√ Century of Experience Evidence Name of Reader / Listener / Reading Group Author of Text Title of Text Form of Text 1850-1899 'I went to one of my clubs to have some tea, and look - but with little hope - for a novel really attractive to me after having finished "Mrs Arthur", and then - a happy ... A.W. Kinglake Margaret Oliphant Mrs Arthur Print : Book1850-1899 'I went to one of my clubs to have some tea, and look - but with little hope - for a novel really attractive to me after having finished "Mrs Arthur", and then - a happy ... A.W. Kinglake Margaret Oliphant Carita Print : Book1850-1899 'I think very highly of Daudet as a novelist, but I know nothing of him personally.' Margaret Oliphant Alphonse Daudet [novels] Print : Book1850-1899 'I ought to have written last month to thank you and your able contributor for the flattering mention made of me in the article on Magazines, but the coming here complica... Margaret Oliphant Blackwood's Magazine Print : Serial / periodical1850-1899 'I read with sad interest the references to your brother's battery in the 'Times' this morning.' Margaret Oliphant Times, The Print : Newspaper1850-1899 'I have just been reading Heine's "De l'Allemagne", a very amusing book.' Francis Romano (Cecco) Oliphant Heinrich Heine De l'Allemagne Print : Book1850-1899 'I think this extract from a western newspaper pretty nearly beats the record (slang again) for confusion of metaphors: "He [Sir Stafford Northcote] is a statesman, the b... Francis Romano (Cecco) Oliphant [newspaper] Print : Newspaper1850-1899 'The political awakening of J.R. Clynes came when three old blind men paid him 3d a week to read the newspapers to them: "Reading aloud was a new joy to me. Some of the ... J.R. Clynes [newspapers] Print : Newspaper1850-1899 'If Clynes needed a second lesson in the subversive power of print, it came when his foreman nearly sacked him for sneaking a look at "Paradise Lost" during a work break ... J.R. Clynes John Milton Paradise Lost Print : Book1850-1899 there is a leading article in the "Times" about New Zealand Albert Battiscombe The Times Print : Newspaper1850-1899 I am reading "Maunders Treasury of Geography" a very entertaining work. Albert Battiscombe Samuel Maunder The Treasury of Geography Print : Book1850-1899 "I have been reading lately "Natural Philosophy" by Tomlinson and Sir John Herschel, and am now reading the "Chemistry of Creation" by Dr Ellis." Albert Battiscombe Charles Tomlinson Introduction to the Study of Natural Philosophy Print : Book1850-1899 'Our parents had accumulated a large number of books, which we were allowed to browse in as much as we liked.' Mary Vivian (Molly) Hughes Walter Scott Print : Book1850-1899 'Wedding-bells were the usual end to our stories, of which "The Heir of Redclyffe" was a fair sample. Needless to say I had no notion of any difficulties after the bells ... Mary Vivian (Molly) Hughes The Heir of Redclyffe Print : Unknown1850-1899 'Our parents had accumulated a large number of books, which we were allowed to browse in as much as we liked.' Mary Vivian (Molly) Hughes Charles Dickens Print : Book1850-1899 "I have been reading lately 'Natural Philosophy' by Tomlinson and Sir John Herschel, and am now reading the 'Chemistry of Creation' by Dr Ellis." Albert Battiscombe John Herschel A preliminary discourse on the study of Natural Ph Print : Book1850-1899 'Our parents had accumulated a large number of books, which we were allowed to browse in as much as we liked.' Mary Vivian (Molly) Hughes William Makepeace Thackeray Print : Book1850-1899 "I have been reading lately 'Natural Philosophy' by Tomlinson and Sir John Herschel, and am now reading the 'Chemistry of Creation' by Dr Ellis." Albert Battiscombe Robert Ellis The Chemistry of Creation: being an outline of the Print : Book1850-1899 'Our parents had accumulated a large number of books, which we were allowed to browse in as much as we liked.' Mary Vivian (Molly) Hughes Charles and Mary Lamb Print : Book1850-1899 'Our parents had accumulated a large number of books, which we were allowed to browse in as much as we liked.' Mary Vivian (Molly) Hughes George Eliot Print : Book1850-1899 'Our parents had accumulated a large number of books, which we were allowed to browse in as much as we liked.' Mary Vivian (Molly) Hughes Alfred Tennyson Print : Unknown1850-1899 'Our parents had accumulated a large number of books, which we were allowed to browse in as much as we liked.' Mary Vivian (Molly) Hughes George Gordon Noel, Lord Byron Print : Book1850-1899 I have been reading lately "Maunders Geography" and working a little at "Thompson's Natural Philosophy["] Albert Battiscombe Samuel Maunder The Treasury of Geography Print : Book1850-1899 'Our parents had accumulated a large number of books, which we were allowed to browse in as much as we liked.' Mary Vivian (Molly) Hughes Samuel Taylor Coleridge Print : Book1850-1899 'Our parents had accumulated a large number of books, which we were allowed to browse in as much as we liked.' Mary Vivian (Molly) Hughes Benjamin Disraeli Print : Book1850-1899 I have been reading lately "Maunders Geography" and working a little at "Thompson's Natural Philosophy["] Albert Battiscombe Benjamin Thompson Philosophical Papers: being a collection of memoir Print : Book1850-1899 Reading Tales from Blackwood, and "The Court Servant" (Leigh Hunt) Albert Battiscombe Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine Print : Serial / periodical1850-1899 'Our parents had accumulated a large