√ Century of Experience Evidence Name of Reader / Listener / Reading Group Author of Text Title of Text Form of Text 1850-1899 Geraldine Hodgson, The Life of James Elroy Flecker (1925), 'Reading aloud in the family circle was an established custom [in 1880s-90s] ... by a very early age, Roy had l... James Elroy Flecker Thomas Carlyle unknown Print : Book1850-1899 Geraldine Hodgson, The Life of James Elroy Flecker (1925), 'Reading aloud in the family circle was an established custom [in 1880s-90s] ... by a very early age, Roy had l... James Elroy Flecker Robert Browning unknown Print : Book1850-1899 In Scaffolding in the Sky (1938), C[harles]. H. Reilly remembered Saturday evenings when 'we all assembled round the fire to hear him [his father] read Dickens, generally... Charles H. Reilly Charles Dickens The Pickwick Papers Print : Book1850-1899 '[William Robertson] Nicoll's boyhood reading included Scott, Disraeli, the Brontes, Bulwer Lytton, Shelley, Johnson, Addison, Steele, Goldsmith, Emerson, Lowell, Longfel... William Robertson Nicoll Sir Walter Scott unknown Print : Book1850-1899 '[William Robertson] Nicoll's boyhood reading included Scott, Disraeli, the Brontes, Bulwer Lytton, Shelley, Johnson, Addison, Steele, Goldsmith, Emerson, Lowell, Longfel... William Robertson Nicoll Benjamin Disraeli unknown Print : Book1850-1899 '[William Robertson] Nicoll's boyhood reading included Scott, Disraeli, the Brontes, Bulwer Lytton, Shelley, Johnson, Addison, Steele, Goldsmith, Emerson, Lowell, Longfel... William Robertson Nicoll Edward Bulwer Lytton unknown Print : Book1850-1899 '[William Robertson] Nicoll's boyhood reading included Scott, Disraeli, the Brontes, Bulwer Lytton, Shelley, Johnson, Addison, Steele, Goldsmith, Emerson, Lowell, Longfel... William Robertson Nicoll Percy Bysshe Shelley unknown Print : Book1850-1899 '[William Robertson] Nicoll's boyhood reading included Scott, Disraeli, the Brontes, Bulwer Lytton, Shelley, Johnson, Addison, Steele, Goldsmith, Emerson, Lowell, Longfel... William Robertson Nicoll Samuel Johnson unknown Print : Book1850-1899 '[William Robertson] Nicoll's boyhood reading included Scott, Disraeli, the Brontes, Bulwer Lytton, Shelley, Johnson, Addison, Steele, Goldsmith, Emerson, Lowell, Longfel... William Robertson Nicoll Joseph Addison unknown Print : Book1850-1899 '[William Robertson] Nicoll's boyhood reading included Scott, Disraeli, the Brontes, Bulwer Lytton, Shelley, Johnson, Addison, Steele, Goldsmith, Emerson, Lowell, Longfel... William Robertson Nicoll Richard Steele unknown Print : Book1850-1899 '[William Robertson] Nicoll's boyhood reading included Scott, Disraeli, the Brontes, Bulwer Lytton, Shelley, Johnson, Addison, Steele, Goldsmith, Emerson, Lowell, Longfel... William Robertson Nicoll Oliver Goldsmith unknown Print : Book1850-1899 '[William Robertson] Nicoll's boyhood reading included Scott, Disraeli, the Brontes, Bulwer Lytton, Shelley, Johnson, Addison, Steele, Goldsmith, Emerson, Lowell, Longfel... William Robertson Nicoll Ralph Waldo Emerson unknown Print : Book1850-1899 '[William Robertson] Nicoll's boyhood reading included Scott, Disraeli, the Brontes, Bulwer Lytton, Shelley, Johnson, Addison, Steele, Goldsmith, Emerson, Lowell, Longfel... William Robertson Nicoll James Russell Lowell unknown Print : Book1850-1899 '[William Robertson] Nicoll's boyhood reading included Scott, Disraeli, the Brontes, Bulwer Lytton, Shelley, Johnson, Addison, Steele, Goldsmith, Emerson, Lowell, Longfel... William Robertson Nicoll Henry Wadsworth Longfellow unknown Print : Book1850-1899 '[William Robertson] Nicoll's boyhood reading included Scott, Disraeli, the Brontes, Bulwer Lytton, Shelley, Johnson, Addison, Steele, Goldsmith, Emerson, Lowell, Longfel... William Robertson Nicoll Bronte unknown Print : Book1850-1899 '... [William Robertson Nicoll] devoured even more newspapers than books [had grown up with clergyman father's library of 17,000 volumes and had own library of 25,000 vol... William Robertson Nicoll newspapers Print : Newspaper1850-1899 'The [1890s] dockers' leader Ben Tillett went hungry in order to buy books ... [and] thereby struggled through the literary classics, as well as works on evolution by Dar... Ben Tillett Charles Darwin [unknown] Print : Book1850-1899 'The [1890s] dockers' leader Ben Tillett went hungry in order to buy books ... [and] thereby struggled through the literary classics, as well as works on evolution by Dar... Ben Tillett Herbert Spencer [unknown] Print : Book1850-1899 'The [1890s] dockers' leader Ben Tillett went hungry in order to buy books ... [and] thereby struggled through the literary classics, as well as works on evolution by Dar... Ben Tillett Thomas Huxley [unknown] Print : Book1850-1899 'In A Young Man's Passage (1950), Mark Tellar recalls "confessing to his prep-school teacher that during the holidays he had read Conway's 'Called Back', together with Fe... Mark Tellar Hugh Conway Called Back Print : Book1850-1899 'In A Young Man's Passage (1950), Mark Tellar recalls "confessing to his prep-school teacher that during the holidays he had read Conway's 'Called Back', together with Fe... Mark Tellar Fergus Hume The Mystery of the Hansom Cab Print : Unknown1850-1899 'In A Young Man's Passage (1950), Mark Tellar recalls "confessing to his prep-school teacher that during the holidays he had read Conway's 'Called Back', together with Fe... Mark Tellar Mary Braddon [stories] Print : Unknown1850-1899 'In A Young Man's Passage (1950), Mark Tellar recalls "confessing to his prep-school teacher that during the holidays he had read Conway's 'Called Back', together with Fe... Mark Tellar Mrs Henry Wood [unknown] Print : Unknown1850-1899 'In A Young Man's Passage (1950), Mark Tellar recalls "confessing