√ | Century of Experience | Evidence | Name of Reader / Listener / Reading Group | Author of Text | Title of Text | Form of Text | |
| 1700-1799 | Witness statement in trial for theft:
Josiah Howard: The 19th of May I and three journeyman-packers left work and c... | Josiah Howard | | Advertiser | Print: Newspaper |
| 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 | '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 |
| 1850-1899 | Mrs Humphrey Ward would remember that 'in 1886, when her 10-year-old son was grappling with the classics, she "began s... | Mrs Humphrey Ward | unknown | [Greek text/s] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | "When ... [Mrs Humphrey Ward] read aloud from Canadian Born (1910) to the assembled guests at Lord Stanley's part at A... | Mrs Humphrey Ward | Mrs Humphrey Ward | Canadian Born | Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'The retired Governor of Madras Sir Mountstuart Grant Duff, to whom Mrs [Humphry] Ward read extracts from "Robert Elsm... | Mrs Humphry Ward | Mary Augusta Ward | Robert Elsmere | |
| 1850-1899 | 'One of the privately printed copies [of "John Inglesant" was] ... read by Mrs Humphry Ward and her advocacy persuaded... | Mary Augusta Ward | J. Henry Shorthouse | John Inglesant | |
| 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 | '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 |
| 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 |
| 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 | [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 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 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 |
| 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 | 'We had each seen the "Derbyshire Patriot" (I for the first time) of that day- Westminster election on Wednesday the p... | Mr Ward | [n/a] | The Derbyshire Patriot | Print: Newspaper |
| 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 |
| 1600-1699 | 'Up, and to my office with Tom, whom I made read to me the books of Propositions in the time of the Grand Commission, ... | Tom Edwards | [unknown] | [Report of the reforming commission of 1618] | Unknown |
| 1600-1699 | 'and I to my office and there made an end of the books of Proposicions; which did please me mightily to hear read, the... | Tom Edwards [?] | [unknown] | [Report of the reforming commission of 1618] | Unknown |
| 1600-1699 | 'Thence home; and after dinner, by water with Tom down to Greenwich, he reading to me all the way, coming and going, m... | Tom Edwards | Samuel Pepys | [work on naval history] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1600-1699 | 'and home, where I made my boy to finish the reading of my manuscript; and so to supper and to bed.' | Tom Edwards | Samuel Pepys | [work on naval history] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1600-1699 | 'So home and to supper; and my wife to read, and Tom, my "Nipotisme", and then to bed.' | Tom Edwards | Gregorio Leti | Il nipotismo di Roma: or The history of the Popes nephews from the time of Sixtus the IV to the death of the last Pope Alexander the VII. In two parts. Written originally in Italian, in the year 1667 and Englished by W.A. | Print: Book |
| 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 |
| 1700-1799 | 'Horace having been mentioned; BOSWELL. "There is a great deal of thinking in his works. One finds there almost every ... | Mr Seward | Horace | [ode] 'Parcus deorum cultur et infrequens | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | '[from a letter from Mary Ward to her father] the more I read and think over the New Testament the more impossible it ... | Mary Ward | | New Testament | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'She complains in her letters that she cannot get through them [French and Spanish books to review in 'The Times', the... | Mary Ward | | [French and Spanish books] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'it was during this year [1884] that she began her translation of Amiel's "Journal".' | Mary Ward | Henri Frederic Amiel | Journal Intime | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | '[from a letter from Mary Ward to her father] I have been reading Joubert's "Pensees" and "Correspondance" lately, wit... | Mary Ward | William Shakespeare | Othello | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | '[from a letter from Mary Ward to her father] I have been reading Joubert's "Pensees" and "Correspondance" lately, wit... | Mary Ward | William Shakespeare | Hamlet | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | '[from a letter from Mary Ward to her father] I have