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1450-1945

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1800-1849Upon on of the interminable book-stalls, or rather book-walls, which display their leafy banners along the quays of th...Charles Manby Smith William CobbettA French Grammar, Or plain Instructions for the LePrint: Book
1800-1849'[Mary Smith] found emancipation in Shakespeare, Dryden, Goldsmith and other standard male authors, whom she extolled ...Mary Smith William ShakespearePrint: Book
1800-1849'[Mary Smith] found emancipation in Shakespeare, Dryden, Goldsmith and other standard male authors, whom she extolled ...Mary Smith John DrydenPrint: Book
1800-1849'[Mary Smith] found emancipation in Shakespeare, Dryden, Goldsmith and other standard male authors, whom she extolled ...Mary Smith Oliver GoldsmithPrint: Book
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1850-1899
'[Mary Smith] found emancipation in Shakespeare, Dryden, Goldsmith and other standard male authors, whom she extolled ...Mary Smith Joseph AddisonPrint: Book
1800-1849'[Mary Smith] found emancipation in Shakespeare, Dryden, Goldsmith and other standard male authors, whom she extolled ...Mary Smith Richard SteelePrint: Book
1800-1849'[Mary Smith] found emancipation in Shakespeare, Dryden, Goldsmith and other standard male authors, whom she extolled ...Mary Smith Alexander Pope'Ode on Solitude'Print: Book
1800-1849'by age twenty [Mary Smith] had read and understood George Payne's Elements of Mental and Moral Science, Thomas Brown'...Mary Smith George PayneElements of Mental and Moral SciencePrint: Book
1800-1849'by age twenty [Mary Smith] had read and understood George Payne's Elements of Mental and Moral Science, Thomas Brown'...Mary Smith Thomas BrownMoral PhilosophyPrint: Book
1800-1849'by age twenty [Mary Smith] had read and understood George Payne's Elements of Mental and Moral Science, Thomas Brown'...Mary Smith Richard WhateleyLogicPrint: Book
1800-1849'by age twenty [Mary Smith] had read and understood George Payne's Elements of Mental and Moral Science, Thomas Brown'...Mary Smith Ralph Waldo EmersonPrint: Book
1800-1849'by age twenty [Mary Smith] had read and understood George Payne's Elements of Mental and Moral Science, Thomas Brown'...Mary Smith Thomas CarlylePrint: Book
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1850-1899
'like the great man [Carlyle] himself, [Mary Smith] studied Fichte, Schiller and Goethe'.Mary Smith Johann Gottlieb FichtePrint: Book
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1850-1899
'like the great man [Carlyle] himself, [Mary Smith] studied Fichte, Schiller and Goethe'.Mary Smith Johann Christoph Friedrich von SchillerPrint: Book
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1850-1899
'like the great man [Carlyle] himself, [Mary Smith] studied Fichte, Schiller and Goethe'.Mary Smith Johann Wolfgang von GoethePrint: Book
1800-1849Witness statement in trial for publishing a blasphemous and seditious libel: William Smith: "I saw [the prisoner] s...William Smith Temple of Reason
1900-1945'[Through the Women's Co-operative Guild, Deborah Smith] began reading poetry and, at age fifty one, discovered her ow...Deborah Smith Alfred Lord Tennyson'Break, break, break'Print: Book
1800-1849George Smith, A Memoir (London, 1902): 'The MS. of "Jane Eyre" was read by Mr Wiliams ... he brought it to me on a Sa...George Murray Smith Charlotte BronteJane EyreManuscript: Unknown
1900-1945'The father of Labour politician T. Dan Smith, a Wallsend miner, was facinated by travel books, Twain's Innocents Abro...Mark Twain[unknown]Print: Book
1900-1945'The father of Labour politician T. Dan Smith, a Wallsend miner, was facinated by travel books, Twain's Innocents Abro... [unknown][travel books]Print: Book
1850-1899"In order to read Lyell's controversial Vestiges of Creation when it first came to the house [of the Nonconformist min...Mary Smith LyellVestiges of CreationPrint: Book
1900-1945"A conversion narrative precisely illustrating ... [the] effects of reading in action is told by Margaret Smith, who s...Margaret Smith Votes for WomenPrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'As Cornish carpenter George Smith had little access to libraries, he "read every sort of book that came in my way" - ...George Smith [unknown][novels]Print: Book
1800-1849'As Cornish carpenter George Smith had little access to libraries, he "read every sort of book that came in my way" - ...George Smith [unknown][history]Print: Book
1800-1849'As Cornish carpenter George Smith had little access to libraries, he "read every sort of book that came in my way" - ...George Smith [unknown][biblical criticism]Print: Book
1800-1849'As Cornish carpenter George Smith had little access to libraries, he "read every sort of book that came in my way" - ...George Smith [unknown][treatises on algebra and geometry]Print: Book
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 BennettRiceyman StepsPrint: Book, proofs
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 PaineAge of ReasonPrint: 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 WatsonApology for the biblePrint: 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]BiblePrint: 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]TestamentPrint: 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]TelemaquePrint: 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]MoniteurPrint: 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'One morning as we were sitting at breakfast, about 9 o'clock, ... in the garden, the postman, who had been knocking a...Mrs 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 TimesPrint: Newspaper
1800-1849'Then we met in-doors for supper, with the home-made loaf and the cambray cheese; and then came the old family Bible a... [n/a]BiblePrint: Book
