'Austen read especially novels by women, including Mary Brunton, Frances and Sarah Harriet Burney, Maria Edgeworth, Charlotte Lennox, Lady Morgan, Ann Radcliffe, Regina Maria Roche, Charlotte Smith, Jane West, Laetitia-Matilda Hawkins and Hannah More. She also, apparently, read the fiction of the Lady's Magazine, deriving names, Willoughby, Brandon, Knightley, from it, but correcting its "monological" discourse'.
Century: 1700-1799 / 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Jane Austen Print: Book
'Thomas Moore regularly read to his wife for two hours after dinner, at one point "going through Miss Edgeworth's works".'
Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Moore Print: Book
'On 30 May 1812 W[ordsworth] observed [regarding Maria Edgeworth] that "I had read but few of her works" ... '
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: William Wordsworth Print: Book
Byron in postscript to letter to John Murray, [11 January 1814]: 'I have redde "Patronage" it is full of praises of Lord Ellenborough!!! from which I infer near & dear relations at the bar ... the tone of her book is as vulgar as her father ...'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: George Gordon Lord Byron Print: Book
Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 19 January 1821: 'I have been reading the Life, by himself and daughter, of Mr. R. L. Edgeworth, the father of the Miss Edgeworth.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: George Gordon Lord Byron Print: Book
Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 2 February 1821, on tendency to attacks of thirst: 'I read in Edgeworth's Memoirs of something similar ... in the case of Sir F. B. Delaval ...'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: George Gordon Lord Byron Print: Book
'Rose Macaulay's inner life was fostered from the start by parents who made her earliest years rich with stories and make-believe. "read much aloud to the children", Grace Macaulay records in her diary of 19 November 1887... "(all 5 listening in rapt atention), 'Rosamond and the Purple Jar', Leila or the Island and 'The Wave and the Battlefield' - also 'Holiday House'."'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Grace Macaulay Print: Book
My taste for light reading was diminished, yet works of fiction were not all abandoned. The beautiful productions of Miss Edgeworth's pen were fascinating, and there were some of the old-school novels I could not give up.
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Anne Lutton Print: Book
Letter September 1857 ? 'I hope you know Miss Edgeworths ?Helen?'.
Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin Print: Book
?Her next obvious defect (we hesitate to call it a defect) is a total moral inability to paint the strongest passion that can distract the human heart or agitate human life. Miss Caroline Percy, to the best of our recollection, makes one strong speech about love in Patronage, and that is the first and last we hear of it in her words.?
Century: 1700-1799 / 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Charles Robert Maturin Print: Book
?In Belinda, Lady Delacour offers the heroine ?a silver penny for her thoughts?, and so fond is Miss Edgeworth of this bright image that she repeats it again in her Comic Dramas. Where could she have heard this silly vulgarism??
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Charles Robert Maturin Print: Book
?In Belinda, Lady Delacour offers the heroine ?a silver penny for her thoughts?, and so fond is Miss Edgeworth of this bright image that she repeats it again in her Comic Dramas. Where could she have heard this silly vulgarism??
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Charles Robert Maturin Print: Book
?Miss Edgeworth?s incomparable description of Mrs Beaumont?s marriage in Manoeuvering, where the interesting, almost fainting, lady is lifted out of the arms of her anxious bridesmaids and supported up the aisle, with the marked gallantry of true tenderness by her happy bridegroom Sir John Hunter.?
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Charles Robert Maturin Print: Book
'[Has heard story of Wellington] Is not this like the Irish Nurse in Ennui [this word underlined]? Emma told me when I said so, that it had struck her directly.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Sarah Harriet Burney Print: Book
H. J. Jackson notes John Horseman's annotation (including literary quotations and cross-references) of his copy of Maria Edgeworth, Letters for Literary Ladies (1799).
Century: 1700-1799 / 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Horseman Print: Book
'[Burney was] 'not impressed by Samuel James Arnold's "The Creole", Lady Morgan's "The Missionary", Edgeworth's "Patronage", which she found "dull and heavy" or Hannah More's "Coelebs", which she found "monotonously without interest of ANY kind", despite her approval of its politics.'
Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Frances Burney Print: Book
'[Harriet Grove] enjoyed novels and plays: in 1809-10, she read with pleasure in a family group a number of popular bestsellers (which in the period means largely novels by women), including Lady Morgan's "The Novice of Saint Dominick", Agnes Maria Bennett's "The Beggar Girl and her Benefactors", Edgeworth's "Tales of Andrews", "Sir Charles Grandison" and "A Sentimental Journey"'.
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Harriet Grove Print: Book
'I confess my surprise at your considering Miss Edgeworth & Miss Austen mistresses in pathos ? when the fault of both those excellent writers appears to me (if indeed that can be a fault which is so closely allied to the peculiarity of their excellencies) a defect in passion altogether, through their habit of considering life & humanity on the cold conventional side. "Persuasion", to be sure, has touching passages ? and Miss Edgeworth permits you to see, not unfrequently, that she can feel as well as teach, though she chooses to teach. I hope I do not ungratefully misprize the writings of Miss Edgeworth ? it wd be rank ingratitude if I did. They are excellent & admirable ? but I cannot say, poetical & passionate. The depths of the heart & the heights of Heaven have no part or lot in them ? and pastoral Nature is as utterly shut out. Still, after their kind, they are excellent; and I too shd be one-sided if I could not honor them aright [?] Woe be to me, if I pretended to misprize Miss Edgeworth!'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett Print: Book
'The women do this better - Edgeworth, Ferrier, Austen have all had their portraits of real society, far superior to any thing Man, vain Man, has produced of the like nature.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Sir Walter Scott Print: Book
'Miss Edg[e]worth must not be run down because she has like most people misunderstood her own powers--she never can pretend to any thing that is the least [particle?] of Genius she has not one single spark of it which time or opportunity could kindle--but in its place I think she has a very reasoning head much Humour, & great discrimination--she paints like the Dutch school true to the life--I only quarrel with her choice--she introduces us to the society of those who are disagreeable & she delineates characters we regret ever to meet with--like Crabbe she delights in drawing mediocrity vulgarity & meanness--this can never please--in her present production--there is more than an ordinary share of it--& no great humour to make up--no interest to carry us through--I for one cannot finish it but those more persevering will'.
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Lady Caroline Lamb Print: Book
'She read enormously, finding time and energy we wonder how. A list of her books makes the unregenerate blood run cold, though she did include some novels - Miss Edgeworth's and Beckford's sensation-making "Vathek", in which she detected the source of some passages in the Book of the Season, Lord Byron's "Childe Harold". "Childe Harold's" only rival in her poetic reading was "The Faerie Queene". That was a reckless undertaking for the height of the London season; she may not, like so many of us, have quite finished "The Faerie Queene".'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Anne Isabella (Annabella) Milbanke Print: Book
Letter from Lucy Aikinto Mrs.Taylor, dated October 1805: 'But within the last few days everything has given way to "Practical Education", which my mother and I have been studying with great diligence for the benefit of George's little boy, who was brought to us last Tuesday.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Lucy Aikin Print: Book
Letter from Lucy Aikin to Mrs.Taylor, dated October 1805: 'But within the last few days everything has given way to "Practical Education", which my mother and I have been studying with great diligence for the benefit of George's little boy, who was brought to us last Tuesday.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Martha Aikin Print: Book
In Chapter XII [sic], "Letters on Daily Life":
'In my young days we used to read Miss Edgeworth's story of "To-morrow", in which the procrastinator gives the history of the misfortunes that his habit has involved him in, and breaks off abruptly, leaving it to his editor to say that the story was to be finished [italics]to-morrow[end italics]. I don't know that the tale actually prevented me from procrastinating when I was a child, but it imprinted firmly in my mind that procrastination was a dangerous fault, and the impression has remained with me and been very useful ever since.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Missing Sewell Print: Book
'You must get La Peyrouse's Voyage - and Vancouver's, and a book just come out on practical education by a Mr Edgeworth - [italics] Edgeworth on Practical Education [end italics] i vol. 4to I believe. It is written conjointly by Father and daughter, and is the result of 20 years reflection and Experiment. I have heard some extracts from it which delighted me very much'.
Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Sydney Smith Print: Book
'I have not read Miss Edgeworth's novel nor have I much opinion of her powers of execution saving and excepting Irish characters. Everything else I have read of hers I thought very indifferent, even her tale called [italics] Eunice [end italics]. If she has put in her novels people who fed her and her odious father she is not trustworthy'.
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Sydney Smith Print: Book
'Read Patronage & the Milesian chief - finish 5th vol of Clarendon - Shelley reads life of Cromwell'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Godwin Print: Book
'Finish Milesian & Patronage - read Holcrofts travels - S. reads life of Cromwell.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Godwin Print: Book
'read Curt and Castle Rackrent aloud. S. finishes Castle Rackrent in the evening'.
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Godwin Print: Book
'read Curt and Castle Rackrent aloud. S. finishes Castle Rackrent in the evening'.
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Bysshe Shelley Print: Book
'Read Suetonius and Miss Edgeworths Comic dramas. F[anny] Holcrofts novel'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
'Read Miss E[dgesworth]'s Harrington and ormond - Arthur Mervyn - S. reads the Agamemnon of Aeschylus'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley Print: Book
'Wednesday July 19th. [...] Read Comic Dramas by Miss Edgeworth [...] Read Essay on Irish
Bulls.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont Print: Book
'Wednesday July 19th. [...] Read Comic Dramas by Miss Edgeworth [...] Read Essay on Irish
Bulls.
[...]
'Friday July 21st. Finish Essay on Irish Bulls'.
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont Print: Book
'Wednesday July 11th. Read Edgeworth's Memoirs.
[...]
'Thursday July 12th. [...] Read Life of Edgeworth -- I think their system seems to aim at
making the mind satisfied with little.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont Print: Book
'Monday September [...] 26th. [...] Read the story of the Basket Woman to Johnny.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont Print: Book
'Friday September [...] 30th. [...] After dinner read to Johnny the story of Tarlton.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont Print: Book
'Saturday October 1st. [...] Begin Voltaire's Life of Charles XII. [...] Read Tarlton to Johnny in
the Evening.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont Print: Book
'Saturday October [...] 22nd. [...] Read Tarlton to Johnny. Read the lives of the Saints.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont Print: Book
'Sunday October [...] 23rd. [...] Read Tarlton with Johnny.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont Print: Book
'Monday October [...] 24th. [...] Read Barring out with Johnny in the Evening'.
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont Print: Book
'Monday [...] Nov. 7th. [...] sit upon the divan & read Simple Susan with Johnny & M. G.'
[also records reading this text in journal entries for 8, 10, 11 November 1825, with 'After dinner
read aloud & finished Simple Susan' recorded on 15 November].
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont Print: Book
'Saturday [...] Nov. 5th. [...] After dinner [...] sit upon the divan in Marie Ivanovna's cabinet &
read Madlle. Panache to Johnny.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont Print: Book
'Thursday Nov. [...] 17th. [...] Read after dinner Rosamond to the children.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont Print: Book
'Sunday Nov. [...] 20th. [...] Read to John Nine days' wonder. Begin reading Segur upon
women.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont Print: Book
'Thursday Nov. [...] 24th. [...] a letter came from Mr. Baxter with english books for John. Read
a little of the Black Lane in Rosamond to him.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont Print: Book
Elizabeth Barrett to her mother, Mary Moulton-Barrett, c.1817 (originally in French):
'My very dear Mama / Excuse me, I do not at all like Manoeuvring, it is not to my taste. I
recognize that it is still Miss Edgeworth, but it is no longer the author of Patronage in reality
[...] I agree that Mr. Palmer is a charming character [...] except that one the novels you
choose for me always give me pleasure.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett Print: Book
Elizabeth Barrett to her mother, Mary Moulton-Barrett, c.1817 (originally in French):
'I agree that Caroline [in Edgeworth's Patronage] is perfection. I admit that she is not entirely
made to be a heroine [...] she has too much sense of mind.
