Reading Experience Database
1450-1945

Listing for Reader: William Gladstone

 

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1850-1899'The first opinion I have heard of it [the "Makers of Venice"] is Mr Gladstone's, to whom Mr Macmillan sent it, and wh...William Ewart Gladstone Margaret OliphantMakers of VenicePrint: Book
1850-1899I have begun the perusal, and I very much hope, and cannot doubt, that your living portraitures of Scripture character...William Ewart Gladstone Margaret OliphantJerusalem: Its History and HopePrint: Book, Unknown
1850-1899On process of choosing a Poet Laureate from 1892: 'When Gladstone had read [William] Watson's Poems (1892), sent to hi...William Ewart Gladstone William WatsonPoemsPrint: Book
1800-1849'Dear Sir, Before saying any thing on the subject of my own prospects I wish to notice two trifling inaccuracies in th...William Gladstone various A Handbook for Travellers on the ContinentPrint: Book
1850-1899'... "Natalie" [by Julia Kavanagh] she [Mary Gladstone] did not think measured up to the same author's "Daisy Burns" (...William Ewart Gladstone Julia KavanaghNataliePrint: Book
1850-1899"Mr. Gladstone left aside the cares of state by reading ... [Mary Elizabeth Braddon]."William Ewart Gladstone Mary Elizabeth BraddonunknownPrint: Book
1850-1899' ... Gladstone, who was meticulous in keeping a record of his reading, noted only one [Hall] Caine novel, "The Scapeg...William Ewart Gladstone Hall CaineThe ScapegoatPrint: Book
1850-1899"... [Gladstone] ... read The Romance of Two Worlds [sic] before he met ... [Marie Corelli, in June 1889] and started ...William Ewart Gladstone Marie CorelliA Romance of Two WorldsPrint: Book
1850-1899"... [Gladstone] ... read The Romance of Two Worlds [sic] before he met ... [Marie Corelli, in June 1889] and started ...William Ewart Gladstone Marie CorelliArdathPrint: Book
1850-1899' ... the refrain in Gladstone's diaries, in his notes on the many controversial books he read, from Hardy to Zola, wa...William Ewart Gladstone Thomas HardyPrint: Unknown
1850-1899' ... the refrain in Gladstone's diaries, in his notes on the many controversial books he read, from Hardy to Zola, wa...William Ewart Gladstone Emile ZolaPrint: Book
1850-1899' ... [Gladstone] was disappointed by ... "The History of David Grieve" (1892), though he read it all ...'William Ewart Gladstone Mrs Humphry WardThe History of David GrievePrint: Book
1850-1899' ... at home [Lady Frances Balfour] listened to Gladstone reading Latin and Italian.'William Ewart Gladstone Latin textsPrint: Book
1850-1899' ... at home [Lady Frances Balfour] listened to Gladstone reading Latin and Italian.'William Ewart Gladstone Italian textsPrint: Book
1850-1899'The book ["Robert Elsmere"] had moved him [Gladstone] prfoundly and he felt impelled to combat the all too dangerous ...William Gladstone Mary Augusta WardRobert ElsmerePrint: Book
1850-1899'The book ["Robert Elsmere"] had moved him [Gladstone] profoundly and he felt impelled to combat the all too dangerous...William Gladstone ThucydidesPrint: Book
1850-1899'[Mrs Ward's report of a conversation with Gladstone] 'I spoke of Pattison's autobiography as illustrating Newman's ho...William Gladstone Mark PattisonMemoirsPrint: Book
1800-1849[Friday 20 November 1840]. Before prayers work with my Father- cards at night- shooting - read Stahl- Clarendon- Burne...William Ewart Gladstone Gilbert BurnetHistory of His Own TimePrint: Book
1800-1849[Saturday 21 November 1840]. [...] read Clarendon- Burnet - worked on Ch. & State [...].William Ewart Gladstone Gilbert BurnetHistory of His Own TimePrint: Book
