√ Century of Experience Evidence Name of Reader / Listener / Reading Group Author of Text Title of Text Form of Text 1800-1849 Maria Branwell to Patrick Bronte, 18 November 1812: 'On Saturday ev[enin]g about the time when you were writing your description of an imaginary shipwreck, I was reading ... Maria Branwell Letter from sister Manuscript : Letter1850-1899 Charlotte Bronte to George Smith, 16 March 1850: 'I return Mr Thornton Hunt's note after reading it carefully.' Charlotte Bronte Thornton Hunt Note Manuscript : Letter1850-1899 Charlotte Bronte to William Smith Williams, 12 April 1850: 'The perusal of Southey's "Life" has lately afforded me much pleasure; the autobiography with which it commence... Charlotte Bronte Robert Southey Life Print : Book1850-1899 Charlotte Bronte to William Smith Williams, 12 April 1850: 'The perusal of Southey's "Life" has lately afforded me much pleasure ... I have likewise read one of Miss Aust... Charlotte Bronte Jane Austen Emma Print : Book1850-1899 Mary Taylor to Charlotte Bronte, c.29 April 1850: 'I have seen some extracts from "Shirley" in which you talk of women working.' Mary Taylor Charlotte Bronte Shirley (extracts) Unknown 1850-1899 Mary Taylor to Charlotte Bronte, 13 August 1850: 'On Wednesday I began "Shirley" and continued in a curious confusion of mind till now ...' Mary Taylor Charlotte Bronte Shirley Print : Book1850-1899 Charlotte Bronte to George Smith, 18 September 1850: 'You should be very thankful that books cannot "talk to each other as well as to their readers" ... Dr Knox alone, wi... Charlotte Bronte Robert Knox The Races of Men: A Fragment Print : Book1850-1899 Charlotte Bronte to William Smith Williams, 28 September 1850, on preparing to write preface to new edition of "Wuthering Heights": 'I am ... compelling myself to read it... Charlotte Bronte Emily Bronte Wuthering Heights Unknown 1850-1899 Charlotte Bronte to Mrs Smith (mother of her publisher George Smith), 17 April 1851: 'Before I received your note, I was nursing a comfortable and complacent conviction t... Charlotte Bronte Mrs Smith Note to Charlotte Bronte Manuscript : Letter1850-1899 Charlotte Bronte to Ellen Nussey, 23 October 1850: ' .. my late occupation left a result for some days and indeed still, very painful. The reading over of papers, the ren... Charlotte Bronte Bronte family papers Manuscript : Unknown1850-1899 Charlotte Bronte to James Taylor, 6 November 1850: 'I have just finished reading the "Life of Dr Arnold", but now when I wish -- in accordance with your request -- to exp... Charlotte Bronte Arthur Penrhyn Stanley Life of Dr Arnold Print : Book1850-1899 Charlotte Bronte to George Smith, 3 December 1850: 'On referring to Mr Newby's letters, I find in one of them, a boast that he is "advertising vigorously."' Charlotte Bronte Newby letter Manuscript : Letter1850-1899 Charlotte Bronte to James Taylor, 1 February 1851: 'Have you yet read Miss Martineau's and Mr Atkinson's new work "Letters on the Nature and Development of Man?" ... It ... Charlotte Bronte Harriet and H. G. Martineau and Atkinson Letters on the Laws of Man's Nature and Developmen... Print : Book1850-1899 Charlotte Bronte to George Smith, 14 February 1852, after having been lent the first volume of W. M. Thackeray, "Henry Esmond", in manuscript by her publishers: 'It has b... Charlotte Bronte William Makepeace Thackeray The History of Henry Esmond (volume I) Manuscript : Unknown1850-1899 Charlotte Bronte to Elizabeth Gaskell, 12 January 1853, regarding timings of publications of her and Gaskell's new works: ' ... I had felt and expressed to Mr Smith -- re... Charlotte Bronte Elizabeth Gaskell Ruth Print : Book1850-1899 Charlotte Bronte to George Smith, May 1853: 'The "Lectures" arrived safely; I have read them through twice. They must be studied to be appreciated ... I was present at t... Charlotte Bronte William Makepeace Thackeray Lectures Print : Book1800-1849 Patrick Bronte to Elizabeth Gaskell, June 1853, regarding Gaskell's planned visit to Haworth: 'From what I have heard my Daughter say of you, and from the perusal of your... Patrick Bronte Elizabeth Gaskell novels Print : Book1850-1899 Charlotte Bronte Nicholls to Ellen Nussey, 20 October 1854: "Arthur has just been glancing over this note -- He thinks I have written too freely ..." Arthur Bell Nicholls Charlotte Bronte note to Ellen Nussey Manuscript : Letter1850-1899 'We have been reading the last two evenings, the Christmas number of Household Words - "Perils of Certain English Prisoners" - by Wilkie Collins and Dickens. I am reading... George Eliot and G.H. Lewes Wilkie Collins Household Words - "Perils of certain English Priso... Print : Serial / periodical1850-1899 'We have been reading the last two evenings, the Christmas number of Household Words - "Perils of Certain English Prisoners" - by Wilkie Collins and Dickens. I am reading... George Eliot and G.H. Lewes Charles Dickens Household Words - "Perils of certain English Priso... Print : Serial / periodical1900-1945 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, ... [unknown books] Print : Book1900-1945 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... The People 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... Lancashire Daily Post Print : Newspaper, local newspaper1800-1849 'This dream I knew not what to make of but I took some encouragement from it and the next day I was reading in pilgrims progress and was by a quotation directed to the 33... Joseph Mayett John Bunyan Pilgrim's progress 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 Spectator Print : Serial / periodical1800-1849 They that cultivate literary small-talk have been greatly attracted for some / time by the late number of Blackwoods (formerly the Edinr) Magazine. It contains many slan... Thomas Carlyle Blackwoods Magazine Print : Serial / periodical1700-1799 'While their [her daughters'] Father's Life preserv'd my Authority entire, I used it [italics] all & only [end italics] for their Improvement; & since it expired with him... Hester Lynch Thrale and her daughters Hester, Susanna and Sophia Voltaire [pseud.] Zadig Print : Book1800-1849 'After an arduous str[uggle] with sundry historians of grea[t and] small renown I sit down to answer the much-valued epistle of my friend. Doubtless you are disposed to... Thomas Carlyle various [histories] Print : BookManuscript : Letter1800-1849 It is long since I told you that I had begun Wallace, and that foreign studies had cast him into the shade. The same causes still obstruct my progress You will perhaps ... Thomas Carlyle William Wallace 'Fluxions' in Encyclopedia Britannica Print : Book1800-1849 I suppose I had read Hume's England when I wrote last; and I need not repeat my opinion of it. Thomas Carlyle David Hume History of England Print : Book1800-1849 I suppose I had read Hume's England when I wrote last; and I need not repeat my opinion of it. My perusal of the continuation - eight volumes, of history as it is called... Thomas Carlyle Tobias Smollett History of England Print : Book1800-1849 I suppose I had read Hume's England when I wrote last; and I need not repeat my opinion of it. My perusal of the continuation - eight volumes, of history as it is called... Thomas Carlyle Edward Gibbon Decline & Fall of the Roman Empire Print : Book1800-1849 But too much of one thing - as it is in the adage. Therefore I reserve the account of Hume's essays till another opportunity. At any rate the Second volume is not finis... Thomas Carlyle David Hume Essays and Treatises on Several Subjects, 2 vols Print : Book1700-1799 '[Benjamin] Franklin repudiated local tradition in favour of the new prose style he encountered in stray copies of the "Spectator" and "Tatler". His narrative of how he m... Benjamin Franklin The Spectator Print : Serial / periodical1700-1799 '[Benjamin] Franklin repudiated local tradition in favor of the new prose style he encountered in stray copies of the "Spectator" and "Tatler".' Benjamin Franklin The Tatler Print : Serial / periodical1500-1599 'then I Came home and did studie my lector, and read a whill' Margaret Hoby [unknown] [unknown] Print : Book1500-1599 'I walked and kept Mr Hoby Compenie almost tel dinner time: then I reed a litle, and praied, and so to dinner: after which I hilped to read of the book for the placing of... Margaret Hoby [unknown] [unknown] Print : Book1700-1799 '... late in the [eighteenth] century [John] Clare ... learned to read from chapbooks like "Cinderella", "Little Red Riding Hood", and "Jack and the Beanstalk".' John Clare Cinderella Print : Book1700-1799 '... late in the [eighteenth] century [John] Clare ... learned to read from chapbooks like "Cinderella", "Little Red Riding Hood", and "Jack and the Beanstalk".' John Clare Little Red Riding Hood Print : Book1700-1799 '... late in the [eighteenth] century [John] Clare ... learned to read from chapbooks like "Cinderella", "Little Red Riding Hood", and "Jack and the Beanstalk".' John Clare Jack and the Beanstalk Print : Book1500-1599 'A fifteen-year-old boy caught owning a primer and New Testament described how "divers poor men in the town of Chelmsford ... bought the new testament of Jesus Christ, an... Poor men of Chelmsford New Testament Print : Book1500-1599 'A fifteen-year-old boy caught owning a primer and New Testament described how 'divers poor men in the town of Chelmsford ... bought the new testament of Jesus Christ, an... New Testament Print : Book1500-1599 'when I had praied priuatly I did read of the Bible allmost vntell dinner time' Margaret Hoby [n/a] Bible Print : Book1500-1599 'In the morninge, after priuat praier, I brake my fast: soon after that I hard som chapters of the bible read' Margaret Hoby [n/a] Bible Print : Book1500-1599 'then I went a little about the house and reed of the diatt of the soul tell 5:, and then returned to priuat praier and medetacion, and so to readinge of the bible and wa... Margaret Hoby [n/a] Bible Print : Book1500-1599 'After praier in the morninge, I, beinge not well, did heare Mr Rhodes read of Gyffard upon the songe of Sallemon: sone after I went to breakfast' Richard Rhodes George Gifforde Sermons upon the Songe of Salomon Print : Book1850-1899 'Went to the Athenaeum & read before tea time. In the evening smoked & read until it was time to go to bed' John Buckley Castieau [n/a] [unknown - newspaper] Print : Newspaper1500-1599 'then I went a little about the house and reed of the diatt of the soul tell 5:, and then returned to priuat praier and medetacion, and so to readinge of the bible and wa... Margaret Hoby [unknown] Diet of the Soul Print : Book1500-1599 'then I was busie and hard Mr Rhodes Read his Catechismie tell 5' Richard Rhodes [n/a] Catechism Print : Book1600-1699 In Will of Robert Keayne of Boston: 'As my special gift to ... [his son] my little written book in my closet upon I Cor. II, 27, 28, which is a treatise on the sacrament ... Robert Keayne Treatise on I. Corinthians II.27, 28 Manuscript : Codex, Leather bound pocketbook1700-1799 Sarah Osborn recalls nursing eldest son in sickness: 'I endeavoured to improve every opportunity to discourse with him, and read to him such portions of Scripture as I th... Sarah Osborn Bible passages Print : Book1700-1799 Sarah Osborn recalls nursing eldest son in sickness: 'I endeavoured to improve every opportunity to discourse with him, and read to him such portions of Scripture as I th... Sarah Osborn Joseph Alleine Alarm for the Unconverted Print : Book1500-1599 'after priuat praier I reed of the bible and wrought tell dinner time, before which I praied; and, after dinner, I continewed my ordenarie Course of