number of books, which we were allowed to browse in as much as we liked.' Mary Vivian (Molly) Hughes William Makepeace Thackeray Vanity Fair Print : Book1850-1899 Reading Tales from Blackwood, and "The Court Servant" (Leigh Hunt) Albert Battiscombe Leigh Hunt The Court Servant Print : Book1850-1899 Have just finished "Rory O'More" by Samuel Lover Albert Battiscombe Samuel Lover Rory O'More Print : Book1850-1899 Read "Nathalie" by Julia Kavanagh Albert Battiscombe Julia Kavanagh Nathalie Print : Book1850-1899 'My eldest brother was one day making disparaging remarks about Tennyson. My mother, all agitated in defence of her idol, fetched his poems from the shelf, and with a "Li... Mary Thomas Alfred Tennyson Locksley Hall Print : Book1850-1899 'Charles was reading Hans Andersen: I wanted the book, asked for it, fussed for it, and finally broke into tears.' Charles Thomas Hans Christian Anderson Print : Book1850-1899 'mother would summon me to her side and open an enormous Bible. It was invariably at the Old Testament, and I had to read aloud the strange doings of the Patriarchs. No c... Mary Vivian (Molly) Hughes Bible (Old Testament), the Print : Book1850-1899 'My English history was derived from a small book in small print that dealt with the characters of the kings at some length.' Mary Vivian (Molly) Hughes Print : Book1850-1899 'Not as a lesson, but for sheer pleasure, did I browse in "A Child's History of Rome", a book full of good stories.' Mary Vivian (Molly) Hughes A Child's History of Rome Print : Book1850-1899 'For scientific notions I had Dr. Brewer's "Guide to Science", in the form of a catechism.' Mary Vivian (Molly) Hughes Dr Brewer Guide to Science Print : Book1850-1899 'Of course I had a shelf for my books..."Rosy's Voyage Around the World" was prime favourite.' Mary Vivian (Molly) Hughes Rosy's Voyage Around the World Print : Book1850-1899 'My own treasures are nearly all with me still, showing only the honourable marks of age and continual reading...' Mary Vivian (Molly) Hughes The Little Gypsy Print : Book1850-1899 '"Alice in Wonderland" we all knew practically by heart.' Mary Vivian (Molly) Hughes Lewis Carroll Alice in Wonderland Print : Book1850-1899 'one of the red-letter days of my life was a birthday when I received from my father "Through the Looking Glass". I...buried myself in it all afternoon, my pleasure enhan... Mary Vivian (Molly) Hughes Lewis Carroll Through the Looking Glass Print : Book1850-1899 Monday 7th Buried poor Broome at 10 AM with all honours the General & staff attending the 40th [regiment] lending their Band - the Commodore was obliged to read the Buria... Frederick Beauchamp Paget Seymour Church of England burial service Print : Book1850-1899 'It was entirely due to its colour that another book became my constant companion. This was an illustrated Scripture text-book, given to me on my seventh birthday, and st... Mary Vivian (Molly) Hughes Print : Book1850-1899 'Some of the boys' prizes fell into my keeping, handed to me in disgust. One of these, "The Safe Compass", afforded me many a joyful hour. It took the gloomiest views as ... Mary Vivian (Molly) Hughes The Safe Compass Print : Book1850-1899 'Many people of my age must have imbibed their early religious notions from the same book that I did.' Mary Vivian (Molly) Hughes The Peep of the Day Print : Book1850-1899 'There is a pencil note in his copy of "Paradise Lost": "Had to write 500 lines of this for being caught reading "King Lear" in class."' Tom Thomas William Shakespeare King Lear Print : Book1850-1899 'Some three or four times during the reading of the French play...Charles ... neatly, but with becoming hesitation, spouted the Latin line.' Charles Thomas [French play] Print : Book1850-1899 'I was placed in the lowest class with three other little girls of my own age, who were reading aloud the story of Richard Arkwright.' Mary Vivian (Molly) Hughes Print : Book1850-1899 'My new history book was "Little Arthur", which one could read like a delightful story.' Mary Vivian (Molly) Hughes Little Arthur Print : Book1850-1899 'We spent a whole term on the first two scenes of "The Tempest".' Mary Vivian (Molly) Hughes William Shakespeare The Tempest Print : Book1850-1899 'My dear Mrs Oliphant, - I cannot help venturing to express the admiration with which I have been reading the "Lover and his Lass." It is by your powerful, truth-seeing ... Alexander Kinglake Margaret Oliphant The Lover and his Lass Print : Book1850-1899 [Editorial commentary by Annie Coghill, Mrs Oliphant's cousin] 'George Macdonald's first book, or at any rate his first successful book, "David Elginbrod", had been publi... Margaret Oliphant George MacDonald David Elginbrod Manuscript : MS of a book1850-1899 'Thank you very much for the "Life of George Eliot," and for the kind and flattering inscription. I am very glad to have the book, which is as curious a book as any I ev... Margaret Oliphant John Morley Life of George Eliot Print : Book1850-1899 'Thank you very much for the "Life of George Eliot," and for the kind and flattering inscription. I am very glad to have the book, which is as curious a book as any I ev... Margaret Oliphant Review of the Life of George Eliot Print : Serial / periodical1850-1899 'Laurence Oliphant's sketches of the Druse villages are delightful, but his philosophy is something too tremendous. I am making the most prodigious effort to understand ... Margaret Oliphant Laurence Oliphant Land of Gilead, The Print : Book1850-1899 'I see