√ Century of Experience Evidence Name of Reader / Listener / Reading Group Author of Text Title of Text Form of Text 1850-1899 : 'Father and mother are sitting by the fire, the one reading the Evening News [Bolton?], the other mending stockings.' [Bolton?] Evening News Print : Newspaper1900-1945 Q: Did your father read?
A: No. He was a poor reader. He would rather my mother read to him, I think, read him the book and tell him the plot. He would have the paper, ... Lancashire Daily Post Print : Newspaper, Local newspaper1900-1945 Q: Did you have a regular newspaper in the family?
A: We had the News of the World and People every Sunday.
Q: Who read it?
A: It was m'dad, he would read it from b... News of the World Print : Newspaper1900-1945 Q: Did you have a regular newspaper in the family?
A: We had the News of the World and People every Sunday.
Q: Who read it?
A: It was m'dad, he would read it from b... John Bull Print : Book, Newspaper, Serial / periodical1800-1849 ?I have some idea of writing in the intervals of my severer studies for professional education, a comedy for my father?s birthday, but I shall do it up in my own room, an... Maria Edgeworth Charles Robert Dallas History of the Maroons, from their origin to the e... Print : Book1700-1799 ?Have you seen Minor Morals by Mrs Smith ? There is in it a beautiful botanical poem called ?Calendar of Flora?.? Maria Edgeworth Charlotte Smith Minor Morals: interspersed with sketches of Nation... Print : Book1800-1849 ?We saw today the residence of the Prince de Cond? - and of a long line of princes famous for virtue and talents ? the celebrated palace of Chantilly, made still more int... Maria Edgeworth Stephanie Felicite de Genlis (Comtesse) Mademoiselle de Clermont Print : Book1800-1849 ?To comfort ourselves we had a most entertaining Voyage dans les Pays Bas, par M Breton, to read and the charming story of Mademoiselle de Clermont on Madame de Genlis?s ... Maria Edgeworth Breton Voyage dans les Pays Bas Print : Book1700-1799 ?One of her acts of beneficence [Madame Delessert] is recorded in Berquin?s Ami des Enfans but even her own children cannot tell which story it is. Her daughter, Madame G... Maria Edgeworth Berquin Ami des Enfants: select stories for the instructio... Print : Book1850-1899 'went to dine at the Hotel de l'Europe. I took "Iphigenia" to read. Italianische Reise until Dessoir came. He read us the opening of "Richard the 3rd" and the scene with ... George Eliot [pseud] Euripides Iphigenia Print : BookManuscript : Unknown1800-1849 ?Charlotte cordials me twice a day with Cecilia, which she reads charmingly, and which entertains me as much at the third reading as it did at the first.? Maria Edgeworth Fanny Burney Cecilia Print : Book1700-1799 'Sneyd and Charlotte have begun Sir Charles Grandison: I almost envy them the pleasure of reading Clementina?s story for the first time. It is one of those pleasures whic... Maria Edgeworth Samuel Richardson Sir Charles Grandison Print : Book1700-1799 'You do not mention Madame Roland, therefore I am not sure whether you have read her; if you have only read her in the translation which talks of her uncle Bimont's dying... Maria Edgeworth Marie-Jeanne Philipon Roland de la Platiere Memoirs Print : Book1700-1799 'The wife of an Indian yogi (if a yogi be permitted to have a wife) might be a very affectionate woman, but her sympathy with her husband could not have a very extensive ... Maria Edgeworth Kalidasa Sakuntala: or the lost ring - and Indian drama Print : Book1850-1899 'I heard, at that blessed City Mission meeting, which I attended the other evening, that our county is reckoned one of the worst for crime and ignorance. ? (note written ... Amelia Opie Print : Newspaper1800-1849 7/1/1827 ? ?Then read the first part of Mary Dudley?s Life; felt true unity with her experience when first called to the ministry. What a bright course was hers! ? Amelia Opie Mary Dudley Print : Book1800-1849 7/1/1827 ? ?Read about eighty pages of a book lent to me by Dr Ash, called ?The grounds of a Holy life?. Believe the author to be a friend in principle, if not in profess... Amelia Opie Hugh Twyford The Grounds of Holy Life Print : Book1800-1849 8/1/1827 ? ?Finished M. R. Milford?s pretty book, and write out my new fable.? Amelia Opie M R Milford Print : Book1800-1849 7/1/1827 ? ?Read about eighty pages of a book lent to me by Dr Ash, called ?The grounds of a Holy life?. Believe the author to be a friend in principle, if not in profess... Amelia Opie Apostle Paul Address to Agrippa Print : Book1800-1849 14/1/1827 ? 'I read "Galt?s Life of Wolsey" with interest. To be thankful, and rather better, could only read a psalm to the servants.' Amelia Opie John Galt The Life and administration of Cardinal Wolsey Print : Book1800-1849 14/1/1827 ? 