'The few novels I have read confirm this thought -- for example, [in] Rob Roy -- the lofty and
noble soul of Diana Vernon strikes us with admiration [...] she forgets womanly duties in the
personality of a man; she is a heroine, Caroline is not [...] [when] she chooses to fill the
character she sustains [with] grief for her parents [...] it pleased me greatly'.
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett Print: Book
Arabella Moulton Barrett to her sister Elizabeth Barrett, c. August 1819:
'do you rememb'r simple susan and whim and contradiction I have just read them'.
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Arabella Moulton-Barrett Print: Book
Henrietta Moulton-Barrett to Elizabeth Barrett, 24 February 1827:
'About an hour after your departure [for Eastnor Castle on 23 February] [...] I was sitting alone in the morning room reading Harry & Lucy I was startled by the wheels of a carriage, turned round! who should it be but Lady Knowles, of course I ran away, this was about half past four, what a time to pay a morning visit!'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Henrietta Moulton-Barrett Print: Book
'I have been, and am now, in the midst of reading Miss Edgeworth's 4th, 5th, and 6th vols of "Tales of Fashionable Life". I don't enter into disquisitions about whether they come up to or fall short of her other works, but I am most highly entertained with them. Such admirable delineation of character and such excellent tendencies one seldom sees, and her stories are interesting, not from intricacy of plot, but from exact representations of Nature...'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Sir William Elford Print: Book
Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 8 March 1843:
'[The writings of Miss Edgeworth] are excellent & admirable -- but I cannot say, poetical or
passionate [...] Still, after their kind, they are excellent [...] Why I learnt to read out of those
first little books for children, & my child's heart has beat very fast in the "Cherry Orchard" &
for Rosamond's "Purple vase"!'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett Print: Book
Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 8 March 1843:
'[The writings of Miss Edgeworth] are excellent & admirable -- but I cannot say, poetical or
passionate [...] Still, after their kind, they are excellent [...] Why I learnt to read out of those
first little books for children, & my child's heart has beat very fast in the "Cherry Orchard" &
for Rosamond's "Purple vase"!'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett Print: Book
'I hope, that considering the thickness of the Volumes, and the impossibility of reading any work of Miss Edgeworth's with the carelessness and haste a common Novel may be skimmed over with, I shall not be thought to have detained "Patronage" a [underlined] very[end underlining] unreasonabe time. I thank you most cordially for the loan. Nobody more thoroughly venerates the admirable Author than I do - And in this last work, she really has excelled herself! Every young man ought particularly to study it - but it contains many hints useful and good for all ages, conditions, and characters. She is the pride of Englsh female writers - and I do positively believe, the most useful author, whether male or female, now existing'.
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Sarah Harriet Burney Print: Book
'I am reading Miss Edgeworth's Popular Tales for the Young with thorough gusto.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Louis Stevenson Print: Book
'I am now labouring very hard at "Patronage", which, I must honestly confess, is the greatest lump of cold lead I ever attempted to swallow. Truth, nature, life, and sense, there is, I dare say, in abundance, but I cannot discover a particle of imagination, taste, wit, or sensibility; and without these latter qualities, I never could feel much pleasure in any book. In a novel especially, such materials are expected, and, if not found, it is exceedingly disappointing to be made to pick a dry bone, when one thinks one is going to enjoy a piece of honeycomb'.
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Susan Ferrier Print: Book
Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 26 February 1845:
'I do not know Charlotte Smith's books for children. I read myself Mrs. Barbauld's
'"Come hither Charles --
Come to Mama --"
'oh! how I remember it, book & all! & Miss Edgeworth's Frank & Rosamond. They were my own classics, and those of my brothers and sisters.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett Print: Book
'Read Miss Edgeworth's dramas'.
