√ Century of Experience Evidence Name of Reader / Listener / Reading Group Author of Text Title of Text Form of Text 1800-1849 "Rather vexatiously Mat Arnold has sent in an article wh. I must read before it goes in because it is supposed to be heterodox & I can't get it back till tomorrow night." Leslie Stephen Matthew Arnold Literature and Dogma (possibly) Manuscript : proofs of article1850-1899 We have all read, by the way, The Poet at the breakfast table & sent him our sincere compliments on his performance." Leslie Stephen Sir Oliver Wendell Holmes The Poet at the Breakfast Table Print : Book1800-1849 "I think, for example, that Shirley is very superior to Dorothea Brooke. She has far more character & power, though she does not have such a young lady like admiration fo... Leslie Stephen Charlotte Bronte Shirley Print : Book1850-1899 "I think, for example, that Shirley is very superior to Dorothea Brooke. She has far more character & power, though she does not have such a young lady like admiration fo... Leslie Stephen George Eliot Middlemarch Print : Book1800-1849 "But if you mean seriously to ask me what critical books I recommend, I can only say that I recommend none. I think as a critic that the less authors read of criticisms t... Leslie Stephen Thomas Hardy Print : Book1850-1899 "S[ain]te Beuve & Mat. Arnold (in a smaller way) are the only modern critics wh. seem to me worth reading - perhaps, too, Lowell." Leslie Stephen Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve Print : Book1850-1899 "S[ain]te Beuve & Mat. Arnold (in a smaller way) are the only modern critics wh. seem to me worth reading - perhaps, too, Lowell." Leslie Stephen Matthew Arnold Print : Book1850-1899 "S[ain]te Beuve & Mat. Arnold (in a smaller way) are the only modern critics wh. seem to me worth reading - perhaps, too, Lowell." Leslie Stephen Lowell Print : Book1850-1899 "If I were in the vein, I think I should exhort you above all to read George Sand, whose country stories seem to me perfect & have a certain affinity to yours. The last I... Leslie Stephen George Sand Les maitres Sonneurs Print : Book1850-1899 "I may tell you that, although your Hospital Sonnets did not seem to attract much notice at the time, as, indeed, I always thought them rather wasted on a Magazine - yet... Leslie Stephen William Ernest Henley Hospital Sonnets Print : Serial / periodical1850-1899 "I may tell you that, although your Hospital Sonnets did not seem to attract much notice at the time, as, indeed, I always thought them rather wasted on a Magazine - yet... Leslie Stephen William Ernest Henley Children: Private Ward Print : Serial / periodical1900-1945 '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 David Herbert Lawrence Print : Book1850-1899 "It was in my fifteenth year that I became again, this time intelligently, aquainted with Shakespeare. I got hold of a single play, The Tempest, in a school edition, prep... Edmund Gosse William Shakespeare Julius Caesar Print : Book1850-1899 " It was in my fifteenth year that I became again, this time intelligently, aquainted with Shakespeare. I got hold of a single play, The Tempest, in a school edition, pre... Edmund Gosse William Shakespeare Much Ado about Nothing Print : Book1850-1899 " It [the school's peity] proceeded no further than the practice of reading the Bible aloud, each boy in successive order one verse,in the early morning before breakfast.... Edmund Gosse Bible Print : Book1850-1899 " But, if I chose to walk six or seven miles along the coast... I might spend as pocket-money the railway fare I thus saved. Such considerable sums I fostered in order to... Edmund Gosse Samuel Taylor Coleridge [poems] Print : Book1850-1899 " But, when I was nearly sixteen, I made a purchase which brought me into sad trouble, and was the cause of a permanent wound to my self- respect. I had long coveted in ... Edmund Gosse Ben Jonson Print : Book1850-1899 " But, when I was nearly sixteen, I made a purchase which brought me into sad trouble, and was the cause of a permanent wound to myself-respect. I had long coveted in the... Edmund Gosse Christopher Marlowe Hero and Leander Print : Book1850-1899 " When I reached home, tired out with enthusiasm and exercise, I must needs, so soon as I had eaten, search out my stepmother that she might be a partner in my joys. It i... Edmund Gosse Christopher Marlowe Hero and Leander Print : Book1850-1899 " But I read with unchecked voracity, and in several curious directions. Shakespeare now passed into my possession entire, in the shape of a reprint more hideous and more... Edmund Gosse William Shakespeare Print : Book1850-1899 " But I read with unchecked voracity, and in several curious directions...I made aquaintance with Keats, who entirely captivated me." Edmund Gosse John Keats Print : Book1850-1899 "But I read with unchecked voracity, and in several curious directions...I made aquaintance...with Shelley, whose 'Queen Mab' at first repelled me from the threshold of h... Edmund Gosse Percy Bysshe Shelley Queen Mab Print : Book1850-1899 " But I read with unchecked voracity, and in several curious directions...I made aquaintance... with Wordsworth, for the exercise of whose magic I was still far too young... Edmund Gosse William Wordsworth Print : Book1850-1899 "I tried to read Lord Lytton's Lucile which is rot." Leslie Stephen Robert Bulwer-Lytton Lucile Print : Book1850-1899 "But I read with unchecked voracity, and in several curious directions...My Father presented me with the entire bulk of Southey's stony verse, which I found impossible to... Edmund Gosse Robert Southey Works (poetical?) Print : Book1850-1899 "But I read with unchecked voracity, and in several curios directions...My Father presented me with the entire bulk of Southey's stony verse, which I found it impossible ... Edmund Gosse