1800-1849'Then we met in-doors for supper, with the home-made loaf and the cambray cheese; and then came the old family Bible a... [unknown][prayer book]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
1800-1849'Both John Harris and Mary Smith read the "Remains of Henry Kirke White" "with great delight", and Thomas Carter actua...Mary Smith Henry Kirke WhiteThe Remains of Henry Kirke WhitePrint: Book
1800-1849Mary 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 BerryPreface to edition of Letters of Madame du DeffandManuscript: Unknown
1800-1849Mary 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 BerryLife of Madame du DeffandManuscript: Unknown
1800-1849The Rev. Sydney Smith to Mary Berry, [1840]: 'I am reading again Madame du Deffand.'Rev. Sydney Smith Madame du DeffandLettersPrint: Book
1800-1849Sydney 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 noticePrint: Newspaper
1700-1799To Miss Hunt, April 7, 1794 'At present I am puzzling at Persian and Arabic, and I mean to begin Hebrew. I get on a...Elizabeth Smith Miguel de CervantesDon QuixottePrint: Book
1700-1799To Miss Hunt, April 7, 1794 'At present I am puzzling at Persian and Arabic, and I mean to begin Hebrew. I get on a...Elizabeth Smith Garcilaso de la VegaHistory of the IncasPrint: Book
1700-1799To Miss Hunt, Bath Sept 27, 1794 'I have the great store of Spanish lately; the "Teatro Critico Universale" by Feyj...Elizabeth Smith FeyjooTheatro critico universalePrint: Book
1700-1799To Miss Hunt, Bath Sept 27, 1794 'I have the great store of Spanish lately; the "Teatro Critico Universale" by Feyj...Elizabeth Smith Juan de MarianaHistory of SpainPrint: Book
1700-1799To Lady Isabella King, Bath March 8th 1798 'Have you read "The Pursuits of Literature"? It is a satirical poem. I d...Elizabeth Smith Thomas James MathiasThe Pursuits of LiteraturePrint: Book
1700-1799To Lady Isabella King, Bath March 8th 1798 'Have you read "The Pursuits of Literature"? It is a satirical poem. I d...Elizabeth Smith John RobinsonIlluminatiPrint: Book
1700-1799To Miss Hunt Shirley, July 28, 1795 'I must tell you that I cannot help being quite reconciled to Cicero... If you...Elizabeth Smith Marcus Tullius CiceroTuscular DisputationsPrint: Book
1700-1799To Miss Hunt Shirley, July 28, 1795 'I have just finished Clarendon's "History of the rebellion", which Miss Bowdl...Elizabeth Smith Edward Hyde ClarendonHistory of the Rebellion and civil wars in EnglandPrint: Book
1700-1799To Miss Hunt Shirley, July 28, 1795 'We have read Mr Gisborne's book aloud ["On the duties of Man"] and all the pa...Elizabeth Smith Thomas GisbourneAn enquiry into the duties of men in the higher and middle classes of society in Great BritainPrint: Book
1700-1799To Miss Hunt, December 12 1792 'The "Lusiad" I never read. It was Middleton's "Life of Cicero" that I meant. I was ...Elizabeth Smith Conyeds MiddletonHistory of the life of Marcus Tullius CiceroPrint: Book
1700-1799To Miss Hunt, December 12 1792 'The "Lusiad" I never read. It was Middleton's "Life of Cicero" that I meant. I was ...Elizabeth Smith Tobias George SmolettHistory of EnglandPrint: Book
1700-1799To Miss Hunt, July 7, 1792 'At present I am engaged in an argument with my dear Miss Bowdlen concerning Ossian. I s...Elizabeth Smith Ossian[poems]Print: Book
1700-1799To Miss Hunt, July 7, 1792 'At present I am engaged in an argument with my dear Miss Bowdlen concerning Ossian. I s...Elizabeth Smith Homer[poetry]Print: Book
1700-1799To Miss Hunt, July 7, 1792 'At present I am engaged in an argument with my dear Miss Bowdlen concerning Ossian. I s...Elizabeth Smith John Milton[poems]Print: Book
1700-1799To Miss Hunt, July 7, 1792 'Can you find anything equal to his [Ossian's] descriptions of nature; his address to th...Elizabeth Smith OssianhymnsPrint: Book
1700-1799'At other times we studied Shakespeare, Milton and some other English poets as well as some of the Italians. We took l...Elizabeth Smith William Shakespeare[works]Print: Book
1700-1799'At other times we studied Shakespeare, Milton and some other English poets as well as some of the Italians. We took l...Elizabeth Smith John Milton[poems]Print: Book
1700-1799'At other times we studied Shakespeare, Milton and some other English poets as well as some of the Italians. We took l...Elizabeth Smith [various English poets][poems]Print: Book
1700-1799'At other times we studied Shakespeare, Milton and some other English poets as well as some of the Italians. We took l...Elizabeth Smith Thomas SeckerLectures on CatechismPrint: Book
1700-1799'At other times we studied Shakespeare, Milton and some other English poets as well as some of the Italians. We took l...Elizabeth Smith [n/a]New TestamentPrint: Book
1700-1799To Miss Hunt, St Winifred's Dale, August 18 1793 'I admire the German you sent me extremely. I have read none since...Elizabeth Smith [unknown]Den golden spiegelPrint: Book
1700-1799To Miss Hunt, St Winifred's Dale, August 18 1793 'I admire the German you sent me extremely. I have read none since...Elizabeth Smith WiessenLyrische GedischtePrint: Book
1700-1799To Miss Hunt, April 7 1794 'I am very rich in German books right now for Dr Randolph, who has a great many, has giv...Elizabeth Smith Kliest[unknown]Print: Book
1700-1799To Miss Hunt, April 7 1794 'I am very rich in German books right now for Dr Randolph, who has a great many, has giv...Elizabeth Smith Hallen[poems]Print: Book
1700-1799To Miss Hunt, April 7 1794 'I am very rich in German books right now for Dr Randolph, who has a great many, has giv...Elizabeth Smith ZimmermanEinsamkertPrint: Book
1700-1799To Miss Hunt, April 7 1794 'I am very rich in German books right now for Dr Randolph, who has a great many, has giv...Elizabeth Smith HuntEssay on the happiness of the life to comePrint: Book
1850-1899In the BL copy: Written in margin of "Paper: Its Applications and its Novelties" p16 'In 1853 the sum of #4000 was at ...George DoddCuriosities of IndustryPrint: Book
