraph in "Pall Mall Gazette" very pretty!' | John Ruskin | [n/a] | Pall Mall Gazette | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'Reading by gaslight at breakfast - unwholesome' | John Ruskin | [unknown] | [unknown] | Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Rest in room and discovered "History of Fair Rosamond".' | John Ruskin | anon | History of Fair Rosamond | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'A horribly faint despairing evening, giving up the ghost of myself in bed, and complicated by reading the horrible de... | John Ruskin | Charles Dickens | Dombey and Son | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read the end of Froude's "Carlyle" last night, thankful that in general I make the people about me happy.' | John Ruskin | Froude | Carlyle | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read "Vicar of Wakefield" and "Citizen of World" at coffee, and was sick of both.' | John Ruskin | Oliver Goldsmith | Vicar of Wakefield, The | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read "Vicar of Wakefield" and "Citizen of World" at coffee, and was sick of both.' | John Ruskin | Oliver Goldsmith | Citizen of the World, The | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Playing chess, and marbles, with myself, and reading "Nigel" to Lollie.' | John Ruskin | Sir Walter Scott | Fortunes of Nigel | Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Joan and I by ourselves in the evening played old tunes and read "Aladdin".' | John Ruskin | [unknown] | Aladdin | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read the story of Uzziah in the Bible. Curious that it says nothing of what the man was himself, except that his hear... | John Ruskin | [n/a] | Bible (Chronicles) | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Came on the grand Darwinian verse, just now, "Saying to a stock, thou art my father". Jeremiah II. 27' | John Ruskin | [n/a] | Bible (Jeremiah) | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read today the lovely 4-6 verses of Deuteronomy XXX.' | John Ruskin | [n/a] | Bible (Deuteronomy) | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Read "Wisdom hath builded her house, she hath hewn out her seven pillars".' | John Ruskin | [n/a] | Bible (Proverbs) | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Greatly rooted in displeasure with myself as I look over old diaries.' | John Ruskin | John Ruskin | diary | Manuscript: Codex |
| 1850-1899 | 'Slept well, though Joan teazing in evening playing with beads when I was reading.' | John Ruskin | [unknown] | [unknown] | Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Helped marvellously finding Wedderburn's entry in Vol. 3 of Saussure, and his cloud lightning on Col du Fours before ... | John Ruskin | Horace-Bénédicte de Saussure | Voyage dans les Alpes | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Helped marvellously finding Wedderburn's entry in Vol. 3 of Saussure, and his cloud lightning on Col du Fours before ... | John Ruskin | Andrea Alciati | Emblems | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'exciting discoveries of things in "Harry and Lucy" at coffee' | John Ruskin | Maria Edgeworth | Harry and Lucy | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'an inglorious misery in evening, over article of extinction of Bison in "Daily Telegraph".' | John Ruskin | [n/a] | Daily Telegraph | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'Reading death of Swiss (Carlyle "French Revolution") to girls (Clennie and Diddie).' | John Ruskin | Thomas Carlyle | French Revolution | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Awake from 1-4 last night, after reading battle of Vittoria, bits of "Life of Gustave Dore" and hearing of the two gi... | John Ruskin | Blanche Roosevelt | Life and Reminiscences of Gustave Dore | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'And I have just been reading poor Carlyle on last vol. of "Frederick".' | John Ruskin | Thomas Carlyle | History of Friedrich II of Prussia OR Frederick the Great | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'read 1st Peter with satisfaction as in old days' | John Ruskin | [n/a] | Bible (Peter) | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'rather enjoyed a bit of absurd French novel' | John Ruskin | [unknown] | [French novel] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'read, with understanding for the first time in my life, the first scene of "As you like it".' | John Ruskin | William Shakespeare | As you like it | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Yesterday dined quietly with Diddie and Clennie came down to dessert, and I read the "Abbot" in the evening to them.' | John Ruskin | Sir Walter Scott | Abbot, The | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I told Forster that I was prepared to stand absolutely for both the merits and the decency of the book.' [The Well o... | Arnold Bennett | Radclyffe Hall | The Well of Loneliness | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Wilde later said that it was his mother who inspired him to write verse [....] When his poems first appeared in magaz... | Speranza Wilde | Oscar Wilde | Magdalen Walks | Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'Thoroughgood’s notice of Wells’s book was deplorable. ['Mr Blettsworthy on Rampole Island']. For one thing the ... | Arnold Bennett | H. G. Wells | Mr. Blettsworthy on Rampole Island | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | I am told that in a book of Sir Chartres Biron there is a passage against book censorship. Can you give me the refere... | Arnold Bennett | Chartres Biron | Pious Opinions | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | On the conclusion of the 'Well of Loneliness' case, I propose to devote an article to it in the Evening Standard. I ... | Arnold Bennett | Radclyffe Hall | The Well of Loneliness | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | I have read 'To the Pure', in the American edition, and I brought it into an article for the Standard which I wrote an... | Arnold Bennett | Chartres Biron | To the Pure | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | I have read a lot of 'The Vatican Swindle' and also 'The School of Women'.
I see in the course of a year a larg... | Arnold Bennett | André Gide | The Vatican Swindle | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | I have read a lot of 'The Vatican Swindle' and also 'The School of Women'.
I see in the course of a year a larg... | Arnold Bennett | André Gide | The School of Women | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | I wish I could write short novels like your completely admirable 'L’Ecole des Femmes'. But I can’t. | Arnold Bennett | André Gide | L'Ecole des Femmes | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Thank you for your appreciative letter. I am glad to have it. I did not say that 'A High Wind' would be the best boo... | Arnold Bennett | Richard Hughes | A High Wind in Jamaica | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Thank you for your appreciative letter. I am glad to have it. I did not say that 'A High Wind' would be the best boo... | Arnold Bennett | John Cowper Powys | Wolf Solent | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Reading Berlioz’s 'Soirées de L’Orchestre' the other day I found that an opera on the Aztec subject was actually ... | Arnold Bennett | Hector Berlioz | Soirées de l'Orchestre | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | I am returning your Memoirs.
Technically they have practically no faults, except those of the typist. A few slips h... | Arnold Bennett | William Rothenstein | Men and Memoirs | Manuscript: typescript |
| 1900-1945 | I have now read your story. I return it herewith. I think that it is very well done. | Arnold Bennett | James Hanley | ?A Passion before Death | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'Moby Dick'. The present vogue of Hermann Melville is mainly due to two English novelists, Frank Swinnerton and mysel... | Arnold Bennett | Herman Melville | Moby Dick | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Moby Dick'. The present vogue of Hermann Melville is mainly due to two English novelists, Frank Swinnerton and mysel... | Arnold Bennett | Herman Melville | The Piazza Tales | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Moby Dick'. The present vogue of Hermann Melville is mainly due to two English novelists, Frank Swinnerton and mysel... | Arnold Bennett | Herman Melville | Pierre: or the Ambiguities | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Moby Dick'. The present vogue of Hermann Melville is mainly due to two English novelists, Frank Swinnerton and mysel... | Arnold Bennett | Herman Melville | Typee | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Moby Dick'. The present vogue of Hermann Melville is mainly due to two English novelists, Frank Swinnerton and mysel... | Arnold Bennett | Herman Melville | Omoo | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Moby Dick'. The present vogue of Hermann Melville is mainly due to two English novelists, Frank Swinnerton and mysel... | Arnold Bennett | George Meredith | Evan Harrington | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Moby Dick'. The present vogue of Hermann Melville is mainly due to two English novelists, Frank Swinnerton and mysel... | Arnold Bennett | George Meredith | Beauchamp's Career | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Moby Dick'. The present vogue of Hermann Melville is mainly due to two English novelists, Frank Swinnerton and mysel... | Arnold Bennett | Thomas Hardy | The Mayor of Casterbridge | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | A very fine book indeed, recently published, is Siegfried Sassoon’s 'Memoirs of an Infantry Officer'. I thought th... | Arnold Bennett | Siegfried Sassoon | Memoirs of an Infantry Officer | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | In the main, the reviews of I.P. [Imperial Palace] have been excellent. But it is curious that 2 out of 3 of Max’s... | Arnold Bennett | | Sunday Express | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | In the main, the reviews of I.P. [Imperial Palace] have been excellent. But it is curious that 2 out of 3 of Max’... | Arnold Bennett | Bruce Lockhart | Evening Standard | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | In the main, the reviews of I.P. [Imperial Palace] have been excellent. But it is curious that 2 out of 3 of Max’s... | Arnold Bennett | | Times Literary Supplement | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | In the main, the reviews of I.P. [Imperial Palace] have been excellent. But it is curious that 2 out of 3 of Max’s... | Arnold Bennett | W. Somerset Maugham | Cakes and Ale | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | In the main, the reviews of I.P. [Imperial Palace] have been excellent. But it is curious that 2 out of 3 of Max’s... | Arnold Bennett | D.H. Lawrence | The Virgin and the Gypsy | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | When you have read 'The Virgin and the Gipsy' you might get the volume of stories called 'The Woman who Rode Away' and... | Arnold Bennett | D.H. Lawrence | The Virgin and the Gypsy | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | When you have read 'The Virgin and the Gipsy' you might get the volume of stories called 'The Woman who Rode Away' and... | Arnold Bennett | D.H. Lawrence | The Virgin and the Gypsy | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | When you have read 'The Virgin and the Gipsy' you might get the volume of stories called 'The Woman who Rode Away' and... | Arnold Bennett | D.H. Lawrence | The Woman who Rode Away | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | When you have read 'The Virgin and the Gipsy' you might get the volume of stories called 'The Woman who Rode Away' and... | Arnold Bennett | Siegfried Sassoon | The Memoirs of an Infantry Officer | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | When you have read 'The Virgin and the Gipsy' you might get the volume of stories called 'The Woman who Rode Away' and... | Arnold Bennett | Siegfried Sassoon | The Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | When you have read 'The Virgin and the Gipsy' you might get the volume of stories called 'The Woman who Rode Away' and... | Arnold Bennett | D.H. Lawrence | The Rainbow | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Geo Meredith's Diana of the Crossways was the subject of the evening. H.M. Wallis read an essay on the work of Geo M... | Henry Marriage Wallis | George Meredith | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Geo Meredith's Diana of the Crossways was the subject of the evening. H.M. Wallis read an essay on the work of Geo M... | Henry Marriage Wallis | Henry Marriage Wallis | [paper on Meredith's works] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'Geo Meredith's Diana of the Crossways was the subject of the evening. H.M. Wallis read an essay on the work of Geo M... | Henry Marriage Wallis | George Meredith | [two poems] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'At a meeting held on March 20 1905 at the home of Edward Little at 33 Marlborough Avenue Tolstoi's Life & Works were ... | John Ridges | Leo Tolstoy | [extract from an unknown work] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Mrs Reynolds then read a paper entitled 'Cycling on the Arctic Circle' describing actual experiences of a friend'. | Florence Reynolds | Florence Reynolds | [paper entitled 'Cycling on the Arctic Circle' ] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'Mr Ridges read a paper on Napoleon & A. Rawlings one entitled an 'Argument for Peace'.' | John Ridges | John Ridges | [paper on Napoleon] | 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 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... | Helen Rawlings | John Keats | 'I stood tip-toe upon a little hill' | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Mrs Smith then read an interesting biography of Keats which was followed by a reading of "I stood tiptoe upon a littl... | Henry Marriage Wallis | John Keats | Isabella; or, The Pot of Basil | 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... | Blanche Ridges | John Keats | 'Ode to a Nightingale' | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'The only link of which [Byron] was at this time [1811-12] conscious between him and Miss [Anne Isabella] Milbanke was... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Joseph Blacket | poetry | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'Annabella was now [in 1812] reading Cowper's Iliad and annotating every second line; she was studying Alfieri with th... | Anne Isabella Milbanke | Homer | Iliad | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Annabella was now [in 1812] reading Cowper's Iliad and annotating every second line; she was studying Alfieri with th... | Anne Isabella Milbanke | Frances Burney | Evelina | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Annabella was now [in 1812] reading Cowper's Iliad and annotating every second line; she was studying Alfieri with th... | Anne Isabella Milbanke | William Wordsworth | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Annabella was now [in 1812] reading Cowper's Iliad and annotating every second line; she was studying Alfieri with th... | Anne Isabella Milbanke | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'The "Lakers," as Byron called them, were making themselves strongly felt [in 1812], and (at this moment) Southey most... | Anne Isabella Milbanke | Robert Southey | Madoc | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'She [Anne Isabella Milbanke] read enormously [...] A list of her books makes the unregenerate blood run cold, though ... | Anne Isabella Milbanke | Maria Edgeworth | novels | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'She [Anne Isabella Milbanke] read enormously [...] A list of her books makes the unregenerate blood run cold, though ... | Anne Isabella Milbanke | William Beckford | Vathek | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'She [Anne Isabella Milbanke] read enormously [...] A list of her books makes the unregenerate blood run cold, though ... | Anne Isabella Milbanke | George Gordon Lord Byron | Childe Harold's Pilgrimage | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'She [Anne Isabella Milbanke] read enormously [...] A list of her books makes the unregenerate blood run cold, though ... | Anne Isabella Milbanke | Edmund Spenser | The Faerie Queene | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'To Caroline Lamb, Queen of the Drawing-Rooms, a very early copy of Childe Harold was lent by Samuel Rogers [...] Inst... | Lady Caroline Lamb | George Gordon Lord Byron | Childe Harold's Pilgrimage | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'On March 15 [1812] [...] [Anne Isabella Milbanke] dined at Lady Melbourne's [...] [William Lamb] may have been genuin... | Anne Isabella Milbanke | George Gordon Lord Byron | Childe Harold's Pilgrimage (cantos I and II) | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | '[Anne Isabella Milbanke] read a great deal [during season of 1813], among her books being one called Pride and Prejud... | Anne Isabella Milbanke | Jane Austen | Pride and Prejudice | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Annabella had [...] written to her aunt [Lady Melbourne; during autumn 1813], after having read the enlarged edition... | Anne Isabella Milbanke | George Gordon Lord Byron | The Giaour | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'At present [August 1814] she [Anne Isabella Milbanke] was reading Sismondi's Italian Republics. And she had read Lara.' | Anne Isabella Milbanke | George Gordon Lord Byron | Lara | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'At present [August 1814] she [Anne Isabella Milbanke] was reading Sismondi's Italian Republics. And she had read Lara.' | Anne Isabella Milbanke | Sismondi | Italian Republics | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | '[At Halnaby, on honeymoon] she [Anne Isabella Milbanke] was reading Dryden's Don Sebastian, which treats of incest, a... | Anne Isabella Lady Byron | John Dryden | Don Sebastian | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | '"You will know my secret if you will; but if I tell you, you shall be made miserable throughout your life -- I will b... | Anne Isabella Lady Byron | William Godwin | Caleb Williams | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | '[Byron] was reading an article by [Erasmus] Darwin on Diseased Volition (a semi-anticipation of Freud) and pointed ou... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Erasmus Darwin | article 'on Diseased Volition' | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'In these days [1815-16] she [Lady Byron] was reading Leigh Hunt's Rimini, and copied a passage of twenty lines on the... | Anne Isabella Lady Byron | Leigh Hunt | Rimini | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'In these days [1815-16] she [Lady Byron] was reading Leigh Hunt's Rimini, and copied a passage of twenty lines on the... | Anne Isabella Lady Byron | Leigh Hunt | Rimini | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | '[During autumn 1817] she [Lady Byron] was well and happy with M. G. [i.e. her friend Lady Gosford] at Kirkby, reading... | Anne Isabella Lady Byron | Cicero | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | '[From New Year, 1818] Annabella could read the new novels, Northanger Abbey and Persuasion (recommended by Augusta [L... | Anne Isabella Lady Byron | Jane Austen | Northanger Abbey | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | '[From New Year, 1818] Annabella could read the new novels, Northanger Abbey and Persuasion (recommended by Augusta [L... | Anne Isabella Lady Byron | Jane Austen | Persuasion | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | '[John] Murray [Byron's publisher] sent an advance-copy of the new Harold. She [Lady Byron] read the imprecation, supp... | Anne Isabella Lady Byron | George Gordon Lord Byron | Childe Harold's Pilgrimage (Canto III) | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Early in July [1819] appeared the first part of Don Juan. "The impression was not so disagreeable as I expected, wrot... | Anne Isabella Lady Byron | George Gordon Lord Byron | Don Juan | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'There were conflicting voices among those who had read the MS. [of Byron's Memoirs]. Lord John Russell and Lord Holla... | Lord John Russell | George Gordon Lord Byron | Memoirs | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'Early in 1831 there is the following entry in a diary [of Lady Byron's]: "Read to Ada the beautiful lines on Greece i... | Anne Isabella Lady Byron | George Gordon Lord Byron | The Giaour | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Early in 1831 there is the following entry in a diary [of Lady Byron's]: "Read to Ada the beautiful lines on Greece i... | Anne Isabella Lady Byron | George Gordon Lord Byron | 'Fare thee well' (lyric verses) | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Early in 1831 there is the following entry in a diary [of Lady Byron's]: "Read to Ada the beautiful lines on Greece i... | Anne Isabella Lady Byron | George Gordon Lord Byron | 'the Satire' | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'The girl [Ada Byron] was then [1831] seventeen; her mother had been reading Harriet Martineau's Five Years of Youth, ... | Anne Isabella Lady Byron | Harriet Martineau | Five Years of Youth | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Lady Byron was to [George] MacDonald the protectress, the adviser, and once at least the extremely rigorous critic.
