√ Century of Experience Evidence Name of Reader / Listener / Reading Group Author of Text Title of Text Form of Text 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 Jane Austen Pride and Prejudice 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 Mansfield Park 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 Emma 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 Northanger Abbey 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 Persuasion Print : Book1850-1899 '[Wilfrid] Meynell told [Wilfrid] Blunt that, as their train passed through the countryside [on way to visiting Blunt], [Francis] Thompson ignored the scenery and was "wh... Francis Thompson The Globe Print : Newspaper1800-1849 '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 Catherine Hutton The Welsh Mountaineer 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 Catherine Hutton Oakwood Hall 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 Catherine Hutton The Miser Married Print : Book1850-1899 'Elinor Glyn recalled "The Princess and the Goblin" (1872) being read to her as a child ...' Elinor Glyn George MacDonald The Princess and the Goblin Print : Book'As a boy [Walter] Besant had read American authors avidly ...' Walter Besant [unknown] [American literature] Print : Unknown1850-1899 'Constance Smedley's favourite childhood reading was ... Louisa May Alcott's Little Women (1868-9)' Constance Smedley Louisa May Alcott Little Women Print : Book1850-1899 'I think the enclosed is worth your notice. On making a search, there is no "enclosure". But the International Express Train Service Co, who have an office in Cockspur... R.E. Prothero International Express Train Co monthly guide Print : Pamphlet1850-1899 'On my stand-up table is a post-card & letter from Monsignor Dore of America asking for a reference to the place where "Virgilium vidi tantum" originally occurs in Latin ... R.E. Prothero Ovid Tristia IV Print : Book1900-1945 'The last Quarterly contained a dishonest and offensive attack upon me by an American journalist, whom I dimly remember as an employe of Blorrity years ago when I refused... J.E.C. Bodley Quarterly Review Print : Serial / periodical1900-1945 It is amusing to find him writing to Sturt, in 1900, to persuade him that it would be a good idea to try to sell 'Bettesworth' to Pearson's (a firm for which he was not a... Arnold Bennett George Sturt The Bettesworth Book Manuscript : Sheet1850-1899 Letter 8/2/1863 - "I'm afraid to speak like the wicked girl in the fairy tale - who let - not pearls fall from her lips."
John Ruskin Oliver Goldsmith The Vicar of Wakefield Print : Book1850-1899 Letter 8/2/1863 - "For, as far as I remember - my sayings to you have been very nearly limited to Goldsmith's model of a critical sentence on painter's work: "that it was... John Ruskin Oliver Goldsmith The Vicar of Wakefield Unknown 1900-1945 'I see that a new volume of the Dizzy life is announced.' Algernon Cecil Advertisement of book on Disraeli's Life in the Qu... Print : Advertisement, Serial / periodical1900-1945 'As I am writing to you, it wd, I feel, be disingenuous in me if I did not tell you how fully I share the surprise and regret which some at least whose opinion you would,... J.C. Collins Article on Stephen Phillips in the Quarterly Revie... Print : Serial / periodical1900-1945 'Dear Mr. Prothero, Did you see the Morning Post of last Wednesday or Thursday? The headlines ran: "British Spy in the Kiel Canal" and then they proceed to give my name a... J.M. de Beaufort Article in the Morning Post entitled 'British Spy ... Print : Newspaper1900-1945 'I think Algernon's article is quite first rate, about the best thing he ever wrote. It is at once individual and sane - don't you think so?' John Bailey Quarterly Review Print : Serial / periodical1900-1945 'I was astonished to find the following in the Quarterly Review: — "England has Carlyle". "There is no other English name to be placed beside that of Carlyle." Car... Donald Brown Quarterly Review Print : Serial / periodical1900-1945 'I was astonished to find the following in the Quarterly Review: - "England has Carlyle". "There is no other English name to be placed beside that of Carlyle." Carlyle w... T. Market Quarterly Review Print : Serial / periodical1900-1945 'I was astonished to find the following in the Quarterly Review: - "England has Carlyle". "There is no other English name to be placed beside that of Carlyle." Carlyle w... W. A. Pool Quarterly Review Print : Serial / periodical1900-1945 'My dear Prothero, I hope you will not mind my saying as an old friend and contributor to the Quarterly how much I regret seeing in the July issue the article "India unde... Valentine Chirol Article entitled "India under Lord Hardinge" in th... Print : Serial / periodical1900-1945 'Dear Dr. Prothero, Are you reading Curtin's articles in the Times? I have followed every one of them very carefully, and I must admit I started reading them with some an... J.M. de Beaufort Curtin The Times (series of articles) Print : Newspaper1850-1899 Letter 8/2/1863 - "I'm so thin and hard and metallic that I think sometimes I'm going to turn into the pin that Death bores through the King's crowns - and 'farewell King... John