to his prep-school teacher that during the holidays he had read Conway's 'Called Back', together with Fe... Mark Tellar Ouida [pseud] [unknown] Print : Unknown1850-1899 George Gissing in diary, 9 August 1894: "'Read Hall Caine's 'The Manxman', which has just appeared in 1 vol., instead of 3." George Gissing Hall Caine The Manxman Print : Book1850-1899 'Gladstone's reading habits were described in "The Home Life of Mr. Gladstone," Young Man (January 1892): "He was most particular, it said, in mantaining variety in his r... Wiliam Ewart Gladstone Dr Langer Roman History Print : Book1850-1899 'Gladstone's reading habits were described in "The Home Life of Mr. Gladstone," Young Man (January 1892): "He was most particular, it said, in mantaining variety in his r... Wiliam Ewart Gladstone Virgil unknown Print : Book1850-1899 'Gladstone's reading habits were described in "The Home Life of Mr. Gladstone," Young Man (January 1892): "He was most particular, it said, in mantaining variety in his r... Wiliam Ewart Gladstone [novel] Print : Book1850-1899 "Robert Blatchford, growing up in Halifax in the 1860s, read from the penny library there Defoe's Robinson Crusoe, Southey's Life of Nelson, Dickens's The Old Curiosity S... Robert Blatchford Daniel Defoe Robinson Crusoe Print : Book1850-1899 "Robert Blatchford, growing up in Halifax in the 1860s, read from the penny library there Defoe's Robinson Crusoe, Southey's Life of Nelson, Dickens's The Old Curiosity S... Robert Blatchford Robert Southey Life of Nelson Print : Book1850-1899 "Robert Blatchford, growing up in Halifax in the 1860s, read from the penny library there Defoe's Robinson Crusoe, Southey's Life of Nelson, Dickens's The Old Curiosity S... Robert Blatchford Charles Dickens The Old Curiosity Shop Print : Book1850-1899 "Robert Blatchford, growing up in Halifax in the 1860s, read from the penny library there Defoe's Robinson Crusoe, Southey's Life of Nelson, Dickens's The Old Curiosity S... Robert Blatchford Captain Marryat [novels] Print : Book1850-1899 "Robert Blatchford, growing up in Halifax in the 1860s, read from the penny library there Defoe's Robinson Crusoe, Southey's Life of Nelson, Dickens's The Old Curiosity S... Robert Blatchford Charlotte, Anne, Emily Bronte novels Print : Book1850-1899 "Robert Blatchford, growing up in Halifax in the 1860s, read from the penny library there Defoe's Robinson Crusoe, Southey's Life of Nelson, Dickens's The Old Curiosity S... Robert Blatchford Mary Elizabeth Braddon novels Print : Book1850-1899 "The son of a shipwright, [Hall] Caine had been largely dependent upon public sources [in particuarly the Free Library, Liverpool] to satisfy his appetite for knowledge .... Hall Caine Samuel Taylor Coleridge unknown Print : Book1900-1945 "It was when reading Gilbert Murray's rendering of Euripides' Medea, by the side of the [Shrewsbury School] cricket field, that [Neville] Cardus was noticed by the headma... Neville Cardus Euripides Medea Print : Book1850-1899 "[In Lark Rise to Candleford (1947)] Flora Thompson recollected young Willie, whose family were village carpenters, being fond of reading, including poetry: 'somehow he h... Willie anon Charles Mackay (ed) A Thousand and One Gems of English Poetry Print : Book1850-1899 Bruce Cummings [who later wrote as W. N. P. Barbellion]'s use of the Encyclopedia Britannica: "He would simply think of a word ... look it up, and read the 'learned artic... Bruce Cummings Encyclopedia Britannica Print : Book1850-1899 On publication of illustrated edition of Chambers's Encyclopedia in 1906: "G. K. Chesterton did not need the incentive of illustrations ... [he] had already 'read whole v... Gilbert Keith Chesterton Chambers's Encyclopedia Print : Book1850-1899 "[George Bernard] Shaw had read Marx's Das Kapital (in French translation) and he was converted to socialism ..." George Bernard Shaw Karl Marx Das Kapital Print : Book1850-1899 "In 1932 Thomas Burke paid tribute to T. P.'s Weekly for having fired his imagination and given direction to his life ... 'I discovered literature by picking up a copy of... Thomas Burke T. P.'s Weekly Print : Serial / periodical1850-1899 Philip Gibbs in The Pageant of the Years (1946), on work as writer of series of articles under name "Self-Help" in early 1900s: "'All the reading I had done as a boy, all... Philip Gibbs William Shakespeare unknown Print : Book1850-1899 Philip Gibbs in The Pageant of the Years (1946), on work as writer of series of articles under name "Self-Help" in early 1900s: "'All the reading I had done as a boy, all... Philip Gibbs John Milton unknown Print : Book1850-1899 Philip Gibbs in The Pageant of the Years (1946), on work as writer of series of articles under name "Self-Help" in early 1900s: "'All the reading I had done as a boy, all... Philip Gibbs Sir Walter Scott unknown Print : Book1850-1899 Philip Gibbs in The Pageant of the Years (1946), on work as writer of series of articles under name "Self-Help" in early 1900s: "'All the reading I had done as a boy, all... Philip Gibbs William Makepeace Thackeray unknown Print : Book1850-1899 Philip Gibbs in The Pageant of the Years (1946), on work as writer of series of articles under name "Self-Help" in early 1900s: "'All the reading I had done as a boy, all... Philip Gibbs Charles Dickens unknown Print : Book1850-1899 Philip Gibbs in The Pageant of the Years (1946), on work as writer of series of articles under name "Self-Help" in early 1900s: "'All the reading I had done as a boy, all... Philip Gibbs George Eliot unknown Print : Book1850-1899 Philip Gibbs in The Pageant of the Years (1946), on work as writer of series of articles under name "Self-Help" in early 1900s: "'All the reading I had done as a boy, all... Philip Gibbs Thomas