√ Century of Experience Evidence Name of Reader / Listener / Reading Group Author of Text Title of Text Form of Text 1900-1945 (1) 'This week's new purchase consisted of ... "John Silence" in the 7d. edition.... It fairly
swept me off my feet, so that on Saturday night I hardly dared to go upst... Clive Staples Lewis Algernon Blackwood John Silence, Physician Extraordinary Print : Book1900-1945 (1) 'This week's new purchase consisted of Milton's "Paradise Lost" — in the same edition as
my Mandeville.... Don't you love the Leopard witches? How you will love Mil... Clive Staples Lewis John Milton Paradise Lost Print : Book1900-1945 (1) 'I am awfully bucked about "Twelfth Night": I thought at the time you remember, that Heath
Robinson's illustrations were absolutely perfect — quite as good as Rackh... Clive Staples Lewis William Shakespeare Twelfth Night Print : Book1900-1945 'The journey home was absolutely damnable: I had to wait an hour at Letterkenny, and an hour
and a quarter at Strabane. You may judge of my boredom when I tell you that... Clive Staples Lewis [n/a] [n/a] The Novel Magazine Print : Serial / periodical1900-1945 'In the mornings in bed I am going over "Sense and Sensibility" again — which I had nearly
forgotten. Do you remember Mrs Jennings and Marianne Dashwood and the rest?' Clive Staples Lewis Jane Austen Sense and Sensibility Print : Book1900-1945 (1) 'I am still at The Newcomes...'
(2) 'Talking about stodge, I finished "The Newcomes" before leaving home, and certainly enjoyed
the end better than any parts excep... Clive Staples Lewis William Makepeace Thackeray The Newcomes: Memoirs of a Most Respectable Family Print : Book1900-1945 'I should advise you to get the 2/6 volume containing Milton's minor poems, which I am now
reading.... I am at "Comus", which is an absolute dream of delight. I am sure... Clive Staples Lewis John Milton Paradise Regained Print : Book1900-1945 (1) 'I have also bought a 7d. Macmillan book by Algernon Blackwood called "Jimbo, a fantasy".
Although you have never mentioned it, I dare say you know there is such a ... Clive Staples Lewis Algernon Blackwood Jimbo, a Fantasy Print : Book1900-1945 'I have also re-read for the thousandth time "Rapunzel" and some other favourite bits of
Morris...' Clive Staples Lewis William Morris The Defense of Guenevere and other Poems Print : Book1900-1945 (1) 'I have been reading again the second volume of Malory, especially the part of the
"Sangreal" which I had forgotten. With all its faults, in small doses this book i... Clive Staples Lewis Thomas Malory Le Morte d'Arthur Print : Book1900-1945 '...through the week I have read an excellent novel of Vachell's "The Paladin" which you have
probably read too.' Clive Staples Lewis Horace Annesley Vachell The Paladin, as Beheld by a Woman of Temperament Print : Book1900-1945 (1) '...also dipped often into Boswell's "Life of Johnson". Being entirely made up of conversation I
don't think it is a book to be read continuously, tho' it is very g... Clive Staples Lewis James Boswell The Life of Samuel Johnson Print : Book1900-1945 (1) 'I am at present reading a book whose scene is set in Oxford and which tells one a good
deal about the University (not Tom Brown), "Lady Connie" by Mrs. Humphrey Wa... Clive Staples Lewis Mary Augusta Ward Lady Connie Print : Book1900-1945 (1) 'I am now, through the week, reading Scott's "Antiquary". I suppose you have read it long
ago: I am very pleased with it, especially the character of the Antiquary ... Clive Staples Lewis Walter Scott The Antiquary Print : Book1900-1945 (1) 'I wonder what a book called "Letters from Hell" published at 1/- by Macmillan would be
like?' (2) 'I have written up for "Letters from Hell" and it ought to be her... Clive Staples Lewis Valdemar Adolph Thisted Letters from Hell Print : Book1900-1945 'Talking of Kipling it is time you began him: try "Rewards & Fairies" and if the first story in it
"Cold Iron" doesn't knock you head over heels, I don't know what will... Clive Staples Lewis Rudyard Kipling Rewards and Fairies Print : Book1900-1945 (1) 'We have all been plunged in misery here for the last week because no one can remember
the context or the author of a quotation that we all know as well as our own ... Clive Staples Lewis Rudyard Kipling [Untitled] Print : Newspaper1900-1945 'Many thanks for the "Spectator" which I shall certainly keep for the sake of the poem. It is, I
quite agree with you, a really notable piece of work, quite above the a... Clive Staples Lewis Frederick Samuel Boas Ulster on the Somme Print : Serial / periodical1900-1945 (1) 'I am at present reading a book which you would enjoy, "The letters of Dorothy Osborne to
Sir William Temple.... They lived in Cromwell's time, and the letters are ... Clive Staples Lewis Dorothy Osborne Letters from Dorothy Osborne to Sir William Temple Print : Book1900-1945 (1) '... through reading Maeterlinck, to improve my French, too late at night, I have developed
a penchant for mystical philosophy' (2) 'My other reading — in French — ... Clive Staples Lewis Maurice Maeterlinck L'oiseau bleu Feerie en cinq actes et dix tableaux Print : Book1900-1945 (1) 'The book you refer to is "How to Form a Literary Taste" by Arnold Bennett: the edition is
pretty but the book is not of any value. The very title — as if you set o... Clive Staples Lewis Arnold Bennett Literary Taste: How to Form It with Detailed Instr... Print : Book1900-1945 (1) 'I have read today ... some 10 pages of "Tristram Shandy" and am wondering whether I
like it. It is certainly the maddest book ever written.... It gives you the imp... Clive Staples Lewis Laurence Sterne The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentlema... Print : Book1900-1945 'I was very sorry to hear about the death of "A Student in arms", whose book I read last holidays