Ruskin William Shakespeare Richard II Print : Book1850-1899 Lane's reader was John Buchan, who read 'A Man from the North' and liked it, although he said it would not be popular. John Buchan Arnold Bennett The Man from the North Manuscript : Sheet, proofs1850-1899 He went to bed that night to read about the death of Jules from the Goncourt 'Journals', in order to put himself into the right artistic mood. Arnold Bennett Edmund de Goncourt Journals Print : Book1700-1799 Robert Southey to Thomas Phillips Lamb, c. 26 September 1792: 'I have been attempting Euclid but without a master I could make no progress — perhaps disgust at the dry st... Robert Southey Euclid Elements Print : Book1700-1799 Robert Southey to Grosvenor Charles Bedford, c. September 1792: 'I ought to be studying Euclid — (the Devil take that wretch & make draw triangles below) but Rousseau be... Robert Southey Rousseau unknown Print : Book1700-1799 Robert Southey to Grosvenor Charles Bedford, c. 2 July 1792: '...& now in plain sober prose I am much obliged to you for your ode which I like very much. but why will you... Robert Southey Thomas Gray Gray Ode on the Death of a Favourite Cat, Drowned in a ... Print : Unknown1850-1899 Letter 9/8/1857 (Inverness)- 'Please tell me why you don't like Mme de Genlis. And then I'll tell you, if you like, why I like her.'
John Ruskin Stephane-Felicite de Genlis Print : Book1850-1899 Letter 6/9/1857 (Bridge of Allan) - 'I am very glad those are the reasons for your dislike of Mme de Genlis - both because I can entirely agree in the general principle o... John Ruskin Stephane-Felicite de Genlis unknown Print : Book1800-1849 Letter September 1857 ? 'I hope you know Miss Edgeworths ?Helen?'. John Ruskin Maria Edgeworth Helen Print : Book1800-1849 Letter dated 24/4/1862 ? 'The reason I said I had never understood the story of Cain is that God?s own words to him [Genesis, IV, vv.6-7] are of much more importance to m... John Ruskin The Bible Print : Book1850-1899 Letter, 25/11/1860 - 'The opening of the note enclosed from Mrs Browning refers to my having spoken of Lord John's last dispatch as giving me courage to write to her abou... John Ruskin Lord John Russell Print : Newspaper1850-1899 Letter 6/8/1858 - 'First let me thank you for your notes on Verona - & correction of my statement to the good folks on Manchester. (I will put it all right in the next ed... Louisa, Marchioness of Waterford John Ruskin The Political Economy of Art Print : Book1700-1799 Robert Southey to Grosvenor Charles Bedford, c. 2 July 1792: '...& now in plain sober prose I am much obliged to you for your ode which I like very much. but why will you... Robert Southey Thomas Gray Gray Ode on the Spring Print : UnknownLetter, 25/11/1860 - "I have opposite me at my worktable, a sketch of Rossetti's of the princess - (Parizade; the story is the last in the Arabian nights." John Ruskin Arabian Nights Print : Book1800-1849 Letter 16/8/1863 - Following a description of rural walk - "it was just like the beginning of a new novel of Sir Walter's. - Do you see what the French call him now: - (s... John Ruskin Sir Walter Scott Print : Book1850-1899 "He says careless work is a proof of something wrong in a person's whole moral character." From the editor's footnote 3 on letter W 38. "Writing in 1865, Lady Waterford,... Louisa, Marchioness of Waterford John Ruskin Cestus of Aglaia Print : Book1800-1849 Letter W 38 - Chamouni, 3/10/1863 - "I can't make out the run of some coal slates of the Col de Balme at their junction with what Saussure calls the 'poudingues de Valors... John Ruskin Horace Benedict de Saussure Voyages dans les Alpes Print : Book1850-1899 "Ford Cottage, July 18th, 1865. Have you read Ruskin's "Sesame and Lilies", his two last lectures? The book sent me to bed so unhappy, that all was wrong and out of joint... Louisa, Marchioness of Waterford John Ruskin Sesame and Lilies Print : Book1700-1799 Robert Southey to Grosvenor Charles Bedford, c. 2 July 1792: '...& now in plain sober prose I am much obliged to you for your ode which I like very much. but why will you... Robert Southey Thomas Parnell A Fairy Tale, in the Ancient English Style Print : Unknown1850-1899 "Ford Castle, June 1st (1866). Dear Mr Ruskin. I am reading with delight your Crown of Wild Olives trying to fit the sermon on to myself and be the better for it... Yours... Louisa, Marchioness of Waterford John Ruskin Crown of Wild Olives Print : Book1800-1849 Letter from Barbauld to her neice, Lucy Aikin, dated 27/7/1805. "What is your opinion of [begin underline] causation [end underline]? Do you agree with Dugald Stewart, H... Anna Letitia Barbauld William Paley Natural Theology Print : Book1850-1899 'Occasionally the discussions became acrimonious. My eldest brother was one day making disparaging remarks about Tennyson, and my mother, all agitated in defence of her i... Mrs Hughes Alfred, Lord Tennyson Locksley Hall Print : Book1850-1899 The Lord Mayor's Show. 