F.T Palgrave The Golden Treasury Print : Book1850-1899 "I have led a specially quiet life of late; amusing myself by reading a little biography for a change - a good many Newmanite lives in particular. Some day I shall remark... Leslie Stephen [biographies] Print : Book1850-1899 "I have been amusing myself down here with reading Browning - some of him for the first time; & I wonder more and more at his extraordinary power occasionally & at its wa... Leslie Stephen Robert Browning Print : Book1850-1899 " He [Father] presented to me a copy of Dean Alford's edition of the Greek New Testament, in four great volumes, and these he had so magnificently bound in full morocco t... Edmund Gosse Greek New Testament Print : Book1850-1899 "Yet I could not but observe the difference with zeal with which I snatched at a volume of Carlyle or Ruskin- since these magicians were now first revealing themselves to... Edmund Gosse Thomas Carlyle Print : Book1850-1899 "The inn was shut up; but Mr Walker's friend (I suppose) had just looked in to see after his property & was quite amiable & showed me a newspaper cutting with a comic poe... Leslie Stephen [a thief] [comic poem] Print : Newspaper1850-1899 "Yet I could not but observe the difference between the zeal with which I snatched at a volume of Carlyle or Ruskin -since these magicians were now first revealing themse... Edmund Gosse John Ruskin Print : Book1850-1899 "The little ones were very good: all 3 sitting on my knee to look at the bear book & listening whilst Nessa explained with great elocution what you were to do if you met ... Leslie Stephen ["The Bear Book"] Print : Book1850-1899 "I am, I see, talking pessimism. It is not very easy to talk anything else just now. When I read our debates, I sometimes think that we are doing our best to exemplify th... Leslie Stephen The Latterday Pamphlets Print : Pamphlet1850-1899 "I began Robinson Crusoe with Laura. I think that she will be up to it & we made a pretty good start." Leslie Stephen Daniel Defoe Robinson Crusoe Print : Book1850-1899 "This bit of Tennyson sticks in my head; so I write it down: - 'All along the valley where the waters flow / I walked with one I loved two & thirty years ago / All along ... Leslie Stephen Alfred Tennyson In the Valley of the Cauteretz Print : Book1850-1899 "Poor fellow! I really pity him; for his last numbers of the Fors [Clavigera] seem to imply growing distraction of mind, wh. is scarcely compatible with perfect sanity. Y... Leslie Stephen John Ruskin Fors [Clavigera] Print : Book1850-1899 "I finished Daudet who is stupid & took to Plato who is first rate for sleeping purposes. I can just puzzle it out enough to get muddled." Leslie Stephen Alphonse Daudet Print : Book1850-1899 "I finished Daudet who is stupid & took to Plato who is first rate for sleeping purposes. I can just puzzle it out enough to get muddled." Leslie Stephen Plato Print : Book1850-1899 "I have read a book or two from the 'Library' here, wh. fills a small cupboard & passes time fairly." Leslie Stephen Print : Book1850-1899 "I stayed at home this morning - not that there is anything new in that - until lunch, and did very little, very easy work - just finishing up a small life. It rained ste... Leslie Stephen M.G. Lewis The Monk Print : Book1850-1899 "I am really quite well though perhaps a few days more will be a good pick me up. My brain is quite dry. We don't even see a paper expect the Pall Mall Gazette wh. I read... Leslie Stephen Pall Mall Gazette Print : Serial / periodical1850-1899 "Besides wh. I have been looking at Hale's book 'Lowell & his friends'; wh. is not, I think, very much of a book but which told some things of interest to me." Leslie Stephen E. E. Hale James Russell Lowell and his friends Print : Book1800-1849 21/8/1829 ? 'The General gave us an account of the early years of the [French] revolution, the other gentlemen assisting. The evening ended only too soon, but I read in m... Amelia Opie Louise Philippe Segur Memoirs and Recollections Print : Book1850-1899 'As a collier [Joseph Keating]... heard a co-worker sigh, "Heaven from all creatures hides the book of fate". Keating was stunned: "You are quoting Pope". "Ayh", replied ... Joseph Keating George Gordon, Lord Byron [unknown] Print : Book1900-1945 'Wil John Edwards...pursued Gibbon, Hardy, Swinburne and Meredith. His reading was suggested by the literary pages of the Clarion, the librarian at the Miners' Institute ... Wil John Edwards Edward Gibbon presumably Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Print : Book1700-1799 'And Holcroft, reading Adelaide, which must have been one of her earliest plays, wrote on the back of the manuscript: at seventeen, when scenes like this occurred, you pr... Thomas Holcroft Amelia Opie Adelaide Manuscript : Play script1900-1945 'When, during the 1926 miners' strike, [G.A.W. Tomlinson] read 'The Charge of the Light Brigade', an obvious political message "crashed into my mind, mixing together the ... G.A.W. Tomlinson Alfred Lord Tennyson The Charge of the Light Brigade Print : Book1900-1945 'Attending Oxford on a Cassel scholarship, John Allaway found that his WEA training, far from fitting him into a university mold, enabled him to criticize the conventiona... John Allaway John Maynard Keynes Print : Book1800-1849 '27/1/1833 - In the evening read some pages of S. Crisp's "Sermons" - admirable! Read Newton's "Cardiphonia" and in the Acts; an edifying evening, still to bed discourage... Amelia Opie Stephen Crisp Sermons Print : Book1800-1849 '27/1/1833 - In the evening read some pages of S. Crisp's "Sermons" - admirable! Read Newton's "Cardiphonia" and in the Acts; an edifying evening, still to bed discourage... Amelia Opie John Newton Cardiphonia Print : Book1900-1945 "I have read your book with keen interest. I always read you with the