'I read "Galt?s Life of Wolsey" with interest. To be thankful, and rather better, could only read a psalm to the servants.' Amelia Opie [n/a] Psalm Print : Book1700-1799 'Poor Godwin is a terrific example for all conjugal biography; but he has marked that path which may be avoided? The title of Mrs Owens? new work has something very charm... Elizabeth Inchbald William Godwin Mary Wollstonecraft 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 Alexander Pope 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 Henry Fielding 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 Tobias Smollett 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 Oliver Goldsmith 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 Samuel Richardson 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 Jonathan Swift Print : Book1800-1849 'Poor Godwin is a terrific example for all conjugal biography; but he has marked that path which may be avoided? The title of Mrs Owens? new work has something very charm... Elizabeth Inchbald Rescoe The Life and Pontificate of Leo the Tenth 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 Richard Brinsley Sheridan 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 John Keats 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 Percy Bysshe Shelley 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 William Makepeace Thackeray Print : Book1800-1849 19/6/1847 ? 'I have been reading the life of Sarah Martin; it made me shed many tears, from the sense of her superior virtue, and my own inferiority. What an example she ... Amelia Opie unknown Life of Sarah Martin Print : Book1900-1945 'Nottinghamshire collier G.A.W. Tomlinson volunteered for repair shifts on weekends, when he could earn time-and-a-half and read on the job. On Sundays, "I sat there on m... G.A.W. Tomlinson Geoffrey Chaucer The Canterbury Tales Print : Book1900-1945 'Nottinghamshire collier G.A.W. Tomlinson volunteered for repair shifts on weekends, when he could earn time-and-a-half and read on the job. On Sundays, "I sat there on m... G.A.W. Tomlinson Charles Lamb Print : Book1900-1945 'Nottinghamshire collier G.A.W. Tomlinson volunteered for repair shifts on weekends, when he could earn time-and-a-half and read on the job. On Sundays, "I sat there on m... G.A.W. Tomlinson Charles Darwin On the Origin of Species Print : Book1900-1945 'Nottinghamshire collier G.A.W. Tomlinson volunteered for repair shifts on weekends, when he could earn time-and-a-half and read on the job. On Sundays, "I sat there on m... G.A.W. Tomlinson Oscar Wilde Ballad of Reading Gaol Print : Book1900-1945 'Nottinghamshire collier G.A.W. Tomlinson volunteered for repair shifts on weekends, when he could earn time-and-a-half and read on the job. On Sundays, "I sat there on m... G.A.W. Tomlinson Oliver Goldsmith The Deserted Village Print : Book1800-1849 ?Well, I do remember the pleasure Mr Opie expressed in reading a proverb in one act, taken from the French of ?Carmontel?, and published by Mr Holcroft, with other entert... John Opie Holcroft Theatrical recorder Print : Serial / periodical1900-1945 '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 Thomas Hardy 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 Algernon Charles Swinburne 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 Miguel de Cervantes Don Quixote 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 Clarion (literary pages) Print : Serial / periodical1800-1849 '27/1/1833 ? Read Carne?s "letters from the East", which, though not new to me, were most pleasing; so absorbed with his accounts of the Holy Land, I could scarcely quit ... Amelia Opie John Carne Letters from the East Print : Book1800-1849 'No dissipation has yet had power to make me neglect to read the Scriptures every day or fail to take advantage of every opportunity that has offered itself of religious ... Amelia Opie Scriptures Print : Book1700-1799 ?At home, she read with her mother, from Madame de Genlis and from William Hayley.? Amelia Opie Mme de Genlis Print : Book1900-1945 '[Edith] Hall recalled that she discovered Thomas Hardy in a WEA class in the 1920s when "Punch and other publications of that kind showed cartoons depicting the servant ... Edith Hall Thomas Hardy Tess of the d'Urbervilles Print : Book1700-1799 "Kitty dispatched the little ones to the schoolroom to do their lessons. Then John, Rachel and Kitty seated themselves in the shade while John took a book from his pocket... John Pitchford Thomas Grey Perigrinus Porteous Print : Book1800-1849 ?Here Hayley kept his books and manuscripts and the choicest pieces of his famous collection of Chinese porcelain. The walls were adorned with prints and drawings, and he... Amelia Opie William Hayley Manuscript : Plays1700-1799 "Kitty dispatched the little ones to the schoolroom to do their lessons. Then John, Rachel and Kitty seated themselves in the shade while John took a book from his pocket... John Pitchford Thomas Grey Elegy written in a Country Churchyard Print : Book1900-1945 'Percy Wall described his [colliery] institute as a "blatantly utilitarian" building with a "square cemented front" and a "drab, poorly lit" reading room, but it offered ... Percy Wall Herbert George Wells Print : Book1800-1849 ?The little Frys found the hours very long when they sat in the large, rather austere drawing-room, trying not to fidget, while their mother read aloud to them long chapt... Elizabeth Fry Bible Print : Book1900-1945 'Percy Wall described his [colliery] institute as a "blatantly utilitarian" building with a "square cemented front" and a "drab, poorly lit" reading room, but it offered ... Percy Wall Arthur Conan Doyle [Sherlock Holmes Stories] Print : Book1900-1945 'Percy Wall described his [colliery] institute as a "blatantly utilitarian" building with a "square cemented front" and a "drab, poorly lit" reading room, but it offered ... Percy Wall Henry Rider Haggard [African stories] Print : Book1900-1945 'Percy Wall described his [colliery] institute as a "blatantly utilitarian" building with a "square cemented front" and a "drab, poorly