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Century: 1700-1799 / 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Taylor Coleridge Print: Book
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Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Taylor Coleridge Print: Book
Henry Mayhew's interview with a seller of street stationery:
'I read "Lloyd's Weekly Newspaper" on a Sunday, and what murders and robberies there is now!'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: anon Print: Newspaper
Henry Mayhew interviews a street buyer of waste paper:
"The only worldly labour I do on a Sunday is to take my family's dinner to the bakehouse, bring it home after chapel, and read Lloyd's Weekly"
Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: anon Print: Broadsheet, Newspaper
'[the father of Harry Burton] 'an irregularly employed housepainter, liked a "stirring novel" but nothing more challenging than Conan Doyle: "He had no use whatever for anything remotely approaching the spiritual in art, literature or music...", and yet the whole family rea and, on some level, took pleasure in sharing and discussing their reading. His mother recited serials from the Family Reader and analyzed them at length with grandma over a cup of tea. Every few minutes his father would offer up a snippet from the Daily Chronicle or Lloyd's Weekly News. The children were not discouraged from reading aloud, perhaps from Jules Verne: "I can smell to this day the Journey to the Centre of the Earth", Burton recalled. The whole family made use of the public library and enjoyed together children's magazines like Chips and The Butterfly'.
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Burton Print: Newspaper
When he was ordained, the Bishop (who in those days was primus Presbyter, or Praeses) seeking to oppose him, asked him this Question, Have you read the Bible through? Yes (said he) I have read the Old Testament twice through in the Hebrew, and the New Testament often through in the Greek; and if you please to examine me in any particular place, I shall endeavour to give you an account of it. Nay (said the Bishop) if it be so, I shall need to say no more to you; only some words of Commendation and encouragement he gave him, and so with other assistants, he Ordained him.
Century: 1500-1599 Reader/Listener/Group: John Carter Print: Book
When he was ordained, the Bishop (who in those days was primus Presbyter, or Praeses) seeking to oppose him, asked him this Question, Have you read the Bible through? Yes (said he) I have read the Old Testament twice through in the Hebrew, and the New Testament often through in the Greek; and if you please to examine me in any particular place, I shall endeavour to give you an account of it. Nay (said the Bishop) if it be so, I shall need to say no more to you; only some words of Commendation and encouragement he gave him, and so with other assistants, he Ordained him.
Century: 1500-1599 Reader/Listener/Group: John Carter Print: Book
For his carriage and deportment in his Family, it was sober, grave, and very Religious. He there offered up the Morning and Evening Sacrifice of Prayer, and praise continually: so that his House was a little Church. Thrice a day he had the Scriptures read, and after that the Psalm, or Chapter were ended, he used to ask all his children and servants what they remembred, and whatsoever Sentences they rehearsed, he would speak something out of them that might tend to their edification.
Century: 1500-1599 / 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: John Carter Print: Book
'Derek Davies could not recall that his mother had ever read a book. His father, a die-caster in an automobile factory, read only local and sports papers and two novels a week - a Western or a detective thriller: "Yet quite unintentionally he gave me... a love of reading... He never seemed to vary the diet, he never discussed either the books he read or newspaper items, and he never urged me to read for myself... I... was soon reading everything he read. by the age of eleven or twelve I must have read a couple of hundred of his novels..." In addition to the newspapers and his father's novels, he consumed books for younger children and travel books for adults ("Tibet, I remember, was one passionate preoccupation"). He jumped from the "Wizard" and "Hotspur", which his parents considered "trash" to their twenty-two bound volumes of "The Illustrated New History of the 1914-18 War". "Undeterred by the fact that I had neither the space nor the money to embark on even the most modest layout, I consumed book after book on the building of model railways. Gradually, as I found out how to use the School Library and the Public Library, some degree of selection took place, but as nobody at school before the sixth form advised me what to read the selection remained distinctly erratic... At about fourteen... I read every word of T.E. Lawrence's 'Seven Pillars of Wisdom', although I had only the faintest glimmer of its real significance".'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Davies Print: Newspaper
'Derek Davies could not recall that his mother had ever read a book. His father, a die-caster in an automobile factory, read only local and sports papers and two novels a week - a Western or a detective thriller: "Yet quite unintentionally he gave me... a love of reading... He never seemed to vary the diet, he never discussed either the books he read or newspaper items, and he never urged me to read for myself... I... was soon reading everything he read. by the age of eleven or twelve I must have read a couple of hundred of his novels..." In addition to the newspapers and his father's novels, he consumed books for younger children and travel books for adults ("Tibet, I remember, was one passionate preoccupation"). He jumped from the "Wizard" and "Hotspur", which his parents considered "trash" to their twenty-two bound volumes of "The Illustrated New History of the 1914-18 War". "Undeterred by the fact that I had neither the space nor the money to embark on even the most modest layout, I consumed book after book on the building of model railways. Gradually, as I found out how to use the School Library and the Public Library, some degree of selection took place, but as nobody at school before the sixth form advised me what to read the selection remained distinctly erratic... At about fourteen... I read every word of T.E. Lawrence's 'Seven Pillars of Wisdom', although I had only the faintest glimmer of its real significance".'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Derek Davies Print: Newspaper
'Derek Davies could not recall that his mother had ever read a book. His father, a die-caster in an automobile factory, read only local and sports papers and two novels a week - a Western or a detective thriller: "Yet quite unintentionally he gave me... a love of reading... He never seemed to vary the diet, he never discussed either the books he read or newspaper items, and he never urged me to read for myself... I... was soon reading everything he read. by the age of eleven or twelve I must have read a couple of hundred of his novels..." In addition to the newspapers and his father's novels, he consumed books for younger children and travel books for adults ("Tibet, I remember, was one passionate preoccupation"). He jumped from the "Wizard" and "Hotspur", which his parents considered "trash" to their twenty-two bound volumes of "The Illustrated New History of the 1914-18 War". "Undeterred by the fact that I had neither the space nor the money to embark on even the most modest layout, I consumed book after book on the building of model railways. Gradually, as I found out how to use the School Library and the Public Library, some degree of selection took place, but as nobody at school before the sixth form advised me what to read the selection remained distinctly erratic... At about fourteen... I read every word of T.E. Lawrence's 'Seven Pillars of Wisdom', although I had only the faintest glimmer of its real significance".'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Derek Davies Print: Serial / periodical
'Derek Davies could not recall that his mother had ever read a book. His father, a die-caster in an automobile factory, read only local and sports papers and two novels a week - a Western or a detective thriller: "Yet quite unintentionally he gave me... a love of reading... He never seemed to vary the diet, he never discussed either the books he read or newspaper items, and he never urged me to read for myself... I... was soon reading everything he read. by the age of eleven or twelve I must have read a couple of hundred of his novels..." In addition to the newspapers and his father's novels, he consumed books for younger children and travel books for adults ("Tibet, I remember, was one passionate preoccupation"). He jumped from the "Wizard" and "Hotspur", which his parents considered "trash" to their twenty-two bound volumes of "The Illustrated New History of the 1914-18 War". "Undeterred by the fact that I had neither the space nor the money to embark on even the most modest layout, I consumed book after book on the building of model railways. Gradually, as I found out how to use the School Library and the Public Library, some degree of selection took place, but as nobody at school before the sixth form advised me what to read the selection remained distinctly erratic... At about fourteen... I read every word of T.E. Lawrence's 'Seven Pillars of Wisdom', although I had only the faintest glimmer of its real significance".'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Derek Davies Print: Serial / periodical
'Derek Davies could not recall that his mother had ever read a book. His father, a die-caster in an automobile factory, read only local and sports papers and two novels a week - a Western or a detective thriller: "Yet quite unintentionally he gave me... a love of reading... He never seemed to vary the diet, he never discussed either the books he read or newspaper items, and he never urged me to read for myself... I... was soon reading everything he read. by the age of eleven or twelve I must have read a couple of hundred of his novels..." In addition to the newspapers and his father's novels, he consumed books for younger children and travel books for adults ("Tibet, I remember, was one passionate preoccupation"). He jumped from the "Wizard" and "Hotspur", which his parents considered "trash" to their twenty-two bound volumes of "The Illustrated News History of the 1914-18 War". "Undeterred by the fact that I had neither the space nor the money to embark on even the most modest layout, I consumed book after book on the building of model railways. Gradually, as I found out how to use the School Library and the Public Library, some degree of selection took place, but as nobody at school before the sixth form advised me what to read the selection remained distinctly erratic... At about fourteen... I read every word of T.E. Lawrence's 'Seven Pillars of Wisdom', although I had only the faintest glimmer of its real significance".'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Derek Davies Print: Book
'Charlie Chaplin was a classic autodidact, always struggling to make up for a dismally inadequate education, groping haphazardly for what he called "intellectual manna"... Chaplin could be found in his dressing room studying a Latin-English dictionary, Robert Ingersoll's secularist propaganda, Emerson's "Self- Reliance" ("I felt I had been handed a golden birthright"), Irving, Hawthorne, Poe, Whitman, Twain, Hazlitt, all five volumes of Plutarch's Lives, Plato, Locke, Kant, Freud's "Psychoneurosis", Lafcadio Hearn's "Life and Literature", and Henri Bergson - his essay on laughter, of course... Chaplin also spent forty years reading (if not finishing) the three volumes of "The World as Will and Idea" by Schopenhauer, whose musings on suicide are echoed in Monsieur Verdoux'.
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Charles Spencer Chaplin Print: Book
'Gifford had read only some ballads, the black-letter romance Parismus and Parismenus, some odd loose magazines of his mother's, the Bible (which he studied with his grandmother) and "The Imitation of Christ" (read to his mother on her deathbed). He then learned algebra by surreptitiously reading Fenning's textbook: his master's son owned the book and had deliberately hidden it from him'.
Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: William Gifford Print: Book
'[Aneurin Bevan] burrowed through the Tredegar Workmen's Institute Library, and acquired his characteristically grandiose vocabulary through close study of Roget's Thesaurus... When he chaired the Tredegar Library Committee, ?60 of its ?300 acquisitions budget was delegated to a colliery repairman to buy philosophy books. Bevan could quote Nietzsche, discuss F.H. Bradley's "Appearance and Reality", and deeply impress an Oxford tutor with his crique of Kant's "Categorical Imperative"... Bevan was... deeply influenced by "The Theory of the Leisure Class".'
Century: 1850-1899 / 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Aneurin (Nye) Bevan Print: Book
'With autodidact diligence [Leslie Paul] closed in on the avant-garde. He read "Prufrock" and "The Waste Land", though not until the 1930s. He smuggled "Ulysses" and "Lady Chatterley's Lover" past customs. In "John O'London's" and "The Nation", in William MacDougall's Home University Library volume on "Psychology" and F.A. Servante's "Psychology of the Boy", he read up on Freud. In a few years he knew enough to ghost-write BBC lectures on modern psychology'.
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Leslie Paul Print: Serial / periodical
'I rose with a heavy heart on the Sunday morning, and read mechanically a chapter in the little Bible in which my mother had blotted my name upon the title page: but my thoughts were far away, and I knew not what I had read.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Charles Manby Smith Print: Book
'Upon one of the interminable book-stalls, or rather book-walls, which displayed their leafy barrens along the quays of the Seine, I picked up a Cobbett's French Grammar for a franc, and a pocket dictionary for another. A fellow lodger lent me a Testament and a Telemaque; and to these materials I applied dogedly from six in the morning til dinnertime. I read the Grammar through first, and then made an abridgement of it on a small pack of plain cards... By these means ... I made rapid progress.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Charles Manby Smith Print: Book
'Upon one of the interminable book-stalls, or rather book-walls, which displayed their leafy barrens along the quays of the Seine, I picked up a Cobbett's French Grammar for a franc, and a pocket dictionary for another. A fellow lodger lent me a Testament and a Telemaque; and to these materials I applied dogedly from six in the morning til dinnertime. I read the Grammar through first, and then made an abridgement of it on a small pack of plain cards... By these means ... I made rapid progress.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Charles Manby Smith Print: Newspaper
'In the course of a fortnight I could manage, with the help of a dictionary, to read the advertisements in the French newspapers, which I now began to peruse, not without a hope of finding employment of some other kind, in case the printing should fail.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Charles Manby Smith Print: Advertisement, Newspaper
'One day, [after] an hour's study, I managed to get all the meaning of an advertisement in the Moniteur...'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Charles Manby Smith Print: Advertisement, Newspaper
'"The Times" newspaper was taken in daily, and it was the office of each compositor in town to read the debates and leaders aloud for the benefit of the rest. When it came to my turn, they could never understand my "professional" mode of reading, and made me many humble requests for explanation.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Charles Manby Smith Print: Newspaper
'Then we met in-doors for supper, with the home-made loaf and the cambray cheese; and then came the old family Bible and the worn-out ... prayer-book, and the ... voice of my good old dad, as he read deliberately the psalms and the prayer as in the days when I lay in my mother's lap while she soothed little Ned to silence in her arms.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Smith Print: Book
'My uncle and some others were subscribers to The Weekly Dispatch, each of the subscribers agreeing as to the time and days they were to have the paper read.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: villagers of South Mimms Print: Newspaper
?Besides the standard works of our great writers, I subscribed to a few serials, mostly educational. These included "British Controversionalist", Cassell?s "Popular Educator", "Historical Educator" and "Educational Course"? Cassell?s publications, cheap and solid, were a great book to me. The "Popular Educator" was my chief handbook. Always fond of linguistics studies, I tackled lessons in English, in French and in Latin.?
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Burt Print: Serial / periodical
?Besides the standard works of our great writers, I subscribed to a few serials, mostly educational. These included "British Controversionalist", Cassell?s "Popular Educator", "Historical Educator" and "Educational Course"? Cassell?s publications, cheap and solid, were a great book to me. The "Popular Educator" was my chief handbook. Always fond of linguistics studies, I tackled lessons in English, in French and in Latin.?
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Burt Print: Serial / periodical
?In January 1860, appeared the Cornhill magazine, with Thackeray as its editor. The price was a shilling? As soon as I knew it was on sale, I walked to Beddington and came home the proud possessor of the first number. Thackeray?s "Roundabout papers" and some of his stories I read with much gusto. Before the year was out there appeared in the Cornhill a series of remarkable papers by John Ruskin, "Unto this last". These I read with avidity from beginning to end. Long and deep did I ponder over them. The style ? so simple, so beautiful, so telling ? captivated me??
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Burt Print: Serial / periodical
'Opening the "Newcastle Chronicle" one November morning of 1865, I observed a long letter signed "A Coalowner". From beginning to end the letter was a fierce diatribe against the strikers, the Miner's Union, and the Secretary of the Union.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Burt Print: Newspaper
?When about fourteen years old a comrade lent me a few stray numbers of the "London Journal", a highly spiced periodical which I read with great gusto. It was full of adventures, of mild, romantic stories depicting duels and battles, deeds of daring, hairbreadth escapes by land and sea, the heroes being banditti, pirates, robbers and outlaws. This stirred my blood and excited the youthful imagination. When my father caught me reading it he gently chided me for wasting my time on such rubbishy stuff. Wretched garbage no doubt it was, yet, after all, perhaps the time given to it was not wholly wasted. No useful information, indeed, was gained, but I was acquiring facility in reading and laying hold of the golden key which would open to me the rich treasures of a great literature.?
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Burt Print: Serial / periodical
?For reading aloud the one book used was the Bible, the Psalms being always selected. Directly the last Psalm was finished we turned back to the first, and began them over again. In my own experience, the monotony of this proceeding had a most unhappy effect ? the Psalms became so uninteresting, not to say repetitive, that all through life I have failed to appreciate properly the beauty of those grand Eastern compositions.?
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Catling Print: Book
?There were no free libraries, so the younger hands joined with me in starting a "Literary Fund" of our own, towards which each paid three-halfpence a week. The papers and books bought for general reading were afterwards divided. In our little club the "Cornhill Magazine", from its start under Thackeray?s editorship, was read and discussed; also Dickens?s successive productions. I call to mind many serious books, as well as "Cassell?s Magazine" and the "London Journal", in which appeared Miss Braddon?s great story of "Henry Dunbar", then entitled "The Outcasts".?
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Printers and compositors at Thomas Catling's place of work, Edward Lloyd's publishing house Print: Serial / periodical
?There were no free libraries, so the younger hands joined with me in starting a "Literary Fund" of our own, towards which each paid three-halfpence a week. The papers and books bought for general reading were afterwards divided. In our little club the "Cornhill Magazine", from its start under Thackeray?s editorship, was read and discussed; also Dickens?s successive productions. I call to mind many serious books, as well as "Cassell?s Magazine" and the "London Journal", in which appeared Miss Braddon?s great story of "Henry Dunbar", then entitled "The Outcasts".?
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Printers and compositors at Thomas Catling's place of work, Edward Lloyd's publishing house Print: Serial / periodical
?There were no free libraries, so the younger hands joined with me in starting a "Literary Fund" of our own, towards which each paid three-halfpence a week. The papers and books bought for general reading were afterwards divided. In our little club the "Cornhill Magazine", from its start under Thackeray?s editorship, was read and discussed; also Dickens?s successive productions. I call to mind many serious books, as well as "Cassell?s Magazine" and the "London Journal", in which appeared Miss Braddon?s great story of "Henry Dunbar", then entitled "The Outcasts".?
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Printers and compositors at Thomas Catling's place of work, Edward Lloyd's publishing house Print: Serial / periodical
??now, being able to read, I had almost continually the Testament in my hand. I had all the wondrous accounts in the Revelations, and my father, not a little pleased, would at times sit down, and in his way explain the meaning of the strange things about which I read. After I had gone through the Revelations, I began with the Gospel of Saint Matthew, and was deeply interested by the miracles, sufferings and death of our Lord. The New Testament was now my shiny book, and I read it all through and through, but more for the interest the marvellous passages excited, than from any religious impression which they caused.?
Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Bamford Print: Book
'Read "Athenaeum"'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Print: Serial / periodicalManuscript: Unknown
'Read article on Dryden in W.R. and looked through the "Contemporary Literature"'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Print: UnknownManuscript: Unknown
'? with the exception of Bible lessons at Sunday school, all my reading was done at home, after the daily task was finished. When not strongly tempted to play I was almost certain to be reading by the summer?s twilight, or by the red embers of the winter fire, my books being chiefly "Wesley?s Journals", "The Armenian Magazine", wherein I found "Maudrell?s Travels from Aleppo to Jerusalem", which I was very much interested by; "An account of the Inquisition in Spain", which filled me with a dislike of Popery; "The Drummer of Tedworth"; "Some account of the Disturbances at Glenluce"; "An account of the Apparition of the Laird of Cool", - and other most marvellous narratives which excited my attention, and held me pausing over the ashes until the light was either gone or I was sent to bed. I also got hold of an old superstitious doctoring book, which gave me some unexpected information relative to the human frame, and equally surprised me as to the occult powers of certain herbs and simples, when prepared under supposed planetary aspects. A copy of Cocker?s "Arithmetic" soon after set me to writing figures and casting accounts, in which I made but slow progress; and part of a small volume of "The History of England", which I found in rumaging through an old meal ark, gave me the first insight into the chronicles of my native country.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Bamford Print: Serial / periodical
?They [wife and child] had been at prayers, and were reading the Testament before retiring to rest?.
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Bamford's wife and child Print: Book
[Adams's grandmother?s nephew sent newspapers to her on weekly basis, first the Weekly Dispatch; this was in time replaced with The Examiner.]
?The substitution of the "Examiner" for the "Dispatch" was not appreciated by the family; but we could not look a gift horse in the mouth, and, besides, we had no means of communicating with the giver?. I revelled as a boy in the politics of the "Dispatch" ? as a youth in the criticisms of the "Examiner".?
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: William Edwin Adams Print: Newspaper
[Adams's grandmother?s nephew sent newspapers to her on weekly basis, first the 'Weekly Dispatch'; this was in time replaced with 'The Examiner'.]
?The substitution of the "Examiner" for the "Dispatch" was not appreciated by the family; but we could not look a gift horse in the mouth, and, besides, we had no means of communicating with the giver?. I revelled as a boy in the politics of the "Dispatch" ? as a youth in the criticisms of the "Examiner".?
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: William Edwin Adams Print: Newspaper
?There was and is so judicious a blending of light and heavy literature in "Chambers?s Journal" that their periodical has helped to educate, inform and entertain many generations of the British public. Whenever it came in my way, as it did sometimes, I revelled in its pages. The "Penny Magazine" also was a great delight on the rare occasions that I saw it. But I remember best the "Family Herald", "Reynolds?s Miscellany", and Lloyd?s penny dreadfuls.?
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: William Edwin Adams Print: Serial / periodical
?There was and is so judicious a blending of light and heavy literature in "Chambers?s Journal" that their periodical has helped to educate, inform and entertain many generations of the British public. Whenever it came in my way, as it did sometimes, I revelled in its pages. The "Penny Magazine" also was a great delight on the rare occasions that I saw it. But I remember best the "Family Herald", "Reynolds?s Miscellany", and Lloyd?s penny dreadfuls.?
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: William Edwin Adams Print: Serial / periodical
'Another Sunday recollection is that of a Sunday morning gathering in a humble
kitchen. Larry [a crippled shoemaker] made his appearance every Sunday morning,
as regular as clockwork, with a copy of the "Northern Star", damp from the press,
for the purpose of having some member of our household read out to him and
others "Fergus?s Letter". The paper was first to be dried before the fire, and then
carefully and evenly cut, so as not to damage a single line of the almost sacred
publication. This done, Larry, placidly smoking his ? pipe, ? settled himself to listen
with all the rapture of a devotee in a tabernacle to the message of the great
Fergus, watching and now and again turning the little joint as it hung and twirled
before the kitchen fire, and interjecting occasional chuckles of approval as some
particularly emphatic sentiment was read aloud.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Adams Print: Newspaper
?The "Morning Star" was at that time the leading Radical daily in London ? almost the only Radical daily, indeed. It was my custom every morning (Sundays excepted, of course) to buy a copy at a news stall near the Horns Tavern at Kennington. My business was in Fleet Street. ? So orderly was the traffic throughout that route that I could, by keeping to the right, read my paper the whole way. And I had nothing left to read in it ? at least, nothing that I wanted to read ? when I reached Fleet Street, nearly an hour?s walk from Kennington.?
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: William Edwin Adams Print: Newspaper
?My Godmother sone [sic] provided me a testament but my mother not being able to Read the first Chapter of St Matthews Gospel I began the second and read it through as well as she could teach me and then I began it again and Read through the 4 gospels and by this time I begun to enquire into the meaning of that which I Read and my mother taught me something of the meaning thereof as far as she knew and I was somehow affected with the sufferings of Christ because I thought it was great Cruelty but I knew nothing of Christ thereof after this book I took a fancy to Read the Bible and began the first Chapter of Genesis but I did not those Chapters with hard names but when I Came to the history of Joseph and his Breathern [sic] I was very much affected with their Cruelty towards him.?
Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Mayett Print: Book
'I left off swearing and prodigality and took to reading my Bible and attending divine workship and in doing this I laid hold of some of the promises of the gospel and applied them to myself'.
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Mayett Print: Book
?I Remembered when I was about 8 or 9 years of age my mother had been Correcting me for something I had done wrong and I thought I would be revenged on her I had been reading in St mathews gospel where the jews said he Casteth out devils and Belzebub the prince of devils I thought this was the sin against the holy ghost and thinking to be a made for my mother I said to myself God is the devil for I Remember I thought I would not go to heaven to spite her'.
Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Mayett Print: Book
'She [his aunt] did not allow me to be idle, but alternately employed me in helping to knit stockings and in reading. While I was unemployed I found a never-failing source of amusement in scanning the gortesque figures and scenes delineated upon the Dutch tiles with which the chimney corners were decorated. I believe that these pictures, rude as they were, helped me a little better to understand what I read to her out of the Bible and other religious books. I believe that these readings were rather useful to me otherwise; but this perhaps arose partly from the pains she took to indulge my fancy in other matters, and partly also from the motherly way in which she endeavoured to make me understand what I read.'
Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Carter Print: Book
'Here I also met with some books of a higher order, but which were then far beyond any comprehension. Among these were Hervey's "Meditations", "The Pilgrim's Progress", and an illustrated Bible. This last work was crowded with engravings which were called embellishments.'
Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Carter Print: Book
Carter describes exam he was forced to undertake to be admitted to the school which was supported by a congregation of Protestant Dissenters: 'it was required of the applicants for admission that they should be able to read in the New Testament to the satisfaction of the managing committee...I obeyed this dread mandate with much trepidation, but was enabled to do it so as to escape censure.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Carter Print: Book
'On my asking him he [the schoolmaster] readily granted my request, nor did he ever revoke his grant: the books were chiefly old and odd volumes of the "Arminian" and the "Gentleman's Magazine"; these, though of but little intrinsic value, were to me a treasure, as they helped to give me a wider and more varied view of many things than I had previously been able to command.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Carter Print: Serial / periodical
'On my asking him he [the schoolmaster] readily granted my request, nor did he ever revoke his grant: the books were chiefly old and odd volumes of the "Arminian" and the "Gentleman's Magazine"; these, though of but little intrinsic value, were to me a treasure, as they helped to give me a wider and more varied view of many things than I had previously been able to command.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Carter Print: Serial / periodical
'I must now mention some other books which about this time fell in my way. Among these an odd volume of the "Spectator" deserves particular notice. Where it came from or to whom it belonged, I never knew: I discovered it in my Master's kitchen. On opening it I was struck by the seeming oddity of its contents. As the book promised to give me a little amusement, I forthwith set about reading it. I was at first a good deal mystified about its author, character and design, yet I was much gratified with it.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Carter Print: Serial / periodical
'My master - in conjunction with some friends - began to take in a newspaper, called, if I remember rightly, "Lloyd's Evening Post", and at this I sometimes got a hasty peep. At first, as was natural, I was chiefly interested with the domestic news: I took care to read about "The moving accidents by fire or flood", with an account of which a newspaper commonly abounds. But my curiosity was not long confined to these "little things". It soon led me to look at the articles of foreign intelligence...'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Carter Print: Serial / periodical
'It was in this state of feeling that I first got hold of a little volume called "The Wreath", containing a collection of poems by various authors. Among these pieces was "The Grave", which soon commended itself to my hearty and unqualified approbation...Besides this poem the volume contained "The Minstrel", of which I venture to say that I consider it to be of almost unequalled beauty and interest... There was here yet another poem which arrested my attention as fully as much as did "The Grave" or "The Minstrel". This was entitled "Death" - a prize winning poem written by that eminently good man Dr Porteus...'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Carter Print: Book
'It was at this time that I read the remaining seven volumes of the "Spectator"; to which I added the "Rambler", the "Tatler", and some others of the "British Essayists". I also read the poetical works of Milton, Addison, Goldsmith, Gray, Collins, Falconer, Pomfret, Akenside, Mrs. Rowe, with others which I cannot now clearly call to mind. I remember, however, to have read Gay's poems. These gave me more than usual satisfaction. I was much amused with his "Trivia, or the Art of Walking London Streets" but I was especially pleased with his admirably burlesque "pastorals". These just squared with my humour, for I had then, as I have ever had, an utter dislike to the sickening stuff that is called the pastoral poetry...I must not omit to mention the pleasure I derived from reading a poem called "The Village Curate", which, I think, has fallen into unmerited oblivion.
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Carter Print: Serial / periodical
'It was at this time that I read the remaining seven volumes of the "Spectator"; to which I added the "Rambler", the "Tatler", and some others of the "British Essayists". I also read the poetical works of Milton, Addison, Goldsmith, Gray, Collins, Falconer, Pomfret, Akenside, Mrs. Rowe, with others which I cannot now clearly call to mind. I remember, however, to have read Gay's poems. These gave me more than usual satisfaction. I was much amused with his "Trivia, or the Art of Walking London Streets" but I was especially pleased with his admirably burlesque "pastorals". These just squared with my humour, for I had then, as I have ever had, an utter dislike to the sickening stuff that is called the pastoral poetry...I must not omit to mention the pleasure I derived from reading a poem called "The Village Curate", which, I think, has fallen into unmerited oblivion.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Carter Print: Serial / periodical
'It was at this time that I read the remaining seven volumes of the "Spectator"; to which I added the "Rambler", the "Tatler", and some others of the "British Essayists". I also read the poetical works of Milton, Addison, Goldsmith, Gray, Collins, Falconer, Pomfret, Akenside, Mrs. Rowe, with others which I cannot now clearly call to mind. I remember, however, to have read Gay's poems. These gave me more than usual satisfaction. I was much amused with his "Trivia, or the Art of Walking London Streets" but I was especially pleased with his admirably burlesque "pastorals". These just squared with my humour, for I had then, as I have ever had, an utter dislike to the sickening stuff that is called the pastoral poetry...I must not omit to mention the pleasure I derived from reading a poem called "The Village Curate", which, I think, has fallen into unmerited oblivion.
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Carter Print: Serial / periodical
'For breakfast I had a penny roll and half a pint of porter. This I took at a public house - for two reasons: first, that I might have an opportunity of looking at the morning newspaper; and further, that I might have the comfort of sitting by a good fire... I felt a considerable degree of interest in regard to the course of public affairs, and therefore was the more anxious to see a newspaper everyday. I also hoped that some one of the numerous advertisements might be made available in the way of getting employment other than that of tailoring. In this hope I was disappointed; yet the time I thus spent was not quite thrown away, as I hereby contracted a habit of carefully reading advertisements, which I have found to be useful...[etc.]'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Carter Print: Advertisement, Newspaper
'These men, with several others whose curiosity began to be awakened by the tenor of our political gossip, united with myself in subscribing for a weekly newspaper. We would gladly have taken a daily journal, but our pockets would not allow of so costly an indulgence. The paper we took was called "The News". Its arrival was looked for with very considerable interest, so anxious were we to see some bulletin of the Great Napoleon respecting his military operations, with the other articles of foreign news, and the commentaries of the newspaper editor. The perusal of the paper, with the conversation ensuing thereon, made the day of its coming a "white day" in our estimation.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Carter and workmates at the tailors workshop Print: Newspaper
'Thus I became their [workmates] news-purveyor, ie. I every morning gave them an account of what I had just been reading in the yesterday's newspaper. I read this at a coffee shop, where I took an early breakfast on my way to work. These shops were but just then becoming general... The shop I selected was near the bottom of Oxford Street. It was in the direct path by which I made my way to work... The papers I generally preferred to read were the "British Press", the "Morning Chronicle", and the "Statesman". I usually contrived to run over the Parliamentary debates and the foreign news, together with the leading articles. ...My shopmates were much pleased at the extent and variety of the intelligence which I was able to give them about public affairs, and they were the more pleased because I often told them about the contents of Mr. Cobbett's "Political Register", as they were warm admirers of that clever and very intelligible writer.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Carter Print: Newspaper
'Thus I became their [workmates] news-purveyor, ie. I every morning gave them an account of what I had just been reading in the yesterday's newspaper. I read this at a coffee shop, where I took an early breakfast on my way to work. These shops were but just then becoming general... The shop I selected was near the bottom of Oxford Street. It was in the direct path by which I made my way to work... The papers I generally preferred to read were the "British Press", the "Morning Chronicle", and the "Statesman". I usually contrived to run over the Parliamentary debates and the foreign news, together with the leading articles. ...My shopmates were much pleased at the extent and variety of the intelligence which I was able to give them about public affairs, and they were the more pleased because I often told them about the contents of Mr. Cobbett's "Political Register", as they were warm admirers of that clever and very intelligible writer.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Carter Print: Newspaper
'Thus I became their [workmates] news-purveyor, ie. I every morning gave them an account of what I had just been reading in the yesterday's newspaper. I read this at a coffee shop, where I took an early breakfast on my way to work. These shops were but just then becoming general... The shop I selected was near the bottom of Oxford Street. It was in the direct path by which I made my way to work... The papers I generally preferred to read were the "British Press", the "Morning Chronicle", and the "Statesman". I usually contrived to run over the Parliamentary debates and the foreign news, together with the leading articles. ...My shopmates were much pleased at the extent and variety of the intelligence which I was able to give them about public affairs, and they were the more pleased because I often told them about the contents of Mr. Cobbett's "Political Register", as they were warm admirers of that clever and very intelligible writer.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Carter Print: Newspaper
'... I did this [looking over the newspaper], as usual, while I took my breakfast, which meal I now procured at a coffee shop in Bear-Street, Leicester-Square. Here I found the additional accommodation of magazines and reviews: for reading the current numbers of which the proprietor made an extra charge of sixpence per month. This charge I was glad to pay, for the sake of reading the "Edinburgh" and "Monthly" Reviews, together with the "Edinburgh", the "European", and the "Monthly" Magazines.
'These, however, I read in the evening, while I took my supper; for I learned to drink coffee at that meal as well as at breakfast time. In addition to the daily newspapers, I also saw here the "Examiner", the "Black Dwarf" and, I think, some other weekly journals.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Carter Print: Serial / periodical
'... I did this [looking over the newspaper], as usual, while I took my breakfast, which meal I now procured at a coffee shop in Bear-Street, Leicester-Square. Here I found the additional accommodation of magazines and reviews: for reading the current numbers of which the proprietor made an extra charge of sixpence per month. This charge I was glad to pay, for the sake of reading the "Edinburgh" and "Monthly" Reviews, together with the "Edinburgh", the "European", and the "Monthly" Magazines.
'These, however, I read in the evening, while I took my supper; for I learned to drink coffee at that meal as well as at breakfast time. In addition to the daily newspapers, I also saw here the "Examiner", the "Black Dwarf" and, I think, some other weekly journals.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Carter Print: Serial / periodical
'... I did this [looking over the newspaper], as usual, while I took my breakfast, which meal I now procured at a coffee shop in Bear-Street, Leicester-Square. Here I found the additional accommodation of magazines and reviews: for reading the current numbers of which the proprietor made an extra charge of sixpence per month. This charge I was glad to pay, for the sake of reading the "Edinburgh" and "Monthly" Reviews, together with the "Edinburgh", the "European", and the "Monthly" Magazines.
'These, however, I read in the evening, while I took my supper; for I learned to drink coffee at that meal as well as at breakfast time. In addition to the daily newspapers, I also saw here the "Examiner", the "Black Dwarf" and, I think, some other weekly journals.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Carter Print: Serial / periodical
'... I did this [looking over the newspaper], as usual, while I took my breakfast, which meal I now procured at a coffee shop in Bear-Street, Leicester-Square. Here I found the additional accommodation of magazines and reviews: for reading the current numbers of which the proprietor made an extra charge of sixpence per month. This charge I was glad to pay, for the sake of reading the "Edinburgh" and "Monthly" Reviews, together with the "Edinburgh", the "European", and the "Monthly" Magazines.
'These, however, I read in the evening, while I took my supper; for I learned to drink coffee at that meal as well as at breakfast time. In addition to the daily newspapers, I also saw here the "Examiner", the "Black Dwarf" and, I think, some other weekly journals.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Carter Print: Serial / periodical
'... I did this [looking over the newspaper], as usual, while I took my breakfast, which meal I now procured at a coffee shop in Bear-Street, Leicester-Square. Here I found the additional accommodation of magazines and reviews: for reading the current numbers of which the proprietor made an extra charge of sixpence per month. This charge I was glad to pay, for the sake of reading the "Edinburgh" and "Monthly" Reviews, together with the "Edinburgh", the "European", and the "Monthly" Magazines.
'These, however, I read in the evening, while I took my supper; for I learned to drink coffee at that meal as well as at breakfast time. In addition to the daily newspapers, I also saw here the "Examiner", the "Black Dwarf" and, I think, some other weekly journals.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Carter Print: Serial / periodical
'... I did this [looking over the newspaper], as usual, while I took my breakfast, which meal I now procured at a coffee shop in Bear-Street, Leicester-Square. Here I found the additional accommodation of magazines and reviews: for reading the current numbers of which the proprietor made an extra charge of sixpence per month. This charge I was glad to pay, for the sake of reading the "Edinburgh" and "Monthly" Reviews, together with the "Edinburgh", the "European", and the "Monthly" Magazines.
'These, however, I read in the evening, while I took my supper; for I learned to drink coffee at that meal as well as at breakfast time. In addition to the daily newspapers, I also saw here the "Examiner", the "Black Dwarf" and, I think, some other weekly journals.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Carter Print: Newspaper
'... I did this [looking over the newspaper], as usual, while I took my breakfast, which meal I now procured at a coffee shop in Bear-Street, Leicester-Square. Here I found the additional accommodation of magazines and reviews: for reading the current numbers of which the proprietor made an extra charge of sixpence per month. This charge I was glad to pay, for the sake of reading the "Edinburgh" and "Monthly" Reviews, together with the "Edinburgh", the "European", and the "Monthly" Magazines.
'These, however, I read in the evening, while I took my supper; for I learned to drink coffee at that meal as well as at breakfast time. In addition to the daily newspapers, I also saw here the "Examiner", the "Black Dwarf" and, I think, some other weekly journals.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Carter Print: Newspaper
'In the course of the ensuing spring (1821), I read Mr. Washington Irving's "Sketch-Book". I thought it very beautiful, and only wished that he had more fully carried his fine imaginative powers beyond "this visible diurnal sphere". By the way, I must observe a similar defect exists in Akenside's "Pleasures of the Imagination"; a poem which in every other respect gives me very great satisfaction. I also read some volumes of the "London Magazine", which I thought to be a very cleverly conducted publication.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Carter Print: Serial / periodical
'He also again freely supplied me with the loan of books. At this time he lent me several volumes of the "New Monthly Magazine", among the very many interesting articles in which I was especially pleased with the "Letters from Algiers", written by Mr. Thomas Campbell, the eminent poet'.
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Carter Print: Serial / periodical
'During this year I read an odd volume of that curious publication, the "Anti-Jacobin-Review", from which I gathered a little that pleased me. Among other things I met with some views respecting the conduct of Judas Iscariot towards his Divine Master which to me were quite new. I, however, thought them both reasonable and probable. I also read Mr. O'Meara's "Voice from St Helena", Dr. Henderson's "Travels in Iceland", and Captain Parry's "Narrative" of his Arctic Voyage. I must here beg the reader to remember that henceforth when I say that I have read any book it will only mean that I gave it a hasty perusal, for I had no time for close reading.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Carter Print: Serial / periodical
?In my leisure hours during this year, and the years 1838 and 1839, I read the whole of Shakespeare?s dramatic works, Mr. Sharon Turner?s ?Sacred History of the Creation?, the ?Memoirs of Mr. Samuel Drew? and Dr. Stilling?s ?Theory of Pneumatology?, together with same odd volumes of the Edinburgh and Quarterly Reviews.?
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Carter Print: Serial / periodical
?In my leisure hours during this year, and the years 1838 and 1839, I read the whole of Shakespeare?s dramatic works, Mr. Sharon Turner?s ?Sacred History of the Creation?, the ?Memoirs of Mr. Samuel Drew? and Dr. Stilling?s ?Theory of Pneumatology?, together with same odd volumes of the Edinburgh and Quarterly Reviews.?
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Carter Print: Serial / periodical
?There was and is so judicious a blending of light and heavy literature in "Chambers?s Journal" that their periodical has helped to educate, inform and entertain many generations of the British public. Whenever it came in my way, as it did sometimes, I revelled in its pages. The "Penny Magazine" also was a great delight on the rare occasions that I saw it. But I remember best the "Family Herald", "Reynolds?s Miscellany", and Lloyd?s penny dreadfuls.?
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: William Edwin Adams Print: Serial / periodical
'As our roads home from school lay for a considerable distance in the same direction, Tommy Davies...and I generally walked home together, making numerous stoppages along the way to read, admire and compare the playbills of the different theatres. One afternoon in the latter end of the month of October we were going home, when our attention was forcibly arrested by a bill of an unusually attracive character. It was a very large, very highly coloured and very profusely illustrated bill...'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Wright Print: Broadsheet, Poster, playbill
'As our roads home from school lay for a considerable distance in the same direction, Tommy Davies...and I generally walked home together, making numerous stoppages along the way to read, admire and compare the playbills of the different theatres. One afternoon in the latter end of the month of October we were going home, when our attention was forcibly arrested by a bill of an unusually attracive character. It was a very large, very highly coloured and very profusely illustrated bill...'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Tommy Davies Print: Broadsheet, Poster, playbill
'The "Lounger" a new publication being a book now pretty much read, we at this time got it from Humphrey's library & Miss White and I began reading the diff't numbers of it of an evening.'
Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: John Marsh Print: Book, Serial / periodical
'The next morning I took a ride to Stoke where Lady Louisa show'd me a paragraph she had cut out of the "Star", reflecting on the Dean for refusing the cathedral for the music meeting intended lately, a copy of w'ch I took to shew Mrs M little thinking at the time that this paragraph, of w'ch the Dean seems determin'd to suppose me the author, wo'd occasion a break between us.'
Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: John Marsh Print: Newspaper
'On the Sunday follow'g (9th) ... we first heard a rumour of the massacre of the prisoners on the 2d & 3d at Paris, the melancholic details of which we read in the next morning's newspapers.'
Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: John Marsh Print: Newspaper
'[On Sunday] After breakfast I had taken up the "Weekly Examiner", and was intent upon a more than usually scurrilous and illogical leading article, when the paper was suddenly snatched from my hands by my landlady, who sternly asked me if I thought reading a newspaper on a Sunday morning was proper behaviour in the house of a God-fearing couple.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Wright Print: Newspaper
'... my usual headache on the first day of travelling having come on before I got to Town, I felt by that time very little inclination to unpack or dress myself, but seeing a very tempting bill of fare in the papers at the Sussex Hotel, I was induced to set about it, the bustle of which, with a dish of coffee, nearly carried off my complaint.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Marsh Print: Advertisement, Newspaper
'For some time before this I had found my eyes not so good as they had been, being now oblig'd to hold a book, when reading, farther from my eyes & finding some difficulties in seeing to read anything of a small print, or to write on the first bringing in of candles of an evening. Having made this observation on taking up a paper at the Bolt & Tun the evening before we went into Kent, Mr Drew (...) desired me to try his spectacles, which I at first scouted, but having at his desire placed them before my eyes, I found the confusion I had just complain'd done away, & that I co'd see the smallest type perfectly well, on which I determin'd on procuring a pair...'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Marsh Print: Newspaper
'in the Course of this summer one day I took the Bible to read and happened on the 54th Chapt of Isaiah a chapt I had never noticed before and as I read it I had such a glorious insight of the promises therein Contained and although I Could not apply one of them to myself yet I saw that God was gracious and so mercyfull as to forgive the sins of the worst sinners.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Mayett Print: Book
'I went home and told my wife and took my Bible and opened it upon the 37th Psalm I read it and found much Comfort from it and made it a matter of prayer and the Lord enabled me to bear the burden at this time.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Mayett Print: Book
'the whole of the Church concerned with us in sentiment except my Brother and his wife and they stedfastly opposed us but this we did not mind for we gave up ourselves up to the constant practice of reading and Studying the Scripture and we made it our practice to meet every night in the week except Saturday night at one private house or other.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Mayett Print: Book
'When I had been in school about twelve months, he resolved that one of the boys should read a chapter from the New Testament every Sunday after the opening prayer. I was the first one selected, and had to choose my chapter; I read, in a somewhat tremulous voice, the first chapter of the gospel according to St John. The master applauded my execution of the task. On the following Sunday, two or three others were named to read, but each one demured, and I had again to read the lesson. This circumstance, being new in the school, was sufficient to bring down upon me the ridicule of my fellow apprentices.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Christopher Thomson Print: Book
'A few years ago the curate of the village called upon the old man to converse with him on religious matters; after some talk, he promised to send him a Bible, "his honour" also promising to read it after he received it. Shortly afterwards the curate was passing the cottage-door, and observed the old man employed with the book. The curate accosting him, said, "Well, Isaac, I am glad to see you reading your Bible." "Oh yes", replied Isaac, in a gruff tone of voice, - gruff, but not intentionally uncivil. "Will you tell me what you are reading about?" said the clergyman. "O, to be sure I will", was the answer, "I am reading all the wars of rascally Jews, and all that sort of thing; why, what a blood-thirsty race of men they were, Sir".'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Isaac Print: Book
'At the beginning of each month, too, there fell to be collected from the various agents a large number of English magazines for Mr Tait's customers, as also a few copies of "Blackwood"; and at the contents of some of those I often contrived to get a surreptitious "read".'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: James Glass Bertram Print: Serial / periodical
'I pursued a similar plan with others of the magazines whenever I got a chance, especially "Bentley's Miscellany", which contained in my young days "Jack Sheppard".'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: James Glass Bertram Print: Serial / periodical
'Read the Introduction to Savonarola's poems, by Audin de Rians, "The Spectator" and the "Athenaeum"'.
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Print: Serial / periodical
'Read the Introduction to Savonarola's poems, by Audin de Rians, "The Spectator" and the "Athenaeum"'.
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Print: Serial / periodical
'Read the "Cornhill" and "Orley Farm"'.
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Print: Serial / periodical
'In the evening read the Newspaper and an article on Renan in "Blackwood"'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Print: Newspaper
'Read passage from Du Bois Reymond's book on Johannes Mueller, a propos of visions. Finished Libro 1 of Machiavelli's Istorie. Read "Blackwood"'.
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Print: Serial / periodical
'Finished "Annual Register" for 1832. Reading Blackstone'.
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Print: Serial / periodicalManuscript: Unknown
'I read the new Testament in Greek with great success & am edified with the slow but sure progress I make in that language you cannot think how learned I should grow did it but agree with my head to apply'.
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Lady Caroline Lamb Print: Book
'In the evening I read aloud a short speech of Bright's on Ireland, delivered 20 years ago, in which he insists that nothing will be a remedy for the woes of that country unless the Church Establishment be annulled: after the lapse of 20 years the measure is going to be adopted. Then I read aloud a bit of the "Promessi Sposi", and afterwards the "Spectator", in which there is a deservedly high appreciation of Lowell's Poems'.
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Print: Serial / periodical
[a teacher at St Edmunds Scool, Canterbury] 'encouraged him by supplying him regularly with the literary pages of Le Figaro. From then on Durrell became hooked on French Literature'.
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Lawrence Durrell Print: Serial / periodical
'... I did this [looking over the newspaper], as usual, while I took my breakfast, which meal I now procured at a coffee shop in Bear-Street, Leicester-Square. Here I found the additional accommodation of magazines and reviews: for reading the current numbers of which the proprietor made an extra charge of sixpence per month. This charge I was glad to pay, for the sake of reading the "Edinburgh" and "Monthly" Reviews, together with the "Edinburgh", the "European", and the "Monthly" Magazines.
'These, however, I read in the evening, while I took my supper; for I learned to drink coffee at that meal as well as at breakfast time. In addition to the daily newspapers, I also saw here the "Examiner", the "Black Dwarf" and, I think, some other weekly journals.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Carter Print: Newspaper
'So it is you who send me the "Pall Mall"! I shall read it with yet more pleasure now I know... It is a very instructive and interesting paper - so unlike any other!'.
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Harriet Martineau Print: Newspaper
'Fan Arnold lends me the "Spectator", and at first I thought it a treat in its way: but I am getting as tired of it as some other people are. Its smartness is degenerating into impertinence very fast; and its insolence is so absurd in partnership with its incredible ignorance of the world and of social matters'.
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Harriet Martineau Print: Serial / periodical
[Letter from Lord Byron to Annabella Milbanke, Feb 15 1814]. 'In my letter of ye 12th in answer to your last I omitted to say that I have not for several years looked into the tract of Locke's which you mention - but I have redde it formerly, though I fear to little purpose since it is forgotten. - & have always understod that and Butler's Analogy to be the best treatises of the kind... Of the Scriptures themselves I have ever been a reader and admirer as compositions, particularly the Arab-Job - and parts of Isaiah - and the Song of Deborah'.
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: George Gordon, Lord Byron Print: Book
'Dr. Walcot went into the shop of Mr Wright, where Mr. Giffard was seated reading a newspaper; he asked him if his name was not Giffard? He replied in the affirmative. Upon which the Doctor aimed a blow at his brother poet with a cane ...'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mr Giffard Print: Newspaper
'The boy was reading a play bill, when the prisoner went up to him and struck him, knocking out one of his teeth.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: unknown Print: Advertisement, Poster, playbill
'On looking in at the shop window, which was well stocked and elegant, we perceived a notice announcing that a Riblic dinner was to take place at the Swan Hotel, July 1st, to commemmorate the cessation of the toll on the Bedford Bridge.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Cole Print: Advertisement, Poster, Notice on shop window
'At other times we studied Shakespeare, Milton and some other English poets as well as some of the Italians. We took long walks and often drew from nature. We read with great attention the whole of the New Testament, Secker's lectures on the Catechism and several other books on the same important subjects.'
Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Smith Print: Book
'We had each seen the "Derbyshire Patriot" (I for the first time) of that day- Westminster election on Wednesday the people would not hear Hobhouse speak but pelted him with vegetables...'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Jenkinson Print: Newspaper
'We had each seen the "Derbyshire Patriot" (I for the first time) of that day- Westminster election on Wednesday the people would not hear Hobhouse speak but pelted him with vegetables...'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mr Hollingsworth Print: Newspaper
'We had each seen the "Derbyshire Patriot" (I for the first time) of that day- Westminster election on Wednesday the people would not hear Hobhouse speak but pelted him with vegetables...'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mr Dobb Print: Newspaper
'We had each seen the "Derbyshire Patriot" (I for the first time) of that day- Westminster election on Wednesday the people would not hear Hobhouse speak but pelted him with vegetables...'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mr Ward Print: Newspaper
'Went with E. Allen to the Swan to see a London paper, saw one and learnt from it that Col. Evans was return'd to Westminster ... a sad shock to the Ministry- Bells - in noticing this says [quotes from paper]...'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Jenkinson Print: Newspaper
'Read an important letter of Mr E. Elliot's to the editor of the "Morning Chronicle also an extract from the "Parliamentary Review" on the state of the public mind and the conduct of the Whigs, Neithyer of which hesitate to say that the time is almost arriv'd for a change and both intimate that the most likely way to affect it is by force.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Jenkinson Print: Newspaper
'Read an important letter of Mr E. Elliot's to the editor of the "Morning Chronicle also an extract from the "Parliamentary Review" on the state of the public mind and the conduct of the Whigs, Neithyer of which hesitate to say that the time is almost arriv'd for a change and both intimate that the most likely way to affect it is by force.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Jenkinson Print: Newspaper
'Saw an advertisement that Mr Berry was to preach at South Street on the following Sunday and at once determined (health and circumstances permitting) to hear him. [Berry was a Methodist preacher from Bolton].
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Jenkinson Print: Advertisement, Poster
'Sent for a pot of porter. J.I. and myself drank it, I smoked a pipe read a little in an old "Sheffield Iris"- then wrote this paragraph.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Jenkinson Print: Newspaper
'Trade awfully bad the money market depressed and deplorable accounts from the manufacturing districts ... says the "Morning Chronicle"'.
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Jenkinson Print: Newspaper
'The "Morning Chronicle" of this day announced the death of Henry Lord Brougham... The editor very kindly and very justly bewails his death.' [NB Brougham had not in fact died]
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Jenkinson Print: Newspaper
'Noticed at dinner time the improper conduct of Mr Slyfield he having taken the paper and not reading aloud. I kindly requested him to read the city article and sat 1/4 of an hour thinking he would look at it in a while, he however continued reading to himself and deigned not to answer me or to comply with my request or to give up the paper but sat as if he were the only person who had a right to know any of its contents, and also as if he were a being superior to us.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mr Slyfield Print: Newspaper
'The account of the money market rather more favourable.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Jenkinson Print: Newspaper
'Rose at 7 am wash'd looked over the paper etc.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Jenkinson Print: Newspaper
'Read the paper and smoked a pipe.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Jenkinson Print: Newspaper
'In the "Ency. Bri." article Porto-Bello the same account is given. They sat it was given by Columbus.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Hunter Print: Book
'Brought back [from the subscription? library] the Gents Mag for Feby 4 March. They have not yet done with the controversy with respect to the commencement of the century. There is both letters and epigrams upon it in this no.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Hunter Print: Serial / periodical
'In this weeks paper Dr M. advertises that he proposes to deliver 12 lectures on metal and metalurgy ...the subscription for which is one guinea.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Hunter Print: Advertisement, Newspaper
'In the "Iris" of this day Dr M advertises the subjects of the two next lectures ...Montgomery [the editor] is very careful of what he says about the riots; a burnt child dreads the fire.' [Report on church charities noted from this issue of the 'Iris' appears on F 3 of the journal in the margin.]
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Hunter Print: Advertisement, Newspaper
'I read at night in the G[reek or Great]Testament but for a very short while'.
Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: John Jones Print: Book
'One wet Sunday morning we were all sitting round the table, reading in turn from the New Testament, this being my mother's substitute for Sunday school when she happened to be in a good temper.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: family of Hannah Mitchell Print: Book
'I attended Sunday school with the daughter of the house, finding my enforced study of the Bible very valuable to me.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Hannah Mitchell Print: Book
'Later on, when Blatchford and his friends, A. M. Thompson, E. F. Fay and Montague Blatchford founded the Socialist weekly "The Clarion", I began to read it and became deeply interested in the theories put forward.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Hannah Mitchell Print: Newspaper, Serial / periodical
'Saw the "Sheffield Iris" paper- and in it the report of a division in the House of Commons on a motion of Sir W. Ingilby "For reducing or repealing the malt tax' ...this was hailed throughout the country as something being done for the people...'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Jenkinson Print: Newspaper
'Sent 29 stuff hats to Mr Booth -heard the "Iris" Paper read by Tom, find the country is much agitated at the conduct of ministers.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Tom Print: Newspaper
'Advert. S. side of Euston Road reading "Morris Commercial Vehicles-a Body for every Trade" heavily draped with decorations. Diversion round Euston Square. Extraordinary diversion at Albany Street: "Straight on all colours" says notice on road going due North.'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: anon Print: Advertisement, Poster
'Girl sitting on soiled newspaper is reading Daily Mirror. The caption reads "Three women wait 25 hours; lead line up for the big parade".'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: anon Print: Newspaper
'Hostess is embroidering a fire-screen. Son, age 19, is reading. The wireless is on, and from time to time they consult the "Daily Telegraph Supplement"; host offers Observer a sweet but by mistake holds out bird's peanut tin.'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: anon Print: Newspaper
'Very few people appeared to be out, in fact it seemed like Sunday in the High Road, I called in a snack bar, ordered a cup of tea and a packet of cigarettes, I was the only customer at the time, and the waiter seemed reluctant to put down the newspaper he was reading to serve, I remarked it was a bad day, he agreed and said that some people would lose a lot of money as a result of it.'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: anon Print: Newspaper
'Suddenly, he gave a sort of cry, and read out the opening sentences from the "Times" announcing a battle in the valley of the Alma...both he and my mother seemed deeply excited. He broke off his reading when the fact of the decisive victory was assured, and he and my mother sank simultaneously on their knees...'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Philip Gosse Print: Newspaper
'I read the Bible everyday, and at much length; also, -with what I cannot but think some praiseworthy patience, - a book of incommunicable dreariness, called Newton's "Thoughts onthe Apocalypse".'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Edmund Gosse Print: Book
'A man is playing the piano briskly; on music stand is a newspaper, open at the sports
page, which he is reading. A hunchback, brown suit, bow tie, sings songs about love.'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: anon Print: Newspaper
'Tries to read sports page, but ends up reading news. One girl does bad piece of work in mill. Immense black-out purchasing in town.'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: anon Print: Newspaper
'While an old working-class lady of 68 in Worktown, reading a newspaper, summed up her opinion of the war as follows.'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: anon Print: Newspaper
?[N]ow that the Newspaper is so interesting it is difficult to read at all'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Lady Caroline Lamb Print: Newspaper
'Housekeeping pupil (voluntarily) reading the paper over my shoulder yesterday morning. "I suppose Eden thought they'd go on their knees to get him not to resign. If there were many like him, there'd soon be a war".'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: anon Print: Newspaper
'At work the sole topic was the new Conscription Bill, with discussion on how it will affect each one. After reading the "Telegraph" I worked out that it would be August at least before I was de-reserved, and that I should be out of work by then, for I cannot see us lasting another seven months.'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: anon Print: Newspaper
'The steps around Eros statue are filled with an excited crowd, coster's barrows stand around selling fruit, chocolate, etc. Hot chestnuts, roasted potatoes and peanuts are selling fast. It is 1 a.m. and most of the roadway is filled with people who read aloud the slowly spelled news reports on the running electric signboard over the end of Glasshouse Street.'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: people gathered near the Eros statue Print: electric signboard with scrolling text
'Reporter. On May 12 I slept till ten. From ten to eleven I read the paper with interest until I came to a half column of news giving the time schedule of the Queen's dressing arrangements on that morning.'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: anon Print: Newspaper
'On one of the side streets, a young couple parked their perambulator in the middle of the sidewalk and stopped to read the results of the Coronation procession in London.'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: a young couple Print: Unknown, perhaps front page of newspaper displayed?