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 HallTravels in North America 1827-8Print: 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 HallTravels in North America 1827-8Print: 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. ListerEpicharisUnknown
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 NapierHistory of the Peninsular WarPrint: 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 GaltLaurie Todd or the Settlers in the WoodsPrint: 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 MooreLife of ByronPrint: 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 MorierZohrab the HostagePrint: 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 DacreRecollections of a ChaperonPrint: Book
1800-1849'Read Hamilton';s "America", it is quite excellent'.Sydney Smith Thomas HamiltonMen and Manners in AmericaPrint: 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 MackintoshMemoirs of the Life of the Right Honourable Sir James MackintoshPrint: 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 BeauvilliersL'Art de CuisinerPrint: 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 TrollopeTremordyn CliffPrint: 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 IrvingAstoriaPrint: 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 DickensNicholas NicklebyPrint: 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 SpryModern IndiaPrint: 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] CroweSusan HopleyPrint: Book
1800-1849I console myself with Doddridge's Expositor and "The Scholar Armed", to say nothing of a very popular book called "The...Sydney Smith Philip DoddridgeThe Family ExpositorPrint: Book
1800-1849I 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
1800-1849I 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 ElphinstoneHistory of IndiaPrint: 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 NapierAn account of the war in Portugal between Don Pedro and Don MiguelPrint: Book
1800-1849'Read "A Life in the Forest", skipping nimbly; but there is much of good in it'.Sydney Smith unknownA Life in the ForestPrint: 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 MacaulayLays of Ancient RomePrint: 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 BalzacPere GoriotPrint: 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 BalzacLa Messe de l'AtheePrint: 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 DickensMartin ChuzzlewitPrint: 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 HornerMemoirs 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 MathewArabiniana, or Remains of Mr Serjeant ArabinPrint: 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 MartineauLife in the Sick RoomPrint: 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 ReviewPrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'Read Stanleys Life of Arneld, Twiss Life of Ld Eldon'.Sydney Smith Arthur StanleyLife and Correspondence of Thomas ArnoldPrint: Book
1800-1849'Read Stanleys Life of Arneld, Twiss Life of Ld Eldon'.Sydney Smith Horace TwissLife of Lord Chancellor EldonPrint: 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 TwissLife of Lord Chancellor EldonPrint: 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 BourkeCorrespondence of BurkePrint: 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 KinglakeEothen, or Traces of Travel brought home from the EastPrint: 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 1829Print: 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 TimesPrint: Newspaper
1800-1849'Read Captain Marryats Settlement in Canada'.Sydney Smith Frederick MarryatThe Settlers in CanadaPrint: 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 KotzebueDas merkw?rdigste Jahr meines LebensPrint: 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 StaalMemoiresPrint: 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 BritannicaPrint: 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 JacobTravels in the South of SpainPrint: 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 FranklinThe Private Correspondence of Benjamin Franklin, L.L.DPrint: 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 GeorgelM?moires pour servir ? l'histoire des ?v?nements de la fin du 18e si?cle depuis 1760 jusqu'en 1806?10Print: 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 GeorgelM?moires pour servir ? l'histoire des ?v?nements de la fin du 18e si?cle depuis 1760 jusqu'en 1806?10Print: 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 ScottThe Heart of MidlothianPrint: 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 ScottThe Heart of MidlothianPrint: 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 BroughamA 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 FearonNarrative of a Journey of Five Thousand Miles Through the Eastern and Western States of AmericaPrint: Book
1800-1849'I recommend you to read Hall, Palmer, Fearon and Bradburys Travels in America, particularly "Fearon". There is nothin...Sydney Smith John BradburyTravels in the Interior of America in the years 1809, 1810 and -1811Print: Book
1800-1849'I recommend you to read Hall, Palmer, Fearon and Bradburys Travels in America, particularly "Fearon". There is nothin...Sydney Smith John PalmerJournal of Travels in the United States of North America, and in Lower Canada, Performed in the Year 1817, &c. &cPrint: Book
1800-1849'I recommend you to read Hall, Palmer, Fearon and Bradburys Travels in America, particularly "Fearon". There is nothin...Sydney Smith Francis HallJournal of Travels in the United States of North AmericaPrint: 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 BirkbeckNotes on a Journey in America from the Coast of Virginia to the Territory of IllinoisPrint: 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 BirkbeckLetters from IllinoisPrint: Book