by the "Athenaeum" that the Magazine is to be enlarged'. Margaret Oliphant Athenaeum Print : Serial / periodical1850-1899 'Thanks for the old numbers; they are very interesting, and what vigour in them! - but one could not speak so strongly now.' Margaret Oliphant Blackwood's Magazine Print : Serial / periodical1850-1899 'It seems an excellent number, with the exception of the short story, which is not up to "Maga's" mark. The article on Hayward is very good. Sir Edward Hamley, I think?... Margaret Oliphant Blackwood's Magazine Print : Serial / periodical1850-1899 'The first opinion I have heard of it [the "Makers of Venice"] is Mr Gladstone's, to whom Mr Macmillan sent it, and who sent back to him at once a letter of four pages sa... William Ewart Gladstone Margaret Oliphant Makers of Venice Print : Book1850-1899 'I have just been reading your paper about "Taking in Sail". I think I have told you before how much I feel with and sympathise in your afternoon musings - the subdued t... Margaret Oliphant A.K.H. Boyd Taking in Sail Print : Unknown1850-1899 'I don't at all know the books you refer to - I have not seen any of them. Mr Barrie's "Auld Licht Idylls," etc, I think exceedingly clever. Indeed there seems to me ge... Margaret Oliphant J.M. Barrie Auld Licht Idylls Print : Book1850-1899 Dear Mrs Oliphant, - It is with ceaseless admiration that I have read 'The Duke's Daughter'. My remembrance of what you had told me respecting the origin of your inclina... A.W. Kinglake Margaret Oliphant The Duke's Daughter Print : Book, Unknown1850-1899 Some little time since, I had the good fortune to find that there was at least one [one in italics] of your delightful books which I had missed - I mean 'In Trust' - and ... A.W. Kinglake Margaret Oliphant In Trust Print : Book, Unknown1850-1899 I don't feel quite sure with the last paper whether it is in earnest or not, or if your contributor means to make fun of Macdonald, who is often a noble writer, but not, ... Margaret Oliphant Blackwood's Magazine Print : Serial / periodical, Unknown1850-1899 I have begun the perusal, and I very much hope, and cannot doubt, that your living portraitures of Scripture characters will impress upon many minds an important portion ... William Ewart Gladstone Margaret Oliphant Jerusalem: Its History and Hope Print : Book, Unknown1850-1899 I had half a mind, on reading a paper about the Poor Laws in Austria in your Magazine, to send you a sketch of Dr Chalmers's great experiment in Glasgow, which I think a ... Margaret Oliphant [a paper on the Poor Laws in Austria] Print : Newspaper, Unknown1850-1899 I have done nothing but wade through Dean Stanley's Life this last week in the intervals of doing perfunctorily a little work in the mornings. Margaret Oliphant A.P. Stanley A Selection from the writings of Dean Stanley Print : Book1850-1899 I have several times intended to speak of the very great vigour and fresh start which the Magazine seems to me to have taken during the last year. It has been more full ... Margaret Oliphant Blackwood's Magazine Print : Serial / periodical1850-1899 Mr Lang sent me several chapters to read in the early summer, which I thought were rather dull - tell it not in Gath - with much virtuous indignation about 'Maga's' perso... Margaret Oliphant Andrew Lang Life of Lockhart Print : Serial / periodicalManuscript : MS chapters of a book1850-1899 I suppose there was no man who had a greater command of the public in his day [than Bulwer Lytton]. To be sure, one might say the same of Miss Marie Corelli, who, by the... Margaret Oliphant Marie Corelli Print : Book1850-1899 One afternoon, very near the end, she begged to have "Crossing the Bar" read; and while the reader, painfully keeping her voice steady, repeated the last lines, the liste... Annie Coghill Crossing the Bar Print : Book1850-1899 [Permitted Sunday reading for the children of the family] Mary Vivian (Molly) Hughes Daniel Defoe Robinson Crusoe Print : Book1850-1899 [Permitted Sunday reading for the children of the family] Mary Vivian (Molly) Hughes Thomas Hughes Tom Brown Print : Book1850-1899 [Permitted Sunday reading for the children of the family]. Mary Vivian (Molly) Hughes Hans Christian Andersen Tales Print : Book1850-1899 [Permitted Sunday reading for the children of the family]. Mary Vivian (Molly) Hughes John Bunyan Pilgrim's Progress, The Print : Book1850-1899 [Permitted Sunday reading for the children of the family]. Mary Vivian (Molly) Hughes Good Words for the Young Print : Serial / periodical, Bound volumes1850-1899 'Again and again I turned to something entitled "The Dark Journey", only to find it was an account of one's digestion. You may wonder why I did this more than once, but I... Mary Vivian (Molly) Hughes The Dark Journey Print : Serial / periodical, Bound volumes of a periodical1850-1899 'We all liked certain parts of a three-volume story called "Henry Milner"...I believe he never did anything wrong, but his school-fellows did, and all their gay activitie... Mary Vivian (Molly) Hughes Henry Milner Print : Book1850-1899 'One day when Barnholt was desperate for a new story I recommended Esther as being as good as the "Arabian Knights"...he...seized the Bible, and soon became absorbed in t... Barnholt Thomas Bible, The (Book of Esther) Print : Book1850-1899 'The question of conscience once arose when mother was reading "Jessica's First Prayer" aloud to Barnholt and me.' Mary Vivian (Molly) Hughes Jessica's First Prayer Print : Unknown1850-1899 'How horrified my father was on discovering that the servants had been reading little bits to me out of "Lloyd's Weekly" [on a Sunday].' Mary Vivian (Molly) Hughes Lloyd's Weekly Print : Newspaper1850-1899 'After tea...