... | Anne Isabella Lady Noel Byron | George MacDonald | Within and Without | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'An excellent programme illustrative of R.L. Stevenson's work was then proceeded with. A biographical paper was read b... | John Ridges | John Ridges | [paper on works of RL Stevenson] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'An excellent programme illustrative of R.L. Stevenson's work was then proceeded with. A biographical paper was read b... | John Ridges | Robert Louis Stevenson | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Mr Smith read a paper on Shelley & Mrs Ridges selections from a paper by Dr Scott on the poet's literary characterist... | Blanche Ridges | Dr Scott | [paper on Shelley] | Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'W.S. Rowntree then read a very interesting paper on four Punch artists which was followed by readings from Punch of a... | Sylvanus A. Reynolds | | Punch | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | 'W.S. Rowntree then read a very interesting paper on four Punch artists which was followed by readings from Punch of a... | Henry Marriage Wallis | | Punch | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | 'W.S. Rowntree then read a very interesting paper on four Punch artists which was followed by readings from Punch of a... | Helen Rawlings | | Punch | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | Harriet Countess Granville to her sister, Lady Georgiana Morpeth, 1 January 1822:
'I think "Cain" most wicked, but ... | Granville Leveson Gower | George Gordon Lord Byron | Cain | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Harriet Countess Granville to her sister, Lady Georgiana Morpeth, from The Hague, 22 April 1824:
'Here is again the... | Granville Leveson Gower | | French newspapers | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | 'H.M Wallis ably reviewed Dill's Social Life in the Roman Empire & much discussion followed'. | Henry Marriage Wallis | Samuel Dill | Roman Society from Nero to Marcus Aurelius | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Mr Ridges read an interesting article on the Sagas & Mr & Mrs Edminson & W.S. Rowntree & W Binns selections from them'. | John Ridges | | [Sagas] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Mr Ridges read an interesting article on the Sagas & Mr & Mrs Edminson & W.S. Rowntree & W Binns selections from them'. | John Ridges | John Ridges | [paper on the Sagas] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'Papers were then read by Mr Ridges on the Works of Borrow & on the Life of Borrow by R. Heelas. Readiings were given ... | John Ridges | George Borrow | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Papers were then read by Mr Ridges on the Works of Borrow & on the Life of Borrow by R. Heelas. Readiings were given ... | John Ridges | John Ridges | [paper on Works of George Borrow] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 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... | Henry Marriage Wallis | Henry Marriage Wallis | [paper on English ballads] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'The subject of the evening - 'English Ballads' - was then discussed in two papers, by F.J. Edminson & H.M. Wallis, an... | Henry Marriage Wallis | | [either an English ballad or text about ballads] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The 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 | 'The programme on the works of J.M. Barrie was then considered, John Ridges reading a paper on the subject & Mrs Kaye ... | John Ridges | John Ridges | [paper on J.M. Barrie] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'The programme on the works of J.M. Barrie was then considered, John Ridges reading a paper on the subject & Mrs Kaye ... | Florence Reynolds | James Barrie | Peter Pan | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The programme on the works of J.M. Barrie was then considered, John Ridges reading a paper on the subject & Mrs Kaye ... | John Ridges | James Barrie | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The programme on Thos Hardy & his works was as follows
Mr Binns read an interesting account of the author's life & H... | Henry Marriage Wallis | Thomas Hardy | [minor poems] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The programme on Thos Hardy & his works was as follows
Mr Binns read an interesting account of the author's life & H... | Henry Marriage Wallis | Henry Marriage Wallis | [paper on Thomas Hardy] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'The programme on Thos Hardy & his works was as follows
Mr Binns read an interesting account of the author's life & H... | Florence Reynolds | Thomas Hardy | Tess of the d'Urbervilles | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The programme on Thos Hardy & his works was as follows
Mr Binns read an interesting account of the author's life & H... | Sylvanus Reynolds | Thomas Hardy | Under the Greenwood Tree | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The programme on parodies consisted of a paper by H.M. Wallis & C.I. Evans & readings by Miss Marriage, Mrs Evans, C.... | Helen Rawlings | | [a parody] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The programme on parodies consisted of a paper by H.M. Wallis & C.I. Evans & readings by Miss Marriage, Mrs Evans, C.... | Henry Marriage Wallis | | [a parody] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 | From the Commonplace Book of Mrs Austen of Ensbury: Transcription of '“On a Cornelian Heart that was broken" - Lord ... | Catherine Austen | George Gordon, Lord Byron | 'On a Cornelian Heart which was broken' | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 | From the Commonplace Book of Mrs Austen of Ensbury: Transcription of '"To my Daughter" - Lord Byron'. | Catherine Austen | George Gordon, Lord Byron | 'To My Daughter' | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 | From the Commonplace Book of Mrs Austen of Ensbury: Transcription of 'Epitaph In the Church Yard of Brading, in the Is... | Catherine Austen | | Epitaph | Print: tombstone |
| 1800-1849 | Monday, 5 December 1825: 'Dined at the Royal Society Club where as usual was a pleasant
meeting of from 20 to 25. It... | Henry Mackenzie | Henry Mackenzie | 'Essay on Dreams' (extract) | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 | From the Commonplace Book of Mrs Austen of Ensbury: Transcription of '“Bright be the place of thy Soul” Lord Byron... | Catherine Austen | George Gordon, Lord Byron | 'Bright be the place of thy soul' | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 | From the Commonplace Book of Mrs Austen of Ensbury: Transcription of '"On happiness” [unattributed], beginning 'True... | Catherine Austen | I. S. | 'True Happiness is not the growth of Earth' | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Monday, 27 March 1826:
'I answerd two modest requests [for assistance with sons' career advancement] from widow
L... | anon | Walter Scott | Marmion | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Monday, 27 March 1826:
'I answerd two modest requests [for assistance with sons' career advancement] from widow
L... | anon | Walter Scott | The Lady of the Lake | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The subject of the evening Vers de Societe was introduced by H.M. Wallis & illustrative readings from various authors... | Henry Marriage Wallis | | [example of Vers de Societe] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The subject of the evening Vers de Societe was introduced by H.M. Wallis & illustrative readings from various authors... | John James Cooper | | [example of Vers de Societe] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The programme on Ibsen's work was opened by a reading on Peer Gynt by Helen Rawlings from P.H. Wicksteed's book on Ib... | Helen Rawlings | Philip H. Wicksteed | Four Lectures on Henrik Ibsen | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The programme on Ibsen's work was opened by a reading on Peer Gynt by Helen Rawlings from P.H. Wicksteed's book on Ib... | Helen Rawlings | Henrik Ibsen | Peer Gynt | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 | From the Commonplace book of Mrs Austen of Ensbury: Transcription of lines from Edward Young's Night Thoughts, beginni... | Catherine Austen | Edward Young | The Complaint: or Night-Thoughts on Life, Death & Immortality | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 | From the Commonplace book of Mrs Austen of Ensbury: Transcription of '"If that high World" - Byron', beginning 'If tha... | Catherine Austen | George Gordon, Lord Byron | 'If that high world' | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 | From the Commonplace book of Mrs Austen of Ensbury: Transcription of 'Ode to the Poppy, By the Honble Mrs O’Neil', b... | Catherine Austen | Mrs O’Neil | Ode to the Poppy | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 | From the Commonplace book of Mrs Austen of Ensbury: Transcription of '"Tell me thou Soul of her I love" - Thomson', be... | Catherine Austen | James Thomson | Ode: Tell me thou Soul of her I love | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 | From the Commonplace book of Mrs Austen of Ensbury: Transcription of '"To Mary" - Byron', beginning 'RACK'D by the fla... | Catherine Austen | George Gordon, Lord Byron | To Mary | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 | From the Commonplace book of Mrs Austen of Ensbury: Transcription of lines entitled ‘Stanzas Addressed to the Greeks... | Catherine Austen | anon | Stanzas Addressed to the Greeks | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 | From the Commonplace book of Mrs Austen of Ensbury: Transcription of Lines by a Lady at a Ball', beginning 'So, Sir, y... | Catherine Austen | anon | Lines by a Lady at a Ball | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 | From the Commonplace book of Mrs Austen of Ensbury: Transcription of ‘An Epitaph. On the Tombstone erected over the... | Catherine Austen | G Canning | Epitaph On the Tombstone erected over the Marquis of Anglesey’s leg | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 | From the Commonplace book of Mrs Austen of Ensbury: Transcription of 'Written in the Blank Leaf of a Lady’s common ... | Catherine Austen | Thomas Little | Written in the Blank Leaf of a Lady's Common Place Book | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 | From the Commonplace book of Mrs Austen of Ensbury: Transcription of '“The Well of St Keyne” [unattributed, but b... | Catherine Austen | Robert Southey | The Well of St Keyne | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 | From the Commonplace book of Mrs Austen of Ensbury: Transcription of ‘"A Devonshire Lane compared to Marriage" by M... | Catherine Austen | John Marriott | A Devonshire Lane | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 | From the Commonplace book of Mrs Austen of Ensbury: Transcription of four lines from “Rokesby” (for Rokeby), begin... | Catherine Austen | Walter Scott | Rokeby | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 | From the Commonplace book of Mrs Austen of Ensbury: Transcription of four lines lines from the "Bride of Abydos" [Byr... | Catherine Austen | George Gordon, Lord Byron | The Bridge of Abydos | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 | From the Commonplace book of Mrs Austen of Ensbury: Transcription of four lines from Moore's Lalla Rookh [untitled an... | Catherine Austen | Thomas Moore | Lalla Rookh | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 | From the Commonplace book of Mrs Austen of Ensbury: 'The following lines are a translation of a Latin Sonnet written b... | Catherine Austen | Mary Queen of Scots | Sonnet | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 | From the Commonplace book of Mrs Austen of Ensbury: Transcription of '“On the death of a friend” T. Moore.' | Catherine Austen | T Moore | Lines on the death of a dear friend | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 | From the Commonplace book of Mrs Austen of Ensbury: '“Friendship like love is but a name, Unless to one you stint th... | Catherine Austen | John Gay | The Hare and Many Friends | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 | From the Commonplace book of Mrs Austen of Ensbury: '“Lord Buckingham was once at a dinner where a Mr Grub was reque... | Catherine Austen | | Hampshire Advertiser | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 | From the Commonplace book of Mrs Austen of Ensbury: Transcription of '"To a Flirt" [unattributed, but the poem is "To ... | Catherine Austen | | Hampshire Advertiser | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 | From the Commonplace book of Mrs Austen of Ensbury: Transcription of '"Epitaph on Viscountess Palmerston written by h... | Catherine Austen | Lord Palmerston | Epitaph on Vicountess Palmerston | Print: tombstone |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 | From the Commonplace book of Mrs Austen of Ensbury: Transcription of lines beginning 'Black eyes may dazzle at a ball'. | Catherine Austen | anon | Black eyes and Blue eyes | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 | From the Commonplace book of Mrs Austen of Ensbury: Transcription of "What is Love?” by M. S'. | Catherine Austen | M S | What is Love? | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 | From the Commonplace book of Mrs Austen of Ensbury: Transcription of four lines by LEL beginning 'It is the spirit’s... | Catherine Austen | Letitia Elizabeth Landon | L’Improvisatrice | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 | From the Commonplace book of Mrs Austen of Ensbury: Transcription of lines by Hannah More (“Mrs H. More”) beginnin... | Catherine Austen | Hannah More | Sensibility | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 | From the Commonplace book of Mrs Austen of Ensbury: Transcription of '“Lines by the Princess Amelia” beginning 'Un... | Catherine Austen | Princess Amelia | | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 | From the Commonplace book of Mrs Austen of Ensbury: Transcription of "My birthday" T Moore' beginning '"My Birthday”... | Catherine Austen | Thomas Moore | My Birthday | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 | From the Commonplace book of Mrs Austen of Ensbury: Transcription of 'By Mr B Sheridan Esq to his Wife'. | Catherine Austen | Sheridan | [verses to his wife] | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 | From the Commonplace book of Mrs Austen of Ensbury: Transcription of “Friendship” by the Revd Francis Murray. | Catherine Austen | Rev. Francis Murray | Friendship | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 | From the Commonplace book of Mrs Austen of Ensbury: Transcription of 'lament of the Single Ladies of Southampton' 'fro... | Catherine Austen | | Southampton Newspaper | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 | From the Commonplace book of Mrs Austen of Ensbury: Transcription of ”To the Butterfly” by Samuel Rogers. | Catherine Austen | Samuel Rogers | To the Butterfly | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 | From the Commonplace book of Mrs Austen of Ensbury: Transcription of 'Verses by R. B. Sheridan Esq' | Catherine Austen | Richard Brinsley Sheridan | Verses | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 | From the Commonplace book of Mrs Austen of Ensbury: Transcription of "On Sir Walter Scott" by LEL. | Catherine Austen | Letitia Elizabeth Landon | On Sir Walter Scott | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 | From the Commonplace book of Mrs Austen of Ensbury: Transcription of “They may talk of scenes that are bright and fa... | Catherine Austen | Thomas Haynes Bailey | 'They may talk of scenes that are bright and fair' | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 | From the Commonplace book of Mrs Austen of Ensbury: Transcription of '“In Happiness Hours” By Thos Haynes Bailey Esq' | Catherine Austen | Thomas Haynes Bailey | 'In Happiness Hours' | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 | From the Commonplace book of Mrs Austen of Ensbury: Transcription of '“A Search after Happiness H. More” beginning... | Catherine Austen | Hannah More | A Search after Happiness | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Thursday, 28 June 1827:
'Visited on invitation a fine old little commodore Trunnion who, in reading a part of Napol... | anon | Walter Scott | Life of Napoleon | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'J.J. Cooper introduced the subject of the life and Work of Goldwin Smith in an interesting essay. F.J. Edminson dealt... | John James Cooper | John James Cooper | [Essay on life and work of Goldwin Smith] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'J.J. Cooper introduced the subject of the life and Work of Goldwin Smith in an interesting essay. F.J. Edminson dealt... | John James Cooper | Goldwin Smith | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The programme on G. Bernard Shaw & his work was then entered upon by C.E. Stansfield reading a paper on the man & his... | Henry Marriage Wallis | George Bernard Shaw | Doctor's Dilemma, The | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Browning's Sordello was introduced by some prefatory notes by H.M. Wallis read by E.E. Unwin. H.M. Wallis then read a... | Henry Marriage Wallis | Henry Marriage Wallis | [paper on historical setting of Browning's 'Sordello'] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'Browning's Sordello was introduced by some prefatory notes by H.M. Wallis read by E.E. Unwin. H.M. Wallis then read a... | Ernest E. Unwin | Henry Marriage Wallis | [prefatory notes to Browning's 'Sordello'] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'Browning's Sordello was introduced by some prefatory notes by H.M. Wallis read by E.E. Unwin. H.M. Wallis then read a... | Henry Marriage Wallis | Robert Browning | Sordello | 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... | Ernest E. Unwin | [a member of the XII Book Club] | [essay on Browning] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'A series of more or less five minutes essays or talks on various aspects of Browning by the folowing members were the... | Elizabeth Ann Smith | [a member of the XII Book Club] | [essay on Browning] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'J.J. Cooper read a paper on Robert Bridges & some selections from his poetry. C.I. Evans dealt with Newbolt & E.E. Un... | John James Cooper | John James Cooper | [Paper on Robert Bridges] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'J.J. Cooper read a paper on Robert Bridges & some selections from his poetry. C.I. Evans dealt with Newbolt & E.E. Un... | Ernest E. Unwin | Ernest E. Unwin | [Paper on John Masefield] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'J.J. Cooper read a paper on Robert Bridges & some selections from his poetry. C.I. Evans dealt with Newbolt & E.E. Un... | Ernest E. Unwin | John Masefield | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'J.J. Cooper read a paper on Robert Bridges & some selections from his poetry. C.I. Evans dealt with Newbolt & E.E. Un... | John James Cooper | Robert Bridges | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The Programme on Recent Irish Literature consisted of the following.
1. A reading of The Tinker's Wedding by Synge
... | Ernest E. Unwin | ernest E. Unwin | [paper on neo-Irish theatre] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'J.J. Cooper introduced the subject of the Brontes with some excellent biographical notes & readings were given from t... | Sylvanus A. Reynolds | Bronte | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'J.J. Cooper introduced the subject of the Brontes with some excellent biographical notes & readings were given from t... | Henry Marriage Wallis | Bronte | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'J.J. Cooper introduced the subject of the Brontes with some excellent biographical notes & readings were given from t... | Helen Rawlings | Bronte | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'J.J. Cooper introduced the subject of the Brontes with some excellent biographical notes & readings were given from t... | Janet Rawlings | Bronte | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Wednesday, 25 March 1829:
'Dined. Heard Anne reading a paper of anecdotes about Cluny Macpherson and so to bed.' | Anne Scott | | 'anecdotes about Cluny Macpherson [ie Ewan Macpherson of Cluny]' | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Saturday, 18 April 1829:
'In the evening I heard Anne read Mr. Peel's excellent bill on the police of the Metropoli... | Anne Scott | | Sir Robert Peel's Parliamentary Bill for metropolitan police force | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Thursday, 28 May 1829:
'Mr. MacIntosh Mackay breakfasted and inspected my curious MS. which Dr. Brindley [sic for B... | MacIntosh Mackay | | The Book of Rights | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'Mrs Unwin then read a biography of Leo Tolstoi. C.I. Evans then dealt with him as a schoolmaster - H.M. Wallis as a l... | Henry Marriage Wallis | | [works by and about Tolstoy] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Mrs Unwin then read a biography of Leo Tolstoi. C.I. Evans then dealt with him as a schoolmaster - H.M. Wallis as a l... | Reginald Robson | | [works by and about Tolstoy] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The Life & works of Anatole France were then dealt with in an interesting programme - an appreciation by H.R. Smith R... | Ernest E. Unwin | Anatole France | Thais | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Minutes of the last two meetings were read'. | Ernest Unwin | Alfred Rawlings | [minutes of XII Book Club] | Manuscript: book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The Life & Works of Oliver W. Holmes were then dealt with. John J. Cooper read an interesting biographical paper, con... | John J. Cooper | John J. Cooper | [paper on Oliver Wendell Holmes] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'The Life & Works of Oliver W. Holmes were then dealt with. John J. Cooper read an interesting biographical paper, con... | John J. Cooper | Oliver Wendell Holmes | 'Latter Day Warnings' | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The Life & Works of Oliver W. Holmes were then dealt with. John J. Cooper read an interesting biographical paper, con... | Reginald Robson | Oliver Wendell Holmes | Professor at the Breakfast Table, The | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The Life & Works of Oliver W. Holmes were then dealt with. John J. Cooper read an interesting biographical paper, con... | Reginald Robson | Reginald Robson | [paper on Holmes's 'the Professor at the Breakfast Table'] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'Minutes of last meeting were read'. | Ernest Unwin | Ernest Unwin | [Minutes of XII Book Club] | Manuscript: book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Minutes of last meeting were read' | Ernest Unwin | Ernest Unwin | [Minutes of XII Book Club] | Manuscript: book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The Meeting then considered the Life & Works of Alfred Russel Wallace. Walter S. Rowntree gave us an account of Walla... | Henry Marriage Wallis | Henry Marriage Wallis | [Paper on A.R. Wallace's scientific writings] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'The Meeting then considered the Life & Works of Alfred Russel Wallace. Walter S. Rowntree gave us an account of Walla... | 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 Meeting then considered the Life & Works of Alfred Russel Wallace. Walter S. Rowntree gave us an account of Walla... | Henry Marriage Wallis | Alfred Russel Wallace | [scientific writings] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Minutes of last meeting read & signed' | Ernest Unwin | Ernest Unwin | [Minutes of XII Book Club] | Manuscript: book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Chaucer's life & work were then described & illustrated by the following: A Paper on the Life & Times by Charles E. S... | Helen Rawlings | Geoffrey Chaucer | General Prologue | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Chaucer's life & work were then described & illustrated by the following: A Paper on the Life & Times by Charles E. S... | Ernest E. Unwin | Geoffrey Chaucer | General Prologue | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Chaucer's life & work were then described & illustrated by the following: A Paper on the Life & Times by Charles E. S... | Rosamund Wallis | Geoffrey Chaucer | General Prologue | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Mins of last meeting were read & signed' | Ernest E. Unwin | Ernest E. Unwin | [minutes of XII Book Club] | Manuscript: 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 | 'The evening was given over to the consideration of Thackeray.
