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Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Taylor Coleridge Print: Book
'I remember reading White's Natural History and Antiquities of Selborn[e] with great pleasure when a Boy at school ...'
Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: William Wordsworth Print: Book
'Headache. Read Lucrezia Floriani. We are reading White's History of Selborne in the evening'.
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot and G.H. Lewes Print: Book
'I began now to borrow from the Sanatorium Library books on nature and the countryside -Hardy, Hudson, Jefferies, Gilbert White; books on birds, animals, snakes and trees. And all these presented a picture of an England which, except in a few secluded spots, no longer survived.'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Norman Nicholson Print: Book
'A fortnight ago, having employed myself in reading White's "Selborne", and being extremely fond of natural history, and, of course, highly delighted with that book, I was seized with an insuperable desire to see that village which Mr. White has, in the eye of a naturalist, made classic ground...'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Sir William Elford Print: Book
'draw her [Harriet, a girl LC is teaching] to such books as White's "Natural History of Selborne", but do not bother and (though I hate the word) [italics] bore [end italics] her with what she has no relish for'.
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Louisa, Lady Stuart Print: Book
'One of the books I read then for the first time
was White's "Selborne", given to me by an old
friend of the family, a merchant in Buenos Ayres
[sic], who had been accustomed to stay a week or
two with us with us once a year when he took his
holiday. He had been on a visit to Europe, and one
day, he told me, when in London on the eve of his
departure, he was in a bookshop, and seeing this
book on the counter and glancing at a page or two,
it occurred to him that it was just the right
thing to get for that bird-loving boy out on the
pampas. I read and re-read it many times, for
nothing so good of its kind had ever come to me,
but it did not reveal to me the secret of my own
feeling for Nature [...] I found it in other
works: in Brown's "Philosophy" — another of the
ancient tomes on our shelves, and in an old volume
containing appreciations of the early nineteenth
century; also in other works.'
Century: 1850-1899 / 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: William Henry Hudson Print: Book
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: Book