[on a Sunday, my father]...liked to read aloud to us from books that sounded quite well, but afforded some chance of frivolity.' Molly Vivian William Shakespeare Print : Book1850-1899 'After tea...[on a Sunday, my father]...liked to read aloud to us from books that sounded quite well, but afforded some chance of frivolity.' Molly Vivian Richard Harris Barham The Ingoldsby Legends Print : Book1850-1899 'After tea...[on a Sunday, my father]...liked to read aloud to us from books that sounded quite well, but afforded some chance of frivolity.' Molly Vivian The Misadventures at Margate Print : Unknown1850-1899 'After tea...[on a Sunday, my father]...liked to read aloud to us from books that sounded quite well, but afforded some chance of frivolity.' Mary Vivian (Molly) Hughes Charles Dickens The Pickwick Papers Print : Book1850-1899 'After tea...[on a Sunday, my father]...liked to read aloud to us from books that sounded quite well, but afforded some chance of frivolity.' Mary Vivian (Molly) Hughes Samuel Taylor Coleridge The Rime of the Ancient Mariner Print : Book, Unknown1850-1899 'Charles...seized the list [of prayers for the redemption of sinners] hopefully, and hooted with delight when he found: "For a family of four boys and one girl [namely hi... Charles Thomas Aunt Lizzie Persons for Whom our Prayers are Requested Print : Serial / periodical, Religious magazine with blank pages for individual prayers1850-1899 'I concluded that no one could really be as good as this book wanted and that it was a fearful waste of time.' Mary Vivian (Molly) Hughes The Narrow Way Print : Book1850-1899 'Among the treasures we rooted out...were an illustrated Prayer Book, gone quite brown with age and damp. When tired of reading we could get laughter out of its absurd pi... Mary Vivian (Molly) Hughes Print : Book1850-1899 'Foxe's "Book of Martyrs" was another feast for us.' Mary Vivian (Molly) Hughes John Foxe Book of Martyrs Print : Unknown1850-1899 'Surely no book was ever read and re-read and talked over as that first new volume, although we went on to buy many more.' Mary Vivian (Molly) Hughes Robert Michael Ballantyne The Iron Horse Print : Book1850-1899 'I can still remember the deep interest I took in a long serial story.' Mary Vivian (Molly) Hughes March Winds and April Showers bring forth May Flow... Print : Serial / periodical1850-1899 'Cassell's Magazine provided stronger meat...and I think every word of it found some reader in the family.' Mary Vivian (Molly) Hughes Cassell's Family Magazine Print : Serial / periodical1850-1899 'he saw me one day deep in "A Journey to the Interior of the Earth" [sic].' Mary Vivian (Molly) Hughes Jules Verne Journey to the Centre of the Earth Print : Book1850-1899 1"Vanity Fair" I read without the faintest suspicion of the intent of the note in the bouquet, or of Rawdon's reason for knocking down Lord Steyne.' Mary Vivian (Molly) Hughes William Makepeace Thackeray Vanity Fair Print : Book1850-1899 'One winter evening I was sitting over the fire engrossed in "Jane Eyre"...' Mary Vivian (Molly) Hughes Charlotte Bronte Jane Eyre Print : Book1850-1899 'I struggled through one [essay/article] by Gladstone just, in order to be able to say I had, but honestly I understood no single sentence.' Mary Vivian (Molly) Hughes William Gladstone Print : Serial / periodical1850-1899 'Farell Lee Bevan's Peep of Day (759,000 copies in print by 1888) supplied him with the frame of a totalistic religious ideology: "It was from these pages that I got my f... Thomas Jones Farell Lee Bevan Peep of Day Print : Book1850-1899 'Farell Lee Bevan's Peep of Day (759,000 copies in print by 1888) supplied him with the frame of a totalistic religious ideology: "It was from these pages that I got my f... Thomas Jones James Bruce Travels to Discover the Source of the Nile, In the... Print : Book1850-1899 'Farell Lee Bevan's Peep of Day (759,000 copies in print by 1888) supplied him with the frame of a totalistic religious ideology: "It was from these pages that I got my f... Thomas Jones Samuel Baker [Probably] 'The Albert N'yanza, Great Basin of the... Print : Book1850-1899 'Farell Lee Bevan's Peep of Day (759,000 copies in print by 1888) supplied him with the frame of a totalistic religious ideology: "It was from these pages that I got my f... Thomas Jones Frank Buckland Print : Book1850-1899 'While he read little but the Bible and religious periodicals, his son was working his way through the Rhymney Workmen's Institute Library and Cassell's National Library ... Thomas Jones Thomas Babington MacAulay Print : Book1850-1899 'While he read little but the Bible and religious periodicals, his son was working his way through the Rhymney Workmen's Institute Library and Cassell's National Library ... Thomas Jones Oliver Goldsmith History of England Print : Book1850-1899 'While he read little but the Bible and religious periodicals, his son was working his way through the Rhymney Workmen's Institute Library and Cassell's National Library ... Thomas Jones Thomas Hardy Far from the Madding Crowd Print : Book1850-1899 'While he read little but the Bible and religious periodicals, his son was working his way through the Rhymney Workmen's Institute Library and Cassell's National Library ... Thomas Jones Josephus Print : Book1850-1899 'While he read