A paper by J.J. Cooper was read by Miss Marriage follo... | Henry Marriage Wallis | William Makepeace Thackeray | Roundabout Papers | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Mins of last meeting read & signed' | Ernest Unwin | Ernest Unwin | [Minutes of XII Book Club] | Manuscript: book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The evening was then given to a series of readings from the works of Tagore, including Chitra by Helen, Janet & Alfre... | Katherine Evans | Rabindranath Tagore | Crescent Moon, The | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Harriet, Countess Granville, to her sister, Lady Carlisle, 4 September 1834:
'Our host at the inn at Avignon, a poe... | Granville Leveson Gower | ?Pierson | | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Harriet, Countess Granville, to her brother, the Duke of Devonshire, 20 June 1835:
'Lord Fitzwilliam [...] and five... | Wentworth ?Fitzwilliam | | 'comic annual' | Print: Book, Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | Harriet, Countess Granville, to her brother, the Duke of Devonshire, 20 June 1835:
'Lord Fitzwilliam [...] and five... | Wentworth ?Fitzwilliam | Mary Russell Mitford | Belford Regis | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The evening was then devoted to Richard Jefferies - Poet-Naturalist. Ernest E. Unwin read a paper dealing with his li... | Ernest E. Unwin | Richard Jefferies | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The evening was then devoted to Richard Jefferies - Poet-Naturalist. Ernest E. Unwin read a paper dealing with his li... | Ernest E. Unwin | Ernest E. Unwin | [paper on life and works of Richard Jefferies] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'The evening was then devoted to Richard Jefferies - Poet-Naturalist. Ernest E. Unwin read a paper dealing with his li... | Ernest E. Unwin | Richard Jefferies | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The evening was then devoted to Richard Jefferies - Poet-Naturalist. Ernest E. Unwin read a paper dealing with his li... | Henry Marriage Wallis | Richard Jefferies | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The evening was then devoted to Richard Jefferies - Poet-Naturalist. Ernest E. Unwin read a paper dealing with his li... | Rosamund Wallis | Richard Jefferies | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Minutes of last meeting were read & signed' | Ernest E. Unwin | Ernest E. Unwin | [Minutes of XII Book Club] | Manuscript: book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The secretary read the following letter from John James Cooper'. [the letter, of resignation from the club, is pasted... | Ernest E. Unwin | John James Cooper | [letter of resignation from XII Book Club] | Manuscript: Letter |
| 1900-1945 | 'The evening was then devoted to the consideration of Cervantes - his life & work. C.E. Stansfield read a paper & read... | Helen Rawlings | Miguel de Cervantes | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The evening was then devoted to the consideration of Cervantes - his life & work. C.E. Stansfield read a paper & read... | Katherine Evans | Miguel de Cervantes | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The evening was then devoted to the consideration of Cervantes - his life & work. C.E. Stansfield read a paper & read... | Reginald Robson | Miguel de Cervantes | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Minutes of last meeting read & signed' | Ernest E. Unwin | Ernest E. Unwin | [minutes of XII Book Club] | Manuscript: book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The Secretary read the following poem which he had received from J.J. Cooper in reply to his letter.' [the poem is pa... | Ernest E. Unwin | John James Cooper | [poem on the XII Book Club] | Manuscript: Letter |
| 1900-1945 | 'The evening was then given up to the consideration of three modern poets.
Alfred Noyes. A paper by Mrs Unwin with re... | Henry Marriage Wallis | Henry Newbolt | Vitai Lampada | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The evening was then given up to the consideration of three modern poets.
Alfred Noyes. A paper by Mrs Unwin with re... | Helen Rawlings | Rupert Brooke | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The evening was then given up to the consideration of three modern poets.
Alfred Noyes. A paper by Mrs Unwin with re... | Katherine Evans | Rupert Brooke | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The evening was then given up to the consideration of three modern poets.
Alfred Noyes. A paper by Mrs Unwin with re... | Reginald Robson | Rupert Brooke | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The evening was then given up to the consideration of three modern poets.
Alfred Noyes. A paper by Mrs Unwin with re... | Reginald Robson | Rupert Brooke | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The evening was then given up to the consideration of three modern poets.
Alfred Noyes. A paper by Mrs Unwin with re... | Reginald Robson | Reginald Robson | [paper on Rupert Brooke] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'Minutes of last meeting read & signed' | Ernest E. Unwin | Ernest E. Unwin | [Minutes of XII Book Club] | Manuscript: book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The evening was devoted to Meredith. H.M. Wallis read a most interesting paper upon Meredith's works. This gave rise ... | Henry Marriage Wallis | Henry Marriage Wallis | [paper on Meredith] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'The evening was devoted to Meredith. H.M. Wallis read a most interesting paper upon Meredith's works. This gave rise ... | Henry Marriage Wallis | George Meredith | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The evening was devoted to Meredith. H.M. Wallis read a most interesting paper upon Meredith's works. This gave rise ... | Katherine Evans | George Meredith | Richard Feverel | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Minutes of last meeting read & signed' | Ernest E. Unwin | Ernest E. Unwin | [minutes of XII Book Club] | Manuscript: book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The evening was then given up to the study of Galsworthy as an essayist & novelist. Ernest E. Unwin gave a brief intr... | Ernest E. Unwin | | [article in 'Scribners' by or about Galsworthy] | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | 'The evening was then given up to the study of Galsworthy as an essayist & novelist. Ernest E. Unwin gave a brief intr... | Rosamund Wallis | John Galsworthy | Freelands, The | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The evening was then given up to the study of Galsworthy as an essayist & novelist. Ernest E. Unwin gave a brief intr... | Helen Rawlings | John Galsworthy | Fraternity | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The evening was then given up to the study of Galsworthy as an essayist & novelist. Ernest E. Unwin gave a brief intr... | Ernest E. Unwin | John Galsworthy | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Harriet, Countess Granville to her sister, Lady Carlisle, 7 December 1839:
'Georgy [daughter] read me a sermon of ... | Lady Georgiana Leveson Gower | | sermon | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Harriet, Countess Granville to her brother, the Duke of Devonshire, 12 June 1843:
'We read about Ireland with great... | Lady Georgiana Leveson Gower | Mr Sheil | speech | Print: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'Minutes of last meeting read & signed' | Ernest E. Unwin | Ernest E. Unwin | [Minutes of XII Book Club] | Manuscript: book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Mins of last meeting read & signed' | Ernest E. Unwin | Ernest E. Unwin | [Minutes of XII book Club] | Manuscript: book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The meeting then considered the subject of Wm Barnes & west country folk songs. C.I. Evans read a paper & a number of... | Sylvanus A. Reynolds | William Barnes | 'What Dick and I did' | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The meeting then considered the subject of Wm Barnes & west country folk songs. C.I. Evans read a paper & a number of... | Florence E. Reynolds | William Barnes | 'Ellen Brine of Allenburn' | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Mins of last meeting read & signed' | Ernest E. Unwin | Ernest E. Unwin | [Minutes of XII Book Club] | Manuscript: book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The evening was then given over to the life & works of Lewis Carroll. Mary Hayward Life of Lewis Carroll. Songs. Well... | Sylvanus A. Reynolds | Lewis Carroll [pseud.] | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Mins of last meeting read & signed' | Ernest E. Unwin | Ernest E. Unwin | [Minutes of XII Book Club] | Print: BookManuscript: book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Minutes of last meeting read & signed' | Ernest E. Unwin | Ernest E. Unwin | [Minutes of XII Book Club] | Print: BookManuscript: book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Dostoieffsky [sic] occupied our attention for the remained [sic] of the evening. We were much indebted to R.H. Robson... | Reginald Robson | Reginald Robson | [paper on Dostoevsky] | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'Dostoieffsky [sic] occupied our attention for the remained [sic] of the evening. We were much indebted to R.H. Robson... | Ernest E. Unwin | Fyodor Dostoevsky | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Dostoieffsky [sic] occupied our attention for the remained [sic] of the evening. We were much indebted to R.H. Robson... | Katherine Evans | Fyodor Dostoevsky | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Dostoieffsky [sic] occupied our attention for the remained [sic] of the evening. We were much indebted to R.H. Robson... | Reginald Robson | Fyodor Dostoevsky | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Minutes of last meeting read & signed' | Ernest E. Unwin | Ernest E. Unwin | [Minutes of XII book Club] | Manuscript: book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Mark Twain
A very humorous essay written by C.E. Stansfield & read by R.H. Robson gave us a delightful introduction ... | Ernest E. Unwin | Mark Twain | | 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 ... | Katherine Evans | Mark Twain | | 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 | 'Mark Twain
A very humorous essay written by C.E. Stansfield & read by R.H. Robson gave us a delightful introduction ... | Reginald Robson | Mark Twain | | 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 ... | Reginald Robson | Charles Stansfield | [essay on Twain] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'Minutes read & signed' | Ernest E. Unwin | Ernest E. Unwin | [Minutes of XII Book Club] | Manuscript: 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... | Helen Rawlings | | [material by or about Wordsworth] | Unknown |
| 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 | 'Minutes of last meeting read & signed' | Ernest E. Unwin | Ernest E. Unwin | [Minutes of XII Book Club] | Manuscript: book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The Secretary read a letter which A. Rawlings had received from Mudies Libr. The question of using Mudies was discuss... | Ernest E. Unwin | | [letter from Mudies library] | Manuscript: Letter |
| 1900-1945 | 'William Morris - Craftsman - Socialist was the subject of the meeting. The Secretary read a paper dealing with the ma... | Ernest E. Unwin | Ernest E. Unwin | [paper on life of William Morris] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'C.I. Evans described the Earthly Paradise & Mrs Evans & R.H. Robson gave readings therefrom. H.M. Wallis read [supers... | Henry Marriage Wallis | William Morris | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'C.I. Evans described the Earthly Paradise & Mrs Evans & R.H. Robson gave readings therefrom. H.M. Wallis read [supers... | Katherine Evans | William Morris | Earthly Paradise, The | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'C.I. Evans described the Earthly Paradise & Mrs Evans & R.H. Robson gave readings therefrom. H.M. Wallis read [supers... | Reginald Robson | William Morris | Earthly Paradise, The | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'C.I. Evans described the Earthly Paradise & Mrs Evans & R.H. Robson gave readings therefrom. H.M. Wallis read [supers... | Henry Marriage Wallis | William Morris | Sigurd the Volsung | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Mins read & signed' | Ernest E. Unwin | Ernest E. Unwin | [minutes of XII Book Club] | Manuscript: book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The members then considered Bret Harte & his work. The committee overwhelmed by the inability (through health & other... | Helen Rawlings | Francis Bret Harte | 'Luck of Roaring Camp, The' | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The members then considered Bret Harte & his work. The committee overwhelmed by the inability (through health & other... | Ernest E. Unwin | Francis Bret Harte | [short poems] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Mins of last meeting were read' | Ernest E. Unwin | Ernest E. Unwin | [Minutes of XII Book Club] | Manuscript: book |
| 1900-1945 | 'A letter from Mrs Stansfield was read inviting the club to 29 Upper Redlands Rd for the next meeting'. | Ernest E. Unwin | Pattie Stansfield | [letter to the XII Book Club] | Manuscript: Letter |
| 1900-1945 | 'Gilbert Murray & his work was the subject for the evening & a paper was read by H.M. Wallis. This afforded an interes... | Henry Marriage Wallis | Henry Marriage Wallis | [paper on Gilbert Murray] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'Gilbert Murray & his work was the subject for the evening & a paper was read by H.M. Wallis. This afforded an interes... | Henry Marriage Wallis | Gilbert Murray | Rise of the Greek Epic, The | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Gilbert Murray & his work was the subject for the evening & a paper was read by H.M. Wallis. This afforded an interes... | Helen Rawlings | Gilbert Murray | Rise of the Greek Epic, The | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Minutes of last meeting read & signed' | Ernest E. Unwin | Ernest E. Unwin | [Minutes of XII Book Club] | Manuscript: book |
| | 'Mins of last meeting read & signed' | Ernest E. Unwin | Ernest E. Unwin | [Minutes of XII Book Club] | Manuscript: 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... | Ernest E. Unwin | Francis William Bain | 'Bubbles of the Foam' | 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... | Rosamund Wallis | Francis William Bain | 'Ashes of a God' | 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... | Florence Reynolds | Francis William Bain | 'Digit of the Moon' | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The meeting then entered the gloomy portals of New Grub St & attempted to follow the fortunes of George Gissing. The ... | Henry Marriage Wallis | George Gissing | Odd Women, The | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The meeting then entered the gloomy portals of New Grub St & attempted to follow the fortunes of George Gissing. The ... | Ernest E. Unwin | Ernest E. Unwin | [paper on Gissing] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'The meeting then entered the gloomy portals of New Grub St & attempted to follow the fortunes of George Gissing. The ... | Ernest E. Unwin | George Gissing | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | From Autobiographical Memoir of Sir John Barrow (1847):
'[William Gifford] begged me to name any book to make choic... | John Barrow | De Guignes | History of the Dutch Embassy to China | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | John Murray to Lord Byron, 3 February 1814, on first reception of The Corsair:
'Never, in my recollection, has any ... | John Wilson Croker | George Gordon Lord Byron | The Corsair | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | '[John Murray] was confirmed in his idea that Walter Scott was the author [of Waverley] after carefully reading the bo... | John Murray | Walter Scott | Waverley | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | From recollections of John Murray junior:
'Sometimes, though not often, Lord Byron read passages from his poems to ... | George Gordon Lord Byron | George Gordon Lord Byron | poems | Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'Mins of last meeting read & signed' | Ernest E. Unwin | Ernest E. Unwin | [Minutes of XII Book Club] | Manuscript: book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Mins of last meeting read & signed' | Ernest E. Unwin | Ernest E. Unwin | [Minutes of XII Book Club] | Manuscript: 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 | 'Mins of last meeting read & signed' | Ernest E. Unwin | Ernest E. Unwin | [minutes of XII Book Club] | Manuscript: book |
| 1900-1945 | 'A letter from Miss Ethel C. Stevens offering to entertain the Book Club for the Sept meeting was read' | Ernest E. Unwin | Ethel C. Stevens | [letter to XII Book Club] | Manuscript: Letter |
| 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... | Henry Marriage Wallis | Henry Marriage Wallis | [paper on Wells's 'Romances'] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'The meeting then considered the work of H.G. Wells. The chief item of interest was undoubtedly a paper by Henry M. Wa... | Reginald Robson | Herbert George Wells | [a short story] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The meeting then considered the work of H.G. Wells. The chief item of interest was undoubtedly a paper by Henry M. Wa... | Henry Marriage Wallis | Herbert George Wells | [novels] | Print: Book |
| 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 |
| 1800-1849 | John Murray to his wife, 15 August 1814:
'I have got [for publication] at last Mr. Eagle's "Journal of Penrose, the... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Eagle | Journal of Penrose, the Seaman | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | John Murray to Walter Scott, 25 December 1815:
'I was with Lord Byron yesterday. He enquired after you, and bid me ... | George Gordon Lord Byron | C. R. Maturin | Bertram | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | John Murray to Walter Scott, 25 December 1815:
'I was with Lord Byron yesterday. He enquired after you, and bid me ... | The Hon. George Lamb | C. R. Maturin | Bertram | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | John Wilson Croker to John Murray (1816):
'I send you seven stories [for 'Stories for Children from the History of ... | John Murray | John Wilson Croker | Stories for Children from the History of England (extracts) | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | John Murray to Lord Byron (December 1815):
'I tore open the packet you sent me, and have found in it a Pearl. It is... | John Murray | George Gordon Lord Byron | The Siege of Corinth / Parisina | Manuscript: Unknown, In hand of Anne Isabella, Lady Byron |
| 1800-1849 | John Murray to Byron, 4 January 1816:
'Nothing can be more interestingly framed and more interestingly told than th... | John Murray | George Gordon Lord Byron | Parisina | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Dr John Polidori, Byron's secretary, to John Murray, 10 July 1816:
'Since it has given you hopes of entering well i... | John Polidori | George Gordon Lord Byron | The Prisoner of Chillon | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'The "Sketch from Private Life" was one of the most bitter and satirical things Byron had ever written [...] Mr. Murra... | John Hookham Frere | George Gordon Lord Byron | Sketch from Private Life | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | John Murray to Byron, 12 September 1816:
'Respecting the "Monody," I extract from a letter which I received this mo... | John Hookham Frere | George Gordon Lord Byron | Monody [on Sheridan] | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Lady Caroline Lamb to John Murray (1816):
'Thank you for Holcroft's "Life," which is extremely curious and interest... | Lady Caroline Lamb | ?Thomas ?Holcroft | Life [?of Thomas Holcroft] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Lady Caroline Lamb to John Murray (1816):
'Thank you for Holcroft's "Life," which is extremely curious and interest... | Lady Caroline Lamb | | 'Lady Calantha Limb' | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Lady Caroline Lamb to John Murray (1816):
'They say a black mare of mine (not the one I ride, but a beautiful one) ... | Lady Caroline Lamb | | The Morning Chronicle | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | John Cam Hobhouse to John Murray, from Venice, 7 December 1817:
'Your new acquisition is a very fine finish to the ... | John Cam Hobhouse | George Gordon Lord Byron | Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, Canto IV | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | John Murray to Byron, 16 June 1818:
'Mr. Frere is at length satisfied that you are the author of "Beppo." He had no... | John Hookham Frere | George Gordon Lord Byron | Beppo | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'Lady Caroline Lamb informed [John] Murray [Byron's publisher]: "You cannot think how clever I think 'Don Juan' is, in... | Lady Caroline Lamb | George Gordon Lord Byron | Don Juan, Cantos I and II | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | John Cam Hobhouse to John Murray, 22 October 1821, prior to publications of Byron's plays Cain, The Two Foscari, and S... | John Cam Hobhouse | George Gordon Lord Byron | The Corsair | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Mr. Hobhouse wrote that [Sardanapalus] interested him very deeply, though it might be thought fantastical and unnatur... | John Cam Hobhouse | George Gordon Lord Byron | Sardanapalus | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'Say, too, that I received his Life of Napoleon, and have read it this winter - in the evening and at night - with att... | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe | Walter Scott | Life of Napoleon | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'On the whole, our study and love of German Literature seems to be rapidly progressive: in my time, that is, within th... | British Population (general) | | [German literature] | Print: BookUnknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'Mins of last meeting read & signed' | Ernest E. Unwin | Ernest E. Unwin | [minutes of XII Book Club] | Manuscript: 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 | 'Mins of last meeting read & signed' | Ernest E. Unwin | Ernest E. Unwin | [Minutes of XII Book Club] | Manuscript: book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The subject before the meeting was Joseph Conrad. R.H. Robson introduced the subject with an interesting essay & a nu... | Reginald Robson | Reginald Robson | [paper on Conrad] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'The subject before the meeting was Joseph Conrad. R.H. Robson introduced the subject with an interesting essay & a nu... | Florence Reynolds | Joseph Conrad | Almayer's Folly | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The subject before the meeting was Joseph Conrad. R.H. Robson introduced the subject with an interesting essay & a nu... | Helen Rawlings | Joseph Conrad | Typhoon | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The subject before the meeting was Joseph Conrad. R.H. Robson introduced the subject with an interesting essay & a nu... | Reginald Robson | Joseph Conrad | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Mins of last meeting read & signed' | Ernest E. Unwin | Ernest E. Unwin | [Minutes of XII Book Club] | Manuscript: 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 remainder of the evening was given over to R.L. Stevenson & his work.