lit" reading room, but it offered ... Percy Wall William Wymark Jacobs Print : Book1800-1849 'Now, however, they [workmen] clubbed their pence to pay for a newspaper, and selected the "Weekly Political Register" of that clever man the late William Cobbett. This j... Thomas Carter n/a Courier Print : Serial / periodical1900-1945 'Percy Wall described his [colliery] institute as a "blatantly utilitarian" building with a "square cemented front" and a "drab, poorly lit" reading room, but it offered ... Percy Wall [illustrated weeklies] Print : Serial / periodical1900-1945 'Percy Wall described his [colliery] institute as a "blatantly utilitarian" building with a "square cemented front" and a "drab, poorly lit" reading room, but it offered ... Percy Wall Punch Print : Serial / periodical1900-1945 'Percy Wall described his [colliery] institute as a "blatantly utilitarian" building with a "square cemented front" and a "drab, poorly lit" reading room, but it offered ... Percy Wall Truth Print : Serial / periodical1900-1945 'Percy Wall described his [colliery] institute as a "blatantly utilitarian" building with a "square cemented front" and a "drab, poorly lit" reading room, but it offered ... Percy Wall Review of Reviews Print : Serial / periodical1850-1899 'began Aeschlyus - "Agamemnon"'. George Eliot [pseud] Aeschlyus Agamemnon Print : Book1850-1899 'Finished Buckle's "History of Civilization in England" vol. I which I began a fortnight ago.' George Eliot [pseud] Henry Thomas Buckle History of Civilization in England Print : Book1800-1849 ?Mrs Opie?s was essentially a happy temperament and with such adaptability as she possessed, quiet home evenings were not without their charms; even when her husband sat ... Amelia Opie Amelia Opie [her own works] Manuscript : Unknown1800-1849 ?As usual all the good I saw in my work, before it was printed, is now vanished from my sight and I remember only its faults. All the authors of both sexes, and artists t... Amelia Opie Amelia Opie her own works as they are published Print : Book1800-1849 '6/11/1830 - I have just read the speeches of our Parliament in the Journal des Debats. How entirely I agree with Lord Grey; but the bare possibility of war with France i... Amelia Opie Various Journal des Debats Print : Serial / periodical1900-1945 '[During the Great Depression] "Thousands used the Public Library for the first time", recalled itinerant labourer John Brown, who read Shaw, Marx, Engels, and classic li... John Brown Karl Marx Print : Book1900-1945 '[During the Great Depression] "Thousands used the Public Library for the first time", recalled itinerant labourer John Brown, who read Shaw, Marx, Engels, and classic li... John Brown George Bernard Shaw Print : Book1900-1945 '[During the Great Depression] "Thousands used the Public Library for the first time", recalled itinerant labourer John Brown, who read Shaw, Marx, Engels, and classic li... John Brown Friedrich Engels Print : Book1900-1945 '[Jack Ashley] was less prepared for Ruskin [College] than most of the students, having read only two books since leaving school: Jack London's The Iron Heel and the regu... Jack Ashley Jack London The Iron Heel Print : Book1900-1945 '[Jack Ashley] was less prepared for Ruskin [College] than most of the students, having read only two books since leaving school: Jack London's The Iron Heel and the regu... Jack Ashley [council regulations] Print : Pamphlet1900-1945 '[Jack Ashley] was less prepared for Ruskin [College] than most of the students, having read only two books since leaving school: Jack London's The Iron Heel and the regu... Jack Ashley Karl Marx Print : Book1900-1945 '[Jack Ashley] was less prepared for Ruskin [College] than most of the students, having read only two books since leaving school: Jack London's The Iron Heel and the regu... Jack Ashley Thomas Hobbes Print : Book1800-1849 "4/2/1845 - I have read two volumes (the last two, I think) of Lord Malmesbury's Diaries, and with intense interest. I knew so many of the men he writes about, and lived ... Amelia Opie James Harris Diaries Print : Book1900-1945 '[Jack Ashley] was less prepared for Ruskin [College] than most of the students, having read only two books since leaving school: Jack London's The Iron Heel and the regu... Jack Ashley Jean Jacques Rousseau Print : Book1900-1945 '[Jack Ashley] was less prepared for Ruskin [College] than most of the students, having read only two books since leaving school: Jack London's The Iron Heel and the regu... Jack Ashley John Locke Print : Book1900-1945 '[Jack Ashley] was less prepared for Ruskin [College] than most of the students, having read only two books since leaving school: Jack London's The Iron Heel and the regu... Jack Ashley Thomas Hill Green Print : Book1800-1849 "4/2/1845 - I am also reading Carlyle's History of the French Revolution - full of genius, pathos, and pictures; with all its faults (and it has great ones) still, I can ... Amelia Opie Thomas Carlyle History of the French Revolution Print : Book1800-1849 "During the whole time of his [her father's] illness, Mrs Opie assiduously attended him; she had later joined the Quakers, and read to him much in the Bible and other rel... Amelia Opie Bible and other religious texts 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 Alfred Marshall 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 J.A. Hobson 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 Henry George Print : Book1800-1849 'I believe simple moral tales the very best mode of instructing the young and the poor ? else why do the pious of all sects and beliefs spread tracts in stories over the ... Amelia Opie unknown [moral tales] 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 Hugh Dalton Print : Book1700-1799 ?At home, she read with her mother, from Madame de Genlis and from William Hayley.? Amelia Opie William Hayley Print : Book1700-1799 'The novels of Scott and Dickens had long been her favourite reading, but of late years she had become interested in the work of George Borrow, a Norfolk man who had rece... Amelia Opie Charles Dickens [novels] Print : Book1700-1799 'The novels of Scott and Dickens had long been her favourite reading, but of late years she had become interested in the work of George Borrow, a Norfolk man who had rece... Amelia Opie Walter Scott [novels] Print : Book1800-1849 'The novels of Scott and Dickens had long been her favourite reading, but of late years she had become interested in the work of George Borrow, a Norfolk man who had rece... Amelia Opie George Borrow unknown Print : Book1900-1945 'For Dunfermline housepainter James Clunie, Das Kapital and the Wealth of Nations both demonstrated that industrialism inevitably increased economic inequality, the explo... James Clunie Karl Marx Das Kapital Print : Book1900-1945 'For Dunfermline housepainter James Clunie, Das Kapital and the Wealth of Nations both demonstrated that industrialism inevitably increased economic inequality, the explo... James Clunie Adam Smith Wealth of Nations Print : Book1900-1945 'For Dunfermline housepainter James Clunie, Das Kapital and the Wealth of Nations both demonstrated that industrialism inevitably increased economic inequality, the explo... James Clunie Charles Darwin The Descent of Man Print : Book1850-1899 'In the evenings of late, we have been reading Harriet Martineau's sketch of "The British Empire in India", and are now following it up with Macaulay's articles of Clive ... Harriet Martineau The history of the British Empire in India Print : Book1850-1899 'In the evenings of late, we have been reading Harriet Martineau's sketch of "The British Empire in India", and are now following it up with Macaulay's articles of Clive ... Thomas Babington Macaulay Essays on Lord Clive And Warren Hastings Print : Book1800-1849 'It was at this time that I read the remaining seven volumes of the "Spectator"; to which I added the "Rambler", the "Tatler", and some others of the "British Essayists".... Thomas Carter [n/a] The Rambler Print : Serial / periodical1800-1849 'The serious thoughts to which my illness gave rise were much strengthened by my reading at the time several of Dr Watt's "Lyric Poems" which then came first into my hand... Thomas Carter Isaac Watts Horae Lyricae, Poems Chiefly of the Lyric Kind Print : Book1900-1945 'Taxi driver Herbert Hodge...knew that years on the dole only produced apathy, and that out of work men wanted practical help in dealing with the Board of Guardians far m... Herbert Hodge Henri-Louis Bergson Print : Book1900-1945 'Taxi driver Herbert Hodge...knew that years on the dole only produced apathy, and that out-of-work men wanted practical help in dealing with the Board of Guardians far m... Herbert Hodge Friedrich Nietzsche Print : Book1900-1945 'Taxi driver Herbert Hodge...knew that years on the dole only produced apathy, and that out-of-work men wanted practical help in dealing with the Board of Guardians far m... Herbert Hodge William McDougall Print : Book1900-1945 'Taxi driver Herbert Hodge...knew that years on the dole only produced apathy, and that out-of-work men wanted practical help in dealing with the Board of Guardians far m... Herbert Hodge Bertrand Russell Print : Book1900-1945 'Taxi driver Herbert Hodge...knew that years on the dole only produced apathy, and that out-of-work men wanted practical help in dealing with the Board of Guardians far m... Herbert Hodge New Testament Print : Book1900-1945 'Taxi driver Herbert Hodge...knew that years on the dole only produced apathy, and that out-of-work men wanted practical help in dealing with the Board of Guardians far m... Herbert Hodge Herbert Spencer Print : Book1900-1945 'Taxi driver Herbert Hodge...knew that years on the dole only produced apathy, and that out-of-work men wanted practical help in dealing with the Board of Guardians far m... Herbert Hodge Karl Marx Print : Book1800-1849 Charlotte Bronte, "The History of the Year," 12 March 1829: 'we take 2 and see three Newspapers as such we take the "Leeds Inteligencer" [par?]ty Tory and the "Leeds Mer... Bronte Family The Leeds Intelligencer Print : Newspaper1800-1849 Charlotte Bronte, "The History of the Year," 12 March 1829: 'we take 2 and see three Newspapers as such we take the "Leeds Inteligencer" [par?]ty Tory and the "Leeds Mer... Bronte Family The Leeds Mercury Print : Newspaper1800-1849 Charlotte Bronte, "The History of the Year," 12 March 1829: 'we take 2 and see three Newspapers as such we take the "Leeds Inteligencer" [par?]ty Tory and the "Leeds Mer... Bronte Family The John Bull Print : Newspaper1900-1945 '[Harry] McShane began his education in Marxism by reading Justice and The Socialist, the respective organs of the Social Democratic Federation and the Socialist Labour P... Harry McShane Justice Print : Serial / periodical1900-1945 '[Harry] McShane began his education in Marxism by reading Justice and The