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unknown : Peasant Life

'I sympathise most warmly in a great deal that is said in the 'Ginx's Baby' book, and do actually express my own sentiments in what I say about it. And I admire immensely the "Peasant Life".'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Oliphant      Print: Book

  

unknown : [novels]

[Austen and her family were] 'great novel readers and not ashamed of being so'.

Century: 1700-1799 / 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Jane Austen      Print: Book

  

unknown : unknown

'Landscape gardener Humphry Repton's wife read to him while he drew''.

Unknown
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Humphry Repton      

  

[unknown] : La danse des morts

[Marginalia]

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Taylor Coleridge      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : Declaration of Principles

[Marginalia]

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Taylor Coleridge      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : Sammlung vorzuglich schoner Gedichte...

[Marginalia]

Century: 1700-1799 / 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Taylor Coleridge      Print: Book

  

unknown : [Greek book]

Dorothy Wordsworth writes to Catherine Clarkson on 'Thursday Evening December 8th [1808]': 'Mr. De Quincey ... is beside me, quietly turning over the leaves of a Greek book ... '

Unknown
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas De Quincey      Print: Book

  

unknown : Memoir of Frederick and Margaret Klopstock

'I have read Cevallos; also I have read Miss Smith's Translation of Klopstock's and Mrs. K's letters [goes on to express preference for Mrs Klopstock's letters over those of her husband].'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Dorothy Wordsworth      Print: Book

  

unknown : [newpapers]

'I have seen a hint in one of the Papers about some letters of [General Sir] David Baird to the same tune as [Sir John] Moore's [about the Peninsular Campaign].'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: William Wordsworth      Print: Newspaper

  

unknown : [magazine]

'I have just been reading an old Magazine where I find that Benjamin Flower was fined ?100 and imprisoned in Newgate four months ... for a libel, as it was termed, upon the Bishop of Llandaff ... '

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: William Wordsworth      Print: Serial / periodical

  

unknown : Edda Soemundar hinns Froda

Robert Southey to William Taylor, April 1799: '[Amos Cottle] was in a hurry, and wanted northern learning, but seemed to have no idea of knowing how or where to look for it. The "Edda" [with facing Icelandic and Latin texts] fell into his hands and delighted him. His brother [Joseph], who knows no language but English, wanted to read it, and he had begun a prose translation, when I advised him to versify it ... '

Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Amos Cottle      Print: BookManuscript: Unknown

  

unknown : [advertisement]

Dorothy Wordsworth to Jane Marshall, 11 May 1808: 'Would you believe it we too had dreams about Loch Kettrine when we saw the advertisement ... '

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Dorothy Wordsworth      Print: Advertisement

  

unknown : [magazine]

William Wordsworth to S.T. Coleridge, [5 May 1809]: 'Turning over an old Magazine three or four days ago I hit upon a paragraph stating that B. Flower had been fined ?100, and commited to Newgate for 4 months, for reflecting on the Union of Ireland, in some comments upon a speech of the bishop of Llandaff.'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: William Wordsworth      Print: Serial / periodical

  

unknown : History of England

Dorothy Wordsworth to William and Mary Wordsworth, 3 May [1812]: '[John] appears to us very slow in comprehending what he reads in the Grammar. Today we proposed to him to take his History of England to School; but he blushed and said he could not read well enough - I tried him and find he can ... '

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: John Wordsworth      Print: BookManuscript: Letter

  

[unknown] : [books about voyages]

Statement of juvenile offender: "When I left school I went to Mr Banks, bookseller, two years. I had good opportunities of reading then, voyages and such; read the Life of Jack Sheppard. I borrowed it from another boy... I read 'Jack Sheppard' about five months before I began the robberies."

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: J.H.      Print: Book

  

unknown : unknown

Dorothy Wordsworth to Cathrine Clarkson, 19 December 1819: 'I do not know whther I ought to tell you that [Sara Hutchinson] is most eagerly and happily employed in knitting yarn stockings for Mr Clarkson. She knits and reads by the hour together.'

Unknown
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Sara Hutchinson      

  

unknown : unknown

Dorothy Wordsworth to Thomas Hutchinson, 14 December 1820, on her nephew William's academic progress: '...he seems yet to have little or no satisfaction in reading alone. He draws and writes of himself but never takes up a Book except when I require it [of him]. I must say he always does it cheefully.'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: William Wordsworth      Print: Book

  

unknown : Proceedings upon the Inquiry relative to the Armistice & Convention, &c. made and concluded in Portugal, in August 1808, between the Commanders of the British and French Armies ...

" ... a summary of the contents of the Proceedings was published in the Courier on 3 Jan. 1809, and read by W[ordsworth]. Aware of W[ordsworth]'s interest in the Convention of Cintra, [Daniel] Stuart offered him a copy of the pamphlet ... De Quincey sent one to Grasmere ... where it arrived on 1 April 1809 ... W[ordsworth] had read it by 26 April ... "

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: William Wordsworth      

  

unknown : epitaph of Josias Franklin and wife

'D[orothy] W[ordsworth] copied a number of epitaphs into [Dove Cottage MS 20] between late April and 17 Dec. 1799, namely: epitaph of Josias Franklin and his wife; Benjamin Franklin's epitaph; and an "Epitaph taken from the Parish Church-Yard of Marsk in the County of York".'

Unknown
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Dorothy Wordsworth      

  

unknown : epitaph of Benjamin Franklin

'D[orothy] W[ordsworth] copied a number of epitaphs into [Dove Cottage MS 20] between late April and 17 Dec. 1799, namely: epitaph of Josias Franklin and his wife; Benjamin Franklin's epitaph; and an "Epitaph taken from the Parish Church-Yard of Marsk in the County of York".'

Unknown
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Dorothy Wordsworth      

  

unknown : epitaph "taken from the Parish Church-Yard of Marsk in the County of York"

'D[orothy] W[ordsworth] copied a number of epitaphs into [Dove Cottage MS 20] between late April and 17 Dec. 1799, namely: epitaph of Josias Franklin and his wife; Benjamin Franklin's epitaph; and an "Epitaph taken from the Parish Church-Yard of Marsk in the County of York".'

Unknown
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Dorothy Wordsworth      

  

unknown : Tale Imitated from Gower

'Prelude MS W contains a fair copy of a verse translation of the tale of the travellers and the angel from Gower's Confessio Amantis ii 291-364 in D[orothy] W[ordsworth]'s hand, entitled "Tale Imitated from Gower - Friend and Contemporary of Chaucer" ... It was not apparently copied from a printed source.'

Unknown
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Dorothy Wordsworth      

  

unknown : unknown

Byron to John Cam Hobhouse, 10 August 1811, within two weeks of his mother's death: 'I am very lonely, & should think myself miserable, were it not for a kind of hysterical merriment ... I have tried reading & boxing, & swimming, & writing ... with a number of ineffectual remedies ... '

Unknown
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: George Gordon, Lord Byron      

  

unknown : unknown

Byron to Lady Melbourne, 18 November 1812: 'I am still here only sad in the prospect of going [from home of Lord and Lady Oxford]; reading, laughing, & playing ... with ye. children; a month has slipped away in this & such like innocent recreations ... '

Unknown
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: George Gordon, Lord Byron      

  

unknown : [epigram on J. W. Ward]

Byron to John Murray, [29 November 1813 (c)]: 'there have been some epigrams on Mr. W[ar]d one I see today - the first I did not see but heard yesterday - the second seems very bad - and Mr. P[erry] has placed it over your puff - I only hope that Mr. W[ard] does not believe that I had any connection with either - '

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: George Gordon, Lord Byron      Print: Newspaper

  

unknown : [epigram on J. W. Ward]

Byron to John Murray, [29 November 1813 (c)]: 'there have been some epigrams on Mr. W[ar]d one I see today - the first I did not see but heard yesterday... '

Unknown
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: George Gordon, Lord Byron      

  

unknown : Persian Tale

Byron to John Murray, 4 December 1813: 'I have redde through your Persian Tale - I have taken ye. liberty of making some remarks on ye. blank pages - there are many beautiful passages and an interesting story - and I cannot give a stonger proof that such is my opinion than by the date of the hour 2 o' clock. - till which it has kept me awake without a yawn ... the tale must be written by some one - who has been on the spot ... he deserves success. - Will you apologize to the author for the liberties I have taken with his M.S. ... '

Century:      Reader/Listener/Group: George Gordon, Lord Byron      Manuscript: Unknown

  

unknown : [books]

In Byron's Journal (14 November 1813-19 April 1814), 17 November 1813: 'I wish I could settle to reading again, - my life is monotonous, and yet desultory. I take up books, and fling them down again.'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: George Gordon, Lord Byron      Print: Book

  

unknown : unknown

Byron's Journal (14 November 1813-19 April 1814), 13 December 1813: 'Called at three places - read, and got ready to leave town to-morrow.'

Unknown
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: George Gordon Lord Byron      

  

unknown : [Italian]

Byron's Journal (14 November 1813-19 April 1814), 17 December 1813: 'Redde some Italian, and wrote two Sonnets on *** [Lady Frances Wedderburn Webster].'

Unknown
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: George Gordon Lord Byron      

  

unknown : unknown

Byron's Journal (14 November 1813-19 April 1814), 18 February 1814 ('Nine o'clock'): 'Redde a little - wrote notes, and letters, and am alone ... '

Unknown
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: George Gordon Lord Byron      

  

unknown : unknown

Byron's Journal (14 November 1813-19 April 1814), 18 February 1814 ('Midnight'): 'Began a letter, which I threw into the fire. Redde - but to little purpose.'

Unknown
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: George Gordon Lord Byron      

  

unknown : [poster advertising a debate on Byron and Scott]

Byron's Journal (14 November 1813-19 April 1814), 15 March 1814: 'As [Richard] Sharpe was passing by the doors of some Debating Society (the Westminster Forum), in his way to dinner, he saw rubricked on the walls Scott's name and mine -"Which was the better poet?" being the question of the evening ...'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Richard Sharp      Print: Advertisement, Poster

  

unknown : Anti-Byron

Byron's Journal (14 November 1813-19 April 1814), 15 March 1814: 'Redde a satire on myself, called Anti-Byron, and told Murray to publish it if he liked. The object of the Author is to prove me an Atheist and a systematic conspirator against law and government. Some of the verse is good; the prose I don't quite understand.'

Unknown
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: George Gordon Lord Byron      

  

unknown : unknown

Byron's Journal (14 November 1813-19 April 1814), 10 April 1814: 'Today I have boxed one hour - written an ode to Napoleon Buonaparte - copied it - eaten six biscuits - drunk four bottles of soda water - redde away the rest of my time ... '

Unknown
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: George Gordon Lord Byron      

  

unknown : [ministerial gazettes]

Byron to Leigh Hunt, 9 February 1814: 'I have been regaled at every Inn on the road [from Newstead to London] by lampoons and other merry conceits on myself in the ministerial gazettes ...'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: George Gordon Lord Byron      Print: Newspaper, Serial / periodical

  

unknown : Anti-Byron

Byron to John Murray, 12 March 1814: 'I have not had time to read the whole M.S. but what I have seen seems very well written (both prose and verse) & ... containing nothing which you ought to hesitate publishing upon my account.'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: George Gordon Lord Byron      Manuscript: Unknown

  

unknown : [Roman History]

Byron to Lady Melbourne, April- 1 May 1814, on his relations with his half-sister: 'it is odd that I always had a foreboding -- and remember when quite a child reading the Roman History -- about a marriage I will tell you of when we me[et] -- asking ma mere -- why I should not marry +'

Unknown
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: George Gordon Lord Byron      

  

unknown : unknown

Byron to unknown correspondent, 29 June 1814: 'Sir / -- I have to thank you for the perusal of your work -- and assure You that I perfectly coincide with your judges in their opinion of it's merits. -- Excuse my having detained it so long.'

Unknown
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: George Gordon Lord Byron      

  

unknown : [article]

Byron to John Murray, [?July 23-24 1814]: 'I have read the article & concur in opinion with Mr. Rogers & my friends that I have every reason to be satisfied. -- You best know as Publisher how far the book may be injured or benefited by the critique in question.'

Unknown
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: George Gordon Lord Byron      

  

unknown : [history book]

Byron recommends history books in letter to Annabella Milbanke, 25 August 1814: 'the best thing of that kind I met with by accident at Athens in a Convent Library in an old & not "very choice Italian" I forget the title -- but it was a history in some 30 tomes of all Conjurazioni whatsoever from Cataline's down to Fiesco of Lavagna's in Genoa -- and Braganza's in Lisbon -- I read it through (having nothing else to read) & having nothing to compare it withal thought it perfection.'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: George Gordon Lord Byron      Print: Book

  

unknown : unknown

Byron to John Murray, 7 September 1814: 'I am very idle I have read the few books I had with me -- & been forced to fish for lack of other argument ...'

Unknown
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: George Gordon Lord Byron      

  

unknown : unknown

Byron to Thomas Moore, 15 September 1814, writing whilst waiting at Newstead to learn whether marriage proposal acepted: 'Books I have but few here, and those I have read ten times over, till sick of them.'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: George Gordon Lord Byron      Print: Book

  

unknown : unknown

Byron to Annabella Milbanke, 17 October 1814: 'If there were no other inducements for me to leave London -- the utter solitude of my situation with only my Maccaw to converse with -- would be sufficient ... I read -- but very desultorily ...'

Unknown
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: George Gordon Lord Byron      

  

unknown : unknown

Byron to unknown author of volume of poems sent to him the previous day, 18 July 1815: 'the satisfaction I experienced from the perusal, made me anxious for the immediate acquaintance and society of the Gentleman, who has so kindly favoured the world with the production of his leisure hours.'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: George Gordon Lord Byron      Print: Book

  

unknown : [paper on the Methodists]

Byron to Leigh Hunt, [4-6 November, 1815]: 'The paper on the Methodists was sure to raise the bristles of the godly -- I redde it and agree with the writer on one point ... that an addiction to poetry is very generally the result of "an uneasy mind in an uneasy body" ...'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: George Gordon Lord Byron      Print: Serial / periodical

  

unknown : "book treating of the Rhine"

Byron to Augusta Leigh, 6 November 1816: ' ... by the way Ada [his daughter]'s name is the same with that of the Sister of Charlemagne -- as I read the other day in a book treating of the Rhine.'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: George Gordon Lord Byron      Print: Book

  

unknown : "Siege of Zara"

Byron to John Murray, 17 July 1820, on books used in research for Marino Faliero, Doge of Venice: 'I have consulted Sanuto -- Sandi -- Navagero -- & an anonymous Siege of Zara -- besides the histories of Laugier Daru -- Sismondi &c.'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: George Gordon Lord Byron      Print: Book

  

unknown : [books]

Byron to Countess Teresa Guiccioli, on current reading habits, 24 July 1820 (translated from Italian): 'I like sometimes to read one book and sometimes another, a few pages at a time -- and change frequently ...'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: George Gordon Lord Byron      Print: Book

  

unknown : unknown

Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 7 January 1821: 'Dined. Read the Lugano Gazette. Read -- I forget what. At 8 went to conversazione.'

Unknown
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: George Gordon Lord Byron      

  

unknown : [books]

Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 7 January 1821: 'It wants half an hour of midnight ... Turned over and over half a score books for the passage in question, and can't find it.'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: George Gordon Lord Byron      Print: Book

  

unknown : unknown

Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 16 January 1821: 'Read -- rode -- fired pistols -- returned -- dined ...'

Unknown
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: George Gordon Lord Byron      

  

unknown : [various books]

Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 17 January 1821: 'Arrived a packet of books from England and Lombardy -- English, Italian, French, and Latin. Read till eight -- went out.'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: George Gordon Lord Byron      Print: Book

  

unknown : unknown

Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 23 January 1821: 'Read -- rode -- fired pistols, and returned.'

Unknown
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: George Gordon Lord Byron      

  

unknown : unknown

Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 23 January 1821: 'Dined -- read. Went out at eight ...'

Unknown
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: George Gordon Lord Byron      

  

unknown : unknown

Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 25 January 1821: 'Answered [John] Murray's letter -- read -- lounged.'

Unknown
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: George Gordon Lord Byron      

  

unknown : unknown

Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 5 February 1821: ' ... dined -- read -- went out ...'

Unknown
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: George Gordon Lord Byron      

  

unknown : unknown

Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 20 February 1821: 'Within these few days I have read, but not written.'

Unknown
Century:      Reader/Listener/Group: George Gordon Lord Byron      

  

unknown : Roman History

Byron's "Dictionary" (journal), 1 May 1821: 'The moment I could read -- my grand passion was history ... I was particularly taken with the battle near the Lake Regillus in the Roman History -- put into my hands the first.'

Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: George Gordon Lord Byron      Print: Book

  

unknown : Correspondence re Francis Rawdon Hastings, second Earl of Moira

Byron's "Detached Thoughts" (15 October 1821-18 May 1822), 15 October 1821: 'At the Opposition Meeting of the peers in 1812 at Lord Grenville's -- when Ld. Grey and he read to us the correspondence upon Moira's negotiation -- I sate next to the present Duke of Grafton -- when it was over -- I turned to him -- & said "What is to be done next?" -- "Wake the Duke of Norfolk["] (who was snoring away near us) replied he ...'

Unknown
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Charles 2nd Earl Grey      Manuscript: Letter

  

unknown : Correspondence re Francis Rawdon Hastings, second Earl of Moira

Byron's "Detached Thoughts" (15 October 1821-18 May 1822), 15 October 1821: 'At the Opposition Meeting of the peers in 1812 at Lord Grenville's -- when Ld. Grey and he read to us the correspondence upon Moira's negotiation -- I sate next to the present Duke of Grafton -- when it was over -- I turned to him -- & said "What is to be done next?" -- "Wake the Duke of Norfolk["] (who was snoring away near us) replied he ...'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: William Wyndham Lord Grenville      Manuscript: Letter

  

unknown : [reviews]

Byron's "Detached Thoughts" (15 October 1821-18 May 1822), on reading 'reviews', 15 October 1821: ' ... the first I ever read was in 1806-07.'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: George Gordon Lord Byron      Print: Serial / periodicalManuscript: Letter

  

[unknown] : [political history]

'"One advantage of leaving school at an early age is that one can study subjects of your own choice", wrote Frank Argent, son of a Camberwell labourer. Taking advantage of the public library and early Penguins, he ranged all over the intellectual landscape: Freudian psychology, industrial administration, English literature, political history, Blake, Goethe, Mill,Nietzsche, The Webbs, Bertrand Russell's Essays in Scepticism, and Spengler's The Decline of the West'.

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Frank Argent      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [Ancient Greek literature]

'Lancashire weaver Elizabeth Blackburn... proceeded to an evening institute course in English literature and by the rhythm of the looms she memorised all of The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, Shelley's "Ode to the West Wind", Milton's Lycidas, and Gray's Elegy. She discovered the ancient Greeks at the home of a neighbour, a self-educated classicist with six children, and a Sunday school teacher introduced her to the plays of Bernard Shaw. While attending her looms she silently analysed the character of Jane Eyre's Mr Rochester, "sometimes to the detriment of my weaving".'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Blackburn      Print: Book

  

unknown : Ballads

Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Saturday 17 May 1800: 'Worked hard, and read Midsummer Night's Dream, [and] Ballads ...'

Unknown
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Dorothy Wordsworth      

  

unknown : Ballads

Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Sunday 1 June 1800: ' ... a sweet mild morning. Read Ballads; went to church.'

Unknown
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Dorothy Wordsworth      

  

unknown : Ballads

Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Wednesday 4 June 1800: 'I walked to the lake-side in the morning, took up plants, and sate upon a stone reading Ballads.'

Unknown
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Dorothy Wordsworth      

  

unknown : unknown

Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Friday 6 June 1800: 'Sate out of doors reading the whole afternoon...'

Unknown
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Dorothy Wordsworth      

  

unknown : [poems]

Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Thursday 31 July 1800: '... we [Dorothy and William Wordsworth, with S. T. Coleridge] ... sailed down to Loughrigg. Read poems on the water ...'

Unknown
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Dorothy Wordsworth      

  

unknown : unknown

Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Sunday 7 December 1800: 'A fine morning. I read.'

Unknown
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Dorothy Wordsworth      

  

unknown : unknown

Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Monday 30 November 1801: '[after walk with William Wordsworth and Mary Hutchinson] We came home and read ...'

Unknown
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Wordsworth Family     

  

unknown : Life of Michael Bruce

Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Tuesday 8 December 1801: 'A dullish, rainyish morning ... I read Bruce's Lochleven and Life.'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Dorothy Wordsworth      Print: Book

  

unknown : unknown

Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Monday 14 December 1801: 'Sate by the fire in the evening reading.'

Unknown
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Dorothy Wordsworth      

  

unknown : unknown

Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Friday 29 January, 1802: 'William was very unwell. Worn out with his bad night's rest. He went to bed -- I read to him, to endeavour to make him sleep.'

Unknown
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Dorothy Wordsworth      

  

unknown : unknown

Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Wednesday 3 February, 1802: 'Read Wm. to sleep after dinner, and read to him in bed till 1/2 past one.'

Unknown
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Dorothy Wordsworth      

  

unknown : unknown

Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Wednesday 3 February, 1802: 'Read Wm. to sleep after dinner, and read to him in bed till 1/2 past one.'

Unknown
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Dorothy Wordsworth      

  

unknown : unknown

Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Friday 5 February, 1802: 'I read the story of [?] in Wanly [?].'

Unknown
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Dorothy Wordsworth      

  

unknown : German grammar

Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Monday 8 February, 1802: 'It was very windy ... all the morning ... I read a little in Lessing and the grammar.'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Dorothy Wordsworth      Print: Book

  

unknown : Life of Ben Jonson

Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Thursday 11 February, 1802: 'We made up a good fire after dinner, and William brought his Mattress out, and lay down on the floor. I read to him the life of Ben Jonson, and some short poems of his, which were too interesting for him, and would not let him go to sleep. I had begun with Fletcher, but he was too dull for me.'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Dorothy Wordsworth      Print: Book

  

unknown : [German text/s]

Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Sunday 14 February, 1802: '[after going on walk] I got tea when I reached home, and read German till about 9 o'clock.'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Dorothy Wordsworth      Print: Book

  

unknown : [German text/s]

Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Monday 15 February, 1802: 'I got tea when I reached home [after walk], and then set on to reading German.'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Dorothy Wordsworth      Print: Book

  

unknown : German Grammar

Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Tuesday 23 February, 1802: '... after dinner read German Grammar.'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Dorothy Wordsworth      Print: Book

  

unknown : German text/s

Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Tuesday 2 March 1802: 'After dinner I read German, and a little before dinner Wm. also read.'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Dorothy Wordsworth      Print: Book

  

unknown : unknown

Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Tuesday 2 March 1802: 'After dinner I read German, and a little before dinner Wm. also read.'

Unknown
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: William Wordsworth      

  

unknown : German text/s

Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Thursday 4 March 1802: 'I read German after my return [from walk] till tea time.'

Century:      Reader/Listener/Group: Dorothy Wordsworth      Print: Book

  

unknown : German text/s

Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Friday 5 March 1802: '... read the L[yrical]. B[allads]., got into sad thoughts, tried at German, but could not go on. Read L[yrical]. B[allads]. '

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Dorothy Wordsworth      Print: Book

  

unknown : German text/s

Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Sunday 7 March 1802: 'Read a little German, got my dinner.'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Dorothy Wordsworth      Print: Book

  

unknown : German text/s

Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Wednesday 10 March 1802: 'Wm. read in Ben Jonson in the morning. I read a little German ...'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Dorothy Wordsworth      Print: Book

  

unknown : unknown

Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Saturday 13 March 1802: ' After tea I read to William that account of the little boy belonging to the tall woman ...'

Unknown
Century:      Reader/Listener/Group: Dorothy Wordsworth      

  

unknown : unknown

Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Wednesday 17 March 1802: 'After dinner we [Dorothy and William Wordsworth] made a pillow of my shoulder -- I read to him and my Beloved slept.'

Unknown
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Dorothy Wordsworth      

  

unknown : German text/s

Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Tuesday 23 March 1802: 'After dinner ... I read German ...'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Dorothy Wordsworth      Print: Book

  

unknown : poems

Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Wednesday 21 April 1802: 'I went to bed after dinner, could not sleep, went to bed again. Read Ferguson's life and a poem or two -- fell asleep for 5 minutes and awoke better.'

Unknown
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Dorothy Wordsworth      

  

unknown : Review

Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Thursday 6 May 1802, 'When we came in [from evening walk to Tail End] we found a Magazine, and Review, and a letter from Coleridge with verses to Hartley [Coleridge], and Sara H[utchinson]. We read the Review, etc.'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: William and Dorothy Wordsworth     Print: Serial / periodical

  

unknown : Review

Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Saturday 8 May 1802, 'Read in the Review.'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: William and Dorothy Wordsworth     Print: Serial / periodical

  

unknown : Life of John Logan

Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Thursday 3 June 1802, 'We have been reading the Life and some of the writings of poor Logan since dinner.'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: William and Dorothy Wordsworth     Print: Book

  

unknown : unknown

Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Sunday 16 January 1803, describing visit to Matthew Newton's to obtain gingerbread: 'The blind Man [Matthew Newton] and his Wife and Sister were sitting by the fire all dressed very clean in their Sunday clothes, the sister reading.'

Unknown
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: [Miss] Newton      

  

unknown : unknown

' ... when stuck in '" dismal dirty inn at Halifax" in Yorkshire during his lecture tour in 1857, ... [Thackeray] made himself comfortable by reading and "pleasant talk about books" with people he met.'

Unknown
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: William Makepeace Thackeray      

  

unknown : Fatima

Noted by 17-year-old Alice Thompson in her diary: 'I have been reading Fatima and I don't quite think I know what love is.'

Unknown
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Alice Thompson      

  

[unknown] : [basic economics textbook]

[analysis of a female respondent in Arnold Freeman's 1918 Sheffield Survey] 'Munitions worker, age eighteen... Has read Seebohm Rowntree's "Poverty" and a basic economics textbook, as well as "Little Women".'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: questionaire respondent      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [various history and biography]

[analysis of a female respondent in Arnold Freeman's 1918 Sheffield Survey] 'Machinist in a shell factory, age twenty-four... Has read Shakespeare, Burns, Keats, Scott, Tennyson, Dickens, Vanity Fair, The Rubiyat of Omar Khayyam, Ella Wheeler Wilcox, biography and history'

Century:      Reader/Listener/Group: questionaire respondent      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [physiology textbooks]

'Allen Clark, the son of Bolton textile workers, found physiology books in the public library incomprehensible. A newspaper reference to Rabelais motivated him to borrow Gargantua and Pantagruel, which was no more helpful: "the love passages in the tales were meaningless and boring and I skipped them".'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Allen Clark      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [medical book]

'When they were alone at home [Edna Bold] and her cousin Dorothy extracted from the kitchen bookcase and read side by side, a medical book and Foxe's Book of Martyrs. The intertextuality was profoundly scarring: "Childbirth and martyrdom were synonymmous. We suffered the torments of the damned...We never 'reproduced'."'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Edna Bold and her cousin Dorothy     Print: Book

  

unknown : Contemporary French novels

'In "Where Love and Friendship Dwelt" (1944), Marie Belloc remembered of her time as literary correspondent in late 1880s-early 1890s: "Even when I was in London, I read all the new French books I could get hold of..."'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Marie Belloc      Print: Book

  

unknown : [Greek text/s]

Mrs Humphrey Ward would remember that 'in 1886, when her 10-year-old son was grappling with the classics, she "began seriously to read Greek."'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Mrs Humphrey Ward      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [reports on education in Prussia]

'[Millicent, Duchess of Sutherland was] an omnivorous reader -- "she could begin the day with reports on technical education in Prussia, continue it with Huxley's 'Life' and Shakespeare, and ... polish off seven love-stories at the same time ..."'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Millicent, Duchess of Sutherland      Print: Unknown

  

[unknown] : [romantic fiction]

'[Millicent, Duchess of Sutherland was] an omnivorous reader -- "she could begin the day with reports on technical education in Prussia, continue it with Huxley's 'Life' and Shakespeare, and ... polish off seven love-stories at the same time ..."'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Millicent, Duchess of Sutherland      Print: Unknown

  

unknown : unknown

Diary of Wilfrid Blunt, 22 June 1894: ' ... gave a dinner at Mount Street to Lady Granby, Lucy Smith, [Constant] d'Estournelles, Alfred Lyall, and Godfrey Webb, all of us more or less poets. After dinner we read and recited poetry ...'

Unknown
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Wilfrid Blunt and guests     

  

[unknown] : [American literature]

'As a boy [Walter] Besant had read American authors avidly ...'

Century:      Reader/Listener/Group: Walter Besant      Print: Unknown

  

unknown : article

'During her visit [to America] in 1905-6 May Sinclair was reduced to tears when she saw one article, based on a conversation over tea, which she felt included too intimate personal details ...'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: May Sinclair      Print: Newspaper, Serial / periodical

  

unknown : Princess Novelette

'[Flora Thompson's] grandmother enjoyed the Princess Novelette and similar penny series, "and she had an assortment of these which she kept tied up in flat parcels, ready to exchange with other novelette readers".'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: anon      Print: Serial / periodical

  

unknown : unknown

'My father sat passive, taking no notice, with his paper, not perceiving much I believe, and poor Willie, tucked in the study that had been made for him, copying for me, reading old books, smoking'.

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Willie Wilson      Print: Book

  

unknown : Review of Adam Bede

We are very curious and interested about "Adam Bede", which we see advertised and criticised in the "Athenaeum".'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Oliphant      Print: Serial / periodical

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

'On Friday afternoon I went to Mudie's. What a fascinating place it is!! I had some peeps into most lovely books, & the bindings were exquisite'.

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Katherine Mansfield      Print: Book

  

unknown : unknown

'I have read and sewed to-day, but not written a word'.

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Katherine Mansfield      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [old plays]

'Britain was a mainly urban society...and soon an expanding range of sexual literature became available in the cities. Mark Grossek, the son of a Jewish immigrant tailor in Southwark, acquired his knowledge from grafitti, scandalous stories in the local press, 'Lloyd's Weekly News', 'Measure for Measure', the Song of Solomon, some old plays a fellow student had dug out of his father's library, General Booth's 'In Darkest England', Tobias Smollett, Quain's 'Dictionary of Medicine', as well as Leviticus ("For myself, the most subtle aura of enticement was wafted from the verb 'begat' and the noun 'concubine'")There was also Ovid, but unfortunately the popular translation published by Bohn "had left all the tasty chunks in Latin".'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Mark Grossek      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [home medical books]

'Ethel Mannin was an exceptionally liberated letter-sorter's daughter, an early reader of Freud who made something of a career championing sexual freedom in the popular press. But when she approached the subject as a girl, she was far more fearful than informed: "At the board school all the girls were morbidly interested in parturition, menstruation, and procreation... We raked the Bible for information, and those of us who came from homes in which there were books made endless research, looking up in encyclopaedias and home medical works, such words as 'confinement', 'miscarriage', 'after-birth'... We were both fascinated and horrified. At the age of twelve I ploughed through a long and difficult book on embryology"... She copied passages from The Song of Songs into her commonplace book, but was disgusted when she came across the phrase, "Esau came forth from his mother's belly": "It seemed unspeakably dreadful, conjured up visions of sanguinary major operations. I was very miserable...".'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Ethel Mannin      Print: Book

  

unknown : [French novels]

'To say the truth, much as I like reading them & specially Balzac and Sand, & little as I am given to overstrictness in my tastes, I do believe that the commonplace criticism is correct. I do think they are as a rule prurient & indecent & that they treat love affairs a good deal too much from the point of view of the whore and the whoremonger. They are very clever and very artistic; but I don?t think delicate either in the sense of art or morals? The books are put together with great skill to produce a given effect; but the effect is apt to border on the nasty & they are too anxious to keep everything in due harmony to give proper contrasts & variety of real life.'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Leslie Stephen      Print: Book

  

unknown : Life of Sarah Martin

19/6/1847 ? 'I have been reading the life of Sarah Martin; it made me shed many tears, from the sense of her superior virtue, and my own inferiority. What an example she was?. W Allan?s admirable life I have read quite through, with delight, and I hope, instruction.'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Amelia Opie      Print: Book

  

unknown : [moral tales]

'I believe simple moral tales the very best mode of instructing the young and the poor ? else why do the pious of all sects and beliefs spread tracts in stories over the world - ? My own books (which friends never read, and know nothing about), are, in my belief, moral rules.'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Amelia Opie      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [children's comics]

[Communist activists often displayed hostility to literature, including Willie Gallacher. However his 'hostility to literature abated' in later years and in his later memoirs] 'he confessed a liking for Burns, Scott, the Brontes, Mrs Gaskell, children's comics and Olivier's film of Hamlet... Of course he admired Dickens, and not only the obvious Oliver Twist: the communist MP was prepared to admit that he appreciated the satire of the Circumlocution Office in Little Dorrit'.

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: William Gallacher      Print: Serial / periodical

  

[unknown] : [school stories from The Captain]

'Walter Citrine won, as a Sunday School prize, a volume of school stories from the Captain, including one by P.G. Wodehouse. "The lady who gave this prize awakened in me a thirst for good literature", eventually leading to the works of Karl Marx and his followers'.

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Walter Citrine      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [boys' weeklies]

'George Scott left school and the boys' weeklies behind at fifteen: in barely a year he had absorbed enough Shaw, Wells, Dos Passos and (secondhand) Marx to lecture his parents on the evils of capitalism'.

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: George Scott      Print: Serial / periodical

  

[unknown] : [travel books]

'The father of Labour politician T. Dan Smith, a Wallsend miner, was facinated by travel books, Twain's Innocents Abroad, Chaliapin, Caruso, and European affairs. But hardly anyone in their neighbourhood ever ventured outside it'.

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Smith      Print: Book

  

unknown : Victoria History of the Potteries

'He did a good deal of research, reading up the "Victoria History of the Potteries" and various other documentary sources'.

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Arnold Bennett      Print: Book

  

unknown : unknown

'Dora Montefiore, sent to Holloway [as suffragette] in October 1906, recalls the decor of her cell: "On the shelf were a Bible, a wooden spoon, a salt cellar, and one other book whose name I forget, but I remember glancing into it and thinking it would appeal to the intelligence of a child of eight".'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Dora Montefiore      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [American History]

'The celebrated singer Sir Harry Lauder, when he was still a mineworker, acquired a fair knowledge of American history: "George Washington and Abraham Lincoln ranked second only in my estimation to Robert Burns and Walter Scott. One of his ...favourite books was a popular biography of James Garfield, 'From Log Cabin to White House'".'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Harry Lauder      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [novels]

'As Cornish carpenter George Smith had little access to libraries, he "read every sort of book that came in my way" - novels, history, biblical criticism. He particularly liked mathematics because it was slow reading: "A treatise on algebra or geometry, which cost but a very few shillings, afforded me matter for close study for a year".'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: George Smith      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [history]

'As Cornish carpenter George Smith had little access to libraries, he "read every sort of book that came in my way" - novels, history, biblical criticism. He particularly liked mathematics because it was slow reading: "A treatise on algebra or geometry, which cost but a very few shillings, afforded me matter for close study for a year".'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: George Smith      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [biblical criticism]

'As Cornish carpenter George Smith had little access to libraries, he "read every sort of book that came in my way" - novels, history, biblical criticism. He particularly liked mathematics because it was slow reading: "A treatise on algebra or geometry, which cost but a very few shillings, afforded me matter for close study for a year".'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: George Smith      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [treatises on algebra and geometry]

'As Cornish carpenter George Smith had little access to libraries, he "read every sort of book that came in my way" - novels, history, biblical criticism. He particularly liked mathematics because it was slow reading: "A treatise on algebra or geometry, which cost but a very few shillings, afforded me matter for close study for a year".'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: George Smith      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [Sunday School prize books]

'Edwin Whitlock faced...[reading] shortages. A farmer on the Salisbury Downs, he had plenty of time to read while shepherding: "the difficulty was to get hold of books. The only ones in our house were the Bible, a few thin Sunday School prizes, which were mostly very pious publications, and a Post Office directory from 1867, whch volume I read from cover to cover".'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Edwin Whitlock      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [religious magazines]

'[Edwin] Whitlock... borrowed books from a schoolmaster and from neighbours: "Most of them would now be considered very heavy literature for a boy of fourteen or fifteen, but I didn't know that, for I had no light literature for comparison. I read most of the novels of Dickens, Scott, Lytton and Mrs Henry Wood, 'The Pilgrim's Progress' and 'The Holy War' - an illustrated guide to Biblical Palestine, 'Uncle Tom's Cabin', several bound volumes of religious magazines, 'The Adventures of a Penny', and sundry similar classics". With few books competing for his attention, he could freely concentrate on his favorite reading, "A set of twelve thick volumes of Cassell's 'History of England'".'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Edwin Whitlock      Print: Book, Serial / periodical, but bound into volumes

  

[unknown] : [detective thrillers]

'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: Book

  

[unknown] : [Western novels]

'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 coupe 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: Book

  

[unknown] : [Western novels]

'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: Book

  

[unknown] : [detective thrillers]

'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: Book

  

[unknown] : [children's books]

'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: Book

  

[unknown] : [travel books, including some on Tibet]

'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: Book

  

[unknown] : [account of Bounty mutiny]

[imaginative role play] 'One chauffeur's daughter alternated effortlessly between heroes and heroines: "I have plotted against pirates along with Jim Hawkins and I have trembled with Jane Eyre as the first Mrs Rochester rent her bridal veil in maddened jealousy. I have been shipwrecked with Masterman Ready and on Pitcairn Island with Fletcher Christian. I have been a medieval page in Sir Nigel and Lorna Doone madly in love with 'girt Jan Ridd'".

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Wharton      Print: Book

  

unknown : History of James I

'I have read the greater part of the History of James I and Mrs. Montagues?s essay on Shakespeare, and a great deal of Gibbon'.

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Babington Macaulay      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [Life of Scott]

'I have read a good many things, a life of Scott, the "Pleasures of Memory" by S. Rogers, Roman History and other things.'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Sir Walter Raleigh      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [magazines]

'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: Serial / periodical

  

unknown : 

'...he read widely about working-class life in the district.'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Arnold Bennett      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

'Faith Gray, dutiful member of a devout York evangelical family, self-accusingly notes in a review of the year 1768 a "strange mixture of Morality, History and Novels in my reading", but although she itemises some of the morality and history she is uninformative about the novels.'

Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Faith Gray      Print: Unknown

  

[unknown] : John O' London's

'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

  

[unknown] : [Russian literature]

'After Stalingrad, [Bernard Kops] immersed himself in Russian literature. A GI dating his sister introduced him to Walt Whitman and Emily Dickinson'.

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Bernard Kops      Print: Book

  

unknown : The Honey Stew of the Countess Bertha

[Maud Montgomery and her foster brothers] 'read the "Wide Awake" magazines the boys' aunt sent them for a while - the last instalment of a serial Maud was reading was due when the magazines stopped coming. The boys thought this was a huge joke...(thirty years later she came across bound copies of "Wide Awake" and was finally able to finish reading that story). They told ghost stories. In school Well won the teacher's prize for being the best in arithmetic that winter, a copy of Hans Andersen's fairytales. Maud was enchanted by the book. Then she won a collection of fairytales for being top student most often and it had a story in it called "The Honey Stew of the Countess Bertha" which "abounded in ghosts" and she liked it even better'.

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Lucy Maud Montgomery      Print: Book

  

unknown : The Memoir of Anzonetta Peters

[Maud wrote] 'pious tales inspired by a book she read on Sundays when she was only allowed to read religious works. She loved that book. It was called "The Memoir of Anzonetta Peters" and it was the story of a child who became ill at the age of five, turned to religion, and lived a saintly life until she died when she was twelve. Anzonetta talked only in hymns. For months Maud's life was taken over by this book. She tried valiantly to become as saintly as her idol'.

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Lucy Maud Montgomery      Print: Book

  

unknown : unknown

Henry James to Thomas Sergeant Perry, from school in Geneva, 26 January 1860: 'I fully intended to study Greek when I came here, but have not now the time ... I needn't be discouraged; I read the other day of a man with a good knowledge of Greek who didn't begin to study it till he was forty-six years of age'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Henry James      Print: Unknown

  

unknown : unknown

Henry James to Thomas Sergeant Perry, from Cambridge, Mass., 15 August 1867: "Here I have been ... all summer and here I expect to stay. You may imagine that existence has not been thrilling or exciting. I have seen no one and done nothing -- unless it be read; which I have done to some extent."

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Henry James      Print: Unknown

  

unknown : French texts

Henry James to Thomas Sergeant Perry, 27 March 1868: "I read more or less, of course, but nothing noteworthy. A good deal of French, of which, at times, I get pretty sick."

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Henry James      Print: Book

  

unknown : various works (dealing with Innsbruck)

Henry James to Grace Norton, 16 July 1871: "I have been looking up Innsbruck in various works at the Athenaeum, so that I may at least spend a few summer hours with you in spirit."

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Henry James      Print: Unknown

  

unknown : "lightish books"

Henry James to Grace Norton, 16 July 1871, describing life at family home: " ... I make a very pleasant life of it. I linger in a darkened room all the forenoon, reading lightish books in my shirt-sleeves ..."

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Henry James      Print: Book

  

unknown : Italian texts

Henry James to Mrs Henry James Sr, 17 February 1873: "I read Italian regularly for a short time daily and find it very easy."

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Henry James      Print: Unknown

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

'[Martin] suffered but little violent pain until the day he died. Up to that period he sought amusement in cheerful and entertaining books. A child of his landlady read to him as he lay upon a sofa, while he endeavoured to fancy himself, as he said, a gentleman of fashion paying the penalty of a debouch.'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: anon      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [French pocket dictionary]

'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 dictionnary 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

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

[Smith describes evening activities while working as the private printer of Dr D.] 'Sometimes I played dices with madam - sometimes I read aloud from some work of history of philosophy selected by the Doctor.'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Charles Manby Smith      Print: Book

  

unknown : unknown

Henry James to Grace Norton, 14 January 1874, describing daily routine in Florence: "I write more or less in the mornings, walk about in the afternoons, and doze over a book in the evenings."

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Henry James      Print: Book

  

unknown : "dullish books"

Henry James to Sarah Butler Wister, 23 January 1875: " ... I have had nothing since my return to town that is worth your hearing of. I have seen a certain number of ordinary people and read some dullish books ..."

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Henry James      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [prayer book]

'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 soother little Ned to silence in her arms.'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Smith      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [various titles]

'I was fond of reading when at home, but we had not an abundance of books; so as soon as I settled at Notting Hill, I often in the evening made my way to Oxford and other streets where I could find open bookshops, and in the course of a couple of years I had purchased and read a fair selection of our standard authors, and, as I shall mention in future pages, I became fairly well acquainted with the drama and the players. I am afraid I was rather more fond of the drama and works of fiction than of books of more general interest.'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: William Tinsley      Print: Book

  

unknown : Surgeon's Log, The

'I have almost finished "The Surgeon's Log". The first fiction book of this term!'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Hilary Spalding      Print: Book

  

unknown : Penguin Parade 4

[List of books read in 1943, in diary for 1943]: 'The Farthing Spinster; Guy Mannering; Whereas I was Blind; And So to Bath; The Story of San Michele; Attack Alarm; The Murders in Praed Street; Lover's Meeting; The Secret Battle; Witch Wood; MD - Doctor of Murder; Murder at the Keyhole; That Girl Ginger; Ten Minute Alibi; Diary of a District Officer; Tarzan the Untamed; Peter Abelard; Pip; Pied Piper; A Man Lay Dead; Random Harvest; Madame Curie; Stalky and Co; Bellarion; Down the Garden Path; The Three Musketeers vol 1; The House in Cornwall; A Tall Ship; The Two Saplings; Farewell Victoria; Quinneys; House of Terror; Penguin Parade 4; Guy Mannering[presumably a re-reading]; The Man Born to be King; Casterton Papers; Old Saint Paul's; The Moon is Down; 1066 and all That; My Brother Jonathon; Gulliver's Travels; Ensign Knightley; Men Against Death; Fame is the Spur; Gone with the Wind; Mesmer; First Nights; The Hound of the Baskervilles; Little Gidding; Beau Geste; Beau Sabreur; The Amazing Theatre; The Pleasure of Your Company; Dandelion Days; Humour and Fantasy; Juno and the Paycock; The Beautiful Years; Teach Yourself to Think; Salar the Salmon; The Cathedral; The Mysterious Mr I; The Picts and the Martyrs; The Dream of Fair Women; The Star-born; Three Short Stories; A Thatched Roof; The Surgeon's Log; The Healing Knife; Nine Ghosts; While Rome Burns; The Star Spangled Manner; The Day Must Dawn; The Tower of London; Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde; The Old Man's Birthday; A little Princess; Ego 5; The Lighter Side of School Life; Kidnapped; The Trail of the Sandhill Stag; Ballet Lover's Notebook; Lorna Doone; The Plays of JM Barrie; Jane Eyre; I'll Leave it to You; Henry Fifth; Longer Poems; Antony and Cleopatra; The Man in Grey; The House in Dormer Forest; The Writing of English; Miss Mapp; The Song of Bernadette; Happy and Glorious; Sixty Poems; The Birth of Romance; The Comedy of Life; Some Little Tales; Dream Days; Royal Flush.'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Hilary Spalding      Print: Book

  

unknown : Casterton Papers

[List of books read in 1943, in diary for 1943]: 'The Farthing Spinster; Guy Mannering; Whereas I was Blind; And So to Bath; The Story of San Michele; Attack Alarm; The Murders in Praed Street; Lover's Meeting; The Secret Battle; Witch Wood; MD - Doctor of Murder; Murder at the Keyhole; That Girl Ginger; Ten Minute Alibi; Diary of a District Officer; Tarzan the Untamed; Peter Abelard; Pip; Pied Piper; A Man Lay Dead; Random Harvest; Madame Curie; Stalky and Co; Bellarion; Down the Garden Path; The Three Musketeers vol 1; The House in Cornwall; A Tall Ship; The Two Saplings; Farewell Victoria; Quinneys; House of Terror; Penguin Parade 4; Guy Mannering[presumably a re-reading]; The Man Born to be King; Casterton Papers; Old Saint Paul's; The Moon is Down; 1066 and all That; My Brother Jonathon; Gulliver's Travels; Ensign Knightley; Men Against Death; Fame is the Spur; Gone with the Wind; Mesmer; First Nights; The Hound of the Baskervilles; Little Gidding; Beau Geste; Beau Sabreur; The Amazing Theatre; The Pleasure of Your Company; Dandelion Days; Humour and Fantasy; Juno and the Paycock; The Beautiful Years; Teach Yourself to Think; Salar the Salmon; The Cathedral; The Mysterious Mr I; The Picts and the Martyrs; The Dream of Fair Women; The Star-born; Three Short Stories; A Thatched Roof; The Surgeon's Log; The Healing Knife; Nine Ghosts; While Rome Burns; The Star Spangled Manner; The Day Must Dawn; The Tower of London; Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde; The Old Man's Birthday; A little Princess; Ego 5; The Lighter Side of School Life; Kidnapped; The Trail of the Sandhill Stag; Ballet Lover's Notebook; Lorna Doone; The Plays of JM Barrie; Jane Eyre; I'll Leave it to You; Henry Fifth; Longer Poems; Antony and Cleopatra; The Man in Grey; The House in Dormer Forest; The Writing of English; Miss Mapp; The Song of Bernadette; Happy and Glorious; Sixty Poems; The Birth of Romance; The Comedy of Life; Some Little Tales; Dream Days; Royal Flush.'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Hilary Spalding      Print: Book

  

unknown : Pleasure of your Company, The

[List of books read in 1943, in diary for 1943]: 'The Farthing Spinster; Guy Mannering; Whereas I was Blind; And So to Bath; The Story of San Michele; Attack Alarm; The Murders in Praed Street; Lover's Meeting; The Secret Battle; Witch Wood; MD - Doctor of Murder; Murder at the Keyhole; That Girl Ginger; Ten Minute Alibi; Diary of a District Officer; Tarzan the Untamed; Peter Abelard; Pip; Pied Piper; A Man Lay Dead; Random Harvest; Madame Curie; Stalky and Co; Bellarion; Down the Garden Path; The Three Musketeers vol 1; The House in Cornwall; A Tall Ship; The Two Saplings; Farewell Victoria; Quinneys; House of Terror; Penguin Parade 4; Guy Mannering[presumably a re-reading]; The Man Born to be King; Casterton Papers; Old Saint Paul's; The Moon is Down; 1066 and all That; My Brother Jonathon; Gulliver's Travels; Ensign Knightley; Men Against Death; Fame is the Spur; Gone with the Wind; Mesmer; First Nights; The Hound of the Baskervilles; Little Gidding; Beau Geste; Beau Sabreur; The Amazing Theatre; The Pleasure of Your Company; Dandelion Days; Humour and Fantasy; Juno and the Paycock; The Beautiful Years; Teach Yourself to Think; Salar the Salmon; The Cathedral; The Mysterious Mr I; The Picts and the Martyrs; The Dream of Fair Women; The Star-born; Three Short Stories; A Thatched Roof; The Surgeon's Log; The Healing Knife; Nine Ghosts; While Rome Burns; The Star Spangled Manner; The Day Must Dawn; The Tower of London; Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde; The Old Man's Birthday; A little Princess; Ego 5; The Lighter Side of School Life; Kidnapped; The Trail of the Sandhill Stag; Ballet Lover's Notebook; Lorna Doone; The Plays of JM Barrie; Jane Eyre; I'll Leave it to You; Henry Fifth; Longer Poems; Antony and Cleopatra; The Man in Grey; The House in Dormer Forest; The Writing of English; Miss Mapp; The Song of Bernadette; Happy and Glorious; Sixty Poems; The Birth of Romance; The Comedy of Life; Some Little Tales; Dream Days; Royal Flush.'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Hilary Spalding      Print: Book

  

Unknown : Teach yourself to Think

[List of books read in 1943, in diary for 1943]: 'The Farthing Spinster; Guy Mannering; Whereas I was Blind; And So to Bath; The Story of San Michele; Attack Alarm; The Murders in Praed Street; Lover's Meeting; The Secret Battle; Witch Wood; MD - Doctor of Murder; Murder at the Keyhole; That Girl Ginger; Ten Minute Alibi; Diary of a District Officer; Tarzan the Untamed; Peter Abelard; Pip; Pied Piper; A Man Lay Dead; Random Harvest; Madame Curie; Stalky and Co; Bellarion; Down the Garden Path; The Three Musketeers vol 1; The House in Cornwall; A Tall Ship; The Two Saplings; Farewell Victoria; Quinneys; House of Terror; Penguin Parade 4; Guy Mannering[presumably a re-reading]; The Man Born to be King; Casterton Papers; Old Saint Paul's; The Moon is Down; 1066 and all That; My Brother Jonathon; Gulliver's Travels; Ensign Knightley; Men Against Death; Fame is the Spur; Gone with the Wind; Mesmer; First Nights; The Hound of the Baskervilles; Little Gidding; Beau Geste; Beau Sabreur; The Amazing Theatre; The Pleasure of Your Company; Dandelion Days; Humour and Fantasy; Juno and the Paycock; The Beautiful Years; Teach Yourself to Think; Salar the Salmon; The Cathedral; The Mysterious Mr I; The Picts and the Martyrs; The Dream of Fair Women; The Star-born; Three Short Stories; A Thatched Roof; The Surgeon's Log; The Healing Knife; Nine Ghosts; While Rome Burns; The Star Spangled Manner; The Day Must Dawn; The Tower of London; Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde; The Old Man's Birthday; A little Princess; Ego 5; The Lighter Side of School Life; Kidnapped; The Trail of the Sandhill Stag; Ballet Lover's Notebook; Lorna Doone; The Plays of JM Barrie; Jane Eyre; I'll Leave it to You; Henry Fifth; Longer Poems; Antony and Cleopatra; The Man in Grey; The House in Dormer Forest; The Writing of English; Miss Mapp; The Song of Bernadette; Happy and Glorious; Sixty Poems; The Birth of Romance; The Comedy of Life; Some Little Tales; Dream Days; Royal Flush.'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Hilary Spalding      Print: Book

  

unknown : Nine Ghosts

[List of books read in 1943, in diary for 1943]: 'The Farthing Spinster; Guy Mannering; Whereas I was Blind; And So to Bath; The Story of San Michele; Attack Alarm; The Murders in Praed Street; Lover's Meeting; The Secret Battle; Witch Wood; MD - Doctor of Murder; Murder at the Keyhole; That Girl Ginger; Ten Minute Alibi; Diary of a District Officer; Tarzan the Untamed; Peter Abelard; Pip; Pied Piper; A Man Lay Dead; Random Harvest; Madame Curie; Stalky and Co; Bellarion; Down the Garden Path; The Three Musketeers vol 1; The House in Cornwall; A Tall Ship; The Two Saplings; Farewell Victoria; Quinneys; House of Terror; Penguin Parade 4; Guy Mannering[presumably a re-reading]; The Man Born to be King; Casterton Papers; Old Saint Paul's; The Moon is Down; 1066 and all That; My Brother Jonathon; Gulliver's Travels; Ensign Knightley; Men Against Death; Fame is the Spur; Gone with the Wind; Mesmer; First Nights; The Hound of the Baskervilles; Little Gidding; Beau Geste; Beau Sabreur; The Amazing Theatre; The Pleasure of Your Company; Dandelion Days; Humour and Fantasy; Juno and the Paycock; The Beautiful Years; Teach Yourself to Think; Salar the Salmon; The Cathedral; The Mysterious Mr I; The Picts and the Martyrs; The Dream of Fair Women; The Star-born; Three Short Stories; A Thatched Roof; The Surgeon's Log; The Healing Knife; Nine Ghosts; While Rome Burns; The Star Spangled Manner; The Day Must Dawn; The Tower of London; Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde; The Old Man's Birthday; A little Princess; Ego 5; The Lighter Side of School Life; Kidnapped; The Trail of the Sandhill Stag; Ballet Lover's Notebook; Lorna Doone; The Plays of JM Barrie; Jane Eyre; I'll Leave it to You; Henry Fifth; Longer Poems; Antony and Cleopatra; The Man in Grey; The House in Dormer Forest; The Writing of English; Miss Mapp; The Song of Bernadette; Happy and Glorious; Sixty Poems; The Birth of Romance; The Comedy of Life; Some Little Tales; Dream Days; Royal Flush.'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Hilary Spalding      Print: Book

  

unknown : The Specialist

[List of books read during 1944]: 'The Specialist; All This and Heaven Too; Antony; Uncle Tom's Cabin; Roper's Row; Tom Brown's Schooldays; Life's a Circus; The Keys of the Kingdom; Two Survived; Hamlet; King's Nurse, Beggar's Nurse; The Snow Goose; Gerald; Early Stages; Cross Creek; Footnotes to the Ballet; The Great Ship; Hungry Hill; Hiawatha; Captain Blood; Scaramouche; Heartbreak House; Fortune's Fool; Fifth Form at St Dominic's; Cold Comfort Farm; The Lost King; The count of Monte Cristo; Diary of a Provincial Lady; Frenchman's Creek; Song of Bernadette; Romeo and Juliet; Rebecca; The Surgeon's Destiny; The Killer and the Slain; Anna; King Solomon's Mines; The Black Moth; Have His Carcase; Peacock Pie; Alice in Wonderland; The Citadel; Good Companions; Our Hearts were Young and Gay; Memoirs of a Fox-hunting Man; The Healing Knife; First Year Out; Saint Joan; Stars Look Down; Bridge of San Luis Rey; Rogue Herries; Caesar and Cleopatra; Xmas at Cold Comfort Farm; Dark Lady of the Sonnets; The Velvet Deer; Leaves from a Surgeon's Case Book; A Christmas Carol; Craft of Comedy; As You Like It; Lottie Dundass; Plays of John Galsworthy; Provincial Lady in America; She Shanties; Peter Abelard; Actor, Soldier, Poet; The Best of Lamb; Some Essay of Elia; Poems, Plays etc; The White Cliffs; Three Men in a Boat; Confessions of an Opium Eater; In Search of England; Wuthering Heights; Pericles, Prince of Tyre; Poems of Contemporary Women; Crime at the Club; Quality Street; Villette; Major Barbara; Pygmalion; You Never Can Tell; King John; Doctor's Dilemma'.