working, reading, and... Margaret Hoby [unknown] [sermon] Print : Book1600-1699 The mother of Carteret Rede remembered that when 'I came up into her Chamber, I found her reading Mr. John Janeway's "Life and Death"; she was all in Tears ...' Carteret Rede John Janeway Life and Death Print : Book1500-1599 'after priuat praier I reed of the bible and wrought tell dinner time, before which I praied; and, after dinner, I continewed my ordenarie Course of working, reading, and... Margaret Hoby [unknown] [unknown] Print : Book1700-1799 Joseph Croswell, journal of readings: "'In the evening realized some [spiritual] quickenings in reading the believer's journey to the heavenly Canaan, by Mr. Erskine.'" Joseph Croswell Mr. Erskine [spiritual autobiography] Unknown 1700-1799 Joseph Croswell, journal of readings: "'In the evening realized some [spiritual] quickenings in reading the believer's journey to the heavenly Canaan, by Mr. Erskine.'" Joseph Croswell Mr. Erskine Unknown 1500-1599 'after priuat praier I reed of the bible and wrought tell dinner time, before which I praied; and, after dinner, I continewed my ordenarie Course of working, reading, and... Margaret Hoby [n/a] Bible Print : Book1600-1699 As temporary President in Virginia, John Smith 'had the "letters patent" [for governing of the colony] read aloud "each week" in order to bolster his authority.' Letters patent for governance of colony Unknown 1600-1699 At meeting of new representative assembly for colony of Virginia in 1619, 'The man appointed speaker, John Pory, a veteran of the House of Commons, began the meeting by r... John Pory Anon Charter of Virginia Assembly Unknown 1850-1899 'I went to the Athenaeum after five o'clock & got home by tea time spent the evening reading.' John Buckley Castieau [unknown] [unknown] Print : Unknown1600-1699 'Rereading, some twenty years later, correspondence from the 1650s collected at Swarthmore Hall, [George] Fox crossed out passages he now deemed inappropriate ...' George Fox Quaker correspondence Manuscript : Letter1700-1799 "... [In the 1720s] William Byrd (1674-1744) of Westover, Virginia, was keeping up with the classics in his private reading." William Byrd Print : Book1600-1699 " ... in Springfield when a printed copy of the code of laws of 1648 arrived in 1649, it was promptly 'published,' that is, read aloud to a gathering of the townspeople."... anon Code of Laws 1648 Print : Unknown1800-1849 I, who was the reader, had not seen it for several years, the rest did not know it at all. I am afraid I perceived a sad change in it, or myself ? which was worse; and th... Lady Louisa Stuart Henry Mackenzie The Man of Feeling Print : Book1800-1849 I remember so well its first publication, my mother and sisters crying over it, dwelling upon it with rapture! And when I read it, as I was a girl of fourteen not yet ver... Lady Louisa Stuart Henry Mackenzie The Man of Feeling Print : Book1900-1945 'Once a month when [Jack Jones's] duties took him to Cardiff, he would exchange twelve to twenty books and take them home in an old suitcase. He read Tolstoy and Gork, an... Jack Jones Leo Tolstoy [unknown] Print : Book1900-1945 'Once a month when [Jack Jones's] duties took him to Cardiff, he would exchange twelve to twenty books and take them home in an old suitcase. He read Tolstoy and Gork, an... Jack Jones Fyodor Dostoevsky [most works] Print : Book1900-1945 'Once a month when [Jack Jones's] duties took him to Cardiff, he would exchange twelve to twenty books and take them home in an old suitcase. He read Tolstoy and Gork, an... Jack Jones Maxim Gorky [unknown] Print : Book1900-1945 [Communist activists often displayed hostility to literature, including Willie Gallacher. However his 'hostility to literature abated' in later years and in his later mem... William Gallacher Robert Burns [poetry] Print : Book1900-1945 [Communist activists often displayed hostility to literature, including Willie Gallacher. However his 'hostility to literature abated' in later years and in his later mem... William Gallacher Walter Scott [unknown] Print : Book1900-1945 [Communist activists often displayed hostility to literature, including Willie Gallacher. However his 'hostility to literature abated' in later years and in his later mem... William Gallacher Charlotte Bronte [unknown] Print : Book1900-1945 [Communist activists often displayed hostility to literature, including Willie Gallacher. However his 'hostility to literature abated' in later years and in his later mem... William Gallacher Elizabeth Gaskell [unknown] Print : Book1900-1945 [Communist activists often displayed hostility to literature, including Willie Gallacher. However his 'hostility to literature abated' in later years and in his later mem... William Gallacher [unknown] [children's comics] Print : Serial / periodical1900-1945 [Communist activists often displayed hostility to literature, including Willie Gallacher. However his 'hostility to literature abated' in later years and in his later mem... William Gallacher Charles Dickens Oliver Twist Print : Book1900-1945 [Communist activists often displayed hostility to literature, including Willie Gallacher. However his 'hostility to literature abated' in later years and in his later mem... William Gallacher Charles Dickens Little Dorrit Print : Book1900-1945 'London hatter Frederick Willis asserted that [Frank Richards's stories in the Gem and Magnet] taught him to be "very loyal" to the headmaster and teachers at his old Boa... Frederick Willis Frank Richards [stories in the Gem] Print : Serial / periodical1900-1945 'London hatter Frederick Willis asserted that [Frank Richards' stories in the Gem and Magnet] 'taught him to be "very loyal" to the headmaster and teachers at his old Boa... Frederick Willis Frank Richards [stories in the Magnet] Print : Serial / periodical1900-1945 