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Amelia Opie
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'I heard, at that blessed City Mission meeting, which I attended the other evening, that our county is reckoned one of the worst for crime and ignorance. ? (note written summer 1850) Mrs Opie, latterly, took a somewhat morbid view of the existing state of things, supposing that instead if improving they would become worse. She read the daily papers, in which the same crime is repeatedly brought to notice, week after week, and became possessed with the idea that murders and horrors were multiplied in proportion to the publicity given them.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Amelia Opie Print: Newspaper
Mary Dudley :
7/1/1827 ? ?Then read the first part of Mary Dudley?s Life; felt true unity with her experience when first called to the ministry. What a bright course was hers! ?
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Amelia Opie Print: Book
Hugh Twyford : The Grounds of Holy Life
7/1/1827 ? ?Read about eighty pages of a book lent to me by Dr Ash, called ?The grounds of a Holy life?. Believe the author to be a friend in principle, if not in profession. Read Paul?s fine address to Agrippa to the servants; hope they understood it; it explains the nature of grace, and clearly.?
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Amelia Opie Print: Book
M R Milford :
8/1/1827 ? ?Finished M. R. Milford?s pretty book, and write out my new fable.?
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Amelia Opie Print: Book
Apostle Paul : Address to Agrippa
7/1/1827 ? ?Read about eighty pages of a book lent to me by Dr Ash, called ?The grounds of a Holy life?. Believe the author to be a friend in principle, if not in profession. Read Paul?s fine address to Agrippa to the servants; hope they understood it; it explains the nature of grace, and clearly.?
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Amelia Opie Print: Book
John Galt : The Life and administration of Cardinal Wolsey
14/1/1827 ? 'I read "Galt?s Life of Wolsey" with interest. To be thankful, and rather better, could only read a psalm to the servants.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Amelia Opie Print: Book
unknown : Life of Sarah Martin
19/6/1847 ? 'I have been reading the life of Sarah Martin; it made me shed many tears, from the sense of her superior virtue, and my own inferiority. What an example she was?. W Allan?s admirable life I have read quite through, with delight, and I hope, instruction.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Amelia Opie Print: Book
Louise Philippe Segur : Memoirs and Recollections
21/8/1829 ? 'The General gave us an account of the early years of the [French] revolution, the other gentlemen assisting. The evening ended only too soon, but I read in my own room the M?moirs of S?gur, and with a curious feeling lay down, knowing I should see Lafayette next day!'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Amelia Opie Print: Book
Stephen Crisp : Sermons
'27/1/1833 - In the evening read some pages of S. Crisp's "Sermons" - admirable! Read Newton's "Cardiphonia" and in the Acts; an edifying evening, still to bed discouraged, though much enabled to pray during day.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Amelia Opie Print: Book
John Newton : Cardiphonia
'27/1/1833 - In the evening read some pages of S. Crisp's "Sermons" - admirable! Read Newton's "Cardiphonia" and in the Acts; an edifying evening, still to bed discouraged, though much enabled to pray during day.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Amelia Opie Print: Book
John Carne : Letters from the East
'27/1/1833 ? Read Carne?s "letters from the East", which, though not new to me, were most pleasing; so absorbed with his accounts of the Holy Land, I could scarcely quit them to go to bed.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Amelia Opie Print: Book
William Hayley :
?Here Hayley kept his books and manuscripts and the choicest pieces of his famous collection of Chinese porcelain. The walls were adorned with prints and drawings, and here also hung many paintings by Hayley?s friend George Romney. In this quiet room Mr Hayley and Mrs Opie would spend some hours together reading aloud, sometimes from a manuscript of Hayley?s or sometimes from one of Amelia?s tales.?