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Hilary Spalding      Print: Book

  

unknown : First Year Out

[List of books read during 1944]: 'The Specialist; All This and Heaven Too; Antony; Uncle Tom's Cabin; Roper's Row; Tom Brown's Schooldays; Life's a Circus; The Keys of the Kingdom; Two Survived; Hamlet; King's Nurse, Beggar's Nurse; The Snow Goose; Gerald; Early Stages; Cross Creek; Footnotes to the Ballet; The Great Ship; Hungry Hill; Hiawatha; Captain Blood; Scaramouche; Heartbreak House; Fortune's Fool; Fifth Form at St Dominic's; Cold Comfort Farm; The Lost King; The count of Monte Cristo; Diary of a Provincial Lady; Frenchman's Creek; Song of Bernadette; Romeo and Juliet; Rebecca; The Surgeon's Destiny; The Killer and the Slain; Anna; King Solomon's Mines; The Black Moth; Have His Carcase; Peacock Pie; Alice in Wonderland; The Citadel; Good Companions; Our Hearts were Young and Gay; Memoirs of a Fox-hunting Man; The Healing Knife; First Year Out; Saint Joan; Stars Look Down; Bridge of San Luis Rey; Rogue Herries; Caesar and Cleopatra; Xmas at Cold Comfort Farm; Dark Lady of the Sonnets; The Velvet Deer; Leaves from a Surgeon's Case Book; A Christmas Carol; Craft of Comedy; As You Like It; Lottie Dundass; Plays of John Galsworthy; Provincial Lady in America; She Shanties; Peter Abelard; Actor, Soldier, Poet; The Best of Lamb; Some Essay of Elia; Poems, Plays etc; The White Cliffs; Three Men in a Boat; Confessions of an Opium Eater; In Search of England; Wuthering Heights; Pericles, Prince of Tyre; Poems of Contemporary Women; Crime at the Club; Quality Street; Villette; Major Barbara; Pygmalion; You Never Can Tell; King John; Doctor's Dilemma'.

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Hilary Spalding      Print: Book

  

unknown : Velvet Deer, The

[List of books read during 1944]: 'The Specialist; All This and Heaven Too; Antony; Uncle Tom's Cabin; Roper's Row; Tom Brown's Schooldays; Life's a Circus; The Keys of the Kingdom; Two Survived; Hamlet; King's Nurse, Beggar's Nurse; The Snow Goose; Gerald; Early Stages; Cross Creek; Footnotes to the Ballet; The Great Ship; Hungry Hill; Hiawatha; Captain Blood; Scaramouche; Heartbreak House; Fortune's Fool; Fifth Form at St Dominic's; Cold Comfort Farm; The Lost King; The count of Monte Cristo; Diary of a Provincial Lady; Frenchman's Creek; Song of Bernadette; Romeo and Juliet; Rebecca; The Surgeon's Destiny; The Killer and the Slain; Anna; King Solomon's Mines; The Black Moth; Have His Carcase; Peacock Pie; Alice in Wonderland; The Citadel; Good Companions; Our Hearts were Young and Gay; Memoirs of a Fox-hunting Man; The Healing Knife; First Year Out; Saint Joan; Stars Look Down; Bridge of San Luis Rey; Rogue Herries; Caesar and Cleopatra; Xmas at Cold Comfort Farm; Dark Lady of the Sonnets; The Velvet Deer; Leaves from a Surgeon's Case Book; A Christmas Carol; Craft of Comedy; As You Like It; Lottie Dundass; Plays of John Galsworthy; Provincial Lady in America; She Shanties; Peter Abelard; Actor, Soldier, Poet; The Best of Lamb; Some Essay of Elia; Poems, Plays etc; The White Cliffs; Three Men in a Boat; Confessions of an Opium Eater; In Search of England; Wuthering Heights; Pericles, Prince of Tyre; Poems of Contemporary Women; Crime at the Club; Quality Street; Villette; Major Barbara; Pygmalion; You Never Can Tell; King John; Doctor's Dilemma'.

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Hilary Spalding      Print: Book

  

unknown : Actor, Soldier, Poet

[List of books read during 1944]: 'The Specialist; All This and Heaven Too; Antony; Uncle Tom's Cabin; Roper's Row; Tom Brown's Schooldays; Life's a Circus; The Keys of the Kingdom; Two Survived; Hamlet; King's Nurse, Beggar's Nurse; The Snow Goose; Gerald; Early Stages; Cross Creek; Footnotes to the Ballet; The Great Ship; Hungry Hill; Hiawatha; Captain Blood; Scaramouche; Heartbreak House; Fortune's Fool; Fifth Form at St Dominic's; Cold Comfort Farm; The Lost King; The count of Monte Cristo; Diary of a Provincial Lady; Frenchman's Creek; Song of Bernadette; Romeo and Juliet; Rebecca; The Surgeon's Destiny; The Killer and the Slain; Anna; King Solomon's Mines; The Black Moth; Have His Carcase; Peacock Pie; Alice in Wonderland; The Citadel; Good Companions; Our Hearts were Young and Gay; Memoirs of a Fox-hunting Man; The Healing Knife; First Year Out; Saint Joan; Stars Look Down; Bridge of San Luis Rey; Rogue Herries; Caesar and Cleopatra; Xmas at Cold Comfort Farm; Dark Lady of the Sonnets; The Velvet Deer; Leaves from a Surgeon's Case Book; A Christmas Carol; Craft of Comedy; As You Like It; Lottie Dundass; Plays of John Galsworthy; Provincial Lady in America; She Shanties; Peter Abelard; Actor, Soldier, Poet; The Best of Lamb; Some Essay of Elia; Poems, Plays etc; The White Cliffs; Three Men in a Boat; Confessions of an Opium Eater; In Search of England; Wuthering Heights; Pericles, Prince of Tyre; Poems of Contemporary Women; Crime at the Club; Quality Street; Villette; Major Barbara; Pygmalion; You Never Can Tell; King John; Doctor's Dilemma'.

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Hilary Spalding      Print: Book

  

unknown : Old Wives' Tale, The

'I read the scenario of "The Old Wives" Tale.'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Arnold Bennett      Manuscript: Sheet, typescript film scenario

  

unknown : 'Kestner letters'

'I read the Kestner letters at Ilmenau.'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot (pseud)      Print: Unknown

  

unknown : unknown

'Have become exceedingly interested in ants and bees, after today's Zoo lesson, and am reading up about them. They are really amazing things.'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Hilary Spalding      Print: Book

  

unknown : People's Government, The

'Today I again indulged in reading & finished "the H.M" & "People's Gov".'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Hilary Spalding      Print: Book

  

unknown : ["silly school stories"]

'[while in the sickroom with a bug] Today I felt heaps better, no temp, no aches, & felt less jellyish. I read a lot, but only silly school stories, except one book, "The House of Prayer", which was very good & well-written.'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Hilary Spalding      Print: Book

  

unknown : People and Places

'I finished "The Conquered", and wrote to Uncle John, who sent me a really wizard book - 10/ - called "People and Places"'.

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Hilary Spalding      Print: Book

  

unknown : unknown

Henry James to Henry James Sr., 13 February 1877: "I am writing this in the beautiful great library of the Athenaeum Club ... a little way off is the portly Archbishop of York with his nose in a little book ... It is 9:30 p.m. and I have been dining here ..."

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Archbishop of York      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [French novel]

'I also read again Silvio Pellico's "Prisons". I read it once at Granton- a lovely book (same edition) and "Adam Bede" and a French Novel and other new works. I like all Adam Bede immensely except the extremely inartistic plot. Geo. Eliot loves to draw self-righteious people with good instincts being led into crime or misery by circumstances.'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Sir Walter Raleigh      Print: Book

  

unknown : Hamburgische Briefe

'Read Hamburgische Briefe at dinner about Voltaire's Merope. Read G's MS. Measure for Measure'.

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud]      Print: UnknownManuscript: Unknown

  

[unknown] : [dramatists' works]

'I spent the morning reading dramatists, to qualify myself to teach English Literature [...] while in the evening I read Walt Whitman's last book aloud to Alice, thus establishing myself as a (qualified) Whitmaniac.'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Sir Walter Raleigh      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [Roman History]

'I have read a good many things, a life of Scott, the "Pleasures of Memory" by S. Rogers, Roman History and other things.'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Sir Walter Raleigh      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

'Last night I spent with Charles Strachey; we each had an arm chair with a chair between us to hold books as we passed judgment on them. I am sending you Stevenson's last book which came out a few days ago, which I bought and read this afternoon (I had a meddlesome red pencil with which I slightly disfigured it) and which I think spendidly spirited.' [followed by a judgment on the book]

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Sir Walter Raleigh      Print: Book

  

unknown : [article on Dryden in W.R. - a periodical?]

'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

  

unknown : [extracted texts]

Henry James to Mrs Henry James Sr., 20 July 1880: "This letter is of course addressed equally to father and you, but you must thank him none the less ... for the glowing speeches ... of his of the 1st July, which enclosed the two extracts for Mrs Orr. These I have read with much interest."

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Henry James      Print: Unknown

  

[unknown] : The History of England

'? 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's fire, my books being chiefly "Wesley?s Journals", "The Armenian Magazine", wherein I found "Maundrell?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 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: Book

  

[unknown] : [religious books]

?during this winter I practised rather more than I had done before for the last two years for my master used to Read himself and make all as Could in the family on a Sabath [sic] evening and sometimes we were permitted to read Books of a religious nature as we sat by the fire side in the week day evenings but not always?.

Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Mayett      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [various]

?[my master] also was a good scholar and took great pains to teach me in reading and here I made a Considerable progress in reading for although I had heedlessly neglected learning yet I had not lost my taste for it nor forgot the importance of it?.

Century: 1700-1799 / 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Mayett      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

?here I was stationed in a half Room that is half the men of our Company, and half of another Company and there was a man whose name was Samuel winwright a man of the other company in the Room with me and he was a good Scholar and he undertook to learn me to Read in a better tone of voice than I had attained too and to keep my points and stops for I had never learned them before?.

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Mayett      Print: Unknown

  

[unknown] : [stories]

'About this time I also gained the good-will of an aged woman who sold cakes, sweetmeals, and fruit, and was moreover a dealer in little books...I had even then a taste for reading which was here qualified by me being permitted to read all the little stories which she kept on sale. They were, in truth, childish trifles, but I still think of them with pleasure because they were associated in my case with many pleasant recollections.'

Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Carter      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : History of England

'In this way I beguiled many a tedious hour at the time I am now referring to, and also during several years following, towards the close of which I thus contrived to read "Robinson Crusoe" and a brief "History of England", with some other books whose titles I do not now remember. The books that first fell in my way, besides those that belonged to my parents, were few and of little worth.'

Century: 1700-1799 / 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Carter      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : The Assembly's Catechism

'Once in each week we were required to commit to memory a rather large portion of "The Assembly's Catechism": this for a time gave me some trouble, which put me upon making several experiments in order to see whether I could not lessen it. After a failure or two, I hit upon a plan which fully answered my purpose: the time for repeating this lesson was Saturday morning...'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Carter      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : History of England

'I had been made the more anxious to get some spare time, because several books which I had not before seen now fall in my way. This was through the courtesy of my young master whose kindly feelings I have already noticed. He now gave me free acess to his little library, in which were Enfield's "Speaker", Goldsmith's "Geography", an abridged "History of Rome", a "History of England", Thomson's "Seasons", "The Citizen of the World", "The Vicar of Wakefield", and some other books the titles of which I do not now remember. These books furnished me with a large amount of amusing and instructive reading.'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Carter      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : History of Rome

'I had been made the more anxious to get some spare time, because several books which I had not before seen now fell in my way. This was through the courtesy of my young master whose kindly feelings I have already noticed. He now gave me free access to his little library, in which were Enfield's "Speaker", Goldsmith's "Geography", an abridged "History of Rome", a "History of England", Thomson's "Seasons", "The Citizen of the World", "The Vicar of Wakefield", and some other books the titles of which I do not now remember. These books furnished me with a large amount of amusing and instructive reading.'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Carter      Print: Book

  

unknown : The Lover's Seat

'I have continued reading Milne-Edwards aloud, and have also read Harriet Martineau's article on Missions in the "Westminster", and one or two articles in the "National". Reading to myself Harvey's "Sea-side Book", and "The Lover's Seat".'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot (pseud)      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

'I, moreover, found my Sunday pursuits and amusements to be powerfully instrumental in cheering and elevating my "inner man"... That I might make the day as long as possible, I rose early: if the mornings were at all fine, I walked in the adjacent fields where I found ample amusement in either reading the book of nature or some humbler volume, without which I took care never [last word underlined] to go out on these excursions.'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Carter      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [volumes by the British Essayists]

'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: Book, Serial / periodical

  

unknown : review of Barrett Wendell's critical study of Shakespeare

'[Barrett Wendell] has [...] sent me his new book on Shakespeare, in which I have been (I had read some laudatory notice of it) much disappointed. Besides being critically very thin and even common, it is surely not written as the Prof. of "English" at Harvard should write.'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Henry James      Print: Serial / periodical

  

unknown : Freddie's Friend

[When in hospital in Renfrew, Canada, W.H. Davies] 'commented on the inappropriateness of some of the reading matter supplied him - "Freddie's Friend", "Little Billie's Button", "Sally's Sacrifice".'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: William Henry Davies      Print: Book

  

unknown : Little Billie's Button

[When in hospital in Renfrew, Canada, W.H. Davies] 'commented on the inappropriateness of some of the reading matter supplied him - "Freddie's Friend", "Little Billie's Button", "Sally's Sacrifice".'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: William Henry Davies      Print: Book

  

unknown : Sally's Sacrifice

[When in hospital in Renfrew, Canada, W.H. Davies] 'commented on the inappropriateness of some of the reading matter supplied him - "Freddie's Friend", "Little Billie's Button", "Sally's Sacrifice".'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: William Henry Davies      Print: Book

  

unknown : article on Zola

Henry James to W. Morton Fullerton, 7 November 1902: 'Your two little periodicals have just come in [...] I immediately read the Zola in it [sic] [...] because I promised the ingenuous "Atlantic" to write a paper on him.'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Henry James      Print: Serial / periodical

  

[unknown] : [various]

'After all my contrivances I found but little convenience for reading, except on the Sunday. I always kept a book in my pocket, that it might be at hand in case I should find a few spare minutes. In general, I managed to read a few pages while going to and from the workshop. This, however, was a somewhat difficult affair, as my path led me through some of the busiest streets and places in the city: and I hardly need say that these are not the most favourable localities for a thoughtful reader, especially if what he chooses to read demands any thing like close attention. It was while standing at a bookstall that I read with the most advantage. I took care to avail myself of this as often, and for as long a time as possible; and from these out-of-door libraries picked up a few - perhaps a good many - scraps of useful or amusing information.'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Carter      Print: Book

  

unknown : [Life of Francois de Sales]

'A dense fog and a sense of ailing kept me indoors. I read the life of Francois de Sales.'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot (pseud)      Print: Book

  

unknown : Byron family papers

Leon Edel quotes John Buchan, in "Memory Hold-the-Door" (1940), pp.151-52: 'an aunt of my wife's [Lady Lovelace], who was the widow of Byron's grandson, asked Henry James and myself to examine her archives in order to reach some conclusion on the merits of the quarrel between Byron and his wife [...] during a summer week-end, Henry James and I waded through masses of ancient indecency, and duly wrote an opinion [signed by Buchan on 4 April 1910 and by James on 7 April]. The things nearly made me sick, but my colleague never turned a hair.' Edel adds that 'Byron's intimate letters to Lady Melbourne [copied by Lord Lovelace] [...] written during the three years preceding [his] marriage, were the ones read by James and Buchan.'

Unknown
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Henry James and John Buchan     

  

unknown : "the Green Book"

Henry James to Mrs W. K. Clifford, 18 May 1912: 'I am reading the Green Book in bits -- as it were -- the only way in which I [italics]can[end italics] read (or at least disread) the contemporary novel'.

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Henry James      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : Letters on the Marriage State

'I read a volume which was called "The Guide to Domestic Happiness", but found that it had no direct bearing upon the case of a working man - all its reasonings, counsels, and encouragements being based on upon the supposition of the reader's being a person of substance and education. the only publication I met with which at all came up to my wishes was one called "Letters on the Marriage State"; but even this bore only in a distant way upon the case in question.'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Carter      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [History of the recent wars]

'When [winter] was over, I began to steal a few moments occasionally for the purpose of looking upon the fair and sweet face of nature. It was at this time, I think, that I read Mr. Rogers's very beautiful poem called "Human Life" and also a history of the recent wars.'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Carter      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : The lives of the Stoics

?This period gave me unnumbered hours for reading, and I devoured everything that came in my way, novels, histories, travels, even "The lives of the Stoics". There was no such thing as a free library then, so enough money was scraped up for a subscription one, the first volume borrowed being Dickens?s newly published "Bleak House".?

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Catling      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [unknown various titles]

?This period gave me unnumbered hours for reading, and I devoured everything that came in my way, novels, histories, travels, even "The lives of the Stoics". There was no such thing as a free library then, so enough money was scraped up for a subscription one, the first volume borrowed being Dickens?s newly published "Bleak House".?

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Catling      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [theological works]

?My father, as before stated, was a reader, and amongst other books which he now read, was Pain?s [sic] "Rights of Men". He also read Pain?s [sic] "Age of Reason", and his other theological works, but they made not the least alterations in his religious opinions.?

Century: 1700-1799 / 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Daniel Bamford      Print: Unknown

  

[unknown] : [works on travel and antiquities]

?As spring and autumn were our only really busy seasons, I had occasionally , during other parts of the year, considerable leisure, which, if I could procure a book that I considered at all worth the reading, was spent with such a book of my desk, in the little recess of the packing room. Here, therefore, I had opportunities for reading many books of which I had only heard the names before, such as Robertson?s "History of Scotland", Goldsmith?s "History of England", Rollin?s "Ancient History", Hume?s "Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire", Anachaises? "Travels in Greece"; and many other works on travels, geography, and antiquities.?

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Bamford      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : Life of General Washington

'In my hours of leisure I read the works of Mr Charles Lamb, Mr Holcroft's memoirs, and the "Life of General Washington".'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Carter      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [various]

?Two or three years my senior, Sam, like myself, was acquiring a taste for books. Our tastes were not wholly dissimilar. Both of us read and enjoyed poetry; but while Sam?s more solid reading was in science, especially in astronomy and geology, mine was in history, biography, logic, languages, oratory, and general literature. Sam?s favourite books at this time were Alison?s "History of Europe" and Humboldt?s "Cosmos".?

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Bailey      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [various]

?Two or three years my senior, Sam, like myself, was acquiring a taste for books. Our tastes were not wholly dissimilar. Both of us read and enjoyed poetry; but while Sam?s more solid reading was in science, especially in astronomy and geology, mine was in history, biography, logic, languages, oratory, and general literature. Sam?s favourite books at this time were Alison?s "History of Europe" and Humboldt?s "Cosmos".?

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Burt      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [theological magazines]

?For stories, anecdotes, for something lively and telling, I ransacked my father?s theological magazines, with but small success. Two books of his, however, I found greatly helpful. Todd?s "Student?s Manual" and an odd volume on Channing?s works. The "Manual" was a handy little book, full of useful links and suggestions on reading, writing and study. Still more hopeful and inspiring was Channing. That such an author should be in my father?s possession in those days was in itself remarkable? This volume of Channing, which so profited and delighted me, contained essays on Milton, Napoleon and F?nelon. These I read with attention; more than once I read them ? that on Milton many times over. The style took my fancy. Compared, indeed, with the great masters of English prose, the critic would no doubt detect failings not a few in Channing. But I was not a critic; and the clear, easy, simple words, the rhythmic phrases, pleased my ear, while the sentiments always pure, generous, lofty ? impressed me heart and understanding.?

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Burt      Print: Serial / periodical

  

unknown : German fable

Fanny Kemble, 20 August 1832, on board ship to America: 'I have done more in the shape of work to-day, than any since the first two I spent on board; translated a German fable without much trouble, read a canto in Dante, ending with a valuation of fame.'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Fanny Kemble      Print: Book

  

unknown : unknown

Fanny Kemble, 3 December 1832: 'Arrived at Amboy [from New York], we disembarked [from steamboat] and bundled ourselves into our coach, ourselves, our namesake, and a pretty quiet lady [...] The roads were unspeakable [...] I attempted to read, but found it utterly impossible to do so.'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Fanny Kemble      Print: Book

  

unknown : German text/s

Fanny Kemble to Harriet St. Leger, 14 July 1844: 'I read but very little. My leisure is principally given to my German, in which I am making some progress.'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Fanny Kemble      Print: Unknown

  

[unknown] : Life of Pope Sixtus V

'At this time to amuse myself in my confinement I read the "Life of Pope Sixtus 5th." w'ch Miss Poole ... lent me. My son John Marsh showing and inclination to read this (who had before seldom evinced much taste for reading) I told him that as the book was borrow'd by Miss Poole he must get thro' it much faster than he did books in general, of w'ch a very few pages at a time... used to satisfy him. This book however, seem'd to catch his attention & he soon got through it, since w'ch time tho' he has never become a thorough reader, he has continued much more of one than he ever was before.'

Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: John Marsh      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : Life of Pope Sixtus V

'At this time to amuse myself in my confinement I read the "Life of Pope Sixtus 5th." w'ch Miss Poole ... lent me. My son John Marsh showing and inclination to read this (who had before seldom evinced much taste for reading) I told him that as the book was borrow'd by Miss Poole he must get thro' it much faster than he did books in general, of w'ch a very few pages at a time... used to satisfy him. This book however, seem'd to catch his attention & he soon got through it, since w'ch time tho' he has never become a thorough reader, he has continued much more of one than he ever was before.'

Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: John Marsh      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [various]

'As to Mrs M & I, we have been, ever since we lived at Nethersole, great readers, taking each always a book at breakfast & at tea when without company in the house & also for some time after dinner & supper, by w'ch means we each read about 2 hours or make everyday our young men likewise taking their books at the same time, ... except after supper on days when we had been visiting, or at the Concert, the talking over which afterwards generally furnish'd amusement for the remainder of the evening.'

Century: 1700-1799 / 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: John Marsh      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [various]

'As to Mrs M & I, we have been, ever since we lived at Nethersole, great readers, taking each always a book at breakfast & at tea when without company in the house & also for some time after dinner & supper, by w'ch means we each read about 2 hours or make everyday our young men likewise taking their books at the same time, ... except after supper on days when we had been visiting, or at the Concert, the talking over which afterwards generally furnish'd amusement for the remainder of the evening.'

Century: 1700-1799 / 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Marsh      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [a novel]

'I rode to Brighton on my way back, where I spent the evening and slept at the Old Ship, amusing myself besides my novel, with going on with some of the draught or rough sketch of this history...'

Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: John Marsh      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [various titles]

'... at the end of my fourth year I drew a small weekly salary one half of which my father allowed me for my own use... I bought books, and read as much as possible, and reflected upon what I read while engaged in my daily avocations.'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Charles Manby Smith      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [various]

[Smith joins a reading group of seven with a view to self-improvement] 'We got a good room, with such attendance as we required, at the sum above named; and thus, for sixpence a week each, with an additional three-halfpence in winter time for firing, we had an imperfect, it is true, but still an efficient means of improvement at our command. Here we met nearly three hundred nights in the year, and talked, read, disputed and wrote "de omnibus rebus et quibusdam aliis" until the clock struck eleven.'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Charles Manby Smith      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [various]

'"My books" - I have a few of my own - pick up a loom where it can be had; so of course my reading is without choice or system.'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: William Thom      Print: Book

  

unknown : [sermons]

'Sunday [2 Apr.] We went to St. James?s Church?heard a very indifferent Preacher, & returned to read better sermons of our own chusing.'

Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Frances Burney      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [religious books]

'... April when we marched to Mansfield here I met with a man who was a member of Johannah Southcott Society and he lent me some of his books and told me many straing things So that I began to be taken with his devices but by his books I found some things that did not Correspond with the Bible and also that it was a trick to get money so I declined his religeon and bid him adue.'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Mayett      Print: Book

  

unknown : Squinency Wort

[List of favourite things of 1945]: 'My favourite Books: The Keys of the Kingdom. The Good Companions Authors: Daphne du Maurier Poems: Squinency Wort. The Hound of Heaven Writers: Shaw. Galsworthy'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Hilary Spalding      Print: Book

  

Unknown : Background to the Life of Christ

[List of books read in 1945]: 'For Whom the Bell Tolls; Henry Brocken; Doctor Faustus; Life of the Bee; The Screwtape Letters; Modern Short Stories; Letters of People in Love; Men and Women; The Headmistress; The People's Government; The Art of Writing; Speech and Sound; Background to the Life of Christ; The House of Prayer; Eleanor in the Fifth; Adventures of Jig and Co; Rendezvous with Fear; Antony and Cleopatra; Hamlet; The Poetry of James Elroy Flecker; Escape; Hangman's Holiday; The Body Behind the Bar; Strong Poison; The Critic; Magic Lantern; Listening Valley; Emma; Dragon Seed; Crowthers of Bankdam; The Rat Trap; The Vortex; Fallen Angels; The Spanish House; O the Brave Music; The Light that Failed; Ghosts; The Antiquary; The Knightes Tale; Luria; The Best of Hazlitt; Pericles; The Rivals; Hamlet [again]; Antony and Cleopatra [again]; Knightes Tale [again]; Julius Caesar; Merchant of Venice; The Critic; The Rivals; Cymbeline; Adventures of a Young Soldier in Search of a Better World; The Nine Tailors; The Conquered; The Professor; Peter Abelard; Then They Pulled Down the Blind; The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club; Portrait of a Man with Red Hair; Winnie-the-Pooh; The House at Pooh Corner; Mrs Parkinson; Adele and Co; Frossia; Cluny Brown; Four Gardens; The World is Square; Being Met Together; Best Sporting Stories; Selected stories by Q; And Five were Foolish; Campaspe; Endimion [by Lyly]; Midas; Dr Faustus [again]; Twelfth Night; Mrs Warrent's Proffession [sic]; The Spanish Tragedy; The Jew of Malta; Galathea; Tambourlaine; Sun is my Undoing; By Greta Bridge; Utopia; England, their England; The Art of Poetry; Old Wives Tale; The Reader is Warned; Long, Long Ago; Friar Bacon & Friar Bungay; James IV of Scotland; The Handsome Langleys; The Dog Beneath the Skin; Death Comes for the Archbishop; The Island of Youth; I'll Say She Does; The Forsyte Saga; In Youth is Pleasure; On Forsyte Change; Genesis to Nehemiah.'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Hilary Spalding      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [religious tracts]

'My father was likewise very fond of reading; he now proposed to encourage my love of books, by entering me a subscriber to one of the circulating libraries. I had the pleasure of being my father's instructor in reading and writing, and this kind offer to procure me books was a high reward for so doing - previously, I had great difficulty in getting books to read, except the tracks and magazines supplied by the chapel libraries and Sunday school teachers.'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Christopher Thomson      Print: Book, Broadsheet, tracts

  

[unknown] : [religious magazines]

'My father was likewise very fond of reading; he now proposed to encourage my love of books, by entering me a subscriber to one of the circulating libraries. I had the pleasure of being my father's instructor in reading and writing, and this kind offer to procure me books was a high reward for so doing - previously, I had great difficulty in getting books to read, except the tracks and magazines supplied by the chapel libraries and Sunday school teachers.'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Christopher Thomson      Print: Serial / periodical

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

[description of work while employed as an apprentice at the warehouse of Mr Tait, proprietor of 'Tait's Edinburgh Magazine'] 'This accomplished, my next duties were to sweep the floor and dust the counter and desks in the front shop, in the course of which an occasional brief pause on my work was made that I might take a peep at the contents of some book, the title of which took my fancy.'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: James Glass Bertram      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [various English periodicals]

'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

  

unknown : Le Moyen Age Illustre

'Read "Le Moyen Age", chiefly on Popular superstitions; looking also through other parts to see if it is worth while for me to keep the work.'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud.]      Print: Book

  

unknown : [article in the Athenaeum]

'Read, in the Athenaeum, an interesting article on Bishop Colenso's (of Natal), Letter to the Archbishop of Canterbury on the toleration of Polygamy in converts to Christianity. In the evening read the "Monks of the West".'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud.]      Print: Serial / periodical

  

unknown : [article in the National]

'I was better in the evening and read aloud to G. an article in National on the discoveries of Bunsen and Kirchoff'.

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud.]      Print: Serial / periodical

  

unknown : [article on Mormons in Westminster Review]

'Not well in the evening so that I read nothing but an article on the Mormons in the W.R.'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud.]      Print: Serial / periodical

  

unknown : Archivo Storico

'Looked into the Archivo Storico and Read some "Ricordi", and "Lives" by Vespasiano'.

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud.]      Print: Unknown

  

unknown : Nerli

'Read Nerli'.

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine

'In the evening read the Newspaper and an article on Renan in "Blackwood"'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud]      Print: Serial / periodical

  

[unknown] : Canti Carnascialeschi

'This week I have read a satire of Juvenal, some of Cicero's "De Officiis", part of Epictetus' Enchiridion, two cantos of Pulci, part of the Canti Carnascialeschi, and finished Manni's Veglie Piacevole, besides looking up various things in the classical antquities and peeping into Theocritus'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud]      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [chronicle of conquest of the Morea]

'Looked at the chronicle of the conquest of the Morea yesterday, and into Finlay's "History of Medieval Greece".'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud]      Print: Book

  

unknown : [books on medieval Greece]

'I have been lately reading some books on the medieval condition of Greece, sent by Mr Clark from Cambridge, and this morning not being well enough to write I have been running through Wordsworth's "Greece" and studying the geography'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud]      Print: BookManuscript: Unknown

  

unknown : [English history in reign of George III]

'Reading English History, Reign of George III. Shakespeare's King John.'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud.]      Print: BookManuscript: Unknown

  

unknown : Memoir of the Queen of Prussia

'F[elicia]H[emans] [...] read a "Memoir of the Queen of Prussia" in 1822'.

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Felicia Hemans      Print: Unknown

  

unknown : [English poets]

?I have also read most of our English poets, and the best translations of the Greek, Latin, Italian and French poets; nor did I omit History, Voyages, Travels, Natural History, Biography, etc.?

Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: James Lackington      Print: Book

  

unknown : Various

?I have also read most of our English poets, and the best translations of the Greek, Latin, Italian and French poets; nor did I omit History, Voyages, Travels, Natural History, Biography, etc.?

Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: James Lackington      Print: Book

  

unknown : various English plays

?I have also read most of our best plays.?

Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: James Lackington      Print: Book

  

unknown : various

'But these extraordinary accounts and discourses, together with the controversies between the mother and sons, made me think that they know many matters of which I was totally ignorant. This created in me a desire for knowledge, that I might know who was right and who was wrong. But to my great mortification, I could not read. I knew most of the letters, and a few easy words, and I set about learning with all my might. My mistress would sometimes instruct me; and having three-halfpence per week allowed me by my mother, this money I gave to John (my master's youngest son) and for every three-halfpence he taught me to spell one hour. And this was done in the dark, as we were not allowed a candle, after we were sent upstairs to bed.'

Unknown
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: James Lackington      

  

unknown : various

?I had such good eyes, that I often read by the light of the moon, as my master would never permit me to take a candle into my room.?

Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: James Lackington      Print: Book

  

unknown : various

'We all worked very hard, particularly Mr John Jones and me, in order to get money to purchase books; But what we wanted in judgement in choosing our library, we made up in application; and so anxious we were to read a great deal, that we allowed ourselves but about three hours sleep in twenty-four, and for some months together we never were all in bed at the same time, (Sunday nights excepted). But lest we should oversleep the time allowed, one of us sat up to work until the time appointed for the others to rise, and when we all were up, my friend John, and your humble servant, took it by turns to read aloud to the rest, while they were at their work.'

Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: James Lackington      Print: Book

  

unknown : [a Greek play]

'He [William Lamb] grew so out of spirits that he quite cried--as women do & has just recovered his spirites--however they are returned as usual for he is reading a Greek play out loud & making such noise I scarcely know what I am writing'.

Unknown
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: William Lamb      

  

unknown : unknown

'With the Marriotts, Bennett found himself among friends. This was a cultured household, with musical evenings, improvised theatricals and constant talk of art. It was also informal. Bennett used to read at meals.'

Unknown
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Arnold Bennett      

  

unknown : Shadows in the Water

'I read in a chinese book today--converse with clever people when I say a chinese Book I mean a book with 2 chinese stories in it the one is very curious & amusing about Too and Twan--it is called the "Shadows in the Water" two people kept separate fall in love thus by seeing each others shadows'.

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Lady Caroline Lamb      Print: Book

  

unknown : [chinese story]

'I read in a chinese book today--converse with clever people when I say a chinese Book I mean a book with 2 chinese stories in it the one is very curious & amusing about Too and Twan--it is called the "Shadows in the Water" two people kept separate fall in love thus by seeing each others shadows'.

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Lady Caroline Lamb      Print: Book

  

unknown : various

[Arnold Bennett's father] 'encouraged them to read. As soon as he had any money he began to buy books, and one of the features of the house in Waterloo Road was its "Book Room". Arnold recalls: "His library was the largest in my youthful experience. [We]? estimate it at one thousand volumes - mostly dull and worthless, but all dignified. He had a passion for filling his offspring with information, at small trouble to himself. When any point of dispute arose he would say "look it up". We looked it up!"'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Arnold Bennett      Print: Book

  

unknown : Sonnets on the Passion of Christ

Mary Berry, Journal, Friday 9 April [Good Friday] 1784: 'In the evening [...] To the Academy of Arcadians, which was a great crowd of abbati in a room much too samll for the company. The subject for that evening was the Passion of our Saviour. I heard a number of sonnets read: one treated the subject in a ludicrous style, and the whole room went into repeated roars of laughter.'

Unknown
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Berry      

  

unknown : unknown

'Yesterday the news came of Mrs Gaskell's death. She died suddenly while reading aloud to her daughters'.

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Gaskell      Print: Unknown

  

unknown : [English History and Law]

'I am reading Mill's Logic again, Theocritus still, and English History and Law'.

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud.]      Print: Book

  

unknown : [works on music and acoustics]

'Finished Depping's "Juifs au Moyen Age". Reading Chaucer, to study English. Also, reading on acoustics, musical instruments etc'.

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud.]      Print: BookManuscript: Unknown

  

unknown : [books on Astronomical Geography]

'I have been reading Cornewall Lewis's Astronomy of the Ancients, Ockley's History of the Saracens, Astronomical Geography, and Spanish Ballads on Bernardo del Carpio'.

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud.]      Print: BookManuscript: Unknown

  

unknown : [ballads on Bernardo del Carpio]

'I have been reading Cornewall Lewis's Astronomy of the Ancients, Ockley's History of the Saracens, Astronomical Geography, and Spanish Ballads on Bernardo del Carpio'.

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud.]      Print: BookManuscript: Unknown

  

unknown : Los Judios en Espana

'Reading "Los Judios en Espana", "Percy's Reliques", "Isis", occasionally aloud'.

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud.]      Print: BookManuscript: Unknown

  

unknown : Isis

'Reading "Los Judios en Espana", "Percy's Reliques", "Isis", occasionally aloud'.

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud.]      Print: BookManuscript: Unknown

  

unknown : First Principles

'Finished reading "Averroes and l'Averroisme", and "Les Medecins Juifs". Reading "First Principles".'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud.]      Print: BookManuscript: Unknown

  

unknown : [philology books]

'have been reading a little on philology, have finished the 24th book of the Iliad, the first book of the Faery Queene, Clough's poems, and a little about Etruscan things in Mrs Grey and Dennis. Aloud to G. I have been reading some Italian, Ben Jonson's Alchemist and Volpone, and Bright's speeches, which I am still reading - besides the first four cantos of Don Juan'.

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud.]      Print: Book

  

unknown : [Italian story]

'In the evening read aloud Bright's 4th speech on India, and a story in Italian. In the spectator some interesting facts about loss of memory, and "double life". In the Revue des Cours a lecture by Sir W. Thomson of Edinburgh on the retardation of the earth's motion round its axis'.

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud.]      Print: Book

  

unknown : Spectator, The

'In the evening read aloud Bright's 4th speech on India, and a story in Italian. In the spectator some interesting facts about loss of memory, and "double life". In the Revue des Cours a lecture by Sir W. Thomson of Edinburgh on the retardation of the earth's motion round its axis'.

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud.]      Print: Serial / periodical

  

[unknown] : Seraphime

'G. finished reading "Seraphime" aloud to me'.

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: George Henry Lewes      Print: Unknown

  

[unknown] : [books on plants]

'I am reading about plants, and Helmholtz on music'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud]      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : Ancient Geography

'Read the articles Phoenicia and Carthage in Ancient Geography. Looked into Smith's "Universal History" again for Carthaginian religion. Looked into Sismondi's "Litterature du Midi", for Roman de Rose, and ran through the first chapter, about the formation of the Romance Languages. Read about the Thallogens and Acrogens in "the Vegetable World". Drayton's Nymphidia - a charming poem. A few pages of his Polyolbion. Re-read Grote v-vii on Sicilian affairs down to rise of Dionysius'.

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud]      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : Vegetable World, The

'Read the articles Phoenicia and Carthage in Ancient Geography. Looked into Smith's "Universal History" again for Carthaginian religion. Looked into Sismondi's "Litterature du Midi", for Roman de Rose, and ran through the first chapter, about the formation of the Romance Languages. Read about the Thallogens and Acrogens in "the Vegetable World". Drayton's Nymphidia - a charming poem. A few pages of his Polyolbion. Re-read Grote v-vii on Sicilian affairs down to rise of Dionysius'.

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud]      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [on Charles Fourier and Robert Owen, Utopian Socialists]

'I read about Fourier and Owen'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud]      Print: Unknown

  

unknown : [Encyclopaedia re medical colleges]

'I have achieved little during the last week except reading on medical subjects - Encyclopaedia about the medical colleges - Culen's life - Russell's Heroes of Medicine etc. I have also read Aristophaes Ecclesiazusae, and Macbeth'.

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud]      Print: Book

  

unknown : [Life of or by William Cullen]

'I have achieved little during the last week except reading on medical subjects - Encyclopaedia about the medical colleges - Cullen's life - Russell's Heroes of Medicine etc. I have also read Aristophaes Ecclesiazusae, and Macbeth'.

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud]      Print: Book

  

unknown : Classical Greek texts

Lady Theresa Lewis's note to a reference in Mary Berry's journals to The Honourable Caroline Howe (who died in 1814, aged 93): 'She possessed an extraordinary force of mind, clearness of understading, and remarkable powers of thought and combination. She retained these faculties unimpaired to the great age of eighty-five, by exercising them daily, both in the practice of mathematics and in reading the two dead languages, of which late in life she had made herself mistress.'

Century: 1700-1799 / 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: The Honourable Caroline Howe      Print: Book

  

unknown : Latin texts

Lady Theresa Lewis's note to a reference in Mary Berry's journals to The Honourable Caroline Howe (who died in 1814, aged 93): 'She possessed an extraordinary force of mind, clearness of understading, and remarkable powers of thought and combination. She retained these faculties unimpaired to the great age of eighty-five, by exercising them daily, both in the practice of mathematics and in reading the two dead languages, of which late in life she had made herself mistress.'

Century: 1700-1799 / 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: The Honourable Caroline Howe      Print: Book

  

unknown : [Greek]

'Mary reads greek and Political Justice.'

Unknown
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin      

  

unknown : Times, The

'unable to read anything except "Times".'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud]      Print: NewspaperManuscript: Unknown

  

unknown : [on colour sense]

'read on the colour-sense'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud]      Print: BookManuscript: Unknown

  

unknown : letter

'Craster letter received'..

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: John Cole      Manuscript: Letter

  

unknown : unknown

'Day wet - read'.

Unknown
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: John Cole      

  

unknown : [poems]

'In this month read Poems by one of the authors and Poems for youth. By a family circle.'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: John Cole      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : The Grave

'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

  

[unknown] : The Minstrel

'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

  

unknown : Hebrew texts

[Read] 'Hebrew and Algebra'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud]      Print: Book

  

unknown : [Algebra]

[Read] 'Hebrew and Algebra'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud]      Print: Book

  

unknown : [Jewish chronicles]

'Read a heap of Jewish Chronicles'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud]      Print: Unknown

  

unknown : Athenaeum [review of Carlyle's Chartism]

'I liked the Athenaeum on Chartism much. Thank you for sending it. One has great pleasure in reading the Athenaeum - the spirit is so good'.

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Harriet Martineau      Print: Serial / periodical

  

unknown : The Tale of the Times

Mary Berry, Journal, 22 September 1808, during stay at Bothwell Castle, seat of Lord Douglas: 'I read to Lady Douglas my sketch of a preface for the Letters [of Madame du Deffand], with which she seemed well pleased. Finished reading "The Tale of the Times," a novel, which, like most other novels, begins better than it finishes.'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Berry      Print: Book

  

unknown : [C14th-C15th manuscripts]

Mary Berry, Journal, 21 February 1809: 'This morning I went to the [Middle] Temple to Mr. Lysons', to see some very ancient MSS. of the time of Henry IV., Edward IV., and Richard III., &c. &c., of which he is the depositary, as "Keeper of the Records in the Tower."'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Berry      Manuscript: Unknown

  

unknown : account of military campaign in Spain

Mary Berry, Journal, 14 August 1809: 'In the evening read aloud the account of General Moore's campaign in Spain [makes various enthusiastic exclamations on this].'

Unknown
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Berry      

  

unknown : [books of engravings]

Mary Berry, Journal, 25 August 1810, on visit of the Princess of Wales to Strawberry Hill: 'The Princess was very lively, though the company was certainly not very amusing for her. She remained long at table, then walked and sat in the garden, and afterwards looked at some books of engravings; and was sufficiently amused to remain till twelve o'clock'.

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Caroline Amelia Elizabeth of Brunswick-Wolfenb?ttel Princess of Wales      Print: Book

  

unknown : unknown

'Read aloud to Jane.'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin      Print: Unknown

  

unknown : unknown

'Read all evening.'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin      Print: Unknown

  

unknown : unknown

'Read aloud to Jane in the evening.'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin      Print: Unknown

  

unknown : unknown

'Read I don't know what.'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin      Print: Unknown

  

[unknown] : [Liverpool newspaper: squib on Matthew Arnold]

'Of course you have seen the squib on him in the "Examiner" ("Mr Sampson"). I saw it in a Liverpool paper. One sees him in almost every newspaper now. "D. News" rapped his knuckles a month since... and I see the "Times" did it yesterday'.

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Harriet Martineau      Print: Newspaper

  

[unknown] : Daily News (comment on Matthew Arnold)

'Of course you have seen the squib on him in the "Examiner" ("Mr Sampson"). I saw it in a Liverpool paper. One sees him in almost every newspaper now. "D. News" rapped his knuckles a month since... and I see the "Times" did it yesterday'.

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Harriet Martineau      Print: Newspaper

  

[unknown] : The Times (comment on Matthew Arnold)

'Of course you have seen the squib on him in the "Examiner" ("Mr Sampson"). I saw it in a Liverpool paper. One sees him in almost every newspaper now. "D. News" rapped his knuckles a month since... and I see the "Times" did it yesterday'.

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Harriet Martineau      Print: Newspaper

  

unknown : reminiscences

Horace Walpole to Mary Berry, 12 July 1791: ' Mr. Batt [...] dined with me yesterday, and stayed till after breakfast today [...] Last night I redde to him certain reminiscences'.

Unknown
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Horace Walpole      

  

[unknown] : [30 vol. History of 'Conjurazioni]

[Letter from Byron to Annabella Milbanke, Aug 25th 1814]. 'You can hardly have a better modern work than Sismondi's, but he has since published another on the Literature of Italy, Spain &c., which I would willingly recommend... on my return to London I would gladly forward it... Gibbon is well worth a hundred perusals. Watson's Philip of Spain, and Coxe's Spain and Austria are dry enough; but there is some advantage to be extracted even from them. Vertot's Revolutions (but writes not history but romance). The best thing of that kind I met by accident at Athens in a Convent Library in old and not "very choice Italian". I forget the title - but it was a history in some thirty tomes of all Conjurazioni whatsoever from Catiline's down to Count Fiesco of Lavagna's in Genoa and Braganza's in Lisbon. I read it through (having nothing else to read) & having nothing to compare it withal, thought it perfection'.

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: George Gordon, Lord Byron      Print: Book

  

unknown : books

Mary Berry, Journal, 26 February 1812: 'The morning at Devonshire House, where I found the Duke in his library with the Marquis Douglas and George Neville, who were looking over his beautiful books.'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: The Duke of Devonshire, Marquis Douglas, and George Neville     Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

'Read all evening'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [Greek Grammar]

'Read in the greek grammar'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

'Read and work in the evening'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

'Read in the morning and work'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [Greek Grammar]

'Read in the Greek grammar'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [Greek Grammar]

'Read a little in the Greek grammar'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

'Work and read in the evening'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

'Write and read'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin      Print: Book

  

unknown : MS papers relating to Peace of Utrecht

Mary Berry, Journal, 27 July 1818: 'Went with Lord Hardwick to see the MSS. which have been offered for sale to Sir Charles Stuart; they are all the papers and corespondence of Ministers relative to the Peace of Utrecht. We remained some time turning over and reading them. There ought to be among them some curious facts, and I found some that were amusing, but much less than I should have expected.'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Berry and Lord Hardwicke     Manuscript: Unknown

  

unknown : MS letters

Mary Berry, Journal, 23 September 1824, from Edinburgh: 'Went with Mr. and Mrs. Davenport to [...] the Advocate's Library and Stamp Office, where Mr. Thompson, the Deputy Registrar, showed us very curious MS. letters.'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Berry      Manuscript: Letter

  

unknown : [greek grammar]

'read in the greek grammar'.

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Godwin      Print: Book

  

unknown : Notice on life of M. Gouthier

Mary Berry to 'a friend at Paris,' October, 1835: 'I have read with much attention the "notice" on the life of M. Gouthier that you lent me at Paris, and on which you asked my opinion. 'It is impossible to imagine a more perfect character as a Christian priest'.

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Berry      Print: Unknown

  

unknown : Catalogue of Strawberry Hill collections

Lord Francis Jeffrey to Mary Berry, [1842]: 'I have been amusing myself lately by looking over the catalogue of the Strawberry Hill collections, and, as you may suppose, have had you often enough in my mind as I went through names and little anecdotes which must be pregnant to you with so many touching reflections.'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Lord Francis Jeffrey      Print: Book, catalogue

  

unknown : ['suitable readings']

'Evening - suitable readings'.

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: John Cole      Print: Unknown

  

unknown : [Inscription over entrance gate]

'Observing a new entrance gate, inscribed Jesus' Hospital [underlined], we were invited to enter the gate, and discovered that new wings had been recently added.'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: John Cole      Print: Incription on gate

  

unknown : Institutes

In a 1573 letter, Gabriel Harvey 'alludes to his study of Cicero's [italics]Topica[end italics], of the German philologist Hegendorff's writings on law logic, and of the first book of the [italics]Institutes[end italics].'

Century: 1500-1599     Reader/Listener/Group: Gabriel Harvey      Print: Book

  

unknown : Italian grammars

'From [...] [1578] [Gabriel] Harvey bought and studied a number of Italian grammars and texts, also some in French and some in Spanish.'

Century: 1500-1599 / 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Gabriel Harvey      Print: Book

  

unknown : Spanish grammars

'From [...] [1578] [Gabriel] Harvey bought and studied a number of Italian grammars and texts, also some in French and some in Spanish.'

Century: 1500-1599 / 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Gabriel Harvey      Print: Book

  

unknown : French grammars

'From [...] [1578] [Gabriel] Harvey bought and studied a number of Italian grammars and texts, also some in French and some in Spanish.'

Century: 1500-1599 / 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Gabriel Harvey      Print: Book

  

unknown : [Books on logic]

Harriet Martineau on period spent with relatives at Bristol: 'I read some analytical books, on logic and rhetoric [...] I read a good deal of History too'.

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Harriet Martineau      Print: Book

  

unknown : [Books on rhetoric]

Harriet Martineau on period spent with relatives at Bristol: 'I read some analytical books, on logic and rhetoric [...] I read a good deal of History too'.

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Harriet Martineau      Print: Book

  

unknown : [History books]

Harriet Martineau on period spent with relatives at Bristol: 'I read some analytical books, on logic and rhetoric [...] I read a good deal of History too'.

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Harriet Martineau      Print: Book

  

unknown : [Italian prose texts]

Harriet Martineau on her passion, aged eighteen, for translation: 'Our cousin J. M. L., then studying for his profession in Norwich, used to read Italian with Rachel [her sister] and me [...] before breakfast. We made some considerable progress, through the usual course of prose authors and poets; and out of this grew a fit which Rachel and I at one time took, in concert with our companions and neighbours, the C.'s, to translate Petrarch [sonnets] [...] I believe we really succeeded pretty well'.

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Harriet and Rachel Martineau, and J. M. L. (cousin)     Print: Book

  

unknown : [Italian poetry]

Harriet Martineau on her passion, aged eighteen, for translation: 'Our cousin J. M. L., then studying for his profession in Norwich, used to read Italian with Rachel [her sister] and me [...] before breakfast. We made some considerable progress, through the usual course of prose authors and poets; and out of this grew a fit which Rachel and I at one time took, in concert with our companions and neighbours, the C.'s, to translate Petrarch [sonnets] [...] I believe we really succeeded pretty well'.

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Harriet and Rachel Martineau, and J. M. L. (cousin)     Print: Book

  

unknown : unknown

Harriet Martineau on a stay with her brother and his wife at Torquay in spring 1823: 'It was my office to read aloud for many hours of each day [...] Before breakfast, and while he [the brother] enjoyed his classical reading on the sofa, I rambled about the neighbourhood of Torquay, -- sometimes sketching, sometimes reading'.

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Harriet Martineau      Print: Unknown

  

unknown : [Classical texts]

Harriet Martineau on a stay with her brother and his wife at Torquay in spring 1823: 'It was my office to read aloud for many hours of each day [...] Before breakfast, and while he [the brother] enjoyed his classical reading on the sofa, I rambled about the neighbourhood of Torquay, -- sometimes sketching, sometimes reading'.

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Martineau      Print: Book

  

unknown : [Texts on American geography and politics]

'During the period of the writing of the three Series, -- the Political Economy, Taxation, and Poor-laws -- I never remember but once sitting down to read whatever I pleased. That was a summer evening [...] I sat down to study the geography and relations of the States of the American Union; and extremely interesting I found it'.

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Harriet Martineau      Print: Unknown

  

unknown : [Article attacking Harriet Martineau]

Harriet Martineau describes reading, on Good Friday 1833, a 'forthcoming' number of the "Quarterly Review" containing a negative review of her work, lent to her by a clergyman the day previous to its publication, and at his request '[marking] all the lies in the margin'.

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Harriet Martineau      Print: Serial / periodical

  

unknown : [Blue-book on "Colonization"]

Harriet Martineau, on research toward volumes in her 'Series of Tales': 'For "Ireland" and "Homes Abroad,": 'I obtained facts from Blue-books on Ireland and Colonization which were amongthe many by this time sent to me by people who had "hobbies."'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Harriet Martineau      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [descriptions of the West Indies]

'Read some descriptions of West Indies.'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: John Cole      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [Account of the Tailor Bird]

'Read acct of the "Tailor Bird".'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: John Cole      Print: Book

  

unknown : unknown

'[The eldest Hallam daughter] died [...] while her mother was reading to her. She exclaimed "Stop!" and was dead within five minutes'.

Unknown
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Hallam      

  

unknown : travel writing

The elderly Harriet Martineau reflects upon her altered reading capacity: 'I could not now read "Lalla Rookh" through before breakfast, as I did when it appeared. I cannot read new novels [...] while I can read with more pleasure than ever the old favourites, -- Miss Austen's and Scott's. My pleasure in Voyages and Travels is almost an insanity'.

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Harriet Martineau      Print: Unknown

  

[unknown] : Den golden spiegel

To Miss Hunt, St Winifred's Dale, August 18 1793

'I admire the German you sent me extremely. I have read none since you left me, except two books of Dr Randolph's "Den Golden Spiegel", which is an imitation of an Eastern tale, by way of making dissertations upon government. It is entertaining and there is an account of a happy valley, that makes one long to live in it. The other book is Wiessen's Poems (Lyrische Gedischte) some of which are very pretty.'

Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Smith      Print: Book

  

unknown : [Article on St. Domingo]

'I [Harriet Martineau] was completely carried away by the article on St. Domingo in the Quarterly Review, (vol.xxi.) which I lighted upon, one day at this time [c.1837], while looking for the noted article on the Grecian philosophy in the same volume. I pursued the study of Toussaint L'Ouverture's character in the Biographie Universelle; and though it is badly done [...] the real man shone into my mind'.

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Harriet Martineau      Print: Serial / periodical

  

unknown : [Police report]

Harriet Martineau, on inspiration for an ultimately abandoned novel: 'There was a police report, during that winter [?1837], -- very brief, -- only one short paragraph, -- which moved me profoundly, and which I was sure I could work out into a novel of the deepest interest.'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Harriet Martineau      Print: Newspaper

  

unknown : unknown

From Harriet Martineau's account of Queen Victoria's coronation: 'About nine, the first gleams of the sun slanted into the abbey [...] The brightness, vastness, and dreamy magnificence of the scene produced a strange effect of exhaustion and sleepiness [...] I determined to withdraw my senses from the scene, in order to reserve my strength [...] for the ceremonial to come. I had carried a book; and I read and ate a sandwich, leaning against my friendly pillar, till I felt refreshed.'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Harriet Martineau      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

'When Mrs Hinde (the Old Lady) would sometimes talk to her about Books, she?d cry out, "Prithee don?t talk to me about books?as I never read any Books, but men & Cards"?But let any Body read [ital] her [close ital] Book; & then tell me, if she did not draw Characters with as masterly a hand as Sr Joshua Reynolds. "Go thou and do likewise."'

Century: 1600-1699 / 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Sarah Churchill      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [old-fashioned theological works]

'As my love of books became known, I was made free of such libraries as the neighbours possessed which led to me reading some curious and unsuitable matter, old-fashioned theological works, early Methodist magazines, cookery books and queer tales of murder and robbery. One such, entitled "The Castle of Otranto", haunted my dreams for many a night. Our nearest neighbour who was more of a scholar than his rough exterior and taciturn manner suggested, lent me a "History of England" which was a veritable godsend.'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Hannah Mitchell      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [early Methodist magazines]

'As my love of books became known, I was made free of such libraries as the neighbours possessed which led to me reading some curious and unsuitable matter, old-fashioned theological works, early Methodist magazines, cookery books and queer tales of murder and robbery. One such, entitled "The Castle of Otranto", haunted my dreams for many a night. Our nearest neighbour who was more of a scholar than his rough exterior and taciturn manner suggested, lent me a "History of England" which was a veritable godsend.'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Hannah Mitchell      Print: Serial / periodical

  

[unknown] : [cookery books]

'As my love of books became known, I was made free of such libraries as the neighbours possessed which led to me reading some curious and unsuitable matter, old-fashioned theological works, early Methodist magazines, cookery books and queer tales of murder and robbery. One such, entitled "The Castle of Otranto", haunted my dreams for many a night. Our nearest neighbour who was more of a scholar than his rough exterior and taciturn manner suggested, lent me a "History of England" which was a veritable godsend.'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Hannah Mitchell      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [tales of murder and robbery]

'As my love of books became known, I was made free of such libraries as the neighbours possessed which led to me reading some curious and unsuitable matter, old-fashioned theological works, early Methodist magazines, cookery books and queer tales of murder and robbery. One such, entitled "The Castle of Otranto", haunted my dreams for many a night. Our nearest neighbour who was more of a scholar than his rough exterior and taciturn manner suggested, lent me a "History of England" which was a veritable godsend.'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Hannah Mitchell      Print: Unknown

  

[unknown] : History of England

'As my love of books became known, I was made free of such libraries as the neighbours possessed which led to me reading some curious and unsuitable matter, old-fashioned theological works, early Methodist magazines, cookery books and queer tales of murder and robbery. One such, entitled "The Castle of Otranto", haunted my dreams for many a night. Our nearest neighbour who was more of a scholar than his rough exterior and taciturn manner suggested, lent me a "History of England" which was a veritable godsend.'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Hannah Mitchell      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : Adam's First Wife

'In another house I found a tattered copy of Scott's "Kenilworth" and a quite new copy of "Cranford". Among some old books in my grandmother's cottage I found a curious one entitled "Adam's First Wife". This was a sort of history of the Garden of Eden which rather discounted the "rib theory" and raised some doubt in my mind as to Adam's innocence in the pre-apple days.' [continuation of discussion of Adam etc]

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Hannah Mitchell      Print: Book

  

unknown : unknown ["solid reading"]

'Well, I think Civil Defence is a marvellous racket. It's given me the spare time I've been wanting for years?I've done more solid reading, for instance, than I've done since I was twenty-one.'