Socialist, the respective organs of the Social Democratic Federation and the Socialist Labour P... Harry McShane The Socialist Print : Serial / periodical1900-1945 '[Harry] McShane began his education in Marxism by reading Justice and The Socialist, the respective organs of the Social Democratic Federation and the Socialist Labour P... Harry McShane A.P. Hazell A Summary of Marx's 'Capital' Print : Pamphlet1900-1945 '[Harry] McShane began his education in Marxism by reading Justice and The Socialist, the respective organs of the Social Democratic Federation and the Socialist Labour P... Harry McShane Robert Blatchford (ed.) The Clarion Print : Serial / periodical1800-1849 Ellen Nussey's reminiscences of Patrick Bronte's sister-in-law Elizabeth Branwell (in 1871 account of her 1833 visit to Haworth Parsonage): 'In summer she spent part of t... Elizabeth Branwell Unknown 1900-1945 'In 1925 Ifan Edwards was driven by unemployment to read Das Kapital in the public library. "It took him about four hundred pages of close print to come to the crux of hi... Ifan Edwards Karl Marx Das Kapital Print : Book1800-1849 Charlotte Bronte to Robert Southey, 16 March 1837: 'At the first perusal of your letter I felt only shame, and regret that I had ever ventured to trouble you [with reques... Charlotte Bronte Robert Southey letter to Charlotte Bronte Manuscript : Letter1900-1945 [George Scott disliked the Communism of fellow journalist, Stan] 'He had read Das Kapital (or parts of it) and could talk slickly about dialectical materialism. His own d... Stan (acquaintance of George Scott) Karl Marx Das Kapital Print : Book1900-1945 [George Scott disliked the Communism of fellow journalist, Stan] 'He had read Das Kapital (or parts of it) and could talk slickly about dialectical materialism. His own d... Stan (acquaintance of George Scott) Straight and Crooked Thinking Print : Book1800-1849 Charlotte Bronte to Charles Cuthbert Southey, 26 August 1850, regarding possible publication of letters between herself and Robert Southey: 'I have now read them and feel... Charlotte Bronte Robert and Charlotte Southey and Bronte letters Manuscript : Letter1800-1849 Charlotte Bronte to Charles Cuthbert Southey, 26 August 1850: ' ... the perusal of his [Robert Southey's] "Life and Correspondence" arranged by yourself has much deepened... Charlotte Bronte Robert Southey Life and Correspondence Unknown 1800-1849 Emily Bronte, diary paper for 26 June 1837: 'Monday evening June 26 1837
A bit past 4 o'clock Charolotte [sic] working in Aunts room Branwell reading "Eugene Aram" to... Branwell Bronte Edward Bulwer-Lytton Eugene Aram Print : Book1900-1945 'Ewan McColl remembered his father, a Communist ironfounder, as someone who was always giving him secondhand books. He "belonged to the generation who believed that books... Ewan McColl Charles Darwin [all works] Print : Book1900-1945 'Ewan McColl remembered his father, a Communist ironfounder, as someone who was always giving him secondhand books. He "belonged to the generation who believed that books... Ewan McColl Fyodor Dostoevsky Print : Book1900-1945 'Ewan McColl remembered his father, a Communist ironfounder, as someone who was always giving him secondhand books. He "belonged to the generation who believed that books... Ewan McColl Honore de Balzac The Human Comedy Print : Book1900-1945 'Ewan McColl remembered his father, a Communist ironfounder, as someone who was always giving him secondhand books. He "belonged to the generation who believed that books... Ewan McColl Immanuel Kant Critique of Pure Reason Print : Book1900-1945 'Ewan McColl remembered his father, a Communist ironfounder, as someone who was always giving him secondhand books. He "belonged to the generation who believed that books... Ewan McColl The Mistaken Subtlety of the Four-Sided Figure Print : Book1800-1849 Charlotte Bronte to Ellen Nussey, 4 August 1839, about event following visit of David Pryce, a young Irish curate, to Haworth Parsonage: 'A few days after I got a letter ... Charlotte Bronte David Pryce letter Manuscript : Letter1900-1945 'Ewan McColl remembered his father, a Communist ironfounder, as someone who was always giving him secondhand books. He "belonged to the generation who believed that books... Ewan McColl Nikolai Gogol The Overcoat Print : Book1900-1945 'Ewan McColl remembered his father, a Communist ironfounder, as someone who was always giving him secondhand books. He "belonged to the generation who believed that books... Ewan McColl Nikolai Gogol The Nose Print : Book1900-1945 'Ewan McColl remembered his father, a Communist ironfounder, as someone who was always giving him secondhand books. He "belonged to the generation who believed that books... Ewan McColl Nikolai Gogol The Madman's Diary Print : Book1900-1945 'By [age fifteen] [Ewan] McColl had also read Engels's The Peasant War in Germany and The Origins of the Family'. Ewan McColl Friedrich Engels The Peasant War in Germany Print : Book1900-1945 'By [age fifteen] [Ewan] McColl had also read Engels's The Peasant War in Germany and The Origins of the Family'. Ewan McColl Friedrich Engels The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the... Print : Book1800-1849 Branwell Bronte to Hartley Coleridge, 27 June 1840: 'I have ... striven to translate 2 books [of Horace] ... the first of which I have presumed to send you ...' Patrick Branwell Bronte Horace Print : Book1800-1849 Charlotte Bronte to Hartley