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 RogersHuman LifePrint: 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 BennetLetter 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 DennisConvocatio 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 HallamHistory Of Europe During The Middle AgesPrint: Book
1800-1849'I have finished a short article of Heude's travels across the desert, from Bagdad to Constantinople'.Sydney Smith William HeudeA Voyage up the Persian Gulf and a Journey Overland from India to EnglandPrint: 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 ScottThe Bride of LammermoorPrint: 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 ScottThe Bride of LammermoorPrint: 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 ScottIvanhoePrint: 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 ScottIvanhoePrint: 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] GollowninRecollections of Japan, by Capt. Gollownin of the Russian Navy, author of the narrative of a three years' residence in that countryPrint: 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 DefoeColonel 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 MerchantPrint: 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] GollowninRecollections of Japan, by Capt. Gollownin of the Russian Navy, author of the narrative of a three years' residence in that countryPrint: 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 BerrySome Account of the Life of Rachael Wriothesley, Lady Russell; followed by a Series of Letters from Lady Russell to her HusbandPrint: 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 ScottThe MonasteryPrint: 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 ScottThe AbbotPrint: 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 SoutheyThe Life Of Wesley And Rise And Progress Of Methodism Including Remarks On The Life And Character Of John WesleyPrint: 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 ScottThe PiratePrint: 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 BeaconPrint: Serial / periodical
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 ScottThe Fortunes of NigelPrint: 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 LockhartSome Passages in the Life of Mr Adam Blair Minister of the Gospel at Cross-MeiklePrint: 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 ScottPeveril of the PeakPrint: 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 WhiteDoblado's Letters from SpainPrint: 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 ScottSt Ronan's WellPrint: 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 HallExtracts from a Journal Written on the Coasts of Chile, Peru, and MexicoPrint: Book
1800-1849'I do not like Madame Bertin, I suspect all such books'.Sydney Smith Jacques PeuchetMemoires de mademoiselle Bertin sur la Reine Marie-AntoinettePrint: 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 NormanbyMatildaPrint: 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 PhrenologyPrint: 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 DoverThe true history of the state prisoner, Commonly called the Iron MaskPrint: 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 EvanshawPrint: 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 ProtestantPrint: 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 KnightForeign 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 SavaryThe Memoirs of the Duke of RovigoPrint: Book
1700-1799'You should read Cle account of the treatment of Louis 16th; it is well written'. [words in <> oblit...Sydney Smith CleryJournalPrint: 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 RumfordEssays, Political, Economical and PhilosophicalPrint: 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 PerouseVoyage de la Perouse autour du mondePrint: 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 VancouverA 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 CommandPrint: 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'
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'...Sir Joshua Reynolds's Lectures. Mitford's History of Greece. Orme's History of Hindoostan. Vertot's Revolutions of...Sydney Smith Joshua ReynoldsLecturesPrint: Book
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'...Sir Joshua Reynolds's Lectures. Mitford's History of Greece. Orme's History of Hindoostan. Vertot's Revolutions of...Sydney Smith William MitfordHistory of GreecePrint: Book
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'...Sir Joshua Reynolds's Lectures. Mitford's History of Greece. Orme's History of Hindoostan. Vertot's Revolutions of...Sydney Smith Robert OrmeHistory of HindustanPrint: Book
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'...Sir Joshua Reynolds's Lectures. Mitford's History of Greece. Orme's History of Hindoostan. Vertot's Revolutions of...Sydney Smith Rene Aubert VertotRevolutions of Portugal, ThePrint: Book
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'...Sir Joshua Reynolds's Lectures. Mitford's History of Greece. Orme's History of Hindoostan. Vertot's Revolutions of...Sydney Smith Rene Aubert VertotHistory of the revolutions in Sweden, occasioned by the change of religion, and alteration of the government in that kingdomPrint: Book
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'...Sir Joshua Reynolds's Lectures. Mitford's History of Greece. Orme's History of Hindoostan. Vertot's Revolutions of...Sydney Smith Jacques Benigne BossuetOraisons FunebresPrint: Book
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'...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
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'...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
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'...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 coloniesPrint: Unknown
