√ Century of Experience Evidence Name of Reader / Listener / Reading Group Author of Text Title of Text Form of Text 1800-1849 Byron to John Murray, 12 June 1813: 'In yesterday's paper immediately under an advertisement on "Strictures in the Urethra" I see most appropriately consequent - a poem w... George Gordon, Lord Byron anon advertisement for Modern Poets; a Dialogue in Vers... Print : Advertisement, Newspaper1800-1849 Byron to John Murray, 13 June 1813: 'I have read the strictures which are just enough - & not grossly abusive - in very fair couplets ... ' George Gordon, Lord Byron anon Modern Poets; a Dialogue in Verse, containing some... Print : Book1800-1849 Byron to Thomas Moore, 22 August 1813: 'In a "mail-coach" copy of the Edinburgh, I perceive the Giaour is 2d article.' George Gordon, Lord Byron Various Edinburgh Review Print : Serial / periodical1800-1849 Byron to Thomas Moore, 22 August 1813, in description of Newstead Abbey: 'I remember, when about fifteen, reading your poems there ... ' George Gordon, Lord Byron Thomas Moore [poems] Unknown 1800-1849 Byron to Thomas Moore, 22 August 1813: 'I hope you are going on with your grand coup - pray do - or that damned Lucien Buonaparte will beat us all. I have seen much of h... George Gordon, Lord Byron Lucien Buonaparte Charlemagne Manuscript : Unknown1800-1849 Byron to Thomas Moore, 28 August 1813: 'If you want any more books [on the Orient], there is "Castellan's Moeurs des Ottomans," the best compendium of the kind I ever met... George Gordon, Lord Byron A. L. Castellan Moeurs, usages costumes des Othomans, et abrege de... Print : Book1800-1849 Byron to Lady Melbourne, 21 September 1813, from Aston Hall, Rotherham (where staying with Sir James Wedderburn Webster): 'There is a delightful epitaph on Voltaire in Gr... George Gordon, Lord Byron Grimm unknown Unknown 1800-1849 Byron thanks J. Thomson (unidentified) for volume of poems, 27 September 1813: 'I have derived considerable pleasure from ye. perusal of parts of the book - to the whole ... George Gordon, Lord Byron J. Thomson unknown Unknown 1800-1849 September 5 1840. Went this morning to the house in Ship and Anchor court. On the parlour window of the house formerly kept by my father was a bill, 'a first, second and ... Francis Place Print : Advertisement, Handbill, Poster1800-1849 Byron to John Murray, 12 October 1813: 'I have received and read the British Review ... ' George Gordon, Lord Byron British Review Print : Serial / periodical1800-1849 Byron to Dr Samuel Butler, 20 October 1813: 'The little that I have seen by stealth and accident of Charlemagne quite electrified me.' George Gordon, Lord Byron Lucien Buonaparte Charlemagne Unknown 1800-1849 In postscript to letter written by Byron to John Murray, 3 am [29 November 1813]: 'I have got out of my bed (in which however I could not sleep ... ) & so Good Morning - ... George Gordon, Lord Byron Madame Germaine de Stael-Holstein De l'Allemagne Print : Book1800-1849 Byron to John Murray, [29 November 1813 (c)]: 'there have been some epigrams on Mr. W[ar]d one I see today - the first I did not see but heard yesterday - the second seem... George Gordon, Lord Byron unknown [epigram on J. W. Ward] Print : Newspaper1800-1849 Byron to John Murray, [29 November 1813 (c)]: 'there have been some epigrams on Mr. W[ar]d one I see today - the first I did not see but heard yesterday... ' George Gordon, Lord Byron unknown [epigram on J. W. Ward] Unknown 1800-1849 Byron to Madame de Stael, 30 November 1813, in praise of her De L'Allemagne: 'few days have passed since its publication without my perusal of many of its pages ... I sho... George Gordon, Lord Byron Madame Germaine de Stael-Holstein De L'Allemagne Print : Book1800-1849 Byron to Zachary Macaulay (editor of the Christian Observer), 3 December 1813: 'Sir / - I have just finished the perusal of an article in the "Christian Observer" on ye. ... George Gordon, Lord Byron Various Christian Observer Print : Serial / periodicalByron to John Murray, 4 December 1813: 'I have redde through your Persian Tale - I have taken ye. liberty of making some remarks on ye. blank pages - there are many beaut... George Gordon, Lord Byron unknown Persian Tale Manuscript : Unknown1800-1849 Byron to Thomas Moore, 8 December 1813: 'I have met with an odd reflection in Grimm ... "Many people have the reputation of being wicked, with whom we should be too happy... George Gordon, Lord Byron Friedrich Melchoir Grimm Correspondance Litteraire Print : Book1800-1849 On my having read some portion of the preceding narrative to Mr Fenn Bookseller at Charing Cross he related circumstances respecting some families in the Strand and its n... Francis Place Francis Place Autobiography Manuscript : unpublished memoirs1800-1849 In Byron's Journal (14 November 1813-19 April 1814): 'I never in my life read a composition [of his own], save to Hodgson, as he pays me in kind. It is a horrible thing ... George Gordon, Lord Byron George Gordon, Lord Byron unknown Unknown 1800-1849 In Byron's Journal (14 November 1813-19 April 1814): '... [Madame de Stael] writes octavos, and talks folios. I have read her books - like most of them, and delight in t... George Gordon, Lord Byron Madame Germaine de Stael-Holstein unknown Print : Book1800-1849 In Byron's Journal (14 November 1813-19 April 1814): 'Read Burns to-day.' George Gordon, Lord Byron Robert Burns unknown Unknown 1800-1849 In Byron's Journal (14 November 1813-19 April 1814), 17 November 1813: 'I wish I could settle to reading again, - my life is monotonous, and yet desultory. I take up boo... George Gordon, Lord Byron unknown [books] Print : Book1800-1849 In Byron's Journal (14 November 1813-19 April 1814), 17 November 1813, on his and Lady Oxford's shared enthusiasm for Lucretius: '[Lady Oxford] is an adept in the text of... Lady