Coleridge, 10 December 1840: 'I am sorry Sir I did not exist forty or fifty years ago when the "Lady's magazine" was flourishing like a green ... Charlotte Bronte The Lady's Magazine Print : Serial / periodical1800-1849 Charlotte Bronte to Ellen Nussey, 2 April 1841: 'If you think I'm going to refuse your invitation ... you're mistaken -- as soon as I read your shabby little note -- I ga... Charlotte Bronte Ellen Nussey Note inviting Charlotte Bronte on visit Manuscript : Letter1800-1849 Emily Bronte, diary paper for 30 July 1841 'It is Friday evening -- near 9 o'clock ... Aunt upstairs in her room -- she has been reading "Blackwood's Magazine" to papa ..... Elizabeth Branwell Blackwood's Magazine Print : Serial / periodical1800-1849 Anne Bronte, diary paper for 31 July 1845 'Emily is engeaged [sic] in writing the Emperor Julius's life She has read some of it and I want very much to hear the rest ...... Emily Bronte Emily Bronte Life of the Emperor Julius (? Gondal story) Manuscript : Unknown1850-1899 'Although mainly an outdoor boy Rider began to read several popular romances of the day...: "I loved those books that other boys love and I love them still. I well rememb... Henry Rider Haggard Daniel Defoe Robinson Crusoe Print : Book1850-1899 'Next to Robinson Crusoe, Rider liked the Arabian Nights, The Three Musketeers and the poems of Edgar Allan Poe and Macaulay. His two favourite novels were Charles Dicken... Henry Rider Haggard Anon The Arabian Nights Print : Book1850-1899 'Next to Robinson Crusoe, Rider liked the Arabian Nights, The Three Musketeers and the poems of Edgar Allan Poe and Macaulay. His two favourite novels were Charles Dicken... Henry Rider Haggard Alexandre Dumas (pere) The Three Musketeers Print : Book1850-1899 'Next to Robinson Crusoe, Rider liked the Arabian Nights, The Three Musketeers and the poems of Edgar Allan Poe and Macaulay. His two favourite novels were Charles Dicken... Henry Rider Haggard Edgar Allan Poe Print : Book1850-1899 'Next to Robinson Crusoe, Rider liked the Arabian Nights, The Three Musketeers and the poems of Edgar Allan Poe and Macaulay. His two favourite novels were Charles Dicken... Henry Rider Haggard Charles Dickens A Tale of Two Cities Print : Book1850-1899 'Next to Robinson Crusoe, Rider liked the Arabian Nights, The Three Musketeers and the poems of Edgar Allan Poe and Macaulay. His two favourite novels were Charles Dicken... Henry Rider Haggard Edward George Earl Bulwer Lytton The Coming Race Print : Book1850-1899 'Next to Robinson Crusoe, Rider liked the Arabian Nights, The Three Musketeers and the poems of Edgar Allan Poe and Macaulay. His two favourite novels were Charles Dicken... Henry Rider Haggard Thomas Babington Macaulay 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 John Milton Lycidas 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 John Milton Paradise Regained 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 James Thomson Castle of Indolence, The 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 Samuel Taylor Coleridge [Poems] Print : Book1900-1945 '[Helen Crawfurd] derived lessons in socialism and feminism from Carlyle, Shaw, Wells, Galsworthy, Arnold Bennett, Ibsen's Ghosts and A Doll's House, Dickens, Disraeli's ... Helen Crawfurd Thomas Carlyle Print : Book1900-1945 '[Helen Crawfurd] derived lessons in socialism and feminism from Carlyle, Shaw, Wells, Galsworthy, Arnold Bennett, Ibsen's Ghosts and A Doll's House, Dickens, Disraeli's ... Helen Crawfurd George Bernard Shaw Print : Book1900-1945 '[Helen Crawfurd] derived lessons in socialism and feminism from Carlyle, Shaw, Wells, Galsworthy, Arnold Bennett, Ibsen's Ghosts and A Doll's House, Dickens, Disraeli's ... Helen Crawfurd Herbert George Wells Print : Book1900-1945 '[Helen Crawfurd] derived lessons in socialism and feminism from Carlyle, Shaw, Wells, Galsworthy, Arnold Bennett, Ibsen's Ghosts and A Doll's House, Dickens, Disraeli's ... Helen Crawfurd John Galsworthy Print : Book1900-1945 '[Helen Crawfurd] derived lessons in socialism and feminism from Carlyle, Shaw, Wells, Galsworthy, Arnold Bennett, Ibsen's Ghosts and A Doll's House, Dickens, Disraeli's ... Helen Crawfurd Arnold Bennett Print : Unknown1900-1945 '[Helen Crawfurd] derived lessons in socialism and feminism from Carlyle, Shaw, Wells, Galsworthy, Arnold Bennett, Ibsen's Ghosts and A Doll's House, Dickens, Disraeli's ... Helen Crawfurd Henrik Ibsen Ghosts Print : Book1900-1945 '[Helen Crawfurd] derived lessons in socialism and feminism from Carlyle, Shaw, Wells, Galsworthy, Arnold Bennett, Ibsen's Ghosts and A Doll's House, Dickens, Disraeli's ... Helen Crawfurd Henrik Ibsen A Doll's House Print : Book1900-1945 '[Helen Crawfurd] derived lessons in socialism and feminism from Carlyle, Shaw, Wells, Galsworthy, Arnold Bennett, Ibsen's Ghosts and A Doll's House, Dickens, Disraeli's ... Helen Crawfurd Charles Dickens Print : Book1900-1945 '[Helen Crawfurd] derived lessons in socialism and feminism from Carlyle, Shaw, Wells, Galsworthy, Arnold Bennett, Ibsen's Ghosts and A Doll's House, Dickens, Disraeli's ... Helen Crawfurd Benjamin Disraeli Sybil Print : Book1900-1945 '[Helen Crawfurd] derived lessons in socialism and feminism from Carlyle, Shaw, Wells, Galsworthy, Arnold Bennett, Ibsen's Ghosts and A Doll's House, Dickens, Disraeli's ... Helen Crawfurd Elizabeth Gaskell Mary Barton Print : Book1900-1945 '[Helen Crawfurd] derived lessons in socialism and feminism