'The boys always went ... They always brought home for me a little book, that opened out to nearly a yard of coloured pictures, displaying all the ... M.V, Hughes anon A Penny Panorama of the Lord Mayor's Show Print : Book1700-1799 " Read Davila." "Read...and Davila" Lady Eleanor Butler Davila ? [ History of the French Civil Wars] Unknown 1700-1799 " Read Davila." "Read...and Davila" Lady Eleanor Butler Davila ? [ History of the French Civil Wars] Unknown 1850-1899 Constance Smedley on readings in American literature: 'Thoreau ... opened the door to a philosophy of life when I was about fifteen ... in his train came Emerson and Lowe... Constance Smedley Henry David Thoreau unknown Print : Unknown1850-1899 Constance Smedley on readings in American literature: 'Thoreau ... opened the door to a philosophy of life when I was about fifteen ... in his train came Emerson and Lowe... Constance Smedley Ralph Waldo Emerson unknown Print : Book1700-1799 " Finished reading that Emmeline, a Trumpery novel in four volumes. If I can answer for myself I will never again undertake such a tiresome nonsensical piece of business.... Lady Eleanor Butler Charlotte Smith Emmeline Print : Book1850-1899 Constance Smedley on readings in American literature: "'Thoreau ... opened the door to a philosophy of life when I was about fifteen ... in his train came Emerson and Low... Constance Smedley James Russell Lowell Print : Unknown1700-1799 " reading Rousseau to my Sally." Lady Eleanor Butler Jean Jacques Rousseau Unknown 1700-1799 " From one till three reading Rousseau to the joy of my Life." Lady Eleanor Butler Jean Jacques Rousseau Unknown 1900-1945 "When ... [Mrs Humphrey Ward] read aloud from Canadian Born (1910) to the assembled guests at Lord Stanley's part at Alderley Park, the verdict was that 'it was terribly ... Mrs Humphrey Ward Mrs Humphrey Ward Canadian Born Unknown 1700-1799 " From five till Ten read Rousseau (finished the 7th tome) to my Sally. Lady Eleanor Butler Jean Jacques Rousseau Unknown 1700-1799 " I read to my beloved no 97 of the Rambler written by Richardson, author of those inimitable books Pamela, Clarissa and Sir Charles Grandison." Lady Eleanor Butler Samuel Richardson The Rambler Print : Serial / periodical1700-1799 " Read Six Sonatto di Petrarca" Lady Eleanor Butler Petrarch Sonatto di Petrarca Print : Book1700-1799 " Finished The Tatler" Lady Eleanor Butler The Tatler Print : Serial / periodical1700-1799 " began the Spectator" Lady Eleanor Butler The Spectator Print : Serial / periodical1700-1799 " Began Les Memoires de Madame Maintenon. I doubt whether the vulgarity of stile (sic), absurd anecdotes and impertinent reflections will permit me to read it." Lady Eleanor Butler Madame de Maintenon Les Memoires de Madame de Maintenon Print : Book1700-1799 " Nine till twelve in the Dressing room reading-finished Les Memoires de Maintenon. Began her letters" Lady Eleanor Butler Madame de Maintenon Les Memoires de Madame de Maintenon Print : Book1700-1799 " finished Swinburne's Travel Through Spain to My Love." Lady Eleanor Butler Swinburne Travels through Spain Print : Book1900-1945 '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 intimat... May Sinclair unknown article Print : Newspaper, Serial / periodical1700-1799 Went again to the shrubbery-brought our books namely Gil Blas and Madame de Sevigne with us. Lady Eleanor Butler A.R. Lesage Gil Blas Print : Book1700-1799 " From two till three I read Tab. de la Suisse." Lady Eleanor Butler Tab. de la Suisse Unknown 1850-1899 Robert Sherard on Oscar Wilde's work as a lecturer, in Oscar Wilde: The Story of an Unhappy Friendship (1902; 1908) 87-9: 'It was a real penance to him, and I could under... Robert Sherard advertisements for Oscar Wilde's lectures Print : Advertisement, Newspaper1700-1799 Listed under "Books read since April the first 1789" Lady Eleanor Butler Madame de Metterniche Memoires Print : Book1700-1799 Listed under "Books read since April the first 1789" Lady Eleanor Butler Jean Baptiste Poquelin Moliere Print : Book1700-1799 Listed under "Books read since April the first 1789" Lady Eleanor Butler Corneille Theatro du Grand Corneilles Print : Book1850-1899 '... [Oscar] Wilde used the provincial [lecture] tour to educate himself in German: he "beguiled the tedium of the journeys ... by studying that language with a copy of t... Oscar Wilde Reise-Bilder Print : Book1700-1799 Listed under "Books read since April the first 1789" Lady Eleanor Butler Racine Theatro et oevres de Racine Print : Book1700-1799 Listed under "Books read since April the first 1789" Lady Eleanor Butler Dante La Divina Commedia Print : Book1850-1899 '... [Oscar] Wilde used the provincial [lecture] tour to educate himself in German: he "beguiled the tedium of the journeys ... by studying that language with a copy of t... Oscar Wilde Pocket German dictionary Print : Book1700-1799 Listed under "Books read since April the first 1789" Lady Eleanor Butler Pietro Metastasio opera (16 Tom) Print : Book1700-1799 Listed under "Books read since April the first 1789" Lady Eleanor Butler Gilpin Northern Tour Print : Book1700-1799 Listed under "Books read since April the first 1789" Lady Eleanor Butler Thomas Gray Works Print : Book1700-1799 " Then my beloved read La Morte d'Abel" Sarah Ponsonby La Morte D'Abel Print : Book1900-1945 ' ... in Egypt during the Great War [E. M.] Forster applied himself to read [Henry] James. Struggling with What Maisie Knew (1897), he rather thought that "she is my ver... Edward Morgan Forster Henry James What Maisie Knew Print : Book1900-1945 Not long ago I happened to call at the railway carter, and found the wife of the man engaged in reading George Eliots' 'Adam Bede' George Eliot Adam Bede Print : Book1800-1849 "went to church, came back, got parlour lunch, had my own dinner, sit by the fire and red (sic) the Penny magazine and opened the door when any visitors came." William Tayler Penny Magazine Print : Serial / periodical1850-1899 "'More even than with the contemptible inexpressiveness of the whole thing,' Henry James wrote after reading She ... 