'Edward Ezard admitted that he and his friends read the Gem and Magnet for "the public school glamour". They thoroughly absorbed all the stock phrases and attitudes assoc... Edward Ezard Frank Richards [stories in the Magnet] Print : Serial / periodical1900-1945 Edward Ezard admitted that he and his friends read the Gem and Magnet for "the public school glamour". They thoroughly absorbed all the stock phrases and attitudes associ... Edward Ezard Frank Richards [stories in the Gem] Print : Serial / periodical1900-1945 'For Paul Fletcher, a colliery winder's son in a Lancashire mining town, the Magnet's appeal lay precisely in that "code of schoolboy honour". "Although I never realised ... Paul Fletcher Frank Richards [stories in the Magnet] Print : Serial / periodical1900-1945 'A.J. Mills, a charlady's son, recalled that his teachers made a pathetic attempt to teach an honour system but "the nearest any of us got to knowing about the honour sys... A.J. Mills Frank Richards [stories in the Magnet] Print : Serial / periodical1900-1945 [Lionel Fraser dreamt unfulfilledly of Oxbridge]: 'Whatever resentment he may have felt was mollified by the Gem and Magnet, which "brought brightness into my rather humd... Lionel Fraser Frank Richards [stories in the Magnet] Print : Serial / periodical1900-1945 [Lionel Fraser dreamt unfulfilledly of Oxbridge]: 'Whatever resentment he may have felt was mollified by the Gem and Magnet, which "brought brightness into my rather humd... Lionel Fraser Frank Richards [stories in the Gem] Print : Serial / periodical1900-1945 'Charwoman's son Bryan Forbes "devoured every word, believed every word" of the Magnet and Gem, "surrendering to a world I never expected to join". As an adult he appreci... Bryan Forbes Frank Richards [stories in the Gem] Print : Serial / periodical1900-1945 'Charwoman's son Bryan Forbes "devoured every word, believed every word" of the Magnet and Gem, "surrendering to a world I never expected to join". As an adult he appreci... Bryan Forbes Frank Richards [stories in the Magnet] Print : Serial / periodical1900-1945 'Louis Battye, the spastic child of former millworkers, was at first utterly bewildered by the Gem and Magnet, because he was being educated at home and had no school exp... Louis Battye Frank Richards [stories in the Magnet] Print : Serial / periodical1900-1945 'Louis Battye, the spastic child of former millworkers, was at first utterly bewildered by the Gem and Magnet, because he was being educated at home and had no school exp... Louis Battye Frank Richards [stories in the Gem] Print : Serial / periodical1900-1945 'Angela Brazil inspired Kathleen Betterton (whose father operated a lift in the London Underground) to ascend the scholarship ladder to Christ's Hospital in Hertford and ... Kathleen Betterton Angela Brazil [school stories] Print : Book1900-1945 'V.S. Pritchett furtively devoured the Gem and Magnet with a compositor's son: both adopted Greyfriars nicknames and slang. Pritchett's father eventually found them, burn... Victor Sawdon Pritchett Frank Richards [school stories in the Gem] Print : Serial / periodical1900-1945 'V.S. Pritchett furtively devoured the Gem and Magnet with a compositor's son: both adopted Greyfriars nicknames and slang. Pritchett's father eventually found them, burn... Victor Sawdon Pritchett Frank Richards [school stories in the Magnet] Print : Serial / periodical1900-1945 'Amy Gomm, an electrician's daughter, discovered the erotics of the text in some old Gems and Magnets she found in a cupboard. "What a joy to share my bed with Tom Merry ... Amy Gomm Frank Richards [school stories in the Magnet] Print : Serial / periodical1900-1945 'Amy Gomm, an electrician's daughter, discovered the erotics of the text in some old Gems and Magnets she found in a cupboard. "What a joy to share my bed with Tom Merry ... Amy Gomm Frank Richards [school stories in the Gem] Print : Serial / periodical1900-1945 'After Dennis Marsden won an exhibition to St Catherine's College, Cambridge his parents, solid Labour supporters, "found supreme happiness sitting on the Backs looking o... Frank Richards [school stories in the Magnet] Print : Serial / periodical1850-1899 'Read "Leader" and Scherr'. George Eliot [pseud] [various] The Leader Print : Serial / periodicalManuscript : Unknown1900-1945 'After Dennis Marsden won an exhibition to St Catherine's College, Cambridge his parents, solid Labour supporters, "found supreme happiness sitting on the Backs looking o... Thomas Hughes Tom Brown's School Days Print : Book1850-1899 'Read "Macbeth".' George Eliot [pseud] William Shakespeare Macbeth Print : BookManuscript : Unknown1900-1945 'After Dennis Marsden won an exhibition to St Catherine's College, Cambridge his parents, solid Labour supporters, "found supreme happiness sitting on the Backs looking o... Talbot Baines Reed The Fifth Form at St Dominic's Print : Book1900-1945 'Walter Citrine won, as a Sunday School prize, a volume of school stories from the Captain, including one by P.G. Wodehouse. "The lady who gave this prize awakened in me ... Walter Citrine Pelham Grenville Wodehouse [short school story] Print : Book1900-1945 'Walter Citrine won, as a Sunday School prize, a volume of school stories from the Captain, including one by P.G. Wodehouse. "The lady who gave this prize awakened in me ... Walter Citrine [unknown] [school stories from The Captain] Print : Book1900-1945 'Walter Citrine won, as a Sunday School prize, a volume of school stories from the Captain, including one by P.G. Wodehouse. "The lady who gave this prize awakened in me ... Walter Citrine Karl Marx [unknown] Print : Book1900-1945 'George Scott left school and the boys' weeklies behind at fifteen: in barely a year he had absorbed enough Shaw, Wells, Dos Passos and (secondhand) Marx to lecture his