Oxford Lucretius unknown Print : Book1800-1849 In Byron's Journal (14 November 1813-19 April 1814), 17 November 1813, on his and Lady Oxford's shared enthusiasm for Lucretius: '[Lady Oxford] is an adept in the text of... Lady Oxford Busby [translation of Lucretius] Print : Book1800-1849 In Byron's Journal (14 November 1813-19 April 1814), 22 November 1813: 'I remember the effect of the first Edinburgh Review [containing negative review of his work] on me... George Gordon, Lord Byron Various Edinburgh Review Print : Serial / periodical1800-1849 I adhered steadily to the practice I had adopted and read for two or three hours every night after the business of the day was closed, which never happened till half past... Francis Place Print : Book1700-1799 'For John Clare [Robinson Crusoe] was "the first book of any merit I got hold of after I could read", and it set in motion an early ferment: "New ideas from the perusal o... John Clare Daniel Defoe Robinson Crusoe Print : Book1800-1849 Biographical Notices of Painters were eagerly sought at this period; but my reading, upon the whole, was rather a desultory nature, being fond of variety; accordingly a v... John Cole Print : Book1800-1849 Biographical Notices of Painters were eagerly sought at this period; but my reading, upon the whole, was rather a desultory nature, being fond of variety; accordingly a v... John Cole Print : Book1800-1849 My companions at the breakfast-table through this summer were many of our popular English Classics. Among these may be enumerated "The Death of Abel" which I read emphat... John Cole Salomon Gessner The Death of Abel Print : Book1800-1849 My companions at the breakfast-table through this summer were many of our popular English Classics. Among these may be enumerated "The Death of Abel" which I read emphat... John Cole John Bunyan Pilgrim's Progress Print : Book1800-1849 My companions at the breakfast-table through this summer were many of our popular English Classics. Among these may be enumerated "The Death of Abel" which I read emphat... John Cole Alexander Pope Homer Print : Book1800-1849 My companions at the breakfast-table through this summer were many of our popular English Classics. Among these may be enumerated "The Death of Abel" which I read emphat... John Cole Cicero Letters Print : Book1800-1849 My companions at the breakfast-table through this summer were many of our popular English Classics. Among these may be enumerated "The Death of Abel" which I read emphat... John Cole Elizabeth, or the Exile of Siberia Print : Book1800-1849 During this Spring read Shakspeare [sic] regularly through, and studied the characters of Hamlet, Douglas, Osman in 'Zara', Sir Charles Racket &c and purchased & read a g... John Cole Aaron Hill Zara Print : Book1800-1849 During this Spring read Shakspeare [sic] regularly through, and studied the characters of Hamlet, Douglas, Osman in 'Zara', Sir Charles Racket &c and purchased & read a g... John Cole John Home Douglas: A Tragedy Print : Book1800-1849 During this Spring read Shakspeare [sic] regularly through, and studied the characters of Hamlet, Douglas, Osman in 'Zara', Sir Charles Racket &c and purchased & read a g... John Cole Richard Brinsley Sheridan The Duenna Print : Book1800-1849 During this Spring read Shakspeare [sic] regularly through, and studied the characters of Hamlet, Douglas, Osman in 'Zara', Sir Charles Racket &c and purchased & read a g... John Cole Print : Book1800-1849 During this Spring read Shakspeare [sic] regularly through, and studied the characters of Hamlet, Douglas, Osman in 'Zara', Sir Charles Racket &c and purchased & read a g... John Cole Print : Book1800-1849 [Marginalia]: All three volumes have marginal vertical lines and underlines which appear to indicate meaningful points for the reader (Magdalene Erskine). Vol. 2 has a n... Magdalene Erskine Anne Grant Letters from the Mountains; being the real corresp... Print : Book1800-1849 Have you read 'Zanoni'? And do you relish the gathering up of dropped (or strewed) Platonisms, & forming them into such a crown of glory, - of holy radiance, as the moral... Harriet Martineau Edward Bulwer Lytton Zanoni Print : Book1800-1849 'This book has helped me incalculably in surmounting coterie-notions of the nature of another life, as well as of the objects of this.' Harriet Martineau Edward Bulwer Lytton Zanoni Print : Book1800-1849 'I do not defend the bad construction of his story. I lament it, & can only wonder what bewitches us all, - us story-makers, - that we cannot make a story, - Boz, Bulwer... Harriet Martineau Edward Bulwer Lytton Zanoni Print : Book1800-1849 'I quite agree with you about Leonidas &c. I have greatly enjoyed finding myself a child again over Macaulay's 'Lays'. Castor & Pollux really took away my breath. How ... Harriet Martineau Thomas Babington Macaulay Lays of Ancient Rome Print : Book1800-1849 'I suppose you shared the benefit, so common, thank God! in our generation, - of an early, & thorough familiarity with Mrs Barbauld's Prose Hymns. I know no book influen... Harriet Martineau Anna Laetitia Barbauld Hymns in Prose for Children Print : Book1800-1849 ["The Great Drought"] is 'full of a truth like that of Defoe... that story might be bound up with the History of the Great Plague.' Mary Russell Mitford Caroline Clive The Great Drought Print : Serial / periodical1800-1849 'I am quite sure that you felt impelled to write these striking verses - that they would be written, that they, so to say, wrote themselves - & I rejoice at it since by n... Mary Russell Mitford Caroline Clive The Queen's Ball: A Poem Print : Book1800-1849 '[Balzac's] short works although not new are exquisite - La Recherche de L'Absolu- Eugenie Grandet- Modeste Mignon- The last good cheap English books that I remember were... Mary Russell Mitford Henri Balzac