Hardy unknown Print : Book1850-1899 "As a teenager ... [Holbrook Jackson] had been transported from Merseyside to the South Sea Islands. The vessel that bore him was imagination in the form of a 'musty cop... Holbrook Jackson Herman Melville Typee Print : Book1850-1899 Neville Cardus, on devising cultural self-improvement scheme, in Autobiography (1947): "'I came upon the works of J. M. Robertson, also once a poor boy who had made himse... Neville Cardus J. M. Robertson unknown Print : Book1850-1899 Neville Cardus, on devising cultural self-improvement scheme, in Autobiography (1947): "'... one day I picked up a copy of Samuel Butler's Note Books and read the followi... Neville Cardus Samuel Butler Note Books Print : Book1850-1899 On readers of William Robertson Nicoll's British Weekly: " ... [a] Lancashire man ... started reading the British Weekly as a newspaper boy, which 'gave me the taste for ... [a Lancashire man] anon The British Weekly Print : Serial / periodical1850-1899 Thomas Burke on reading The Bookman as teenager, in Son of London (1947, 1948): "'I lived through each month for it; after each issue I was looking impatiently for the ne... Thomas Burke The Bookman Print : Serial / periodical1900-1945 Thomas Hardy to Violet Hunt, [?Mar 1908]: "'Why should you have wasted a nice copy of your new book upon me -- a recluse who does not read a novel a twelvemonth nowadays.... Thomas Hardy Violet Hunt White Rose of Withered Leaf Print : Book1850-1899 '[George] Saintsbury [who became a Tory journalist] read Marx as an undergraduate ...' George Saintsbury Karl Marx unknown Print : Book1700-1799 Letter to Mrs Macintosh September 9 1797 'The cheerfulness of our work-people, and the soft serenity of the air, during these tepid gleams that Thomson speaks of so feeli... Anne Grant [nee Macvicar] James Thomson The Seasons Print : Book1850-1899 'Walt Whitman ... recalled in old age ... [having read The Heart of Midlothian] "a dozen times or more"'. Walt Whitman Walter Scott The Heart of Midlothian Print : Book1850-1899 '"I owe more to Scott than to any other writer," [William] Robertson Nicoll stated. "Every year even in the busiest times I have read over his best stories."' William Robertson Nicoll Walter Scott unknown Print : Book1850-1899 '[William] Robertson Nicoll ... reckoned he had read ... [Rob Roy] sixty times.' William Robertson Nicoll Walter Scott Rob Roy Print : Book1850-1899 'For Hugh Walpole ... Scott was a lifelong passion ... from a subscription library in Durham he proceeded to read all of Scott, who influenced his own first writings.' Hugh Walpole Walter Scott unknown Print : Book1900-1945 'However many times [Hugh] Walpole read Scott, he never ceased to be moved, as in 1918, when he "read a little Heart of Midlothian and actually wept, at my age too, over ... Hugh Walpole Walter Scott The Heart of Midlothian Print : Book1900-1945 'Whatever little agues beset [Hugh] Walpole, there was always a cure in Scott: a cold would send him to bed, where he would happily read the Abbotsford Correspondence or ... Hugh Walpole various The Abbotsford Correspondence Print : BookUnknown1850-1899 'Whatever little agues beset [Hugh] Walpole, there was always a cure in Scott: a cold would send him to bed, where he would happily read the Abbotsford Correspondence or ... Hugh Walpole Walter Scott Journal Print : Book1900-1945 '[Hugh] Walpole's last reading of Scott was in the month before his death, when he was endeavouring to finish Katherine Christian (1941).' Hugh Walpole Walter Scott Katherine Christian Print : Book1900-1945 'In 1917 ... [John Buchan] was treated for a duodenal ulcer. Recuperating after the operation, he read through a dozen of the Waverley Novels, the Valois and D'Artagnan ... John Buchan Walter Scott Waverley Novels (12) Print : Book1900-1945 'In 1917 ... [John Buchan] was treated for a duodenal ulcer. Recuperating after the operation, he read through a dozen of the Waverley Novels, the Valois and D'Artagnan ... John Buchan Alexandre Dumas Valois cycle Print : Book1900-1945 'In 1917 ... [John Buchan] was treated for a duodenal ulcer. Recuperating after the operation, he read through a dozen of the Waverley Novels, the Valois and D'Artagnan ... John Buchan Alexandre Dumas D'Artagnan cycle Print : Book1900-1945 'In 1917 ... [John Buchan] was treated for a duodenal ulcer. Recuperating after the operation, he read through a dozen of the Waverley Novels, the Valois and D'Artagnan ... John Buchan Victor-Marie Hugo Notre-Dame de Paris Print : Book1900-1945 'In 1917 ... [John Buchan] was treated for a duodenal ulcer. Recuperating after the operation, he read through a dozen of the Waverley Novels, the Valois and D'Artagnan ... John Buchan Victor-Marie Hugo Les Miserables Print : Book1900-1945 'In 1917 ... [John Buchan] was treated for a duodenal ulcer. Recuperating after the operation, he read through a dozen of the Waverley Novels, the Valois and D'Artagnan ... John Buchan Honore de Balzac [novels] Print : Book1900-1945 'In his Scrap Book in 1922 ... [George Saintsbury] recorded that he was 'reading for the hundredth time the Short Story of the World -- Scott's "Wandering Willie's Tale".... George Saintsbury Walter Scott Wandering Willie's Tale (in Redgauntlet) Print : Book1850-1899 '... [Walter Scott's] books captivated ... [Andrew Lang] as a boy and 'grow better on every fresh reading."' Andrew Lang Walter Scott unknown Print : Book1900-1945 ' ... in 1917-18, when he was 90, Sir Edward Fry asked his wife and daughters to read Lockhart's "Life of Scott" to him to take his mind off the Great War, which, as a Qu... Sir Edward Fry John Gibson Lockhart Life of Scott Print : Book1900-1945 ' ... in 1917-18, when he was 90, Sir Edward Fry asked his wife and