little but the Bible and religious periodicals, his son was working his way through the Rhymney Workmen's Institute Library and Cassell's National Library ... Thomas Jones Plutarch Print : Book1850-1899 'While he read little but the Bible and religious periodicals, his son was working his way through the Rhymney Workmen's Institute Library and Cassell's National Library ... Thomas Jones William Shakespeare Print : Book1850-1899 'While he read little but the Bible and religious periodicals, his son was working his way through the Rhymney Workmen's Institute Library and Cassell's National Library ... Thomas Jones Samuel Pepys Print : Book1850-1899 'While he read little but the Bible and religious periodicals, his son was working his way through the Rhymney Workmen's Institute Library and Cassell's National Library ... Thomas Jones Johann Wolfgang von Goethe The Sorrows of Young Werther Print : Book1850-1899 'While he read little but the Bible and religious periodicals, his son was working his way through the Rhymney Workmen's Institute Library and Cassell's National Library ... Thomas Jones Samuel Johnson Lives of the Poets Print : Book1850-1899 'While he read little but the Bible and religious periodicals, his son was working his way through the Rhymney Workmen's Institute Library and Cassell's National Library ... father of Thomas Jones The Bible Print : Book1850-1899 'While he read little but the Bible and religious periodicals, his son was working his way through the Rhymney Workmen's Institute Library and Cassell's National Library ... father of Thomas Jones Print : Serial / periodical1850-1899 'The Primitive Methodists may have been the most anti-intellectual of the Wesleyans, yet miners' MP John Johnson... "found their teaching the strongest possible incentive... John Johnson Adam Smith The Wealth of Nations Print : Book1850-1899 'The Primitive Methodists may have been the most anti-intellectual of the Wesleyans, yet miners' MP John Johnson "found their teaching the strongest possible incentive to... John Johnson John Stuart Mill Principles of Political Economy Print : Book1850-1899 'The Primitive Methodists may have been the most anti-intellectual of the Wesleyans, yet miners' MP John Johnson "found their teaching the strongest possible incentive to... John Johnson Alfred Marshall Principles of Economics Print : Unknown1850-1899 'The Primitive Methodists may have been the most anti-intellectual of the Wesleyans, yet miners' MP John Johnson "found their teaching the strongest possible incentive to... John Johnson [history and philosophy] Print : Unknown1850-1899 'As a circuit preacher Pyke introduced farm people to Milton, Carlyle, Ruskin and Tolstoy. His own reading ranged from Shakespeare and Boswell to Shelley's poems and Geor... Richard Pyke William Shakespeare Print : Book1850-1899 'As a circuit preacher Pyke introduced farm people to Milton, Carlyle, Ruskin and Tolstoy. His own reading ranged from Shakespeare and Boswell to Shelley's poems and Geor... Richard Pyke James Boswell Print : Book1850-1899 'As a circuit preacher Pyke introduced farm people to Milton, Carlyle, Ruskin and Tolstoy. His own reading ranged from Shakespeare and Boswell to Shelley's poems and Geor... Richard Pyke Percy Bysshe Shelley [poems] Print : Book1850-1899 'As a circuit preacher Pyke introduced farm people to Milton, Carlyle, Ruskin and Tolstoy. His own reading ranged from Shakespeare and Boswell to Shelley's poems and Geor... Richard Pyke George Henry Lewes History of Philosophy Print : Book1850-1899 'As a circuit preacher Pyke introduced farm people to Milton, Carlyle, Ruskin and Tolstoy. His own reading ranged from Shakespeare and Boswell to Shelley's poems and Geor... Richard Pyke Thomas Hardy Jude the Obscure Print : Book1850-1899 '[Robert Blatchford] found Sartor Resartus intimidating: "after reading the famous meditaton on the sleeping city, I threw the book across the room. I felt I should never... Robert Blatchford Thomas Carlyle Sartor Resartus Print : Book1850-1899 'As a seaman in the mid-1870s, Ben Tillett had not yet been exposed to revolutionary literature, "But I discovered Thomas Carlyle and was held spellbound by the dark fury... Ben Tillett Thomas Carlyle Print : Unknown1850-1899 'As a young South Wales miner, Edmund Stonelake, who had never heard of the French Revolution, asked a bookseller for something on the subject and was sold Carlyle. At fi... Edmund Stonelake Thomas Carlyle Print : Book, Unknown1850-1899 'Keir Hardie remembered that a "real turning point" of his life was his discovery of Sartor Resartus at age sixteen or seventeen. He had to read it through three times be... James Keir Hardie Thomas Carlyle Sartor Resartus Print : Book1850-1899 'By age fourteen Durham collier Jack Lawson would find... emancipation at the Boldon Miners' Institute... "And didn't I follow the literary trail, once I found it. Like a... Jack Lawson George Eliot Print : Book1850-1899 'By age fourteen Durham collier Jack Lawson would find... emancipation at the Boldon Miners' Institute... "And didn't I follow the literary trail, once I found it. Like a... Jack Lawson Charlotte Bronte Print : Book1850-1899 At age fourteen, Elizabeth Bryson read Sartor Resartus, a favorite book of her father, an impoverished Dundee bookkeeper. There she encountered "the exciting experience o... Elizabeth Bryson Thomas Carlyle Sartor Resartus Print : Book1850-1899 At age fourteen, Elizabeth Bryson read Sartor Resartus, a favorite book of her father, an