La Recherche de L'Absolu Print : Book1800-1849 '[Balzac's] short works although not new are exquisite - La Recherche de L'Absolu- Eugenie Grandet- Modeste Mignon- The last good cheap English books that I remember were... Mary Russell Mitford Henri Balzac Eugenie Grandet Print : Book1800-1849 '[Balzac's] short works although not new are exquisite - La Recherche de L'Absolu- Eugenie Grandet- Modeste Mignon- The last good cheap English books that I remember were... Mary Russell Mitford Henri Balzac Modeste Mignon Print : Book1800-1849 '[Balzac's] short works although not new are exquisite - La Recherche de L'Absolu- Eugenie Grandet- Modeste Mignon- The last good cheap English books that I remember were... Mary Russell Mitford Dr Kitto holy verses Print : Book1800-1849 '[Balzac's] short works although not new are exquisite - La Recherche de L'Absolu- Eugenie Grandet- Modeste Mignon- The last good cheap English books that I remember were... Mary Russell Mitford Duffy Irish Songs and Ballads Print : Book1800-1849 '[Balzac's] short works although not new are exquisite - La Recherche de L'Absolu- Eugenie Grandet- Modeste Mignon- The last good cheap English books that I remember were... Mary Russell Mitford Mirabeau Print : Book1800-1849 '[Balzac's] short works although not new are exquisite - La Recherche de L'Absolu- Eugenie Grandet- Modeste Mignon- The last good cheap English books that I remember were... Mary Russell Mitford Lucas Montigny Memoires de Mirabeau sa famille et ses ecrits Print : Book1800-1849 '[Balzac's] short works although not new are exquisite - La Recherche de L'Absolu- Eugenie Grandet- Modeste Mignon- The last good cheap English books that I remember were... Mary Russell Mitford Thomas Babington Macaulay The History of England, from the Accession of Jame... Print : Book1800-1849 'the book that featured most prominently in [Joseph Greenwood's] memoirs was a cheap edition of Robinson Crusoe. "To me Daniel Defoe's book was a wonderful thing, it open... Joseph Greenwood Daniel Defoe Robinson Crusoe Print : Book1800-1849 '[Janet Hamilton] had a heavy literary diet as a child - history by Rollin and Plutarch, Ancient Universal History, Pitscottie's Chronicles of Scotland, as well as the Sp... Janet Hamilton Plutarch [history] Print : Book1800-1849 '[Janet Hamilton] had a heavy literary diet as a child - history by Rollin and Plutarch, Ancient Universal History, Pitscottie's Chronicles of Scotland, as well as the Sp... Janet Hamilton Charles Rollin Ancient History Print : Book1800-1849 '[Janet Hamilton] had a heavy literary diet as a child - history by Rollin and Plutarch, Ancient Universal History, Pitscottie's Chronicles of Scotland, as well as the Sp... Janet Hamilton Ancient Universal History Print : Book1800-1849 '[Janet Hamilton] had a heavy literary diet as a child - history by Rollin and Plutarch, Ancient Universal History, Pitscottie's Chronicles of Scotland, as well as the Sp... Janet Hamilton Robert Lindsay of Pitscottie Chronicles of Scotland Print : Book1800-1849 '[Janet Hamilton] had a heavy literary diet as a child - history by Rollin and Plutarch, Ancient Universal History, Pitscottie's Chronicles of Scotland, as well as the Sp... Janet Hamilton Joseph Addison The Spectator Print : Book, Serial / periodical, might have been the serial versions or, more likely, bound as a book1800-1849 '[Janet Hamilton] had a heavy literary diet as a child - history by Rollin and Plutarch, Ancient Universal History, Pitscottie's Chronicles of Scotland, as well as the Sp... Janet Hamilton Samuel Johnson The Rambler Print : Book, Serial / periodical, might have been the serial versions or, more likely, bound as a book1800-1849 '[Janet Hamilton] had a heavy literary diet as a child - history by Rollin and Plutarch, Ancient Universal History, Pitscottie's Chronicles of Scotland, as well as the Sp... Janet Hamilton Robert Burns [poetry] Print : Book1800-1849 '[Janet Hamilton] had a heavy literary diet as a child - history by Rollin and Plutarch, Ancient Universal History, Pitscottie's Chronicles of Scotland, as well as the Sp... Janet Hamilton Allan Ramsay [poetry] Print : Book1800-1849 '[Janet Hamilton] had a heavy literary diet as a child - history by Rollin and Plutarch, Ancient Universal History, Pitscottie's Chronicles of Scotland, as well as the Sp... Janet Hamilton John Milton Paradise Lost Print : Book1800-1849 '[Janet Hamilton] had a heavy literary diet as a child - history by Rollin and Plutarch, Ancient Universal History, Pitscottie's Chronicles of Scotland, as well as the Sp... Janet Hamilton Robert Fergusson [poems] Print : Book1700-1799 'Pope happened to be the first English poet that [Robert] Story discovered, so he provided the template from which the herd-boy minted pastorals "delightfully free from e... Robert Story Alexander Pope Print : Book1700-1799 'When he was finally exposed to Scott's Lay of the Last Minstrel, [Robert Story] reeled from the shock of the new. Pope may have been too refined, but this, Story insiste... Robert Story Walter Scott Lay of the Last Minstrel Print : Book1800-1849 'Robert White... had somewhat more progressive tastes [than Robert Story], which extended to Shelley, Keats, Childe Harold, and The Lady of the Lake. But his reading stop... Robert White Percy Bysshe Shelley Print : Book1800-1849 'Robert White... had somewhat more progressive tastes [than Robert Story], which extended to Shelley, Keats, Childe Harold, and The Lady of the Lake. But his reading stop... Robert White John Keats Print : Book1800-1849 'Robert White... had somewhat more progressive tastes [than Robert Story], which extended to Shelley, Keats, Childe Harold, and The Lady of the Lake. But his reading stop... Robert White George Gordon Lord Byron Childe Harold Print : Book1800-1849 'Robert White... had somewhat more progressive