daughters to read Lockhart's Life of Scott to him to take his mind off the Great War, which, as a Quak... Mariabella Fry John Gibson Lockhart Life of Scott Print : Book1900-1945 'As a summer relaxation in 1920, Thomas Hardy and his wife - he 80 years old, she half his age -- moved on to "Emma", after reading together "Persuasion" and "Northanger ... Thomas and Florence Hardy Jane Austen Emma Print : Book1900-1945 'As a summer relaxation in 1920, Thomas Hardy and his wife - he 80 years old, she half his age -- moved on to "Emma", after reading together "Persuasion" and "Northanger ... Thomas and Florence Hardy Jane Austen Persuasion Print : Book1900-1945 'As a summer relaxation in 1920, Thomas Hardy and his wife - he 80 years old, she half his age -- moved on to "Emma", after reading together "Persuasion" and "Northanger ... Thomas and Florence Hardy Jane Austen Northanger Abbey Print : Book1850-1899 E. M. Forster, "Jane Austen," in Abinger Harvest (1924): 'She is my favourite author! I read and re-read, the mouth open and the mind closed.' Edward Morgan Forster Jane Austen [novels] Print : Book1900-1945 'In 1901 ... [Newman Flower] left his bed at four in the morning to travel from Croydon to watch the funeral procession of Queen Victoria. He joined the crowd, and, to p... Newman Flower Charles Dickens Bleak House Print : Book1900-1945 'It was in ... 1901 ... that Ernest Raymond as a teenager first took a Dickens from the shelf: "By the grace and favour of God, it was Pickwick Papers ... At some stage i... Ernest Raymond Charles Dickens The Pickwick Papers Print : Book1850-1899 '... Oliver Twist (1838), the first Dickens that A. A. Milne was exposed to, at 9, gave him nightmares.' Alan Alexander Milne Charles Dickens Oliver Twist Print : Book1850-1899 Andrew Lang, in Adventures Among Books, on being introduced to Dickens: 'I had minded my lessons, and satisfied my teachers -- I know I was reading Pinnock's "History of ... Andrew Lang Charles Dickens The Pickwick Papers Print : Book1850-1899 Andrew Lang, in Adventures Among Books, on being introduced to Dickens: 'I had minded my lessons, and satisfied my teachers -- I know I was reading Pinnock's "History of ... Andrew Lang Pinnock History of Rome Print : Book1800-1849 My taste for light reading was diminished, yet works of fiction were not all abandoned. The beautiful productions of Miss Edgeworth's pen were fascinating, and there were... Anne Lutton Maria Edgeworth Print : Book1850-1899 'The first imaginative work by an Englishman ... [Joseph Conrad] read was Nicholas Nickleby (1839).' Joseph Conrad Charles Dickens Nicholas Nickleby Print : Book1850-1899 'Devoted ... was the ritual of Gordon Hewart, who rose to become Lord Chief Justice: he read Dickens every night of his life.' Gordon Hewart Charles Dickens unknown Print : Book1850-1899 'Neville Cardus was born in 1889 in Rusholme, Manchester, the illegitimate son of a police constable's daughter and the first violinist of a visiting orchestra. He ... e... Neville Cardus Charles Dickens David Copperfield Print : Book1850-1899 'Lady Cynthia Asquith, daughter of the eleventh Earl [of Elcho] ... regularly reread her favourite [Dickens] stories ...' Lady Cynthia Asquith Charles Dickens unknown Print : Book1900-1945 Recorded in diary of Lady Cynthia Asquith, 15 January 1918: 'The Professor [of English Literature at Oxford, Sir Walter Raleigh] has just re-discovered Dickens -- having ... Sir Walter Alexander Raleigh Charles Dickens unknown Print : Book1900-1945 ' ... [F. H. Bradley] appeared as the retired professor, Cheiron, in [Elinor] Glyn's Halcyone (1912), having assiduously read the manuscript, corrected her spelling, and ... Francis Herbert Bradley Elinor Glyn Halcyone Manuscript : Codex1850-1899 'Probably the last letter ... [Anthony Trollope] wrote, before his fatal stroke in 1882, was to express pleasure on learning that Cardinal Newman read his novels.' Cardinal John Henry Newman Anthony Trollope unknown Print : BookHenry James to Thomas Sergeant Perry, 25 November 1883: 'I have read Trollope's autobiography and regard it as one of the most curious and amazing books in all literature... Henry James Anthony Trollope Autobiography Print : Book1900-1945 '... [J. M.] Barrie's secretary wrote, "One of his great solaces was Anthony Trollope, whom, like many others, he rediscovered after the First World War."' James Matthew Barrie Anthony Trollope unknown Print : Book'Relishing the part of iconoclast, ... [Sir Walter Raleigh] wrote [to Miss C. A. Kerr] in 1905 [15 April], after lying abed reading Trollope, "I'm afraid it's no use anyo... Sir Walter Raleigh Anthony Trollope unknown Print : Book1850-1899 'Sordello (1840) was undoubtedly the toughest assignment [of Browning's works]. When Douglas Jerrold venured on it while convalescing, he entered a state of panic that h... Douglas Jerrold Robert Browning Sordello Print : Book1850-1899 Annette R. Federico notes anecdote in Kent Carr's 1901 biography of Marie Corelli, in which it is reported that New Zealand and Australian soliders in South Africa during... New Zealand and Australian soldiers Marie Corelli The Soul of Lilith Print : Book1900-1945 '[Kent] Carr cites a letter [Marie] Corelli received from a colors sergeant in the Boer War in May 1900: "Now to tell you about your delightful books which were invaluabl... Marie Corelli The Sorrows of Satan Print : Book1850-1899 On 8 September 1854 Christiana Thompson noted in her diary that her children Elizabeth and Alice (later Alice Meynell) were 'reading every day with their Pa Swiss Family ... Thompson Family Johann David Wyss The Swiss Family Robinson Print : Book1850-1899
