√ Century of Experience Evidence Name of Reader / Listener / Reading Group Author of Text Title of Text Form of Text 1850-1899 We are very curious and interested about "Adam Bede", which we see advertised and criticised in the "Athenaeum".' Margaret Oliphant Athenaeum Print : Advertisement, Serial / periodical1850-1899 We are very curious and interested about "Adam Bede", which we see advertised and criticised in the "Athenaeum".' Margaret Oliphant unknown Review of Adam Bede Print : Serial / periodical1850-1899 'My husband, reading for the first time, one of the first books of Anthony Trollope, thought he perceived a considerable resemblance in that writer to Mr Gilfil and the R... Frank Oliphant Anthony Trollope Print : Book1850-1899 'Thank you very much for the Magazine - I am charmed with "St Stephen's". It is Sir Edward's, of course.' Margaret Oliphant Blackwood's Magazine Print : Serial / periodical1850-1899 'Thank you very much for the Magazine - I am charmed with "St Stephen's". It is Sir Edward's, of course.' Margaret Oliphant ?Edward ?Bulwer Lytton St Stephen's Print : Serial / periodical1850-1899 'The table is heaped with picture-books, and Maggie, rather sentimental with a bad cold, is reading Mrs. Jameson's Legends of the Saints, so there you have a peep at our ... Maggie Oliphant A.B. Jameson Legends of the Saints Print : Book1900-1945 John Partridge on popularity of Charles Garvice's fiction: '[at Easter 1911] I looked round a large kiosk at a popular seaside place and observed that Mr Charles Garvice'... John Partridge The Daily Chronicle Print : Newspaper1850-1899 'I was extremely glad to get your MS [...] I have of course some small criticism to make, but none of importance [...] Is it necessary to mention distinctly Maurice and F... Margaret Oliphant R.H. Story Manuscript : Sheet, work in MS1850-1899 'I am delighted with Kinglake: has he steered quite clear of action for libel, or is it not within the bounds of possibility that you may be defendants in an imperial pla... Margaret Oliphant A.W. Kinglake Invasion of the Crimea Print : Book1900-1945 '...in December 1918 ... [Sir Anthony] Deane organized at All Saints, Ennismore Gardens, a memorial service for authors killed in the war, at which Edmund Gosse read the ... Edmund Gosse Lesson Print : Book1900-1945 Newman Flower, head of Cassell's, describes returning to work after period of illness to find first bound copy of Hall Caine's The Woman of Knockaloe (1923): 'I began to ... Newman Flower Hall Caine The Woman of Knockaloe (Introduction) Print : Book1850-1899 '[Marie] Corelli's rendering of the Resurrection in Barabbas [1893] was read from the pulpit on Easter Sunday at Westminster Abbey by the Dean.' Marie Corelli Barabbas Print : Book'The editor of the British Weekly, [William] Robertson Nicoll, wrote to [Marie] Corelli on 3 November 1920: "I always think of you in connexion with my old friend Dr Park... Joseph Parker Marie Corelli novels Print : Book1900-1945 'In Switzerland in 1908 Arnold Bennett met in his hotel an Anglo-Indian army major ... Bennett thought of engaging his opinions about Indian government reform until he no... Marie Corelli Holy Orders Print : Book1850-1899 G. H. Hardy on Marie Corelli's Ardath: "'The most striking feature of the book ... is the colossal number of notes of exclamation -- I counted 39 in 3 pages.'" G. H. Hardy Marie Corelli Ardath Print : Book1900-1945 "Rupert Brook [ironically] advised Geoffrey and Maynard Keynes against attempting The Sorrows of Satan, [Marie] Corelli's principal best-seller: 'It is the richest work o... Rupert Brooke Marie Corelli The Sorrows of Satan Print : Book1850-1899 "[Gladstone's] daughter Mary and her husband, the Revd Harry Drew, read Vendetta together in 1887, noting 'goodish plot but rather rot otherwise'." Harry and Mary Drew Marie Corelli Vendetta Print : Book1850-1899 'How delightful are Sir Edward's Essays. One seems to see his own special creation, the accomplished man of the world, not entirely worldly, a quintessence of social wis... Margaret Oliphant Edward Bulwer Lytton Essays Print : Book1850-1899 "... [Gladstone] ... read The Romance of Two Worlds [sic] before he met ... [Marie Corelli, in June 1889] and started on Ardath a couple of days afterwards, but when he r... William Ewart Gladstone Marie Corelli A Romance of Two Worlds Print : Book1850-1899 "... [Gladstone] ... read The Romance of Two Worlds [sic] before he met ... [Marie Corelli, in June 1889] and started on Ardath a couple of days afterwards, but when he r... William Ewart Gladstone Marie Corelli Ardath Print : Book1850-1899 'I must say I think the "Woman in White" a marvel of workmanship. I found it bear a second reading very well, and indeed it was having it thrown in my way for a second t... Margaret Oliphant Wilkie Collins The Woman in White Print : Book1850-1899 'I must say I think the "Woman in White" a marvel of workmanship. I found it bear a second reading very well, and indeed it was having it thrown in my way for a second t... Margaret Oliphant Wilkie Collins The Woman in White Print : Book1850-1899 Arnold Bennett to George Sturt, 29 October 1895: "'I have just read Marie Corelli's new book -- my first of hers. I can now understand both her popularity and the critic... Arnold Bennett Marie Corelli ? The Sorrows