tastes [than Robert Story], which extended to Shelley, Keats, Childe Harold, and The Lady of the Lake. But his reading stop... Robert White Walter Scott The Lady of the Lake Print : Book1800-1849 '[Hugh Miller's] literary style was out of date: in 1834 he alluded to "my having kept company with the older English writers - the Addisons, Popes and Robertsons of the ... Hugh Miller Joseph Addison Print : Book, Serial / periodical1800-1849 '[Hugh Miller's] literary style was out of date: in 1834 he alluded to "my having kept company with the older English writers - the Addisons, Popes and Robertsons of the ... Hugh Miller Alexander Pope Print : Book1800-1849 '[Hugh Miller's] literary style was out of date: in 1834 he alluded to "my having kept company with the older English writers - the Addisons, Popes and Robertsons of the ... Hugh Miller [probably William] Robertson Print : Book1800-1849 Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 15 January 1821: "In the year 1814, Moore ... and I were going together, in the same carriage, to dine with Earl Gre... George Gordon, Lord Byron n/a Javanese newspaper Print : Newspaper1800-1849 Byron to John Murray, 24 November 1821, regarding John Cam Hobhouse's offence at his MS Memoirs: "Is there anything in the M.S.S. that could be personally obnoxious to hi... friends of Byron John Cam Hobhouse Manuscript : Letter1800-1849 Byron to John Sheppard, who had sent him a prayer apparently written for him (Byron) by his (Sheppard's) late wife, 8 December 1821: "I have received yr. letter ... the E... George Gordon, Lord Byron John Sheppard [unknown] Manuscript : Letter1800-1849 Byron to Edward J. Dawkins, 17 May 1822: "I return you the paper with many thanks for that and your letter. -- It is the first English Newspaper (except Galignani's Paris... George Gordon, Lord Byron n/a [English newspaper] Print : Newspaper1800-1849 Byron to John Cam Hobhouse, 28 May 1823: "I read your various speeches in the Times." George Gordon, Lord Byron n/a The Times Print : Newspaper1800-1849 'The neighbours and we have set up a book-club since the beginning of the year, & I want to beg you to tell me of some [italics] booklings [end italics] for it. We have ... Caroline Clive George Sand La Mare au Diable Print : Book1800-1849 'The neighbours and we have set up a book-club since the beginning of the year, & I want to beg you to tell me of some [italics] booklings [end italics] for it. We have ... Caroline Clive Jules Sandeau La Chasse au Roman Print : Book1800-1849 'The neighbours and we have set up a book-club since the beginning of the year, & I want to beg you to tell me of some [italics] booklings [end italics] for it. We have ... Caroline Clive Lord Mahon The Life of Louis, Prince of Conde, Surnamed the G... Print : Book1800-1849 'The neighbours and we have set up a book-club since the beginning of the year, & I want to beg you to tell me of some [italics] booklings [end italics] for it. We have ... Caroline Clive Memoirs of a Missionary Print : Book1800-1849 'If you happen to have heard Mr. Sullivan's conversation with me about "From Oxford to Rome' it may interest you to know that the authoress is a Miss Harris, daughter of ... Mary Russell Mitford Elizabeth Harris From Oxford to Rome Print : Book1800-1849 'Nearly the best thing she has written is L[ady] Geraldine.' Caroline Clive Elizabeth Barrett Browning Lady Geraldine Print : Book1800-1849 [Robert Browning] 'published a sort of poem called Bells & Pomegranates in wh. there is no meaning at all.' Caroline Clive Robert Browning Bells and Pomegranates Print : BookDorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Friday 4 June 1802, "... a tranquil night ... I read Mother Hubbard's Tale before I went to bed." Dorothy Wordsworth Mother Hubbard's Tale Unknown 1800-1849 'From 7.40 to 9 1/2 reading aloud to myself from p.42 to 50 (very carefully) vol.I Rousseau's Confessions. I READ this work so attentively for the style's sake. Besides t... Anne Lister Jean Jaques Rousseau Confessions Print : Book1800-1849 ' Came up to bed at 9.50. Read from pp55 to 65 Vol.I Rousseau's Confessions.' Anne Lister Jean Jaques Rousseau Confessions Print : Book1800-1849 ' Could not resist unpacking my books from Paris...About ten [servant] came and curled my hair. Stood musing. Peeped into some of my books. Vol.I Nouvelle Heloise.' Anne Lister Jean Jaques Rousseau Julie: ou Nouvelle Heloise Print : Book1800-1849 ' Reading from pp 22 to 32, II, Nouvelle Heloise.' Anne Lister Jean Jaques Rousseau Julie: ou Nouvelle Heloise Print : Book1800-1849 'Tea between 9 and 10. I read aloud a little of 'The Pleasures of Hope'. Mrs Barlow [friend and lover] sat hemming one end of tablecloth and we were very cosy and comfort... Anne Lister Thomas Campbell The Pleasures of Hope Print : Book1800-1849 ' Tea at 8. Then read aloud to my aunt the first 74pp Vol I, "Sayings and Doings'."Excellent. Dont know when I have laughed so much or so heartily. We both laughed. Came ... Anne Lister Theodore Hook Sayings and Doings Print : Book1800-1849 ' Tea at 8. Read aloud to my aunt the first 31pp of Moore's Buxton and Castleton Guide.' Anne Lister Henry Moore Buxton and Casleton Guide Picturesque Excursions i Print : Book1800-1849 ' At 2.30 went out to the library [..]Subscribed for a month [...] Came up to bed at 9.35. Sat up reading the first 79pp and several pages at the end of Amelie Mansfield.... Anne Lister Mme Marie-Sophie Cottin Amelie Mansfield Print : Book1800-1849 ' Went out [..] to the Tuileries Gardens at 8.55. In going, bought at the 1st shop on the left, under the arcades. a pamphlet by M.Chateaubriand. ' Le Roi Est Mort, Vive ... Anne Lister Chateaubriand Le Roi Est Mort, Vive Le Roi Print : Pamphlet1800-1849 [ Had bought and read pamphlet immediately prior to this experience] 'Paid a sol for the Journal