Unknown
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: [M35B] Anon      

  

[unknown-probably various contributors] : [poems in newspaper]

'The only poetry we had read were short poems in the local paper, which my mother called "verse". But I knew it meant reading matter, so I said quickly: "Yes, we like it."'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Hannah Mitchell      Print: Newspaper

  

[unknown] : [poetry]

'I also found a small library, which meant that many copper really needed for food were spent on borrowing books. At this time I read all Mrs. Henry Wood's novels, most of Sir Walter Scott's works along with a good deal of poetry and history, as well as a good deal of rubbish I daresay. But as I have forgotten it it did me no harm.'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Hannah Mitchell      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [history]

'I also found a small library, which meant that many copper really needed for food were spent on borrowing books. At this time I read all Mrs. Henry Wood's novels, most of Sir Walter Scott's works along with a good deal of poetry and history, as well as a good deal of rubbish I daresay. But as I have forgotten it it did me no harm.'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Hannah Mitchell      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [To our trusty and well beloved Hannah Maria Mitchell]

'Subsequently I recieved a curiously worded scroll addressed to "Our trusty and well beloved Hannah Maria Mitchell." This document would hardly find favour with the advocates of Basic English - there are no stops or commas in it. It begins with "Greeting. Know ye that we have assigned you and every one of you jointly and severally Our Justices to keep the peace in and throughout our city of Manchester in our County Palatine of Lancaster and to keep and cause to be kept all Ordinaces and Statues made for the good of our peace and for the Conservation of the same." Then followed the instructions - "to chastise and punish all persons that offend against the form of these ordinaces. To cause to come before you or any of you all those who to anyone or more of Our People concerning their bodies or the firing of their houses have used threats to find sufficient security for the Peace if they shall refuse to find such Securtiy then them in our prisons until they shall find such security to cause to be safely kept." The scroll ends with the command - "that you diligently apply yourselves to the keeping Our Peace Ordinance Statutes and all and signular other the premises and perform and fulfil the same in form aforesaid being therein what to Justice appertaineth according to the Laws and Customs of England."'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Hannah Mitchell      Manuscript: Sheet

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

Sunday, Feb 4 (1940) 'Rose late. 11 o'clock. Breakfast. Went out to shovel snow off paths. Stayed in all day, reading, writing, etc. Thank goodness snow seems to be thawing.'

Unknown
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: anon      

  

unknown : [light readings]

'I'm getting on in age, I want light reading. You understand that, don't you? I don't want heavy reading. I don't want to study anything at my time of life. Perhaps I come in here two or three times a week. I'm a great reader.'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: anon      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [life of Joan of Arc]

'It was quite a thousand pages and they laughed at me for reading it. It was dry, but I could really live the life of that girl.'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: anon      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

'1.45. Paddington. All seats crowded, people eating, sleeping, reading, on seats and porters' trucks. Looking at Arrival Indicator, woman says "Trains not a bit late yet, the organization's wonderful!" People generally not talking about the Coronation but about trains, food, drinks, relatives, etc.'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: anon      Print: Unknown

  

[unknown] : [crime novel]

'I find myself between a well-to-do business man from the Midlands, who is reading a "crime" novel, and two good-looking twins who are speaking a language like Danish and are learning English words from a Pitman's book.'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: anon      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : Pitman's book

'I find myself between a well-to-do business man from the Midlands, who is reading a "crime" novel, and two good-looking twins who are speaking a language like Danish and are learning English words from a Pitman's book. '

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: anon      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [pamphlet]

'Walking back to lunch I met an old lady wheeling another old lady in a bath-chair, and heard the one in the bath-chair reading aloud slowly from the leaflet I had been distributing: "Speed-up in Industry: 5 men now do the work that it took 6 men to do in 1932".'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: anon      

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

'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: Unknown

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

'On Coronation Day we had a holiday so I thought I would have a rest and so I stayed in bed all the morning reading.'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: anon      Print: Unknown

  

[unknown] : A Guide to philosophy

'About 10.30 p.m. I took her for some refreshment, we talked of books, she said she was reading "A Guide to Philosophy", I made some laudatory remarks about "Eyeless in Gaza".'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: anon      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [sensational novel]

'...the inside of the lid of it was lined with sheets of what I now know to have been a sensational novel. It was of course a fragment, but I read it, kneeling on the bare floor, with indescribable rapture.' [and more for a paragraph..]

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Edmund Gosse      Print: Book

  

unknown : Licensed houses and their management

'This landlord was new to the game and took me to see how he was studying to be master of it. He was busy reading three volumes- "Licensed Houses and Their Management".'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: anon      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : Carpentier's life

'D. Did you ever read Carpentier's life, I've been reading it in a illustrated paper, 'e thought 'e was on a easy thing 'e never trained. Battling Siki knocked everything out of 'im.'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: unknown      Print: Newspaper, Serial / periodical, illustrated paper

  

[unknown] : [pamphlet]

'When one has finished reading through this pamphlet one comes to the inevit- able conclusion that there is absolutely no hope for Germany.'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: anon      

  

[unknown] : [copy books]

?Dear Sir, if you had condescended to write a few lines with these copy Books I should have had greater pleasure in reading them at present I cannot even guess what they are or why you sent them to me. I should have conceived basing[?] a few hard words that it was one of the stories I wrote some fifteen years ago ? as it bears all the marks of that work of premature genius which some romantic children have - & which seldom I think does them any other service than to lead them headlong into love & folly before the usual time I should say it was the production of what Sir Moore properly defines a Girl of Genius unless perchance it is the school effusion of some boy of that sort ? it is very clever, very original in parts ? very imitative in others and tho the whole thing occasioned by having either read some poetry or seen some play that has filled the Authors[sic] head ? with mystery ? wildness & extravagance ? if it is to be published it must of course be reread & rewritten - & if you knew how sick I was of ?Moments of Gloom? mysterious personages ??care worn brows" marble hearts - & the whole of that which deceived me & many others, you would never send me any think of the sort I think however seriously this that if the person who wrote this be young & inexperienced, they will soon write very well & must be very clever. if they be at their best ? I donot [sic] much admire them?

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Lady Caroline Lamb      Manuscript: Copy Books

  

[unknown] : Review of Glenarvon in the Augustan Review

'do you ever read the Augustan Review it is stupid though[underlined] it thinks me so - & yet be afraid I like it because it takes[?] the thing [Glenarvon] fairly & not as real characters[.] have you ever heard what he [presumably Lord Byron] said to Glenarvon ? I burn to know?

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Lady Caroline Lamb      Print: Serial / periodical

  

[unknown] : Sketch

'ELLEN: looks up from the "Sketch", which she has been reading: "How do you pronounce M-Y-R-R-H"?'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Ellen      Print: Serial / periodical

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

'It is a bitterly cold evening, towards the end of February. The fire is very low, and at the moment is rather smothered by small coal and slack. Miss V. is sitting over it, reading. Mr. T. comes in, dressed in Home Guard uniform, and rubbing his hands together.'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Miss V      Print: Unknown

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

'Whereas Kay was always trying to read or knit when she sat down, Louise is doing nothing at all, and so can be quite undisturbed by the constant clawing of sticky hands round her knees.'

Unknown
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Kay      

  

[unknown] : [English novel]

'The English student said that he had read an English novel in which a similar idea was suggested. One German was very much annoyed at hearing that the idea had been put forward in England, and said that it was a great mistake to give the enemy warning.'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: anon      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : Low Company

'D. went. N. said he wasn't going to sleep, because it was too uncomfortable; would read a book. He read "Low Company", while I read the first chapter of Silone's "Bread and Wine".'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group:      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

'Also told me he had been commissioned to write a history of Dudley a few days back. Had declined. We went back and read until 12 o'clock.'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: anon      Print: Unknown

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

'6.30-8 p.m. read. 8 p.m. supper. 9 p.m. bath and bed. I saw nothing stirring or peculiar. The only funny thing was the name of a row of houses, Amble Tonia.'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: anon      Print: Unknown

  

[unknown] : Poesie di Ossian

[Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: [Title] 'Poesie di Ossian [by] Cartoue'; [Text] 'O tu che luminoso erri e rotundo/ ...'; [total = 37 lines]

Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine      Print: Unknown

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

'I prepare supper and we eat it. Listen to news. I continue to read.'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: anon      Print: Unknown

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

'At half past two I was dry, and eating the remnants of my lunch. I switched on the wireless and listened to the Coronation ceremony. When this had finished I read a book till seven o'clock when my father came home.'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: anon      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

'To attempt to describe either their dresses or persons would be only to repeat some of the many accounts of them that have already been published, as every one has been written by people who had much better opportunities of seeing them, and more time to examine them than I have had. Indeed, a man need go no farther to study them than the China paper, the better sorts of which represent their persons, and such of their customs, dresses, etc., as I have seen, most strikingly like, though a little in the "caricatura" style. Indeed, some of the plants which are common to China and Java, as bamboo, are better figured there than in the best botanical authors that I have seen.'

Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Banks      Print: Unknown

  

[unknown] : [news bulletin]

'"I've been calm all week, but yesterday I listened to the news bulletin and I got a bad dose of jitters. I read somewhere that they're going to move London to Canada, and I can well believe it."'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: anon      Print: Newspaper, Serial / periodical

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

'Oh, I have strained my eyes trying to read, and had to give it up in the end. I call it dismal, sitting for half an hour or more in a dark, gloomy carriage, so's you can't read; can't even look at the girls sitting opposite you; can't see your station. That's not going to keep us cheerful and "bring us victory," is it?'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: anon      Print: Unknown

  

[unknown] : [thrillers]

'Well, I took it because it's a thriller. That's the reason. I like thrillers, you see. I always read thrillers.'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: anon      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [newspapers]

'Course I know what you're talking about, I read about it all in the paper, used to read books about it, they've made a new car so's it's easier to drive, more profit for them isn't it, like Lord Nuffield. Wireless is all right though.'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: anon      Print: Newspaper

  

[unknown] : [newspaper?]

'Never thought much about it, took it for granted. One thing it's done is make people's nerves on edge all the time, wars and all that, get sick of it. . . . Pictures you get used to, they're all the same. . . . You can get about easier. . . . I don't blame them as finds things out, it's them as is let use the things wot they find out. . . . I read a bit about that new car, don't know what it means though. They're always finding things out now. All right if we knew how to use them, first thing they do is to put men on the shelf before they're grown up. . . . Sometimes think if they had a rest from thinking how they can make more money out of us-that's what they do it for.'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: anon      Print: Unknown

  

[unknown] : [horoscopes]

'I read them every Sunday, many a time it's been true, but they don't give you so much bad news. When it was my birthday they said I should get a surprise. I got one. It was a good 'un, mister. No, I'm not telling you what it was, that's my business.'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: anon      Print: Newspaper, Serial / periodical

  

[unknown] : Long ago!

[Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: [Title] 'Long ago!'; [Text] 'Long ago!` Oh long ago!/ Do not these words recall past years?/ And scarcely knowing why they flow/ Bring to the eye unbidden tears?/ ...' [total = 4 x 8 line verses]

Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Anon      Print: Unknown

  

[unknown] : Royal Academy Catalogue

'I was invited on one occasion to Mr Champley's, in Newborough, where I saw a specimen of Etty's peculiar painting in the portrait of Mr Champley himself; and looked over the Royal Academy Catalogue and there found several of his productions enumerated; one I copied; this is it 235 Bridge of Sighs' [catalogue entry follows, approx 120 words].

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: John Cole      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [album]

'On the circular table in the centre of the room was placed among other books an album, and Mr Storey being called away, I noted the following excellent morsels of literature: "It is a good rule that our conversation should rather be of things than of persons: for thus obvious reason, that things have not a character to lose." "To take sunshine pleasure in the blessings and excellencies of others is a much surer mask of benevolence than pity their calamities".'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: John Cole      Print: Book

  

[unknown authors] : [various titles]

'Roved around Northampton and stepped into most of the booksellers' shops to examine new works, etc, and made extracts as they suited, and took down titles of several to recommend them to other booksellers etc.'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: John Cole      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [sermons]

'After tea walked home, and went through, with my family, our usual Sunday evening devotions, consisting of sermon reading and prayers.'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: John Cole      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [explanation of the principles of the Christian religion]

'Every Sunday after breakfast the Bishop of Norwich reads to their Royal Highnesses a practical explanation of the principles of the Christian religion'.

Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Prince George      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [thrillers]

'I like reading. I can sit down and read a good thriller and start on it again immediately I have finished it, but nothing else ... As I've tried to explain I can't find the time. When I've come home from work, helped the wife, and had a smoke, you look round, and it's time to go to bed.'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: anon      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

'I do like reading, and I spend most of the evening reading because there's nowhere to go.'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: anon      Print: Unknown

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

'Well, yes, but not good reading. I only read to pass the time away, - any old thing; any time when I happen to be stuck for an hour or so.'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: anon      Print: Unknown

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

'25 C was reading a book, waiting to be served, and reading with concentration, both elbows on table, head between hands. When served with pot of tea and a bun, continued to read, eating and drinking absently. At 5 o'c looked up, gazed round cafe for two minutes, lit a cigarette, asked for bill. Started to read again, but more casually, glancing round cafe from time to time. Left at 5.5. p.m'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: anon      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : His Ice Queen

'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

  

[unknown] : [books]

'That I don't like refugees in fiction is perhaps easy to understand, but I don't even like the war and today's conditions ("Murder in the Home Guard" and similar titles) to figure in my novels..... In the greater part of my reading I have just the opposite taste; I read mostly books dealing with the questions of today and tomorrow. But I can't stand any of it in fiction. Funny isn't it?'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: anon      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [detective novels]

'Detective stories and thrillers are by far the most numerous, in fact at the moment are all the fiction I seem to read... After reading them I always wonder why I read them and if I once pause and examine the profusion of adjectives I am almost compelled to stop.'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: anon      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : Guide to Edinburgh

'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: Book

  

[unknown] : [books on James IV]

'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: Book

  

[unknown] : [novels]

'Novels, except of exceptional quality, I prefer to borrow as I read them, mainly for relaxation only and seldom wish to read the same book a second time, as my choice is usually very light. When I find a novel which appeals strongly. I buy it because I know I shall find pleasure in re-reading it.'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: anon      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [books]

'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: Book

  

[unknown] : [novels]

'Novels, except of exceptional quality, I prefer to borrow as I read them, mainly for relaxation only and seldom wish to read the same book a second time, as my choice is usually very light. When I find a novel which appeals strongly. I buy it because I know I shall find pleasure in re-reading it.'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: anon      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

'Have breakfast (next real interval is tea time, so breakfast includes prayers, reading and any urgent letters - this morning one short letter); listen to 7 a.m. news summary.'

Unknown
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: anon      

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

'I was reading the other day the story of an air flight. They had a long and dangerous journey to undertake, and before they set out, they made a list of the things they needed. But when they were ready to go, the plane was too heavy. They jettisioned much, but still they could not take off. They had to whittle down to a bare minimum. But they did not throw out a single pint of patrol.'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: anon      Print: Unknown

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

'After breakfast I postponed the things I ought to do by a little reading and knitting. Then I wrote letters till lunch. Continued this after lunch - this comes of refusing to write letters except on Sundays.'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: anon      Print: Unknown

  

[unknown] : [unknown - on Higher criticism]

'Many thanks for the cuttings on higher criticism. I can't help thinking that this movement is larely the result of trying to reduce (as I tried to do a few days ago!) Christianity to a comprehensible, logical system of ethics, rather than trying to realize that wonderful communion with God which must always be its source of faith, hope, love, and strength. 'Religion would cease to be divine if it were capable of being compressed into the narrow limits of human comprehension; isn't that right? 'I am afraid I greatly prefer Dr Dale's book to Bishop Westcott's. It is so much easier to understand. Westcott is very well for Sundays, but rather exacting for a tired week-day brain! 'The Bishop has returned from the Seychelles and is acting as our chaplin. He is a peculiar man, but I believe he is a very good one. 'I am, your affectionate son. P.S. I find I have got a copy of Gore's Prayer and the Lord's Prayer, with your name in it. May I stick to it? I like it.'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Donald William Alers Hankey      Print: Unknown, cuttings

  

[unknown] : [essay on rifling]

'Don't worry about me; at last I am a serious soldier. I have a pile of books on ordnance, and gunnery, and ammunition, and explosives etc., etc., littering my table, to say nothing of Napier's "Peninsular War", and a "Life of Napolean"![sic] So when my major made a surprise descent yesterday afternoon from Curepipe, he found me immersed in an essay on Rifling, and was rather pleased!'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Donald William Alers Hankey      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : The adventures of a louse

'at ten o'clock yesterday evening little Jem Parsons (the cabin boy), and his friend the black terrier, came on deck, and sat themselves on a gun-carriage, to read by the light of the moon. I looked at the boy's book, (the terrier, I suppose, read over the other's shoulder,) and found that it was "The Sorrows of Werter". I asked who had lent him such a book, and whether it amused him? He said that it had been made a present to him, and so he had read it almost through, for he had got to Werter's dying; though, to be sure, he did not understand it all, nor like very much what he understood; for he thought the man a great fool for killing himself for love. I told him I thought that every man a great fool who killed himself for love or for any thing else: but he had no books but "The Sorrows of Werter"? - oh dear yes, he said, he had a great many more; but he had got "The Adventures of a Louse", which was a very curious book, indeed; and he had got besides "The Recess", and "Valentine and Orson", and "Roslin Castle", and a book of Prayers, just like the Bible; but he could not but say that he liked "The Adventures of a Louse" the best of any of them.'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Jem Parsons      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : Roslin Castle

'at ten o'clock yesterday evening little Jem Parsons (the cabin boy), and his friend the black terrier, came on deck, and sat themselves on a gun-carriage, to read by the light of the moon. I looked at the boy's book, (the terrier, I suppose, read over the other's shoulder,) and found that it was "The Sorrows of Werter". I asked who had lent him such a book, and whether it amused him? He said that it had been made a present to him, and so he had read it almost through, for he had got to Werter's dying; though, to be sure, he did not understand it all, nor like very much what he understood; for he thought the man a great fool for killing himself for love. I told him I thought that every man a great fool who killed himself for love or for any thing else: but he had no books but "The Sorrows of Werter"? - oh dear yes, he said, he had a great many more; but he had got "The Adventures of a Louse", which was a very curious book, indeed; and he had got besides "The Recess", and "Valentine and Orson", and "Roslin Castle", and a book of Prayers, just like the Bible; but he could not but say that he liked "The Adventures of a Louse" the best of any of them.'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Jem Parsons      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [book of prayers]

'at ten o'clock yesterday evening little Jem Parsons (the cabin boy), and his friend the black terrier, came on deck, and sat themselves on a gun-carriage, to read by the light of the moon. I looked at the boy's book, (the terrier, I suppose, read over the other's shoulder,) and found that it was "The Sorrows of Werter". I asked who had lent him such a book, and whether it amused him? He said that it had been made a present to him, and so he had read it almost through, for he had got to Werter's dying; though, to be sure, he did not understand it all, nor like very much what he understood; for he thought the man a great fool for killing himself for love. I told him I thought that every man a great fool who killed himself for love or for any thing else: but he had no books but "The Sorrows of Werter"? - oh dear yes, he said, he had a great many more; but he had got "The Adventures of a Louse", which was a very curious book, indeed; and he had got besides "The Recess", and "Valentine and Orson", and "Roslin Castle", and a book of Prayers, just like the Bible; but he could not but say that he liked "The Adventures of a Louse" the best of any of them.'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Jem Parsons      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

'There was little time left before supper, and we decided to go for short walk to have a look at the moon. This done, we sat down for a modest and simple meal of a little bit of cold meat, some lettuce and cheese, and spent the rest of the evening peacefully around the fire, reading, and talking about nothing in particular."

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: anon      Print: Unknown

  

[unknown] : Arise to conquer

'Exhilarated with a terrible sadness, after reading "Arise to Conquer", I wondered if, when young men have done with the fighting and can come forward to do some of the thinking, shaping and building again, will they then be able (or willing) to contemplate more than the conquest of Jean.'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: anon      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

'I heard that peace was declared on May the 7th, about 7 or 8 o'clock in the evening, at home with my parents. We had not long finished dinner, the table was still set, my father was reading in the armchair, my stepmother was busy about the house, I was in the garden, mending a puncture on my bicycle. The end of the programmes came to an end on the wireless, the announcer gave the news that tomorrow, Tuesday, May the 8th, would be V-Day, and the day following a holiday. Quietly, my father said, "It's over."'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: anon      Print: Unknown

  

[unknown] : [works/news on Hitler and Nazi-Germany]

'I have dreamt of Hitler twice recently, I put this down [to] reading books in the international situation rather than to anxiety or worry. I do not consciously worry about the eventuality of war, but I do feel very deeply concerned about the suffering which has already been caused.'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: anon      Print: Unknown

  

[unknown] : [a thriller]

'Before the deed was done, however, the person in question awakened (I found the said person had been reading a thriller along such lines and had partaken of a somewhat heavy supper).'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: anon      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [books]

'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: Book

  

unknown : unknown

'It is now half past twelve, & having heard Lizzy [JA's niece] read, I am moved down into the Library for the sake of a fire...'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Lizzy Knight      Print: Unknown

  

[unknown] : Transactions of the Medico-Chirurgical Society

[Marginalia]

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Taylor Coleridge      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : The Conduct of the British Government towards the Church of England in the West India Colonies

[Marginalia]

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Taylor Coleridge      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : Eikon Basilike

[Marginalia]

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Taylor Coleridge      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : Sermons or Homilies of the United Church of England

[Marginalia]

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Taylor Coleridge      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : Homeri Hymni et epigrammata

[Marginalia]

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Taylor Coleridge      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : Homeri Hymni et epigrammata

[Marginalia]

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Taylor Coleridge      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : Analysis of the Report of a Committee

[Marginalia]

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Taylor Coleridge      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : The Age. A Poem. In eight books.

[Marginalia]

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Taylor Coleridge      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : Acta Seminarii Regii et Societatis Philologicae Li

[Marginalia]

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Taylor Coleridge      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : Carmina Illustrium Poetarum Italorum

[Marginalia]

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Taylor Coleridge      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : A Harmonie upon the Three Evangelists

[Marginalia]

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Taylor Coleridge      Print: Book

  

unknown : [book]

'A young middle class man comes and sits on a seat nearby, and reads a book. Behind the rank on the top people are sitting. Noone seems very interested in the soldiers. Two kids, girls, crawl on the grass near one end of the rank, but they appear to be as much interested in their own game as in the soldiers. Two prams. Mothers gossiping - about five. Young girl, reading.'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: anon      Print: Book

  

unknown : unknown

'A young middle class man comes and sits on a seat nearby, and reads a book. Behind the rank on the top people are sitting. Noone seems very interested in the soldiers. Two kids, girls, crawl on the grass near one end of the rank, but they appear to be as much interested in their own game as in the soldiers. Two prams. Mothers gossiping - about five. Young girl, reading.'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: anon      Print: Unknown

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

'One of your brothers was brought to a liking of reading by my putting some Books which I had told amusing stories out of, in a place where they were difficultly come at and desiring that none of you might be allowed to spoil my books with your dirty Thumbs while I was abroad. He read them in a few daies [sic] and has continued to be fond of reading ever since.'

Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Alexander Monro      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [Catalogue of the Sheffield Subscription Library]

'We got the new catalogue from Library, The number of subscribers 118, there are near 2400 Books. [In Margin] Printed by Pierson'

Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Hunter      

  

[unknown] : The Spirit of the Public Journals for 1797

'Took [the] "Answer to Wilberforce" to the Chapel Library & brought "The Spirit of the Public Journals for 1797, Being an Impartial Selection ... Essays & Jeaux d'Espirits ... [from] the Newspapers & Other Publications ...".They are for the most part political. Some of the articles are copied from larger works than magazines & newspapers [eg.3 selections from] Lewis's "Monk". ...The Ode by Sr Will Jones ... has appeared many years ago & in many publications. ... There appears to be nevertheless a deal of choice matter in this publication.'

Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Hunter      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : The Spirit of the Public Journals for 1797 [series

'Wrote out of the "Spirit of the Public Journals" "Washing Day", a poem in blank verse; originally printed in the "Monthly Magazine".'

Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Hunter      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : The Spirit of the Public Journals for 1797 [series

'When I brought the "Spirit of the Journals", I did not think that it would have contributed anything towards the account of Sheffield but I have extracted from it an account of a letter supposed to have been sent from "Yorke, General of the armed citizens of Sheffield", to the British National Convention, & the debate upon it from "The Times".'

Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Hunter      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : The Spirit of the Public Journals for 1797 [series

'Wrote also out of the "Spirit of the Journals" "a hymn for the fast day" by Captain Norrice on Foxe's Birthday.'

Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Hunter      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : The Spirit of the Public Journals for 1797 [series

'Took the "Spirit of the Journals" to the Chapel Library [...] there are no less than 101 Epigrams on Messrs Pitt & Dundas going drunk to the House of Commons on the night of his majesty's message [of] war with France ...Many of which are very poor. These epigrams, Marat, an Epilogue ... & the Orgies of Bachus may be reckoned amongst the least happy articles in this volume.'

Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Hunter      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : Spanish Grammar

'In the evening read principally papers in the "Adventurer" and Rogers' "Pleasure 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: Unknown

  

[unknown] : Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society

'Looked into "Philosophical Transactions" for paper of Dr Reid about momentums +c, could not find it but stumbled upon paper, page 663, i think vol.V or VI. among papers miscellaneous or omitted, where there were some calculations respecting probability'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: William Windham      Print: Book

  

unknown : Insanity Bir

'I'm off reading this period, glance at Insanity Bir, and open Marjorie's British Commonwealth by Ramsay Muir, at the every page that shows so plainly how Napoleon first won Europe and then set about Britain. Just as Hitler would like to do now. So nicely put. These two books suddenly show me how we stand in this war and how we must fight for our very existence. . . .Yes, I see all at once what we are up against -- How British would fight against any invasion here.'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: anon      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

'about this time I began to practis accounts, I bought a Book, & Slate, and got somebody to set me a gate at the beginning of a Rule, & then wrought by my book &c, and in a while got forward in arethmatic &c'

Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Benjamin Shaw      Print: Book

  

unknown : The case for federal union

'Reading The Case for Federal Union, one of the excellent Penguin Series. The prospect of Union seems to be remoter every day. Oh, if only one could wake up one morning and find it practical politics and war banished. It would be worth sacrificing a good many British Empires.'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: anon      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : 'a penny history'

'From my early years I was always a lover of books, and I well remeber when we lived in a solitary place that my mother on going to a neighbouring town, always bought me a penny history or a halfpenny collection of songs ...'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Robert White      

  

[unknown] : 'poetry and border ballads'

'Even while exerting myself to the utmost on the farm, I was not without my own pleasure, for during my leisure hours I read all the books and especially those consisting of poetry and Border-ballads that came within my reach. Some few I bought when I had money, some I borrowed, but the latter were limited as to number ...'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Robert White      Print: Book

  

unknown : The Struggles of a Senior Wrangler

'Read a continuation of a good paper in the London on "A Poor Students Struggles thro Cambridge" ["The Struggles of a Senior Wrangler"] the rest are moderates among the middlings'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: John Clare      Print: Serial / periodical

  

[unknown] : [Latin Grammar]

'...and we now started Latin, in a little eighteenth-century reading book, out of which my Grandfather had been taught. It consisted of strings of works, and of grim arrangements of conjunction and declension, presented in a manner appallingly unattractive. I used to be set down in the study, under my Father's eye, to learn a solid page of this compilation, while he wrote or painted...It was almost more than human nature could bear to have to sit holding up to my face the dreary little Latin book, with its sheep-skin cover that smelt of mildewed paste.'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Edmund Gosse      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [volume of engravings]

'My mother then received from her earlier home certain volumes, among which was a gaudy gift-book of some kind, containing a few steel engravings of statues. These attracted me violently, and here for the first time I gazed upon Apollo with his proud gesture, Venus in her undulations, the kirtled shape of Diana, and Jupiter voluminously bearded...In private I returned to examine my steel engravings of the statues, and I reflected that they were too beautiful to be so wicked as my Father thought they were."

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Edmund Gosse      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : The Peep of Day; or a series of the earliest relig

BL edition inscribed 'Victoria of Prussia' and initialled page after page with some dates presumeably showing when read to. Earliest date 5th August 1871 lesson 1, Lesson 19 21 Aug 1871 lesson 29 by 26 Sept 1871, Lesson 1 'The Body' prayer to prevent body from getting hurt also dated 6 May 1872, 14 Sept 1878 lesson VI 'Of the Wicked Angels' dated 3 Jan 1879

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Victoria of Prussia      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : Poems and Essays by a Lady Lately Deceased

The reader listed the contents of this publication. Vol 1. The Second Edition. 'Poems. Ode to Hope. Elegy on the death of Mr Garrick. A Ballad. Subject Love [underlined] for the Bath Easton Villa. Louisa a tale. Envy: a fragment. On the New Year. 'Essays. On Sensibility. On the Character of Latitia. On Politeness. On the Character of Casio. On Candour. '2nd Vol. Third Edition. On Fortitude. On the Advantages of Application [?]. On the Pleasures of Religion. On Gratitude. On Happiness. On Christian Perfection. On Resignation.'

Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Frances Hamilton      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : The Christian Church from the Earliest Period to the Present Time

an Observation 'By those who profess a knowledge of human Nature, the real causes of deep and continued dissension will rarely be sought...'

Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Frances Hamilton      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : A Letter to Earl Stanhope

content of this letter described 'as objected' in a pamphlet recommended by his Lordship 1789 (presumably the reader had read the letter)

Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Frances Hamilton      

  

[unknown] : Memoirs of Maximillion de Baltiure, Duke of Sully, Prime Minister to Henry the Great

Long description of the character of Duke Sully by Henry 4th of France: 'his temper harsh, unpatient, obstinate, too enterprizing, presuming too much upon his own opinions... I know also that he has no malignity in his heart, that he is indefatigable in business... I find no-one so capable as he is of consoling me... That he may daily unify his heart and his manners.'

Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Frances Hamilton      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [volume about theological debate]

'There was also a thick volume bound in calf and containing a verbatim report of a controversy between a Protestant divine and a Roman Catholic priest some time about the middle of last century, with a long argument on transubstantiation and many references to the Douai Bible which greatly puzzled me, for I did not know what the Douai Bible was.'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Edwin Muir      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [school books]

''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: Book

  

[unknown] : Sunday Stories

''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

  

[unknown] : [novels]

''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: Book

  

[unknown] : [story]

'Out of all that reading only one memory survives now. The story itself I have forgotten but the scene was laid in Italy, and there was a chapter in which a beggar arrived at a cottage carrying a heavy sack, which he left in a corner while he went, as he said, to the barn to get some sleep. The woman of the house, who lived by herself, happened to touch the sack, felt it moving, and knew at once that there was a man in it who had come to murder her... When I read "Treasure Island" a few years later the horrible figure of the blind seaman Pew brought back again the terrors of that dream.'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Edwin Muir      Print: Unknown

  

[unknown] : [book on Wallace and Bruce]

'One day I saw a life of Carlyle in a bookshop window in Kirkwall and begged a shilling from my mother to buy it; but I found it was a shilling and threepence and I had to return dejectedly with a book on Wallace and Bruce instead. It was not a good book, and all I remember of it is a few lines quoted from Burns...'

Century: 1850-1899 / 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Edwin Muir      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [story about the origin of Orkney and Shetland Islands]

'Curiously enough the story I remember best is a grotesque and rather silly one which appeared in an annual almanac issues by "The Orkney Herald". It was an account of the origin of the Orkney and Shetland Islands...'

Century: 1850-1899 / 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Edwin Muir      Print: Serial / periodical, almanac

  

[unknown] : Bronco Bill

'In the lower part of the newsagent's windows were the journals that catered for me. By would be reformers they were lumped together as "penny dreadfuls". One was "Deadwood Dick" -a cowboy who was always bumping off people in Deadman's Gulch or Gallow's Ravine, The reformers told me that my mind would become brutalised by reading Penny Dreadfuls... Besides "Deadwood Dick" in the shop window there was "Bronco Bill", with stories of a similar type. And there was "Jack Wright".'

Century: 1850-1899 / 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Stamper      Print: Serial / periodical

  

[unknown] : Jack Wright

'In the lower part of the newsagent's windows were the journals that catered for me. By would be reformers they were lumped together as "penny dreadfuls". One was "Deadwood Dick" -a cowboy who was always bumping off people in Deadman's Gulch or Gallow's Ravine, The reformers told me that my mind would become brutalised by reading Penny Dreadfuls... Besides "Deadwood Dick" in the shop window there was "Bronco Bill", with stories of a similar type. And there was "Jack Wright".'

Century: 1850-1899 / 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Stamper      Print: Serial / periodical

  

[unknown] : History of the World War

'On incident stays clear in my mind. It was on one of the rare days, other than Christmas and New Year, when my grandmother and I went into the sitting room above the shop. The time was late afternoon, just before tea, and I was standing near the window, looking through one of the volumes of a garish and expensive "History of the World War" which my father had bought from a door-to-door salesman who had persuaded him that "it would be very useful for the little boy's education". Some illustration in the book -a photograph or drawing of a battleship or aeroplane or shell-burst or trench warfare - must have caught my fancy, and, as I noticed that John Slater was looking out from his window on the opposite side of the street, I held up my picture against the glass so that he might see it. The street was narrow enough for anyone with good eyesight even to read the caption if it were printed in large enough letters. John nodded and promptly held up a picture in a book he was reading. I turned over a page or two and then held up another picture. John responded. And soon we found ourselves caught up in a competition...'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Norman Nicholson      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

'On incident stays clear in my mind. It was on one of the rare days, other than Christmas and New Year, when my grandmother and I went into the sitting room above the shop. The time was late afternoon, just before tea, and I was standing near the window, looking through one of the volumes of a garish and expensive "History of the World War" which my father had bought from a door-to-door salesman who had persuaded him that "it would be very useful for the little boy's education". Some illustration in the book -a photograph or drawing of a battleship or aeroplane or shell-burst or trench warfare - must have caught my fancy, and, as I noticed that John Slater was looking out from his window on the opposite side of the street, I held up my picture against the glass so that he might see it. The street was narrow enough for anyone with good eyesight even to read the caption if it were printed in large enough letters. John nodded and promptly held up a picture in a book he was reading. I turned over a page or two and then held up another picture. John responded. And soon we found ourselves caught up in a competition...'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: John Slater      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [detective stories]

'Tom... introduced me to Poe's "Tales", to my first detective stories and to the early novels of H.G. Wells.'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Norman Nicholson      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [books on birds, animals, snakes, trees]

'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

  

[unknown] : Penny Dreadfuls

'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: Serial / periodical

  

[unknown] : How to make friends and influence people

'When I was a youth I envied others having this capacity to make close friends. I even bought a book, "How To Make Friends and Influence People". I read the book, but it did me no good; so I must be a hopeless case.'

Century: 1850-1899 / 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Stamper      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [lives of Henry VIII's wives - see note below]

'Have finished the lives of Harry the VIIIths Queens, very interesting work. Reading a small treatise on "Pneumatics" to pick up a little of what I have forgotten'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Albert Battiscombe      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : Pneumatics

'Have finished the lives of Harry the VIIIths Queens, very interesting work. Reading a small treatise on "Pneumatics" to pick up a little of what I have forgotten'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Albert Battiscombe      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [notice]

'My father took me to see them sold up. He must have been off work again, foundry work was little better than casual labour then. The auctioneer's man had taken the two halves of the sash window out. On the wall by the window was written in chalk: "Owing to Arrears of Rent and by Order of the Landlord. Sale this day at 2.30".'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Stamper      Manuscript: Graffito

  

[unknown] : [notice]

'Whilst waiting my turn and having observed all these things, I started to spell out a notice above the mirror, I could read enough. It said "Haircut: Men 3d., Boys 2d., Shaving, 1d." That was in 1893, near enough. Prices have gone up a little since then.'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Stamper      Print: Advertisement, Poster

  

[unknown] : Sylvestre Sound

'[Father] had joined the PSA at the YMCA. That is: the Pleasant Sunday Afternoon at the Young Men's Christian Association; a religious service with plenty of tuneful hymns, usually a couple of singers who gave "sacred" songs; and to which was attached a Book Club. By paying a few pence a week Father got all the books he could read; he was a slow reader, too. He got "Valentine Vox, Ventriloquist", "Sylvestre Sound", "Somnambulist"; "Uncle Tom's Cabin", and many others. Dolly has some of them at this date, sixty years later.'

Century: 1850-1899 / 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Stamper      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : Somnambulist

'[Father] had joined the PSA at the YMCA. That is: the Pleasant Sunday Afternoon at the Young Men's Christian Association; a religious service with plenty of tuneful hymns, usually a couple of singers who gave "sacred" songs; and to which was attached a Book Club. By paying a few pence a week Father got all the books he could read; he was a slow reader, too. He got "Valentine Vox, Ventriloquist", "Sylvestre Sound", "Somnambulist"; "Uncle Tom's Cabin", and many others. Dolly has some of them at this date, sixty years later.'

Century: 1850-1899 / 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Stamper      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

'...went along to the reference room of the public library to look up data on African trees. I searched the shelves and found just the book I wanted: a scientific work that gave full details of African trees. I sat studying it and making notes...'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Stamper      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : Young People's First Book of Trees

'[given an alternative text by the librarian, entitled 'Young People's First Book of Trees'] Every time the man came through the room I slipped the African book on to my knees under the table and was intently studying the Young People's book...'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Stamper      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

'Worked an hour or two at French; I suppose I must now finish the history of Rome, having once begun it must be finished'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Albert Battiscombe      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [book on pneumatics]

'Reading a book on Pneumatics and been thinking of making an Anemometer of my own invention do not know if it would succeed, and I have great doubts of my ever attempting it'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Albert Battiscombe      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : History of Rome

'Reading "History of Rome", & amusing myself variously.'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Albert Battiscombe      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

'And the female crocodile does make a nest! I had read all about it in a book from the library...'

Century: 1850-1899 / 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Stamper      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : Quain's Anatomy

'I was getting a lot of stiff reading out of the public library, now, "for my father". One work was "Quain's Anatomy" in two volumes. The first volume was anatomy and physiology. I read all about bones, muscles, lungs, liver, kidneys, ductless glands, all the whole issue. The second volume was on reproduction and embryology. I was completely fascinated...'

Century: 1850-1899 / 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Stamper      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [Astronomy and spectrum analysis]

'I read a lot of astronomy and that, too, was wonderful. The world is full of wonders if one only looks for them. One book I got was on spectrum analysis, as applied to astronomy. I was fascinated by this too. I could not put the book down. One evening Mother had not a penny for the gas, and there was no paraffin in the lamp she still had. I crouched on the fender, reading by the red glow of the fire, so close that my hair was singed.'

Century: 1850-1899 / 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Stamper      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [Astronomy and spectrum analysis]

'I was so interested in spectrum analysis that I took the big book to school with me, to read in playtime. The desks we had were box-type, there was a lid to lift and you could keep books inside. I had my book in there. We were doing composition. I had my head under the lid and inside the desk, reading more of the library book.'

Century: 1850-1899 / 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Stamper      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

'Commenced work again to day in earnest - read some of the [following page missing]'

Unknown
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Albert Battiscombe      

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

'I am going to try & commence work again, having done nothing since entering the sick list, except read a few novels and that class of books'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Albert Battiscombe      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

'Read a good deal during the day, and worked a Couple of hours at French.'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Albert Battiscombe      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : Pontificale romanum Clementis VIII, part 2

'At noon my brother John came to me, and I corrected as well as I could his Greek speech against the Apposition, though I believe he himself was as well able to do it as myself. After that, we went to read in the great Officiale about the blessing of bells in the Church of Rome.'

Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Pepys      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

'Back I went by Mr Downing's order, and stayed there till 12 a-clock in expectation of one to come to read some writings; but he came not, so I stayed all alone reading the answer of the Dutch Embassador to our state, in answer to the reasons of my Lord's coming home which he gave for his coming, and did labour herein to contradict my Lord's arguments for his coming home.'

Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Pepys      Manuscript: Sheet

  

[unknown] : The humble address and hearty desires of the gentlemen, ministers and free-holders of the county of Northampton, presented to his Excellency the Lord General Monck, at his arrival at Northampton January, 24, 1659

'I called at St Paul's churchyard, where I bought Buxtorfes Hebrew Grammar and read a declaration of the gentlemen of Northamptonshire - which came out this afternoon.'

Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Pepys      Print: Broadsheet

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

'In the morning up early and wrote another [character], my wife lying in bed and reading to me'

Unknown
Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Pepys      

  

[unknown] : Las cosas maravillosas della sancta ciudad de Roma

'This morning I lay long abed; then to my office, where I read all the morning my Spanish book of Rome.'

Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Pepys      Print: Book

  

unknown : report on miners' conditions

'I've been reading about miners' food difficulties. Isn't it disgusting-we starve the men who do one of the most important jobs of the war-well it's more important than the Army because they've taken men out of the Army to go back to their old jobs in the mines.'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: anon      Print: Newspaper

  

unknown : horoscope

'I don't really believe in any superstitions. Sitting down 13 at a table would never worry me in the slightest. However I enjoy having my fortune told and reading my horoscope just for fun.'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: anon      Print: Newspaper

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

'Up to my chamber to read a little, and write my Diary for three or four days past.'

Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Pepys      Print: Unknown

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

'I had the boy up tonight for his sister to teach him to put me to bed, and I heard him read, which he doth pretty well.'

Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Wayneman Birch      Print: Unknown

  

[unknown] : Masse Book

'In Pauls churchyard I called at Kirton's; and there they had got a Masse book for me, which I bought and cost me 12s. And when I came home, sat up late and read in it - with great pleasure to my wife to hear that that she long ago was so well acquainted with.'

Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Pepys      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [law book?]

'At night Mr Moore came and sat with me, and there I took a book and he did instruct me in many law=notions, in which I took great pleasure.'

Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Pepys      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : An exact and most impartial accompt of the ... trial ... of nine and twenty regicides

'Home and fell a-reading of the tryalls of the late men that were hanged for the King's death; and found good satisfaccion in reading thereof.'

Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Pepys      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : An exact and most impartial accompt of the ... trial ... of nine and twenty regicides

'Home by Coach and read late in the last night's book of the Tryalls...'

Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Pepys      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

'So we parted, and I and Mr Creed to Westminster-hall and looked over a book or two, and so to My Lord's...'

Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Pepys      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

'After that home and to bed - reading myself asleep while the wench sat mending my breeches by my bedside.'

Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Pepys      Print: Unknown

  

unknown : letter about the post-war world

'(I am reading from her reply): "I hope I shall remember to go Church and thank God for our victory and our safety. I expect I shall talk of the future and its prospects with my friends. One thing I shall not do is to celebrate with the idea that everything henceforth is rosy".'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: anon      Manuscript: Letter

  

Unknown : Captain Aero Comic

'He works from 2 to 10,and about 9 .he always goes to the lavatory. He was sitting there reading "Aero" when the sirens went, so he dashed down to the shelter, but before he got there the All Clear went. (Webb appears to work in or near Birmingham).'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Webb      Print: Serial / periodical

  

unknown : unknown

'Every night when I go home I swear there are not more than three English people on the bus. The rudeness of them. A woman said the other night "If there was a gentleman present they wouldn't let a lady stand". A girl sitting in the bus reading just glanced at her and said "If you're a lady, I've never seen one". Everyone was amused.'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: anon      Print: Unknown

  

unknown : unknown

'A fortnight in London in June-July 1940, recuperating from Oxford Univ. Finals, I most clearly remember summer evening as yet undisturbed by bombs, spent reading and chatting with friends sprawled in deckchairs in Kensington Gardens.'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: anon      Print: Unknown

  

unknown : article about Oswald Mosley

'Anyhow, their wives are being sent away. Mosley and his wife shouldn't be allowed to live together, but I suppose they've got plenty of money. And income Tax- I was reading an article the other day that said some of them were quite glad to be where they are because they don't have to pay income tax: Saves them a lot!'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: anon      Print: Newspaper, Serial / periodical

  

[unknown] : A proclamation for observation of the thirtieth day of January as a day of fast and humiliation according to the late act of parliament for that purpose

''This day the parson read a proclamacion at church for the keeping of Wednesday next, the 30th of January, a fast for the murther of the late King.'

Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: anon      Print: Handbill

  

[unknown] : [French Romances]

'And God forgive me, did spent it in reading some little French Romances.'

Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Pepys      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [Good books]

'and I home and stayed there all day within - having found Mr Moore, who stayed with me till at night, talking and reading some good books.'

Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Pepys      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [book]

'Then by linke home - and there to my book awhile and to bed.'

Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Pepys      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [book]

'Then home - I to read.'

Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Pepys      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [book]

'Then to reading and at night to bed.'

Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Pepys      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

'And then I up to my chamber to read.'

Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Pepys      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

'and so home, and after a little reading, to bed.'

Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Pepys      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

'Having writ letters into the country and read something, I went to bed.'

Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Pepys      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

'And then came home with us Sir W. Pen and drank with us and then went away; and my wife after him to see his daughter that is lately come out of Ireland. I stayed at home at my book.'

Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Pepys      Print: Book

  

unknown : [Account of the Games in the Colosseum at Rome]

'Read an Acct of the celebration of the Games in the Colloseum at Rome.'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: John Cole      Print: Unknown

  

unknown : Sermon

'Read Blair's sermon on the Divine Presence, with other appropriate proceedings. Evening had social prayers and read aloud a sermon.'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: John Cole      Print: Book

  

unknown : St Limerick's Bells

'Read St Limerick's Bells, "The word we have not seen", and sev.l other interesting pieces.'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: John Cole      Print: Unknown

  

unknown : The word we have not seen

'Read St Limerick's Bells, "The word we have not seen", and sev.l other interesting pieces.'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: John Cole      Print: Unknown

  

unknown : unknown

'Except sometimes when my wife sits on the arm of my chair when I am reading, and proceeds to perform on my own nails, mine would always be fairly described as dirty (Wife's term is filthy).'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: anon      Print: Unknown

  

unknown : [light books]

'I read more-not so much of the paper as light books and escapist stuff. I listen to the radio about the same.'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: anon      Print: Book

  

unknown : [light books]

'I read more as I spend more time at home. Also I read fewer political works and more fiction.'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: anon      Print: Book

  

unknown : [light reading]

'I read more. But cannot concentrate on the type of literature I like, preferring now, a light novel or auto-biography to escape the present day. With the loss of "US" cling desperately to "The New Statesman" & "Nation" in the hopes of gleaning a few facts which newspapers and radio studiously avoid.'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: anon      Print: Book

  

unknown : unknown

'I now very rarely go out in the evening, mainly on account of wife and family; spend more time reading and playing indoor games.'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: anon      Print: Unknown

  

unknown : unknown

'In common with thousands of other people I have been doing knitting during the raids. In normal times I never have time to knit as all my spare time is spend in reading or playing the piano, both pastimes which cannot be indulged in when there are a lot of people in the room.'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: anon      Print: Unknown

  

[unknown] : [chancery Bill drawn against Trice]

'Dined at home; and so about my business in the afternoon to the temple, where I find my chancery bill drawn against T. Trice; which I read, and like it.'

Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Pepys      Manuscript: Sheet

  

[unknown] : [unknown- little but shrewd piece]

'So to bed, with my mind cheery upon it; and lay long reading Hobbs his "liberty and necessity", and a little but a very shrewd piece.'

Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Pepys      Print: Unknown

  

[unknown] : Additional evidences... relating to the reigns of K. James and K. Charles

'and so up to my study and read the two treatys before Mr Selden's "Mare Clausum"; and so to bed.'

Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Pepys      Print: Unknown

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

'And so home by Coach and I late reading in my Chamber; and then to bed, my wife being angry that I keep the house up so late.'

Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Pepys      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

'Hence home and to read; and so to bed, but very late again.'

Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Pepys      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

'so home - to read - supper and to prayers; and then to bed.'

Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Pepys      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

'I up to my chamber to read and write, and so to bed.'

Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Pepys      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

'At night to my chamber to read and sing; and so to supper and to bed.'

Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Pepys      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

'He being gone, I to my study and read; and so to eat a bit of bread and cheese and so to bed.'

Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Pepys      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [letter]

'This night Tom came to show me a civil letter sent him from his mistress.'

Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Pepys      Manuscript: Letter

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

'and so to my office, practising arthmetique alone and making an end of last night's book, with great content, till 11 at night; and so home to supper and to bed.'

Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Pepys      Print: Book

  

unknown : Announcements of Lectures on Geology

'In the interim walked on the Sands & when there the rain descended more heavily, I nevertheless searched up some seaweed. Returned. Took shelter under the Museum cornice, & examined the Old Effigy, of which I had a plate engraved during my residence at Scarbro'. On looking at Posters on the walls, I discovered the announcements of Lectures on Geology on the Tuesday of the next week. This, thought I, is against me; and the weather unfavourable; & no lodgings at my old resort, made me regret my excursion; but subsequent success in obtaining subscribers for my lectures re-invigorated my spirit.'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: John Cole      Print: Poster

  

unknown : [Account of the Retirement of the Emperor Charles V]

'Read the extraordinary Acct of the Retirement of the Emperor Charles V.'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: John Cole      Print: Book

  

unknown : [cheap editions of books]

'On the whole in these casual ventures I go no further than about 2/6 a book, and most of my reading comes from such editions as Penguin, Pelican, Evergreen, Everyman etc., all of which, note, have attractive covers and fair print for cheap books ... I am afraid I have left the impression that the look of the thing is all that worries me.'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: anon      Print: Book

  

unknown : [light reading]

'I like light reading - something to occupy my mind so that I can knit and read at the same time - something that I can pick up and put down again without a feeling of being jolted.'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: anon      Print: Book

  

unknown : [western stories]

'I don't mind any author, so long as it's a genuine western story. I always read purely western, because they're more or less full of action, and I can get into it in the first chapter. No war books for me, I can read all that boasting and piffle in the papers.'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: anon      Print: Book

  

unknown : [detective fiction]

'My husband usually buys the penguin books. They're cheap and easy to carry about and afterwards he gives them away to the Forces. He's working very hard and seems to derive a lot of pleasure form reading detective and crime stories.'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: anon      Print: Book

  

unknown : ["love" stories]

'The girl has joined the library. She's a big reader. Reads about 2 books a week. She's begun to start bringing home "love" books now. The boy isn't a bit keen on reading.'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: anon      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : The tryal of Sir Henry Vane, Kt., at the Kings Bench, Westminster, June the 2nd and 6th, 1662, together with what he intended to have spoken the day of his sentence (June 11) for arrest of judgment...

'at night my wife read "Sir H. Vanes trial" to me, which she begun last night, and I find it a very excellent thing, worth reading, and him to have been a very wise man.'

Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Pepys      Print: Unknown

  

[unknown] : The tryal of Sir Henry Vane, Kt., at the Kings Bench, Westminster, June the 2nd and 6th, 1662, together with what he intended to have spoken the day of his sentence (June 11) for arrest of judgment...

'at night my wife read "Sir H. Vanes trial" to me, which she begun last night, and I find it a very excellent thing, worth reading, and him to have been a very wise man.'

Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Pepys      Print: Unknown

  

[unknown] : [Writ]

'Towards noon there comes a man in, as if upon ordinary business, and shows me a Writt from the Exchequer, called a Comission of Rebellion, and tells me that I am his prisoner - in Fields business.'

Unknown
Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Pepys      

  

[unknown] : [playbill]

'While my wife dressed herself, Creed and I walked out to see what play was acted today, and we find it "The Sleighted mayde".'

Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Pepys      Print: Advertisement, Broadsheet, Poster, playbill

  

[unknown] : [vowes]

'and I to my office till the evening, doing one thing or other and reading my vowes as I am bound every Lord's day'

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Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Pepys      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [Spanish books]

'staying a little in Paul's churchyard at the forreigne booksellers, looking over some Spanish books and with much ado keeping myself from laying out money there'

Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Pepys      Print: Book

  

unknown : synopsis of book

'Most of the books I choose from the free library are for the wife. I cast my eye over the books vaguely searching for likely looking binding. If one catches my eye, such as a new looking book, I glance at the title and author. If that looks promising, I take the book out and scan the synopsis, if there is one, and then scan the first page, before flicking over the pages and reading snatches of the dialogue. If there seems to be plenty of action, I choose the book. I avoid books about the present or last war.'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: anon      Print: Book

  

unknown : Cosmic Anatomy

'January 4...I have read a good deal of "Cosmic Anatomy" and understood it far better. Yes, such a book does fascinate me. Why does J. [Middleton Murry] hate it so? To get a glimpse of the relation of things - to follow that relation and find it remains true through the ages enlarges my little mind as nothing else does. It's only a greater view of psychology....Read Shakespeare.'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Katherine Mansfield      Print: Book

  

unknown : Cosmic Anatomy

'January 5... Read "Cosmic Anatomy". I managed to work a little.'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Katherine Mansfield      Print: Book

  

unknown : Time is the Spur

'I am reading now "Time is the Spur". No, I don't know whom it is by. I was recommended to it by a friend, It's very good.'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: anon      Print: Book

  

unknown : Cosmic Anatomy

'January 6... Read Shakespeare, read "Cosmic Anatomy", read The Oxford Dictionary.'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Katherine Mansfield      Print: Book

  

unknown : Cosmic Anatomy

'January 7... I read "Cosmic Anatomy", Shakespeare and the Bible. Jonah.'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Katherine Mansfield      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [vowes]

'While that [dinner] was prepared, to my office to read over my vowes, with great affection and to very good purpose.'

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Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Pepys      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : Navy precedents

'So home to my office, alone till dark, reading some part of my old "Navy precedents", and so home to supper.'

Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Pepys      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [Report of the proceedings of the commission of 1618]

'to my office and there made an end of reading my book that I have had of Mr Barlows, of the Journall of the Comissioners of the Navy who begun to act in the year 1618 and continued six years; wherein is fine observations and precedents, out of which I do purpose to make a good collection.'

Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Pepys      Print: Book

  

unknown : Elizabeth of Bohemia

'Oh, I like all kinds of books - historical, semi-biography, well written. I liked "How Green was My Valley": and "All this and Heaven Too" ....I must say I can't read novels when I'm all upset. Now what have I read lately? Oh, I loved "Portrait of a Village", Brett Young: it was enchanting - "Royal Escape", "Spanish Bride", Georgette Heyer; Frankau's "Royal Regiment', oh and "Elizabeth of Bohemia". I loved that.'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: anon      Print: Book

  

unknown : [books about China and Russia]

'Lately I've been reading books about China and Russia. I figure it out this way: I read the newspapers and meet different kinds of people, and they all have to say something different. It makes me want to read and know more myself. I don't think the ordinary person knows much about the people in other countries except what we hear now. If we can get some idea of the way they live and work, go a long way towards understanding them."

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: anon      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [vowes]

'So home; and after reading my vowes, being sleepy, without prayers to bed'

Unknown
Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Pepys      

  

[unknown] : A vindication of the degree of gentry in opposition to titular honours, and the humour of riches being the measure of honours. Done by a person of quality

'And so walk and by water to White-hall, all our way by water, both coming and going, reading a little book said to be writ by a person of Quality concerning English Gentry to be preferred before Titular honours; but the most silly nonsense, no sense nor grammar, yet in as good words that I ever saw in all my life, that from beginning to end you meet not with one entire and regular sentence.'

Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Pepys      Print: Book

  

unknown : [biography and travel]

'For light reading I like biography and travel - I see there are one or two out about the South Seas that should be interesting - I've only read two American books that I thought any good: I can't stand this Park Avenue stuff...there's nothing worth reading these days - nothing - in fact I'm turning more and more to the old books.'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: anon      Print: Book

  

unknown : Heavenly Trouser

'I enjoy most autobiographies and biography - you know Negley Farson's Travels - at the moment I'm reading Thackeray. I've never read "Pendennis" and I'm simply adoring it - I love detective stories too - I read the "Forsyte Saga" again - it's wonderful, isn't it...Do you know for the first year of the war I hardly read anything "Take Courage": there they were wanting a dictator and when they got him, well he wasn't the hero they thought - I do think Civil War is awful - then of course, I loved all those "Heavenly Trouser" ones.'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: anon      Print: Book

  

unknown : My Son Absalom

'"I don't read much - oh, a very mixed lot - "My Son Absalom" and "Fame is the Spur"' [then in response to question from interviewer] '- who, them? I enjoy travel books, that one there was so famous .!.. "Something in Tartary", extremely nice". (Fleming).'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: anon      Print: Book

  

unknown : [Travel books]

'I like Travel books - something uplifting - teaches you something. Of course, I like dirty books too....Have you read John Blunt - you ought to - "Mein Kampf". Oh, I liked "Rebecca" and "Gone with the Wind".'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: anon      Print: Book

  

unknown : Happy World

'"Happy World" is a very charming description of the best bits of the old landed way of life. The race as a whole seems to me to emphasise only its bad characteristics, so that to me, who remembers those days so well, it is a pleasure to read, so true an account of the mutual happiness that existed between all members of such a household. We must go forward, possibly to better ways of of the beauty of a very simple existence.'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: anon      Print: Book

  

unknown : [political and social books]

'Since the war began I have read less because my working hours have been lengthened and ARP duties and various social activities leave me less leisure. My reading howver is much more purposeful (as I have no time to waste). I read little fiction now, but much political and social books. This is, I think a natural development, but much hastened by the war and the conditions which caused it.'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: anon      Print: Book

  

unknown : unknown

'I read less now than before the war, owing to pressure of work - of a mental nature - and consequently prefer to spend most of my leisure in exercise. Thus what I read now is more carefully chosen, and read over several times. I squeeze more of the innards from my reading. I copy out passages here and there and make my own anthology.'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: anon      Print: Book

  

unknown : [lighter literature]

'Since the war began I have read less, chiefly because I am more tired and have less time. I never read until bed-time nowadays and I generally fall asleep before I've read much I have tended to read lighter literature, as an opiate probably. On the other hand my older children and I have had far more discussions and spend hours discussing vital problems personal and national.'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: anon      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [Statute book]

'I to my office and there read all the morning in my Statute-book, consulting among others the statute against seeling of offices, wherein Mr Coventry is so much concerned.'

Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Pepys      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

'Up and to read a little;'

Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Pepys      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : Paris Vulgate [or] Latin Testament

'Thence by water home and to bed - having played out of my chamber-window on my pipe before I went to bed - and making Will read a part of a Latin chapter, in which I perceive in a little while he will be pretty ready, if he spends but a little pains in it.'

Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Will Hewer      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : Paris Vulgate [or] Latin Testament

'Home in the evening and to my office, where despatched business and so home. And after Wills reading a little in the Latin Testament, to bed.'

Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Will Hewer      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [vowes]

'and then I to my office and read my vowes seriously and with content; and so home to supper, to prayers, and to bed.'

Unknown
Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Pepys      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : Paris Vulgate [or] Latin Testament

'then a Latin chapter of Will and to bed.'

Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Will Hewer      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [vowes]

'So to the reading of my vowes seriously, and then to supper.'

Unknown
Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Pepys      

  

[unknown] : Paris Vulgate [or] Latin Testament

'So home and up to my lute long; and then after a little Latin chapter with Will, to bed.'

Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Will Hewer      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [books on timber measuring and tides]

'Myself very studious to learn what I can of all things necessary for my place as an officer of the Navy - reading lately what concerns measuring of timber and knowledge of the tides.'

Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Pepys      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [vowes]

'and so home and to my office a while to read my vowes. The home to prayers and to bed.'

Unknown
Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Pepys      

  

[unknown] : [vowes]

'So home to dinner alone. And then to read a little and so to church again, where the Scott made an ordinary sermon; and so home to my office and there read over my vowes, and encreased them by a vow against all strong drink till November next, of any sort of Quantity... Then I fell to read over a silly play, writ by a person of Honour (which is, I find, as much to say a coxcombe) called "Love a la mode".'

Unknown
Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Pepys      

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

'So home to dinner alone. And then to read a little and so to church again, where the Scott made an ordinary sermon; and so home to my office and there read over my vowes, and encreased them by a vow against all strong drink till November next, of any sort of Quantity... Then I fell to read over a silly play, writ by a person of Honour (which is, I find, as much to say a coxcombe) called "Love a la mode".'

Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Pepys      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : Paris Vulgate [or] Latin Testament

'And being in bed, made Will read and conster three or four Latin verses in the bible and chid him for forgetting the grammer.'

Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Will Hewer      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [vowes]

'I sat up an hour after Mr Coventry was gone to read my vowes - it raining a wonderful hard showre about 11 at night for an hour together. So to bed.'

Unknown
Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Pepys      

  

[unknown] : [vowes]

'So home and at my office reading my vowes;'

Unknown
Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Pepys      

  

[unknown] : Paris Vulgate [or] Latin Testament

'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: Will Hewer      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

'Thence by coach with my Lord Peterborough and Sandwich to my Lord Peterborough's house; and there, after an hour's looking over some fine books of the Italian buildings with fine cuts, and also my Lord Peterborough's bowes and arrows, of which he is a great lover, we sat down to dinner...'

Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Pepys      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [unknown - recipes]

'and so we went to boat again and then down to the bridge and there tried to find a sister of Mrs Morrices, but she was not within neither, and so we went through bridge and I carried them on board the King's pleasure-boat - all the way reading in a book of Receipts of making fine meats and sweetmeats; among others, one "To make my own sweet water" - which made us good sport.'

Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Pepys      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [proclamation]

'This day I read a proclamacion for calling in and commanding everybody to apprehend my Lord Bristoll.'

Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Pepys      Print: Broadsheet, Handbill, Poster

  

[unknown] : [vowes]

'Then into the garden to read my weekly vowes.'

Unknown
Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Pepys      

  

[unknown] : [bills advertising a cure for smoking chimneys]

'This day my wife showed me bills printed, wherein her father, with Sir John Collidon and Sir Edwd. Ford, hath got a patent for curing of smoking chimnys. I wish they may do good thereof - but fear it will prove but a poor project.'

Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Pepys      Print: Handbill

  

[unknown] : [anatomy of the body]

'Up and to my office, where all the morning - and part of it Sir J Mennes spent as he doth everything else, like a fool, reading the Anatomy of the body to me, but so sillily as to the making of me understand anything that I was weary of him.'

Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Sir John Mennes [or Minnes]      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [vowes]

'And read very seriously my vowes, which I am fearful of forgetting by my late great expenses - but I hope in God I do not. And so to bed.'

Unknown
Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Pepys      

  

[unknown] : [vowes]

'So home and my wife and I together all the evening, discoursing; and then after reading my vowes to myself... we hastened to supper and to bed.'

Unknown
Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Pepys      

  

[unknown] : [vowes]

'So home to prayers, and then to read my vowes and to bed.'

Unknown
Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Pepys      

  

[unknown] : [Arithmetic books]

'my wife, it being a cold day and it begin to snow, kept her bed till after dinner. And I below by myself looking over my arithmetique books and Timber Rule.'

Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Pepys      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [vowes]

'To church; where after sermon, home and to my office before dinner, reading my vowes;'

Unknown
Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Pepys      

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

'He gone, I to my office and there late, writing and reading; and so home to bed.'

Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Pepys      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [on the globes]

'and then I begin to read to my wife upon the globes, with great pleasure and to good purpose, for it will be pleasant to her and to me to have her understand those things.'

Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Pepys      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

'so home to dinner with my poor wife; and after dinner read a lecture to her in Geography, which she takes very prettily, and with great pleasure to her and me to teach her.'

Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Pepys      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [Spanish books]

'and then through Bedlam (calling by the way at an old bookseller's, and there fell into looking over Spanish books and pitched upon some, till I thought of my oath when I was going to agree for them and so with much ado got myself out of the shop, glad at my heart and so away)'

Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Pepys      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

'So home, reading all the way a good book;'

Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Pepys      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [lecture on the globes]

'and after supper, to read a lecture to my wife upon the globes, and so to prayers and to bed.'

Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Pepys      Print: Book

  

unknown : submissions to Bentley's Miscellany

?I have had several aggravations of my indisposition, in the shape of voluntary contributions for the Miscellany-one man has sent about as much as would fill half a dozen numbers; and nearly all have forwarded the most appalling nonsense I ever had the ill fortune to peruse.?

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Charles Dickens      Manuscript: Unknown

  

[unknown] : Dick Turpin

'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

  

[unknown] : Spring-heeled Jack

'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

  

[unknown] : Claude Duval

'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

  

[unknown] : Edith the Captive

'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

  

[unknown] : Edith Heron

'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

  

[unknown] : [books about the Navy]

'Thence walked with Mr Coventry to St James's and there spent by his desire the whole morning reading of some old Navy books given him of old Sir John Cookes by the Arch-Bishop of Canterbury that now is; wherein the order that was observed in the Navy then, above what it is now, is very observable, and fine things we did observe in our reading.'

Unknown
Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Pepys      

  

[unknown] : [plays]

'So stayed within all day, reading of two or three good plays.'

Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Pepys      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

'After supper I up to read a little, and then to bed.'

Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Pepys      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

'At night home to supper, weary and my eyes sore with writing and reading - and to bed.'

Unknown
Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Pepys      

  

[unknown] : Ichthyothera; or the royal trade of fishing [probably]

'and there fitted myself and took a hackney-coah I hired (it being a very cold and fowle day) to Woolwich, all the way reading in a good book touching the Fishery; and that being done, in the book upon the statutes of Charitable uses, mightily to my satisfaction.'

Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Pepys      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

'and so home and with her [wife] all the evening, reading and at musique with my boy, with great pleasure; and so to supper, prayers and to bed.'

Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Pepys      Print: Book

  

unknown : Lectures on the Bible and liturgy

'Her own private readings here were chiefly on Divinity, a volume in 8 vo. consisting of "Lectures on the Bible and liturgy" being her principal vade mecum [sic] - this looked well, as though she bore in mind - the end - "that bourne whence no traveller returns!"'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Kemble      Print: Book

  

unknown : [report on trial]

'I have just been looking over the trial of Mr Corder for the murder of Maria Martin.'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Cape      Print: Newspaper

  

unknown : [spiritual books]

She read saints' lives and was 'as it were enflamed with a desire of imitating them'. Her needlework was always accompanied by the 'reading of some spiritual book' (presumably by a servant, or possibly friend or family member). She carefully scrutinised her children's reading and did not allow them to read anything 'contradictory to faith, or destructive to modesty'.

Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Talbot, Countess of Shrewsbury      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

The boy is 'discontented ... because I cannot understand that which I reade'. The Devil Magirus 'expounded the places that were difficult', and for this reading expertise the student promises the Devil his soul. He later regrets this, but disappears, presumably carried off by the Devil.

Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: anon [a boy]      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

'at night home to look over my new books, and so late to bed.'

Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Pepys      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [copy of verses]

'and so we set out for Chatham - in my way overtaking some company, wherein was a lady, very pretty, riding single, her husband in company with her. We fell into talk, and I read a copy of verses which her husband showed me, and he discommended but the lady commended; and I read them so as to make the husband turn to commend them.'

Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Pepys      Print: Unknown

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

'At night to read, being weary with this day's great work.'

Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Pepys      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

'and after supper to read melancholy alone, and then to bed.'

Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Pepys      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [a play]

'Up, and walked to Greenwich reading a play, and to the office'

Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Pepys      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [parliamentary bill]

'but he showed me a bill which hath been read in the House making all breakng of bulk for the time to come felony; but it is a foolish Act and will do no great matter'

Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Pepys      

  

[unknown] : [book about painting]

'and then up, and fell to reading of Mr Eveling's book about Paynting, which is a very pretty book.'

Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Pepys      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : L'Ami des Enfants

'I worked till supper with [Madame de Bombelles] whilst Mama read something from "L'Ami des Enfants".'

Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Agathe Wynne      Print: Serial / periodical

  

unknown : unknown

'Your news and your book very much diverted me: it is an old, but very pleasant, Spanish novel.'

Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary, Lady Wortley Montagu      Print: Book

  

unknown : [dictionaries]

'I am now so much alone, I have leisure to pass whole days in reading, but am not at all proper for so delicate an employment as choosing you books. Your own fancy will better direct you. My study at present is nothing but dictionaries and grammars...I find the study so diverting, I am not only easy, but pleased with the solitude that indulges it.'

Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary, Lady Wortley Montagu      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

'I got up very late and ate a large breakfast after which I prayed and read with Mama almost till dinner time'.

Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth (Betsey) Wynne      Print: Unknown

  

unknown : [humorous poetry]

'Sunday, 31st January, Discussion group ? Readings from Humorous Poetry. A rubber of whist.'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Gerald Moore      Print: Book

  

unknown : unknown

'Wednesday, 21st April, Re my songs - I might do worse than listen in to the Shakespeare celebrations broadcast on Friday. I might get an idea from the London highbrows. At home reading'.

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Gerald Moore      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [sermon]

'I stayed in bed till 4 oclock this afternoon the sermon was read after dinner. It was fine but a little too strong'.

Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth (Betsey) Wynne      Print: Unknown

  

[unknown] : [sermon]

'Mamma suffers much and was obliged to go to bed after dinner so Mr de Regis read the sermon which was on the small number of elect and one of the finest that we have read. It seems there is much difficulty in saving oneself the way to heaven is narrow they say and that to damnation is wide. What I learnt from this sermon was that one must not be content with what one says, "I do, as others do", for it is just then that we say "I damn myself". Happily in Wartegg we have not many occasions to sin...'

Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: [Mr] de Regis      Print: Unknown

  

[unknown] : [sermon]

'I did not hear much of the sermon today, it was on Apathy for whilst it was being read the children made such a noise and Made. de B. whilst embroidering her waistcoat never stopped talking to the Abbe and giving him good advice all the time that I was distracted and could not pay the least attention to the sermon'.

Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth (Betsey) Wynne      Print: Unknown

  

[unknown] : [sermon]

'The Sermon was read this evening: very fine but the praises of the king are too strong'.

Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth (Betsey) Wynne      Print: Unknown

  

[unknown] : [sermon]

'The sermon that we read was on the Passion and even finer than the last'.

Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Eugenia Wynne and others     Print: Unknown

  

unknown : [Economics textbook]

'Friday 30th July. Had luncheon in the office today and stayed in reading my Economics. I am doing it more systematically this time. I hope I shall be able to keep it up as I know I shall find it interesting once I break through the crust of introductory chapters. When I have done a little of this groundwork it will make me able to understand and appreciate more exactly the work modern economists ? Keynes, Marshall, Webb, etc? This is an old ambition of mine. I hope to stagger through Marx some day.'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Gerald Moore      Print: Book

  

unknown : unknown

'Monday 2nd August. We did not go out today, it being Bank Holiday. We stayed in, had a nice quiet day with some music, some reading, talk and smokes. Very satisfactory. There is a story in the book I am reading at present which I found interesting as seeming to point to Waterloo Bridge having been, before, a subject of just such controversy as rages round it at present. Story goes as follows ? It being remarked that some people were opposed to the building of Waterloo Bridge because it would spoil the river. Luttrell (a social figure of the late XVIIIth century) exclaimed, ?By Gad Sir, if a few very sensible people had been attended to, we should still be champing acorns. What amuses me is that people are now opposing the alteration and enlargement of the present structure on the grounds that its destruction will spoil the river!'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Gerald Moore      Print: Book

  

unknown : Le Philanthrope

'After supper Mde. de Bombelles read 'Le Philanthrope' which is as amusing as possible'.

Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: [Madame] de Bombelles      Print: Book

  

unknown : The Golden Glory

'Monday 4th October ?The Golden Glory? ( ? ) A great yarn this.'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Gerald Moore      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

'From this time [7pm] till nine o'clock, the prisoners are allowed to read such books as they may have obtained from the library. To show us that the men were generally so occupied, the officer who had attended us throughout the day now led us from cell to cell, and drew aside the small metal screen that hung down before the little peep hole in each door, when, on looking through it, we found almost every prisoner whom we peeped in upon seated close to the gas-light, and busily engaged in persuing either some book or periodical that was spread out before him.'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: prisoners at Pentonville prison     Print: Book, Serial / periodical

  

[unknown] : [letter]

'we had reached a cell in the west wing, to which the first letter was addressed. The women were locked up in their cells during tea-time, and the clerk, placing her mouth close against the door, called the name of the prisoner located within. "Yes, mum", was the answer that came from the cell. "Here's a letter for you", added the clerk, as she stooped down and threw the document under the door. In a moment there was a postive scream of delight from within, followed by a cry of "Oh! how glad I am". Then we could hear the poor creature tear open the sheet, and begin mumbling the contents to herself in half hysteric tones.'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: anon      Manuscript: Letter

  

[unknown] : [letter]

'In the laundry, the prisoner to whom the letter was given smiled gratefully in the clerk's face, as she thrust it into her bosom. "Can you read it?" inquired the letter-carrier, who seemed almost as delighted as the prisoner herself. "Oh yes, mum, thank you" replied the woman; and she hurried to the other end of the wash-house, to enjoy its contents quietly be herself.'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: anon      Manuscript: Letter

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

Inspection of the cells of the women in separate confinement: 'we found some working, and others reading, but none, strange to say, idling'.

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: prisoners in separate confinement at Brixton Prison     Print: Book, Serial / periodical

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

Inspection of the East Wing between 8:30pm and time of retirement: 'with their little wooden seats [they] placed themselves just within their doors, where they began reading.'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: prisoners in East Wing at Brixton Prison     Print: Book, Serial / periodical

  

[unknown] : Family Quarrel - an humble story

'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: Unknown

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

The infirmary: 'Some of the men were in bed and sitting up reading, and others were lying down, looking very ill.'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: prisoners in the infirmary at Millbank     Print: Unknown

  

[unknown] : [French and German language books]

Recognised among the prisoners a once eminent City merchant, sentenced to transportation for fraud: 'This person, we were told, found special consolation in the study of languages, and on the table of his cell was a high pyramid of books, consisting of French and German exercises, with others of a religious character.'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: anon      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

'A few of the men were reading, and never raised their eyes'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: prisoners at Coldbath Fields     Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

'In one of the yards we noticed...an old man of eighty, with hair as white as the prison walls themselves, and which was especially striking from the generality of prisoners being mere youths. He no sooner saw us enter, than hastily put on his spectacles, he commenced reading, bending his face down as if to hide it from shame... he had once held a high command in the army. He was there for a nameless offence.'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: anon      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

'A big sailor-looking man with red whiskers growing under his chin, advanced to the hearer's desk. Not a word was spoken as the copy-book was handed in. The prison-tutor pointed in silence to a mistake, the pupil nodded, and, on another signal, began to read aloud what he had written, "Give to every man that asketh, and of him that taketh away thy goods, ask him not again".'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: anon      Manuscript: Sheet

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

'Another - a lad with a bandage round his face, and heavy, dingy-coloured eyes - was sent back for having too many blots and errors. This man, when repeating his lessons, stumbled over the sentence "There shall be wailing and gnashing of teeth", calling it "genashing" instead.'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: anon      Manuscript: Sheet

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

'Once the head master had occasion to speak. A lad with ruddy skin, and light hair, had a defect in his speech, and could not pronounce his "r's", so that he read out: "Whatsoever is wight that shall ye weceive". "Do try and pronounce your 'r's' better", said the master, kindly; and there upon there was a shuffling of feet from the other pupils, as if the only method of laughing under the silent system was with the shoes.'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: anon      Manuscript: Sheet

  

[unknown] : [Religious Tracts]

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

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

'A young man sat in the corner of another cell with his cheek leaning on his hand and his elbow resting on the table. He appeared to be absorbed reading. The labour machine stood beside him, with the handle pointing upwards, as if he were exhausted, and was recruiting his strength, by taking a glance at some book which interested him.'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: anon      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [lesson: either Bible or school textbook]

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

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

Pictures from the cells at Wandsworth: 'Before leaving, on the third day of our visit, we visited the cell where the little girl was confined, whom we had seen in the punishment cell. She was clad in another prison dress, and was reading a book, and appeared to be quiet and subdued in her manner. She had been subjected to a punishment of bread and water for two days. From her card we found she was under confinement for picking pockets; there was nothing remarkable in her appearance.'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: anon      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

Juvenile schoolroom at Holloway Prison: 'Mr Barre, the teacher, [was] busy with a class of boys, who were reading their primers. The lessons consisted of monosyllables, such as "They walk by faith and not by sight"... The teacher was seated in his uniform by a table, with a class of half a dozen boys ranged on a form before him. Some were writing on their slates, while others were reading. Sometimes they read together, and at other times one boy read by himself... After hearing them read for some time, the teacher exercised them in simple questions of mental arithmetic...'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: juvenile male prisoners at Holloway     Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

Newgate Prison: Visiting the cells: 'We first went to Gallery B, occupied by penal servitude men. In one cell we saw a pleasant looking, dark-complexioned man of about 30 years of age, sitting with one knee over the other reading a book.'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: anon      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [manuscripts]

Newgate Prison: Visiting the cells: 'In another cell we saw a respectable looking man in middle life, seated at his table with his head leaning on his hand, and copious manuscripts spread before him. On seeing us approach, he appeared to be a little sensitive. He was dressed in a fine black coat and vest, and light trousers. He was charged with obtaining goods to the enormous amount of ?12,000, and represented himself to be a merchant.'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: anon      Manuscript: Sheet

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

Horsemonger Lane Gaol - Visiting the cells: 'On looking into another cell, we saw a prisoner sentenced to penal servitude, engaged reading by his table, having just finished his dinner. He was born in Canada, and came to this country with his father in early life, to secure certain property left by an uncle. He was a good looking man, a costermonger, and complained he had been hunted by the police from pillar to post, and driven into misfortune.'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: anon      Print: Book

  

unknown : [history]

'Thus, dear sister, I have given you a very particular, and (I am afraid you'll think) a tedious account, of this part of my travels. It was not an affectation of shewing my reading, that has made me tell you some little scraps of the history of the towns I have passed through.'

Unknown
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary, Lady Wortley Montagu      

  

unknown : Novels

Elizabeth Missing Sewell on her mother, Jane Sewell (nee Edwards; married 1802): 'She must have been naturally very clever; for, although she had received little or no education, her knowledge of books, and her memory for poetry and apt quotations, were quite remarkable. She often talked to us of her studies as a girl; how she used not only to devour novels, and read Sir Charles Grandison every winter, but how she also taught herself a little French, learned by heart long passages from the great poets, sometimes read history, and especially delighted in Bayley's Dictionary, with its long meanings and rules for pronunciation.'

Century: 1700-1799 / 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Jane Edwards      Print: Book

  

unknown : [Texts on history]

Elizabeth Missing Sewell on her mother, Jane Sewell (nee Edwards; married 1802): 'She must have been naturally very clever; for, although she had received little or no education, her knowledge of books, and her memory for poetry and apt quotations, were quite remarkable. She often talked to us of her studies as a girl; how she used not only to devour novels, and read Sir Charles Grandison every winter, but how she also taught herself a little French, learned by heart long passages from the great poets, sometimes read history, and especially delighted in Bayley's Dictionary, with its long meanings and rules for pronunciation.'

Century: 1700-1799 / 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Jane Edwards      Print: Unknown

  

unknown : History of Montezuma

Elizabeth Missing Sewell on being read to as a child by her mother, Jane Sewell (nee Edwards; married 1802): 'I can recall now the pleasure with which (taking turns with my sisters) I used to jump up into her lap and listen whilst she read to us [italics]Anson's Voyages[end italics], or [italics]Lemprier's Tour to Morocco[end italics], or the [italics]History of Montezuma[end italics]. When she had finished, we all, kneeling round her, said our prayers and went to bed happy.'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Jane Sewell      Print: Book

  

unknown : [Story]

Elizabeth Missing Sewell on her childhood reading in her family home: 'To be alone was never unpleasant to me. In the nursery my great pleasure was to sit by myself in a dark closet, opening into a room, with a little lanthorn by my side, and read a story, while my sisters played about. I enjoyed hearing them, but I did not wish to join them.'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Sewell      Print: Unknown

  

unknown : French idioms

Elizabeth Missing Sewell on studies at Miss Crooke's boarding school, Newport, Isle of Wight: 'When my regular lessons for the day were over, I used to sit until bed-time with my back to a long table, on which two candles were placed, and learn by heart columns of French idioms'.

Unknown
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Sewell      

  

unknown : [Italian history of the Venetian Doges]

Elizabeth Missing Sewell on her reading at home in the Isle of Wight, after leaving her Bath boarding school in 1830: 'I used to study by myself, for I knew that I was woefully ignorant. Such books as Russell's "History of Modern Europe" and Robertson's "Charles the Fifth", I read, and also Watts on the "Improvement of the Mind", and I plodded through an Italian history of the Venetian Doges, lent me by an intimate and valued friend of my father, Mr. Turnbull [...] I taught myself besides to read Spanish -- for having found a Spanish "Don Quixote" lying about, which no one claimed, I took possession of it, bought a grammar and dictionary, and set to work to master the contents of the books which I knew so well by name. The elements of botany on the Linnean system was another of my attempted acquirements, but I am afraid my studies were very superficial: I knew nothing perfectly, but I read everything that came in my way. There was an excellent town library in Newport, from which I could get any good modern works; and, beside the graver literature, I had always some lighter book on hand, and especially delighted in Walter Scott's novels and poetry. Byron, too was a great favourite.'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Sewell      Print: Book

  

unknown : Spanish grammar

Elizabeth Missing Sewell on her reading at home in the Isle of Wight, after leaving her Bath boarding school in 1830: 'I used to study by myself, for I knew that I was woefully ignorant. Such books as Russell's "History of Modern Europe" and Robertson's "Charles the Fifth", I read, and also Watts on the "Improvement of the Mind", and I plodded through an Italian history of the Venetian Doges, lent me by an intimate and valued friend of my father, Mr. Turnbull [...] I taught myself besides to read Spanish -- for having found a Spanish "Don Quixote" lying about, which no one claimed, I took possession of it, bought a grammar and dictionary, and set to work to master the contents of the books which I knew so well by name. The elements of botany on the Linnean system was another of my attempted acquirements, but I am afraid my studies were very superficial: I knew nothing perfectly, but I read everything that came in my way. There was an excellent town library in Newport, from which I could get any good modern works; and, beside the graver literature, I had always some lighter book on hand, and especially delighted in Walter Scott's novels and poetry. Byron, too was a great favourite.'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Sewell      Print: Book

  

unknown : Spanish dictionary

Elizabeth Missing Sewell on her reading at home in the Isle of Wight, after leaving her Bath boarding school in 1830: 'I used to study by myself, for I knew that I was woefully ignorant. Such books as Russell's "History of Modern Europe" and Robertson's "Charles the Fifth", I read, and also Watts on the "Improvement of the Mind", and I plodded through an Italian history of the Venetian Doges, lent me by an intimate and valued friend of my father, Mr. Turnbull [...] I taught myself besides to read Spanish -- for having found a Spanish "Don Quixote" lying about, which no one claimed, I took possession of it, bought a grammar and dictionary, and set to work to master the contents of the books which I knew so well by name. The elements of botany on the Linnean system was another of my attempted acquirements, but I am afraid my studies were very superficial: I knew nothing perfectly, but I read everything that came in my way. There was an excellent town library in Newport, from which I could get any good modern works; and, beside the graver literature, I had always some lighter book on hand, and especially delighted in Walter Scott's novels and poetry. Byron, too was a great favourite.'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Sewell      Print: Book

  

unknown : [Texts on botany]

Elizabeth Missing Sewell on her reading at home in the Isle of Wight, after leaving her Bath boarding school in 1830: 'I used to study by myself, for I knew that I was woefully ignorant. Such books as Russell's "History of Modern Europe" and Robertson's "Charles the Fifth", I read, and also Watts on the "Improvement of the Mind", and I plodded through an Italian history of the Venetian Doges, lent me by an intimate and valued friend of my father, Mr. Turnbull [...] I taught myself besides to read Spanish -- for having found a Spanish "Don Quixote" lying about, which no one claimed, I took possession of it, bought a grammar and dictionary, and set to work to master the contents of the books which I knew so well by name. The elements of botany on the Linnean system was another of my attempted acquirements, but I am afraid my studies were very superficial: I knew nothing perfectly, but I read everything that came in my way. There was an excellent town library in Newport, from which I could get any good modern works; and, beside the graver literature, I had always some lighter book on hand, and especially delighted in Walter Scott's novels and poetry. Byron, too was a great favourite.'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Sewell      Print: Unknown

  

[unknown] : Rudolph of Wertenberg

'Ever since I have read "Rudolph of Wertenberg" I have more pleasure when I walk round this country, as it makes me remember on all that has happen in former times in this part of Switzerland, of which I have been well informed by that book; which I read with the greatst Satisfaction - and that I shall not forget So Soon'.

Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth (Betsey) Wynne      Print: Book

  

unknown : unknown

'I endeavour to persuade myself that I live in a more agreeable variety that you do; and that Monday, setting of partridges - Tuesday, reading English - Wednesday, studying the Turkish language (in which, by the way, I am already very learned - Thursday, classical authors.'

Unknown
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary, Lady Wortley Montagu      

  

unknown : Arabian Tales

'This is but too like (say you) the Arabian Tales: these embroidered napkins! and a jewel as large as a turkey's egg! - You forget, dear sister, those very tales were written by an author of this country and (excepting the enchantments) are a real representation of the manners here.'

Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary, Lady Wortley Montagu      Print: Book

  

unknown : unknown

'I have got for you, as you desire, a Turkish love-letter, which I have put in a little box, and ordered the captain of the Smyrniote to deliver it to you with this letter. The translation of it is as literally as follows: The first piece you should pull out of the purse is a little pearl, which is in Turkish called [italics] Ingi [italics]...You see this letter is all verses, and I can assure you there is as much fancy shewn in the choice of them, as in the most studied expressions of our letters; there being, I believe, a million of verses designed for this use.'

Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary, Lady Wortley Montagu      Manuscript: Letter

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

'in the Army I spent most of my leisure reading in a desultory fashion anything that aroused my interest. Later on I bought or borrowed books on subjects not usually studied by privates, and began to co-ordinate my reading. Soldiers who did much reading were then objects of suspicion and I began to find myself a marked man.'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Stuart Wood [pseud?]      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

'After a wait of two months as a trial prisoner, during which I was able to do a considerable amount of reading, I was taken to the Guildhall for trial'.

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Stuart Wood [pseud?]      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [book on China]

'I had read about this country [China] with its forty centuries of history - more or less static, but which, at the present time, is passing through the most momentous transformation in history'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Stuart Wood [pseud?]      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [unknown- various titles]

'There was also a pretty good library on board [HMS Spartiate], and I suppose the chaplain, who had charge of it, had noticed that I chose books not usually read by stokers and had commented on it. During our trips from place to place I used to sit or lie on the fo'c'sle when not on watch reading biography, criticism, history and philosophy, or indeed any book of more than ephemeral interest.'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Stuart Wood [pseud?]      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [sermons]

'I read the Bible because in my humble opinion it is one of the most difficult books in the language to read correctly, as many parsons would do well to realise; sermons, Bampton and Gifford lectures, lectures on art, drama, history, science and philosophy, and also speeches by the acknowledged masters of oratory... For what? Nothing!'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Stuart Wood [pseud?]      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : Bampton lectures

'I read the Bible because in my humble opinion it is one of the most difficult books in the language to read correctly, as many parsons would do well to realise; sermons, Bampton and Gifford lectures, lectures on art, drama, history, science and philosophy, and also speeches by the acknowledged masters of oratory... For what? Nothing!

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Stuart Wood [pseud?]      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : Gifford lectures

'I read the Bible because in my humble opinion it is one of the most difficult books in the language to read correctly, as many parsons would do well to realise; sermons, Bampton and Gifford lectures, lectures on art, drama, history, science and philosophy, and also speeches by the acknowledged masters of oratory... For what? Nothing!

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Stuart Wood [pseud?]      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [lectures on art, drama, history, science and philosophy]

'I read the Bible because in my humble opinion it is one of the most difficult books in the language to read correctly, as many parsons would do well to realise; sermons, Bampton and Gifford lectures, lectures on art, drama, history, science and philosophy, and also speeches by the acknowledged masters of oratory... For what? Nothing!'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Stuart Wood [pseud?]      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [speeches]

'I read the Bible because in my humble opinion it is one of the most difficult books in the language to read correctly, as many parsons would do well to realise; sermons, Bampton and Gifford lectures, lectures on art, drama, history, science and philosophy, and also speeches by the acknowledged masters of oratory... For what? Nothing!'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Stuart Wood [pseud?]      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [Henry VIII]

'At Wormwood Scrubs I lent a work on Henry VIII to a jewel thief. When he returned it, he remarked that he had enjoyed it very much and, if I had another similar book, he would like to read it. As he did not strike me as being the type of man to take so keen an interest in history as his praise of the book seemed to imply, I asked him what aspects of Henry the Eight had aroused his interest. He replied that it was Henry's penchant for women that had intrigued him. Only he didn't put it quite like that. What he really said was something like this: "Gor blimey! Wasn't 'e a b- (son of a bachelor) for wimmin! Tork abaht us blokes bein' 'at stuff, why the b- had a bleedin' 'Arem! Them kings, and blokes like 'im, were the dirtiest lot of b-'s I've ever read abaht. Tork abaht Marie Monk! Why there ain't a bloke in this nick, or Dartmoor, or Pankhurst, as is a quarter as bad as these blokes yer reads abaht in 'istory!"'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: anon      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

'after I had a bath or a wash we would fall to and spend the rest of the evening round the fire, I reading and Kate sewing or knitting. I joined the public library and so got plenty of good literature.'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Stuart Wood [pseud?]      Print: Book

  

unknown : Article on the Jesuits

From Elizabeth Missing Sewell's Journal, 21 October 1845: 'Some of us went for a lovely walk yesterday by the sea cliffs of St. Lawrence. Mr. Edgar Estcourt [...] talked to me a little about William [Sewell]'s novel [italics]Hawkstone[end italics], doubting the fact told me about the Jesuits, and wishing they could be tried in a court of justice; and afterwards he gave me an article about them in the [italics]Oxford and Cambridge Review[end italics], most laudatory of them, and of Ignatius Loyola, and very condemnatory of Luther. It had no effect upon me however. There is too much of the partisan style about it, and it is too bombastic, and contains few facts....'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Missing Sewell      Print: Serial / periodical

  

[unknown] : [unknown - various titles]

'I read hard in divinity, history and general literature, and threw myself into the religious life of the prison to assuage my pain. The chaplain was a decent fellow, as chaplains go, and as an educated man always receives some consideration as to literature I was able to get hold of some pretty good stuff... I renewed my acquaintance with the lives of the Fathers, read several biographies of Christ and St Paul and also studies on the Apostles.'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Stuart Wood [pseud?]      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [lives of the Fathers]

'I read hard in divinity, history and general literature, and threw myself into the religious life of the prison to assuage my pain. The chaplain was a decent fellow, as chaplains go, and as an educated man always receives some consideration as to literature I was able to get hold of some pretty good stuff... I renewed my acquaintance with the lives of the Fathers, read several biographies of Christ and St Paul and also studies on the Apostles.'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Stuart Wood [pseud?]      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [biographies of Christ]

'I read hard in divinity, history and general literature, and threw myself into the religious life of the prison to assuage my pain. The chaplain was a decent fellow, as chaplains go, and as an educated man always receives some consideration as to literature I was able to get hold of some pretty good stuff... I renewed my acquaintance with the lives of the Fathers, read several biographies of Christ and St Paul and also studies on the Apostles.'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Stuart Wood [pseud?]      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [biographies of St Paul]

'I read hard in divinity, history and general literature, and threw myself into the religious life of the prison to assuage my pain. The chaplain was a decent fellow, as chaplains go, and as an educated man always receives some consideration as to literature I was able to get hold of some pretty good stuff... I renewed my acquaintance with the lives of the Fathers, read several biographies of Christ and St Paul and also studies on the Apostles.'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Stuart Wood [pseud?]      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [studies on the Apostles]

'I read hard in divinity, history and general literature, and threw myself into the religious life of the prison to assuage my pain. The chaplain was a decent fellow, as chaplains go, and as an educated man always receives some consideration as to literature I was able to get hold of some pretty good stuff... I renewed my acquaintance with the lives of the Fathers, read several biographies of Christ and St Paul and also studies on the Apostles.'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Stuart Wood [pseud?]      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [unknown - various titles]

Second confinement in the Prison at Hull: 'To enumerate some of the books I read would be to write a small catalogue; but I covered a fairly wide range in drama, fiction, poetry, biography, history, science, philosophy, theology, besides miscellaneous reading.'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Stuart Wood [pseud?]      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [Greek Philosophy]

'At Maidstone, both on this occasion and subsequently when I served several months in separate confinement as a convict preparatory to going to Parkhurst, I was able, through the chaplain's kindness, to study not only Greek philosophy, but also Locke, Hume, Berkeley, Kant, Hegel, Fichte, Schelling, Schopenhauer, Fechner, Lotze, etc. Being a very rapid reader and having some ability in getting at the gist of a book I got through a fair amount of really interesting reading. ... In the summer I grabbed a book as soon as it was light enough to read, say, four o'clock, read till and during breakfast, dinner, supper and continued till 9:30 or 10 o'clock at night, an average of 8 to 10 hours a day. There were times, of course, when the burden of prison life bred a spirit of discontent and restlessness which books could not assuage.'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Stuart Wood [pseud?]      Print: Book

  

unknown : ["black-letter poems"]

'I had also to go this morning and read some old black-letter poems in the Advocates' Library: and the stomach, like a true British subject, is rebelling not a little against all these infringements of its rights and privileges.'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Carlyle      Print: Book

  

Unknown : [Tragedies]

'I have read the Tragedies - I thank you for them - they are Byron's. Need I praise them. I have also read your eloquent history of Faust - For it too I thank you. It has fewer faults and greater merits than its Author led me to expect - '

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Jane Bailie Welsh      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [Abyssinia]

'Here I have been reading an account of Abyssinia, being a volume of the "Family Library", wherein you travel one stage (or chapter) with Bruce; then half a stage with some Portuguese missionary, and the remainder of it with Salt, or somebody else: you are never sure of your travelling companion.'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: John Mitchel      Print: Book

  

unknown : An Authentic Sketch of the life and public services of His Excellency Sir Charles Theophilus Metcalfe, Bart., KCB etc (second volume)

From Elizabeth Missing Sewell's Journal, 19 February 1856: 'I came here [Bournemouth] for a fortnight and have stayed a month. I have written a little, and read a good deal, -- the second volume of [italics]Sir Charles Metcalfe's Life[end italics], which makes me look upon him as more of a hero than many whom Carlyle would worship; and [italics]Hypatia[end italics] and two sermons of Dr. Pusey's against Germanism, and part of [italics]Hero Worship[end italics], to say nothing of pamphlets and magazines, and a diligent study of [italics]The Times[end italics] every evening.'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Missing Sewell      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : Quarterly Review

'Have been reading the "Quarterly Review" on Lyell's tour in North America. The "Quarterly" rejoices, quite generously, in American Art, and "Progress", and so forth - but is mainly solicitous that the Americans should - for their own sake, fo course - stay at peace. "For", says the generous reviewer, "As the future of America, to be a glorious future, must be a future of peace, so we would hope that it may be fruitful in all which embellishes and occupies and glorifies peace." - Most balmy language!'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Mitchel      Print: Serial / periodical

  

unknown : ['books of note']

Eleanor L. Sewell, niece of Elizabeth Missing Sewell, in chapter 21 of [italics]The utobiography of Elizabeth Missing Sewell[end italics]: 'Miss Sewell's arduous life-work came to an end [...] in 1890, and from that year to 1897 she kept up many outside activities [...] keenly interested in events of the day, reading the [italics]Times[end italics] aloud in the evening or some book of note.'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Missing Sewell      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [trial of Governor Wale]

'Eugenia and myself were much interested in reading the trial of Governor Wale who I recollect seeing at Florence - he is condemned to be hanged for flogging a man to death when Governor of the Island of Goree about 20 years ago. He seems to deserve his fate but it is a horrible thing for his wife and family'.

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Betsey and Eugenia Wynne     Print: Unknown

  

[unknown] : Sermons

'I was so ennuyed at my blindness, that one evening I made the Chaplain read me four Sermons, which alleviated my suffering for a time'.

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Fremantle      Print: Unknown

  

[unknown] : Death Notch the Avenging Rancher

Dec 9 'Sunday, Had a swim then breakfast and kikied anchor bound for [indecipherable]. Read "Death Notch the Avenging Rancher" Made very little headway.'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Newton Barton      Print: Unknown

  

[unknown] : [Bulletin]

13 Mar 'This is written in bad light and the vessel heaving and rolling. Hicks is discovering sweet music on the accordeon. Luce is reading a bulletin 2 years old. Nosey is at the wheel and the others are on deck.'

Unknown
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Luce      

  

unknown : unknown

'She is a woman of the artisan class, aged about 35. She was dressed in a brown coat with a fur collar, and had a scarf on her head. With her she brought two blankets, two cushions, some sweets and a book. She came with a man of 35, presumably her husband, and another of 50. At first she lay on the bench in the position marked 6 in the diagram with her head against a case; later she lay on the floor. At first she read, but by 10 o'clock she put the book away. Until one o'clock she lay doing nothing, twice falling asleep for a few minutes but both times waking up again soon.'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: anon      Print: Book, Unknown

  

unknown : prayer

'A study was made on Armistice Day reactions, comparable to those made in previous years. Even at the Cenotaph there was only a low degree of interest, and in Westminster Abbey at 11 a.m. there were 7 civilians, one soldier and 4 poppy-sellers outside ; 30 women and 5 men at the tomb of the Unknown Warrior, where a priest read a prayer, and there were five wreaths. The level of reaction generally was exceedingly low, even when compared with Nov. 11th, 1939.'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: [a priest] anon      Print: Unknown

  

[unknown] : [pestilent literature of rascaldom]

'The individual...was a fellow-worker of mine for nigh two years in Dartmoor. He had, in his younger days, passed through the workhouse; read the pestilent literature of rascaldom which has educated so many criminal characters in this country; then graduated in the "School", and ultimately became a noted burglar. His reading in prison had been pretty extensive, while his intelligence would have insured him a position in society above that of a labouring man... I could not help looking upon it as a very novel experience, for even this grotesque world, to have to listen to a man who could delight in a literary discussion, quote all the choice parts of Pope's "Illiad", and boast of having read Pascal and Lafontaine in the original, maintain, in sober argument, that "thieving was an honourable pursuit", and that religion, law, patriotism and bodily disease were the real and only enemies of humanity.'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: anon      Print: Book, Serial / periodical

  

[unknown] : [unknown novel]

[Carlyle tells how he was trying to write a learned exegesis and came to a dead halt] 'One cannot long be idle - you will not wonder that I took up the first book that came in my way - and tho' it was the dullest of all dull books, yet by a fatality attendant on those things, I could not give it up. It purported to be a "history of a lover" - showing how Cecilia (somebody) being poor but honest went to Paris, with some Brandy Irish Dowager (of Tipperary) and was much astounded at their goings on - yet very much liked by the beaux. Shewing how after divers trials and temptations she married with a lord (something) who had been a very great rascal in his early days but was now become a most delectable personage; how the[y] lived in great harmony of souls till the honest man one day riding on som[e] wold and happening to fall from his beast in the presence of this notable lady, she fell into hystericks or convulsions and was taken home in a wo[e]ful plight - where she loitered on till she was "brought to bed", when she took her leave of the good man and all the world - Would you believe me, I read & read this horrid story & might have been reading yet had not a most dolorous ode to Matrimonial - no "Monody on the Death of a beloved" &c compelled me to throw past the book; and set to writing you a letter.'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Carlyle      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [an Italian Grammar]

'I had almost forgotten to thank [you] for my books - they are just such as I wanted. "Blair" is an excellent piece - and very cheap. I am only sorry you sent it at all: I was in no particular want of it & you ought certainly to have done with the money whatever your situation required. - One is apt to be put about, when obliged to equip for such an expedition as yours. - The Italian grammar is hardly calculated for me - but answers in the mean time. The Novelle morale is an excellent book for the purpose'.

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Carlyle      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : The Sale Room

'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: Serial / periodical

  

[unknown] : The Dissenter Tripped Up

I console myself with Doddridge's Expositor and "The Scholar Armed", to say nothing of a very popular book called "The Dissenter tripped up".'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Sydney Smith      

  

unknown : A Life in the Forest

'Read "A Life in the Forest", skipping nimbly; but there is much of good in it'.

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Sydney Smith      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [the barren fig tree]

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

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

'Finished a review of Cicero's tract "De Officiis"...'

Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Green      Print: Unknown

  

[unknown] : [evidence of Elgin Marble Committee]

'I speak of books as I read them, and I read them as I can get them. You are read up to twelve o' clock of the preceding day, and therefore must pardon the staleness of my subjects. I read yesterday the evidence of the Elgin Marble Committee. Lord Elgin has done a very useful thing in taking them away from the Turks. Do not throw pearls to swine; and take them away from swine when they are so thrown. They would have been destroyed there, or the French would have had them'.

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Sydney Smith      Print: Unknown

  

unknown : [article in Edinburgh Review of Ross's Voyage to Baffin's Bay]

'I have read no article but Ross which I like and Larrey which I do not dislike tho' I think it might have been made more entertaining. The article upon, and by Brougham is too long for the distressing brevity of human life'.

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Sydney Smith      Print: Serial / periodical

  

unknown : [article in Edinburgh Review about Larrey's Memoires de Chirurgie Militaire]

'I have read no article but Ross which I like and Larrey which I do not dislike tho' I think it might have been made more entertaining. The article upon, and by Brougham is too long for the distressing brevity of human life'.

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Sydney Smith      Print: Serial / periodical

  

[unknown] : The Beacon

'You must have had a lively time at Edinburgh from this "Beacon". But Edinburgh is rather too small for such explosions, where the conspirators and conspired against must be guests at the same board, and sleep under the same roof. The articles upon Madame de Stael and upon Wilks's Protestants appear to me to be very good. The article upon Scotch juries is surely too long'.

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Sydney Smith      Print: Serial / periodical

  

unknown : Pamphlet on the Chiesa Evangelica

Elizabeth Missing Sewell, in letter to 'My Dear _____', from Florence, May 1861: 'A pamphlet [on the Chiesa Evangelica] which has been lent me, giving an account of its formation, plainly owns that it does not pretend to be a regular church.'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Missing Sewell      

  

unknown : Cassell's Illustrated Family Paper

'Noona seems to have a very interesting story in his bound up Cassell's Paper and I think we have one of them in our own.'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Louis Stevenson      Print: Serial / periodical

  

unknown : To sing with the Angels

'We had a few business connections with Prague in pre-war days, and our customers' knowledge of English always impressed rue, and within the last year I have read three books concenring Czechoslovakia, the most enlightening one being a fictional one "To sing with the Angels". I should say that the Czechs are one of the most progressive European people, and that after the war they will probably be the most powerful people in Central Europe. It is only to be hoped that their most useful people are not just liquidated by the Nazis.'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: unknown      Print: Book

  

unknown : unknown

'I only know from what I read, but the fact that the Nazis have to keep a huge Gestapo force inside Czech Territory is sufficient proof of the stubborn resistance put up by the inhabitants, I should imagine they attempt to trip the Germans up at every step, and unfortunately many of them pay with their lives for this. The news coming out of Cz. is fairly comprehensive, and this suggests that their underground movement is well organised. Cz. has been many times under the Conqueror's heel, and it is therefore hardly to be expected that they would tamely submit without a struggle.'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: unknown      Print: Unknown

  

unknown : Review of H.G. Wells' The First Men on the Moon

'I gather from a review that the conclusion of the book has not been printed in the Fortnightly?& this the most interesting part of the book. For this reason I should like the book. I had meant to buy it (sinning against my principle of never buying new books), but if I can get it for nothing I can put the price into the missionary box.'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Arnold Bennett      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [work in Italian]

'after dinner read l'esprit des nations 132 Shelley read[s] Italian - read 15 lines of Ovids metamo[r]phosis with Hogg - [italics to indicate Shelley's hand] The Assassins - Gibbon Chap. LXIV - all that can be known of the assassins is to be found in Memoires of the Acad[e]my of Inscriptions tom. xvii p127-170'.[end italics]

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Bysshe Shelley      Print: Unknown

  

unknown : [Biographies including ones of Peter the Great and of Oliver Cromwell]

Letter to Collector MacVicar, May 28 1773 'Since I wrote to you last, I have been most intent on biography, and quite engrossed by heroes and legislatures' [and later in same letter] 'You bid me read biography, to teach me to think; I have thought and here is the result [ie re Peter the Great]. If I have not made you very angry, I will next give my thought of this rival hero.'[and in the following two letters to same recipient May 30 and June 20 1773] 'The poor dear Odyssey is quite neglected; I have forsaken it for biography; I can speak of nobody less than a king or a general, and shall take the first opportunity of introducing you to prince Mazeppa. Tweed and Clyde are not worth a farthing now, I can think of nothing but Dneiper and the Boristhenes. I have some toleration too for the Wolga [sic]. "Oh voman [sic], voman!" as Win Jenkins says, " If you knew but the plesur [sic] we scullers have when we censter the crabbit werds." ?'; [and] ... 'To quit the flowery paths of ingenious fiction [ie the Vicar of Wakefield] for the thorny maze in which I am slowly advancing, [ie a biography of Cromwell] is no pleasing transition to female fancy?.'

Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Anne Grant [nee MacVicar]      Print: Book

  

unknown : [penny dreadfuls]

'I suffered very much in that shop through all the summer months. At that time we went to live at Malmaison and it was heartrending to think of George and Alfred [reader's brothers] playing Scouts and Indians in the park there whilst I sat hidden away in a musty corner behind the cash desk, in semi darkness near the hot irons, crouched on a small stool for days on end in the ?dead season? with nothing to do. Outside the rue Castiglione flamed in broiling sun. I spent the time reading so called ?penny dreadfuls?: Deadwood Dick, Buffalo Bill and others. In my murky corner I lived many perilous adventures and many hair-raising escapes. I was the hero and so forgot to grow lachrymal. This was the beginning of my literary education and my first taste for books. My crowning moment was when I succeeded in winning a Sunday school first prize, R. L. Stevenson?s ?Treasure Island?'.

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Arthur Vanson      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [a novel]

'Shelley reads Plutarch in Greek - Lord B - comes down & stays here an hour - I read a novel in the evening'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Godwin      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : Le Criminel Secret

'[italics to indicate Percy Shelley's hand] Still at Havre - engage a passage - wind contrary [end italics] - read "le crimenel secret" which is a very curious and striking book'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Godwin      Print: Unknown

  

unknown : [Light French novels]

Mrs Hugh Fraser, wife of the British diplomat Hugh Fraser, recalls acquaintances made whilst en poste with him in China (1874-78): 'Outside of his work Sir Robert Hart, on principle, provided for his mind the very lightest literature, amusing French novels being his favourite reading. He told me that he found in these trifles the only complete relaxation from business worries; he could read them through without a single effort of thought and forget all about them directly afterwards.'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Sir Robert Hart      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : Memoirs of Oliver Cromwell and his children, supposed to be written by himself

'Read Patronage & the Milesian chief - finish 5th vol of Clarendon - Shelley reads life of Cromwell'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Bysshe Shelley      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : Memoirs of Oliver Cromwell and his children, supposed to be written by himself

'Finish Milesian & Patronage - read Holcrofts travels - S. reads life of Cromwell.'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Bysshe Shelley      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [Discourse on the River Thames]

'I went therefore to Mr Boreman's for pastime, and stayed an hour or two, talking with him and reading a discourse about the River of Thames the reason of its being choked up in several places'

Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Pepys      Print: Unknown

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

'He set me down at Mr Gawden's, where nobody yet come home... So I took a book and into the gardens and there walked and read till dark - with great pleasure'

Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Pepys      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [epitaph on memorial stone]

'And so to the Chapel and there saw, among other things, Sir H. Wottons stone, with this Epitaph - "Hic Jacet primus hujus Sententiae Author. Disputandi pruritus fit ecclesiae scabies." But unfortunately, the word "Author" was wrong writ, and now so basely altered, that it disgraces the stone.'

Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Pepys      Manuscript: Graffito

  

[unknown] : Bill of mortality

'But blessed be God, a good Bill this week we have - being but 237 in all and 42 of the plague, and of them, but 6 in the City - though my Lord Brouncker says that these 6 are most of them in new parishes, where they were not the last week.'

Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Pepys      Print: Broadsheet, Handbill, Poster

  

unknown : Mahatma Gandhi

'I am really appreciating all the books and seem at the moment to be reading only French. I have not by any means exhausted them yet. ?Mahatma Gandhi? I am reading at the moment, but someone yesterday lent me Katherine Mayo?s ?Mother India?, and all my thoughts are boulevers?es [upset] by the horrors she pictures.

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Winifred Agnes Moore      Print: Book

  

unknown : Oakroyd

'I?m so glad you got your books. But I knew as far as a ?yarn? was concerned it was your book. Oakroyd is a masterpiece.'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Winifred Agnes Moore      Print: Book

  

unknown : Le Blois Vert

'I enjoy thoroughly ?Les Nouvelles? ? it is most useful to me also ? and ?Gringoire? is good for me ? it tempers my Francophile complex. I have not yet had time to complete ?Le Blois Vert?, in this rush. But I must tell you that my little collection of French books is my most cherished possession.'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Winifred Agnes Moore      Print: Book

  

unknown : Life of Turgot

'I am very busy with small things ? but am hoping to keep more to my books in future. I am making a really exhaustive study of France ? something fundamental I mean. At present I am going through a life of Turgot ? the latest, and a book on ?French Civilisation; Foundations to end of Middle Ages? by Albert Guerard.'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Winifred Agnes Moore      Print: Book

  

unknown : Life of Orage

'For relief I have had a life of Orage ? by someone who evidently had a great admiration for him, but only knew him personally during the last phase ? the ?New English Weekly? time. But it was competent and pleased me well, because it left out all the chit-chat about women etc, which was always superfluous when Orage was in question. He seemed to me a man, one of the few, (your father was really another) who could quite well have dispensed with women altogether, except in the most obvious way, and of course women like me, like men of that type, as we also can stand alone (yes, really, I can ? but I am not the better for it ? it arouses in me my old sense of arrogant detachment which I am inclined to think is sinful).'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Winifred Agnes Moore      Print: Book

  

unknown : The Proceedings of the Secret Committee

'I have read since last October a good deal of the history relating to the East - [including] .. The Proceedings of the Secret Committee..'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mountstuart Elphinstone      Print: Book

  

unknown : [texts on French history]

Elizabeth Missing Sewell recalls studies at the second school she attended (to the age of 15): 'Our subjects of study included -- besides English history and exercises in grammar -- lessons in mythology and upon the English Constitution learnt by heart from Mangall's Questions, the outlines of the rise of nations, with Roman, Grecian, and French history (the latter read in French), Mrs. Marcet's Conversations on Chemistry and Political Economy, and Joyce's Scientific Dialogues.'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Missing Sewell      Print: Book

  

unknown : unknown

'But that which most of all increast [sic] my knowledg [sic] was my daily reading to my Lady, Poems of all sorts and Plays, teaching me as I read, where to place my accents how to raise and fall my voice, where lay the Emphasis of the expressions.'

Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Hannah Woolley      Print: Book

  

unknown : unknown

'But that which most of all increast [sic] my knowledg [sic] was my daily reading to my Lady, Poems of all sorts and Plays, teaching me as I read, where to place my accents how to raise and fall my voice, where lay the Emphasis of the expressions.'

Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Hannah Woolley      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [old voyages]

'write - read old voyages.'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Godwin      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

'Thence to the Exchange, that is, the New Exchange, and looked over some play-books, and entended to get all the late new plays.'

Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Pepys      Print: Book

  

unknown : Port Royal Greek Grammar

'I have read since last October a good deal of the history relating to the East ... : not much of books not connected with India. I read a good deal of the "Port Royal Greek Grammar" ...'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mountstuart Elphinstone      Print: Book

  

unknown : Eton Selecta

'I have read since last October a good deal of the history relating to the East ... : not much of books not connected with India. ... ; as much of Hesiod as in the "Eton Selecta"; the first, seventh, and eighth "Idylls" of Theocritus, and his Epithalamium of Helen"; all of Sappho, Theognis, Callistratus, Bion, Moschus, and Musaeus as are in that collectiuon - (they are most of them scraps); ...'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mountstuart Elphinstone      Print: Book

  

unknown : [Italian Grammar]

'I have read since last October a good deal of the history relating to the East ... : not much of books not connected with India. ... . I looked into the Italian Grammar; ...'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mountstuart Elphinstone      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

'Anon to Sir W. Penn to bed, and made my boy Tom to read me asleep.'

Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Tom      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

'I to dinner, and thence to my chamber to read, and so to the office'

Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Pepys      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

'and so to supper and to read, and so to bed'

Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Pepys      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

'and then I home to supper, and to read a little and to bed.'

Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Pepys      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

'and so after supper and reading a little, and my wife's cutting off my hair short, which is grown too long upon the crown of my head, I to bed.'

Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Pepys      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [petty-warrants]

'and I read the petty-warrants all the day till late at night, that I was very weary, and troubled to have my private business of my office stopped to attend this - but mightily pleased at this falling out.'

Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Pepys      Manuscript: Unknown

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

'and so to my chamber, having little left to do at my office, my eyes being a little sore by reason of my reading a small printed book the other day after it was dark'

Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Pepys      Print: Book

  

unknown : Life of Major Geshpill

'I have read since last October a good deal of the history relating to the East ... not much of books not connected with India. ... [but included] ; a Life of Major Geshpill; ...'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mountstuart Elphinstone      Print: Book

  

unknown : [Novels innumerable]

'I have read since last October a good deal of the history relating to the East ... not much of books not connected with India. ... [but included] ; and novels innumerable ...'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mountstuart Elphinstone      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

'and so after supper to read and then to bed.'

Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Pepys      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

'and so a little at the office and home, to read a little and to supper and bed'

Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Pepys      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [table-book]

'and at noon all of us to Kent's at the Three Tun tavern and there dined well at Mr Gawden's charge. There the constable of the parish did show us the picklocks and dice that were found in the dead man's pockets, and but 18d in money - and a table-book, wherein were entered the names of several places where he was to go'

Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Pepys      Manuscript: table-book

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

'and so to supper, and after a little reading, to bed.'

Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Pepys      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [History of the French Revolution]

'Read Pliny - work - Shelley read[s] Hist. French Revolution.'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Bysshe Shelley      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [trial of Watson, surgeon accused f high treason]

'finish 2nd book of Tacitus and read Buffon's Hist. Nat. - S. reads Arrian - Watson acquitted - read his trial'.

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley      Print: Unknown

  

unknown : [Roman law]

'I have been reading Roman Law...'

Unknown
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Louis Stevenson      

  

unknown : unknown

'Had a nice night last night. Tommy Bloody Handley on the wireless again, read every book in the house. Too dark to walk to the library, bus every 45 minutes, next one too late for the pictures. Freedom is in peril they're telling ME!'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: unknown      Print: Book

  

unknown : unknown

'According to what I've read everything seems to be going very satisfactorily, but not knowing the country, I've no idea what we're up against, but I think the Germans are still powerful, and there's plenty hard jobs ahead of us before we get them to crack.'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: unknown      Print: Unknown

  

unknown : unknown

'There are things going on in the village, but no one would ever say "could I stay with your kiddies while you go". I am quite happy I read decent books, and the wireless is quite a friend to me, but being a mother seems to cut one from contact with other people.'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: unknown      Print: Book

  

unknown : review of 'The Real India'

'The N.A. is not advocating immediately practical ideas. It is preparing opinion for ideas which will in future be practical. I think it is a devilish good paper. Read the review of Rees book on India in this week?s. '

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Arnold Bennett      Print: Serial / periodical

  

unknown : [Roman law]

'...I have been continuing to work at Roman Law...'

Unknown
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Louis Stevenson      

  

[unknown] : [Italian operas]

'Read Italian operas - Montaigne'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

'After supper, I to read and then to bed.'

Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Pepys      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

'and thence home, where to supper and then to read a little; and so to bed.'

Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Pepys      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

'And so home and there to the office a little; and thence to my chamber to read and supper, and to bed.'

Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Pepys      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : A dialogue concerning the rights of His Most Christian Majesty

'This day I read (shown me by Mr Gibson) a discourse newly come forth, of the King of France his pretence to Flanders; which is a very fine discourse, and the turth is, hath so much of the Civil Law in it that I am not a fit judge of it; but as it appears to me, he hath a good pretence to it by right of his Queene. So to bed.'

Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Pepys      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

'and then home to my chamber to read and write; and then to supper and to bed.'

Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Pepys      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [order of council]

'Fen read me an order of council passed the 17th instant, directing all the Treasurers of any part of the King's revenue to make no payments but such as shall be approved by the present Lord Commissioners; which will, I think, spoil the credit of his Majesty's service, when people cannot depend upon payment anywhere.'

Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Fen      Manuscript: Unknown

  

[unknown] : Cabala, sive Scrinia Sacra

'and Creed did also repeat to me some of the substance of letters of old Burleigh in Queen Elizabeth's time which he hath of late read in the printed "Cabbala", which is very fine style at this day and fit to be imitated.'

Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: John Creed      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

'and so we home to supper, and I read myself asleep and so to bed.'

Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Pepys      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

'and so home to supper and to read myself asleep, and then to bed.'

Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Pepys      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

'and then to my chamber to read, and so to bed'

Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Pepys      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

'and so home and to my chamber to read; and then to supper and to bed.'

Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Pepys      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

'and I home to supper and to read a little and then to bed.'

Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Pepys      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

'and so home, and after some little reading in my chamber, to supper and to bed.'

Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Pepys      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

'and then home and to my chamber to read'

Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Pepys      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : Relazione della morte famiglia Cenci sequita in Roma il di 11 Maggio 1599

'Finish copying the Cenci'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley      Manuscript: Unknown

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

'and so to my chamber, and got her to read to me for saving of my eyes'

Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Pepys      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : London's Flames, or The discovery of such evidence as were deposed before the Committee of Parliament etc, with the insolences of the Popish party

'Here I also saw a printed account of the examinations taking touching the burning of the City of London, showing the plots of the papists therein; which it seems hath been ordered and hath been burnt by the hands of the hangman in Westminster Palace - I will try to get one of them.'

Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Pepys      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

'and so parted and to bed - after my wife had read something to me (to save my eyes) in a good book.'

Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Pepys      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

'In the evening read [a] good book, my wife to me'

Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Pepys      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

'and then home without strangers to dinner, and then my wife to read, and then I to the office'

Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Pepys      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

'and then home to supper and my wife to read; and then to bed.'

Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Pepys      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

'Then home to read, sup and to bed.'

Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Pepys      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

'and when came home there, I got my wife to read'

Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Pepys      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

'After dinner, up to my wife again, who is in great pain still with her tooth and cheek; and there, they gone, I spent most of the afternoon and night reading and talking to bear her company, and so to supper and to bed.'

Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Pepys      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

'And so it growing night, I away home by coach, and there set my wife to read'

Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Pepys      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

'and so I walked away homeward, and there reading all the evening; and so to bed'

Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Pepys      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

'So he gone, I to read a little in my chamber, and so to bed.'

Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Pepys      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

'and then to my chamber and read most of the evening till pretty late, when, my wife not being well, I did lie below stairs in our great chamber'

Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Pepys      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

'He gone, we home and there I to read, and my belly being full of my dinner today, I anon to bed'

Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Pepys      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

'and so home to supper and to read, and then to bed.'

Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Pepys      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

'and there took a hackney and home and there to read and talk with my wife'

Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Pepys      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

'and she being gone, I to my chamber to read a little again, and then after supper to bed.'

Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Pepys      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

'and so home, and there spent the evening making Balty read to me; and so to supper and to bed.'

Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Balthasar St Michael      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [street ballads]

'But Lord, to see among the young commanders and Tho Killigrew and others that came, how unlike a burial this was, Obrian taking out some ballets from his pocket, which I read and the rest came about me to hear; and there very merry we were all, they being new ballets.'

Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Pepys      Print: Broadsheet, Handbill

  

[unknown] : Mustapha

'And in the evening betimes came to Reding and there heard my wife read more of "Mustapha".'

Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Pepys      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

'and then home - and there to get my wife to read to me till supper, and then to bed'

Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Pepys      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

'and then at night, my wife to read again and to supper and to bed.'

Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Pepys      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

'Thence walked to Barne elmes; and there, and going and coming, did make the boy read to me several things, being nowadays unable to read myself anything for above two lines together but my eyes grow weary.'

Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: anon      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

'and so to bed, after hearing my wife read a little.'

Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Pepys      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : Principal Officer's instructions

'Thence home and there with Mr Hater and W Hewer late, reading over all the Principal Officers' instructions in order to my great work upon my hand.'

Unknown
Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Pepys      

  

[unknown] : [paper on the faults of the Navy]

'and the Duke of York and Wren and I, it being now candle-light, into the Duke of York's closet in White-hall and there read over this paper of my Lord Keeper's; wherein is laid down the faults of the Navy, so silly and the remedies so ridiculous, or else the same that are now already provided, that we thought it not to need any answer, the Duke of York being able himself to do it'

Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Pepys      Manuscript: Unknown

  

[unknown] : [paper on the faults of the Navy]

'and the Duke of York and Wren and I, it being now candle-light, into the Duke of York's closet in White-hall and there read over this paper of my Lord Keeper's; wherein is laid down the faults of the Navy, so silly and the remedies so ridiculous, or else the same that are now already provided, that we thought it not to need any answer, the Duke of York being able himself to do it'

Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Matthew Wren      Manuscript: Unknown

  

[unknown] : [paper on the faults of the Navy]

'and the Duke of York and Wren and I, it being now candle-light, into the Duke of York's closet in White-hall and there read over this paper of my Lord Keeper's; wherein is laid down the faults of the Navy, so silly and the remedies so ridiculous, or else the same that are now already provided, that we thought it not to need any answer, the Duke of York being able himself to do it'

Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: James, Duke of York      Manuscript: Unknown

  

[unknown] : [draft of the victualler's contract]

'and so W. Penn and Lord Brouncker and I at the lodging of the latter to read over our new draft of the victualler's contract'

Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Pepys      Manuscript: Unknown

  

[unknown] : [draft of the victualler's contract]

'and so W. Penn and Lord Brouncker and I at the lodging of the latter to read over our new draft of the victualler's contract'

Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Sir William Penn      Manuscript: Unknown

  

[unknown] : [draft of the victualler's contract]

'and so W. Penn and Lord Brouncker and I at the lodging of the latter to read over our new draft of the victualler's contract'

Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Lord Brouncker      Manuscript: Unknown

  

[unknown] : [book of warrants in Cromwell's war, 1652-4]

'And coming back I spent reading of the book of warrants of our office in the first Dutch war, and do find that my letters and warrants and method will be found another-gate's business than this that the world so much adores - and I am glad for my own sake to find it so.'

Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Pepys      Manuscript: Unknown

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

'My boy was with me, and read to me all day'

Unknown
Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: anon      

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

'And so home and to my business, and to read again and to bed.'

Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Pepys      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

'and away home myself, and there to read again and sup with Gibson; and so to bed.'

Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Pepys      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

'So to supper, and the boy to read to me, and so to bed.'

Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: anon      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

'So back home to supper, and made my boy read to me a while, and then to bed.'

Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: anon      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

'And so back to my chamber, the boy to read to me; and so to supper and to bed.'

Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: anon      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

'and so home to supper, and the boy to read to me; and so to bed.'

Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: anon      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

'And so to hear my boy read a little, and supper and to bed.'

Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: anon      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

'So home to read and sup; and to bed.'

Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Pepys      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

'and then they gone, and my wife to read to me, and to bed.'

Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Pepys      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

'and so home and did get my wife to read to me'

Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Pepys      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

'Thence with W. Penn home, and there to get my people to read and to supper and so to bed.'

Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Pepys      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

'and so home and to supper, and got my wife to read to me and so to bed.'

Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Pepys      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

'and we home to supper, and my wife to read to me and so to bed.'

Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Pepys      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

'and in the evening home, and there made my wife read till supper time, and so to bed.'

Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Pepys      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

'and so home, and my wife to read to me; and then with much content to bed.'

Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Pepys      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

'and after dinner, all the afternoon got my wife and boy to read to me.'

Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Pepys      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

'and after dinner, all the afternoon got my wife and boy to read to me.'

Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: anon      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

'and my wife to read to me all the afternoon'

Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Pepys      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

'So to read and talk with my wife, till by and by called to the office'

Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Pepys      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

'and so made the boy read to me'

Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: anon      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

'And so in to solace myself with my wife, whom I got to read to me, and so W. Hewer and the boy'

Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Pepys      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

'and then with comfort to sit with my wife, and get her to read to me'

Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Pepys      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

'and then home, where my wife to read to me; and so to supper and to bed.'

Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Pepys      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

'and thence home, and my wife to read to me and W. Hewer to set some matters of accounts right at my chamber; to bed.'

Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Pepys      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

'and then home to ease my eyes and make my wife read to me.'

Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Pepys      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

'and so home, and with W. Hewer with me, to read and talk'

Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: William Hewer      Print: Book

  

unknown : [unknown]

'and then home to supper and read a little, and to bed.'

Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Pepys      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

'So home, and there to talk and my wife to read to me, and so to bed.'

Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Pepys      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

'In the evening, he gone, my wife to read to me and talk, and spent the evening with much pleasure; and so to supper and to bed.'

Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Pepys      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

'and so home, with much pleasure talking and then to reading; and so to supper and to bed.'

Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Pepys      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

'So home and to supper and read'

Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Pepys      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

'and so home, and there with pleasure to read and talk'

Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Pepys      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

'and so my wife and I spent the rest of the evening in talk and reading, and so with great pleasure to bed.'

Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Pepys      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

'and to dinner and then to read and talk, my wife and I alone'

Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Pepys      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

'and so home and to supper and read'

Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Pepys      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

'and so home with my wife, who read to me late; and so to supper and to bed.'

Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Pepys      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

'and there to read and talk with my wife, and so to bed.'

Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Pepys      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

'and so to read and to supper, and so to bed.'

Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Pepys      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

'and so took my wife home, and there to make her to read, and then to supper and to bed.'

Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Pepys      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

'and home, my wife to read to me'

Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Pepys      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

'and then home to supper with my wife, and to get her to read to me.'

Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Pepys      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : Le commerce honourable ou Considerations Politiques OR Relation de l'establissement de la Compagnie Fran?oise pour le commerce des Indes Orientales

'and I spent all afternoon with my wife and W. Battelier talking and then making them read, and perticularly made an end of Mr Boyl's book of Formes, which I am glad to have over; and then fell to read a French discourse which he hath brought over with him for me, to invite the people of France to apply themselfs to Navigacion; which it doth do very well, and is certainly their interest, and what will undo us in a few years if the King of France goes on to fit up his Navy and encrease it and his trade, as he hath begun.'

Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: William Battelier      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

'and after dinner, to get my wife and boy, one after another, to read to me - and so spent the afternoon and evening'

Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Pepys      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

'and after dinner, to get my wife and boy, one after another, to read to me - and so spent the afternoon and evening'

Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: anon      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

'And so home to supper, and get my wife to read to me, and then to bed.'

Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Pepys      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

'I away home; and there spent the evening talking and reading with my wife and Mr Pelling'

Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Pepys      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

'and then home to my wife to read to me, and to bed'

Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Pepys      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

'and then home, and there my wife to read to me, my eyes being sensibly hurt by the too great lights of the playhouse.'

Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Pepys      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

'So home, and my wife read to me till supper, and to bed.'

Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Pepys      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

'So down to supper, and she to read to me, and then with all possible kindness to bed.'

Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Pepys      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

'and my wife to read to me, and then to bed in mighty good humour, but for my eyes.'

Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Pepys      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [Report of the reforming commission of 1618]

'Up, and to my office with Tom, whom I made read to me the books of Propositions in the time of the Grand Commission, which I did read a good part of before church'

Unknown
Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Tom Edwards      

  

[unknown] : [Report of the reforming commission of 1618]

'and I to my office and there made an end of the books of Proposicions; which did please me mightily to hear read, they being excellently writ and much to the purpose, and yet so as I think I shall make good use of in defence of our present constitution.'

Unknown
Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Tom Edwards [?]      

  

[unknown] : [documents on the history of the Navy]

'and so spent the whole morning with W. Hewer, he taking little notes in short-hand, while I hired a clerk to read to me about twelve or more several rolls which I did call for'

Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: anon      Manuscript: Roll

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

'So home, and did get my wife to read, and so to supper and to bed.'

Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Pepys      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

'At night, my wife to read to me and then to supper'

Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Pepys      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

'and so home, where got my wife to read to me, and so after supper to bed.'

Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Pepys      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

'So home, and there to my chamber and got my wife to read to me a little'

Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Pepys      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

'and so away, back by water home, and after dinner got my wife to read'

Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Pepys      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

R.A., alias J.F.: 'He [uncle] sent me to an excellent school where I stayed two years. After leaving school I perused a vast number of novels and romances. I hardly ever went out of doors. I lived in a land of dreams. I was put to various occupations but nothing could please my fancy; at last I was bound to a surgeon, and while in his service I got entangled with bad associates.'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: R.A.      Print: Book, Serial / periodical

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

S.G., transport convict writing from Portsmouth: 'During my stay at Pentonville I was, comparatively speaking, comfortable ... Mr Kingsmill was particularly kind in lending me some excellent books, in which I took great delight.'

Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: S.G.      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

Extracts from the journal of Joseph Kingsmill: 30 October: 'A very deaf prisoner was allowed a visit today from his friends in the same room. I permitted the visit to take place in my office, and hearing the poor man tell his friends of his great progress in reading, I gave him a book to read for them. They were quite surprised. It was extremely hard, certainly, to teach him; but he was very persevering, and now is enjoying the comfort of it.'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: anon      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

Visit from cell to cell: '2. A vagrant tumbler, and low thief - naturally very shrewd, but from his habits of life, and some bad falls on his head, very odd - approaching to derrangement. He has made great progress in books, and has imbibed religious knowledge almost too rapidly, - he is very exciteable on this subject.'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: anon      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [book on the Protestant martyrs]

Visit from cell to cell: '15. A farm labourer, of good capacity, who, having mastered here the alphabet and the art of reading, had from the library an account of our Protestant martyrs, and being much interested in the subject, asked me several questions in relation to them; one was, whether I knew Master Ridley?'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: anon      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [novels]

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. By 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: Book, Serial / periodical

  

[unknown] : [novels and romances]

Causes of their own crime, stated by convicts: '41. Low company, a harsh schoolmaster, attending theatres, reading novels, romances, etc.'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: anon      Print: Book, Serial / periodical

  

unknown : Hortulus Anime

'I am obliged to you for the "Hortulus Anime". I have not had time to examine it carefully, but so far as I have seen it is an admirable piece of work & I congratulate you on it. I send by parcel post two other jobs: One is "Roget?s Thesaurus". This is a book that I use every day, fairly roughly. Please bind it how you like, bearing this rough & constant usage in mind.'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Arnold Bennett      Print: Book

  

unknown : unknown

&'Wednesday Aug. 17th. [...] We [Claire Clairmont, P. B. Shelley, and Mary Godwin] fled away [from dirty hotel at village of Mort] climbed some wild rocks -- & sat there reading till the sun laid down to rest -- I read As you like it [&] found the wild & romantic touches of this Play very accordant with the scene befor[e] me & my feeling'.

Unknown
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Bysshe Shelley      

  

unknown : unknown

&'Wednesday Aug. 17th. [...] We [Claire Clairmont, P. B. Shelley, and Mary Godwin] fled away [from dirty hotel at village of Mort] climbed some wild rocks -- & sat there reading till the sun laid down to rest -- I read As you like it [&] found the wild & romantic touches of this Play very accordant with the scene befor[e] me & my feeling'.

Unknown
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin      

  

unknown : plays

'Thursday Nov-- 3rd. Rise at nine. Read Political Justice [...] Dine at four -- Read after dinner some Plays.'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont      Print: Book

  

unknown : Latin text/s

'Thursday Jany. 22nd. Read an article in the Edinburgh Review. Meroigne Thericourt [sic] a poissade in the time of the Revolution now raving mad [...] Read some Latin & Anarcharsis. Curious syllogism of Ebulis of Megara.'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont      Print: Book

  

unknown : Life of Tasso

'Friday April 10th. Read Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme, Le Mariage force, Le Festin de Pierre, L'Amour Medecin, Les Fourberies de Scapin de Moliere [...] Read a page or two of the Life of Tasso.'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont      Print: Book

  

unknown : Life of Tasso

'Saturday April 11th. Read the Life of Tasso -- Read Le Malade Imaginaire, Le Medecin malgre lui, La comtess D'Escarbagnas of Moliere.'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont      Print: Book

  

unknown : Life of Tasso

'Tuesday April 14th. Sit at home all day. Read the Life of Tasso and L'Etourdi of Moliere.'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont      Print: Book

  

unknown : Life of Tasso

'Wednesday April 15th. Read the Life of Tasso. Read Le Depit Amoureux of Moliere -- The plot and intrigue of this play is excellent.'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont      Print: Book

  

unknown : Les precieuses ridicules

'Thursday April 16. Finish the Depit Amoureux read Les precieuses ridicules. Also part of Clarissa Harlowe.'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont      Print: Book

  

unknown : Life of Tasso

'Saturday April 18. Read the Life of Tasso. Shelley reads aloud Hamlet. Read Lear.'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont      Print: Book

  

unknown : Life of Tasso

''Monday April 20th. Read the Life of Tasso by Marcantonio Serassi [sic].'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont      Print: Book

  

unknown : 'Voyage de Constantinople'

'Wednesday March 10th [...] Read Voyage de Constantinople by a frenchman [sic].'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont      Print: Book

  

unknown : 'Vie de Ninon de L'Enclos'

'Wednesday March 17th. Walk in the Gardens of the Villa Borghese -- '.

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont      Print: Book

  

unknown : 'Memoires de Madame de Pompadour'

'Monday March -- 22nd [...] '.

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont      Print: Book

  

unknown : 'Memoires de Madame de Pompadour'

'Tuesday March 23rd. '.

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont      Print: Book

  

unknown : 'Lettres de Madame de Pompadour'

'Thursday [...] April 1st. [...] In the Evening '.

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont      Print: Book

  

unknown : 'Lettres de Madame de Pompadour'

'Sunday April 4th. [...] '.

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont      Print: Book

  

unknown : 'La Fleur des Batailles'

'Saturday April 17th. [...] Read La Fleur des Batailles a history of Chivalry'.

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont      Print: Book

  

unknown : 'Histoire de Rigda et de Regner Lodborg'

'Sunday April 18th. Read Regner Lodborg a history of Chivalry'.

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont      Print: Book

  

unknown : 'Huon de Bordeaux'

'Tuesday April 20th. Read Huon de Bordeaux'.

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont      Print: Book

  

unknown : 'Huon de Bordeaux'

'Thursday April 22nd. Finish Huon de Bordeaux'.

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont      Print: Book

  

unknown : Guerin de Montglave

'Friday April 23rd. Read Guerin de Montglave -- and 2nd Canto of Ricciardetto'.

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont      Print: Book

  

unknown : Le petit Charles ou Neveu de mon oncle

'Wednesday June 2nd. [...] Read .'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont      Print: Book

  

unknown : 'life of Plutarch'

'Monday Jany. 3rd. [...] Read Don Juan. Read the Life of Plutarch.'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont      Print: Book

  

unknown : 'Irish pamphlet'

'Thursday Jany 27th. [...] Read an Irish pamphlet'.

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont      

  

unknown : 'Irish pamphlet'

'Friday Jany 28th. Rainy -- Read Irish Pamphlet & Travels before the Flood -- Also two chapters in Schlegel's Dramactic [sic] Criticism'.

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont      

  

unknown : 'another Irish Pamphlet'

'Saturday Jany. 29th. [...] Read another Irish Pamphlet -- also one of Chateaubriand's -- De Buonaparte et des Bourbons'.

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont      

  

unknown : 'History of England' (French-language text)

'Sunday June 25th. [...] Read Edinburgh Review [...] Read a History of England, written in french [sic] by a Jew after the manner of the Bible [quotes/cites various examples]'.

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont      Print: Book

  

unknown : Latin text

'Monday July 24th. [...] Translate an exercise from Latin. Read Saggio Istorico.'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

'Went to the Mechanics Reading Room for a short time but could not compose my mind to profit much by the Books or Papers.'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Unknown

  

[unknown] : [playbill]

'I saw by the Bills that The Stranger was to be played to-night and as in duty bound I went to fulfil my promise to Mrs Poole.'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Handbill, Poster, playbill

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

'Before returning home I went to the Reading Room of the Mechanics Institute where after indulging in a little very light reading I returned home.'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Unknown

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

'Peeped in at the Mechanics and read a book for half an hour.'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

'Mather called about 7 o clock, went with him to get a cup of coffee at Purcells, and afterwards he accompanied me to the Mechanics where we read for a short time.'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Unknown

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

'Mather called about 7 o clock, went with him to get a cup of coffee at Purcells, and afterwards he accompanied me to the Mechanics where we read for a short time.'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Mather      Print: Unknown

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

'In the evening I called at the Mechanics and after reading for a little time went upstairs and heard a lecture by Dr Palmer on the Education of the Masses.'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Unknown

  

[unknown] : [magazines]

'In the evening spent a very pleasant hour in the Reading Room of the Mechanics looking over the Magazines that arrived by the "Blue Jacket".'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Serial / periodical

  

[unknown] : Blackwood's Magazine

'Spent the evening at the Mechanics, read a Review in Blackwood of Barnum's work "The Life of a Showman" the critic shows no mercy & really the book is such an impudent acknowledgement of chicanery & deception that it richly deserves the castigation it receives, particularly as the Author after glorying in the possession of a large fortune made by gulling the public with a manufactured mermaid & even more unpardonable trickeries snuffles cant & professes piety.'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Serial / periodical

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

'Read for an hour at the Mechanics.'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Unknown

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

'Rather a dirty day, it being a holiday out of doors I felt lazily inclined myself & did nothing but read during the day.'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Unknown

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

'Read for an hour at the Mechanics Institute in the evening & afterwards went over the New Theatre.'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Unknown

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

'I read for half an hour at the Mechanics. This was the first part of the evening.'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Unknown

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

'Felt in a very miserable mood during the evening, took a stroll had a peep into the library of the Mechanics Institution & then went to the Hall of the Criterion Hotel where there is a Promenade Concert nightly.'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Unknown

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

'Read for a time at the Mechanics Institute had some soup at William's restaurant & went to bed about ten o clock.'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Unknown

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

'Read for a short time at the Mechanics, afterwards met Mr Read went home with him and chatted for an hour or so then came back and got to bed before ten o clock.'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Unknown

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

'Read the papers at the Mechanics Institute.'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Unknown

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

'Came home took tea read a little thought a little yawned a great deal and then spite of the rain went out.'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Unknown

  

[unknown] : [newspapers]

'Read the papers at the Mechanics.'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Newspaper

  

[unknown] : [newspapers]

'After I had been in bed two or three hours I woke finding the room shaking very much. I at first fancied some one was walking across the adjacent apartment & then that some heavy wagon was rumbling along the street. I turned round & soon went to sleep after I found nothing was the matter & on seeing the next morning's newspaper found the shock of an earthquake reported.'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Newspaper

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

'Read for half an hour at the Mechanics.'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Unknown

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

'Read for an hour at the Mechanics Institution, walked round the town & got home to bed before ten o clock.'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Unknown

  

[unknown] : [newspapers]

'Read the papers at the Mechanics Institution.'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Newspaper

  

[unknown] : [newspapers]

'After Tea I took a stroll called in at the Mechanics Institution & read the Papers, went down to the Royal, met Day & had a chat with him.'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Newspaper

  

[unknown] : [newspapers]

'After four o clock took a stroll, read the papers at the Mechanics & then called at Joe's Office.'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Newspaper

  

[unknown] : Argus

'Saw Mr Mather, he told me there's (sic) was a letter in the Argus about my establishment. I went with him to his quarters to see the paper, and got home about eleven o clock.'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Newspaper

  

[unknown] : Argus

'The Argus printed this morning a very stinging article upon the Melbourne Police Bench and was especially severe upon the Mayor, attributing his late Ball as a bait thrown to catch the mayoralty again for the next year.'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Newspaper

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

'Came home, read from my new purchases for an hour & went to bed'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Unknown

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

'Sat Reading till twelve o clock then went to bed.'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Unknown

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

'Neild took tea with me & sat talking & reading during the evening.'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Unknown

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

'Neild took tea with me & sat talking & reading during the evening.'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Mr Neild      Print: Unknown

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

'We went for a stroll about nine & continued walking till a little past ten. Came home then & after reading a short time went to bed.'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Unknown

  

[unknown] : prayers

'The Rev Mr Corrie read prayers to & then addressed the protestant prisoners.'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Mr Corrie      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

'Had very little work to do to day & employed myself in Reading & writing.'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Unknown

  

[unknown] : [French Grammar]

'Employed myself during the day in reading & studying the French Grammar, as we are to have a lesson from Lefarge this evening.'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

'Spent the evening at home in reading & writing.'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Unknown

  

[unknown] : [newspaper cutting]

'Received a letter from Emma and some papers from Joe. In Emma's letter there was an Extraordinary published by one of the Melbourne papers which contained the news of the Arrival of the Red Jacket. It was only published a short time before the Mail closed, so I thought the Papers here would not have it. They had however but yet I gave it to Nixon the Editor of The Constitution as a pledge silent but doubtless intended that I should not spoil the Sale of the Extraordinary which he intended to publish by showing it to any more people. The Conductors of the other Paper heard of my having news and came eagerly to see what I had got & were very crestfallen when I told them what had become of my "Paper".'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Newspaper

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

'Spent the evening at home doing nothing except lazily read & write.'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Unknown

  

[unknown] : [newspapers]

'Received three newspapers & Punch all from Neild. The newspapers contained an account of a Performance by the Garrick Club. It appears to have been as successful as any of the former performances and to have been honored by a large audience.'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Newspaper

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

'In the evening I read a little & so got bedtime to come round.'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Unknown

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

'Stayed at home and amused myself with reading & sleeping at intervals during the evening. Went very early to bed.'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Unknown

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

'Spent the evening at home, amused myself with reading.'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Unknown

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

'Transacted ordinary business during the day & spent the evening at home lazily reading a book.'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : Ovens and Murray Advertiser

'The Ovens & Murray advertiser in its impression of this day announced Mr Cameron to be the successful candidate by a majority of upwards of [?] over his opponents.'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Newspaper

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

'In the evening walked as far as Martin's with Mr Murphy. Returned read while & then went to bed.'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Unknown

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

'came back to Beechworth saw all was right in the Gaol, and sat down quietly to read a Book.'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : Vita di Alfieri

'Read Vita di Alfieri - & Livy - S. goes to Padua - Reads Cymbeline to me in the evening'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : Life of Virgil

'Read the life of Virgil'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

'The evening was remarkably wet and there was no alternative but to stay at home. I read a little smoked a little drank a little thought a little and then saw all was right in the Gaol and went to bed.'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Unknown

  

[unknown] : [a tale in] Bibliotheque Universelle des Dames

'Read Huon de Bourdeaux a Roman de la Chevalerie'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [tales in] Bibliotheque universelle des dames

'Read Livy - and Romans Chevaleresques'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [tales in] Bibliotheque universelle des dames

'Read Bib. de Chevalerie'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley      Print: Book

  

unknown : 'Life of Joseph Mendez Pinto'

'Sunday Dec. 9th. [...] Begin the Life of Joseph Mendez Pinto.' [further readings in this text recorded in journal entries for 16, 17, 19, 20 December 1821].

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont      Print: Book

  

unknown : 'Ditmar von Aarenstein'

'Monday Dec. 31st. [...] Begin Ditmar von Aerenstein.' [readings in this author/text also recorded in journal entries for 2, 3, and 9 January 1822, with 'Finish Ditmar von Aarenstein' recorded on 13 January].

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont      Print: Book

  

unknown : 'Travels in Germany'

'Friday July [...] 29th. [...] Read Travels in Germany.'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont      Print: Book

  

unknown : Life of Goethe

'Friday [...] August 4th. [...] Read Life of Gothe [sic], Lecture on Modern History by M. Gambs.' [records finishing Goethe on 9 August 1825].

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont      Print: Book

  

unknown : 'lives of the saints'

'Saturday October [...] 22nd. [...] Read Tarlton to Johnny. Read the lives of the Saints.'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont      Print: Book

  

unknown : Review of Robert Southey, A Tale of Paraguay (1825) (including extracts from poem)

Elizabeth Barrett to James Graham-Clarke, letter postmarked 12 November 1825: 'Have you met with Southey's new Poem "The Tale of Paraguay["]? The extracts I have seen delight me maugre the reviewing commentary which speaks I think much too harshly and partially.'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett      Print: Serial / periodical

  

unknown : Roman Law

?I am doing principally my Roman Law just now. It is really to me a great pleasure; and it keeps me out of the way of writing, for which I am not in the vein.?

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Louis Stevenson      Print: Book

  

unknown : 'History of England and Rome'

'At 7 [...] I read the History of England and Rome -- at 8 I perused the History of Greece and it was at this age that I first found real delight in poetry -- "The Minstrel" Popes "Iliad"[,] some parts of the "Odyssey" passages from "Paradise lost" selected by my dearest Mama and some of Shakespeares plays among which were "The Tempest," "Othello," and a few historical dramatic pieces constituted my studies!'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett      Print: Book

  

unknown : 'History of Greece'

'At 7 [...] I read the History of England and Rome -- at 8 I perused the History of Greece and it was at this age that I first found real delight in poetry -- "The Minstrel" Popes "Iliad"[,] some parts of the "Odyssey" passages from "Paradise lost" selected by my dearest Mama and some of Shakespeares plays among which were "The Tempest," "Othello," and a few historical dramatic pieces constituted my studies!'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett      Print: Book

  

unknown : Review of William Mitford, An Inquiry into the Principles of Harmony in Language...

Elizabeth Barrett to Uvedale Price, c.15 April 1827: 'I have done reading your correspondence with Mr Commeline [...] I thought it odd that an article of the Edinburgh Review should be referred to, on a philological subject; &, on looking into the one which Mr Commeline calls the "Manual of his heresy", I was surprised to find us accused there of ["]subverting the true metrical structure of Latin hexameters, even according to the accentual system" by [italics]not[end italics] laying our accent on the [italics]long[end italics] syllable, & by laying it on the short ones. The Reviewer seems confused in his speculations'.

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett      Print: Serial / periodical

  

[unknown] : Jeremiah

'S reads Las Casas & Jeremiah aloud. read the F. of the bees'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Bysshe Shelley      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

'Write - Read - I am sure I forget what'

Unknown
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley      

  

unknown : Life of Napoleon

Henrietta Moulton-Barrett, to Elizabeth Barrett, c.4 October 1830: 'For the last three hours [Arabella, reader's sister] has done nothing but talk in the most nonsensical manner & laughing loud enough for anyone to hear her all over the house -- All this time I have been as studious as usual reading Napoleon's life but Alas! I found other obstacles there for when Arabel was quiet for an instant my eyes would close & in spite of the noise I have had two or three dreams in the last half hour'.

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Henrietta Moulton-Barrett      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [possibly] A copy of the Queen's Letter to the King. To which are added, copies of their correspondence since the period of their separation. And the Queen's Character.

'Muratori - Greek - Queen's Letter - K.[ing] Swellfoot'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley      

  

[unknown] : [books on Ireland]

'Muratori - greek - Irish books'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley      Print: Book

  

unknown : Strathallan

'In truth I have read nothing these three months but "Strathallan," which I heard much of when it came out, but feel disappointed in now. The fact is that the time is past for it. The best parts of it are those which describe feelings that during the late war came home to the bosoms of all. Since the peace, or, at least, since her most precious majesty's trial, all our political and public feelings have been in a manner asleep...'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Eleanor Anne Porden      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [Ancient Greek works]

'read greek - read Mackenzies works'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley      Print: Book

  

unknown : journal

'I was not lucky enough to see Miss Sedgwick, but I will transcribe for you a passage from the journal of a lady, which has just been lent me...'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Fanny Trollope      Print: Serial / periodical

  

[unknown] : [Greek texts]

' I mark this day because I begin my Greek again - and that is a study which ever delights me - I do not feel the bore of it as in learning another language although it be so difficult - it so richly repays one. Yet I read little for I am not well.'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley      Print: Book

  

unknown : unknown

'These last two nights have been the most fearful of the war. The Battle of Britain is raging round us. Tonight continuous bombing and gunfire have shaken the house. A huge fire has lit up Aldershot and Farnham to the east; whilst gunfire and flares light up Bordon and the south coast. Mrs Grant is cowering downstairs in the kitchen; I find Sidney reading but glad to have a cup of tea. Neither he nor I are perturbed...'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Sidney Webb      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

'I thought I heard My Shelley call me - Not my Shelley in Heaven - but My Shelley - my companion in my Daily tasks - I was reading - I heard a voice say "Mary" - "It is Shelley" I thought - the revulsion was of agony - Never more shall I hear his beloved voice'

Unknown
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley      

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

'I endeavour to read & write - my ideas a [for 'are'] stagnate and my understanding refuses to follow the words I read'

Unknown
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Shelley      

  

[unknown] : [advertisement]

'In the month of July 1842, as I was passing the site of the Royal Exchange, then in course of re-erection after being burnt down, my attention was caught by one of the very numerous bills with which the boards, at that time surrounding it, were covered: it ran thus - "Susan Hopley; or the Life of a Maid Servant". This book, I thought to myself, must be a novelty...'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Ann Ashford      Print: Advertisement, Broadsheet, Poster

  

[unknown] : [newspapers]

'for although female servants form a large class of Her Majesty's subjects, I have seen but little of them or their affairs in print: sometimes, indeed, a few stray deliquents, from their vast numbers, find their way into the police reports of the newspapers; and in penny tracts, now and then, a "Mary Smith" or "Susan Jones" is introduced, in the last stage of consumption, or some other lingering disease, of which they die, in a heavenly frame of mind and are duly interred.'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Ann Ashford      Print: Newspaper

  

[unknown] : [tracts published by the Religious Tract Society]

'for although female servants form a large class of Her Majesty's subjects, I have seen but little of them or their affairs in print: sometimes, indeed, a few stray deliquents, from their vast numbers, find their way into the police reports of the newspapers; and in penny tracts, now and then, a "Mary Smith" or "Susan Jones" is introduced, in the last stage of consumption, or some other lingering disease, of which they die, in a heavenly frame of mind and are duly interred.'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Ann Ashford      Print: Broadsheet

  

[unknown] : [history]

'She often talked to us of her studies as a girl; how she used not only to devour novels and read Sir Charles Grandison every winter, but how she also taught herself a little French, learned by heart long passsages from the great poets, sometimes read history, and especially delighted in Bayley's Dictionary, with its long meanings and rules for pronunciation'.

Century: 1700-1799 / 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Jane Edwards      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [great poets' works]

'She often talked to us of her studies as a girl; how she used not only to devour novels and read Sir Charles Grandison every winter, but how she also taught herself a little French, learned by heart long passsages from the great poets, sometimes read history, and especially delighted in Bayley's Dictionary, with its long meanings and rules for pronunciation'.

Century: 1700-1799 / 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Jane Edwards      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : History of Montezuma

'when we went to bed she [Sewell's mother] would go upstairs with us and read to us whilst we were being undressed, because she did not like us to run the risk of being frightened by ghost stories told by the nursery-maids, as she had been once frightened herself. I can recall now the pleasure with which (taking my turn with my sisters) I used to jump up into her lap and listen whilst she read to us "Anson's Voyages", or "Lemrier's Tour to Morocco", or the "History of Montezuma". When she had finished, we all, kneeling around her, said our prayers and went to bed happy.'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Jane Sewell      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

'We formed a book-club amongst ourselves, chose and purchased some special favourite, or one which we heard praised, read it in turn, and then sold it by auction'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Missing Sewell and school friends     Print: Book

  

unknown : 'life' of David Wilkie

Benjamin Robert Haydon to Elizabeth Barrett, 28 April 1843: 'I have been sadly shocked at Reading Wilkie[']s life, -- to think that for 20 years of our earliest Friendship when daily I used to read to him my journal of my thoughts -- & he used to speak of the danger of all personal remarks in [a] journal [...] It [i.e. Haydon's] was only a journal of conclusions on Art, & Poetry which have been the foundation of my lectures -- I am shocked that I never knew [italics]he[ed italics] kept a journal of nothing but remarks on his Friends their weaknesses & follies'.

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Benjamin Robert Haydon      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [History of Venetian Doges]

'I used to study by myself, for I knew that I was wofully ignorant. Such books as Russell's "History of Modern Europe" and Robertson's "Charles the Fifth", I read, and also Watts on the "Improvement of the Mind", and I plodded through an Italian history of the Venetian Doges, lent me by an intimate and valued friend of my father, Mr Turnbull'.

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Missing Sewell      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [a Spanish grammar]

'I taught myself besides to read Spanish - for having found a Spanish "Don Quixote" lying about, which no-one claimed, I took possession of it, bought a grammar and dictionary, and set to work to master the contents of the book which I knew so well by name'.

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Missing Sewell      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [a Spanish dictionary]

'I taught myself besides to read Spanish - for having found a Spanish "Don Quixote" lying about, which no-one claimed, I took possession of it, bought a grammar and dictionary, and set to work to master the contents of the book which I knew so well by name'.

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Missing Sewell      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [Linnaean botany book]

'The elements of botany on the Linnaean system was another of my attempted acquirements, but I am afraid my studies were very superficial: I knew nothing perfectly, but I read everything that came in my way. There was an excellent town library in Newport, from which I could get any good modern works; and, besides the graver literature, I had always some lighter book on hand, and especially delighted in Walter Scott's novels and poetry. Byron, too, was a great favourite'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Missing Sewell      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [Oxford Movement sermons]

'My sisters and I had a volume of the sermons given by an Oxford friend of our brother William; but it was with the caution that there were two sermons which it was better for us not to read. The prohibition was ultimately taken off, but not till our friend had made up his mind that we were not likely to have our minds disturbed by the new teaching, which was extemely stern, and likely in some cases to be discouraging.'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth M. Sewell and her sisters     Print: Book

  

[unknown] : Life of Stephen Langton

'We had a wet day yesterday, and amused ourselves with reading aloud "The Life of Stephen Langton" in "The Lives of the English Saints" (These lives were small biographies written by the more extreme members of the Oxford party.) It is well written and interesting, but I cannot go with it Thomas a Becket is no saint to my mind, and I dislike the uncalled-for hits at the Reformation'. [text in parenthesis added by the author or editor, it is unclear which, when turning journal text into publishable material]

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Missing Sewell      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [pamphlets and magazines]

'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: Serial / periodical

  

unknown : A Memoir of ... The Late William Taylor of Norwich

Elizabeth Barrett to John Kenyon, 21 March 1844: 'Southey's letters! I did quite delight in [italics]them[end italics]! They are more [italics]personal[end italics] than any I ever saw of his, -- & have more warm everyday life in them.'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett      Print: Book

  

unknown : unknown

'. . . I send you a book which I picked up as a bargain in the catalogue of a second-hand bookseller, You will see that under the headings of the different countries it gives on each double page a complete conspectus of all important events which happened during a given period. I consider it a work which is absolutely invaluable to the novelist who deals, however indirectly or briefly, with any past period, And I have used it constantly ever since I bought a copy of the original publication about twelve years ago.'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Arnold Bennett      Print: Book

  

unknown : Twelve True Old Golden Rules

[TRANSCRIBED] ?Twelve True Old Golden Rules For those who like to fare better than they now do, and at the same time to thrive and grow rich. 1 The ready penny always fetches the best bargain. He who buys upon trust, must not complain if he is cheated. The shopkeeper suspects the customer who buys on trust, and thinks that he means to cheat and never to pay; and therefore he takes good care to be before hand, and charges highly accordingly. 2 The best pennyworth is to be had where most sit together in the open market; and bargains are often cheaper in the latter end of the day. When honest men have done their work, it is better for them to go to market than to the alehouse 3 When times are hard, why should we make them harder Still, it is not enough to be taxed once by Government without being taxed by folly, thrice by drunkenness four times by Laziness, and so on ? a good man, even in hard times will do twice as well as a bad man will in the best of times, let us all then rise up against ourselves, who thus tax and injure ourselves and we shall soon find that the times mend. let us do good to ourselves at home, and we shall become happy in our own habitations; and learn that it is a true saying, that God helps those who help themselves. 4 Time is our estate; it is our most valuable property If we lose it, or waste it, we can never ? never purchase it back again. We ought, therefore, not to have an idle hour, or throw away an idle penny. While we employ our time and our property (however small that property may be) to the best advantage, we shall find that a fortune may be made in any situation of life; and that poor man, who once wanted assistance himself may become able to assist and relieve others 5 Industry will make a man a purse, and frugality will find him strings for it, Neither the purse nor nor the strings will cost him any thing. He who has it should only draw the strings as frugality directs and he will be sure always to find an useful penny at the bottom of it the servants of industry are known by their livery; it is always whole and wholesome. Idleness travels very leisurely, and poverty soon overtakes her. look at the ragged Slaves of idleness and judge which is the best master to serve ? Industry or Idleness (continues)

Unknown
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Bacon      

  

unknown : unknown

'The wonderful Cambridge Prophet who has been most cruelly Martyrd To be seen at [followed by a gap. It continues] He is not the Wandering jew, nor an old Levite, nor St John, as some people imagine, it seems his generation was in the world before Adam and in the ark with Noah, and with Christ when Condemned to be crucified, The Scripture makes mention of him. He is no imposter He knoweth not his parents, nor ever did Suck the breast of his mother, His beard is the colour of vermillion, and is seldom or ever cut. he goes barefooted like a grey friar, He wears neither hat cap, nor wig. His coat is neither wove, knit spun or made with hands, neither is it silk.?

Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Bacon      Print: Advertisement

  

unknown : [Almanac]

West Indian Islands Islands len Brd chief towns Belonging to _________________________________________________________ Jamaica 140 60 Kingston Great Britain _________________________________________________________ Barbadoes [021] 14 Bridgetown ? _________________________________________________________ St. Christopher 20 7 Basse-terre ? _________________________________________________________ Antigua 20 20 St. John?s ? _________________________________________________________ Nevis and each of them is Plymouth ? Montserrat 18 circumfer (continues. len = length; Brd = breadth)

Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Bacon      Print: Unknown, set out in a table

  

unknown : [almanac]

[Transcribed in Mary Bacon's commonplace book/ledger: ?Mars is situated next above the Earth his course being between the orbit of Jupiter and that of the Earth but very distant from both it is the least of all the planets, Mercury excepted has less lustre than any other star and appears of a dusky red hue Mars is considerably less than the Earth, its diameter, being only 4400, miles his distance from the sun is 129,000,000 of miles and he revolves about the central luminary in 687 days proceeding at the rate of 45,000 miles an hour continues

Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Bacon      Print: Unknown

  

unknown : unknown

'[?] I am seen about the garden with large and aged quartos [?]'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Louis Stevenson      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : Monthly Review [review of Southey's "The Curse of Kehama"]

'Have you (I forget whether you ever told me) read the Curse of Kahama [sic]? I have seen two Reviews of it, & now so well understand what it all seems to be about, I should like mightily to read the whole'.

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Sarah Harriet Burney      Print: Serial / periodical

  

[unknown] : Quarterly Review [review of Southey's "The Curse of Kehama"]

'Have you (I forget whether you ever told me) read the Curse of Kahama [sic]? I have seen two Reviews of it, & now so well understand what it all seems to be about, I should like mightily to read the whole'.

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Sarah Harriet Burney      Print: Serial / periodical

  

unknown : Life of St Giovanni Gualberto

Elizabeth Barrett to Arabella Moulton-Barrett, 26 July 1847: 'We passed the time [at the monastery at Vallombrosa] till monday, .. reading the Life of San Gualberto (who established the monastery) & learning from that only book within our reach, how spiritual holiness & benediction float in the air of the place [...] & how no mortal soul can approach the mountain, without partaking the sanctifying advantage.'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Robert and Elizabeth Barrett Browning     Print: Book

  

unknown : unknown [novels]

'The other main diversions of the voyage resolved themselves into reading unimportant novels aloud, by pairs, on the deck, and gambling in the smoking-room.'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: George Warrington Steevens      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [review of Pierre Jouhaud, "Paris dans le dix-neuvieme siecle"]

'A book that I am sure would amuse Barrett, and perhaps you also, very much, is [underlined] Jouhaud's Paris dans le dixneuvieme Siecle [end underlining]. The account of it made me extremely desirous to see it. There are in it descriptions of the present Parisien world - the state of Religion, of society, of amusements, of schools, fashions &c, &c - And all appears fairly done, and in a manly unaffected manner. pate le 3eme [a little hand points to an ink blot] I should like also excessively to see [underlined] Catteau's Voyage en Allemagne et Suede. [end underlining] The little I read about it, has made me so fond of the Swedes! Not the Swedish nobles, but the tiers etat; the farmers, landholders and peasantry: they resemble the Swiss at their best; but appear still more carefully educated at their provincial schools, and are quite dear things.'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Sarah Harriet Burney      Print: Serial / periodical

  

[unknown] : [review of Jean-Pierre-Guillaume Catteau-Calleville, Voyage en Allemagne et en Suede]

'A book that I am sure would amuse Barrett, and perhaps you also, very much, is [underlined] Jouhaud's Paris dans le dixneuvieme Siecle [end underlining]. The account of it made me extremely desirous to see it. There are in it descriptions of the present Parisien world - the state of Religion, of society, of amusements, of schools, fashions &c, &c - And all appears fairly done, and in a manly unaffected manner. pate le 3eme [a little hand points to an ink blot] I should like also excessively to see [underlined] Catteau's Voyage en Allemagne et Suede. [end underlining] The little I read about it, has made me so fond of the Swedes! Not the Swedish nobles, but the tiers etat; the farmers, landholders and peasantry: they resemble the Swiss at their best; but appear still more carefully educated at their provincial schools, and are quite dear things.'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Sarah Harriet Burney      Print: Serial / periodical

  

unknown : works on the Reformation

'I must tell you about my way of life, which is regular to a degree. Breakfast 8.30; during breakfast and my smoke afterwards until ten, when I begin work, I read Reformation: from ten, I work until about a quarter to one; from one until two, I lunch and read a book on Schopenhauer or one on Positivism; two to three work, three to six anything; if I am in before six, I read about Japan; six dinner and a pipe with my father and coffee until 7.30; 7.30 to 9.30, work; after that either supper and a pipe at home, or out to Simpson?s or Baxter?s: bed between eleven and twelve.'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Louis Stevenson      Print: Book, Unknown

  

unknown : [Japanese picture books]

[After a break in the letter:] 'There I had the wisdom to stop and look over Japanese picture books until lunch time.'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Louis Stevenson      Print: BookManuscript: Letter

  

unknown : 'book on Children & Sex'

Friday 7 December 1917: 'I ended my afternoon in one of the great soft chairs at Gordon Square [...] I sat alone for 20 minutes, reading a book on Children & Sex.'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Virginia Woolf      Print: Book

  

unknown : unknown

Friday 14 December 1917: 'Today we went to see Philip at Fishmongers Hall [being used as military hospital] [...] a great burly cavalry officer was reading his book in a far corner; unused to reading books, I should think.'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: anon      Print: Book

  

unknown : unknown

'I lay in an immense bed, with firelight flickering on the ceiling, and read a book by a theosophist.'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Vita Sackville-West      Print: Book

  

unknown : life of Byron

7 August 1918: 'I was very glad to go on with my Byron [...] I'm amused to find how easily I can imagine the effect he had upon women [goes on to comment further upon Byron's life, letters, and poetry]'.

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Virginia Woolf      Print: Book

  

unknown : History of America

'For the last ten days I have been getting on again in good style. I have finished Charles and am in the second volume of the History of America. At this rate I calculate on getting through with all the books which you recommend to me in about twenty years.'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Jane Baillie Welsh      Print: Book

  

unknown : Life of Tennyson

Tuesday 14 February 1922: 'I am reading [in convalescence, following week of illness] Moby Dick: Princesse de Cleves; Lord Salisbury; Old Mortality; Small Talk at Wreyland; with an occasional bite at the Life of Lord Tennyson, of Johnson; & anything else I find handy. But this is all dissipated & invalidish. I can only hope that like dead leaves they may fertilise my brain.'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Virginia Woolf      Print: Book

  

unknown : Life of [?Samuel] Johnson

Tuesday 14 February 1922: 'I am reading [in convalescence, following week of illness] Moby Dick: Princesse de Cleves; Lord Salisbury; Old Mortality; Small Talk at Wreyland; with an occasional bite at the Life of Lord Tennyson, of Johnson; & anything else I find handy. But this is all dissipated & invalidish. I can only hope that like dead leaves they may fertilise my brain.'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Virginia Woolf      Print: Book

  

unknown : Various unspecified books concerning John Knox.

'[?] though I can do no original work, I get forward making notes for my ?Knox? at a good trot.'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Louis Stevenson      Print: Book

  

Unknown (trad) : Jack The Giant Killer

'My present sojourn is the most distressing you can imagine: the weather is so bad that one cannot cross the threshold; there is not a book in the hou[se] besides "Rutledges's Sermons" and "Black's sermons" neither of which I have any relish for, and the "Juvenile Library" which, with the exception of "Jack the Gi[ant] Killer", ["]Blue Beard" and the "Wishing cap" that I read last night, does not appear to be particularly edifying...'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Jane Baillie Welsh      Print: BookManuscript: Letter

  

unknown : [work about Harmann, the Butcher of Hanover]

'Do you now what we are doing? Harold is reading about Harmann, The Butcher of Hanover, - an unbelievably horrible book which I recommend by the way to the Hogarth Press, in translation, - and I am writing to you, and over both of us hangs the immediate prospect of putting on our pretty evening clothes and sallying out to a party.'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Harold Nicolson      Print: Unknown

  

unknown : [ms novel]

'I'm reading an Oxford undergraduate ms novel, and his hero says "Do you know these lines from The Land, the finest poem, by far the finest of our living poets -" but for all that, we shan't publish him.'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Virginia Woolf      Manuscript: Codex

  

unknown : [unidentified plays]

Saturday 17 March 1923: 'Written, for a wonder, at 10 o'clock at night [...] my brain saturated with the Silent Woman. I am reading her because we now read plays at 46 [Gordon Square].'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Virginia Woolf, Vanessa Bell and other family/friends     Print: Book

  

unknown : '18th Century prose'

Friday 15 August 1924: 'When I was 20 I liked 18th Century prose; I liked Hakluyt, Merimee. I read masses of Carlyle, Scott's life & letters, Gibbon, all sorts of two volume biographies, & Shelley.'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Virginia Stephen      Print: Book

  

unknown : biographical works

Friday 15 August 1924: 'When I was 20 I liked 18th Century prose; I liked Hakluyt, Merimee. I read masses of Carlyle, Scott's life & letters, Gibbon, all sorts of two volume biographies, & Shelley.'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Virginia Stephen      Print: Book

  

unknown : novels

Saturday 27 March 1926: '[Gerald Gould] reads novels incessantly; got a holiday 3 years ago, & prided himself on reading nothing but Tchekhov'.