of Satan Print : Book1850-1899 "...Edward [Prince of Wales] invited ... [Marie Corelli] to a luncheon which the future King George V [then Duke of York] also attended, and both told her that they had r... Edward Prince of Wales Marie Corelli novels Print : Book1850-1899 'Now about your literary questions, scoffer! Know that I read everything (except the politics, - I am a Radical, you know) which has the honour of appearing in "Maga" [... Margaret Oliphant David Wingate My Little Wife Print : Book1850-1899 "...Edward [Prince of Wales] invited ... [Marie Corelli] to a luncheon which the future King George V [then Duke of York] also attended, and both told her that they had r... George Duke of York Marie Corelli novels Print : Book1850-1899 " ... Gilbert Frankau ... read ... [Nat Gould's novels] while at Eton at the turn of the century ..." Gilbert Frankau Nat Gould novels Print : Book1900-1945 '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'. Katherine Mansfield [unknown] [unknown] Print : Book"For [Nat] Gould, the highest commendation of his 'art' came ... when Walter Home, the Routledge's representative who snapped up The Double Event, told him that he nearly... Walter Home Nat Gould The Double Event Print : Book1900-1945 'Do you know I have read none of the books that you mentioned. Is not that shocking - but - Sylvia - you know that little "Harold Brown" shop in Wimpole Shop [for street... Katherine Mansfield Louis Vintras The Silver Net Print : Book1850-1899 "In 1905 [Andrew] Lang ... recalled: 'The first book that ever made me cry, of which feat I was horribly ashamed, was 'Uncle Tom's Cabin', with the death of Eva ...'" Andrew Lang Harriet Beecher Stowe Uncle Tom's Cabin Print : Book1900-1945 'I have been reading - French & English writing and lately have seen a great many Balls - and loved them - and dinners and receptions.' Katherine Mansfield Print : Book1850-1899 'The Queen [Victoria] ... read the sequel [to "Uncle Tom's Cabin"], "Dred: A Tale of the Dismal Swamp" (1856), and considered it as good ...' Queen Victoria Harriet Beecher Stowe Dred: A Tale of the Dismal Swamp Print : Book1900-1945 'While I am on the subject of eating - for I am convinced E.F.Benson wrote the book on an empty, healthy tummy, do please read "Sheaves" - It is delightful and also, it i... Katherine Mansfield E.F. Benson Sheaves Print : Book1900-1945 'I have adopted Stendhal. Every night I read him now & first thing in the morning.' Katherine Mansfield Stendhal Print : Book1900-1945 'I have adopted Stendhal. Every night I read him now & first thing in the morning.' Katherine Mansfield Stendhal Print : Book1850-1899 'The Queen [Victoria] had ... [in 1886] read only "Donovan" [by Edna Lyall], but in sending this to her daughter together with "We Two" she added about the latter that Pr... Queen Victoria Edna Lyall Donovan: A Modern Englishman Print : Book1850-1899 'The Queen [Victoria] had ... [in 1886] read only "Donovan" [by Edna Lyall], but in sending this to her daughter together with "We Two" [1884] she added about the latter ... Princess Beatrice Edna Lyall We Two Print : Book1850-1899 'Aged 22, Mrs [Ruth] Baily read [and enjoyed] both ... ["Donovan" and "We Two"] in 1887 ...' Ruth Baily Edna Lyall We Two Print : Book1850-1899 'Aged 22, Mrs [Ruth] Baily read [and enjoyed] both ... ["Donovan" and "We Two"] in 1887 ...' Ruth Baily Edna Lyall Donovan: A Modern Englishman Print : Book1850-1899 'It made me think of a poem that our german professor used to read us in class. Ja, das war zum letzenmal/ Das, wir beide, arm in arme/ unter einem Schirm gebogen. --/ A... Katherine Mansfield Edward Morike Erinerung - an C.N. Unknown 1800-1849 'My journey lay over the field of Thrasymenus, and as soon as the sun rose, I read Livy's description of the scene [...] I was exactly in the situation of the consul, Fla... Thomas Babington Macaulay Livy (Titus Livius) History of Rome Book XIII Print : Book1900-1945 'Then I woke up, switched on the light, & began to read Venus & Adonis. It's pretty stuff - rather like the Death of Procris'. Katherine Mansfield William Shakespeare Venus and Adonis Print : Book1850-1899 "'I have finished Endymion with a painful feeling that the writer [Disraeli] considers all political life as mere play and gambling,' wrote the Archbishop of Canterbury, ... A. C. Tait Benjamin Disraeli Endymion Print : Book1900-1945 'I got up at that moment to re-read your article on Leon Bloy. The memory of it suddenly rose in my mind, like a scent'. Katherine Mansfield John Middleton Murry The Loneliness of Leon Bloy Print : Newspaper1900-1945 'I got up at that moment to re-read your article on Leon Bloy. The memory of it suddenly rose in my mind, like a scent'. Katherine Mansfield John Middleton Murry The Loneliness of Leon Bloy Print : Newspaper1850-1899 "[George] Meredtih's penultimate novel, Lord Ormont and his Aminta (1894), was, [Henry] James told Edmund Gosse [in letter of 22 August 1894], 'unspeakable' ... he could ... Henry James George Meredith Lord Ormont and his Aminta Print : Book1900-1945 'I don't dare to work any more tonight. That is why I asked for another Dickens; if I read him in bed he diverts my mind.' Katherine Mansfield Charles Dickens Print : Book1900-1945 'There is a trifling scene in Virginia's book where a charming young