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'...Sir Joshua Reynolds's Lectures. Mitford's History of Greece. Orme's History of Hindoostan. Vertot's Revolutions of...Sydney Smith Archibald AlisonEssays on the Nature and Principles of TastePrint: 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 ReviewPrint: 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 GodwinThe Inquier: Reflections on Education, Manners and LiteraturePrint: 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 FerriarEssay Towards a Theory of ApparitionsPrint: 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 PorterAccount of the Last Russian CampaignPrint: 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 EdgeworthEunicePrint: Book
1800-1849'The story of "Blanch", when the poem becomes fashionable, will be dramatized... I cannot help thinking it would make ...J.P. Smith Mary Russell MitfordBlanch of Castile and other poemsManuscript: Sheet
1800-1849'Adam Smith, Sir [-] informed me, was no admirer of the Rambler or the Idler, but was pleased with the pamphlet respec...Adam Smith Samuel JohnsonThoughts On the Late Transactions Respecting Falkland's Islands
1800-1849'Adam Smith, Sir [-] informed me, was no admirer of the Rambler or the Idler, but was pleased with the pamphlet respec...Adam Smith Jonathan Swift[poems to Stella]Print: Book
1800-1849'Adam Smith, Sir [-] informed me, was no admirer of the Rambler or the Idler, but was pleased with the pamphlet respec...Adam Smith John Milton[poems]Print: Book
1800-1849'Adam Smith, Sir [-] informed me, was no admirer of the Rambler or the Idler, but was pleased with the pamphlet respec...Adam Smith James Beattie'Minstrel, The'Print: Book
1800-1849'Adam Smith, Sir [-] informed me, was no admirer of the Rambler or the Idler, but was pleased with the pamphlet respec...Adam Smith Allan RamsayGentle Shepherd, ThePrint: Book
1800-1849'Adam Smith, Sir [-] informed me, was no admirer of the Rambler or the Idler, but was pleased with the pamphlet respec...Adam Smith Giovanni Battista GuariniIl Pastor FidoPrint: Book
1700-1799'Johnson proceeded :— "The Scotchman has taken the right method in his 'Elements of Criticism.' I do not mean that h...Oliver Goldsmith Henry Home, Lord KamesElements of CriticismPrint: Book
1700-1799'Johnson and Shebbeare were frequently named together, as having in former reigns had no predilection for the family o...Oliver Goldsmith William MasonHeroick Epistle to Sir William ChambersPrint: Unknown
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 HarrisonMeaning of History, The Print: Book
1850-1899'Readings from Wordsworth were then given by Mrs Smith, Mrs Rawlings, Mrs Edminson and Miss Wallis.'Elizabeth Ann Smith William WordsworthPrint: Book
1800-1849Witness statement in trial for theft: Edward Smith: 'On the 17th of June I was at the Feathers public-house, in Oxfor...Edward Smith [n/a][newspaper]Print: Newspaper
1800-1849Witness statement in trial for theft: Dennis Power: 'Q. Do you ever read the "Weekly Dispatch" newspaper? A. I do no...Edward Smith [n/a]Weekly DispatchPrint: Newspaper
1850-1899'The programme on the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayham [sic] was as follows. Reading of the poem by Mrs Edminson and Mrs Rawl...Elizabeth Ann Smith Rubaiyat of Omar KhayyamPrint: 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'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
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'Three papers were devoted to aspects of Burns & his works. Mrs Goadby read a biographical sketch. Mrs Smith read a pa...Elizabeth Ann Smith Elizabeth Ann Smith[paper on Burns as song writer]Manuscript: Unknown
1900-1945'Three papers were devoted to aspects of Burns & his works. Mrs Goadby read a biographical sketch. Mrs Smith read a pa...Elizabeth Ann Smith Robert BurnsPrint: Book
1900-1945'A meeting was held at Whinfield [?] on Dec 8 1904 devoted to H.G. Wells's Mankind in the Making. Howard R. Smith gave...Howard R. Smith Howard R. Smith[paper on H. G. wells's 'Mankind in the Making']Manuscript: Unknown
1900-1945'A meeting was held at Whinfield [?] on Dec 8 1904 devoted to H.G. Wells's Mankind in the Making. Howard R. Smith gave...Howard R Smith H.G. WellsMankind in the MakingPrint: 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 ...Howard Smith Leo TolstoyResurrection, ThePrint: Book
1900-1945'Mrs Smith then read an interesting biography of Keats which was followed by a reading of "I stood tiptoe upon a littl...Elizabeth Ann Smith Elizabeth Ann Smith[a biography of Keats]Manuscript: Unknown
1900-1945'Mrs Smith then read an interesting biography of Keats which was followed by a reading of "I stood tiptoe upon a littl...Howard R. Smith John KeatsEndymionPrint: Book
1900-1945'Howard R. Smith then read a paper on the history of the House of Lords which was followed by considerablee discussion...Howard R. Smith Howard R Smith[paper on the House of Lords]Manuscript: Unknown
1900-1945'An excellent programme illustrative of R.L. Stevenson's work was then proceeded with. A biographical paper was read b...Howard R Smith Howard R Smith[paper on life of RL Stevenson]Manuscript: Unknown
1900-1945'Mr Smith read a paper on Shelley & Mrs Ridges selections from a paper by Dr Scott on the poet's literary characterist...William Smith Percy Bysshe ShelleyPrint: 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...William Smith William Smith[paper on Shelley]Manuscript: 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...Howard Smith PunchPrint: Serial / periodical
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 BorrowBible in Spain, ThePrint: Book
1900-1945'Papers were then read by Mr Ridges on the Works of Borrow & on the Life of Borrow by R. Heelas. Readings were given b...Howard Smith George BorrowRomany Rye, ThePrint: 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 following was the programme for the evening Viz a paper by W.S. Rowntree on W.W. Jacobs' works. C.E. Stansfield,...Howard Smith Howard Smith[Paper on William Pett Ridge]Manuscript: Unknown