as you may remember. I never met anything exactly like it before, it i... Clive Staples Lewis Donald Hankey A Student in Arms Print : Book1900-1945 'Nothing in it however, [ie "A Student in Arms"], if I remember aright, quite reaches the level
of this last article, a wise and charming piece of work - and doubly so ... Clive Staples Lewis Donald Hankey 'Don't Worry' Print : Serial / periodical1900-1945 'I like last week's "Romance" by the Student in Arms very much - in some ways as much as the
other, tho' perhaps you will not agree with me.' Clive Staples Lewis Donald Hankey 'Romance' Print : Serial / periodical1900-1945 'That is rather a fine article on Hakluyt in this week's Literary Supplement and a good deal of it
might stand as an apology - in the Newman sense of course — for my ho... Clive Staples Lewis [n/a] [n/a] Times Literary Supplement Print : Serial / periodical1900-1945 '... remember that nearly all your reading is confined to about 150 years of one particular
country.... And so, if you suddenly go back to an Anglo-Saxon gleeman's lay,... Clive Staples Lewis [Anon] [Anon] Beowulf Print : Book1900-1945 (1) 'I am reading at present, what do you think? Our own friend "Pilgrim's Progress". It is one
of those books that are usually read too early to appreciate, and perhap... Clive Staples Lewis John Bunyan Pilgrim's Progress Print : Book1800-1849 Diary entry, 29 August 1831
"I have been reading Dawes’s Miscellanea Critica ^all the morning and writing some of his
emendations in the margin of my Callimachus. They... Elizabeth Barrett Browning Richard Dawes Miscellanea Critica Print : Book1900-1945 'As a matter of fact I am at present reading a real "old french" romance "The High History of the
Holy Graal" translated in the lovely "Temple Classics". If I dared to ... Clive Staples Lewis [Anon] [Anon] The High History of the Holy Graal Print : Book1900-1945 'I am also reading Chaucer's minor poems ("World's Classics", a scrubby edition but the only one
I can find) and am half way through "The House of Fame", a dream poem h... Clive Staples Lewis Geoffrey Chaucer Troilus and Creseyde Print : Book1900-1945 (1) 'Your verdict upon Macdonald's tale was worthy of so shrewd and serious a gentleman as
yourself...' (2) 'And talking about books I am surprised that you don't say m... Clive Staples Lewis George Macdonald The Golden Key Print : Book1900-1945 (1) 'I wonder does the "Wayfarer" series publish my latest discovery - the most glorious novel
(almost) that I have ever read.... It is Nathaniel Hawthorne's "House wit... Clive Staples Lewis Nathaniel Hawthorne The House of the Seven Gables Print : Book1900-1945 (1) 'Unfortunately we have not got a complete set of Scott here - only odd Everyman copies....
What is "Guy Mannering" like? The alternative title of "The Astrologer" s... Clive Staples Lewis Walter Scott Guy Mannering; or, The Astrologer Print : Book1900-1945 'We have had a book of Yeats' prose out of the library, and this has revived my taste for things
Gaelic and mystic. Ask Mullan's if he knows a book called "The Rosacrut... Clive Staples Lewis William Butler Yeats [unknown] Print : Book1900-1945 (1) ' ... I took my courage in both hands and knocked up the Master of University.... What
pleased me most was the masses upon masses of books in his house: among which... Clive Staples Lewis Lucius Apuleius The Story of Cupid and Psyche Print : Book1900-1945 'After wandering about the place and buying a second-hand copy of the "Gesta Romanorum"
(of which more anon) I took my courage in both hands and knocked up the Master o... Clive Staples Lewis [Anon] [Anon] Gesta Romanorum Print : Book1900-1945 (1) '... you simply must read this book of Maeterlinck's on death. It is full of the most interesting
stuff, and even when you don't believe his theories they always ha... Clive Staples Lewis Maurice Maeterlinck La Mort Print : Book1900-1945 (1) 'Just before supper I finished the 2nd volume of Mackail's "Life of W.M." There is nothing
nicer than to lay aside a book with a certain satisfaction at getting it ... Clive Staples Lewis John William Mackail The Life of William Morris Print : Book1900-1945 'Having finished Morris I am reading a silly book of Anstey's "The Talking Horse" before settling
down to Macaulay. I never heard you speak of Anstey, but you should re... Clive Staples Lewis F. Anstey The Talking Horse and Other Tales Print : Book1900-1945 (1) 'You say "Arethusa" is lovely: have you bought it or got a copy from the library? In any
case I am very glad you have started it. Isn't Omobono a lovely character, ... Clive Staples Lewis Francis Marion Crawford Arethusa Print : Book1900-1945 'My French is under rather different conditions to yours, as I read from 10 - 11 every night
except on Wednesdays when I write to you. I have really never counted exact... Clive Staples Lewis Charles Nodier Contes Fantastiques Print : Book1900-1945 'My French is under rather different conditions to yours, as I read from 10 - 11 every night
except on Wednesdays when I write to you. I have really never counted exact... Clive Staples Lewis François-Marie Arouet Voltaire Contes Choisis. Preface de Gustave Lanson Print : Book1900-1945 'My French is under rather different conditions to yours, as I read from 10 - 11 every night
except on Wednesdays when I write to you. I have really never counted exact... Clive Staples Lewis George Sand [unknown] Print : Book1900-1945 (1) 'I have now made a good start on my second volume of Macaulay, which is admirable. What
a nice man James must have been!' (2) 'I am nearly through Macaulay Vol. II,... Clive Staples Lewis Thomas Babington Macaulay The History of England from the Accession of James... Print : Book1900-1945 'Before starting this [ie Macaulay's "History of England", v. 2] I read in a library copy two of F.