been reading Joubert's "Pensees" and "Correspondance" lately, wit... | Mary Ward | Joseph Joubert | Pensees | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | '[from a letter from Mary Ward to her father] I have been reading Joubert's "Pensees" and "Correspondance" lately, wit... | Mary Ward | Joseph Joubert | Correspondance | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | '[from a letter from Mary Ward to her father] I have been reading Joubert's "Pensees" and "Correspondance" lately, wit... | Mary Ward | Horace | Epistles | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | '[from a letter from Mary Ward to her father] I have been reading Joubert's "Pensees" and "Correspondance" lately, wit... | Mary Ward | Étienne Pivert de Senancour | | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'It was in 1886 [...] that Mrs Ward began seriously to read Greek, usually with her ten-year-old son; she bought a Thu... | Mary Ward | Thucydides | | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | '[Mrs Ward's report of a conversation with Gladstone] 'I spoke of Pattison's autobiography as illustrating Newman's ho... | Mary Augusta Ward | Mark Pattison | Memoirs | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | '[Mrs Ward's report of a conversation with Gladstone] 'I spoke of Pattison's autobiography as illustrating Newman's ho... | Mary Augusta Ward | Mark Pattison | 'Confession of Faith' | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | '[letter from Mrs Ward to Gladstone] Thank you very much for the volume of "Gleanings" with its gracious inscription. ... | Mary Augusta Ward | William Gladstone | Gleanings Of Past Years | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | '[letter from Mrs Ward to Gladstone] Thank you very much for the volume of "Gleanings" with its gracious inscription. ... | Mary Augusta Ward | Henri Frederic Amiel | Journal Intime | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | '[letter from Mrs Ward to Gladstone, regarding his projected article about "Robert Elsmere"] If you do speak of him [T... | Mary Augusta Ward | T.H. Green | Witness of God and Faith, The: Two Lay Sermons | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'There, too, in the book-lined room which she had made her study, she would on Sunday evenings carry out in practice t... | Mary Augusta Ward | | Gospels | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | '[letter from Mrs Ward to her father] Read the books about Lancashire life a hundred years ago, and see if they have n... | Mary Augusta Ward | | [books on 18th century Lancashire life] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | '[letter to from Mrs Ward to Mrs Leonard Huxley, her sister] After seeing those temples with their sacrificial altars ... | Mary Augusta Ward | | [Paul's 1st Epistle to the Corinthians] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | '[Mrs Ward] regularly put herself to school to learn every detail of the system of sweated home work prevalent in the ... | Mary Augusta Ward | | [blue books of statistics] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | '[Mrs Ward writes to Mr Buxton about Sidney Webb's idea for a Factory Act for east London, and comments] I find the sa... | Mary Augusta Ward | | [papers on Factory Law] | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | '[At Mrs Ward's Passmore Edwards Settlement] One class, too, she kept as her very own - a weekly reading aloud for boy... | Mary Augusta Ward | Rudyard Kipling | | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | '[At Mrs Ward's Passmore Edwards Settlement] One class, too, she kept as her very own - a weekly reading aloud for boy... | Mary Augusta Ward | Robert Louis Stevenson | | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'All through the winter of 1896-7 Mrs Ward was steeping herself in Catholic literature' [as research for her book "Hel... | Mary Augusta Ward | | [Catholic literature] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Many Catholic books, in which she browsed "with what thoughts", as Carlyle would say, followed her to Levens [a house... | Mary Augusta Ward | | [Catholic literature] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | '[letter from Mrs Ward to her father] One of the main impressions of this Catholic literature upon me is to make me pe... | Mary Augusta Ward | | [Catholic literature] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | '[letter written by Mrs Ward from Italy] We read the "Tribuna" and the "Civilta Cattolica", which on opposite sides [o... | Mary Augusta Ward | | Civilta Cattolica | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | '[letter