'I am struck with the beastly bloodiness of it ...'" Henry James H. Rider Haggard She Print : Book1850-1899 '[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... unknown Princess Novelette Print : Serial / periodical1900-1945 '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... [unknown] [books] Print : Book1900-1945 '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... [n/a] [daily newspapers] Print : Newspaper1850-1899 '"Desperately in love with the hero", 26-year-old Mary Gladstone confided to her journal in 1874 after finishing Julia Kavanagh's "Natalie" (1850).' Mary Gladstone Julia Kavanagh Natalie Print : Book1850-1899 'Mary Gladstone ... devoured Julia Kavanagh's "Adele" (1858) ...' Mary Gladstone Julia Kavanagh Adele Print : Book1850-1899 '... "Natalie" [by Julia Kavanagh] she [Mary Gladstone] did not think measured up to the same author's "Daisy Burns" (1853), although her recommendation ... led her fathe... William Ewart Gladstone Julia Kavanagh Natalie Print : Book1900-1945 'Lady Cynthia Asquith's diary recorded about one January Sunday in 1917, "Stayed in bed until dinner. I read 'East Lynne' till my eyes ached."' Lady Cynthia Asquith Mrs Henry Wood East Lynne Print : Book1850-1899 'Annie Swan [from Leith] ... vividly recalled the occasion when her mother "surprised us all by retiring to her room for a whole day, abandoning everything. The mystery ... Mrs Swan Mrs Henry Wood East Lynne Print : Book1850-1899 "Mr. Gladstone left aside the cares of state by reading ... [Mary Elizabeth Braddon]." William Ewart Gladstone Mary Elizabeth Braddon unknown Print : Book1700-1799 Read the 2d volume of Mrs Inchbald's 'Nature & Art'. It is a pretty little thing, not in the same way as the 'Italian'. Joseph Hunter Elizabeth Inchbald Nature and Art Print : Book1700-1799 I finished Mrs Inchbald's 'Nature and Art', the second volume is not so pleasing as the first, but yet it has a very pleasing conclusion, showing the destruction of vice ... Joseph Hunter Elizabeth Inchbald Nature and Art Print : Book1850-1899 '[George] Moore pinpointed his ... awakening interest in fiction to overhearing his parents discussing whether Lady Audley murdered her husband. Then aged 11, Moore "took... George Moore Mary Elizabeth Braddon Lady Audley's Secret Print : Book1850-1899 '[George] Moore pinpointed his ... awakening interest in fiction to overhearing his parents discussing whether Lady Audley murdered her husband. Then aged 11, Moore "took... George Moore Mary Elizabeth Braddon The Doctor's Wife Print : Book1850-1899 '[George] Moore pinpointed his ... awakening interest in fiction to overhearing his parents discussing whether Lady Audley murdered her husband. Then aged 11, Moore "took... George Moore Percy Bysshe Shelley unknown Print : Book1850-1899 '[George] Moore pinpointed his ... awakening interest in fiction to overhearing his parents discussing whether Lady Audley murdered her husband. Then aged 11, Moore "took... George Moore George Gordon, Lord Byron unknown Print : Book1900-1945 ' ... from a chance meeting in a railway carriage with Kipling, [Newman] Flower discovered that he had read ... [The Story-Teller] almost from the first.' Rudyard Kipling The Story-Teller Print : Serial / periodical1900-1945 'Lloyd George, the Chancellor of the Exchequer ... liked to get away from political anxieties by devouring what he called "shilling shockers": adventure stories, American... Lloyd George cheap popular fiction Print : Book1900-1945 'Lloyd George, the Chancellor of the Exchequer ... liked to get away from political anxieties by devouring what he called "shilling shockers": adventure stories, American... Lloyd George Charles Dickens unknown Print : Book1900-1945 'Lloyd George, the Chancellor of the Exchequer ... liked to get away from political anxieties by devouring what he called "shilling shockers": adventure stories, American... Lloyd George George Gordon, Lord Byron unknown Print : Book1900-1945 'Lloyd George, the Chancellor of the Exchequer ... liked to get away from political anxieties by devouring what he called "shilling shockers": adventure stories, American... Lloyd George John Milton unknown Print : Book1900-1945 'Lloyd George, the Chancellor of the Exchequer ... liked to get away from political anxieties by devouring what he called "shilling shockers": adventure stories, American... Lloyd George Robert Burns unknown Print : Book1900-1945 'Lloyd George, the Chancellor of the Exchequer ... liked to get away from political anxieties by devouring what he called "shilling shockers": adventure stories, American... Lloyd George Jeffrey Farnol The Amateur Gentleman Print : BookCharles Garvice in interview with T.P.'s Weekly, 5 May 1911 (p.556): 'I once found my daughter reading a book. I asked her what it was. "Oh," she replied, "It's Maggie"... Miss Garvice Stephen Crane Maggie: A Girl of the Streets Print : BookCharles Garvice in interview with T.P.'s Weekly, 5 May 1911 (p.556): 'I once found my daughter reading a book. I asked her what it was. "Oh," she replied, "It's Maggie"... Charles Garvice Stephen Crane Maggie: A Girl of the Streets Print : Book1900-1945 ' ... at Stanway in 1916 for her sister's twenty-first birthday, Lady Cynthia [Asquith] entertained family and guests after dinner by [mockingly] reading from The Rosary ... Lady Cynthia Asquith Florence L. Barclay The Rosary Print : Book1850-1899 '...