pleasure of a literary critic recognising (and envying) mastery in the art of putting things." Leslie Stephen William James The varieties of religious experience 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 Emmuska Orczy Print : Book1850-1899 'Now for yesterday. The proceedings were the "exercises" of the P.B.K. society wh. = simply a gathering of old students of all ages. They begin by some distinguished pers... Leslie Stephen Proceedings of the PBK Print : Proceedings1850-1899 'Now for yesterday. The proceedings were the 'exercises' of the P.B.K. society wh. = simply a gathering of old students of all ages. They begin by some distinguished pers... Leslie Stephen Richard Watson Gilder [poem] Unknown 1850-1899 'Is not your countryman Grant White a terrible bore? The question is prompted by the fact of me having just read a review of him in the Saturday. But my opinion is not fo... Leslie Stephen Richard Grant White [on Copyright] Print : Book1850-1899 'Is not your countryman Grant White a terrible bore? The question is prompted by the fact of me having just read a review of him in the Saturday. But my opinion is not fo... Leslie Stephen Various Saturday Review Print : Serial / periodical1850-1899 'Is not your countryman Grant White a terrible bore? The question is prompted by the fact of me having just read a review of him in the Saturday. But my opinion is not fo... Leslie Stephen Richard Grant White Washington Adams Print : Book1850-1899 'I have ? read your criticism of my book. I will not say that you have given no twinges to my vanity; but I will say that I am in perfect charity with my critic. I should... Leslie Stephen Henry Sidgwick Review of Leslie Stephen's The Science of Ethics Print : Serial / periodical1850-1899 'Dear Mr Gosse, I hope that I am not impertinent in telling you how heartily I have enjoyed your Gray. I think it one of the most charming biographies I ever read; & I wo... Leslie Stephen Edmund Gosse Life of Gray Print : Book1850-1899 'Dear Mr Gosse, I hope that I am not impertinent in telling you how heartily I have enjoyed your Gray. I think it one of the most charming biographies I ever read; & I wo... Leslie Stephen William Shakespeare unknown Print : Book1850-1899 'On these awful dark days there is no work to be done; so this morning after answering notes and paying bills and doing everything I hate doing, I sat down in a very depr... Kate Perugini Print : Unknown1850-1899 'My dear Norton, since I wrote to you last, I have read Mr Chauncey Wright?s book or nearly all & - to say the truth ? found it a tolerably thorough morsel. It is like wa... Leslie Stephen Chauncey Wright Philosophical Discussions Print : Book1850-1899 'The statement wh. I transmitted to you about Cortes was the vaguest but I will see if I can find out anything from my friend, whom I expect to see again. The general eff... Leslie Stephen Various Saturday Review, The Print : Serial / periodical1850-1899 'The hero seems to me superior to the Rochester or the Louis Moore type, who are all rather lay-figures. Nor do I admire the sister?s work [Wuthering Heights] so much as ... Leslie Stephen G. B. Smith The Brontes Manuscript : article1850-1899 'The hero seems to me superior to the Rochester or the Louis Moore type, who are all rather lay-figures. Nor do I admire the sister?s work [Wuthering Heights] so much as ... Leslie Stephen Charlotte Bronte Jane Eyre Print : Book1850-1899 'The hero seems to me superior to the Rochester or the Louis Moore type, who are all rather lay-figures. Nor do I admire the sister?s work [Wuthering Heights] so much as ... Leslie Stephen Emily Bronte Wuthering Heights Print : Book1850-1899 'I prefer Villette to Shirley, on the whole.' Leslie Stephen Charlotte Bronte Villette Print : Book1850-1899 'I prefer Villette to Shirley, on the whole.' Leslie Stephen Charlotte Bronte Shirley 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 William Shakespeare Print : Book1850-1899 'I finished old Newman?s book coming down & as the book is too metaphysical to give you pleasure I will tell you what it comes to, it is an elaborate apology for the mora... Leslie Stephen John Henry Newman An essay in aid of a grammar of assent Print : Book1850-1899 'He [Leslie Stephen's brother] wrote articles for the Pall Mall Gazette all the way out to India; enough, he says, to pay his passage; and some of them were amongst the b... Leslie Stephen J.F. Stephen Pall Mall Gazette, articles Print : Serial / periodical1850-1899 'To say the truth, much as I like reading them & specially Balzac and Sand, & little as I am given to overstrictness in my tastes, I do believe that the commonplace criti... Leslie Stephen unknown [French novels] Print : Book1850-1899 'To say the truth, much as I like reading them & specially Balzac and Sand, & little as I am given to overstrictness in my tastes, I do believe that the commonplace criti... Leslie Stephen George Sand unknown Print : Book1850-1899 'To say the truth, much as I like reading them & specially Balzac and Sand, & little as I am given to overstrictness in my tastes, I do believe that the commonplace criti... Leslie Stephen Honore de Balzac unknown Print : Book1900-1945 '. . . then Edith Sitwell appeared, her nose longer than an ant-eaters, and read some of her absurd stuff...' Edith Sitwell Edith Sitwell poems Unknown 1800-1849 ?Of course, it is true that English writers ? Thackeray conspicuously so ? are injured by being cramped as to love in its various manifestations? Consequently within give... Leslie Stephen William Thackeray Print : Book1850-1899 ?I hope that you have read Carlyle in August Macmillan & that you appreciate him. Of course it is damned nonsense but nonsense of a genius & not without a certain point. ... Leslie Stephen Thomas Carlyle Shooting Niagara Print : Serial / periodical1850-1899 "If it was not enough to have all the Catholic theology suddenly discharged upon one, I have suddenly taken a fancy to read some of the old dramatists, being prompted by... Leslie Stephen William Shakespeare Henry VIII Print : Book1850-1899 ?I bought the other day a copy of Aquinas & find him very good reading. Only to understand him one ought obviously to read a whole mass of contemporary stuff wh. would sw... Leslie Stephen Thomas Aquinas Print : Book1850-1899 ?There are plenty of things to groan over if so disposed; a fact wh. has been lately impressed upon me by reading some of Ruskin?s manifestoes to the world.? Leslie Stephen John Ruskin Fors Clavigera: Letters to the workenand labourers... Print : Book1850-1899 ?I have read your MS with great pleasure; though I had seen most of it before. As you ask me for my opinion I will say frankly that I think the sheepshearing rather long ... Leslie Stephen Thomas Hardy Manuscript : Unknown1900-1945 ?I have received your book and in spite of your permission to abstain, have read it from first to last? My ignorance of the subject was pretty exhaustive but I knew just ... Leslie Stephen Herbert Fisher Studies in Napoleonic statesmanship: Germany Print : Book1800-1849 "Then I promised Morley to contribute to a continuation of the 'Men of Letters' series a book upon George Eliot. I find it very hard to tell you the truth. I admire Engli... Leslie Stephen George Eliot Romola Print : Book1900-1945 "Ruskin's death has set me reading some of his books and among others 'Praeterita' in wh. I read of your first acquaintance with him." Leslie Stephen John Ruskin Praeterita Print : Book1900-1945 "Ruskin's death has set me reading some of his books and among others 'Praeterita' in wh. I read of your first acquaintance with him." Leslie Stephen John Ruskin Print : Book1850-1899 "Why do you say that I don't like Dante? I read him through with the help of your crib & was profoundly impressed." Leslie Stephen Dante Alighieri Print : Book1850-1899 'I find distraction in writing, with a growing sense that it is not worth the trouble; but at 64 it is too late to learn a new trade. I read a bit too; though books have ... Leslie Stephen George Santayana unknown Print : Book1850-1899 'It occurred to me lately to read Dante again &, as I required a crib very constantly I took yours & by its help went through the whole. It suggested to me innumerable sp... Leslie Stephen Dante Alighieri unknown Print : Book1850-1899 ?I have read your history; and when I say ?read? I mean that I have turned over the pages and read all such parts as were apparently on a level with my comprehension?I fo... Leslie Stephen F W Maitland History of English Law Print : Book1850-1899 ?The best I have read are two or three of Swift?s, who has a real go in him wh. cannot be quenched even by theology. There is a charming sermon on brotherly love; wh. he ... Leslie Stephen Swift sermons Print : Book1850-1899 ?In your last ? letter you spoke very highly of Ecce Homo. To say the truth I don?t agree in your estimate ? partly because the book seemed to me to be feeble rhetoricall... Leslie Stephen John Robert Seeley Ecce Homo: a survey of the life and work of Jesus ... Print : Book1850-1899 ?I have read with great interest your article on Victor Hugo & also that which appeared in the last number of Macmillan. I shall be happy to accept Hugo & if I have been ... Leslie Stephen Robert Louis Stevenson article on Victor Hugo Print : Serial / periodical1800-1849 To my mind Hugo is far more dramatic in spirit than Fielding, though his method involves (as you show exceedingly well) a use of scenery & background wh. would hardly be ... Leslie Stephen Victor Hugo Print : Book1800-1849 ?To my mind Hugo is far more dramatic in spirit than Fielding, though his method involves (as you show exceedingly well) a use of scenery & background wh. would hardly be... Leslie Stephen Henry Fielding Print : Book1800-1849 ?To my mind Hugo is far more dramatic in spirit than Fielding, though his method involves (as you show exceedingly well) a use of scenery & background wh. would hardly be... Leslie Stephen Samuel Richardson Print : Book1850-1899 ?Have you read Mat Arnold?s letters? Some, I see, are addressed to you? I can imagine old Carlyle taking himself to be a prophet, as indeed he was; but Mat Arnold, I shou... Leslie Stephen Matthew Arnold Letters of Matthew Arnold: 1848-1888 Print : Book1850-1899 "I was thinking of Eliot [Norton] the other day. When he was here in the summer he came one day to see Miss Valey. She had a pleasant little talk with us & was pleased, ... Leslie Stephen Margaret Veley Marriage of Shadows and Other Poems 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 Christopher Marlowe Print : Book1700-1799 "... but I do send by a carman two volumes of Alfieri's Life and Kirwan's Essay on Happiness, and the ... edition of Parent's Assistant, which with your leave, I present ... Maria Edgeworth Vittorio Alfieri Memoirs Print : Book1800-1849 "I have read Corinne with my father, and I like it better than he does. In one word, I am dazzled by the genius, provoked by the absurdities, and in admiration of the tas... Maria Edgeworth Germaine De Stael Corinne Print : Book1800-1849 then pitied me [my father] for the ten-mile stage I had to go alone, but I did not pity myself, for I had Sir William Jones's and Sir William Chambers's Asiatic Miscellan... Maria Edgeworth Sir William Jones Asiatic Miscellany. pieces and extracts from vario... Print : Book1700-1799 "I have been laughed at unmercifully by some of the phlegmatic personages around the library table for my impatience to send you The Mine. Do you think Margaret cannot li... Maria Edgeworth John Sargent The Mine; to which are added two historic odes (Th... Print : Book1800-1849 'I do not like Lord Byron's