from Carlyle, Shaw, Wells, Galsworthy, Arnold Bennett, Ibsen's Ghosts and A Doll's House, Dickens, Disraeli's ... Helen Crawfurd Thomas Hardy Jude the Obscure Print : Book1900-1945 '[Helen Crawfurd] derived lessons in socialism and feminism from Carlyle, Shaw, Wells, Galsworthy, Arnold Bennett, Ibsen's Ghosts and A Doll's House, Dickens, Disraeli's ... Helen Crawfurd Thomas Hardy Tess of the d'Urbervilles Print : Book1900-1945 '[Helen Crawfurd] derived lessons in socialism and feminism from Carlyle, Shaw, Wells, Galsworthy, Arnold Bennett, Ibsen's Ghosts and A Doll's House, Dickens, Disraeli's ... Helen Crawfurd Thomas Hardy Under the Greenwood Tree Print : Book1900-1945 '[Helen Crawfurd] derived lessons in socialism and feminism from Carlyle, Shaw, Wells, Galsworthy, Arnold Bennett, Ibsen's Ghosts and A Doll's House, Dickens, Disraeli's ... Helen Crawfurd Alfred Lord Tennyson The Princess Print : Book1900-1945 '[Helen Crawfurd] derived lessons in socialism and feminism from Carlyle, Shaw, Wells, Galsworthy, Arnold Bennett, Ibsen's Ghosts and A Doll's House, Dickens, Disraeli's ... Helen Crawfurd Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Print : Book1900-1945 '[Helen Crawfurd] derived lessons in socialism and feminism from Carlyle, Shaw, Wells, Galsworthy, Arnold Bennett, Ibsen's Ghosts and A Doll's House, Dickens, Disraeli's ... Helen Crawfurd Walt Whitman Print : Book1900-1945 '[Helen Crawfurd] derived lessons in socialism and feminism from Carlyle, Shaw, Wells, Galsworthy, Arnold Bennett, Ibsen's Ghosts and A Doll's House, Dickens, Disraeli's ... Helen Crawfurd Robert Burns Print : Book1900-1945 '[Helen Crawfurd] derived lessons in socialism and feminism from Carlyle, Shaw, Wells, Galsworthy, Arnold Bennett, Ibsen's Ghosts and A Doll's House, Dickens, Disraeli's ... Helen Crawfurd Elizabeth Barrett Browning Print : Book1900-1945 '[Helen Crawfurd] derived lessons in socialism and feminism from Carlyle, Shaw, Wells, Galsworthy, Arnold Bennett, Ibsen's Ghosts and A Doll's House, Dickens, Disraeli's ... Helen Crawfurd George Eliot Print : Book1900-1945 '[Helen Crawfurd] derived lessons in socialism and feminism from Carlyle, Shaw, Wells, Galsworthy, Arnold Bennett, Ibsen's Ghosts and A Doll's House, Dickens, Disraeli's ... Helen Crawfurd George (Amantine Lucille Aurore) Sand (Dupin) Print : Book1900-1945 '[Helen Crawfurd] derived lessons in socialism and feminism from Carlyle, Shaw, Wells, Galsworthy, Arnold Bennett, Ibsen's Ghosts and A Doll's House, Dickens, Disraeli's ... Helen Crawfurd Charlotte /Emily/ Anne Bronte Print : Book1900-1945 '[Helen Crawfurd] derived lessons in socialism and feminism from Carlyle, Shaw, Wells, Galsworthy, Arnold Bennett, Ibsen's Ghosts and A Doll's House, Dickens, Disraeli's ... Helen Crawfurd Victor Hugo Les Miserables Print : Book1900-1945 '[Helen Crawfurd] derived lessons in socialism and feminism from Carlyle, Shaw, Wells, Galsworthy, Arnold Bennett, Ibsen's Ghosts and A Doll's House, Dickens, Disraeli's ... Helen Crawfurd Victor Hugo Nore Dame de Paris (The Hunchback of Notre Dame) Print : Book1850-1899 'In the evenings of late, we have been reading Harriet Martineau's sketch of "The British Empire in India", and are now following it up with Macaulay's articles of Clive ... Harriet Martineau The history of England during the thirty years' pe... Print : Book1800-1849 'It was in this state of feeling that I first got hold of a little volume called "The Wreath", containing a collection of poems by various authors. Among these pieces was... Thomas Carter [n/a] The Wreath Print : Book1800-1849 'I, moreover, found my Sunday pursuits and amusements to be powerfully instrumental in cheering and elevating my "inner man"... That I might make the day as long as possi... Thomas Carter [unknown] [unknown] 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. Rousseau's "Contr... Thomas Carlyle Jean-Jacques Rousseau Du Contrat Social Print : Book1800-1849 Charlotte Bronte, Biographical Notice of Ellis and Acton Bell, 1850: 'One day, in the autumn of 1845, I accidentally lighted on an MS. volume of verse in my sister Emily... Charlotte Bronte Emily Bronte poems Manuscript : Unknown1800-1849 Charlotte Bronte, Biographical Notice of Ellis and Acton Bell, 1850: 'Currer Bell [ie Charlotte Bronte]'s book [The Professor] found acceptance nowhere ... he tried one ... Charlotte Bronte Letter from Smith, Elder & Co., publishers Manuscript : Letter1800-1849 George Smith, A Memoir (London, 1902): 'The MS. of "Jane Eyre" was read by Mr Wiliams ... he brought it to me on a Saturday, and said that he would like me to read it ..... Charlotte Bronte Jane Eyre Manuscript : Unknown1800-1849 George Smith, A Memoir (London, 1902): 'The MS. of "Jane Eyre" was read by Mr Wiliams ... he brought it to me on a Saturday, and said that he would like me to read it ..... George Murray Smith Charlotte Bronte Jane Eyre Manuscript : Unknown1800-1849 W. M. Thackeray to William Smith Williams, 23 October 1847: 'I wish you had not sent me "Jane Eyre." It interested me so much that I have lost (or won if you like) a who... William Makepeace Thackeray Charlotte Bronte Jane Eyre Print : Book1800-1849 Charlotte Bronte to William Smith Williams, 11 December 1847: 'Mr Thackeray is a keen, ruthless satirist -- I have never perused his writings but with blended feelings of... Charlotte Bronte Wililam Makepeace Thackeray Print : Book1800-1849 Charlotte Bronte to William Smith