[the format of the evening's discussion on... | Ernest E. Unwin | Robert Louis Stevenson | Travels with a Donkey | 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... | Henry Marriage Wallis | Robert Louis Stevenson | Master of Ballantrae, The | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Mins of last meeting read & signed' | Ernest E. Unwin | Ernest E. Unwin | [Minutes of XII Book Club] | Manuscript: book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The evening was then devoted to the subject of Psychical Phenomena. The Secretary (Ernest E. Unwin] read a brief intr... | Ernest E. Unwin | Ernest E. Unwin | [paper on psychic phenomena] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 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 | 'Mins of last meeting read & signed' | Ernest E. Unwin | Ernest E. Unwin | [Minutes of XII Book Club] | Manuscript: book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Mins of last meeting read & signed' | Ernest E. Unwin | Ernest E. Unwin | [Minutes of XII Book Club] | Manuscript: book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Essays were then read. The Secretary does not feel able to do more than indicate the general nature of these essays.
... | Reginald Robson | Henry Marriage Wallis | [paper on an altar stone found near Carthage] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | '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 | 'Essays were then read. The Secretary does not feel able to do more than indicate the general nature of these essays.
... | Ernest E. Unwin | Ernest E. Unwin | [essay on 'The Humours of Man'] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'Mins of last meeting read & signed' | Ernest E. Unwin | Ernest E. Unwin | [Minutes of XII Book Club] | Manuscript: book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Balzac
We were introduced by Henry M. Wallis to the novels of Balzac by an introduction to & readings from The Wild ... | Henry Marriage Wallis | Henry Marriage Wallis | [paper introducing Balzac] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'Balzac
We were introduced by Henry M. Wallis to the novels of Balzac by an introduction to & readings from The Wild ... | Henry Marriage Wallis | Honore de Balzac | Wild Ass's Skin, The | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Balzac
We were introduced by Henry M. Wallis to the novels of Balzac by an introduction to & readings from The Wild ... | Rosamund Wallis | Honore de Balzac | Christ in Flanders | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Mins of last meeting read & signed' | Ernest E. Unwin | Ernest E. Unwin | [Minutes of XII Book Club] | Manuscript: book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Mins of last meeting read & signed' | Ernest E. Unwin | Ernest E. Unwin | [Minutes of XII Book Club] | Manuscript: book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The subject of the evening's programme was John Keats. R.H. Robson read an essay dealing with his life. The main infl... | Reginald Robson | Reginald Robson | [essay on Keats' life] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'The subject of the evening's programme was John Keats. R.H. Robson read an essay dealing with his life. The main infl... | Henry Marriage Wallis | Henry Marriage Wallis | [essay on Keats] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'The subject of the evening's programme was John Keats. R.H. Robson read an essay dealing with his life. The main infl... | Katherine Evans | John Keats | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The subject of the evening's programme was John Keats. R.H. Robson read an essay dealing with his life. The main infl... | Henry Marriage Wallis | John Keats | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Mins of last meeting read & confirmed' | Ernest E. Unwin | Ernest E. Unwin | [Minutes of XII Book Club] | Manuscript: book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The evening then became a 'Comic One'. The chief contribution was a paper by H.M. Wallis on 'the Comic' as reflected ... | Henry Marriage Wallis | Henry Marriage Wallis | [paper on the Comic] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'Mins of last meeting read & signed' | Ernest E. Unwin | Ernest E. Unwin | [Minutes of XII Book Club] | Manuscript: book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The Secretary read 'An Open Letter' to the XII Book Club. It was read without discussion - the discussion postponed u... | Ernest E. Unwin | [a member of the XII book Club] | [open letter to the XII Book Club] | Manuscript: Letter |
| 1900-1945 | 'The main business of the evening was then proceeded with - 5 mins essays upon some book read recently.
Mrs Evans rea... | Katherine Edwards | [a member of the XII Book Club] | [paper entitled 'An English Lumber Camp'] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'The main business of the evening was then proceeded with - 5 mins essays upon some book read recently.
Mrs Evans rea... | Elizabeth Ann Smith | [a member of the XII Book Club] | [paper on Blackwood's 'The Garden of Survival'] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'The main business of the evening was then proceeded with - 5 mins essays upon some book read recently.
Mrs Evans rea... | Ernest E. Unwin | Henry Marriage Wallis | [paper on Leslie's 'The End of a Chapter'] | 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 main business of the evening was then proceeded with - 5 mins essays upon some book read recently.
Mrs Evans rea... | Henry Marriage Wallis | Shane Leslie | End of a Chapter, The | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'During the period that Mr. Moore had been in negotiation with the Longmans and Murray
respecting the purchase of th... | Lord John Russell | George Gordon Lord Byron | Memoirs | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | John Murray to Walter Scott, on reception of Tales of My Landlord, 14 December 1816:
'Lord Holland said, when I ask... | John Hookham Frere | Walter Scott | Tales of My Landlord | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | John Murray to Walter Scott, on reception of Tales of My Landlord, 14 December 1816:
'Lord Holland said, when I ask... | Henry Hallam | Walter Scott | Tales of My Landlord | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | John Barrow to John Murray, 1 September 1830:
'I sat up last night over Mr. Macleod's narrative till I had nearly g... | John Barrow | Macleod | Voyage of the Alceste to China | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | John Wilson Croker to John Murray, 22 December 1821:
'I am happy to tell you that your Review is abominably bad -- ... | John Wilson Croker | John Barrow | Review of Dupin, On the Navy of England and France | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | John Wilson Croker to John Murray, 22 December 1821:
'I am happy to tell you that your Review is abominably bad -- ... | John Wilson Croker | Francis Cohen | 'Astrology and Alchemy' | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | John Wilson Croker to John Murray, 22 December 1821:
'I am happy to tell you that your Review is abominably bad -- ... | John Wilson Croker | T. Mitchell | Review of Dalzell, Lectures on the Ancient Greeks | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | John Wilson Croker to John Murray, 22 December 1821:
'I am happy to tell you that your Review is abominably bad -- ... | John Wilson Croker | Col. Matthews | 'article on Hazlitt' | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | John Wilson Croker to John Murray, 22 December 1821:
'I am happy to tell you that your Review is abominably bad -- ... | John Wilson Croker | Nassau senior | '[article] on the Scotch novels' | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | John Wilson Croker to John Murray, 18 July 1821:
'Ramsgate is still empty and dull; our good weather fled with the ... | John Wilson Croker | | court news | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | 'Lord Byron, to whom Mr. Murray sent a copy of [Belzoni's] work, said: "Belzoni [italics]is[end italics] a grand trave... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Giovanni Belzoni | Narrative of the Operations and recent Discoveries within the Pyramids, Temples, Tombs, and Excavations in Egypt and Nubia | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | William Lamb to John Murray, 20 December 1822:
'The incongruity of, and objections to, the story of "Ada Reis" can ... | The Hon. William Lamb | Lady Caroline Lamb | Ada Reis | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Lady Caroline Lamb to John Murray (May 1823 [sic]):
'Do tell Captain Lyon that I, and others far better than I am, ... | Lady Caroline Lamb | Captain Lyon | Private Journal during the recent Voyage of Discovery under Captain Parry, 1824 [sic] | Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'Mins of last meeting read & signed'. | Ernest E. Unwin | Ernest E. Unwin | [Minutes of XII Book Club] | Manuscript: book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Mins of last meeting read & signed' | Ernest E. Unwin | Ernest E. Unwin | [Minutes of XII Book Club] | Manuscript: book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The meeting then considered the works of Thomas Hardy. H.M. Wallis gave a paper outlining the main features of Hardy'... | Henry Marriage Wallis | Henry Marriage Wallis | [paper on Hardy's life and work] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'The meeting then considered the works of Thomas Hardy. H.M. Wallis gave a paper outlining the main features of Hardy'... | Henry Marriage Wallis | Thomas Hardy | 'Three Travellers, The' | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The meeting then considered the works of Thomas Hardy. H.M. Wallis gave a paper outlining the main features of Hardy'... | Rosamund Wallis | Thomas Hardy | Mayor of Casterbridge, The | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The meeting then considered the works of Thomas Hardy. H.M. Wallis gave a paper outlining the main features of Hardy'... | Ernest E. Unwin | Laurence Binyon | [criticism of Hardy] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The meeting then considered the works of Thomas Hardy. H.M. Wallis gave a paper outlining the main features of Hardy'... | Henry Marriage Wallis | Thomas Hardy | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Mins of last meeting were read & signed' | Ernest E. Unwin | Ernest E. Unwin | [Minutes of XII Book Club] | Manuscript: book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Minutes of last meeting were read & signed' | Ernest E. Unwin | Ernest E. Unwin | [Minutes of XII Book Club] | Manuscript: book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Mins read & signed' | Ernest E. Unwin | Ernest E. Unwin | [Minutes of XII Book Club] | Manuscript: book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Mins read & signed' | Ernest E. Unwin | Ernest E. Unwin | [Minutes of XII Book Club] | Manuscript: book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The rest of the evening was given to Edmund Gosse. H.M. Wallis spoke about Edmund Gosse the man & his work for the pu... | Henry Marriage Wallis | Edmund Gosse | Father & Son: A Study of Two Temperaments | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The rest of the evening was given to Edmund Gosse. H.M. Wallis spoke about Edmund Gosse the man & his work for the pu... | Henry Marriage Wallis | Edmund Gosse | [literary criticism] | Print: Book |
| 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... | Ernest E. Unwin | Edmund Gosse | [poetry] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Mins read & signed' | Ernest E. Unwin | Ernest E. Unwin | [Minutes of XII Book Club] | Manuscript: book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The Secretary then read a paper upon English Miracle & Morality Plays. He described the Miracle Cycle at York with so... | Ernest E. Unwin | Ernest E. Unwin | [paper on Miracle and Morality plays] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'The Secretary then read a paper upon English Miracle & Morality Plays. He described the Miracle Cycle at York with so... | Ernest E. Unwin | anon. | York Miracle Cycle | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | John Wilson Croker to John Murray, 18 January 1825:
'I never could read the "Sketch Book," nor, what d'ye call it? ... | John Wilson Croker | Washington Irving | Sketch Book [?of Geoffrey Crayon] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | John Wilson Croker to John Murray, 18 January 1825:
'I never could read the "Sketch Book," nor, what d'ye call it? ... | John Wilson Croker | Washington Irving | Sketch Book [?of Geoffrey Crayon] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | John Wilson Croker to John Murray, 18 January 1825:
'I never could read the "Sketch Book," nor, what d'ye call it? ... | John Wilson Croker | Washington Irving | 'Knickerbocker' | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | John Wilson Croker to John Murray, 18 January 1825:
'I never could read the "Sketch Book," nor, what d'ye call it? ... | John Wilson Croker | Washington Irving | The American Dutchmen | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | John Wilson Croker to John Murray, 7 May 1828:
'I return, having read through, the first volume of "Horace Walpole'... | John Wilson Croker | Horace Walpole | 'Letters to Mr Mason' vol 1 | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'The first volume of "Lord Byron's Life and Letters," published on the 1st of January, 1830, was read with enthusiasm,... | Anne Isabella Lady Byron | Thomas Moore | Life of Byron | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Colonel D'Aguilar to John Murray, 15 January 1831, on the second volume of Moore's Life of Byron:
'I have sat up al... | Colonel D'Aguilar | Thomas Moore | Life of Byron (vol 2) | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | John Wilson Croker to John Murray (1831), on the second volume of Moore's Life of Byron:
'No doubt there are longeu... | John Wilson Croker | Thomas Moore | Life of Byron (vol 2) | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | John Wilson Croker to John Murray, 21 January 1831:
'I return you the "Tatler" that you lent me. I think Mr. Hunt m... | John Wilson Croker | Leigh Hunt | The Tatler | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | John Wilson Croker to John Murray, 21 January 1831:
'I return you the "Tatler" that you lent me. I think Mr. Hunt m... | John Wilson Croker | Leigh Hunt | Rimini | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Sir Francis Knight to John Murray (1839):
'I was glad [...] to hear the child's voice crying in the Times this morn... | Francis Head | | Review of Francis Head, 'Narrative of his Administration in Upper Canada' | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | Sir Francis Knight to John Murray, 5 March 1839:
'What is most extraordinary is the article in my favour which late... | Francis Head | | Review of Francis Head, 'Narrative of his Administration in Upper Canada' | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | Sir Alexander Burnes to John Murray, 'On the Nile,' 30 March 1835:
'The Quarterly is lying before me [...] I have b... | Sir Alexander Burnes | Sir John MacNeill | 'England, France, Russia, and Turkey' | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | Joanna Baillie to John Murray, 16 March 1832:
'I thank you very heartily for your great courtesy in sending me a co... | Joanna Baillie | Frances Kemble | Francis the First | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Joanna Baillie to John Murray, 16 March 1832:
'I thank you very heartily for your great courtesy in sending me a co... | Joanna Baillie | | reviews of Frances Kemble, Francis the First | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | Fanny Kemble to John Murray (1832):
'The article in the Quarterly on my "Francis the First," more than satisfied me... | Fanny Kemble | Milman | Review of Fanny Kemble, Francis the First | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | Sir Francis B. Head to John Murray, 2 July 1835:
'I have not had time to finish Fanny Kemble's book, but have seen ... | Sir Francis B. Head | Fanny Kemble Butler | Journal [of residence in America] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Fanny Kemble Butler to John Murray, 26 March 1836:
'Surely Captain Marryat is not a man to be trifled with; he don'... | Fanny Kemble Butler | Captain Marryat | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Caroline Norton to John Murray, 4 November 1837:
'I have received "Don Juan" and the October Quarterly [Review]. ..... | Caroline Norton | George Gordon Lord Byron | Don Juan | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Caroline Norton to John Murray, 4 March 1840:
'Blessed be he [sic] who lately wrote "Cecil" (though it be but a nov... | Caroline Norton | Catherine Gore | Cecil | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Caroline Norton to John Murray, 31 October 1840:
'I ought to have thanked you from Ventnor, instead of waiting till... | Caroline Norton | H. Nelson Coleridge | 'Modern English Poetesses' | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | 'Mins of last meeting read & signed' | Ernest E. Unwin | Ernest E. Unwin | [Minutes of XII Book Club] | Manuscript: book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Mins of last meeting read & signed' | Ernest E. Unwin | Ernest E. Unwin | [Minutes of XII Book Club] | Manuscript: book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Mins of last meeting read & signed' | Ernest E. Unwin | Ernest E. Unwin | [Minutes of XII Book Club] | Manuscript: book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Mins of last meeting read & signed' | Ernest E. Unwin | Ernest E. Unwin | [Minutes of XII Book Club] | Manuscript: book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Mins of the last meeting were read & signed' | Ernest E. Unwin | Ernest E. Unwin | [Minutes of XII Book Club] | Manuscript: book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The Secy. (who was absent) has received the folowiing summary from R.B. Graham.
a) C.I. Evans read a paper on Ben Jo... | Henry Marriage Wallis | Ben Jonson | [short poems] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The Secy. (who was absent) has received the folowiing summary from R.B. Graham.