1900-1945'The following was the programme for the evening Viz a paper by W.S. Rowntree on W.W. Jacobs' works. C.E. Stansfield,...Howard Smith William Pett RidgePrint: Book
1900-1945'The subject of Occultism was introduced in a general & comprehensive way [by] C. Stansfield. H.R. Smith read a paper ...Howard Smith Howard Smith[paper on Subliminal Consciousness]Manuscript: Unknown
1900-1945'The subject of the evening Vers de Societe was introduced by H.M. Wallis & illustrative readings from various authors...Howard Smith [example of Vers de Societe]Print: Book
1900-1945'W.S. Rowntree read a paper on Dante & Florence [,] H.R. Smith explained the Vita Nuova from which Mrs W.H. Smith & Mr...Elizabeth Smith Dante AlighieriLa Vita NuovaPrint: Book
1900-1945'W.S. Rowntree read a paper on Dante & Florence [,] H.R. Smith explained the Vita Nuova from which Mrs W.H. Smith & Mr...Howard R. Smith Dante AlighieriLa Vita NuovaPrint: Book
1900-1945'The subject of this evening's discussion was The Philosophy of Henri Bergson. Interesting papers were given by C.E. S...Howard R. Smith Henri BergsonPrint: Book
1900-1945'The subject of this evening's discussion was The Philosophy of Henri Bergson. Interesting papers were given by C.E. S...Howard R. Smith Howard R. Smith[paper on Henri Bergson]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'A series of more or less five minutes essays or talks on various aspects of Browning by the folowing members were the...Howard Smith [a member of the XII Book Club][essay on Browning]Manuscript: Unknown
1900-1945'The Life & works of Anatole France were then dealt with in an interesting programme - an appreciation by H.R. Smith R...Howard Smith Anatole FrancePrint: Book
1900-1945'The Life & works of Anatole France were then dealt with in an interesting programme - an appreciation by H.R. Smith R...Howard Smith Anatole FrancePrint: Book
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'Chaucer's life & work were then described & illustrated by the following: A Paper on the Life & Times by Charles E. S...Howard Smith Geoffrey ChaucerGeneral ProloguePrint: 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 ThackerayVanity FairPrint: 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...Howard Smith William Makepeace ThackerayHenry EsmondPrint: Book
1900-1945'The evening was then devoted to Richard Jefferies - Poet-Naturalist. Ernest E. Unwin read a paper dealing with his li...Howard Smith Richard JefferiesPrint: 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 TwainPrint: Book
1900-1945'The rest of the evning was devoted to Wordsworth, Alfred Rawlings, Mrs Rawlings, Mrs W.H. Smith, C.I. Evans, C.E. Sta...Elizabeth Ann Smith [material by or about Wordsworth]Unknown
1900-1945'The meeting then entered the gloomy portals of New Grub St & attempted to follow the fortunes of George Gissing. The ...Howard R. Smith George GissingNew Grub StreetPrint: 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, ThePrint: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'The meeting then considered the work of H.G. Wells. The chief item of interest was undoubtedly a paper by Henry M. Wa...Elizabeth Ann Smith Elizabeth Ann Smith[paper on 'Mankind in the Making' by Wells]Manuscript: Unknown
1900-1945'The meeting then considered the work of H.G. Wells. The chief item of interest was undoubtedly a paper by Henry M. Wa...Elizabeth Ann Smith Herbert George WellsMankind in the MakingPrint: 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 WellsPrint: Book
1900-1945'The remainder of the evening was given over to R.L. Stevenson & his work. [the format of the evening's discussion on...Elizabeth Ann Smith Robert Louis Stevenson'Christmas at Sea'Print: Book
1900-1945'The remainder of the evening was given over to R.L. Stevenson & his work. [the format of the evening's discussion on...Elizabeth Ann Smith Robert Louis Stevenson'Tropic Rain'Print: Book
1900-1945'The remainder of the evening was given over to R.L. Stevenson & his work. [the format of the evening's discussion on...Elizabeth Ann Smith Robert Louis Stevenson'Vagabond'Print: Book
1900-1945'The evening was then devoted to the subject of Psychical Phenomena. The Secretary (Ernest E. Unwin] read a brief intr...Elizabeth Ann Smith Elizabeth Ann Smith[paper on the spirit world]Manuscript: Unknown
1900-1945'Essays were then read. The Secretary does not feel able to do more than indicate the general nature of these essays. ...Elizabeth Ann Smith Elizabeth Ann Smith[paper on the mind and its training]Manuscript: Unknown
1900-1945'The main business of the evening was then proceeded with - 5 mins essays upon some book read recently. Mrs Evans rea...Elizabeth Ann Smith [a member of the XII Book Club][paper on Blackwood's 'The Garden of Survival']Manuscript: Unknown
1900-1945'The main business of the evening was then proceeded with - 5 mins essays upon some book read recently. Mrs Evans rea...Elizabeth Ann Smith Algernon BlackwoodGarden of Survival, ThePrint: 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 FroissartChroniclesPrint: Book
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...Howard R. Smith Howard R. Smith'Etaples & the Air raids'Manuscript: Unknown
1900-1945'The following miscellaneous programme was then gone through. This change in the subject was caused by the imposibilit...Muriel Bowman-Smith Robert Browning'In a gondola'Print: 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...Howard R. Smith Fanny Burney[from works or diary]Manuscript: Sheet, copy from book, taken by Miss Cole
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...Howard R. Smith Howard R. Smith[paper on Bunyan's life]Manuscript: Unknown