Williams, 14 December 1847: 'A few days since I looked over "The Professor." I found the beginning very feeble, the whole narrative def... Charlotte Bronte Charlotte Bronte The Professor Manuscript : Unknown1800-1849 Charlotte Bronte to William Smith Williams, 18 December 1847: '"The Observer" has just reached me ... I always compel myself to read the Analysis [of her work] in every n... Charlotte Bronte Charlotte Bronte Print : Newspaper1800-1849 J. G. Lockhart to a friend, 29 December 1847: 'I have finished the adventures of Miss Jane Eyre, and think her far the cleverest that was written since Austen and Edgewor... John Gibson Lockhart Charlotte Bronte Jane Eyre Print : Book1800-1849 Charlotte Bronte to William Smith Williams, 4 January 1848: '"Jane Eyre" has got down into Yorkshire; a copy has even penetrated into this neighbourhood: I saw an elderly... Charlotte Bronte Jane Eyre Print : Book1800-1849 Charlotte Bronte to G. H. Lewes, 12 January 1848: 'What induced you to say that you would rather have written "Pride & Prejudice" or "Tom Jones" than any of the Waverley ... Charlotte Bronte George Henry Lewes letter Manuscript : Letter1800-1849 Charlotte Bronte to G. H. Lewes, 12 January 1848: 'What induced you to say that you would rather have written "Pride & Prejudice" or "Tom Jones" than any of the Waverley ... Charlotte Bronte Jane Austen Pride and Prejudice Print : Book1800-1849 Charlotte Bronte to G. H. Lewes, 18 January 1848: 'I have not read "Azeth", but I did read or begin to read a tale in the "New Monthly" from the same pen, and ... must co... Charlotte Bronte Eliza Lynn Linton story in New Monthly Magazine Print : Serial / periodical1800-1849 Charlotte Bronte postscript to letter to William Smith Williams, 12 May 1848: 'I find -- on glancing over yours, that I have forgotten to answer a question you ask respec... Charlotte Bronte William Smith Williams letter to Charlotte Bronte Manuscript : Letter1800-1849 Mary Taylor to Charlotte Bronte, 24 July 1848: 'About a month since I received and read "Jane Eyre".' Mary Taylor Charlotte Bronte Jane Eyre Print : Book1800-1849 Charlotte Bronte to William Smith Williams, September 1848: ' ... of ["Ellis Bell's" poetry's] merit I am deeply convinced, and have been from the moment the MS. fell int... Charlotte Bronte Emily Bronte poems Manuscript : Unknown1800-1849 Charlotte Bronte to William Smith Williams, 22 November 1848: 'I put your most friendly letter [recommending homeopathic treatments] into Emily's hands as soon as I had m... Charlotte Bronte William Smith Williams letter Manuscript : Letter1800-1849 Charlotte Bronte to William Smith Williams, 22 November 1848: 'I put your most friendly letter [recommending homeopathic treatments] into Emily's hands as soon as I had m... Emily Bronte William Smith Williams letter Manuscript : Letter1800-1849 Charlotte Bronte to William Smith Williams, 22 November 1848: '"The North American Review" [containing reviews of the Bronte sisters' works in which the authors are presu... Charlotte Bronte The North American Review Print : Serial / periodical1800-1849 Charlotte Bronte to Ellen Nussey, 29 March 1849: 'I read your kind note to Anne and she wishes me to thank you sincerely for your friendly proposal.' Charlotte Bronte Ellen Nussey note Manuscript : Letter1800-1849 Charlotte Bronte to Ellen Nussey, 12 April 1849: 'I read Anne's letter [of 5 April] to you; it was touching enough ...' Charlotte Bronte Anne Bronte letter to Ellen Nussey Manuscript : Letter1800-1849 Charlotte Bronte to William Smith Williams, 16 August 1849: '"The North British Review" duly reached me. I read attentively all it says about E. Wyndham, J. Eyre, and F.... Charlotte Bronte The North British Review Print : Serial / periodical1800-1849 Charlotte Bronte to William Smith Williams, 1 November 1849: 'I have just received the "Daily News." [containing review of "Shirley"] ... when I read it my heart sickened... Charlotte Bronte The Daily News Print : Newspaper1800-1849 Elizabeth Gaskell, "Life of Charlotte Bronte" (1857): '[Charlotte Bronte's] hosts [in London] took pleasure in showing her the sights of London. On one of the days which... Charlotte Bronte The Times Print : Newspaper1850-1899 Charlotte Bronte to William Smith Williams, 10 January 1850: 'I have received and perused the "Edinburgh Review" [containing negative review of "Shirley" by her friend G.... Charlotte Bronte George Henry Lewes Review of Charlotte Bronte, Shirley Print : Serial / periodical1850-1899 Charlotte Bronte to Ellen Nussey, 16 February 1850: 'A few days since a little incident happened which curiously touched me. Papa put into my hands a little packet of le... Charlotte Bronte Maria Branwell letters and papers Manuscript : Letter, Unknown1800-1849 Charlotte Bronte to Ellen Nussey, 19 January 1850: 'Mr Nicholls having finished "Jane Eyre" is now crying out for the 'other book' [Shirley] ...' Arthur Bell Nicholls Charlotte Bronte Jane Eyre Print : Book1850-1899 Charlotte Bronte to Ellen Nussey, 28 January 1850: 'Mr Nicholls has finished reading "Shirley" he is delighted with it -- John Brown's wife seriously thought he had gone... Arthur Bell Nicholls Charlotte Bronte Shirley Print : Book1850-1899 Charlotte Bronte to Ellen Nussey, 28 January 1850: 'Mr Nicholls has finished reading "Shirley" he is delighted with it -- John Brown's wife seriously thought he had gone... Arthur Bell Nicholls Charlotte Bronte Shirley Print : Book