Politique which I read in 1/2 hour while walking in the Gardens' [she goe... Anne Lister Journal Politique or Moniteur on Journal Politique Print : Newspaper, Serial / periodical1800-1849 Read the psalms and lessons to myself. After tea, read aloud sermon 15 and ...My aunt read aloud 17, Polwhele Anne Lister Richard Polwhele Sermons: a new volume Print : Book1800-1849 Got to Mr Knights 1/4 after 3 and was with him full an hour and a half [...]These questions were all asked as soon as I had done reading Latin. By the timeI began with Lu... Anne Lister Lucian Print : Book1800-1849 before breakfast, looking over the Greek grammar + Bonney-Castle's algebra...went to Mr Knight at 3. Anne Lister [Greek Grammar] Print : Book1800-1849 [Extensive discusion of the text in a letter to Marianne Lawson 15/03/1823.] ...Throw in too, I grant, some fine poetry from p.48 to 63 but [it] is too voluptuous, too An... Anne Lister Thomas Moore The Loves of the Angels Print : Book1800-1849 [Letter to M. Lawson dated Saturday 15 March 1823] I have no room for more about the Retrospective Review, than that I think it one of the best periodicals of the day. T... Anne Lister Retrospective Review Print : Serial / periodical1800-1849 [Letter dated 1823, to Miss Pickford]. Madame Marcet is a very good guide as far as she goes, but surely respecting the system of pulleys she has not gone quite far enou... Anne Lister Jane Marcet Conversations on Natural Philosophy Print : Book1800-1849 [Letter to Sarah Maclean, dated Monday 21 June 1824] Your being so fond of Cowper tells me half of your character- How passing sweet were solitude with such an one! "Well... Anne Lister William Cowper Retirement Print : Book1800-1849 [Letter to Maria Barlow, dated Tuesday Morning, 16 August 1825] ...It is as I have just read from the pen of Madme Cottin "La musique, comme un seductor adroit, va touche... Anne Lister Sophie Cottin Amelie Mansfield Print : Book1800-1849 [Letter to Aunt dated 3 February 1832] I do not think any books so bad to read as a newspaper. [...]If you ever read novels, do send for Eugene Aram. Miss Hobart and I h... Anne Lister Edward Bulwer-Lytton Eugene Aram. A Tale by the Author of 'Pelham' Print : Book1800-1849 [Letter dated Monday 15 January 1838] Have you seen that book of Bernard's on the Constitution? Not fit for every eye. On electing monarchy and state religion he seems a ... Anne Lister J. B. Bernard Theory of the Constitution Compared with its Pract Print : Book1800-1849 What matters it to me if Young was an ambitious man or not? He wrote what I feel; and tho' not his wishes, his words would often have been mine, if heaven had endowed me ... Anne Lister Edward Young The Complaint: Night Thoughts on Life, Death, and Print : Book1800-1849 [Letter to Sibbella Maclean, dated August 18 1824] I should have marked, and doubtless, have done so in my little edition at home (got another directly), the very lines y... Anne Lister Edward Young The Complaint: Night Thoughts on Life, Death, and Print : Book1800-1849 [Letter to Sibbella Maclean, dated Saturday 10 July 1824] You remind me of Dr Gregory's advive to his daughter. A woman should never shew the full extent of her regard, e... Anne Lister John Gregory A Father's Legacy to His Daughters Print : Book1800-1849 The Grecian History has pleased me much you know Mr Trant made a present of the Roman History, what a brave people the Greeks in general were. Anne Lister Oliver Goldsmith The Grecian History Print : Book1800-1849 My library is one of my greatest pleasures after a good ramble in the fields. I assure you I am very much pleased with the Georgical Essays, I have read a little of the f... Anne Lister Alexander Hunter Georgical Essays Print : Book1800-1849 I was rather unwell for about an hour, but not very bad when I could go on reading The Vicar of Wakefield Anne Lister Oliver Goldsmith The Vicar of Wakefield Print : Book1800-1849 Before breakfast, looking over the Greek grammar and Bonnycastle's algebra... Anne Lister John Bonnycastle An introduction to algebra or a treatise on algebr 1800-1849 Before breakfast from line 36-86 Sophlocles 'Electra' Anne Lister Sophlocles Electra Print : Book1800-1849 Assisted my Aunt in reading prayers in the afternoon. In the evening read aloud sermons 8+9, Hoole. Anne Lister Joseph Hoole sermons on several important practical subjects Print : Book1800-1849 After breakfast...dawdling awaythe morning in looking over medical Mss, weighing out powders [...]. Anne Lister ['Medical Mss'] Manuscript : Sheet1800-1849 Looking over some songs, writing out 'The Bay of Biscay' and 'Said Eve unto Adam' + dawdling literally quite in a perspiration, the sun fell on my room and very hot. Anne Lister The Bay of Biscay Unknown 1800-1849 Looking over some songs, writing out 'The Bay of Biscay' and 'Said Eve unto Adam' + dawdling literally quite in a perspiration, the sun fell on my room and very hot. Anne Lister Said Eve unto Adam Unknown 1800-1849 In the evening, between 8+9, read from pp 263-307, vol I, Gibbon's Miscellaneous works. He died in London [...] 