[Hall Caine] told [Samuel] Norris that he had read the Bible through seven times, and Norris conceded that he could quote it in remarkable fashion.' Hall Caine The Bible Print : Book1850-1899 ' ... Gladstone, who was meticulous in keeping a record of his reading, noted only one [Hall] Caine novel, "The Scapegoat", which he read on publication in 1891 ...' William Ewart Gladstone Hall Caine The Scapegoat Print : Book1850-1899 On visit to 50-year-old Dante Gabriel Rossetti, '[Hall] Caine, half his age, was treated to a reading of "The King's Tragedy" ...' Dante Gabriel Rossetti Dante Gabriel Rossetti The King's Tragedy Unknown 1850-1899 'On learning that [Hall] Caine was to present twenty-four lectures in Liverpool on "Prose Fiction" ... [D. G. Rossetti] insisted that he read the works [of English noveli... Hall Caine Henry Fielding [unknown] Print : Book1850-1899 'On learning that [Hall] Caine was to present twenty-four lectures in Liverpool on "Prose Fiction" ... [D. G. Rossetti] insisted that he read the works [of English noveli... Hall Caine Tobias Smollett [unknown] Print : Book1850-1899 'On learning that [Hall] Caine was to present twenty-four lectures in Liverpool on "Prose Fiction" ... [D. G. Rossetti] insisted that he read the works [of English noveli... Hall Caine Samuel Richardson [unknown] Print : Book1850-1899 'On learning that [Hall] Caine was to present twenty-four lectures in Liverpool on "Prose Fiction" ... [D. G. Rossetti] insisted that he read the works [of English noveli... Hall Caine Ann Radcliffe [unknown] Print : Book1850-1899 'On learning that [Hall] Caine was to present twenty-four lectures in Liverpool on "Prose Fiction" ... [D. G. Rossetti] insisted that he read the works [of English noveli... Hall Caine Matthew Gregory Lewis [unknown] Print : Book1850-1899 'On learning that [Hall] Caine was to present twenty-four lectures in Liverpool on "Prose Fiction" ... [D. G. Rossetti] insisted that he read the works [of English noveli... Hall Caine William Makepeace Thackeray [unknown] Print : Book1850-1899 'On learning that [Hall] Caine was to present twenty-four lectures in Liverpool on "Prose Fiction" ... [D. G. Rossetti] insisted that he read the works [of English noveli... Hall Caine Charles Dickens [unknown] Print : Book1850-1899 ?The other day I was reading a life in wh. a biographer calmly states that his hero was imprisoned by the Long Parl[iament] in 1644 and goes on to remark in the next sent... Leslie Stephen [a biography] Unknown 1850-1899 ?Meanwhile I have a book from you, wh. I ought to have acknowledged. I guess that Julia did my duty & I did it better than I should. But, though late, I will say thank yo... Leslie Stephen James Russell Lowell Democracy and other addresses Print : Book1850-1899 "I think you have done Mrs B[rowning] very well. I have read it & put in some savage criticism, marking, however, what I really think should be omitted in a dictionary." Leslie Stephen Anne Isabella Ritchie 'Mrs Browning' (life for the DNB) Unknown 1850-1899 Letter B 14 - Postmark 6/12/1857 - "I can't answer at length till Monday. But you are quite right about the graver want of the book. [The Elements of Drawing, which had b... Anna Blunden John Ruskin The Elements of Drawing Print : Book1850-1899 Letter B 23 - Postmark 15/10/1858 - "Cease reading my books for the present - there are a thousand as good - and many better. Read Aubrey de Vere's if you like - there's ... John Ruskin Aubrey Thomas de Vere Unknown 1800-1849 Letter B 24 - 20/10/1858 - "There was some nonsense in your long letter about Britomart and Una. Both of them were in love with the man they were to marry, and loved them... John Ruskin Edmund Spencer The Faerie Queen Print : Book1850-1899 Letter B 24 - 20/10/1858 - "There was some nonsense in your long letter about Britomart and Una. Both of them were in love with the man they were to marry, and loved them... Anna Blunden Edmund Spencer The Faerie Queen Print : Book1850-1899 Letter B 28 - Postmark 27/10/1858 - "The fit you took about the slavery arose not only owing to Aurora Leigh, but from your not understanding the proper use of the word."... John Ruskin Elizabeth Barrett Browining Aurora Leigh Print : Book1850-1899 Letter B 28 - Postmark 27/10/1858 - "The fit you took about the slavery arose not only owing to Aurora Leigh, but from your not understanding the proper use of the word."