1900-1945'The rest of the evening was devoted to John Bunyan. H.R. Smith read a paper dealing with the main episodes of his lif...Mrs Smith John BunyanGrace AboundingPrint: 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 ...Howard R. Smith Maurice HewlettForest Lovers, ThePrint: 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 ...Howard R. Smith Maurice HewlettForest Lovers, ThePrint: Book
1900-1945'De Quincey was the subject before the paper & number of extracts [sic] & two papers, one read by Mrs Rawlings & one b...Muriel Bowman-Smith Thomas de QuinceyPrint: 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...Howard R. Smith Howard R. Smith[essay on Pepys]Manuscript: Unknown
1900-1945'The subject of the evening, 'Ballads', now occupied attention. From an introductory paper prepared by Mary Hayward ...Howard R. Smith Bonnie House of Airlie, ThePrint: Unknown
1900-1945'The evening was then devoted to Samuel Johnson as seen through the biography of Boswell. Two papers were contributed....Howard R. Smith Howard R. Smith[paper on Boswell]Manuscript: Unknown
'The subject of the evening was L.P. Jacks. A few moments sufficed to pool our information as to the man. Too late the...Howard R. Smith L.P. Jacks'Farmer Jeremy and his Ways'Print: Book
'The Minutes of the last meeting were read & signed'Howard R. Smith Ernest E. Unwin[Minutes of XII Book Club]Manuscript: book
1900-1945'The Minutes of the last meeting were read & approved'Howard R. Smith Howard R. Smith[Minutes of XII Book Club]Manuscript: book
1900-1945'The Minutes of last meeting were read & agreed'Howard R. Smith Howard R. Smith[Minutes of XII Book Club]Manuscript: book
1900-1945'C.I. Evans read Geoffrey Young's [?] poem 'Mountain Playmates' & Mary Hayward read Leslie Stephen's account of the fi...Howard R. Smith Henry Marriage Wallis[parody of 'We are Seven']Manuscript: Unknown
1900-1945'Mr Burrow then introduced John Masefield's work setting out the little publicly known of his life following with a sh...Howard R. Smith John Masefield'Reynard the Fox'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...Howard R. Smith Arthur Quiller-CouchMayor of Troy, ThePrint: Book
1900-1945'Mr Geo Burrow read a paper on George Sand indicating her semi-patrician origin & the County surroundings in which she...Howard R. Smith George SandConsueloPrint: 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...Howard R. Smith Sabine Baring-GouldVicar of Morwenstow, ThePrint: 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-GouldPrint: Book
1900-1945'The rest of the evening was devoted to Anthony Trollope. C.E. Stansfield read an amusing passage from Dr Thorne. H.M....Howard R. Smith Anthony TrollopePrime Minister, ThePrint: 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 ShakespearePrint: Book
1900-1945'The Secretary reported that he had found "Ebony & Ivory" to be an unsuitable book to go round the club & had procured...Howard R. Smith Llewelyn PowysEbony and IvoryPrint: 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...Howard R. Smith Mark TwainPersonal Recollections of Joan of ArcPrint: 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...Howard R. Smith Mark TwainPersonal Recollections of Joan of ArcPrint: 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...Howard R. Smith William de MorganSomehow GoodPrint: Book
1900-1945'The Financial Statement was read & approved'Howard R. Smith Edith Smith[financial statement of XII Book Club]Manuscript: Unknown
1900-1945'The subject for the evening Herman Melville was then proceeded with & R.H. Robson gave a short account of his life fo...Howard R. Smith Herman MelvilleMoby DickPrint: Book
1900-1945'The subject for the evening Hugh Walpole was then taken F.E. Pollard giving us a brief outline of the writer's life. ...Howard R. Smith Hugh WalpolePrint: Book
1900-1945'The subject of Mrs Gaskell was then taken & Chas E. Stansfield gave an interesting account of her life & work. Follow...Howard R. Smith Elizabeth GaskellMary BartonPrint: Book
1900-1945'After refreshment Geo Burrow told us of Meinholt's [sic] book "The Amber Witch" & of witchcraft & Howard R. Smith re...Howard R. Smith Henry Marriage Wallis"The Price of his Soul"Manuscript: Unknown
1900-1945'C.I. Evans read a short essay on W.H. Hudsons story Green Mansions H.R. Smith followed on Rates & Taxes & Geo Burrow ...Howard R. Smith Howard R. Smith[paper on "Rates and taxes"]Manuscript: Unknown
1900-1945'Letters & Letter writing were then proceeded with. Mrs Burrow read three letters of William Cowper characteristica...Howard R. Smith Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield[letter to his son]Print: Book
1900-1945'The treasurers report showing a balance in hand of 19/- was read'Edith Smith Edith Smith[treasurer's report of XII Book Club]Manuscript: Unknown
1900-1945'After supper the Secretary read the Minutes of the last Meeting'Howard R. Smith Howard R. Smith[Minutes of XII Book Club]Manuscript: book
1900-1945'The Minutes of last Meeting were read & approved'Howard R. Smith Howard R. Smith[Minutes of XII Book Club]Manuscript: book
1900-1945'The financial statement was read showing a balance in hand of 11/ 3 1/2'Edith Smith Edith Smith[financial statement of XII Book Club]Manuscript: 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...Muriel Bowman Smith Thomas HardyMayor of Casterbridge, ThePrint: Book
1900-1945'Geo Burrow then read portions of Thackeray's essay on Swift. H. R. Smith read several short extracts from the Journal...Howard R. Smith Jonathan SwiftJournal to StellaPrint: Book
1900-1945A Meeting held at Mark Ash Tuesday May 8th 1928 C. J. Evans in the Chair 1 Minutes of last approved Howard Smith Howard Smith[Minutes of the meeting of the XII Book Club held 23 March 1928]Manuscript: Notebook
1900-1945The evening concluded with a reading from Udalls Ralph Royster Doyster when C. E. Stansfield was Doyster H.R. Smith Me...Edith B. Smith Nicholas UdallRalph Roister DoisterPrint: Book
1900-1945