'Both ... [Elizabeth and Alice Thompson] were reading voraciously at that time [1854-57]. Their father, by reading "Jane Eyre" aloud to them (with omissions), had give... Thomas Thompson Charlotte Bronte Jane Eyre Print : Book1850-1899 'Both ... [Elizabeth and Alice Thompson] were reading voraciously at that time [1854-57] ... guided by ... [their father] they were ranging ... through the works of Dicke... Thompson Family Charles Dickens unknown Print : Book1850-1899 ' ... [Elizabeth and Alice Thompson] used to go for picnics at Porto Fino, loaded with books of verse, and Mrs Thompson and Mr [Alfred] Strettell would read aloud to them... Christiana Thompson William Shakespeare unknown Print : Book1850-1899 ' ... [Elizabeth and Alice Thompson] used to go for picnics at Porto Fino, loaded with books of verse, and Mrs Thompson and Mr [Alfred] Strettell would read aloud to them... Christiana Thompson William Wordsworth unknown Print : Book1850-1899 ' ... [Elizabeth and Alice Thompson] used to go for picnics at Porto Fino, loaded with books of verse, and Mrs Thompson and Mr [Alfred] Strettell would read aloud to them... Christiana Thompson John Keats unknown Print : Book1850-1899 ' ... [Elizabeth and Alice Thompson] used to go for picnics at Porto Fino, loaded with books of verse, and Mrs Thompson and Mr [Alfred] Strettell would read aloud to them... Christiana Thompson Alfred Tennyson unknown Print : Book1850-1899 ' ... [Elizabeth and Alice Thompson] used to go for picnics at Porto Fino, loaded with books of verse, and Mrs Thompson and Mr [Alfred] Strettell would read aloud to them... Alfred Baker Strettell Alfred Tennyson unknown Print : Book1850-1899 ' ... [Elizabeth and Alice Thompson] used to go for picnics at Porto Fino, loaded with books of verse, and Mrs Thompson and Mr [Alfred] Strettell would read aloud to them... Alfred Baker Strettell John Keats unknown Print : Book1850-1899 ' ... [Elizabeth and Alice Thompson] used to go for picnics at Porto Fino, loaded with books of verse, and Mrs Thompson and Mr [Alfred] Strettell would read aloud to them... Alfred Baker Strettell William Wordsworth unknown Print : Book1850-1899 ' ... [Elizabeth and Alice Thompson] used to go for picnics at Porto Fino, loaded with books of verse, and Mrs Thompson and Mr [Alfred] Strettell would read aloud to them... Alfred Baker Strettell William Shakespeare unknown Print : Book1850-1899 June Badeni on readings by 13-year-old Alice Thompson, as recorded in her notebook: 'She has been reading more of Scott and Dickens, is plunging through the novels of Geo... Alice Thompson Walter Scott novels Print : Book1850-1899 June Badeni on readings by 13-year-old Alice Thompson, as recorded in her notebook: 'She has been reading more of Scott and Dickens, is plunging through the novels of Geo... Alice Thompson Charles Dickens novels Print : Book1850-1899 June Badeni on readings by 13-year-old Alice Thompson, as recorded in her notebook: 'She has been reading more of Scott and Dickens, is plunging through the novels of Geo... Alice Thompson George Eliot novels Print : Book1850-1899 June Badeni on readings by 13-year-old Alice Thompson, as recorded in her notebook: 'She has been reading more of Scott and Dickens, is plunging through the novels of Geo... Alice Thompson Edward Bulwer Lytton novels Print : Book1850-1899 June Badeni on readings by 13-year-old Alice Thompson, as recorded in her notebook: 'She has been reading more of Scott and Dickens, is plunging through the novels of Geo... Alice Thompson William Makepeace Thackeray novels Print : Book1850-1899 June Badeni on readings by 13-year-old Alice Thompson, as recorded in her notebook: 'She has been reading more of Scott and Dickens, is plunging through the novels of Geo... Alice Thompson Nathaniel Hawthorne novels Print : Book1850-1899 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.' Alice Thompson unknown Fatima Unknown 1850-1899 Aged 19, Alice Thompson '...engaged in ... earnest reading and note-taking ... from Lewis's Aristotle.' Alice Thompson Aristotle unknown Print : Book1850-1899 Alice Meynell recalls childhood reading: 'In quite early childhood I lived upon Wordsworth ... When I was about twelve I fell in love with Tennyson, and cared for nothing... Alice Thompson William Wordsworth unknown Print : Book1850-1899 Alice Meynell recalls childhood reading: 'In quite early childhood I lived upon Wordsworth ... When I was about twelve I fell in love with Tennyson, and cared for nothing... Alice Thompson Alfred, Lord Tennyson unknown Unknown 1850-1899 Alice Meynell recalls childhood reading: 'In quite early childhood I lived upon Wordsworth ... When I was about twelve I fell in love with Tennyson, and cared for nothing... Alice Thompson John Keats unknown Unknown 1850-1899 Alice Meynell recalls childhood reading: 'In quite early childhood I lived upon Wordsworth ... When I was about twelve I fell in love with Tennyson, and cared for nothing... Alice Thompson Percy Bysshe Shelley unknown Unknown 1850-1899 How the young Alice Meynell gained her family's support for her writing: ' ... [in c. 1867 Alice Thompson] had shown ... [her poems] to an American friend of the family, ... Thomas Thompson Alice Thompson unknown poems Manuscript : Unknown1900-1945 'As late as the First World War, a Manchester boy could find an epiphany in an old volume of the Journal rescued from a rubbish bin: "It was dog-eared and pages were miss... 'a Manchester boy' n/a Chambers's Journal Print : Serial / periodical1900-1945 [A Sheffield Survey organised by Arnold Freeman in 1918, assessing 816 manual workers, gives the following case:] 'Engine tenter, age twenty-seven...Often attends operas.... questionaire respondent William Shakespeare The Merchant of Venice Print : Book1850-1899 In Retrospect of an Unimportant Life (1934), the Bishop of Durham Herbert Hensley Henson reminisced about Browning's "A Death in the Desert": 'Sixty years have passed sin... Herbert Hensley Henson Robert Browning A Death in the Desert Unknown 1800-1849 [Percy Shelley's Reading List for 1815, compiled by Mary Shelley. Only texts not referred to in journal entries are given separate database entries here]