a) C.I. Evans read a paper on Ben Jo... | Rosamund Wallis | Ben Jonson | Tale of a Tub, A | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Sir Francis Head to John Murray, 26 June 1842:
'My son will be quite proud at receiving the [italics]first[end ital... | Sir Francis Head | | The Quarterly Review | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | 'Mins of last meeting were read & signed' | Ernest E. Unwin | Ernest E. Unwin | [Minutes of XII Book Club] | Manuscript: book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Mins of last meeting read & signed' | Ernest E. Unwin | Ernest E. Unwin | [Minutes of XII Book Club] | Manuscript: 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 | 'The following miscellaneous programme was then gone through. This change in the subject was caused by the imposibilit... | Florence Reynolds | | 'Wedding Presents' | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | 'The following miscellaneous programme was then gone through. This change in the subject was caused by the imposibilit... | William Henry Smith | Rudyard Kipling | 'How the Camel got his Hump' | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The following miscellaneous programme was then gone through. This change in the subject was caused by the imposibilit... | Rosamund Wallis | A.A. Milne | 'Man of the Evening, The' | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | 'The following miscellaneous programme was then gone through. This change in the subject was caused by the imposibilit... | Sylvanus Reynolds | | Arms of Wipplecrack | Print: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'The following miscellaneous programme was then gone through. This change in the subject was caused by the imposibilit... | Henry Marriage Wallis | E.V. Lucas | Joints in the Armour | Print: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'The following miscellaneous programme was then gone through. This change in the subject was caused by the imposibilit... | Reginald Robson | Reginald Robson | 'Bad Morality & Bad art' | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'Mins of last meeting read & signed' | Ernest E. Unwin | Ernest E. Unwin | [minutes of XII Book Club] | Manuscript: book |
| 1900-1945 | 'the rest of the evening was devoted to Browning's The Ring & the Book. Henry M. Wallis read a masterly paper in intro... | Henry Marriage Wallis | Henry Marriage Wallis | [paper on Browning's The Ring & the Book] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'the rest of the evening was devoted to Browning's The Ring & the Book. Henry M. Wallis read a masterly paper in intro... | Reginald Robson | Robert Browning | Ring and the Book, The | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'the rest of the evening was devoted to Browning's The Ring & the Book. Henry M. Wallis read a masterly paper in intro... | Katherine Evans | Robert Browning | Ring and the Book, The | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'the rest of the evening was devoted to Browning's The Ring & the Book. Henry M. Wallis read a masterly paper in intro... | Henry Marriage Wallis | Robert Browning | Ring and the Book, The | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Miss R. Wallis described & read from the beginning of 'Long ago & far away' [sic] the autobiography: which was writte... | Rosamund Wallis | William Henry Hudson | Far Away and Long Ago - A History of My Early Life | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Miss R. Wallis described & read from the beginning of 'Long ago & far away' [sic] the autobiography: which was writte... | Ernest E. Unwin | William Henry Hudson | Book of a Naturalist, The | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Miss R. Wallis described & read from the beginning of 'Long ago & far away' [sic] the autobiography: which was writte... | Ernest E. Unwin | William Henry Hudson | [naturalist writing] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Mins of last two meetings read & signed' | Ernest E. Unwin | Ernest E. Unwin | [Minutes of XII Book Club] | Manuscript: book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Mins of last meeting read & signed' | Ernest E. Unwin | Ernest E. Unwin | [Minutes of XII Book Club] | Manuscript: book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The rest of the meeting was devoted to Fanny Burney. Mrs Robson read a paper which had been prepared by Miss Cole dea... | Reginald Robson | Fanny Burney | [from works or diary] | Manuscript: Sheet, copy from book, taken by Miss Cole |
| 1900-1945 | 'The rest of the meeting was devoted to Fanny Burney. Mrs Robson read a paper which had been prepared by Miss Cole dea... | Ernest E. Unwin | Fanny Burney | [from works or diary] | Manuscript: Sheet, copy from book, taken by Miss Cole |
| 1900-1945 | 'Mins of last meeting were read & signed' | Ernest E. Unwin | Ernest E. Unwin | [Minutes of XII Book Club] | Manuscript: book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The subject before the meeting was Thomas Love Peacock, novelist & poet. H.M. Wallis read an introductory paper which... | Henry Marriage Wallis | Henry Marriage Wallis | [paper on Thomas Love Peacock] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'The subject before the meeting was Thomas Love Peacock, novelist & poet. H.M. Wallis read an introductory paper which... | Ernest E. Unwin | Thomas Love Peacock | Nightmare Abbey | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The subject before the meeting was Thomas Love Peacock, novelist & poet. H.M. Wallis read an introductory paper which... | Henry Marriage Wallis | Thomas Love Peacock | | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 14 July 1878:
'Enid amused me with a book by Ouida, called Friendship, founded on the life of Mrs. Ross, Sir A. Gor... | Enid Layard | Ouida | Friendship | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'If the novel at which he [Warrington Dawson] is working now and of which he read me the first four chapters is, as a ... | Francis Warrington Dawson | Francis Warrington Dawson | The Sin | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'Mins of last meeting were read & signed' | Ernest E. Unwin | Ernest E. Unwin | [Minutes of XII Book Club] | Manuscript: book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Mins of last meeting were read & signed' | Ernest E. Unwin | Ernest E. Unwin | [Minutes of XII Book Club] | Manuscript: book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The rest of the evening was devoted to John Bunyan. H.R. Smith read a paper dealing with the main episodes of his lif... | Reginald Robson | John Bunyan | Pilgrim's Progress | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Mins of last meeting were read and signed' | Ernest E. Unwin | Ernest E. Unwin | [Minutes of XII Book Club] | Manuscript: book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The remainder of the evening was devoted to the writings of Maurice Hewlett. [C.I. Evans outlined a few facts of his ... | Ernest E. Unwin | Maurice Hewlett | Life and Death of Richard Yea-and-Nay, The | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The remainder of the evening was devoted to the writings of Maurice Hewlett. [C.I. Evans outlined a few facts of his ... | Henry Marriage Wallis | Maurice Hewlett | Queen's Quair Or The Six Years' Tragedy | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The remainder of the evening was devoted to the writings of Maurice Hewlett. [C.I. Evans outlined a few facts of his ... | Ernest E. Unwin | Maurice Hewlett | Life and Death of Richard Yea-and-Nay , The | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Mins of last meeting were read & signed' | Ernest E. Unwin | Ernest E. Unwin | [Minutes of XII Book Club] | Manuscript: book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Mins of last meeting read & signed' | Ernest E. Unwin | Ernest E. Unwin | [Minutes of XII Book Club] | Manuscript: book |
| 1900-1945 | '5. The Club now considered the subject for the evening - Berkshire - & the opening paper was by H.M. Wallis who touch... | Henry Marriage Wallis | Henry Marriage Wallis | [paper on History of Berkshire] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | '5. The Club now considered the subject for the evening - Berkshire - & the opening paper was by H.M. Wallis who touch... | Rosamund Wallis | Thomas of Reading | [tale about murders in Reading] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '5. The Club now considered the subject for the evening - Berkshire - & the opening paper was by H.M. Wallis who touch... | Sylvanus A. Reynolds | | 'Berkshire Lady, A' | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Mins of last meeting read & signed' | Ernest E. Unwin | Ernest E. Unwin | [Minutes of XII Book Club] | Manuscript: book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The rest of the evening concerned Prehistoric Man & Woman. H.M. Wallis read a paper entitled 'The Piltdown Woman'. Th... | Henry Marriage Wallis | Henry Marriage Wallis | [paper on Piltdown Woman] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'Mins read & signed' | Ernest E. Unwin | Ernest E. Unwin | [minutes of XII Book Club] | Manuscript: book |
| 1900-1945 | 'De Quincey was the subject before the paper & number of extracts [sic] & two papers, one read by Mrs Rawlings & one b... | Ernest E. Unwin | Thomas de Quincey | Recollections of Charles Lamb | 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... | Constance Wallis | Thomas de Quincey | Suspiria de Profundis | 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... | Florence Reynolds | Thomas de Quincey | | 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... | Helen Rawlings | Celia Cole | [paper on de Quincey] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'The Minutes of the last meeting were read & signed' | Ernest E. Unwin | Ernest E. Unwin | [Minutes of XII Book Club] | Manuscript: book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The remainder of the evening was devoted to a play-reading from Oliver Goldsmith's 'The Goodnatured Man'. Although th... | Ernest E. Unwin | Oliver Goldsmith | Good-natured Man, The | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The remainder of the evening was devoted to a play-reading from Oliver Goldsmith's 'The Goodnatured Man'. Although th... | Ernest E. Unwin | Oliver Goldsmith | She Stoops to Conquer | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Mins of last meeting were read and signed' | Ernest E. Unwin | Ernest E. Unwin | [Minutes of XII Book Club] | Manuscript: book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The subject of the meeting was 'Gardens' & all members were asked to bring contributions [...] The following is a lis... | Katherine Evans | A.C Curtis | Small Garden Useful, The | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The subject of the meeting was 'Gardens' & all members were asked to bring contributions [...] The following is a lis... | Rosamund Wallis | | My Garden, a parody | Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'Mins of last meeting were read & signed' | Ernest E. Unwin | Ernest E. Unwin | [Minutes of XII Book Club] | Manuscript: book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Minutes of last meeting were read & signed' | Ernest E. Unwin | Ernest E. Unwin | [Minutes of XII Book Club] | Manuscript: book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Mins of last meeting were read & signed' | Ernest E. Unwin | Ernest E. Unwin | [Minutes of XII Book Club] | Manuscript: book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The rest of the evening was spent in the company of Samuel Pepys (Peeps)
The Club was much indebted to H.M. Wallis a... | Ernest E. Unwin | Samuel Pepys | Diary | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The rest of the evening was spent in the company of Samuel Pepys (Peeps)
The Club was much indebted to H.M. Wallis a... | Reginald Robson | Samuel Pepys | Diary | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The rest of the evening was spent in the company of Samuel Pepys (Peeps)
The Club was much indebted to H.M. Wallis a... | Rosamund Wallis | Samuel Pepys | Diary | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The rest of the evening was spent in the company of Samuel Pepys (Peeps)
The Club was much indebted to H.M. Wallis a... | Henry Marriage Wallis | Henry Marriage Wallis | [essay on Pepys] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'Mins of last meeting read & signed' | Ernest E. Unwin | Ernest E. Unwin | [Minutes of XII Book Club] | Manuscript: book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The subject of the evening, 'Ballads', now occupied attention.
From an introductory paper prepared by Mary Hayward ... | Henry Marriage Wallis | Henry Marriage Wallis | [paper on ballads] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'The subject of the evening, 'Ballads', now occupied attention.
From an introductory paper prepared by Mary Hayward ... | Rosamund Wallis | | [readings from ballads] | Print: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'The subject of the evening, 'Ballads', now occupied attention.
From an introductory paper prepared by Mary Hayward ... | Rosamund Wallis | | Thomas the Rhymer | Print: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'The subject of the evening, 'Ballads', now occupied attention.
From an introductory paper prepared by Mary Hayward ... | Reginald Robson | | Sir Patrick Spens | Print: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'The subject of the evening, 'Ballads', now occupied attention.
From an introductory paper prepared by Mary Hayward ... | Henry Marriage Wallis | | Helen of Kirconnel | Print: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'The subject of the evening, 'Ballads', now occupied attention.
From an introductory paper prepared by Mary Hayward ... | Helen Rawlings | | Undaunted Mary | Print: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'Mins of last meeting read & signed' | Ernest E. Unwin | Ernest E. Unwin | [Minutes of XII Book Club] | Manuscript: book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The evening was then devoted to Samuel Johnson as seen through the biography of Boswell. Two papers were contributed.... | Ernest E. Unwin | James Boswell | Life of Johnson | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The evening was then devoted to Samuel Johnson as seen through the biography of Boswell. Two papers were contributed.... | Reginald Robson | James Boswell | Life of Johnson | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The evening was then devoted to Samuel Johnson as seen through the biography of Boswell. Two papers were contributed.... | Henry Marriage Wallis | James Boswell | Life of Johnson | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Mins of last meeting were read & signed' | Ernest E. Unwin | Ernest E. Unwin | [Minutes of XII Book Club] | Manuscript: book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Mins of last meeting read & signed' | Ernest E. Unwin | Ernest E. Unwin | [Minutes of XII Book Club] | Manuscript: book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The rest of the evening was devoted to the works of Laurence Housman. Most of the members had seen & heard Mr Housman... | Henry Marriage Wallis | Henry Marriage Wallis | [paper on Laurence Housman] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'The rest of the evening was devoted to the works of Laurence Housman. Most of the members had seen & heard Mr Housman... | Reginald Robson | Reginald Robson | [paper on Housman's 'New Child's Guide to Knowledge'] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'The rest of the evening was devoted to the works of Laurence Housman. Most of the members had seen & heard Mr Housman... | Henry Marriage Wallis | Laurence Housman | Englishwoman's Love-letters, An | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'The rest of the evening was devoted to the works of Laurence Housman. Most of the members had seen & heard Mr Housman... | Reginald Robson | Laurence Housman | New Child's Guide to Knowledge | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown |
| | 'Mins of last meeting read & signed' | Ernest E. Unwin | Ernest E. Unwin | [minutes of XII Book Club] | Manuscript: book |
| | 'The subject of the evening was L.P. Jacks. A few moments sufficed to pool our information as to the man. Too late the... | Ernest E. Unwin | Harold Begbie | [book of 'backstairs biographies'] | Print: Book |
| | 'The subject of the evening was L.P. Jacks. A few moments sufficed to pool our information as to the man. Too late the... | Ernest E. Unwin | L.P. Jacks | 'Macbeth and Bangus upon the blasted heath' | Print: Book |
| | 'The subject of the evening was L.P. Jacks. A few moments sufficed to pool our information as to the man. Too late the... | Ernest E. Unwin | L.P. Jacks | ['Snarley Bob' tales] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Amid several warmly appreciative judgements came a frank note from St. John Ervine, who wrote that my book had entire... | St. John Ervine | Vera Brittain | Testament of Youth | 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... | Francis Pollard | Anatole France | La Reine Pedauque | 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... | Reginald Robson | Anatole France | Penguin Island | 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... | Katherine Evans | Anatole France | Garden of Epicures, 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... | Helen Rawlings | Anatole France | Life of Joan of Arc, The | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Mr Burrow then introduced John Masefield's work setting out the little publicly known of his life following with a sh... | Henry Marriage Wallis | John Masefield | Gallipoli | |
| 1900-1945 | 'Mr Burrow then introduced John Masefield's work setting out the little publicly known of his life following with a sh... | Florence Reynolds | John Masefield | 'Tewkesbury Road' | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Mr Burrow then introduced John Masefield's work setting out the little publicly known of his life following with a sh... | Florence Reynolds | John Masefield | 'Beauty' | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Mr Burrow then introduced John Masefield's work setting out the little publicly known of his life following with a sh... | Florence Reynolds | John Masefield | 'I Went into the Fields' | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Mr Burrow then introduced John Masefield's work setting out the little publicly known of his life following with a sh... | Florence Reynolds | John Masefield | 'Laugh and be Merry' | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Mr Burrow then introduced John Masefield's work setting out the little publicly known of his life following with a sh... | Florence Reynolds | John Masefield | 'By a Bierside' | 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... | Reginald Robson | Arthur Quiller-Couch | 'Once aboard the lugger' | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Mr Robson then gave us some short notes on Sir A.T. Quiller Couch and read us his short story "Once aboard the lugger... | Henry Marriage Wallis | Arthur Quiller-Couch | [a short story] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Mr Robson then gave us some short notes on Sir A.T. Quiller Couch and read us his short story "Once aboard the lugger... | Henry Marriage Wallis | Arthur Quiller-Couch | [a poem] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Mr Robson then gave us some short notes on Sir A.T. Quiller Couch and read us his short story "Once aboard the lugger... | Henry Marriage Wallis | Arthur Quiller-Couch | | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | [following journal entry for 19 February 1889]
'That evening [Lady Charlotte Schreiber's] youngest daughter, Blanch... | Blanche Countess of Bessborough | Henry Layard | article on Lord Beaconsfield | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | 'Mr Geo Burrow read a paper on George Sand indicating her semi-patrician origin & the County surroundings in which she... | Florence E. Reynolds | George Sand | Countess of Rudolfstadt, The | 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... | Henry Marriage Wallis | Sabine Baring-Gould | John Herring | 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... | Francis Pollard | Sabine Baring-Gould | Strange Survivals and Superstitions | 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... | Henry Marriage Wallis | Sabine Baring-Gould | | 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 rest of the evening was devoted to Anthony Trollope. C.E. Stansfield read an amusing passage from Dr Thorne. H.M.... | Reginald Robson | Anthony Trollope | Warden, The | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The rest of the evening was devoted to Anthony Trollope. C.E. Stansfield read an amusing passage from Dr Thorne. H.M.... | Francis Pollard | Anthony Trollope | Three Clerks, The | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The rest of the evening was devoted to Anthony Trollope. C.E. Stansfield read an amusing passage from Dr Thorne. H.M.... | Francis Pollard | Francis Pollard | [essay on Trollope] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'The rest of the evening was devoted to Anthony Trollope. C.E. Stansfield read an amusing passage from Dr Thorne. H.M.... | Henry Marriage Wallis | Henry Marriage Wallis | [essay on Trollope, with extracts from his works] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'The rest of the evening was devoted to Anthony Trollope. C.E. Stansfield read an amusing passage from Dr Thorne. H.M.... | Henry Marriage Wallis | Anthony Trollope | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The rest of the evening was devoted to Anthony Trollope. C.E. Stansfield read an amusing passage from Dr Thorne. H.M.... | Francis Pollard | Anthony Trollope | | 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 Club then turned its attention to Mark Rutherford. Mr Burrow gave some outline of Hale White [sic] life telling u... | Katherine Evans | Mark Rutherford [pseud.] | Series of Character Sketches | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The Club then turned its attention to Mark Rutherford. Mr Burrow gave some outline of Hale White [sic] life telling u... | Florence Reynolds | Mark Rutherford [pseud.] | Catharine Furze | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The Club then turned its attention to Mark Rutherford. Mr Burrow gave some outline of Hale White [sic] life telling u... | Constance Burrow | Mark Rutherford [pseud.] | Mark Rutherford's Deliverance | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'H.R. Smith then gave some account of Lord Byron's Life. Mrs Burrough [sic] read part of Mazzeppa [sic]. C.E Stansfiel... | Reginald Robson | George Gordon, Lord Byron | 'Isles of Greece, The' | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'H.R. Smith then gave some account of Lord Byron's Life. Mrs Burrough [sic] read part of Mazzeppa [sic]. C.E Stansfiel... | Francis Pollard | George Gordon, Lord Byron | Giaour, The | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'H.R. Smith then gave some account of Lord Byron's Life. Mrs Burrough [sic] read part of Mazzeppa [sic]. C.E Stansfiel... | Reginald Robson | George Gordon, Lord Byron | Childe Harold's Pilgrimage | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'R.H. Robson opened the subject of Joan of Arc by giving a historical sketch of her life & then attempting to "Put her... | Katherine Evans | Thomas de Quincey | Joan of Arc | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The evening's subject of William de Morgan was introduced by Geo Burrow who gave some account of his life drawing att... | Helen Rawlings | William de Morgan | Joseph Vance | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The evening's subject of William de Morgan was introduced by Geo Burrow who gave some account of his life drawing att... | Reginald Robson | William de Morgan | Alice for Short | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The evening's subject of William de Morgan was introduced by Geo Burrow who gave some account of his life drawing att... | Francis Pollard | William de Morgan | [novels] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'F.E. Pollard gave some account of Walt Whitman's Life indicating the variety of livelyhood [sic] & of expression whic... | Francis Pollard | Walt Whitman | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'F.E. Pollard gave some account of Walt Whitman's Life indicating the variety of livelyhood [sic] & of expression whic... | Reginald Robson | Walt Whitman | | 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... | Rosamund Wallis | Rosamund Wallis | [paper on Anglo-India and Forster] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'The subject of Forster's "A Passage to India" was then taken Rosamund Wallis reading a notable paper on the problem o... | Francis Pollard | Francis Pollard | [paper on Forster's 'A Passage to India'] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'The subject of Forster's "A Passage to India" was then taken Rosamund Wallis reading a notable paper on the problem o... | Francis Pollard | Edward Morgan Forster | Passage to India, A | 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... | Rosamund Wallis | Edward Morgan Forster | Passage to India, A | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The subject for the evening Herman Melville was then proceeded with & R.H. Robson gave a short account of his life fo... | Katherine Evans | Herman Melville | Moby Dick | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The subject for the evening Hugh Walpole was then taken F.E. Pollard giving us a brief outline of the writer's life. ... | Reginald Robson | Hugh Walpole | Cathedral, The | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The subject of Wm Blake was then taken Geo Burrow giving us some account of the Poet Painters life & method. Mrs Evan... | Katherine Evans | William Blake | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The subject of Wm Blake was then taken Geo Burrow giving us some account of the Poet Painters life & method. Mrs Evan... | Francis Pollard | | [catalogue of Blake's canterbury Pilgrims pictures] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The subject of Mrs Gaskell was then taken & Chas E. Stansfield gave an interesting account of her life & work. Follow... | Katherine Evans | Elizabeth Gaskell | Life of Charlotte Bronte, The | Print: Book |