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Gerald Gould      Print: Book

  

unknown : 'sporting memoirs'

Saturday 18 June 1927: 'I read -- any trash. Maurice Baring; sporting memoirs.'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Virginia Woolf      Print: Book

  

unknown : French texts

Tuesday 24 April 1928: 'I was reading Othello last night, & was impressed by the volley & volume & tumble of his words: too many I should say, were I reviewing for the Times [goes on to comment further on Shakespeare] [...] I've read only French for 4 weeks.'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Virginia Woolf      Print: Book

  

unknown : biographies

Tuesday 7 July 1931: 'I am reading Don Juan; & dispatch a biography every two days.'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Virginia Woolf      Print: Book

  

unknown : Greek grammar

Monday 2 May 1932: 'Well it is five minutes to ten: but where am I, writing with pen & ink? Not in my studio. In the gorge, or valley, at Delphi, under an olive tree, sitting on dry earth covered with white daisies. L. is reading his Greek grammar beside me'.

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Leonard Woolf      Print: Book

  

unknown : 'French poetry'

Thursday 6 July 1933: 'Dinner at Roger's yesterday [...] Roger reading French poetry to Mrs Q[uennell]. & Gloria [Georgia].'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Roger Fry      Print: Book

  

unknown : Seventeenth Century Verse

'Our library too was a weighty affair. Shipton had the longest novel that had been published in recent years, Warren a 2,000-page work on physiology.[...] On Good Friday [...] the rest of us lay about, played chess or read the less technical portion of our curiously assorted library. This included "Gone with the Wind" (Shipton) "Seventeenth Century Verse" (Oliver), "Montaigne's Essays" (Warren), "Don Quixote" (self), "Adam Bede" (Lloyd), "Martin Chuzzlewit" (Smythe), "Stones of Venice" (Odell) and a few others. Warren,who rejoined us that day, besides his weighty tome on Physiology -in which there were several funny anecdotes if one took the trouble to look - had with him a yet weightier volume on the singularly inappropriate subject of Tropical Diseases.'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Peter R. Oliver      Print: Book

  

unknown : [Physiology textbook]

'Our library too was a weighty affair. Shipton had the longest novel that had been published in recent years, Warren a 2,000-page work on physiology.[...] On Good Friday [...] the rest of us lay about ,played chess or read the less technical portion of our curiously assorted library. This included "Gone with the Wind" (Shipton) "Seventeenth Century Verse" (Oliver), "Montaigne's Essays" (Warren), "Don Quixote" (self), "Adam Bede" (Lloyd), "Martin Chuzzlewit" (Smythe), "Stones of Venice" (Odell) and a few others. Warren,who rejoined us that day, besides his weighty tome on Physiology -in which there were several funny anecdotes if one took the trouble to look - had with him a yet weightier volume on the singularly inappropriate subject of Tropical Diseases. '

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Charles B.M. Warren      Print: Book

  

unknown : [Elizabethan lyrics]

'Now I have had my dinner, or rather Pippin has had most of my dinner, and it is dark and the house is silent, and the book of Elizabethan lyrics which I have been trying to read seems to be all about love-(blast it)-so I threw it across the room in anger because it made things worse.'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Vita Sackville-West      Print: Book

  

unknown : [novels]

'[The Comtesse] has a [italics] library [end italics] of novels - literally; so that I wonder she has not, by filling her head with such a mass of trash, committed half a dozen murders and run away from her husband at least as many times, to make herself a heroine; - and, what is more, she cannot be [italics] scrupulous [end italics] in the selection of these novels, from the specimens of some she has lent me. Yet none of this idle reading seems to have injured her mind or manners; she speaks French beautifully, has very good manners, and is, I am told, very amiable'.

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Lady [-]      Print: Book

  

unknown : [books of natural history]

'Then came those old-fashioned books of natural history that dealt courageously with The Universe, illustrating it with quaint engravings of strange rock formations in the Hartz Mountains, the Mammoth caves in Kentucky, the Aurora Borealis, and the eruption of Mount Etna; always with little men armed with long staves, looking as though they themselves were responsible for the phenomena. But none of these were part of the school curricula.'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Eric Shipton      Print: Book

  

unknown : unknown

'My instinct first led me to Dharmsala [sic], for many years the home of my uncle Robert Shaw who [...] was the first Englishman to push his way way right through the Himalayas to the plains of Turkestan beyond. Here [in his house] I found [...] books [...] and maps and old manuscripts. I was among the relics of an explorer,at the very house in which he had planned his explorations[...]. I pored over the old books and maps, and talked for hours with the old servants, till the spirit of exploration gradually entered my soul, and I rushed off on a preliminary tour on foot in the direction of Tibet, and planned a great journey into that country for the following year.'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Francis Younghusband      Print: Book, manuscripts also mentioned

  

unknown : unknown

'Any one can imagine the fearful monotony of those long dreary marches seated on the back of a slow and silently moving camel. While it was light I would read and even write; but soon the sun would set before us, the stars would appear one by one, and through the long dark hours we would go silently on [...].'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Francis Younghusband      Print: Unknown

  

unknown : life of James Boswell

Monday 15 October 1934, during period of depression: 'I am as slack as a piece of macaroni: & in this state cant shake off a blackness, a blankness. Now (10 to 1) after writing & beginning to read an old life of Boswell I feel the wheels grinding.'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Virginia Woolf      Print: Book

  

unknown : 'Italian novel'

Monday 11 March 1935: 'I am reading Chateaubriand; & to my joy find I can read an Italian novel for pleasure, currently, easily.'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Virginia Woolf      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [Story of Perseus]

'Her reading as a child was voracious, although her late start in learning to read for herself left her with a cosy taste for being read to. Her governess hads read aloud to her the story of Perseus and "Jungle Jinks" and most things in between. Once she read for herself, she had a passion for George Macdonald: his Curdie was one of her heroes. She loved Baroness Orczy's "Scarlet Pimpernel", and E. Nesbit's books. She read Dickens exhaustively as a child and, as a result, could not read him as a young adult: "There is no more oxygen left, for me, anywhere in the atmosphere of his writings".'

Century: 1850-1899 / 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Bowen      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [detective stories]

'The only above-board children's stories for grown-ups, she thought, were detective stories, and those she read for pure pleasure all her life'.

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Bowen      Print: Book

  

unknown : Greek verse

Sunday, 19 June 1937, during holiday to Scotland and Border country: 'I have been reading translations of Greek verse, and thinking idly.'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Virginia Woolf      Print: Book

  

unknown : unknown

'We have had a very blowing night [...] I was set this morning very gingerly by the fire-side in an elbow chair I had made lash to for me close by the Cabin Stove, with my back to the door. I had taken up a book and was reading as composedly as if sitting in my closet. I did not however enjoy this calm situation long, for presently I heard a rumbling just behind me [...] what was my surprize, when the cabin-door burst open and I was overwhelmed with an immense wave, which broke my chair from its moorings [...] I found myself swimming amongst joint-stools, chests, Tables and all the various furniture of our parlour.'

Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Janet Schaw      Print: Book

  

unknown : article on reported cure by mesmerism of Harriet Martineau

Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 28 January 1845: 'I have seen a page of the Lancet (which Nelly Bordman sent me), with extracts from the abominable "case". It is plain enough from the extracts printed by Mr Greenhough in a letter to the Chronicle yesterday, from H. Martineau's notes to him, that she understood & was ready to permit a [italics]partial[end italics] publication. But what she did [italics]not[end italics] expect, was an independent pamphlet filled with the most offensive details possible. Could any woman [...] have expected patiently such a disclosure, so made?'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett      Print: Serial / periodical

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

[having been given a rum and peppermint liqueur for a migraine] 'We went to the Railway waiting-room, which was all quiet and nicely-lighted up; so Flossy began to read a book she had brought with her; and I got Hendschel's Telegraph (the German Bradshaw) off the table, and began to puzzle out my train to Strasbourg to meet Louy, - when, lo & behold, Flossy whispered to me, me, smelling of rum - that Mr Bosanquet had come in! I tucked my head down over my book, & told F.E. to take no notice; but he drew nearer and nearer, pretending to look at the affiches on the walls, until at last he came close, & said 'Mrs G. can I assist you in making out yr train'...'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Florence Elizabeth Gaskell      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : Blackwood's Magazine

'I'll change my tactics [from trying to persuade Blackwood to give her a copy of "Adam Bede" out of generosity] and say you owe me compensation for an article {of} under which if the wit had been a tithe equal to the wish to abuse I might have winced with pain. As it was I only felt indignant at the bad spirit in which the review of my Life of Charlotte Bronte was written, & half inclined to offer my services to Mr Aytoun the next time he wished to have an article written which should point out with something like keen and bitter perception the short-comings of my books'.

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell      Print: Serial / periodical

  

[unknown] : [American cookery books]

'Yes! I found the American cookery books here when we got home, (Decr 20th) and many many thanks. we can't understand all the words used - because, you see, [italics] we [end italics] speak English, - but we have made some capital brown bread and several other good things, by the help of them'.

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

'Meta is turning out such a noble beautiful character - Her intellect and her soul, (or wherever is the part in which piety & virtue live) are keeping pace, as they should do - She works away at German & Greek - reads carefully many books, - with a fineness of perception & relish which delights me...'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Emily Gaskell      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

'I forgot to tell you that Meta reads with & teaches Elliot every night'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Emily Gaskell      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

'[Meta] has a little orphan boy to teach French to, reads with Elliot every night, etc: etc: and has always more books she [is] wanting to read than she can get through, being a very slow reader.'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Emily Gaskell      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [review of his own 'Idylls of the King']

'No! I have not read nothing! - not even a review of Idylls of the King - only heard Mrs Norton's account of Tennyson's reading it'.

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Alfred, Lord Tennyson      Print: Serial / periodical

  

[unknown] : Melle Mori

'Do you know by whom 'Melle Mori' is written?' [Gaskell asks George Smith the same question the same day - p.605]

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [anthology of laudatory sonnets]

'Now I had a vol: of poems sent me the other day, full of sonnets to Dickens, Carlyle &c &c - [italics] such [end italics] bad ones; & the parcel contains this book sent to her 'from the author', & my own dear precious sonnet.' [Gaskell then transcribes the sonnet, beginning 'Sweet Vocalist; the Nightingale of sound!', asking smith - facetiously? - if he would like it for the Cornhill]

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : London Guardian

'I read them an account of the Ammergau Play, out of the London Guardian that Mr Maltby had lent me; & I think they will both go to one of the Septr Representations'.

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell      Print: Newspaper

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

'Our bride & bridegroom write as if they were very happy reading law, novels, driving fishing & boating'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Florence (nee Gaskell) and Charles Crompton     Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [book on portraits of Dante]

'[she thanks the Nortons for a photograph of Lincoln and] 'the delicious book on the portraits of Dante which it is a pleasure even to open, - it, - & the faces themselves seem to carry one so [italics] up [end italics] into a ["]purer aether, a diviner air".'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell      Print: Book

  

unknown : [History of Music]

'I am reading, ... "History of Music."'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Virginia Woolf      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [a history of the French Revolution]

'[italics] Whose [end italics] history of the F. Revolution are you reading?'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Marianne Gaskell      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : ['standard works'; not novels]

'Miss Bronte in one of her letters to you (Mama [italics] thinks [end italics] written in the year 1835,) gives you some advice as to what books to read. Mama wants to know how Miss Bronte can have become acquainted with the books that she mentions to you. From Keighley Mama knows she could get novels but where such standard works as Miss Bronte refers to in her letters were obtained is a puzzle to Mama. At Haworth Mama says she did not see many books except quite new ones that had been given to Miss Bronte since she became famous. If you would kindly let her know all you know.'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Charlotte Bronte      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [French]

'After dinner Meta & Flossy did their German; & I read French'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [letter to Marianne Gaskell]

'here is a letter for you, which I opened [italics] verily [end italics] by mistake at first. One came for Florence at the same time which I snatched up and I could not believe I should be equally unfortunate with the second, but when I saw yours it was irresistible to read it; quite by way of chaperonage of course, and not a bit for gossipry. However, there is not much news of any kind in it, as you will find.'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell      Manuscript: Letter

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

'They got dingy novels from the Caen Circg Library, & had no other books, I fancy. No wonder they "hate living abroad".'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: 'the Heald girls'     Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [pamphlet]

'Read the pamphlet Mr Boswell recommended:, natural, certainly, and the man had too much provocation for his act.'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: George Crabbe      

  

[unknown] : [Miscellany]

'Mr Blackwood the Editor of the Magazine which goes under his Name & who this Morning - in Modo Mr Murray of London - very kindly prest me to accept a Volume & a very pleasing Volume of Miscellanies which I will take with me if I live to reach Trowbridge again.'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: George Crabbe      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [poetry]

'With your Letter I found a Parcel containing 2 vols of Poetry from a Gentleman who some time since wrote to me upon the Subject: it is rather unmerciful, but I must bear it.'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: George Crabbe      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [Travels]

'I like the books which we purchased though the Physiological Botany is rather too minute & supposes the Reader a Learner indeed. The Travels are I think really good & good humoured. Faust was not so terrific as I apprehended from the seduction of a Philosopher by an evil Spirit. I verily think that Business is conducted better (than in far more ostentatious works) in the Arabian Tales, (not Nights) where a pious old Lady is wrought upon by her Vanity into Compliance with a Devil who takes the Character of a pious old Man:I want this second part of these strange Tales & to have done with the Subject of Books I treated myself with Warton's History of Poetry: I have long wished for it, but the Quarto edition was so dear £ 5 that I waited for a Octavo & it is just published: it has a great deal of dull Matter but with much Information & Amusement & moreover it is in the way of my Vocation. There is a good Print of the Author & John having seen that, I believe has no wish to look a page further.'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: George Crabbe      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [book on witchcraft trials]

'That is a curious kind of Hallucination which Miss B. discovers in her Addresses to imaginary Beings: it comes very near to a case I read, long since, in the Trials of Witches, a book wh I should like to see again'. [Crabbe outlines the witchcraft case in question]

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: George Crabbe      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [unknown work on religious enthusiasm]

'I am reading & have nearly read, a Work upon Enthusiasm, [the] 3d Edition, the author unknown to me, but a thinking Man of good Sense & a stedd[y] Believer in what he does believe, which is not all that imaginative people [suppose.] He thinks the spread of Christianity over the World is rapidly going on with ev[ry] Prospect of Success, & that Every Believer should be a persuader & maker of Converts as far as his Abilities & powers &c extend-'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: George Crabbe      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [MSS by or about Carlyle]

'A week in Edinburgh looking up Carlyle MSS before Christmas'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Antonia White      Manuscript: Unknown

  

[unknown] : [poetry]

'It is strange that in poetry, when I was eleven, I had what I can only call my first revelation from which I emerged dazed, unable to fit the two worlds together. It has happened again now with the Rilke book'.

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Antonia White      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : ['trash']

'At the moment, in a sense, "art" means nothing whatever to me. I cannot read (except trash) look at pictures, listen to music.'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Antonia White      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : ['lives of painters']

'I read voraciously the lives of painters and the journals of poets. I am nourished and nourished but I bring forth nothing'.

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Antonia White      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : ['journals of poets']

'I read voraciously the lives of painters and the journals of poets. I am nourished and nourished but I bring forth nothing'.

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Antonia White      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [French novels]

'The clerk who cashes my cheques at the bank is quite a bright, intelligent-looking boy. To-day I had a copy of [italics] Bouvard et Pecuchet [end italics]. He looked at it with curiosity then said "I expect you think I'm rude, looking like that. But I used to read a lot of those sorts of books once" "What sort of books?" "Oh, yellow books like that. I picked up a lot in a booksellers. But mine were much bigger than that" "What were they?" "Oh I don't remember their names or what they were about" "Do you remember the authors?" "Can't say I do. I seem to remember one was some sort of a Japanese story" "And they were in French?" "Oh yes, in French of course".'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: anon      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [a life of George Eliot]

'I have just finished [italics] The Mill on the Floss[end italics]. Reading it and [italics] Adam Bede [end italics] have given me the most extraordinary pleasure. I begin to think George Eliot is not only the greatest English woman novelist but perhaps the greatest English novelist. She has not the fiery poetry of Emily Bronte nor the exquisite surface of Jane Austen but she has a richness and sweep and depth that is Shakespearean. The one thing that maims or constrains her a little is some rigid moral sense which goes against her [italics] natural [end italics ] morality. She is haunted by an impossible ideal of purity and strictness. In [italics] Middlemarch [end italics] and [italics] Adam Bede [end italics] she incarnates this in two women; one so impossibly good that she is repellent. I am in for a George Eliot bout as a drunkard goes on a jag. Over dinner I raced through a short life of her.'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Antonia White      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [Catholic texts]

'There is a peculiar flavour about Catholic writings which I still find repellent. [George] Tyrell is the only modern one with whom I feel in sympathy and he was condemned by the Church.'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Antonia White      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

'Dreamy and compulsive lately: cram myself with reading, put off all activities'.

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Antonia White      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

[symptoms of depression include] 'Outward signs: maniacal reading, either pure escapism or... the search for the magic word.'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Antonia White      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [writings about religion, Church History, etc]

'The more I read of theology, Church History, apologetics, philosophy, scripture interpretation, the more hopelessly at sea I find myself. I feel on firm ground with Walter H[ylton] and Dame Julian [of Norwich] and in the prayers of the Church.'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Antonia White      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [poetry]

'chiefly was I charm'd and ravish'd with the Sweets of Poetry; all my Hours were dedicated to the Muses; and from a Reader, i quickly became a Writer'.

Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Laetitia van Lewen      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [letters to Swift from various correspondents]

'[Pilkington tells how Swift cut out many pages of an edition of Horace and made her paste letters between the covers instead] 'I told him, I was extreamly proud to be honoured with his Commands: "But, Sir, may I presume to make a request to you?" "Yes", says he, "but Ten to One I shall deny it". "I hope not Sir, 'tis this; may I have Leave to read the Letters as I go on?" "Why, provided you will acknowledge yourself amply rewarded for your Trouble, I don't much care if I indulge you so far; but are you sure you can read?" "I don't know Sir, I'll try". "Well then begin with this". It was a letter from Lord [italics] Bolingbroke [end italics], Dated six o'Clock in the Morning; it began with a remark, how differently that Hour appeared to him now, rising cool, serene, and temperate, to contemplate the Beauties of Nature, to what it had done in some former Parts of his Life, when he was either in the midst of Excesses, or returning Home sated with them [Pilkington continues to summarise the 'moral philosophy' of the letter and professes herself delighted with all his other letters] Nor can I be at all surprized that Mr [italics] Pope [end italics] should so often celebrate a Genius who for sublimity of Thought, and elegance of Stile, had few Equals. The rest of the Dean's Correspondents were, the Lady [italics] Masham [end italics], the Earl of [italics] Oxford [end italics] [a long list of others, ending] Mr [italics] Pope [end italics], Mr [italics] Gay [end italics], Dr [italics] Arbuthnot [end italics]; A Noble and learned Set! So my Readers may judge what a Banquet I had. I cou'd not avoid remarking to the Dean, that notwithstanding the Friendship Mr [italics] Pope [end italics] professed for Mr [italics] Gay [end italics], he cou'd not forbear a great many Satyrical, or if I might be allowed to say so, envious Remarks on the success of the [italics] Beggar's Opera [end italics] The Dean very frankly own'd, he did not think Mr [italics] Pope [end italics] was so candid to the Merits of other Writers, as he ought to be. [cont. in a subsequent entry]'

Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Laetitia Pilkington      Manuscript: Letter

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

[having quoted from sermons and poetical works, including Swift, Young and her husband, on the subject of adultery Pilkington says] 'I must beg my Reader's Pardon for these numerous Quotations; but as [italics] Swift [end italics] says, those anticipating Rascals the Ancients, have left nothing for us poor Moderns to say: But still to shew my Vanity, let it stand as some sort of Praise, that I have stolen wisely'.

Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Laetitia Pilkington      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

'I own myself very indiscreet in permitting any Man to be at an unseasonable Hour in my Bed-Chamber; but Lovers of Learning will, I am sure, pardon me, as I solemnly declare, it was the attractive Charms of a new Book,which the Gentleman would not lend me, but consented to stay till I read it through, that was the sole Motive of my detaining him' [the incident led to LP being divorced for adultery]

Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Laetitia Pilkington      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [commendatory verses by various admirers]

'I can't but let my Readers see my Vanity, in inserting the following Poems, written to me since I came to [italics] Dublin [end italics], and do assure them, I have as many Pacquets of a Day, as a Minister of State; some praising, and some abusing me; the best of which in my Praise, I have chosen out for their Perusal' [various laudatory poems follow]

Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Laetitia Pilkington      Manuscript: Letter

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

'My Landlady, who was really a Gentlewoman, and he [a Gentleman LP knew from Ireland], and I diverted away the Time with Ombre, Reading, and Pratling, very tolerably'

Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Laetitia Pilkington      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

[Having agreed to let her landlady lodge a Dr Turnbull in her (LP's) bedchamber] 'I went up to my own Apartment, where I found the Doctor reading'

Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: George Turnbull      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

'I was going to proceed, when Mr [italics] Cibber [end italics] interrupted me; I was, said he, at the Duke of [italics] Richmond[end italics]'s last Summer, when his Daughter, a most accomplished young Lady, and a very early Riser, sat reading in a beautiful Portico, about Six in the Morning; I accosted the fair Creature, and asked her the Subject of her Contemplation? So in a most elegant, and agreeable Stile, she related to me Part of a very entertaining Novel, she held in her Hand, and, I believe, in better words than the Author wrote it.'

Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Emilia, Lady Lennox      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

'I grew so melancholy at the Loss of my Companion, that I did not even care for writing, but amused myself entirely with reading; and my not having a Library of my own, made me a constant Customer to a Shop in the Neighbourhood, where they hired out Books by the Quarter'

Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Laetitia Pilkington      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

[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: Book

  

[unknown] : [books on Roman History]

'No sooner did the Doctor percieve [sic] that I knew [italics] Mark Anthony [end italics] from [italics] Julius Caesar [end italics], and [italics] Brutus [end italics] from both, but he related a great Part of [italics] Roman[end italics] History to me, even from the first [italics] Punic [end italics] War to the Death of [italics] Julius [end italics]. My Readers may venture to believe it was not new to me, who had from my Childhood been, if I may use the Word, a perfect Devourer of Books; and I found them both sweet to the Palate, and nourishing Food to the Mind.'

Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Laetitia Pilkington      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [a French drinking song]

'I had the good Fortune to divert him [Lord Galway] with my comical stuff so well that he left me a Task, which was, to translate a [italics] French Chanson a boire [end italics].'

Unknown
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Laetitia Pilkington      

  

[unknown] : [prison discharge document]

[various benefactors including Colley Cibber having helped her, LP is released from the Marshalsea] 'When I read over these Words, [italics] Discharge from your Custody the body of, &c. [end italics], as I was by nine Weeks Confinement, Sickness, and Fasting, rendered quite weak, the joyful Surprize made me faint away several Times, and, indeed, my kind Benefactor had like to have frustrated his own generous Design of preserving me.'

Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Laetitia Pilkington      Manuscript: Unknown

  

[unknown] : [inscriptions]

'I wandered through the Cloysters, reading the Inscriptions till it grew duskish. I hastened to the great Gate, but was infinitely shocked to find I was locked in to the solitary Mansions of the Dead'.

Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Laetitia Pilkington      Manuscript: Graffito

  

[unknown] : [poetry by various correspondents]

'Indeed if I had printed all the poetry that has been sent to me for that Purpose, since I came to this Kingdom, it would have proved as odd a Medley as any thing ever yet exhiited to publick View; I suppose everyone who fancied they had Wit, had a Mind to see how it would look in print, but I must beg to be excused; though the learned Mr [italics] Timothy Ticle Picker [end italics] pressed very hard for a place, it would be a strong Proof of my Vanity to insert his anti-sublime compliments to me'.

Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Laetitia Pilkington      Manuscript: Unknown

  

unknown : [German novel]

'I have read nothing, but half of one German novel, last sunday! Not long ago, all this would have made me miserable; but at present I submit to it with equanimity, and even find enjoyment in the thought that in this humblest of spheres of existence I am doing all I can do save my spirit and my fortunes from the shipwreck which threatened then, and to fit me for discharging to myself and others whatever duties my natural or accidental capabilities, slender but actually existing as they are, point out and impose upon me.'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Carlyle      Print: Book

  

unknown : [nineteenth-century works]

'I have read so much of the 19th century lately that I can scarcely restrain myself from writing in that manner - whether in prose or poetry - and the more I read, the more I am convinced that I was born out of season: I should have lived in an age when seriousness and noble thoughts found an echo.'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Vita Sackville-West      Print: Unknown

  

[unknown] : The Parallel: Or, Pilkington and Phillips Compared, Being Remarks upon the Memoirs of those two celebrated Writers

'Just as I was writing about [italics] Worsdale [end italics] a Gentleman brought me a Pamphlet, entituled [sic], [italics] A parallel between Mrs Pilkington and Mrs Philips, written by an Oxford Scholar [end italics], as he tells us, himself, starving in a Garret: pray, Mr Scholar, deal ingenuously, did not [italics] Worsdale [end italics] hire you to writeit, because he was indolent'. [LP proceeds at length to refute the arguments of the papmhlet]

Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Laetitia Pilkington      

  

[unknown] : [poems sent by admirers]

'I have had so many amorous Epistles, Odes, Songs, Anacreonticks, Saphics, Lyrics, and Pindaricks, in Praise of my Mind and Person too, sent to me since I came to [italics]Ireland [end italics]; that I believe some Gentlemen, tho' I cannot, have found me out to be a marvelous proper Womaan'.

Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Laetitia Pilkington      Manuscript: Letter

  

unknown : [children's book]

'When I was about six, she decided that the time had come for me to learn to read. And that was when she made her mistake. Instead of merely sitting me down in front of Peter Rabbit, The Secret Garden or the Jungle Books and telling me to get on with it, she provided a dreadful book about a Rosy-Faced Family who Lived Next Door and Had Cats that Sat on Mats, and expected me to get on with that. I was outraged – I, who had walked the boards with the Crummles, and fought beside Beowulf in the darkened Hall of Heriot. I took one look, and decided that the best way of making sure that I should never meet the Rosy-Faced Family or any of their unspeakable kind in the future was not to learn to read at all. So I didn’t, and my mother never quite had the hardness of heart to stop reading to me. We had lessons and lessons and lessons; and we got practically nowhere.'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Rosemary Sutcliff      Print: Book

  

unknown : [selections from a Greek Anthology]

'Of course I was much in love with you then, in a very young and (also) uninformed way; it was young and fresh like Greek poetry, (I have just been reading some translations from the Greek Anthology), but it was like a spring then, like the mountain springs we used to drink from in Persia; but now it is like a deep deep lake which can never dry up.'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Vita Sackville-West      Print: Book

  

unknown : unknown

'Oh - a propos of that, I've been absolutely engaged by a book about Knole, in which Eddy is described as "author and musician" and I am described as "the wife of the Hon. Harold Nicolson C.M.G." '

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Vita Sackville-West      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [a review of Ford's work]

'I was greeted in the mess at breakfast today by the whole table exclaiuming: "Genius" - it appears that someone had read the British weekly which says "Mr H's literary power does not fall short of genius!" which struck them as comic'.

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: soldier      Print: Serial / periodical

  

[unknown] : [book on wild flowers]

'There is an awfully good little book on English wild flowers with good clear illustrations, but it costs 7/6. Is it worth it?'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Esther Gwendolyn, "Stella" Bowen      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [first reading]

'[Baby] is making progress with her reading & can - most times - identify the sound & the curly S & the elegant L. Perhaps she will be writing short stories by your return!'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Esther Julia Ford      Print: Unknown

  

[unknown] : review of Violet Hunt's 'The Flurried Years' in the New York Times]

'The only thing S.L. [Violet Hunt's memoirs] says about you, by the bye, is that I am now wandering homeless over Europe with a younger and more robust Egeria. I meant to send you the review in the N.Y. Times which contained those phrases, but I forgot it and it is impossible to get back issues of papers here.'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Ford Madox Ford      Print: Newspaper

  

[unknown] : [research for a tale to be serialised in 'Collier's Weekly']

'on Saturday the English proofs of Last Post descended on me and on Monday the American one's and I literally could do nothing else as Boni's wanted the proofs back on Monday night. That however was impossible, but I got them finished yesterday and then was too exhausted to do anything. In addition I have any amount of reading to do for the Collier's serial'.

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Ford Madox Ford      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [research for the book that became 'A little Less than Gods']

'I have begun DEMIGODS which is the provisional title of the Ney book and what with reading up for it and worrying over it I am fair moidert'.

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Ford Madox Ford      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [article presumably praising Stella Bowen's exhibition of paintings]

'I was so delighted with your cutting from the Crapouillot: I am sure I must seem quite fatuous, I shew it to so many people'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Ford Madox Ford      Print: Newspaper

  

[unknown] : [research for 'A Little Less than Gods']

'I have been doing a good deal of reading for the Ney book, though it is difficult to get all the books I want'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Ford Madox Ford      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [life and letters of Gauguin]

'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: Janice Biala      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

'Now half Paris is wanting to take my likeness & indeed a Spanish painter is doing it all the time while I am writing this. He sits about doing me while I work or read or play patience'.

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Ford Madox Ford      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [various fiction works in his father's library]

'Sydney [Larkin's father] gave him free run of his library and his appetite for books grew enormously. "Thanks to my father", he wrote later: "our house contained not only the principal works of most main English writers in some form or other (admittedly there were exceptions, like Dickens), but also nearly-complete collections of authors my father favoured - Hardy, Bennett, Wilde, Butler and Shaw, and later on Lawrence, Huxley and Katherine Mansfield".'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Philip Larkin      Print: Book

  

unknown : law books

'I am all right. I am reading law, and writing beautiful poems in prose. […]Do write, son of perdition, do write. I cannot, owing to poetical (prose poetical) afflatus, Civil Law, and a kind of nondescript incapacity that weighs upon me.'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Louis Stevenson      Print: Book, Textbooks on Scottish Law, including Civil Law.

  

[unknown] : [books in English]

'[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: Mr Glasser      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

'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

  

[unknown] : [books of biography, history, philosophy, etc]

'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

  

[unknown] : [books on politics]

'Father was well read in politics and in the nineteenth century novelists, Dickens and Trollope being his favourites. But his reading nourished the sour scepticism that possesed him [and he suggested to Glasser that reading was a waste of time]'.

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Mr Glasser      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [acceptance letter from Oxford University]

'I found the letter when I got home about seven in the evening. While I read it I bolted my teas as usual. Then I read it again, a message from a distant planet, with its strange, sonorous, processional language. "Willing to come into residence": you didn't go and stay, you went into [italics] residence [end italics]!'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Ralph Glasser      Manuscript: Letter

  

[unknown] : [Ralph Glasser's acceptance letter from Oxford University]

'With her shiny black apron she cleaned her Woolworth's spectacles, thick lenses in metal frames with wire side pieces, and read the letter, screwing up her eyes'.

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Rachel      Manuscript: Letter

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

'For most of my first term I rose at [5 a.m.] and bathed and shaved and dressed, and read till breakfast time - until neighbours compained about the noise I made in the echoing ablutions, when I ran a bath or flushed the toilet and sometimes, forgetfully, strolled about whistling'.

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Ralph Glasser      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [a girl's diary]

'One day, alone for a moment in a girl's room in Lady Margaret Hall - she had gone to fetch a tea-pot from along the corridor - I saw that she had left her diary open, it seemed deliberately, and I saw my name and the words "he is a glorious young animal!"'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Ralph Glasser      Manuscript: Codex

  

[unknown] : [Romantic texts and works about Romanticism]

'I was intensely interested in the Romantics at this time, that explosion of creative thought so inadequately explained in reading and in lectures. We talked of French and German poetry'.

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Ralph Glasser      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [German poetry]

'I read German poetry with the aged, charming Fraulein Wuschack, sometime governess in the Kaiser's family'.

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Ralph Glasser      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [citation for bravery]

'The next I learned of him [his old friend Alec] was some time after D-Day, when I read the posthumous citation'.

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Ralph Glasser      Print: Unknown

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

'There [living in a better area than previously, after his reformation from being a gambling addict], in his practical fashion, he [Glasser's father] looked after himself well, read a great deal, played solo whist in the Workers' Circle, spent hours chewing over the world with friends.'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Mr Glasser      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [poems]

'A colleague at the Council, later to achieve distinction as a poet, sent me a copy of his first slim volume of verse with a note: "This is to get you into trouble with the secret police!" A characteristic irony, for the poems were far from subversive; the reference, I think, was rather to what he [italics] could [end italics] have written but had suppressed'.

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Ralph Glasser      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [novels]

'Like most of those capable of appreciating real literature, Lady Louisa enjoyed novels of almost any description; admitting her taste with unusual frankness: "I did not read novels when very young, and possibly I like them all the better afterwards; they are like wine to a person not used to them, but I fear I have been a downright dram-drinker, so long have they lost their effect".'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Louisa, Lady Stuart      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [history books]

'Some of his pictures are good, and as his family is very noble and greatly allied, one sees many faces one has read of both in English and Scotch history, which I always think amusing'.

Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Louisa, Lady Stuart      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : Quarterly Review [article about Alexander von Humboldt]

'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

  

[unknown] : [description of the Court of Haiti]

'I am very glad you have enjoyed the court of Hayti, much the best part of the book in my opinion. I only barred your reading it out of propriety and for fear the other Lady Louisa should be scandalized; pray tell her so. My own notions are that comical books rarely do harm, unless when they try to throw ridicule on sacred subjects; and, I am tempted to say, "Have fixed principles deeply rooted, and then read what you please". I agree with her that Tardif de Courtrac, tho' always clever, is sometimes very tedious, especially in America, from one's indifference respecting the subject. For "Ivanhoe", make yourself easy, I am its sincere partisan and Rebecca's devoted admirer. I would rather the templar had burst a blood vessel, because that is really often the effect of a conflict of violent passions and tho' they may bring on an apoplexy also , it is not apt to ensue so immediately'. [LS then discusses several characters in Ivanhoe at length]

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Louisa, Lady Stuart      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [unknown - French? -text featuring travels in America]

'I am very glad you have enjoyed the court of Hayti, much the best part of the book in my opinion. I only barred your reading it out of propriety and for fear the other Lady Louisa should be scandalized; pray tell her so. My own notions are that comical books rarely do harm, unless when they try to throw ridicule on sacred subjects; and, I am tempted to say, "Have fixed principles deeply rooted, and then read what you please". I agree with her that Tardif de Courtrac, tho' always clever, is sometimes very tedious, especially in America, from one's indifference respecting the subject. For "Ivanhoe", make yourself easy, I am its sincere partisan and Rebecca's devoted admirer. I would rather the templar had burst a blood vessel, because that it really often the effect of a conflict of violent passions and tho' they may bring on an apoplexy also , it is not apt to ensue so immediately'. [LS then discusses several characters in Ivanhoe at length]

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Louisa, Lady Holroyd      Print: Unknown

  

[unknown] : [unknown - French? -text featuring travels in america]

'I am very glad you have enjoyed the court of Hayti, much the best part of the book in my opinion. I only barred your reading it out of propriety and for fear the other Lady Louisa should be scandalized; pray tell her so. My own notions are that comical books rarely do harm, unless when they try to throw ridicule on sacred subjects; and, I am tempted to say, "Have fixed principles deeply rooted, and then read what you please". I agree with her that Tardif de Courtrac, tho' always clever, is sometimes very tedious, especially in America, from one's indifference respecting the subject. For "Ivanhoe", make yourself easy, I am its sincere partisan and Rebecca's devoted admirer. I would rather the templar had burst a blood vessel, because that it really often the effect of a conflict of violent passions and tho' they may bring on an apoplexy also , it is not apt to ensue so immediately'. [LS then discusses several characters in Ivanhoe at length]

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Louisa, Lady Stuart      Print: Unknown

  

unknown : [law books]

'I have been reading such lots of law, and it seems to take away the power of writing from me. From morning to night, so often as I have a spare moment, I am in the embraces of a law book: barren embraces.'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Louis Stevenson      Print: Book, Law books in the plural.

  

[unknown] : Memoires de l'Europe sous Napoleon

'As for reading, I have much to say of the "Memoires de l'Europe sous Napoleon", but not time for it till quiet in my own house. I piously believe them genuine; they have the [italics] sceau [end italics] of his genius and of his profound art. I am also reading "Journal de Las Cases". I shut one book where he himself details the precautions taken to secure personal liberty under his government, the strict laws for the purpose, no person could be kept in prison a day without so, and so, and so, judges, privy council, and I know not what. I opened the other where Las Cases says that on looking over papers at St Helena, the Emperor was himself surprised to see the number of books prohibited and of [italics] persons arrested by the police [end italics], whom he had never heard of and knew nothing about'.

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Louisa, Lady Stuart      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [legal briefs]

[From SHR's introduction] 'The assistance to her husband in his professional duties consisted, so we are told in another obituary notice, in reading his briefs aloud to him when he returned home tired from the House of Commons, and marking from his dictation those passages he deemed of importance'.

Unknown
Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Anne Romilly      

  

[unknown] : [letter to Madame de Stael]

'I have seen a letter from a Gentleman in Sweden which proves that her [Madame de Stael's] Anglomania did not first arise on coming to this country. I will try if I can get you a copy of it. Mademoiselle [Albertine] is very much praised in it, but I do not think that we admire her as much as they did in Sweden.' [The letter is included]

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Anne Romilly      Manuscript: Letter

  

[unknown] : [novel by a lady novelist]

'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: Samuel Romilly      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [novel by a lady novelist]

'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

  

[unknown] : Edinburgh Review [review of 'Waverley']

'The "Edinburgh Review" will have praised "Waverley" to your hearts content. I think however they left out one of the most affecting parts of the work, which is the return of W. to the Barons, and the conduct of the poor innocent David Gellatley. Surely there is no doubt but that Walter Scott is the principal Author of it. The learned here do not affect to speak of it as belonging to anyone else -- I read "The Lord of the Isles" last night it being lent me for the Evening. There is some beautiful description indeed in it, particlarly to my fancy a barren scene in one of the Isles. I own I expected more from the two opening cantos than I afterwards found, and on the whole was disappointed. The story of the Page is so hackneyd, and there is nothing to redeem it but a greater power of holding the tongue than is commonly given to Women, and, as in every thing Walter Scott writes one can never feel great interest for the Lover, which one certainly ought to do, Malcolm Graeme in the "Lady of the Lake", "Waverley", and the Lover in "Marmion", and now Ronald, altho' I expected a great deal from him from the opening. I am however in love with the description of Robert Bruce, I think it beautiful. It is very presumptuous in me thus to give my opinion, [particularly as I have this morning heard that Sir James Mackintosh says it is by far the best thing Walter Scott has done, but then he is puffer general particularly to Scotsmen.] ' [Words inside brackets crossed out in original]

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Anne Romilly      Print: Serial / periodical

  

[unknown] : Eugene

'Since I wrote the first two pages of this letter I have read Eugene and Guilliaume, and quite agree with you. Pray correct Sir James Mackintosh's opinion [about "Waverley"], and for [italics] best [end italics] read [italics] worst [end italics] which was his opinion, altho' I was told the contrary. He is now I understand a little softened, and says it comes before Rokeby but after all the others. Have you read "Discipline" by Mrs Brunton? With many defects it is much above the common class, and the last Volume is very pretty indeed some scenes nearly as good as "Waverley" who I might have added to my list of Lovers belonging to Walter Scott one can take no interest in. - Have you read La Baume's act. of the Campaign in Russia? I am told it is very well done. I am sure you will be pleased with Mr Rocca's Book if you read it'.

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Anne Romilly      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [Reports on Mendicity]

'His [Byron's] "Farewell" is miserable poetry, and the allusions to the intimacy of marriage are not only ungentlemanly, but unmanly. "The Domestick Sketch" is powerfully written. I have seen in the reports on mendicity that there are persons who teach the arts of abuse - His Lordship seems to have studied in this school, with great success'.

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Richard Lovell Edgeworth      Print: Unknown

  

[unknown] : [unidentified novel]

'I have read both Emma and [torn and illegible]. In the first there is so little to remember, and in the last so much that one wishes to forget, that I am not inclined to write about them'.

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Anne Romilly      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [reading primer]

'But all this while, altho' now about Thirteen Years Old, I could not read; then thinking of the vast usefulness of reading, I bought me a Primer, and got now one, then another, to teach me to Spell, and so learn'd to Read imperfectly, my Teachers themselves not being ready Readers: But in a little time, having learn'd to Read competently well, I was desirous to learn to Write, but was at a great loss for a Master, none of my fellow Shepherds being able to teach me'.

Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Tryon      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

'[during his three years as a London apprentice castor-maker] I was mightily addicted to reading and Study; and tho' I was then engaged in a laborious trade and not allowed time for such Imployments of the Brain; yet I was so intent on my Study, that abridged myself of my Sleep and Rest. For after having wrought hard all day, from Five or Six in the Morning, till Ten or Eleven at Night, it was frequent with me to sit up two or three Hours reading'.

Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Tryon      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [books on astrology]

'[at Christmas, Easter and on other holidays, he] 'would be at Work or Study, whilst my Fellow-servants were abroad taking their Pleasure. I was then upon Astrolgy [sic], a Science too rashly decried by some' [he then discusses the merits of Astrology at length, but not mentioning any specific texts]

Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Tryon      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [books]

'But besides Astrology, I read Books of Physick, and sereval [sic] other natural Sciences and Arts.'

Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Tryon      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

'the time others spent in the Coffee-house or Tavern, I spent in Reading, Writing, Musick, or some useful Imployment'

Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Tryon      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

'When she [Katherine Hamilton, sister of Elizabeth] is not employed about something necessary and useful, she entertains herself with a book for the improvement of her mind'

Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Katherine Hamilton      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

'[editor's words] Previous to her arrival in Stirlingshire she had learnt to read with distinctness and propriety; and, under the tuition of Mrs Marshall, became an adept in this rare accomplishment. In books she soon discovered a substitute even for a playmate: her first hero was Wallace, with whom she became enamoured, by learning to recite Blind Harry's Lays. Two or three of Shakespeare's historical plays came in her way; the history of England followed. She happened to meet with Ogilvie's translation of Homer's Iliad, and soon learnt to idolize Achilles, and almost to dream of Hector'.

Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Hamilton      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [A history of England]

'[editor's words] Previous to her arrival in Stirlingshire she had learnt to read with distinctness and propriety; and, under the tuition of Mrs Marshall, became an adept in this rare accomplishment. In books she soon discovered a substitute even for a playmate: her first hero was Wallace, with whom she became enamoured, by learning to recite Blind Harry's Lays. Two or three of Shakespeare's historical plays came in her way; the history of England followed. She happened to meet with Ogilvie's translation of Homer's Iliad, and soon learnt to idolize Achilles, and almost to dream of Hector'.

Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Hamilton      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [scholastic divinity essays]

'[editor's words] In the evening Elizabeth had often to repeat a long elaborate task extracted from the now obsolete page of scholastic divinity, which must have been better calculated to exercise the memory than to call forth the devotional affections'.

Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Hamilton      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [books chosen by Mrs Marshall]

'[editor's words] without literary pretensions, Mrs Marshall had a genuine love of reading, and when no other engagement intervened, it was one of her domestic regulations, that a book should be read aloud in the evening for general amusement; the office of reader commonly devolved on Miss Hamilton, who was thus led to remark that the best prose style was always that which could be longest read without exhausting the breath. These social studies were far from satisfying her avidity for information; and she constantly perused many books by stealth. Mrs Marshall, on discovering what had been her private occupation, expressed neither praise nor blame, but quietly advised her to avoid any display of superior knowledge by which she might be subjected to the imputation of pedantry. This admonition produced the desired effect, since, as she herself informs us, she once hid a volume of Lord Kames's Elements of Criticism under the cushion of a chair lest she should be detected in a study which prejudice and ignorance might pronounce unfeminine'.

Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Hamilton      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

'[editor's words] without literary pretensions, Mrs Marshall had a genuine love of reading, and when no other engagement intervened, it was one of her domestic regulations, that a book should be read aloud in the evening for general amusement; the office of reader commonly devolved on Miss Hamilton, who was thus led to remark that the best prose style was always that which could be longest read without exhausting the breath. These social studies were far from satisfying her avidity for information; and she constantly perused many books by stealth. Mrs Marshall, on discovering what had been her private occupation, expressed neither praise nor blame, but quietly advised her to avoid any display of superior knowledge by which she might be subjected to the imputation of pedantry. This admonition produced the desired effect, since, as she herself informs us, she once hid a volume of Lord Kames's Elements of Criticism under the cushion of a chair lest she should be detected in a study which prejudice and ignorance might pronounce unfeminine'.

Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Hamilton      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

'[editor's words] without literary pretensions, Mrs Marshall had a genuine love of reading, and when no other engagement intervened, it was one of her domestic regulations, that a book should be read aloud in the evening for general amusement; the office of reader commonly devolved on Miss Hamilton, who was thus led to remark that the best prose style was always that which could be longest read without exhausting the breath. These social studies were far from satisfying her avidity for information; and she constantly perused many books by stealth. Mrs Marshall, on discovering what had been her private occupation, expressed neither praise nor blame, but quietly advised her to avoid any display of superior knowledge by which she might be subjected to the imputation of pedantry. This admonition produced the desired effect, since, as she herself informs us, she once hid a volume of Lord Kames's Elements of Criticism under the cushion of a chair lest she should be detected in a study which prejudice and ignorance might pronounce unfeminine'.

Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Mrs Marshall      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [Scottish history]

'[editor's words] In reading the annals of her own country, she had been touched with the hard fate of Lady Arabella Stuart; and, either to extend her knowledge, or amuse her fancy, collected much miscellaneous information respecting her, which she afterwards cast into the form of a historical novel'.

Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Hamilton      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

'History and travels are our chief favourites; but with them we intermix a variety of miscellaneous literature, with now and then a favourite novel, to relish our graver studies'.

Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Hamilton and her uncle, Mr Marshall     Print: Book

  

[unknown] : ['The Italian' - unknown text]

'I have read the Italian - nothing in it is well'

Unknown
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Johnson      

  

[unknown] : [sources for his Dictionary]

'The authorities [for the definitions in Johnson's Dictionary] were copied from the books themselves, in which he had marked the passages with a black lead pencil, the traces of which could easily be effaced'.

Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Johnson      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [books of Northern literature]

'Here was an excellent library; particularly, a valuable collection of books in Northern literature, with which Johnson was often very busy. One day Mr Wise read to us a dissertation which he was preparing for the press, intitled "A History and Chronology of the fabulous Ages".'

Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Johnson      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [book on astronomy]

'"A little book we had in the house" led him, "Almost as early as I can remember", to develop an interest in astronomy; and Lempriere's "Classical Dctionary" "Fell into my hands when I was eight" (as he said in his old age) and "attached my affections to paganism".'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Alfred Edward Housman      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [a French magazine]

'[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 Foote      Print: Serial / periodical

  

[unknown] : [a French magazine]

'[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

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

'[Johnson said] "Sir, in my early years I read very hard. It is a sad reflection, but a true one, that I knew almost as much at eighteen as I do now. My judgment, to be sure, was not so good; but I had all the facts."'

Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Johnson      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

'His Majesty having observed to him that he supposed he must have read a great deal; Johnson answered, that he thought more than he read; that he had read a great deal in the early part of his life, but having fallen into ill health, he had not been able to read much, compared with others: for instance, he said, he had not read much, compared with Dr. Warburton.'

Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Johnson      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [Lowth-Warburton controversy]

'His Majesty then talked of the controversy between Warburton and Lowth, which he seemed to have read, and asked Johnson what he thought of it. Johnson answered, "Warburton has most general, most scholastic learning ; Lowth is the more correct scholar. I do not know which of them calls names best." The King was pleased to say he was of the same opinion; adding, "You do not think then, Dr. Johnson, that there was much argument in the case." Johnson said, he did not think there was. "Why truly, (said the King,) when once it comes to calling names, argument is pretty well at an end." His Majesty then asked him what he thought of Lord Lyttelton's history, which was then just published. Johnson said, he thought his style pretty good, but he had blamed Henry the Second rather too much.'

Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Johnson      Print: Unknown

  

[unknown] : [Lowth-Warburton controversy]

'His Majesty then talked of the controversy between Warburton and Lowth, which he seemed to have read, and asked Johnson what he thought of it. Johnson answered, "Warburton has most general, most scholastic learning ; Lowth is the more correct scholar. I do not know which of them calls names best." The King was pleased to say he was of the same opinion; adding, "You do not think then, Dr. Johnson, that there was much argument in the case." Johnson said, he did not think there was. "Why truly, (said the King,) when once it comes to calling names, argument is pretty well at an end." His Majesty then asked him what he thought of Lord Lyttelton's history, which was then just published. Johnson said, he thought his style pretty good, but he had blamed Henry the Second rather too much.'

Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: George III of England      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

'between reading, chatting and backgammon, we conclude the evening, and usually retire, making the remark, that if we are not regaled by any high-seasoned amusements, we are disturbed by no uneasy cares'.

Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Hamilton and her uncle, Mr Marshall     Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [oriental literature]

'[EDITOR's WORDS] His [her brother, Charles's ] conversation inspired her with a taste for oriental literature; and without affecting to become a Persian scholar, she spontaneously caught the idioms, as she insensibly became familiar with the customs and manners of the East'.

Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Hamilton      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

'[EDITOR'S WORDS] 'If no engagement intervened, the interval from seven till ten was occupied with some interesting book, which, according to her good aunt Marshall's rule, was read aloud for the benefit of the whole party'.

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Hamilton      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

'Many years ago, when I used to read in the library of your College, I promised to recompence the college for that permission, by adding to their books a Baskerville's 'Virgil'. I have now sent it, and desire you to reposit it on the shelves in my name'.

Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Johnson      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : ['black letter', ie gothic text books - medieval to 16th c.]

'[from an account by Dr Maxwell, an Irish london-based priest friend of Johnson] Speaking of Mr. Harte, Canon of Windsor, and writer of "The History of Gustavus Adolphus", he much commended him as a scholar, and a man of the must companionable talents he had ever known. He said, the defects in his history proceeded not from imbecility, but from foppery. He loved, he said, the old black letter books; they were rich in matter, though their style was inelegant; wonderfully so, considering how conversant the writers were with the best models of antiquity. Burton's "Anatomy of Melancholy", he said, was the only book that ever took him out of bed two hours sooner than he wished to rise.'

Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Johnson      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [French novels]

'Speaking of the French novels, compared with Richardson's, he said, they might be pretty baubles, but a wren was not an eagle'. [account by Dr Maxwell, an Irish London priest friend of Dr Johnson]

Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Johnson      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [legal case papers]

'I then reminded him of the schoolmaster's cause [a legal case on corporal punisment that Boswell was defending], and proposed to read to him the printed papers concerning it. "No, sir (said he), I can read quicker than I can hear." So he read them to himself.'

Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Johnson      Print: Unknown

  

[unknown] : [legal case papers]

'The Swede [Mr Kristrom] went away, and Mr. Johnson continued his reading of the papers. I said, "I am afraid, Sir, it is troublesome to you." "Why, Sir (said he), I do not take much delight in it; but I'll go through it".'

Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Johnson      Print: Unknown

  

[unknown] : [legal trial papers]

'I mentioned Elwal the heretick, whose trial Sir John Pringle had given me to read.'

Unknown
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: James Boswell      

  

[unknown] : [books belonging to Johnson]

'[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: James Boswell      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [a recently published book]

'Mr. Elphinston talked of a new book that was much admired, and asked Dr. Johnson if he had read it. Johnson. "I have looked into it." "What (said Elphinston), have you not read it through?" Johnson, offended at being thus pressed, and so obliged to own his cursory mode of reading, answered tartly, "No, sir; do [italics] you [end italics] read books [italics] through [end italics]?"'

Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: James Elphinstone      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [a recently published book]

'Mr. Elphinston talked of a new book that was much admired, and asked Dr. Johnson if he had read it. Johnson. "I have looked into it." "What (said Elphinston), have you not read it through?" Johnson, offended at being thus pressed, and so obliged to own his cursory mode of reading, answered tartly, "No, sir; do [italics] you [end italics] read books [italics] through [end italics]?"'

Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Johnson      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

'[During the 1880s Gissing] continued to read Latin and Greek authors daily'.

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: George Gissing      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [verses deposited in Lady Miller's vase]

'Lady Miller's collection of verses by fashionable people, which were put into her Vase at Batheaston Villa, near Bath, in competition for honorary prizes, being mentioned, he held them very cheap: "[italics] Bouts rimes [end italics] (said he), is a mere conceit, and an [italics] old [end italics] conceit [italics] now [end italics]; I wonder how people were persuaded to write in that manner for this lady."

Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Johnson      Print: Book

  

unknown : material about Burns

'I read […] all sorts of rubbish a proposof Burns […]'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Louis Stevenson      Print: Unknown

  

unknown : The Evolution of World Peace

'But during my convalescence the reading of a newly published selection of internationalist essays, entitled "The Evolution of World Peace," restored to me that sense of the cause's momentous dignity...'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Vera Brittain      Print: Unknown

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

'After they all went I came and wrote my journal and sat with cousin Priscilla and we read till dinner'

Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Gurney      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

'After they all went I came and wrote my journal and sat with cousin Priscilla and we read till dinner'

Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Priscilla Hannah Gurney      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [unknown, possibly Bible]

'Yesterday evening I had a little choice time by myself. I read and was still in my heart.'

Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Gurney      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [unknown, probably religious, Bible?]

'A most comfortable reading with my little boys and one with my family'

Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Gurney      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [unknown, probably religious, Bible?]

'A most comfortable reading with my little boys and one with my family'

Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Gurney      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

'I devoted most of my morning writing to P. Hoare, writing French and reading'

Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Gurney      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

'at night snug time reading after the rest of the family were in bed'

Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Gurney      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [unknown, probably religious, Bible?]

'went to Meeting - had a more comfortable reading with my boys than this day [last] week'

Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Gurney      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [unknown, probably religious, Bible?]

'I had a satisfactory reading with my little boys more so than I almost remember'

Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Gurney      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

'At ten o'clock we all met in the study and my father read to us. - I fear my mind is not sufficiently obedient to its God. After dinner I taught Danny to read and did a little logic. Since that I have been reading aloud a long homily and there I committed a fault. John asked me to let him read and I did not, which takes off the satisfaction of reading for I did not do as I would be done by.'

Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Gurney      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [unknown, probably religious, Bible?]

'At ten o'clock we all met in the study and my father read to us. - I fear my mind is not sufficiently obedient to its God. After dinner I taught Danny to read and did a little logic. Since that I have been reading aloud a long homily and there I committed a fault. John asked me to let him read and I did not, which takes off the satisfaction of reading for I did not do as I would be done by.'

Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: John Gurney      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [unknown, probably Bible?]

'Rose in pretty good time, read before breakfast, had a lesson in French, read English, wrote logic before dinner'

Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Gurney      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

'Rose in pretty good time, read before breakfast, had a lesson in French, read English, wrote logic before dinner'

Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Gurney      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [unknown, probably Bible?]

'I wrote and read a little before breakfast'

Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Gurney      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [unknown, probably religious, Bible?]

'quite vexed to teach my children in so shabby a room as the laundry; [underline] Pride [end underline] I think it was; however, I had a very comfortable reading with them'

Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Gurney      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [unknown, probably religious, Bible?]