'I walked through the park for a few minutes and not finding anything of interest to see or hear, I turned into a lane nearby that led to the cemetery. Here I read the inscriptions on several tombs and thought how different Italian burial places were. Night was approaching, I was chilly, I turned and walked home.'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: anon Print: epitaphs on tombs at cemetery
'My friend didn't want to shave, although he was no longer clean-shaven, so we had a brief wrangle about washing. Then he read to me out of the newspaper, still in his pyjamas, while I told him to get dressed.'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: anon Print: Newspaper
'At 9.50 I went into the general office in order to await any cases of infectious diseases or nuisances which may arise during the day (inspector on duty) and chatted with the clerk on duty. He had a Coronation souvenir paper and read aloud
the heading "Smiles that charm all subjects" and added in a disappointed tone "they have failed to charm me".'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: anon Print: Newspaper
'9.15-12.0. Dressed. Wrote a poem. Annoyed by patriotic and religious activities at Church opposite. Read a magazine, "Light and Dark", to which I had contributed.
Began to rewrite a criticism of Edgar Poe.'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: anon Print: Serial / periodical
'Had extra hour in bed and read morning paper. Spent most of morning in garden making enclosure for tortoise as decide simple things are satisfying, but wireless sets are giving off loud cheers and wish secretly I was seeing procession.'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: anon Print: Newspaper
' I laid in bed till 6.15 a.m. and got up, washed and shaved. I ate my breakfast and read the paper.'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: anon Print: Newspaper
'Smoke a Players "medium" and a De Reszke "Minor". I read "Glasgow Herald" (Bus strike, Britain's new Navy, etc.) and "Ayrshire Post" (Report of Ayrshire Film Society, Dr. M'Rae's report of Glengall Mental Hospital, letter about- people-writer of letter doesn't like them- comments on Ayr's poor support of a resident repertory company "Pelican Players").'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: anon Print: Newspaper
'Breakfast ready and finished dressing 7.45. Read "Daily Worker".'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: anon Print: Newspaper
'Have not read the P.I.L., neither has anyone in the house or anyone else I know. Will be read only if war breaks out. They are being carefully kept.'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: anon
'Read all about it chum in the papers, they don't interest me 'cept they don't do anything like for the likes of us, they talk about what we should eat, why don't they see we get it. . . . Vitamins-bread and bloody jam is what we get. . . . They think about more ways of making bloody money for the capitalists. . . . It's all right if they'd keep men in their bloody jobs.'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: anon Print: Newspaper
'I read where there's going to be a war soon, it said so in the "People", they tell you what's going to be, there's more than something in it.'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: anon Print: Serial / periodical
'I read all the papers on it. I don't understand the politics of it, but they are all different. That's why people have less faith in the papers.'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: anon Print: Newspaper
'I read an article in the "Daily Herald" on the Coronation Day survey. There was an invitation to write to Blackheath if any wished to assist. It appealed to me immensely. I think it is true to say I am naturally observant. I had frequently
noticed various things that passed other people's notice.'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: anon Print: Newspaper
'I read in the "News Chronicle" articles about the work, and especially the account by an ordinary housewife of her day. Mass-Observation, it was something new, something to talk about; the things I do in the house are monotonous, but on the 12th, they are different somehow, letting the dog out, getting up, making the dinner, it makes them important when they have to be remembered and recorded.'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: anon Print: Newspaper
'When I read about Mass-Observation in "Reynolds", I wrote straight away to join in. In fact, if there was a joining-fee I would have joined just the same.'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: anon Print: Newspaper
Letter 292
7 October 1940
Referring to the Blitz on London:
'I see in to-day?s [New York] "Times" that you had a night of respite yesterday ? let?s hope you have lots more.'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Benjamin Britten Print: Newspaper
'At this later place [Lincoln] we arrived at about 10 in the evening. Tea and bed were then in request, with a small portion of newspaper literature.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Cole Print: Newspaper
'This dream I knew not what to make of but I took some encouragement from it and the next day I was reading in pilgrims progress and was by a quotation directed to the 33 Chap of job and the 15th and 16th verses In a dream in a vision of the night when deep sleep falleth upon men in slumberings upon the bed Then he openeth the ears of men and Sealeth their instruction.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Mayett Print: Book
'When in my early apprentice days I was first enabled to dip into the pages of "Maga", its chief attraction was the later series of "The Diary of a late physician". I greatly enjoyed the papers, and also, later on, the same author's story of "Ten Thousand a Year". [when the journal came out] I would sit on the steps [of George Street] for nearly an hour engrossed by the perusal of some interesting portion of its pages, munching at the same time my dinner of bread-and-cheese. The pages of the copies of the magazine in my custody as collector were, of course, uncut, but, having as many as eight or ten in my charge, I managed without its being discovered to cut open one leaf in each of the numbers in order to master the narrative.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: James Glass Bertram Print: Serial / periodical
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
'Well, it takes me enough time reading papers and the Sunday papers, and "John Bull" and the "Illustrated"'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: anon Print: Newspaper
'Well, it takes me enough time reading papers and the Sunday papers, and "John Bull" and the "Illustrated"'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: anon Print: Newspaper
'Well, it takes me enough time reading papers and the Sunday papers, and "John Bull" and the "Illustrated"'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: anon Print: Serial / periodical
'Well, it takes me enough time reading papers and the Sunday papers, and "John Bull" and the "Illustrated"'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: anon Print: Newspaper, Serial / periodical
'I don't read books at all, chiefly magazines that I can pick up and put down without losing the thread of the story ...'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: anon Print: Serial / periodical
'Sunday evening is the only time I do read, - I spend over an hour reading the "News of the World".'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: anon Print: Newspaper
'I read the "Times", which takes a time, - I suppose about an hour a day.'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: anon Print: Newspaper
'I read the "Telegraph" reviews ... in trains and in the evening, lunch-time etc.'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: anon Print: Newspaper
'I've got too much to do (to read books). I read the newspapers mostly, morning and evening editions, and the midday, as I'm a racing man.'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: anon Print: Newspaper
'I spend some time reading the papers, morning and evening editions, roughly about 14 hours a week, about two hours each day ... I expect I'm too tired of an evening to settle down to books, - I like the newspaper better, there's bite of everything in it.'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: anon Print: Newspaper
'I don't read newspapers, but I get the magazine "Woman", and I spend about 2 hours reading that.'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: anon Print: Serial / periodical
'The only reading I do outside the scope of my studies is that of newspapers, and the "New Statesman", - one hour.'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: anon Print: Serial / periodical
'The only reading I do outside the scope of my studies is that of newspapers, and the "New Statesman", - one hour.'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: anon Print: Newspaper
'Three hours magazines, - scientific and travel'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: anon Print: Serial / periodical
'I read a lot of magazines ... They're bright and easy reading, and you can find out lots of useful things in them.'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: anon Print: Serial / periodical
'I read one magazine, the "Engineer", which I peruse at odd times over a week or so. It would take sometimes as much as five hours to read straight off. No one ever does though with that type of magazine.'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: anon Print: Serial / periodical
'In her spare time she was a great reader of novelettes and out of her four shillings subscribed to "Bow Bells" and the "Family Herald". Once when Laura, coming home from school, happened to overtake her, she enlivened the rest of the journey with the synopsis of a serial she was reading, called "His Ice Queen"'.
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Flora Thompson Print: Serial / periodical
'In her spare time she was a great reader of novelettes and out of her four shillings subscribed to "Bow Bells" and the "Family Herald". Once when Laura, coming home from school, happened to overtake her, she enlivened the rest of the journey with the synopsis of a serial she was reading, called "His Ice Queen"'.
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Flora Thompson Print: Serial / periodical
'Oh, I read the reviews in the "Sunday Times" and the "Times Literary Supplement", when I can get hold of it. I also read the book reviews in "John O' London's". Quite often I get interested in a book and this leads me on to reading more about the subject. For instance, I read the "Guide to Edinburgh" and that introduced me to James IV period, and then I read all about that. Other times I just glance at the title and open the book, and by reading a few lines at random I get some idea of the book, and if it interests me I'll take it out.'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: anon Print: Newspaper
'Oh, I read the reviews in the "Sunday Times" and the "Times Literary Supplement", when I can get hold of it. I also read the book reviews in "John O' London's". Quite often I get interested in a book and this leads me on to reading more about the subject. For instance, I read the "Guide to Edinburgh" and that introduced me to James IV period, and then I read all about that. Other times I just glance at the title and open the book, and by reading a few lines at random I get some idea of the book, and if it interests me I'll take it out.'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: anon Print: Newspaper
'I read the first page of the newspaper first, then turn to the back page, then fold the outside in. A chance headline may set me reading page 3 first, but usually it is page 2.'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: anon Print: Newspaper
'I read the headlines and the adverts. If any particular headline strikes me I follow it up. Particularly comment on parliamentary debates. I don't read racing or Sports - save for occasional boxing matches (i.e. big matches). Keep off divorce and sensational twaddle.'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: anon Print: Advertisement, Newspaper
'First of all I read the main headlines, then the various news paragraphs in order of importance on the front page, then the back page. I then turn to the inside news page, then the leader, readers' letters. Hannes Swaffer's column, other articles, then a general run over the smaller news items.'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: anon Print: Newspaper
'I have always adopted the principle of working the newspaper fairly carefully from beginning to end. There may be an occasional glance at principal headlines over breakfast, but after that the real reading consists of starting at the front page, first column, and going steadily through. I rarely read advertisements, but not much else is omitted. The degree of concentration of course varies with the subject matter. Articles have preference over everything, especially those of current interest, Personal stuffy, like the "Wonder of the War" anecdotes, tend to get skipped somewhat. I suppose I am more interested in ideas than individuals.'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: anon Print: Newspaper
'At work the sole topic was the new Conscription Bill, with discussion on how it will affect each one. After reading the "Telegraph". I worked out t[h]at it would be August at least before I was de-reserved, and that I should be out of work by then, for I cannot see us lasting another seven months.'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: anon Print: Newspaper
'Oh, I read the reviews in the "Sunday Times" and the "Times Literary Supplement", when I can get hold of it. I also read the book reviews in "John O' London's". Quite often I get interested in a book and this leads me on to reading more about the subject. For instance, I read the "Guide to Edinburgh" and that introduced me to James IV period, and then I read all about that. Other times I just glance at the title and open the book, and by reading a few lines at random I get some idea of the book, and if it interests me I'll take it out.'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: anon Print: Serial / periodical
'I have been reading the papers lately and I am astonished read what Mr. Heathcot-Amery has done. His people are highly respected in the neighbourhood. His people have served this county ...educated at Eton and Christ Church, he didn't waste any time from what I can see. He must have been quite a speaker, too. He was the private secretary to Lord Leigh, while he was on the Palestine Commission. He has been out in East Africa, he is now living at Tiverton.'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: anon Print: Newspaper
'Well, see Miss. Christmas Day my father was reading his paper. His glass of beer was at his side. He feel asleep and when he woke up his glass was empty. That's how I had a drink.'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: anon Print: Newspaper
'"Oh here they are again! I'll be glad when the bloody election's over. Why don't they make their minds up, what they are going to call it - sometimes it's Labour and sometimes it's socialism" (Goes back to reading murder story in paper)'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: anon Print: Newspaper
'The newspaper today took my breath away. Such a landslide I had not expected. Yesterday morning, reading the "Telegraph" I felt a stalemate possible, or a small
Tory Labour majority, with the Liberals holding the balance. Thank God that at any rate is destroyed. Liberals will now have to line up with one or other of the two main parties, and we'll have a clear-cut position.'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: anon Print: Newspaper
'At one of the three occupied tables by the windows sat two women, one about thirty, the other probably no more than 18. They were talking and laughing excitedly. The elder one took a newspaper cutting from her hand and handed it to the younger, and they were quiet while she read it. At the next table sat a middle aged man reading a periodical, and next to him sat two girls who neither moved nor spoke to each other. The man who was reading took out a cigarette and lit it without taking his eyes off the paper.'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: anon Print: Serial / periodical
'At one of the three occupied tables by the windows sat two women, one about thirty, the other probably no more than 18. They were talking and laughing excitedly. The elder one took a newspaper cutting from her hand and handed it to the younger, and they were quiet while she read it. At the next table sat a middle aged man reading a periodical, and next to him sat two girls who neither moved nor spoke to each other. The man who was reading took out a cigarette and lit it without taking his eyes off the paper.'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: anon Print: Newspaper
'I should say in justice to myself that I am absolutely unmoved, except by impatience, at the daily twitterings of the leader writers in the press, I read them, Garvin and all, for they make light reading and are often entertaining, sometimes even instructive.'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: anon Print: Newspaper
'Reading the ordinary papers occasionally, listening to the B.B.C. news sometimes, reading the Left wing papers sometimes, and trying to sort out the wheat from the chaff.'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: anon Print: Newspaper
'"Manchester Guardian". English news once a day. Lord Haw-Haw, conversations with as may people as possible, reading on international questions. From these sources I sort out things as well as I can.'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: anon Print: Newspaper
'I'm very amused reading in the paper about the trains yesterday. (reads): "Many trains had to run in duplicate and triplicate to accomodate the crowds." After all they said about running no extra trains at Christmas! My god! England is the place to live in.'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: anon Print: Newspaper
'I was absolutely horrified about the Italians, the way they took revenge on Mussolini. I can't imagine what we're fighting for, if that's the way the Anti-Fascists behave. I was just reading in the paper that they hung them up in the most lewd, indecent positions, and spat at them, and threw stones. And laughed. The Italian people don't seem to feel any horror at this either. I think it's just too ghastly for words.'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: anon Print: Newspaper
'There was a wonderful account in the "Daily Worker" of Mussolini's death, how he was shot in the head and his brain spattered out, and he looked awful, but his mistress was hanged beside him in a new white blouse and looked lovely.'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: anon Print: Newspaper
'I am forming my opinions mainly from what I read in books on economies, politics, history, etc. I read the daily papers, but I do not take a lot of notice of what I read in them from the point of view of their opinions on the war, and what shall be done after it. I get far more satisfaction from reading articles or books by authors such as C.E.M. Joad, H.G.Wells and Huxley.'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: anon Print: Newspaper
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Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Taylor Coleridge Print: Serial / periodical
'The "Morning Chronicle" says the troops are to be withdrawn from France.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Benjamin Newton Print: Newspaper
'We got the Iris this morning I copied out of it the petition of the G [?] dispersed thro Germany and Hartman's Soliloquy in imitation of Hamlet.'
Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Hunter Print: Newspaper
'Mr Fisher who came up to alter Mr E a gown &c against our journay bought in a "Cambridge Inteligencer" to look at; it is a very free paper & conducted by Mr Flower.'
Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Hunter Print: Newspaper
'We got "The Iris" this morning; it contained an Advertisement from Mr [Sorby?], saying that he intended to resign the school at Midsummer & begged leave to reccomend [sic] Messrs Bolton & Hayward as his successors.'
Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Hunter Print: Advertisement, Newspaper
'We learn from the "Iris" of this morning that the "Wisperer" is just published by J.M.Gomery [James Montgomery].'
Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Hunter Print: Newspaper
'Brought [...] the European Magazine for April 1798; it contains an essay on provincial Half-pennies by Joseph M[orer], author of Turkish Tales ... to be continued in the succeeding numbers.'
Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Hunter Print: Serial / periodical
'I begun to write in my Common-place book, the account of the King of Patterdale [from the 'Gentleman's Magazine', borrowed on July 2 from 'the Library']'
Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Hunter Print: Serial / periodical
'We got the "Iris"; it contains an exceedingly humourous account of the first campaign of our Loyal Independant Sheffield Volunteers to Workshop, which I wrote out amongst the anecdotes.' [NB Entry for July 10: Mr Evans joins with Miss Haynes and Mr Manly to subscribe to 'The Iris'. Previously they had each bought it.]
Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Hunter Print: Newspaper
'Got the "Monthly Mag" & "Rev." from Miss Haynes. They appear to be two very entertaining no's. I am much pleased with the account of Mr Lambton in the "Monthly Mag". the "Walpoliana" is also very entertaining.'
Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Hunter Print: Serial / periodical
'I will give an account of how I spend the day hour by hour. From 7 to 8 drew part of a landscape, wrote my diary. 8 to 9. Read a little in my Encyclopedia ... 2 to 5 at Warehouse. From 6 to 7 read a little in the Encyclopedia ...8 to 9 got my supper, read a little in the ency. 9 to 10 read in the ency.'
Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Hunter Print: Book
'I will give an account of how I spend the day hour by hour. [...9-12 at the warehouse] 12 to 1 came to my dinner, read part of the "Iris". Mr H. Hall dined with us.'
Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Hunter Print: Newspaper
'Wrote out of the "Monthly Mag." an example of English hexameter. [Borrowed 'the first 12 no.s' from Miss Haynes on 17 August 1798] Sir Philip Sidney had an idea of the same kind for he composed a poem in such verse.'
Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Hunter Print: Serial / periodical
'"The Iris" this week contains an advertisement from the Cutler's Company [annual ball] White Bear Inn. Price 10s 6d.'
Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Hunter Print: Advertisement, Newspaper
'The "Monthly Magazine" contains an account of the publication of that long expected work by Mr Conder of Ipswich, "an arrangement of provincial coins ... Price 7/6 boards". I intend to get this proposed at the Surry Street Library.'
Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Hunter Print: Serial / periodical
'"The Iris" in mentioning the Sessions at Sheffield says ...'
Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Hunter Print: Newspaper
'brought also the "Gent Mag" for Sepr 1798. [It] speaks very severly of Mr Smith's Sermon to the Odd-fellows; they say that if he had intended to promote the intrests of Republicanism he could not have done it in a more effective manner ...'
Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Hunter Print: Serial / periodical
'Saw ... in the possession of one of our men the "Spy", a periodical printed by Crome in the year 1795, in which were some veery keen things against the Ministry.'
Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Hunter Print: Serial / periodical
'It has been stated in some of the London papers that when the news [of Nelson's victory] arrived there was no appearance of rejoicing at Sheffield. [He cites lack of coverage in the "Iris"]. He remarks however in the "Iris" of the 25th of this month that [Sheffield did celebrate].'
Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Hunter Print: Newspaper
'Brought the 2d number of the "Anti-Jacobin Review & Magazine", which is got into the Surry Street library instead of the "Analytical" which they have turned out. It is a most virulent attack upon all the friends of liberty or - Jacobins-, as they are pleased to stile them; it is -ornamented- with caricature prints.'
Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Hunter Print: Serial / periodical
'Borrowed the "Spy" of one of our men; it is peculiarly calculated for the lower class of people. Mr Harrison a schoolmaster in Pond Lane, was one of the Principle writers in it.'
Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Hunter Print: Serial / periodical
'Brought the "Gents Mag" for May. It contains an advertisement for a new edition of the "Encyclopedia Britannica" with supplemental plates at 15/15'
Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Hunter Print: Advertisement, Serial / periodical
'Mr Scholfield gave me a medal struck to commemorate the presentation of the colours to the Birmingham association of cavalry & infantry. On one side is "Public virtue seated on ..." [in margin] "From the printed description which accompanies it".'
Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Hunter Print: Handbill
'Wrote out of the Register's "Mary Queen of Scotts a Monody; Written near the Ruins of Sheffield Manor". It is one of the pretttiest pieces of poetry in the Registers. It was published by Peacock in his poems, but it was not of his composition.'
Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Hunter Print: Book
'On 25.7.1799, I have seen a month or two ago, in the "Mon Mag" an account of the publication of the first part of the 1st vol [of the Supplement to the Encyclopedia Britannica].'
Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Hunter Print: Serial / periodical
'Brought the "Monthly Review" from Miss Haynes; this month they review Conder's "Arrangement of Provincial Coins", but they do it in a very slight manner.'
Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Hunter Print: Serial / periodical
'Brought "A Fortnights Ramble to the Lakes" from the Chapel Library; also the "Analytical Review" for July 1798, to read a masterly critique on the "Castle Spectre", which I saw performed last winter; they allow Mr Lewis no praise at all, indeed plagiarisms (chiefly from Mrs Radcliffe's Publications) are visible on every page.'
Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Hunter Print: Serial / periodical
'Brought the "Mon Mag" from Miss Haynes. It contains an account of the death of Dr Towers.'
Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Hunter Print: Book
'When I came to extract the remarks on Dodsley, I found [they?] were remarks upon an old edition & that the editors we have published in 1782, have adopted the remarks & c.'
Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Hunter Print: Serial / periodical
'Took Colquhoun's "treatise of the police of the metropolis" to the library. I have not read it but, Mr Evans has; he says that he gives a most dreadful idea of the state of London; he says there are no less than 200, 000 persons, who when they get up in the morning do not know where they shall lay their head at night. That very miserable story, which I have cut out of an old "Iris" & is amongst the rest of the newspaper scraps, & entitled "On the Police of Paris" Mr Col[...] says was related to him by a Foreign Ambassador, who was at Paris at the time.'
Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Hunter Print: Newspaper
'Dr Marwick advertises again.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Hunter Print: Advertisement, Newspaper
'It was when I was very ill that the article in the "Monthly Rev." was read to me.'
Century: 1700-1799 / 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Hunter Print: Serial / periodical
'The "Iris" contains an advertisement of a book being published intitled "A Poetical Review of Miss Hannah More's Strictures of Female Education"...'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Hunter Print: Advertisement, Newspaper
'From paper in "Monthly Review" I got on Mathematical Subjects and resumed Consideration of Negative Signs, retracing former reasonings [...] found much enjoyment in it.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: William Windham Print: Serial / periodical
'In the [?] read principally the papers in the "Adventurer" and Rogers' "Pleasures of Memory"; thought less of the papers in the "Adventurer" than I had done formally, i.e. forty years ago or more, and less than I had been led to expect of Rogers. Went to bed about one, after beginning "Spanish Grammar".'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: William Windham Print: Serial / periodical
'"Gazette" with details of victory over Dupont, +c'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: William Windham Print: Newspaper
'Breakfasted below. Read "Edinburgh Review" afterwards, for first time, after I know what interval, a little Greek, viz Plut. "Phocian"'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: William Windham Print: Serial / periodical
'Day of "Gazette" arriving, with news of Wellesley's victory [Battle of Talavera] of 28th July.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: William Windham Print: Serial / periodical
Mrs Robinson's journal of Oct 7 1854, reprinted in the Times June 15 1856: '..we sat and read Athenaums aloud, chatting meanwhile. There was something unusual in his manner,something softer than usual in his tone and eye, but I not what it proceeded from, and chattted gaily, leading the conversation - on Goethe, on women's dresses'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Mrs Robinson Print: Serial / periodical
[Transcript of essay, under the heading 'Today'] 'Today. New Monthly Magazine for January 1823'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Charles Holte Bracebridge Print: Serial / periodical
[3 July 1797] 'brought the 2nd vol of the "Antiquarian Repertory"; I had read it before but there was a picture in it I wished to draw. [4 July 1797] I drew out of the "Antiquarian Repertory" a view of Little Saxham Church.
Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Hunter Print: Book
'1831' 'Farewell to 1831 year of Whig Ministry of Shen reform... Extracted from Fraser's Magazine by Benj. Beanlands'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Benjamin Beanlands Print: Serial / periodical
'Once more amongst the old gigantic hills/...' 'Foreign Literary Review Janury 1832.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Bowly group Print: Serial / periodical
'From the Cheltenham Chronicle of 11 Oct. 1832 on the Death of Sir Walter Scott' 'Harp of the North! The Mighty Hand, ...'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Devereux Bowly Print: Newspaper
'Sir Walter Scott was buried at Dryburgh... Annual Obituary for 1833.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Devereux Bowly Print: Serial / periodical
'To the Great Pyramid' Mountain of Art! Sublime Mysterious Pile!, ... From the Cheltenham Chronicle Feb 7 1833'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Bowly group Print: Newspaper
'god was Merciful & spoke Peace to my Soul, & now I found that with god which Passeth all understanding, & rejoiced all the day long, & saw everything in a new light ... I now read the Scriptures with great delight, & recomended them to my wife , & my father, who was my constant companion &c ...'
Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Benjamin Shaw Print: Book
'the last weeks paper stated, that 200, 000 were out of work within 20 miles of manchester, &c, & the long drought is expected to have materially inguered [injured] the Harvest ...'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Benjamin Shaw Print: Newspaper
'She delighted in Singing, & Prayer, & reading the Scriptures, Particularly the 14 Chapter of John &c- this was a favourite Virse of hers, Arise my Soul arise, Shake off thy guilty fears, The bleeding Sacrifice in my behalf appears, Before thy throne my surety stands, my name is written on his hands'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Hannah Shaw Print: Book
'She sade she was happy in her mind & had many a Comfortable hour when she could not Sleep in reading her testament & hymn book & praying &c'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Betty Shaw Print: Book
'Recievd the "London Magazine" by my friend Henderson who bought if from town with him a very dull no [.] [...] the article on Byron carrys ignorance in the face of it [.]'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Clare Print: Serial / periodical
'Read "Solomons Song" and beautiful as some of the images of that poem are some of them are not recognisable in my judgement above the ridiculous [...] the more I read the scriptures the more I feel astonishment at the sublime images'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Clare Print: Book
'Read over the magazine [received from London on Sunday 7 Nov] the review of Lord Byrons conversations is rather entertaining the pretendery letter of James Thompson is a bold lye [letter is actually by Thompson].'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Clare Print: Serial / periodical
'A ryhming school master is the greatest bore in literature the following ridiculous advertisement proves the assertion taken from the "Stamford Mercury" [quotes advert]'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Clare Print: Advertisement, Newspaper
'Newspaper Miracles Wonders Curiositys etc under these heads I shall insert anything I can find worth reading and laughing at' [quotes 2 stories from the 'Stamford Mercury']
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Clare Print: Newspaper
'Recieved a letter from Mrs Emmerson and a "Literary Gazette" from somebody in which is a review of an unsuccesful attempt to reach Repulse Bay [...] by Captain Lyon from which the following curious incident is extracted'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Clare Print: Book
'Recieved a news paper from Montgomery in which my poem of the "Vanitys of Life" was inserted with an ingenius and flattering compliment past upon it'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Clare Print: Newspaper
[quotes from 4 separate stories] 'Stamford Mercury' '"A black birds nest with four young ones was found a few days ago in Yorkshire" - "Stamford Mercury"'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Clare Print: Newspaper
'Saw a reciept to mend broken china in the "Stamford Mercury" [...] news papers have been famous for hyperbole and the "Stamford Mercury" has long been one at the head of the list of extravagance - in an article relating an accident at Drury Lane Theatre is the following'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Clare Print: Newspaper
'News paper wonders - "There is now living at Barton an old lady of the name of Faunt who has nearly attaind the great age of 105 years - she has lately cut new teeth to the great surprise of the family" "Stamford Mercury"'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Clare Print: Newspaper
'Recieved the April and May ma[ga]zine from London with a letter from Hessey and one from Vandyke [...] the magazine is very dull.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Clare Print: Serial / periodical
'Extracts from the "Stamford Mercury"' [copies two stories]
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Clare Print: Newspaper
'At a meeting of florists held at the Old Kings Head at Newark last week prizes were adjudged as follows' [quotes results published in 'Stamford Mercury']
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Clare Print: Newspaper
'News paper odditys [quotes article on salt mine in Poland] "Stamford Mercury"'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Clare Print: Newspaper
'Parish officers are modern savages as the following fact will testifye - Crowland Abbey "Certain surveyors have lately dug up several foundation stones of the Abby [...] for the purpose of repairing the parish roads!!" "Stamford Mercury"'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Clare Print: Newspaper
'Recieved a parcel from Holbeach with a letter and the Scientific Receptacle from J. Savage - they have inserted my poems and have been lavish with branding every corner with "J. Clares" how absurd are the serious meant images or attempts at fine writing in these young writers'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Clare Print: Book
'"The Lingfield and Crowhurst Choir sung several select pieces from Handel in the cavity of a yew tree [continues for whole of report]" "Stamford Mercury"'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Clare Print: Newspaper
'Saw in the Stamford paper that the lost leaf of "Dooms day book" was found and had no time to copy out the account'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Clare Print: Newspaper
'A salmon near ['near' in italics] 20 lbs weight ...' 'Stamford Mercury'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Clare Print: Newspaper
'The catholics have lost their bill once more [they] shoud when one beholds the following sacred humbugs [...] From "Nugents Travels" [1768][Clare quotes list of relics quoted from Nugents by Stamford Mercury]'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Clare Print: Newspaper
'The following advertisement is from the "Observer" of Sunday May 22 1825. "Just published the speech of his Royal Highness the Duke of York in the house of Lords the 25 April 1825 Printed by J Whittaker [...] in letters of gold [...] 10s/6 sold by Septimus Prowett 23 Old Bond Street Well done Septimus Prowet"'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Clare Print: Advertisement, Newspaper
'"A hive of bees natives of New South Wales [...] The bees are very small and have no sting but their honey is peculiarly fine" "Stamford Mercury"'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Clare Print: Newspaper
'a newspaper lye of the first order - "Mr Gale of Holt in the parish of Bradford Witts has at present a Pear of the jagonel kind in his possession which was taken [...] 49 years ago and is now as sound as the first moment it was gathered[...]" - it must have been a wooden one'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Clare Print: Newspaper
'More wonders from the "Mercury" "A clergyman of the established church name Benson now attracts larger congregations [...] then the celebrated Mr Irving [.] 211 stage coaches pass weekly through Daventry Northamptonshire" "Stamford Mercury"'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Clare Print: Newspaper
'This summer, as my eighth year advanced, we read the "Epistle to the Hebrews", with very great deliberation, stopping every moment, that my Father might expound it, verse by verse.' [ an dmore for a para]
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Philip Gosse Print: Book
'In our lighter moods, we turned to the "Book of Revelation", and chased the phantom of Popery through its fuliginous pages.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Philip Gosse Print: Book
James Harvey 'Blind Jim" 'had, from hearing, mastered most of the content of these two important papers [Times and Weekly Dispatch], and then made some capital out of having done so, by repeating the news from his favourite corner in one or more of the old inns, always to a number of interested listeners and village politicians.' he delivered the papers. same time.
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: James Harvey Print: Newspaper
James Harvey 'Blind Jim" 'had, from hearing, mastered most of the content of these two important papers [Times and Weekly Dispatch], and then made some capital out of having done so, by repeating the news from his favourite corner in one or more of the old inns, always to a number of interested listeners and village politicians.' he delivered the papers. same time.
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: James Harvey Print: Newspaper
Lancashire workman wrote to Cassell's that the first 23 volumes of the National Library "have done a great deal of good even in my own neighbourhood, for several of my own friends have given up drinking for the sake of taking and reading your beautiful little books".
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: several Lancashire workman Print: Book
'She rose about eight o'clock; and, before she came down stairs, read herself a chapter in the Bible or New Testament, and that with active attention, as she frequently made any thing which had struck her in reading it, the subject of remark when she came down'
Century: 1700-1799 / 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Birch Print: Book
'We might mention the Rambler, theGuardian, and Shakespeare, as her favourites among older writers; and, among modern works, Hannah More's writings, memorials of a Departed friend, Private Life and others. From such books she was in the habit, with a sound judgement and a ready pen, of making extracts. Some of which have been collected and preserved....
Century: 1700-1799 / 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Birch Print: Serial / periodical
'We might mention the Rambler, the Guardian, and Shakespeare, as her favourites among older writers; and, among modern works, Hannah More's writings, memorials of a Departed friend, Private Life and others. From such books she was in the habit, with a sound judgement and a ready pen, of making extracts. Some of which have been collected and preserved....'
Century: 1700-1799 / 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Birch Print: Serial / periodical
'There were numbers of a paper called, I think, "The Christian World", dating from several years back. They contained nothing but accounts of meetings and conferences, announcements of appointments to ministries, and obituary notices; yet I read them from beginning to end.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Edwin Muir Print: Serial / periodical
''I read all my new school books as soon as I got them; I read "The People's Journal", "The People's Friend", and "The Christian Herald". I read a complete series of sentimental love tales very popular at that time called "Sunday Stories". I read novels illustrating the dangers of intemperance and the values of thrift. I read a new periodical called "The Penny Magazine" which my brother Willie got: it was modelled on "Tit-bits", and contained all sorts of useless information. But I had no children's books and no fairy-tales: my father's witch stories made up for that.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Edwin Muir Print: Serial / periodical
''I read all my new school books as soon as I got them; I read "The People's Journal", "The People's Friend", and "The Christian Herald". I read a complete series of sentimental love tales very popular at that time called "Sunday Stories". I read novels illustrating the dangers of intemperance and the values of thrift. I read a new periodical called "The Penny Magazine" which my brother Willie got: it was modelled on "Tit-bits", and contained all sorts of useless information. But I had no children's books and no fairy-tales: my father's witch stories made up for that.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Edwin Muir Print: Serial / periodical
''I read all my new school books as soon as I got them; I read "The People's Journal", "The People's Friend", and "The Christian Herald". I read a complete series of sentimental love tales very popular at that time called "Sunday Stories". I read novels illustrating the dangers of intemperance and the values of thrift. I read a new periodical called "The Penny Magazine" which my brother Willie got: it was modelled on "Tit-bits", and contained all sorts of useless information. But I had no children's books and no fairy-tales: my father's witch stories made up for that.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Edwin Muir Print: Serial / periodical
''I read all my new school books as soon as I got them; I read "The People's Journal", "The People's Friend", and "The Christian Herald". I read a complete series of sentimental love tales very popular at that time called "Sunday Stories". I read novels illustrating the dangers of intemperance and the values of thrift. I read a new periodical called "The Penny Magazine" which my brother Willie got: it was modelled on "Tit-bits", and contained all sorts of useless information. But I had no children's books and no fairy-tales: my father's witch stories made up for that.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Edwin Muir Print: Serial / periodical
'There was another impression, almost as horrible, but this time it was caused by an illustration, not a story. Sutherland sometimes had sent to him by a cousin in Leith a weekly paper called, I think, "The Police News", a record of brutal crimes. He left it lying in the kitchen one day, and with my usual hypnotised interest I went across to take it up. On the cover was a picture of a powerful man standing in his shirt sleeves with an axe raised above his head... My father snatched up the paper as soon as I put my hand out for it, crammed it into his pocket, and said sternly, "That's no for thee!"'.
Century: 1850-1899 / 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Edwin Muir Print: Newspaper
'I do not know whether it was a benefit of a calamity when my brother Willie, out of pure kindness, began taking "Chums" for me. "Chums" was at that time a chief rival of "The Boy's Own Paper", which I did not see until years later, when it bored me with its stories of public-school life, filled with incomprehensible snobbery. The line of "Chums" was adventure stories in savage lands.'
Century: 1850-1899 / 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Edwin Muir Print: Serial / periodical
'I do not know whether it was a benefit of a calamity when my brother Willie, out of pure kindness, began taking "Chums" for me. "Chums" was at that time a chief rival of "The Boy's Own Paper", which I did not see until years later, when it bored me with its stories of public-school life, filled with incomprehensible snobbery. The line of "Chums" was adventure stories in savage lands.'
Century: 1850-1899 / 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Edwin Muir Print: Serial / periodical
'when I was eleven a school history-book containing biographies of Sir Thomas More, Sir Philip Sidney, and Sire John Eliot showed me that reading could be something quite different. My reading books up to then must have been poor, for I can remember nothing of them except a description of Damascus, with a sentence to the effect that at night the streets were "as silent as the dead". I had had, of course, to learn "Casabianca" and "Lord Ullin's Daughter" and "Excelsior" and the other vapid poems which are supposed to please children, but like everyone else I was bored by them.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Edwin Muir Print: Book
'there was nothing in the house which was worth reading, apart from the Bible, "The Pilgrim's Progress", "Gulliver's Travels", and a book by R.M. Ballantyne about Hudson Bay.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Edwin Muir Print: Book
'The beautiful and disturbing feminine shapes which I sometimes saw in the photographic section of "The Sketch" and "The Tatler", turning over the pages furtively in the Public Library, did not immediately strike me as being what might lie beneath a gymslip.'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Norman Nicholson Print: Serial / periodical
'The beautiful and disturbing feminine shapes which I sometimes saw in the photographic section of "The Sketch" and "The Tatler", turning over the pages furtively in the Public Library, did not immediately strike me as being what might lie beneath a gymslip.'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Norman Nicholson Print: Serial / periodical
'So that, whatever may have been its deeper cause, the love which filled my imagination was of a kind that seemed, to me, to have little to do with what I meant by sex. "Love" was something I had learned about from "David Copperfield" and "Under the Greenwood Tree" and from the stories in "The Woman's Weekly", which my mother occasionally bought. And of course, from the poetry I was beginning to enjoy. I was naively oblivious to the sexual innuendoes of Keats and Tennyson but their romantic raptures set me trembling like a tuning fork. "Come into the garden, Maud" roused nothing of the derision, or even downright ribaldry, that it would surely rouse in a boy of today.'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Norman Nicholson Print: Serial / periodical
'[Bernard] Shaw the buffoon, the joker, the iconoclast, appeared day by day in every newspaper like a living comic strip. "That jackass", my father would umph, half-teasingly, as he read the latest outrageous saying in the "Daily Mail".'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Nicholson Print: Newspaper
'The [reference room of the public library] was almost airless, catarrhal from the fumes of the coke-stove, musty and dusty from the half-mouldering, out-of-date sets of "The Encyclopedia Britannica" and the "Dictionary of National Biography". We took down pages and pages of what, in the end, proved to be quite useless notes on the lives of Gustavus Adolphus and Richelieu...'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Norman Nicholson Print: Book
'The [reference room of the public library] was almost airless, catarrhal from the fumes of the coke-stove, musty and dusty from the half-mouldering, out-of-date sets of "The Encyclopedia Britannica" and the "Dictionary of National Biography". We took down pages and pages of what, in the end, proved to be quite useless notes on the lives of Gustavus Adolphus and Richelieu...'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Norman Nicholson Print: Book
'Our syllabus was large, covering at least twelve set books: two plays of Shakespeare's, two volumes of Milton and two of Keats; Chaucer, Sheridan, Lamb, Scott's "Old Mortality" and the first book of "The Golden Treasury", with its marvellous pickings of Coleridge, Shelly, Byron and, especially, Wordsworth, which excited me, at that age, more than any other poetry written.'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Norman Nicholson Print: Book
'We had, at home, a huge Family Bible -one of the brass-bound sort -with fine fat type and hundreds of illustrations. It was always safe to leave me with this Bible lying on my belly on the hearthrug before the fire -while my mother went out somewhere with my sisters. They would find me even three hours later just where and as I had been left. That Bible with its illustrations by Gustave Dore and Felix Philipotteaux, was a joy and a solace for years. Especially the battle-pictures and those of storm and wreck. There was one of Joshua's army storming a hill fortress -with the great iron-studded door crashing down before the onrush of mighty men with huge-headed axes -that never failed to thrill...'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas A. Jackson Print: Book
'Next to the Bible in time, and soon superseding it in practice were four volumes of Cassell's Illustrated History of England, which my father got bound up from a set of weekly parts. They carried the story down to the accession of George III; but even so they were a mine of treasure it took years to ramsack. I read first all the battles... After the battles I read the murders; then the executions; and then, at last, as much as I could stomach of the connecting bits in between.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas A. Jackson Print: Book, Serial / periodical, weekly parts collected by father and bound into four volumes
'...in one matter father and son were united. We developed a mutual love of comic papers, and together taught ourselves to read them. He could read after a fashion before I arrived, it's true, for once he'd struggled all the way through a serial in the "Girls' Own Paper" called "The Shepard's Fairy"... He always sat in the hard chair, right-hand side of the kitchen range, with his back to the window, his sleeves rolled up and the paper held firmly... Then being set, off he'd go into the latest crime of Jasper Todd, the sinister landlord of the Red Inn, or Spring-heeled Jack, or the ingenious inventions of George Gale, the Flying Detective... we went on until every item in "Chips", "Comic Cuts", "Lot o' Fun" and the "Butterfly" had been dealt with -for that week.'
Century: 1850-1899 / 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Common Print: Serial / periodical
'...in one matter father and son were united. We developed a mutual love of comic papers, and together taught ourselves to read them. He could read after a fashion before I arrived, it's true, for once he'd struggled all the way through a serial in the "Girls' Own Paper" called "The Shepard's Fairy"... He always sat in the hard chair, right-hand side of the kitchen range, with his back to the window, his sleeves rolled up and the paper held firmly... Then being set, off he'd go into the latest crime of Jasper Todd, the sinister landlord of the Red Inn, or Spring-heeled Jack, or the ingenious inventions of George Gale, the Flying Detective... we went on until every item in "Chips", "Comic Cuts", "Lot o' Fun" and the "Butterfly" had been dealt with -for that week.'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Common Print: Serial / periodical
'...in one matter father and son were united. We developed a mutual love of comic papers, and together taught ourselves to read them. He could read after a fashion before I arrived, it's true, for once he'd struggled all the way through a serial in the "Girls' Own Paper" called "The Shepard's Fairy"... He always sat in the hard chair, right-hand side of the kitchen range, with his back to the window, his sleeves rolled up and the paper held firmly... Then being set, off he'd go into the latest crime of Jasper Todd, the sinister landlord of the Red Inn, or Spring-heeled Jack, or the ingenious inventions of George Gale, the Flying Detective... we went on until every item in "Chips", "Comic Cuts", "Lot o' Fun" and the "Butterfly" had been dealt with -for that week.'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Common Print: Serial / periodical
'...in one matter father and son were united. We developed a mutual love of comic papers, and together taught ourselves to read them. He could read after a fashion before I arrived, it's true, for once he'd struggled all the way through a serial in the "Girls' Own Paper" called "The Shepard's Fairy"... He always sat in the hard chair, right-hand side of the kitchen range, with his back to the window, his sleeves rolled up and the paper held firmly... Then being set, off he'd go into the latest crime of Jasper Todd, the sinister landlord of the Red Inn, or Spring-heeled Jack, or the ingenious inventions of George Gale, the Flying Detective... we went on until every item in "Chips", "Comic Cuts", "Lot o' Fun" and the "Butterfly" had been dealt with -for that week.'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Common Print: Serial / periodical
'...in one matter father and son were united. We developed a mutual love of comic papers, and together taught ourselves to read them. He could read after a fashion before I arrived, it's true, for once he'd struggled all the way through a serial in the "Girls' Own Paper" called "The Shepard's Fairy"... He always sat in the hard chair, right-hand side of the kitchen range, with his back to the window, his sleeves rolled up and the paper held firmly... Then being set, off he'd go into the latest crime of Jasper Todd, the sinister landlord of the Red Inn, or Spring-heeled Jack, or the ingenious inventions of George Gale, the Flying Detective... we went on until every item in "Chips", "Comic Cuts", "Lot o' Fun" and the "Butterfly" had been dealt with -for that week.'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Common Print: Serial / periodical
'One day, however, I made a discovery. I could read myself! I was four years old now... and while sprawling on the floor with a comic open at the pictures of Weary Willie and Tired Tim, or Dreamy Daniel, or Casey Court, or the Mulberry Flatites, I found that the captions under suddenly began to read themselves out to me.'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Jack Common Print: Serial / periodical
[Given 'a handsome and well-illustrated volume called the Prize Bible' by his grandmother] '...the surprise they got when I actually read the thing, right through, cover to cover, as if it was "Chips" or "Herewald the Wake"... Here on a wet Sunday morning was this handsome volume, leather-bound, of clear bold type and frequent illustrations -I'd look at the pictures. They were gawdy and full of action, quite a lot of them. Look at the priests of Dagon with their blood-splashed knives; Jael creeping into the tent of Sisera; Egyptian chariots overwhelmed by the Red Sea; Judas gloating over his pieces of silver like a carroty-headed Quilp...You simply had to read of these matters; and if the narrative didn't always come up to the quality of the illustrations, when it did you had a story which stayed in your imangination and gave it something to glow with. I read on, session after session, past all the boring bits and finished it at last.'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Jack Common Print: Book
'When I grew into a youth and read everything I got my hands on, from Penny Dreadfuls to the Holy Scriptures, I came across phrases that puzzled me, such as "sans-culotte", "shiftless rabble", "dregs of humanity", "ignorant masses". I wondered where all these worthless people lived. I could only think it must be London or some such place outside my ken. Then one day it dawned on me, these scornful and superior writers were writing about me, and the people who lived in our street. It knocked me sideways for a little time, till the temperament I had inherited from my mother pulled me straight again... The latest I have come across is Richard Church, for whom, as a poet and novelist, I have full respect...'
Century: 1850-1899 / 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Stamper Print: Book
'My mother used to read the novels of Miss Braddon and Mrs Henry Wood, and those in a series called "The Family Story Teller", that she got from the public library. My father got her "East Lynne" through a pub Literary Society, she read it over and over again. I read it when I was about nine. Heavens, the tears I gulped back over the death of Little Willie!'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Polly Stamper Print: Serial / periodical
'There is a book you may have come across, and that was read a lot when I was young, called the Bible. I used to read it, too, when I learned to read; it is a bit old fashioned but very interesting when you get used to its archaic English. In the forty-first chapter of Genesis another Joseph interpreted Pharaoh's dream...'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Stamper Print: Book
'There was the "Police News" and the "Police Budget". I don't think these had any connection, officially, with the police, that was just their name. They specialised in depicting crime in pictures, and also the manly arts of boxing and wrestling. The most sensational crime of the previous week was always given on the front page; and if it was murder by knife or gunshot, there was always oceans of blood sloshed about the picture, and the dying man's face was horrific with his agony. These journals were printed on pink newsprint.'
Century: 1850-1899 / 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Stamper Print: Serial / periodical
'There was the "Police News" and the "Police Budget". I don't think these had any connection, officially, with the police, that was just their name. They specialised in depicting crime in pictures, and also the manly arts of boxing and wrestling. The most sensational crime of the previous week was always given on the front page; and if it was murder by knife or gunshot, there was always oceans of blood sloshed about the picture, and the dying man's face was horrific with his agony. These journals were printed on pink newsprint.'
Century: 1850-1899 / 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Stamper Print: Serial / periodical
'Also on pink newsprint were "Sketchy Bits" and "Photo Bits". Most of the "bits" in these journals had huge nude thighs and huge, almost nude, bosoms, with the absolute minimum of clothing... These two "Bits" journals - that I sometimes bought for a halfpenny each at the second-hand periodical stall in the market -catered to some extent to masochists. There were pages of letters supposed to be written by readers to the editor -though it would not surprise me if they had all been written by the same journalist -that I did not quite understand as a boy. I read everything I came across, from the Bible to "Deadwood Dick", so I read these letters also.'
Century: 1850-1899 / 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Stamper Print: Serial / periodical
'Also on pink newsprint were "Sketchy Bits" and "Photo Bits". Most of the "bits" in these journals had huge nude thighs and huge, almost nude, bosoms, with the absolute minimum of clothing... These two "Bits" journals - that I sometimes bought for a halfpenny each at the second-hand periodical stall in the market -catered to some extent to masochists. There were pages of letters supposed to be written by readers to the editor -though it would not surprise me if they had all been written by the same journalist -that I did not quite understand as a boy. I read everything I came across, from the Bible to "Deadwood Dick", so I read these letters also.'
Century: 1850-1899 / 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Stamper Print: Serial / periodical
'Now that we had gas I found it much easier and pleasanter to read. When I had read all my own periodicals I used to read Mother's literature. Sometimes she bought a novelette; the "Heartsease Library" was one, a penny per week. She was in the public library, too. I read "The Channings" by Mrs Henry Wood, and "Lady Audley's Secret" by Miss Braddon, and others by these two who were my mother's favourite authors.'
Century: 1850-1899 / 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Polly Stamper Print: Serial / periodical
'Now that we had gas I found it much easier and pleasanter to read. When I had read all my own periodicals I used to read Mother's literature. Sometimes she bought a novelette; the "Heartsease Library" was one, a penny per week. She was in the public library, too. I read "The Channings" by Mrs Henry Wood, and "Lady Audley's Secret" by Miss Braddon, and others by these two who were my mother's favourite authors.'
Century: 1850-1899 / 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Stamper Print: Serial / periodical
'...I spoke to three of my workmates...All they read was "The Racing Specialist" and the "Football Edition"...'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: iron moulders Print: Serial / periodical
'...I spoke to three of my workmates...All they read was "The Racing Specialist" and the "Football Edition"...'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: iron moulders Print: Serial / periodical
'I was reading a lot of magazine stories now. There was a boys' reading-room at the public library; the magazines were brought second-hand out of the men's reading-room when displaced by a new monthly issue: the "Strand Magazine", "Windsor", "Pearson's", and others...'
Century: 1850-1899 / 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Stamper Print: Serial / periodical
'I was reading a lot of magazine stories now. There was a boys' reading-room at the public library; the magazines were brought second-hand out of the men's reading-room when displaced by a new monthly issue: the "Strand Magazine", "Windsor", "Pearson's", and others...'
Century: 1850-1899 / 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Stamper Print: Serial / periodical
'I was reading a lot of magazine stories now. There was a boys' reading-room at the public library; the magazines were brought second-hand out of the men's reading-room when displaced by a new monthly issue: the "Strand Magazine", "Windsor", "Pearson's", and others...'
Century: 1850-1899 / 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Stamper Print: Serial / periodical
'Got the "Monthly Mag" & "Rev." from Miss Haynes. They appear to be two very entertaining no's. I am much pleased with the account of Mr Lambton in the "Monthly Mag". the "Walpoliana" is also very entertaining.'
Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Hunter Print: Serial / periodical
'I had started to write "poetry". I was reading masses of it in the Penny Poets, and I thought I would like to be a poet myself...'
Century: 1850-1899 / 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Stamper Print: Book
'reading "Cornhill Magazine" &c'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Albert Battiscombe Print: Serial / periodical
'Paymaster went ashore to inquire about coals &, he returned at 8 PM telling us to steam alongside a brig to morrow morning: he brought out some newspapers - I read in one of them that my old shipmate Lieut W. Kerr has been wounded, he is up off Lucknow with Capn Peel of the "Shannon"'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Albert Battiscombe Print: Newspaper
'To their church in the afternoon, and in Mrs Turner's pew my wife took up a good black hood and kept it. A stranger preached a poor sermon, and so I read over the whole book of the story of Tobit.'
Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Pepys Print: Book
'Home, and at night had a chapter read; and I read prayers out of the Common Prayer book, the first time that ever I read prayers in this house. So to bed.'
Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Pepys Print: Book
'Home, and at night had a chapter read; and I read prayers out of the Common Prayer book, the first time that ever I read prayers in this house. So to bed.'
Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Pepys Print: Book
'So after supper and reading of some chapters, I went to bed.'
Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Pepys Print: Book
'This day I find in the news-Booke that Rogr. Pepys is chosen at Cambridge for the towne, the first place that we hear of to have made their choice yet.'
Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Pepys Print: Newspaper
'This day in the news-booke, I find that my Lord Buckhurst and his fellows have printed their case as they did give in, upon examinacion, to a Justice of the peace.'
Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Pepys Print: Newspaper
'Scotland: it seems, for all the news-book tells us every week that they are all so quiet and everything in the Church settled, the old women had like to have killed the other day the Bishop of Galloway, and not half the churches of the whole kingdom conforms.'
Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Pepys Print: Newspaper
'Home and stayed up a good while, examining Will in his Latin bible and my brother along with him in his Greeke. And so to prayers and to bed.'
Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: John Pepys Print: Book
'After a good supper with my wife, and hearing on the maids read in the Bible, we to prayers and to bed.'
Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: maids of Samuel Pepys Print: Book
'There parted in the street with them, and I to my Lord's; but he not being within, took Coach, and being directed by sight of bills upon the walls, did go to Shoe lane to see a Cocke-fighting at a new pit there - a sport I was never at in my life...'
Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Pepys Print: Advertisement, Broadsheet, Poster
'Abraham Austin, carpenter and joiner, examined. I saw James... on Sunday morning again at my house, when he read the newspaper aloud about the murder and other things...'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: James Hocker Print: Newspaper
'I was repelled at home, rather than encouraged to read, and I never remember to have seen a book in my elders' hands. Literature was limited to the "Daily Telegraph". To read in secret I escaped to the washhouse, and I well remember during my early apprentice days at Spitalfields, my grandfather, catching a sight of me reading there a copy of Dicks's shilling edition of Shakespeare - the whole, a marvellous feat of cheap publishing -sternly reproachful, exclaimed: "Ah, Tom, that'll never bring you bread and cheese!"'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Okey family, parents and grandparents of Thomas Okey Print: Newspaper
'The only books I remember seeing as a small child were an old copy of Foxe's "Book of Martyrs" and one of the Bible, including the Apocrypha, brought out of their hiding-places on Sunday evenings at Spitalfields to amuse the child with pictures, for both were illustrated - the "Book of Martyrs" with realistic engravings of the horrible tortures inflicted on the faithful Protestant. "Bel and the Dragon" in the Bible, too, was a favourite picture.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Okey Print: Book
'The favourite literary pabulum of us boys at school, however, was less classical: "penny bloods" and other Weeklies issued in penny sheets, such as "Sweeny Todd the Barber". Romantic stories of highwaymen circulated freely from boy to boy until reduced to rags: Dick Turpin, Spring-heeled Jack, the gallant Claude Duval, gracefully dancing on the greensward with the ladies he had robbed, Edith the Captive, Edith Heron, with what impatience we awaited the issue of the next number, with what absorbing interest we followed the thrilling adventure!... What it did was to evoke the reading habit, and to one boy at least that was a valuable endowment. Nor did the "Boys of England" proffer a much healthier pabulum to the hunger of the young barbarian for extra-lawful adventure. I can even today visualise the number I read with the lovely alliterate title of its opening story, "Alone in the Pirates' Lair" - and the front page illustration - Jack Harkaway, sitting before the pirate on the island, open-eyed, drinking in the recital of his hazardous deeds;...'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Okey Print: Serial / periodical
'I remember being called to Cambridge to act as a judge at an exhibition of basket-work at the local institute. My office concluded, I strolled about, admiring the beauty of the architecture of the colleges and the charm of the riverside. Passing by the back of King's College, I caught site of a punt lying along the river bank wherein lounged two reading undergraduates. Now, thought I, will be evident the ennobling standard of reading which public school and university teaching develop in the upper classes. I drew near and looked. They were reading the "Pink 'Un"!'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: university undergraduates Print: Serial / periodical
St John's Antigua, July 19 1827
Your letter my Dear Fanny which appears to have been written in May I received yesterday.....