English Bards and Scotch reviewers, though, as my father says, the lines are very strong and worthy of Pope and the Dunciad! But I was so much... Maria Edgeworth George Gordon, Lord Byron English Bards and Scotch Reviwers: a satire Print : Book1700-1799 "By what unction of purity our great grand mothers were preserved when they studied Pamela without danger or disgust we know not. There are many points of Richardson?s wr... Charles Robert Maturin Samuel Richardson Clarissa Print : Book1700-1799 "By what unction of purity our great grand mothers were preserved when they studied Pamela without danger or disgust we know not. There are many points of Richardson?s wr... Charles Robert Maturin Samuel Richardson Pamela Print : Book1700-1799 ?In his Sir Charles Grandison, the inherent vulgarity, egotism and prolixity of Richardson?s character breakout with a latitude unexampled and uncontrolled. His personage... Charles Robert Maturin Samuel Richardson Sir Charles Grandison Print : Book1700-1799 ?Her next obvious defect (we hesitate to call it a defect) is a total moral inability to paint the strongest passion that can distract the human heart or agitate human li... Charles Robert Maturin Maria Edgeworth Patronage Print : Book1800-1849 ?In Belinda, Lady Delacour offers the heroine ?a silver penny for her thoughts?, and so fond is Miss Edgeworth of this bright image that she repeats it again in her Comic... Charles Robert Maturin Maria Edgeworth Belinda Print : Book1800-1849 ?In Belinda, Lady Delacour offers the heroine ?a silver penny for her thoughts?, and so fond is Miss Edgeworth of this bright image that she repeats it again in her Comic... Charles Robert Maturin Maria Edgeworth Comic Dramas Print : Book1800-1849 ?Miss Edgeworth?s incomparable description of Mrs Beaumont?s marriage in Manoeuvering, where the interesting, almost fainting, lady is lifted out of the arms of her anxio... Charles Robert Maturin Maria Edgeworth Tales of Fashionable Life Print : Book1700-1799 Robert Southey to Grosvenor Charles Bedford, 31 May 1792: 'You understand music. as I am ignorant of the tune I beg you will practise "Lillabullero" to teach me. You see ... Robert Southey Watson Chemical Essay Print : Book1700-1799 ?It would be necessary to notice here, when we profess to give a sketch of the progress of novel or romance writing, as indication of and connected with the state of mann... Charles Robert Maturin Charlotte Lennox The Female Quixote Print : Book1700-1799 ?Cumberland attempted and failed to revive the classical English novel. We sit down in fact by Cumberlands? fireside and listen to his long dull stories as we would to th... Charles Robert Maturin Richard Cumberland Arundel Print : Book1700-1799 ?Walpole?s Catle of Otranto, though dramatized by Jephson, has few imitations. Clara Reeve?s English Baron was the best, but even she in vain beckoned authors to cross th... Charles Robert Maturin Clara Reeve The Old English Baron Print : Book1700-1799 ??the work of Mrs Hannah More called Coelebs in search of a wife, as not knowing well where to class it. It is too pure and too profound to be ranked with novels, and too... Charles Robert Maturin Hannah More Coelebs in search of a wife Print : Book1800-1849 ?Upon the whole, this play with the powerful assistance of eminent actors and scenical illusion and burning palaces, and processions with towers of the Inquisition in per... Charles Maturin Richard Lalor Sheil The Apostate: a tragedy in five acts Print : Book1800-1849 ?Amid these dark middle ages of novel literature, Miss Burney?s Evelina strikes us with the first gleam of ?rescued nature and reviving sense.? Her novels, all her novels... Charles Maturin Fanny Burney Evelina Print : Book1700-1799 ?In the works of Fielding our credulity is not taxed for superfluous admiration by any of those faultless monsters? Fielding?s chief excellence appears to lie in the deli... Charles Maturin Henry Fielding The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling Print : Book1700-1799 ?The transition from the vapid sentimentality of the novel of fifty years ago to the goblin horrors of the last twenty is so strong that it almost puzzles us to find a co... Charles Maturin Charlotte Smith The Old Manor House Print : Book1700-1799 ??in Mrs Radcliff?s romances. She was ? an extraordinary female, and her style of writing ? must be allowed to form an era in English romances. Her ignorance was nearly e... Charles Maturin Ann Radcliffe The Mysteries of Udolpho Print : Book?The most extraordinary production of this period was the powerful and wicked romance of The Monk.? Charles Maturin Matthew Gregory Lewis The Monk Print : Book1700-1799 ?But Lord Byron ? he must write with great ease and rapidity.?
?That I don?t know. I could never finish the perusal of any of his long poems. There is something in the... Charles Maturin George Gordon, Lord Byron Childe Harold's Pilgrimage Print : Book1700-1799 "'Putting Shakespeare and his immediate followers out of the way, whom do you think the best dramatist?'
'Otway, Lee and Southern, unquestionably.'" Charles Robert Maturin Thomas Otway Complete Plays Print : Book1700-1799 "'Putting Shakespeare and his immediate followers out of the way, whom do you think the best dramatist?'