16 January Anne Lister Edward Gibbon Miscellaneous Works Print : Book1800-1849 In the afternoon at 3.40, down the old bank to the library...No Miss Browne. I could have said, changing only the gender, (as Gibbons wrote toDeyverdum, vol. 604/703... Anne Lister Edward Gibbon Miscellaneous Works Print : Book1800-1849 This morning's post brought me (from York, directed by Anne Belcombe, Petergate) the Manchester Observer [etc] 2 sheets of 4 columns each,one of the most inflamatory radi... Anne Lister Manchester Observer or literary, commercial and po... Print : Newspaper1800-1849 Before breakfast + afterwards, from 11 to 1, making minutes + extracts from Hall's travels in France (it must go to the library today...He is an arrant republican in poli... Anne Lister Colonel Francis Hall Travels in France in 1818 Print : Newspaper1800-1849 Looking over the Annals of philosophy for November last. Population of Moscow - effect of bathing in the Red Sea [...] Anne Lister Annals of philosophy Print : Serial / periodical1800-1849 I was on the amoroso till M- made me read aloud the first 126pp, vol 2, of Sir walter Scott's(he has just been made a baronet) last novel The Monastery, in 3 vols, 12 mo ... Anne Lister Sir Walter Scott The Monastery. A romance Unknown 1800-1849 from 1 to 3, read the first 100pp. vol 3 Leontine de Blondheim...It is altogether a very interesting thing +have read it with a sort of melancholy feeling, the very germ ... Anne Lister August Fredrich Ferdinand von Kotzebue Leontine de Blondheim Print : Book1800-1849 'Dr Scudamore, recommended and has just sent me to look at Thomsons Conspectus of the Pharmacopeias, a nice little 42mo. Price 5/-, 5th edition. Anne Lister Anthony Todd Thomson A Conspectus of the pharmacopeias of the London [e Print : Book1800-1849 Spent the afternoon in mending some of my things for the wash. After tea, read aloud sermons 13+14 of Alison's. Anne Lister Archibald Alison Sermons Print : Book1800-1849 Read...Demosthenes +...Lelands translation. This is the 4th Greek work I have read thro' & I certainly feel considerably improved but I am disatisfied with myself for not... Anne Lister Desmosthenes All the Orations of Demosthenes Print : Book1800-1849 Had no time for Eudid but looked into Emerson's mechanics for 1/4 hour, as I wish to prepare myself a little for Dalton's lectures which are to begin on Wednesday and whi... Anne Lister William Emerson The principle of mechanics Unknown 1800-1849 Just after ten read aloud to my aunt the very favourable review of Lallah Rookh; an Oriental romance by Thomas Moore...The extracts from this poetic romance are very beau... Anne Lister Thomas Moore Lallah Rookh or 'Review' Unknown 1800-1849 'At 12 Marianna and I went upstairs. She sat sewing and I reading aloud to her the first 3 or 4 pages of the M.S. Lectures on physiology Dr Scudamore lent me 10 days ago.... Anne Lister Dr Scudamore Lectures on physiology Manuscript : Sheet1800-1849 Read...Demosthenes and ...Lelands translation. This is the 4th Greek work I have read thro' and I certainly feel considerably improved. Anne Lister Thomas Leland All the Orations of Demosthenes Translated into En Unknown 1800-1849 had no time for Euclid but looked into Emerson's Mechanics for 1/4 hour as I wish to prepare myself a little for Dalton's lectures which are to begin on Wednesday. Anne Lister William Emerson Mechanics or The Principles of Mechanics Print : Book1800-1849 before breakfast, props.24+25 lib. Euclid Anne Lister Euclid The Elements Print : Book1800-1849 between 1 and 2, the first 7 propositions of the 1st book of Euclid, with which I mean to renew my acquaintance and to proceed diligentlyin the hope that [...], may somet... Anne Lister Euclid The Elements Print : Book1800-1849 All went to morning church & said the sacrement [...] Read the psalms & lessons to myself. After tea, read aloud sermon 15 and...my aunt read aloud 17, Polwhele. Anne Lister Bible Print : Book1800-1849 I have been pleased with some tracts on political Economy by William Alias Entomology Spence esq. F.L.S. Just reprinted since 1806, or 1808, but the reasoning not out of ... Anne Lister William Spence Tracts on Political Economy: Viz I. Britain Indepe Print : Book1800-1849 Before breakfast from 7 3/4 to 9 1/4, from 10 3/4 to 2 1/2 (including an interruption of 20 minutes)read from V.1304 to 1527, end of Philoctetes of Sophlocles, & afterwar... Anne Lister Sophocles Philoctetes 1800-1849 Called at Whiteley's. Saw there the Leeds Mercury & my father's estate advertised in it. Went to the library for a little while then went back to Northgate [...] Isabella... Anne Lister The Leeds Mercury Print : Newspaper1800-1849 Went downstairs a very little after 9 so as to have 1/2 hour before church for reading 2 or 3 old papers my uncle gave me. Anne Lister '2 or 3 old papers' Print : Newspaper1800-1849 Began Dr Johnson's tour to the Hebrides, A journey to the western Isles of scotland... My aunt and I read aloud the evening service. Anne Lister James Boswell The journal of a tour to the Hebrides with Samuel ... Print : Book1800-1849 down the newbank to Halifax. Called at a shop or 2, and at Miss Kitson's. Went for 1/2 hour tothe library till the Saltmarshes had done dinner. Read a few pp. of a transl... Anne Lister Cicero On/the book of old age Print : Book1800-1849 From Hope went to the library and staid about an hour reading... In monthly Magazine of July 1820 remarkable praise of the life + writings of the celestial German philoso... Anne Lister Monthly Magazine Print : Book1800-1849 In the morning, looking over the abridgement of Spence's Polymetics... that was Isabella's... gave me the idea of writing a work on antiquities. Anne Lister Joseph Spence Polymetics Abridged Print : Book1800-1849 [9 September has problem getting book from] Reading a few pp. of my Paris guide, in French, for the sake of reading French + it being the only book I get. Anne Lister 'Paris guide' Print : Book1800-1849 The following paragraph, apparently cut-out from a newspaper, but without date or reference, has been lent me by Mrs Norcliffe. 