impoverished Dundee bookkeeper. There she encountered "the exciting experience o... Elizabeth Bryson Thomas Carlyle Heroes and Hero-worship Print : Book1850-1899 At age fourteen, Elizabeth Bryson read Sartor Resartus, a favorite book of her father, an impoverished Dundee bookkeeper. There she encountered "the exciting experience o... Elizabeth Bryson Thomas Carlyle The French Revolution Print : Book1850-1899 'Labour Party pioneer F.W. Jowett..., reading Heroes and Hero-Worship as a young millworker, was attracted by its vision of a new society but repelled by its authoritaria... F.W. Jowett Thomas Carlyle Heroes and Hero Worship Print : Book1850-1899 'By age fourteen Durham collier Jack Lawson ...would find... emancipation at the Boldon Miners' Institute... "And didn't I follow the literary trail, once I found it. Lik... Jack Lawson Charles Reade Print : Book1850-1899 'By age fourteen Durham collier Jack Lawson... would find... emancipation at the Boldon Miners' Institute... "And didn't I follow the literary trail, once I found it. Lik... Jack Lawson Walter Scott Print : Book1850-1899 I have been reading in my Boat?Virgil, Juvenal, and Wesley?s Journal. Do you know the last? one of the most interesting Books, I think, in the Language. It is curious t... Edward Fitzgerald Virgil Print : Book1850-1899 I have been reading in my Boat?Virgil, Juvenal, and Wesley?s Journal. Do you know the last? one of the most interesting Books, I think, in the Language. It is curious t... Edward Fitzgerald Juvenal Print : Book1850-1899 I have been reading in my Boat?Virgil, Juvenal, and Wesley?s Journal. Do you know the last? one of the most interesting Books, I think, in the Language. It is curious t... Edward Fitzgerald John Wesley Journal Print : Book1800-1849 1850-1899 I have been reading in my Boat?Virgil, Juvenal, and Wesley?s Journal. Do you know the last? one of the most interesting Books, I think, in the Language. It is curious t... Edward Fitzgerald Horace Walpole Letters Print : Book1850-1899 'Some one by chance read out to me the other day at the seaside your account of poor old Naseby Village from Cromwell, quoted in Knight?s "Half Hours, etc." It is now tw... Edward Charles Knight Half Hours with the Best Authors Print : Book1850-1899 Henry Mayhew interviews a boy of 17, an inmate of a London workhouse:
"I've read 'Jack Sheppard' through, in three volumes; and I used to tell stories out of that some... anon William Harrison Ainsworth Jack Sheppard Print : Book1850-1899 Henry Mayhew interviews a 'London sneak or common thief':
"On Sunday evenings the only books read were such as 'Jack Sheppard', 'Dick Turpin' and the 'Newgate Calendar... anon William Harrison Ainsworth Jack Sheppard Print : Book1850-1899 Henry Mayhew interviews a 'London sneak or common thief':
"On Sunday evenings the only books read were such as 'Jack Sheppard', 'Dick Turpin' and the 'Newgate Calendar... anon William Harrison Ainsworth Rookwood Print : Book1850-1899 Henry Mayhew interviews a 'London sneak or common thief':
"On Sunday evenings the only books read were such as 'Jack Sheppard', 'Dick Turpin' and the 'Newgate Calendar... anon Newgate Calendar Print : Book, Serial / periodical1850-1899 '[Muir] recalls... that his father conducted a little service in the farmhouse each week: "Every Sunday night he gathered us together to read a chapter of the Bible and k... The Bible Print : Book1900-1945 'When asked how books had shaped him, Labour M.P. F.W. Jowett ranged widely: Ivanhoe made him want to read, Unto this Last made him a socialist, Past and Present made him... F.W. Jowett Walter Scott Ivanhoe Print : Book1850-1899 'When asked how books had shaped him, Labour M.P. F.W. Jowett ranged widely: Ivanhoe made him want to read, Unto this Last made him a socialist, Past and Present made him... F.W. Jowett John Ruskin Unto this Last Print : Book1850-1899 'When asked how books had shaped him, Labour M.P. F.W. Jowett ranged widely: Ivanhoe made him want to read, Unto this Last made him a socialist, Past and Present made him... F.W. Jowett Thomas Carlyle Past and Present Print : Book1850-1899 'When asked how books had shaped him, Labour M.P. F.W. Jowett ranged widely: Ivanhoe made him want to read, Unto this Last made him a socialist, Past and Present made him... F.W. Jowett William Makepeace Thackeray Vanity Fair Print : Book1850-1899 'When asked how books had shaped him, Labour M.P. F.W. Jowett ranged widely: Ivanhoe made him want to read, Unto this Last made him a socialist, Past and Present made him... F.W. Jowett Victor Hugo Les Miserables Print : Book1850-1899 'When asked how books had shaped him, Labour M.P. F.W. Jowett ranged widely: Ivanhoe made him want to read, Unto this Last made him a socialist, Past and Present made him... F.W. Jowett Emily Bronte Wuthering Heights Print : Book1850-1899 'By age fourteen Durham collier Jack Lawson would find... emancipation at the Boldon Miners' Institute... "And didn't I follow the literary trail, once I found it. Like a... Jack Lawson Emily Bronte Print : Book1850-1899 'By age fourteen Durham collier Jack Lawson would find... emancipation at the Boldon Miners' Institute... "And didn't I follow the literary trail, once I found it. Like a... Jack Lawson Thomas Hardy Print : Book1850-1899 'By age fourteen Durham collier Jack Lawson would find... emancipation at the Boldon Miners' Institute... "And didn't I follow the literary trail, once I found it. Like a... Jack Lawson Victor Hugo Print : Book1850-1899 'By age fourteen Durham