'I had a comfortable time with my children only I felt too anxious for uncle Joseph to see them as he was here but he did not; I am fearful I should be vain of my reading, I feel I am so now; I hope if I try to overcome it, I shall not be so'

Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Gurney      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [French]

'I had a quiet afternoon on the sofa in my room reading Mason on self knowledge, French, and Job Scott's journal, which I like vastly and found really doing me good, at least edifying me'

Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Gurney      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

'I read to dear little Mary'

Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Gurney      Print: Book

  

unknown : History of Naples

[List of books read to Sir Thomas Browne by Elizabeth Lyttelton]. Headed in commonplace book: 'The books which my daughter Elizabeth hath read unto me at nights till she read ym all out'. The books are: 'all Plutarch's Lives, folio; all the Turkish historie, folio ; all the three added of ye Turkish emperours by Rycaut, fol.; all Rycaut's books of ye Turks, fol; all Baker's Cronicle of England, fol; all ye history of China by Semedo, fol; all the history of Josephus, fol; all fox his book of Martyrs, fol; all the Travills of Olearius & Mandelilo, fol; all the Travells of Taverniere, fol; all the Travells of Petrus della valle, fol; all the Travells of Vincent Le Blanck, fol; all the Travells of Pinto, fol; all the Travells of Gage, fol; the Travells of Terre, octavo; all the Historie of the life of Monsieur d' Espernoon, fol; all the historie of naples, fol; all the historie of Venice, fol; all the historie of Queen Elizabeth by Camden, fol; all the history of Herodian, fol; all the history of Procopius, fol; all Sands his Travells, fol; all Olaus Magnus of the Northern Countrys, fol; all Camerarius his observations, fol; all Suetonius of the Twelve Caesars, fol; all appians warrs, fol; all Speed's Cronicle to the life of King James, fol; So some parts of Purchas his Relations; some hundreds of Sermons. Many other Books, Treatises, discourses of severall Kinds, which may amount unto halfe the quantety of halfe the books in folio, which are before set down.'

Century: 1600-1699 / 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Lyttelton      Print: Book

  

unknown : History of Venice

[List of books read to Sir Thomas Browne by Elizabeth Lyttelton]. Headed in commonplace book: 'The books which my daughter Elizabeth hath read unto me at nights till she read ym all out'. The books are: 'all Plutarch's Lives, folio; all the Turkish historie, folio ; all the three added of ye Turkish emperours by Rycaut, fol.; all Rycaut's books of ye Turks, fol; all Baker's Cronicle of England, fol; all ye history of China by Semedo, fol; all the history of Josephus, fol; all fox his book of Martyrs, fol; all the Travills of Olearius & Mandelilo, fol; all the Travells of Taverniere, fol; all the Travells of Petrus della valle, fol; all the Travells of Vincent Le Blanck, fol; all the Travells of Pinto, fol; all the Travells of Gage, fol; the Travells of Terre, octavo; all the Historie of the life of Monsieur d' Espernoon, fol; all the historie of naples, fol; all the historie of Venice, fol; all the historie of Queen Elizabeth by Camden, fol; all the history of Herodian, fol; all the history of Procopius, fol; all Sands his Travells, fol; all Olaus Magnus of the Northern Countrys, fol; all Camerarius his observations, fol; all Suetonius of the Twelve Caesars, fol; all appians warrs, fol; all Speed's Cronicle to the life of King James, fol; So some parts of Purchas his Relations; some hundreds of Sermons. Many other Books, Treatises, discourses of severall Kinds, which may amount unto halfe the quantety of halfe the books in folio, which are before set down.'

Century: 1600-1699 / 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Lyttelton      Print: Book

  

unknown : Sermons

[List of books read to Sir Thomas Browne by Elizabeth Lyttelton]. Headed in commonplace book: 'The books which my daughter Elizabeth hath read unto me at nights till she read ym all out'. The books are: 'all Plutarch's Lives, folio; all the Turkish historie, folio ; all the three added of ye Turkish emperours by Rycaut, fol.; all Rycaut's books of ye Turks, fol; all Baker's Cronicle of England, fol; all ye history of China by Semedo, fol; all the history of Josephus, fol; all fox his book of Martyrs, fol; all the Travills of Olearius & Mandelilo, fol; all the Travells of Taverniere, fol; all the Travells of Petrus della valle, fol; all the Travells of Vincent Le Blanck, fol; all the Travells of Pinto, fol; all the Travells of Gage, fol; the Travells of Terre, octavo; all the Historie of the life of Monsieur d' Espernoon, fol; all the historie of naples, fol; all the historie of Venice, fol; all the historie of Queen Elizabeth by Camden, fol; all the history of Herodian, fol; all the history of Procopius, fol; all Sands his Travells, fol; all Olaus Magnus of the Northern Countrys, fol; all Camerarius his observations, fol; all Suetonius of the Twelve Caesars, fol; all appians warrs, fol; all Speed's Cronicle to the life of King James, fol; So some parts of Purchas his Relations; some hundreds of Sermons. Many other Books, Treatises, discourses of severall Kinds, which may amount unto halfe the quantety of halfe the books in folio, which are before set down.'

Century: 1600-1699 / 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Lyttelton      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : Accounts of the Missions

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'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Priscilla Gurney      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [Bible probably]

'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 went into the family of Lady E.K., who, being a woman of exemplary piety herself, laboured for the good of her servants also ... the private instructions of her mistress, who would at times sit and read to her while working at her needle, were at length blessed so far that she became sensible of the value of her soul'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Lady E.K.      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

'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 ... [in the gaol in Monmouth] Conscience was there aroused from its long slumber. She met with a little book which recalled to her memory the instructions she had received from Lady E.K., and the feelings thus excited were, through the overruling power and grace of God, confirmed and strengthened'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Amelia Roberts      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [hymn-book]

'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 ... [in the condemned cell in Newgate] She asked for Toplady's beautiful hymn, beginning, "Rock of Ages, cleft for me"; and on receiving a hymn-book which contained it read it with great interest, saying it exactly described her feelings'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Amelia Roberts      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : Come to Jesus

'Eliza Cooper was first visited in Newgate in the summer of 1849. She was committed for unlawfully deserting her infant ... From this time the poor prisoner earnestly longed for salvation, and received with joy the glad tidings of a Savior's love. The little tract, entitled "Come to Jesus", was blessed to her, and she read it frequently with much delight'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Eliza Cooper      Print: Book, tract

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

'Remained at home in the evening amused myself with Reading.'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Unknown

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

'Played Cricket in the afternoon. Attended a Lecture at the Mechanics Institute. Afterwards Read a little & then went to bed.'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Unknown

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

'Read at home in the evening till nearly eleven Then went down the Street.'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Unknown

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

'Dined at Hall's. Came home & Read until I went to bed.'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Unknown

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

'Went to bed at ten o clock. Got up in the night & Read could not sleep.'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Unknown

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

'Went for a little walk with Polly in the evening. Read & then went to bed.'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Unknown

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

'Read in the morning.'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Unknown

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

' Read at home during the evening.'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Unknown

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

'Read at home in the evening.'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Unknown

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

'Seemed to dread going to bed, everything smelling hot & stuffy, laid down for a time on the sofa, then got up & read till I was tired then went to bed.'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Unknown

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

'Read & idled during the afternoon till Telford made his appearance'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Unknown

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

'After tea I went for a walk, a very quiet stroll indeed, did not meet a soul I knew & did not open my mouth to speak. Came home read, smoked & went to bed.'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Unknown

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

'The rest of the day I was mostly reading or playing with the children.'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Unknown

  

[unknown] : [fairy tales?]

'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: Book

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

'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: Unknown

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

'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: Unknown

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

'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: Unknown

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

'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: Unknown

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

'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: Unknown

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

'Read a little, drank a little & smoked a good deal'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Unknown

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

'I went to "the Mechanics" & when I returned I amused myself with reciting & reading aloud'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Unknown

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

'went to the Yorick Club & read for a time'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Unknown

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

'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: Unknown

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

'Read all the evening & did not attempt to go out at all'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Unknown

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

'My foot was bad again to-day & I was obliged to be careful with it consequently I stayed at home & read nearly the whole of the time.'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Unknown

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

'Read & smoked till about half past ten o clock, then went to bed'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Unknown

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

'Came home to tea & as the weather was wet in the evening did not stir out but stayed at home & read till bed time'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Unknown

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

'I was left by myself & spent the time pretty comfortably reading some sketches by "Yates", then smoking & thinking for a change'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Unknown

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

'Read & smoked till about half past ten then went to bed & went sulkily to sleep feeling very miserable & dissatisfied with myself & the world in general'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Unknown

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

'Went to the Mechanics in the evening & changed some books came home & read.'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

'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: Unknown

  

[unknown] : [Roman history]

'I read with horror of the brutual exhibitions of the Romans with their gladiators pitted against one another or opposed to wild beasts & wonder how the populace could delight in such cruel amusement. I do not however think the men of the modern age are much different & I feel confident if a scene of the kind was to take place in Melbourne to-morrow there would be any number of applications for admission'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Unknown

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

'Came home sat down to read & did so for some time, then I went in for smoking & for gin & water'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Unknown

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

'Went into Melbourne after tea & changed a book at the Mechanics, then came home, read a novel for some time smoked a pipe & then went to bed'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

'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: Unknown

  

[unknown] : [unknown - newspaper]

'I went to the Club in the evening & read the papers for some time, then took a stroll & returned home'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Newspaper

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

'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: Unknown

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

'Went to the Yorick Club in the evening & stayed there chatting & reading until nearly ten o'clock'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Newspaper, Serial / periodical

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

'Got home a little after nine o'clock & after a little reading and two or three pipes had a bath & went to bed'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Unknown

  

[unknown] : Handy Andy

'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: Unknown

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

'I sat up smoking & reading with an occasional turn at nagging till nearly twelve o'clock'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Unknown

  

[unknown] : [fairy tales?]

'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: Book

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

'Stayed talking with Sissy, Walter & Harry. Read to them for a little while & then looked over Harry's sums'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Unknown

  

[unknown] : [fairy tales?]

'While Polly was at Church I read many Tales to the little [children] until they were tired'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

'Stayed home all the evening. Amused myself reading until ten o'clock'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Unknown

  

[unknown] : Blueskin, or the adventures of Jonathan Wild

'Stayed at home nursing my cough this evening. Read "Jack Sheppard" or rather "Blueskin", smoked some strong tobacco & went to bed'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

'Stayed at home all the evening, first amused myself with Reading, smoking & dreaming'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Unknown

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

'Polly played the Piano all the evening & I read'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Unknown

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

'In the evening I amused myself with reading while Polly amused or instructed herself at the piano.'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Unknown

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

Mustered in the afternoon & spent the evening reading & disagreeing'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Unknown

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

'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: Unknown

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

'the youngsters spent a great deal of their time in the parlor & in the evening their mamma read them a number of stories out of some Sunday books. then Sissy, Dotty & Walter read a little. Surprised my by the improvement each had made [since I?] last heard them'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Polly Castieau      Print: Unknown

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

'the youngsters spent a great deal of their time in the parlor & in the evening their mamma read them a number of stories out of some Sunday books. then Sissy, Dotty & Walter read a little. Surprised my by the improvement each had made [since I?] last heard them'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Walter Castieau      Print: Unknown

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

'the youngsters spent a great deal of their time in the parlor & in the evening their mamma read them a number of stories out of some Sunday books. then Sissy, Dotty & Walter read a little. Surprised my by the improvement each had made [since I?] last heard them'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Sissy Castieau      Print: Unknown

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

'the youngsters spent a great deal of their time in the parlor & in the evening their mamma read them a number of stories out of some Sunday books. then Sissy, Dotty & Walter read a little. Surprised my by the improvement each had made [since I?] last heard them'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Dotty Castieau      Print: Unknown

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

'In the evening read for a while, then played Bezique with Mrs Castieau'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Unknown

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

'after Muster wrote a page in my Diary & read until nearly five o'clock'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Unknown

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

'Stayed at home this evening & did nothing else but read. Mrs Robertson stayed till about eight o'clock but I did not see much of her as she & Polly left me in the dining room while they gossiped away in the Drawing Room.'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Unknown

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

'when I went into the house after Muster I found that Polly had gone away to Elsternwick with Harry, Sissy & Dotty so I sat & read till tea time. After tea I read again till the women went into the Gaol '

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Unknown

  

[unknown] : [Poems]

'Read some pieces of poetry to them this evening & was very pleased however to find how interested they were & how much they seemed to enjoy them.'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [Poems]

'In the evening I stayed at home, played "Snap" with Dotty & read some poetry & the Story of Le Fevre to please Harry'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : Le Fevre

'In the evening I stayed at home, played "Snap" with Dotty & read some poetry & the Story of Le Fevre to please Harry'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

'Had dinner & read until Muster time. After Muster read again till tea-time.'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Unknown

  

[unknown] : [stories]

'In the evening wrote a page in my Diary & dreamed away over "The Newcomes" until it was time to go to bed. The little girls & Harry stayed with me a good deal during the day & I read some little stories to them & Walter'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

'Went to the Club in the evening & read for a while, then came home & after reading for a while went to bed'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Newspaper, Serial / periodical

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

'Went to the Club in the evening & read for a while, then came home & after reading for a while went to bed'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Unknown

  

[unknown] : [fairy tales]

'I stayed at home amusing the children by reading a fairy tale to them. They seemed to take great interest inn the narrative & after I had finished it Flory went [smiling?] home & Sissy & Dotty went away good temperedly to bed. Read "Poor dog [Tray?]" out of ["Ingolitsby"?] to Harry & then sent him off to bed also'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

'Stayed at home this evening & after doing a little reading & visiting the pigs played Bezique with Polly till it was time to go to bed.'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Unknown

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

'Heard Dotty read to-night & was quite pleased at finding she was very much improved & able to read easy words without any trouble'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Dotty Castieau      Print: Unknown

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

'This brought the time to past ten o'clock. Read, smoked, fidgetted & passed the time away till half past eleven, then went across to Dr Robertson's & rang the bell'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Unknown

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

'Got home about ten, sat reading till about twelve, & then went to bed.'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Unknown

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

'Could not muster to-day but laid myself down on the Sofa & read'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Unknown

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

'I was much disturbed this morning & was up reading at two o'clock the mosquitoes not allowing me to get to sleep'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Unknown

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

'Came home, drank a bottle of beer, smoked ever so many pipes, read a book, & built castles in the air till Polly & the youngsters returned which they did at about eleven o'clock

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

'Went into town in the evening & called at the Yorick. There I remained reading for some time then I took a walk as far as Spencer Street Railway Station'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Newspaper, Serial / periodical

  

[unknown] : The Graphic

'Went to the Club again in the evening & had a look over the [Home?] papers. The Illustrated & Graphic are full of Engravings relating to "Thanksgiving Day" ... to the Tichbourne Case'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Newspaper

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

'I read at Home to the little girls & boys till eight o'clock, then went to the Club'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Unknown

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

'I read for a time to the little boys. They were very attentive & it was quite a pleasure to watch their earnest faces'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

'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: Unknown

  

[unknown] : [story books]

'After tea I read some story books that Mrs Parkin had kindly sent over for the amusement of baby'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

'After tea I read with Harry some Dramatic [?]. Harry understands well what he reads, but is in too great a hurry & consequently leaves out little words which spoil the effect of his delivery'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Harry Castieau      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

'"Telo" one of the Age staff was hunting up material for an Article & spent the whole day in the prison. He had some lunch with us & also came in at tea time. We had some recitations or rather reading in the evening, Harry rather distinguishing himself.'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Harry Castieau      Print: Unknown

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

'Heard Harry read & was much pleased with the understanding he shows though he is at times very careless with regard to little words'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Harry Castieau      Print: Unknown

  

[unknown] : [drama?]

'Harry & I then read a dialogue & this brought the time right for the theatre, where Telo took Mrs Castieau, the girls & Harry'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Harry Castieau      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

'After tea Harry began to read & was pretty successful with his lesson for which he was duly rewarded a mark.'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Harry Castieau      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

'While Darvall was with us this evening, Harry was anxious to show off his reading & so essayed a Piece. He was however so affected by mumps & Stammering, that his heart failed him & he declined to proceed. To please his mamma I read a dialogue with him. This he managed very well & so we read another then Harry was wound up & would have gone on forever, had I not let him gently down. I continued the entertainment by reading "The Execution of Montrose" & was by particular desire reading Byron's "Battle of Waterloo" when my sweet voice was closed by the arrival of Mr Hadley.'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Harry Castieau      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [dialogue]

'While Darvall was with us this evening, Harry was anxious to show off his reading & so essayed a Piece. He was however so affected by mumps & Stammering, that his heart failed him & he declined to proceed. To please his mamma I read a dialogue with him. This he managed very well & so we read another then Harry was wound up & would have gone on forever, had I not let him gently down. I continued the entertainment by reading "The Execution of Montrose" & was by particular desire reading Byron's "Battle of Waterloo" when my sweet voice was closed by the arrival of Mr Hadley.'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley and Harry Castieau     Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

'I read a little Byron for my own amusement then a number of Aesop's Fables for the amusement of the youngsters. The evening seemed quite short in consequence of the employment & I was still busy reading when Polly & Sissy got back'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Unknown

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

'heard Harry & Sissy read'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Harry Castieau      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

'heard Harry & Sissy read'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Sissy Castieau      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

'Heard Harry read, but was very bilious & unwell'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Harry Castieau      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

'Read a part of a very good novel, "Married beneath him". Heard Harry read & then played a Game of Bezique with Polly'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Harry Castieau      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [dialogue?]

'In the evening Harry & I read for a long time together while mamma amused herself with the piano.'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley and Harry Castieau     Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

'After a quiet read for an hour or so I felt much more amiable & undertook to take baby out for a walk.'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Unknown

  

[unknown] : [Reports from America on Prisoners Aid Societies]

'Home then read some Reports from America on Prisoners Aid Societies & the good that had there been effected by them.'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Unknown

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

'Was at home all the evening. Heard Sissy & Harry read, read a little myself & went off to bed tolerably early'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Unknown

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

'Was at home all the evening. Heard Sissy & Harry read, read a little myself & went off to bed tolerably early'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Harry Castieau      Print: Unknown

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

'Was at home all the evening. Heard Sissy & Harry read, read a little myself & went off to bed tolerably early'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Sissy Castieau      Print: Unknown

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

'Read to the youngsters in the evening'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

'In the evening I heard Harry read. He could not however get on very well & so I turned him over to his mother & played first "Beggar my neighbour" with Dotty'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Harry Castieau      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

'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: Harry Castieau      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

'Harry importuned me to play Bezique, so we had a game & after it was over I took my book & Harry went to bed'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

'In the evening I read to the youngsters until it was time for them to go to bed.'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [drama]

'After tea this evening I read some dramatic pieces with Harry & played a couple of games of Bezique with Mamma. Smoked several pipes & then went to bed'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley and Harry Castieau     Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [stories]

'I read a story in the evening to the youngsters & then heard Harry read for marks. We were engaged in a dialogue from the Merchant of Venice when Mr Henry Smith of the Argus called to see me'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [stories]

'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: Book

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

'This Evening was rather a lazy one. I read & afterwards played a game of Bezique with Polly, then went to bed'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Unknown

  

[unknown] : [prison report]

'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: Unknown

  

[unknown] : [drama?]

'Read with Harry in the Evening, then played a long game of Bezique with Sissy'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley and Harry Castieau     Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [stories]

'Polly played sacred music & I read for a time to the youngsters.'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

'Was much pleased with Sissy's Reading to-night. Dotty has a very good idea of Reading also but is not able to speak plainly & so makes a great hash of some of the hard words.'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Sissy Castieau      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

'Was much pleased with Sissy's Reading to-night. Dotty has a very good idea of Reading also but is not able to speak plainly & so makes a great hash of some of the hard words.'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Dotty Castieau      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

'I stayed at home in the evening & amused myself by reading.'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Unknown

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

'Was reading a good deal in the evening, then came into the Gaol & wrote up my Diary'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Unknown

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

'When we came home we did some reading & then Polly & I played three games of bagatelle of which I lost two'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Unknown

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

'I stayed at home & read'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Unknown

  

[unknown] : Dr Syntax

'In the evening I read some little tit bits from Dr [Syntax?] to the youngsters'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

'After tea sat & smoked while Polly read for a while, soon followed her to bed'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Polly Castieau      Print: Unknown

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

'in the evening I did a little reading & went to bed early'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Unknown

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

'Had some reading with Harry & Dotty, Dotty went to sleep but Harry joined me in a Piece & listened to my reading another.'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Castieau family     Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

'Stayed at home drinking & smoking & doing a little reading till Polly returned with Godfrey from the theatre at twelve o'clock'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Unknown

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

'In the evening I read until the children & Miss McDermott went to bed, then I smoked away until ten o'clock went to bed shortly after'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Unknown

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

'In the evening read away for some time & had some words with Polly on a very disagreeable subject'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Unknown

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

'Read during the evening & went to bed at about eleven'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Unknown

  

[unknown] : Blackwood's Magazine

'I amused myself with reading a tale in Blackwood till nine o'clock'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Serial / periodical

  

[unknown] : [drama?]

'In the evening Harry & I did some Readings. It was a great night for Harry & he did'ent go to bed till after ten o'clock.'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley and Harry Castieau     Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

'read in the evening & went to bed early'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Unknown

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

'spent the evening at home reading'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Unknown

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

'In the evening I read a good deal to myself & then read with Dotty & afterwards with Harry'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Castieau family     Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

'In the evening I read a good deal to myself & then read with Dotty & afterwards with Harry'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Unknown

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

'This night I went to bed at ten o'clock. Polly stayed down stairs reading'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Polly Castieau      Print: Unknown

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

'I had some books to read & when I could get anything at all like an easy position in bed I stayed satisfied.'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

'This evening after I had had my dinner I went to the Athenaeum & stayed reading for an hour'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Newspaper, Serial / periodical

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

'Read at the Athenaeum.'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Newspaper, Serial / periodical

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

'In the evening Harry & the girls went to Church, Polly & I sat reading by the fire till it was toddy time, then we had our tot & went off to bed'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Unknown

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

'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: Unknown

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

'Read for a long time. My eyes have been very weak of late & I found to-night that reading small print by gas-light did not make them better. I am beginning to get disgusted with badly printed newspapers or periodicals & dont look at them unless obliged to do so.'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Newspaper, Serial / periodical

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

'Spent the evening over the fire reading most of the time although I did play a game of Bezique with Sissy & three games of cribbage with Polly'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Unknown

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

'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: Unknown

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

'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: Unknown

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

'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: Harry Castieau      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

'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 and Harry Castieau     Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

'I stayed at home & read. In the afternoon I mustered & then sat for the rest of the day reading over the fire.'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Unknown

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

'At tea time however I came down stairs & after reading a while went into the office & attended to some duty'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Unknown

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

'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: Unknown

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

'Read "George [Gaith?]" until Polly & Harry came home went to bed at about half past twelve o'clock'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Unknown

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

'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: Unknown

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

'I went to the Athenaeum after five o'clock & got home by tea time spent the evening reading.'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Unknown

  

[unknown] : [unknown - novel]

'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: Book

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

'Stayed up late reading & smoking'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Unknown

  

[unknown] : Sarah Barnham

'Came back by the half past one train [from?] Town, after buying "Sarah Barnham" at [the?] Station. Amused myself by reading her very strange history as related by her biographer or assumed biographer who has certainly taken considerable license as she details the death of her subject though it is well known that "Sarah Barnham" is meant for Sara Bernhardt the great actress & that Sara is still among the illustrious living. The Book is a horribly spiteful one & well illustrates the spite one woman can show against another.'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : Sarah Barnham

'Bought ["Life of Sarah Barnham"?] (Sara Bernhardt). (See entry for 24 August.) It is villanously scandalous & makes the great actress out to be little better than a beast. It is however humorously written & I sat up reading it till nearly midnight.'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

'I wrote up my Diary & read in the evening'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Unknown

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

'Awoke early & as it was too soon to get up read for an hour in bed. Did not go to town to-day, read & wrote in the morning'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Unknown

  

[unknown] : Five Years in Penal Servitude

'In the evening commenced reading again a book called Five years in Penal Servitude. The book refers to English prisons & professes to have been written by one who has served a sentence. It evidently is the work of an author well up in what he has made his subject.'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

'Read & wrote till bed time'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Unknown

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

'Had something to eat & then read & smoked till after twelve o'clock.'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Unknown

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

'Went to bed after reading for a long while'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Unknown

  

[unknown] : [novels]

'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: Book

  

[unknown] : Lives of the convicts

'In my younger years I had read in the "Lives of the Convicts" so much about Tyburn that I had a sort of horrid eagerness to be there'

Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: James Boswell      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

'after dinner I wrought and read tell 4, and then I walked a litle abroad and, after I Cam home, read and [torn] tell all most 6'

Century: 1500-1599     Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Hoby      Print: Unknown

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

'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

  

[unknown] : [sermon]

'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

  

[unknown] : Diet of the Soul

'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

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

'then I Came home and did studie my lector, and read a whill'

Century: 1500-1599     Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Hoby      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

'I walked and kept Mr Hoby Compenie almost tel dinner time: then I reed a litle, and praied, and so to dinner: after which I hilped to read of the book for the placing of the people in the church to Mr Hoby, and then we went to church'

Century: 1500-1599     Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Hoby      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [a book of the pews in the church]

'I walked and kept Mr Hoby Compenie almost tel dinner time: then I reed a litle, and praied, and so to dinner: after which I hilped to read of the book for the placing of the people in the church to Mr Hoby, and then we went to church'

Century: 1500-1599     Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Hoby      Manuscript: Codex

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

'then I hard Mr Rhodes read tell allmost dinner time'

Century: 1500-1599     Reader/Listener/Group: Richard Rhodes      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

'After priuat praier I wrought a whill and hard Mr Rhodes read'

Century: 1500-1599     Reader/Listener/Group: Richard Rhodes      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

'after that I walked abroade, then I Cam in and wrought, hard Mr Rhodes read, then I praied with Mr Rhodes'

Century: 1500-1599     Reader/Listener/Group: Richard Rhodes      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [sermon - Revelation]

'M. Rhodes read a sarmon of the Reuel: and so went to bed'

Century: 1500-1599     Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Rhodes      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

'then, after dinner, I walked, and hard Mr Rhodes Read'

Century: 1500-1599     Reader/Listener/Group: Richard Rhodes      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

'then hard Mr Rhodes read, and so went to bed'

Century: 1500-1599     Reader/Listener/Group: Richard Rhodes      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

'After priuat praier and breakfast I did read a whill for beinge not well, partly through myne owne folly'

Century: 1500-1599     Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Hoby      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

'after, hard Euerill Read, and then praied, so went to supper'

Century: 1500-1599     Reader/Listener/Group: Euerill Aske      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [letter]

'After priuat praier I did eate my breakfast, Read a Longe Letter and wret an other'

Century: 1500-1599     Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Hoby      Manuscript: Letter

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

'then I walked, and took a Lector, and read tell Lector time: then I hard that, and so went to supper: ... and, after, reed a whill, and so went to bed'

Century: 1500-1599     Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Hoby      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

'then I did read a while to my workwemen, and then to the Lector'

Century: 1500-1599     Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Hoby      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

'after supper, hard Mr Rhodes read, and then went to priuat praier'

Century: 1500-1599     Reader/Listener/Group: Richard Rhodes      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

'after, hard him read, then praied, and so went to bed'

Century: 1500-1599     Reader/Listener/Group: Richard Rhodes      Print: Book

  

unknown : unknown

From John Wilson Croker's Journal of 1818: 'December 7th. [...] The Duchess[of York]'s life is an odd one; she seldom has a female companion, she is read to all night and falls asleep towards morning, and rises about 3'.

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Duchess of York      Print: Unknown

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

'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

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

'then I Came home and reed to Mrs Ormstone'

Century: 1500-1599     Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Hoby      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

'and so read tel supper Came'

Century: 1500-1599     Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Hoby      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

'then I dimed, and talked with some strangers that Came to visitt me, and after, being not well, I slept a while and then reed a while'

Century: 1500-1599     Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Hoby      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

'after dinner I wrought and hard Mr Rhodes Read tell all most supper time'

Century: 1500-1599     Reader/Listener/Group: Richard Rhodes      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

'then I wrought and reed tell dinner time'

Century: 1500-1599     Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Hoby      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

'then I reed a hard readinge a whill'

Century: 1500-1599     Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Hoby      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

'praied with Mr Rhodes, hard one read, and then went to priuat praier'

Century: 1500-1599     Reader/Listener/Group: Richard Rhodes      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [ardenton's book]

'then I hard one read of ardentons book, and after I talked with Mr Rhodes'

Century: 1500-1599     Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Hoby      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [sermon]

'after dimer I talked a whill, and then wrought and hard Mr Maude read of a sermon'

Century: 1500-1599     Reader/Listener/Group: Mr Maude      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [sermon]

'after, I hard Mr Maud read of a sarmon book, then I praied, after dinned: then then I wrought and hard Mr Maud read againe'

Century: 1500-1599     Reader/Listener/Group: Mr Maude      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

'After priuat praier I went about the house, and reed, did eate my breakfast, then I reed againe tell dinner time, then praied'

Century: 1500-1599     Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Hoby      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

'after dinner I did read of a good book, and then went about the house: then I reed againe'

Century: 1500-1599     Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Hoby      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

'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

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

'After priuat praers I Reed tell dinner time'

Century: 1500-1599     Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Hoby      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

'and after reed a while, and so went to supper'

Century: 1500-1599     Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Hoby      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

'then I caused one to Read vnto me'

Century: 1500-1599     Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Hoby      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

'att :5: a cloke, I returned againe to examenation and praier: then I reed a whill and, after, went to supper'

Century: 1500-1599     Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Hoby      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

'and from thence came home and reed of Grenhame, and hard Megg Rhodes read'

Century: 1500-1599     Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Rhodes      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

'after that, I hard him read tell all most night'

Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Richard Rhodes      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

'after, hard mr Rhodes read praies, and went to bed'

Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Richard Rhodes      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

'after, I passed the afternone with Litle readinge because of my secknes'

Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Hoby      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

'After I hard Mr Rhodes Read of a good mans book, who proueth against Bis: Bilson that Christ suffered in soule the wrath of god and that he desended not into hell ... and hard Mr Rhodes Read of the same book'

Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Richard Rhodes      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

'read tell diner time'

Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Hoby      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

'After priuat praier I reed a whill and then did eate my breakfast'

Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Hoby      Print: Book

  

unknown : [works on science]

Robert Southey to Robert Lovell, 5-6 April 1794: 'My silence on natural history & natural philosophy, arose from ignorance. they are subjects upon which till lately I knew nothing, & now but little. it is not however my nature to sit down contented with ignorance. The study claims my attention; anatomy chymistry & botany will be my chief studies. how much truth is there in the old adage Life is short—Science is long! I experience the truth every day. one book leads on another one study demonstrates the necessity of another, & so we proceed from year to year till Death—compresses all our acquisition into a clod of the valley!'

Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Southey      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

'and, after, I wrought, hearinge Mr Rhodes Read of a booke against some newe spronge vp herisies'

Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Richard Rhodes      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

'then I reed a whill, after I went to supper'

Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Hoby      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

'after dinner I hard Mr Rhodes read'

Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Richard Rhodes      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

'after dinner I dressed vp my Clositte and read and, to refreshe my selfe beinge dull, I plaied and sunge to the Alpherion'

Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Hoby      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

'then wrought and hard Mr Rhodes read tell 4 acloke'

Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Richard Rhodes      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

'then Mr Rhodes reed to me tell 4'

Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Richard Rhodes      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

'hard Mr Rhodes read'

Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Richard Rhodes      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

'then I walked a whill and hard one read'

Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Hoby      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

'and allmost all the afternone, I hard Mr Rhodes read'

Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Richard Rhodes      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

'hard Mr Rhodes read, took order for supper'

Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Richard Rhodes      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

'hard Mr Rhodes read, conferred with him Vpon some thinges touchinge himselfe'

Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Richard Rhodes      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

'after, I talked with a neighbour, then wrought a whill and hard Mr Rhodes read'

Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Richard Rhodes      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

'after, I kept Companie tell they departed and, after, reed and talked with a yonge papest maid'

Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Hoby      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

'then I dressed my patients, reed, talked with a neighbour, praied, then dined'

Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Hoby      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

'gott Mr Hoby to Read some of perkines to me, and, after diner, I red as Longe as I Could my selfe'

Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Hoby      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

'after, I hard Mr Rhodes Read, and wrought, took order for supper'

Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Richard Rhodes      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

'After priuat praers I did eate, read, and then goe to the church'

Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Hoby      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

'After priuat praers I did eate, heare Mr Rhodes read, dressed my patients'

Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Richard Rhodes      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

'After priuat praer I did read, break my fast, and then went with Mr Hoby to the Garden'

Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Hoby      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

'reed a whill of another good book, and then went to priuat medetations and praier'

Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Hoby      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

'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

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

'and then wrought, reed, and wrett tell diner tim'

Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Hoby      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

'After priuat praier I did eate, read, and obsarued mine accustomed exercises tell night'

Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Hoby      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

'then I took order for supper and read abroad with Mr Hoby'

Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas and Margaret Hoby     Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

'then I hard the sarmon and after reed of a good book tell supper time'

Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Hoby      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

'After priuat praier I did eate, read, and was busie deliueringe some monie'

Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Hoby      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

'After I had praied I wrought, hearinge Mr Rhodes read tell dinner time'

Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Richard Rhodes      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

'After praers I did goe about the house and, hauing dune som busenes, I did eate a litle, read, and lastly dined'

Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Hoby      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

'After priuat praers I did read, eate, and went to the church'

Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Hoby      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

'After I had praied and reed, some of my freinds came, with whom I talked'

Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Hoby      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

'After priuat praers I reed, talked with my phesition and som other gentlewemen, and so went to dinner'

Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Hoby      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

'then Mr Hoby reed to me and an other gentlewoman Came to me, with whom I talked tell 5 a Clocke'

Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Hoby      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

'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

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

'After priuat praier I dinned, then I walked about with my mother and reed, tell towardes night: then I praied priuatly and went to my booke again: after I went to supper and lastly to bed'

Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Hoby      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

'after, I was busie in the house, and walkinge and reading tell supper time'

Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Hoby      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

'After priuat praier I did read, eate, and so went to Church'

Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Hoby      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [prayer]

'then I went about a whill, and reed a praier, and then went to bed'

Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Hoby      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

'then went to priuat praer and reed a whill, and so went to bed'

Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Hoby      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

'I went to supper, then I reed, and lastly went to bed'

Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Hoby      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

'and, after, went about the house and reed a whill, and so went to bed'

Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Hoby      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

'I wrought tell all most 5 a cloke, and hard Mr Rhodes read'

Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Richard Rhodes      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

'and then wrought and hard Mr Rhodes read of the principles of poperie out of one of their owne bookes'

Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Richard Rhodes      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

'then I did eate, read, and after went to the church'

Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Hoby      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

'After priuat praere I did read to my wemen'

Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Hoby      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

'after, I wrought and hard Mr Rhodes read of a popeshe booke'

Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Richard Rhodes      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

'after I brake my fast, wrought, hard Mr Rhodes Read, took a lector'

Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Richard Rhodes      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

'after, I wrough and hard Mr Rhodes reead'

Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Richard Rhodes      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

'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

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

'and, when I had reed a whill, I went to dinner'

Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Hoby      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

'then I reed a whill and praied, and so went to bed'

Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Hoby      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

'then I kept in my Chamber workinge tell allmost night and hard my Cosine Isons Read'

Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Isons      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

'after, I reed, praied, and went to dinner'

Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Hoby      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

'after I Came in I reed, praied, and then went to dinner'

Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Hoby      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

'all the followinge I went about and hard Mr Rhodes Read tell my time of priuat examenation and praier'

Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Richard Rhodes      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

'after priuat praers I reed, walked and medetated'

Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Hoby      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

'After I was readie I was Called to some busenes, which dine I went to priuat praier and readinge'

Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Hoby      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

'after, I reed and went to the church'

Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Hoby      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

'After I had gone about some busenes I praied priuatly, and after reed and took a lecture'

Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Hoby      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

'and, when I Came in, I reed a litle of humanitie, and then went to priuat examenation and praier'

Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Hoby      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

'and then I went to work and hard Mr Rhodes read'

Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Richard Rhodes      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

'After priuat praier I wrett notes in my testement, reed a whill, and went to the church'

Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Hoby      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

'After priuat praers I reed'

Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Hoby      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [sermon]

'after dinner I talked with som strangers that Came to Mr Hoby, wrought, reed a sarmon'

Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Hoby      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

'after diner, I went about a whill, hard Mr Rhodes Read, and then I went to priuat examenation and praier'

Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Richard Rhodes      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

'After priuat praier I did eate, read a whill, and then went to church'

Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Hoby      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [sermon]

'when they were gone, I reed and wrett in my sarmon booke'

Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Hoby      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

'when I Came in, I wrought and reed tell 5 a cloke'

Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Hoby      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

'after, I reed a whill and so went to church'

Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Hoby      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

'and after reed and praied, and then I went to dinner'

Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Hoby      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [sermon]

'after diner I went to work, and hard Mr Rhodes read of a sarmon booke'

Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Richard Rhodes      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

'and so, after priuat praers, I Reed a whill and so went to bed'

Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Hoby      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

'After priuat praers I did read, then I wrought a peece of work for a freind'

Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Hoby      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

'After I had praied I went about the house, then I hard Mr Rhodes read, took a lecture, praied, wrought, and went to dinner'

Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Richard Rhodes      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

'I praied and dined, and then I talked with my Mother and reed to hir'

Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Hoby      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

'after, I reed, praied, and dined'

Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Hoby      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

'After I had praied I brake my fast: after, I hard Mr Rhodes read, and wrought tell allmost dinner time'

Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Richard Rhodes      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

'After I was readie and had praied, I went about the house, wrought a whill, reed, and praied'

Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Hoby      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

'After priuat praers I reed and went to the church'

Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Hoby      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

'After praier I went about the house, and then went to my work and readinge'

Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Hoby      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

'then I hard Mr Rhodes read, and so I went to priuatt examenation and praier: after I went to supper'

Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Richard Rhodes      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

'After praer I wrought and hard Mr Rhodes read'

Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Richard Rhodes      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

'then I dined: after, I talked with my neighbours of that we had hard, and Reed some thinge to them'

Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Hoby      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [Sermons]

'hard Mr Rhodes read of a sermon book'

Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Richard Rhodes      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

'after ward I talked with Mr Gregorie, hard Mr Rhodes read, and, after, I went to priuat medetation and praier'

Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Richard Rhodes      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

'after, I went to work and then I went about the house, hard Mr Rhodes read'

Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Richard Rhodes      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

'After priuat praier I reed and then went to church'

Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Hoby      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

'after I Came home I walked and reed, and then I went to priuat praier and examenation'

Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Hoby      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

'After priuat praers I did read and went about the house, and, after I had broken my fast, I went to church'

Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Hoby      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

'after, dined: and then I talked and reed to some good wiffes that was with me'

Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Hoby      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

'After priuat praier I went about the house, and, hauinge eaten some thinge, I went to work, and hard Mr Rhodes read'

Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Richard Rhodes      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

'After praier I reed and went to church'

Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Hoby      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

'after, I went about and wrought, and hard Mr Rhodes read, and praied with him, and so went to supper'

Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Richard Rhodes      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

'after I diner I made an end of writinge my sarmon, then I walked, Red, and wrought'

Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Hoby      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

'after, I wrought, hard Mr Rhodes read, and then walked abroad into the feedles'

Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Richard Rhodes      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

'After priuat praier I reed a whill to my mother, and then went to the church'

Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Hoby      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

'then I talked and reed to some good wiues that dined [with] me'

Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Hoby      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

'at the time of praier, I returned to priuat examenation, praier, and reading: after, I went to supper'

Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Hoby      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

'After priuat praier I reed, did eate my breakfast, and then went to the church'

Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Hoby      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

'then dined: after, I talked of the sarmon, and reed to the good wiues that was with me, and then I praied and againe went to the church'

Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Hoby      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

'after, I reed, wrett diuers notes'

Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Hoby      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

'some thinge I did eate, and then did reed, and made prouision for som strangers that Came'

Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Hoby      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

'after I reed and so went to supper'

Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Hoby      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

'and, after, I hard a good booke reed by Mr Vrpeth, and sonne after I went to supper'

Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Hoby      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [sermon]

'and, when the sarmon was don, I Came in and hard Mr Ardington Read a sarmon'

Unknown
Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Mr Ardington      

  

[unknown] : [sermon]

'and then I hard Mr Ardington read a sarmon and talked with hime tell allmost night'

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Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Mr Ardington      

  

[unknown] : [sermon]

'and, after Diner, I went about the house, wrett 2. letters, hard Mr Rhodes read a sarmon, then walked with Mr Ardington'

Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Richard Rhodes      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

'then I went to work and hard readinge'

Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Hoby      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

'after, I reed and praied and so dined'

Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Hoby      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

'After priuat praier I went to the Church when I had reed and eaten somethinge ... and when I had reed a whill, I went to priuat examenation and praier'

Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Hoby      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

'after, I wrought and hard Mr Genking Read tell 4 a cloke'

Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Hoby      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

'after, I reed abroad'

Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Hoby      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

'after I dined, I wrought, walked and reed tell allmost night'

Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Hoby      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

'after, I reed, praied, was busie about waxe lights, and then I dined'

Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Hoby      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

'and, after I had reed a whill, I went to priuat examenation and praier: then to supper'

Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Hoby      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

'was so ill that I Could not goe to the publecke exercises, but Mr Hoby reed in the morninge to me and praied with me'

Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Hoby      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

'this day I Continewed my orderarie exercises of praier and readinge'

Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Hoby      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

'After priuat praier and readinge a whill I went to the church ... then dined: after, I talked [with] some of my neighbours and then reed againe ... I went againe to the church: then I reed a whill'

Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Hoby      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

'All but the times of my ordenarie exercises of praier and readinge I was busie takinge order for my going to london, and packinge of thinges'

Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Hoby      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

'After priuat praier I went to worke tell dinner time: after, I wrought and reed, and was accompened with Mr Edward Gatt and after with Mistress Mari. Gatt'

Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Hoby      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

'and, after I had reed and praied, I went to supper'

Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Hoby      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

'After priuat praier I went to my booke, and after I dined'

Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Hoby      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

'After priuat praier I went to my booke, and wrett a letter to Mr Rhodes: then I dined ... and after I went to my booke: then to supper'

Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Hoby      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

'After priuat praers I reed, and talked with Mr Vrpith'

Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Hoby      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

'After priuat praiers I went to readinge: then I was busie tell diner time ... then I returned home, and reed, and after I was Veseted by my brother'

Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Hoby      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [sermon]

'and then I reed a sarmon, and so, hauinge praied, went to supper'

Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Hoby      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

'then I went to Read a whill and, when I had praied, I went to bed'

Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Hoby      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [sermon]

'After praiers I went to diner: after, I went to a standinge to se the quene Come to London, were I Reed a serome'

Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Hoby      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

'after, I went to worke, and read, and so, when I had praied and supped, I went to bed'

Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Hoby      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

'after, I reed and wrought and was Vesited by my brother, and, after I had praied and suped, I reed and so went to bed'

Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Hoby      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

'After prairs, I reed and dined'

Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Hoby      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

'After I had praied I reed, and went to diner'

Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Hoby      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

'After I was readie, and had praied and reed, I walked'

Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Hoby      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

'after, I walked and was veseted by my Cousine Cookes wiffe, and, after they were gone, I went to readinge and praier'

Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Hoby      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

'After priuat praier I reed, and walked to the Comune Garden'

Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Hoby      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

'After praiers I reed, and wrett to Mr Rhodes'

Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Hoby      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

'and I had praied, reed, wrought, and dined'

Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Hoby      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

'and when I Came home I went to priuat readinge and praier'

Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Hoby      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

'after, I busied myself in my Chamber and then went to priuatt readinge and praier'

Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Hoby      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

'after, I went to Mr Egertons sermon and so, within litle time, I went to priuat readinge and praier, and settinge downe some notes I had Colected'

Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Hoby      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

'and, when he was gome, I went to priuat praier and readinge'

Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Hoby      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

'after supper I went againe to priuat praier and reading, and so to bed'

Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Hoby      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

'After my praier and readinge I went into the feedles with Mistress Thornbrow ... and, after she was gone, I went to priuat praier and readinge, and so to supper'

Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Hoby      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

'After priuat praier and readinge I went to walk'

Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Hoby      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

'After priuat praier and readinge I went to worke'

Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Hoby      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

'and so, after, I went to priuat praier and reading'

Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Hoby      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

'had so great a Cough that I Could not goe abroad, nor the next day goe to church, but exercised my selfe at home in writinge, readinge, and prainge, as well as I Could'

Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Hoby      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

'at night I went to priuat praier and readinge'

Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Hoby      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

'at my accustomed time I went to priuat praier and readinge'

Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Hoby      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

'after I Cam home I was pained in the toothach which Continewed with me 4 days after, in which time I exercised prainge and readinge as I was able'

Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Hoby      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

'After praiers And readinge I went to diner'

Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Hoby      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

'After priuat praier and readinge I went to worke'

Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Hoby      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

'After priuatt praier I went to readinge and worke tell diner'

Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Hoby      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

'this day I, beinge not well, praied and reed in mine owne chamber'

Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Hoby      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

'this day was rainie so that I Could nor durst goe abroad but exersised in the house, with prainge and reading and singing psa[lms], and Conferinge'

Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Hoby      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

'After prairs I went to work, and, hauinge reed a Litle, I talked with some that Came to Dine with vs'

Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Hoby      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

'After priuat praiers I brake my fast and reed'

Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Hoby      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

'After, I went to priuat readinge and medetation'

Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Hoby      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

'this day I kept my chamber, and, as I was able, I wrought and reede and had Mr Ardington read to me and Mr Rhodes'

Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Hoby      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

'this day I kept my chamber, and, as I was able, I wrought and reede and had Mr Ardington read to me and Mr Rhodes'

Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Mr Ardington      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

'this day I kept my chamber, and, as I was able, I wrought and reede and had Mr Ardington read to me and Mr Rhodes'

Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Richard Rhodes      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

'After my accustomed prairs I did eate and read'

Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Hoby      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

'then, after diner, I ... Continewed to exercis my selfe in some busenes tell praier, hauing Mr Rhodes and Mr Ardington to read to me'

Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Richard Rhodes      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

'then, after diner, I ... Continewed to exercis my selfe in some busenes tell praier, hauing Mr Rhodes and Mr Ardington to read to me'

Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Mr Ardington      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

'after, I hard Mr Ardington Read, and reed my selfe a Catzisimie of the Lord supper'

Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Mr Ardington      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

'then I wrought and hard Mr Rhodes read'

Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Richard Rhodes      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

'then I praied and reed, dined'

Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Hoby      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

'this day, for prainge, readinge and workinge, I Continewed my ordenarie exercises, with much Comfort and peace of Conscience, I thanke god, hauinge Learned some thing from Mr Rhodes his readinge vnto me, as, first, that no Callinge is lawfull with out a growne for itt in godes word: 2., that the title of Lord Archbusshopes are Vnlawfull: 3., that no minister should be made without a minestrie and charge, vnto which he should be ordained'

Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Hoby      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

'this day, for prainge, readinge and workinge, I Continewed my ordenarie exercises, with much Comfort and peace of Conscience, I thanke god, hauinge Learned some thing from Mr Rhodes his readinge vnto me, as, first, that no Callinge is lawfull with out a growne for itt in godes word: 2., that the title of Lord Archbusshopes are Vnlawfull: 3., that no minister should be made without a minestrie and charge, vnto which he should be ordained'

Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Richard Rhodes      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

'after, I returned in to my Chamber, and there reed and praied tell all most I went to supper'

Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Hoby      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

'the rest of the day, after the afternone sermon, I spent in readinge, singing, praing, and hearinge repeticions'

Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Hoby      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

'After prairs and readinge I kept Mr Gatt Companie'

Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Hoby      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

'after Diner, I wrought and hard Mr Rhodes read'

Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Richard Rhodes      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

'after, walked about with Hoby, and then returned to priuatt reading and praier'

Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Hoby      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

'I went about the howse, and then reed and wrought a whill before diner'

Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Hoby      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

'then I went to priuatt prairs and medetation and readinge'

Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Hoby      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

'After I had reed and praied I went about the house'

Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Hoby      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

'and, after, went to readinge and preparation for the next day'

Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Hoby      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

'this day it pleased god to blesse my reading and medetation, and, in the afternone my hearinge of Mr Vrpith: after, I Came home and Caused Mr Stillington to Read of Grenhame, and, after, I went to priuatt readinge and praier'

Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Hoby      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

'was buseed about that all day tell night, at which time Iohn Corrow praied and reed publeckly'

Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: John Corrow      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

'and after went to readinge and medetation'

Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Hoby      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

'hard Mr Rhodes read'

Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Richard Rhodes      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

'after, I dined, and after I talked and reed to some good wiffes: after, I praied and reed, and wrett notes in my bible of the morninge exercise'

Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Hoby      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

'after, I dined, and after I talked and reed to some good wiffes: after, I praied and reed, and wrett notes in my bible of the morninge exercise'

Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Hoby      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

'after supper, I hard Mr Aston praie and reade, and so went to bed'

Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Mr Aston      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

'after, I Came home and hard Mr Rhodes read: after diner I went abroad, and when I come home I dresed some sores: after, I hard Mr Rhodes read, and wrought with in a while'

Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Richard Rhodes      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

'I kept my chamber, and hard Iohn Corrow and Mr Rhodes read to me'

Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Richard Rhodes      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

'I kept my chamber, and hard Iohn Corrow and Mr Rhodes read to me'

Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: John Corrow      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

'I hard this day, after I had praied, Mr Rhodes read the booke of my lord Esixe treason, and I wrought: and so like wise in the after none Iohn Corrow and he did read by Course vnto me tell a litle before I went to priuat praier and medetation'

Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: John Corrow      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

'After praier I wrough, and hard Mr Rhodes and younge Coroow read'

Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Richard Rhodes      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

'After praier I wrough, and hard Mr Rhodes and younge Coroow read'

Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: John Corrow      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

'In the morning I praied, hard Mr Rhodes read, and wrought'

Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Richard Rhodes      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

'After praier I went to the church, and, after, I Came from thence, I praied and reed: after, I dined: then, I talked a whill, and after, wrett notes in my bible, and reed, tell church time'

Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Hoby      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

'after, I reed, and wrought tell :2: a cloke'

Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Hoby      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

'After praier I wrought, reed, went about the house, and praied againe before diner'

Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Hoby      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

'After praier I went to work, and hard Mr Rhodes read of a good booke'

Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Richard Rhodes      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

'After priuat praier I reed of the bible, and so went to the church: after, I Came home, and after diner I reed a Litle to som good wiffes'

Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Hoby      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

'After priuatt prairs I reed abroad [with] my Cosine Dakine'

Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Hoby      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

'After priuatt prairs I reed abroad [with] my Cosine Dakine: after I Came home and that I had dined, I talked of good matters [with] him, and he reed to me, and after we went forthe and sawe some sheepe which he was to buy'

Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Dakin      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

'after diner, I hard Mr Rhodes read, and wrought'

Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Richard Rhodes      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

'and, sonne after, went to priuatt prairs and readinge'

Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Hoby      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

'after, I praied, dined, and reed, and Conferred of good thinges to such wemen as dined with me'

Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Hoby      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

'at my accustomed Hower, I returned to priuatt readinge and praier'

Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Hoby      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : Book of Discipline

'hard Mr Rhodes read of the true diCeplen of christes church'

Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Richard Rhodes      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

'this day I Continewed my accustomed exercises, and wrough, hard Mr Ardington read, and singe psa: tell I went to priuatt praier'

Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Mr Ardington      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

'then I busied my selfe about the house, and hard some readinge, and after I went to priuatt praier'

Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Hoby      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

'in the afternone Mr Ardington Reed to me'

Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Mr Ardington      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

'after, I went to my Clositt, and there reed and praied'

Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Hoby      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

'After prairs I wrought, and hard Mr Ardington Reed'

Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Mr Ardington      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

'After prairs I wrought, as I was accustomed, with my maides, and hard Mr Ardington read: and, after I had dined and had slept a Litle, I went to worke againe, and hard Mr Ardington againe'

Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Mr Ardington      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

'and then read and praied priuatly'

Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Hoby      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

'and after diner I went about, and walked abroad, and hard Mr Ardington read'

Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Mr Ardington      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

'After priuatt praiers I reed, and kept Companie with Mrs Girlington and diuers that Came'

Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Hoby      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

'After piruatt praier I went about the house, and hard Mr Rhodes read'

Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Richard Rhodes      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

'after the sarmon and dimer, I reed to the wiues and talked of the sarmon'

Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Hoby      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

'reed to the good wiffes, as I had wont, after dinner'

Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Hoby      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

'and after dinner I reed to some good neighbours'

Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Hoby      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

'I Continewed well, I thanke god, these daies: and reed some medetations of the Lady Bowes hir Makinge'

Unknown
Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Hoby      

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

'this day I Continewed to heare, and read, and pray, I praise god, [with] much Comfort as before'

Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Hoby      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

'I haue Continewed my duties or praier and readinge, both findinge my corruption and receiuinge stringth

Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Hoby      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

'and hard from my Cossine Arthur dakine: and so, in the afternone likewise, hard some readinge of a book he sent me'

Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Hoby      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

'towarde Night I went to my accostomed exercises of Readinge and praier'

Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Hoby      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

'priuatt praier and readinge'

Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Hoby      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

'and after the exercises I went to readinge and priuatt praier'

Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Hoby      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

'and after dinner went into the Garden, vntill I retourned to priuat praier and readinge'

Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Hoby      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

'and at night I went to priuatt readinge and praier'

Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Hoby      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

'and in the afternone I went to priuatt prairs and readinge'

Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Hoby      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

'and at night returned to priuat readinge and praier'

Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Hoby      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

'and towardes night I went to priuatt readinge and praier'

Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Hoby      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

'and after they were gone I retourned to Readinge and priuat praier'

Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Hoby      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

'and after went to priuatt praier and readinge'

Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Hoby      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

'towardes Night I went to priuatt praier and readinge'

Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Hoby      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

'and after I had praied I went to readinge'

Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Hoby      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

'at Night I went to priuatt readinge and praier'

Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Hoby      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

'and towardes night went to priuatt readinge and praier'

Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Hoby      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

'priuat Readinge'

Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Hoby      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

'During the daytime I could not gain sufficient solitude for reading my little story books and was obliged to use the only secure retreat - the long, narrow, WC. In much later years, when my family was "too much with me", I was again driven to use this apartment in order to polish verses'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Zoe Procter      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [nineteenth-century poets]

'Early in 1888 my grandmother was taken ill, and my sister Mary and I went daily to Albert Hall Mansions to help my eldest sister and do errands for her. I spent many hours sitting on the floor by one of the rosewood vaneer book cases, which I still possess, reading a varied assortment of works ranging from the Ehtics of Aristotle, through all the nineteenth century poets, down to the poems of Bulwer Lytton, written under the name of Owen Meredith.'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Zoe Procter      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : Girls' Own Paper

'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: Serial / periodical

  

[unknown] : Prison Regulations

'I find a copy of the "Prison Regulations" for December 1938: European rations total over three pounds daily and Japanese 2lbs 10oz. I give this in to the Committee as evidence'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Kitching      Print: Unknown

  

[unknown] : [sign]

'Notice over the bakery - "Wedding Cakes A Speciality"'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Kitching      Manuscript: Graffito

  

[unknown] : [marginalia in Dandelion Days]

'I get a library book, "Dandelion Days". Written on the back cover is an extraordinary message deated 15.1.42 at the General Hopsital, thus: "23.25 - what the hell has the night sister done to me? Injection refused but given some other awful stuff - made to feel like a drunk in five minutes - didn't ask for anything - or injection - God, she's a bitch. Evacuated from Penang and now a thorough defeatist - anti-everything. I feel stewed except the pain in my leg has not gone." Signature illegible.'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Kitching      Manuscript: Graffito

  

[unknown] : Oxford Advanced Atlas

'I start making star charts and revising my geographical knowledge generally with the aid of a very good atlas - the Oxford Advanced - borrowed from Bayley'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Kitching      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [notice]

'A notice appears on the board: "The Indian policemen on duty are Japanese subjects and you must obey them as you do the Japanese sentries. If internees do not bow to Indian policemen sentries, they will be severely punished". Bow-wow."

Unknown
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Kitching      

  

[unknown] : [notice]

'The B-Block strip of grass between the high wall and the passage is now open. It is to be a haven of peace for readers and others. There is to be no talking. So there is a notice: "B-Sanctuary. Do not pluck the flowers or disturb the wildlife. You may sleep, but do not snore. Keep your B-trap shut. Silence is golden. Gather riches here".'

Unknown
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Kitching      

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

'A quotation from a book I am reading says: "The only way to waste time is not to enjoy it." How one realises that as an internee!'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Kitching      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : postcard

'Forbes has three postcards; one marked "Try Singapore, then Batavia". This shows there must be internees in Batavia and gives me some hope that Nora may be there, although I don't think much of the chance.'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Kitching      Manuscript: postcard

  

[unknown] : Wonderful Britain

'I am reading volume four of "Wonderful Britain". It is attractively illustrated, particularly to an interned exile. What attracts me specifically, apart from the pictures, are articles on things to see around London, Manchester and Sheffield - Wansdyke and Offa's dyke, the magic of the fens.'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Kitching      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : Walking in the Grampians

'I finish reading "Walking in the Grampians". If Nora's alive, I swear we will do some of them WHEN this bloody war is over.'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Kitching      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : Golden Treasury

'To bunk. Finished reading Aldington's brochure on Lawrence. A slight thing. Odds. Wrote home. Reading. Supper. Finished reading Book I of "Golden Treasury". Sisters and nurses here all very decent.'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: William Soutar      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

'To bunk about 8.0. Reading.'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: William Soutar      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [ballads]

'Read a couple of ballads to Eve.'