W. Bain's Indian Tales "The Descent of the Sun" & "The Heifer of the... Clive Staples Lewis Francis William Bain The Descent of the Sun Print : Book1900-1945 'Italian quite comes up to K's promises about its easiness and on Sunday I read the first 200 lines
of Dante with much success. By the end of term I should be able to r... Clive Staples Lewis Dante Alighieri Divine Comedy Print : Book1900-1945 (1) 'I am reading such a splendid book in German, by a man called Chamisso "Peter
Schlemihl's Wundersame Geschichte" (The Amazing Adventures of Peter Schlemihl). It is ... Clive Staples Lewis Adelbert von Chamisso Peter Schlemihls Wundersame Geschichte Print : Book1900-1945 (1) 'I also bought a French Book on the Poetry of the middle ages — so you see dear Oxford is a
dangerous place for a book lover.' (2) 'I am now reading in French this ... Clive Staples Lewis Gaston Paris La Litterature francaise au moyen age (XI-XIV siec... Print : Book1900-1945 ‘Well, here I am, and a soldier … to go to Northampton on Monday for the First
Reserve … Tonight I have been reading the Georgian Poetry Book, and it is
this that mad... Ivor Bertie Gurney Edward Marsh Georgian Poetry Print : Book1850-1899 'I judged people's social importance mainly by the length of their
adventures.
This idea may have come from the stable-boy, for he was my principal
friend. He
had... unknown unknown [book of Orange Rhymes] 1800-1849 Diary entry, 14 June 1831:
"He [Mr. Boyd] was not in good spirits. No more was his companion – I talked however as well
as I could, - & read as well as I could beside... Elizabeth Barrett Browning Aeschylus Septem Apud Thebas Print : Book1800-1849 Diary entry, 14 June 1831:
"While we were reading the Seven Chiefs, he observed that tho’ Plutarch preferred it to the
other Tragedies of Aeschylus, he could not hel... Elizabeth Barrett Browning Aeschylus Septem Apud Thebas Print : Book1800-1849 Diary entry, June 15, 1831:
"The Cliffes brought me The Seven Chiefs which Mrs. Best had ordered from Worcester at my
request; and I have been reading over again what... Elizabeth Barrett Browning Aeschylus Septem contra Thebas Print : Book1800-1849 Diary entry, August 22, 1831: "And then we read merely the Greek of a passage in the poem
next to my favorite poem; and then Mr. Boyd gave me Meleager’s ode to Spring... Elizabeth Barrett Browning Meleager Ode to Spring Print : Book1800-1849 Diary entry, 17 August 1831:
“Finished Cebes and began Theophrastus Clouds - & imitation of yesterday thunderstorm; and
fortunately for my nerves, Virgil to Homer!” Elizabeth Barrett Browning Cebes Tablet of Cebes Print : Book1800-1849 Diary entry, August 17, 1831:
"Finished Cebes and began Theophrastus. Clouds -& imitation of yesterday's thunderstorm; and
fortunately for my nerves, Virgil to Homer!... Elizabeth Barrett Browning Theophrastus [unknown] Print : Book1800-1849 Diary entry, June 16, 1831:
"I heard Stormy & Georgie read Homer & Xenophon – as usual, – tho’ I have not yet
commemorated them here -& I prepared a part of the first... Elizabeth Barrett Browning Aeschylus Septem Apud Thebas Print : Book1800-1849 Diary entry, June 21, 1831:
"Well – but we began to read the Seven Chiefs out of Blomfield’s edition; & were very happy." Elizabeth Barrett Browning Aeschylus Septem Apud Thebas Print : Book1800-1849 Diary entry, June 24, 1831:
"Afterwards we returned to Mr. Boyd’s own room, & read Aeschylus again. We read the scene
after the first chorus of the Seven Chief, & bot... Elizabeth Barrett Browning Aeschylus Septem Apud Thebas Print : Book1800-1849 Diary entry, June 25, 1831:
"Read Aeschylus – the part I read yesterday, -& wrote down all that I cd. remember of Mr.