collier Jack Lawson would find... emancipation at the Boldon Miners' Institute... "And didn't I follow the literary trail, once I found it. Like a... Jack Lawson William Shakespeare Print : Book1850-1899 'By age fourteen Durham collier Jack Lawson would find... emancipation at the Boldon Miners' Institute... "And didn't I follow the literary trail, once I found it. Like a... Jack Lawson The Bible Print : Book1850-1899 'By age fourteen Durham collier Jack Lawson would find... emancipation at the Boldon Miners' Institute... "And didn't I follow the literary trail, once I found it. Like a... Jack Lawson James Thomson The Seasons Print : Book1850-1899 'In a Sunday school library set up by a cotton mill fire-beater, [Thomas Thompson] read Dickens, Thackeray, Oliver Wendell Holmes, and Marcus Aurelius' Thomas Thompson Charles Dickens Print : Book1850-1899 'In a Sunday school library set up by a cotton mill fire-beater, [Thomas Thompson] read Dickens, Thackeray, Oliver Wendell Holmes, and Marcus Aurelius' Thomas Thompson William Makepeace Thackeray Print : Book1850-1899 'In a Sunday school library set up by a cotton mill fire-beater, [Thomas Thompson] read Dickens, Thackeray, Oliver Wendell Holmes, and Marcus Aurelius' Thomas Thompson Oliver Wendell Holmes Print : Book1850-1899 'In a Sunday school library set up by a cotton mill fire-beater, [Thomas Thompson] read Dickens, Thackeray, Oliver Wendell Holmes, and Marcus Aurelius' Thomas Thompson Marcus Aurelius [Meditations]? Print : Book1850-1899 'Blatchford, once he read it carefully found [Samuel Smiles's Self Help] "one of the most delightful and invigorating books it has been my happy fortune to meet with".' Robert Peel Glanville Blatchford Samuel Smiles Self Help Print : Book1850-1899 Statement of boy to London society, aim of which to rescue juvenile criminals, demonstrating pernicious influence of penny dreadfuls:
"Bill couldn't read a bit, but he... Charley anon [penny dreadfuls] Print : Serial / periodical, penny dreadful1850-1899 Statement of boy to London society, aim of which to rescue juvenile criminals, demonstrating pernicious influence of penny dreadfuls:
Charley reads penny dreadfuls to ... Charley ? Tyburn Dick Print : Serial / periodical, penny dreadful1850-1899 '[Chester Armstrong's] political consciousness was awakened when his father, a self-help Radical, read aloud the weekly paper, which brought home the horrors of the Afgha... [weekly paper] Print : Newspaper1850-1899 'In [Ashington Mechanics' Institute] library [Chester Armstrong] discovered a "new world", a "larger environment" in Defoe, Marryat, Fenimore Cooper, Dickens and Jules Ve... Chester Armstrong Daniel Defoe Print : Book1850-1899 'In [Ashington Mechanics' Institute] library [Chester Armstrong] discovered a "new world", a "larger environment" in Defoe, Marryat, Fenimore Cooper, Dickens and Jules Ve... Chester Armstrong Frederick Marryat Print : Book1850-1899 'In [Ashington Mechanics' Institute] library [Chester Armstrong] discovered a "new world", a "larger environment" in Defoe, Marryat, Fenimore Cooper, Dickens and Jules Ve... Chester Armstrong James Fenimore Cooper Print : Book1850-1899 'In [Ashington Mechanics' Institute] library [Chester Armstrong] discovered a "new world", a "larger environment" in Defoe, Marryat, Fenimore Cooper, Dickens and Jules Ve... Chester Armstrong Charles Dickens Print : Book1850-1899 'In [Ashington Mechanics' Institute] library [Chester Armstrong] discovered a "new world", a "larger environment" in Defoe, Marryat, Fenimore Cooper, Dickens and Jules Ve... Chester Armstrong Jules Verne Print : Book1850-1899 'In 1898 Armstrong organised the Ashington Debating and Literary Improvement Society, and his reading broadened out to Shakespeare, Burns, Shelley, Keats, Tennyson, Byron... Chester Armstrong William Shakespeare Print : Book1850-1899 'In 1898 Armstrong organised the Ashington Debating and Literary Improvement Society, and his reading broadened out to Shakespeare, Burns, Shelley, Keats, Tennyson, Byron... Chester Armstrong Robert Burns Print : Book1850-1899 'In 1898 Armstrong organised the Ashington Debating and Literary Improvement Society, and his reading broadened out to Shakespeare, Burns, Shelley, Keats, Tennyson, Byron... Chester Armstrong Percy Bysshe Shelley Print : Book1850-1899 'In 1898 Armstrong organised the Ashington Debating and Literary Improvement Society, and his reading broadened out to Shakespeare, Burns, Shelley, Keats, Tennyson, Byron... Chester Armstrong John Keats Print : Book1850-1899 'In 1898 Armstrong organised the Ashington Debating and Literary Improvement Society, and his reading broadened out to Shakespeare, Burns, Shelley, Keats, Tennyson, Byron... Chester Armstrong Alfred Lord Tennyson Print : Book1850-1899 'In 1898 Armstrong organised the Ashington Debating and Literary Improvement Society, and his reading broadened out to Shakespeare, Burns, Shelley, Keats, Tennyson, Byron... Chester Armstrong George Gordon, Lord Byron Print : Book1850-1899 'In 1898 Armstrong organised the Ashington Debating and Literary Improvement Society, and his reading broadened out to Shakespeare, Burns, Shelley, Keats, Tennyson, Byron... Chester Armstrong Walt Whitman Print : Book1850-1899 'In 1898 Armstrong organised the Ashington Debating and Literary Improvement Society, and his reading broadened out to Shakespeare, Burns, Shelley, Keats, Tennyson, Byron... Chester Armstrong William Wordsworth Print : Book1850-1899 'In 1898 Armstrong organised the Ashington Debating