'Old Maids'. A sprightly writer expresses ... Anne Lister 'Old Maids' Print : Newspaper1800-1849 In the evening, read in the European magazine for last month, an additional memoir of the life of Napoleon...Madame de Stael rather too tender to Napoleon. One day to get... Anne Lister European Magazine Print : Serial / periodical1800-1849 I shall turn for a while to Urquhart's comentaries on classical learning. O books! books! I owe you much. Ye are my spirits oil without which, its own friction against it... Anne Lister David Henry Urquhart Commentaries on classical learning Print : Book1800-1849 "The heart knows its own bitterness + it is enough. Je sens moncover, et je connais les hommes. Je ne suis fait comme [...] Rousseau's confessions, volume and page, first... Anne Lister Jean Jacques Rousseau Confessions Print : Book1800-1849 Did not come to breakfast till 10. Read M some of my journal. Dawdled away the morning, talking to one another, till 3 when we dined. Anne Lister Anne Lister Journal Manuscript : Sheet, mss memoirs1800-1849 In the afternoon, read aloud the first 30pp. glenarvon, vol.2. Miss Goodricke called and sat a little while with us. the girls introduced me. She thanked me for the book... Anne Lister Caroline Lamb Glenarvon Print : Book1800-1849 Just before tea... read from p.126 to 168, collections and recollections the last article a pretty well done account of Lady Eleanor Butler and Miss Ponsonby. Anne Lister John Stewart Collections and recollections Print : Book1800-1849 At 4 3/4 read from p.91 to 138 The art of employing time, which, from p.134 to where I have left off, I am more particularly pleased. There are several hints for journal ... Anne Lister The art of employing time to the greatest advantag... Print : Book1800-1849 Got home a few minutes past one. M- + I tete-a-tete in the drawing [room]... Brought down Dr Ash's little book, Institute of English Grammar, trying to give M - some inst... Anne Lister John Ash Grammatical Institutes Print : BookCame upstairs at 10 1/2 [...] musing melancholily over the fire till 11. From then till 3.10, read the whole of (M-sen t it to me Saturday 15 November) some passages in t... Anne Lister By the author of valerius and Reginald Dalton Some passages in the life of Mr Adam Blair Print : Book1800-1849 From 8.30 to 9.10 walked on the terrace, occasionally reading Young's Night Thoughts. Coffee at 9.10. Anne Lister Edward Young The complaint, or night thoughts Print : Book1800-1849 Walked forward to Lightcliffe. Mrs W. Priestley + Miss Hodgson at dinner... would call again in 1/2 hour. Did so, after loitering that time, reading the gravestones in th... Anne Lister Print : text printed on gravestonesUnknown1800-1849 At 3 1/4 down the old bank to the library. Miss Maria Browne there. Came up to me to say her sister had so bad a cold [...] she could not possibly stir out today [...] I ... Miss Browne George Gordon Byron Childe Harold Print : Book1800-1849 Isabella sent me, from Croft, the Globe + Traveller of last Friday, containing the account of the death of Lord Byron [...] Who admiredhim as a man? yet 'he is gone forev... Anne Lister The Globe and Traveller Print : Newspaper1800-1849 From 2-6 looking over volumes 2, 3, 4 + 5 as far as p.111 of my journal. Volume three that part containing the account of my intrigue with Anne Belcombe I read over atten... Anne Lister Anne Lister Journal Manuscript : Sheet, mss her memoirs/ journal1800-1849 'finished my morning's work a few minutes before 2. Made an extract or 2 from Lord Byron's Childe Harold + the lyrics at the end of the book in readiness to take it back.... Anne Lister George Gordon, Lord Byron Childe Harold Print : Book1800-1849 Dr Scudamore, recommended and has just sent me to look at Thomsons Conspectus of the Pharmacopeias, a nice little 42 mo. Price 5/-, 5th edition Anne Lister Anthony Todd Thomson A conspectus of the pharmacopeias of the London Print : Book1800-1849 Twice I procured a French grammar, and in private essayed that tongue; but my attempts were discovered and laughed at, and I was decidedly told I could never learn withou... Anne Lutton [French Grammar] Print : Book1800-1849 As I grew up, I still read with avidity all I could lay my hands on, and was not at all fastidious. Unfortunately I got novels, plays etc and read them privately... My ... Anne Lutton ['novels'] Print : Book1800-1849 Never did any poor creature labour with morediligence than I did to obtain the most accurate knowledge of the language. I succeeded, read all the Roman classics, and fast... Anne Lutton ['Roman Classics'] Print : Book1800-1849 My circumstances were perhaps well fitted to the task of self-culture - too straitened to admit of much expenditure on books, but sufficiently easy to afford me plenty of... Anne Lutton Virgil Print : Book1800-1849 I procured a Greek grammar, and soon made considerable progress. Anne Lutton ['Greek Grammar'] Print : Book1800-1849 I procured a Greek grammar, and soon made considerable progress. I first read the New Testament almost throughout; then the Iliad of Homer, not omitting a line nor leavin... Anne Lutton New Testament Print : Book1800-1849 I procured a Greek grammar, and soon made considerable progress. I first read the New Testament almost throughout; then the Iliad of Homer, not omitting a line nor leavin... Anne Lutton Homer The Iliad Print : Book1800-1849 I procured a Greek grammar, and soon made considerable progress. I first read the New Testament almost throughout; then the Iliad of Homer, not omitting a line nor leavin... Anne Lutton Homer The Odyssey Print : Book1800-1849 My taste for light reading was diminished, yet works of fiction were not all abandoned. The beautiful productions of Miss Edgeworth's pen were fascinating, and there were... Anne Lutton [old-school novels] Print : BookMy father's large bookcase was stuffed with odd volumes of the Gentleman's Magazine and other miscellaneous matters. Anacharsis' 'travels in Greece', Robertson's 'America... Anne Lutton John Adams The History of Rome, from the Foundation of the Ci Print : Book1800-1849 My father's large bookcase was stuffed with odd volumes of the Gentleman's Magazine and other miscellaneous matters. Anacharsis' 'travels in Greece', Robertson's 'America... Anne Lutton William Robertson The History of America