Boyd’s saying upon it." Elizabeth Barrett Browning Aeschylus Septem Apud Thebas Print : Book1800-1849 Diary entry, June 27, 1831:
"I read Pindar's first Olympic today -& thought of tomorrow – tomorrow’s fatal decisive letter." Elizabeth Barrett Browning Pindar First Olympian Ode Print : Book1800-1849 Diary entry, January 21, 1832:
"Read the 7th Olympic ode – about Agesias, & Rhodes" Elizabeth Barrett Browning Pindar Seventh Olympian Ode Print : Book1800-1849 Diary entry, March 1, 1832:
"In the evening I read a part of Pindar’s 8th Olympic. And de Genlis’s story of Delphine in the
Tales of the castle, which I like because ... Elizabeth Barrett Browning Pindar Eighth Olympian Ode Print : Book1800-1849 Diary entry, April 6, 1832:
"I have been reading Pindar’s 9th Olympiad, & must go back to it. Pindar’s subjects are of little
interest to my mind" Elizabeth Barrett Browning Pindar Ninth Olympian Ode Print : Book1800-1849 Diary entry, April 17, 1832:
"Read the two last Olympic odes today, - except a few lines of the last but one. The very last, to
the Graces, is most harmonious & beaut... Elizabeth Barrett Browning Pindar Olympian Odes Print : Book1800-1849 Diary entry, April 19, 1832:
"Wrote to Mr. Boyd about the parallel passage in Synesius & Anacreon, - & nearly went thro’ the
whole of the first & Second pythian odes.... Elizabeth Barrett Browning Pindar First and second Pythian odes Print : Book1900-1945 'I should like to have three more copies of the
poem, if you will kindly send them. I give
sparingly—to those only who are able to
appreciate good poetry, and you ... William Henry Hudson Lascelles Abercrombie The Sale of Saint Thomas [The First Act of a Play ... Print : Book1900-1945 'I enjoyed your tales, the uneasy ones ["Tales of
the Uneasy"]—nasty on any night before going to
bed. I wonder which famous case you were
thinking of when y... William Henry Hudson Violet Hunt Tales of the Uneasy Print : Book1500-1599 ' A Jesuit reported on a Puritan meeting in the late 1580s: "Each of them had his own Bible, and sedulously turned the pages and looked up the texts cited by the preacher... Puritans The Bible Print : Book1500-1599 From thence he was sent to Eaton, where he was educated other six years, during all which time he was more than ordinarily studious and industrious; for when other boyes ... William Gouge [unknown] Print : Book1500-1599 'He continued in the Colledge for the space of nine years, and in all that time (except he went forth a Town to his friends) he was never absent from morning Prayers in t... William Gouge Scriptures Print : Book1500-1599 In his Childe-hood he was so addicted to those means which his Parents applied him unto, for the implanting in him the seeds of good Literature, that he rather needed a ... Thomas Gataker [various] Print : Book1500-1599 In this Family, partly by his own inclination, and partly by the encouragement of the Governours thereof, he performed Family Duties for the instruction and edification ... Thomas Gataker Scriptures Print : Book1500-1599 About the same time also he read over St. Augustines Meditations, which so affected him, that he wept often in the reading of them.
James Usher St Augustine St. Augustines Meditations Unknown 1500-1599 At twelve years old he was so affected with the study of Chronology and Antiquity, that, reading over Sleidans Book of the four Empires, and some other Authors, he drew f... James Usher Sleidans Book of the Four Empires Print : Book1500-1599 At twelve years old he was so affected with the study of Chronology and Antiquity, that, reading over Sleidans Book of the four Empires, and some other Authors, he drew f... James Usher [various unknown] Print : Book1500-1599 Before he was Bachelor of Arts he read Stapletons Fortress of the Faith, and therein finding how confidently he asserted Antiquity for the Popish Tenets, withall, brandin... James Usher Stapleton Fortress of the Faith Print : Book1600-1699 In the year 1650, as I well remember, I was onenight reading in my bed (as it was my custom then to do, in some book or other) in the Anatomy of Melancholy: and coming to... John Gadbury Robert Burton The Anatomy of Melancholy Print : Book1600-1699 August 14. I had read Mr Whately of the new birth, and it affected mee exceedingly, and put mee upon prayer, and search of my selfe Isaac Archer William Whately The New-Birth:or, a treatise of regeneration, deli Print : Book1600-1699 May 3. I found a case putt in Mr A's Vindiciae Pietatis, about a violent inclination from natural temper (which suits mee), wherin he sayeth there is to be a disowning, a... Isaac Archer Richard Sibbes The Bruised Reed and Smoking Flax Print : Book1600-1699 May 3. I found a case putt in Mr A's Vindiciae Pietatis, about a violent inclination from natural temper (which suits mee), wherin he sayeth there is to be a disowning, a... Isaac Archer Richard Alleine Vindiciae Pietatis; or, a Vindication of Godliness Print : Book1600-1699 After my father had denied Crumwell he lived at great quiet, spending his tyme very much in reading the Bible, and good and godly tracts John Bramston The Bible Print : Book1600-1699 After my father had denied Crumwell he lived at great quiet, spending his tyme very much in reading the Bible, and good and godly tracts John Bramston various unknown [religious titles] Print : Book1600-1699 That was carried by