creature in a bright fantastic attitude plays the flute: it positively frightens me - to realise this... Katherine Mansfield Virginia Woolf Night and Day Print : Book1850-1899 '[R. L. Stevenson] ... nominated ["The Egoist"], together with a couple of Scott's novels, a Dumas, Shakespeare, Montaigne, and Moliere, as one of that handful of books w... Robert Louis Stevenson George Meredith The Egoist Print : Book1850-1899 '[R. L. Stevenson] ... nominated ["The Egoist"], together with a couple of Scott's novels, a Dumas, Shakespeare, Montaigne, and Moliere, as one of that handful of books w... Robert Louis Stevenson Walter Scott [novels] Print : Book1850-1899 '[R. L. Stevenson] ... nominated ["The Egoist"], together with a couple of Scott's novels, a Dumas, Shakespeare, Montaigne, and Moliere, as one of that handful of books w... Robert Louis Stevenson Alexandre Dumas [novel] Print : Book1850-1899 '[R. L. Stevenson] ... nominated ["The Egoist"], together with a couple of Scott's novels, a Dumas, Shakespeare, Montaigne, and Moliere, as one of that handful of books w... Robert Louis Stevenson William Shakespeare [works] Print : Book1900-1945 'The novel can't just leave the war out [...] What has been - stands - but Jane Austen could not write Northanger Abbey now - or if she did I'd have none of her'. Katherine Mansfield Jane Austen Northanger Abbey Print : Book1800-1849 'in a few days after this I met with a book written by Mr Bunyan the title of the book was the two Covenants in this book the unpardonable Sin was explained this part I s... Joseph Mayett John Bunyan Two covenants Print : Book1850-1899 '[R. L. Stevenson] ... nominated ["The Egoist"], together with a couple of Scott's novels, a Dumas, Shakespeare, Montaigne, and Moliere, as one of that handful of books w... Robert Louis Stevenson Michel de Montaigne [unknown] Print : Book1850-1899 '[R. L. Stevenson] ... nominated ["The Egoist"], together with a couple of Scott's novels, a Dumas, Shakespeare, Montaigne, and Moliere, as one of that handful of books w... Robert Louis Stevenson Moliere [pseud] [unknown] Print : Book1900-1945 'Since I came here I have been very interested in the Bible. I have read the Bible for hours on end.' Katherine Mansfield Bible Print : Book1850-1899 "[Wilfrid Scawen] Blunt was a great admirer of [Meredith's] Modern Love and, though he only read it thirty years after its publication when Meredith sent him a copy in 18... Wilfrid Scawen Blunt George Meredith Modern Love Print : Book1900-1945 'I bought a book by Henry James yesterday and read it, as they say, "until far into the night". It was not very interesting or very good, but I can wade through pages an... Katherine Mansfield Henry James Confidence Print : Book1900-1945 "Lady Cynthia Asquith ... believed [as she recorded in her diary] that 'Meredith is very good for reading aloud.' On 10 March 1916 she tested this proposition by reading... Lady Cynthia Asquith George Meredith The Egoist Print : Book1900-1945 'I read the lonely Nietzsche: but I felt a bit ashamed of my feelings for this man in the past. He is, if you like, "human, all too human." Read until late. I felt wre... Katherine Mansfield Nietzsche Print : Book1900-1945 "... Lady Cynthia [Asquith] was gratified to learn that, found in his pocket when Billy Grenfell was killed in battle in 1915 was a Meredith poem, copied out for him by h... Lady Desborough George Meredith poem 1900-1945 'I have read and sewed to-day, but not written a word'. Katherine Mansfield unknown unknown Print : Book1900-1945 'Read in the evening and later read with J. a good deal of poetry'. Katherine Mansfield Print : Book1900-1945 'Read in the evening and later read with J. a good deal of poetry'. Katherine Mansfield [poetry] Print : Book1900-1945 "At the age of 18 Violet Asquith ... tackled The Egoist, which 'I thought brilliant. The first 3 pages made me so angry by their obscureness ... that I nearly left off .... Violet Asquith George Meredith The Egoist Print : Book1900-1945 'It's very quiet. I've re-read L'Entrave. I suppose Colette is the only woman in France who does just this. I don't care a fig at present for anyone I know except her.... Katherine Mansfield Colette L'Entrave Print : Book1900-1945 'It's very quiet. I've re-read L'Entrave. I suppose Colette is the only woman in France who does just this. I don't care a fig at present for anyone I know except her.... Katherine Mansfield Colette L'Entrave Print : Book1900-1945 ' "When all is done human life is at its greatest and best but a little froward [sic] child to be played with, and humoured a little, to keep it quiet until it falls asle... Katherine Mansfield William Temple Miscellanea Print : Book1900-1945 ' "A CALM IRRESISTIBLE WELL-BEING - ALMOST mystic in character, and yet doubtless connected with physical conditions" writes Dorothy'. Katherine Mansfield Dorothy Wordsworth Journal Print : Book1900-1945 ' "They were neither of them quite enough in love to imagine that ?350 a year would supply them with all the comforts of life" (Jane Austen's "Elinor and Edward"). My Go... Katherine Mansfield Jane Austen Sense and Sensibility Print : Book1900-1945 'Calm day. In garden read early poems in Oxford Book. Discussed our future library. In the evening read Dostoevsky'. Katherine Mansfield Print : Book1900-1945 '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 ... Mark Grossek n/a [sexual grafitti] Manuscript : Graffito1900-1945 'Calm day. In garden read early poems in Oxford Book. Discussed our future library. In the evening read Dostoevsky'. Katherine Mansfield Dostoevsky Print : Book1900-1945 '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 ... Mark Grossek n/a [scandalous news stories in local press] Print : Newspaper1900-1945 '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 ... Mark Grossek n/a Lloyd's Weekly News Print : Newspaper1900-1945 '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 ... Mark Grossek William Shakespeare Measure for Measure Print : Book1900-1945 '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 ... Mark Grossek n/a The Song of Solomon Print : Book1900-1945 'I have read - given way to reading - two books by Octave Mirbeau - and after them I see dreadfully and finally, (1) that the French are a filthy people, (2) that their c... Katherine Mansfield Octave Mirbeau Print : Book1900-1945 '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 ... Mark Grossek [unknown] [old plays] Print : Book1900-1945 'I have read - given way to reading - two books by Octave Mirbeau - and after them I see dreadfully and finally, (1) that the French are a filthy people, (2) that their c... Katherine Mansfield Octave Mirbeau Print : Book1900-1945 'My sticks of rhubarb were wrapped up in a copy of the "Star" containing Lloyd George's last, more than eloquent speech. As I snipped up the rhubarb my eye fell, was fix... Katherine Mansfield Lloyd George Print : Newspaper1900-1945 'Putting my weakest books to the wall last night I came across a copy of "Howard's End" and had a look into it. But it's not good enough. E.M.Forster never gets any fur... Katherine Mansfield E.M. Forster Howard's End Print : Book1900-1945 '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 ... Mark Grossek William Booth In Darkest England and the Way Out Print : Book1900-1945 'Tchehov [Chekhov] makes me feel that this longing to write stories of such uneven length is quite justified. Geneva is a long story, and Hamilton is very short [...] Tc... Katherine Mansfield Anton Chekhov Geneva Print : Book1900-1945 '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 ... Mark Grossek Tobias Smollett [unknown] Print : Book1900-1945 'Tchehov [Chekhov] makes me feel that this longing to write stories of such uneven length is quite justified. Geneva is a long story, and Hamilton is very short [...] Tc... Katherine Mansfield Anton Chekhov Hamilton Print : Book1900-1945 '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 ... Mark Grossek Richard Quain Dictionary of Medicine Print : Book1900-1945 '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 ... Mark Grossek n/a Leviticus Print : Book1900-1945 '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 ... Mark Grossek Ovid [unknown] Print : Book1900-1945 Journal entry of March 1916 entitled "Notes on Dostoevsky" gives 2 pages of notes on "The Idiot" and "The Possessed". Katherine Mansfield Dostoevsky The Idiot Print : Book1900-1945 Journal entry of March 1916 entitled "Notes on Dostoevsky" gives 2 pages of notes on "The Idiot" and "The Possessed". Katherine Mansfield Dostoevsky The Possessed Print : Book1900-1945 'Jinne Moore was awfully good at elocution. Was she better than I? I could make the girls cry when I read Dickens in the sewing class, and she couldn't.' Katherine Mansfield Charles Dickens Print : Book1900-1945 '"This book [Dr Foote's Plain Home Talk and Cyclopaedia) made a great impression on me", wrote Glasgow foundryworker Thomas Bell "And I handed it round my workmates until... Thomas Bell Edward Bliss Foote Plain Home Talk and Cyclopaedia Print : Book1900-1945 '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 p... Ethel Mannin [unknown] [home medical books] Print : Book1900-1945 '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 p... Ethel Mannin Sigmund Freud [unknown-works] Print : Book1900-1945 '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 p... Ethel Mannin n/a [encyclopaedias] Print : Book1900-1945 '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 p... Ethel Mannin n/a Song of Solomon Print : Book1900-1945 '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 p... Ethel Mannin n/a Genesis (story of Jacob and Esau) Print : Book1900-1945 'At age thirteen or fourteen John Edmonds, who was reading "The Cloister and the Hearth" with a lower-midddle-class girlfriend, asked her how Margaret had become pregnant... John Edmonds Charles Reade The Cloister and the Hearth Print : Book1900-1945 'Even those who read widely about sex often learned very little. In the 1920s Jennie Lee won a psychology degree from the University of Edinburgh... She went beyond the s... Jennie Lee Marie Stopes [unknown] Print : Book1900-1945 'Even those who read widely about sex often learned very little. In the 1920s Jennie Lee won a psychology degree from the University of Edinburgh... She went beyond the s... Jennie Lee Havelock Ellis [unknown] Print : Book1900-1945 'Even those who read widely about sex often learned very little. In the 1920s Jennie Lee won a psychology degree from the University of Edinburgh... She went beyond the s... Jennie Lee Sigmund Freud Print : Book1900-1945 