Print : Book1800-1849 My father's large bookcase was stuffed with odd volumes of the Gentleman's Magazine and other miscellaneous matters. Anacharsis' 'travels in Greece', Robertson's 'America... Anne Lutton J.J. Barthelemy Travels of Anacharsis the Younger in Greece, Print : Book1800-1849 My father's large bookcase was stuffed with odd volumes of the Gentleman's Magazine and other miscellaneous matters. Anacharsis' 'travels in Greece', Robertson's 'America... Anne Lutton Oliver Goldsmith The History of England from the Earliest Times... Print : Book1800-1849 My father's large bookcase was stuffed with odd volumes of the Gentleman's Magazine and other miscellaneous matters. Anacharsis' 'travels in Greece', Robertson's 'America... Anne Lutton John Wesley Sermons on Several Occasions OR Three Sermons Print : Book1800-1849 My father's large bookcase was stuffed with odd volumes of the Gentleman's Magazine and other miscellaneous matters. Anacharsis' 'travels in Greece', Robertson's 'America... Anne Lutton The Gentleman's Magazine Print : Serial / periodical1800-1849 It was Lilly's Latin Grammar. It called for uncommon perseverance to come at its contents, so much had it suffered from the use and abuse of schools... But I was desperat... Anne Lutton William Lilly Lilly's Latin Grammar Print : Book1800-1849 Finding an old copy of Barrow's Euclid in my father's bookcase, I resolved to come at some knowledge of mathematics and by my usual persevering application for the Divine... Anne Lutton Isaac Barrow Euclid's Elements. The Whole Fifteen Books Compend Print : Book1800-1849 I read Mrs Rogers' Life and Letters with great profit. ... The life and letters of Mrs Rogers here made a great blessing to me, also conversation with a person who enjoy... Anne Lutton Hester Ann Rogers Spiritual Letters Or A Short Account of the Experi Print : Book1800-1849 My brother and I rose in the mornings about four o'clock, to pray with each other and read the Scriptures; and oh what a power was at work in our hearts! Anne Lutton 'Scriptures' Print : BookMy brother and I rose in the mornings about four o'clock, to pray with each other and read the Scriptures; and oh what a power was at work in our hearts! 'Scriptures' Print : Book1800-1849 To our young ploughman, who, when I went to him where he was digging in atrench at the foot of the lawn, read the resolutions over carefully, then most reverently uncover... A Young Ploughman [series of 'Resolutions' in manuscript, drawn up b Manuscript : Sheet1800-1849 'At about age fifteen [Joseph Barker] found an old folio on anatomy and surgery by Helkiah Crooke (physician to James I) and was delighted by "certain parts of the work w... Joseph Barker Helkiah Crooke [medical folio] Print : Book1850-1899 'The other day for a treat Charlie got me La Petite Comtesse to read. I never was more delighted with any story. It is so beautifully and pathetically written, but so s... Katey Dickens Feuillet Octave La Petite Comtesse Print : Book1850-1899 'That time Lord Tennyson was delightful - kind and friendly and full of stories, talking a great deal, and in the best of humours. He read the Funeral Ode to us afterwar... Alfred, Lord Tennyson Alfred, Lord Tennyson Funeral Ode Print : Book1850-1899 'I am working at Richardson now, and will send you the paper by the end of the week. I suppose I ought to be ashamed to confess that, tedious as he often is, I feel less... Margaret Oliphant Samuel Richardson Clarissa, or, the History of a Young Lady Print : Book1850-1899 'I am working at Richardson now, and will send you the paper by the end of the week. I suppose I ought to be ashamed to confess that, tedious as he often is, I feel less... Margaret Oliphant Henry Fielding Tom Jones Print : Book1850-1899 'I sympathise most warmly in a great deal that is said in the 'Ginx's Baby' book, and do actually express my own sentiments in what I say about it. And I admire immensel... Margaret Oliphant Edward Jenkins Ginx's Baby Print : Book1850-1899 'I sympathise most warmly in a great deal that is said in the 'Ginx's Baby' book, and do actually express my own sentiments in what I say about it. And I admire immensel... Margaret Oliphant unknown Peasant Life Print : Book1850-1899 'If your old contributors had to yield the pas to such writers only as the author of the "Battle of Dorking" we should have little to complain of. It is wonderfully fine... Margaret Oliphant George Chesney Battle of Dorking Print : Book1850-1899 'Montalembert, it appears, kept a journal from his twelfth year to the end of his life, and I am tantalised with the sight of these volumes, which Madame de M. reads to m... Madame de Montalembert Montalembert journals of Montalembert Manuscript : Codex1850-1899 'I agree with you that Mr Collins's volumes are very good, but I don't agree with you about Mr Trollope, whose "Caesar" I cannot read without laughing - it is so like Joh... Margaret Oliphant Collins unknown Print : Book1850-1899 'I agree with you that Mr Collins's volumes are very good, but I don't agree with you about Mr Trollope, whose 'Caesar' I cannot read without laughing - it is so like Joh... Margaret Oliphant Anthony Trollope Caesar Print : Book1850-1899 'Pray tell him [Mr Kinglake] that I have been an admirer of his for - Heaven knows how long! - since the days when I was shocked and delighted by "Eothen." I remember bei... Margaret Oliphant Alexander William Kinglake Eothen Print : Book1850-1899 'By the bye, how good and clever his (Major Lockhart's) verses are which you sent me...' Margaret Oliphant Major Lockhart [verses] Unknown 1850-1899 'There is a novel not very long published by a Mr Allardyce called the "City of Sunshine", entirely about Indian (not Anglo-Indian) life, which gives a very fine picture ... Margaret Oliphant Alexander Allardyce City of Sunshine Print : Book