Tymothie Code,a scrivenor in Chelmsford, to the coffeehouse, and there read by on Mr. Johnson, curat at that tyme of the parish, in presence of Thomas... Print : Pamphlet1600-1699 He [The earl of Oxford] desired me (companie being with him) to take home the paper, and advise him what he was to do. When I had perused it, I wayted on him again. . . John Bramston Instructions Manuscript : Sheet1600-1699 His words were not manie, yet he read all he sayd to us, a thing very unbecoming the chaire, and which I never before did see. Sir John Trevor Sir John Trevor [untitled] Manuscript : Sheet1600-1699 as I find reported by Sir Nicholas Hyde, the Lord Justice of the K.B., which I with my hand transcribed, and have by me John Bramston Sir Nicholas Hyde [untitled] Manuscript : Sheet1600-1699 Camden does credit this and repeates a tryal one made of forceing a Duck into one of those falls, which came out at the other side by Moles with its feathers allmost all ... Celia Fiennes William Camden Britannia Print : Book1600-1699 he was required to answer to some of the articles, viz. the signing and subscribing the two opinions; but I thinck it was not delivered to the house, for I find it engros... John Bramston John Bramston [untitled] Unknown 1600-1699 In the year 1622 he was chosen reader, and read upon the statute 32 H.8, cap 2, concerning lymitations. . . .After the recept of the writreturnable the tearme following h... John Bramston Statute 32 Henry VIII cap. 2 and statute 13 Eliz. ... Manuscript : Codex1600-1699 In the order and government of his Family, he was very exemplary. His house was another Bethel, for he did not onely constantly upon conscientious principles use morning... William Gouge Scriptures Print : Book1600-1699 For he was chosen, and sate as one of the Assessors and very often filled the Chair in the Moderators, absence, and such was his constant care, and conscientiousness in t... William Gouge Bible Print : Book1600-1699 For he was chosen, and sate as one of the Assessors and very often filled the Chair in the Moderators, absence, and such was his constant care, and conscientiousness in t... William Gouge [various] Print : Book1600-1699 And a Sermon of Mr. H. Hickman's at Oxford, much moved her (on Isa. 27. 11. It is a people of no understanding, therefore he that made them will not save them, &c.) The D... Margaret Charlton Unknown 1600-1699 When I was at any time from home, she would not pray in the Family, though she could not endure to be without it. She would privately talk to the servants, and read good ... Margaret Baxter [unknown] Print : Book1600-1699 She desired me to pray by her, and seemed quietly to join to the end: She heard divers Psalms, and a Chapter read, and repeated part, and sung part of a Psalm her self. T... Richard Baxter Bible Print : Book1700-1799 Aunt sup'd with me. Read 4 Acts of 'The Gratefull Servant'. Bed 12. More amused and quiet than of late. Gertrude Savile James Shirley The Gratefull Servant. A Comedie... Print : Book1700-1799 'My father is now reading the Midnight Bell, which he has got from the library, and mother sitting by the fire.' George Austen Francis Lathom Midnight Bell, a German Story, Founded on Incident... Print : Book1700-1799 'We have got Fitz-Albini; my father has bought it against my private wishes, for it does not quite satisfy my feelings that we should purchase the only one of Egerton's w... Jane Austen Samuel Egerton Brydges Arthur Fitz-Albini: a Novel Print : Book1700-1799 'We have got Boswell's Tour to the Hebrides, and are to have his Life of Johnson.' Jane Austen James Boswell Tour to the Hebrides Print : Book1700-1799 'There was a very long list of Arrivals here, in the Newspaper yesterday, so that we need not immediately dread absolute solitude.' Jane Austen Print : Newspaper1700-1799 'Hester Thrale compared herself to Swift's Vanessa who "held Montaigne and read- / while Mrs Susan comb'd her Head", and read the "Spectator" to her daughters while her "... Hester Thrale Joseph Addison The Spectator Print : Serial / periodical, Could have been periodical in bound form1700-1799 'Landscape gardener Humphry Repton's wife read to him while he drew''. Humphry Repton unknown unknown Unknown 1700-1799 'Thomas Moore regularly read to his wife for two hours after dinner, at one point "going through Miss Edgeworth's works".' Thomas Moore Maria Edgeworth [novels] Print : Book1700-1799 'Dr Delany read his wife an eclectic range of books from Eusebius' "Life of Constantine the Great" to "Peregrine Pickle".' Dr Delany Eusebius Life of Constantine the Great Print : Book1700-1799 'Dr Delany read his wife an eclectic range of books from Eusebius' "Life of Constantine the Great" to "Peregrine Pickle".' Patrick Delany Tobias Smollett Peregrine Pickle Print : Book1700-1799 'In 1753 Catherine Talbot stayed with the Berkeley family and participated enthusiastically in readings of "Sir Charles Grandison".' Catherine Talbot Samuel Richardson Sir Charles Grandison Print : Book1700-1799 'Susan Sibbald knew Scottish shepherd Wully Carruthers who was a fellow-subscriber to the circulating library at Melrose, but while she borrowed Ann Radcliffe, he read "A... Wully Carruthers Alan Ramsay The Gentle Shepherd Print : Book1700-1799 'Susan Sibbald knew Scottish shepherd Wully Carruthers who was a fellow-subscriber to the circulating library at Melrose, but