I have sometimes thought perhaps I might do something in the Auction line , but then on looking over the newspapers it appears almost impossible from the immense number there are in that line.
(etc)
Believe moreover, affectionately yours, Jn Page
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Page Print: Advertisement, Newspaper
St John's Antigua, Augst 2 1829
My Dear Fanny
.... I suppose by this you are all reconsiled to the Catholicks. I see by the newspapers that there has been some serious disturbance in Ireland, and think it possible that more will take place. (etc)
Yrs affectionately
Jn Page
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Page Print: Newspaper
Extract from The Whitehall Evening Post, April 1808 recording the marriage of Mary of Buttermere
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Lydia Haskoll Print: Newspaper
J.H. Ewing diary entry, July 13th 1869: 'Good Words'.
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Juliana Horatia Ewing Print: Serial / periodical
From his diary, 29th September [1797]:
'Newspaper "Kelso Mail" begun to be taken this first week of October between Knox, James and David Herriots and me twice a week, Mondays and Thursdays.'
Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: John Hastie Print: Newspaper
From Rev. John Hastie's diary, 29th September [1797]:
'Newspaper "Kelso Mail" begun to be taken this first week of October between Knox [William Knox, schoolmaster, Edrom], James and David Herriots and me twice a week, Mondays and Thursdays.'
Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: William Knox Print: Newspaper
From Rev. John Hastie's diary, 29th September [1797]:
'Newspaper "Kelso Mail" begun to be taken this first week of October between Knox [William Knox, schoolmaster, Edrom], James [James Herriot, farmer, Allanbank Mains, Stuartslaw and Kelloe Mains] and David Herriots [David Herriot, son of above James] and me twice a week, Mondays and Thursdays.'
Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: James Herriot Print: Newspaper
From Rev. John Hastie's diary, 29th September [1797]:
'Newspaper "Kelso Mail" begun to be taken this first week of October between Knox [William Knox, schoolmaster, Edrom], James [James Herriot, farmer, Allanbank Mains, Stuartslaw and Kelloe Mains] and David Herriots [David Herriot, son of above James] and me twice a week, Mondays and Thursdays.'
Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: David Herriot Print: Newspaper
'This day the News-book (upon Mr Moores showing Lestrange Captain Ferrers letter) did do my Lord Sandwich great right as to the late victory.'
Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Pepys Print: Newspaper
'I met this noon with Dr Burnett, who told me, and I find in the news-book this week that he posted upon the Change, that whoever did spread that report that instead of the plague, his servant was killed by him, it was forgery;...'
Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Pepys Print: Newspaper
'Here I saw this week's Bill of Mortality, wherein, blessed be God, there is above 1800 decrease, being the first considerable decrease we have had.'
Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Pepys Print: Broadsheet, Handbill, Poster
'and there sent for the Weekely Bill and find 8252 dead in all, and of them 6978 of the plague - which is a most dreadfull Number - and shows reason to fear that the plague hath got that hold that it will yet continue among us.'
Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Pepys Print: Broadsheet, Handbill, Poster
'The Bill of Mortality, to all our griefs, is encreased 399 this week, and the encrease general through the whole city and suburbs, which makes us all sad.'
Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Pepys Print: Broadsheet, Handbill, Poster
[Betsey]:'The gazettes from France were read this evening there was nothing remarquable in them. We began again "Les Precieuses Ridicules" but had no time to for supper was called'.
[Eugenia]:'In the evening the Paris papers were read I did not give them any attention then we began to reread for Madame de Bombelles "Les Precieuses Ridicules" which was interrupted by supper'
Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth (Betsey) Wynne Print: Newspaper
'The weather was fine but so dirty I could not go out. I read the "Gazettes" this evening'.
Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth (Betsey) Wynne Print: Newspaper
'We read the French papers where there was a letter of a soldier written to the King of France which is of the grossest insolence and horrifies one. We hear that Jourdain (the famous brigand) and his companions have been set free for their infinte merits and their patriotism. This monster is unworthy even to sully his life with new crimes. He has been led in triomph [sic] to Arles.'
Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Wynne and others Print: Newspaper, Unknown
'The first business of the morning being over [rolling up hammocks], the men break into groups or read. Many a one, to our astonishment, took his Bible and began reading it with no little earnestness.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: prisoners on board the 'Defence' hulk Print: Book
'We found some of the prisoners here engaged in reading, while waiting till the officers returned from their breakfast. One was perusing a treatise on "Infidelity; its Aspects, Causes and Agencies"; another the "Home Friend - a weekly miscellany"; a third, the "Saturday Magazine"; a fourth, the "History of Redemption"; and a fifth, the "Family Quarrel - an humble story".'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: anon Print: Serial / periodical
'We found some of the prisoners here engaged in reading, while waiting till the officers returned from their breakfast. One was perusing a treatise on "Infidelity; its Aspects, Causes and Agencies"; another the "Home Friend - a weekly miscellany"; a third, the "Saturday Magazine"; a fourth, the "History of Redemption"; and a fifth, the "Family Quarrel - an humble story".'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: anon Print: Serial / periodical
Sundays at Coldbath Fields Prison, only half the prisoners can attend chapel at one time:
'Those who are left behind are not, however, allowed to remain without religious instruction. Three men in each yard have been appointed by the chaplain to read aloud to their fellow prisoners, and each relieves the other every half hour. The book for Sunday's reading is issued by the chaplain. It is of a purely religious character, and is usually "The Penny Sunday Reader", containing short sermons. Tracts are also distributed in the different yards, so that those who prefer reading to themselves, instead of listening to what is being read aloud, may do so.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: prisoners at Coldbath Fields Print: Book
Schoolroom for boy prisoners at Tothill Fields:
'At the time of our entry, the warder schoolmaster was hearing the boys read aloud from the Bible, the class standing in a line near the wall, each with a book in his hand. Some of the lads read quickly, and others boggled sadly over the words, as, for instance - "And into whatsoever 'ouse ye enter" - ("Look at it, boy! don't you see there's an h to the word?" cries the warder) - "And into whatsoever house ye enter fust" - ("How often am I to tell you that there's no such word as fust? Spell it") - "f-i-r-s-t", proceeds the lad, "say ye peace be unto this 'ouse" - (What! 'ouse again?") - "house", quickly adds the youngster. The next verse was read off rapidly and glibly enough, by one who seemed but half the age of the other...'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: boys in prison Print: Book
Schoolroom for boy prisoners at Tothill Fields:
'At the other end of the room the lads were making even greater havoc with the words; and though the lesson consisted of simple monosyllables, such as "The old man must be led by the hand, or he may fall into the deep pit", one half of the big boys, even those of sixteen, were unable to accomplish the task.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: boys in prison Print: Book
Schoolroom in the female prison at Tothill Fields:
'The warder, to let us see the acquirements of her scholars, bade one of them read a passage from the Bible, that each held in her hand. The woman, however, made such a bungle of the verse, that the teacher had again to assure us that the reader had learned her letters in the jail.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: anon Print: Book
Schoolroom for juvenile males at Wandsworth Prison:
'One little pale-faced boy was reading his lesson to his kind-hearted teacher... One boy had copied from a Bible, which lay before him, a verse of the 26th chapter of Proverbs: "As snow in summer, as rain in harvest, so honour is not seemly for a fool!" He was a sharp-eyed lad of fourteen, with a finely formed countenance.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: anon Print: Book
Adult (male) school at Wandsworth held in the prison chapel, 43 in the class, engaged in a Bible lesson:
'Others he commended in a kind spirit for the manner in which they read their lesson. They generally read in a quiet tone; some with great stumbling and hestitation, and others very fluently.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: male prisoners at Wandsworth Print: Book
School for female prisoners at Holloway:
'On a subsequent day we visited the class with the matron, which was then engaged with the Bible lesson. Most of the prisoners read very fluently and correctly, and conducted themselves with great propriety of demeanour.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: female prisoners at Holloway Print: Book
'six months later I read the following announcement in the "Daily Chronicle": "Yesterday a smart and well-dressed young man named L. F. H. S. was charged before the Lord Mayor with having stolen postal orders, the property of the Postmaster-General, and was committed for trial at the Old Bailey"'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: anon Print: Newspaper
'I read in the English newspapers an attempt has been made against the life of Louis XVIII as this unfortunate Prince was retiring from the armee of Conde... [the full story is then summarised, with no reaction]'
Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Eugenia Wynne Print: Newspaper
Author describes being put into cell in Reading Gaol for the first time:
'That completed the furniture in the cell. But wait! I forgot the Bible! A humane Prison Commission had provided the cell with a Bible. I remember how, to stave off the hysteria I felt rising within me, I took it down and scanned it casually, noting passages in fine English which set forth the fate of those who rebel against the Lord of Hosts. Turning the leaves reapidly, I came to the New Testament, the Gospel of Love. Finally I laid it down and looked around my cell, stray passages of what I had read running through my mind - "All ye are God's children...bear ye one another's burdens...Verily I say unto you, thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself...Father forgive them, for they know not what they do..." The Bible! And mind and heart cried out, "What utter rot!"'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Stuart Wood [pseud?] Print: Book
'I have read somewhere in the Koran, "The fate of every man have we bound about his neck".'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Stuart Wood [pseud?] Print: Book
Description of first month spent in Winchester Prison after sentence:
'Nearly twenty-three hours out of every twenty-four were spent in strict cellular confinement, with no outlet for any form of activity other than the monotony of stitching coalsacks, or reading the Bible for a few minutes at meal times'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Stuart Wood [pseud?] Print: Book
'I endeavoured to counteract this depression by reading the Bible, the only book I had besides a Prayer Book and a Protestant manual called the "Narrow Way", and by forcing myself to concentrate on the structure of sentences as well as to try to comprehend the meaning of what I was reading. Since that time I have twice read the Bible from cover to cover in similar circumstances and for similar reasons. I was then too young and too fundamentally ignorant to understand and appreciate the Bible for what it is - that came later - but even then I was concious of its tremendous interest as a record of the strivings and sufferings of men in their efforts to pierce the veil and solve the ultimate mysteries of life and death... My early Bible reading under duress has not perhaps influenced my life for good in the objective sense of the word,... I know that the main reason I had for devoting so much time to such reading was with the idea of overcoming my moods of brooding and depression, and later to supress the vile thoughts and obscene imaginings which assailed me with evergrowing intensity in the silence and maddening loneliness of my cell.'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Stuart Wood [pseud?] Print: Book
Describes studies in order to become an imposter - way of making a living:
'Works of reference in public libraries furnished me with whatever data I required about particular families and professions - Burke, "Who's Who", Crockford, the Army List, the Navy List, the University Registers and Year Books - until in due course I was able to engage in the game of thrust and parry with all kinds of people and keep my end up.'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Stuart Wood [pseud?] Print: Book, Serial / periodical
Describes studies in order to become an imposter - way of making a living
'Works of reference in public libraries furnished me with whatever data I required about particular families and professions - Burke, "Who's Who", Crockford, the Army List, the Navy List, the University Registers and Year Books - until in due course I was able to engage in the game of thrust and parry with all kinds of people and keep my end up.'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Stuart Wood [pseud?] Print: Book
Describes studies in order to become an imposter - way of making a living:
'Works of reference in public libraries furnished me with whatever data I required about particular families and professions - Burke, "Who's Who", Crockford, the Army List, the Navy List, the University Registers and Year Books - until in due course I was able to engage in the game of thrust and parry with all kinds of people and keep my end up.'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Stuart Wood [pseud?] Print: Book
Describes studies in order to become an imposter - way of making a living:
'Works of reference in public libraries furnished me with whatever data I required about particular families and professions - Burke, "Who's Who", Crockford, the Army List, the Navy List, the University Registers and Year Books - until in due course I was able to engage in the game of thrust and parry with all kinds of people and keep my end up.'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Stuart Wood [pseud?] Print: Book
Describes studies in order to become an imposter - way of making a living:
'Works of reference in public libraries furnished me with whatever data I required about particular families and professions - Burke, "Who's Who", Crockford, the Army List, the Navy List, the University Registers and Year Books - until in due course I was able to engage in the game of thrust and parry with all kinds of people and keep my end up.'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Stuart Wood [pseud?] Print: Book
Describes studies in order to become an imposter - way of making a living:
'Works of reference in public libraries furnished me with whatever data I required about particular families and professions - Burke, "Who's Who", Crockford, the Army List, the Navy List, the University Registers and Year Books - until in due course I was able to engage in the game of thrust and parry with all kinds of people and keep my end up.'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Stuart Wood [pseud?] Print: Book
'I often found peace in the pages of Ecclesiastes or Isaiah, or in the writings of men whom Barry has described as the heralds of revolt - John Inglesant, George Eliot, Carlyle, Heine, Loti, Nietzsche, etc. But in time even literature palls.'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Stuart Wood [pseud?] Print: Book
'28th - Sunday morning. A bright morning but no land in sight. Found the "United Irishman" of yesterday in my cabin. The sixteenth and the last [italics] number. Read all the articles. Good Martin! Brave Reilly! but you will be swallowed, my fine fellows. "Government" has adopted the vigorous policy.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Mitchel Print: Serial / periodical
Steamer from Southampton docked at Bermuda, bringing English newspapers up to date of 2nd June:
'Our second lieutenant instantly boarded her as officer on guard, and brought back two or three papers; and as I had seen none later than the 26th of May, I was glad to get a glance even at the "Morning Post". The leading article is about "the convict Mitchel", who is pronounced by that authority to be not only a convict but a scoundrel...'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Mitchel Print: Newspaper
'This evening, after dusk, as I sat at my window, looking drearily out on the darkening waters, something was thrown from the door of my cell, and lighted at my feet. Picking up the object, I found it to be a London paper. The Halifax mail has arrived - I long for the hour when my cell is to be locked, and carefully hide my treasure till then.
At last the chief mate has locked and bolted me up for the night. I light a candle, and with shaking hands spread forth my paper.
Smith O'Brien has been found guilty, and sentenced to be drawn on a hurdle to the place of execution and hanged. The other trials pending.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Mitchel Print: Newspaper
'Of the state of public opinion in Ireland, and the spirit shown by the surviving organs thereof, I have but this indicium. The "Freeman's Journal", one number of which I have seen, ventures as a piece of incredible daring, to print some words used by Whiteside in his speech for the prisoners - words deprecatory of the packing of juries, or something of that sort. The editor ventures no remarks of his own, and carefully quotes Whiteside's words as "used by counsel".'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Mitchel Print: Newspaper, Serial / periodical
'Several newspapers have come to hand; also "Blackwood's Magazine" for October. "Blackwood" has a long article on Irish affairs, which pleases me much; for they say it is now clear the British Constitution, with its trial-by-jury and other respectable institutions, is no way suited to Ireland; that even the Whigs have foundout this truth at last; that they, the "Blackwood's" men, always said so; and who will contradict them now? - that Ireland is to be kept in order simply by bayonets; and when the vile Celts are sufficiently educated and improved, they may then perhaps aspire to be admitted to the pure blessings of, etc, etc.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Mitchel Print: Newspaper
'Several newspapers have come to hand; also "Blackwood's Magazine" for October. "Blackwood" has a long article on Irish affairs, which pleases me much; for they say it is now clear the British Constitution, with its trial-by-jury and other respectable institutions, is no way suited to Ireland; that even the Whigs have foundout this truth at last; that they, the "Blackwood's" men, always said so; and who will contradict them now? - that Ireland is to be kept in order simply by bayonets; and when the vile Celts are sufficiently educated and improved, they may then perhaps aspire to be admitted to the pure blessings of, etc, etc.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Mitchel Print: Serial / periodical
'Then I have been turning lazily over the pages of a certain "magazine" called the "Saturday Magazine", which the worthy chaplain has lent me. There are six double volumes of this astounding rubbish; or more properly six strata - a huge deposit of pudding-stone, rubble, detritus and scoriae in six thick stratifications; containing great veins of fossil balderdash, and whole regions of what the Germans call "loss" and "trass"; amongst which, however, sometimes glances up a fragment of pure ore that has no business there, or a gleaming splinter of diamond illuminating the foul opacity. After an hour's digging and shovelling, I meet perhaps with an authentic piece of "noster" Thomas himself - there are two of those in the whole six beds - and once I turned up what made my heart leap - "The Forging of the Anchor" - which I straight away rolled forth till the tweak timbers rang. There are a great many not intolerable wood engravings in the volumes, and some readable topographical description: but on the whole the thing is of very base material - "Amusements in Science" - "Recreations in Religion" - no, but "Easy Lessons on Christian Evidences" - much apocryphol anecdotage of history, but, above all, abundant illustrations of British generosity, valour, humanity...'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Mitchel Print: Serial / periodical
'I have just been gratified (no matter how or by whom) with a sight of some newspapers, which announce, among other things, a signal defeat of the enemy in the Punjab, at the hands of the gallant Sikhs.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Mitchel Print: Newspaper
'The Doctor has sent into my cabin a "Daily News", which came by the mail on Sunday' [general discussion of its contents - political]
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Mitchel Print: Newspaper
'27th - I have just had a visit from two American ship-captains, whose vessels lie here. They approached me most reverentially, gave me some fine language, and very probably took notes of me.
NB: So they did. I have just read in the Dublin "Freeman's Journal", the account which these worthy skippers gave of their interview. Bothwell, V.D.L., 12 August 1850.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Mitchel Print: Newspaper, Serial / periodical
'The enemy thinks I am dead. In a parliamentary report in one of the papers, I read that the Home Secretary, replying to some inquiries about me on the 3rd of April, spoke as follows...'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Mitchel Print: Newspaper
'I have got Cape newspapers for the last two months, and have been reading of the proceedings of the various anti-convict associations within that time.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Mitchel Print: Newspaper
'A ship has arrived from England, but does not carry our destiny. Two weekly newspapers. News from Europe up to the 11th August. [describes political news in great detail]'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Mitchel Print: Newspaper
'I have seen extracts from the new "Nation". Mr Duffy can hardly find words for his disgust, his contempt, "his utter loathing" of those who will say now that Ireland can win her rights by force. I thought so. The "Times" praises the new "Nation", and calls its first article "a symptom of returning sense in Ireland".'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Mitchel Print: Newspaper
'But from yesterday's "Commercial Advertiser" I will copy two letters, the reading of which and the consultation thereupon, formed part of the business of the [Anti-Convict] Association at its last meeting.' [copy of letters]
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Mitchel Print: Newspaper
'The Cape papers give extracts from the Van Diemen's Land papers, by which I find that O'Brien, Meagher, O'Donoghue, and MacManus, in the "Swift", and Martin and O'Doherty in the "Elphinstone", all arrived at Hobart Town about the same time - that they have been allowed to live at large, but each within a limited district, [italics] and no two of them nearer than thirty or forty miles [close italics].'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Mitchel Print: Newspaper
'I have seen some English papers: this Cape affair has caused wonderful excitement and indignation: a horrid insult has been offered to the supreme Majesty of England - not to speak of the savage inhumanity of refusing victuals to the public services and to the poor sea-beaten convicts... I can find in these papers hardly anything relating to Ireland...'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Mitchel Print: Newspaper
'I have got the Cape newspapers, with their advertising columns full of "the Dinner", "the Illuminations", in large capitals. Here are my last extracts from the South African press...'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Mitchel Print: Newspaper
'Some Hobart Town newspapers have come on board. O'Brien is still in very close confinement on an island off the east coast, called Maria Island, a rugged and desolate territory, about twelve miles in length... By the advertisements I see there at present no fewer than five ships at present laid on for California from the two ports, Hobart Town, south, and Launceston, north. There is now a brisk trade between Van Diemen's Land and San Francisco...'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Mitchel Print: Newspaper
'Some Irish newspapers. I can hardly bear to look into them. But John Knox [John Martin] diligently scans them, with many wry faces, and sometimes tells me part of the news.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Martin Print: Newspaper
'When the circumstances of my arrest came to be known, some of the newspapers commented severely on the harshness of the treatment used towards me; and particularly the "Colonial Times", a well-conducted Hobart Town paper, which warmly urged that meetings should be held, and petitions adopted by all the colonists, both of Van Diemen's Land and Australia, praying for the "pardon" of all those gentlemen known as the "Irish State Prisoners". When I saw the article this morning, I immediately wrote a short letter to the "Times", commencing thus - I suppose - it will be accounted another act of "contempt"...'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Mitchel Print: Newspaper
'Yesterday I saw in one of the Van Diemen's Land papers, an extract from some London periodical, in which, as usual, great credit is given to the "Government" for their indulgence and clemency to the Irish prisoners. Now, the truth is, the exceptions which are made in our case to the ordinary treatment of real convicts, are all exceptions against [italics] us.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Mitchel Print: Newspaper
'The evening was very stupid as both Betsey and Justine did not talk one being asleep and the other busily employed reading the bible' [according to Harriet Wynne]
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Justina Wynne Print: Book
Sunday 18 October:
'we had service on the poop the Shoole master held it then was a box on board with books ther was bibles and prayer books and hyme books so it was opened and we had the books it begins at 11 Oclock i think of you when 2 Oclock comes, and them we go to Dinner and spend the rest of the day how we can reading and singing'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Maria Steley Print: Book
Monday 26 October
'we are sailing this Morning 9 miles a hour if we go on at that rate we shall soone be ther i Don't care how soon, we get ther A child died today it is a verry serrous thing they sowe the body up in a rug then they get a plank and let the body go down the shool master Reed the furnell sevice'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: anon Print: Book
'I read in the "Gibraltar Chronicle" that Adml. Villeneuve was assassinated at Rennes on the 23rd of April, what a horrid tyrant must Bonaparte be if he had anything to do with such a shocking murder'.
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Fremantle Print: Newspaper
'Then I became seized with a desire to know something about religion, and I read the commandments over and over again, as well as those portions of the Bible which I could understand. I was particularly struck with the words: "Remember the Sabbath day to keep it holy. Six days shalt thou labour and do all that thou hast to do; but the seventh day is the Sabbath of the Lord thy God. In it thou shalt do no manner of work", etc.
"It is not right for me to work on Sundays," I said to myself, and communicated my impression to the supervisor.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mark Jeffrey Print: Book
'Have you seen the last Edinr review? There are several promising articles in it - Scotts "Lord of the Isles," Standard Novels, Lewis' & Clarke's travels up the Missouri, (of which a most delectable account is given in the Quarterly), Joanna Southcott, &c &c. I have been revising Akenside, since I saw you. - He pos[s]esses a warm imagination & great strength & beauty of diction. His poem, you know, does not like Campbell's "Hope" consist of a number of little incidents told in an interesting manner - & selected to illustrate his positions - it is little else than a moral declamation. Nevertheless I like it. Akenside was an enthusiastic admirer of the ancient republics and of the ancient philosophers - He thought highly of Lord Shaftesbury's principles & had a bad opinion of Scotsmen. For this last peculiarity, he has been severely caricatured by Smollet[t] in his Peregrine Pickle - under the character of the fantastic English Doctor in Franc[e] - When we mention Shaftesbury - is his book in your pos[s]ession, and can you let me have a reading of it?'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Carlyle Print: Serial / periodical
Davitt meets with a fellow prisoner released on ticket-of-leave:
'"I promised you", he exclaimed upon meeting me, "that I would live 'on the square' in future, and here is evidence of a commencement," showing me at the same time a copy of the "Daily Telegraph" with an advertisement as follows: - "Wanted, two hundred barmaids." "That", remarked "Jerry", "is simply to arrest the attention of the fair sex, and case them to read what follows. 'Extraordinary triumph of science! Marvellous results to health and complexion from the use of Fitzjerry's skin purifier. Freckles and disfiguring marks removed by one phial. To be had only of respectable druggists."'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Michael Davitt Print: Advertisement, Newspaper
'A variety of works have been begun about the new year (as is the fashion) in the "periodical line". A weekly newspaper the "Scotsman" has reached the third number. I have seen them all - a little violent in their Whiggism; but well enough written in some places. Pillans & Jeffrey & Moncrieff and many others have been respectively named as the Editor. There is also a weekly essay "The Sale Room" begun about six weeks ago - by whom, I know not. The writers are not without abilities; but the last numbers seemed to indicate that the work was about to give up the ghost.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Carlyle Print: Newspaper
'I have read little of any consequence since I wrote to you. You will have seen the last Numbers of the "Edinr" & "Quarterly" reviews. In the latter, among a great deal of foul & nauseating stuff, I was happy to see that due credit is at length given to Mr Duncan for his valuable institution.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Carlyle Print: Serial / periodical
'I have read little of any consequence since I wrote to you. You will have seen the last Numbers of the "Edinr" & "Quarterly" reviews. In the latter, among a great deal of foul & nauseating stuff, I was happy to see that due credit is at length given to Mr Duncan for his valuable institution.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Carlyle Print: Serial / periodical
'We get a "Dumfries Courier" here amongst us. Our third Number reached us a few days ago. It seems M'Darmaid [M'Diarmid] is become sole Editor; - it is not the opinion of the readers here, that the paper has been a gainer by the change. The Ranger seems (under favour) to be but a silly kind of person - and his friend Mr Bright is a very vapid gentleman. It is a pity that Spoudastes his labours have been curtailed, before he has completed his investigations. But we must make a shift to live without knowing who wrote Mary's dream.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Carlyle Print: Newspaper
'This same Doctor [Chalmers], as you will know wr[i]tes the first article in the late "Edinr review" - on the causes & cure of mendicity. After expatiating at considerable length on the evils of pauperism, he proposes as a remedy to increase the number of clergymen. They who know the general habits of Scottish ministers will easily see how sovereign a specific this is. The remainder of the review is good reading; but as you will have seen it before this time, I will not trouble you farther on the matter - I have seen the last Number of the "Quarterly review". It seems to be getting into a very rotten frothy vein. Mr Southey is a most unblushing character; & his political lucubrations are very notable. He has been sorely galled by "the Caledonian Oracle" poor man - I know nothing about Mr Duncan's controversy except thro the "Scotsman"; and they assign him the victory'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Carlyle Print: Newspaper
'What I deplore is that laziness and dissipation of mind to which I am still subject. At present I am quieting my conscience with the thought that I shall study very diligently this winter. Heaven grant it be so! for without increasing in knowledge what profits it to live? Yet the commencement has been inauspicious. Three weeks ago I began to read Wallace's "Fluxions" in the Encyclopaedia, and had proceeded a little way, when the "Quarterly Review", some problems in a very silly Literary and Statistical Magazine of which the the schoolmasters are supporters, Madm de Sta?l's "Germany", etc. etc., have suspended my operations these ten days. After all I am afraid that this winter will pass as others have done before it - unmarked by improvement; and what is to hinder the next, & its followers till the end of the short season allotted me to do so likewise?'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Carlyle Print: Serial / periodical
I told you I had seen the "Quarterly Review". You would notice its contents in the newspaper. It is a long time since I ceased to be one of its admirers. The writers pos[s]ess no inconsiderable share of dogmatism; and their learning, which they are, to an unpleasant degree, fond of displaying[,] is of that minute & scholastic nature which is eminently distinguished from knowledge. Moreover their zeal for the "Social order" seems to eat them up[,] and their horror of revolution is violent as a hydrophobia. These qualities are prominent in the last number - and accordingly it contains much disgusting matter; but I like it better as a whole, than some of its predecessors. There is in it a distant and respectful but severe criticism on Dugald Stewart's writings, which comes much nearer my views of his character, than any of the panegyrics which the Edinr Reviewers have so lavishly bestowed upon him.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Carlyle Print: Serial / periodical
'I have seen the first number of Constable's new magazine - it seems scarcely equal to Blackwood's - the last number of which has appeared. B. advertises a new one with a slight variation in the title. There is also another periodical publication published once a fortnight (I forget its name), begun under the auspices of Peter Hill. I perused only one article and can give no account of it. I cannot pretend to say what this influx of magazines indicates or portends.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Carlyle Print: Serial / periodical
'I have seen the first number of Constable's new magazine - it seems scarcely equal to Blackwood's - the last number of which has appeared. B. advertises a new one with a slight variation in the title. There is also another periodical publication published once a fortnight (I forget its name), begun under the auspices of Peter Hill. I perused only one article and can give no account of it. I cannot pretend to say what this influx of magazines indicates or portends.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Carlyle Print: Serial / periodical
'I have seen the first number of Constable's new magazine - it seems scarcely equal to Blackwood's - the last number of which has appeared. B. advertises a new one with a slight variation in the title. There is also another periodical publication published once a fortnight (I forget its name), begun under the auspices of Peter Hill. I perused only one article and can give no account of it. I cannot pretend to say what this influx of magazines indicates or portends.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Carlyle Print: Serial / periodical
'Some time since, all the world was astonished at the 2nd number of "Blackwoods (formerly the Edinr) magazine" - The greater part of it is full of gall: but the most venomous article is the "translation of a Chaldee manuscript" said to be found in the library of Paris - It is written in the phrase of the Scriptures - [and gives] an allegorical account of the origin & end of the late "Edinr magazine" - greatly to the [dis]paragement of Constable & the Editors - Most of the Authors of "Edinr" are characterised with great acrimony - under the likeness of birds & beasts & creeping things - "Blackwood" is like to be beleaguered with prosecutions for it - two are already raised against him. Replies in the shape of "explanations", "letters to Drs M'Crie and Thomson" have been put forth - more are promised - and doubtless, rejoinders are in a state of preparation. Whatever may become of "Blackwood" or his antagonists - the "reading" or rather the talking "public" is greatly beholden to the Author. He has kept its jaws moving these four weeks - and the sport is not finished yet'.
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Carlyle Print: Serial / periodical
'Has Lord Grey read the Edinburgh Review? the article on Barrere is by Macaulay, that upon Lord St Vincent by Barrow; I thnk this latter very entertaining, but it was hardly worth while to crucify Barrere - Macauley might as well have selected Turpin'.
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Sydney Smith Print: Serial / periodical
'Have you noticed the Abuse of St Pauls in the Times - I ws moved to write but kept Silence though it was pain and grief to me'.
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Sydney Smith Print: Newspaper
Extract from the journal of Adam Dodd:
'When I first came on board the A-, I was as thoughtless as anyone on board; but being soon afterwards made a teacher of a class, I felt myself compelled to attend the evening services. [comes to see himself as a sinner and need of repentence] ...I then sate down in the greatest mental distress. Taking my Bible, I calculated on the opposition I should meet with... I kept continually and anxiously searching my Bible... In this state I remained some time, praying and reading, and fearlessly yet meekly meeting with every opposition.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Adam Dodd Print: Book
Short way into the voyage, surgeon receives a letter from one of the convicts:
'He then mentions the influence which the perusal since he came on board of some treatise on the "barren fig tree" had produced upon his mind - the insight it had given him into his character, and then alludes to some of the great and precious promises of the gospel; especially to those contained in Matt xi the chapter we had read in our usual course the proceeding evening. He makes also grateful reference to the first chapter of the prophecies of Isaiah.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: anon Print: Book
Short way into the voyage, surgeon receives a letter from one of the convicts:
'He then mentions the influence which the perusal since he came on board of some treatise on the "barren fig tree" had produced upon his mind - the insight it had given him into his character, and then alludes to some of the great and precious promises of the gospel; especially to those contained in Matt xi the chapter we had read in our usual course the proceeding evening. He makes also grateful reference to the first chapter of the prophecies of Isaiah.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Colin Arrott Browning Print: Book
Confession of invalid convict George Day:
'I hope I prayed but found little peace, until I heard the doctor pressing on our attention the words of God, contained in the third chapter of John, verse thirty-six, and the fifth chapter, verse twenty fourth. I could scarcely believe it to be true at the time, for it seemed as though a voice spoke to me "He that believeth in the son have everlasting life". I was astonished!'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Colin Arrott Browning Print: Book
Conversion of convict J- V-; when came on board the ship he was a convinced socialist, and when appointed school teacher he wanted to use the position to convince others, but he changed: 'As a teacher, he was most useful to me, and most exemplary. He became a diligent student of the Bible, and of other devotional books. He appeared to grow in grace as well as in knowledge.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Print: Book
Conversion of convict J- V-; when came on board the ship he was a convinced socialist, and when appointed school teacher he wanted to use the position to convince others, but he changed: 'As a teacher, he was most useful to me, and most exemplary. He became a diligent student of the Bible, and of other devotional books. He appeared to grow in grace as well as in knowledge.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Print: Book
Conversion of F.M., while greatly affected by death of fellow convict, John Williams: 'My feelings I cannot describe. I never felt the like before. But I remembered what Dr Browning had often told us, and which I was reading in my Testament everyday, "that Jesus died to save sinners".'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Print: Book
Conversion of hardened convict, as a result of a storm which brought terror to his mind:
'It was then I thought of Jesus Christ, of whom I had heard, but almost entirely forgotten; and to the Lord Jesus Christ I was directed to uplift my soul by my messmate, who lay by my side, and exhorted me to search the Bible, that I might there read of His great love to the worst of sinners. I read the first, third and fifteenth chapters of St John's gospel; and I thank and praise the Lord, I have found, to my soul's comfort and peace...'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: anon Print: Book
'One berth was occupied by George Day... He appeared to be always humble, always contented and resigned, always grateful to God for the abundance of His mercies, frequently praying, or reading, or listening to his Bible.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: George Day Print: Book
'I have as yet read very few articles in the Edinburgh Review, having lent it to a sick countess, who only wished to read it because a few copies only had arrived in London.
I like very much the review of Davy, think the review of Espriela much too severe and am extremely vexed by the review of Hoyle's Exodus. The levities it contains will I am sure give very great offence'.
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Sydney Smith Print: Serial / periodical
'I have read the Budget today and am in low spirits at the provoking prosperity of the country. It is impossible to ruin it in spite of all Brougham can say - and Perceval can do'.
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Sydney Smith Print: Unknown
'Talk and read the papers'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Godwin Print: Newspaper
[Betsey]:'The gazettes from France were read this evening there was nothing remarquable in them. We began again "Les Precieuses Ridicules" but had no time to for supper was called'.
[Eugenia]:'In the evening the Paris papers were read I did not give them any attention then we began to reread for Madame de Bombelles "Les Precieuses Ridicules" which was interrupted by supper'
Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Eugenia Wynne Print: Newspaper
[Mary Shelley's Reading List for 1815. Only those titles not mentioned in journal entries are given separate database entries. xs denote books also read by Percy Shelley - only those not mentioned in journal entries are indicated separately in the database]
'Posthumous Works. 3.
Sorrows of Werter
Don Roderick - by Southey
Gibbons Decline & fall.
x Paradise Regained
x Gibbons Life and Letters - 1st edition 2
x Lara
New Arabian Nights 3
Corinna
Fall of the Jesuits
Rinaldo Rinaldini
Fo[n]tenelle's Plurality of the Worlds
Hermsprong
Le diable boiteux
Man as he is.
Rokeby.
Ovid's Metamo[r]phoses in Latin
x Wordsworth's Poems
x Spenser's Fairy Queen
x Life of the Philipps
x Fox's History of James II
The Reflector
Wieland.
Fleetwood
Don Carlos
x Peter Wilkins
Rousseau's Confessions.
x Espriella's Letters from England
Lenora - a poem
Emile
x Milton's Paradise Lost
X Life of Lady Hamilton
De l'Alemagne - by Made de Stael
3 vols. of Barruel
x Caliph Vathek
Nouvelle Heloise
x Kotzebue's account of his banishment to Siberia.
Waverly
Clarissa Harlowe
Robertson's Hist. of america
x Virgil
xTale of Tub.
x Milton's speech on Unlicensed printing
x Curse of Kehama
x Madoc
La Bible Expliquee
Lives of Abelard and Heloise
x The New Testament
Coleridge's Poems.
1st vol. Syteme de la Nature
x Castle of Indolence
Chattertons Poems.
x Paradise Regained
Don Carlos.
x Lycidas.
x St Leon
Shakespeare's Play. Part of which Shelley reads aloud
Burkes account of civil society
x Excursion
Pope's Homer's Illiad
x Sallust
Micromegas
x Life of Chauser
Canterbury Tales
Peruvian letters.
Voyages round the World
Pluarch's lives.
x 2 vols of Gibbon
Ormond
Hugh Trevor
x Labaume's Hist. of the Russian War
Lewis's tales
Castle of Udolpho
Guy Mannering
Charles XII by Voltaire
Tales of the East'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Bysshe Shelley Print: Book
'Finish "Caroline of Litchfield" and "Marmotel's tales". Read Bertram and Christabel and several articles of the quarterly review'.
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Godwin Print: Serial / periodical
'read the Edinburgh Review and the second vol. of the antiquary'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Godwin Print: Serial / periodical
'and at the Dukes, with great joy, I received the good news of the decrease of the plague this week to 70, and but 253 in all; which is the least Bill hath been known these twenty years in the City - though the want of people in London is it that make it so low, below the ordinary number for Bills.'
Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Pepys Print: Broadsheet, Handbill, Poster
'read Locke and the Edinburgh review and two odes of Horace - S. reads Political Justice & Shakespeare and the 23rd Chap. of Gibbon'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Godwin Print: Serial / periodical
'And the news-book makes that business nothing, but that they are all dispersed.'
Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Pepys Print: Newspaper
'This day in the gazette was the whole story of defeating the Scotch Rebells, and of the creation of the Duke of Cambridge Knight of the Guarter.'
Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Pepys Print: Newspaper
'Thence home to dinner; and there W. Hewer dined with me, and showed me a Gazett in Aprill last (which I wonder should never be remembered by anybody) which tells how several persons were then tried for their lives, and were found guilty of a design of killing the King and destroying the government; and as a means to it, to burn the City; and that the day entended for the plot was the 3rd of last September. And that fire did endeed break out on the 2nd of September - which is very strange me-thinks - and I shall remember it.'
Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Pepys Print: Newspaper
'read Lucian aloud to Clare - I ode of Horace - In the evening the Quarterly Review and Lock [sic]'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Godwin Print: Serial / periodical
'read several papers in the Spectator - Locke - And Memoirs of Count Gramont'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Serial / periodical
'and then to the Change, where for certain I hear, and the newsbook declares, a peace between France and Portugal.'
Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Pepys Print: Newspaper
'S. reads the bible'.
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Bysshe Shelley Print: Book
'Read the Quarterly Review'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Serial / periodical
'Read sleeper awakened in the arabian nights'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
'and so walked to Stepny and spent my time in the churchyard looking over the gravestones, expecting when the company would come'
Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Pepys Manuscript: Graffito
'and so the women and W. Hewer and I walked upon the Downes, where a flock of sheep was, and the most pleasant and innocent sight that ever I saw in my life; we find a shepheard and his little boy reading, far from any houses or sight of people, the Bible to him. So I made the boy read to me, which he did with the forced Tone that children do usually read, that was mighty pretty; and then I did give him something and went to the father and talked with him; and I find he had been a servant in my Cosen Pepy's house, and told me what was become of their old servants.'
Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: anon Print: Book
'all morning at my office shut up with Mr Gibson, I walking and he reading to me the order books of the office from the beginning of the Warr, for preventing the Parliament's having them in their hands before I have looked them over and seen the utmost that can be said against us from any of our orders'
Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Richard Gibson Manuscript: Unknown
'he and I all the afternoon to read over our office letters, to see what matter can be got for our advantage or disadvantage therein'
Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Pepys Manuscript: Letter
'he and I all the afternoon to read over our office letters, to see what matter can be got for our advantage or disadvantage therein'
Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Will Hewer Manuscript: Letter
Report of Inspector of Prisons on Reading Gaol - interviews with prisoners on progress in learning and reading at the gaol:
'4370. Has been here 4 times, and is sentenced to seven years' transportation. Knew how to write a little before he came in. Is now learning by heart in the New Testament. "I do not know the meaning of what I repeat." This man repeated five verses perfectly, but when asked the meaning of a simple word, was unable to answer.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: anon Print: Book
Report of Inspector of Prisons on Reading Gaol - interviews with prisoners on progress in learning and reading at the gaol:
'4429. Has been here 7 times. "I have learnt all the Galatians through by heart, and am now upon the Ephesians. I cannot say I understand it. I know the Commandments." This man repeated his last lesson perfectly, but was ignorant of the meaning of what he had acquired.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: anon Print: Book
Report of Inspector of Prisons on Reading Gaol - interviews with prisoners on progress in learning and reading at the gaol:
'142. Government prisoner. 7 years' transportation, without work, received from Newgate, July 19th, 1850. No work allowed to prisoners for one month after reception. This prisoner said "I endeavour to understand what I learn, but find difficulty. The marginal references are useful."'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: anon Print: Book
Report of Inspector of Prisons on Reading Gaol - interviews with prisoners on progress in learning and reading at the gaol:
'129. Prussian Jew. Attends chapel. "I was asked to learn passages in the New Testament".'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: anon Print: Book
Report of Inspector of Prisons on Reading Gaol - interviews with prisoners on progress in learning and reading at the gaol:
'116. Did not know his letters. Has learnt by heart: began at John, and has now got to the ninth chapter of Romans.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: anon Print: Book
Report of Inspector of Prisons on Reading Gaol - interviews with prisoners on progress in learning and reading at the gaol:
'Committed June 1st, 1849, sentenced to 2 years' imprisonment; coal-heaver by profession; says "I do not understand what I have learnt; I have been all through St John and am now in Matthew.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: anon Print: Book
Report of Inspector of Prisons on Reading Gaol - interviews with prisoners on progress in learning and reading at the gaol:
'Sentenced to 18 months' imprisonment; was in Newbury union; says, "I like this better than the union, the food is better here; there is not much odds in the labour - I pick oakum there, and knit stockings here. I like the stockings best. I have learnt by heart from Matthew to the Romans; I do not understand what I have learnt." This man reads very fluently.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: anon Print: Book
The Weekly Return of Lessons repeated by Prisoners at Reading Gaol from 25 May to 1 June 1850. (Report of the schoolmaster to the gaol chaplain).
J.L.: 'Repeat the Collect and the 17th, 18th and 20th verses of the 19th chapter of the Acts'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: J.L. Print: Book
The Weekly Return of Lessons repeated by Prisoners at Reading Gaol from 25 May to 1 June 1850. (Report of the schoolmaster to the gaol chaplain).
W.A.: 'Repeat the Collect and the 19th verse, 6th chapter, and the 7th and 12th verses of the 8th chapter of St Matthew.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: W.A. Print: Book
The Weekly Return of Lessons repeated by Prisoners at Reading Gaol from 25 May to 1 June 1850. (Report of the schoolmaster to the gaol chaplain).
G.N.: 'Repeat the 22nd verse of the 6th chapter of St John.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: G.N. Print: Book
The Weekly Return of Lessons repeated by Prisoners at Reading Gaol from 25 May to 1 June 1850. (Report of the schoolmaster to the gaol chaplain).
J.B.: 'Repeat the Collect and the 34th verse of the 11th chapter of St John.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: J.B. Print: Book
The Weekly Return of Lessons repeated by Prisoners at Reading Gaol from 25 May to 1 June 1850. (Report of the schoolmaster to the gaol chaplain).
S.D.: 'Repeat the Collect and the 139th Psalm, also 1st and 2nd chapter of St John.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: S.D. Print: Book
The Weekly Return of Lessons repeated by Prisoners at Reading Gaol from 25 May to 1 June 1850. (Report of the schoolmaster to the gaol chaplain).
J.H.: 'Repeat the Collect and 4th, 5th and 6th chapters of St John.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: J.H. Print: Book
The Weekly Return of Lessons repeated by Prisoners at Reading Gaol from 25 May to 1 June 1850. (Report of the schoolmaster to the gaol chaplain).
R.T.: 'Repeat the Collect and 6th, 7th and 8th chapters of St John.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: R.T. Print: Book
The Weekly Return of Lessons repeated by Prisoners at Reading Gaol from 25 May to 1 June 1850. (Report of the schoolmaster to the gaol chaplain).
W.T.: 'Repeat the Collect and 1st and 2nd chapters of St John.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: W.T. Print: Book
The Weekly Return of Lessons repeated by Prisoners at Reading Gaol from 25 May to 1 June 1850. (Report of the schoolmaster to the gaol chaplain).
W.T.: 'Repeat the Collect and 15th and 32nd verses of the 16th chapter of St John.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: W.T. Print: Book
The Weekly Return of Lessons repeated by Prisoners at Reading Gaol from 25 May to 1 June 1850. (Report of the schoolmaster to the gaol chaplain).
T.S.: 'Repeat the Collect and 8th, 9th, 10th, and 11th Psalms'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: T.S. Print: Book
The Weekly Return of Lessons repeated by Prisoners at Reading Gaol from 25 May to 1 June 1850. (Report of the schoolmaster to the gaol chaplain).
W.M.:'Repeat the Collect and 13th, 14th, and 16th verses of the 15th chapter of St John'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: W.M. Print: Book
The Weekly Return of Lessons repeated by Prisoners at Reading Gaol from 25 May to 1 June 1850. (Report of the schoolmaster to the gaol chaplain).
D.Y.: 'Repeat the Collect and 51st and 139th Psalm; also 38th verse of 1st chapter of St John'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: D.Y. Print: Book
The Weekly Return of Lessons repeated by Prisoners at Reading Gaol from 25 May to 1 June 1850. (Report of the schoolmaster to the gaol chaplain).
H.B.: 'Repeat the Collect and 5th and 6th chapters of St John.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: H.B. Print: Book
The Weekly Return of Lessons repeated by Prisoners at Reading Gaol from 25 May to 1 June 1850. (Report of the schoolmaster to the gaol chaplain).
W.B.: 'Repeat the Collect and 51st and 139th Psalms'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: W.B. Print: Book
The Weekly Return of Lessons repeated by Prisoners at Reading Gaol from 25 May to 1 June 1850. (Report of the schoolmaster to the gaol chaplain).
W.K.: 'Repeat the Collect and 2nd, 3rd, 4th and 5th chapters of St John'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: W.K. Print: Book
The Weekly Return of Lessons repeated by Prisoners at Reading Gaol from 25 May to 1 June 1850. (Report of the schoolmaster to the gaol chaplain).
J.D.: 'Repeat the Collect and 27th and 28th chapters of St Matthew, as well as 1st chapter of St Mark'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: J.D. Print: Book
The Weekly Return of Lessons repeated by Prisoners at Reading Gaol from 25 May to 1 June 1850. (Report of the schoolmaster to the gaol chaplain).
J.R.: 'Repeat the Collect and 27th and 28th chapters of St Matthew; and 20th verse of 1st chapter of St Mark'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: J.R. Print: Book
The Weekly Return of Lessons repeated by Prisoners at Reading Gaol from 25 May to 1 June 1850. (Report of the schoolmaster to the gaol chaplain).
G.B.: 'Repeat the Collect and 14th verse of 6th, and 7th and 20th verses of 8th chpter of St Matthew'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: G.B. Print: Book
The Weekly Return of Lessons repeated by Prisoners at Reading Gaol from 25 May to 1 June 1850. (Report of the schoolmaster to the gaol chaplain).
T.B.: 'Repeat the Collect and 20th verses of 12th, also 18th verse of 13th chapter of St Matthew.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: T.B. Print: Book
The Weekly Return of Lessons repeated by Prisoners at Reading Gaol from 25 May to 1 June 1850. (Report of the schoolmaster to the gaol chaplain).
T.C.: 'Repeat 27th verse of 8th chapter of St John.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: T.C. Print: Book
The Weekly Return of Lessons repeated by Prisoners at Reading Gaol from 25 May to 1 June 1850. (Report of the schoolmaster to the gaol chaplain).
G.G.: 'Repeat the Collect and 15th and 16th, also 14th verse of 17th chapter of St John.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: G.G. Print: Book
The Weekly Return of Lessons repeated by Prisoners at Reading Gaol from 25 May to 1 June 1850. (Report of the schoolmaster to the gaol chaplain).
W.S.: 'Repeat the Collect and 6th verse of 3rd, also 32nd verse of 4th chapter of St John.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: W.S. Print: Book
The Weekly Return of Lessons repeated by Prisoners at Reading Gaol from 25 May to 1 June 1850. (Report of the schoolmaster to the gaol chaplain).
J.W.: 'Repeat the Collect and 23rd and 27th verse of 24th chapter of St Luke.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: J.W. Print: Book
The Weekly Return of Lessons repeated by Prisoners at Reading Gaol from 25 May to 1 June 1850. (Report of the schoolmaster to the gaol chaplain).
J.B.: 'Repeat the Collect and 19th verse of 9th, the 10th, and 10th verse of 11th chapter of Acts.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: J.B. Print: Book
The Weekly Return of Lessons repeated by Prisoners at Reading Gaol from 25 May to 1 June 1850. (Report of the schoolmaster to the gaol chaplain).
J.B.: 'Repeat the Collect and 14th, 15th, 16th, 17th, 18th, and 19th chapters of St Luke.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: J.B. Print: Book
The Weekly Return of Lessons repeated by Prisoners at Reading Gaol from 25 May to 1 June 1850. (Report of the schoolmaster to the gaol chaplain).
G.D.: 'Repeat the Collect and 13th and 14th chapters of St Luke.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: G.D. Print: Book
The Weekly Return of Lessons repeated by Prisoners at Reading Gaol from 25 May to 1 June 1850. (Report of the schoolmaster to the gaol chaplain).
H.J.: 'Repeat the Collect and 53rd verse of 1st chapter of St Luke.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: H.J. Print: Book
The Weekly Return of Lessons repeated by Prisoners at Reading Gaol from 25 May to 1 June 1850. (Report of the schoolmaster to the gaol chaplain).
S.K.: 'Repeat the Collect and 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th and 5th chapters of !st, and 1st chapter of 2nd Thessalonians.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: S.K. Print: Book
The Weekly Return of Lessons repeated by Prisoners at Reading Gaol from 25 May to 1 June 1850. (Report of the schoolmaster to the gaol chaplain).
H.J.T: 'Repeat the Collect and 2nd, 3rd and 22nd verses of 4th chapter of St John.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: H.J.T. Print: Book
The Weekly Return of Lessons repeated by Prisoners at Reading Gaol from 25 May to 1 June 1850. (Report of the schoolmaster to the gaol chaplain).
J.B.: 'Repeat the Collect and 10th verse of 139th Psalm, also the 1st chapter of St John.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: J.B. Print: Book
The Weekly Return of Lessons repeated by Prisoners at Reading Gaol from 25 May to 1 June 1850. (Report of the schoolmaster to the gaol chaplain).
W.T.: 'Repeat the Collect and 10th, 11th, 12th, 13th, 14th, and 15th chapters of St John.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: W.T. Print: Book
The Weekly Return of Lessons repeated by Prisoners at Reading Gaol from 25 May to 1 June 1850. (Report of the schoolmaster to the gaol chaplain).
J.P.: 'Repeat the Collect and 139th Psalm, also 1st and 2nd chapters of St John.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: J.P. Print: Book
The Weekly Return of Lessons repeated by Prisoners at Reading Gaol from 25 May to 1 June 1850. (Report of the schoolmaster to the gaol chaplain).
H.S. al D.: 'Repeat the Collect and 1st, 2nd and 3rd chapters of St John.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: H.S. al D. Print: Book
The Weekly Return of Lessons repeated by Prisoners at Reading Gaol from 25 May to 1 June 1850. (Report of the schoolmaster to the gaol chaplain).
F.J.N.: 'Repeat the Collect and 47th verse of 5th chapter of St John.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: F.J.N. Print: Book
The Weekly Return of Lessons repeated by Prisoners at Reading Gaol from 25 May to 1 June 1850. (Report of the schoolmaster to the gaol chaplain).
R.L.: 'Repeat the Collect and 13th, 14th, 15th, 16th, 17th, and 18th chapters of St Luke.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: R.L. Print: Book
The Weekly Return of Lessons repeated by Prisoners at Reading Gaol from 25 May to 1 June 1850. (Report of the schoolmaster to the gaol chaplain).
J.S. al E.: 'Repeat the Collect and 6th chapter of Galatians, also the 1st, 2nd, 3rd, and 4th chapters of Ephesians.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: J.S. al E. Print: Book
The Weekly Return of Lessons repeated by Prisoners at Reading Gaol from 25 May to 1 June 1850. (Report of the schoolmaster to the gaol chaplain).
E.B.: 'Repeat the Collect and 41st verse of 24th chapter of St Matthew.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: E.B. Print: Book
The Weekly Return of Lessons repeated by Prisoners at Reading Gaol from 25 May to 1 June 1850. (Report of the schoolmaster to the gaol chaplain).
E.M.: 'Repeat the Collect and 20th, 21st, and 22nd chapters of St Luke.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: E.M. Print: Book
The Weekly Return of Lessons repeated by Prisoners at Reading Gaol from 25 May to 1 June 1850. (Report of the schoolmaster to the gaol chaplain).
G.M.: 'Repeat the Collect, the Epistles of Titus and Philemon, and 3rd chapter of Hebrews.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: G.M. Print: Book
The Weekly Return of Lessons repeated by Prisoners at Reading Gaol from 25 May to 1 June 1850. (Report of the schoolmaster to the gaol chaplain).
G.R.: 'Repeat the Collect and 12th verse of 1st chapter of 2nd Epistle of Corinthians.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: G.R. Print: Book
The Weekly Return of Lessons repeated by Prisoners at Reading Gaol from 25 May to 1 June 1850. (Report of the schoolmaster to the gaol chaplain).
W.R.: 'Repeat the Collect and 22nd verse of the 1st, also the 2nd and 3rd chapters of St Luke.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: W.R. Print: Book
The Weekly Return of Lessons repeated by Prisoners at Reading Gaol from 25 May to 1 June 1850. (Report of the schoolmaster to the gaol chaplain).
J.S.: 'Repeat the Collect and 18th chapter, also 12th verse of 19th chapter of St John.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: J.S. Print: Book
The Weekly Return of Lessons repeated by Prisoners at Reading Gaol from 25 May to 1 June 1850. (Report of the schoolmaster to the gaol chaplain).
W.G.: 'Repeat the Collect and 2nd, 3rd and 4th chapters of St Matthew.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: W.G. Print: Book
The Weekly Return of Lessons repeated by Prisoners at Reading Gaol from 25 May to 1 June 1850. (Report of the schoolmaster to the gaol chaplain).
J.P.: 'Repeat the Collect and 32nd verse of 8th chapter of St John.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: J.P. Print: Book
The Weekly Return of Lessons repeated by Prisoners at Reading Gaol from 25 May to 1 June 1850. (Report of the schoolmaster to the gaol chaplain).
J.H.: 'Repeat the Collect and 16th verse of 8th, and 50th verse of 9th chapters of St Luke.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: J.H. Print: Book
The Weekly Return of Lessons repeated by Prisoners at Reading Gaol from 25 May to 1 June 1850. (Report of the schoolmaster to the gaol chaplain).