A Meeting held at 30 Northcourt Avenue [Oct 19/28]

Miss E. C. Stevens in the chair

1. Minutes of l...

Howard Smith Howard Smith[Minutes of the meeting held 8 May 1928]Manuscript: Notebook
1900-1945

A Meeting held at 30 Northcourt Avenue [Oct 19/28]

Miss E. C. Stevens in the chair

1. Minutes of l...

Howard Smith Howard Smith[Minutes/report of the picnic meeting held 12 Jun 1928]Manuscript: Notebook
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<...

Howard Smith Howard Smith[Minutes of the meeting of the XII Book Club held 13 November 1928]Manuscript: Notebook
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<...

Howard Smith Howard Smith[Minutes/report of the meeting held 13 November 1928]Manuscript: Unknown, Notebook
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<...

Howard Smith William ShakespeareThe TempestUnknown
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<...

Muriel Bowman-Smith William ShakespeareThe TempestUnknown
1900-1945

'A Meeting held at Whinfell 21/1/29 Alfred Rawlings in the chair

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

Howard Smith Howard Smith[Minutes of the meeting held 4 Dec 1928]Manuscript: Notebook
1900-1945

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

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

Howard Smith Howard Smith[Minutes of the meeting of the XII Book Club held 21 Jan 1929]Manuscript: Notebook
1900-1945

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

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

Howard Smith Howard Smith[A brief sketch of Victor Hugo's life]Manuscript: Unknown
1900-1945

'A. Meeting held at Frensham 19/3/1929 H. R. Smith in the chair

Min 1 Minutes of last read and approved

...
Howard Smith Howard Smith[Minutes of the meeting of the XII Book Club held 26 Feb 1929]Manuscript: Notebook
1900-1945

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

Min 1. Minutes of last Read and approved

Howard Smith Howard Smith[Minutes of the meeting of the XII Book Club held 19 Mar 1929]Manuscript: Notebook
1900-1945

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

Min 1. Minutes of last Read and approved

Howard Smith Geoffrey ChaucerCanterbury Tales (General Prologue)Unknown
1900-1945

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

Min 1. Minutes of last Read and approved

Howard Smith Geoffrey ChaucerThe Prioress's Tale, from The Canterbury Tales
1900-1945

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

Min 1. Minutes of last Read and approved

Howard Smith Geoffrey ChaucerThe Wife of Bath's Tale, from The Canterbury Tales
1900-1945

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

Min 1. Minutes of last Read and approved

Howard Smith Hilaire BellocCautionary Tales for ChildrenUnknown
1900-1945

'A Meeting held at Broomfield June 6 1929

Geo H Burrow in the chair

Min 1. Minutes of last time rea...

Howard Smith Howard Smith[Minutes of XII Book Club meeting, 3 May 1929]Manuscript: Notebook
1900-1945

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

Min 1. Minutes o...

Howard Smith Howard Smith[Minutes of XII Book Club meeting, 6 June 1929]Manuscript: Notebook
1900-1945

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

Min 1. Minutes o...

Howard Smith Muriel Bowman-Smith[letter of resignation from the XII Book Club]Manuscript: Letter
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...

Howard Smith Howard Smith[Minutes of the meeting of the XII Book Club held 25 Sep 1929]Manuscript: Notebook
1900-1945Meeting held at Broomfield June 3rd 1930
G. Burrow in the chair
1. Minutes of last read and approved
...
Howard Smith John GalsworthyThe RoofPrint: Book
1900-1945Meeting held at Broomfield June 3rd 1930
G. Burrow in the chair
1. Minutes of last read and approved
...
Edith B. Smith John GalsworthyThe RoofPrint: Book
1900-1945Meeting held at Ashton Lodge July 10th 1930
H. M. Wallis in the chair
Min 1. Minutes of last meeting approv...
Howard Smith Howard SmithMinutes of the meeting of the XII Book Club held 3 June 1930Manuscript: Notebook
1900-1945Meeting held at Ashton Lodge July 10th 1930
H. M. Wallis in the chair
Min 1. Minutes of last meeting approv...
Howard Smith John MasefieldPhilip the KingUnknown
1900-1945

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

Francis Pollard in the Chair.

1. Minutes...

Howard Smith Francis Thompson?"At Lords"Print: Book
1900-1945

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

Francis E. Pollard in the Chair.

1. Minutes of l...

Howard Smith Janet Rawlings[Moroccan memories]Manuscript: Unknown
1900-1945

Meeting held at 70 Northcourt Avenue 28/4/1933

C. E. Stansfield in the chair


1 Minutes of l...

Howard Smith John J. CooperSome Worthies of ReadingPrint: Book
1900-1945

Meeting held at Oakdene, Northcourt Av, 20.3.34.

Sylvanus A. Reynolds in the Chair.

1. Minute...

Howard Smith Edith GoadbyGlastonburyManuscript: Unknown
1900-1945

Meeting held at 9 Denmark Road, 20 IV. 1934

F. E. Pollard in the chair

1. Minutes of last read & a...

Howard Smith Howard Smith[An account of the life of William Morris]Manuscript: Unknown
1900-1945

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

Charles E. Stansfield in the Chair

1. Minutes of...

Howard Smith Howard Smith[A paper on the early history of London]Manuscript: Unknown
1900-1945

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

Henry Marriage Wallis in the Chair.

1. Minutes of last ...

Howard Smith Trials for WitchcraftUnknown
1900-1945

'Meeting held at Whinfell, Upper Redlands Rd. 23.10.’37

Alfred Rawlings in the Chair


1. T...

Howard Smith William Fryer HarveyThe TortoisePrint: Book
1900-1945Meeting held at 70 Northcourt Avenue: 14. 12. 37
[...]
6. The evening was completed by the reading of extra...
Howard Smith Roger Martin du GardLes ThibaultPrint: Book
1900-1945Meeting held at Ashton Lodge: 14.3.38.
1. Minutes of last read and approved.
[...]
4. Readings from Iri...
Howard Smith [a story about an illicit still]Unknown

 

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