written by Mrs Ward from Italy] We read the "Tribuna" and the "Civilta Cattolica, which on opposite sides [of... | Mary Augusta Ward | | Tribuna | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'She had been reading much of Chateaubriand and Mme de Beaumont during the winter, and had felt her imagination kindle... | Mary Augusta Ward | François-René, vicomte de Chateaubriand | | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'She had been reading much of Chateaubriand and Mme de Beaumont during the winter, and had felt her imagination kindle... | Mary Augusta Ward | Jeanne Marie Le Prince de Beaumont | | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | '[letter from Mrs Ward to her husband describing an inept Cardinal's lack of knowledge about the crypt of St Peters, R... | Mary Augusta Ward | Alfred von Harnack | | Print: Book |
| 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 | 'There was one German scholar with whom she had at any rate a lengthy correspondence - Dr Adolf Julicher, of Marburg, ... | Mary Augusta Ward | Adolf Julicher | An Introduction to the New Testament | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'There was one German scholar with whom she had at any rate a lengthy correspondence - Dr Adolf Julicher, of Marburg, ... | Mary Augusta Ward | Adolf Julicher | An Introduction to the New Testament | Print: Unknown, page proofs |
| 1900-1945 | '[letter from Mrs Ward to Bishop Creighton, after her father's death] My father's was a rare and [italics] hidden [end... | Mary Augusta Ward | Thomas Arnold | [private papers] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'How they [Mrs Ward and her brother William Arnold] would talk, sometimes, about the details of her craft, about Jane ... | Mary Augusta Ward | George Meredith | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '[Letter from Mrs Ward to the Society of Authors when that body recommended Herbert Spencer not George Meredith for th... | Mary Augusta Ward | George Meredith | Richard Feverel | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '[Letter from Mrs Ward to the Society of Authors when that body recommended Herbert Spencer not George Meredith for th... | Mary Augusta Ward | George Meredith | Egoist, The | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '[Letter from Mrs Ward to the Society of Authors when that body recommended Herbert Spencer not George Meredith for th... | Mary Augusta Ward | George Meredith | Vittoria | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '[Letter from Mrs Ward to the Society of Authors when that body recommended Herbert Spencer not George Meredith for th... | Mary Augusta Ward | George Meredith | Beauchamp's Career | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '[Letter from Mrs Ward to the Society of Authors when that body recommended Herbert Spencer not George Meredith for th... | Mary Augusta Ward | Herbert Spencer | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '[in America] on the very few occasions when Mrs Ward did consent to be interviewed, she insisted on seeing the proof ... | Mary Augusta Ward | | [newspaper interviews with herself] | Print: Unknown, newspaper proofs |
| 1900-1945 | '[in Boston Mrs Ward] met the fine old veteran, Mrs Julia Ward Howe, author of the "Battle Hymn of the Republic", who ... | Mary Augusta Ward | Julia Ward Howe | Reminiscences | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '[letter from Mrs Ward] I have been reading Bancroft this morning, and shall read G.O.T. tonight. We [italics] were [e... | Mary Augusta Ward | George Bancroft | History of the United States, from the Discovery of the American Continent. | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '[Mrs Ward's average day at Stocks began] at 5.30 a.m, with the reading of Greek, or writing of letters, or much readi... | Mary Augusta ward | Emile Faguet | Dix-Huitieme Siecle: Études Littéraires | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '[Mrs Ward's average day at Stocks began] at 5.30 a.m, with the reading of Greek, or writing of letters, or much readi... | Mary Augusta ward | Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '[Mrs Ward's average day at Stocks began] at 5.30 a.m, with the reading of Greek, or writing of letters, or much readi... | Mary Augusta ward | Walter Raleigh | Wordsworth | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '[Mrs Ward's average day at Stocks began] at 5.30 a.m, with the reading of Greek, or writing of letters, or much readi... | Mary Augusta ward | Homer | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '[Mrs Ward's average day at Stocks began] at 