p... George Scott [unknown] [boys' weeklies] Print : Serial / periodical1900-1945 'George Scott left school and the boys' weeklies behind at fifteen: in barely a year he had absorbed enough Shaw, Wells, Dos Passos and (secondhand) Marx to lecture his p... George Scott George Bernard Shaw [unknown] Print : Book1900-1945 'George Scott left school and the boys' weeklies behind at fifteen: in barely a year he had absorbed enough Shaw, Wells, Dos Passos and (secondhand) Marx to lecture his p... George Scott Herbert George Wells [unknown] Print : Book1900-1945 'George Scott left school and the boys' weeklies behind at fifteen: in barely a year he had absorbed enough Shaw, Wells, Dos Passos and (secondhand) Marx to lecture his p... George Scott John Rodrigo Dos Passos [unknown] Print : Book1900-1945 'George Scott left school and the boys' weeklies behind at fifteen: in barely a year he had absorbed enough Shaw, Wells, Dos Passos and (secondhand) Marx to lecture his p... George Scott John Steinbeck [unknown] Print : Book1900-1945 'Hymie Fagan, an East End Jewish Communist, picked up public school ethics from the Gem, the Magnet and the stories of Talbot Baines Reed. He once declined to run in an a... Hymie Fagan Frank Richards [school stories in The Magnet] Print : Serial / periodical1900-1945 'Hymie Fagan, an East End Jewish Communist, picked up public school ethics from the Gem, the Magnet and the stories of Talbot Baines Reed. He once declined to run in an a... Hymie Fagan Frank Richards [school stories in The Gem] Print : Serial / periodical1900-1945 'Hymie Fagan, an East End Jewish Communist, picked up public school ethics from the Gem, the Magnet and the stories of Talbot Baines Reed. He once declined to run in an a... Hymie Fagan Talbot Baines Reed [school stories] Print : Book1900-1945 'As a boy Percy Wall adored the "Magnet", the "Boy's Own Paper", and G.A. Henty novels... [Later] While he read Henty for enjoyment, he studied the "Clarion", the "Freeth... Percy Wall n/a The Magnet Print : Serial / periodical1900-1945 'As a boy Percy Wall adored the "Magnet", the "Boy's Own Paper", and G.A. Henty novels... [Later] While he read Henty for enjoyment, he studied the "Clarion", the "Freeth... Percy Wall n/a The Boy's Own Paper Print : Serial / periodical1900-1945 'As a boy Percy Wall adored the "Magnet", the "Boy's Own Paper", and G.A. Henty novels... [Later] While he read Henty for enjoyment, he studied the "Clarion", the "Freeth... Percy Wall George Alfred Henty [novels] Print : Book1900-1945 'As a boy Percy Wall adored the "Magnet", the "Boy's Own Paper", and G.A. Henty novels... [Later] While he read Henty for enjoyment, he studied the "Clarion", the "Freeth... Percy Wall n/a The Clarion Print : Serial / periodical1900-1945 'As a boy Percy Wall adored the "Magnet", the "Boy's Own Paper", and G.A. Henty novels... [Later] While he read Henty for enjoyment, he studied the "Clarion", the "Freeth... Percy Wall n/a The Freethinker Print : Serial / periodical1900-1945 'As a boy Percy Wall adored the "Magnet", the "Boy's Own Paper", and G.A. Henty novels... [Later] While he read Henty for enjoyment, he studied the "Clarion", the "Freeth... Percy Wall A.K. von Huhn The Struggle of the Bulgarians for National Indepe... Print : Book1900-1945 'As a boy Percy Wall adored the "Magnet", the "Boy's Own Paper", and G.A. Henty novels... [Later] While he read Henty for enjoyment, he studied the "Clarion", the "Freeth... Percy Wall Richard Brinsley Sheridan (pen name? in any case, not the 18th c playwright) The Filipino Martyrs Print : Book1700-1799 Frances Burney to Esther Burney: 'Well I recollect your reading with our dear Mother all Pope's Works, & Pitt's "Aeneid".' Esther Sleepe Burney and Esther Burney Alexander Pope Works Print : Book1700-1799 Frances Burney to Esther Burney: 'Well I recollect your reading with our dear Mother all Pope's Works, & Pitt's "Aeneid".' Esther Sleepe Burney and Esther Burney Virgil Aeneid Print : Book1700-1799 Frances Burney at seventeen observes that she is about "to charm myself for the third time with poor Sterne's 'Sentimental Journey'." Frances Burney Laurence Sterne A Sentimental Journey Print : Book1700-1799 'At the same time as she was entertaining herself with a variety of novels, [Frances] Burney was putting herself through an energetic course of solid reading, including H... Frances Burney novels Print : Book1700-1799 'At the same time as she was entertaining herself with a variety of novels, [Frances] Burney was putting herself through an energetic course of solid reading, including H... Frances Burney Homer Print : Book1700-1799 'At the same time as she was entertaining herself with a variety of novels, [Frances] Burney was putting herself through an energetic course of solid reading, including H... Frances Burney ancient history Print : Book1700-1799 'At the same time as she was entertaining herself with a variety of novels, [Frances] Burney was putting herself through an energetic course of solid reading, including H... Frances Burney Print : Book1700-1799 'At the same time as she was entertaining herself with a variety of novels, [Frances] Burney was putting herself through an energetic course of solid reading, including H... Frances Burney Print : Unknown1700-1799 'In 1768, Burney read in rapid succession Elizabeth and Richard Griffith's "A Series of Genuine Letters between Henry and Frances" (1757) ... Oliver Goldsmith's "The Vica... Frances Burney Elizabeth and Richard Griffith A Series of Genuine Letters between Henry and Fran... Print : Book1700-1799 'In 1768, Burney read in rapid succession Elizabeth and Richard Griffith's "A Series of Genuine Letters between Henry and Frances" (1757) ... Oliver Goldsmith's "The Vica... Frances Burney Oliver Goldsmith The Vicar of Wakefield Print : Book1700-1799 'In 1768, Burney