Unknown
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: William Soutar      

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

'Read to-day that Corot, Degas, Manet, Cezanne were all "paternal parasites" as regards money - if I can do my share in the Scottish Renaissance perhaps I'll justify my parasitism yet.'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: William Soutar      Print: Unknown

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

'Writing and reading: continue to wrestle with words in a very sticky fashion.'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: William Soutar      Print: Unknown

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

'Writing and reading: To have the great masters always before one is the most thorough searchlight upon self-esteem: especially is this necessary for any Scot - since a literary reputation is so easily won here.'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: William Soutar      Print: Unknown

  

[unknown] : Edward

'Just before tea, I read the ballad "Edward"; of its kind, it is as great a poem as "The Wife of Usher's Well"; there is the imprint of a fine artist upon this ballad, as the form of the verses in itself reveals.'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: William Soutar      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [chemistry]

'Read a little Alison and much chemistry, but a little headachy and out of order.'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [Italian]

'Read a little Plato; wrote a long letter to Brown; wrote a chapter of book; walked; read some Italian, and got some valuable notes out of Waagen, and then a game at Chess.'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [Italian]

'Read a little Italian. Finished first vol. Waagen.'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [Greek]

'read some Greek'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : Art Union

'Blackguardly letter in "Art Union", and interesting one in Rippingille's thing, to be answered; the last at great length.'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin      Print: Serial / periodical

  

[unknown] : Witness

'Curious account in the "Witness" of a rock, 8 tons in weight, being carried three hundred yards over sand by ice.'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin      Print: Unknown

  

[unknown] : Guardian

'I read, as I was sitting at the window, during the sunset of one of the most burning and brilliant days I remember out of Italy, among several other papers, the 81st, of the "Guardian", wherein I was much pleased first by that soliloquy attributed to Alcibiades, of which I would fain see the original, and again by the conclusion'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin      Print: Serial / periodical

  

[unknown] : Guardian

'Note the definition of a critic in "Guardian" No.103: "A man who on all occasions is more attentive to what is wanting that to what is present."'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin      Print: Serial / periodical

  

[unknown] : Guardian

'I must interrupt myself to note the 86th paper in the "Guardian" useful to my chapter on penetrative imagination.'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin      Print: Serial / periodical

  

[unknown] : Guardian

'Note the passage in the 93rd paper of "Guardian" respecting our admiration of the oder of motions of heavenly bodies, to be expressed by imitation of this order in our lives, and conf. Dante, "Inferno" VII. 75-80.'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin      Print: Serial / periodical

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

'I read today in Galignani part of an acrimonious and of what I fear will become an indecent controversy between the Archibishop of Canterbury and the Bishop of Exeter, respecting Infant Regeneration by Baptism.'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin      Print: Unknown

  

[unknown] : Journal pour tous

'Nothing much learned today except, by glance at the "Journal pour tous", the fact ascertained that French as well as English write foolish romances in quantities.'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin      Print: Unknown

  

[unknown] : [geology]

'Read only Geology'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [geology]

'Read Geology ... and Plato to p. 281. In which note that one great point is got at, respecting justice, that all "hurting" people makes them worse. 281, 7 &c.'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [geology]

'Read geology'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

'Read to children under tree.'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

'Pleasant evening reading about Pultowa and Mazeppa to my mother.'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

'Read 10th Psalm in Rose's book this morning; planned commentary on it.'

Unknown
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin      

  

[unknown] : [life of Lord Byron]

'Alone with my mother in evening; read life of Byron'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

'Reading, Rusch all in forenoon'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [geology]

'Read geology at my breakfast with my two loveliest flint-chalcedonies shining in the sun.'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [history]

'Read of Charles of Anjou and Manfred.'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [poems]

'Read old poems of 1848. I have gained something in these twenty-two years.'

Unknown
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin      

  

[unknown] : [history]

'Read of Empress Theodora'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [history]

'read economy of 12th century'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : Roman de la rose [?]

'Yesterday after reading "Romance of Rose" thought much of the destruction of all my higher power of sentiment by late sorrow'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

'Read Rouen missal with advantage'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

'Read glacier theory and got interested in old things'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : Roman de la rose [?]

'Worked a little on "Romance of Rose"'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

'Drew a little, and read a French novel, and am singularly better in health.'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

'Down after reading carefully and analysing a year of Scott's life (first at Ashtiel), to draw Francesca leaves.'

Unknown
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin      

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

'Still in bed to breakfast, reading of Scott's early hours'

Unknown
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin      

  

[unknown] : [Moschele's life]

'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

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

'recovered in evening greatly, reading Scott's life and seeing Turner's Okehampton more beautiful than ever'

Unknown
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin      

  

[unknown] : Munera

'For National debt read "Munera" page 32. Read the first statement of the principles of currency, "Munera" Chap. III 66-80.'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [French novel]

'finally concluding in reading a French novel'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : Expectans expectavi

'Last night I was led to read "Expectans expectavi", and to understand it for the first time.'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : Mariegola

'read twelve chapters of "Mariegola"'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

'Eyes more weary than usual in reading a little by candlelight'

Unknown
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin      

  

[unknown] : Ariadne

'Read, fortunately, my St John's day extract, in "Ariadne", about dreams: helpful much again, now.'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

'read St Francis' Hymn of the Creatures to my infinite delight'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : Roma Sotternea

'At Rose, reading "Roma Sotteranea".'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

'Reading by gaslight at breakfast - unwholesome'

Unknown
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin      

  

[unknown] : Aladdin

'Joan and I by ourselves in the evening played old tunes and read "Aladdin".'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin      Print: Book

  

[unknown] : [unknown]

'Slept well, though Joan teazing in evening playing with beads when I was reading.'

Unknown
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin      

  

[unknown] : [French novel]

'rather enjoyed a bit of absurd French novel'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Ruskin      Print: Book

  

unknown unknown :  Fragments from an Officer's Diary in Southern Poland

'Thanks very much for the book and the "Spectator" page.[...] These are all delightful pieces. You must autograph the book for me.'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Conrad      Print: Serial / periodical

  

unknown : History of the Magdalens (extracts)

Frances Sheridan to Samuel Richardson, 18 December 1757: 'I have seen some extracts from the History of the Magdalens, which gives me a curiosity to read the whole.'

Unknown
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Frances Sheridan      

  

unknown unknown : [news of abdication of French king Louis Philippe]

Charlotte Bronte (as Currer Bell) to her publisher, W. S. Williams, 28 February 1848:

'From the papers of Saturday I had learnt the abdication of Louis Philippe, the flight of the royal family, and the proclamation of a republic in France. Rapid movements these, and some of them difficult of comprehension to a remote spectator [goes on to reflect further on French political situation, also observing: 'Few will pity the old monarch in his flight, yet I own he seems to me an object of pity'].'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Charlotte Brontë      Print: Newspaper

  

unknown unknown : unknown

'Thanks very much for your sympathetic book. It is vividly interesting (I am on p.70) and am flattered to think that its writer, who knows so much of human affairs, thinks so well of my work. I trust we may meet [...] on your return from Damascus next year.'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Conrad      Print: Book

  

unknown unknown : [review of work by/relating to Charles Lamb]

Charlotte Bronte to George Smith, 17 August 1848:

'I will not return Charles Lamb [i.e. a book], for in truth he is very welcome. I saw a review with extracts in the "Examiner," and thought at the time I should much like to read the whole book.'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Charlotte Brontë      Print: Serial / periodical

  

unknown unknown : unknown

Charlotte Bronte to her publisher, W. S. Williams, 25 June 1849:

'I have always forgotten to acknowledge the receipt of the parcel [of books, regularly sent by Williams] from Cornhill [...] I looked at it the other day — it reminded me too sharply of the time when the first parcel arrived — last October; Emily was then beginning to be ill — the opening of the parcel and fascination of the books cheered her — their perusal occupied her for many a weary day: the very evening before her last morning dawned I read to her one of Emerson's essays — I read on till I found she was not listening — I thought to recommence next day — Next day, the first glance at her face told me what would happen before night-fall.'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Emily Brontë      Print: Book

  

unknown unknown : [Patristic writings]

'Mr [James Chesterton] Bradley always found great pleasure in recalling the fact that he was the prototype of Mr Sweeting [in Charlotte Bronte's novel Shirley], although he declared that the meetings of the curates at each other's lodgings were exclusively for a series of two-hours' readings of the Greek fathers, and not for the drunken orgies described in Shirley.'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: James Chesterton Bradley and fellow curates     Print: Book

  

unknown unknown : unknown

James Chesterton Bradley to Robert Keating Smith, 3 May 1902:

'A short paper of yours in "The Tatler" of April 2nd brought before me my old friend James W[illiam]. Smith. He and I were fellow curates in Yorkshire, he curate of Haworth, and I of the hill part of Keighley which joined on to Haworth [...] He and I with another of the name of Grant were the three curates in Charlotte Bronte's "Shirley." I need not say how indignant I have often been at the way in which she speaks of him in the novel. He was a thorough gentleman in every sense of the word, and there was not the slightest ground for the insinuation she makes against him [...] We used to read together, walk together, and as often as we could, about once a week, would meet either at his or my lodgings.'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: James Chesterton Bradley and James William Smith     Print: Unknown

  

unknown unknown : [article on Charlotte Bronte, Jane Eyre, and works by others]

Charlotte Bronte to her publisher, W. S. Williams, 16 August 1849:

'The "North British Review" duly reached me. I read attentively all it says about "E. Wyndham," "Jane Eyre," and "F. Hervey." Much of the article is clever, and yet there are remarks which — for me — rob it of importance [...] I do not respect an inconsistent critic. He says, "if "Jane Eyre" be the production of a woman, then she must be a woman unsexed." [...] I am reminded of the "Economist." The literary critic of that paper praised the book if written by a man, and pronounced it "odious" if the work of a woman.
To such critics I would say, "To you I am neither man nor woman — I come before you as an author only. It is the sole ground on which you have a right to judge me — the sole ground on whiich I accept your judgement.'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Charlotte Brontë      Print: Serial / periodical

  

unknown unknown : [Review of Charlotte Bronte, Jane Eyre]

Charlotte Bronte to her publisher, W. S. Williams, 16 August 1849:

'The "North British Review" duly reached me. I read attentively all it says about "E. Wyndham," "Jane Eyre," and "F. Hervey." Much of the article is clever, and yet there are remarks which — for me — rob it of importance [...] I do not respect an inconsistent critic. He says, "if "Jane Eyre" be the production of a woman, then she must be a woman unsexed." [...] I am reminded of the "Economist." The literary critic of that paper praised the book if written by a man, and pronounced it "odious" if the work of a woman.
To such critics I would say, "To you I am neither man nor woman — I come before you as an author only. It is the sole ground on which you have a right to judge me — the sole ground on whiich I accept your judgement.'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Charlotte Brontë      Print: Serial / periodical

  

unknown unknown : [Haworth working man's written response to reading Charlotte Bronte, Jane Eyre]

Charlotte Bronte to her publisher, W. S. Williams, 19 March 1850:

'I enclose for your perusal a scrap of paper which came into my hands without the knowledge of the writer. He is a poor working man of this village — a thoughtful, reading, feeling being, whose mind is too keen for his frame, and wears it out. I have not spoken to him above thrice in my life, for he is a Dissenter, and has rarely come in my way. The document is a sort of record of his feelings, after the perusal of "Jane Eyre"; it is artless and earnest, genuine and generous. You must return it to me, for I value it more than testimonies from higher sources. He said: "Miss Bronte, if she knew he had written it, would scorn him"; but, indeed, Miss Bronte does not scorn him; she only grieves that a mind of which this is the emanation should be kept crushed by the leaden hand of poverty — by the trials of uncertain health and the claims of a large family.'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Charlotte Brontë      Manuscript: Unknown

  

unknown unknown : [Reviews in Pall Mall Gazette and St James's Gazette]

'... we have seen review in St James's Gazette, March 17 and Pall Mall March 18 — both good.'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Louis Stevenson      Print: Serial / periodical

  

unknown unknown : [Book review]

'I enclose another review. Fancy Eton masters setting my book as a classic to turn into Latin verse.'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Louis Stevenson      Print: Serial / periodical

  

unknown unknown : [Books on Camisards]

'I am reading up the Camisards and shall go a walk in the scene of their wars, the Hautes Cévennes.'

Unknown
Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Louis Stevenson      

  

unknown unknown : unknown

'The single bed proved very unsuitable for Joseph Conrad, because apart from its legitimate purpose as a resting place, his bed had to be hospitable to a heap of books, all open and face downwards, maps, bed-rest, and more than once a wooden Spratt's dog-biscuit box he had ordered his man to place at the foot of the bed to brace his feet against.'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Conrad      Print: Book

  

unknown unknown : [review of Arabian Nights]

'I have only seen Athenaeum ...'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Louis Stevenson      Print: Serial / periodical

  

unknown unknown : [review of Arabian Nights in Pall Mall Gazette]

'I have only seen Athenaeum, PMG ...'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Louis Stevenson      Print: Serial / periodical

  

unknown unknown : [review of Arabian Nights in The Scotsman]

'I have only seen Athenaeum, P.M.G. and the Scotsman.'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Louis Stevenson      Print: Newspaper

  

unknown unknown : Back from the Dead

'I find upon looking up that Louis is in tears over Back from the Dead.'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Louis Stevenson      Print: Unknown

  

unknown unknown : [article in Edinburgh Courant]

'If you chance to see a paragraph in the papers describing my illness, and the "delicacies suitable to my invalid condition" cooked in copper, and other ridiculous and revolting yarns, pray regard it as a spectral illusion, and pass by.'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Louis Stevenson      Print: Newspaper

  

unknown unknown : unknown

'I could read well when very young (as is before hinted) spending much time with my afflicted father, I read much to him; and the experiences and sufferings of faithful martyrs, and of our worthy friends, with the accounts of the glorious exit of such as launched out of time in full assurance of everlasing bliss, made profitable impressions on my mind; my spirit being often tendered thereby, and my love of virtue and piety strengthened; so that I may truly say that such holy persons, "though they be dead, yet speak".'

Unknown
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Henry Payton      

  

unknown unknown : unknown

'My natural disposition was very volatile, and my apprehension very quick; and as my faculties opened, I delighted much in books of a very contrary nature and tendency to those which had engaged my attention in my childhood. I had a near relation, who, notwithstanding his having been favoured in his youth, had slighted his soul's mercies, and pursued lying vanities. He kept house in the town; and through him, myself, and my sisters, had opportunities of obtaining plays and romances, which I read with avidity. I also spent much time at his house as to be introduced into amusements very inconsistent with the implicity of truth, and my former religious impressions; so that my state was indeed dangerous, and but for the interposition of Divine Providence, I had been left to pursue courses which must have terminated deplorably. I also read history, was fond of poetry, and had a taste for philosophy; so that I was in the way to embellish my understanding (as is the common phrase), and to become accomplished to shine in conversation; which might have tended to feed the vain proud nature, render me pleasing to those who were in it, and make me conspicuous in the world.'

Unknown
Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Catherine Payton      

  

unknown unknown : unknown

'And here I may add, that from the time I came from school, I read little, save religious books; and after I appeared in ministry, until late in life, reading even then was much taken from me, except the scriptures: all of which I believe was in divine wisdom, that I might not minister from what I had gathered from religious writings; but might receive the arguments I was enabled to advance on behalf of the truth, by the immediate revelation of the Holy Spirit.'

Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Catherine Payton Phillips      Print: Book

  

unknown unknown : [article in London Magazine]

'There is what I consider a pretty good 5 Towns story [‘From One Generation to Another’] in the October London Magazine. But they have given it a rotten air by splitting it up into two short paragraphs, & by the vilest illustrations. I hate to be published in that desolating publication. It humiliates me. Still, new flats have to be paid for.'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Arnold Bennett      Print: Serial / periodical

  

unknown unknown : The Ghost of Southcote Manor

'Meeting held at School House
3/12/29
T. C. Elliott in the chair
1. Minutes of last Meeting read and approved
[...]
5. The subject of the evening Ghost Stories was then taken
H. R. Smith read an account written by Clarkson Wallis of a ghost appearing in Brighton Meeting. Geo Burrows read a Newcastle Ghost story Miss Brain read of the Ghost of Southcote Manor & Mrs Elliott read of Mrs S. The Morton Ghost. C. E. Stansfield read an essay on the subject especially with reference to the work of the Physchical [sic] Research Society thereafter he and H. R. Smith told a story apiece.'

Unknown
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: E. Dorothy Brain      

  

unknown unknown : Mrs S, the Morton Ghost

'Meeting held at School House
3/12/29
T. C. Elliott in the chair
1. Minutes of last Meeting read and approved
[...]
5. The subject of the evening Ghost Stories was then taken
H. R. Smith read an account written by Clarkson Wallis of a ghost appearing in Brighton Meeting. Geo Burrows read a Newcastle Ghost story Miss Brain read of the Ghost of Southcote Manor & Mrs Elliott read of Mrs S. The Morton Ghost. C. E. Stansfield read an essay on the subject especially with reference to the work of the Physchical [sic] Research Society thereafter he and H. R. Smith told a story apiece.'

Unknown
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Mrs C. Elliott      

  

unknown unknown : unknown

'The old reason [for not replying to letters] remains, also the old remedy. A good shillingsworth of fine fiction now. [...] A copy of the July “BLUE” enfolding some rather tasteless morsels, a fine article by H. S. Goodwin on Geoffrey Woodhouse, the unspeakably hopeless "Hertford Letter" and several mixed comments on my poems and me — that also fell from the lucky bag. The "Southern Weekly", the "Daily Mirror" and other papers show up the latest buffoonery of A.W.U. [?] quite plainly.'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Edmund Blunden      Print: Book

  

unknown unknown : unknown

‘Still, in daytime, we sometimes got out of the trench into the tall sorrelled grass behind, which the sun had dried, and enjoyed a warm indolence with a book (not “Infantry Training” I think.)’

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Edmund Blunden      Print: Book

  

unknown unknown : unknown

‘Englebelmer, indeed, was now entering upon a dark period.[...]. Still we explored the church into which opened a mysterious tunnel; as if on holiday we examined the brightly painted saints and the other sacred objects from gallery to vault; and hard by found a large collection of the Englebelmer parish magazine, which was and was not interesting. Religious readings were interrupted by a move to Beaussart.'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Edmund Blunden      Print: parish magazine

  

unknown unknown : unknown

'The house in which some of us were lodged was the quietest conceivable [...]; our beds were in the attics, and during the night we had scarcely thrown down the French novels which we picked up there and put out our candles, when it seemed an aeroplane was buzzing overhead and something hit the tiles.'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Edmund Blunden      Print: Book

  

unknown unknown : unknown

‘At Watten station [...] I sauntered by the canal then settled myself with my book in an empty cattle truck.'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Edmund Blunden      Print: Book

  

unknown unknown : unknown

'I was reading in the headquarters shelter when the great man [the Brigadier-General] suddenly drew aside the sacking of the entrance, and gleamed stupendously in our candlelight, followed by an almost equally menacing Staff Captain.'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Edmund Blunden      Print: Book

  

unknown unknown : unknown

'I will stay in this farmhouse while the gas course lasts [...] and get the old peasant in the evenings to recite more "[Fables of] La Fontaine" to me, in the Béthune dialect, and walk out to see the neighbouring inns and shrines, and read -- Bless me, Kapp [a fellow officer and satirical artist, recently sent away to the Press Bureau] has gone away with my "John Clare"! He has the book yet for all I know [...].

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Edmund Blunden      Print: Book

  

unknown unknown : unknown

'Our billet was a chemist's house, well furnished with ledgers and letters strewn about from bureaux, chiefly the scrawl of poor people in Thiepval and other places of the past who bemoaned the bad crops, and their consequent inability to pay up.'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Edmund Blunden      Manuscript: Letter

  

unknown unknown : unknown

'On the way back [from the Bombay Secretariat] bought a few clothes and some books from Thacker, a better *libraire* than you will find in all Africa.[...] Out again at five and discovered Tarapooree Walla, a bookshop recalling in its extent, variety and disorder the best traditions of the Charing Cross Road. Ran amok.[...] Early to bed but read until 11.45 when finding myself weak and nervy took my first grain of opium (pill) and to sleep.''

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Ronald Storrs      Print: Book

  

unknown : [a specimen of Irish literature]

Meeting held at Ashton Lodge: 14.3.38.
1. Minutes of last read and approved.
[...]
4. Readings from Irish Literature were then given as follows:-
C. E. Stansfield from G. A. Birmingham’s “Spanish Gold”;
H. R. Smith from a story about an illicit still;
Mary Robson from the preface of Bernard Shaw’s “John Bull’s Other Island;”
Rosamund Wallis[;]
Victor Alexander from Ross and Somerville’s “An Irish R.M.”[;]
Elsie Sikes from ? some Irish Bulls

Unknown
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Rosamund Wallis      

  

unknown : [Irish Bulls]

Meeting held at Ashton Lodge: 14.3.38.
1. Minutes of last read and approved.
[...]
4. Readings from Irish Literature were then given as follows:-
C. E. Stansfield from G. A. Birmingham’s “Spanish Gold”;
H. R. Smith from a story about an illicit still;
Mary Robson from the preface of Bernard Shaw’s “John Bull’s Other Island;”
Rosamund Wallis[;]
Victor Alexander from Ross and Somerville’s “An Irish R.M.”[;]
Elsie Sikes from ? some Irish Bulls

Unknown
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Elsie Sikes      

  

unknown unknown : Forster's Life

'The Irish part of ''Forster's Life'' is very painful and interesting. [...] It is very good anti-Home Rule reading and makes one think worse than ever of Parnell.'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Emma Darwin      Print: Book

  

unknown unknown : Sir H. Taylor's Letters

'We are not delighted with ''Sir H. Taylor's Letters''. They are not a bit fresh or spontaneous'.

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Emma Darwin      Print: Book

  

unknown : unknown

'I am much interested in De Quincey's letters, or rather in Dorothy Wordsworth's to him. There must have been something very engaging in him to have received such nice, wholesome letters, full of the children.'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Emma Darwin      Print: Book

  

unknown unknown : [Biography of Catherine and Susannah Winkworth]

'I seem to have been reading nothing but about young girls lately — Miss Bronte, Miss Edgeworth, the Burneys, the Winkworths.'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Emma Darwin      Print: Book

  

unknown : 

'Life of a coster girl — one of six children, "She [mother] always liked to hear us read to her whilst she was washing or such like! and then we big ones had to learn the little ones".'

Unknown
Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: anon      

  

unknown : 

'The man, a tall, thick-built, almost goodlooking fellow, with a large fur cap on his head, lived with his family in a front kitchen, and as there were, with his mother-in-law, five persons, and only one bed, I was somewhat puzzled to know where they could all sleep. The barrow standing on the railings over the window, half shut out the light, and when any one passed there was a momentary shadow thrown over the room, and a loud rattling of the iron gratings above that completely prevented all conversation. When I entered, the mother-in-law was reading aloud one of the threepenny papers to her son, who lolled on the bed, that with its curtains nearly filled the room. There was the usual attempt to make the fireside comfortable.'

Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: anon      Print: Newspaper

  

unknown unknown : [unknown texts on the life of Shelley]

'Meeting held at 7, Marlborough Avenue. 15th Jan, 1944     A. G. Joselin in the chair.

[...]

2. The minutes of the last meeting were read and signed

[...]

5. Howard Smith opened the evening on Shelley with a biographical sketch. [...]

6. We adjourned for refreshment[.]

7. F. E. Pollard read “Ode to the West Wind”

8. Margaret Dilks gave brief appreciation of Shelley’s poetry. This started a general discussion in which nearly all took part — whether he influenced or was influenced by his contempor[ar]ies , & what effect he had, if any, on future poets. On these questions opinion varied, but all agreed with F. E. Pollard that Shelley’s verse is supremely ‘poetical’.

9. To illustrate Shelley’s passion for liberty and reform Bruce Dilks read from “The Masque of Anarchy” which was inspired by the Peterloo Massacre in 1819.

10. Rosamund Wallis read some stanzas from “Adonais”. F. E. Pollard read a short poem entitled “A Lament”[.] Thus, our thoughts being with the departed, the meeting ended on a lighter note. One member quoted a touching little verse from the Berkshire Chronicle In Memoriam notices, which another capped by some lines written by a school-boy on the relative merits of perpetual roasting and eternal hymn-singing. Lines which gained the boy a severe reprimand from his head-master, and a ‘Fiver’ from his father.

[signed as a true record by] S A Reynolds 14/2/44'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Howard Smith      Print: Unknown

  

unknown unknown : unknown

'We entrained about 3 pm in cattle trucks. The Belgians had straw in theirs, and 20 men to a truck. We had 40 men, and no straw. A further distinction was made with the aid of chalk on the Belgian trucks, where someone had written "Belgian gut, Francosen gut, aber Englisch Schwein".'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: James Clifford Farrant      Manuscript: Graffito, Chalk-written sign.

  

unknown unknown : unknown

'In the German barracks "Gott strafe England" was chalked up in many conspicuous places. It was also the headline on their bread coupon cards.'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: James Clifford Farrant      Manuscript: Graffito, Chalk-written sign.

  

unknown unknown : [POW camp publication]

'Each day there is a "Budget" published, the work of the more literary and energetic of our members, chiefly consisting of the various "officials" taken from the German papers, with leading articles on any special bits of news. There is also a monthly production with short stories and illustrations which is wonderfully good. The summer number is just out, and there is a hit at me under "Things We Want to Know": whether "Joy Riding in an aeroplane over imperfectly known country is not an overrated amusement?"'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Douglas Lyall Grant      Print: Serial / periodical

  

unknown unknown : unknown

'This morning I stayed in and read some most illuminating articles on Sufyism. There's a lot to know, but I guess I'll know some of it before I've done.'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Gertrude Bell      Print: Serial / periodical, probably a periodical

  

unknown unknown : [?The] Shadow of Death

'Last night a year ago I was reading Mother the "Shadow of Death" at Kirby Thore and today a year ago the shadow fell very near me. I thought much last night of him [the late Henry Cadogan] and of all he had been to me and is still.'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Gertrude Bell      Print: Book

  

unknown unknown : Lourdes [...]

'Left at 10.40 Frontier 12.15, lunch Belfort 12.40 where I got "Lourdes" and read it with wild interest all the rest of the way. Tea at Nancy. Reims 7.30.'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Gertrude Bell      Print: Book

  

unknown unknown : [Biography of Hafiz]

'I went up to the Musee this morning and read a Persian life of Hafez with a Latin crib. I think I got at the meaning of it with the help of a Persian dictionary, but a Latin translation is not so clear to me as it might be.'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Gertrude Bell      Print: Book

  

unknown unknown : unknown

'Florence [Lascelles] the Marshalls and I went to the [Berlin] National Gallery to see the modern pictures. It was most interesting because I had been reading about modern German painters and knew what I wanted to look at. It rained all the afternoon — I read and wrote in my room.'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Gertrude Bell      Print: Unknown, presumably book, exhibition catalogue or periodical

  

unknown unknown : [Arabic texts]

'Fog in the early morning, sun came out after lunch. Quite chilly. Read Arabic and "Les Misérables".'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Gertrude Bell      Print: Book

  

unknown unknown : [novel in Spanish]

'All day we sailed along an absolutely barren coast. A tiny fringe of green along the sand and then great mts with nothing but brown scrub upon them. It sometimes doesn't rain here for 5 years. Read Arabic and talked to the Hoffmanns. Slept, tea, read a Spanish novel, dinner, very indifferent music ending with choruses on deck.'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Gertrude Bell      Print: Book

  

unknown unknown : unknown

'Very foggy; raw and cold all morning; the sun came out a little after lunch, but it was still cold. Wrapped myself in fur cloaks and rugs and sat on deck reading novels.'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Gertrude Bell      Print: Book

  

unknown unknown : unknown

'After lunch, finished a book on Hawaii Mr W[alford] lent me.'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Gertrude Bell      Print: Book

  

unknown : Upanishads

'Quite warm but most agreeable. Talked to Mr Robertson about Justice and Maeterlinck and read some of the "Upanishad" book. Ditto after lunched [...].

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Gertrude Bell      Print: Book

  

unknown : unknown

'After lunch we went to our rooms and read novels till 4.45 when we found an excellent tea in the big drawing room. Scones to which we did ample justice. Sir F[rank Swettenham] came in in polo clothes to see we were all right.'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Gertrude Bell      Print: Book

  

unknown : 

'This morning I read till 11 about Byzantine MSS which I'm going to see at the Bibliothèque Nationale; then I went shopping with the Stanleys and bought a charming little fur jacket to ride in in Syria — yes I did! Then I came in and read till 2 when Soloman fetched me and we went together to the Louvre.'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Gertrude Bell      Print: Book

  

unknown : 

'This morning, [...] I went to the Bibliothèque Nationale. [Saloman] Reinach [editor of the "Revue Archéologique"] had given me a letter to one of the directors and I was received with open arms. They are most kind. I looked at 2 wonderful Greek MSS — illuminated — from 12 to 3.30! and I am going back there tomorrow to see ivories and more precious MSS which they will have out for me. It's perfectly delightful. I shd like to do nothing else for 6 months.'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Gertrude Bell      Manuscript: Unknown

  

unknown : Les Cosaques

'After dinner it was warmer and I sat on deck and read "Les Cosaques". I finished Putnam Neale's "Indiscreet Letters from Peking" in the afternoon, a curious book.'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Gertrude Bell      Print: Book

  

unknown : unknown

'Back to the kaik [?caique] where I lunched but it was too windy to go on to Budrum so I returned sadly to Kuluk sat on the balcony in the sun and read Mr Ballard's novels of which there were plenty. '

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Gertrude Bell      Print: Book

  

unknown unknown : unknown

'A motor bicycle drew up at our door and a haggard dispatch rider stumbled in to put a scrap of paper into my hand. It was a page torn out of an army notebook with a scribbled message in pencil from a lieutenant addressed to his commanding officer; the date and time upon it belonged to the afternoon before. The writer was holding on with a handful of men at a point (he gave a rough map reference) but they were nearly surrounded — could help be sent, very soon or it would come too late? The messenger had been trying ever since to find the CO and had failed; the message must be delivered to someone — and now to me of all people! The message, I pointed out, was twelve hours old, but the dispatch rider seemed stupefied with his utter failure and weariness. He went dumbly away with his scrap of paper. And I tried to dismiss from my mind a tiny detail in a disastrous landscape — a huddle of brown down there at the map reference, where, in all likelihood, a young officer and a dozen men would be lying together dead.'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Barclay Josiah Baron      Manuscript: Letter, Pencilled note on a page torn out of an army notebook.

  

unknown unknown : unknown

'You need have no fear about my looking after myself and behaving myself May, because I only go out about 3 nights a week, and then usually by myself. I either walk round the town or go to the Y.M.C.A. at Romford, where there are all kinds of games and concerts. When I stop in camp I either go in our own Y.M.C.A. and read books or war news, or sew buttons on, or have a chat with another decent fellow out of our room on military affairs. So you see I behave myself alright.'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Albert Edward Mortlock French      Print: Book, Newspaper

  

unknown unknown : unknown

'Well I am getting on topping: today we have been on a brigade field day round a place called "The Devils Punch bowl" It's a piece of land about 3 miles round the top. The top is flat for about 3 yards and then slopes down to an awful depth. A sailor was murdered there in 1756, as he was going to Portsmouth by an highway man. They buried the sailor, and erected a stone telling all about the barborous murder. About 50 yards away there is a stone cross which the highwayman was hung on. The murdered sailor was a Witney man. On another old stone near our camp its got Portsmouth 33 miles, and Hyde Park Corner 36 miles, which shows that we are not so far from the seaside or London. It always seems curious to see such names on a mile stone.'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Albert Edward Mortlock French      Manuscript: Engraved stone.

  

unknown unknown : unknown

'Well I am getting on topping: today we have been on a brigade field day round a place called "The Devils Punch bowl" It's a piece of land about 3 miles round the top. The top is flat for about 3 yards and then slopes down to an awful depth. A sailor was murdered there in 1756, as he was going to Portsmouth by an highway man. They buried the sailor, and erected a stone telling all about the barborous murder. About 50 yards away there is a stone cross which the highwayman was hung on. The murdered sailor was a Witney man. On another old stone near our camp its got Portsmouth 33 miles, and Hyde Park Corner 36 miles, which shows that we are not so far from the seaside or London. It always seems curious to see such names on a mile stone.'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Albert Edward Mortlock French      Manuscript: Milestone.

  

unknown unknown : [officer's diary]

'Our Adjutant told us the history of the 1st K.R.R [King's Royal Rifles] in this war, by a diary from one of their officers. They got on fine until they went into action at the battle of Mons. They had a terrible share in it. They had 400 out of 1,000 men killed that day. The French retired and the K.R.R. held on for 3 hours after the French had gone. Then K.R.R. had to march 170 miles, fighting all the way. After the Marne, the other 600 were nearly wiped out. Well as it is tea time I must now close ...'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Albert Edward Mortlock French      Manuscript: Codex

  

unknown unknown : unknown

'Soldiers who have been out here 6 months can speak French, and some of the French can speak English perfectly. I can speak just a little French now. In most of the Y.M.C.A's at Aldershot ladies teach soldiers the French language free of charge. You can get 1d papers here with pretty well everything you want on it. On one side of the paper there are articles, and in English, opposite the English names, are the French names, which apply to the same article. Nutty idea isn't it.'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Albert Edward Mortlock French      Print: NewspaperManuscript: Codex

  

unknown unknown : unknown

'Gradually, very gradually, Australians will realize what they owe to England. How all my English blood courses through my veins when I read of England's responses to the great call! It is true of course that Australians are joining the colours here, but the majority are either of the well-to-do classes, or else recent immigrants.'

Unknown
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Kenneth Julian Faithfull Bickersteth      Print: Newspaper

  

unknown unknown : unknown

'The papers are eagerly read, of course, and small groups constantly gather outside the newspaper offices to read the cablegrams which are also put up for passers-by to see.'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group:      Print: Newspaper

  

unknown unknown : unknown

'We missed news more than anything else, there was a notice board in the court yard and we got the German version on that, needless to say this was not very satisfying.'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: J. P. Lynch      Print: Newspaper

  

unknown unknown : [Post cards written by officer POWs]

'When we were allowed to write post cards home on the 6th Oct 1914 (first time) Frau Braun [wife of the German camp commander] did the censoring, and as the Frau was not very good at English we were asked to write but little and clearly, we heard that the good Frau used to stay up nearly all night trying to read our correspondence, with the aid of a dictionary.'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Braun      Manuscript: Letter, Postcards

  

unknown unknown : [scraps of English newspapers]

'... we got no news at Göttingen except from scraps of English papers which came in parcels, the Göttingen paper was one of the worst in Germany, and we did not take it in, the time we spent in this lager was extremely monotonous, and depressing.'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: J. P. Lynch      Print: NewspaperManuscript: Letter, Postcards

  

unknown unknown : unknown

'We are getting together a good library of 1 franc English books.'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Harold Upcott      Print: Book

  

unknown unknown : unknown

'Yesterday afternoon as I was lying reading in my hut the C.O. came in and told me I had to go to Warloy (behind Albert) to relieve the surgeon specialist.'

Unknown
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Harold Upcott      

  

unknown : [unspecified novels]

'I'm still in hospital but I've made a very rapid cure (I was pretty bad when I came) and I hope they will let me go back to Basrah in a day or two. I've been quite extraordinarily comfortable and the kindness of everyone is past belief. It really was very pleasant to find oneself here with all the trouble of looking after one's own self lifted off one's shoulders. I've done little or nothing but eat and sleep and read novels, of which I found plenty here. Oh yes and I've read all Gilbert Murray's translation of Greek plays — glorious they are — which I also found,[...].'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Gertrude Bell      Print: Book

  

unknown : [unspecified novels]

'I left Baghdad 9 days ago and have been steaming slowly down the Tigris with the I.G.C. on his luxurious ship. I eat, sleep, read novels and talk to the General — such a rest cure could not be devised elsewhere.'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Gertrude Bell      Print: Book

  

unknown unknown : unknown

'Made my head ache reading + went to bed early.'

Unknown
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Harriet Bickersteth Cook      Print: Book

  

unknown unknown : unknown

'Paid Laundress and Daily Mail ... Elsie at ¼ to six. Supper at 7.15. Read + worked. Bed 9.10.'

Unknown
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Harriet Bickersteth Cook      

  

unknown unknown : unknown

'An officer [of the Serbian army, Captain S. Chatni] who spoke English well put his head out, and called to us to know if we would come into his kola ... it was very comfortable inside, with pockets containing books, candles and some very pretty rugs. He read us extracts out of some of the latest German books, in which such sentiments occurred as, "The English are wholly responsible for this horrible war, and should be swept off the face of the Earth".'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Dorothy Minnie Newhall      Print: Book

  

unknown unknown : [article in the "Daily Telegraph" on Serbian mission]

'... we went into the Reading Rooms, and the "Daily Telegraph" Correspondent read us the article he had written on our trek across the mountains, which is to appear in the "Telegraph" next Tuesday. We saw an English newspaper, the first we had seen for a long time.'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Dorothy Minnie Newhall      Print: Newspaper

  

unknown : unknown

'Enjoyed reading war news and papers.'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Albert Ruskin Cook      Print: NewspaperManuscript: Telegraph cable

  

unknown unknown : 'The Man at the Gate'

'M. [Marjorie Cook, A. R. Cook's daughter] still has a high temp. — 104.1 in aft. Began to give Citrated milk. She enjoyed me reading to her "The man at the gate" and The Impregnable City.'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Albert Ruskin Cook      Print: BookManuscript: Telegraph cable

  

unknown unknown : The Man at the Gate

'M. [Marjorie Cook, A. R. Cook's daughter] still has a high temp. — 104.1 in aft. Began to give Citrated milk. She enjoyed me reading to her "The man at the gate" and The Impregnable City.'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Ellen Cook      Print: BookManuscript: Telegraph cable

  

unknown unknown : unknown

'Read story to May while she worked — afterwards verified cheque book and pass book.'

Unknown
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Harriet Bickersteth Cook      Print: Book

  

unknown unknown : unknown

'Read aloud to May.'

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Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Harriet Bickersteth Cook      Print: Book

  

unknown unknown : unknown

'Read to May.'

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Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Harriet Bickersteth Cook      Print: Book

  

unknown unknown : The Mother

'Read "The Mother".'

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Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Harriet Bickersteth Cook      Print: Book

  

unknown unknown : [type-written note]

'The suppression of all newspapers left the universal craving for news unsatisfied, and the daily paper was replaced by short type-written notes which were secretly passed from hand to hand. I remember the contents of one of these compositions which was handed me by a visitor with great parade of secrecy and importance.
It was composed of brief short sentences: "Cambrai the last town in German occupation. Germans retiring all along the line. Maubeuge re-occupied by French and British troops. Revolution in Berlin. Streets in flames. Death of Empress."
All such absurd stories probably emanated from a German source and represent some obscure form of German humour.'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Ian Vivian Hay      Manuscript: Type-written notes.

  

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'Snow was falling ... and there was no chance of getting out to the terrace, so that the rest of the day had to be devoted to Poker and Bridge, games of which we were all heartily sick. Reading was difficult on account of the ceaseless noise kept up by Gollywog [a French officer prisoner] and his merry men [playing chess].'

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Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Ian Vivian Hay      Manuscript: Sheet

  

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'Zeppelin. A great rush for the windows ... This evening was marked by the arrival of a parcel of books, Tauchnitz edition, which we had been allowed to order. No doubt the publishers are glad of the chance to unload their stock of British authors, as, after the war is over, there will not be much demand for the Tauchnitz volumes.'

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Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Ian Vivian Hay      Print: BookManuscript: Sheet

  

unknown unknown : [English novels]

'During the period of our captivity at Munden the time passed more heavily, I think, than at any later period, owing to the fact that we had practically no reading matter ... No daily papers or periodicals of any sort were allowed, not even German, only a rag called The Continental Times ... There were only about a dozen English novels in the camp, and no means of obtaining more; consequently, to keep one's mind occupied, one had to read them over and over again ...'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Horace Gray Gilliland      Print: Book

  

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'Cards, roulette, ping-pong and chess greatly assisted in passing the time. We also had quite a good camp library, the books mostly having been received from home. I have often heard it remarked that life there was one long queue, and it was not far wrong. Often one passed the morning waiting one's turn for the "tin room," or newly arrived parcels, while soon after lunch it was customary to see the more patient individuals already lining up chairs and settling down to their books, to wait for hot water which was sold at tea time.'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: British officers waiting for hot water in the afternoons     Print: Book

  

unknown unknown : [sign]

'I found a letter-box and feverishly endeavoured to decipher, in the semi-darkness, a long word printed in black letters on a white background. With a sinking heart I slowly made out the letters B—R—I—E. Was it necessary to read any further? Surely this was proof positive that I was still under the gentle sway of the Kaiser! What else could the remainder be but "feasten" completing the German word for letter-box.'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Gerald Featherstone Knight      Print: BookManuscript: Painted sign.

  

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' ... as I had started adolescence in a blaze of idealism, the conflicting ugliness of factory life often drove my spirits into the depths. I rushed to poetry for escape and lived a double existence by seeking the slopes of Parnassus in thought while my hands mechanically soldered lead fittings or malletted sheet metal into shape at the grimy benches of the workshop.'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Vero Walter Garratt      Print: Book

  

unknown unknown : [Books from the 'Everyman's Library' series]

'Sometimes it was more convenient to take a book into the lavatory and to sit there an inordinate length of time. On other occasions I disappeared into a small stock-room where fittings were contained in wooden recesses right up to the ceiling. Here, on the pretext of getting something high up, I did my reading standing on a ladder with the open book inside the recess and a box of "excuse" beside me, in case the foreman came in to see whether I had been taken ill. In consequence, my movements began to take on a disturbing air of mystery.'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Vero Walter Garratt      Print: Book

  

unknown unknown : [Books from the 'Everyman's Library' series]

'Sometimes it was more convenient to take a book into the lavatory and to sit there an inordinate length of time. On other occasions I disappeared into a small stock-room where fittings were contained in wooden recesses right up to the ceiling. Here, on the pretext of getting something high up, I did my reading standing on a ladder with the open book inside the recess and a box of "excuse" beside me, in case the foreman came in to see whether I had been taken ill. In consequence, my movements began to take on a disturbing air of mystery.'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Vero Walter Garratt      Print: Book

  

unknown unknown : [publications of the Alliance of Honour]

'... the Alliance of Honour existed to support my trend of thought and from my early teens to claim me as an ardent worker and propagandist for the cause of personal purity. I digested all the literature that came from the London headquarters and became a branch secretary with my own headquarters in the bedroom.'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Vero Walter Garratt      Print: Book

  

unknown unknown : [German pornography]

'Erich had a little book which he greatly valued. In order to cheer my captivity he showed this book to me. When I saw the way Erich used to linger over its pages at night before going to sleep I thought that it was some pious work given him by his mother before he left the Fatherland. When he showed it to me I found that it was pornographic. The text was meaningless to me, as Erich regretfully acknowledged, but, he indicated, brightening considerably, the illustrations were indeed realistic.'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Desmond Malone      Print: Book

  

unknown unknown : ["small, rather sloppy novel"]

'During the whole of my stay I continually asked to be allowed to have English books, but apart from one small, rather sloppy novel I was only permitted a German-English grammar. As I did not know even the shape of the German letters this book was of very little use to me, but the small dictionary at the end was useful in making up conversation with the jailers.'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Lorimer John Austin      Print: Book

  

unknown unknown : [German-English Grammar]

'During the whole of my stay I continually asked to be allowed to have English books, but apart from one small, rather sloppy novel I was only permitted a German-English grammar. As I did not know even the shape of the German letters this book was of very little use to me, but the small dictionary at the end was useful in making up conversation with the jailers.'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Lorimer John Austin      Print: Book

  

unknown unknown : [German-English Grammar]

'The routine of every day was precisely the same. We were wakened at five, and the coffee for breakfast was provided at half-past ... After dressing, and performing the menial duties of the day, there came the most trying part, waiting for the long hours of the morning to pass by. I used to attempt to learn German words out of a dictionary, and to draw anatomical diagrams from memory, for after a few days we were permitted some paper and a pencil.'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Lorimer John Austin      Print: Book

  

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'The British officers formed a circulating library, and it was always possible to get any number of the Tauchnitz books in English and in French. There was no lack of reading material, but there was a tendency for other people to borrow your book before you had finished with it, and if anyone lost a volume that he had brought out, he had nothing to exchange for another ... many books were also sent to officers from home, and generally arrived safely.'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Lorimer John Austin      Print: Book

  

unknown unknown : Lost Tribes, The

'Read on furlough. 1917–1918.
[...]
B. General.
Hist.y of our own Times. '85–11. Gooch
Middlemarch – George Eliot
Felix Holt – [George Eliot]
A Mill on the Floss – [George Eliot]
Men, Women & Guns – Sapper
A Student in Arms – Hankey.
Great Texts of the Bible – Psalms
Battles of the 19th Cent.y – Ency. Brit
The Real Kaiser –
In a German Prince's house
Life of Stanley – Autobiography
Political Hist.y of the World – Innes.
The Practice of Xt.s Presence – Fullerton
Malarial Work in Macedonia. – Willoughby & Cassidy
Bible Prophecies of the present war.
Where are we?
The lost tribes.
The Marne & after
Nelson's Hist.y of the War. XV, XVI, XVII, XVIII, XIX.
A strange story. 1 & 2.
The eyes of His glory – Harrington Lees
The Practice of Christ's Presence
I.R.M. Jan — Dec 1917. Jan — July 1918.
Advent Testimony.
The King's Highway
The Vision Splendid
All's Well.
Bunyan's Characters. White. Vols. 1 & 3
Lichnowsky.
Prophetic Outlook — Cachemaile
Rhymes of a Red Cross man
Kipling – 20 poems
In Christ – Gordon
Scenes of Clerical Life. George Eliot
Sense & Sensibility – J. Austen.
Nicholas Nickleby – Dickens.
Dombey & Son      "
Silvia's Lovers. Mrs Gaskell.
Emma. Jane Austen
Agnes Grey. Ann Bronte
Thirsting for the Springs. Jowett
Germany at Bay. Major MacFall
Sir Nigel Loring. Conan Doyle'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Albert Ruskin Cook      Print: Unknown

  

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'"An Ex Mill Girl," [Ethel Carnie] who wrote the novel, "Helen of Four Gates," telling an English interviewer of the twenty years she spent in a cotton factory in the North of England, said that she read incessantly in the evening, and during the day while at work had the greatest difficulty keeping "the day me" separate from "the night me." Her thoughts would wander to her books, she would forget about her work, and she would come to herself with a start "to find the bobbins too full, one rubbing against the other, so that it would take hours to right them again."'

Century: 1850-1899 / 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Ethel Carnie Holdsworth      Print: Book

  

unknown unknown : [French pornography]

'The French postcards and magazines are very rude!!! Streets are cobbled only. I have some photographs and postcards of views.'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Leslie Semple      Print: Serial / periodical

  

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'The last few days have been all the same, Nothing to do but sit around reading and chatting. The weather has changed. It is now pouring with rain.'

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Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Leslie Semple      

  

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'Very nice weather. Very hot indeed. Reading on the sands. Also took a shot of some fisher girls in their picturesque costumes, digging for worms and bait.'

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Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Leslie Semple      

  

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'Raid on Valenciennes. Very little to do each day but reading. Have given my name in for a correspondence course.'

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Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Leslie Semple      

  

unknown unknown : Army of Occupation Orders

'Read the new Army of Occupation Orders. We are to get 28/- per week bonus for staying on. Rather good work.'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Leslie Semple      Print: Unknown

  

unknown unknown : unknown

'Thanks most awfully for your letters & parcels, the gloves were "topping" also the books — I have read most of them but will read them again!'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Guy Mainwaring Knocker      Print: Book

  

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'Tea at the Y.M.C.A. Club. Read after tea. Rain off. Bought socks. Supper in town — bed.'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Guy Mainwaring Knocker      Print: Book

  

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'Lovely day ... Read in afternoon and played bridge — lost 4f 25 c! Bed — v cold!'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Guy Mainwaring Knocker      Print: Book

  

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'To tea at No 1 [squadron's mess] with Moore, v.good tea. Not to church all day — must go next week. Read in the evening.'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Guy Mainwaring Knocker      Print: Book

  

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'Cummings in for dinner and another from No 1 [squadron]. Read and talked ... after dinner. Bed at 11 — slept excellently.'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Guy Mainwaring Knocker      Print: Book

  

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'Brekker in bed: Up on patrol at 10 am v.thick, line patrol. Got lost ... Back after lunch. Thick as pea soup! Nearly lost. Bridge in evening. Lost 3 fr. Bed early, read in bed.'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Guy Mainwaring Knocker      Print: Book

  

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'Strong [westerly] wind ... in morning. 3 E.A. [enemy aircraft] seen which hove off at once — both my guns froze up hard.
Read in afternoon and evening.'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Guy Mainwaring Knocker      Print: Book

  

unknown unknown : unknown

'Thanks most awfully for the topping parcel of Xmas things. The pipe's ripping & so are the cigarettes & I am sure the books will be most interesting.'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Guy Mainwaring Knocker      Print: Book

  

unknown unknown : unknown

'Bed at 12. Read and smoked till then. Very cold — frozen in bed. "B" Flt came back from break.'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Guy Mainwaring Knocker      Print: Book

  

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'Up for early show ... Started to snow and carried on nearly all day! No patrols; did nothing except read and smoke.'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Guy Mainwaring Knocker      Print: Book

  

unknown unknown : 'Impressions of Leave'

'Thanks so much for your two letters & the copies of "Flying" books — very good. I am afraid I didn't think much of Boyd Cable's story "Quick Work". The maniac of a pilot he describes as his hero would have been shot down at once! He did the very worst possible thing — diving away from a Hun! ... I do wish people like Boyd Cable would not show their ignorance by trying to write about flying! The best article was "Impressions of Leave" which was priceless. The story "Eighteen" was unnecessarily lugubrious.'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Guy Mainwaring Knocker      Print: Serial / periodical

  

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'Read and wrote letters in the afternoon. Got 3 parcels for Xmas. To Church in evening and stayed to H.C. very nice service. Tender driven into ditch on way back — bitterly cold.'

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Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Guy Mainwaring Knocker      

  

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'To tea with No 1 [squadron]. The Hun [i.e., the aircraft shot down by the squadron in the morning's engagement] fought jolly well and was Lt Voss who had got 17 of our machines. Lecture na poo. Read in evening. Great show tomorrow.'

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Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Guy Mainwaring Knocker      Print: Book

  

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'Brekker in bed! Bon! Up at 11.30 — down town and bought some things. Read and drew in the afternoon. To dance at Dr Lawrie's in evening: 8.30 to 1.45. Quite bon show. My dancing dud full of Australians. One V.C. there. Girls not very pretty.'

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Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Guy Mainwaring Knocker      Print: Book

  

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'To see "Ching Lee Soo" with whole family at 6 p.m. Very bon show. Read and wrote letters after dinner. Gally in to dine. Raining.'

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Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Guy Mainwaring Knocker      Print: Book

  

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'Tea with the Wilkinsons ... pretty appalling! Not to Church in evening. Read and had prayers.'

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Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Guy Mainwaring Knocker      Print: Book

  

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'Got C.O.'s car at Omer at 10.30. Arrived 65 at 12.30, foggy. Patrol out but got lost. Shanks & Kennedy crashed. OK.
Read in afternoon and played new records. Down town with Jack in evening. Bed at 10 — awfully cold. Room in an awful state.'

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Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Guy Mainwaring Knocker      Print: Book

  

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'Foggy all day. Down for patrol but no bon. Read in Mess all day. Wrote letters. Beastly cold.'

Unknown
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Guy Mainwaring Knocker      Print: Book

  

unknown unknown : unknown

'Dud all day. No flying ... Did nothing, but read and smoke. Bed early.'

Unknown
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Guy Mainwaring Knocker      Print: Book

  

unknown unknown : unknown

'Dud for patrols all day. Wind and low clouds. Read and smoked. 15 guests for dinner! Cinema after. I read and stayed in Peacock's room. Bed early.'

Unknown
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Guy Mainwaring Knocker      Print: Book

  

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'High wind and low clouds. No patrols at all. Rugger v Australian team in afternoon. Won 7–6. Ripping game. Read and wrote letters in evening.'

Unknown
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Guy Mainwaring Knocker      

  

unknown unknown : unknown

'Read and played bridge in evening. Lost 18 fr. Beastly cold, no patrol.'

Unknown
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Guy Mainwaring Knocker      

  

unknown unknown : unknown

'Read and smoked (beaucoup) in evening. Bed at 11.00.'

Unknown
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Guy Mainwaring Knocker      

  

unknown unknown : unknown

'Dud and no patrols all day. Read and smoked. Dinner in Pop. [Poperinge] with Jack.'

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Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Guy Mainwaring Knocker      

  

unknown unknown : unknown

'Too dud for O.P.'s. Did reserve patrol in afternoon. Went up to Belgian aerodrome to see the [captured German] Gotha [bomber].
Church in morning. Read in evening.'

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Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Guy Mainwaring Knocker      

  

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'9 Albs. [German Albatros scouts] came and sat above us but did not attack me. Attacked Symons.
Walked down town with Major Howe after tea. Read and wrote letters in evening.'

Unknown
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Guy Mainwaring Knocker      

  

unknown unknown : unknown

'Pretty dud. No patrols ... Read in evening. Belgian Hanriot over.'

Unknown
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Guy Mainwaring Knocker      

  

unknown unknown : unknown

'Strong East wind and no flying.
Read and smoked all day.'

Unknown
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Guy Mainwaring Knocker      

  

unknown unknown : unknown

'In bed all day. Read and smoked. Talked rot to the T.wire most of the time. About time I went home, the Day sister hates me! ... Leg rather sore.'

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Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Guy Mainwaring Knocker      

  

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'In bed all day. Dad and Mum came in the afternoon, Great. Nickie and Northwood called after. Read and smoked all day. Played bridge. Huns have got Messines ... this is awful!'

Unknown
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Guy Mainwaring Knocker      

  

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'In bed all day. Elsie in afternoon. Read and smoked all day.'

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Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Guy Mainwaring Knocker      

  

unknown unknown : unknown

'Fall of Wythschaete and Meteren. Back to our old line on the ridge. In bed all day. Gin and Kathleen and Cousin Aggie in afternoon. Read and smoked all day.'

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Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Guy Mainwaring Knocker      

  

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'To Cinema with girl in afternoon, quite good fun. Back at 6.15. Read and smoked and talked in evening.'

Unknown
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Guy Mainwaring Knocker      

  

unknown unknown : unknown

'Down town with Dad. Mess about on bike all day and read and smoked in garden. Leg rather sore.'

Unknown
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Guy Mainwaring Knocker      

  

unknown unknown : unknown

'Brian flew over. Kirk in p.m. I did not go as leg pretty sore. Read poems in afternoon, felt rotten at night.'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Guy Mainwaring Knocker      Print: Book

  

unknown unknown : unknown

'V quiet all day, rested leg. Read and sketched most of the time.'

Unknown
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Guy Mainwaring Knocker      

  

unknown unknown : unknown

'Sketched and read all day. Leg rather sore — did not dash about much.'

Unknown
Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Guy Mainwaring Knocker      

  

unknown unknown : unknown

'Uncle Jack came down for lunch. To dentist in afternoon. Read and smoked all day. Saw Uncle J. off. Read in evening.'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Guy Mainwaring Knocker      Print: Book

  

unknown unknown : unknown

'Better. Read a bit and smoked a bit. Head still bad. Bed all day.'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Guy Mainwaring Knocker      Print: Book

  

unknown unknown : unknown

'Bet