| 1600-1699 1700-1799 | Quoted from 'one of Sir Walter Scott's works of biography', in chapter entitled 'Oroonoko':
'"The editor was acquai... | anon | Aphra Behn | [?]Oroonoko | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Quoted from 'one of Sir Walter Scott's works of biography', in chapter entitled 'Oroonoko':
'"The editor was acquai... | anon | Aphra Behn | [?]Oroonoko | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | '"Evelina" fascinated everyone. Burke began it one morning at seven, and sat up all night to
finish it. Sir Joshua R... | Edmund Burke | Frances Burney | Evelina, or a Young Lady's Entrance into the World | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'In 1782 "Cecilia" [...] made its appearance [...] Burke called it an extraordinary performance,
and the public were... | Edmund Burke | Frances Burney | Cecilia | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'We must not judge [Ann Radcliffe's novels], now that the taste in which they were written is
exhausted and palled, ... | Edmund Burke | Ann Radcliffe | novels | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'We must not judge [Ann Radcliffe's novels], now that the taste in which they were written is
exhausted and palled, ... | Richard Brinsley Sheridan | Ann Radcliffe | novels | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'With the accomplished and honourable family of the Kembles [Elizabeth Inchbald] was long on
terms of close intimacy... | John Philip Kemble | | | Print: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 1800-1849 | 'We know comparatively little of [Jane Austen's] literary tastes. Some are peculiar. Her fondness
for the gentle, cl... | Jane Austen | Cowper | | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 1800-1849 | 'We know comparatively little of [Jane Austen's] literary tastes. Some are peculiar. Her fondness
for the gentle, cl... | Jane Austen | Samuel Johnson | Prose writings | Print: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 1800-1849 | 'We know comparatively little of [Jane Austen's] literary tastes. Some are peculiar. Her fondness
for the gentle, cl... | Jane Austen | Henry Fielding | | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 1800-1849 | 'We know comparatively little of [Jane Austen's] literary tastes. Some are peculiar. Her fondness
for the gentle, cl... | Jane Austen | Samuel Richardson | Sir Charles Grandison | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 1800-1849 | '[Jane Austen] talked freely of her works among her friends, listened to criticism with patient
docility, and read h... | Jane Austen | Jane Austen | fiction writings | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Aaron Hill to Samuel Richardson, 1 June 1730:
'It pleases me, but does not surprise me at all, that your sentiments... | Aaron Hill | John Milton | Prose writings | Print: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | Aaron Hill to Samuel Richardson, 14 April 1737:
'I thank you for the pleasure I have received from Leonidas, which ... | Aaron Hill | | Leonidas | Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | Aaron Hill to Samuel Richardson, 6 July 1738:
'I will carefully and speedily return the folio with which you so kin... | Aaron Hill | | 'folio' | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Aaron Hill to Samuel Richardson, 17 December 1740:
'You have agreeably deceived me into a surprise, which it will b... | Aaron Hill | Samuel Richardson | Pamela | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Aaron Hill to Samuel Richardson, 29 December 1740:
'We have a lively little boy in the family [...] quite unfriende... | Aaron Hill | Samuel Richardson | Pamela | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Aaron Hill to Samuel Richardson, 13 April 1741:
'I am so hid among green leaves and blossoms, that I read or see no... | Aaron Hill | | newspapers | Print: Newspaper |
| 1700-1799 | Aaron Hill to Samuel Richardson, 15 October 1741:
'A thousand thanks are due to you for the two delightful sheets o... | Aaron Hill | Samuel Richardson | Pamela (two sheets from part II) | Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | Aaron Hill to Samuel Richardson, 13 October 1746, on a past conversation with Alexander Pope on the sublime in poetry:... | anon | | 'lines to the earl of Oxford' | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Edward Young to Samuel Richardson, 10 December 1745:
'Caroline [?wife] begs her best requests to Mrs Richardson and... | Caroline [?Young] | Hervey | Meditations [?Among the Tombs] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | [Miss] J. Collier to Samuel Richardson, 4 October 1748:
'I have been further considering of that part in Mrs Fieldi... | J[?ane] Collier | Sarah Fielding | The Governess | Print: Unknown, In proof |
| 1700-1799 | [Miss] J. Collier to Samuel Richardson, 13 April 1749:
'I return you my thanks for the play you sent me; and by wha... | J[?ane] Collier | | 'play' | Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 19 January 1751:
'I was sorry the other day to see a Rambler (though a good o... | Catherine Talbot | [N/A] | Rambler | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1700-1799 | Catherine Talbot to Eliazbeth Carter, 29 February 1751:
'Indeed one is terrified at the growing profligacy of the age... | Catherine Talbot | Fielding | [?The] Patriot | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, in response to Carter's attack on the perceived misogyny of Richardson's 'Ramble... | Catherine Talbot | Samuel Richardson | 'Rambler' [essay] | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1700-1799 | Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 8 June 1751:
'There is a paper called "The Idler," that I cannot commend on t... | Catherine Talbot | | The Idler | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1700-1799 | Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 15 July 1751:
'I am deep in the Memoires of the Duc de Sully, and exceedingly... | Catherine Talbot | Duc de Sully | Memoirs | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 16 August 1751:
'I am still bewitched by the "Memoires de Sully" [...] I know... | Catherine Talbot | Maximilien de Bethune de Sully | Memoirs | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 24 October 1751:
'I am sick of all human greatness and activity, and so would... | Catherine Talbot | Bernard de Montfaucon | French Antiquities | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 23 December 1751:
'Do you know the Grandison family? [...] Oh, Miss Carter, d... | Catherine Talbot | Samuel Richardson | Sir Charles Grandison | Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 23 December 1751:
'I want to talk to you of Fontanelle's Plays, have you seen... | Catherine Talbot | Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle | Plays | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 14 March 1752:
'I have begun reading a book which promises some laughing amus... | Catherine Talbot | Charlotte Lennox | The Female Quixote | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 14 March 1752:
'I have begun reading a book which promises some laughing amus... | Martin Benson | Henry Fielding | Amelia (volumes 1 and 2) | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 22 April 1752:
'I thank you for your offer of sending me Miss Mulso's verses,... | Catherine Talbot | Hester Mulso | verses | Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter [c. July 1752, following illness with fever]:
'What have I been doing since I ... | Catherine Talbot | | 'Arlequin' | Print: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter [c. July 1752, following illness with fever]:
'What have I been doing since I ... | Catherine Talbot | | 'Princess Mesirida' | Print: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter [c. July 1752, following illness with fever]:
'What have I been doing since I ... | Catherine Talbot | Con. [Teresia Constantia] Phillips | An Apology for the Conduct of Mrs. T. C. Phillips | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter [c. July 1752, following illness with fever]:
'What have I been doing since I ... | Catherine Talbot | William Chaigneau | The History of Jack Connor | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter [c. July 1752]:
'I never answered you about the authoress of certain Miscellan... | Catherine Talbot | Mary Jones | Miscellanies in Prose and Verse | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 17 December 1752:
'Did I ever tell you I was reading Madame de Maintenon's Le... | Catherine Talbot | Françoise d'Aubigné de Maintenon | Letters | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 21 July 1753:
'I scarce know a greater pleasure than reading over a book one ... | Catherine Talbot | Elizabeth Singer Rowe | | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 21 July 1753:
'I scarce know a greater pleasure than reading over a book one ... | Catherine Talbot | | 'Vision' | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1700-1799 | Elizabeth Carter to Catherine Talbot, 14 February 1754:
'Did you ever read a little French book called Theorie des ... | anon | Louis-Jean Lévesque de Pouilly | Theorie des sentimens agréables | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 16 March 1754:
'"Theorie des Sentimens Agreables" I have read some years ago,... | Catherine Talbot | Louis-Jean Lévesque de Pouilly | Theorie des sentimens agreables | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 10 June 1754:
'I will send you a sonnet that I am extremely fond of, from no ... | Catherine Talbot | Carlo Maria Maggi | Sonnet 'Care dell'alma stanca Albengatrici...' | Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 10 June 1754:
'Your cousin [Richard Owen] Cambridge has writ many lively pape... | Catherine Talbot | Richard Owen Cambridge | papers (i.e. essays) | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1700-1799 | Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 19 August 1754:
'I was much pleased the other day in reading a system of mora... | Catherine Talbot | David Fordyce | Elements of Moral Philosophy | Print: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 26 November 1754:
'I was going one day to have writ to you in a hurry to ask ... | Catherine Talbot | Anthony Ashley Cooper | Characterisks of Men, Manners, Times, Opinions, [volume 1]. | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 26 November 1754:
'Yes, I did read the "Cry" last spring, but was too much ou... | Catherine Talbot | Sarah Fielding | The Cry | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 27 December 1754:
'I cannot help being so ungenteel as to send you the good w... | Catherine Talbot | | The World, No. CIV | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1700-1799 | Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 23 January 1755:
'Dr Dalton [i.e a volume of his poetry] is coming, but he ha... | Catherine Talbot | | 'volumes of Stoic philosophy' | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'He did not mention that as a prisoner he himself had written an autobiography, of which H. N. Brailsford was to comme... | Henry Noel Brailsford | Jawaharlal Nehru | Towards Freedom | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'K.S. Evans assisted [her husband's discussion of superstition] by reading from Walter Raymond's "The Book of Simple D... | Katherine Evans | Walter Raymond | The Book of Simple Delights | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Letters & Letter writing were then proceeded with.
Mrs Burrow read three letters of William Cowper characteristica... | Katherine Evans | Robert Louis Stevenson | [letters] | Print: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'Letters & Letter writing were then proceeded with.
Mrs Burrow read three letters of William Cowper characteristica... | Francis Pollard | George Bernard Shaw | [letter to Mrs Patrick Campbell] | Print: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'Letters & Letter writing were then proceeded with.
Mrs Burrow read three letters of William Cowper characteristica... | Francis Pollard | James Matthew Barrie | [letter to Mrs Patrick Campbell] | Print: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'The subject of Chas Reade & his work was then taken. H. R. Smith gave some description of Reade's life & Mrs Pollard ... | Francis Pollard | Charles Reade | [novels] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | [Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 7 February 1755:]
'There is a whole shoal of new books. The Centaur, well wo... | Catherine Talbot | | Man: A Paper for Ennobling the Species | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1700-1799 | [Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 13 April 1756:]
'I have been running about sadly since I wrote to you last, ... | anon | Thomas Newton | Dissertations on the Prophecies, Which Have Remarkably Been Fulfilled, And Are Being Fulfilled | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | [Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 13 April 1756:]
'Have you seen the reflections, maxims, and characters moral... | Catherine Talbot | Fulke Greville | Reflections, maxims, and characters, moral, critical, and satirical | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | [Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 7 May 1756:]
'Has Mr Johnson sent you his new edition of Sir Thomas Browne's... | Catherine Talbot | Thomas Browne | Christian Morals | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | [Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 29 July 1757:]
'My mother's passion is feeding chickens, in this too I share... | Catherine Talbot | Sarah Fielding | The Lives of Cleopatra and Octavia | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | [Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter [1758] following stay in London with Carter:]
'I have looked in Dodsley, to s... | Catherine Talbot | Robert Dodsley | The Ladies' Memorandum Book | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1700-1799 | [Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 15 August 1758, following Talbot's stepfather's appointment as Archbishop of Ca... | Catherine Talbot | Ben Jonson | | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | [Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 15 August 1758, following Talbot's stepfather's appointment as Archbishop of Ca... | Catherine Talbot | Pierre de Marivaux | Le Spectateur Francois | Print: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | [Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, during convalescence from illness, 1 January 1759:]
'I have run over a heap ... | Catherine Talbot | | 'ridiculous French books' | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | [Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 1 November 1759:]
'I thank you for the Barrow, and in idle hours, for the Fr... | Catherine Talbot | | 'French plays' | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The Club then listened to a variety of readings from modern poets as follows:
A Rawlings Extracts from "The Art of... | Katherine Evans | Colin D. B. Ellis | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The Club then listened to a variety of readings from modern poets as follows:
A Rawlings Extracts from "The Art of... | Reginald Robson | J. C. Squires | [poem possibly entitled 'Birds'] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The Club then listened to a variety of readings from modern poets as follows:
A Rawlings Extracts from "The Art of... | Francis Pollard | Siegfried Sassoon | [poems] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Mrs Rawlings read from Polo's description of the Great Khan.' | Helen Rawlings | Marco Polo | Travels of Marco Polo | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The subject of the evening "Gardens" was then taken. Geo Burrow reminded us that the world began in the garden of Ede... | Rosamund Wallis | William Temple | [on gardens] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The subject of the Forsyte Saga was then introduced by Charles E. Stansfield with a reading from the introduction. Th... | Katherine S. Evans | John Galsworthy | Indian Summer of a Forsyte | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The subject of the Forsyte Saga was then introduced by Charles E. Stansfield with a reading from the introduction. Th... | Janet Rawlings | John Galsworthy | In Chancery | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The subject of the Forsyte Saga was then introduced by Charles E. Stansfield with a reading from the introduction. Th... | Rosamund Wallis | John Galsworthy | Awakening | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The subject of the Forsyte Saga was then introduced by Charles E. Stansfield with a reading from the introduction. Th... | Francis Pollard | John Galsworthy | To Let | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The subject of Tolstoy & his works was then taken. R. H. Robson gave a brief outline of his life. T. C. Elliott gave ... | Francis Pollard | Leo Tolstoy | [essay on the Russian Famine] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The subject of Voltaire was then taken. H. R. Smith gave an outline of his life. Mrs Robson read the Hermits Tale fro... | Katherine Evans | Voltaire [pseud.] | Letters on England | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The subject of Voltaire was then taken. H. R. Smith gave an outline of his life. Mrs Robson read the Hermits Tale fro... | Francis Pollard | Voltaire [pseud.] | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'F. E. Pollard read an article on Thos Hardy by Arnold Bennett S. A. Reynold [sic] spoke on Hardy's country with books... | Francis Pollard | Arnold Bennett | [article on Hardy] | Print: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'F. E. Pollard read an article on Thos Hardy by Arnold Bennett S. A. Reynold [sic] spoke on Hardy's country with books... | Reginald Robson | Thomas Hardy | Far from the Madding Crowd | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'F. E. Pollard read an article on Thos Hardy by Arnold Bennett S. A. Reynold [sic] spoke on Hardy's country with books... | Helen Rawlings | Thomas Hardy | Return of the Native, The | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'F. E. Pollard read an article on Thos Hardy by Arnold Bennett S. A. Reynold [sic] spoke on Hardy's country with books... | Muriel Bowman Smith | Thomas Hardy | Mayor of Casterbridge, The | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | [Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 6 January 1760, following illness:]
'Now I am well [...] as my mornings are ... | Catherine Talbot | Epictetus | Ode | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | [Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 31 January 1760:]
'For want of other nonsense books, I am reading an Italian... | Catherine Talbot | Euripides | The Phoenician Women | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | [Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 31 January 1760:]
'For want of other nonsense books, I am reading an Italian... | Catherine Talbot | Euripides | Medea | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | [Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 31 January 1760:]
'For want of other nonsense books, I am reading an Italian... | Catherine Talbot | Euripides | Orestes | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | [Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 31 January 1760:]
'For want of other nonsense books, I am reading an Italian... | Catherine Talbot | Euripides | Hecuba | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | [Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 17 April 1760:]
'As you was, upon the whole, I believe, very determined to g... | Catherine Talbot | Roger Boyle | Parthenissa | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | [Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 8 May 1760:]
'To-day I have been reading with due wrath and abomination "Le ... | Catherine Talbot | King Frederick of Prussia | Oeuvres du philosophe de Sans-Souci | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | [Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 17 September 1760:]
'I have picked up a very strange [book], but which, with... | Catherine Talbot | Daniel Defoe | The Family Instructor | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | [Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 9 June 1761:]
'Did you ever chance to see Orinda's Letters? They are rather ... | Catherine Talbot | Katherine Phillips | Letters (as 'Orinda') | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | [Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 9 June 1761:]
'My dear Mr Hanway has published two volumes at last, which yo... | Catherine Talbot | Jonas Hanway | 'two volumes' | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | [Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 1 August 1761:]
'I am ashamed to say I have not yet sent La Mort d'Abel to M... | Catherine Talbot | Salomon Gessner | La Mort d'Abel | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | [Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 1 September 1762:]