... Anna Blunden Elizabeth Barrett Browining Aurora Leigh Print : Book1800-1849 Letter B 94 - 6/5/1862 - "The commonest hack writing - Burnett's or anybody's on composition, would do you good." John Ruskin John Burnet [on composition] Print : Book1850-1899 Letter B 71 - 3/9/1860 - "I have now your interesting letter about the Sheep-folds. I think you are right about the title, but I do not care about re-publishing the thing... Anna Blunden John Ruskin Notes on the Construction of Sheepfolds Print : Pamphlet1850-1899 Letter H 25 - Late November 1855 - "It is so off ... that we all should like that poem of the Arab physician best. - Fancy my endorsing the Athenaeum! Every word in the A... John Ruskin Robert Browning Men and Women Print : Book1800-1849 From the editor's short biography of Ellen Heaton - "In 1849 her brother was reading The Seven Lamps of Architecture; he found its author to be 'a great enthusiast and ru... John Heaton John Ruskin The Seven Lamps of Architecture Print : Book1850-1899 Letter H53, January 1857
"But I think if you read Anderson carefully, you will feel how pointed, neat and concise he is in comparison. How unexpected also are most of hi... John Ruskin Hans Christian Andersen Fairy legends and Tales Print : Book1800-1849 Letter H 3 - 9/2/1855 - "I will not fail to quote Mrs Browning in the book I am now about. I think more highly of her poetry than ever - she is a noble creature." John Ruskin Elizabeth Barrett Browning Poems, including "Drama of Exile" Print : Book1800-1849 Letter H 21 - 12/11/1855 - "-The common - pretty - timid - mistletoe bought kind of kiss was not what Dante meant. Rossetti has thoroughly understood the passage througho... John Ruskin Dante Alighieri Inferno Print : Book1800-1849 Letter H 21 - 12/11/1855 - "At the death of Socrates - when hemlock is brought - his friends exclaimed - "The sun is not yet set - It is only on the mountains" But he dra... John Ruskin Plato Death of Socrates Print : Book1850-1899 The editor's footnote quotes a letter from Dante Gabriel Rossetti to Ellen Heaton: 24/11/1855 - "Much of my time in Paris was spent with Mr and Mrs Browning, who send you... Dante Gabriel Rossetti Robert Browning Men and Women Print : Book1850-1899 Letter H 25, Late November 1855 - "-Fancy my endorsing the Athenaeum! Every word in that Athenaeum critique I agree with - for I am very stupid in making things out in po... John Ruskin The Athenaeum Print : Serial / periodical1800-1849 From the editor's short biography of Ellen Heaton: "She had read and was a 'great admirer' of the early volumes of Modern Painters.' Ellen Heaton John Ruskin Modern Painters I and II Print : Book1800-1849 Letter H. 39 - (12/10/1856) - "I don't know when I read a poem, since a boy I first read "The Assyrian came down" - which has given me such intense pleasure as the "Burde... John Ruskin George Gordon Lord Byron The Destruction of Sennacherib Print : Book1800-1849 Letter H. 29 - (30/12/1855) - "and she is as proud as - Flora Mac Ivor." John Ruskin Walter Scott Waverley Print : Book1850-1899 Letter H. 39 - 12/10/1856 - "-I don't know when I read a poem, since as a boy I first read "The Assyrian came down" - which has given me such intense pleasure as the "Bur... John Ruskin Dante Gabriel Rossetti The Burden of Nineveh Print : Serial / periodical1800-1849 Letter H. 28 - 23/12/1855 - "You have Carey's Dante I suppose - else Matilda's quotation from the Psalms might be useless to you. Carey is on the whole the best - and ver... John Ruskin Dante Alighieri Print : Book1850-1899 '2 East Parade, Leeds. June 25th 1856. Ellen is rather puzzled', wrote her brother to his wife, 'on comparing the tower at Calais, with Ruskin's "delightful" description.... Ellen Heaton John Ruskin Modern Painters IV Print : Book1850-1899 Letter H 30 - January 1856 - "I am always treating you ill - but I took so many presentation copies [of the third volume of Modern Painters, published Jan 15, 1856] from ... Ellen Heaton John Ruskin Modern Painters III Print : Book1700-1799 Robert Southey to Grosvenor Charles Bedford, c. 2 July 1792: '...& now in plain sober prose I am much obliged to you for your ode which I like very much. but why will you... Robert Southey Grosvenor Charles Bedford Ode Manuscript : Sheet1850-1899 Letter H 32 - 11/1/1857 - "Here is a little bit of criticism at last by way of example on your beginning of the Butterfly. "I am going to tell you." This is familiar - as... John Ruskin Ellen Heaton Tales Manuscript : Unpublished short tales1700-1799 [Betsey]:'The gazettes from France were read this evening there was nothing remarquable in them. We began again "Les Precieuses Ridicules" but had no time to for supper w... Eugenia Wynne [n/a] [Gazettes / newspapers from paris] Print : Newspaper1600-1699 "Back I went by Mr. Downing's order, and stayed there til 12 o'clock in expectation of one to come to read some writings, but he came not, so I stayed all alone reading t... Samuel Pepys Dutch Ambassador [a speech] Manuscript : Letter1700-1799 'Some of the fine madams pointed out to him [Mr Sym] a few inadvertencies [in Hogg's "The Spy"], or, more properly, absurdities, which had occurred in the papers; but he ... Robert Sym James Hogg The Spy Print : Serial / periodical1600-1699 "Here Swan showed us a ballat to the tune of Mardike, which was