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Amelia Opie Manuscript: Plays
Amelia Opie : [her own works]
?Mrs Opie?s was essentially a happy temperament and with such adaptability as she possessed, quiet home evenings were not without their charms; even when her husband sat there deep in his books or prints. He liked novels also: had the ? virtue of appreciating her own: when she read her latest work to him in the dramatic manner that made Martineaus weep over her pathos in manuscript and wonder at the lesser charm of the printed page, if her audience was so much smaller than at Norwich literary gatherings, it was an indulgent one.?
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Amelia Opie Manuscript: Unknown
Amelia Opie : her own works as they are published
?As usual all the good I saw in my work, before it was printed, is now vanished from my sight and I remember only its faults. All the authors of both sexes, and artists too, that are not too ignorant or full of conceit to be capable of alarm tell me they have had the same feeling when about to receive judgement from the public. Besides, whatever I read appears to me so superior to my own productions, that I am in a state of most unenviable humility.?
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Amelia Opie Print: Book
Various : Journal des Debats
'6/11/1830 - I have just read the speeches of our Parliament in the Journal des Debats. How entirely I agree with Lord Grey; but the bare possibility of war with France is insupportable ... Brougham does not mention such a possibility, and I think his opinion nearly as good as Lord Grey's'.
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Amelia Opie Print: Serial / periodical
James Harris : Diaries
"4/2/1845 - I have read two volumes (the last two, I think) of Lord Malmesbury's Diaries, and with intense interest. I knew so many of the men he writes about, and lived on the spot where they acted."
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Amelia Opie Print: Book
Thomas Carlyle : History of the French Revolution
"4/2/1845 - I am also reading Carlyle's History of the French Revolution - full of genius, pathos, and pictures; with all its faults (and it has great ones) still, I can hardly lay it down."
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Amelia Opie Print: Book
: Bible and other religious texts
"During the whole time of his [her father's] illness, Mrs Opie assiduously attended him; she had later joined the Quakers, and read to him much in the Bible and other religious books, and his views, on religious subjects, appear to have undergone an entire change. Mr J J Gurney was very frequently with them both."
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Amelia Opie Print: Book
unknown : [moral tales]
'I believe simple moral tales the very best mode of instructing the young and the poor ? else why do the pious of all sects and beliefs spread tracts in stories over the world - ? My own books (which friends never read, and know nothing about), are, in my belief, moral rules.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Amelia Opie Print: Book
: Scriptures
'No dissipation has yet had power to make me neglect to read the Scriptures every day or fail to take advantage of every opportunity that has offered itself of religious conversation with a view to instruction.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Amelia Opie Print: Book
William Hayley :
?At home, she read with her mother, from Madame de Genlis and from William Hayley.?
Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Amelia Opie Print: Book
Mme de Genlis :
?At home, she read with her mother, from Madame de Genlis and from William Hayley.?
Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Amelia Opie Print: Book
Charles Dickens : [novels]
'The novels of Scott and Dickens had long been her favourite reading, but of late years she had become interested in the work of George Borrow, a Norfolk man who had recently gained a certain measure of fame.'
Century: 1700-1799 / 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Amelia Opie Print: Book
Walter Scott : [novels]
'The novels of Scott and Dickens had long been her favourite reading, but of late years she had become interested in the work of George Borrow, a Norfolk man who had recently gained a certain measure of fame.'
Century: 1700-1799 / 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Amelia Opie Print: Book
George Borrow : unknown
'The novels of Scott and Dickens had long been her favourite reading, but of late years she had become interested in the work of George Borrow, a Norfolk man who had recently gained a certain measure of fame.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Amelia Opie Print: Book
Amelia Opie : Temper, or Domestic Scenes: A Tale
'I [Harriet Martineau] remember my mother and sister coming home with swollen eyes and tender spirits after spending an evening with Miss Opie, to hear "Temper," which she read in a most overpowering way. When they saw it in print, they could scarcely believe it was the same story.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Amelia Opie Manuscript: Unknown
[n/a] : Psalm
14/1/1827 ? 'I read "Galt?s Life of Wolsey" with interest. To be thankful, and rather better, could only read a psalm to the servants.'