1800-1849[Monday 23 November 1840]. [...] read Burnet - Clarendon- worked on Ch. & State [...].William Ewart Gladstone Gilbert BurnetHistory of His Own TimePrint: Book
1800-1849[Tues 24 November 1840]. read Burnet - Bruce on Assam- Clarendon- [...].William Ewart Gladstone Gilbert BurnetHistory of His Own TimePrint: Book
1800-1849[Weds 25 November 1840]. [...] read Burnet - Neal - Clarendon- [...].William Ewart Gladstone Gilbert BurnetHistory of His Own TimePrint: Book
1800-1849[Thurs 26 November 1840]. [...] read Burnet - Clarendon Life- d[itt]o Reln and Policy- Poems- Tyler- H[enry] V. [...].William Ewart Gladstone Gilbert BurnetHistory of His Own TimePrint: Book
1800-1849[Fri 27 November 1840]. [...] read Burnet - Clarendon- worked on Ch. & St. [...].William Ewart Gladstone Gilbert BurnetHistory of His Own TimePrint: Book
1800-1849[Sat 28 November 1840]. [...] read Burnet - Clarendon- worked on Ch. & St. [...].William Ewart Gladstone Gilbert BurnetHistory of His Own TimePrint: Book
1800-1849[Sunday 21 November 1841]. [...] Read Knight's Life of Colet. [...].William Ewart Gladstone Samuel KnightLife of Dr John ColetPrint: Book
1800-1849'Began Clinton's Introduction &c.'William Ewart Gladstone Henry Fynes ClintonFasti hellenici: the civil and literary chronology of Greece Print: Book
1800-1849'Bland — Clinton — a little Herodotus.'William Ewart Gladstone Henry Fynes ClintonFasti hellenici: the civil and literary chronology of Greece Print: Book
1800-1849Thucydides — Clinton — Public Lecture in Diff. Calc — reading it & Questions ...William Ewart Gladstone Henry Fynes ClintonFasti hellenici: the civil and literary chronology of Greece Print: Book
1800-1849Read Juvenal all the morning- (save that I now read a few verses of Greek Testament the first thing)- finished Clinton...William Ewart Gladstone Henry Fynes ClintonFasti hellenici: the civil and literary chronology of Greece Print: Book
1800-1849[...] Stanley- Gisborne- Shelley- Lancaster: exceedingly desultory & alas exceedingly idle. Did a very few Lat. vss & ...William Ewart Gladstone Thomas William LancasterThe harmony of the law and the Gospel with regard to the doctrine of aPrint: Book
1800-1849[Sunday] Chapel & Serm. mg & aft. Whateley. Lancaster. Sleepy. [...].William Ewart Gladstone Thomas William LancasterThe harmony of the law and the Gospel with regard to the doctrine of aPrint: Book
1800-1849[Sunday] Short's Serm. Heard Buckley. Lancaster &c &C. [...].William Ewart Gladstone Thomas William LancasterThe harmony of the law and the Gospel with regard to the doctrine of aPrint: Book
1800-184918,19. Frid. Sat. Two very idle days- read a little Allgebraic Geometry, in Powell and Lardner [...]. William Ewart Gladstone Baden PowellThe elements of curves: designed for the use of students of thePrint: Book
1800-184925 Fri. [...] Rode to Cuddesdon with Bruce- to remain there for a fortnight. read Powell's Differential Calculus in af...William Ewart Gladstone Baden PowellAn elementary treatise on the geometry of curves and curved surfaces :Print: Book
1800-1849[Sunday] Church 11 A.M. 3 P.M. [...] Worked on Index. Read Burton's Testimonies to the Trinity.William Ewart Gladstone Edward BurtonTestimonies of the Ante-Nicene Fathers to the Divinity of ChristPrint: Book
1800-1849[...] Finished Burton [...]William Ewart Gladstone Edward BurtonTestimonies of the Ante-Nicene Fathers to the Divinity of ChristPrint: Book

 

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