Byron to Lady Melbourne, 21 September 1813, from Aston Hall, Rotherham (where staying with Sir James Wedderburn Webster): 'There is a delightful epitaph on Voltaire in Grimm - I read it coming down - the French I should probably misspell so take it only in bad English - "Here lies the spoilt child of the/a world which he spoiled"'.
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Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: George Gordon, Lord Byron
Byron to Thomas Moore, 8 December 1813: 'I have met with an odd reflection in Grimm ... "Many people have the reputation of being wicked, with whom we should be too happy to pass our lives." I need not add it is a woman's saying - a Mademoisele de Sommery's.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: George Gordon, Lord Byron Print: Book
Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 20 January 1821: 'Rode -- fired pistols. Read from Grimm's Correspondence. Dined ...'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: George Gordon Lord Byron Print: Book
Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 21 January 1821: 'Dined -- visited -- came home -- read. Remarked on an anecdote in Grimm's Correspondence ... [reproduces part of text of vol. VI]'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: George Gordon Lord Byron Print: Book
Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 31 January 1821 entry: 'Midnight. I have been reading Grimm's Correspondence.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: George Gordon Lord Byron Print: Book
Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 18 February 1821: 'In turning over Grimm's Correspondence to-day, I found a thought of Tom Moore's in a song of Maupertuis to a female Laplander ...'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: George Gordon Lord Byron Print: Book
'So in time she was able to read Grimms' "Fairy Tales", "Gulliver's Travels", "The Daisy Chain" and Mrs. Molesworth's "Cuckoo Clock" and "Carrots".'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Flora Thompson Print: Book
'From a tattered old volume of Grimm’s Fairy Tales passed around among us, we learned to read, even I, at long last, discovering suddenly what the mystery was all about. I have no recollection of the actual process; I do not know how or why or when or wherefore the light dawned. I only know that when I went to Miss Beck’s Academy I could not read, and that by the end of my first term, without any apparent transition period, I was reading, without too much trouble, anything that came my way.'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Rosemary Sutcliff Print: Book
'Sometimes he [Tennyson] read Grimm's Fairy Stories or repeated ballads to us.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Alfred Tennyson Print: Book
'I did not go out again but passed the time away in reading, amused the youngsters with some stories from Grimms Goblins a book I brought a few nights since.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau Print: Book
'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: Book
'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: Book
'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: Book
'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: Book
'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: Book
'Mustered this afternoon, then sat & read till tea time. After tea had more than an hour with the youngsters reading to them from Grimm's Goblins.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau Print: Book
'Mr Joseph Conrad, the author, writes: I don’t remember any child’s book. I
don’t think I ever read any; the first book I remember distinctly is Hugo’s
"Travailleurs de la Mer" which I read at the age of seven. But within the last
two years I’ve participated in my son’s (age 5) course of reading, and I share
his tastes – in prose, Grimm and Andersen; in verse, Lear.'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Conrad Print: Book