'Thank my stars, I have torn it this minute all to bits! ... | Catherine Talbot | George Lord Lyttelton | The Vision | Print: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | [Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 1 September 1762:]
'Yesterday evening we were entertained by one of the nobl... | Catherine Talbot | Edward Young | | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | [Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 26 April 1763:]
'Your Carlo Maggi, were he not such a horrible papist, is a ... | Catherine Talbot | Carlo Maggi | 'Prologue to a comedy of Plautus' | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | [Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 26 April 1763:]
'Your Carlo Maggi, were he not such a horrible papist, is a ... | Catherine Talbot | Carlo Maggi | Letters to Rosa | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | [Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 14 May 1763:]
'Some of [Carlo Maggi's] prose is delightful. Pray do not read... | Catherine Talbot | Carlo Maggi | 'the Death of Adam' | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | [Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 21 July 1763:]
'I am curious to know whether you have at Spa (as at all plac... | Catherine Talbot | Frances Brooke | The History of Lady Julia Mandeville | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | [Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 22 September 1763:]
'The sickliness of the season has a little affected us h... | Catherine Talbot | Epictetus | | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | [Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 1 October 1763:]
'The physical [i.e. medical] book I am studying at present ... | Catherine Talbot | | treatise 'sur la gaiete' | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | [Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 1 October 1763:]
'The physical [i.e. medical] book I am studying at present ... | Catherine Talbot | John Jortin | Life of Erasmus | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | [Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 28 November 1763:]
'I have long owed you my thanks, dear Miss Carter, for en... | Catherine Talbot | ?Elizabeth ?Carter | sonnet | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | [Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 28 November 1763:]
'I have been reading French books lately that represent u... | Catherine Talbot | | 'French books' | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | [Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 28 November 1763:]
'Shall I send your subscription copy of the Messiah, or k... | Catherine Talbot | Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock | Messiah | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | [Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, during stay in Canterbury, 12 February 1764:]
'I brought with me Hurd's Dial... | Catherine Talbot | Edward Kimber | Maria; The genuine memoirs of an admired lady of rank and fortune, and of some of her friends | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | [Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 17 August 1764:]
'Pray has Mrs M. got one of Mr Walpole's Memoirs of Lord He... | Catherine Talbot | Horace Walpole | Memoirs of Lord Herbert of Cherbury | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | [Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 25 June 1765:]
'The book I am happiest in reading at present, is a volume of... | Catherine Talbot | Robert Leighton | Sermons | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | [Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 25 November 1765:]
'Abp. Leighton's works are great favourites with me at pr... | Catherine Talbot | Robert Leighton | Works including 'Exposition of the Lord's Prayer' | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | [Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 12 June 1766:]
'I have been reading your third volume of Peruvians with plea... | Catherine Talbot | ?Thomas Simon ?Gueullette | ?Peruvian Tales (vol 3) | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | [Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 12 June 1766:]
'I have been reading your third volume of Peruvians with plea... | Catherine Talbot | Charles Morrell | The Tales of the Genii | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | [Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 23 August 1766:]
'I have read Zaide, which I do not admire, as it is calcula... | Catherine Talbot | ?Jean ?de la Chapelle | Zaide | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | [Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 23 August 1766:]
'I have just been reading a book, lately published, which I... | Catherine Talbot | James Fordyce | Sermons to Young Women | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | [Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 3 September 1766:]
'Little puss is sitting by me on a huge folio of popish s... | Catherine Talbot | Pedro de Ribadeneira | ?Flos Sanctorum | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | [Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 24 September 1766:]
'Pray ask Mrs Montagu if she hears any thing in Newcastl... | Catherine Talbot | | Account of 'Mrs Wilson's' visit to New York | Print: Newspaper |
| 1700-1799 | [Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 10 October 1767:]
'Pray, pray get on as fast as you can with your Arabic, th... | Catherine Talbot | Muhammad al-Qasim ibn Ali ibn Muhammad ibn Uthman al-Hariri | Six assemblies; or, ingenious conversations of learned men among the Arabians | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 10 October 1767:
'Pray, pray get on as fast as you can with your Arabic, that... | Catherine Talbot | Bodmer Johann Jakob | Noah. Attempted from the German of Mr. Bodmer. In twelve books. | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | [Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 31 May 1768:]
'This day I finish Pharamond: is Mrs Sutton still in town, tha... | Catherine Talbot | Gautier de Costes de la Calprenède | Pharamond; or the History of France | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | [Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 31 May 1768:]
'This day I finish Pharamond: is Mrs Sutton still in town, tha... | Catherine Talbot | Rene Aubert de Vertot | Histoire des Chevaliers hospitaliers de S. Jean de Jerusalem | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | [Elizabeth Carter to Catherine Talbot, 26 July 1768, following expressions of concern over illness of Talbot's stepfat... | anon | | report of illness of Archbishop of Canterbury | Print: Newspaper |
| 1700-1799 | [Elizabeth Carter to Elizabeth Vesey, 13 November 1769:]
'My sister and all her family are with me at present, amon... | anon | | | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | [Thomas Edwards to Samuel Richardson, 31 March 1753:]
'I cannot help mentioning to you, because I know it will give... | anon | Samuel Richardson | Clarissa | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | [Anne Donnellan to Samuel Richardson, 14 July 1750:]
'I have received infinite pleasure, and something better, from... | Anne Donnellan | Samuel Richardson | Clarissa | Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | [Anne Donnellan to Samuel Richardson, 14 July 1750:]
'I am also much obliged to you for the little book, which seem... | Anne Donnellan | | 'Psalms' | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | [Anne Donnellan to Samuel Richardson, 14 July 1750:]
'I must also thank you for the canons of Mr Warburton's antago... | Anne Donnellan | Thomas Edwards | Canons of Criticism | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | [Anne Donnellan to Samuel Richardson, 14 July 1750:]
'I have admired Clarissa, and wept with her. I have loved Miss... | Anne Donnellan | Samuel Richardson | Clarissa | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Anne Donnellan to Samuel Richardson, 11 February 1752:
'Who the author of Betsy Thoughtless is, I don't know, but h... | Anne Donnellan | Eliza Haywood | The History of Miss Betsy Thoughtless | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Anne Donnellan to Samuel Richardson, 9 November 1752:
'I should talk a little of the pleasure I had had in reading ... | Anne Donnellan | Samuel Richardson | Sir Charles Grandison | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | Frances Sheridan to Samuel Richardson, 18 December 1757:
'I have seen some extracts from the History of the Magdale... | Frances Sheridan | unknown | History of the Magdalens (extracts) | Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'During the interval of waiting, my mind dwelt on the evidences of his mental development during recent months; the ma... | John Catlin | William Blake | Book of Urizen | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | [From letter to Clement Shorter from the niece of John Nunn:]
'In 1857 I was staying with Mr Nunn at Thorndon, in S... | anon | Elizabeth Gaskell | Life of Charlotte Bronte | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Charlotte Bronte to her schoolfriend Ellen Nussey, 1 January 1833:]
'I am glad you like "Kenilworth"; it is certai... | Ellen Nussey | Walter Scott | Kenilworth | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Branwell Bronte to the Editor of Blackwood's Magazine, asking to be considered as a
contributor, [7] December 1835:... | Branwell Bronte | James Hogg | | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | [Branwell Bronte to the Editor of Blackwood's Magazine, asking to be considered as a
contributor, [7] December 1835:... | Branwell Bronte | | Blackwood's Magazine | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | Branwell Bronte to Francis H. Grundy, 9 June 1842:
'Mr James Montgomery and another literary gentleman who have lat... | anon | Branwell Bronte | | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | [George Henry Lewes to Elizabeth Gaskell:]
'When Jane Eyre first appeared, the publishers courteously sent me a cop... | George Henry Lewes | Charlotte Bronte | Jane Eyre | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Charlotte Bronte (as 'Currer Bell') to her publisher, W. S. Williams, 11 December 1847:]
'There are moments when I... | Sir John Herschel | Charlotte Bronte | Jane Eyre | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Charlotte Bronte (as 'Currer Bell') to her publisher, W. S. Williams, 11 December 1847:]
'There are moments when I... | James Henry Leigh Hunt | Charlotte Bronte | Jane Eyre | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 1850-1899 | [A former pupil of Cowan Bridge School, Yorkshire (the model for 'Lowood' in Jane Eyre), to
Charlotte Bronte's wi... | Anon | Charlotte Bronte | Jane Eyre | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '... at about half past two walking up Oxford Street I saw Bumpus's, the famous bookshop. There was an exhibition on t... | Cyril Lionel Robert James | John Locke | | Manuscript: Manuscript notebook. |
| 1900-1945 | 'We reached his room about eleven. To do what? Not a blessed thing but to sit before a fire and talk and read again...... | Cyril Lionel Robert James | Edmond Rostand | Cyrano de Bergerac | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'When I reached home someone had dropped a letter in the box telling me to come over on Sunday between eleven and twel... | Cyril Lionel Robert James | Luigi Pirandello | Six Characters in Search of an Author | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The tent flaps were laced over, the rain had ceased, the guns were silent and Jimmy Harding lay motionless. I ate slo... | Edwin Stephen Campion Vaughan | Alexander Smith | "Barbara" | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'A scene was then read from The Lamentable Tragedy of Arden of Faversham T. C. Elliot taking the part of Arden[.] S A ... | Sylvanus Reynolds | anon | Arden of Faversham | |
| 1900-1945 | The Club was then much impressed by a reading from Christopher Marlows Doctor Faustus parted as under
Thos. C Elliot... | Reginald H. Robson | Christopher Marlowe | Doctor Faustus | Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'We are to make roads for the next few days. Out occasionally on work parties. Those officers not on duty all stayed i... | Robert Lindsay Mackay | | | Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'Dined with 'A' Company. Read the Browning Love Letters at night, in bed. Disappointed, though not displeased. Felt I ... | Robert Lindsay Mackay | Robert Browning | The Letters of Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Church parade. Cricket against Royal Scots. Did rather well. Won by 1 run. Reading the Browning Love letters in my sp... | Robert Lindsay Mackay | Robert Browning | The Letters of Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Out training signallers and observers. The former very efficient, the latter the very reverse. We are to move on the ... | Robert Lindsay Mackay | Gene Stratton-Porter | Michael O'Halloran: A Novel | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | There followed an amusing passage from Ben Jonsons Silent Woman with C I Evans as Morose Geo Burrow as Mute & R H Robs... | Reginald H. Robson | Ben Jonson | Epicoene, or the Silent Woman | Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'I've read so many descriptions in newspapers of the ruin and desolation caused in this war. Famous literary men have ... | Robert Lindsay Mackay | Gilbert Frankau | | Print: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'Sunday 12th. August. Church parade. New minister. Rather enjoyed the sermon. Easy afternoon. Finished Vol. 1 of the B... | Robert Lindsay Mackay | Robert Browning | The Letters of Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '16th. October. Thrown out at Shorncliffe, above Folkestone. Very stormy day with heavy seas running. Informed that th... | Robert Lindsay Mackay | James Shirley | 'Death the Leveller' | Print: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'Bn. moved into Left sector. Macleod came back to "details" for a rest, and I went in as a/adjutant. Weather wet and c... | Robert Lindsay Mackay | | [telegrams, letters, and reports] | Print: BookManuscript: Letter, Sheet |
| 1900-1945 | 'Meant to go to church, but couldn't find it, so had a fine lazy day instead. Read Browning.' | Robert Lindsay Mackay | Robert Browning | The Letters of Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett | Print: BookManuscript: Letter, Sheet |
| 1900-1945 | 'Finished the Browning Letters - one of the biggest feats of the war! It has taken a tremendous effort of will on my p... | Robert Lindsay Mackay | Robert Browning | The Letters of Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Saw most exciting smash of an aeroplane against the buildings and tents of the 13th. Squadron R.F.C. Machine turned t... | Robert Lindsay Mackay | Herbert George Wells | Ann Veronica | Print: BookManuscript: Letter, Sheet |
| 1900-1945 | 'Sunday 17th. Am pretty sure I will get back to the Battalion soon. Went to St. Pol, had lunch, bought some books. Sto... | Robert Lindsay Mackay | Edward Verrall Lucas | Mr. Ingleside | Print: BookManuscript: Letter, Sheet |
| 1900-1945 | 'April 1st. 1918. We came out of the line at night. Back to Arras. H.Q. in cellars in the Hotel de Ville, or Town Hall... | Robert Lindsay Mackay | Henry Jones | ?Browning as a Philosophical and Religious Teacher | Print: BookManuscript: Letter, Sheet |
| 1900-1945 | 'Tried stout for lunch. At 10 p.m. had stout and strawberries and cream given me (after it was dark) by two of the sis... | Robert Lindsay Mackay | | ['some novels'] | Print: BookManuscript: Letter, Sheet |
| 1900-1945 | 'Grouped into platoons. Lectures. Finished "Soldier Poets".' | Robert Lindsay Mackay | | Soldier Poets: Songs of the Fighting Men | Print: BookManuscript: Letter, Sheet |
| 1900-1945 | 'F. E. Pollard gave a short introduction to the play of The Two Noble Kinsmen and in the ensuing reading took the part... | Francis Pollard | William Shakespeare | The Two Noble Kinsmen | |
| 1900-1945 | F. E. Pollard gave a short introduction to the play of The Two Noble Kinsmen and in the ensuing reading took the part ... | Katharine S. Evans | Shakespeare and Fletcher | The Two Noble Kinsmen | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | H. M. Wallis delighted us with an account of War Time Tree fellings
| Henry Marriage Wallis | Henry Marriage Wallis | War Time Tree Fellings | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'January 3rd. Cloudy day. Went with Col Pasteurs to look over the French Hospital at the Imperial Hotel. Read the "Dec... | Martin Wentworth Littlewood | Edward Gibbon | The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'April 22nd ... Various souvenirs in the Officers Mess. A work on vegetal medicine & a fat and amiable Hun dog that ha... | Martin Wentworth Littlewood | | The Daily Mail | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | 'April 22nd ... Various souvenirs in the Officers Mess. A work on vegetal medicine & a fat and amiable Hun dog that ha... | Martin Wentworth Littlewood | | [A work on vegetal medicine] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'A Meeting held at 9 Denmark Rd 13/11/1928 F. E. Pollard in the chair
1. Minutes of last read and approved<... | Reginald H. Robson | Reginald H. Robson | The Abolition of the House of Commons | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'A meeting held at School House 4/12/28 T. C. Elliott in the chair
1 Minutes of the last read and approved<... | Sylvanus A. Reynolds | William Shakespeare | The Tempest | Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'A meeting held at School House 4/12/28 T. C. Elliott in the chair
1 Minutes of the last read and approved<... | Reginald H. Robson | William Shakespeare | The Tempest | Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'A meeting held at School House 4/12/28 T. C. Elliott in the chair
1 Minutes of the last read and approved<... | Rosamund Wallis | William Shakespeare | The Tempest | Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'A meeting held at School House 4/12/28 T. C. Elliott in the chair
1 Minutes of the last read and approved<... | Helen Rawlings | William Shakespeare | The Tempest | Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'A Meeting held at Whinfell 21/1/29 Alfred Rawlings in the chair
1. Minutes of last time read and approved<... | Janet Rawlings | Plato | The Republic | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'A Meeting held at Whinfell 21/1/29 Alfred Rawlings in the chair
1. Minutes of last time read and approved<... | Francis Pollard | Francis Pollard | Plato’s Philosophy: Ideas the true reality | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | [Letter 24 March 1814]
'''The Wanderer'' is to be out on Monday. It is the most interesting novel I have ev... | Fanny Allen | Frances D'Arblay | The Wanderer | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'A Meeting held at Oakdene 20/2/1929 S. A. Reynolds in the chair
1. Minutes of last Meeting read and approv... | Reginald H. Robson | Victor Hugo | Toilers of the Sea (Les Travailleurs de la mer) | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'A Meeting held at Grove House May 3rd H. B. Lawson in the chair
Min 1. Minutes of last Read and approved | Reginald H. Robson | William Shakespeare | Henry IV Part 1 (Act II scene I: the men in buckram) | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'A Meeting held at Grove House May 3rd H. B. Lawson in the chair
Min 1. Minutes of last Read and approved | Sylvanus A. Reynolds | William Shakespeare | Henry IV Part 1 (Act II scene I: the men in buckram) | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'A Meeting held at Grove House May 3rd H. B. Lawson in the chair
Min 1. Minutes of last Read and approved | Francis Pollard | Jerome K. Jerome | Three Men in a Boat | |
| 1900-1945 | 'A Meeting held at Broomfield June 6 1929
Geo H Burrow in the chair
Min 1. Minutes of last time rea... | Francis Pollard | Francis Pollard | [A survey of modern American literature] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'A Meeting held at Broomfield June 6 1929
Geo H Burrow in the chair
Min 1. Minutes of last time rea... | Rosamund Wallis | Thornton Wilder | The Bridge of San Luis Rey | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'A Meeting held at Broomfield June 6 1929
Geo H Burrow in the chair
Min 1. Minutes of last time rea... | Reginald H. Robson | Sinclair Lewis | Babbitt | |
| 1900-1945 | 'A Meeting held at 70 Northcourt Avenue 25th September 1929 C. E Stansfield in the
chair
Min 1. Minutes o... | Reginald H. Robson | Reginald H. Robson | [essay on a family holiday] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'A Meeting held at 30 Northcourt Avenue 19/10/29 Miss E. C. Stevens in the chair
1. Minutes of last time re... | Francis Pollard | Gilbert Murray | [Introduction to his translation of Euripides’ Alcestis] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'A Meeting held at 30 Northcourt Avenue 19/10/29 Miss E. C. Stevens in the chair
1. Minutes of last time re... | Sylvanus A. Reynolds | Euripides | Alcestis | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Meeting held at Broomfield June 3rd 1930
G. Burrow in the chair
1. Minutes of last read and approved
... | Reginald H. Robson | John Galsworthy | The Roof | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Meeting held at Broomfield June 3rd 1930
G. Burrow in the chair
1. Minutes of last read and approved
... | Henry Marriage Wallis | John Galsworthy | The Roof | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Meeting held at Broomfield June 3rd 1930
G. Burrow in the chair
1. Minutes of last read and approved
... | Sylvanus A. Reynolds | John Galsworthy | The Roof | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Meeting held at Broomfield June 3rd 1930
G. Burrow in the chair
1. Minutes of last read and approved
... | Rosamund Wallis | John Galsworthy | The Roof | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Meeting held at Broomfield June 3rd 1930
G. Burrow in the chair
1. Minutes of last read and approved
... | Francis Pollard | John Galsworthy | The Roof | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Meeting held at Ashton Lodge July 10th 1930
H. M. Wallis in the chair
Min 1. Minutes of last meeting approv... | Henry Marriage Wallis | John Masefield | Sard Harker | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Meeting held at Ashton Lodge July 10th 1930
H. M. Wallis in the chair
Min 1. Minutes of last meeting approv... | Mignon Castle | John Masefield | Philip the King | Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | Meeting held at Ashton Lodge July 10th 1930
H. M. Wallis in the chair
Min 1. Minutes of last meeting approv... | Sylvanus A. Reynolds | John Masefield | Philip the King | Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'Meeting held at 70, Northcourt Avenue: 2. VI. 31
Charles E. Stansfield in the chair
1. Minutes of last approved
[.... | Henry Marriage Wallis | Henry Marriage Wallis | Southern Baroque Art | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | Meeting held at School House, Leighton Park: 16. IX. 31.
Victor Alexander in the chair
1. Minutes of last appr... | John L. Hawkins | John L. Hawkins | [A paper on the natural history of the neighbourhood of Reading] | Manuscript: NotebookUnknown |
| 1900-1945 | Meeting held at School House, Leighton Park: 16. IX. 31.
Victor Alexander in the chair 'Meeting held at School H... | Henry Marriage Wallis | Henry Marriage Wallis | [an account of two or three bird nesting exploits undertaken with James Crosfield in Scotland] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'Meeting held at Fairlight: 9 Denmark Rd. 18th April 1932.