the most incomparably writ in a printed hand; which I borrowed, but the song proved silly and so I did not... Samuel Pepys [ballad] Manuscript : Sheet1600-1699 "This morning my Lord showed me the King's declaration and his letter to the two Generalls to be communicated to the fleet. The contents of the letter are his offer of gr... Samuel Pepys Declaration of Breda Print : Broadsheet, Handbill1700-1799 [Betsey]:'The gazettes from France were read this evening there was nothing remarquable in them. We began again "Les Precieuses Ridicules" but had no time to for supper w... Elizabeth (Betsey) Wynne Moliere [pseud.] Les Precieuses Ridicules Print : Book1900-1945 13/3/1904 - "He was able to read on the last morning of his life, asking me to bring him an article on Shakespeare and a new poem by Thomas Hardy." Leslie Stephen Thomas Hardy Print : Serial / periodical1900-1945 13/3/1904 - "He was able to read on the last morning of his life, asking me to bring him an article on Shakespeare and a new poem by Thomas Hardy." Leslie Stephen [an article on Shakespeare] Print : Serial / periodical1900-1945 . . . [George] Sturt, Bennett's supposedly 'aesthetic' critic, was not particularly admiring of 'Anna'[of the Five Towns]; he writes complaining that Bennett makes 'an in... George Sturt Arnold Bennett Anna of the Five Towns Print : Book1700-1799 Robert Southey to Thomas Davis Lamb, c. 18 June 1792: 'The bloody proceeding [a reference to a disturbance at Westminster School] I have seen no account of in the papers ... Robert Southey Morning Post Print : Newspaper1700-1799 Robert Southey to Thomas Davis Lamb, c. 18 June 1792: 'To see the manners of different countries is certainly of the utmost utility & what no university can teach — Homer... Robert Southey Homer Iliad Print : Book1850-1899 "I took in Mr Holmes' humorous poems & Davidson (a very jolly little friend of mine) another light work & we sat together with Romer in the furthest corner enjoying liter... Leslie Stephen Oliver Wendell Holmes Print : Book1850-1899 'Before this walk we had service in chapel, in this wise. Two or 3 collects, 3 psalms, 1 lesson out of the apocrypha, a Latin speech in praise of the Civil Law, a list (a... Leslie Stephen The Bible Print : Book1850-1899 "Before this walk we had service in chapel, on this wise. Two or 3 collects, 3 psalms, 1 lesson out of the apocrypha, a Latin speech in praise of the Civil Law, a list (a... Leslie Stephen [a Latin speech in praise of the Civil Law] Print : Book1850-1899 'Before this walk we had service in chapel, on this wise. Two or 3 collects, 3 psalms, 1 lesson out of the apocrypha, a Latin speech in praise of the Civil Law, a list (a... Leslie Stephen [a list in Latin of benefactors] Unknown 1850-1899 'Before this walk we had service in chapel, on this wise. Two or 3 collects, 3 psalms, 1 lesson out of the apocrypha, a Latin speech in praise of the Civil Law, a list (a... Leslie Stephen the Te Deum Unknown 1850-1899 "Do you know that I have just read in a book that my grandfather James Stephen invented the orders in council - which produced the American war of 1812 - wh. would have d... Leslie Stephen Print : Book1850-1899 "I am now going in for another shot at "Christie's Faith". I am feeling devilishly lazy - Oh! I will try a pipe - it may wake me up - 5 PM.
5.45 I have done it! both pip... Leslie Stephen Christie's Faith Print : Book1850-1899 "I have hardly read a book except for strictly professional purposes for 3 months & more. One of the few I have read is Dixon's New America. I should like to know what yo... Leslie Stephen W Hepworth Dixon New America Print : Book1850-1899 ?Talking of books, you will perhaps be in the way of seeing a volume of Essays on Reform just published. You may find there some remarks by one you know on American exper... Leslie Stephen [Essays on Reform] Print : Book1850-1899 "You say you have been reading some French novels lately." Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. [Some French novels] Print : Book1850-1899 "From your account of the absence of newspapers - on wh. I congratulate you sincerely - you may possibly have heard that the lords [sic] have given in about the Irish chu... Leslie Stephen Newspapers Print : Newspaper1850-1899 "You say you have been reading some French novels lately. I am much given to that amusement though I never read de Musset - by the way. I don't quite agree with yr praise... Leslie Stephen [Some French novels] Print : Book1850-1899 'I have got two copies of "Felix Holt" - the last sent me by Mr Langford [...] I don't think I could say anything satisfactory about it. It leaves an impression on my mi... Margaret Oliphant George Eliot Felix Holt the Radical Print : Book1850-1899 'A propos of French literature, there is an advertisement of Lamartine in the papers which goes to one's heart, offering, not even by a publisher in his own name a [itali... Margaret Oliphant [Advertisement of works by Lamartine] Print : Advertisement, Newspaper1850-1899 'Thank you for sending me the "Times" with the review. It is very gracious and good [...] I don't know whether I am alone in thinking so, of if the opinion is general, b... Margaret Oliphant The Times Print : Newspaper1850-1899 'When