while she borrowed Ann Radcliffe, he read "A... Wully Carruthers [ancient and modern history] Print : Book1700-1799 'Susan Sibbald knew Scottish shepherd Wully Carruthers who was a fellow-subscriber to the circulating library at Melrose, but while she borrowed Ann Radcliffe, he read "A... Wully Carruthers Samuel Richardson Sir Charles Grandison Print : Book1700-1799 'Aucterderran, Fife: In common with the rest of Scotland, the vulgar are, for their station, literate, beyond all other nations. Puritanic and abstruse divinity come in f... the people of Auchterderran, Fife [Puritanic and abstruse divinity texts] Print : Book1700-1799 'They likewise read, occasionally, a variety of other books unconnected with such subjects [religion]... Although the parish consists wholly of the poorer ranks of societ... the people of Auchterderran, Fife [newspapers] Print : Newspaper1700-1799 'Kirkpatrick-Juxta, Dumfries: Several of the farmers read history, magazines and newspapers. The vulgar read almost nothing but books on religious subjects'. the people of Kirkpatrick-Juxta, Dumfries [newspapers] Print : Newspaper1700-1799 'Kirkpatrick-Juxta, Dumfries: Several of the farmers read history, magazines and newspapers. The vulgar read almost nothing but books on religious subjects'. the people of Kirkpatrick-Juxta, Dumfries [history] Print : Book1700-1799 'Kirkpatrick-Juxta, Dumfries: Several of the farmers read history, magazines and newspapers. The vulgar read almost nothing but books on religious subjects'. the people of Kirkpatrick-Juxta, Dumfries [magazines] Print : Serial / periodical1700-1799 'Kirkpatrick-Juxta, Dumfries: Several of the farmers read history, magazines and newspapers. The vulgar read almost nothing but books on religious subjects'. the people of Kirkpatrick-Juxta, Dumfries [religious books] Print : Book1700-1799 'Wigtown:...Not only the farmers ,but many of the tradesmen, read the newspapers' the people of Wigtown [newspapers] Print : Newspaper1700-1799 Read the News John Yeoman Print : Newspaper1700-1799 Nothing Remarkable happend the Morning Noon nor evening of that Day, only Read the play called the Scool for Wifes. John Yeoman Hugh Kelly The School for Wives Unknown 1700-1799 I Read the travels of Roderick Random, who had been into different Quarters and he Exposed the severaty of the Captains over the Men, Esspeatialy the Sick, in a Most Shoc... John Yeoman Tobias Smollett Roderick Random Unknown 1700-1799 Read the Second Part of Mr. Roderick Random John Yeoman Tobias Smollett Roderick Random Unknown 1700-1799 after [a morning walk] I Read the News. John Yeoman Print : Newspaper1700-1799 home [from going to see the King's weekly procession at Kew] & Read the News John Yeoman Print : Newspaper1700-1799 Last night sleep departed, I read almost all night Nelsons life of Bp Bull James Clre James Clegg Robert Nelson Life of Dr. George Bull Print : Book1700-1799 At night I read some of the lives and characters of of the Ejected ministers in Dr Calamys account and was much affected with their piety, Zeal and steadiness[...] conclu... James Clegg Richard Baxter The Saints Everlasting Rest. Print : Book1700-1799 At night I read some of the lives and characters of the Ejected ministers in Dr Calamys account and was much affected with their piety, Zeal and steadiness[...] concluded... James Clegg Richard Baxter An abridgement of Mr Baxter's life and times. With Print : Book1700-1799 May 24th. My black mare fell down and threw me over her head, but God be praysed I got not the least harm. I rode a slow trot reading the Northampton news paper [...] it ... William Coe The Northampton Mercury Print : Newspaper1700-1799 At home all day. [...] My wife read part of Clarissa Harlowe to me in the even as I sat a-posting my book. Margaret 'Peggy' Turner Samuel Richardson Clarissa Harlowe Print : Book1700-1799 at home all day [...] at Oaks I met with Mr Laws practical discourse on christian perfection [...] I am now reading it James Clegg William Law A Practical Traetise Upon Christain Perfection Print : Book1700-1799 Afternoon read a sermon of Dr Stanhope's. of Prayers not being granted immediately. Gertrude Savile George Stanhope Twelve Sermons Print : Book1700-1799 Read one sermon and part of another of Dr Stanhope's of Death and Judgement, and of the sufficiency of the scriptures. I think he is a better orator than casuist: his arg... Gertrude Savile George Stanhope Twelve Sermons Print : Book1700-1799 After dinner, garden 1 1/2 hours feeding the foul. Drank coffee. Made an end of the sermon. Gertrude Savile George Stanhope Twelve Sermons Print : Book1700-1799 Read 2 sermons of Dr Stanhope's, one to sea men, the other on the 5th November. Gertrude Savile George Stanhope Twelve Sermons Print : Book1700-1799 I find by the newspapers this morning that Dr Wild and you are deputed by the clergy assembled at the late visitation at Beaconsfield to wait upon my lord Nottingham Edward Lincoln unknown Print : Newspaper1700-1799 I find by the news papers this morning that dr wild and you are deputed by the clergy assembled at the late visitation at Beaconsfield to wait upon my lord Nottingham [to... Edward Lincoln Daniel (Earl of Winchelsea and Nottingham) Finch The Answer of the Earl of Nottingham to Mr Whiston Print : Book1700-1799 Did not go to church. Read a funeral sermon of Dr Stanhope's. Gertrude