5.30 a.m, with the reading of Greek, or writing of letters, or much readi... | Mary Augusta ward | Horace | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '[Mrs Ward's average day at Stocks began] at 5.30 a.m, with the reading of Greek, or writing of letters, or much readi... | Mary Augusta Ward | Euripides | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '[Mrs Ward's average day at Stocks began] at 5.30 a.m, with the reading of Greek, or writing of letters, or much readi... | Mary Augusta Ward | Aeschylus | Agamemnon | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'She was deep in the writings of Father Tyrrel, of Bergson and of William James during these years'. | Mary Augusta Ward | Wlliam James | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'She was deep in the writings of Father Tyrrel, of Bergson and of William James during these years' | Mary Augusta Ward | George Tyrrell | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'She was deep in the writings of Father Tyrrel, of Bergson and of William James during these years' | Mary Augusta Ward | Henri Bergson | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '[Letter from Mrs Ward to her daughter Janet Trevelyan] It is good to be alive on spring days like this! I have been r... | Mary Augusta Ward | William James | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '[Letter from Mrs Ward to her daughter Janet Trevelyan] It is good to be alive on spring days like this! I have been r... | Mary Augusta Ward | | bible | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Mrs Ward never allowed the springs of thought to grow dry for lack of reading. The one advantage that she gained from... | Mary Augusta Ward | | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Lady Harriet Cavendish to her grandmother, the Countess Dowager Spencer, 8 August 1807:
'George's reading goes on p... | George Howard | | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The subject of this evening's discussion was The Philosophy of Henri Bergson. Interesting papers were given by C.E. S... | Mary Hayward | Henri Bergson | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The subject of this evening's discussion was The Philosophy of Henri Bergson. Interesting papers were given by C.E. S... | Mary Hayward | Mary Hayward | [paper on Henri Bergson] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'The evening was then given over to the life & works of Lewis Carroll. Mary Hayward Life of Lewis Carroll. Songs. Well... | Mary Hayward | Mary Hayward | [paper on life of Lewis Carroll] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'Mark Twain
A very humorous essay written by C.E. Stansfield & read by R.H. Robson gave us a delightful introduction ... | Mary Hayward | Mark Twain | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | John Murray to Lord Byron, 3 February 1814, on first reception of The Corsair:
'Never, in my recollection, has any ... | | George Gordon Lord Byron | The Corsair | 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... | Mary Hayward | 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... | Mary Hayward | Herbert George Wells | [extracts from novels] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | John Murray to Byron (c. January 1816):
'I enclose Ward's note after reading the "Siege of Corinth." I lent him "Pa... | | George Gordon Lord Byron | The Siege of Corinth | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | John Murray to Byron (c. January 1816):
'I enclose Ward's note after reading the "Siege of Corinth." I lent him "Pa... | | George Gordon Lord Byron | Parisina | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | John Murray to Byron, 22 January 1817:
'I had a letter from Mr. Ward, to whom, at Paris, I sent the poems, and he i... | | George Gordon Lord Byron | poems [apparently including Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, Canto III] | Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'The meeting then continued the discussion of H.G. Wells & his religious development. C.E. Stansfield had prepared an ... | Miss Hayward | Herbert George Wells | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The evening was then devoted to the subject of Psychical Phenomena. The Secretary (Ernest E. Unwin] read a brief intr... | Mary Hayward | Mary Hayward | [paper on the sub-conscious] | 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... | 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... | Mary Hayward | Richard Jefferies | Story of my Heart, The | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'The subject of the evening, 'Ballads', now occupied attention.