Francis Pollard in the Chair.
1. Minutes... | Francis E. Pollard | Francis E. Pollard | [on the spirit of cricket] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'Meeting held at Fairlight: 9 Denmark Rd. 18th April 1932.
Francis Pollard in the Chair.
1. Minutes... | Reginald H. Robson | Hugh de Selincourt | The Cricket Match | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Meeting held at Eynsham, Shinfield Rd, 31.5.32.
George Burrow in the Chair.
1. Minutes of last appr... | Francis E. Pollard | Molière [pseud.] | The Misanthrope | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Meeting held at Eynsham, Shinfield Rd, 31.5.32.
George Burrow in the Chair.
1. Minutes of last appr... | Rosamund Wallis | Molière [pseud.] | The Misanthrope | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Meeting held at Eynsham, Shinfield Rd, 31.5.32.
George Burrow in the Chair.
1. Minutes of last appr... | Sylvanus A. Reynolds | Molière [pseud.] | The Misanthrope | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Meeting held at Eynsham, Shinfield Rd, 31.5.32.
George Burrow in the Chair.
1. Minutes of last appr... | Henry Marriage Wallis | Molière [pseud.] | The Misanthrope | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Meeting held at Reckitt House, Leighton Park: 22.6.32
Reginald H. Robson in the Chair.
1. Minutes o... | Reginald H. Robson | Reginald H. Robson | [a paper on the life of Goethe] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | Meeting held at Reckitt House, Leighton Park: 22.6.32
Reginald H. Robson in the Chair.
1. Minutes o... | Janet Rawlings | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe | The Sorrows of Young Werther | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Meeting held at Ashton Lodge, Kendrick Rd., 13.x.32.
Henry M. Wallis in the chair
1. Minutes of las... | Francis E. Pollard | Francis E. Pollard | [an account of the life of Walter Scott] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | Meeting held at Ashton Lodge, Kendrick Rd., 13.x.32.
Henry M. Wallis in the chair
1. Minutes of las... | Henry Marriage Wallis | Henry Marriage Wallis | [on the later work of Walter Scott] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | Meeting held at Ashton Lodge, Kendrick Rd., 13.x.32.
Henry M. Wallis in the chair
1. Minutes of las... | Francis E. Pollard | Walter Scott | The Heart of Midlothian | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Meeting held at Ashton Lodge, Kendrick Rd., 13.x.32.
Henry M. Wallis in the chair
1. Minutes of las... | Rosamund Wallis | Walter Scott | Old Mortality | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Meeting held at Fairlight, Denmark Rd.: 21.iii.33
Francis E. Pollard in the Chair.
1. Minutes of l... | Mignon Castle | Alfred Rawlings | [a thoughtful essay] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | Meeting held at Fairlight, Denmark Rd.: 21.iii.33
Francis E. Pollard in the Chair.
1. Minutes of l... | Janet Rawlings | Helen Rawlings | [reminiscences] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | Meeting held at Fairlight, Denmark Rd.: 21.iii.33
Francis E. Pollard in the Chair.
1. Minutes of l... | Reginald H. Robson | Howard Smith | [A paper on English justice] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | Meeting held at 70 Northcourt Avenue 28/4/1933
C. E. Stansfield in the chair
1 Minutes of l... | Francis E. Pollard | Francis E. Pollard | [a short account of the life and work of Mary Russell Mitford] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | Meeting held at Oakdene, Northcourt Av, 20.3.34.
Sylvanus A. Reynolds in the Chair.
1. Minute... | Francis E. Pollard | Howard Smith | Newcomers to Reading | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | Meeting held at Oakdene, Northcourt Av, 20.3.34.
Sylvanus A. Reynolds in the Chair.
1. Minute... | Sylvanus A. Reynolds | Henry Marriage Wallis | My dear Twelve | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | Meeting held at Oakdene, Northcourt Av, 20.3.34.
Sylvanus A. Reynolds in the Chair.
1. Minute... | Reginald H. Robson | Dorothy Brain | Hors d’Oeuvres | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | Meeting held at 9 Denmark Road, 20 IV. 1934
F. E. Pollard in the chair
1. Minutes of last read & a... | Reginald H. Robson | Reginald H. Robson | [On the artistic and socialist aspects of William Morris’s work] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | Meeting held at 9 Denmark Road, 20 IV. 1934
F. E. Pollard in the chair
1. Minutes of last read & a... | Reginald H. Robson | J. W. Mackail | The Life of William Morris | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The commanding officer, a timid, fragile man, gave me (as his way was) a pocket Testament bound in green suède, with... | Edmund Blunden | | The New Testament | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I was reading in the headquarters shelter when the great man [the Brigadier-General] suddenly drew aside the sacking ... | Edmund Blunden | unknown unknown | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I will stay in this farmhouse while the gas course lasts [...] and get the old peasant in the evenings to recite more... | Edmund Blunden | unknown unknown | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Our billet was a chemist's house, well furnished with ledgers and letters strewn about from bureaux, chiefly the scra... | Edmund Blunden | unknown unknown | unknown | Manuscript: Letter |
| 1900-1945 | 'Meeting held at 70 Northcourt Avenue: 18. 6. 35.
Charles E. Stansfield in the Chair
1. Minutes of... | Reginald H. Robson | Samuel Pepys | Diary | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Meeting held at 70 Northcourt Avenue: 18. 6. 35.
Charles E. Stansfield in the Chair
1. Minutes of... | Henry Marriage Wallis | William Morris | | Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'More enduring [than the chocolates sent by Eden's mother, which were eaten by rats] was a copy of Robert Bridge's ... | Anthony Eden | Robert Bridges | The Spirit of Man | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I ordered a Russian grammar from home. For some reason nearly all the translations of Russian writers in those days, ... | Anthony Eden | | [A Russian Grammar] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I ordered a Russian grammar from home. For some reason nearly all the translations of Russian writers in those days, ... | Anthony Eden | Ivan Sergeyevich Turgenev | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I ordered a Russian grammar from home. For some reason nearly all the translations of Russian writers in those days, ... | Anthony Eden | | [Russian novels] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Meeting held at School House, L. P. : 13.9.35
Francis E. Pollard in the Chair.
1. Min... | Reginald H. Robson | Reginald H. Robson | The Excursion – Saturday July 13th. 1935: Byways of the Chiltern Hills | Manuscript: Notebook, with photographs of the excursion pasted alongside the text. |
| 1900-1945 | Meeting held at School House, L. P. : 13.9.35
Francis E. Pollard in the Chair.
1. Minutes of ... | Rosamund Wallis | Ann Bridge | Illyrian Spring | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Meeting held at School House, L. P. : 13.9.35
Francis E. Pollard in the Chair.
1. Minutes of la... | Francis E. Pollard | H. A. L. Fisher | History of Europe | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'C. [David Lloyd George] is in very good spirits after a week-end rest. Yesterday I went down to W.H. [Walton Heath] &... | Frances Stevenson | Herbert George Wells | The Wife of Sir Eric Harman | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'C. [David Lloyd George] is in very good spirits after a week-end rest. Yesterday I went down to W.H. [Walton Heath] &... | Frances Stevenson | Herbert George Wells | Anne Veronica | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Am reading Meredith's Egoist. C. [David Lloyd George] said he was afraid it would lessen my love for him, as he throw... | Frances Stevenson | George Meredith | The Egoist | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Meeting held at 30 Northcourt Avenue: 21.4.37.
Ethel C. Stevens in the Chair.
1. Minute... | Francis E. Pollard | Jane Austen | Sense and Sensibility | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Meeting held at 30 Northcourt Avenue: 21.4.37.
Ethel C. Stevens in the Chair.
1. Minute... | Francis E. Pollard | Lucy Harrison | A Lover of Books: The Life and Literary Papers of Lucy Harrison | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Meeting held at School House, L.P. :- 28. v. 37.
C. E. Stanfield in the Chair.
1. Minutes of last... | Reginald H. Robson | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Prometheus Unbound | |
| 1900-1945 | Meeting held at Ashton Lodge :- 3. 7. 37.
Henry Marriage Wallis in the Chair.
1. Minutes of last ... | Henry Marriage Wallis | Henry Marriage Wallis | [a paper on witchcraft] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | Meeting held at Ashton Lodge :- 3. 7. 37.
Henry Marriage Wallis in the Chair.
1. Minutes of last ... | Janet Rawlings | William Shakespeare | Macbeth | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Meeting held at Ashton Lodge :- 3. 7. 37.
Henry Marriage Wallis in the Chair.
1. Minutes of last ... | Francis E. Pollard | William Shakespeare | Macbeth | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Meeting held at Ashton Lodge :- 3. 7. 37.
Henry Marriage Wallis in the Chair.
1. Minutes of last ... | Rosamund Wallis | Mary Webb | Precious Bane | Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'Do you read Blatchford in the Weekly Despatch? He is very good this week on "The Danger of the Submarine" and warns u... | Henry William Williamson | Robert Peel Glanville Blatchford | [article on submarine warfare in the "Weekly Dispatch"] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | 'Tell Father the Huns haven't started to run yet. If he reads the September "National Review" he will be surprised at ... | Henry William Williamson | | National Review | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | 'Send an English newpaper (not the Daily Mail as we have it here) occasionally. We are forbidden to send picture postc... | Henry William Williamson | | Daily Mail | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | 'I wish you would send me the Daily Mail every other day, & also magazines (Pearsons etc) would be immensely appreciat... | Henry William Williamson | | | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | 'Please send me April magazines. Have seen the March ones. The mud is awful — 3 mules drowned in shell craters l... | Henry William Williamson | | [March magazines] | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | 'The newspapers amuse us here immensely — we read of the Ger[mans] being driven back by our chaps —... | Henry William Williamson | | | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | 'Thanks for books & pyjamas & toffee ... Please send Motor Cycling & Motor Cycle & an occasional Daily Mail — we... | Henry William Williamson | | Motor Cycling | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | 'Thanks for books & pyjamas & toffee ... Please send Motor Cycling & Motor Cycle & an occasional Daily Mail — we... | Henry William Williamson | | Motor Cycle | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | 'Thanks for books & pyjamas & toffee ... Please send Motor Cycling & Motor Cycle & an occasional Daily Mail — we... | Henry William Williamson | | Daily Mail | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | 'Don't forget a cake & send Daily Mail every other day and Motor Cycle & Motor Cycling and the mags.' | Henry William Williamson | | Daily Mail | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | 'Don't forget a cake & send Daily Mail every other day and Motor Cycle & Motor Cycling and the mags.' | Henry William Williamson | | Motor Cycle | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | 'Don't forget a cake & send Daily Mail every other day and Motor Cycle & Motor Cycling and the mags.' | Henry William Williamson | | Motor Cycling | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | 'I received on the 3rd a parcel from you with biscuits and bulls eyes, and same time books and jersey with letter. The... | Henry William Williamson | | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Meeting held at Whinfell, Upper Redlands Rd. 23.10.’37
Alfred Rawlings in the Chair
1. T... | Helen Rawlings | William Fryer Harvey | Laughter and Ghosts | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Meeting held at Whinfell, Upper Redlands Rd. 23.10.’37
Alfred Rawlings in the Chair
1. T... | Francis E. Pollard | William Fryer Harvey | August Heat | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Meeting held at Whinfell, Upper Redlands Rd. 23.10.’37
Alfred Rawlings in the Chair
1. T... | Janet Rawlings | William Fryer Harvey | Patience | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Meeting held at Whinfell, Upper Redlands Rd. 23.10.’37
Alfred Rawlings in the Chair
1. T... | Helen Rawlings | William Fryer Harvey | Laughter and Ghosts | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Meeting held 219 King’s Road: 27. 11. 37.
L. Dorothea Taylor in the Chair.
1. Minutes of last re... | Rosamund Wallis | Laurence Housman | Victoria Regina | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Meeting held 219 King’s Road: 27. 11. 37.
L. Dorothea Taylor in the Chair.
1. Minutes of last re... | Francis E. Pollard | Laurence Housman | Victoria Regina | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Meeting held at 70 Northcourt Avenue: 14. 12. 37
C. E. Stansfield in the Chair.
1. Minutes of las... | Mignon Castle | Victor Alexander | [letter acknowledging receipt of letter of resignation from the XII Book Club] | Manuscript: Letter |
| 1900-1945 | Meeting held at 70 Northcourt Avenue: 14. 12. 37
[...]
6. The evening was completed by the reading of extra... | Reginald H. Robson | Sinclair Lewis | Dodsworth | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Meeting held at 70 Northcourt Avenue: 14. 12. 37
[...]
6. The evening was completed by the reading of extra... | Sylvanus A. Reynolds | John Galsworthy | The White Monkey | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Meeting held at St. Margaret’s, Shinfield Road: 20. 1. 38.
F. E. Pollard in the chair
1. Minutes... | Francis E. Pollard | Æ [pseud.] | The one dimensional mind | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Meeting held at St. Margaret’s, Shinfield Road: 20. 1. 38.
F. E. Pollard in the chair
1. Minutes... | Francis E. Pollard | Æ [pseud.] | [One or more unidentified poems] | Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | Meeting held at St. Margaret’s, Shinfield Road: 20. 1. 38.
F. E. Pollard in the chair
1. Minutes... | Rosamund Wallis | J. M. Synge | The Tinker’s Wedding | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | February 15th was the date chosen for the next time and the subject “Books that people have
been reading” ... | Reginald H. Robson | Saki [pseud.] | Beasts and Super-Beasts | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | February 15th was the date chosen for the next time and the subject “Books that people have
been reading” ... | Reginald H. Robson | Saki [pseud.] | Beasts and Super-Beasts | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | February 15th was the date chosen for the next time and the subject “Books that people have
been reading” ... | Francis E. Pollard | John A. Spender | The Comments of Bagshot | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | February 15th was the date chosen for the next time and the subject “Books that people have
been reading” ... | Francis E. Pollard | John A. Spender | The Comments of Bagshot | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | February 15th was the date chosen for the next time and the subject “Books that people have
been reading” ... | Francis E. Pollard | Kurt Von Stutterheim | Those English! | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | February 15th was the date chosen for the next time and the subject “Books that people have
been reading” ... | Francis E. Pollard | Kurt Von Stutterheim | Those English! | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Meeting held at Ashton Lodge: 14.3.38.
1. Minutes of last read and approved.
[...]
4. Readings from Iri... | Rosamund Wallis | unknown | [a specimen of Irish literature] | Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'After a stormy passage I find myself once more at Alexandria and Sheyk Obeyd. During the voyage I read Frederick [sic... | Wilfrid Scawen Blunt | Frederic Harrison | Theophano: The Crusade of the Tenth Century | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Lunched with Ralph [Milbanke]. He has decided at last to publish the great Byron secret, and has drawn up the case ag... | Wilfrid Scawen Blunt | Ralph Milbanke | Astarte: A Fragment of Truth Concerning Lord Byron | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'Steady downpour all day long. Weather is worse than we get in England. No wonder Uncle Toby in [italics] Tristram Sha... | Albert John Martin | Laurence Sterne | The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'It is surprising how irritating it is when simple little questions or arguments arise which none of us can settle bec... | Albert John Martin | William Shakespeare | The Merchant of Venice | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Received a parcel from Elsie containing tobacco (most welcome), papers and a little book of war poems called [italics... | Albert John Martin | Siegfried Sassoon | Counter-Attack and Other Poems | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Shaved, breakfast - porridge, bread & butter, tea. Read "The Mystery of the Sands" [sic]. Dinner of roast beef, cabba... | John Frederick William Dunn | Erskine Childers | The Riddle of the Sands | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'B[reakfast] Herring, bread & butter, tea. Read "The Amazing Duke".' | John Frederick William Dunn | William Magnay | The Amazing Duke | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'D[inner] Stew, potatoes, rice. Read "The Call of the Wild". Dozed.' | John Frederick William Dunn | Jack London | The Call of the Wild | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Read. Received kit. Read "The Edge o' Beyond". Inoculated.' | John Frederick William Dunn | Gertrude Page | The Edge o' Beyond | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Read. Wounds dressed. Read "The Japs at Home".' | John Frederick William Dunn | Douglas Sladen | The Japs at Home | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Read "Barbe of Grand Bayon". Wound dressed. Head finished. Bath, read, cut dressings. Read "Rhymes of a Red Cross Man".' | John Frederick William Dunn | John Oxenham | Barbe of Grand Bayon | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Read "Barbe of Grand Bayon". Wound dressed. Head finished. Bath, read, cut dressings. Read "Rhymes of a Red Cross Man".' | John Frederick William Dunn | Robert W. Service | Rhymes of a Red Cross Man | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Read, wounds dressed. Read "The Way of an Eagle".' | John Frederick William Dunn | Ethel Dell | The Way of an Eagle | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Read ... "Barlash [sic] of the Guard". Dressed & sat by the fire. Dominoes.' | John Frederick William Dunn | Henry Seton Merriman | Barlasch of the Guard | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Read "An Adventure of the North".' | John Frederick William Dunn | Gilbert Parker | An Adventure of the North | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Read. Wounds dressed ... Visit from Miss Davies and a friend (Miss Stevenson). She brought 8 books & chocs. Talked fo... | John Frederick William Dunn | Anthony Hope Hawkins | The Chronicles of Count Antonio | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '"The choice of reading material [in ship's gaol] was either the [italics] Manual of Seamanship [end italics] or the B... | John Edward Needham | | The Bible | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Read - book "Gallipoli" from Rev. Robt. Overton by post. Parcel cake from Mrs Scales. Wrote Reg ... Crib[bage] & read... | John Frederick William Dunn | John Masefield | Gallipoli | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Read - book "Gallipoli" from Rev. Robt. Overton by post. Parcel cake from Mrs Scales. Wrote Reg ... Crib[bage] & read... | John Frederick William Dunn | Anthony Hope Hawkins | Tales of Two People | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Read "Gallipoli" (John Masefield).' | John Frederick William Dunn | John Masefield | Gallipoli | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Read "The Coryston Family". Was again fitted with a uniform. Wrote to Mrs Davies.' | John Frederick William Dunn | Mrs Humphry Ward | The Coryston Family | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Wrote to Reg. Read "The Right Stuff". Up on the mat for being late last night. Pass stopped!? Visit from Miss Barnsle... | John Frederick William Dunn | Ian Hay | The Right Stuff | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Still here [in camp] doing nothing and enjoying books. One book Ernest Maltravers by Lytton has impressed me very much.' | John Owen Maddox | Edward Bulwer-Lytton | Ernest Maltravers | Print: Book |