W.R.: 'Repeat the Collect and 25th and 26th chapters, also 12th verse of 27th chapter of Acts.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: W.R. Print: Book
The Weekly Return of Lessons repeated by Prisoners at Reading Gaol from 25 May to 1 June 1850. (Report of the schoolmaster to the gaol chaplain).
J.M.: 'Repeat the Collect and 102nd, 103rd, 104th, 105th, 106th, 107th, 108th, and 109th Psalms.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: J.M. Print: Book
The Weekly Return of Lessons repeated by Prisoners at Reading Gaol from 25 May to 1 June 1850. (Report of the schoolmaster to the gaol chaplain).
W.C.: 'Repeat the Collect and 15th chapter, also 14th verse of 16th chapter of St John.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: W.C. Print: Book
The Weekly Return of Lessons repeated by Prisoners at Reading Gaol from 25 May to 1 June 1850. (Report of the schoolmaster to the gaol chaplain).
R.F.: 'Repeat the Collect and 13th verse of 1stm and 8th verse of 2nd chapter of St John.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: R.F. Print: Book
The Weekly Return of Lessons repeated by Prisoners at Reading Gaol from 25 May to 1 June 1850. (Report of the schoolmaster to the gaol chaplain).
B.C.: 'Repeat the Collect and 139th Psalm, also 24th verse of 1st chapter of St John.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: B.C. Print: Book
The Weekly Return of Lessons repeated by Prisoners at Reading Gaol from 25 May to 1 June 1850. (Report of the schoolmaster to the gaol chaplain).
W.J.: 'Repeat the Collect and 16th Discourse; also 51st and 139th Psalms.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: W.J. Print: Book
J.M., convict sentenced to transportation, writing to Rev. Joseph: 'I am at present amongst sin and wickedness of the worst description; but thanks be to Almighty God, I am kept from it by his grace, which I have found to be all sufficient in every time of trouble. I have made the Word of God my chief companion, and when I come from my work, I take the Bible in hand, and read a chapter or two; and I do assure you I derive much comfort from the same.'
Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: J.M. Print: Book
P.C., transport convict, writing to Rev Joseph from Dartmoor prison, Devon: 'When I read over the Book of Joshua, I often think of the lectures we received from your lips, and particularly when I come to the seventh chapter where we find poor Achan had an evil eye; he coveted that cursed thing that caused the destruction of all that was with him.'
Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: P.C. Print: Book
W.B., transport convict writing to Rev Joseph from Portland Prison: 'by the blessing of God, after coming to this place, and receiving instruction from my dear chaplains here, and by prayer and reading the Bible, the Lord has been pleased to hear and pour his spirit upon me ... I take great delight in reading the Scripture and praying.'
Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: W.B. Print: Book
Case study, E.E.S., a Jew, young man of respectable German family, at first confined in a common prison where associated with other prisoners, before moved to Pentonville:
'For months after he came to Pentonville the poor man could speak of nothing but the injustice and cruelty of the English. At last he became quiet, and even cheerful, under different treatment; studied most assidiously the New and Old Testaments, in reference to the claims of Christianity upon his belief; withdrew himself from the teaching of his Rabbi, who could not satisfy his inquiring mind; and before he left, professed an entire acquiescence in the truths of our Divine religion.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: E.E.S. Print: Book
Extracts from the journal of Joseph Kingsmill:
Wed 29 October: 'I was interrogated by several prisoners this evening on passages of Scripture, in the reading of which most of the prisoners spend some time before going to bed.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: prisoners at Pentonville Print: Book
Extracts from the journal of Joseph Kingsmill:
30 October: Kingsmill visits man convicted for forgery on Austrian Government Bank; 'He had never read a page of Holy Scripture until he entered this prison and was taught to read in the English tongue.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: anon Print: Book
Visit from cell to cell:
'9. A prizefighter. Under a false name he was convicted of highway robbery, innocent, he alleged, of that crime; however, has done bad, and worse, many times. Was, at the time of his apprehension, in a bad house, with thieves and loose characters, spending 5s. he had gotten from a clergyman in Derby, he attending his lecture and making a pitiful tale. He took it all now as a judgement from God, for that and other sins. He had escaped justice in a case of manslaughter - having killed a man in a prizefight and fled. The preaching of God's word seems to have come home to this man's heart. He delights in reading the Holy Scriptures, which he has been taught here to do; and has become gentle, docile and obedient.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: anon Print: Book
Visit from cell to cell:
'25. A letter-carrier, for a post-office felony. A man of dissolute and drunken habits; a professed infidel; never read the Bible until he was shut up in this prison. Since his incarceration two of his little children have died. He was very fond of them, with all his faults; and their death seemed to make an impression. He studied Holy Scripture, and professed, at least, belief in revelation.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: anon Print: Book
Causes of their own crime, stated by convicts:
'37. I became acquainted with some young fellows who had less regard for Sunday than I had been accustomed to. Be degrees, I went once, instead of twice, to chapel; then I got fond of theatres - going, perhaps, once or twice a week; then came public houses, a distaste for religion, novel reading, Sunday newspapers, and an ardent desire to see what is termed "London Life", - that is, scenes of profligacy and vice.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: anon Print: Newspaper
'A prisoner on his admission could read but very imperfectly; his Bible he almost had never read before, and indeed knew little or nothing concerning it. At first he made rapid progress in reading, and after a short time he commenced the Scriptures, the great and all-important truths of which took such a hold upon his mind, that in the seculsion of his cell he very soon had read them through twice, and opposite the prophecies of the Old Testament, he had marked with a pencil on the margin of his Bible, which had no references, and without the aid of anyone, the parallel passages of their fulfillment in the New Testament, a list of which we now have before us. They are chiefly from the Psalms, and the prophecies of Isaiah and Zechariah...'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: anon Print: Book
Extract from schoolmaster's journal:
G.B., aged 30: 'on his admission, began by repeating several of the Psalms; he then commenced the gospel of St John, and repeated a chapter everyday till it was finished, when he was taken off to do some prison work, but subsequently resumed, and continuously repeating a chapter, sometimes two, of other portions daily. The schoolmaster thinks this man will have committed to memory the whole of the New Testament before the termination of his imprisonment, and there are, at present in the gaol, he asserts, five others who have nearly accomplished the same task.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: G.B. Print: Book
Extract from the Governor's [Edward Hackett] Journal, 16 March 1845:
'I went through the male prison at 7:30pm, and looked in upon every prisoner through the inspection slides, 97 in number, and found them all reading but 12, ten of whom were walking about, and two warming their hands over the gas light ... have made numerous similar inspections of the prisoners at all hours, and have invariably found about the same number in proportion reading.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: prisoners Print: Book
Extract from chaplain's [John Field] journal, 23 Feb 1845:
'The prisoner (H.C.) who avowed his infidelity when first committed (July 18) was discharged this morning. I don't presume to question but that the punishment of this criminal was proportioned to his offence, yet I very much regret that his imprisonment was for so short a time. In the last conversation I had with him he acknowledged that many of his doubts had been removed; that although he could not understand parts of the Old Testament, yet he was convinced of the truth of the New Testament, and his conviction was attended with such a sense of his own guilt, and such apparent sorrow, that I wish his confinement had been long enough for the good feelings he expressed to ripen into stedfast resolutions of amendment.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: H.C. Print: Book
Accounts of prisoners:
'I.N., 21, Reg. no. 491. - Convicted of a felony. - I found this criminal entirely ignorant of the contents of the Bible when committed, his former life having been most dissolute. Shortly after his committal he shewed much penitence. and the earnest attention with which during almost every hour of the day he was studying the sacred Scriptures attracted especial notice. He was but three months in prison yet he learnt the four Gospels, and several chapters of the Old Testament.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: I.N. Print: Book
Accounts of prisoners:
'W.H., 35, Reg. no. 637 - Convicted of a felony about five months since, and had been three times previously convicted. His mental improvement has been surprising, and his general conduct such as to encourage the hope of reformation.'
Evidence of intensive reading of the Scriptures provided in copy of his completed exam included by Field in the book.
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: W.H. Print: Book
Accounts of prisoners:
'G.B., 30, Reg. no 388. - A convicted felon, who had been in another prison for a similar offence. When committed appeared hardened and very unpromising, but now shews decided improvement of disposition and character. Has been in prison nine months, and has committed to memory the whole of the New Testament, as far as the Epistle to the Hebrews.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: G.B. Print: Book
Accounts of prisoners:
'The writer of the following exercise was entirely ignorant of the contents of the Bible, and could not repeat the Lord's Prayer, when committed, on a second charage of felony. He had been in prison about six months before the date of this.'
Examination provided as proof of his intensive reading of the Bible.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: anon Print: Book
Accounts of prisoners:
H.W., 26, Reg. no. 530. - Committed six months since for obtaining money under false pretences, having been three times previously in gaol, and of a character so base as to have been discharged by his own relations. During the last three months he has been the subject of intense sorrow, and I discover many pleasing signs of reptenance.'
Examination provided as proof of his intensive reading of the Bible.
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: H.W. Print: Book
Accounts of prisoners:
'I have never met with a less promising character than the writer of the two following exercises appeared when committed. He had been a most depraved and abandoned profligate; of a temper so violent and savage, that for some time I visited his cell with reluctance ... To such a criminal the seculsion of his cell was a punishment most severely felt, but most corrective...'
Examination provided as proof of his intensive reading of the Bible.
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: anon Print: Book
Accounts of prisoners:
W.W., Reg no. 279: 'This criminal has been nearly twelve months in prison. He has given much evidence of sincere reptenance. His conduct has been so satisfactory as to induce me to admit him to the Sacrament of the Lord's Supper. He has learnt to read and write, and can now repeat the Gospels of St Matthew and St John, besides several chapters of the Old Testament.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: W.W. Print: Book
Accounts of prisoners:
T.N., Reg no. 311. 'A boy 17 years of age, whose father had been several times in prison ... before his trial this boy gave evidence of contrition; he then expressed his thankfulness for having been kept alone, giving as his reason - that he had read and learnt much of his Bible, which he could not have done if in bad company ... He could read but imperfectly when committed, ten months' since, but has now learnt to write and can repeat every chapter of the New Testament, as far as the Epistle of St James.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: T.N. Print: Book
Accounts of prisoners:
T.S., aged 17, Reg no. 312. 'conduct most satisfactory. Committed to memory several chapters of the Old Testament, and the whole of the New Testament as far as the Epistle to the Ephesians.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: T.S. Print: Book
Accounts of prisoners:
J.A., aged 31, Reg. no. 325. 'This criminal when committed could not repeat the Lord's Prayer, although he could read and was intelligent. He learnt several portions of Holy Scripture, and incorrigible as he at first appeared, yet showed some proper feeling before his trial, when his was acquitted.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: J.A. Print: Book
Accounts of prisoners:
J.A., aged 21, Reg. no. 132. 'This prisoner was confined five months before his trial and one month after conviction. During his time his conduct was good, and he committed to memory the four Gospels, the Epistle to the Romans, and several chapters of the Old Testament.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: J.A. Print: Book
Accounts of prisoners:
G.B., 30, Reg. no. 388: 'This prisoner was convicted and sentenced to 12 months' imprisonment. His conduct has been very pleasing. He continues to speak with much thankfulness of the provision made for his mental and moral improvement. He has repeated portions of the Old Testament and nearly the whole of the New Testament.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: G.B. Print: Book
Accounts of prisoners:
R.W., 31, Reg. no. 404. 'Charged with a felony - An habitual drunkard, and most vicious character ... This man was convicted and sentenced to two years' imprisonment. His general conduct has been good. He could read and write when committed. Has learnt considerable portions of Holy Scripture.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: R.W. Print: Book
Accounts of prisoners:
F.W., 20, Reg. no. 461: 'This prisoner could read and write when committed, and was generally intelligent, yet ignorant of religious truths and could not repeat the Lord's Prayer. During a short imprisonment he committed to memory two of the gospels, and other portions of Holy Scripture and shewed much proper feeling.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: F.W. Print: Book
Details of prisoners committed with history of insanity: (presented in tabular form)
Reg. no. 87: 'An uncle died insane. Could read perfectly on committal. Learnt portions of the Old Testament, and the whole of the New Testament as far as the Epistle to the Romans. 12 months' imprisonment.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: anon [87] Print: Book
Details of prisoners committed with history of insanity: (presented in tabular form)
Reg. no. 240: 'Sister a lunatic. Most ignorant on committal. Learnt to read and committed to memory three of the Gospels and several chapters of the Old Testament. Imprisoned six months.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: anon [240] Print: Book
Details of prisoners committed with history of insanity: (presented in tabular form)
Reg. no. 264: 'An uncle deranged, and a brother of weak intellect. Could not read on committal. Has learnt to read, and committed to memory the four Gospels, and part of the Acts of the Apostles.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: anon [264] Print: Book
Details of prisoners committed with history of insanity: (presented in tabular form)
Reg. no. 26: 'Brother of No. 264. Could not read on committal. Learnt to read, and could repeat the gospels of St Mark and St John. 6 months in prison.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: anon [26] Print: Book
Details of prisoners committed with history of insanity: (presented in tabular form)
Reg. no. 505: 'An aunt insane. Could not read on committal. Learnt to read, and committed to memory the gospels of St Matthew and St John. 7 months for house breaking.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: anon [505] Print: Book
Details of prisoners committed with history of insanity: (presented in tabular form)
Reg. no. 353: 'Father had been insane. Could read on committal. Learnt several chapters of the New Testament. Term of imprisonment 14 days, [for] misconduct in workhouse.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: anon [353] Print: Book
Details of prisoners committed with history of insanity: (presented in tabular form)
Reg. no. 670: 'An uncle in a lunatic asylum. Could read and write on committal. Can repeat the Gospel of St John. [In prison] since May, 1845, for maliciously wounding his wife.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: anon [670] Print: Book
Details of prisoners committed with history of insanity: (presented in tabular form)
Reg. no. 734: 'Sister a lunatic. Could read and write on committal. Learnt several chapters of the New Testament. [Imprisoned] 1 month for assault.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: anon [734] Print: Book
Details of prisoners committed with history of insanity: (presented in tabular form)
Reg. no. 792: 'Brother died lately in a lunatic asylum. Could read and write on committal. Learnt the Gospel of St John. [In prison] since August 1845, for housebreaking.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: anon [792] Print: Book
Details of prisoners committed with history of insanity: (presented in tabular form)
Reg. no. 839: 'An uncle insane. Could read. Has learnt several chapters of the New Testament. [In prison] since Sept 13 1845, for a felony.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: anon [839] Print: Book
Details of prisoners committed with history of insanity: (presented in tabular form)
Reg. no. 814: 'A sister died in a lunatic asylum. Could read and write on committal. Learnt several chapters of the New Testament. [In prison] 14 days for destroying clothes, etc.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: anon [814] Print: Book
'Took a ramble, a Cup of Coffee at Purcell's. A look at the last number of Punch in the Mechanics'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau Print: Serial / periodical
'After Tea I took a stroll through the town and then went to Collingwood on my return I looked in at the Reading Room of the Mechanics, amused myself by waiting a considerable time for the relinquishing of the Argus by one or other of two very slow old gentlemen who each had a copy and spite my impatience coolly kept turning over page after page as if they were not only deeply interested in the news but also wrapped in every advertisement.'
'I got it at last, not however from either of them for they were as busy as ever when I left, for all the world like two of Madame Tussaud?s clever Wax Figures with a little internal machinery, that turned the paper over at certain intervals, in watching them I had overlooked a third copy which I now got hold of & then found "there was nothing in it".'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau Print: Newspaper
'Read the Argus at the Mechanics Reading Room & came home to bed before ten.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau Print: Newspaper
'Punch's Almanack was published this morning. I purchased a copy. The engravings are very creditably executed, but there is an apparent want of originality throughout. The best Jokes being but imitations of English sallies disguised in Colonial vernacular.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau Print: Serial / periodical
'Neild walked home with me & we had a pleasant chat on various subjects. I showed him "Suffolk's" Bible & told him a little about the character of the individual, he seemed very interested.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau Print: Book
'Went for early stroll, called at Mr Reed's & read The Age'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau Print: Newspaper
'Read The Age at Mr Reed's the first thing in the morning. Came home had breakfast & transacted ordinary business.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau Print: Newspaper
'Went for a short stroll. Called at the Main Gaol, then returned by Collins Street. Called at Reed's and looked over the "Age" then home to breakfast.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau Print: Newspaper
'Went to the Deputy Sheriff's about ten o clock & had a look at the newspapers [he] received by the mornings mail.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau Print: Newspaper
'Read the newspapers at Mr Brett's House.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau Print: Newspaper
'Received two papers from Joe & read in one of them a good account of the proceedings of the Garrick Club could not help wishing I had been at the performance.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau Print: Newspaper
'This morning on reading the Ovens & Murray Advertiser with the usual ... which that not over bright piecemeal Organ general(ly) induces I was surprised into emotion by the sudden sight of my own name & on reading the Paragraph in which the phenomenon occurred I found myself abused most royally. I was charged with rushing out of my Hole one night & violently siezing some respectable well dressed individual then ferociously dragging him to the Lock Up having him confined all night & then failing to produce any charge before the Magistrate the next morning.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau Print: Newspaper
'The Ovens & Murray Advertiser appeared to day & made me the [?]. It entirely exonerated me from the charges preferred against me in its last Issue & gave me credit for benevolent motives in making the Arrest.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau Print: Newspaper
'The Constitution of this day contained a paragraph representing the desirability of a Beechworth Garrick Club being formed.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau Print: Newspaper
'read the Quarterly'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Serial / periodical
'a rainy day - visit the Coliseum - Read the bible'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
'Read Montaigne - the Bible & Livy - Walk to the Coliseum - S. reads Winkhelmann'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
'Since I left Rome I have read several books of Livy - Antenor - Clarissa Harlowe - The Spectator - a few novels - & am now reading the Bible & Lucan's Pharsalia - & Dante'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
'Write - read Lucan & the Bible S. writes the Cenci & reads Plutarch's lives - the Gisbornes call in the evening - S. reads Paradise Lost to me - Read 2 Cantos of the Purgatorio'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
'Write - Read the Edinburgh Review'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Serial / periodical
'Read the Quarterly review & Remorse - an unhappy day - S. reads one act of the alchemist to the G[isborne]'s in the evening - read 2 Canto of the Purgatorio'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Serial / periodical
'I read little else than Madame de Sevignes letters - Shelley reads St Luke aloud to us - & to himself the New Testament'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Bysshe Shelley Print: Book
'I read little else than Madame de Sevignes letters - Shelley reads St Luke aloud to us - & to himself the New Testament'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Bysshe Shelley Print: Book
'Read Livy - Work - S. reads the Bible - Sophocles - & the Gospel of St Matthew to me'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Bysshe Shelley Print: Book
'Read Livy - Work - S. reads the Bible - Sophocles - & the Gospel of St Matthew to me'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Bysshe Shelley Print: Book
'Read the Bible'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
'Finish the book of Proverbs. S. reads the Bible & Sophocles - Finishes the Tempest aloud to me.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
'Translate S...a [Spinoza] with Shelley - He read [sic] Sophocles and the Bible - & King John & First Part Henry IV aloud. - Finish 31st book of Livy - Finish Proverbs, Ecclesiastes & Solomon's Song'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
'Translate S...a [Spinoza] with Shelley - He read [sic] Sophocles and the Bible - & King John & First Part Henry IV aloud. - Finish 31st book of Livy - Finish Proverbs, Ecclesiastes & Solomon's Song'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
'read Julie - S returns [from Leghorn] - he reads Isaiah aloud to me.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Bysshe Shelley Print: Book
'[Shelley] finishes reading Isaiah to me & begins Jeremiah - He reads Las Casas on the Indies - Eschylus & Athenaeus'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Bysshe Shelley Print: Book
'[Shelley] finishes reading Isaiah to me & begins Jeremiah - He reads Las Casas on the Indies - Eschylus & Athenaeus'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Bysshe Shelley Print: Book
'S. reads Hobbes. Ezechiel aloud'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Bysshe Shelley Print: Book
'S. reads Tobit aloud.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Bysshe Shelley Print: Book
'S. reads Wisdom of Solomon in the evening aloud. Reads Locke and Political Justice.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Bysshe Shelley Print: Book
'Read the Quarterly'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Serial / periodical
'S. reads the Greek Romances'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Bysshe Shelley Print: Book
'Begin Lucretius with Shelley - he reads Greek Romances'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Bysshe Shelley Print: Book
'S. finish Greek Romances'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Bysshe Shelley Print: Book
'Read Prometheus Unbound - papers - & Indicators'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Serial / periodical
'Greek - not well - Indicators'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Serial / periodical
'I was pleased to see in the Examiner a mention of the pension [to be granted to Hunt]'
[letter to Leigh Hunt]
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Serial / periodical
'No further news in this Mornings Times from Vienna - I am very anxious for Charles'
[letter to Claire Clairmont]
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Newspaper
'I was astonished yesterday to see in the Times (I sent it) the advertisement that Jenny Lind, after all, is to come out in the Lucia' [sing in "Lucia di Lammermoor"
[letter to Claire Clairmont]
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Newspaper
'we learned Pinnock's Catechisms of History and Geography, and parsed sentences grammatically. For religious instruction we read portions of the Old Testament, and the Gospels, and Acts of the Apostles in a class every day, using Mrs Trimmer's "Selections"; and on Sundays we repeated the Collect and learned Watts's hymns, besides going through the Church Catechism. We also had Crossman's Catechism given us as an explanation of the Church Catechism'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Missing Sewell Print: Book
'whilst yet in the nursery, I learned the greater portion of the first chapter of Isaiah, and can repeat it to this day. No one told me to do so, or even knew that I had done it. The beauty of the language, the exquisite musical rhythm of the sentences caught my ear, but I had little perception of anything beyond.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Missing Sewell Print: Book
'My uncle was so particular about his books that he used to declare that when a child's finger had touched one it was spoilt. Acting upon this idea, he gave up certain books to us, when as children we stayed with him at Binstead, on condition of our never touching any others. My brothers had Glanvill's "History of Witches", and we four had a handsome edition of the "Arabian Nights' Entertainments", which, being unexpurgated, was not the wisest choice that could have been made, though it gave me hours of entrancing delight at the time, and taught me to understand allusions to tales which have become part of general literature'.
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Missing Sewell and her sisters, including Eleanor Print: Book
'[I] had made myself miserable, after reading about Jephtha's vow, because I imagined that every time the thought of making a vow came into my head I had actually made it and was bound to keep it.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Missing Sewell Print: Book
'Everything in the Bible that was at all perplexing was turned into a stumbling-block, and came before me, not only during the reading of the Scriptures but at all times. I tried to reason against the difficulties, but that only increased the evil'.
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Eliazbeth Missing Sewell Print: Book
'I have written a little, and read a good deal, - the second volume of "Sir Charles Metcalfe's Life", which makes me look upon him as more of a hero than many whom Carlyle would worship; and "Hypatia" and two sermons of Dr Pusey's against Germanism, and part of "Hero Worship", to say nothing of pamphlets and magazines, and a diligent study of "The Times" every evening. "Hypatia" is a marvel; very painful because it gives such a miserable view of Christianity in those days. In striving to be true, the description seems as if it must be untrue, even by its own acknowledgment. There must have been self-denial and faith, and charity working beneath those turbulent outward scenes. Yet it gives one no sympathy with philosophy. Mrs Meyrick and I both agree that "Pelagia" wins our affection much more than "Hypatia".'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Missing Sewell Print: Newspaper
'Elizabeth worked hard for the lessons she liked, and instead of preparation for the ones she didn't like she read poetry, the Bible, and checked out the facts of life in the encyclopaedia'.
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Bowen Print: Book
'Elizabeth worked hard for the lessons she liked, and instead of preparation for the ones she didn't like she read poetry, the Bible, and checked out the facts of life in the encyclopaedia'.
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Bowen Print: Book
'I see in an advertisement of the contents of a Magazine (the Psychological) of which I believe you are the Editor, a paper on Charlotte Bronte.
Having a very strong interest in the subject I should particularly wish to see that number and if you would kindly direct it to be forwarded to me, I would return the publisher the amount in postage stamps.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell Print: Advertisement
'Our Times of today - well of yesterday - well, tomorrow it will be of some day in dream land, for I am past power of counting -
Our Times of today has taken away my breath - Who, What, Wherefore, Why - oh! do be a woman, and give me all possible details - Never mind the House of Commons: it can keep - but my, our, curiosity CAN'T-'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell Print: Newspaper
'Oh Mr Bosanquet, did you see William Arnold's death in the Times? - but you did not know him, - you remember he wrote Oakfield, - and married somebody within a fortnight after first seeing her, - or some such rash proceeding'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell Print: Newspaper
'We rushed here for ten days on Monday; & last night your letter & Macmillan's Mag. followed us, and was received with a hearty greeting. 'We' are Meta, & Julia - for whose benefit we are come, as she has outgrown her strength - six inches in the last twelve months. - We are delighted with [italics] our [end italics] type, & that we don't print in double columns which is so trying to the eyes; we put the page of the Virginians by a page of Macmillan last night & you can't think how much more legible [italics] ours [end italics] was.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Gaskell and her daughters 'Meta' and Julia Print: Serial / periodical
'I extremely like & admire Framley Parsonage, - & the Idle Boy; and the Inaugural address. I like Lovel the Widower, only (perhaps because I am stupid,) it is a little confusing on account of its discursiveness, - and V's verses; and oh shame! I have not read the sensible & improving articles.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell Print: Serial / periodical
'Oh! [italics] please [end italics] ask the Tutor not to trouble humself or his friends about the press-gang affair. The Annual Register has been [italics] carefully [end italics] looked over [italics] months [end italics] ago, & it is of no use going over the ground again'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell Print: Serial / periodical
'we set out on an enquiring expedition, first to yr pastry cook's, where I got a dictionary, and found my words'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell Print: Book
'I saw in one of our Manchester papers yesterday what I am delighted to learn, that you are the Rector of Lincoln's.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell Print: Newspaper
'do you ever see Fraser's Magazine. If you do I wish you would look back to the number for (say either) August, Sepr, or Octr, 1860 for a short poem by 'Edward Wilberforce' the young man we all used to meet in Rome; a very odd-looking, and as [italics] we [end italics] thought conceited person. But the poem tho' unpleasing from it's subject - which some people would say 'removes it from the province of art', - (and then where would Dante go?) is very strong & fine, so much more so than I should have expected from the author.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell Print: Serial / periodical
'In this way he [Mr Bosanquet] has seen some of your letters, & read the Atlantic &c, & especially begged me for a letter of introduction to you'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Charles Bosanquet Print: Serial / periodical
'You will see we gain - 'we' the English generally, our information from The Times; and I know that Russell's writing is Panorama painting; but still these three particulars alluded to above (3-months' service men leaving, - major leaving with wounded colonel, - New York enthusiasm) seem generally accepted as [italics] facts [end italics] by all papers.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell Print: Newspaper
'Thank you so much for sending us those loose sheets of newspaper extracts. Who wrote [italics] Two Summers [end italics], a poem in the September No of the Atlantic, 1862.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell Print: Newspaper
'How [italics] very [end italics] interesting the report of the Sanitary Commission is? it tells one so very much one wanted to know.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell Print: Unknown
'I want you to tell me what Genl Butler really is - whether an "Our Hero" as a paper in the Atlantic called him; or an [italics] over [enditalics]-stern & violent man?'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell Print: Serial / periodical
'on Wednesday last (day before yesterday) we came home from paying calls; & found to our surprize that the Daily News had come by post - "What can Charlie have sent this paper for?" said Florence {?} and she opened it, - & read out "Assassination of President Lincoln". My heart burnt within me with indignation & grief, - we could think of nothing else'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Florence Elizabeth Crompton Print: Newspaper
'the P.M.Gs came all safe, & right, and are such a pleasure! they come [italics] through [end italics] Paris, and [italics] are [end italics] opened; but not considered objectionable I suppose.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell Print: Newspaper
'Can you tell who wrote the Review of Miss Martineau's letters in the (this week's) Inquirer signed I.R.'.
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell Print: Serial / periodical
'All we know as yet is from the TIMES, speaking of deaths from cholera in 5th reg. "Senior Captain Duckworth dead". "Poor Capt Duckworth much lamented both by officers and men". That is all we know at present'.
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell Print: Newspaper
'A spendid constellation of Poets arose in the literary horizon - I looked around for Crabbe - Why does not he, who shines as brightly as any of these, add his lustre? - I had not long thought thus when, in an Edinburgh Review, I met with reflections similar to my own, which introduced the Parish Register - Oh, it was like the sweet voice of a long-lost friend! - and glad was I to hear that voice again in the Burrough! - still more in the tales, which appear to me excelling all that preceded them - Every work is so much in unison with our own feelings, that a wish [underlined twice] for information [end underlining] concerning them & their author, received into our hearts, is strongly excited'.
[Mary Leabeter later says that wishing to confirm her belief that 'the pictures are drawn from life' motivated her to write]
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Leadbeter Print: Serial / periodical
'I will not forget Blackwood's Magazine, for though you will not approve much you will certainly be entertained by some Things.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: George Crabbe Print: Serial / periodical
'The public opinion [of the trial of Catherine Cook, a servant convicted of theft] is, I think, expressed in the Morning Herald. Other papers I do not see, except the provincial.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: George Crabbe Print: Newspaper
'How are you supplied with Books; I have some from Bath, but I begin to be weary of toil & Humour. yet Mr Reynolds was amusing: "not so Gayeties & Gravities" an affected work & here is the journal of a young Officer but not yet read: a pretty good Quarterly Review & John's Gentleman's Magazine'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: George Crabbe Print: Serial / periodical
'I read the papers, Reviews &c &c and cannot help perceiving strong prejudices on both Sides of the Reform Question. Blackwoods last Number, Numbers I should say for there are 2 for the present Month & one filled with Reviews & Remarks on this Bill. With him it is Ruin: with his Opponents it is Renovation.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: George Crabbe Print: Newspaper
'I read the papers, Reviews &c &c and cannot help perceiving strong prejudices on both Sides of the Reform Question. Blackwoods last Number, Numbers I should say for there are 2 for the present Month & one filled with Reviews & Remarks on this Bill. With him it is Ruin: with his Opponents it is Renovation.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Crabbe Print: Serial / periodical
'Up to dinner, talking to Emily, practising the piano, playing with the children, reading Hoare's admirable article on Rimbaud the day had gone well... Eric has promised me some money for new clothes. Now the planning of them has become a nightmare. I want the clothes very badly. But looking through the pages of [italics] Vogue [end italics] has filled me with numb despair.' [because it is so hard to choose]
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Antonia White Print: Serial / periodical
'[King] likes Doughty, Arabian Knights [sic], Froissart.'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Cecil King Print: Book
'I think I am not [italics] serious [end italics] enough! Sometimes when I look through the [italics] New Statesman [end italics] ... I see all the lists of books on social, economic, ethical, historical, philosophical subjects I feel... that I am a useless frivolous creature'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Antonia White Print: Serial / periodical
'I have been struck by finding the same thought within a few days in two very different places - in George Eliot and in an American magazine. That is the idea of a person's horror at a crime coming not from the crime but from the fact that [italics] they [end italics] have committed it.'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Antonia White Print: Serial / periodical
'One is driven back to the Gospels and one does not know how to interpret them' [writing of her desire to understand the nature of Catholicism]
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Antonia White Print: Book
'Here entered our kind Host, and brought us a Paper called the [italics] Champion [end italics], in which was a very humorous Piece of Advice to all who went to Court, to wear Shields on their Bums, this was so [italics] Mal a propos [end italics] that it raised our Mirth'
Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Laetitia Pilkington Print: Newspaper
[Mr Rooke gives an account of his average day] 'I rise about Nine, drink Coffee, not that I like it, but that it gives a Man the Air of a Politician, for the same Reason I always read the News; - then I dress, and, about Twelve go to the [italics] Cocoa-Tree [end italics], where I talk Treason; from thence to [italics] St James's Coffee-house [end italics], where I praise the Ministry; then to [italics] White's [end italics], where I talk Gallantry; so by Three, I return home to Dinner; after that, I read about an Hour, and digest the Book and the Dinner together'
Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: George Rooke Print: Newspaper
'Indeed it were to wished that either this learned and excellent Divine [Dr Delany], or some other of equal Abilities, if such may be found, would oblige the World with a new translation of the [italics] Old Testament [end italics], since, as we now have it, it seems filled with Incongruities, Indecencies, and shocking Absurdities, such as the Holy Spirit could never have dictated, [italics] whose Body is light, and whose Shadow Truth'.
Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Laetitia Pilkington Print: Book
'It is very exciting to read about the B'sh troops in Spa & Malmedy, bits of land that I know as well as the top of Campden Hill.'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Ford Madox Ford Print: Newspaper
'I wish you were down here, darling so that we cd. consult - about ads in the paper. Just look at this [presumably an advertisement enclosed with the letter]. I don't know where Fulking is - but I have written to the owner to ask & if it is not too far I shall run over to see it.'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Ford Madox Ford Print: Advertisement, Newspaper
'The enclosed press cuttings have just arrived via Clifford. I've read 'em. It might be a good plan to give The Authors Club as an address for the Press Cuttings people, as the fewer things go to S.L. the better.'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Esther Gwendolyn, 'Stella' Bowen Print: Newspaper
'It is very curious her [Ford's daughter's] coquettish mischievousness. If you shew her a letter she will always say it wrong: but when she is sitting on the bed in the morning with a newspaper & thinks no one is noticing her, she prattles on about B for Bodog's; P for Piggy & points to the right letters.'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Esther Julia Ford Print: Newspaper
'I see there is a little reference to him [Drake] in a rude interview with me in the [underlined] World [end underlining] that I send you.'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Ford Madox Ford Print: Serial / periodical
'The Daily mail has persistent articles about Stabilisation at 100' [reference to currency fluctuations]
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Esther Gwendolyn, 'Stella' Bowen Print: Newspaper
'I have just bought the New York Times - wh. feels relatively home-like & read that the AMERICAN CHORUS GIRL IS BEAUTIFUL BUT SHE IS KNOCK-KNEED SAYS FLORENCE SIEGFIELDJUN'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Ford Madox Ford Print: Newspaper
'I am sending you a copy of the [underlined] Saturday Review [end underlining] with an article of mine & your Lavigne picture.'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Ford Madox Ford Print: Serial / periodical
'Almost every day there is some reference to it [Ford's book on Conrad] here or there. I am sending you a copy of the Saturday Review which has one.'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Ford Madox Ford Print: Serial / periodical
'The Last Post has hitherto had rather a bad press. There were two most violent attacks - on that and N.Y.i. N. A. in the [underlined] Times [end underlining] last Sunday, for no discoverable reason, and the [underlined] Herald-Tribune [end underlining] was not very good. I have written nice things on everbody on that paper, so they can't very well employ their staff to write about me. So Irita - rather at my suggestion - got an English novelist called Macfee to do it, a sort of blighted person I wanted to give a job to. However, as a set off Harry Hensen of the World which has hitherto not liked me, gave it his column and as he is one of the most celebrated column-writers in the States that is not so bad.'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Ford Madox Ford Print: Serial / periodical
'I lay down on my bed and tried to improve my mind, reading articles about the political situation in the Pacific Ocean - but it was rather difficult because Janice insisted on reading aloud passages from the life and letters of Gauguin, the artist.'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Ford Madox Ford Print: Serial / periodical
'The older generation read "Die Zeit", a large format newspaper in Yiddish, printed in Hebrew characters, whose contents, in tone not unlike "The Times" of those days, you would hear chewed over, in the heavy accents of eastern Europe, by little groups in the street of a summer evening, or at the Workers' Circle on a Sunday morning'.
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Jewish residents of the Gorbals Print: Newspaper
'[Father] taught himself to read English almost perfectly. Mother somehow taught herself enough English to get the gist of the contents of English newspapers. Father, oddly, refused to read the English papers; I fancy he thought more highly of books. I dimly remember evenings, before mother became very ill, when she sat with him at the kitchen table while he ate his dinner, and with obvious delight read an English paper to him. She also of course read "Die Zeit", and letters in Yiddish from relatives left behind in Lithuania; these came more and more infrequently and finally died away. I suppose she never had time to read anything else'.
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Mrs Glasser Print: Newspaper
'[Father] taught himself to read English almost perfectly. Mother somehow taught herself enough English to get the gist of the contents of English newspapers. Father, oddly, refused to read the English papers; I fancy he thought more highly of books. I dimly remember evenings, before mother became very ill, when she sat with him at the kitchen table while he ate his dinner, and with obvious delight read an English paper to him. She also of course read "Die Zeit", and letters in Yiddish from relatives left behind in Lithuania; these came more and more infrequently and finally died away. I suppose she never had time to read anything else'.
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Mrs Glasser Print: Newspaper
'I spent hours, days, in the great Reading Room of the Mitchell Library. Young as I was, in my ragged shorts, frayed jersey and ill-fitting jacket, incongruous among the sleek, well-nourished university students, I became so familiar to the staff that they dubbed me, in kindly fashion, "the young professor". One day, perhaps as a piece of sympathetic magic, I looked up Einstein's massive entry in "Who's Who" and copied it out word for word, his universities, degrees, honorary doctorates, publications. I kept that transcript pasted into an exercise book, a talisman'.
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Ralph Glasser Print: Book
'A few weeks before my fourteenth birthday I read that Einstein was coming to Glasgow to address the university, and made up my mind to go and listen to him'.
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Ralph Glasser Print: Unknown
'After I left school, the Mitchell became if possible even more important. I read widely, indiscriminately: the lives of the great philosophers and scientists, history and ideas, particularly of the Renaissance and the Enlightenment, logic. It was a halting progress, for at every step I had to make up for lack of background, of facts, of definitions, of words, and buried my nose in dictionaries and the "Encyclopaedia Britannica", which led of course to more and more sideways reading.'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Ralph Glasser Print: Book
'After I left school, the Mitchell became if possible even more important. I read widely, indiscriminately: the lives of the great philosophers and scientists, history and ideas, particularly of the Renaissance and the Enlightenment, logic. It was a halting progress, for at every step I had to make up for lack of background, of facts, of definitions, of words, and buried my nose in dictionaries and the "Encyclopaedia Britannica", which led of course to more and more sideways reading.'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Ralph Glasser Print: Book
'Press reports from Russia had an unreal quality, suggesting that observers did not dare believe the horror thinly concealed in what they saw. Enough filtered through.'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Ralph Glasser Print: Newspaper
'I went into the grey monastic quad of the Bodleian, the Old School quad, and read the legend in gold above each doorway, Scola Mathematica, Schola Physica - the sovereign estates of the mind laid out as on a chart'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Ralph Glasser Manuscript: Graffito
'I met a girl who worked in one of the intelligence sections at Blenheim. In her bed-sitter one evening, as we sat in a tipsy huddle cose to the wheezing gas fire, she murmured that she had seen my unusual name in an index of Communists'.
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: anon Print: Unknown
'In the dimness I had missed - how could I have done! - a few lines of crabbed writing at the very top of the paper, separated from those below by a blank space and a thick black line. Under a heading "The following were judged worthy of Distinction", were three names; mine was there.'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Ralph Glasser Print: Poster
'We hear of nothing but the Prince of Wales, but as we get no other account in our letters but what is to be seen in the newspapers I will not repeat anything here.'
Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Louisa, Lady Stuart Print: Newspaper
'Pray tell Lady Louisa that I have been reading the last "Quarterly Review" (No. XLII) more steadily than I could do at Sheffield Place, and quite agree with her in liking the article upon our statute laws, which is very clear and convincing, and pleases me better than anything else in it, though I think it is on the whole an amusing number. Mr Humboldt and his ([italics] crodo, crodo [end italics] ) crocodiles entertained me; the account of Hayti was interesting; the first dissertation (on Aristophanes) and the last. Yet I am no convert to Messrs Whistlecraft & Co., I cannot like slipshod verse or be convinced that it is not as easily written as read; the burlesque of one country can hardly ever be well copied in the language of another. As for Plato and Xenophon, it revolts all my old prejudices to hear them discussed as if they were members of the Alfred, or the French Academy - to be told that Plato had delicacy of [italics] tact [end italics] taught him at the [italics] court [end italics] of Dionysius. It puts me in mind of Gray's simile about some book upon antiquity which he says was like an antique statue dressed in a negligee made by a Yorkshire mantua-maker'.
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Louisa, Lady Stuart Print: Serial / periodical
'If the paper today speaks truth about the King's sending for the Duke of Sussex, he begins as he should do, for no one's behaviour can have been worse. But they (the newspapers) make me absolutely sick with the stuff they insert about his poor father, sometimes absolutely false, sometimes stories caught by the tail, twisted and blundered, till the original teller could not know them again'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Louisa, Lady Stuart Print: Newspaper
'I have not read the Edinburgh Magazine you mention, but if it attacks Walter Scott (or whoever it may be) for a design to ridicule the priesthood, it is as unjust as if they said the Templar and de Bracey were intended to render the character of a soldier odious'.
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Louisa Clinton Print: Serial / periodical
'Another thing pleases me, the general approbation of the last "Quarterly Review", Mr Lockhart's first, I believe, and one in which your cloven foot is visible. It had something to set it off, however; for I think verily the temporary editor of the work during the [italics] interregnum [end italics] must have been bribed into his extreme degree of dullness'.
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Louisa, Lady Stuart Print: Serial / periodical
'Another thing pleases me, the general approbation of the last "Quarterly Review", Mr Lockhart's first, I believe, and one in which your cloven foot is visible. It had something to set it off, however; for I think verily the temporary editor of the work during the [italics] interregnum [end italics] must have been bribed into his extreme degree of dullness'.
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Louisa, Lady Stuart Print: Serial / periodical
'Wellesley Long has thought fit to produce before Chancery his letters to his children, and like everything else they have found their way into the newspapers. I did not read them with much attention, but saw that in the main they contained better advice than might have been expected from such a father, amongst other subjects, a strong censure passed on [italics] cunning [end italics], and, what was odd enough (addressed to a little boy), instances given in the characters of public men, particularly Sheridan and Tierney. Then followed, in the "Courier" and "Morning Post", two or three lines of ::: *** dots, stars, or whatever you call them. By chance seeing another paper, I found the dots held the place of an admonition to take warning by what had happened to Mr C.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Louisa, Lady Stuart Print: Newspaper
'Wellesley Long has thought fit to produce before Chancery his letters to his children, and like everything else they have found their way into the newspapers. I did not read them with much attention, but saw that in the main they contained better advice than might have been expected from such a father, amongst other subjects, a strong censure passed on [italics] cunning [end italics], and, what was odd enough (addressed to a little boy), instances given in the characters of public men, particularly Sheridan and Tierney. Then followed, in the "Courier" and "Morning Post", two or three lines of ::: *** dots, stars, or whatever you call them. By chance seeing another paper, I found the dots held the place of an admonition to take warning by what had happened to Mr C.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Louisa, Lady Stuart Print: Newspaper
'Wellesley Long has thought fit to produce before Chancery his letters to his children, and like everything else they have found their way into the newspapers. I did not read them with much attention, but saw that in the main they contained better advice than might have been expected from such a father, amongst other subjects, a strong censure passed on [italics] cunning [end italics], and, what was odd enough (addressed to a little boy), instances given in the characters of public men, particularly Sheridan and Tierney. Then followed, in the "Courier" and "Morning Post", two or three lines of ::: *** dots, stars, or whatever you call them. By chance seeing another paper, I found the dots held the place of an admonition to take warning by what had happened to Mr C.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Louisa, Lady Stuart Print: Newspaper
'Do tell me what more you have heard about the poor Fans. [Fanshawes]. Is it to such an extent as is rumoured? the newspapers said £19,000 or £29,000. Ten thousand makes some difference, but even the smaller sum would be tremedous.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Louisa, Lady Stuart Print: Newspaper
'Did you see in the newspaper that W.S. has avowed himself the author of "Waverley" etc.? He said at a public meeting that the secret had been remarkably well kept, considering above twenty people knew it, [italics] one [end italics] of whom, to say truth, is now writing to you'.
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Louisa, Lady Stuart Print: Newspaper
'In the bushel of advertisements tacked to the "Quarterly Review", I spy two from Cadell that I am very glad to see - "New Tales of a Grandfather" and "Robert of Paris". By the bye, it has struck me that the review of Southey's "John Bunyan" bears some tokens of coming from that quarter.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Louisa, Lady Stuart Print: Advertisement, Serial / periodical
'In the bushel of advertisements tacked to the "Quarterly Review", I spy two from Cadell that I am very glad to see - "New Tales of a Grandfather" and "Robert of Paris". By the bye, it has struck me that the review of Southey's "John Bunyan" bears some tokens of coming from that quarter.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Louisa, Lady Stuart Print: Serial / periodical
'Bentley's puffs in the newspaper (for Jane Scott's "Trevelyan") quite sicken me, all admirable and charming alike, written by his [italics] literary adviser [end italics] you may be sure, just in the same spirit as the puffs of Warren's blacking and Rowland's kalydor. Oh dear! it is a degradation I cannot bear'. [LS is arguing that aristocrats ought not admit to publishing books]
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Louisa, Lady Stuart Print: Newspaper
'in came the Rector with, "I have just been at the Hall, Ly Maria has just got the "Court Journal", which says "Trevelyan" was written by Ly S. of Petersham".'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: anon Print: Serial / periodical
'The newspapers having transferred their puffs from "Trevelyan" to something more recent I am tranquillized again, and almost regret my sincerity in taking notice of them to [italics] her [end italics] lest she should be hurt; for I cannot help saying what I think just [italics] as [end italics] I think it'.
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Louisa, Lady Stuart Print: Advertisement, Newspaper
'I have not been able to discover the author of the article in the Quarterly that you mention. We all admired it very much'.
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Anne Romilly Print: Serial / periodical
'I have not been able to discover the author of the article in the Quarterly that you mention. We all admired it very much'.
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Maria Edgeworth Print: Serial / periodical
'If the Quarterly Reviewers should not think proper to publish it [an article by Edgeworth] Sir Saml wishes you would let it appear in the Philanthropist, a periodical Publication which is perhaps not much known in Ireland but which contains some very excellent articles.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Anne Romilly Print: Serial / periodical
'I send you some lines which he [Lord Byron] printed but did not publish, and which were handed about [italics] confidentially everywhere [end italics]. The usual consequence has happened, they appeared in one of the Sunday newspapers, and of course were copied on Monday a hundred times over. I send you what were in the "Morning Chronicle" with an unintelligible preface, and a paragraph which appeared the next day, by which you will see what a persecution Lady Byron is enduring. Sir Samuel says that the "Farewell" is a greater instance of wickedness than he thought was possible could have existed in human nature - and that the "Sketch from Private Life" is a miserable blackguard production without merit. - Indeed I cannot help thinking that he has hurt himself more than Lady Byron by abusing the person of a Maid Servant who was Nurse to Lady Milbanke, and who is grown old in faithful service to the Family'.
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Anne Romilly Print: Newspaper
'His letters [PB Shelley's in relation to his desertion of his wife] were really curious. A more singular display of the total want of all moral feeling under the guise of liberality and enlightened sentiment I should suppose had never before been exhibited. The Cause was heard in the Chancellor's private room out of compassion to Mr Shelley and his family. The account which appeared in the papers must have been written by himself, or his friend Mr Hunt of the "Examiner" who was present, and they went so far that the Chancellor intimated that he would have a rehearing of the cause in public and they immediately became silent'.
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Anne Romilly Print: Newspaper
'How merciless and ungentlemanlike the"Quarterly Review" is upon Lady Morgan! It is the only thing that could have made me pity her, for she is very flippant and full of error from beginning to end'.
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Anne Romilly Print: Serial / periodical
'[editor's words. A family friend having tried to shake EH's religious faith,] To terminate this state of doubt, which to her ardent temper was insupportable, she took the prompt resolution of reading the scriptures by stealth, and deciding the question from her own unbiassed judgment. The result of this examination was, a conviction of their truth; and she observed that the moral precepts connected with the doctrine of Christianity, were too pure to have been promulgated by an impostor'.
Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Hamilton Print: Book
'[EH having been expecting her brother back from India] Think, then, what I felt on reading in the newspaper of that ship being seen off the Cape in great distress; at length its arrival was announced, and, on Saturday last, among the list of passengers, I saw your name; but still I was not, could not be, convinced that it was really you'.
Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Hamilton Print: Newspaper
'"The Gentleman's Magazine", begun and carried on by Mr Edward Cave , under the name of SYLVANUS URBAN, had attracted the notice and esteem of Johnson, in an eminent degree, before he came to London as an adventurer in literature'.
Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Johnson Print: Serial / periodical
'I myself recollect such impressions [of reverence, like Johnson displayed for the "Gentleman's Magazine"] from "The Scots Magazine", which was begun at Edinburgh in the year 1739, and has been ever conducted with judgement, accuracy, and propriety'.
Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: James Boswell Print: Serial / periodical
'all the esays [in the "Universal Visitor"] marked with two [italics] asterisks [end italics] have been ascribed to him; but I am confident, from internal evidence, that of these, neither "The Life of Chaucer", "Reflections on the State of Portugal", nor an "Essay on Architecture", were written by him. I am equally confident, upon the same evidence, that he wrote "Further Thoughts on Agriculture"; being the sequel of a very inferiour essay on the same subject, and which, though carried on as if by the same hand, is both in thinking and expression so far above it, as to leave no doubt of its true parent; and that he also wrote "A Dissertation on the State of Literature and Authors", and "A Dissertation on the Epitaphs Written by Pope".'
Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: James Boswell Print: Serial / periodical
'At home there were daily Bible-readings in the family circle for many years, but secular reading aloud happily also found a place. Lucy was "A good reader" and gave them Scott and Thackeray and Tom Moore as well as Shakespeare; Edward read Pickwick.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Housman family Print: Book
'[A Mr Murphy was looking for something to print in "The Gray's Inn Journal" and a Mr Foote suggested] "Here is a French magazine, in which you will find a very pretty oriental tale; translate that, and send it to your printer". Mr Murphy, having read the tale, was highly pleased with it, and followed Foote's advice. When he returned to town, this tale was pointed out to him in "The Rambler", from whence it had been translated into the French magazine.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Mr Murphy Print: Serial / periodical
I mentioned the periodical paper called "The Connoisseur." He said it wanted matter. No doubt it has not the deep thinking of Johnson's writings. But surely it has just views of the surface of life, and a very sprightly manner. His opinion of "The World" was not much higher than of "The Connoisseur".'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Johnson Print: Serial / periodical
I mentioned the periodical paper called "The Connoisseur." He said it wanted matter. No doubt it has not the deep thinking of Johnson's writings. But surely it has just views of the surface of life, and a very sprightly manner. His opinion of "The World" was not much higher than of "The Connoisseur".'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Johnson Print: Serial / periodical
'I mentioned the periodical paper called "The Connoisseur." He said it wanted matter. No doubt it has not the deep thinking of Johnson's writings. But surely it has just views of the surface of life, and a very sprightly manner. His opinion of "The World" was not much higher than of "The Connoisseur".'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: James Boswell Print: Serial / periodical
'The King then asked him if there were any other literary journals published in this kingdom, except the "Monthly" and "Critical Reviews"; and on being answered there was no other, his Majesty asked which of them was the best: Johnson answered, that the "Monthly Review" was done with most care, the "Critical" upon the best principles; adding that the authors of the "Monthly Review" were enemies to the Church. This the King said he was sorry to hear.
The conversation next turned on the Philosophical Transactions, when Johnson observed that they had now a better method of arranging their materials than formerly. "Aye, (said the King,) they are obliged to Dr. Johnson for that ;" for his Majesty had heard and remembered the circumstance, which Johnson himself had forgot.'
Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Johnson Print: Serial / periodical
'The King then asked him if there were any other literary journals published in this kingdom, except the "Monthly" and "Critical Reviews"; and on being answered there was no other, his Majesty asked which of them was the best: Johnson answered, that the "Monthly Review" was done with most care, the "Critical" upon the best principles; adding that the authors of the "Monthly Review" were enemies to the Church. This the King said he was sorry to hear.
The conversation next turned on the Philosophical Transactions, when Johnson observed that they had now a better method of arranging their materials than formerly. "Aye, (said the King,) they are obliged to Dr. Johnson for that ;" for his Majesty had heard and remembered the circumstance, which Johnson himself had forgot.'
Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Johnson Print: Serial / periodical
'The King then asked him if there were any other literary journals published in this kingdom, except the "Monthly" and "Critical Reviews"; and on being answered there was no other, his Majesty asked which of them was the best: Johnson answered, that the "Monthly Review" was done with most care, the "Critical" upon the best principles; adding that the authors of the "Monthly Review" were enemies to the Church. This the King said he was sorry to hear.
The conversation next turned on the Philosophical Transactions, when Johnson observed that they had now a better method of arranging their materials than formerly. "Aye, (said the King,) they are obliged to Dr. Johnson for that ;" for his Majesty had heard and remembered the circumstance, which Johnson himself had forgot.'
Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Johnson Print: Serial / periodical
[EDITOR WRITES]'During several months, Mr Hamilton was sedulously engaged in unravelling all the intricacies of the Persian tome'.
Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Charles Hamilton Print: Book
'[EDITOR'S WORDS] The author, directed by her learned friends, was indefatigable in collecting documents and procuring materials for an authentic work. Through the medium of translation, she had been conversant with the best historians, annalists, poets, and orators of ancient Rome; and she was guided by the most esteemed modern writers on the subject of antiquities, laws, and usages'. [in writing her "Memoirs of Agrippina"]
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Hamilton Print: Book
'[EDITOR'S WORDS] The author, directed by her learned friends, was indefatigable in collecting documents and procuring materials for an authentic work. Through the medium of translation, she had been conversant with the best historians, annalists, poets, and orators of ancient Rome; and she was guided by the most esteemed modern writers on the subject of antiquities, laws, and usages'. [in writing her "Memoirs of Agrippina"]
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Hamilton Print: Book
'It now only remains for me to walk worthy of that vocation to which I am called. Let me do so in the very manner in which the Apostle, whose words I have now been reading, mentions, "With all lowliness and meekness, and with long-suffering, forbearing one another in love; endeavouring to keep the unity of the spirit in the bond of peace".'
Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Hamilton Print: Book
'The superiority of the Scriptures to every composition of human genius, must appear incontestible to those who persevere in making those Scriptures their daily study. By such strict and repeated examination of any other work, how many errors and incongruities should we discover?'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Hamilton Print: Book
'In studying the prophets, with a view of particularly examining the witness they bear to the Messiah, many things have occurred to me which it would have been useful to preserve' [but she says her memory is 'unfaithful']
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Hamilton Print: Book
'"The London Chronicle", which was the only newspaper he constantly took in, being brought, the office of reading it aloud was assigned to me. I was diverted by his impatience. He made me pass over so many parts of it, that my task was very easy. He would not suffer one of the petitions to the King about the Middlesex election to be read.'
Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Johnson Print: Newspaper
'"The London Chronicle", which was the only newspaper he constantly took in, being brought, the office of reading it aloud was assigned to me. I was diverted by his impatience. He made me pass over so many parts of it, that my task was very easy. He would not suffer one of the petitions to the King about the Middlesex election to be read.'
Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: James Boswell Print: Newspaper
'At this time it appears from his "Prayers and Meditations," that he had been more than commonly diligent in religious duties, particularly in reading the Holy Scriptures'.
Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Johnson Print: Book
'On Saturday, April 3, the day after my arrival in London this year, I went to his house late in the evening, and sat with Mrs. Williams till he came home. I found in the "London Chronicle" Dr. Goldsmith's apology to the publick for beating Evans, a bookseller, on account of a paragraph 5 in a newspaper published by him, which Goldsmith thought impertinent to him and to a lady of his acquaintance. The apology was written so much in Dr. Johnson's manner that both Mrs. Williams and I supposed it to be his; but when he came home, he soon undeceived us. When he said to Mrs. Williams, "Well, Dr. Goldsmith's manifesto has got into your paper;" I asked him if Dr. Goldsmith had written it, with an air that made him see I suspected it was his, though subscribed by Goldsmith. Johnson. "Sir, Dr. Goldsmith would no more have asked me to write such a thing as that for him than he would have asked me to feed him with a spoon, or to do any thing else that denoted his imbecility. I as much believe that he wrote it as if I had seen him do it".'
Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Mrs Williams Print: Newspaper
'[on Good Friday] We went to church both in the morning and evening. In the interval between the two services we did not dine; but he read in the Greek New Testament, and I turned over several of his books.'
Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Johnson Print: Book
'[Letter from Johnson to Boswell] There has appeared lately in the papers an account of a boat overset between Mull and Ulva, in which many passengers were lost, and among them Maclean of Col. We, you know, were once drowned; I hope, therefore, that the story is either wantonly or erroneously told. Pray satisfy me by the next post.'
Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Johnson Print: Newspaper
'In his [Johnson's] manuscript diary of this year, there is the following entry:
"Nov. 27. Advent Sunday. I considered that this day, being the beginning of the ecclesiastical year, was a proper time for a new course of life. I began to read the Greek Testament regularly at 160 verses every Sunday. This day I began the Acts.
In this week I read Virgil's 'Pastorals'. I learned to repeat the 'Pollio' and 'Gallus'. I read carelessly the first 'Georgick'."
Such evidences of his unceasing ardour, both for "divine and human lore," when advanced into his sixty-fifty year, and notwithstanding his many disturbances from disease, must make us at once honour his spirit, and lament that it should be so grievously clogged by its material tegument. It is remarkable, that he was very fond of the precision which calculation produces. Thus we find in one of his manuscript diaries, "12 pages in 4to Gr. Test, and 30 pages in Beza's folio, comprize the whole in 10 days".'
Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Johnson Print: Book
'I had brought with me a great bundle of Scotch magazines and newspapers, in which his "Journey to the Western Islands" was attacked in every mode; and I read a great part of them to him, knowing they would afford him entertainment. I wish the writers of them had been present: they would have been sufficiently vexed. One ludicrous imitation of his style, by Mr. Maclaurin, now one of the Scotch Judges, with the title of Lord Dreghorn, was distinguished by him from the rude mass. "This (said he) is the best. But I could caricature my own style much better myself." He defended his remark upon the general insufficiency of education in Scotland; and confirmed to me the authenticity of his witty saying on the learning of the Scotch;—"Their learning is like bread in a besieged town : every man gets a little, but no man gets a full meal".'
Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: James Boswell Print: Serial / periodical
'Oct. 24. Tuesday. We visited the King's library.—I saw the "Speculum humanae Salvationis", rudely printed with ink, sometimes pale, sometimes black; part supposed to be with wooden types, and part with pages cut in boards.—The Bible, supposed to be older than that of Mentz, in 62 [1462]; it has no date, it is supposed to have been printed with wooden types.—I am in doubt; the print is large and fair, in two folios.—Another book was shewn me, supposed to have been printed with wooden types;—I think, "Durandi Sanctuarium" in 58 [1458]. This is inferred from the difference of form sometimes seen in the same letter, which might be struck with different puncheons.—The regular similitude of most letters proves better that they are metal.—I saw nothing but the "Speculum" which I had not seen, I think, before'.
Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Johnson Print: Book
Early childhood reminisences:
'my deep impression is that she was a Holy, devoted follower of the Lord Jesus, but her understanding not fully enlightened as to the fullness of Gospel Truth. She taught us as far as she knew, and I now remember the solemn religious feelings I had often sitting in silence with her after reading the Scriptures with her; and our reading a Psalm before we went to bed and I have no doubt that her prayers were not in vain in the Lord. She died when I was twelve years old.'
Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Catherine Gurney Print: Book
Early childhood reminisences:
'my deep impression is that she was a Holy, devoted follower of the Lord Jesus, but her understanding not fully enlightened as to the fullness of Gospel Truth. She taught us as far as she knew, and I now remember the solemn religious feelings I had often sitting in silence with her after reading the Scriptures with her; and our reading a Psalm before we went to bed and I have no doubt that her prayers were not in vain in the Lord. She died when I was twelve years old.'
Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Catherine Gurney Print: Book
'I often go to see poor Bob who seems to me dying and it is a good thing to attend a person in that situation. I think the more one sees of the different states of human nature the better. I read to him in the Testament, he flys to religion as his last resource, it is the only firm solid source of happiness in this world.'
Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Gurney Print: Book
'After reading to poor Bob which was a cross to me because some one was present I wrote this.'
Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Gurney Print: Book
'I slept late. Too unwell to go to meeting but have been writing and working which I disapprove of doing in general on a Sunday for I think it a bad example to servants, but I intend now to read in the Testament. I finished this day satisfactorily. I went to meeting; heard a good deal of reading and read to Nurse Norman's family.'
Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Gurney Print: Book
'I slept late. Too unwell to go to meeting but have been writing and working which I disapprove of doing in general on a Sunday for I think it a bad example to servants, but I intend now to read in the Testament. I finished this day satisfactorily. I went to meeting; heard a good deal of reading and read to Nurse Norman's family.'
Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Gurney Print: Book
'in the afternoon I laid down had a very sweet nap which I did enjoy - read in the Testament ... I then went and read the Testament to Nurse Norman's family which answered remarkably well ... I have been reading to little Castleton. I sometimes feel I am not good enough to teach others until I know more myself, and am a more strictly virtuous character'
Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Gurney Print: Book
'in the afternoon I laid down had a very sweet nap which I did enjoy - read in the Testament ... I then went and read the Testament to Nurse Norman's family which answered remarkably well ... I have been reading to little Castleton. I sometimes feel I am not good enough to teach others until I know more myself, and am a more strictly virtuous character'
Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Gurney Print: Book
'in the afternoon I laid down had a very sweet nap which I did enjoy - read in the Testament ... I then went and read the Testament to Nurse Norman's family which answered remarkably well ... I have been reading to little Castleton. I sometimes feel I am not good enough to teach others until I know more myself, and am a more strictly virtuous character'
Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Gurney Print: Book
'In the afternoon ... I went to the Cathedral then I came home read to the Normans and little Castleton'
Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Gurney Print: Book
'I first wrote to my father then wrote a little journal, read two chapters in the Testament, had a good lesson of French, went to see Bob, read in Barclay's Apology for some hours upon Revealed Religion.'
Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Gurney Print: Book
'I have been great part of this morning with poor Bob who seems now dying. I read a long chapter in the Testament to him the one upon death and I sat with him for some time afterwards'
Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Gurney Print: Book
'This day I begin to read through the Bible. I have finished the Testament. I wish to read the Bible of a morning and the Testament of an evening I feel it a [underline] good plan [end underline]'
Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Gurney Print: Book
'I read to the old Normans'
Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Gurney Print: Book
'read to Mrs Norman'
Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Gurney Print: Book
'I have been reading a good deal in the Testament today'
Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Gurney Print: Book
'This morning Kitty came in for us to read the Testament together, which I enjoyed, I read my favourite chapter the 15th of Corinthians to them. Oh [underline] how [end underline] earnestly I hope that we may all know what truth is and follow its dictates.'
Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Gurney Print: Book
'I had rather a comfortable drive here from Shrewsbury, read in the Testament and got by heart one or two verses'
Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Gurney Print: Book
'I first wrote in my journal, read in the Testament after breakfast'
Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Gurney Print: Book
'I then wrote a little journal, read a chapter away from the fire; rather as a cross to the body; but I had such a sweet time alone as to forget bodily cold, for I was inwardly warmed and cheered by feeling under the guidance and protection of the Most High; happy state!'
Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Gurney Print: Book
'I then read french and wrote it, had one or two little interruptions'
Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Gurney Print: Book
'I went to see E. Golder, and friend Bullen came in ... we read a little in the Testament and the journal of Job Scott'
Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Gurney Print: Book
'Read my Testament and felt not destitute of religion'
Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Gurney Print: Book
'12 verse. 4th chap: Paul to Timothy; this does strike my mind deeply; Let no man despite thy youth but be thou an example to the believers in word in conversation in charity in spirit in faith in purity. 14th verse neglect not the gift that is in thee.'
Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Gurney Print: Book
'I feel very unworthy this morning. Though the day appeared to begin well in a few words of solemn supplication after reading. Yesterday I think I was too much off my watch ... So I felt this morning at reading unwilling to take up the cross'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Fry Print: Book
'Enabled publicly after "Reading" to cast my care upon our Henry Helper'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Fry Print: Book
'Yesterday I was enabled after reading to cast my care wholly and publicly upon the great helper of the helpless, in which I found peace'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Fry Print: Book
'A chapter we read this morning tendered my spirit and raised it in aspirations to the God of my help. Describing by what a minister ought to prove himself a minister of God these two verses particularly took hold of me -
"By pureness, by knowledge, by long suffering, by kindness, by the Holy Ghost, by love unfeigned, by the word of truth, by the power of God, by the armour of righteousness on the right hand and on the left"'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Fry Print: Book
'The 40th and 42nd Psalms spoke comfort to me this morning, and I may say they greatly expressed the language of my spirit'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Fry Print: Book
'Having poured forth my soul in prayer, and having exhorted my household to live in the love and fear of the Lord, I have attained some mental relief upon entering a New Year and finishing another. And upon opening my Bible at these words so consonant with the feelings of my heart that I quote them here -
"Hear my prayer and be merciful unto thine inheritance; turn our sorrow into joy that we may live oh Lord and praise thy name"'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Fry Print: Book
'I told no one my state until about the time to get up. I then dressed. I felt bound to have my husband, children, my dear sister Elizabeth Gurney, Susan Pitchford as such maids as liked to join us, collected together. Doctor Sims was also with us. When after reading I poured forth my soul in [underline] fervent prayer [end underline] for my [underline] dearest Rachel [end underline] and myself, as to our time of conflict, for help spiritually, and [underline] naturally [end underline] for tender mercy'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Fry Print: Book
'Upon reading the 2nd Chap. in Deuteronomy I felt this verse so much the acknowledgement of my heart, though all the works of my hands, may not yet have appeared to be fully blessed, yet in many, may I not say [underline] most [end underline], a peculiar blessing has I think rested on them. I transcribe here, from Deuteronomy 2: verse 7 "For the Lord thy God have blessed thee in all the works of thy hand. He knoweth thy walking through this great wilderness these forty years, these forty years the Lord thy God has been with thee. Thou hast lacked nothing.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Fry Print: Book
'These words in Eccles. struck me much. Ch. II v 21 & 22: "Marvel not at the works of sinners, but trust in the Lord and abide in thy labour, for it is one easy thing in the sight of the Lord, to make a poor man rich"'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Fry Print: Book
'I paid a very interesting visit to two female convict ships with my dear sister E. Fry and cousin Sarah last 6th day, and met William Wilberforce and Sophie Vansittart and many others. The exercise of my mind was deep, and the trial of body not inconsiderable from the inconvenient situation that I had to read in, being below deck, surrounded by poor prisoners, and the company. What I feel on such occasions is difficult to describe. 1st that it should be done unto the Lord, and 2nd that it may be a time of edification. 3rd that none may in any way be hurt by it. 4th my natural great fear of man, and of his judgement. 5th that self may neither glory if helped, nor be unduly mortified if causes for humiliation arise. I think I was on this occasion much helped to declare Gospel Truth with some power, and to pray to my Lord; but I felt that if watchful enough and patient enough, I might have said much more to a good purpose. But it may be safer to say too little, than too much. After this was over I saw a change in the feeling of the company towards me. They were so much more loving: I believe some of their hearts were tendered. I think it was a uniting time, I trust many of the poor prisoners felt it also, many of them I believe wept in both ships.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Fry Print: Book
'The first day before leaving home I must also describe if I can. It was one of the most interesting nature. In the first place I had [underline] all [end underline] the servants collected at the morning reading, and expressed very fully my desires for them'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Fry Print: Book
'My sisters Catherine, Rachel, Chenda and myself had a very remarkable morning, I felt most easy to stay at home from Meeting to be with my beloved sick sister, and had a desire for some religious time with her. After she was dressed and removed into the Dressing Room on her couch, we read in the Bible, but so overcome was she from weakness and sleepiness, that she could not keep awake, however I went on reading, and then knelt down in prayer and thanksgiving for her and for us'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Fry Print: Book
'On the morning of the New Year we assembled almost all our large household, and many guests, principally young ones. Before we began reading, I expressed many of the striking marks of Providential care and mercy shown us in the last year, that are mentioned here. We then read, and afterwards had a solemn time.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Fry Print: Book
'I then went to town, and at Newgate, where I went under feelings of rather deep concern, found unexpectedly [underline] numbers [end underline] there. A magistrate who I feared not I believe a religious man, I doubt a Christian, numbers of others, foreigners, a Jew, a clergyman, [underline] many [end underline] ladies, friends, my brother Sam, who strange to say, I stand in awe of naturally in such services, kind, dear and sympathetic as he is to me. I think I may say I asked in secret for preservation before I began to read; at least it was my earnest desire to have my eyes kept single to my God: but either the fear of man got too much hold of me, or the [underline] unction [end underline] was not with me, that I did not feel the power of truth over us, as it very often has been at such times, and I am ready to believe if I had not looked at man, but dwelt yet deeper in spirit I should have had to call upon the Lord openly, and I should have found help and power in it. But I went away humbled...'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Fry Print: Book
'We spent a cheerful, sober evening, until a general family Reading, when several joined our interesting party. We read the principal parts of the Epistle to the Colossians; and for all I had already so much to do, I felt bound to kneel down and offer an evening sacrifice'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Fry Print: Book
'Last sixth day a very interesting time at Newgate, numbers there, clergy, some nobility, a sheriff, [underline] many [end underline] ladies, gentlemen and friends. It was a solemn time, the fear of man much taken away; I had after Reading to speak to them, and pray for them'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Fry Print: Book
'Our wedding day twenty nine years since we married! My texts for the morning are applicable: "Our light affliction which is but for a moment worketh for us a far more exceeding and external weight of glory"; "We walk by faith and not by sight"'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Fry Print: Book
'In the evening our dear brother Buxton dined with us, and spent the evening; and after our Reading I had to return thanks for the help granted in the day, and to pray'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Fry Print: Book
'The last time I parted with those in the Ship Mary such a scene all around me, when I parted from them, probably for ever; so many tears, so much feeling, as I read, etc, and almost all present were the low, and the poor.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Fry Print: Book
'My spirit is however brought low before the Lord, on behalf of some most dear - ah, the unutterable conflict that giving way to evil produces in ourselves and others. And for one I feel so inexpressibly for, I found consolation and hope in these parts of Scripture...'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Fry Print: Book
'We have been favoured the last two days to have all our fifteen children around us ... After dinner we walked a little and then had tea, and after tea a number of the children sang in company some of our old Earlham songs and ended with two hymns. We were then silent and read the 103rd Psalm, and I spoke earnestly to my children impressing them with the importance, now that most of them were no longer under our restraint, that they should be conformed to the will of God'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Fry Print: Book
'dined at Lord Bexley's, afterwards led to many fears - worry about showing off - But a few words in the Proverbs encouraged me "Reproofs of instruction are the way of life" chap 6 v.23. I see it well to be reproved, may I profit by it.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Fry Print: Book
'I returned from Brighton the day before yesterday having felt a drawing of love to visit the Friends; and to attend to the difficulties of the District Society. I went [underline] quite alone [end underline], and yet not alone because I believe my master was with me. I had amongst the Friends some weighty, close service, some very encouraging. My way appeared curiously opened in the hearts of the people and I hope and trust the valued District Society will be continued. I had about a hundred visitors to meet me, and read the 100th Psalm: and prayed for them, and the Society, and strongly pressed the importance of different Christians working together, and of unity of spirit'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Fry Print: Book
'[came home to find one of her sons drinking ale with some men with fireworks] I slept only at short intervals, up and down all night, in the morning shaken and jaded. But I had my poor wanderer in my little room, read part of the 51st Psalm; earnestly prayed for him, exhorted, reproved, but all in tender love: he was humbled, very sorry, very affectionate, entire peace was made between us'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Fry Print: Book
'5th day last - This evening William Foster read the 5th chap of Isaiah expressing his full belief that our Joseph would experience its truth, although the weapon should be farmed against him, it would not prosper...'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: William Foster Print: Book
'And in the evening strength was given me with a very large party to speak a little on the subject of slavery and then finished with a short lively Scripture reading'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Fry Print: Book
'Last evening we had more than fifty guests, some influential persons of this world, young and old, French and English - one Spaniard, two Americans. We first had the subject of slavery brought before us, for rather more than an hour ... I finished with a Scripture reading, referring to the subject that had been brought before us; the first part of the 61st chapter of Isaiah. "The Spirit of the Lord God is upon me" etc and a portion in Luke where our Lord brings it forward. I felt a real unction I believe I may say from the spirit, to speak such words as I had to say, with power.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Fry Print: Book
'In the evening we had many young women but hardly any men. Our great object was to stimulate them in every good word and work. We ended with a reading in the Holy Scriptures'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Fry Print: Book
'We had a large meeting at one of the pasteurs at Aix en Provance the few Protestants there and their Pastor requested me to have a reading with them, which we had, but in this instance I had only my husband and Josiah to interpret which does not fully answer, but I thought we had a uniting time with them'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Fry Print: Book
'At Nismes we found a large party at one of the Pasteurs, where we had some further conversation on District Societies, Prisons, etc and ended with a Scripture reading'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Fry Print: Book
'I also had a serious reading of the Holy Scriptures with many English, who came to see us at our hotel, and a time of prayer'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Fry Print: Book
'We were sent for to visit Prince and Princess Charles and their children and paid them an agreeable and I hope not unprofitable visit. The Crown Prince and Princess sent for us again; after much conversation upon many subjects I asked them to allow me to read a portion of Holy Scriptures with them, which gave me an opportunity for weightly religious communication with them'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Fry Print: Book
'I had then to enter a drawing room full of company to receive numbers of foreigners, and our ambassador Lord William Russell, and many others in and out. After some went away we had a solemn time of Scripture reading and prayer'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Fry Print: Book
'In the evening we had a very large party to our reading and worship. I should think nearly a hundred persons ... we had a very solemn time after our reading in the morning at Antwerp, the last reading we had of this kind'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Fry Print: Book
15 Oct 1855 Meeting Minutes: Report from Elizabeth Fry Refuge - 'One of them Eliza Salmon was a Roman Catholic and has often told the Matron that until she came to this Refuge she never had opened a Bible: she now tells her in a letter that she reads the scriptures daily, and will never go to a Priest again.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Eliza Salmon Print: Book
Daily entry in journal, reads the Scriptures to the female convicts on board the 'Cadet' every morning and evening.
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: R.W. Gibbs Print: Book
Thurs 16 November 1848: 'Visited an invalid in hospital, conversed with her on her everlasting concern, read and expounded portions of Scripture applicable to her state of mind - concluded with a prayer - observed her much affected'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: R.W. Gibbs Print: Book
Mon 20 November 1848: 'After service conversed with Ellen Hinds and Anne Wheatcroft who appeared truly contrite, read a portion of Scripture, concluded with prayer'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: R.W. Gibbs Print: Book
Tues 21 November 1848: 'After service conversed apart with Anne Wheatcroft who indicated a very favourable state of mind - read and expounded a portion of Scripture suitable to her state'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: R.W. Gibbs Print: Book
27 Nov 1848 to 17 Apr 1849: visits the inmates in ship hospital to read Scriptures to them every morning.
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: R.W. Gibbs Print: Book
Tues 27 Mar 1849 - Sat 31 Mar 1849: chaplain had accident on board ship, Matron reads Scriptures to convicts every morning and evening
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: anon Print: Book
Fri 19 Jan 1849: 'After service instructed a class of Bible readers - improving much'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: female convicts Print: Book
Fri 31 Jan 1849: 'After service instructed a class of Bible readers - desirous to improve'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: female convicts Print: Book
Fri 10 Mar 1849: 'After service instructed a class of Bible readers - improving in Scripture knowledge'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: female convicts Print: Book
'In the evening my father brought two friends with him and Lawrence Candler. As I was reading to my children in the laundry, my father brought them all in; when I had finished reading in the Testament we were all silent: - and soon John Kirkham knelt down in prayer and we all rose up; it was a very solemn time; my heart was not much moved, but I believe many of my dear children were affected by it'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Gurney Print: Book
'After breakfast, I believed it better to propose reading in the Bible, but I felt doing it, particularly as my brother William was here; not liking the appearance of young people, like us, appearing to profess more than they who had lived here before us. However, I put off and put off till both William and Joseph went down; I then felt uneasy under it, and when Joseph came back, I told him, as I did before, what I wished; he at last sat down, having told George Dilwyn my desire. I began to read the 46th Psalm, but was so overcome that I could hardly read, and gave it to Joseph to finish.'
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'After breakfast, I believed it better to propose reading in the Bible, but I felt doing it, particularly as my brother William was here; not liking the appearance of young people, like us, appearing to profess more than they who had lived here before us. However, I put off and put off till both William and Joseph went down; I then felt uneasy under it, and when Joseph came back, I told him, as I did before, what I wished; he at last sat down, having told George Dilwyn my desire. I began to read the 46th Psalm, but was so overcome that I could hardly read, and gave it to Joseph to finish.'
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'I rather felt this morning it would have been right for me to read the Bible again, and stop George Dilwyn and Joseph reading something else. Now stopping G.D. was a difficult thing; for a person like me to remind him! however, I did not fully do as I thought right, for I did not openly tell G.D. we were going to read, but spoke to my husband, so as for him to hear; then he read, I knowing I had not done my best'
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'I again felt some difficulty at reading the Bible, however, I got through well. George Dilwyn encouraging me, by saying he thought I portioned the reading well.'
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'George Dilwyn said, for our encouragement this morning, that he had seen, since he had been with us, the efficacy of reading in the Bible the first thing: he thought it a good beginning for the day'
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'I was up in pretty good time, dressed by eight, and after reading, settled my great housekeeping accounts'
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'After reading a little, I went some way off to see a poor woman'
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'In the evening, after reading at Earlham, I was greatly helped in prayer, for my brothers and sisters, who were all present'
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'After poor John's funeral, I wished the servants, and those who attended, and were disposed to do so, to come and read with us, believing it might afford opportunity for relief, if any thing were given me for them. The party were in all about forty, many young people, and others. We first read two chapters in Matthew; after a pause, I kelt down and had to supplicate, first for all the party; afterwards for our own household, more particularly for the servants; in all which I was helped, and a very solemn silence followed'
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'Yesterday I experienced liveliness of spirit, without any apparent cause; nothing but free mercy and grace, for I think, as far as I was concerned, I was rather rebellious after reading than otherwise'
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'At last I have been enabled to accomplish my desire in having the greater part of our family here, present at the Scripture reading in the morning, it has been to me a very humbling thing, and I may say trying'
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Dec 1816 - Fry recommences visits to Newgate prison: 'On her second visit, she was, at her own request, left alone amongst the women for some hours, and on that occasion, she read to them the parable of the Lord in the vineyard, in the 20th chapter of St Matthew; and made a few observations on the eleventh hour, and on Christ having come to save sinners, even those who might be said to have wasted the greater part of their lives estranged from Him. Some asked who Christ was; others feared that their day of salvation was passed.'
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Words of a gentleman, well known to Fry, desirous of seeing and judging for himself effects of the experiment in Newgate Gaol, visited Newgate, and wrote: 'I was conducted by a decently-dressed person, the newly appointed yards-woman, to the door of a ward, where, at the head of a long table sat a lady belonging to the Society of Friends. She was reading aloud to the prisoners, who were engaged in needle work around it ... They all rose on my entrance, curtsied respectfully, and then at a signal given resumed their seats and employments.'
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ms journal of Sophia de C-, one of the ladies of the Visiting Society for Newgate, entry dated 1 May 1817: 'Most of the prisoners were collected in a room newly appointed for the purpose to hear a portion of the Sacred Scriptures read to them, either by the matron, or by one of the Ladies' Committee; which last is far preferrable ... I think I can never forget the impression made upon my feelings at this sight. Women from every part of Great Britain; of every age and condition, below the lower-middle rank; were assembled in mute silence, except when the interrupted breathing of their suckling infants informed us of the unhealthy state of these innocent partakers in their parents' punishment. The matron read; I could not refrain from tears; the women wept also; several were under the sentence of death. Swain for forging, who had just received her respite, sat next to me; and on my left hand sat Lawrence, alias Woodman, surrounded by her four children, and only waiting the birth of another, which she hourly expects, to pay the forfeit of her life, as her husband had done for the same crime a short time before'
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ms journal of Sophia de C-, one of the ladies of the Visiting Society for Newgate, entry dated 1 May 1817: '[school room] about twenty young women rose on our entrance and stood with their eyes cast to the ground. A young woman of respectable appearance, had offered herself as mistress, for keeping the young children in order; who were separated from their parents' words and placed in this room. I gave those who wished it permission to read to me, several could both read and write, some could say their letters, and others were in total ignorance, they wept as I asked them questions, and I read to them the parable of the prodigal son, as being particularly applicable to their present situation, they then resumed their needlework.'
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ms journal of Sophia de C-, one of the ladies of the visiting Society for Newgate, entry dated 1 May 1817: '[school room] about twenty young women rose on our entrance and stood with their eyes cast to the ground. A young woman of respectable appearance, had offered herself as mistress, for keeping the young children in order; who were separated from their parents' words and placed in this room. I gave those who wished it permission to read to me, several could both read and write, some could say their letters, and others were in total ignorance, they wept as I asked them questions, and I read to them the parable of the prodigal son, as being particularly applicable to their present situation, they then resumed their needlework.'
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ms journal of Sophia de C-, one of the ladies of the visiting Society for Newgate, entry dated 1 May 1817: 'We next proceeded to the sick ward (it was in good order) and took a list of additional clothes wanted there, and read a chapter from the New Testament, we then bade adieu to this dismal abode'
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ms journal of Sophia de C-, one of the ladies of the visiting Society for Newgate, entry dated 2 May 1817: 'Rose early and visited Newgate where most of the Committee met to receive the Lord Mayor, the Sheriffs, several Aldermen, among whom were Sir William Curtis, Atkins and some of the Gaol Committee ... The women were assembled as usual, looking particularly clean, and Elizabeth Fry had commenced reading a Psalm, when the whole of this party entered this already crowded room. Her reading was thus interrupted for a short time. She looked calmly on the approaching gentlemen, who, soon perceiving the solemnity of her occupation, stood against the multitude; whilst Elizabeth Fry resumed her office, and the women their quietude; and in an impressive tone told them, she never permitted any trifling circumstance to interrupt the very solemn and important engagement of reading the Holy Scriptures ... The usual silence ensued after the reading, then the women withdrew. We could not help feeling particularly glad that the gentlemen were present at this reading'
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ms journal of Sophia de C-, one of the ladies of the visiting Society for Newgate, entry dated 24 May 1817: 'I read to Woodman, who is not in the state of mind we could wish for her, indeed, so unnatural is her situation, that one can hardly tell how or in what manner to meet her case'
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Fry explains reading to prisoners to Committee of House of Commons on the Prisons of the Metropolis, 27 Feb 1818: 'our habit is constantly to read the Scriptures to them twice a day; many of them are taught, and some of them have been enabled to read a little themselves; it has an astonishing effect: I never saw the Scriptures received in the same way, and to many of them they have been entirely new, both the great system of religion and of morality contained in them; and it has been very satisfactory to observe the effect on their minds; when I have sometimes gone and said it was my intention to read, they would flock upstairs after me, as if it were a great pleasure, I had to afford them'
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Fry explains reading to prisoners to Committee of House of Commons on the Prisons of the Metropolis, 27 Feb 1818: 'our habit is constantly to read the Scriptures to them twice a day; many of them are taught, and some of them have been enabled to read a little themselves; it has an astonishing effect: I never saw the Scriptures received in the same way, and to many of them they have been entirely new, both the great system of religion and of morality contained in them; and it has been very satisfactory to observe the effect on their minds; when I have sometimes gone and said it was my intention to read, they would flock upstairs after me, as if it were a great pleasure, I had to afford them'
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'The last time that Mrs Fry was on board the Maria, whilst she lay at Deptford, was one of those solemn and interesting occasions that leave a lasting impression on the minds of those who witness them. There was a great uncertainty whether the poor convicts would see their benefactress again. She stood at the door of the cabin, attended by her friends and the Captain; the women on the quarter-deck facing them. The sailors, anxious to see what was going on, clambered into the rigging, on to the capstan, or mingled in the outskirts of the group. The silence was profound - when Mrs Fry opened her Bible, and in a clear audible voice, read a portion from it. The crews of the other vessels in the tier, attracted by the novelty of the scene, lent over the ships on either side and listened apparently with great attention; she closed the Bible, and after a short pause, knelt down on the deck, and implored a blessing on this work of Christian charity from that God, who, though one may sow and another water, can alone give the increase. Many of the women wept bitterly, all seemed touched'
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Extract of letter from Lady Mackintosh to E. Fry: 'I have had a note from Sir James - "I dined Saturday, June 3rd, at Devonshire House. The company consisted of the Duke of Norfolk, Lords Lansdowne, Lauderdale, Albermarle, Cowper, Hardwicke, Carnarvon, Sefton, Ossulton, Milton and Duncannon. The subject was Mrs Fry's exhortation to forty-five female convicts, at which Lord -- had been present on Friday. He could hardly refrain from tears in speaking of it. He called it the deepest tragedy he had ever witnessed. What she had read and expounded to the convicts, with almost miraculous effect, was the 4th chapter to the Ephesians.'
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E. Fry writes to her husband and daughter, Rachel, of the death of her sister, Priscilla Gurney, dated 25 Mar 1821: 'In the morning she appeared very full of love - put out her hand to several of us - showed much pleasure in your uncle Buxton's being here, and tried to speak to him but could not be understood - expressed her wish for reading, and from her feeling of love and fondness for the chapter and some signs, we believed she meant the thirteenth of 1 Corinthians, and we had a very sweet animating time together, and afterwards our dear brother Fowell spoke very sweetly to her; and besides the Bible she appeared to have some satisfaction in hearing other books read, as it has been her habit during her illness, just like mine when ill ... though she confined it to religious books, yet many of these were of an interesting nature; her hymns [Selection of Hymns, by P. Gurney] interested her much - she liked Samuel Scott's Diary - Piety Promoted - Accounts of the Missions - Watts and How - and many other books of that description ... I think her object in reading was gentle amusement and at times edification - she was very particular not to read the Bible except she felt herself in rather a lively state'
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Recollections of Miss Young, who accompanied her father, Captain Young, to female convict ships at Woolwich: 'On board between two and three hundred women were assembled, in order to listen to the exhortation and prayers of, perhaps, the two brightest personifications of Christian philanthropy that the age could boast. Scarcely could two voices, even so distinguished for beauty and power be imagined, united in a more touching engagement: as indeed was intensified by the breathless attention, the tears and suppressed sobs of the gathered listeners. All of man's word however there heard, heart-stirring as it was at the time, has faded from my memory; but no lapse of time can ever efface the impression of the 107th Psalm, as read by Mrs Fry, with such extraordinary emphasis and intonation that it seemed to make the simple reading a commentary; and, as she passed from passage to passage, struck my youthful mind, as if the whole series of allusions may have been written by the pen of inspiration, in view of such a scene as was then before us. At an interval of twenty years, it is recalled to me as often as that Psalm is brought to my notice. Never in this world, can it be known to how many hearts its solemn appeals were that day carried home by that potent voice'
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Letter from brother-in-law, T.F. Buxton, to E. Fry, Northrepps, 1 Dec 1828: 'I very quiet day yesterday, and a long time spent over the 69th Psalm, from the 13th to the 17th verse, with peculiar reference to you, have given me more encouragement'
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Journal 20 Dec 1837: 'Afterwards I went to Clapham to visit a poor dying converted Jew, who had sent a letter to beg me to go and see him ... A man of pleasing countenance, greatly emaciated, was lying on a little white bed; all clean and in order, his Bible by his side, and animated almost beyond description at seeing me; he kissed my hand, the tears came into his eyes, his poor face flushed, and he was ready almost to raise himself out of his bed. I sat down, and tried to quiet him, and by degrees succeeded. We had a very interesting conversation; he had been in the practice of frequently attending my readings at Newgate, apparently with great attention; latterly I had not seen him, and was ready to suppose, that like many others his zeal was of short duration; but I lately heard that he had been ill ... I found that when he used to come so often to Newgate, he was a man of good moral character, seeking the truth ... he said that his visits to Newgate had been to him beyond going to any church; indeed I little know how much was going on in his heart. He requested me to read a Psalm that I had read one day in Newgate, the 107th. This I did, and he appeared to deeply feel it'
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Journal 20 Dec 1837: 'Afterwards I went to Clapham to visit a poor dying converted Jew, who had sent a letter to beg me to go and see him ... A man of pleasing countenance, greatly emaciated, was lying on a little white bed; all clean and in order, his Bible by his side, and animated almost beyond description at seeing me; he kissed my hand, the tears came into his eyes, his poor face flushed, and he was ready almost to raise himself out of his bed. I sat down, and tried to quiet him, and by degrees succeeded. We had a very interesting conversation; he had been in the practice of frequently attending my readings at Newgate, apparently with great attention; latterly I had not seen him, and was ready to suppose, that like many others his zeal was of short duration; but I lately heard that he had been ill ... I found that when he used to come so often to Newgate, he was a man of good moral character, seeking the truth ... he said that his visits to Newgate had been to him beyond going to any church; indeed I little know how much was going on in his heart. He requested me to read a Psalm that I had read one day in Newgate, the 107th. This I did, and he appeared to deeply feel it'
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Journal of Miss Fraser, Newgate prison visitor, dated 29 Nov 1834: 'I spent an interesting time in Newgate, Mrs Fry and I went there together for several hours. She went with me to the cells and read to the men just sentenced to death. Amongst them, there were two brothers, convicted, I believe, for housebreaking. The youngest was drawn into the commission of the crime by the elder brother. James, the youngest, could not read; he was married to a very pleasing looking young woman, and had two children. I recollect Mrs Fry told the poor men who could not read that if they would try to learn while they were in Newgate, she would give those who succeeded, each a Bible. James took very great pains, and before he left the prison to be transported he could read tolerably. On the 7th of January following, Mrs Fry again went with me to the cells. James then read the 7th chapter of St Matthew's gospel, and received his Bible. He became a valuable servant to the gentleman to whom he was assigned in New South Wales'
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Journal of Miss Fraser, Newgate prison visitor, dated 29 Nov 1834: 'I spent an interesting time in Newgate, Mrs Fry and I went there together for several hours. She went with me to the cells and read to the men just sentenced to death. Amongst them, there were two brothers, convicted, I believe, for housebreaking. The youngest was drawn into the commission of the crime by the elder brother. James, the youngest, could not read; he was married to a very pleasing looking young woman, and had two children. I recollect Mrs Fry told the poor men who could not read that if they would try to learn while they were in Newgate, she would give those who succeeded, each a Bible. James took very great pains, and before he left the prison to be transported he could read tolerably. On the 7th of January following, Mrs Fry again went with me to the cells. James then read the 7th chapter of St Matthew's gospel, and received his Bible. He became a valuable servant to the gentleman to whom he was assigned in New South Wales'
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Visit to France, 1838, accompanied by Joseph Fry, friend Josiah Forster, and Lydia Irving. Letter to children, Abbeville, 28 Jan 1838: 'We left Boulogne yesterday morning in a very comfortable French carraige after some delay in our departure, from various difficulties with luggage, we enjoyed our reading and conversation, until we arrived at Montreuil ... After breakfast we read as usual, then Josiah Forster went out ... picture us - our feet on some fleeces that we have found, generally wrapped up in cloaks, surrounded by screens to keep off the air, the wood fire at our feet. We have just finished an interesting reading in French, in the New Testament, with the landlady, her daughters and some of the servants of the hotel; they appeared very attentive and much interested'
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Visit to France, 1838, accompanied by Joseph Fry, friend Josiah Forster, and Lydia Irving. Letter to children, Abbeville, 28 Jan 1838: 'We left Boulogne yesterday morning in a very comfortable French carraige after some delay in our departure, from various difficulties with luggage, we enjoyed our reading and conversation, until we arrived at Montreuil ... After breakfast we read as usual, then Josiah Forster went out ... picture us - our feet on some fleeces that we have found, generally wrapped up in cloaks, surrounded by screens to keep off the air, the wood fire at our feet. We have just finished an interesting reading in French, in the New Testament, with the landlady, her daughters and some of the servants of the hotel; they appeared very attentive and much interested'
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Visit to France, 1838, accompanied by Joseph Fry, friend Josiah Forster, and Lydia Irving. Letter to children, Abbeville, 28 Jan 1838: 'We left Boulogne yesterday morning in a very comfortable French carraige after some delay in our departure, from various difficulties with luggage, we enjoyed our reading and conversation, until we arrived at Montreuil ... After breakfast we read as usual, then Josiah Forster went out ... picture us - our feet on some fleeces that we have found, generally wrapped up in cloaks, surrounded by screens to keep off the air, the wood fire at our feet. We have just finished an interesting reading in French, in the New Testament, with the landlady, her daughters and some of the servants of the hotel; they appeared very attentive and much interested'
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Aug 1838, journey to Scotland with sister in law E. Fry, friend John Sanderson, and from 15th, William Ball, a Quaker minister. Mr Ball kept a journal during the journey. 18 Aug 1838: 'These journeys are, I trust, not lost time; we have two Scripture readings daily in the carriage, and much instructive conversation; also abundant time for that which is so important, the private reading of the Holy Scripture. This is very precious to dear Elizabeth Fry, and I have often thought it a privilege to note her reverent "marking and learning" of these sacred truths of divine inspiration. Often does she lay down the Book, close her eyes, and wait upon Him, who hath the key of David to open and seal the instruction of the sacred page. Truly it helps to explain how her "profiting appears unto all" when she is thus diligent and fervent, in "meditating upon these things", and giving herself wholly to them'
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Aug 1838, journey to Scotland with sister in law E. Fry, friend John Sanderson, and from 15th, William Ball, a Quaker minister. Mr Ball kept a journal during the journey. 18 Aug 1838: 'These journeys are, I trust, not lost time; we have two Scripture readings daily in the carriage, and much instructive conversation; also abundant time for that which is so important, the private reading of the Holy Scripture. This is very precious to dear Elizabeth Fry, and I have often thought it a privilege to note her reverent "marking and learning" of these sacred truths of divine inspiration. Often does she lay down the Book, close her eyes, and wait upon Him, who hath the key of David to open and seal the instruction of the sacred page. Truly it helps to explain how her "profiting appears unto all" when she is thus diligent and fervent, in "meditating upon these things", and giving herself wholly to them'
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Aug 1838, journey to Scotland with sister in law E. Fry, friend John Sanderson, and from 15th, William Ball, a Quaker minister. Mr Ball kept a journal during the journey. 23 Aug 1838 - large meeting of ladies to form a society for visiting prisons of Aberdeen and vicinity: 'Between the formation of the association, and proceeding to select the various officers, Elizabeth Fry read a Psalm, spoke very nicely upon it to the ladies, and was then engaged in prayer'
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Aug 1838, journey to Scotland with sister in law E. Fry, friend John Sanderson, and from 15th, William Ball, a Quaker minister. Mr Ball kept a journal during the journey. 8 Sept 1838: 'Invited the landlord of our Greenock Hotel, and his wife, and servants, to our Scripture reading this morning. They came in and we were favoured with an instructive session'
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Journal, Boulogne 28 May 1843: 'The afternoon of the Sabbath I paid a distressing visit to the St Lazare Prison; such a scene of disorder and deep evil I have seldom witnessed - gambling, romping, screaming. With much difficulty we collected four Protestant prisoners, and read with them. I spoke to those poor disorderly women, who appeared attentive, and showed some feeling.'
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Evidence of E. Fry to parliamentary Select Committee - Fry explains that she is careful in her prison readings to have a regard to the feelings of the women. For instance, on one occasion a Jewess objected to religious instruction provided by the ladies: 'On account of our reading in the New Testament. Afterwards she came and we endeavoured to adapt the reading a little to her, we reading the Psalms and a portion of the Old Testament'
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Day on which E. Fry read the new rules to the female prisoners at Newgate: 'when this business was concluded, one of the visitors read aloud the 15th chapter of Luke - the parable of the barren fig tree, seeming applicable to the audience'
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Officials invited into Newgate to see the success of E. Fry's new prison routine: 'In compliance with this appointment, the Lord Mayor, the Sheriffs and several of the Aldermen attended. The prisoners were assembled together, and it being requested that no alteration in their usual practice might take place, one of the ladies read a chapter in the Bibe, and then the females proceeded to their various avocations. Their attention during the time of reading; their orderly and sober deportment, their decent dress, the absence of everything like tumult, noise or contention, the obedience, and the respect shown by them, and the cheerfulness visible in their countenances and manners, conspired to excite the astonishment and admiration of their visitors'
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Account of the gifts given to several female prisoners who burnt their playing cards: 'she called the first to her, and telling her intention, produced a neat muslin handkerchief. To her surprise, the girl looked disappointed; and, on asking the reason, she confessed that she had hoped Mrs [Fry] would have given her a Bible, with her own name written in it, which she should value beyond any thing else, and always keep and read. Such a request, made in such a manner, could not be refused; and the Lady assures me, that she never gave a Bible in her life, which was received with so much interest and satisfaction, or one, which she thinks more likely to do good. It is remarkable that this girl, from her conduct in her preceding prison, and in court, came to Newgate with the worst of characters; she has read her Bible with tolerable regularity, and has evinced much propriety of conduct, and great hopes are entertained of her permanent improvement'
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'in expressing our acknowledgement of the good they have done, it is our duty to point out those parts of their proceedings which appear to us inexpedient and injudicious, and to interfere materially with the laudable objects which they themselves have in view. We think the introduction of the visitors who now attend on Fridays the readings of the women highly improper. On one occasion, when we were present, there were 23 visitors; whilst owing to the want of room thus caused, only 28 prisoners could attend the lecture. Not only were there many prisoners, who might otherwise have been present, thus deprived of this opportunity of receiving instruction, but the sight of so many strangers distracted the attention even of those who were there. We observed the absence of that strict attention which is so necessary to the profitable reception of religious instruction.'
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24pp pamphlet describing a reading by Mrs Fry to the female prisoners at Newgate, at which the author was present. pp.8-9: 'The silence was at length broken by that mild voice which the prisoners had often heard. Mrs Fry began to read from the Bible. She had selected the 12th and 13th chapters of the epistle to the Romans. This selection did honour to her judgement, and while, with distinct articulation, she dwelt upon the more important of the words of Holy writ, every hearer appeared affected. The convicts shewed their interest in the instruction thus afforded them by the eye fixed on the reader, and their anxiety by heads put, as it were, forward to meet the sound, while the eye had the tear quivering on the lash, or the cheek shewed that it had overflowed its bounds. When she had finished the chapters which she had read slowly, to give time to the hearers to receive the words, and to comprehend their meaning, she remained for a few seconds perfectly silent, and the silence was a silence which might be felt.'
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'The following particulars relating to a poor woman named Amelia Roberts, who has hanged for robbing her master's house, are so instructive both to masters and servants... The facts stated were communicated by her to two of the ladies of the Newgate Association who visited her ... the death of Lady E.K. obliged her to seek a new service. At that time she said she enjoyed nothing so much as reading her Bible and attending the worship of God'
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'The following particulars relating to a poor woman named Amelia Roberts, who has hanged for robbing her master's house, are so instructive both to masters and servants... The facts stated were communicated by her to two of the ladies of the Newgate Association who visited her ... She then entered the service of Mr A., knowing his mother to be a serious character and presuming that the son would be the same. But in this she was mistaken ... During the three years of her residence under Mr A.'s roof, she heard a chapter of the Bible read but once, and that was one Sunday evening after the death of his mother ... she soon ceased to read her Bible, and, thus falling by little and little, she first neglected the forms of religion, and then grossly departed from its precepts'
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'Mary O'Connor, the woman first appointed to be school-mistress to her fellow-prisoners, conducted herself with much propriety in that office and in every other respect while she remained in Newgate ... Her health was declining when she was liberated, and at her own desire, admission into the St James's Infirmary was procured for her. There she became rapidly worse ... She was reminded that though too weak to read, she might try and recal what she had formerly read; and several times when passages of Scripture were begun, she would take them up, repeating them from memory'
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'Mary Joy was convicted in July, 1834. From the period of her conviction, her mind seems to have been exercised with a sense of her sinful state; and she frequently said, she had never forgotten the impression she felt on hearing the Eighty-eighth Psalm read immediately on her return to the prison after her trial.'