read in rapid succession Elizabeth and Richard Griffith's "A Series of Genuine Letters between Henry and Frances" (1757) ... Oliver Goldsmith's "The Vica... Frances Burney Samuel Johnson Rasselas Print : Book1700-1799 'In her teens [Frances] Burney was tackling on her own such works as Plutarch's "Lives" (in translation), Pope's "Iliad", and ... all the works of Pope, including the Let... Frances Burney Plutarch Lives Print : Book1700-1799 'In her teens [Frances] Burney was tackling on her own such works as Plutarch's "Lives" (in translation), Pope's "Iliad", and ... all the works of Pope, including the Let... Frances Burney Homer Iliad Print : Book1700-1799 'In her teens [Frances] Burney was tackling on her own such works as Plutarch's "Lives" (in translation), Pope's "Iliad", and ... all the works of Pope, including the Let... Frances Burney Alexander Pope Works Print : Book1700-1799 'In her teens [Frances] Burney was tackling on her own such works as Plutarch's "Lives" (in translation), Pope's "Iliad", and ... all the works of Pope, including the Let... Frances Burney Alexander Pope Letters Print : Book1700-1799 'In her teens [Frances] Burney was tackling on her own such works as Plutarch's "Lives" (in translation), Pope's "Iliad", and ... all the works of Pope, including the Let... Frances Burney David Hume The History of England Print : Book1700-1799 'In her teens [Frances] Burney was tackling on her own such works as Plutarch's "Lives" (in translation), Pope's "Iliad", and ... all the works of Pope, including the Let... Frances Burney Nathaniel Hooke Roman History Print : Book1700-1799 'In her teens [Frances] Burney was tackling on her own such works as Plutarch's "Lives" (in translation), Pope's "Iliad", and ... all the works of Pope, including the Let... Frances Burney Conyers Middleton Life of Cicero Print : Book1700-1799 'In her teens [Frances] Burney was tackling on her own such works as Plutarch's "Lives" (in translation), Pope's "Iliad", and ... all the works of Pope, including the Let... Frances Burney Denis Diderot treatise on music Print : Book1700-1799 Charles Burney on his first reading of Frances Burney, "Evelina": 'I perused the first Vol. with fear and trembling, not supposing she wd disgrace her parentage, but not ... Charles Burney Frances Burney Evelina; or, A Young Lady's Entrance into the Worl... Print : Book1700-1799 'On 2 August [1779], Charles Burney at Chessington read ... [The Witlings] aloud to a party which included [Samuel] Crisp, Crisp's sister Sophia Gast and the other Chessi... Charles Burney Frances Burney The Witlings Manuscript : Unknown1700-1799 Susanna Burney describes Charles Burney's reading of The Witlings at Chessington on 2 August 1779, to Frances Burney: " 'Good' sd. Mr. Crisp ... the name of Codger occasi... Charles Burney Frances Burney The Witlings Manuscript : Unknown1700-1799 Frances Burney to Hester Thrale, 22 January 1781, on reading account of Thrale's apperance at court on 18 January 1781 in Pacific island-inspired costume: 'Lord, if you h... Frances Burney newspapers Print : Newspaper1700-1799 'Mrs. Thrale offered the kind of readings [of work in progress, ie Cecilia] Burney ... most valued, instant impressions before the whole novel had been read -- or finishe... Hester Lynch Thrale Frances Burney Cecilia Manuscript : Unknown1700-1799 'When he was writing ... "Things as They Are" (1794) ... [William] Godwin studied "Cecilia".' William Godwin Frances Burney Cecilia; or, Memoirs of an Heiress Print : Book1700-1799 Copied by Frances Burney into her journal letters, from Samuel Hoole, "Aurelia" (1783):
'I stood, a favouring muse, at Burey's side,
To lash unfeeling Wealth and stub... Frances Burney Samuel Hoole Aurelia 1700-1799 ' ... [The Mysterious Mother (1768)] was read aloud by Mr Smelt and Frances Burney in November 1786. Burney was horrified ...' Frances Burney and Leonard Smelt Horace Walpole The Mysterious Mother Print : Book1700-1799 'I have heard Doctor Collier say [wrote Hester Thrale in undated letter] that Harry Fielding quite doated upon his Sister Sally till she had made herself through ... Dr. ... Sarah Fielding Virgil Print : Book1700-1799 'Colonel Digby had read Falconer's "The Shipwreck" aloud to Burney during her court service ...' The Hon. Stephen Digby William Falconer The Shipwreck Print : Book1700-1799 Frances Burney noted as having been 'an early reader' of Ann Radcliffe, "The Mysteries of Udolpho" (1794). Frances Burney Ann Radcliffe The Mysteries of Udolpho Print : Book1800-1849 '[Frances] Burney's little diary of "Consolatory Extracts Daily collected or read in my extremity of Grief at the sudden & tragical loss of my beloved Susan on the instan... Frances Burney Anne-Louise-Germaine baronne de Stael-Holstein 1800-1849 '[Frances] Burney's little diary of "Consolatory Extracts Daily collected or read in my extremity of Grief at the sudden & tragical loss of my beloved Susan on the instan... Frances Burney Catherine Talbot 1800-1849 '[Frances] Burney's little diary of "Consolatory Extracts Daily collected or read in my extremity of Grief at the sudden & tragical loss of my beloved Susan on the instan... Frances Burney Hester Chapone Unknown 1800-1849 On Frances Burney d'Arblay's married life in France: 'With affection and friendship, the pleaseures of attending the theater and reading works of French literature such a... D'Arblay family Alain Le Sage Gil Blas Print : Book1800-1849 'Frances Burney had thought that Charles Burney had written his autobiography more completely than he had done. When she read his Memoirs, she found them incomplete, and... Frances Burney Charles Burney Memoirs Manuscript : Unknown1700-1799 '[Frances] Burney had read both "The Mysteries of Udolpho" and "The Italian" when they first came out, preferring the latter ...' Frances Burney