'Years of reading had made [Ruth Slate] tired of squabbling between competing religious sects, and it was Tolstoy's Resurrection that finally gave her the courage to plow... Ruth Slate Leo Tolstoy Resurrection Print : Book1900-1945 'Years of reading had made [Ruth Slate] tired of squabbling between competing religious sects, and it was Tolstoy's Resurrection that finally gave her the courage to plow... Ruth Slate Auguste Forel Sexual Ethics Print : Book1900-1945 'Years of reading had made [Ruth Slate] tired of squabbling between competing religious sects, and it was Tolstoy's Resurrection that finally gave her the courage to plow... Ruth Slate Christabel Pankhurst The Great Scourge Print : Book1900-1945 'Years of reading had made [Ruth Slate] tired of squabbling between competing religious sects, and it was Tolstoy's Resurrection that finally gave her the courage to plow... Ruth Slate New Age Print : Serial / periodical1900-1945 'Years of reading had made [Ruth Slate] tired of squabbling between competing religious sects, and it was Tolstoy's Resurrection that finally gave her the courage to plow... Ruth Slate Freewoman Print : Serial / periodical1900-1945 'Jude the Obscure, Edward Carpenter's Love's Coming of Age, Grant Allen's The Woman Who Did, H.G. Well's The New Machiavelli and Ann Veronica, as well as the examples of ... Eva Slawson Thomas Hardy Jude the Obscure Print : Book, Serial / periodical1900-1945 'Jude the Obscure, Edward Carpenter's Love's Coming of Age, Grant Allen's The Woman Who Did, H.G. Well's The New Machiavelli and Ann Veronica, as well as the examples of ... Eva Slawson Edward Carpenter Love's Coming of Age Print : Book1900-1945 'Jude the Obscure, Edward Carpenter's Love's Coming of Age, Grant Allen's The Woman Who Did, H.G. Well's The New Machiavelli and Ann Veronica, as well as the examples of ... Eva Slawson Herbert George Wells The New Machiavelli Print : Book1900-1945 'Jude the Obscure, Edward Carpenter's Love's Coming of Age, Grant Allen's The Woman Who Did, H.G. Well's The New Machiavelli and Ann Veronica, as well as the examples of ... Eva Slawson Herbert George Wells Ann Veronica Print : Book1900-1945 'when Gladys [Teal] took a job at a draper's shop around 1930, a female assistant gave her a Marie Stopes book on birth control , which she gratefully read'. Gladys Teal Marie Stopes [book on birth control] Print : Book1900-1945 'Houseservant Margaret Powell was unusually daring: she left Marie Stopes, along with the Kama Sutra and Havelock Ellis, on the bedside table for her husband. (Eventually... Margaret Powell Marie Stopes [book on sex] Print : Book1900-1945 'Houseservant Margaret Powell was unusually daring: she left Marie Stopes, along with the Kama Sutra and Havelock Ellis, on the bedside table for her husband. (Eventually... Margaret Powell Havelock Ellis [book on sex] Print : Book1900-1945 'Houseservant Margaret Powell was unusually daring: she left Marie Stopes, along with the Kama Sutra and Havellock Ellis, on the bedside table for her husband. (Eventuall... Margaret Powell Kama Sutra Print : Book1900-1945 'An emancipated working woman like Elizabeth Ring was free to read the works of Freud, Havelock Ellis and Bertrand Russell in the late 1920s, but she was familiar with th... Elizabeth Ring Havelock Ellis Print : Book1900-1945 'An emancipated working woman like Elizabeth Ring was free to read the works of Freud, Havelock Ellis and Bertrand Russell in the late 1920s, but she was familiar with th... Elizabeth Ring Sigmund Freud Print : Book1900-1945 'An emancipated working woman like Elizabeth Ring was free to read the works of Freud, Havelock Ellis and Bertrand Russell in the late 1920s, but she was familiar with th... Elizabeth Ring Bertrand Russell Print : Book1900-1945 [Bennett] '. . .reread Balzac and de Maupassant and wondered whether he would be acccused of plagiarism.' Arnold Bennett Honore de Balzac Print : Book1900-1945 'In the months leading up to the First World War, C.H. Rolph learned shorthand by taking dictation as his father read from the Daily Telegraph, The Times, the Referee and... C.H. Rolph The Times Print : Newspaper1900-1945 'In the months leading up to the First World War, C.H. Rolph learned shorthand by taking dictation as his father read from the Daily Telegraph, The Times, the Referee and... C.H. Rolph The Daily Telegraph Print : Newspaper1900-1945 'In the months leading up to the First World War, C.H. Rolph learned shorthand by taking dictation as his father read from the Daily Telegraph, The Times, the Referee and... C.H. Rolph Referee Print : Newspaper1900-1945 'In the months leading up to the First World War, C.H. Rolph learned shorthand by taking dictation as his father read from the Daily Telegraph, The Times, the Referee and... C.H. Rolph John Bull Magazine Print : Serial / periodical1900-1945 '. . . he was reading Gaboriau's detective fiction enthusiastically at this time, and makes several polite acknowledgements to him in the text itself, as well as in his j... Arnold Bennett Gaboriau [detective fiction] Print : Book1700-1799 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 Odyssey Print : Book1850-1899 Letter H 49 (late November 1856)
?Mrs Brownings poem is the finest in the English language ? poem I mean ? (not drama) ? but it is a noble drama too ? ?