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'Mary Joy was convicted in July, 1834 ... She was indeed in bad health at the time of her coming to Newgate; she believed she should not recover, and her dread of death was extreme. She could not read, but it was her delight to listen to the Scriptures, and when others who were more dangerously ill were read to in the adjoining ward of the Infirmary, she would come, whether invited or not, to hear what was read'
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'Mary Joy was convicted in July, 1834 ... She remained in Newgate till the month of January, when a pardon was obtained for her; and she removed to a very humble lodging, where she was under the care of a sister. Here, though exposed to fresh trials, she was also peculiarly favoured by the constant visits of a lady, who read the Scriptures to her and was in every way her comforter and friend.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: anon Print: Book
'Eliza Cooper was first visited in Newgate in the summer of 1849. She was committed for unlawfully deserting her infant ... On passing through the infirmary one day, I found poor Cooper in bed, apparently in a very low and declining state of health. I spoke a few words to her, but she covered her face and seemed unable to reply, and thinking her too ill for conversation, I passed on to the door, but found it unexpectedly locked, the matron having forgotten to leave it open for me. Finding it impossible to make her hear, I turned back to poor Cooper, and offered to read with her if it would not tire her: "Tire me!" she said, "Oh, no!" and she looked up with eyes streaming with tears, and a countenance expressive of the deepest emotion. That half-hour at Newgate glided rapidly away, for the poor prisoner opened all her heart to me, and manifested the deepest concern for her soul. She told me that she should never forget the narrative of the rich man and Lazarus, which had been read and explained to her the previous week. She said, "I felt myself so weak and so miserable that I thought I am just like Lazarus - a poor forgotten diseased creature - Oh! that my soul were like his, so that when I die angels may carry me to heaven."'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: anon Print: Book
'Eliza Cooper was first visited in Newgate in the summer of 1849. She was committed for unlawfully deserting her infant ... On passing through the infirmary one day, I found poor Cooper in bed, apparently in a very low and declining state of health. I spoke a few words to her, but she covered her face and seemed unable to reply, and thinking her too ill for conversation, I passed on to the door, but found it unexpectedly locked, the matron having forgotten to leave it open for me. Finding it impossible to make her hear, I turned back to poor Cooper, and offered to read with her if it would not tire her: "Tire me!" she said, "Oh, no!" and she looked up with eyes streaming with tears, and a countenance expressive of the deepest emotion. That half-hour at Newgate glided rapidly away, for the poor prisoner opened all her heart to me, and manifested the deepest concern for her soul. She told me that she should never forget the narrative of the rich man and Lazarus, which had been read and explained to her the previous week. She said, "I felt myself so weak and so miserable that I thought I am just like Lazarus - a poor forgotten diseased creature - Oh! that my soul were like his, so that when I die angels may carry me to heaven."'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Eliza Cooper Print: Book
'Eliza Cooper was first visited in Newgate in the summer of 1849. She was committed for unlawfully deserting her infant ... On her discharge from prison she was found so ill that the governor kindly gained her admission into St Bartholomew's Hospital ... She also evinced an earnest desire for the salvation of her fellow-sufferers. On one occasion she entreated me to speak to a dying woman who lay in the bed opposite to her, and she listened with trembling anxiety while I read and talked to her'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: anon Print: Book
'Eliza Cooper was first visited in Newgate in the summer of 1849. She was committed for unlawfully deserting her infant ... On her discharge from prison she was found so ill that the governor kindly gained her admission into St Bartholomew's Hospital ... On July 28th, having been prevented from seeing her for a week, I found her much worse in body, but evidently growing in grace. She was overjoyed to see me ... on some of the beautiful verses of the 103d Psalm being repeated, her countenance beamed with such love and thankfulness as can hardly be described. The nurse said it was impossible for any poor suffering creature to be more patient. She delighted to have texts of Scripture repeated to her, and would murmur them over again to herself'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Eliza Cooper Print: Book
'Eliza Cooper was first visited in Newgate in the summer of 1849. She was committed for unlawfully deserting her infant ... On her discharge from prison she was found so ill that the governor kindly gained her admission into St Bartholomew's Hospital ... On July 28th, having been prevented from seeing her for a week, I found her much worse in body, but evidently growing in grace. She was overjoyed to see me ... on some of the beautiful verses of the 103d Psalm being repeated, her countenance beamed with such love and thankfulness as can hardly be described.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: anon Print: Book
'The case of Maria Manning is not one which it can be in any measure satisfactory to dwell upon ... Manning requested to see the visitor who had attended her in Newgate on the day before that fixed for her execution, and a strange contrast was exhibited by the heartless mob that thronged every avenue to the prison and the quiet demeanour of the culprit seated in her lonely cell. The Chaplain entered with the visitor, and at the prisoner's request read the fifty-first Psalm, and then engaged in prayer with deep solemnity; but on his leaving the two together, there was no attempt at confession - no evidence of repentance; and we fear we must conclude the wretched woman to have been shut up to a proud and haughty spirit, which scorned to acknowledge she merited the abhorrence her dark crime had called forth'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: anon Print: Book
'Read some numbers of Blackwood and enjoyed myself much more than I should have done had I been gadding about in the wet.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau Print: Serial / periodical
'Great article abusive of Wackerow appeared in Ovens & Murray this morning'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau Print: Newspaper
'Read the paper at Hutchinson's in the afternoon.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau Print: Newspaper
'I took a stroll as far as the Mechanics read the papers came home had some toddy & a bath & went to bed'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau Print: Newspaper
'I was busy with prison business till past nine o clock, then I went to the Mechanics & read the papers, came home had some toddy'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau Print: Newspaper
'In the evening went to the Mechanics & read the papers.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau Print: Newspaper
'Had a little barney with Polly, owing to my reading some cutting remarks by "a woman" "on women" in the Broadway Magazine. I skipped all the hits at the man & [read?] all the slaps the women got. Polly found me out & called me deceitful.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau Print: Serial / periodical
'I read the Papers at [the Mechanics?]'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau Print: Newspaper
'In the evening I strolled down to the Mechanics & had a glance at the pictures in the English comic periodicals. The Reading Room was very hot & I could not bring my mind to read.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau Print: Serial / periodical
'In the evening went for a walk with Polly, called at the Mechanics & got some periodicals, took a turn through the Eastern Market & Bourke Street & then home, read the Australasian had some toddy & went to bed.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau Print: Serial / periodical
'Went to the Mechanics & read the Evening paper, not much news.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau Print: Newspaper
'In the evening went into town & read the papers, there was very little new & the town seemed quiet Bourke Street being I thought remarkably so.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau Print: Newspaper
'A leading article appeared in the Argus of this morning lauding the management of Dunedin Gaol & calling attention to a report of the Governer that the Gaol was more than self supporting the prisoners having earned in 1868 more than a thousand pounds over the whole cost of the Gaol.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau Print: Newspaper
'Went in the evening to the Mechanics & read the papers, or rather tried to do so. The Church Assembly was sitting in conference in a room over the Reading Room & the noise made in applauding the different speakers was sufficient to prevent any one from staying & trying to read.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau Print: Newspaper
'Went to the Mechanics this evening & had a look at the Herald.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau Print: Newspaper
'Went to the Mechanics this evening & had a look at the papers, the Philarmonic (sic) people were practising so ready (sic) was not pleasant nor very profitable.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau Print: Newspaper
'My letter appeared in the Argus this morning & created quite a flutter.' [letter to the editor in response to the article on the Dunedin Gaol, written 10 Feb]
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau Print: Newspaper
'In the Argus of this morning a Leading Article appeared in which "my taking an erroneous view of the meaning of a previous article" was "readily excused" "in consideration of my evident desire to improve the system in vogue at the Establishment of which I was the Head". I was called “Zealous & intelligent” & then (without acknowledgement) my views as expressed to the sub-editor were put forth as the “correct card”.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau Print: Newspaper
'Looked in at the Mechanics & read a little in Punch & the papers, then came back to the Gaol'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau Print: Newspaper
'Looked in at the Mechanics & read a little in Punch & the papers, then came back to the Gaol'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau Print: Serial / periodical
'Went down to the Mechanics Institute this evening, the Library was shut up, found however all the English periodicals on the table of the Reading Room, came home & went to bed.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau Print: Serial / periodical
'Went into town in the evening & read the papers.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau Print: Newspaper
'Went into town in the evening saw by the Ovens Paper of Thursday that Mrs Zincke gave birth to a little girl on the 21st.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau Print: Newspaper
' In the evening I went to the Mechanics & read the Evening Paper.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau Print: Newspaper
'Went into town in the evening & read the papers, on my return the girls were very jolly.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau Print: Newspaper
'In the evening went to the Mechanics & read the papers, returned had some beer & went to bed.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau Print: Newspaper
'I went to the Mechanics in the evening & read the papers.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau Print: Newspaper
'Went into town in the evening to the Mechanics read the papers came home'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau Print: Newspaper
'In the evening I went to the Mechanics & read the papers, came home after a stroll in Bourke Street'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau Print: Newspaper
'Was at the Mechanics to-day went especially to see the Ovens & Murray & whether my "Copy" had been used, it did not appear but there was a notice to the effect that the letters of several Correspondents &c had been held over until Saturday. “The Lancashire Lass” is probably among them I hope not for perhaps it would be better burnt.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau Print: Newspaper
'Read the Australasian & lounged upon the sofa after dinner till muster time.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau Print: Serial / periodical
'Received two copies of the Ovens & Murray Advertiser. Glennon’s advertisement offering £25 Reward for the discovery of the letters received by Stewart, was in Saturday's paper. There was also a paragraph calling attention to the Reward & remarking that the Government had fully exonerated Glennon & paid his expenses.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau Print: Newspaper
'In the evening went to the Mechanics read in the Ovens & Murray a skit I had written some week or more since on “The Lancashire Lass”.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau Print: Newspaper
'In the evening went to the Mechanics & read the papers.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau Print: Newspaper
'Went to the Mechanics in the evening & read the papers, nothing particular.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau Print: Newspaper
'An answer to the letter I wrote to the Argus about Dunedin Gaol appeared to-day in the Argus signed “Robert Stout” the letter was ably written & I received in it a severe handling. Quantities of works performed & Prices charged for some were given & the correctness of the Gaoler’s report confirmed in a most satisfactory manner. Yet "A man convinced against his will" "Is of the same opinion still".'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau Print: Newspaper
'My letter in reply to Mr Stout appeared in the Argus.' [composed previous day]
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau Print: Newspaper
'In the evening went to the Mechanics & read the papers. Punch very fair & should improve now its competitors have been obliged to abandon the field'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau Print: Serial / periodical
'In the evening I went to the Mechanics & read the papers, returned home had a smoke & then went off to bed.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau Print: Newspaper
'In the evening I went to the Mechanics & read the papers, turning the Country ones over nervously for fear of finding myself pitched into for my want of courtesy to the Dunedin Gaol officials.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau Print: Newspaper
'In the evening I went to the Mechanics read the papers & then spent some time in searching among different periodicals for some engravings for Lane to copy, brought home a volume of the Art Union & one of Belgravia, had a pipe & a grog & then to bed.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau Print: Newspaper, Serial / periodical
'after dinner we parted I had a look at the papers at the Mechanics & then came home.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau Print: Newspaper, Serial / periodical
'In evening I went into town & read the Papers at the Mechanics, nothing yet done about the formation of a new Ministry all sorts of rumours however & very various combinations. The Evening Paper states that nothing yet is known & I suppose that is most likely. '
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau Print: Newspaper
' In Bourke Street I met Joe White & we commenced as usual chatting on different subjects. I asked what sort of a place the "Oriental Saloon" was as an article had appeared in the "The Age" which made it out to be a terribly dissipated place & one that ought to be put down. It seemed that at first the waitresses had been dressed as Bloomers. Their costume was then altered & instead of trousers, they wore short skirts & spangled dresses. White said it was all humbug so far as the description of The Age went & asked me to go in for a moment & have a look. The Age article had evidently excited a good deal of curiosity for numbers were evidently judging for themselves, among others was the Editor of The Australasian & several friends.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau Print: Newspaper
'after tea went to the Mechanics & read the papers then came home'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau Print: Newspaper
'Went to the Mechanics in the evening & read the papers. McCulloch is forming a Ministry & asked the House to give him till Thursday to complete the arrangements.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau Print: Newspaper
'Went to the Mechanics in the evening & read the papers. The Ministry not yet formed & the House adjourned till to-morrow when the New Cabinet will positively be announced.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau Print: Newspaper
'After tea I read some goblin stories to the youngsters, then I went to the Mechanics & read the papers. "Touchstone" has come to life again. The first number of the new series was published to-day.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau Print: Newspaper
'The Age which is bidding to be considered the Government Organ as it was during the old McCulloch Ministry is yet very bitter about the acceptance of office of MacPherson & calls upon the Liberal Party to persistently protest against it. The Argus excuses MacPherson & The Telegraph takes his part.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau Print: Newspaper
'The Age which is bidding to be considered the Government Organ as it was during the old McCulloch Ministry is yet very bitter about the acceptance of office of MacPherson & calls upon the Liberal Party to persistently protest against it. The Argus excuses MacPherson & The Telegraph takes his part.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau Print: Newspaper
'The Age which is bidding to be considered the Government Organ as it was during the old McCulloch Ministry is yet very bitter about the acceptance of office of MacPherson & calls upon the Liberal Party to persistently protest against it. The Argus excuses MacPherson & The Telegraph takes his part.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau Print: Newspaper
' Went to the Mechanics this evening & read the papers'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau Print: Newspaper
'In the evening I went to the Mechanics & read the papers'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau Print: Newspaper
'Came home & bought the Extraordinary there was very little in it in fact no item that was to me of any importance at all so Polly & I both regretted the expenditure of the sixpence.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau Print: Newspaper
'After Tea I went into town & spent an hour at the Mechanics saw some of the English Comic Journals the other magazines had not been opened out.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau Print: Serial / periodical
'In the evening after tea I read a fairy tale to the Youngsters then went to the Mechanics & had a look at the Papers.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau Print: Newspaper
'After muster I went to the Mechanics & read the papers for an hour or two'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau Print: Newspaper
'After tea I read a fairy tale to the youngsters & then went to the Mechanics & read the papers.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau Print: Newspaper
'Dotty's two little girls are on a visit to us they came either yesterday or on the day previous. This evening I read them a fairy tale & they seemed very much delighted. Went into town & read the papers at the Mechanics, then returned'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau Print: Newspaper
'Went to the Mechanics... & read the papers'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau Print: Newspaper
'I went to the Mechanics in the evening & read the papers, then returned home had some more gin & water & went to bed.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau Print: Newspaper
'It came on to rain very fast this evening, however I went to the Mechanics & read the papers very little however in them just now. Punch had a cartoon representing Macpherson as the Skeleton in the cupboard of the McCulloch & so he probably will prove to be.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau Print: Serial / periodical
'I went to the Mechanics & read the papers. Touchstone has a Cartoon'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau Print: Serial / periodical
'By the Argus of this morning I saw that Mr Wintle died last evening.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau Print: Newspaper
'Went to the Mechanics & read the papers nothing very particular in them.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau Print: Newspaper
'In the evening I went to the Mechanics & read the Ovens & Murray, saw that Evan Evans Louisa Wintle’s husband had purchased Taminick Station for £2,300.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau Print: Newspaper
'Went to the Mechanics & read the papers home by nine o clock'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau Print: Newspaper
'After muster I went to the Mechanics read the papers & got some Blackwood's Magazines ... when I got home Polly had gone out so I read my magazines by myself & smoked a solitary pipe'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau Print: Newspaper
'After muster I went to the Mechanics read the papers & got some Blackwood's Magazines ... when I got home Polly had gone out so I read my magazines by myself & smoked a solitary pipe'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau Print: Serial / periodical
'After tea I read to the youngsters & then went out for a walk, came back & read the Australasian'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau Print: Serial / periodical
'In the evening went to the Mechanics & read the papers'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau Print: Newspaper
'Went to the Mechanics & read the papers in the afternoon'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau Print: Newspaper
'In the evening went to the Mechanics & poured over the papers. In the Evening Herald there was a paragraph stating "Butler" many years Police Magistrate at Beechworth was to take charge of one of the Melbourne Suburban Benches'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau Print: Newspaper
''In the evening went to the Mechanics & poured over the papers. In the Evening Herald there was a paragraph stating "Butler" many years Police Magistrate at Beechworth was to take charge of one of the Melbourne Suburban Benches ... Glanced over the Comic Papers some of them very amusing. Got home by nine o clock'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau Print: Serial / periodical
'Went into town after Muster & read the papers at the Mechanics, did not see any very great news in fact never remember there being so little after the arrival of the English Mail. After tea did Harry’s sums & read the Illustrated'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau Print: Newspaper
'Went into town after Muster & read the papers at the Mechanics, did not see any very great news in fact never remember there being so little after the arrival of the English Mail. After tea did Harry’s sums & read the Illustrated'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau Print: Newspaper
'After muster I went into town to the Mechanics & read the Papers, saw that the verdict against Draper had been upheld by the Judges & that his sentence would have to be carried out. When I left the Reading Room it was raining rather heavily'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau Print: Newspaper
'After tea did Harry's sums & then went to the Mechanics a second time skimmed the Weeklys'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau Print: Newspaper
'Went to the Mechanics & read the papers between muster & Tea time.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau Print: Newspaper
'after tea I went to the Mechanics & read the papers'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau Print: Newspaper
'I went to the Mechanics this evening & read the papers then took a stroll & came home.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau Print: Newspaper
'A great sensation in the Herald of this evening. In a fit of jealousy, a Mr Cook shot a Mrs Moss through the heart & then blew his own head nearly off.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau Print: Newspaper
'In the evening the ladies went to St Peters church I staid at home & did Harry's sums then amused myself by reading aloud some pieces from Bells Elocutionist...When the ladies returned I did a little reading & then took some grog & went to bed.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau Print: Book
'I read the papers at the Mechanics in the evening & brought home a book'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau Print: Newspaper
'Went to the Mechanics & read the papers saw by the Herald Mr McMullen of Wangaratta died from the effects of a fall from his horse'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau Print: Newspaper
'After Muster went into Town & read the papers at the Mechanics ... I stayed at home & finished “The Giraffe Hunters” then I smoked & drank gin & water'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau Print: Newspaper
'Went to the Mechanics & read the papers before tea, went again after tea & exchanged some books, came home & read till I was tired then smoked away & talked to Polly till it was time to go to bed'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau Print: Newspaper
'After Muster I went to the Mechanics & read the papers then strolled through the town ... Did not go out on Saturday evening but stopped at home & read the Australasian'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau Print: Serial / periodical
'After Muster I went to the Mechanics & read the papers then strolled through the town ... Did not go out on Saturday evening but stopped at home & read the Australasian'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau Print: Newspaper
'In the afternoon I read a story out of Grimm's Goblins to the little girls & after Muster as the weather was wet I stayed at home & read ... In the evening I went to the Mechanics & read the papers, nothing however very startling. Bowman's lecture on "Shams" appeared in the Ovens & Murray of Saturday last'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau Print: Newspaper
'In the afternoon I mustered & then sat reading till tea time. In the evening I went as usual to the Mechanics & read the papers'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau Print: Newspaper
'The English Mail was telegraphed to day nothing very important in the Telegram published by the Argus'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau Print: Newspaper
'Went to the Mechanics & read the papers saw in the Ovens & Murray that Kerferd in his letter stated every one connected with the Beechworth Gaol was more or less censured in the Report excepting "Gibson" & that there would probably be dismissals & removals'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau Print: Newspaper
'In the afternoon after muster went to the Mechanics & read the papers. Melbourne Punch had a picture of the Tasmanian Dean leering most sensually at a lady sitting beside him while the Melbourne Dean was looking horrified at the short skirts of one of the waitresses of the Oriental Cafe. Punch has a piece of poetry on the subject & advises the Committee of Clergymen who are to put down immorality first to look to the beam at home among themselves before they attack the mote in society at large'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau Print: Serial / periodical
'After Muster went into town & read the Papers at the Mechanics'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau Print: Newspaper
' In the Australasian of yesterday "The Peripatetic" announced his last article having as he said sold his office of Free Speech for a mess of official porridge in other words Marcus Clarke the Peripatetic has been appointed Secretary to the (illegible) [Union?]. The Australasian will miss the P.P.s column.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau Print: Newspaper
'After muster went to the Mechanics & had a look at the Evening Herald & at Melbourne Punch nothing startling in either of the papers excepting that some clothes were found on the Banks of the Yarra which on being examined were found to contain between three & four hundred pounds in notes, the clothes were afterwards found to belong to a Mr D. (illegible) a professor of languages who is thought to have committed suicide. In the evening felt very lazily inclined & bilious sat & read till nine o clock'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau Print: Newspaper
'After muster went to the Mechanics & had a look at the Evening Herald & at Melbourne Punch nothing startling in either of the papers excepting that some clothes were found on the Banks of the Yarra which on being examined were found to contain between three & four hundred pounds in notes, the clothes were afterwards found to belong to a Mr D. (illegible) a professor of languages who is thought to have committed suicide. In the evening felt very lazily inclined & bilious sat & read till nine o clock'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau Print: Serial / periodical
'Went to the Mechanics & turned over the leaves of "Touchstone". There's nothing in it.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau Print: Serial / periodical
'Saw by the Ovens & Murray Advertiser that Butler is really about leaving Beechworth'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau Print: Newspaper
'After muster I went to the Mechanics & read the Herald then came back & stayed at home the whole of the evening'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau Print: Newspaper
'After muster went to the Mechanics & read the evening Herald brought some periodicals away & got home in time for tea. In the evening I stayed at home helped Harry with his sums read a bit of Blackwood smoked my pipe & went to bed tolerably early'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau Print: Newspaper
'After muster went to the Mechanics & read the evening Herald brought some periodicals away & got home in time for tea. In the evening I stayed at home helped Harry with his sums read a bit of Blackwood smoked my pipe & went to bed tolerably early'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau Print: Serial / periodical
'Went to the Mechanics in the evening & read the papers. Mr Gordon a well known sporting man & a poet of some pretensions blew his brains out yesterday. This suicide has created much sensation'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau Print: Newspaper
'I mustered at four o clock & after tea went into town & read the Evening Herald, with the exception of an Attempt at Murder followed by determined suicide at Castlemaine (& that is nothing in these times) there appeared to be no news of any importance'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau Print: Newspaper
'I went to the Mechanics, nothing of much importance or interest in the Evening Herald'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau Print: Newspaper
'After muster although it was raining & the weather was exceedingly unpleasant I went into town & read the papers at the Mechanics'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau Print: Newspaper
'After muster this afternoon I went into town & read the evening paper, Nothing particular in it, the newspaper boys were however calling out the arrival of the Mail so I suppose I was too early for the intelligence she brought & that it appeared later in the evening in a second edition'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau Print: Newspaper
'Received newspaper from Beechworth nothing much except that Sixpenny nobblers are now general in the township.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau Print: Newspaper
'Came home read a story in Temple Bar, drank my grog smoked my pipe & went to bed'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau Print: Serial / periodical
'After muster I went to the Mechanics & read the Herald which was eagerly sought after for further intelligence concerning the fire, brought a Herald home for Polly & Harry's satisfaction'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau Print: Newspaper
'In the evening after Muster I went into Melbourne & read the papers. The English ones were on the table. Got home before nine o clock'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau Print: Newspaper
'This evening I went to the Mechanics & read the Papers'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau Print: Newspaper
'Last night at Hotham a woman was beaten to death my her husband. The woman it seems was addicted to drink & the man used to beat her brutally on Saturday night however he struck her once too often & ended the miserable life she was leading. From the report of the case in the papers it seems the woman was brutally ill treated & that before life was extinct she must have been fearfully battered. The handle of a saucepan was used'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau Print: Newspaper
'Went to the Mechanics & then to the Yorick Club, not much in the Papers so I amused myself by looking through "The Suggestion Book" in which there were a great many sarcastic remarks some of which showed not over good feeling on the part of some of the members one to the other'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau Print: Newspaper
'Went to the Yorick Club in the evening & skimmed the papers'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau Print: Newspaper
'After muster went to the Yorick Club & peeped at the papers came home to dinner'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau Print: Newspaper
'Got some Beechworth Papers, great Leading Article regarding the dismissal of Stewart & the Turnkeys.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau Print: Newspaper
'In the evening I strolled down to the Mechanics & had a glance at the pictures in the English comic periodicals. The Reading Room was very hot & I could not bring my mind to read'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau Print: Serial / periodical
'After Muster I went to the Mechanics & had a look at the Evening paper. There was nothing however particular in it.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau Print: Newspaper
'Read the Australasian, till Mr Wyburn & Miss Morphy put in an appearance'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau Print: Serial / periodical
'Was shocked to see by the Argus this morning that Mr Farie was dangerously ill & on enquiring at the office I found it was too true'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau Print: Newspaper
'Went to the Yorick Club this afternoon or rather evening stayed there & read a Review in Blackwood on [Lothair?] it was a most withering attack & Disreali (sic) can but wince pretty smartly at it though of course as far as the Book itself goes it is very likely to help sell it'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau Print: Serial / periodical
'called at the Yorick Club, read the papers, very little new in any of them'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau Print: Newspaper
'went to the Yorick Club & had another look at the papers'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau Print: Newspaper
'After muster I sat at home & read ... After tea I went into town & called at the "Mechanics" & afterwards at the "Yorick". Saw in the Evening Paper that a Bank Accountant at Geelong was supposed to have embezzled a considerable sum of money & to have gone to Fidgi, should this be true it will be another great scandal as Mr Farrell the person accused was a very old resident of Geelong & much respected by the inhabitants of that place'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau Print: Newspaper
'Went to the office this morning nothing new excepting that the Argus speaks of "Earl" as Second favourite for the Metropolitan. This is one of the horses that Ellis & I have in our double Metn. & Cup'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau Print: Newspaper
'After muster this afternoon I went to the Yorick Club & read some of the papers'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau Print: Newspaper
'Went after muster to the Yorick. In the Herald of this evening "Castieau" was mentioned among the passengers in a Steam-boat from Sydney felt convinced however it was a mistake as I have never heard of any one of our name on this side of the world excepting my sisters & myself.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau Print: Newspaper
'A Paragraph appeared in both the Argus & the Age this morning about Harry's accident & the boy was of course as pleased as Punch & as he was kept away from School rather believed in the accident than otherwise'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau Print: Newspaper
'A Paragraph appeared in both the Argus & the Age this morning about Harry's accident & the boy was of course as pleased as Punch & as he was kept away from School rather believed in the accident than otherwise'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau Print: Newspaper
'After muster went into Melbourne & called at "the Yorick", had a look at Punch, there was a portrait of Dr Paley not a very flattering one but still a good likeness. The letter-press added to the picture was kindly worded so I suppose the doctor will not be very much displeased though the lips are represented as decidedly heavy & his general expression rather more sleepy than intellectual looking'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau Print: Serial / periodical
'The "Argus" of this morning was very interesting & it seems the more one think (sic) about the war the more astounding is its brief history.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau Print: Newspaper
'After muster went to "The Yorick" & had a peep at some of the English papers "War" "War" "War" is the burden of them all Ordinary, Illustrated or Comic. "War" is the inspiration of their columns. Stayed at home this evening played cribbage with Polly. Then when she went to bed sat & read the Standard'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau Print: Newspaper
'After muster went to "The Yorick" & had a peep at some of the English papers "War" "War" "War" is the burden of them all Ordinary, Illustrated or Comic. "War" is the inspiration of their columns. Stayed at home this evening played cribbage with Polly. Then when she went to bed sat & read the Standard'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau Print: Newspaper
'In the Herald this evening there was a paragraph stating that thre of the Associates were dismissed & giving the names of three gentleman who were to take their places'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau Print: Newspaper
'At the Mechanics to day saw a paragraph about Harry's accident in the Ovens Murray Observer'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau Print: Newspaper
'After tea I went to the Yorick Club & read the papers. In the Evening Herald was a remarkable circular from the Solicitor General to the Honorary Magistrates in which was pointed out that it had become known some of the magistrates had received payment for the performance of their honorary duties & that this was highly improper Of course the magistrates as a whole were "highly honorable men" but some were not the "clean potato" & this circular was just a warning, that any magistrate taking "tip" & being found out would be kicked out of the Commission without delay, really a remarkable circular & highly flattering to the "great unpaid".'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau Print: Newspaper
'During the day I read the War Supplement of the Australasian & made myself tolerably conversant with the particulars of the war so far as it has proceeded. Read also another portion of Lothair must confess with less pleasure than I felt in perusing some of the previous chapters. The part I read to-day related exclusively to the Wiles of the Roman Catholic Clergy in their strenuous efforts to ensnare Lothair in their toils & win him & his money over to the Church. It did not seem natural to me High Dignitaries of the Church within a step of the Pope himself would have condescended to plot as they are represented to Plot, nor that any one in his senses could have been imposed upon & made act so foolishly as Lothair is represented to have acted.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau Print: Serial / periodical
'went to the "Yorick" there was however no one there so I read for a time & then left'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau Print: Newspaper, Serial / periodical
'then spent the rest of the morning in reading the Australasian & "All the Year round"'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau Print: Serial / periodical
'then spent the rest of the morning in reading the Australasian & "All the Year round"'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau Print: Serial / periodical
'Read nearly the whole of the day. Had four numbers of "Edwin Drood" & read them all, then in the evening went to the Yorick & read the fifth number ... I read the Australasian'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau Print: Serial / periodical
'looked in at the Yorick, there was no one at all there however I stayed & read for some time came home had some toddy & then went to bed'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau Print: Newspaper, Serial / periodical
'then went to the Mechanics, read the Ovens & Murray of Saturday last which contained a Supplement with a first rate copy of a Photograph of Bismarck'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau Print: Newspaper
'then went to "the Yorick" where I met Kane with whom I chatted for some time about "Supple" read the papers then came home.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau Print: Newspaper
'Saw by the Ovens & Murray that Alderdice & Fanny Young had got married, they have been courting for a long time'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau Print: Newspaper
'went back to the Argus office where quite a crowd had assembled. Much excitement was occasioned by a placard which was posted outside "the Argus office" as follows "The Prussians are in Paris" This flew like wild-fire & was left uncontradicted though the placard was after a time taken down, it proved of course to have been a mistake, but it certainly whetted the appetite very strongly for the Extraordinary which was eagerly rushed so soon as it was procurable about eight thousand copies were sold a nice little extra for the Argus Proprietors & the News Boys. Was at home most of the evening the news was most exciting & much anxiety was felt with regard to the feeling said to be shown in England in favour of the French Republic & against the Queen & Prince of Wales.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau Print: Advertisement, Broadsheet, Poster
'went back to the Argus office where quite a crowd had assembled. Much excitement was occasioned by a placard which was posted outside "the Argus office" as follows "The Prussians are in Paris" This flew like wild-fire & was left uncontradicted though the placard was after a time taken down, it proved of course to have been a mistake, but it certainly whetted the appetite very strongly for the Extraordinary which was eagerly rushed so soon as it was procurable about eight thousand copies were sold a nice little extra for the Argus Proprietors & the News Boys. Was at home most of the evening the news was most exciting & much anxiety was felt with regard to the feeling said to be shown in England in favour of the French Republic & against the Queen & Prince of Wales.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau Print: Newspaper
'After muster I went into town & spent a couple of hours at the Yorick reading "The Home News" particularly interesting in this war time.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau Print: Newspaper
'Read a great deal of the War news & was truly disgusted at the horrible things that have been enacted'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau Print: Newspaper
'Went to the Yorick in the evening & stayed there for some time reading the last number of Edwin Drood & some English Papers.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau Print: Newspaper
'Went to the Yorick Club in the afternoon & read for some time'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau Print: Newspaper, Serial / periodical
'then went to the Yorick where I stayed for a short time & had a look at the papers'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau Print: Newspaper
'Account in the papers of great floods at Ballaarat & other places, at Coleraine nine persons are said to have been drowned & much damage has been caused at other parts of the Colony'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau Print: Newspaper
'Went into Melbourne in the evening, took a book to the Mechanics & read for a time at the Yorick'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau Print: Newspaper, Serial / periodical
'In the evening went to the Mechanics changed some Periodicals, then went over to the Yorick & read for a time
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau Print: Newspaper, Serial / periodical
'Went to the Mechanics in the evening & changed a book, then went over to the Yorick did not stay long, looked through all the Country papers, their correspondents all described the flogging yesterday as having been very severe'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau Print: Newspaper
'Mustered in the afternoon & then went to the Yorick where I did a little reading ... Came home soon & after a read & a smoke went to bed'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau Print: Newspaper, Serial / periodical
'In the evening went to the Yorick, read for a time then took a walk up Bourke Street'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau Print: Newspaper, Serial / periodical
'Went to the Yorick club this afternoon & read the Extraordinary the Mail having been Telegraphed to-day. Paris was according to a Telegram from Mr Verdon being bombarded. The bombardment commenced on October 1st. Metz had capitulated & the Prussian Star was still in the ascendant'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau Print: Newspaper
'Went to "The Yorick" & read the English Punches'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau Print: Serial / periodical
'went to the Mechanics & turned over some of the "funny" periodicals'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau Print: Serial / periodical
'then went to the Yorick where I stayed & read an article in Blackwood'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau Print: Serial / periodical
'I went into town this morning & read the Argus at the Yorick Club'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau Print: Newspaper
'then to the Yorick at the latter place had a chat with Semple & Eville & a look at Punch'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau Print: Serial / periodical
'In the evening went to the "Yorick" & read Punch & some of the papers'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau Print: Serial / periodical
'After tea I went for a stroll & looked in at the Yorick Club, read some of the papers & Touchstone the last paper came out under difficulties this week, not being able to raise a "cartoon" the Artist having struck for "wages" I expect'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau Print: Serial / periodical
'The Argus had a long detailed account of a row that took place between G.P. Smith & Bowman late member for Maryborough. It seems Bowman pitched into Smith for slandering him, poor Smith seems bound to be constantly & unpleasantly before the Public. Went in the evening to the Mechanics to change a book, then looked in at the Yorick & read for a time'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau Print: Newspaper, Serial / periodical
'The Argus had a long detailed account of a row that took place between G.P. Smith & Bowman late member for Maryborough. It seems Bowman pitched into Smith for slandering him, poor Smith seems bound to be constantly & unpleasantly before the Public. Went in the evening to the Mechanics to change a book, then looked in at the Yorick & read for a time'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau Print: Newspaper
'In the evening went to the Yorick & had a look at Punch & the Papers'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau Print: Serial / periodical
'went into Melbourne after muster & stayed some time reading at the Yorick thought London Punch particularly good this month, one cartoon especially a Study in the Palace of Versailles, the king of Prussia Booted & spurred, yet in an easy chair having a pipe over the Plans of Paris & wearing a self satisfied air, behind him the shades of Louis the fourteenth & Napoleon "Is this the end of all the triumphs" Another Cartoon represents "a real German defeat" the Marquis of Lorn with his royal bride leaning fondly on him while in the distance are to be seen a crowd of Uniformed, Whiskered & bewaxed German princes wailing, & gnashing at the sight though still sucking away at their Meerchaums.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau Print: Serial / periodical
' I passed the morning reading the Australasian'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau Print: Serial / periodical
'Went into Melbourne in the morning & had a look at the Argus at the Yorick'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau Print: Newspaper
'then read the papers at "The Yorick"'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau Print: Newspaper
'An advertisement of Polly's appeared in the Argus this morning ... There was no appearance in the Argus of the article I took them last night'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau Print: Advertisement, Newspaper
'I did not go out at all this evening but after tea sat reading till I was tired when Harry & I read together & then I [spouted?] for his & my amusement. From a Telegram in the evening paper I saw that some lucky ones had got a nugget of 43 lbs weight at Berlin, a nice New Year's Gift for the lucky finders'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau Print: Newspaper
'soon after I took a walk as far as the Yorick. Purves was there & we had a little chat. I looked through "The Leader" & then came away home'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau Print: Newspaper
'Some excitement as the English mail was expected & in the morning a report was spread that she had been [telegraphed?]. It turned out however not to be correct, there was news however in the Argus by "the Queen of the Thames" just sufficient to whet the appetite for the mail news when the Extraordinary makes its appearance'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau Print: Newspaper
'Went to the Yorick & read the English [papers?] or rather looked at the Pictures in them'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau Print: Newspaper
'Called at the Yorick & read the papers'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau Print: Newspaper
'Long articles in the papers describing the escape. The Telegraph & Argus give fair reports, the Age was rather severe upon the Gaol officials.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau Print: Newspaper
'Long articles in the papers describing the escape. The Telegraph & Argus give fair reports, the Age was rather severe upon the Gaol officials.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau Print: Newspaper
'Long articles in the papers describing the escape. The Telegraph & Argus give fair reports, the Age was rather severe upon the Gaol officials.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau Print: Newspaper
'After tea went into Melbourne & read the papers at the Yorick'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau Print: Newspaper
'Went to the Yorick & read the papers, then after a look at Punch came home'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau Print: Serial / periodical
'In the evening I went to "the Yorick" & had a look at the papers. Came home & went on reading Vanity Fair.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau Print: Newspaper
'The Papers this morning contained a Telegram stating that Mr Charles Smyth the Acting Judge showed great strangeness of manner on the Bench'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau Print: Newspaper
'Was favoured this morning by Post with an extract from the Pall Mall Gazette on the manner in which the punishment of "Hanging" was carried out. The writer from English experience argued that the necks of the criminals were as a rule not dislocated & that those who died at the hangman's hands were simply throttled. The writer considered the punishment might be much more humanely carried out. The simple truth of the matter is the ropes used in England are not long enough. If more fall was given dislocation of the neck would take place & from what I have seen in this country no fault could then be found as the death would be both merciful & speedy.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau Print: Newspaper
'Was sorry to see in the Argus this morning that "Raecke's" private house was burnt down on Sunday evening last & that he was not insured, a child playing with matches is said to have been the cause of the accident. Did Harry's sums for him this evening & then read "Handy Andy" as the weather was so bad I could not very well go out.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau Print: Newspaper
'Went to the Club in the evening & had a look at Punch.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau Print: Serial / periodical
'Read The Australasian to myself & some little tales to the children & passed the evening away until past ten'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau Print: Serial / periodical
'Went into Melbourne & read the papers at "The Yorick" then took a turn through Bourke Street & then home'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau Print: Newspaper
'then I went into town & called in at the Yorick to read the papers. Recently a youthful individual with innumerable buttons & very tight clothes has appeared at the Club as an attendant sprite upon the Members. He is a very lively boy. To-night while I was reading he came into the room, knelt in a chair before the open window but his body half way into the street & commenced whistling in a spirited manner keeping time with his heels against the chair. I was brute enough to growl at him & he desisted leaving the room however with the air of one whose feelings had been outraged'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau Print: Newspaper
'Was sorry to read in The Argus of this morning that "Tommy Hoyle" the well known Beechworth [?] met with an accident yesterday being thrown from the Coach which passed over & killed him.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau Print: Newspaper
'Went to the Yorick in the afternoon. The Club however was unusually empty for Saturday afternoon & so I did not do much more than look at the Papers.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau Print: Newspaper
'Instead of mustering this afternoon I went to the Yorick. The men were however arguing politics & I held my tongue & read the papers'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau Print: Newspaper
'Went to "The Yorick" but did not stay longer than necessary to have a look at the Herald. The Victorians won the Cricket Match at Sydney with 48 runs to spare & so had certainly something to be cocky about.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau Print: Newspaper
'I was at "The Yorick" & had a good look at English Punch & The Graphic after which I came home.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau Print: Serial / periodical
'I was at "The Yorick" & had a good look at English Punch & The Graphic after which I came home.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau Print: Serial / periodical
'Received the Ovens & Murray. It contained the letter I wrote a few days since. I thought it read very so so but Polly seemed to think it was not so bad & I expect she is the best judge, particularly as I have not found her disposed to be unreasonably complimentary to me on the quality of my literary attempts'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau Print: Newspaper
'Went into town & read the Newspapers at the Club'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau Print: Newspaper
'Read some stories to the youngsters, about the only good thing I did to-day.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau Print: Book
'Went to the Club in the evening & read some of the papers'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau Print: Newspaper
'Went to the Club. Skimmed some of the papers then purchased The Australasian'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau Print: Newspaper
'In the evening after Mr & Mrs Hall were gone I went to the Yorick & read the papers then came home'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau Print: Newspaper
'in the evening went to the Yorick where I spent some time in reading the papers'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau Print: Newspaper
'A report in the Telegraph Newspaper this morning was to the effect that the Sheriff would probably be chosen from Mr Wright of the Railway Department & Mr Colles of Castlemaine'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau Print: Newspaper
'In the evening went to Melbourne & called at the Club where I had a look at Punch & the other papers '
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau Print: Serial / periodical
'after Muster went into town & read the papers at the Yorick'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau Print: Newspaper
'went into the office where I wrote a little article in reply to a stupid Leader that appeared in The Telegraph of this morning & which contained a lot of rot with regards to prison servants & the employment of prisoners in Gaols'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau Print: Newspaper
'In the evening when the weather had taken up I went to the Club & read for some time, then came home'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau Print: Newspaper, Serial / periodical
'When I got back Polly had gone to bed so I sat & read for an hour & then followed her up stairs. The book I was reading or skimming was called "Blueskin" or the adventures of "Jonathan Wild" the great thief taker. It was taken away from a prisoner in the Gaol & is certainly as mischievous a work as could possibly gain access to a place of confinement. It describes fully all sorts of different plans & attempts at Escape made by "Jack Sheppard" & others & is just such a book as would fire the imagination of the "larrikin" class who evidently consider "breaking prison" a most heroic exploit & who would as a rule put up with extra loss of liberty for the glory of appearing in the papers & being thought "lads of spirit" by their contemporaries.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau Print: Book
'Commenced reading some awful rubbish there is in "Blueskin", a catch-penny thieves book which glorifies "Jack Sheppard" & contains most wonderful & thrilling episodes of his career. Escapes from Gaol were this great man's "weakness" & such trumpery aids to safe-keeping as "Heavy Chains", "Massive doors", Walls of extra strength & solidity were of no avail when the hero made up his mind he would be free. Hurrah'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau Print: Book
'After Muster I went to the Club & stayed there reading for a short time, then came home to tea'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau Print: Newspaper, Serial / periodical
'In the evening I went to the "Yorick" & had a look over the newspapers'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau Print: Newspaper
'After Muster went to the Yorick & read the papers until tea time'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau Print: Newspaper
'After Muster went to the Yorick & read the papers, nothing very ... or interesting'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau Print: Newspaper
'Went to the Yorick & read the papers, the only item in the Evening Herald of any consequence was the announcement of the arrival of The Somersetshire after a passage of 56 days. The vessel is however in Quarantine as there had been some cases of smallpox on board'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau Print: Newspaper
'After Muster went to the Yorick & read the papers, then came home to tea.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau Print: Newspaper
'Found the youngsters had not gone to bed so aroused them by reading some little stories'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau Print: Book
'Stayed at home this evening. Read a little to the children'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau Print: Book
'amused myself reading to myself & the youngsters.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau Print: Book
'"The Australasian" noticed my article in the Journal & so did the Ovens & Murray Advertiser each giving a short extract from it. Both Papers treat it as if it were original matter. This is strange of the Ovens & Murray as the Lecture was published in its own columns.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau Print: Serial / periodical
'"The Australasian" noticed my article in the Journal & so did the Ovens & Murray Advertiser each giving a short extract from it. Both Papers treat it as if it were original matter. This is strange of the Ovens & Murray as the Lecture was published in its own columns.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau Print: Newspaper
'This evening's Herald gave the names of Duffy's Ministry'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau Print: Newspaper
'so went to the Club. There I glanced over the Weeklies & then came home'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau Print: Newspaper
'Went to the Yorick & read the papers then came home'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau Print: Newspaper
'On the Road bought an Extraordinary which was published this morning, the English Mail having arrived in the night. There was terrible news of the Civil War in Paris, of the murder of the Archbishop, two other clergymen & 64 hostages by the Insurgents & of the fearful retaliation of the troops, 30,000 of the Reds being said to be killed or wounded in the Streets. Some of the finest buildings in Paris were wilfully set fire to by the insurgents & women were shot by the infuriated soldiers while they were like fiends rushing about endeavouring to set light to anything that could be consumed'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau Print: Newspaper
'Mustered in the afternoon, then went to the Club & read the Evening Paper'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau Print: Newspaper
'In the evening went to "the Yorick" where I read the papers. Then came home & read till Polly came in'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau Print: Newspaper
'Went to "the Yorick" & read the Papers, skimmed an Article in Cornhill & then came away home'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau Print: Serial / periodical
'Have very little to write about to-day, everything was dull & quiet & peacable. The Weekly Papers helped to pass away the time. I was very much amused by a skit in The Australasian by "Hans Beste" called "Lothau", a satire upon "Lothair", Disreali's last work. "Lothau" is a capital burlesque upon Lothair & in a couple of columns of newspaper type takes off all the leading incidents of the novel in a most amusing manner.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau Print: Serial / periodical
'In the evening went to "the Yorick" & had a look at some of the papers'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau Print: Newspaper
'By the Ovens & Murray to-day we learnt the death of Mrs Telford, the poor lady died at last very suddenly. She has however suffered much for a long time past. She was very kind to me when I first went to Beechworth'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau Print: Newspaper
'Mustered in the afternoon & read "Gil Blas" till tea was ready. After tea went to "the Yorick", read for a while & chatted a little, then came away home'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau Print: Newspaper, Serial / periodical
'Mustered in the afternoon & then went to the Yorick where I read the papers.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau Print: Newspaper
'in the evening I went into town, called at the Yorick & looked at the Weeklies'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau Print: Newspaper
'Received two Ovens & Murray Advertisers. They however contained very little new'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau Print: Newspaper
'Went to the Club & had a glance at the Illustrated Papers & Punch which arrived by this Mail'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau Print: Serial / periodical
'After Muster had tea & read the Evening Paper'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau Print: Newspaper
'then I went to the Club where I stayed & read an Article in Blackwood then came home'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau Print: Serial / periodical
'Polly read the Australasian till she was tired & then went to bed'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Polly Castieau Print: Serial / periodical
'In the evening I went to the Yorick & read some of the papers'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau Print: Newspaper
'Went into the town in the evening & read the papers at the Club.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau Print: Newspaper
'after tea went to the Yorick where I stayed chatting to Jardine smith & Carrington some time. After they left I read an article in Fraser on "The Imperial connection" by Jardine Smith. It is very well written & made me admire the ability of Mr Smith & to feel proud of his acquaintance, an acquaintance which has almost ripened into fellowship.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau Print: Serial / periodical
'In The Argus this morning I was very sorry to see the death of Dempster's little boy recorded. This was the only son & his loss will I am sure be a great blow to both Mr & Mrs Dempster'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau Print: Newspaper
'Commenced reading a tale in Good Words "Oswald [?]"'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau Print: Serial / periodical
'In the Argus of this morning there was a leading article commenting on Duncan's appointment to the charge of the Gaols & showing pretty clearly it was impossible he could do justice to all the establishments placed under his control.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau Print: Newspaper
'Received a number of Ovens & Murray Advertisers this morning which however contained little of any consequence that I had not heard before'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau Print: Newspaper
'There was a notice on the Board that baths could be had at the Club at a charge of 3d each to pay for towells &c. I called the Secretary quietly & pointed out that only one l was necessary to be used in spelling towel. He seemed doubtful & said he would look at the dictionary.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau Manuscript: Sheet
'then went to the Club & read the papers'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau Print: Newspaper
'In the Evening paper this evening an account was given of two large fires at Sydney this morning, one of which destroyed the Prince of Wales Theatre & occasioned loss of life from a portion of the walls falling upon some people'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau Print: Newspaper
'In the Evening Herald, of this night, there was a Report of an Argument before the Supreme Court with respect to Parkin who had been arrested on a Fraud Summons & committed to Jamieson Gaol. De Verdon tried to get the warrant upset but did not succeed in doing so. I am very sorry for Mrs Parkin & the children & so I am for poor Parkin though I know little about him'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau Print: Newspaper
'I went into town & read some of the papers at the Club, came home & soon went to bed'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau Print: Newspaper
'After tea went with Polly into town & there heard a great commotion in the crowd & number of boys selling the Argus Extraordinary, "Arrival of the English Mail", one vagabond as he passed us with an armful of papers shouted "Death of the Prince of Wales". This thrilled me & excited Polly & so I purchased a paper. The Prince was not dead, but if the news be true was in a bad way when the Mail left St Francisco & there was but little hopes of his recovery.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau Print: Newspaper
'By the Argus we found that the Mail had been telegraphed at midnight. The Prince had been most dangerously ill but the last telegrams represented him to be apparently recovering.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau Print: Newspaper
'in the evening I went to the Club & had a look at Melbourne Punch & one or two of the papers.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau Print: Serial / periodical
'In the evening went to the Club & on the Road called in at the Albion as I wanted to see the Ovens & Murray Advertiser & my letter if it had been published. After some trouble I found the paper I wanted & my letter in it, though in very small type. The type I would'ent have minded but I was very much annoyed in finding two or three paragraphs I did'ent write were put into the letter above the signature I used on this as on other occasions'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau Print: Newspaper
'The English mail was telegraphed this afternoon ... Extraordinaries were being sold when we were coming home. I bought one & was glad to see the Prince of Wales was ... to be out of danger'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau Print: Newspaper
'in the evening went to the Club & after reading the papers took a walk & then came home'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau Print: Newspaper
'In the evening went as usual to the Club & after skimming some of the English periodicals went for a little stroll with Duerdin'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau Print: Serial / periodical
'In the evening I went to the Club & after reading the papers started to keep an appointment I had made with Polly & Mrs Mathews.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau Print: Newspaper
'In the Evening Herald published to night it was stated that Mr Dunn now Crown Prosecutor was to be made a County Court Judge in place of Judge Maceboy who is to retire in consequence of ill health. Mr Hughes was named to succeed Mr Dunne as Crown Prosecutor.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau Print: Newspaper
'The Case of Blair V Clarson was commenced in the Supreme Court to day & from what I saw in The Herald the details are likely to satisfy the most prurient of readers'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau Print: Newspaper
'After tea went to the Club where I ... read for a time then took a walk through the town & came home'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau Print: Newspaper, Serial / periodical
'I mustered in the afternoon & in the evening went to the Club, where I stayed & read for some time'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau Print: Newspaper, Serial / periodical
'Was very pleased this evening at hearing the children read. They sat round their mamma & read verse about a chapter of the bible. They have all a very good idea of reading, Harry especially, only unfortunately his stammering frequently spoils his efforts. Sissy & Dotty do not stammer but speak far from plainly. There are a great many words that Dotty cannot manage try she ever so hard'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Harry Castieau Print: Book, Serial / periodical
'Was very pleased this evening at hearing the children read. They sat round their mamma & read verse about a chapter of the bible. They have all a very good idea of reading, Harry especially, only unfortunately his stammering frequently spoils his efforts. Sissy & Dotty do not stammer but speak far from plainly. There are a great many words that Dotty cannot manage try she ever so hard'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Sissy Castieau Print: Book, Serial / periodical
'Was very pleased this evening at hearing the children read. They sat round their mamma & read verse about a chapter of the bible. They have all a very good idea of reading, Harry especially, only unfortunately his stammering frequently spoils his efforts. Sissy & Dotty do not stammer but speak far from plainly. There are a great many words that Dotty cannot manage try she ever so hard'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Dotty Castieau Print: Book, Serial / periodical
'Mustered in the afternoon, in the evening went to the Club & had a good look over the English Punches & Illustrated & Papers'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau Print: Serial / periodical
'In the evening went to the Club where I stayed for some time reading the Saturday Review. There was a capital article in one of the numbers on the republication of Mrs Aphra Behn's Dramas & Novels. The writer truly said that if this class of disgusting literature could be got up in expensive bindings for the rich the law would be no more outraged by Penny Editions for the crowd & if not put down in the first case the town might be reasonably expected soon to abound in literary filth till lately all but ...'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau Print: Serial / periodical
'In the Leader this evening was published an autobiography of John Wallace & his portrait was given away with each copy of the paper. The likeness was a very good one & I bought it for the sake of "Auld lang syne" but why "John" should have received such public notice I can scarcely understand. He is an enterprising man & may be a "successful colonist" but few people know him & comparatively few have ever heard of him. The whole thing smacks rather much of the advt. & I expect a pretty large share of this week's Leader will be purchased by "John Wallace".'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau Print: Newspaper
'I had all the youngsters in my own charge. We got on however capitally for I found a nice story in Chatterbox which I read much to the edification of us all & after that at the girls' request after Walter & Godfrey had been put to bed Harry, Sissy, Dotty & I read a couple of chapters out of the New Testament taking each a verse in turn, when we had finished the youngsters were tired & ready for bed so I let them go & read away at the Weekly Papers till Polly came home which she did at a little after nine o'clock.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau Print: Serial / periodical
'I had all the youngsters in my own charge. We got on however capitally for I found a nice story in Chatterbox which I read much to the edification of us all & after that at the girls' request after Walter & Godfrey had been put to bed Harry, Sissy, Dotty & I read a couple of chapters out of the New Testament taking each a verse in turn, when we had finished the youngsters were tired & ready for bed so I let them go & read away at the Weekly Papers till Polly came home which she did at a little after nine o'clock.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau Print: Book
'I had all the youngsters in my own charge. We got on however capitally for I found a nice story in Chatterbox which I read much to the edification of us all & after that at the girls' request after Walter & Godfrey had been put to bed Harry, Sissy, Dotty & I read a couple of chapters out of the New Testament taking each a verse in turn, when we had finished the youngsters were tired & ready for bed so I let them go & read away at the Weekly Papers till Polly came home which she did at a little after nine o'clock.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Harry Castieau Print: Book
'I had all the youngsters in my own charge. We got on however capitally for I found a nice story in Chatterbox which I read much to the edification of us all & after that at the girls' request after Walter & Godfrey had been put to bed Harry, Sissy, Dotty & I read a couple of chapters out of the New Testament taking each a verse in turn, when we had finished the youngsters were tired & ready for bed so I let them go & read away at the Weekly Papers till Polly came home which she did at a little after nine o'clock.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Dotty Castieau Print: Book
'I had all the youngsters in my own charge. We got on however capitally for I found a nice story in Chatterbox which I read much to the edification of us all & after that at the girls' request after Walter & Godfrey had been put to bed Harry, Sissy, Dotty & I read a couple of chapters out of the New Testament taking each a verse in turn, when we had finished the youngsters were tired & ready for bed so I let them go & read away at the Weekly Papers till Polly came home which she did at a little after nine o'clock.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Sissy Castieau Print: Book
'I had all the youngsters in my own charge. We got on however capitally for I found a nice story in Chatterbox which I read much to the edification of us all & after that at the girls' request after Walter & Godfrey had been put to bed Harry, Sissy, Dotty & I read a couple of chapters out of the New Testament taking each a verse in turn, when we had finished the youngsters were tired & ready for bed so I let them go & read away at the Weekly Papers till Polly came home which she did at a little after nine o'clock.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau Print: Newspaper
'I bought "The Age" as to-day it published a paper larger than "The Argus" for a penny & announced the intention of doing so every Saturday. The paper is really a wonderful one for a penny & will no doubt have a great circulation in fat I expect too large a one to make even the advertisements pay as I feel confident the paper &c must cost quite the charge for the News. In the Age of to-day was commenced a novel by the author of Lady Audley's Secret called "To the bitter end", this the proprietors announce they have the sole right to publish in Australia'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau Print: Newspaper
'In the evening, Polly read to the children & then gave them a bible lesson'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Polly Castieau Print: Book
'Received four Ovens & Murray Advertisers. They contained however very little news though their telegrams are so full that the papers must be very interesting to folks Up Country on the mornings of publication'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau Print: Newspaper
'McKinley & I walked into town & went to the Yorick together. After reading the papers Duerdin & I left for home & took a stroll through Bourke Street.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau Print: Newspaper
'There was a stinging article in the Age of this morning commenting upon the failings & peculiarities of the Judges'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau Print: Newspaper
'There was a heavy article in the Argus this morning ... on the Government for the appointments they have made since they took office. The article was [?] the style of the men who usually write for the [?] Journal & I should like to know if it is new blood whose blood it is'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau Print: Newspaper
'Mustered in the afternoon & afterwards went to the Club. There I read the Herald until it was time to go home to tea'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau Print: Newspaper
'Received a number of papers from Beechworth. The Ovens & Murray has I think become rather duller since it has appeared daily. It is not to be wondered at for it must be a serious undertaking the bringing out a daily at "the Ovens".'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau Print: Newspaper
'I went to the Club where I looked through some of the ... Papers & then came away home. Stayed at home in the evening reading & trying to amuse the children.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau Print: Newspaper
'Polly then buried her [?] in the last number of the Family Herald & I smoked away at a new pipe'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Polly Castieau Print: Serial / periodical
'Received to-day six numbers of the Ovens & Murray Advertiser. There was nothing in any of them very interesting to anyone living outside the Ovens District & so they did not take me long to skim'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau Print: Newspaper
'The Herald this evening contained the names of the new Ministry. Kerferd is Solicitor General, Casey Minister of Lands, Wilberforce Stephen (as was to be expected) is Attorney General so Harriette's present home will be a house of importance. The Australasian of to-day contained a panegyric of Mr Caldwell the Keeper of the Dunedin Gaol. He has issued a Report that his Gaol is more than self supporting & the paper takes him at his own estimate.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau Print: Newspaper
'The Herald this evening contained the names of the new Ministry. Kerferd is Solicitor General, Casey Minister of Lands, Wilberforce Stephen (as was to be expected) is Attorney General so Harriette's present home will be a house of importance. The Australasian of to-day contained a panegyric of Mr Caldwell the Keeper of the Dunedin Gaol. He has issued a Report that his Gaol is more than self supporting & the paper takes him at his own estimate.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau Print: Serial / periodical
'Went to the Club. In the Evening Herald there was a startling telegram from Ballaarat announcing that [six prisoners had effected their escape?] from Ballaarat Gaol'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau Print: Newspaper
'The Argus of this morning contained a manifesto from Alipius, Roman Catholic bishop of Melbourne calling upon good churchmen to vote against the return of the present Ministers & endeavouring to inflame the blood of ignorant catholics by declaring that the system of secular instruction about to be introduced by the Ministry would be the means of enslaving the catholic people & depriving them of their religious rights'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau Print: Newspaper
'Received a week's Ovens & Murray Advertisers to-day. There was a very good skit in one. It was an account of "The first direct Telegram as it ought to have been".'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau Print: Newspaper
'Telo gave me "The Leader" with the Prison letters article. There was'ent much in it excepting the two guineas it gave the Author an opportunity of earning. There was however I was glad to observe little that could be construed into a breach of Regulations in allowing it to be published'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau Print: Newspaper
'"Bowman" I see by this Evening's paper is to be Deputy Judge while Judge Hackett is doing the work of Judges Cope & Nolan.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau Print: Newspaper
'Seven or eight numbers of the Ovens & Murray Advertiser came to hand to-day. In one of them I was sorry to read an account of Mrs Slater having had an accident & broken her leg, poor woman she will be ill able to bear a trouble of this kind.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau Print: Newspaper
'Harry & I read for a long time together. Harry is beginning to understand what he reads & takes a fair part in Dialogue Reading.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley and Harry Castieau Print: Book
'went to the Club. Had a look at Punch & Vanity Fair & then left.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau Print: Serial / periodical
'went to the Club. Had a look at Punch & Vanity Fair & then left.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau Print: Serial / periodical
'Harry this evening commenced reading McAuley's (sic) History of England. He is getting a great deal too fond of Plays & funny pieces & as he reads for marks I mean for the future to make him earn them with literature more solid & substantial. Polly amused herself this evening with the Family Herald & I read the Australasian until it was time to go to bed.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau Print: Serial / periodical
'Harry this evening commenced reading McAuley's (sic) History of England. He is getting a great deal too fond of Plays & funny pieces & as he reads for marks I mean for the future to make him earn them with literature more solid & substantial. Polly amused herself this evening with the Family Herald & I read the Australasian until it was time to go to bed.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Polly Castieau Print: Serial / periodical
'in the evening went to the Club, read for a time & then came home ... Was reading at the Club some of the Articles in "Public Opinion", one especially which lamented the decadence of "the Turf" from the want of honor among the owners of horses. Horses said the writer now win if it suits their owners' pockets to let them do so, the Derby it is predicted will soon be shorn of all the national importance once attached to it & will soon be the ordinary common place affair that other races have become.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau Print: Serial / periodical
'The Argus had no report of the meeting yesterday for the establishing of a Discharged prisoners Aid Society. The Telegraph had however a tolerably fair report & The Age came out with a sub-leader in which they expressed their gratification at seeing that Captain Standish, Mr Sturt & myself were present'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau Print: Newspaper
'The Argus had no report of the meeting yesterday for the establishing of a Discharged prisoners Aid Society. The Telegraph had however a tolerably fair report & The Age came out with a sub-leader in which they expressed their gratification at seeing that Captain Standish, Mr Sturt & myself were present'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau Print: Newspaper
'The Argus had no report of the meeting yesterday for the establishing of a Discharged prisoners Aid Society. The Telegraph had however a tolerably fair report & The Age came out with a sub-leader in which they expressed their gratification at seeing that Captain Standish, Mr Sturt & myself were present'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau Print: Newspaper
'Polly this morning while I was getting up rushed almost breathless into the bed-room with her eyes all alight & The Argus in her hand. "Listen here Castieau" said she & straightway she read a paragraph which announced that a terrible outrage had been committed at Pentridge & an attempt made to murder the Inspector General of Penal Establishments.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Polly Castieau Print: Newspaper
'After Muster I went to the Club & had a look at the Weekly Papers'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau Print: Newspaper
'I read a novel called the Guardian Angel to-day by the Author of "Elsie Vennor". It was quite up to the run of most novels & served to amuse me very well to-day. If it had not been for it & the papers I should have had dull times as I did'ent stir out at all.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau Print: Newspaper
'I must not forget however I read out of "Good Words" a very amusing sketch of a Dutchman's troubles in London from the difficulties of the English language. He gave the name of the Street he was living in as Stick no Bill Street. F.P. 13ft. Harry read to-night but I was obliged to tell him he had not improved at all lately.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau Print: Serial / periodical
'The Argus contained a full Report of a Lecture delivered the night previous at the Independent Church by the Church of England Bishop "on the Bible". His Lordship treated the Bible as a historical record & urged that without attributing to it its holy character there was ample evidence of [its faithfulness?] handed down from Age to Age. The Bishop treated his subject altogether in a most liberal spirit & the Lecture will when published have no doubt a large circulation.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau Print: Newspaper
'In the evening went to the Club. There were several members present most of them engaged with the Periodicals lately arrived by the mail. The Graphic had a fine coloured engraving of the monument recently erected in Hyde Park to the memory of the Prince Albert of Exhibition renown. The monument seems one worthy of the Queen who has erected it & of the noble man whose memory it celebrates. Was home at about nine o'clock.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau Print: Newspaper, Serial / periodical
'A file of Beechworth papers came to hand to-day. By them I see it is intended to hold a Local Exhibition at Beechworth in connection with the Victorian Exhibition to be opened at Melbourne.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau Print: Newspaper
'The Australasian & the Age. Then read a little to the youngsters & at ten o'clock went to bed'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau Print: Serial / periodical
'The Australasian & the Age. Then read a little to the youngsters & at ten o'clock went to bed'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau Print: Newspaper
'was down in good time & had devoured my breakfast as well as the Australasian by a little past nine o'clock.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau Print: Serial / periodical
'In the Evening I read a story from the Arabian Nights, then played a game of Bezique with Dotty.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau Print: Book
'In the Argus this morning there was a skit written in the style of "The Battle of Dorking". It was styled "The great disaster" & purported to be a report of the destruction occasioned to the City & inhabitants of Melbourne through the Powder Magazine in the Royal Park being blown up'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau Print: Newspaper
'Mustered in the afternoon & then worked in the office for a couple of hours, employing myself first with my Diary & afterwards in reading a Prison Report from which I intend to make some extracts for future use. After ten I went down to the Club & sat reading for some little time then had a chat with Levey & left for home ... Polly had been amusing the children by reading to them'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau Print: Newspaper, Serial / periodical
'Mustered in the afternoon & then worked in the office for a couple of hours, employing myself first with my Diary & afterwards in reading a Prison Report from which I intend to make some extracts for future use. After ten I went down to the Club & sat reading for some little time then had a chat with Levey & left for home ... Polly had been amusing the children by reading to them'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Polly Castieau Print: Book
'Did not sleep at all well last night for I was haunted with the dread of the Papers making a mess of the Case of Weechurch & so causing me a lot of more trouble. When they came out however this morning I found they had reported very fairly & so my mind was much relieved'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau Print: Newspaper
'In the Argus of this morning there was a paragraph stating that the Governor of the Gaol referred to by Mr Duffy was not the Governor of the Melbourne Gaol but an Up Country official'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau Print: Newspaper
'In the Argus of this morning there appeared the article I had written on "Prisons & Prisoners". It appeared to me to read tolerably well but I am sure I do not know what Messrs Duncan & Snelling may think of it.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau Print: Newspaper
'The Evening Herald published an account of the trial of the Captain of the Carl at Sydney. The brutalities that took place according to the evidence were something terrible. "Mount" who I have in custody, according to Dr Murray, went on the Islands disguised as a Missionary in the hope of luring natives on board the ship. Morris who is also a prisoner with me is said on the night of the butchery to have been occupied all night in loading guns for those who were engaged in slaughtering the natives in the Hold. The whole affair is more horrible than anything I remember reading of even in the African Slave Trade.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau Print: Newspaper
'I stayed at home & after [reading] the paper smoked till I was sleepy then I went off to bed & was sleeping soundly when Polly returned home'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau Print: Newspaper
'Got to-day from Beechworth a number of different copies of the Ovens & Murray Advertiser. There was not very much in them however that interested me.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau Print: Newspaper
'This evening in the Herald there was a long paragraph about the needle-work done by the women in the Gaol work-room, complaining of the price paid for it. As it happens, it is now three weeks since any was done except for the Government. I have however always protested at the price paid by Messrs Sargood for their work'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau Print: Newspaper
'after four o'clock went to the Club. Read a lot of papers there & got home in good time for tea'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau Print: Newspaper
'Marcus Clarke commenced in this day's Weekly Times a series of articles under the title of "The Wicked World" or Melbourne [?] & Melbourne Life. The Article to-day described Camomile or Collins Street. Marcus has set himself a difficult task, he will have either to be very personal & so [?] enemies or be dull & considered commonplace. He might if he were mean enough perhaps make his subject the vehicle for advertisers. If his work is read many would pay to have their establishments even appear wicked in it.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau Print: Newspaper
'Up this morning in good time & had a long read of the Argus before I went into the office.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau Print: Newspaper
'then went to the Club. Read for a time & then came home to tea, the Herald had a Paragraph pointing out the stupidity of having the Court at the Insolvent Court House.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau Print: Newspaper
'In the evening I went to the Yorick & read quietly for a time.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau Print: Newspaper, Serial / periodical
'In the evening I tried the reading powers of Walter & Godfrey with a chapter in the testament, both of the boys have lost their front teeth & were not able to speak plainly in consequence. Harry & Sissy then read a chapter, Sissy cannot pronounce the hard words very well but for all that reads very nicely.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Castieau children Print: Book
'There was a tale in the Age of yesterday called "The wife's revenge" it was very well written & described a heartless scoundrel who to the world appeared everything that was good & jolly, he is loved deeply by his wife but without any cause save that he wants a change he leaves her to shift for herself & coldly writes & informs her that he has left for Australia ...[long account of story] ... I read this story aloud on Sunday evening to a very attentive audience consisting of Mamma, Sissy & Harry'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau Print: Newspaper
'In the evening I went to the Club & had a long read, got home by about nine o'clock'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau Print: Newspaper, Serial / periodical
'Got up in a funk & sent for the Age, was delighted to find the Article about the Gaol was not inserted'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau Print: Newspaper
'Was much annoyed by a Leading Article in The Argus about the Gaol & Penal Department'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau Print: Newspaper
'In the Age this morning there was an Article on prison labor & Labor in the Melbourne Gaol particularly, it was evidently well disposed towards me but also it was evident that the writer had to put the black side of the labor question as much forward as possible'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau Print: Newspaper
'In the evening I read the papers & went to bed before ten o'clock.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau Print: Newspaper
'In the Argus of this morning was published Jardine Smith's Leader on the Gaol. It commenced with an Apology for a previous article which had been inserted which the present one acknowledged had been written on incorrect information. It then pointed out the defects of the Gaol system owing to want of accommodation & then went in to give credit for what was done to make the best of things. Altogether the article was a very favorable one & one judiciously written so as not to tread upon the toes of any one but David Blair the writer of the first article that the Editor published.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau Print: Newspaper
'in the afternoon amused myself as well as I could with the newspapers.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau Print: Newspaper
'I amused myself reading the Saturday Age'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau Print: Newspaper
'A great Article was published in the Age newspaper this morning upon Prison labor this time the Castlemaine Gaol was commented upon'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau Print: Newspaper
'After tea I went to the Athenaeum & read the papers in the reading room'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau Print: Newspaper
'Mustered in the afternoon & then went to the Athenaeum to read the papers'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau Print: Newspaper
'after eight o'clock Harry & I went to "The Athenaeum" & after changing a book I went into the Reading room & had a look at the Papers Harry waiting for me outside until I was ready to go home.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau Print: Newspaper
'In the evening went to the Athenaeum & looked at the papers, came home & read for a while then smoked a pipe & went off to bed.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau Print: Newspaper
'before tea I took a stroll to the Athenaeum where I read the papers.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau Print: Newspaper
'Went to the Athenaeum and read the papers'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau Print: Newspaper
'Went to The Athenaeum & read the papers'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau Print: Newspaper
'Mustered in the afternoon & then went to the Athenaeum where I read the papers'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau Print: Newspaper
'Between five & six Polly came down stairs & then I went off to the Athenaeum & read the papers'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau Print: Newspaper
'Coming home I purchased The Australasian & the Leader. I bought "the Leader" because it contained the commencement of Mr Yellow Plush's experiences in Australia. I do not know who the writer is but I was very much pleased with the imitation of the style of the original celebrated foot-man who is represented as having given up the Wheel of Fortune & taken a situation as Wally de sham to Mr Ramm a young Australian & started with him from England for the Antipodes.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau Print: Newspaper
'Did not muster but went to the Athenaeum to read the papers. Stayed at home in the evening & read for a while, then smoked for a time'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau Print: Newspaper
'Went to the Athenaeum & read the papers before tea. In the evening read Blackwood & afterwards had my chest painted with iodine in the hope "that would cure the cold I got".'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau Print: Newspaper
'Went to the Athenaeum & read the papers before tea. In the evening read Blackwood & afterwards had my chest painted with iodine in the hope "that would cure the cold I got".'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau Print: Serial / periodical
'Went to the Athenaeum & read the papers'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau Print: Newspaper
'The Newspapers full of [?] obtained from the Debate in the House last evening, the Argus very truthfully implied that it would appear from the conduct of the House as if the Members of it were anxiously striving to make it appear contemptible.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau Print: Newspaper
'Went to the Athenaeum & had a look at the papers, in the evening after tea read for a while & then played a game of Bezique with Dotty. Harry read a piece of prose as an exercise, he is to be examined in Reading to-day, the boy certainly reads very well.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau Print: Newspaper
'I read in the Castlemaine Representative last evening that an old man named Joseph Hill who had been sent from here to Castlemaine Gaol in December last, had died there & that there was some talk about his having been overworked.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau Print: Newspaper
'In the papers this morning there was a melancholy account of the suicide of a man named Lennon'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau Print: Newspaper
'Looked in at the Athenaeum & read the papers then came home to tea, in the evening read to Harry & heard him read, he got sulky after a time & went off to bed'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau Print: Newspaper
'Stayed for some time at the Athenaeum reading through the papers'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau Print: Newspaper
'I went to the Athenaeum & had a look at the English papers. There were a good many members assembled to do the same thing, it is of course quite the thing that there should not be any talking in the Reading Room. I must however admit that I find it very dreary work to keep altogether quiet & that I should like a little yarn now & then again'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau Print: Newspaper
'Went to the Athenaeum & had a look at the papers'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau Print: Newspaper
'Went to the Athenaeum & read the papers.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau Print: Newspaper
'Went to the Athenaeum & had a look at the papers. In the evening read for a while & played a couple of games of cribbage with Dotty'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau Print: Newspaper
'Went to the Athenaeum & read before tea time. In the evening smoked & read until it was time to go to bed'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau Print: Newspaper
'At Wangaratta we got the daily papers, in the Argus there was a [?] advocating my being sent to report on the prisons of Europe & America & suggesting to the Government speedy consideration of the subject.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau Print: Newspaper
'In the Age of this morning there appeared a short Leading article strongly advocating my being sent Home to see the European Prisons, the writer spoke in very flattering terms of my competence to furnish an [able?] report of the different systems that came under my observation'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau Print: Newspaper
'In the evening went to the Athenaeum & read the papers, got home by a little after eight'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau Print: Newspaper
'This evening I was sitting quietly reading the Evening Herald when I noticed Polly show some considerable excitement & I asked her what was the matter, she told me that Harry had been up to some of his tricks & had hurt himself'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau Print: Newspaper
'Read newspapers & a novel nearly all day the weather being so unsettled that it was not deemed wise to go out.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau Print: Newspaper
'Bought the Evening Herald. There was not much in it excepting an account of the injury done to one of the Turret guns of the Cerberus when she was lately firing shell for practice. It seems that the expensive monster is rendered unsafe if not altogether useless'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau Print: Newspaper
'In the evening read the papers'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau Print: Newspaper
'A Paragraph appeared in the Argus to the effect that I was to retire & Brett to be appointed in my place'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau Print: Newspaper
'Some time ago I left off the pamphlet shop in the passage to the Temple Exchange Coffee-house, and took "The North Briton" from the publisher of it, Mr Kearsley in Ludgate Street, hard by Child's. I have it now sent to me regularly by the Penny Post, and I read it with vast relish. There is a poignant acrimony in it that is very relishing. Noble also sends me from time to time a fresh supply of novels from his circulating library, so that I am very well provided with entertainment'
Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: James Boswell Print: Serial / periodical
'This forenoon I read the history of Joseph and his brethren, which melted my heart and drew tears from my eyes. It is simply and beautifully told in the Sacred Writings. It is a strange thing that the Bible is so little read. I am reading it regularly at present.'
Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: James Boswell Print: Book
'I then got "The North Briton" and read it at Child's. I shall do so now every Saturday evening'
Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: James Boswell Print: Serial / periodical
'At night at home, I read the Church service by myself with great devotion'
Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: James Boswell Print: Book
'and after I had read 2 chapters of the Bible, I went to dinner'
Century: 1500-1599 Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Hoby Print: Book
'and, after I retourned home, I praied priuatly, read a chapter of the bible, and wrought tell dinner time'
Century: 1500-1599 Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Hoby Print: Book
'and after I had broken my fast ... read some thinge in the bible, and so to work'
Century: 1500-1599 Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Hoby Print: Book
'that don, I walked tell praiers, then hard Mr Rhodes read a chapter, and so went to bed'
Century: 1500-1599 Reader/Listener/Group: Richard Rhodes Print: Book
'After priuat prairs I went about the house and read of the bible and wrought tell dinner time'
Century: 1500-1599 Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Hoby Print: Book
'after, I reed of the bible, and walked alone'
Century: 1500-1599 Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Hoby Print: Book
'and then, walkinge a litle and readinge of the bible in my Chamber, went to supper'
Century: 1500-1599 Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Hoby Print: Book
'In the morninge, after priuat praier, I Reed of the bible, and then wrought tell 8: a clock'
Century: 1500-1599 Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Hoby Print: Book
'after priuat praier I reed of the bible and wrought tell dinner time, before which I praied; and, after dinner, I continewed my ordenarie Course of working, reading, and dispossinge of busenes in the House, tell after 5:, at which time I praied, read a sermon, and examened my selfe'
Century: 1500-1599 Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Hoby Print: Book
'then I was busie and hard Mr Rhodes Read his Catechismie tell 5'
Century: 1500-1599 Reader/Listener/Group: Richard Rhodes Print: Book
'then I went a little about the house and reed of the diatt of the soul tell 5:, and then returned to priuat praier and medetacion, and so to readinge of the bible and walkinge tell supper'
Century: 1500-1599 Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Hoby Print: Book
'In the morninge, after priuat praier, I brake my fast: soon after that I hard som chapters of the bible read'
Century: 1500-1599 Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Hoby Print: Book
'when I had praied priuatly I did read of the Bible allmost vntell dinner time'
Century: 1500-1599 Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Hoby Print: Book
'after I wrett my notes in my testement and reed of the bible, then to dinner'
Century: 1500-1599 Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Hoby Print: Book
'after, I had reed of the bible, after to lector, and then to bed'
Century: 1500-1599 Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Hoby Print: Book
'then I reed a chapter of the Bible to my mother'
Century: 1500-1599 Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Hoby Print: Book
'I Came home, where I did litle good but talked of many maters, litle concerning me, with Mrs Ormston, to whom a read a whill of the Bible'
Century: 1500-1599 Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Hoby Print: Book
'then I praied and read of the bible, and so went to dimer'
Century: 1500-1599 Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Hoby Print: Book
'after, I did breake my fast, then I went about the house and, after, read of the bible'
Century: 1500-1599 Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Hoby Print: Book
'After priuat prairs I did eate my breakfast, and then I did read of the Testament, and so went to church'
Century: 1500-1599 Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Hoby Print: Book
'after the sarmon, I walked, and read and talked with Mrs Ormston of that was deliuered'
Century: 1500-1599 Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Hoby Print: Book
'and, sonne after, when I had reed of the Bible, I dined'
Century: 1500-1599 Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Hoby Print: Book
'then I medetated of the sarmons, and read and spoke to Mrs Ormstone of the Chapter that was read in the morning'
Century: 1500-1599 Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Hoby Print: Book
'After priuat praier I reed a while of the Bible'
Century: 1500-1599 Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Hoby Print: Book
'after, I reed of the Bible, and spock of Certaine Chapters to Mrs Ormston and John douson'
Century: 1500-1599 Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Hoby Print: Book
'then I praied with Mr Rhodes and reed tell supper time: after, I hard publect prairs, and Reed of the testement'
Century: 1500-1599 Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Hoby Print: Book
'After priuat praier I did read of the Bible and then eate my breakfast'
Century: 1500-1599 Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Hoby Print: Book
'then I walked, reed of the bible, praied, and so went to dinner'
Century: 1500-1599 Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Hoby Print: Book
'after, I walked and talked with Mr Rhodes, Reed of the bible, and, after, praied'
Century: 1500-1599 Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Hoby Print: Book
After priuat praers I did read of the bible'
Century: 1500-1599 Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Hoby Print: Book
'after, to supper, then to work, and hard readinge of the bible'
Century: 1500-1599 Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Hoby Print: Book
'after I wrought, reed of the bible and praied, and then went to dinner'
Century: 1500-1599 Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Hoby Print: Book
'After priuat praers I did eate my breakfast, then I wrough and reed of the bible tell dinner time'
Century: 1500-1599 Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Hoby Print: Book
'then I Came home and hard Mr Rhodes read of the bible'
Century: 1500-1599 Reader/Listener/Group: Richard Rhodes Print: Book
'After priuat praiers I did eate my breakfast, then reed of the bible and wrought'
Century: 1500-1599 Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Hoby Print: Book
'After priuat praier I did eate my breakfast: then I reed of the bible'
Century: 1500-1599 Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Hoby Print: Book
'After priuat praiers I did eate my breakfast, then I reed of the bible and write in my table book, and so went to dinner'
Century: 1500-1599 Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Hoby Print: Book
'After priuat praier I did eate my breakfast, goe abowt, read of the bible, pray, and after dime: then I talked a while, reed, went about'
Century: 1500-1599 Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Hoby Print: Book
'after that, praied priuatly, hauinge reed a Chapter of the bible, and so went to bed'
Century: 1500-1599 Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Hoby Print: Book
'After priuat praier I did eate my breakfast, dispatched diuerse busenes in the house, praied, and then read of the bible, and so dined'
Century: 1500-1599 Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Hoby Print: Book
'then I did reed of the bible, praied, walked a litle abroad, dinned'
Century: 1500-1599 Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Hoby Print: Book
'After priuat praier I reed of the bible, eate my breakfast, and went to Church'
Century: 1500-1599 Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Hoby Print: Book
'After priuat praier I reed of the bible, then brake my fast and walked abroad'
Century: 1500-1599 Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Hoby Print: Book
'after priuat praers I did read of the bible, brake my fast, and then went to church'
Century: 1500-1599 Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Hoby Print: Book
'After I was readie, had praied and broake my fast, I reed of the bible'
Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Hoby Print: Book
'After priuat praers and my breakfast, I reed of the bible'
Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Hoby Print: Book
'after I was in my Chamber, I praied priuatly, reed of the Testament, and then supper'
Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Hoby Print: Book
'reed of my bible, studeed my Lector, and so dined'
Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Hoby Print: Book
'after I Came home I praied, reed of the bible, and dined'
Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Hoby Print: Book
'After priuat praers I tooke order for diner and then reed of the bible'
Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Hoby Print: Book
'reed a Chapter of the testement, and so went to bed'
Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Hoby Print: Book
'after, I wrett Certaine thinges in my sermon book and did read of the bible, praied, and then dined'
Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Hoby Print: Book
'After priuat praers in the morninge I reed of the bible, and so dined'
Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Hoby Print: Book
'satt with Mr Hoby tell 6: then I went to priuat examenatione and praier, and to Read of the Testament'
Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Hoby Print: Book
'...tell all most :11: a cloke: then I praied, read of the bible, dined'
Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Hoby Print: Book
'After priuat praers I went about the house and then I reed of the bible tell dinner time'
Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Hoby Print: Book
'After I was readie and had praied, I did read of the testemente and bible'
Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Hoby Print: Book
'brake my fast: after, reed of the bible'
Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Hoby Print: Book
'after took a lector, read of the bible, praied, and so went to dinner'
Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Hoby Print: Book
'after I Came home I reed of the testement'
Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Hoby Print: Book
'and, when I Came home, I mad an end of writing my sermon, then reed of the bible'
Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Hoby Print: Book
'then I reed of the bible: after, I praied and so dined'
Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Hoby Print: Book
'after, I reed of the bible, praied, and lastly dined'
Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Hoby Print: Book
'after, I wrought, and hard Mr Rhodes read of the bible tell diner time: then I wrought, and walked a whill, and after hard him read'
Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Richard Rhodes Print: Book
'After priuat praier I did break my fast, read of the bible, walked to my workmen'
Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Hoby Print: Book
'After priuat praier I did eate, then dressed my patients, reed of the bible, and then saluted some strangers'
Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Hoby Print: Book
'took order for dimer, reed of the bible, walked abroad'
Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Hoby Print: Book
'After priuat praier I did read of the bible, then wret in my sermon book'
Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Hoby Print: Book
'took a lector, reed of the testament, praied with Mr Rhodes'
Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Hoby Print: Book
'after priuat praier and reading of the bible I did eate: then I hard M. Doman read'
Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Hoby Print: Book
'after, I reed of the bible, went about the house, praied, and after dined'
Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Hoby Print: Book
'After priuat praers I did eate, tooke a lector, reed of the bible and testement, and then dined'
Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Hoby Print: Book
'and then I reed of the Testemente and so to supper, then to publeck praers, and so to bed'
Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Hoby Print: Book
'After I was readie I praied, then reed of the bible and an other good book, and after 10 a cloke...'
Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Hoby Print: Book
'I got vp and was lett blood: then I made me readie and went to priuat praier and reeadinge of the bible, as I was wonte'
Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Hoby Print: Book
'After priuat praers, I reed of the bible and walked about before dinner'
Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Hoby Print: Book
'after, I reed of the bible tell all most Church time'
Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Hoby Print: Book
'I went about tell supper time and reed of the Testement'
Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Hoby Print: Book
'After priuat praers I went about the house when I had reed of the bible'
Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Hoby Print: Book
'then I Came home and praied priuatly and reed of the bible'
Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Hoby Print: Book
'when I Came home, I read of the bible, wrought, and after dined'
Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Hoby Print: Book
'after, I wrought and hard Mr Rhodes reead of the testement and other good bookes'
Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Richard Rhodes Print: Book
'After I was readie, I praied, went about the house, took a lecture, reed of the bible, praied, and went to dinner'
Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Hoby Print: Book
'then I reed of the bible, after praied and so went to diner'
Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Hoby Print: Book
'After priuat praier I did read of the bible and then went about the house'
Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Hoby Print: Book
'after, I withdrew my selfe and reed of the bible and praied, and then went to dinner'
Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Hoby Print: Book
'After priuat I stoudied my lecture and, after, I I took a newe, wrought, and hard Mr Rhodes read of the bible'
Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Richard Rhodes Print: Book
'after diner I talked of the sarmon, and reed of the bible with some Gentlewemen that were with me'
Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Hoby Print: Book
'After I had praied I reed of the Testement and did eate: after, I walked and did medetate of that I had reed'
Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Hoby Print: Book
'and, after, I did read of the bible, praied, and wrett in my sermon booke, and then went to dinner'
Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Hoby Print: Book
'then I reed of the testement, walked a whill, and went to supper'
Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Hoby Print: Book
'After priuat praers I wrett in my testement and reed'
Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Hoby Print: Book
'so, when I had praied priuatly & reed a chapter of the testement, I went to bed'
Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Hoby Print: Book
'when I had ben a whill about the house, I reed of the testement and then praied and examened my selfe'
Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Hoby Print: Book
'and then, towardes night, I wrett to my Cosine bouser, and reed of the Testement, and then went to priuat examenation and praier'
Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Hoby Print: Book
'and then I went againe to the church, and, after, I reed of the testement'
Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Hoby Print: Book
'after, I reed of the bible, and then went to priuatt praier and, after publeck, so to bed'
Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Hoby Print: Book
'and after returned to priuat praier and readinge of the testement'
Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Hoby Print: Book
'After priuat praers I went about the house, reed of the testement, wrett some medetation that I had the day before'
Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Hoby Print: Book
'reed of the bible, and after returned to priuat medetation and praier'
Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Hoby Print: Book
'when I had talked a whill and hard Mr Rhodes read 2 chapters of the Testement, I went to priuat praers and so to bed'
Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Richard Rhodes Print: Book
'after, I sung a psalme with some of the saruants and, lastly, reed a chapter, praied, and so went to bed'
Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Hoby Print: Book
'then I went about the house, and, after I had reed of the bible and praied'
Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Hoby Print: Book
'and after, when I had praied and reed of the bible, I dined'
Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Hoby Print: Book
'After priuat praers I reed of the bible, talked [with] some of my freindes, praied, and then went to diner'
Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Hoby Print: Book
'then I was busie in the kitchine allmost all the after none, and then I reed of the bible, and so went to priuat examenation and praier'
Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Hoby Print: Book
'After priuat praier I took accountes, did reead of the bible, praied, and walked, and so dined'
Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Hoby Print: Book
'After priuat praier I reed of the bible, and then I wrought tell allmost diner time'
Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Hoby Print: Book
'After priuat praier I brake my fast and wroug, reed of the bible, and then praied and dined'
Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Hoby Print: Book
'then I praied, reed of the bible, and went to diner'
Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Hoby Print: Book
'After priuat praier I went about and reed of the bible'
Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Hoby Print: Book
'and after I had dined I reed of the bible'
Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Hoby Print: Book
'after, I wrette to Mr Rhodes, and reed of the bible'
Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Hoby Print: Book
'After priuatt prairs I went to my worke, after I had reed of the bible'
Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Hoby Print: Book
'After priuatt praiers I reed of the bible'
Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Hoby Print: Book
'after, I hard Mr Ardington Read, and reed my selfe a Catzisimie of the Lord supper'
Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Hoby Print: Book
'before diner I praied and read of the bible'
Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Hoby Print: Book
'After priuat praier I reed of the bible, and so went to the church'
Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Hoby Print: Book
'dined, reed of the bible, walked abroad'
Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Hoby Print: Book
'hard Kate read a chapter'
Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Kate Print: Book
'This day and the next I went about the house, after I had hard Kate [read] a chapter'
Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Kate Print: Book
Witness statement in trial for theft:
Joseph Bird: 'last Monday week, the 29th of December, about half-past nine o'clock in the morning, I was reading the newspaper'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Bird Print: Newspaper
Witness statement in trial for theft:
Thomas James Francis: 'On the morning of the 17th of April, 1834, I saw three man in conversation several times, as I passed, getting my work in from the binders, nearly facing Boston-street—when I returned the second time the three men divided—the one who was convicted was leaning over the pales—he had a parcel in his hand—the other two were in a public-house, next door to Bell's—I saw one of them looking through the window, and the other reading a newspaper—that was the prisoner—I passed him about four times, as I was going to different binders with my work—I first saw him about half-past nine o'clock—I was backwards and forwards, passing and re-passing, for about an hour and a quarter, he was looking through the glass, the last time I saw him he was standing with his back to the table'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: William Goodwin Print: Newspaper
Witness statement in trial for theft:
Joseph Forster: 'I had heard of his loss, and seen an advertisement in the Times newspaper'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Forster Print: Advertisement, Newspaper
Witness statement in trial for deception:
Philip Farmer: 'Q. How came you here to-day? A. I saw it in the newspaper—a party read the paper to me, about the trial—I understood it was coming on again to-day, and came to hear it'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Philip Farmer Print: Newspaper
Witness statement in trial for theft:
Benjamin Murray: 'I first saw the account of this robbery in the Dispatch newspaper, and afterwards saw handbills, which induced me to come forwards.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Benjamin Murray Print: Newspaper
Witness statement in trial for theft:
Benjamin Murray: 'I first saw the account of this robbery in the Dispatch newspaper, and afterwards saw handbills, which induced me to come forwards.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Benjamin Murray Print: Handbill
Witness statement in trial for murder:
Henry Wignall: 'the 1st of January was Sunday—on the 1st of January I was in my own room, up stairs, reading the newspaper—he was in Mrs. Gale's apartment—I was reading the newspaper that morning to my wife, and a friend of mine, and my sister—I read of the trunk of a body being found in the Edgeware-road. Q. Did you read loud enough for the prisoners to hear you? A. They must have heard me read it—they had the door of their room ajar, and must have heard me—they staid there all day, and slept there all night—they did not say a word about this trunk that was found.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Henry Wignall Print: Newspaper
Witness statement in trial for deception:
William Spicer: 'On the 28th of December I had been at home the whole day, and for a fortnight before, as I was very ill—about twenty minutes before twelve o'clock that night, as I was reading the newspaper in the bar parlour, I heard a strange noise in my house, and Mrs. Ivory rushed in'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: William Spicer Print: Newspaper
Witness statement in trial for deception:
Charles Baldwin: 'On Tuesday, the 6th of June, I read this advertisement in the newspaper, which I produce—("Situations:—So numerous are the applications from merchants 'and tradespeople for men of various ages to fill vacancies in their establishments, the Proprietors of this Office are induced, through means of this advertisement, to inform all those seeking employment, that situations, not only as abovementioned, but also in private families, for those possessing good characters, may be heard of daily by applying at the Agency Office, No. 65 1/2, Cannon-street, City.")—I had been some time out of employ—on Thursday, the 8th of June, I went to No. 65 1/2 Cannon street—I did not take the newspaper with me—I saw the Defendant there, and told him I bad seen an advertisement in the Morning Advertiser news paper, respecting situations, that I was to apply there about'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Charles Baldwin Print: Advertisement, Newspaper
Witness statement in trial for bigamy:
Mrs Webb: 'after she was separated from her husband, she read in the newspaper about a marriage being illegal, in consequence of a person being married in a wrong name'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Burden Print: Newspaper
Witness statement in trial for deception:
John Dawson: 'about a year and nine months ago, I saw an advertisement in the Times newspaper-in consequence of which I went to No. 3, Jewin-court, Jewin-street—I there saw the prisoner—I said I called in reference to an advertisement I had seen in the paper, stating that money was to be obtained on freehold property, life Interest, &c.—inquired for J. Pepper, Esq.—the prisoner said, "I am the principal—I caused the advertisement in the paper—I do business in that way, walk in"—I went in—he inquired the nature of the property'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Dawson Print: Advertisement, Newspaper
Witness statement in trial for theft:
Mary Ann Hatton: 'On Saturday, the 30th of June, between one and two o'clock in the afternoon, the prisoner Austin brought some things to my mistress's stall, and asked her to buy them—she said she did not want them—he brought them to me, and I bought two petticoats, four aprons, and four pairs of stockings of him for 95 ... I afterwards read something in the newspaper about the robbery, and went to the office, and gave up the things.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Ann Hatton Print: Newspaper
Witness statement in trial for theft:
John Peto: 'On Sunday night, the 26th of August, Bostock came to my house, about eight o'clock ... that was just about nine o'clock, when the policemen were relieving their men—after that we sat, and Stubbs read the newspaper out loud—I do not know what paper—it was about the trail of the man for using the cow ill—he read that aloud—my wife heard that—I do not know what the conversation was about the cow—we only talked about what a shocking thing it was—we were joking one another—my wife was in the room all the time—all eight of us ... I am not capable of reading—I do not know the name of the newspaper—I borrowed it from the public-house the time I sent for the porter'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: William Stubbs Print: Newspaper
Witness statement in trial for forgery:
Frederick Cooper: 'I remember reading in the newspaper, that the prisoner was taken into custody'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Frederick Cooper Print: Newspaper
Witness statement in trial for theft:
Robert Gollinos: 'on Saturday morning, the 26th of January, I was reading in the newspaper of the loss of Mr. Platt's plate, in Russellsquare—I went up to my master, and pointed it out to him; and, in consequence of his directions, I went down to the pantry to bring up the spare plate, and found it was gone—I suspected the prisoner, and gave information to the police'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Gollinos Print: Newspaper
Witness statement in trial for theft:
Jonas Levy: 'I read in the newspaper that a man named Jones was taken up for stealing a ring, and I went to Bow-street to see him, a fortnight ago'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Jonas Levy Print: Newspaper
Witness statement in trial for theft:
Edward Smith: 'On the 17th of June I was at the Feathers public-house, in Oxford-street, between two and three o'clock—I had a box containing the property stated—I put it on a ledge in the window, above my head—the prisoner was there, with his brother and another—I was reading the newspaper, and then looked for my box—all the parties were gone, and my box too'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Edward Smith Print: Newspaper
Witness statement in trial for theft:
Dennis Power: 'Q. Do you ever read the "Weekly Dispatch" newspaper? A. I do not think any thing of it—I do read it occasionally—I read the account in it of my own affair before the commissioners, and a more gross falsehood was never published—I wrote to the editor of the "Dispatch," and was about to enter an action against him.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Edward Smith Print: Newspaper
Prisoner's statement in trial for theft:
Joseph Smith: 'There was a gentleman in the tap-room, reading the newspaper—I said, "Let me look at the paper, I wish to see an advertisement"'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: anon Print: Newspaper
witness statement in trial for theft:
Charles Blakeley Brown: 'On the 3rd of December, I read this advertisement in the "Times" newspaper—(looking at it)—in consequence of which I proceeded to the stables in Welbeck-street, and saw a stable boy—I then saw a man named Jem, who was dressed as a groom in mourning, all in black—I asked to look at the horse which was advertised in the "Times" of that morning, the bay gelding by Waterloo'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Charles Blakeley Brown Print: Advertisement, Newspaper
witness statement in trial for murder:
Charlotte Peolaine: 'Q. Had the parcel been left with you before you heard of the murder, or not? A. Oh yes—I took the parcel out of the closet yesterday morning, for the first time—I was induced to take it out, on account of what my cousin brought up stairs in a French newspaper—he read it to me, and showed it to me—in consequence of that I had some conversation with my cousin, and sent for Mr. Gardie, who lives in King-street'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Charlotte Peolaine Print: Newspaper
witness statement in trial for theft:
John Henry Bradley: 'I heard no more of it till I saw in the newspaper that the prisoner was taken—I went to the office with the gentleman who had been in my shop, and we identified him—this is the ring I missed—(looking at it)—I am quite sure the prisoner is the person who was in my shop.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Henry Bradley Print: Newspaper
witness statement in trial for conspiracy:
Mr Deller: 'I believe I am a judge of the value of gold—I have been a pawnbroker six years—I did not make the discovery till I saw in the newspaper about this affair.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mr Deller Print: Newspaper
witness statement in trial for theft:
Samuel Birchfield: 'About eleven o'clock, on the 26th of February, I left my horse and chaise at the gate of St. Katharine's Dock—I left my blue cape in my chaise, and when I returned it was gone—I saw an account in the newspaper, by which I found it.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Birchfield Print: Newspaper
witness statement in trial for theft:
John Kissick: 'On the 10th of November, the prisoner came into my shop, in Tottenham-court-road, and purchased half a sheet of paper, and wrapped up two old knives and forks, which he stated he was to leave there for the conductor of one of the omnibuses—I said it was a mistake —he said no, it was all right—he went to the public-house, and then came and asked us to let him look at the Dispatch newspaper—he stood with his back to the door, reading the paper—while we were at tea a coach came to the door, I went to speak to the coachman, the prisoner went out past me, I turned, and missed three volumes off the counter'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Edward Holmes Print: Newspaper
witness statement in trial for theft:
Eliza Warr: 'Q. What did the prisoner do there from one o'clock till after three? A. Waiting for his boots—I was in the room, sitting, reading the newspaper, all the time he was there—I saw the watch at five minutes after three exactly'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Eliza Warr Print: Newspaper
witness statement in trial for theft:
Catherine Stewart: 'I remember the night of Shrove Tuesday—he was at home with me that very night reading the newspaper—we went to bed about half-past eleven o'clock that night—he went to bed at that time—he had been at home the whole evening'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: William Keep Print: Newspaper
witness statement in trial for violent theft:
George Verry: 'the only thing that induced me to appear as a witness was from reading in the newspaper the observation of the Magistrate'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: George Verry Print: Newspaper
witness statement in trial for theft:
Robert Lincoln: 'I had heard "worked money" spoken of by my master, and had read about it in the newspaper'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Lincoln Print: Newspaper
witness statement in trial for deception:
Frederick Skerratt: 'I then saw an advertisement in the Times newspaper, stating that this bill had been lost'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Frederick Skerratt Print: Newspaper
witness statement in trial for theft:
James Dignum: 'I had heard something about the state of Lord Fitzgerald's health at that time—I had read in the "Times" newspaper of his lordship's state of health—I cannot say whether it was the day I read that account that Howse first called on me—I think he called on me before his lordship's death.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: James Dignum Print: Newspaper
witness statement in trial for theft:
Henry Reeves: 'he was reading the newspaper—it might have been for half an hour—that was perhaps about eight o'clock—he had a pint of porter to drink about eight—I saw him drink out of a quart pot, a person sitting in the next box handed it over'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: William Hatton Print: Newspaper
witness statement in trial for theft:
William John Boden: 'Q. Where were you? A. In the parlour—the door was open—no one could have come in without my seeing them—I did not see Cotterill come in—I was reading a newspaper—it might be twenty minutes or half an hour before I missed the parcel—I had been up stairs in the meantime—my father came down before I went up.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: William John Boden Print: Newspaper
witness statement in trial for wounding:
Thomas Waller: 'I was sitting reading the newspaper when the prisoner came in'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Waller Print: Newspaper
witness statement in trial for theft:
Edmund Fargens: 'I afterwards saw a paragraph in the newspaper, in consequence of which I went and gave information of what I had seen'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Edmund Fargens Print: Newspaper
witness statement in trial for theft:
Esther Lane: 'she had had half a pint of beer, and been reading the newspaper'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Jane Barnett Print: Newspaper
witness statement in trial for theft:
Frederick Shaw: 'Q. Were there any persons at the tap? A. There was one person at the bar reading a newspaper—I never lost sight of Jacobs during the whole of this time'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: anon Print: Newspaper
witness statement in trial for deception:
William Angerstein: 'At the time in question I was staying with my father at Blackheath—I saw an advertisement in the Times newspaper referring to some horses—I will not be quite certain as to the date—(looking at the Times newspaper)—it was an advertisement to this effect'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: William Angerstein Print: Advertisement, Newspaper
witness statement in trial for deception:
William Godfrey: 'I was reading the newspaper on the Friday morning that I went with the note, and I saw the date on the top it, so I know [it] was the 18th—I go with a great many notes, and often read the newspaper'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: William Godfrey Print: Advertisement, Newspaper
'I kept my hours conscientiously, but when I had no work to do I read continuously. I read parts of "The Times", the "Standard" and the "Morning Post" ever day. The theatrical and policitcal news interested me more than anything else. The study was lined with book shelves, and besides all the classical writers there was a large section filled with the works of French dramatists. I read several plays by Marivaux, and found, to my astonishment, that a serial I had read in the "Girls' Own Paper" had its origin in one of his plays. Encouraged by this, I wrote a play which also derived from a play by Marivaux.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Zoe Procter Print: Newspaper
'I kept my hours conscientiously, but when I had no work to do I read continuously. I read parts of "The Times", the "Standard" and the "Morning Post" ever day. The theatrical and policitcal news interested me more than anything else. The study was lined with book shelves, and besides all the classical writers there was a large section filled with the works of French dramatists. I read several plays by Marivaux, and found, to my astonishment, that a serial I had read in the "Girls' Own Paper" had its origin in one of his plays. Encouraged by this, I wrote a play which also derived from a play by Marivaux.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Zoe Procter Print: Newspaper
'I kept my hours conscientiously, but when I had no work to do I read continuously. I read parts of "The Times", the "Standard" and the "Morning Post" ever day. The theatrical and policitcal news interested me more than anything else. The study was lined with book shelves, and besides all the classical writers there was a large section filled with the works of French dramatists. I read several plays by Marivaux, and found, to my astonishment, that a serial I had read in the "Girls' Own Paper" had its origin in one of his plays. Encouraged by this, I wrote a play which also derived from a play by Marivaux.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Zoe Procter Print: Newspaper
'In the newspapers, which my sister sent out to me, I had read about the growing movement for women's suffrage.'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Zoe Procter Print: Newspaper
'Not knowing that I had reached the end of my travels for that day, I seated myself on the one chair and proceeded to read the "Church Times" which I had brought as reading matter. At about midnight my cell door was flung open and I was told to pass "out".'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Zoe Procter Print: Serial / periodical
'I read the "Syonan Times" it says: "The era of equality for all in Greater Asia is at hand"'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Kitching Print: Newspaper
'"The Syonan Times" says Java surrendered unconditionally on Monday [9 Mar]'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Kitching Print: Newspaper
'"The Syonan Times" also gives a list of Nipponese taking positions as Advisers in various States of Malaya except Pahang'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Kitching Print: Newspaper
'A statement about the position as regards the exchange of internees is given by "The Changi Guardian" (the prisoners' bulletin): no steps have been taken yet and can only be initiated by the government concerned'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Kitching Print: Newspaper
'"The Syonan Times" reports there is no resistance in Northern Sumatra. In the newspaper, there is a remarkable similarity in the wording of the various official notices, eg. "Those who do not comply will be severely punished". Thus falls the British tyranny'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Kitching Print: Newspaper
'"The Syonan Times" reports that Eden, the Foreign Secretary, has spoken of the prisoners in Hong Kong and of their "wonderful treatment" by the Japanese. There is no mention of Singapore ... According to the "Syonan Times" our and the Allies' naval losses are astronomical and the Nipponese microscopic'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Kitching Print: Newspaper
'"The Syonan Times" says that 11 ships have been sunk off Colombo, Rangoon and the Indian coast; also the Queen Mary with 10,000 troops in the South Atlantic. The newspaper also warns the Asiatic population that the way to happiness etc. will be hard, but they must tread it for the sake of their children! The arrogant British then come in for more castigation'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Kitching Print: Newspaper
'"The Syonan Times announces with a flourish the resumption of the delivery of letters.'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Kitching Print: Newspaper
'"The Syonan Times" announces the resumption of the retail sale of sugar. And they are to re-open the schools soon'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Kitching Print: Newspaper
'"The Syonan Times" reports that 200 mixed British and Dutch refugees have been rounded up in Northern Sumatra. They had fled there.'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Kitching Print: Newspaper
'"The Syonan Times" says the Nipponese have given Hong Kong internees money and cigarettes and they allow canteens where they can buy anything ... "The Syonan Times" has announced that, by order, the first Nipponese public holiday is to be April 29th, the Emperor's birthday'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Kitching Print: Newspaper
'"The Syonan Times" says the scorched earth policy in Malaya was a failure - the rubber and tin are still there!'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Kitching Print: Newspaper
'"The Syonan Times" says the lack of food grown in Malaya is due to the deliberate policy of the British government, who thought of nothing but wealth for their merchant princes. And there are fewer motor accidents in Singapore now. This is due to the imposition of a 30mph limit and the superior driving of the Nipponese'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Kitching Print: Newspaper
'"The Changi Guardian" says in the "Do You Know?" pages: "That each dawn is now broken by the patter of running feet - two enthusiasts, etc!" The editors must have been a long time waking up, as this is our 50th successive day running round the exercise yard in the morning'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Kitching Print: Newspaper
'According to "The Syonan Times", 10,000 prisoners are working on it [war memorial]. A "Lisbon cable" published in the same newspaper says that Sir Anthony Eden, the Foreign Secretary, has told the House of Commons that conditions in the prisoner-of-war camps in Singapore and Hong Kong are good and the food is enough'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Kitching Print: Newspaper
'"The Syonan Times" has a headline: "European War Decided in Two Months", but I cannot get near enough to see which way! As usual, the paper vanishes in the night. Some swine does it systematically.'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Kitching Print: Newspaper
'I take the chance of a leisurely read of "The Syonan Times" of May 18th. The headlines include: "Decline of the British Empire Inevitable" (how true!); and "Shaping of Future Destiny of World in Nipponese Hands".'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Kitching Print: Newspaper
'I inspect "The Syonan Times" from May 23rd to 28th: the usual unadulterated propaganda - in such mass and so blatant you would expect it to stultify itself completely. The highlight is: "Our treatment of the prisoners-of-war is such as to win the admiration of the world and the chivalry of our army is a by-word". Headlines include: "Day of Reckoning At Hand for Britain"; "Spectre of Revolution and Famine Stalks Through the Land"; "Britain and US Reduced to Third-Rate Naval Powers" (by the "smashing victory" in the Coral Sea)'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Kitching Print: Newspaper
'"The Syonan Times" says very naively that the essay competition on Nipponese culture was very disappointing. There were only 45 entries: no first and second prizes will be awarded. The population of Syonan don't seem to have realised that Nipponese culture is the finest in the world, especially in science and engineering. This is proved by the fact that her inventions have been adopted all over the world.'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Kitching Print: Newspaper
'"The Syonan Times reports that Mrs Arbenz, wife of the Swiss Consul, has been killed in a motor accident. Joan knew the daughters well. "The Syonan Times" leader complains bitterly that the population of Syonan-To are just waiting. They don't learn Nippon-Go, they don't take off their coats and work'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Kitching Print: Newspaper
'A notice in "The Syonan Times" asks the public to cooperate in measures for the suppression of mosquitoes'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Kitching Print: Newspaper
'"The Syonan Times" gives full details for an exchange of diplomats and others from the US, Canada and South America and the names of the ships involved'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Kitching Print: Newspaper
'"The Changi Guardian", in its cricket report, says: "Kitching fought the vigorous attack amid rising excitement and, when the final two came just before time, there was wild cheering".'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Kitching Print: Newspaper
'"The Syonan Times" of August 7th says: "Grow more food. It is essential. It is to be planted on enemy-owned rubber plantations. The shortage is the result of bad administration by the British, but the Malayans must take their share of the blame, as there is responsibility both as government and governed." It sounds OK, but the soil won't respond.'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Kitching Print: Newspaper
'"The Syonan Times" says there is to be a public holiday today for the half-anniversary of the New Birth of Malaya.'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Kitching Print: Newspaper
'"The Syonan Times" says that, in spite of the "evil scorched-earth policy" of the British, the hydro-electric installations are now in working order, also 70% of the tin mines.'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Kitching Print: Newspaper
'A comparison with other internees culled from "The Syonan Times": Manila, S. Thomas University - 3,200 internees in 64 acres, Changi - 2,800 in less than 11 acres. In Hong Kong, they are in villas. In Peking, they are in their own houses.'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Kitching Print: Newspaper
'"The Changi Guardian" reports: "The Changi Cricket League, long expected, is now in being, thanks to the untiring energy of Mr Tom Kitching".'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Kitching Print: Newspaper
'"The Syonan Times" informs us that one Nipponese is worth at least six white soldiers because he fights for ideals and love of country, but whites are materialistic and fight only under the influence of rum and drugs.'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Kitching Print: Newspaper
'According to "The Syonan Times", the Government of Malaya says that the Nipponese will educate the youth of Malaya properly. We only did it intellectually.'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Kitching Print: Newspaper
'"The Syonan Times" says that M. Egle, the Red Cross representative, entertained to dinner by the Nipponese in Shanghi, said, "Your kindness (to the prisoners-of-war) has been just wonderful".'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Kitching Print: Newspaper
'"The Syonan Times" says that the Raffles statue is being moved to a museum.'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Kitching Print: Newspaper
[in this entry, lists extracts from "The Syonan Times" of 10 Sept]
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Kitching Print: Newspaper
'"The Syonan Times" refers to the "miserable hordes of distressed humanity who were barely able to eke out an existence on the borderline of starvation in British times" and who are now on top of the world! ... You can get a lot from reading between the lines. Sometimes we wonder is this is done purposely by the pro-British on the newspaper staff.'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Kitching Print: Newspaper
'There is unconscious humour in "The Syonan Times". Two headlines state: "New Order Simplifies Chinese Funerals" and "Nipponese Culture - Why Does the West Fail to Understand It?".'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Kitching Print: Newspaper
'"The Syonan Times" has the speech of welcome given by the Mayor to Nipponese internees who have arrived on the Tatuta Maru from India and Great Britain.'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Kitching Print: Newspaper
'"The Syonan Times" says the evil influences of the British education system are to be swept away completely and replaced by an education in which the mainspring in faith is universal brotherhood.'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Kitching Print: Newspaper
'"The Syonan Times" of September 17th contains an account by a Chinese nurse who, I think, must have been on Nora's ship'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Kitching Print: Newspaper
'"The Syonan Times" is running heavy propaganda for the people to learn Japanese. They say people evidently don't like it.'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Kitching Print: Newspaper
'"The Syonan Times" says the Tatuta Maru brought parcels for the prisoners of war "direct from their kith and kin"'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Kitching Print: Newspaper
'"The Syonan Times" reports that "owing to unavoidable circumstances, the Malayan-Chinese Goodwill Mission's visit to Japan is postponed.'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Kitching Print: Newspaper
'There is not so much bombast in the latest "Syonan Times" report on the war: "Our nation remains determined ... to achieve ultimate victory".'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Kitching Print: Newspaper
[Tom quotes the "Syonan Times" on] '"British Maltreatment of Nipponese Internees" and on how the local people "fail to appreciate the realities of freedom, happiness and prosperity they now enjoy!'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Kitching Print: Newspaper
'"The Syonan Times" carries a report about Miss Estrop, a Eurasian from Kuala Lumpar.'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Kitching Print: Newspaper
'"The Syonan Times" leader says: "today, hundreds of thousands of people in Malaya are suffering severely from insufficient food, not because there is a shortage of food, but because they have no money".'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Kitching Print: Newspaper
'In "The Syonan Times" there is a very anti-British speech by S.C. Goho - the Indians are not supporting the Indian Independence League.'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Kitching Print: Newspaper
'"The Syonan Times" has more about the wonderful conditions of prisoners-of-war and internees in Hong Kong and Shanghi, but nothing about us!'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Kitching Print: Newspaper
'"The Syonan Times" reports that a week's holiday starts in Japan and elsewhere on December 5th at the end of a year's successful warfare.'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Kitching Print: Newspaper
'"The Syonan Times" has an amusing erros in its leader today.'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Kitching Print: Newspaper
'There is an article in "The Syonan Times" by Charles Nell about Malayan Shylocks.'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Kitching Print: Newspaper
'"The Syonan Times" gives it away: "The English who formerly lived like kings are now sighing in Changi Prison".'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Kitching Print: Newspaper
'And now for the best jest so far in Changi: the editors of "The Changi Guardian" suddenly have their cells turned inside out this morning. They are sent for. We all wonder what the offence is. It is in Saturday's [14th] "Changi Guardian": "Sad Demise of the Sabbath Paper" - "With mixed feelings, we announce that, owing to shortage of newsprint, publication of the 'Changi Chimes' ceased on Staurday last ... From all parts of the world we have received messages of sympathy and codolence and, from these, we append the following extracts: 'your ... little journal' ('The Feathered World'); 'The orginality of the contents never failed to surprise us' ('The Dredgemaster's Weekly')" ... The Japanese open the proceedings by asking how we got these papers into the camp. (They were looking for them, hence the ransacking of the cells.) And, after the most painstaking explanations, the editors are reluctantly released.'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Kitching Print: Newspaper
'"The Jap Times and Advertiser" held a slogan competition.'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Kitching Print: Newspaper
'A paragraph has been cut out of "The Syonan Times"; internees are not allowed to see it, but, with the usual efficiency, enough of the tops of the letters in the headline are left to enable one to read it: "Allied Airmen Bomb Civilians".'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Kitching Print: Newspaper
'I am amused by a purchase I make today: it is toilet paper and on the wrapper it says in large letters, obviously as a guarantee of excellence: "British Product. Made in Syonan-To".'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Kitching Print: wrapper/ packaging
'"The Syonan Times" is again full of articles putting the blame for the war on the Allies'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Kitching Print: Newspaper
'"The Syonan Times" advertises a movie in the Capitol, now disguised as Kyo-El-Gekizyo: "Love Finds Andy Hardy".'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Kitching Print: Advertisement, Newspaper
'To quote "The Syonan Times", "All houses will hoist the Rising Sun Flag".'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Kitching Print: Newspaper
'Aha! The transformed newspaper is an accomplished fact. The issue of December 12th carries its new name of "Syonan Sinbun" (=newspaper) but this is number five. Where are one, two, three and four? There is not a scrap of news in it. It's full of banquets and mutual admiration society meetings of the Axis partners.'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Kitching Print: Newspaper
'"The Syonan Sinbun" publish a long interview given by the Bishop of Singapore a few days ago, which is entirely fictitious!'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Kitching Print: Newspaper
'"The Syonan Sinbun" headline on December 18th: "Tokyo Wins War of Radio Waves". The newspaper lauds the superiority of Japanese broadcasts over those of the Allies.'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Kitching Print: Newspaper
'A notice in "The Syonan Sinbun" again calls upon all owners of short-wave wireless sets to hand them over for conversion to medium wave only, "failing which punishment shall be meted out accordingly".'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Kitching Print: Newspaper
'The newspaper reports that the so-clever Nipponese scientists are not only going to eradicate venereal disease, but also discover its causes.'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Kitching Print: Newspaper
'"The Syonan Sinbun" advertises a slogan competition for the anniversary of the fall of Singapore: "Slogans should clearly show the invulnerable position of Nippon for the successful consummation of a protracted war". Difficult, one thinks.'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Kitching Print: Advertisement, Newspaper
'"The Syonan Sinbun" reports that the museum authorities in Singapore are busy translating all the thousands of explanatory data from English to Nippon-go. English is to be done away with!'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Kitching Print: Newspaper
'"The Syonan Sinbun" announces that there are 18 large mailbags in Tokyo with letters from Great Britain for war prisoners in the Southern Region - that's us.'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Kitching Print: Newspaper
'"The Syonan Sinbun" reports Tokyo as saying that "the maltreatment and petty annoyances to which Nipponese internees are subjected in Great Britain and the USA are in sharp contrast to the warm, sympathetic treatment extended by the Nipponese to enemy nationals and prisoners of war." Why put this sort of rubbish in the local paper, when the inhabitants know quite well how WE have been treated?'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Kitching Print: Newspaper
'"The Syonan Sinbun" reports that Yamashita, the conqueror of Malaya, has been promoted to General.'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Kitching Print: Newspaper
'"The Syonan Sinbun" for Tuesday and Wednesday surpasses itself.'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Kitching Print: Newspaper
'"The Syonan Sinbun" leader is quite amusing; it tells the people how changed things are for them compared with a year ago and adds in brackets "for the better" - in case there should be some misapprehension!'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Kitching Print: Newspaper
'"The Syonan Sinbun" reports that the Nipponese Government has decided not to consider Indians and the other peoples of the Philippines, Hong Kong, Malaya, Borneo and the Dutch East Indies as enemy nations any longer.'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Kitching Print: Newspaper
Prisoner's statement in trial for murder:
Daniel Johncock: 'I read the Times newspaper, and read of the suicide of a young woman by taking oxalic acid'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Daniel Johncock Print: Newspaper
Prisoner's statement in trial for theft:
Michael Benson: 'I called for a glass of ale, and paid for it; I was there a considerable time, reading the newspaper, and saw the parcel on the counter that Drury had placed there for me to take, and I had another glass of ale'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Michael Benson Print: Newspaper
Witness statement in trial for theft:
George Martin: 'Q. You saw Martin leave the box and go to get the newspapers? A. Yes, she went to the opposite box—she did not go directly back—she stood for five minutes reading the newspaper, where the men were, and then went back to her own box—when she got of to go away, there was a general scuffle amongst all those men'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Ellen Martin Print: Newspaper
Witness statement in trial for theft:
John Scott: 'about one o'clock in the day on the 1st of May, I was in the French Horn reading the newspaper'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Scott Print: Newspaper
Witness statement in trial for theft:
George Patterson: 'Q. What were you doing there? A. I was reading the newspaper'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: George Patterson Print: Newspaper
Witness statement in trial for wounding:
George Rogers: 'it was quite by accident I saw this affair in the newspaper, which made me attend here'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: George Rogers Print: Newspaper
Witness statement in trial for theft:
Henry Theodore James: 'I did not go before the Magistrate on this matter—I saw in the newspaper that the prisoner was before the Magistrate—he did not call me as a witness there'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Henry Theodore James Print: Newspaper
Witness statement in trial for theft:
George Sweet: 'On the 15th Dec. I saw an advertisement in the Times Newspaper which I have here—(read "Horse for sale...)'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: George Sweet Print: Advertisement, Newspaper
Witness statement in trial for murder:
Charles Evans: 'I was in the room when the Coroner summed up the case to the Jury, and I afterwards read it in the Times' newspaper'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Charles Evans Print: Newspaper
Witness statement in trial for theft:
Henry Childs: 'Turner sat down, and fell asleep—Grimes sat near him, and seemed asleep too—Collins was on the other side of the shop, reading a newspaper—I was obliged to go up stairs for hot water'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Collins Print: Newspaper
Witness statement in trial for treason:
George Davis: 'Q. How came you to alter your mind? A. Through reading the newspaper this morning, and seeing the character the witness had yesterday, and 1 knew no one could bring such charges against me—it was from reading the account of the cross-examination of Powell—it occurred to me that he bore rather a bad character, and cut rather a bad figure—I did not want to bolster him up—I came to give the light evidence, because I thought the Jury would not believe Powell's statement to be true, as he bore such a bad character.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: George Davis Print: Newspaper
Witness statement in trial for deception:
William James Bedel: 'On Monday, 6th Nov. last, I saw this advertisement in the Times newspaper:—"A pair of brown geldings...'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: William James Bedel Print: Advertisement, Newspaper
Witness statement in trial for theft:
George Dawson: 'Campbell was in my house on that Saturday, from three to four o'clock—he read the newspaper—he said he had been to Smithfield, and bought a saddle, on the Friday'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Campbell Print: Newspaper
Witness statement in trial for deception:
Thomas Holmman: 'I afterwards saw an account in the newspaper of the prisoner's examination, in conesquence of which I went to the police-office'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Holmman Print: Newspaper
Witness statement in trial for theft:
George Gordon Chitlock: 'both these bags were in the booking-office—the prisoner came to take his ticket some time after the prosecutor had left his bag—the prisoner put his bag on a form—he borrowed a newspaper; he read it till the bell rang—he then seized a bag and went off, leaving his own bag behind.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Game Print: Newspaper
Witness statement in trial for theft:
Richard James: 'I put the key of the cupboard into my pocket, and went to the public-house—I looked at a newspaper to see what Consols were—he said they were very high, and he would not advise me to buy in, as they would be lower—I parted with him then, and returned to my own house'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Richard James Print: Advertisement, Newspaper
Witness statement in trial for murder:
Richard John Moxey: '[Manning] said, "Is the wretch taken?"—I said I did not know, 1 believed so from what I had seen in the newspaper'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Richard John Moxey Print: Newspaper
'The newspaper praises it [loaf made of maize flour and rice]: "Bread reappears in Syonan. The doctors are enthusiastic about it; it is more palatable and equally nourishing" (compared with that of the effete and non-prosperous days of British rule!)'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Kitching Print: Newspaper
'Very neatly put is this from "The Syonan Sinbun": "With the return of warm weather, the submarine threat has become a burning question."'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Kitching Print: Newspaper
'I receive two letters - one (undated) from Nellie [Tom's eldest sister] in Australia and the other from Amy Hallom in Lancaster, dated 19.7.1942. Both think Nora is here with me. [summarises content of letters]'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Kitching Manuscript: Letter
'There is an appeal in "The Syonan Sinbun" to stop the black-marketeering in drugs. Quinine is available at five cents per tablet - "a price well within reach of the poor". In the bad old days of British rule, the said poor got it for nothing.'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Kitching Print: Newspaper
'There is a letter from Joan, Barn Close, Milford, Godalming. It is dated 14.7.42 and addressed to both of us, of course. It is an excellent letter, with the limitations of censorship considered: "I am well and truly started on my career at last and enjoying it hugely".'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Kitching Manuscript: Letter
'"The Syonan Sinbun" says: 'What were considered ridiculous prices a few months after the fall of Singapore are as nothing, compared to the prices obtaining today." What a confession! And we are told there is no inflation.'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Kitching Print: Newspaper
'"The Syonan Sinbun" reports a speech made by Colonel Okabo to a meeting of Mohammedan delegates. He tells them to warn the population against the lying and malicious propaganda of the British and Americans about retaking this part of the world.'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Kitching Print: Newspaper
'The Saturday newspaper has part of a column cut out. As there is no war news from Europe elsewhere, you can put omission and exclusion together and make Tunis.'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Kitching Print: Newspaper
'Both Tuesday and Wednesday editions of "The Syonan Sinbun" have bits cut out - one-and-a-half columns then one column.'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Kitching Print: Newspaper
'There is more censorship of the newspaper. It is cut about all over the place.'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Kitching Print: Newspaper
'I discover a new Nipponese word in a newspaper report: "Three of our planes committed jibaku" ie. deliberately dived into objectives'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Kitching Print: Newspaper
'An article in "The Syonan Sinbun" headed "Red Cross Says Syonan Prisoners Well-Treated" reports that the International Red Cross representative in Tokyo has told Geneva: "The representative of the International Red Cross in Syonan is satisfactorily carrying on HIS ASSIGNED DUTIES" - which is quite true, but they do not include an inspection report!'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Kitching Print: Newspaper
'"The Syonan Sinbun" announces that Nipponese is to be the future lingua franca of Malaya, but do not be perturbed - English will be permitted as a medium of expression for some time yet. How magnaminous is this.'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Kitching Print: Newspaper
'"Nippon knows no class or racial distinctions which were so hateful under the British", says a leader in "The Syonan Sinbun". Yet a railway notice in the paper says, "Owing to current exigencies, first-class tickets will only be issued to certain specified people". Well, well! We never descended to that.'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Kitching Print: Newspaper
'"The Syonan Sinbun", under the heading "No Room for Criminals", reports on the new regime's effective campaign against crime.'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Kitching Print: Newspaper
'"The Syonan Sinbun" says the Axis have won the first round in Sicily, but doesn't explain how they let the Allies get there.'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Kitching Print: Newspaper
'"The Syonan Sinbun" reports a spokesman of the Nipponese Army Board of Information as saying Britain has sent warships to the Indian Ocean from the Mediterranean. This is good news, as it means that we can spare them.'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Kitching Print: Newspaper
'"The Syonan Sinbun" says a cable from Lisbon on July 22nd reported the arrival in London of 20,000 postcards and letters from the Pacific Theatre. I hope ours are amongst them.'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Kitching Print: Newspaper
'A young hopeful from the Women's camp, aged five, asked what he was going to do when he grew up, said, "Go over to the Men's Camp". Comment of "Pow-Wow", the ladies periodical is: "WE can't even look forward to that."'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Kitching Print: Serial / periodical
'"The Syonan Sinbun" says goods supplied by the Nipponese will be distributed today; the goods include crockery, glassware, earthenware, vases, beer mugs, cutlery, buckets, needles, lunch boxes, toys, stationery and trays.'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Kitching Print: Newspaper
'I am reading with intense interest the government blue book of documents prior to the outbreak of war on September 3rd, 1939 - four years ago. And the most pessimistic prognostications as to the world scope of the war and the wholesale destruction have been fulfilled. But it is strongly heartening to read this book.'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Kitching Print: Book
'Began reading through the "Encyclopaedia Britannica" today. Another ten years project, at least. My odyssey through Chambers's "Twentieth Cent. Dictionary" seems to be within a year of completion - that will make it nine years - one less than my calculated time.'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: William Soutar Print: Book
'Eve stayed in to do her Bible Questions. As she was looking through the chapter on the deception of Isaac by Jacob and the stealing of Esau's birthright - she suddenly looked up and said in a pleasantly surprised voice: - "Why, the Bible's just as good as a story book"'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Evelyn Soutar Print: Book
'The first review of "Seeds in the Wind" came along today - "The Glasgow Evening News" - Power may have done it. Overpraised - but some truth too in it: certainly a good send-off to the verse.'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: William Soutar Print: Newspaper
'Such a moment I experienced last night when I read Murray's article in "New Britain" on "Shakespeare and Socialism" - I felt as if in my sonnet, "To Marx", I had put Murray's prose into verse. Both the article and the sonnet must have been written practically at the same time.'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: William Soutar Print: Serial / periodical
'Note the following passages respecting Edom. Genes. xxxvi. Num. xx, 14, xxi, 4, xxiv, 18, xxxiii, 7. Judges v, 4. Deut. ii, 4, 8, 12. 2 Sam. viii, 14. 1 Kings xi, 15, xxii, 47. 2nd Kings iii, 9, viii, 20, xiv, 7. conf. 2 Ch. xxv. Isaiah xi, 14, xxi, 12. I Ch. xviii, 12. 2 Ch. xx, 10. Is. lxiii, 1, conf. Jerem. xlix, 7, 13, xxv, 21, 23. Lament iv, 21. Ezek. xxv, 8, 12, xxxv, 5. Amos i, II, 12, ii, I. Obediah all.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin Print: Book
'Note Ezekiel 22.30. "I sought for a man among them, that should make up the hedge, and stand in the gap before me for the land that I should not destroy it but I found none."'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin Print: Book
'In the reading of the psalms this morning, I was struck by the 5th and 6th verses of V, where the abhorrence or contrariety of God to evil is expressed as regards his three attributes of wisdom, truth and love...'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin Print: Book
'Read the 8th of Jerem this morning. Note the 7th verse very beautiful, comparing Isaiah i. 3. The ninth verse too important.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin Print: Book
'I was struck today by the "minding himself to go afoot" in Acts xx. 13. It is interesting to see the Apostle, after labouring and preaching all night, seek this retirement in the day, and walk alone across the country at least 25 miles to Assos. Query: what kind of scenery on this journey?'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin Print: Book
'I have been abstracting the Book of Revelations. I was especially struck with the general appellation of the System of the world as the Mystery of God, in Chap. X. 7, compared with Hebrews XI. 6, which chapter I read this morning in our usual course. Theme enough for the day's course.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin Print: Book
'I never noticed the 45th of Jeremiah till today - it is singularly appicable to all ambitious dreaming at this time. Consider also the beautiful 17th verse of the 46th chapter.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin Print: Book
'As I opened the Bible today I was peculiarly struck with the well known, never enough known, passage, Prov. II. 3, 4: "If thou seekest her as silver, and searchest for her, as for hid treasures', showing that we must indeed do this in order to understand at all, and how few do it.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin Print: Unknown
'Note in Psalm 27th, David's claim to spend all his life in the "house of the Lord" v.4 and following expressions about his tabernacle.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin Print: Unknown
'The more I read the psalms, the more it seems to me that Heathen, in such passages as Ps. XLVI. 6, 10, XLIII. 14, II. 1, etc, while in David's mouth indeed meant the Gentiles, was intended to signify for us, the world in general'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin Print: Unknown
'First Sunday in new lodgings in Albyn place. Effie in bed. I read thoughtfully part of 1st Genesis, beginning a new course of Bible reading, with greater attention to the marginal readings and interpretations of names than I have attempted yet'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin Print: Book
'Confused about the various phrases: The Man, Gen. III. 24. Adam, and Ish, Isha, II. 23. What is the meaning of Abel?'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin Print: Book
'Restoration of Israel. Note 31st and 32nd Jeremiah: clear, unmistakeable, beautiful.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin Print: Book
'Note today in Bible reading the charge to Abraham, "Walk before me, and be thou perfect". It means "sincere" in marginal reading.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin Print: Book
'It is curious that the first book I took up here, after my new testament, was the "Christian Year", and it opened at a poem for the 20th Sunday after Trinity, which I had never read before.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin Print: Book
'Orange dawn through clouds. Opened Bible at Isaiah XXXVII. 30.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin Print: Book
'See in "Morning Post" of October 4th, 61, page 3, 3rd column, last article, results of Christianity and "Mr Close of Cheltenham".'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin Print: Newspaper
'Observe accident in "Times" of June 17th, caused by caterpillar, Bombyx processionea of Reaumur.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin Print: Book
'Read Jeremiah I. in the morning, long since I looked in the Bible; the fresh eye and ear very useful.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin Print: Book
'Note that the Prussians have to black their helmets and take off their epaulettes to prepare for battle "with lacquer made of soot or lampblack". "Daily Telegraph". June 15th, 1866, p. 5 last column but one. Conf. Henry's white plume and Achilles' crest.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin Print: Newspaper
'In "Telegraph" of 31st June [sic] is a notice of the poisonous water of the pumps of London.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin Print: Newspaper
'I open psalter in evening at "respice de caelo et vide, et visita vineam istam".'