Ann Radcliffe The Mysteries of Udolpho Print : Book1700-1799 '[Frances] Burney had read both "The Mysteries of Udolpho" and "The Italian" when they first came out, preferring the latter ...' Frances Burney Ann Radcliffe The Italian Print : Book1800-1849 '... Anne Thackeray ... discovered ... [Burney's Diary and Letters] in her father's library and felt inspired to become a diarist and novelist ...' Anne Thackeray Frances Burney The Diary and Letters Print : Book1900-1945 'It is equally possible for the same reader to adopt different frames for the same story, relishing it on one level while seeing through the claptrap on another. In his y... Aneurin Bevan n/a The Magnet Print : Serial / periodical1900-1945 'It is equally possible for the same reader to adopt different frames for the same story, relishing it on one level while seeing through the claptrap on another. In his y... Aneurin Bevan n/a The Gem Print : Serial / periodical1900-1945 'It is equally possible for the same reader to adopt different frames for the same story, relishing it on one level while seeing through the claptrap on another. In his y... Aneurin Bevan H. Rider Haggard [unknown] Print : Book1900-1945 'It is equally possible for the same reader to adopt different frames for the same story, relishing it on one level while seeing through the claptrap on another. In his y... Aneurin Bevan William Le Queux [unknown] Print : Book1900-1945 'It is equally possible for the same reader to adopt different frames for the same story, relishing it on one level while seeing through the claptrap on another. In his y... Aneurin Bevan John Buchan [unknown] Print : Book1900-1945 'It is equally possible for the same reader to adopt different frames for the same story, relishing it on one level while seeing through the claptrap on another. In his y... Aneurin Bevan Phillips Oppenheim [unknown] Print : Book1900-1945 'The Bermant family arrived in Scotland when Chaim was eight: before his ninth birthday he had mastered enough English to read Beatrix Potter in the Mitchell Library. Her... Chaim Bermant n/a The Beano Print : Serial / periodical1900-1945 'The Bermant family arrived in Scotland when Chaim was eight: before his ninth birthday he had mastered enough English to read Beatrix Potter in the Mitchell Library. Her... Chaim Bermant Beatrix Potter [unknown] Print : Book1900-1945 'The Bermant family arrived in Scotland when Chaim was eight: before his ninth birthday he had mastered enough English to read Beatrix Potter in the Mitchell Library. Her... Chaim Bermant n/a The Glasgow Herald Print : Newspaper1900-1945 'The Bermant family arrived in Scotland when Chaim was eight: before his ninth birthday he had mastered enough English to read Beatrix Potter in the Mitchell Library. Her... Chaim Bermant n/a The Manchester Guardian Print : Newspaper1900-1945 '[Jim Flowers's ] trade unionist father had given him Tom Paine to read, so he took an internationalist republican view of history. During the First World War, when the h... Jim Flowers Thomas Paine [unknown -Rights of Man?] Print : Book1900-1945 '[Jim Flowers's ] trade unionist father had given him Tom Paine to read, so he took an internationalist republican view of history. During the First World War, when the h... Jim Flowers n/a The Daily Chronicle Print : Newspaper1900-1945 'No national commentator sympathised with working-class culture so well as Wilfred Pickles, BBC newsreader and stonemason's son. But even he admitted that the hours he sp... Wilfred Pickles John Keats [unknown] Print : Book1900-1945 'No national commentator sympathised with working-class culture so well as Wilfred Pickles, BBC newsreader and stonemason's son. But even he admitted that the hours he sp... Wilfred Pickles Percy Bysshe Shelley [unknown] Print : Book1900-1945 'No national commentator sympathised with working-class culture so well as Wilfred Pickles, BBC newsreader and stonemason's son. But even he admitted that the hours he sp... Wilfred Pickles George Bernard Shaw [unknown] Print : Book1900-1945 'No national commentator sympathised with working-class culture so well as Wilfred Pickles, BBC newsreader and stonemason's son. But even he admitted that the hours he sp... Wilfred Pickles John Galsworthy [unknown] Print : Book1900-1945 'The father of Labour politician T. Dan Smith, a Wallsend miner, was facinated by travel books, Twain's Innocents Abroad, Chaliapin, Caruso, and European affairs. But har... Mark Twain [unknown] Print : Book1900-1945 'The father of Labour politician T. Dan Smith, a Wallsend miner, was facinated by travel books, Twain's Innocents Abroad, Chaliapin, Caruso, and European affairs. But har... [unknown] [travel books] Print : Book1900-1945 'James Hanley's workmates laughed when he taught himself French by reading the Mercure de France...Working the night shift at a railway station, Hanley withdrew into the ... James Hanley n/a Mercure de France Print : Serial / periodical1900-1945 'James Hanley's workmates laughed when he taught himself French by reading the Mercure de France...Working the night shift at a railway station, Hanley withdrew into the ... James Hanley Moliere [unknown] Print : Book1900-1945 'James Hanley's workmates laughed when he taught himself French by reading the Mercure de France...Working the night shift at a railway station, Hanley withdrew into the ... James Hanley Gerhart Hauptmann [unknown] Print : Book1900-1945 'James Hanley's workmates laughed when he taught himself French by reading the Mercure de France...Working the night shift at a railway station, Hanley withdrew into the ... James Hanley Pedro Calderon de la Barca [unknown] Print : Book1900-1945 'James Hanley's workmates laughed when he taught himself French by reading the Mercure de France...Working the night shift at a railway station, Hanley withdrew