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: George Crabbe Print: Book
'I have lately had a long bad cold, such as reduces one to trash and slops, novels and barley water, and amongst the books my friends kindly sent me to while away time was the first volume of one puffed in the newspaper, "The Last Man", by the authoress of "Frankenstein". I would not trouble them for any more of it, but really there were sentences in it so far exceeding those Don Quixote ran mad in trying to comprehend, that I could not help copying out a few of them; they would have turned Feliciano de Silva's own brains. [LS then quotes passages beginning "Her eyes were impenetrably deep" and "The overflowing warmth of her heart"...] Since the wonderful improvement that somebody who shall be nameless, together with Miss Edgeworth and one or two more, have made in novels, I imagined such stuff as this had not ventured to show its head, though I remember plenty of it in the days of my youth. So for old acquaintance-sake I give it welcome. But if the boys and girls begin afresh to take it for sublime and beautiful, it ought to get a rap and be put down'.
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Louisa, Lady Stuart Print: Book
'I was indeed surprised to find my name in "Patronage" but my surprise was principally caused by finding such honourable mention made of me and by seeing myself in company with those whom I have no pretensions to associate with. No person but Miss Edgeworth would call "Patronage" a trivial performance, but even she has not a right to call it so. Like most of her other works, under the form of a mere book of amusement it conveys the most important lessons. I hope that the publication of it will add greatly to the lively satisfaction she must feel when she reflects how greatly her writings have contributed to improve the condition of mankind, and what mischievous follies and frailties they have in numerous individuals corrected or repressed'.
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Romilly Print: Book
'The pleasure we had in reading "Patronage" has been even increased by reading the [torn and illegible] but I should not say we, for Sir Samuel could not get past the first volume. Surely it is vastly inferior to all her other publications and the only moral I can find out is that ladies should not go without pockets. It had to me all the defects of her other novels without any of their beauties, and the impression on my mind all the time I was reading it was similar to that of a tormenting dream, wherever you getg to the same disagreeable objects present themselves'.
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Anne Romilly Print: Book
'And now that I have finished all my foreign stock I may venture a few words as to your delightful little volumes which have been read with great avidity by all my elder children. I have not given "Harry and Lucy" to the younger ones. A boy of nearly nine is now reading it to me with the greatest satisfaction and interest and his elder brother of upwards of ten says, "really Mama that is a very useful as well as entertaining book. I have learnt a great many things from it that I did not know before".
As you ask for their opinions I must tell you tho' from what cause I know not that "Rosamond" has always been a most distinguished favorite. Perhaps they feel a sympathy with her faults and feel that they resemble her in many things'.
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: elder children of Anne Romilly Print: Book
'And now that I have finished all my foreign stock I may venture a few words as to your delightful little volumes which have been read with great avidity by all my elder children. I have not given "Harry and Lucy" to the younger ones. A boy of nearly nine is now reading it to me with the greatest satisfaction and interest and his elder brother of upwards of ten says, "really Mama that is a very useful as well as entertaining book. I have learnt a great many things from it that I did not know before".
As you ask for their opinions I must tell you tho' from what cause I know not that "Rosamond" has always been a most distinguished favorite. Perhaps they feel a sympathy with her faults and feel that they resemble her in many things'.
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Romilly Print: Book
'And now that I have finished all my foreign stock I may venture a few words as to your delightful little volumes which have been read with great avidity by all my elder children. I have not given "Harry and Lucy" to the younger ones. A boy of nearly nine is now reading it to me with the greatest satisfaction and interest and his elder brother of upwards of ten says, "really Mama that is a very useful as well as entertaining book. I have learnt a great many things from it that I did not know before".
As you ask for their opinions I must tell you tho' from what cause I know not that "Rosamond" has always been a most distinguished favorite. Perhaps they feel a sympathy with her faults and feel that they resemble her in many things'.