Savile George Stanhope Twelve Sermons Print : Book1700-1799 Bought... sugar at Cossen's, 2 vols of Dr Clark's exposition of the 4 Evengellists (cost 10s), sermons by Dr Stanhope. Cost 5s. Mother paid half of that... Read Philip o... Gertrude Savile David Lewis Philip of Macedon: A Tragedy. As it is acted at th Print : Book1700-1799 After dinner, summerhouse, read the Life of Count Venivill - silly. Gertrude Savile Penelope Aubin The Strange Adventure of the Count de Vinevil and Print : Book1700-1799 No rest for me in bed, therefore rise 1/2 past 4... summerhouse till 1/2 past 7 read Baker's Chronicles Gertrude Savile Richard Baker A Chronicle of the Kings of England from the Time Print : Book1700-1799 I know not why but too late for Church. Read 1 hour in the summerhouse, Dr Clark on the Evengelists. Gertrude Savile Samuel Clarke A Paraphrase on the Four Evangelists Print : Book1700-1799 Sup'd by myself in own chamber. Read 'Tale of a Tub'. Bed 11... Gertrude Savile Jonathan Swift A Tale of A Tub Print : Book1700-1799 I left the old woman with mother as soon as supper was done. Read Baker's Chronicles 1 1/2 hours. Bed at 11. Gertrude Savile Richard Baker A Chronicle of the Kings of England Print : Book1700-1799 Came home before 7. Dr Clark 1 hour. Bed past 10. Gertrude Savile Samuel Clarke A Paraphrase on the Four Evangelists Print : Book1700-1799 Sup'd alone. Read 'The Perplex'd Duches' a novell. Bed 11. Gertrude Savile Eliza Fowler Haywood The Perplex'd Dutchess: Or, Treachery Rewarded... Print : Book1700-1799 Lay till 11. All day alone... Lay on the bed as much as I coud. Read 2 books of the Life of the Baron Debross, an old story. Gertrude Savile Eliza Haywood Memoirs of the Baron de Brosse, who was broke on t Print : Book1700-1799 Read some spectators in great anguish of mind. 'Im weary of my part My torch is out, and the world stands before me Like a black desart at th' approach of night I'll lay ... Gertrude Savile John Dryden All for Love Print : Book1700-1799 "Is there yet left the least unmortgag'd hope" ('All for Love') Gertrude Savile John Dryden All for Love Print : Book1700-1799 'tis in clearing one's charicter, as in taking spotts outof one's cloaths. You make it ten times bigger and seldom or never efface the first stains'. (Chit-Chat) Gertrude Savile Thomas Killigrew Chit-Chat. A Comedy. As it is Acted at the Theatre Print : Book1700-1799 I sat in the Parlor; drank coffee and read a sermon of Dr Stanhope's... Gertrude Savile George Stanhope Twelve Sermons Print : Book1700-1799 With mother to Clapham Common. Read to her 'Agnes de Castro' by Mrs Behn. Home before 8. Read one hour of the book before supper. Gertrude Savile Aphra Behn All the Histories and Novels of the Late Ingenious Print : Book1700-1799 With mother to Clapham Common. Read to her 'Agnes de Castro' by Mrs Behn. Home before 8. Read one hour of the book before supper. Gertrude Savile Aphra Behn All the Histories and Novels of the Late Ingenious Print : Book1700-1799 Read part of 'Fair Gilt' by Mrs Behn. Gertrude Savile Aphra Behn All the Histories and Novels of the Late Ingenious Print : Book1700-1799 Read part of 'Oroonoko' after supper. Gertrude Savile Aphra Behn All the Histories and Novels of the Late Ingenious Print : Book1700-1799 Had a fire in my own Room. Mother sup'd with me there. Read 'The Lucky Mistake' - Mrs Behn. Gertrude Savile Aphra Behn All the Histories and Novels of the Late Ingenious Print : Book1700-1799 Read after supper the contempt of the clergy. Gertrude Savile John Eachard The Grounds and Occasion of the Contempt of the Cl Print : Book1700-1799 Summerhouse reading 'contempt of the clergy' till 1/2 past 5. Gertrude Savile John Eachard The Grounds and Occasion of the Contempt of the Cl Print : Book1700-1799 Writt from 6 to 9. Sup'd alone. Read 'The Mulberry Garden', a pretty play. Bed 12. Gertrude Savile Charles Sedley The Mulberry Garden or The Works...In Two Volumes Print : Book1700-1799 'O heart, Why dost thou leap against my Bosom like a Cag'd Bird, and beat thyself to Death for an impossible freedom'. ('Constantine') Gertrude Savile Nathaniel Lee Constantine The Great: A Tragedy. OR The Works... Print : Book1700-1799 Very miserable. 'Like a poor Lunitick that Makes his Moan And for a time beguiles the Lookers-On He reasons well, his Eyes their Wildness lose And vows the keepers his w... Gertrude Savile Nathaniel Lee Caesar Borgia. A Tragedy Print : Book1700-1799 Home past 8 a fier in the Parlor. Read Mrs Behn's novels, a book of Abraham's [cut by editor]. Gertrude Savile Aphra Behn All the Histories and Novels of the Late Ingenious Print : Book1700-1799 Summerhouse and garden till past 8, cutting shift neck and reading 'The Grounds of the Contempt of the Clergy' by Eachard; a book with much truth and much witt, but too l... Gertrude Savile John Eachard The Grounds and Occasion of the Contempt of the Cl Print : Book1700-1799 Made an end of the Novell [the Fair Jilt]. Gertrude Savile Aphra Behn All the Histories and Novels of the Late Ingenious Print : Book1700-1799 After dinner 1 hour reading 'Contempt of the Clergy'. Gertrude Savile John Eachard The Grounds and Occasion of the Contempt of the Cl Print : Book1700-1799 Mary read to me a little before dinner, (which she does tolerable); 'Cyrus' a Romance. I wound silk. Mary Stancliff Andrew Michael Ramsay Travels of Cyrus Print : Book1700-1799 Lay till near 11. Mary read 'cyrus', I winding silk. Mary Stancliff Andrew Michael Ramsay ['Cyrus'] OR Travels of Cyrus Print : Book1700-1799 Read 'Tale of Tub' 1 hour. Bed past 10. Gertrude Savile Jonathan Swift A Tale of A Tub Print : Book1700-1799 Read 'Double Falshood' a play of Shakespear's never acted till this winter. I think it a poor one for his. Bed 12. Gertrude Savile William Shakespeare Double Falsehood; Or, the Distrest Lovers... writt Print : Book1700-1799 Supper alone. Read life of Mr Savage. Gertrude Savile Charles Beckingham The Life of Mr Richard Savage Print : Book1700-1799 Sup'd alone. Read 'The Sophy', a play of Sir J Deham's. Gertrude Savile (Sir) John Denham The Sophy OR Poems and Translations Print : Book1700-1799 None went to Church. Read a book of Luther's. Gertrude Savile Martin Luther Print : Book1700-1799 Read 'Sesostris, a new Tragydy'; a so-so one. Gertrude Savile John Sturmy Sesostris: Or, Royalty in Disguise. A Tragedy. Print : Book1700-1799 Did not go to Church. Read Clark's Attributes morn. Gertrude Savile Samuel Clarke A Demonstration of the Being and Attributes of God Print : Book1700-1799 Din'd and sup'd with Aunt. Play'd Pickett till past 9. Read some Tatlers. Bed 11. Gertrude Savile Tatler Print : Serial / periodical1700-1799 Read 'The travells of Cyrus' after supper. Gertrude Savile Andrew Michael Ramsay The Travels of Cyrus Print : Book1700-1799 Din'd in own room alone... Read 'A Journy to London', Sir J Vanburg's -part of what is made 'The Provoked Husband' by Cibber, vastly mended by him I think. Gertrude Savile (Sir) John Vanbrugh A Journey to London, being part of a comedy... Print : Book1700-1799 Play'd tunes in 'The Beggars Opera' 2 hours after dinner. Gertrude Savile John Gay The Beggar's Opera Print : Book1700-1799 Home past 9. Supper alone, Read 'Cyrus', Bed 12. Gertrude Savile Andrew Michael Ramsay The Travels of Cyrus Print : Book1700-1799 Rise at 10. Mary read 'Cyrus'. Knited [knitted] till 7. Mary Stancliff Andrew Michael Ramsay The Travels of Cyrus Print : Book1700-1799 Took Phisick. Rise at 10. Mary read Cyrus. Mary Stancliff Andrew Michael Ramsay The Travels of Cyrus Print : Book1700-1799 Took phisick. Mary read Cyrus. Mary Stancliff Andrew Michael Ramsay The Travels of Cyrus Print : Book1700-1799 Tuned harpsichord and play'd some of Beggars Opera songs after supper alone. Gertrude Savile John Gay The Beggars Opera Print : Book1700-1799 Read 'A True Estemate of Human Life' by Mr Young, a Sermon preach'd in St George's Church upon the King's death. Extreordinary stile. Poeticall, exceeding entertaining. Gertrude Savile Edward Young A Vindication of Providence; Or, a True Estimate o Print : Book1700-1799 Aunt had the coach at 5 to visit. I drank tea and read Mr Young's sermon. Mrs D'Enly went when the coach came back with Aunt near 10. Gertrude Savile Edward Young A Vindication of Providence; Or, a True Estimate o Print : Book1700-1799 Lay till past 9. Read Dr Clark little. Went to King Street chapel... Gertrude Savile Samuel Clarke A Demonstration of the Being and Attributes of God Print : Book1700-1799 Mrs Prade set me down past 9. Read Dr Clark 1/2 hour after supper. Bed 11. Gertrude Savile Samuel Clarke A Demonstration of the Being and Attributes of God Print : Book1700-1799 Supper alone. Tatlers. Bed past 11. Gertrude Savile Tatler Print : Serial / periodical1700-1799 Supper alone. 4 Tatlers. Bed 1/2 past 11. Gertrude Savile Tatler Print : Serial / periodical1700-1799 Home 9. Supper below. 3 Tatlers. Bed 11. Gertrude Savile Tatler Print : Serial / periodical1700-1799 Home past 9. Read 4 Tatlers. Bed past 11. Gertrude Savile Tatler Print : Serial / periodical1700-1799 Home near 10. Read 4 Tatlers. Bed 12. Gertrude Savile Tatler Print : Serial / periodical1700-1799 Went into the park...Back to our dinner at 2. Spent the afternoon walking and sitting, and I read 3 Acts of 'The Conscious Lovers'. Gertrude Savile (Sir) Richard Steele The Conscious Lovers. A Comedy. Print : Book1700-1799 Read the 'Universal Passion' Gertrude Savile Edward Young The Universal Passion Print : Book1700-1799 Made an end of 'The Unniversall Passion'... 'Tis exceeding seveer, 'tis all satir[e] but mighty pretty and too just. He is grown a favouritt Author of mine. I am not cont... Gertrude Savile Edward Young The Universal Passion Print : Book1700-1799 Supper below. Read 'The Life, Roberies, etc. of Dalton', an evidence against several of the Robers which are to be Hang'd. Bed past 11. Gertrude Savile The Life and Actions of James Dalton (the noted st Print : Book1700-1799 Read 'The British Recluse'. Gertrude Savile Eliza Haywood The British Recluse; Or the Secret History of Cleo Print : Book1700-1799 Afternoon read Lady's Letter to a Popish Gentleman etc. Gertrude Savile 'B.L' OR 'A Lady' Two Letters: one from a Lady to a friend who had m Print : Book1700-1799 Afternoon went to the chaple. Home. Coffee. Read Clarke's 'Parraphras on the Evangellists'. Gertrude Savile Samuel Clarke Clarke A Paraphrase on the Four Evangelists Print : Book1700-1799 Read 'The Adventures of Six Days'. 1 hour. Bed 11. Gertrude Savile Madame de Gomez La Belle Assemblee: or, The Adventures of Six Days Print : Book1700-1799 Read 'Six Days Adventures' after supper. Bed 11. Gertrude Savile Madame de Gomez La Belle Assemblee: or, The Adventures of Six Days Print : Book