into the ... James Hanley Hermann Sudermann [unknown] Print : Book1900-1945 'James Hanley's workmates laughed when he taught himself French by reading the Mercure de France...Working the night shift at a railway station, Hanley withdrew into the ... James Hanley Henrik Ibsen [unknown] Print : Book1900-1945 'James Hanley's workmates laughed when he taught himself French by reading the Mercure de France...Working the night shift at a railway station, Hanley withdrew into the ... James Hanley Jonas Lie [unknown] Print : Book1900-1945 'James Hanley's workmates laughed when he taught himself French by reading the Mercure de France...Working the night shift at a railway station, Hanley withdrew into the ... James Hanley August Strindberg [unknown] Print : Book1900-1945 'James Hanley's workmates laughed when he taught himself French by reading the Mercure de France...Working the night shift at a railway station, Hanley withdrew into the ... James Hanley Miguel de Cervantes Don Quixote Print : Book1900-1945 'James Hanley's workmates laughed when he taught himself French by reading the Mercure de France...Working the night shift at a railway station, Hanley withdrew into the ... James Hanley Honore de Balzac Eugenie Grandet Print : Book1900-1945 'James Hanley's workmates laughed when he taught himself French by reading the Mercure de France...Working the night shift at a railway station, Hanley withdrew into the ... James Hanley Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev Fathers and Sons Print : Book1850-1899 'Flora Thompson's village school had no geography books and no formal instruction in geography or history, other than readers offering stock tales about King Alfred and t... Flora Thompson Royal Reader Print : Book1850-1899 'Flora Thompson's village school had no geography books and no formal instruction in geography or history, other than readers offering stock tales about King Alfred and t... Flora Thompson [history reader] Print : Book1850-1899 'Flora Thompson's village school had no geography books and no formal instruction in geography or history, other than readers offering stock tales about King Alfred and t... Flora Thompson Giovanni Battista Belzoni Narrative of the Operations and Recent Discoveries... Print : Book1900-1945 '...he had read so much of de Maupassant, and had admired him for so many years, that probably his manner and his conceptions had sunk into his subconscious. As he sai... Arnold Bennett Guy de Maupassant Bel-Ami Print : Book1900-1945 [Harry Burton recalled' "we wallowed in Eric and St Winifred's and other school stories, especially Talbot Baines Reed's"...[Burton] like other working class children pre... Harry Burton Frederick W. Farrar [St Winifred's School Stories] Print : Book1900-1945 'When he reread "Une Vie", in March 1908, he could find faults, but they were irrelevant to the work that had been done to him.' Arnold Bennett Guy de Maupassant Une Vie Print : Book1900-1945 [Harry Burton recalled' "we wallowed in Eric and St Winifred's and other school stories, especially Talbot Baines Reed's"...[Burton] like other working class children pre... Harry Burton Talbot Baines Reed [School Stories] Print : Book1900-1945 [Harry Burton recalled' "we wallowed in Eric and St Winifred's and other school stories, especially Talbot Baines Reed's"...[Burton] like other working class children pre... Harry Burton Frank Richards [School Stories in the Magnet and the Gem] Print : Serial / periodical1800-1849 'Since they filled those gaps [in historical and geographical knowledge], classic travel books could produce the same kind of epiphanies as other classic literature. Anso... Alexander Somerville George Anson A Voyage Round the World Print : Book, Serial / periodical1900-1945 'A more recent influence was Huysmans' "Les Soeurs Vatards", a novel about artisan life in a lace-maker's atelier in Paris, which he read with great admiration in March 1... Arnold Bennett Joris Karl Huysmans Les Soeurs Vatards Print : Book1800-1849 'A Scottish flax dresser gained his "first or incipient idea of localities and distances" when he was assigned to read aloud at work from Anson, Cook, Bruce and Mungo Par... "Jacques", a flax dresser George Anson A Voyage Round the World Print : Book1800-1849 'A Scottish flax dresser gained his "first or incipient idea of localities and distances" when he was assigned to read aloud at work from Anson, Cook, Bruce and Mungo Par... "Jacques", a flax dresser James Cook [Accounts of three voyages round the world] Print : Book1800-1849 'A Scottish flax dresser gained his "first or incipient idea of localities and distances" when he was assigned to read aloud at work from Anson, Cook, Bruce and Mungo Par... "Jacques", a flax dresser James Bruce Travels to Discover the Source of the Nile, In the... Print : Book1800-1849 'A Scottish flax dresser gained his "first or incipient idea of localities and distances" when he was assigned to read aloud at work from Anson, Cook, Bruce and Mungo Par... "Jacques", a flax dresser Mungo Park Travels in the Interior Districts of Africa: Perfo... Print : Book1850-1899 " ... in the early 1870s, the ten-year-old Annabel Huth Jackson 'was terribly frightened by the episode of the mad woman tearing the wedding veil' in Jane Eyre, although ... Annabel Huth Jackson Charlotte Bronte Jane Eyre Print : Book1900-1945 '. . . Jules Claretie's "L'Histoire de la R?volution de 1870-1871." He says that he "looked at the pictures" in Claretie (though there is little doubt that he read it to... Arnold Bennett Jules Claretie L'Histoire de la R?volution de 1870-1871 Print : Book1600-1699 "In her course of Reading she was still laying in for use and practice. Her course was, when she read the Scriptures, to gather out passages, and sort and refer them to t... Elizabeth Baker Scriptures Unknown