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Romilly Print: Book
'And now that I have finished all my foreign stock I may venture a few words as to your delightful little volumes which have been read with great avidity by all my elder children. I have not given "Harry and Lucy" to the younger ones. A boy of nearly nine is now reading it to me with the greatest satisfaction and interest and his elder brother of upwards of ten says, "really Mama that is a very useful as well as entertaining book. I have learnt a great many things from it that I did not know before".
As you ask for their opinions I must tell you tho' from what cause I know not that "Rosamond" has always been a most distinguished favorite. Perhaps they feel a sympathy with her faults and feel that they resemble her in many things'.
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: children of Anne Romilly Print: Book
'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 Manuscript: Unknown
'I have just been beset by two of my little boys who are deep in your little books and who beg that I will give their very best love to you. One of them, 4 and a half, says, "tell Miss Edgeworth I do really think Rosamond was foolish not to choose the shoes, but her Mama made her go without them very long, I would not have made her go barefoot more than a week". You have you see produced a very young critic. He is just beginning to feel great pleasure in reading, and he never does it without making his remarks as he goes'.
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: two sons of Anne Romilly Print: Book
'I have just been beset by two of my little boys who are deep in your little books and who beg that I will give their very best love to you. One of them, 4 and a half, says, "tell Miss Edgeworth I do really think Rosamond was foolish not to choose the shoes, but her Mama made her go without them very long, I would not have made her go barefoot more than a week". You have you see produced a very young critic. He is just beginning to feel great pleasure in reading, and he never does it without making his remarks as he goes'.
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Romilly Print: Book
'I wish you had been present when I opened the parcel and read the title page, the exclamations, the elevated voices, the "O Mama pray let me look" and "O Mama may [italics] I [end italics] read it?"'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Anne Romilly Print: Book
'One amongst the innumerable excellent things I have learnt from Practical Education is to consider what is passing in the child's mind at the moment, and I am sure this is a thing which is seldom if ever attended to.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Anne Romilly Print: Book
'For once I must think differently from Mr Edgeworth. I have none of the fears that he has for the fate of "Little Plays for Children". Those of Madame de Genlis have always been extremly [sic] successful, altho' not very good, and "Old Poz" has been most successful, and has been acted by many a happy little party'.
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Anne Romilly Print: Book
John Wilson Croker to Mr C. Phillips, 3 January 1854:
'As to my novel reading I confess that in my younger days I used to read them all from Charlotte Smith to Maria Edgeworth; Scott I have by heart; but I so far differ from you about Hook's that I date my later indifference to novels from my disappointment at his.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Wilson Croker Print: Book
'Dream of being at court of Louis XV, in consequence of reading "Ormond".'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin Print: Book
'exciting discoveries of things in "Harry and Lucy" at coffee'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin Print: Book
'She [Anne Isabella Milbanke] read enormously [...] A list of her books makes the unregenerate blood run cold, though it did include some novels -- Miss Edgeworth's and Beckford's [sic] sensation-making Vathek, in which she detected the source of some passages in the Book of the Season, "Lord Byron's Childe Harold." Childe Harold's only rival in her poetic reading was The Faerie Queene.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Anne Isabella Milbanke Print: Book
'[Walter Scott] read with much delight, and made his children read, Rosamond and the Purple Jar and Simple Susan; even, perhaps, the conversation on scientific subjects between Harry and Lucy and their father, though in the character and teaching of that amazing parent Scott found much room for criticism.'
Century: 1700-1799 / 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Charlotte Sophia Scott, Anne Scott, and other Scott children Print: Book
'[Walter Scott] read with much delight, and made his children read, Rosamond and the Purple Jar and Simple Susan; even, perhaps, the conversation on scientific subjects between Harry and Lucy and their father, though in the character and teaching of that amazing parent Scott found much room for criticism.'