I went to read the chapter about the many mansions, even then I seemed to be stifled again'. Margaret Oliphant Bible Print : Book1850-1899 'I was reading of Charlotte Bronte the other day, and could not help comparing myself with the picture more or less as I read. I don't suppose my powers are equal to her... Margaret Oliphant Elizabeth Gaskell Life of Charlotte Bronte Print : Book1850-1899 I cut out of a newspaper and put in here a little poem of Swinburne whom I have never loved. It is dated three years ago, yet was published only the other day - for whom... Margaret Oliphant Swinburne Threnody Print : Newspaper1850-1899 '[I] sit through the evening with Denny alone generally, often reading a little Italian'. Margaret Oliphant [Italian] Unknown 1850-1899 'What a wonderful record is that journal of Sir Walter's which dear Annie Ritchie has sent me - and with what love one watches everything he does. I have read over and o... Margaret Oliphant Walter Scott Journal Print : Book1850-1899 'I have found a little, not comfort, but fellowship in reading about Archbishop Tait. I did not like his book. I thought it too personal, too sacred for publication, bu... Margaret Oliphant R.T. Davison Life of Archibald Campbell Tait Print : Book1850-1899 'I have been reading the life of Mr Symonds, and it makes me almost laugh (though little laughing is in my heart) to think of the strange difference between this prosaic ... Margaret Oliphant John Addington Symonds Life of Symonds Print : Book1850-1899 'Robert Macpherson came down with us to Civita Vecchia to see us off, and, I remember, read to me all the way there a story he had written, one of the stories flying abou... Robert Macpherson Robert Macpherson Manuscript : Sheet1850-1899 '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, ... Francis Wilson Print : Newspaper1850-1899 '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, ... Willie Wilson unknown unknown Print : Book1850-1899 'Suddenly he [William Edmonstoune Ayton] burst forth without any warning with "Come hither Evan Cameron" - and repeated the poem to us.' William Edmonstoune Ayton William Edmonstoune Ayton The Execution of Montrose Print : Serial / periodical1900-1945 '. . . the cab driver reads a coloured comic paper . . .' [a cab driver] anon Print : Newspaper1850-1899 "I think that Miss Thackeray and my wife have expressed to you their great pleasure in your article on their father." Harriet Stephen George Barnett Smith The Works of Thackeray Print : Serial / periodical1850-1899 "I think that Miss Thackeray and my wife have expressed to you their great pleasure in your article on their father." Ann Thackeray George Barnett Smith The Works of Thackeray Print : Serial / periodical1850-1899 "I read with satisfaction Lowell's poem wh. you sent me. The only fault I find with him is that he occasionally lets his criticism get mixed up in his poetry, but it is t... Leslie Stephen James Russell Lowell Agassiz Print : Serial / periodical1850-1899 "I have read with great interest your article on Victor Hugo & also that which appeared in the last number of Macmillan." Leslie Stephen Robert Louis Stevenson Ordered South Print : Serial / periodical1850-1899 "By an accidental combination of circumstances I only saw your article on my 'secularism' this afternoon. I have no complaints to make of it & no wish to carry on the con... Leslie Stephen Frederick Denison Maurice Print : Book1850-1899 "Excuse all this; but though you may not easily give me credit I really admired Mr Maurice; I attended his lectures as a boy; I studied his books carefully & I should be ... Leslie Stephen Frederick Denison Maurice Print : Book1800-1849 I always have a profound impression that human beings have been much more like each other than we fancy since they got rid of their tails & that the great outbursts of sp... Leslie Stephen Robert Browning Print : Book1800-1849 I always have a profound impression that human beings have been much more like each other than we fancy since they got rid of their tails & that the great outbursts of sp... Leslie Stephen William Shakespeare Print : Book1800-1849 I always have a profound impression that human beings have been much more like each other than we fancy since they got rid of their tails & that the great outbursts of sp... Leslie Stephen Alfred Tennyson Print : Book1800-1849 I always have a profound impression that human beings have been much more like each other than we fancy since they got rid of their tails & that the great outbursts of sp... Leslie Stephen John Milton Print : Book1800-1849 'I was captivated by "Margaret Maitland" before the author came to [italic] bribe [end italic] me by the gift of a copy and a too flattering letter [...] Nothing half so ... Francis Jeffrey Margaret Oliphant Passages in the Life of Margaret Maitland Print : Book1850-1899 'Since seeing Captain Blackwood yesterday I have read over 'Night and Morning'. Margaret Oliphant Edward Bulwer Lytton Night and Morning Print : Book1850-1899 'If you wish me to take up Mr Caird's Sermons I will be glad to do it. I think myself that there is a little want of human experience in them, - the troubles of this lif... Margaret Oliphant Edward Caird Sermons Print : Book