and Literary Improvement Society, and his reading broadened out to Shakespeare, Burns, Shelley, Keats, Tennyson, Byron... Chester Armstrong Walter Scott Print : Book1850-1899 'In 1898 Armstrong organised the Ashington Debating and Literary Improvement Society, and his reading broadened out to Shakespeare, Burns, Shelley, Keats, Tennyson, Byron... Chester Armstrong Robert Browning Print : Book1850-1899 'In 1898 Armstrong organised the Ashington Debating and Literary Improvement Society, and his reading broadened out to Shakespeare, Burns, Shelley, Keats, Tennyson, Byron... Chester Armstrong Charles Darwin Print : Book1850-1899 'In 1898 Armstrong organised the Ashington Debating and Literary Improvement Society, and his reading broadened out to Shakespeare, Burns, Shelley, Keats, Tennyson, Byron... Chester Armstrong Thomas Henry Huxley Print : Book1850-1899 'In 1898 Armstrong organised the Ashington Debating and Literary Improvement Society, and his reading broadened out to Shakespeare, Burns, Shelley, Keats, Tennyson, Byron... Chester Armstrong British Weekly Print : Serial / periodical1850-1899 'In 1898 Armstrong organised the Ashington Debating and Literary Improvement Society, and his reading broadened out to Shakespeare, Burns, Shelley, Keats, Tennyson, Byron... Chester Armstrong Emile Zola Print : Book1850-1899 'In 1898 Armstrong organised the Ashington Debating and Literary Improvement Society, and his reading broadened out to Shakespeare, Burns, Shelley, Keats, Tennyson, Byron... Chester Armstrong Henrik Johan Ibsen Print : Book1850-1899 'In 1898 Armstrong organised the Ashington Debating and Literary Improvement Society, and his reading broadened out to Shakespeare, Burns, Shelley, Keats, Tennyson, Byron... Chester Armstrong George Meredith Print : Book1850-1899 'In 1898 Armstrong organised the Ashington Debating and Literary Improvement Society, and his reading broadened out to Shakespeare, Burns, Shelley, Keats, Tennyson, Byron... Chester Armstrong Oscar Wilde Print : Book1850-1899 [According to Flora Thompson], "Modern writers who speak of the booklessness of the poor at that time must mean books as possessions...there were always books to borrow".... Flora THompson Samuel Richardson Pamela Print : Book1850-1899 [According to Flora Thompson], "Modern writers who speak of the booklessness of the poor at that time must mean books as possessions...there were always books to borrow".... Flora THompson Walter Scott Waverley Novels Print : Book1850-1899 [According to Flora Thompson], "Modern writers who speak of the booklessness of the poor at that time must mean books as possessions...there were always books to borrow".... Flora Thompson Elizabeth Gaskell Cranford Print : Book1850-1899 [According to Flora Thompson], "Modern writers who speak of the booklessness of the poor at that time must mean books as possessions...there were always books to borrow".... Flora Thompson William Shakespeare Print : Book1850-1899 [According to Flora Thompson], "Modern writers who speak of the booklessness of the poor at that time must mean books as possessions...there were always books to borrow".... Flora Thompson George Gordon Lord Byron Don Juan Print : Book1850-1899 [According to Flora Thompson], "Modern writers who speak of the booklessness of the poor at that time must mean books as possessions...there were always books to borrow".... Flora Thompson Jane Austen Print : Book1850-1899 [According to Flora Thompson], "Modern writers who speak of the booklessness of the poor at that time must mean books as possessions...there were always books to borrow".... Flora Thompson Charles Dickens Print : Book1850-1899 [According to Flora Thompson], "Modern writers who speak of the booklessness of the poor at that time must mean books as possessions...there were always books to borrow".... Flora Thompson Anthony Trollope Print : Book1850-1899 'V.S. Pritchett had an uncle, an atheist cabinet-maker, who taught himself to read from The Anatomy of Melancholy, even acquiring a few Latin and Greek words from the not... Arthur Robert Burton The Anatomy of Melancholy Print : Book1850-1899 'Thomas Jones recalled that his mother, a Rhymney straw-hat maker, "was fifty before she read a novel and to her dying day she had not completely grasped the nature of fi... Henry Fielding Tom Jones Print : Book1850-1899 'Thomas Thompson, from a family of Lancashire weavers, grew up with tales of Robin Hood and the Black Hole of Calctta, as well as an abridged Faerie Queene and Pilgrim's ... Thomas Thompson Edmund Spenser The Faerie Queene Print : Book1850-1899 'Thomas Thompson, from a family of Lancashire weavers, grew up with tales of Robin Hood and the Black Hole of Calctta, as well as an abridged Faerie Queene and Pilgrim's ... Thomas Thompson John Bunyan Pilgrim's Progress Print : Book1850-1899 'Thomas Thompson, from a family of Lancashire weavers, grew up with tales of Robin Hood and the Black Hole of Calctta, as well as an abridged Faerie Queene and Pilgrim's ... Thomas Thompson [Old Testament] Print : Book1850-1899 'Thomas Thompson, from a family of Lancashire weavers, grew up with tales of Robin Hood and the Black Hole of Calctta, as well as an abridged Faerie Queene and Pilgrim's ... Thomas Thompson [tale of Robin Hood] Print : Book1850-1899 'John Paton was raised in the Aberdeen slums on a diet of penny dreadfuls ("good healthy stuff for an imaginative boy") and he found similar thrills in the Bible, at leas... John Paton [Old and New Testament] Print : Book