'Otway, Lee and Southern, unquestionably. I speak, perhaps, fr... Charles Maturin Thomas Southern Complete Plays Print : Book1700-1799 ??Coleridge, who, en parenthesis, he disliked for a merciless attack on his tragedy. Which the ill success of the ?Remorse? had incited; and he had prepared a retaliation... Charles Maturin Samuel Taylor Coleridge Christabel and Other Poems Print : Book1700-1799 ?I will tell you what is going on, that you may see whether you like your daily bill of fare. ? There is a balloon hanging up, and another going to be put on the stocks; ... Maria Edgeworth William Nicholson The First Principles of Chemistry Print : Book1800-1849 ?I have been reading a power of good books; Montesquieu Sur la grandeur and d?cadence des Romains, which I recommend to you as a book you will admire, because it furnishe... Maria Edgeworth Charles-Louis Montesquieu Causes de la grandeur des Romains et de leur decad... Print : Book1700-1799 Robert Southey to Grosvenor Charles Bedford, 31 May 1792: 'You understand music. As I am ignorant of the tune I beg you will practise "Lillabullero" to teach me. You see ... Robert Southey Laurence Sterne Tristram Shandy Print : Book1700-1799 'While their [her daughters'] Father's Life preserv'd my Authority entire, I used it [italics] all & only [end italics] for their Improvement; & since it expired with him... Hester Lynch Thrale and her daughters Hester, Susanna and Sophia Edward Young Print : Book1800-1849 'Except a brief visit to Ruthwell, I have scarcely been from home since my arrival - my excursions in the world of literature have scarcely been wider... With respect to ... Thomas Carlyle Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Faust Print : Book1600-1699 The seventeenth-century waterman-poet John Taylor had read More's Utopia, Plato's Republic, Montaigne, and Cervantes in translation, but he never mastered a foreign langu... John Taylor Thomas More Utopia Print : Book1600-1699 The seventeenth-century waterman-poet John Taylor had read More's Utopia, Plato's Republic, Montaigne, and Cervantes in translation, but he never mastered a foreign langu... John Taylor Plato Republic Print : Book1600-1699 The seventeenth-century waterman-poet John Taylor had read More's Utopia, Plato's Republic, Montaigne, and Cervantes in translation, but he never mastered a foreign langu... John Taylor Michel Eyquem de Montaigne Essays Print : Book1600-1699 The seventeenth-century waterman-poet John Taylor had read More's Utopia, Plato's Republic, Montaigne, and Cervantes in translation, but he never mastered a foreign langu... John Taylor Miguel de Cervantes probably Don Quixote Print : Book1900-1945 In the public library [Manny Shinwell] doggedly tackled volumes "whose contents I usually failed to understand": Paley's Evidences of Christianity, Haeckel's Riddle of th... Emmanuel Shinwell (later Baron Shinwell) William Paley View of the Evidences of Christianity Print : Book1700-1799 ?He ingenuously seized opportunities, when his parents were away from home, to construct his private theatricals, which he did by converting folding doors into a green cu... Charles Robert Maturin Nathaniel Lee The Rival Queens, or The Death of Alexander Print : Book1900-1945 In the public library [Manny Shinwell] doggedly tackled volumes "whose contents I usually failed to understand": Paley's Evidences of Christianity, Haeckel's Riddle of th... Emmanuel Shinwell (later Baron Shinwell) Ernst Heinrich Philipp August Haeckel Riddle of the Universe Print : Book1900-1945 In the public library [Manny Shinwell] doggedly tackled volumes "whose contents I usually failed to understand": Paley's Evidences of Christianity, Haeckel's Riddle of th... Emmanuel Shinwell (later Baron Shinwell) Herbert Spencer The Study of Sociology Print : Book1900-1945 In the public library [Manny Shinwell] doggedly tackled volumes "whose contents I usually failed to understand": Paley's Evidences of Christianity, Haeckel's Riddle of th... Emmanuel Shinwell (later Baron Shinwell) Marcus Aurelius Meditations Print : Book1800-1849 ?In May 1820 Sheridan Knowles produced ?Virginius?. The extraordinary success of that play naturally excited Maturin?s curiosity, and he was impatient to read it. ? When ... Charles Robert Maturin James Sheridan Knowles Virginius Print : Book1700-1799 "I can see no difference between his case [Nathaniel Lee] and Shelley or Byron, except that they have method and he had none." Charles Robert Maturin Nathaniel Lee Print : Book1700-1799 ?Of Sir Walter Scott I have heard Maturin speak in terms of rapture. He considered his extraordinary productions the greatest efforts of human genius, and often said that... Charles Robert Maturin Sir Walter Scott complete works to 1820 Print : Book1700-1799 ??And which of the living poets fulfils your ideal standard of excellence??
?Crabbe. He is all nature without pomp or parade and exhibits at times deep pathos and feel... Charles Robert Maturin George Crabbe poetic works Print : Book1900-1945 The parents of playwright Arnold Wesker were both immigrants, tailor's machinists, Communists and culturally Jewish atheists. Wesker admitted he was "a very bad student",... Arnold Wesker Leo Tolstoy Print : Book1900-1945 The parents of playwright Arnold Wesker were both immigrants, tailor's machinists, Communists and culturally Jewish atheists. Wesker admitted he was "a very bad student",... Arnold Wesker Maxim Gorky Print : Book1900-1945 The parents of playwright Arnold Wesker were both immigrants, tailor's machinists, Communists and culturally Jewish atheists. Wesker admitted he was "a very bad student",... Arnold Wesker Jack London Print : Book1900-1945 The parents of playwright Arnold Wesker were both immigrants, tailor's machinists, Communists and culturally Jewish atheists. Wesker admitted he was "a very bad student",... Arnold Wesker Sinclair Lewis Print : Book1900-1945 The parents of playwright Arnold Wesker were both immigrants, tailor's machinists, Communists and culturally Jewish atheists. Wesker admitted he was "a very bad student",... Arnold Wesker Honore de Balzac Print : Book1900-1945 The parents of playwright Arnold Wesker were both immigrants, tailor's machinists, Communists and culturally Jewish atheists. Wesker admitted he was "a very bad student",... Arnold Wesker Guy de Maupassant Print : Book1700-1799 ??Moore, who is a poet of inspiration, could write in any