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... Percy Bysshe Shelley Jean-Jacques Rousseau Les Confessions; suivies de R?veries du promeneur ... Print : Book1800-1849 [Percy Shelley's Reading List for 1815, compiled by Mary Shelley. Only texts not referred to in journal entries are given separate database entries here]
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... Percy Bysshe Shelley Hesiod Works and Days Print : Book1800-1849 [Percy Shelley's Reading List for 1815, compiled by Mary Shelley. Only texts not referred to in journal entries are given separate database entries here]
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... Percy Bysshe Shelley Torquato Tasso Aminta Print : Book1800-1849 [Percy Shelley's Reading List for 1815, compiled by Mary Shelley. Only texts not referred to in journal entries are given separate database entries here]
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... Percy Bysshe Shelley Torquato Tasso Gerusalemme Liberata Print : Book1900-1945 '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.... Edna Bold and her cousin Dorothy [unknown] [medical book] Print : Book1900-1945 '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.... Edna Bold and her cousin Dorothy John Foxe Foxe's Book of Martyrs Print : Book1850-1899 'Newman Flower, born in 1879, was running from the classroom at Weymouth College to his housemaster's in a snowstorm when someone ... shouted: '"Tennyson's dead!" And in... school class at Weymouth College Alfred Tennyson In Memoriam Print : Book1850-1899 'After reading at the Athenaeum a section of Ruskin's autobiography, "Praeterita", published in instalments between 1885 and 1889, Grant Duff reflected [in diary for 14 A... Grant Duff John Ruskin Praeterita Print : Serial / periodical1850-1899 'Through reading Unto This Last ... Violet Markham -- who was brought up at Tapton House, set in 85 beautiful Derbyshire acres -- began to realise that her luxuries were ... Violet Markham John Ruskin Unto This Last Print : Book1850-1899 'A grim account of the menage [at Theodore Watts-Dunton's home The Pines, Putney, where the poet Swinburne went to live after his health failed] was given to the poet Wil... Theodore Watts-Dunton Theodore Watts-Dunton poems Unknown 1850-1899 '... Helena Swanwick recalled one exception from among the succession of inadequate domestic servants who passed through her household in the 1890s: "The best I had in th... George Meredith Novels Print : Book1900-1945 "'..[Lady Cynthia Asquith's] diary records several occasions when, in the family circle or with a romantic companion, [Rupert] Brooke's poems were read aloud; 12 June and... Asquith Family Rupert Brooke poems Print : Book1850-1899 'I think the praise of the "Saturday Review" and the "Times" - evidently both are much dissatisfied with the book [George Eliot's "Felix Holt"] and neither daring to say ... Margaret Oliphant Review of 'Felix Holt the Radical' Print : Newspaper1850-1899 'I think the praise of the "Saturday Review" and the "Times" - evidently both are much dissatisfied with the book [George Eliot's "Felix Holt"] and neither daring to say ... Margaret Oliphant Review of 'Felix Holt the Radical' Print : Newspaper1850-1899 'Only yesterday morning he [Cyril Oliphant] was well enough to read out to me [Francis Oliphant] a little notice of his De Musset which appeared in Willie Tulloch's littl... Cyril Oliphant Notice of Cyril Oliphant's 'De Musset' Print : Advertisement, Newspaper1850-1899 'Did you ever come across the "Illustrated Naval & Military Mag."? Genl. Sale-Hill, in the July no. of that periodical, controverts some statements made in "Broadfoot's ... S.P. Oliver Illustrated Naval and Military Magazine Print : Serial / periodical1850-1899 'In the course of editing the volume of Lequat for the Hakluyt Society, I have had occasion to make extracts from the French Astronomer Puigre's journal 1760-1761. It is... S.P. Oliver Puigre Journal Manuscript : Unknown1850-1899 'By leave of the Colonial Office I have obtained copies of a MS journal, never published or edited, kept by Jas Hastie, the Civil Agent of Governor Farquhar at the court ... S.P. Oliver Jas (James) Hastie Journal Manuscript : Unknown1850-1899 'Your kind present of Andrew Lang's two volumes has just reached me, and from what I have gleaned by a glimpse of the plates wh. I have opened, I have an intellectual tre... S.P. Oliver Andrew Lang Life, Letters and Diaries of Sir Stafford Northcot... Print : Book1850-1899 'Seventeen-year-old Ruth Bourne recorded disparaging remarks in her diary about the feeble renderings of Julius Caesar and Macbeth made by members of her [Shakespeare rea... Shakespeare Reading Circle (local) William Shakespeare Julius Caesar Print : Book1850-1899 'Seventeen-year-old Ruth Bourne recorded disparaging remarks in her diary about the feeble renderings of Julius Caesar and Macbeth made by members of her [Shakespeare rea... Shakespeare Reading Circle (local) William Shakespeare Macbeth Print : Book1900-1945 Ex-Foreign Secretary Sir Edward Grey in the Falloden Papers, on how he spent his time after being deposed from the Cabinet in 1916: ' ... I spent some weeks alone in the ... Sir Edward Grey William Shakespeare plays Print : Book1850-1899 '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 ... Marie Belloc unknown Contemporary French novels Print : Book1850-1899 'Have you read (Dilke's?) notice in the "Athenaeum", this day, on Sir Stafford Northcote? Andrew Lang had a most difficult task to fulfil. The judicious curtailment and... S.P. Oliver Dilke Article on Sir Stafford Northcote in the Athenaeum Print : Serial / periodical1900-1945 'Reading Mrs Browning's published letters in 1900, Wilfrid Blunt was reminded of how much he admired her and her husband's poetry ...' Wilfrid Blunt Elizabeth Barrett Browning Letters Print : Book1850-1899 ... [H. G.] Wells relearnt French by reading Voltaire for himself in the early 1880s and through visits to France ...' H. G. Wells Voltaire unknown Print : Book1850-1899 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."' Mrs Humphrey Ward unknown [Greek text/s] Print : Book1850-1899 In her Writer's Recollections (1919; pp.325-26), Mrs Humphrey Ward would remember an occasion in Italy when, Paul Bourget having failed to translate Kipling's "McAndrew's... Henry James Rudyard Kipling McAndrew's Hymn Unknown 1850-1899 'Dear Mr Blackwood, I see in "The Times" that you were present at the dinner of the Royal Literary Fund." The Times Print : Newspaper1850-1899 'I have been reading with interest today the last article in the current number of "Blackwood", entitled "The Two Blights in Ireland". But may I be allowed to point out ... P.L. Park 'The Two Blights in Ireland', Blackwood's Magazine... Print : Serial / periodical1850-1899 "In the early 1870s Browning frequently dined at the Chelsea home of the newly married Sir Charles Dilke. In 1872 he read there Red Cotton Nightcap Country (1873) -- 'at... Robert Browning Robert Browning Red Cotton Nightcap Country Unknown 1850-1899 'Theodore Watts-Dunton remembers Algernon Swinburne's fondness for reading aloud during his last years at Watts-Dunton's home: "... he would read for the hour together fr... Algernon Swinburne Charles Dickens [unknown] Print : Unknown1850-1899 'Theodore Watts-Dunton remembers Algernon Swinburne's fondness for reading aloud during his last years at Watts-Dunton's home: "... he would read for the hour together fr... Algernon Swinburne Charles Lamb [unknown] Print : Unknown1850-1899 'Theodore Watts-Dunton remembers Algernon Swinburne's fondness for reading aloud during his last years at Watts-Dunton's home: "... he would read for the hour together fr... Algernon Swinburne Charles Reade [unknown] Print : Unknown1850-1899 'Theodore Watts-Dunton remembers Algernon Swinburne's fondness for reading aloud during his last years at Watts-Dunton's home: "... he would read for the hour together fr... Algernon Swinburne William Makepeace Thackeray [unknown] Print : Unknown1850-1899 "In 1862, as a 25-year-old rebel ... [Swinburne] took it on himself to scandalize a dinner party at Fryston. His target was not his host, Richard Monckton Milnes ... No... Algernon Swinburne Algernon Swinburne Les Noyades 1850-1899 'In 1864 George Du Maurier witnessed ... [a] bravura performance [by Swinburne] at a bachelor party in the studio of the artist Simeon Solomon ... "For three hours he spo... Algernon Swinburne Algernon Swinburne unknown Unknown 1850-1899 'When Wilfrid Blunt joined [William] Morris and his daughter at Kelmscott in 1891, Morris "read us out several of his poems ... including The Haystack in the Floods, but ... William Morris William Morris The Haystack in the Floods (and other poems) Unknown 1850-1899 'Professor Gardiner, in the 2nd volume of his "Great Civil War", has given so much prominence to the character and actions of the Great Marquis of Montrose, that I think ... Jennet Pryce Gardiner Great Civil War Print : Book1850-1899 'In 1880 Tennyson attempted to interest Henry Irving in his play "The Cup" ... [he] "read in a monotone, rumbling on a low note" until, for the female parts, "he changed ... Alfred Tennyson Alfred Tennyson The Cup Unknown 1850-1899 'In 1876 Aubrey de Vere aranged for Alice Thompson ... and her sister Elizabeth a visit to [Tennyson at] Aldworth ... Alice was ready with her selection when the offer to... Alfred Tennyson Alfred Tennyson The Passing of Arthur Unknown 1800-1849 [Annotation]: Beside the printed words 'Just Publish'd', Peter Cunningham has added '(1744)' and [? - semi-legible - 'To Night 6' followed by [legible] '& Night-Thoughts... Peter Cunningham A Collection of Fifty Old Plays Print : Advertisement1850-1899 ' ... [over] a weekend at Aldworth ... [Margot Tennant] told Tennyson how very handsome he was, and, after his after-dinner nap, asked him to read "Maud" ... read it he d... Alfred Tennyson Alfred Tennyson Maud Unknown 1850-1899 'Mary Gladstone ... had experiences of Tennyson reading "Maud" in 1878, in 1879, and again in 1882.' Alfred Tennyson Alfred Tennyson Maud Unknown 1850-1899 'Mary Gladstone ... had experiences of Tennyson reading "Maud" in 1878, in 1879, and again in 1882.' Alfred Tennyson Alfred Tennyson Maud Unknown 1850-1899 'Mary Gladstone ... had experiences of Tennyson reading "Maud" in 1878, in 1879, and again in 1882.' Alfred Tennyson Alfred Tennyson Maud Unknown 1850-1899 ' ... in November 1876, when a guest of Gladstone at Hawarden, Tennyson read the whole of his new play, "Harold" (1877) ... The marathon session began at 11.30 and contin... Alfred Tennyson Alfred Tennyson Harold Unknown 1850-1899 '...