Century: 1700-1799 / 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Charlotte Sophia Scott, Anne Scott, and other Scott children Print: Book
'[Walter Scott] read with much delight, and made his children read, Rosamond and the Purple Jar and Simple Susan; even, perhaps, the conversation on scientific subjects between Harry and Lucy and their father, though in the character and teaching of that amazing parent Scott found much room for criticism.'
Century: 1700-1799 / 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Charlotte Sophia Scott, Anne Scott, and other Scott children Print: Book
'[Walter Scott] read with much delight, and made his children read, Rosamond and the Purple Jar and Simple Susan; even, perhaps, the conversation on scientific subjects between Harry and Lucy and their father, though in the character and teaching of that amazing parent Scott found much room for criticism.'
Century: 1700-1799 / 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Walter Scott Print: Book
'[Walter Scott] read with much delight, and made his children read, Rosamond and the Purple Jar and Simple Susan; even, perhaps, the conversation on scientific subjects between Harry and Lucy and their father, though in the character and teaching of that amazing parent Scott found much room for criticism.'
Century: 1700-1799 / 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Walter Scott Print: Book
'[Walter Scott] read with much delight, and made his children read, Rosamond and the Purple Jar and Simple Susan; even, perhaps, the conversation on scientific subjects between Harry and Lucy and their father, though in the character and teaching of that amazing parent Scott found much room for criticism.'
Century: 1700-1799 / 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Walter Scott Print: Book
'[Walter Scott] read with much delight, and made his children read, Rosamond and the Purple Jar and Simple Susan; even, perhaps, the conversation on scientific subjects between Harry and Lucy and their father, though in the character and teaching of that amazing parent Scott found much room for criticism.'
Century: 1700-1799 / 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Walter Scott Print: Book
'The house in which I was born was ... a two-centuries-old Georgian mansion, a barrack of a place that seemed even larger in my juvenile perspective than it actually was ... Here—when I grew older and had learned to read—I could get away in a corner and read all day until a properly organized search party routed me out. Castle Squander, Handy Andy, The Absentee, and many another old Irish tale of the "big house" found a not inappropriate setting for me in those echoing rooms with their cracked plaster ceilings and tattered wallpapers.'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Desmond Malone Print: Book
'Meeting held at 22 Cintra Avenue 10.3.41
F. E. Pollard in the Chair.
1. The minutes of the last meeting were read and signed.
[...]
3. Violet Clough read an exceedingly interesting paper on “Children’s Literature”
showing the was it has developed from the “Moral Tales” of Maria Edgeworth
published at the beginning of the 19th. Century, to the delightful tales by Beatrix
Potter & A. A. Milne which are read today. The one retrogressive step she thought
was in the binding of the books, which today seem to come to pieces almost at
once. All the mothers present agreed with this, so it is no reflection on the Clough
children in particular although it may be on the modern child in general.
4. Readings from children’s literature were then given as follows:
Labour Lost from the Rollo Books. Selected by S. A. Reynolds & read by A. B.
Dilks.
“The Fairchild Family” by Mrs. Sherwood read by Mrs. Pollard – this was
particularly gruesome.
“Little Women” by Louisa Alcott read by Mary Stansfield.
Divers examples of children[’]s poetry read by Rosamund Wallis, which included
an impromptu recitation by Howard Smith of one of Hillair[e] Belloc’s Cautionary
Tales.
“Alice in Wonderland” by Lewis Carrol[l] read by F. E. Pollard.
“Samuel Whiskers” by Beatrix Potter read by Muriel Stevens.
“The Sing Song of Old Man Kangaroo” a Just So Story by Rudyard Kipling, read by
Howard Smith.
“The Wind in the Willows” by Kenneth Grahame read by Margaret Dilks.
“The House at Pooh Corner” by A. A. Milne, read by A. B. Dilks.
5. Bruce Dilks sang two of Fraser-Simsons settings of A. A. Milne’s Poems.
“Christopher Robin Alone in the Dark” and “Happiness”.
[Signed as a true record of the meeting by] S. A. Reynolds
April 7th / 41'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Violet Clough Print: Book