John Ruskin Elizabeth Barrett Browning Aurora Leigh Print : Book1850-1899 From the editor?s footnote to a letter sent in November 1856:
?In a letter to Miss Heaton, Rossetti was no less enthusiastic: ?No doubt you are revelling, as I am, in Au... Dante Gabriel Rossetti Elizabeth Barrett Browning Aurora Leigh Print : Book1850-1899 Letter H 85 (Latter half of March 1860)
?Mrs Browning?s verse is capital, but would have been better in prose. It is spoiled for rhyme?s sake.?
John Ruskin Elizabeth Barrett Browning Poems before Congress Print : Book1850-1899 Letter H88 (?Mid-April 1860)
?Mrs B. is entirely good. In fact Magnificent (except her rhyme to Modena ? needlessly offensive and ?band plays?) ? Finest moral poetry eve... John Ruskin Elizabeth Barrett Browning Poems before Congress Print : Book1850-1899 Letter H.96 (Beginning of June 1861)
?The Defence of Guenevere by Morris is published by Bell & Daldy.?
John Ruskin William Morris The Defence of Guenevere Print : Book1800-1849 Letter H. 114. Postmark 15 May 1863
Referring to a picture of Helen of Troy: ?She is the sweetest character in all Homer ? and the true heroine ? even of the Odyssey ? (... John Ruskin Homer Odyssey Print : Book1800-1849 Letter H. 114. Postmark 15 May 1863
Referring to a picture of Helen of Troy: ?She is the sweetest character in all Homer ? and the true heroine ? even of the Odyssey ? (... John Ruskin Homer Iliad Print : Book1800-1849 '"Alphonsine" did not do. We were disgusted in twenty pages, as, independent of a bad translation, it has indelicacies which disgrace a pen hitherto so pure; and we chang... Austen family Madame de Genlis Alphonsine, or Maternal Affection Print : Book1800-1849 Letter H. 114. Postmark 15 May 1863
Referring to a picture of Helen of Troy: ?She is the sweetest character in all Homer ? and the true heroine ? even of the Odyssey ? (... John Ruskin Johann von Goethe Faust Print : Book1700-1799 'I told him that from reading Gay's writings, I had taken an affection to his Grace's family from my earliest years.' James Boswell John Gay [unknown] Print : Book1800-1849 Letter of Elizabeth Barrett to Robert Browning, May 7 1846
?Miss Heaton ? told me yesterday that the poetess proper of the city of Leeds was ?Mrs A.? ? as she lives in L... Ellen Heaton Rebecca Hey The Moral of Flowers (1833) and The Spirit of the ... Print : Book1850-1899 ?To say the truth, my compliment is not so strong as it seems; for there is no English paper now wh. I can read without disgust. The Saturday, politically speaking, is in... Leslie Stephen The Spectator Print : Newspaper1850-1899 ?To say the truth, my compliment is not so strong as it seems; for there is no English paper now wh. I can read without disgust. The Saturday, politically speaking, is in... Leslie Stephen The Pall Mall Print : Newspaper1850-1899 ?To say the truth, my compliment is not so strong as it seems; for there is no English paper now wh. I can read without disgust. The Saturday, politically speaking, is in... Leslie Stephen The Times Print : Newspaper1850-1899 ?To say the truth, my compliment is not so strong as it seems; for there is no English paper now wh. I can read without disgust. The Saturday, politically speaking, is in... Leslie Stephen The World Print : Newspaper1850-1899 ?Do you sympathise with me when I say that the only writer whom I have been able to read with pleasure through this nightmare is Wordsworth? I used not to care for him es... Leslie Stephen William Wordsworth Print : Book1900-1945 'I wrote endless imitations, though I never thought them to be imitations but, rather wonderfully original things, like eggs laid by tigers. They were imitations of anyth... Dylan Thomas Edgar Allan Poe Print : Book1850-1899 ?And this reminds me by a further association of ideas that you would do well to look ? if you like to have your stomach turned ? at Farrar?s Life of Christ ? the gospels... Leslie Stephen Frederick Farrar The Life of Christ Print : Book1850-1899 "Payn showed me yesterday an article of yours upon a Miss Grant of whom I confess, I have heard for the first time; but I thought the whole really well written & feel tha... Leslie Stephen William Ernest Henley Miss Grant Print : Serial / periodical1850-1899 "I have been through a course of perhaps the dreariest reading in the whole of English literature - I mean, 18th century sermons. Lord! how dull they are - almost as dull... Leslie Stephen [18th and 19th century sermons] Print : Book1850-1899 "I go off tomorrow to Cumberland where I shall climb the British Mt Blanc & forget for a short time that there are such things as books to be written. I take 2 or 3 to re... Leslie Stephen James Russell Lowell Pictures from Appledore Print : Book1850-1899 "I have read, too, or repeated, for I know him by heart, our old friend Omar Khyyam. He is grand in his way & if spiritualised a little, strikes a right note at times but... Leslie Stephen Omar Khayyam Print : Book1850-1899 '... King Kalakava [of Hawaii] ... was an avid reader of [R. L.] Stevenson's romances ...' King Kalakava Robert Louis Stevenson Print : Unknown1900-1945 '[A. A.] Milne ... [became] a decided anti-militarist after reading Norman Angell's "The Great Illusion" (1910) ...' Alan Alexander Milne Norman Angell The Great Illusion Print : Book1850-1899 '[Robert] Bridges had spent eight months in Germany in the 1860s, after going down from Oxford; and Heine's lyrics, among his favourite reading, had influenced his own po... Robert Bridges Heinrich Heine lyric poetry Print : Unknown1900-1945 'One enthusiastic reader of "Land and Water" was the poet James Elroy Flecker, who, in the process of dying in a Swiss sanatorium, requested his parents to take out a sub... James Elroy Flecker anon Land and Water Print : Serial / periodical1900-1945 'In 1911 E. M. Forster read "with mingled joy and disgust" "A School History of England", which Kipling and C. R. L. Fletcher had just published ...' Edward Morgan Forster Rudyard and C. R. L. Kipling and Fletcher A School History of England Print : Book1850-1899 '[Walter] Besant told [William Robertson] Nicoll that no sooner had he read "The Light that Failed" (1891) on a long train journey than he started it again and read it th... Walter Besant Rudyard Kipling The Light that Failed Print : Book1900-1945 'The sculptress Kathleen Bruce, widow of the Arctic explorer Captain Scott ... became positively scornful when she read [H. G.] Wells's "God the Invisible King" in 1917 .... Kathleen Bruce H. G. Wells God the Invisible King Print : Book1850-1899 George Gissing, diary entry for 9 December 1894: 'Gloomy day. Read "Esther Waters". Some pathos and power in latter part, but miserable writing.' George Gissing George Moore Esther Waters Print : Book1900-1945 'Aubrey Hicks offers an illustration of how little world news reached even the best-informed workers. His father, a painter on the Rothschild estate at Tring, had attende... Aubrey Hicks Daily Chronicle Print : Newspaper1850-1899 'Thomas Hardy, to whom [Rider] Haggard sent his Norse adventure "Eric Brighteyes" (1891), was roused by "a wild illustration" to start reading a chapter nearer the end th... Thomas Hardy Rider Haggard Eric Brighteyes Print : Book1900-1945 '... reading "Sons and Lovers", [W. H. Hudson] judged it "a very good book indeed except in that
portion where he relapses into the old sty -- the neck-sucking and wall... William Henry Hudson D. H. Lawrence Sons and Lovers Print : Book1900-1945 '[John] Galsworthy sent [Thomas] Hardy a presentation copy of "The Man of Property" [1906] and, Hardy told Florence Henniker, "I began it, but found the people too materi... Thomas Hardy John Galsworthy The Man of Property Print : Book1900-1945 'When Florence Murray married in 1902, her husband, a Colne valley wool manufacturer, was a widower with a young son ... who was looked after by an aged housekeeper ['an ... Florence Murray Charles Dickens David Copperfield Print : Book1850-1899 'In spite of his own decided irreligion, [Arnold] Bennett kept the Bible at his bedside and read it.' Arnold Bennett The Bible Print : Book'In 1970, on radio, Field Marshal Montgomery said that reading "When it was Dark" [1903] had been a turning point in his life.' Bernard Law Montgomery Guy Thorne When it was Dark Print : Book1850-1899 '[George Bernard] Shaw was struck when reading St Paul's Epistles by their "inveterate crookedness of mind".' George Bernard Shaw St Paul Epistles Print : Book1850-1899 '[George Bernard] Shaw read the Bible all through; and he was much affected by Bunyan's "Pilgrim's Progress".' George Bernard Shaw The Bible Print : Book1850-1899 '[George Bernard] Shaw read the Bible all through; and he was much affected by Bunyan's "Pilgrim's Progress".' George Bernard Shaw John Bunyan Pilgrim's Progress Print : Book1900-1945 '"Why do you want to break men's spirits for?" Shaw asked Henry James after reading his one-act play "The Saloon" in 1909.' George Bernard Shaw Henry James The Saloon Unknown 1850-1899 Thomas Hardy to Sir George Douglas, 3 March 1898: "'[Stephen Phillips's] Poems was strongly recommended to me, & I bought him, but ... am bound to say that I was woefully... Thomas Hardy Stephen Phillips Poems Print : Book1850-1899 'Went to the Athenaeum & read before tea time. In the evening smoked & read until it was time to go to bed' John Buckley Castieau [unknown] [unknown] Print : Unknown1850-1899 " ... tears filled ... [D. G. Rossetti's] eyes as he read about Guy Morville's death in The Heir of Redclyffe." Dante Gabriel Rossetti Charlotte M. Yonge The Heir of Redclyffe Print : Book1850-1899 " ... Charles Kingsley ... told ... [its] publisher that ... [Heartsease] was 'the most delightful and wholesome novel I ever read ... I found myself wiping my eyes a doz... Charles Kingsley Charlotte M. Yonge Heartsease Print : Book1850-1899 "The Prime Minister's daughter Violet Asquith read ... [The Heir of Redclyffe] seven times 'from cover to cover -- never failing to cry at the end' ..." Violet Asquith Charlotte M. Yonge The Heir of Redclyffe Print : Book1900-1945 'When Wilfrid Blunt ... reread "Loss and Gain" he was struck how "Newman's mind ... seems never to have faced the real issues of belief and unbelief, those which have to ... Wilfrid Scawen Blunt John Henry Newman Loss and Gain Print : Book1850-1899 'The retired Governor of Madras Sir Mountstuart Grant Duff, to whom Mrs [Humphry] Ward read extracts from "Robert Elsmere "before it was published, was arrested by the no... Mrs Humphry Ward Mary Augusta Ward Robert Elsmere 1850-1899 'One of