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Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin
'Read Epistle and Gospel for first Sunday in Lent, in evening. Note end of Gospel.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin Print: Book
'Read "There shall meet you a man bearing a pitcher of water" &c. to "These make ready".'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin Print: Book
'Read 61st Psalm'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin Print: Book
'37th Psalm in evening!'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin Print: Book
'Read "All they garmets smell of myrrh, aloes and cassia" out of my book on top of the highest.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin Print: Book
'Intending to read the parallel rendering of this verse in Bible psalms, I opened at Isaiah XXXIII, 17. My old Bible often does open there, but it was a happy first reading.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin Print: Book
'The piece for yesterday was Ps. XLV. 8-12 with Isaiah XXXIII. 15-22. The piece for today Ps. XLV. 13 to end.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin Print: Book
'Read 19th Proverbs and 10th Ecclesiasticus.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin Print: Book
'Opened last night at 1st Chron. XVII. 23 and this morning at the 17th psalm. Then read my own day psalms in chapel.
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin Print: Book
'Opened last night at 1st Chron. XVII. 23 and this morning at the 17th psalm. Then read my own day psalms in chapel.
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin Print: Book
'I open at, and read, the 39th of Ezekiel, and secondly, by equal chance, at the 16th psalm.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin Print: Book
'Looking back to my Father's diary - of which I have just 40 pages, which I shall page forthwith (and then dates of painters!) - I open it at 39. i. about Bp Bossuet's work; and intending to read Ezek. XXXIX again, read XXXVI instead.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin Print: Book
'Opened 3rd of Tobit'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin Print: Book
'Read 1st Chron. XVII and 17th Psalm.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin Print: Book
'Going to bed, I take up the Inn-table New Testament. It opens at "A little while and ye shall not see me, and again a little while, and ye shall see me, because I go to the Father."'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin Print: Book
'And going to bed, after a little thinking over the Land question in "Fortnightly Review", got for my verse Isaiah XLI 9 in Joan's Bible.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin Print: Book
'And going to bed, after a little thinking over the Land question in "Fortnightly Review", got for my verse Isaiah XLI 9 in Joan's Bible.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin Print: Serial / periodical
'Read the "Sir, come down ere my child die".'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin Print: Book
'Advertisement on Rocks of Hudson: "Use Binninger's Old London Dock Gin".'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin Print: Advertisement
'Read in Luke XXII, the last supper'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin Print: Book
'Opened at Ecclesiasticus L. 17, reading on to 18, and, by chance, 8'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin Print: Book
'Karnak which I chose for our first day has thoroughly answered... The Prince had already suggested what had already occured to me and was arranged with General Bruce, that our service at Thebes should be in some tomb or temple. Accordingly I chose today a corner in the Great Hall of Karnak, read the Psalms of the day (Mar 16), and preached on the two verses about Egypt which they contain. It was, I must say, a striking scene. In the furtherest aisles of that vast Cathedral were herded together the horses, dromedaries, asses, and their attendants. In the shade of the two gigantic pillars, seated on a mass of broken stones, were ourselves, two or three stray travellers, and the servants in the background. The Prince expressed great pleasure at the sermon, and begged to have a copy of it. It was on the good and evil of the old Egyptian religion.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Arthur Penrhyn Stanley Print: Book
'Glad to get back to my Testament'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin Print: Book
'My week melting away fast, wholly in black cloud and east wind. But the verse for the 25th, in my brown book, did me much good yesterday.'
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Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin
'Yesterday a good day; finding money in drawers, and liking my drawings, and getting comfort out of letters and above all out of my brown book.'
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Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin
'Morning text bad - "be not high-minded": the last text in the world for me, always ashamed of myself. But texts can't be always what one needs.'
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Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin
'Today, much helped by my brown book'
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Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin
'Read 1st of Zephaniah. I must now re-read my Bible, with my new mind.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin Print: Book
'Read Amos V and by Fors! Ecclesiasticus XXXIX.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin Print: Book
'Read Jeremiah XV. Note 18th verse.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin Print: Book
'Yet I find wonderful things in Bible'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin Print: Book
'Re-read 1st of Michah carefully. The first nine verses are intelligible. Samaria, the capital, taken as representing sin of all Israel. Jerusalem, the capital, or high places of Judah, v. 5. Therefore, in v. 6 introduces the condemnation of Samaria, and in v. 8 that of Jerusalem. The fourth verse is deeply interesting, of natural destruction: the volcanic melting and river-sculpture: the violence of both, for transgression of men'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin Print: Book
'Chanced upon Isaiah 7th, 5, and read the chapter carefully'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin Print: Book
'Read from 8th to 12th of the 103rd Psalm and thought how true they would seem to me, if read in their precise negative'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin Print: Book
'Read first of Zenphaniah. Leaping on threshold, what?'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin Print: Book
'On this I open at 42nd Psalm - well - it may be so'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin Print: Book
'Chanced on Jeremiah IV. 23. The Uncreation by folly, of what had been created by wisdom'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin Print: Book
'Came on Isaiah XXI, and was puzzled with it'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin Print: Book
'Read Jeremiah IX. Compare entry on 18th'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin Print: Book
'Read half of first Jeremiah. What does he mean by: "I am a child"?'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin Print: Book
'Read story of Johanan the son of Kareah, Jerem. XLII, XLIII, XLIV.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin Print: Book
'Read first vision of Ezekiel.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin Print: Book
'Then read 64th Isaiah.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin Print: Book
'Read Lamentations IV. Compare 2nd verse with Isaiah LXIV. 8, and note that when God is the Potter, he can make gold or clay alike ... Ecclesiasticus XXXIV. 20-24. Glorious.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin Print: Book
'Read piece of St John. "Before Abraham was, I am." The closing verse - "passing through the midst of them" - in its vacant stupidity is a mere trial of faith.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin Print: Book
'Read the story of Asa - how intensely ill written and uselessly in Kings!'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin Print: Book
'Read pieces of the story of Jehoram and Ahaziah, the two sons of Ahab. Note that II Kings I. 17 would be entirely wrong unless explained by side note. See chap. III. 7 and compare chap. VIII. 16, 17.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin Print: Book
'Read the contingent promises to Solomon: conf. to Jeroboam. 1st Kings IX. 2, 4; XI. 38.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin Print: Book
'Read 45th Isaiah. Recollect: "I have surnamed thee, though thou hast not known me", and conf. V. 13.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin Print: Book
'Read 27th Ecclesiasticus. Note V. 1, 2, 14, 15, 23, 24.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin Print: Book
'Amos V. see vv. 10-11, 12, but note in it the special attack on the priesthood in Bethel and Gilgal. Compare ch. IV. 4; V. 5, 6; VII. 10.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin Print: Book
'Read the wonderful 51st of Jeremiah. Recollect vv. 5, 7, 17, 21-23, 63.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin Print: Book
'Read Wisdom of Solomon XV, XVI with great delight in this sunny, pure morning'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin Print: Book
'Psalm LI. 15; XVII. 1 and 15.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin Print: Book
'Yesterday read 1st of Wisdom of Solomon.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin Print: Book
'Read, by chance, Esdras II, VI, and read on to VIII. 48, 54.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin Print: Book
'Read II Esdras I to the marvellous clause of minor prophets.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin Print: Book
'Read II Esdras XIV to XV.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin Print: Book
'And the last verse I read, of my morning's reading, is Esdras II. XV. XVIII.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin Print: Book
'read lessons and psalms for the day to her.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin Print: Book
'Verse for today Esdras - no - Maccabees I. XIII. 30.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin Print: Book
'Read 45th Isaiah again, which strikes hard, for I have been striving with my Maker, this last month, sullenly'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin Print: Book
'Read 15th Esdras again, and 24th Ezekiel carefully'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin Print: Book
'Read Moschele's life in bed to breakfast, delicious, and Part of II Esdras I.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin Print: Book
'Read Ecclesiasticus XXVI - how lovely.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin Print: Book
'Compare Wisdom of Solomon, of Egyptians, Ch. XVII.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin Print: Book
'Come upon Wisdom, Ecclesiasticus II. 1-6.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin Print: Book
'Came on Ecclesiasticus XXIV, and noted references at p. 89 above, with which conf. Wisdom VII. 22 &C. and "The Wisdom which is from above is first pure" &c.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin Print: Book
'Today the morning psalms very good for me. 1st Collect. p. 83. Lincoln Psalter.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin Manuscript: Codex, editor's note: an illuminated manuscript belonging to Ruskin
'Read IX of Book of Wisdom today'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin Print: Book
'I read Genesis XLVIII for beginning of "Life of Moses"'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin Print: Book
'Opened my father's Bible at the blessing of Aaron. Numbers VI. 26.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin Print: Book
'Read Wisdom of Solomon, Ch. IX: a little comforting'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin Print: Book
'Also the book of Numbers is woeful reading'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin Print: Book
'Yesterday all day at Lombardic Psalter. My book continually opening at p.98 rebukes me for being faint-hearted.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin Manuscript: Codex
'Recovered from fit of quite cowardly despair by Habakkuk III. 16 to end; that chapter and most such are incomparably grander in English than Greek'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin Print: Book
'Read my Aosta letter and 104th Psalm in Vulgate - the geology of it quite perfect'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin Print: Book
'Read, in the Hotel French Testament, Mark VIII. 33 to end'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin Print: Book
'Read Mark VIII. 33 to end again.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin Print: Book
'I was not going to open my mother's Bible to try Fors, but to read a Nativity; mechanically, looking at the Dome of the S.M., I did open it; by Fors order, at Deuteronomy XXIX. 29. Taking this verse, for year's and life's guide...'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin Print: Book
'19th Psalm."
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin Print: Book
'Work out Chap. VI of Corinthians'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin Print: Book
'A grey, quiet morning. I up, lively enough: open at "Propterea benedixit te Deus in aeternum" and consider if really "that's me"!'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin Print: Book
'I've been reading my general epistle of Jude in my old Bible'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin Print: Book
'Matthew XXIV, 45th, of All Rulers, giving "Meat", for next "Fors".'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin Print: Book
'Read prayer of Daniel, Chap. IX: the most important of all prayers and prophecies in Old Testament. Of some consequence, however, whether it is desolate or desolator in last verse'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin Print: Book
'Read the 40th Psalm, with great hope I may take it to myself, led to it by an entry of 1st January'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin Print: Book
'Read 14th of Romans, perceiving clearly for the first time how the narrowness of St Paul's business continually misleads us.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin Print: Book
'Read Ezekiel 34th'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin Print: Book
'Read Genesis XXXI, noting infinite wonder and absurdity of Rachel's speech, V. 15. Same in Vulgate.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin Print: Book
'And now, thinking of the mischief done to my own life and how ti many thousand thousand, by dark desire, I open my first text at I Corinthians VII. 1. And yet the second verse directly reverses the nobleness of all youthful thought'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin Print: Book
'Opened, after writing this - meaning to take up "Deucalion", book took up Bible instead - at Job XI. 16, and read all the rest with comfort'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin Print: Book
'Read a bit of Ezra and referred to Haggai ii. 9: "In this place will I give peace".'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin Print: Book
'Read Hosea XII. 7-9'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin Print: Book
'Examined group of Psalms, 65 to 68.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin Print: Book
Curiously threatening verses open for me just now in the Bible. I can still read my old one without spectacles. D.G. "Therefore seeing we have this ministry, as we have received mercy, we faint not." II Cor. iv.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin Print: Book
'Stayed in all yesterday in crashing rain, and was busy at something all day till 1 at night, except reading "World" on run-away racehorse and pigeonshooting at lunch. French novel at tea, "La petite Comtesse", and Sir G. Baker on Gladstone, Baxter reading to me after dinner.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin Print: Unknown
'read 49th Psalm in 12th century psalter'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin Manuscript: Codex
'I read Esdras II. 8 again with comfort and shame and wonder'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin Print: Book
'Paragraph in "Pall Mall Gazette" very pretty!'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin Print: Newspaper
'Read the story of Uzziah in the Bible. Curious that it says nothing of what the man was himself, except that his heart was lifted up - nor why at first he was so helped.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin Print: Book
'Came on the grand Darwinian verse, just now, "Saying to a stock, thou art my father". Jeremiah II. 27'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin Print: Book
'Read today the lovely 4-6 verses of Deuteronomy XXX.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin Print: Book
'Read "Wisdom hath builded her house, she hath hewn out her seven pillars".'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin Print: Book
'an inglorious misery in evening, over article of extinction of Bison in "Daily Telegraph".'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin Print: Newspaper
'read 1st Peter with satisfaction as in old days'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin Print: Book
'Bn. moved into Left sector. Macleod came back to "details" for a rest, and I went in as
a/adjutant. Weather wet and cold. More "Strafes". Spent a very busy three days until night of
2nd/3rd. Nov. when we were relieved. During these three days in the line the number of letters,
telegrams and reports received or sent out by me was no less than 451! I counted them! War!
Eugh!'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Lindsay Mackay Manuscript: Letter, Sheet
'Tell Father the Huns haven't started to run yet. If he reads the September "National Review"
he will be surprised at the warning of the writer against the Cabinet. It is well worth reading.
It says that in the Black Week, Haldane didn't want any interference of England; Asquith didn't
want any Expeditionary Force and Churchill saved the situation in ordering Fleet Mobilization
"on his own" before the war. Also the Territorials at the event of war are untrained: we have
no army really: all are practically recruits now in England.'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Henry William Williamson Print: Serial / periodical
'Send an English newpaper (not the Daily Mail as we have it here) occasionally. We are forbidden
to send picture postcards now. I am in a hurry to catch the mail, so I must close.'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Henry William Williamson Print: Newspaper
'Please send me April magazines. Have seen the March ones. The mud is awful — 3 mules
drowned in shell craters last night, it is terrible.'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Henry William Williamson Print: Serial / periodical
'Thanks for books & pyjamas & toffee ... Please send Motor Cycling & Motor Cycle & an
occasional Daily Mail — we get none here — we're miles from civilization.'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Henry William Williamson Print: Serial / periodical
'Thanks for books & pyjamas & toffee ... Please send Motor Cycling & Motor Cycle & an
occasional Daily Mail — we get none here — we're miles from civilization.'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Henry William Williamson Print: Serial / periodical
'Thanks for books & pyjamas & toffee ... Please send Motor Cycling & Motor Cycle & an
occasional Daily Mail — we get none here — we're miles from civilization.'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Henry William Williamson Print: Newspaper
'Don't forget a cake & send Daily Mail every other day and Motor Cycle & Motor Cycling and the
mags.'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Henry William Williamson Print: Newspaper
'Don't forget a cake & send Daily Mail every other day and Motor Cycle & Motor Cycling and the
mags.'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Henry William Williamson Print: Serial / periodical
'Don't forget a cake & send Daily Mail every other day and Motor Cycle & Motor Cycling and the
mags.'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Henry William Williamson Print: Serial / periodical
'Little Marjorie's birthday. The verses in Daily Light were as usual uplifting ... Much enjoyed J. 20.
19, 20 with the patients in Hope Ward.'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Albert Ruskin Cook Print: BookManuscript: Telegraph cable
'Am enjoying Leviticus with commentaries in the morning.'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Albert Ruskin Cook Print: Book
'Enjoyed Ps 39.'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Albert Ruskin Cook Print: Book
'Pilot came on board & took us up the 16 miles to Beira. Landed at 3.15 pm ... had tea at the
Savoy & latest telegrams & papers. There was a Times of Jan 16 & a Spectator of Jan 27. Heard
of the push in the W. [i.e., on the Western Front].'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Albert Ruskin Cook Print: NewspaperManuscript: Letter, telegram
'Pilot came on board & took us up the 16 miles to Beira. Landed at 3.15 pm ... had tea at the
Savoy & latest telegrams & papers. There was a Times of Jan 16 & a Spectator of Jan 27. Heard
of the push in the W. [i.e., on the Western Front].'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Albert Ruskin Cook Print: Serial / periodicalManuscript: Letter, telegram
'On July 5th [1918] Katharine [Cook] saw Albert [Ruskin Cook] off from Paddington station. As
the train pulled out Albert was "glad to have a corner seat and a copy of The Times"
until he recovered himself.'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Albert Ruskin Cook Print: Newspaper
'Got to bed at about midnight again after finding a landscape of Messines and Wulverghem in our
house in an illustrated Paper drawn for the same view or nearly so as one I did myself there. I
cut this out and sent it home.'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Stafford Wollocombe Print: Newspaper
'In the afternoon, at a tennis party at Blair Castle, a bicycle orderly arrives
with an urgent telegram for my battalion. Being the senior Cameronian officer
present I open it and read that we are to return to Glasgow forthwith in
accordance with the "Precautionary Period" measures of the Defence Plan
prior to Mobilisation. Tennis ends abruptly ...'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: James Lochhead Jack Manuscript: telegram
'Did you read Lloyd George's speech the other day introducing the remark about the German
potato bread — "I fear that potato bread more than all Von Kluck's strategy". Although, as you
have seen, I don't often read the newspapers, I was glad when Kirk pointed that out to me.
Most
of the people one hears rather laugh at that bread "wheeze", but I rather think Lloyd George's
is
the wiser view.'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Clive Staples Lewis Print: Newspaper
(1) 'I wish you would get that Academy book which one always finds in a dentist's waiting
room so that we could compare notes. If you do you must particularly notice "The Egyptian
Dancers" [A Dancer of Ancient Egypt"], "The Valley of the Weugh or Sleugh" or something like
that ["The Valley of the Feugh"] (a glorious snow scene) ... and a lovely faery scene from
Christina Rossetti's "Goblin Market". It costs only a shilling I think and tho' of course the black
and white reproductions lose a lot, still they are quite enjoyable.' (2) 'What an old miser you
are though. I suppose I shall have to buy the Academy book myself now: and rest assured
that you will never see one page of it.'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Clive Staples Lewis Print: Book
'Did you see a long article in the Times Literary Supplement about the "Magic Flute" which is on
at the Shaftesbury? How I wish I could go up and hear it and also "Tristan and Isolde" — though
if I did it would be a disappointment in all probability.'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Clive Staples Lewis Print: Serial / periodical
'The journey home was absolutely damnable: I had to wait an hour at Letterkenny, and an hour
and a quarter at Strabane. You may judge of my boredom when I tell you that I was reduced to
buying a "Novel" magazine — because everything else on the bookstall was even more
impossible.'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Clive Staples Lewis Print: Serial / periodical
'That is rather a fine article on Hakluyt in this week's Literary Supplement and a good deal of it
might stand as an apology - in the Newman sense of course — for my hours spent on poor
Mandeville. The quotation about the deer coming down to the water "as we rowed" is particularly
attractive.'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Clive Staples Lewis Print: Serial / periodical
'I was also much struck with many parts of the Bible. My favourite chapters were the xv. of
the 1 Ep. of Corinthians; the xi of Hebrews; Ezekiel's vision; and most of the Apocalypse.
These I used to read over and over again, but could not go on with the dry ceremonies of the
Israelites recorded in Leviticus, or what appeared to me to be the barbarous slaughter of the
Canaanites and Philistines; and to this day I have not read these portions of scripture
consecutively. I also used to think the Epistles dry reading, but these are now my favourite
parts of the Book of Inspiration.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Leatherland Print: Book
'Speaking of the Quarterly Review, a "stray number" of which was a prize I once found on the
counter of a grocer, and which I rescued from the ignominious fate of being torn up into butter
papers. This I eagerly read.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Leatherland Print: Serial / periodical
'I got out of the mine about 5-30 had my dinner at once & then read several
chapters in St Marks gospel ...'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: James Bennetts Williams Print: Unknown
'I read a sermon from the Christian Age, then had a cup of tea, now going to
bed about 9 P.M.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: James Bennetts Williams Print: Newspaper
'I rose pretty early before break of day, it was a splendid morning. I read
several bits of the Christian Age before I went to mine.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: James Bennetts Williams Print: Newspaper
'I read a good bit from my Bible and Christian Ages ...'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: James Bennetts Williams Print: Newspaper
'I read a good bit from my Bible and Christian Ages ...'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: James Bennetts Williams Print: Book
'After breakfast I went to see the sick folks & then read several chapters of
the bible & Testament, then did some S. Hind. P. Walker brought a can of
Lobster which we had for dinner, then we went up to his room & I read 100
pages of the Manuel of Devotion ...'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: James Bennetts Williams Print: Book
'After breakfast I went to see the sick folks & then read several chapters of
the bible & Testament, then did some S. Hind. P. Walker brought a can of
Lobster which we had for dinner, then we went up to his room & I read 100
pages of the Manuel of Devotion.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: James Bennetts Williams Print: Book
'Got up about 7A.M. had some tea & commenced to read.
I read a Christian Age & some from a book by Thos
Guthrie, 'Man & the Gospel' which I enjoy very much.
I then went down & read a good while to Mr Bennett
who is still very sick. I did not go out very much
for the day. After dinner I read to him again went
to bed about 7-30.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: James Bennetts Williams Print: Newspaper
'I came back & read some extracts from the Christian
Age, am now going to bed about 8-30 P.M.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: James Bennetts Williams Print: Newspaper
'Got up about 8 A.M. after I tidy'd up my house I had
a cup of tea then read a good bit in the Christian
Age ...'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: James Bennetts Williams Print: Newspaper
'Had a good breakfast sent into the mine & a good
dinner. When I came out read a good bit of the
Cornwall Gazette. Went out to see the old man. I
then had my tea & went to my bedroom read a chapter
from my Bible & then to bed.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: James Bennetts Williams Print: Newspaper
'Had a good breakfast sent into the mine & a good
dinner. When I came out read a good bit of the
Cornwall Gazette. Went out to see the old man. I
then had my tea & went to my bedroom read a chapter
from my Bible & then to bed.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: James Bennetts Williams Print: Book
'I had to close my door & light a candle, the dust
was blowing in clouds and the air was full of it, it
was like a mist, it obscured the Sun. I never saw
the like of it before. I read near 2 Christian Ages.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: James Bennetts Williams Print: Newspaper
'... read a good bit from C Age ...'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: James Bennetts Williams Print: Newspaper
' ... had Roast Beef & Potatoes for dinner, then made some
stew for tomorrow, then read the Christian Age. Went
to bed about 8 P.M.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: James Bennetts Williams Print: Newspaper
' ... had my dinner and fixed some soup then read a good
bit from Christian Age ...'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: James Bennetts Williams Print: Newspaper
'I read a good bit from C Age & done some writing am
now going to bed.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: James Bennetts Williams Print: Newspaper
' ... read a good deal from C Age - also some chapters in
the Book of Cronicles [sic] ...'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: James Bennetts Williams Print: Newspaper
' ... read a good deal from C Age - also some chapters in
the Book of Cronicles [sic] ...'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: James Bennetts Williams Print: Book
'I went down to see Peter & stayed a good while until
breakfast then read 2 Sermons from C Age & Peter
came up here.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: James Bennetts Williams Print: Newspaper
'this eve I read the Joyful News which I enjoyed very
much ...'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: James Bennetts Williams Print: Serial / periodical
'Reading "Ordeal of War"—Oliver most
interesting & instructive, also Report of committee
on Belgian atrocities[.] Dined with Richmond at the
Club.'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Kenneth Gilbert Balmain Dewar Print: Book
'Spectator of Aug 7th 1915 contains an interesting
article which illustrates the thoroughness of German
organization for war.'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Kenneth Gilbert Balmain Dewar Print: Serial / periodical
'12 pm A new English submarine came in. By morning
papers the French had won a great victory, Belgium
was still holding out, while we had seized German
West Africa. Wrote home after lunch. Went to
Navigator's cabin ... 3.15 terrific stomach ache.'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Leslie Richard Romer Print: Newspaper
'There is a short review of Professor Ansted's work in the Chambers's Journal of this month; from
the specimen they give, it must be exceedingly interesting, and I should like to see it.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Eliza Ellis Print: Serial / periodical
'Ahmed and I talked together and read the Quran,
when he would put on his tarbush, put out his
cigarette, and be careful that the Book should not
be touched except with clean hands nor laid aside
under any other book.'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Doreen Ingrams Print: Book, Read in Arabic
'We continued riding towards Leijun over the flat,
stony plateau with scarcely a shrub to break the
monotony. It was so monotonous that I read an
"Argosy" Magazine to pass the time as I rode along
on my camel.'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Doreen Ingrams Print: Serial / periodical
'An imaginative aunt who, for my ninth birthday,
sent a copy of the "Arabian Nights", was, I
suppose, the original cause of trouble. Unfostered
and unnoticed, the little flame so kindled fed me
secretly on dreams. Chance, such as the existence
of a Syrian missionary near my home, nourished it;
and Fate, with long months of illness and leisure,
blew it to a blaze bright enough to light my way
through labyrinths of Arabic, and eventually to
land me on the coast of Syria at the end of 1927.'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Freya Stark Print: Book
'As we sat waiting for dinner and discussing
religion, our first hostile impressions were
gradually smoothed away. I recited the opening
chapter of the Quran and proved myself less
ignorant than had been supposed: a translation of
the Lord's Prayer established the essential unity
of religion, to the satisfaction even of the thin
little Mirza from Medina: and a short discussion
on history produced out of the bottom of a chest a
Persian translation of Sir John Malcolm's 'History
of Persia', which the Agha studies on winter
evenings.'
Unknown
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Freya Stark
'Then Yusuf, who is ten, read out the Gospel. He
stood straight with the lighted candle in his hand,
his face full of seriousness, an impressive little
figure under the stars [...] In the childish
Arabic, the old story came with a new and homely
grace; and we listened, moved and silent, standing
like living altars, holding our lighted candles.'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Freya Stark Print: Book
'When we had looked over the crumbling edge, the
population took us to their mosque, in whose ruin
a wooden minbar with date carved upon it gave the
presumable age of Sanahiye's prosperity. It
belonged to the year AH 693 (1293 AD). The script
was not completely clear and the schoolmaster came
to help, an ancient man nearly blind and all grey
to his sparse chisel beard and formless shirt, and
the agate bead or Sawwama he wore round his neck
against toothache. The population looked at him
with affectionate veneration while he pronounced
the words after me, pretending to read them
himself: indeed, he was almost too blind to read
anything at all, but doubtless knew enough of the
Quran by heart to keep his flock in their
appointed ways.'
Unknown
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Freya Stark
'In the evening I would take one or the other of my
companions [...] to the harims I knew, to meet
again the sayyid's lovely wife, and the singers
from Ghurfa, and the Learned Sherifa, affectionate
as ever and very pretty with her full red lips and
dark eyebrows, in spite of enormous black-rimmed
spectacles on the very tip of her nose. Her plump
little hands still waived about in explanation of
such exciting things as the difference between a
noun and a verb, or the relations of the heart to
the five senses [...] in her own house she showed
us, reverently and without touching it, for she
had not washed her hands, a page from the Quran
copied on parchment ("the skin of a gazelle") in
beautiful Cufic, written - and who would
contradict here? - by the hand of 'Ali Abu Talib
himself, and sent as a present to her brother by
the Imam Iahya of Yemen.'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Freya Stark Manuscript: Sheet, Parchment
'In the evenings, if I have no one else below, I
climb upstairs to sit in comfort except for
mosquitoes - enormous creatures with white rings
round their legs - that infest this region.
Alinur, now recovered, is by the table with a
book, in a comfortable domestic atmosphere; the
Archaeologist is on a terrace in the distance,
with 'Time and Tide' and the 'Spectator' (very
old) strewn about her. A lantern on her right hand
and the moon on her left illuminate the neat
blouse, and grey hair whose brushed waves still
keep a faint rebellious grace of girlhood.'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Gertrude Caton-Thompson Print: Serial / periodical, weekly magazine
'In the evenings, if I have no one else below, I
climb upstairs to sit in comfort except for
mosquitoes - enormous creatures with white rings
round their legs - that infest this region.
Alinur, now recovered, is by the table with a
book, in a comfortable domestic atmosphere; the
Archaeologist is on a terrace in the distance,
with 'Time and Tide' and the 'Spectator' (very
old) strewn about her. A lantern on her right hand
and the moon on her left illuminate the neat
blouse, and grey hair whose brushed waves still
keep a faint rebellious grace of girlhood.'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Gertrude Caton-Thompson Print: Serial / periodical, weekly magazine
'As you say, Mother, the war does not look like
ending for a long time yet. You never want to read
the Daily Mail. It is almost a pro German paper.
There are things in it today which are misleading.
It says the Germans are brave and worthy fighters
and that our men say so. Most of the men who I
have spoken to, and they are a good many, say the
opposite. It would be foolish to say none of them
are brave. The paper is always down on the
Government. All Governments make mistakes.'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Wainwright Print: Newspaper
'Thanks for sending the socks and gloves
received yesterday, and for the letter which
came the day before. The socks are quite the
thing, and the gloves came in good time, for I
was glad of them last night and today ... This
morning I was on Parade as usual with the
others at 6.30. We were dismissed till 8.30. In
the meantime I had my wash, shave and breakfast
and a sharp walk with a pal. At 8.30 me and
another were told off to clear out our wash
house, which is done every morning. The basins
and boards were frozen ... Then with another
oldish chap I was given a room to scrub and
also the skirting boards, cupboards and doors.
There was a big black stove to black lead too
... There was a lot to do and it was nearing
dinner time before it was finished ... At three
we were sent to our "apartments" but I went to
the Church Institute and read the "Weekly News"
and "Sunday Pictorial" which had just arrived.
What do you think of this Sunday's occupation?
We are doing this sort of thing every day now.
I am getting an expert scrubber, but like the
rest I am "fed up" with the sort of thing.'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Wainwright Print: Newspaper
'Thanks for sending the socks and gloves
received yesterday, and for the letter which
came the day before. The socks are quite the
thing, and the gloves came in good time, for I
was glad of them last night and today ... This
morning I was on Parade as usual with the
others at 6.30. We were dismissed till 8.30. In
the meantime I had my wash, shave and breakfast
and a sharp walk with a pal. At 8.30 me and
another were told off to clear out our wash
house, which is done every morning. The basins
and boards were frozen ... Then with another
oldish chap I was given a room to scrub and
also the skirting boards, cupboards and doors.
There was a big black stove to black lead too
... There was a lot to do and it was nearing
dinner time before it was finished ... At three
we were sent to our "apartments" but I went to
the Church Institute and read the "Weekly News"
and "Sunday Pictorial" which had just arrived.
What do you think of this Sunday's occupation?
We are doing this sort of thing every day now.
I am getting an expert scrubber, but like the
rest I am "fed up" with the sort of thing.'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Wainwright Print: Newspaper
'Last night I sent a field service card just to
let you know that I received the parcel alright
on Sunday. It was packed very well. There was a
lot of stuff in it, and it was quite exciting
exploring it, which I did just before going to
Church ... Now I must thank you for all the
good things you have sent ... It is quiet here
now. Not many patients in. One in our ward was
shot in the side below the ribs, and the bullet
is up in his neck. He was digging at the time
in the dark. He is propped up in bed and quite
cheerful, eating, reading and sleeping ... The
Advertisers were interesting. I read them both
yesterday afternoon, and all of young
Corbishley's letters.'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Wainwright Print: Newspaper
'You will be wondering why I am not writing. I
have not found the time for several days to
write letters. Other things have taken my spare
hours, or I have felt tired or lazy ... On
Friday night last there was a splendid concert
in the hut. It was absolutely fine, and we were
laughing nearly all the way through. It was
given by men from the Convalescent Camp. They
had painted their own scenery ... The
Advertisers have arrived alright. Mr Long's
articles were very interesting to me. I can't
think who that Tompkins was, who was drowned.'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Wainwright Print: Newspaper
'It is now about 2am. Yesterday evening when I got up I discovered a parcel waiting for me. I
opened it in semi darkness and was not able to make out all the contents, but there is an awful
lot of good things ... I have read one of the Advertisers, and noticed the death of Mr Hodnett's son. What part was he in? Probably there have been a few deaths of people round about that I do
not know of, but the Advertisers have given me a lot of news.'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Wainwright Print: Newspaper
'Young Corbishley's letter in the Advertiser was
interesting about his march into Palestine. I
wrote to Mr Corbishley a week or so back for the
address of the ones out there. I must write to Mrs
Davies the baker! I will send a PC of the place I
now work in. We are allowed to do so, I believe.
Have this last few days been reading a splendid
book by Baroness Orczy, called "The Tangled
Skein." If you come across it, read it. The boy at
the piano is now playing an old Dreamy Waltz ...'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Wainwright Print: Newspaper
'This afternoon I was off duty, so went to the
cliffs on the other side of the village. Got down
behind a hedge in the shade and read "Cycling".
Many German and Chinese workmen were not far
away.'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Wainwright Print: Serial / periodical
' ... this is being written in a cellar which
is my present billet. The house which stood
overhead was rendered a ruin a long time ago
and the bricks etc make a thick covering
through which a shell would hardly penetrate
... There are many houses round here, but all
ruins, and not a civilian anywhere, with one
exception, a French boy has just come at 1.30
with the Continental Daily Mail of yesterday,
printed in Paris. It gives the war news up to
the previous night ... Thanks for the papers, I
have read them all ... Have had a good deal of
time to myself since leaving the Hospital, and
would not care to go back again but I have not
been through anything yet. The grass is long
and rough all round these ruined houses, and in
the old shell holes, and it is alive with
grasshoppers ... The electric light has just
gone off, but I've a candle. Have nothing to do
this afternoon, so I will go and read my 2
½ paper and then perhaps have a nap.'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Wainwright Print: Newspaper
'During my sojourn on the Rio Negro letters and
papers reached me only at rare intervals. On one
occasion I passed nearly two months without seeing
a newspaper. I remember, when at the end of that
time one was put before me, I snatched it up
eagerly, and began hastily scanning the columns,
or column-headings rather, in search of startling
items from abroad, and that after a couple of
minutes I laid it down again to listen to someone
talking in the room and that eventually I left the
room without reading the paper at all [...]. I was
conscious on quitting the room, where I had cast
aside the unread newspaper, that the old interest
in the affairs of the world at large had in a
great measure forsaken me[...]'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: William Henry Hudson Print: Newspaper
'We read little; my companion has never learnt
letters, and I, less fortunate in that respect,
having only been able to discover one book in the
house, a Spanish "Libro de Misa", beautifully
printed in red and black letters, and bound in
scarlet morocco. I take this book and read, until
he, tired of listening to prayers, however
beautiful, challenges me to a game of cards.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: William Henry Hudson Print: Book
‘...the Court Journal (which by the way, seems to be very good – for nothing – )...The Court
Journal must pay uncommon well, before I will rank myself among its familiars. It seems to be a
mere repository of vulgar tattle and fifth-rate gentility. [Thomas] Hood is seldom to be
recognized in its pages. In short, I would as soon have nothing to do with it.’
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Hartley Coleridge Print: Serial / periodical
‘You probably have little time for literary labours or I should advise you to write for the
Quarterly Theological. It is a very staunch, orthodox work – not ultra in politics, and seldom or
never contains any thing which your character would suffer from having imputed to you. I know
no other periodical, in which as a Clergyman you ought to dabble’.
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Hartley Coleridge Print: Serial / periodical
‘I am sorry for the delay which doubtless is owing to the confounded Politics that they stuff the
Magazine with, to the great annoyance of Ladies and Liberals; and not much to the satisfaction
of sensible Tories, for they are often so coarse, abusive, and inconsistent, that they cannot do
much good to the cause they profess to support. This is justified on the plea that the So call’d
liberals are worse – but they forget that the democratic publications are calculated for the
Tap-room, while contrary opinions will be read or listened to only in the parlour. Aristocracy
without gentility is an insult to the People.’
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Hartley Coleridge Print: Serial / periodical
‘Thanks for Swing and the Athenaeum which is very welcome, and well worth Two-pence’.
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Hartley Coleridge Print: Serial / periodical
‘You probably saw the Tea-table in B[lackwood's Magazine]. but it does not look so well in print
as it sounded when Elizabeth Warde listen’d to it. Ladies praise makes one overrate one’s
nothings sadly. However, it was not too bad to keep company with Delta and other periodic
rhimers in the same luminous miscellany. One cannot select one’s company in a stage-coach.’
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Hartley Coleridge Print: Serial / periodical
‘I am sorry that the Athenaeum is no longer publish’d in such a shape that I can get it, for it is
well worth two-pence. I can hardly say as much for the Carlisle Patriot, which is a dear two-
penny worth of waste-paper at a fortnight old, seeing it is nothing but waste-paper “in its newest
days.” Still it is pleasant to receive any thing which you have handled.’
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Hartley Coleridge Print: Newspaper, Serial / periodical
‘I have an opportunity of seeing papers enough at Mr. Withington’s, the present occupant of Allan
Bank, a most worthy Englishman and Tory of Falstaffian dimensions, who has been extremely
kind and hospitable to your humble servant.’
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Hartley Coleridge Print: Newspaper
‘I know very few people in Leeds. ... The walls of course now plastered with Election puffs and
squibs, the newspapers rancorous against one another, but, as far as I can see, the business
does not create half so much private dissension, as did the far-famed Westmorland Election.’
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Hartley Coleridge Print: Poster
‘The Poems [Hartley’s 1833 Poems], I believe, have not done so far amiss. The Review in the
Quarterly I must thank you for. It is far too laudatory for my stomach, and I have pretty strong
digestion. But why, in the Devil’s name cannot they review my book, gentle or semple [sic],
without a fling at poor Wordsworth...’.
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Hartley Coleridge Print: Serial / periodical
‘I received the Quarterly [Review] from Mr. Murray. If praise could do me any good, there is
enough of it: but I know nothing of that “overweening worship of Wordsworth” which I am
warned against. I admire, nay revere, what is great, excellent and beautiful. And excellent in
Wordsworth - that is five sixths of his works - but I am not, and never was a convert to his
peculiar sect of poetry. ...’
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Hartley Coleridge Print: Serial / periodical
'You have not perhaps seen the new "Gentleman’s
Magazine" since it resumed publication. This is the first number—it was sent to me by the Editor
Mr Bullen, who asks me to contribute. I rather like it, and think you will be interested in the
history of
the magazine, by the Editor perhaps. There is also
a good article on our old friend Samuel Pepys his
library.'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: William Henry Hudson Print: Serial / periodical
'I owe you my best thanks for the gift of Mrs
Cornford’s book of poems which I am delighted to
have. I have been away in Wiltshire or would have
thanked you sooner. I have just seen in today’s
"Morning Post" a highly appreciative notice of the
poems and I hear from Edward Thomas that he has
sent a good review of the book to the
"Chronicle", and if there should be more notices as
good the poems will have a first rate send off. I
was glad because from my first sight of Mrs
Cornford’s poems I was convinced that she had an
original and beautiful note, and I should not like
to hear from the professional poetry-teachers that
I was mistaken.'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: William Henry Hudson Print: Newspaper
The Daily Telegraph interview with Mussolini makes
me sick. What fools they are. Every word M. said
was just vague nonsense: anyone who knows Italians
can see how he just thinks us fools to be diddled
till Sanctions are got rid of and then he has a
clear hand - and one can read it in every line:
and the D.T. distorts it all into all sorts of
peaceful promises.
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Freya Stark Print: Newspaper
I have just been reading a rather nice version of
Genesis in Arabic. It says that Gabriel was sent
to the Earth to bring a bit of clay for the making
of Adam: but the Earth refused to give any: and
then Michael was sent, with the same result: then
Allah sent the angel of death who snatched the
clay without asking, and brought it back in three
different colours from which the human races are
derived.
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Freya Stark
I should like you to read the long article in
the December number of Blackwood’s Magazine
although it costs 2/6. It gives a very
excellent history of the pleasant war and pre-
war little habits of our friends the Bosches.
It is called “For Women” and is written by a
woman. If you do get it I should like you to
keep it for me as it is the best thing of its
kind I have read, and it will be a gentle
reminder of what we owe the Hun in the days
when some people will have forgotten there ever
was a war.
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Arthur Morris Print: Serial / periodical
'I read the "Observer" one [a review of "My Life in
Sarawak"] on Saturday, and that I do like because it
confirms my own opinion of the book. I daresay it
was by Sir F. [Frank] S. [Swettenham].'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: William Henry Hudson Print: Newspaper
'I have just come from seeing Dr. Tom. More
medicines! We had a very long talk and when we
came out to the waiting room there was an old
patient of his—Sister somebody, I didn't catch
the name, reading "My Life in Sarawak". "Oh what
an interesting book!" she said, and "I take a
particular interest in Sarawak because my parents
knew the first Rajah".
I have got the Blue Book with the full debate on
Plumage second reading, should you want to read
it.'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: William Henry Hudson Print: Book
'Tell Arnie [brother] that at Kidwelly I stayed at the Pelican
Hotel, where the prices charged me were only 2/3 of those
given in the C.T.C. handbook'.
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Edward Lawrence Print: Serial / periodical, Handbook/Gazette
'Will you if you write to Carcassonne tell me what is happening
in Turkey: the rubbish here that they call newspapers say one
day that movements are taking place among the people, & a
revolution is taking place, or that all is calm and the sultan
drank tea as usual at 6 o'clock on the terrace: I see today he's
proclaimed a constitution and his intention to withdraw it: do
let me have some solid fact if there is anything in it: it might
well be important.
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Edward Lawrence Print: Newspaper
One can say of the more reticent British that, as
you come to know them, some are discovered and
some are found out. My father was of those who
are discovered. 'The Times' came to him
regularly, and he had a small shelf of books
which he read over and over, admitting a newcomer
now and then, after much deliberation. The whole
of George Borrow and of Charles Darwin, Hodson of
Hodson's Horse, Buckle's 'History of
Civilization', White's 'Selborne', Benvenuto
Cellini, and Sismondi's Italian Republics are
what I remember.
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Stark Print: Newspaper
'I have lately re-read here the complete works of Conrad and Henry James and am engaged on
reading all the books of Stephen Crane that I can lay my hands on—for the to me astounding
fact is that the works of these three writers are here out of print and practically unobtainable,
such being glory! I had to borrow the Conrad and James from Doubleday and Scribner's
respectively and Knopf has only been able to lend me Crane’s "George's Mother". . . after ringing
up more than twenty new and second hand booksellers. Of Conrad I was most re-impressed by
"Under Western Eyes", "Nostromo" and the "Secret Agent"; of James the "Spoils of Poynton", the
"Wings of the Dove", the "Turn of the Screw" and a dozen short stories. I have also been reading
during a fortnight in Tennessee from which I have just returned, the "Agricultural Census" of the
United States, several lives of Lee, Stonewall Jackson, Boone, Crockett and minor Southern
Notabilities, the new (as yet unpublished) volume of poems by Allen Tate; the new (as yet
unpublished) novel of Robert Penn Warren—both these admirable; and a number of other works
in ms. Of lately published work I have vivid recollections of and admiration for “Aleck Maury,
Sportsman”, by Caroline Gordon, “Act of Darkness” by John Peale Bishop,” Walls Against the
Wind” by Frances Park, “Little Candle’s Beam” by Isa Glenn and Graham Greene’s “It’s a
Battlefield” and Arnold Gingrich’s “Cast Down the Laurel”.'
[Ford then indicates his intended shipboard reading between New York and Naples on the S.S.
"Roma" including Crane and W. H. Hudson over the next week or so.]
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Ford Madox Ford Print: Book
'Then went to Ismal’s house. The woman with whom he is living (and who wants to be baptized),
though very unwell under the effects of fever, came out of her house and sat in the yard to hear
us. I read to her and to Narramsamy, (a man living in Ismal’s house) the first ten verses of the
fifth chapter of Matthew and spoke to them for more than half-an-hour.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: David Fenn Print: Book
'In the evening, went to Chimatomby's shop. He read the 19th Chapter of the Gospel of Luke to
me.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Patrick Beaton Print: Book
'In the evening, went to Chimatomby's shop. He
read the 19th chapter of the Gospel of Luke to
me, and I spoke on the parable of the talents.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Chimatomby Print: Book
'Then went to Ismal's house. The woman with whom he
is living (and who wants to be baptized), though
very unwell under the effects of a fever, came out
of her house and sat in the yard to hear us. I
read to her and to Narramsamy (a man living in
Ismal's house), the first ten verses of the Fifth
Chapter of Matthew, and spoke to them for more
than half-an-hour.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Narramsamy Print: Book
'Then went to Ismal's house. The woman with
whom he is living (and who wants to be baptized),
though very unwell under the effects of a fever, came
out of her house and sat in the yard to hear us. I
read to her and to Narramsamy (a man living in
Ismal's house), the first ten verses of the
Fifth
Chapter of Matthew, and spoke to them for more
than half-an-hour.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: [Woman living with Ismal] Print: Book
'This weeke I saw ye Directory, and an Ordinance of Parliamt [sic] to take away ye heavy burden of
ye booke of Common prayer in all ye parts of ye same'
Century: 1600-1699 Reader/Listener/Group: Ralph Josselin
'Every child was given a little volume called King
Edward's Realm, bound in imitation crimson
leather, which I found slow going. The fate of
books is strange. Perhaps it would be hard to get
a copy of it now though an immense number must
have been distributed through infant Britain. As
for reading, there was Little Folks, the Boy's Own
Paper, The Children of the New Forest, Fighting
the Flames, and plenty besides; but the book
appetite grew later.'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Edmund Blunden Print: Serial / periodical
'Every child was given a little volume called King
Edward's Realm, bound in imitation crimson
leather, which I found slow going. The fate of
books is strange. Perhaps it would be hard to get
a copy of it now though an immense number must
have been distributed through infant Britain. As
for reading, there was Little Folks, the Boy's Own
Paper, The Children of the New Forest, Fighting
the Flames, and plenty besides; but the book
appetite grew later.'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Edmund Blunden Print: Serial / periodical