[Newman] Flower as a boy read and idolized Hardy ...' Newman Flower Thomas Hardy [unknown] Print : Unknown1900-1945 Thomas Burke on literary figures' responses to his requests, as a teenager, for advice on starting a career as a writer: '... they spoke of the stress and anxiety of the ... Thomas Burke George Gissing New Grub Street Print : Book1850-1899 'When the Duke of Argyll ... visited Farringford, Tennyson read his "Ode on the Death of the Duke of Wellington" (1852) ...' Alfred Tennyson Alfred Tennyson Ode on the Death of the Duke of Wellington Unknown '"Stilted prose" was the rapid and unhesitating reply to whether ... [George Meredith] reckoned "The Light of Asia" a very fine poem, to the dismay of his questioner, who... Sir Edwin Arnold The Light of Asia Print : Unknown1850-1899 '[William Watson] sent a copy [of "Wordsworth's Grave and Other Poems"] to [Thomas] Hardy, who replied appreciatively that he had already read it while staying with Edwar... Thomas Hardy William Watson Wordsworth's Grave and Other Poems Print : Book1800-1849 [Annotations]: Just above the printed words 'A Proposal' Peter Cunningham has added [semi-legible] 'as such of Night' and [legible] '4. Of Young's Night Thoughts 1743'. Peter Cunningham 'A Proposal' [for subscribers to a volume of colle... Print : Advertisement1850-1899 On process of choosing a Poet Laureate from 1892: 'When Gladstone had read [William] Watson's Poems (1892), sent to him by R. H. Hutton, it was with a view to obtaining f... William Ewart Gladstone William Watson Poems Print : Book[Annotation NOT in Cunningham's hand (unidentified)]: above the sentence 'Jacob Tonson is the first bookseller of any note we can treat of': 'bio. Prin & Shepherd'. Anon Peter Cunningham Lives of the most Eminent Booksellers: Jacob Tonso... Manuscript : Pamphlet1850-1899 'Writing to his sister on 11 January 1892 ... [Walter Raleigh] declared: "I have been reading Christina Rossetti -- three or four of her poems, like those of her brother,... Walter Raleigh Christina Rossetti poems Print : Book[Annotation NOT in Cunningham's hand (unidentified, but the same as that on MS about Tonson)]: Top LH corner, in pencil, 'Dodsley', underlined. Anon A Proposal Print : Advertisement1900-1945 'Arthur Benson ... when rereading the Shorter Poems [of Robert Bridges] in 1910, thought them thin, mere tricks of language ...' Arthur Benson Robert Bridges Shorter Poems Print : Book1900-1945 '[C. F.] Andrews was a missionary with the Cambridge Brotherhood and present at [William] Rothenstein's Hampstead home on 30 June 1912, when, before a select audience, in... William Butler Yeats Rabindranath Tagore Poems from Gitanjali: Song Offerings Unknown 1500-1599 '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... Margaret Hoby [unknown] [a book of the pews in the church] Manuscript : Codex1800-1849 'Sir, I have heard with great regret that you are the author of that gross personal libel which appeared in the Quarterly Review, in the form of criticism on my Life of C... John Galt Thomas Dunham Whitaker Galt's Life of Cardinal Wolsey Print : Serial / periodical1900-1945 'Arnold Bennett, when reading [Herbert] Spencer's posthumously published Autobiography (1904), found the account "disappointingly deficient in emotion".' Arnold Bennett Herbert Spencer Autobiography Print : Book1900-1945 '... [Thomas Hardy] did once chance a criticism of Lady Grove's description of her brush with an unhelpful shop assistant when he read the proofs of The Social Fetich (19... Thomas Hardy Lady Grove The Social Fetich Print : Book1800-1849 'Dear Sir, Before saying any thing on the subject of my own prospects I wish to notice two trifling inaccuracies in the 'Handbook' in compliance with the invitation there... William Gladstone various A Handbook for Travellers on the Continent Print : Book1850-1899 '[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' ... Millicent, Duchess of Sutherland [unknown] [reports on education in Prussia] Print : Unknown1850-1899 '[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' ... Millicent, Duchess of Sutherland Thomas Huxley Life Print : Unknown1850-1899 '[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' ... Millicent, Duchess of Sutherland William Shakespeare [unknown] Print : Book1850-1899 '[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' ... Millicent, Duchess of Sutherland [unknown] [romantic fiction] Print : Unknown1800-1849 'I presented my manuscript [of her novel, "The Miser Married"] to Mr. Orme. In two days it was accepted, and I agreed to take half the profits. "Now", said Mr Orme, "I ... Catherine Hutton Review of The Miser Married Manuscript : Sheet1850-1899 The Duchess of Sutherland to Regy Brett: 'I have dinner on a tray [and], in between mouthfuls of fried sole and partridge, read [Ruskin's] Sesame and Lilies [1865] and [M... Millicent Duchess of Sutherland John Ruskin Sesame and Lilies Print : Book1850-1899 The Duchess of Sutherland to Regy Brett: 'I have dinner on a tray [and], in between mouthfuls of fried sole and partridge, read [Ruskin's] Sesame and Lilies [1865] and [M... Millicent Duchess of Sutherland Marie Corelli Barabbas Print : Book1800-1849 'I presented my manuscript [of her novel, "The Miser Married"] to Mr. Orme. In two days it was accepted, and I agreed to take half the profits. "Now", said Mr Orme, "I ... Catherine Hutton Review of The Miser Married Manuscript : Sheet1900-1945 'At one poetical evening [at Wilfrid Blunt's home Crabbet Park], when the guests included A. E. Housman and Desmond MacCarthy ... Wilfrid [Meynell] was requested to read ... Wilfrid Meynell George Meredith Modern Love Print : Book1850-1899 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... Wilfrid Blunt and guests unknown unknown Unknown 1800-1849 'I have been going through a course of novels by lady authors, beginning with Mrs Brooke and ending with Miss Austen, who is my especial favourite. I had always wished, ... Catherine Hutton Mrs Brooke Print : Book1800-1849 'I have been going through a course of novels by lady authors, beginning with Mrs Brooke and ending with Miss Austen, who is my especial favourite. I had always wished, ... Catherine Hutton Jane Austen Sense and Sensibility Print : Book