circumstances. There is no man of the age labours harder than Moore. He is often a month working out the end of ... Charles Robert Maturin Thomas Moore Complete Poems and Songs Print : Book1900-1945 'While his widowed mother... worked a market stall, Ralph Finn scrambled up the scholarship ladder to Oxford University. He credited his success largely to his English ma... Ralph Finn Alfred Lord Tennyson Print : Book1900-1945 'While his widowed mother... worked a market stall, Ralph Finn scrambled up the scholarship ladder to Oxford University. He credited his success largely to his English ma... Ralph Finn Robert Browning Print : Book1900-1945 'While his widowed mother... worked a market stall, Ralph Finn scrambled up the scholarship ladder to Oxford University. He credited his success largely to his English ma... Ralph Finn John Keats Print : Book1900-1945 'While his widowed mother... worked a market stall, Ralph Finn scrambled up the scholarship ladder to Oxford University. He credited his success largely to his English ma... Ralph Finn William Shakespeare Print : Book1900-1945 'While his widowed mother... worked a market stall, Ralph Finn scrambled up the scholarship ladder to Oxford University. He credited his success largely to his English ma... Ralph Finn Francis Thompson Print : Book1900-1945 'While his widowed mother... worked a market stall, Ralph Finn scrambled up the scholarship ladder to Oxford University. He credited his success largely to his English ma... Ralph Finn John Donne Print : Book1900-1945 'While his widowed mother... worked a market stall, Ralph Finn scrambled up the scholarship ladder to Oxford University. He credited his success largely to his English ma... Ralph Finn Alfred Edward Housman Print : Book1900-1945 'While his widowed mother... worked a market stall, Ralph Finn scrambled up the scholarship ladder to Oxford University. He credited his success largely to his English ma... Ralph Finn Christina Rossetti Print : Book1900-1945 'While his widowed mother... worked a market stall, Ralph Finn scrambled up the scholarship ladder to Oxford University. He credited his success largely to his English ma... Ralph Finn Dante Gabriel Rossetti Print : Book1900-1945 'While his widowed mother... worked a market stall, Ralph Finn scrambled up the scholarship ladder to Oxford University. He credited his success largely to his English ma... Ralph Finn Francis Turner Palgrave Golden Treasury of English Songs and Lyrics Print : Book1800-1849 ?Now I do not know what you imagined in reading Sully?s Memoirs, but I always imagined the Arsenal was one large building, with a fa?ade to it like a very large hotel or ... Maria Edgeworth Maxmillian de Bethune Sully Memoirs Print : Book1700-1799 ??And whom do you estimate after Crabbe??
?I am disposed to say Hogg. His ?Queen?s wake? is splendid and impassioned work. I like it for its varieties and its utter si... Charles Robert Maturin James Hogg Print : Book1900-1945 [Bill Naughton was hurt that when he applied for conscientious objector status the tribunal was suspicious of his elevated vocabulary] '"I couldn't help feeling hurt", Na... Bill Naughton John Locke Print : Book1900-1945 [Bill Naughton was hurt that when he applied for conscientious objector status the tribunal was suspicious of his elevated vocabulary] '"I couldn't help feeling hurt", Na... Bill Naughton Friedrich von Nietzsche Print : Book1900-1945 [Bill Naughton was hurt that when he applied for conscientious objector status the tribunal was suspicious of his elevated vocabulary] '"I couldn't help feeling hurt", Na... Bill Naughton Henry David Thoreau Print : Book1900-1945 [Bill Naughton was hurt that when he applied for conscientious objector status the tribunal was suspicious of his elevated vocabulary] '"I couldn't help feeling hurt", Na... Bill Naughton Arthur Schopenhauer Print : Book1900-1945 [Bill Naughton was hurt that when he applied for conscientious objector status the tribunal was suspicious of his elevated vocabulary] '"I couldn't help feeling hurt", Na... Bill Naughton Karl Marx Print : Book1900-1945 [Bill Naughton was hurt that when he applied for conscientious objector status the tribunal was suspicious of his elevated vocabulary] '"I couldn't help feeling hurt", Na... Bill Naughton Edmund Spenser The Faerie Queene Print : Book1800-1849 [Mary Shelley's Reading List for 1815. Only those titles not mentioned in journal entries are given separate database entries. xs denote books also read by Percy Shelley ... Percy Bysshe Shelley Voltaire [pseud.] Histoire de Charles XII, Roi de Suede Print : Book1800-1849 [Mary Shelley's Reading List for 1815. Only those titles not mentioned in journal entries are given separate database entries. xs denote books also read by Percy Shelley ... Percy Bysshe Shelley Eugene Labaume Relation circonstanci?e de la campagne de Russie Print : Book1800-1849 [Mary Shelley's Reading List for 1815. Only those titles not mentioned in journal entries are given separate database entries. xs denote books also read by Percy Shelley ... Percy Bysshe Shelley Sallust Print : Book1800-1849 [Mary Shelley's Reading List for 1815. Only those titles not mentioned in journal entries are given separate database entries. xs denote books also read by Percy Shelley ... Percy Bysshe Shelley Edmund Burke [anon.] A Vindication of Natural Society . . . In a letter... Print : Book1800-1849 'We quite run over with Books. She [JA's mother] has got Sir John Carr's Travels in Spain from Miss B. & I am reading a Society-Octavo, an Essay on the Military Police &... Cassandra Leigh Austen John Carr Descriptive Travels in the Southern and Eastern Pa... Print : Book1800-1849