From an introductory paper prepared by Mary Hayward ... | Mary Hayward | Mary Hayward | [paper on ballads] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'C.I. Evans read Geoffrey Young's [?] poem 'Mountain Playmates' & Mary Hayward read Leslie Stephen's account of the fi... | Mary Hayward | Leslie Stephen | [account of climbing the Zinal Rothorn] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | [Thomas Edwards to Samuel Richardson, 26 January 1749:]
'I find, dear Sir, that if I put off my acknowledgements to... | Thomas Edwards | Samuel Richardson | Clarissa | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | [Thomas Edwards to Samuel Richardson, 30 March 1751:]
'I never was master of any edition of Spenser but Rowe's, whi... | Thomas Edwards | Edmund Spenser | ?The Works of Mr Edmund Spenser | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Thomas Edwards to Samuel Richardson, 30 March 1751:
'I never was master of any edition of Spenser but Rowe's, which... | Thomas Edwards | Edmund Spenser | The Faerie Queene | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | [Thomas Edwards to Samuel Richardson, 30 March 1751:]
'I never was master of any edition of Spenser but Rowe's, whi... | Thomas Edwards | Edmund Spenser | The Faerie Queene | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | [Thomas Edwards to Samuel Richardson, 8 May 1751:]
'All this while I have been hard at work upon [an edition of] Sp... | Thomas Edwards | Edmund Spenser | | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | [Thomas Edwards to Samuel Richardson, 8 May 1751:]
'I had just been reading a paper which I met with at Aylesbury: ... | Thomas Edwards | | Proposal for 'Universal Dictionary of Commerce' | Print: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | [Thomas Edwards to Samuel Richardson, 28 February 1752:]
'I often entertain myself with reading over those charming... | Thomas Edwards | Hester Mulso | 'Odes' | Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | [Thomas Edwards to Samuel Richardson, 18 March 1752, following his account of recent storm damage to rooks' nests in h... | Thomas Edwards | | | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | [Thomas Edwards to Samuel Richardson, 20 March 1752:]
'As to Mr Pope, though I had some acquaintance with him, and ... | Thomas Edwards | Alexander Pope | 'Essays' | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | [Thomas Edwards to Samuel Richardson, 5 March 1753:]
'I am much obliged to you for the sonnet; it is very pretty'. | Thomas Edwards | Hester Mulso | sonnet | Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | [Thomas Edwards to Samuel Richardson, 28 January 1754, on his return home from a stay in London:]
'I have not been ... | Thomas Edwards | Samuel Richardson | Sir Charles Grandison | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | [Thomas Edwards to Samuel Richardson, 1 March 1754:]
'Who is that Miss Nanny Williams who has published a pretty co... | Thomas Edwards | Anna Williams | verses addressed to Samuel Richardson | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1700-1799 | [Thomas Edwards to Samuel Richardson, 29 May 1754:]
'I very much wonder, how it came to pass that I did not hear a ... | Thomas Edwards | John Duncombe | The Feminiad | Print: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | [Thomas Edwards to Samuel Richardson, 18 July 1754:]
'I did say, and I really do think, that it is a pity so many f... | Thomas Edwards | | [Poetry by women] | Print: UnknownManuscript: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | [Thomas Edwards to Samuel Richardson, 18 July 1754:]
'I return you many thanks for Miss Farrer's Ode on the Spring;... | Thomas Edwards | Miss Farrer | 'Ode on the Spring' | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | [Thomas Edwards to Samuel Richardson, 18 July 1754:]
'The verses from my fair [italics]Pupil[end italics], as she d... | Thomas Edwards | Miss Highmore | sonnet | Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | [Thomas Edwards to Samuel Richardson, 18 July 1754, on his practice of writing sonnets:]
'The reading of Spenser's ... | Thomas Edwards | Edmund Spenser | Sonnets | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | [Thomas Edwards to Samuel Richardson, 1 August 1754:]
'I give you many thanks for that sweet little Ode of Miss Far... | Thomas Edwards | Miss Farrer | 'Ode to Cynthia' | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | [Thomas Edwards to Samuel Richardson, 19 December 1754:]
'Think not that I can be easily satisfied without your com... | Thomas Edwards | Samuel Richardson | Pamela | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | [Thomas Edwards to Samuel Richardson, 19 December 1754:]
'Think not that I can be easily satisfied without your com... | Thomas Edwards | Samuel Richardson | Clarissa | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | [Thomas Edwards to Samuel Richardson, 15 January 1755:]
'You have a very just opinion of St. John's works [...] As ... | Thomas Edwards | Henry St. John, Viscount Bolingbroke | Essays | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Thomas Edwards to Samuel Richardson, 15 January 1755:
'You have a very just opinion of St. John's works [...] As fa... | Thomas Edwards | Alexander Pope | Essay on Man | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | [Thomas Edwards to Samuel Richardson, 15 January 1755:]
'Your works are an inexhaustible fund of entertainment and ... | Thomas Edwards | Samuel Richardson | Clarissa | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | [Thomas Edwards to Samuel Richardson, 28 May 1755:]
'I have lately read over with much indignation Fielding's last ... | Thomas Edwards | Henry Fielding | Voyage to Lisbon | Print: Book |