the privately printed copies [of "John Inglesant" was] ... read by Mrs Humphry Ward and her advocacy persuaded Macmillan's to give it general release.' Mary Augusta Ward J. Henry Shorthouse John Inglesant 1850-1899 'Writing her memoirs in 1926, Janet Courtney went back to what she was like at 15, "when "John Inglesant" was published, spending the long summer holidays in the quiet of... Janet Courtney J. Henry Shorthouse John Inglesant Print : Book1850-1899 ' ... the refrain in Gladstone's diaries, in his notes on the many controversial books he read, from Hardy to Zola, was his moral anxiety that a society without a Christi... William Ewart Gladstone Thomas Hardy Print : Unknown1850-1899 ' ... the refrain in Gladstone's diaries, in his notes on the many controversial books he read, from Hardy to Zola, was his moral anxiety that a society without a Christi... William Ewart Gladstone Emile Zola Print : Book1850-1899 ' ... [Gladstone] was disappointed by ... "The History of David Grieve" (1892), though he read it all ...' William Ewart Gladstone Mrs Humphry Ward The History of David Grieve Print : Book1900-1945 ' ... when Arnold Bennett was reading Mrs [Edith] Wharton's "The House of Mirth" (1905), he concluded: "It can just be read. Probably a somewhat superior Mrs Humphry Ward... Arnold Bennett Edith Wharton The House of Mirth Print : Book1800-1849 'The books which I am at present employed in reading to myself are in English, Plutarch's Lives and Milner's Ecclesiastical History'. Thomas Babington Macaulay Plutarch Lives Print : Book1850-1899 "Morley has just published a book on 'Compromise'; out of the Fortnightly. I think his writing improves. It seems to me good & dignified without being too much like a ser... Leslie Stephen John Morley On Compromise Print : Book1800-1849 'The books which I am at present employed in reading to myself are in English, Plutarch's Lives and Milner's Ecclesiastical History'. Thomas Babington Macaulay Milner Ecclesiastical History Print : Book1800-1849 'In my learning I do Xenophon every day'. Thomas Babington Macaulay Xenophon Print : Book1900-1945 ' ... [Virginia Woolf] was liable to blame Mrs [Humphry] Ward for her own periods of sterility as a writer: "How I dislike writing straight after reading Mrs H. Ward! -- ... Virginia Woolf Mrs Humphry Ward Print : Book1850-1899 "And that reminds me that the last Contemporary is worth looking at, not only for Gladstone's twaddle about Ritualism, wh. has sold ten editions of the number, twaddle th... Leslie Stephen W E Gladstone Ritualism and Ritual Print : Serial / periodical1800-1849 In my learning I do Xenophon every day and twice a week the Odyssey, in which I am classed with Wilberforce. Thomas Babington Macaulay Homer The Odyssey Print : Book1850-1899 "And that reminds me that the last Contemporary is worth looking at, not only for Gladstone's twaddle about Ritualism, wh. has sold ten editions of the number, twaddle th... Leslie Stephen Matthew Arnold Review of Objections to Literature and Dogma Print : Serial / periodical1800-1849 'We get by heart Greek grammar or Virgil every evening'. Thomas Babington Macaulay Virgil Print : Book1850-1899 "I am spending a quiet Sunday morning in Birbeck's smoking room - reading a novel." Leslie Stephen [Novel] Print : Book1800-1849 The books which I am reading to myself are [...] in French, Fenelon's Dialogues of the Dead.' Thomas Babington Macaulay Fenelon Dialogues of the Dead Print : Book1800-1849 'I shall send you back the volumes of Madame de Genlis's [underline] petits romans [end underline] as soon as possible, and I should be very much obliged for one or two m... Thomas Babington Macaulay Stephanie-Felicite de Genlis Print : Book1800-1849 [Every Sunday] 'After breakfast we learn a chapter in the Greek Testament, that is with the aid of our Bibles, and without doing it with a dictionary like other lessons'. Thomas Babington Macaulay Bible Print : Book1800-1849 "It is very like Shirley except that there is no heather & the people are all of them of the Yorkshire kind as described by the Brontes." Leslie Stephen Charlotte Bronte Shirley Print : Book1800-1849 'We dine almost as soon as we come back, and we are left to ourselves till afternoon church. During this time I employ myself in reading, and Mr Preston lends me any book... Thomas Babington Macaulay Print : Book1800-1849 "He [Mr Morrison] breeds horses, & the colts came up & talked to us, & his great kennelfulls of dogs who came to be patted & generally would easily become a tenant of Wil... Leslie Stephen Anne Bronte Tenant of Wildfell Hall Print : Book1800-1849 'Hear what I have read since I came here. Hear and wonder! I have in the first place read Boccacio's Decameron, a tale of a hundred cantos...' Thomas Babington Macaulay Boccacio Decameron Print : Book1800-1849 "The longer you are married, the better you will like it & then I hope you will show proper gratitude to your adviser - not but that you will also heretically deny his in... Leslie Stephen Francois de La Rochefoucauld Reflexions ou sentences et maximes morales Print : Book1800-1849 'Everything here is going on in the common routine. The only things of peculiar interest are those which we get from the London papers.' Thomas Babington Macaulay Print : Newspaper