[Mary Shelley's Reading List for 1815. Only those titles not mentioned in journal entries are given separate database entries. xs denote books also read by Percy Shelle... Percy Bysshe Shelley William Shakespeare [Plays] Print : Book1850-1899 [D.R. Davies was inspired by his school teacher] 'to read Macaulay's History of England before his twelfth birthday' D.R. Davies Thomas Babington Macaulay The History of England from the Accession of James... Print : Book1850-1899 'Often I sat with her on Sunday afternoons before the fire blazing in an old-fashioned range which shone with black-leaded iron and gleaming steel. There was a home-made ... Tom Stephenson Chorley Guardian Print : Newspaper1800-1849 ?We saw at Brussels two of the best Paris actors, and Madame Talma. The play was Racine?s Andromache (initiated in England as the Distressed Mother.) Madame Talma played ... Maria Edgeworth Jean Racine Andromache Print : Book1850-1899 '[Davies said] "Before I was twelve I had developed an appreciation of good prose, and the Bible created in me a zest for literature", propelling him directly to Lamb, Ha... D.R. Davies Bible Print : Book1900-1945 '[Davies said] "Before I was twelve I had developed an appreciation of good prose, and the Bible created in me a zest for literature", propelling him directly to Lamb, Ha... D.R. Davies Charles Lamb Print : Book1900-1945 '[Davies said] "Before I was twelve I had developed an appreciation of good prose, and the Bible created in me a zest for literature", propelling him directly to Lamb, Ha... D.R. Davies William Hazlitt Print : Book1900-1945 '[Davies said] "Before I was twelve I had developed an appreciation of good prose, and the Bible created in me a zest for literature", propelling him directly to Lamb, Ha... D.R. Davies John Ruskin The Crown of Wild olive: Three Lectures on Work, T... Print : Book1900-1945 '[Davies said] "Before I was twelve I had developed an appreciation of good prose, and the Bible created in me a zest for literature", propelling him directly to Lamb, Ha... D.R. Davies Karl Marx Print : Book1900-1945 '[Davies said] "Before I was twelve I had developed an appreciation of good prose, and the Bible created in me a zest for literature", propelling him directly to Lamb, Ha... D.R. Davies Adam Smith Print : Book1900-1945 '[Davies said] "Before I was twelve I had developed an appreciation of good prose, and the Bible created in me a zest for literature", propelling him directly to Lamb, Ha... D.R. Davies John Stuart Mill Print : Book1700-1799 ?I have just excited his [her father?s] envy even to clasping his hands in distraction, by telling him of a man I met with in the middle of Grainger?s Worthies of England... Maria Edgeworth James Granger A Biographical history of England from Egbert the ... Print : Book1900-1945 '[Davies said] "Before I was twelve I had developed an appreciation of good prose, and the Bible created in me a zest for literature", propelling him directly to Lamb, Ha... D.R. Davies David Ricardo Print : Book1900-1945 '[Davies said] "Before I was twelve I had developed an appreciation of good prose, and the Bible created in me a zest for literature", propelling him directly to Lamb, Ha... D.R. Davies Alfred Marshall Print : Book1900-1945 '[Davies said] "Before I was twelve I had developed an appreciation of good prose, and the Bible created in me a zest for literature", propelling him directly to Lamb, Ha... D.R. Davies George Bernard Shaw Fabian Essays Print : Book1900-1945 '[Davies said] "Before I was twelve I had developed an appreciation of good prose, and the Bible created in me a zest for literature", propelling him directly to Lamb, Ha... D.R. Davies [trade union history] Print : Book1900-1945 '[Davies said] "Before I was twelve I had developed an appreciation of good prose, and the Bible created in me a zest for literature", propelling him directly to Lamb, Ha... D.R. Davies Thomas Hardy Print : Book1900-1945 '[Davies said] "Before I was twelve I had developed an appreciation of good prose, and the Bible created in me a zest for literature", propelling him directly to Lamb, Ha... D.R. Davies George Meredith Print : Book1900-1945 '[Davies said] "Before I was twelve I had developed an appreciation of good prose, and the Bible created in me a zest for literature", propelling him directly to Lamb, Ha... D.R. Davies Rudyard Kipling Print : Book1900-1945 '[Davies said] "Before I was twelve I had developed an appreciation of good prose, and the Bible created in me a zest for literature", propelling him directly to Lamb, Ha... D.R. Davies Charles Dickens Print : Book1700-1799 ?This evening my father has been reading out Gay?s Trivia to our great entertainment. I wished very much, my dear aunt, that you and Sophy had been sitting round the fire... R.L. Edgeworth John Gay Trivia: or the art of walking the streets of Londo... Print : Book1850-1899 'Joseph Keating read little but boys' magazines and 3d thrillers until he stumbled across Greek philosophy. He was particularly struck by the Greek precept 'Know thyself'... Joseph Keating [boys' magazines] Print : Serial / periodical1850-1899 'Joseph Keating read little but boys' magazines and 3d thrillers until he stumbled across Greek philosophy. He was particularly struck by the Greek precept 'Know thyself'... Joseph Keating [thrillers] Print : Book1850-1899 'Joseph Keating read little but boys' magazines and 3d thrillers until he stumbled across Greek philosophy. He was particularly struck by the Greek precept 'Know thyself'... Joseph Keating [Greek Philosophy] Print : Book1700-1799 "Another favourite of his was Hogg, whose ballad of "Bonny Kilmery" he had by heart." Charles Robert Maturin James Hogg Bonny Kilmeny Print : Book1800-1849 I am so delighted with Barrow?s note on the qualities of Tobacco (communicated by Harfield) that I can think of nothing else. Charles Dickens Barrow [note on the qualities of tobacco] Print : Unknown, possibly appeared in newspaper The Morning Chronicle
