√ Century of Experience Evidence Name of Reader / Listener / Reading Group Author of Text Title of Text Form of Text 1850-1899 '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 [penny dreadfuls] Print : Book1850-1899 'At age ten Harry West, the son of a circus escape artist, read Pilgrim's Progress merely as "A great heroic adventure". Only later did he appreciate it as a religious al... Harry West John Bunyan Pilgrim's Progress Print : Book1850-1899 "Read my birthday book from Walter. 'Alec Forbes of Howglen' by Mac Donald." Agnes Blanche Hemming George MacDonald Alec Forbes of Howglen Print : Book1850-1899 "Read Lorna Doone in the evening and helped Mother in to bed." Agnes Blanche Hemming R.D. Blackmore Lorna Doone Print : Book1850-1899 "Much interested in Lorna Doone. It is a truly romantic book." Agnes Blanche Hemming R.D. Blackmore Lorna Doone Print : Book1850-1899 "Finished reading Lorna Doone and like it very much." Agnes Blanche Hemming R.D. Blackmore Lorna Doone Print : Book1850-1899 "Read aloud to Maude from Lorna Doone. Very much taken with this little bit - 'the valley into which I gazed was fair with early promise, having shelter from the wind an... Agnes Blanche Hemming R.D. Blackmore Lorna Doone Print : Book1850-1899 'At age twelve, recalled ploughboy John Ward, "I devoured - not read, that's too tame an expression - Robinson Crusoe, and that book gave me all my spirit of adventure, w... John Ward Daniel Defoe Robinson Crusoe Print : Book1850-1899 'At the close of the nineteenth century, on a farm in Derbyshire Peak District, Robinson Crusoe was read aloud every winter and never palled on the audience. As Alison Ut... Alison Uttley Daniel Defoe Robinson Crusoe Print : Book1850-1899 'At the close of the nineteenth century, on a farm in Derbyshire Peak District, Robinson Crusoe was read aloud every winter and never palled on the audience. As Alison Ut... Alison Uttley John Bunyan Pilgrim's Progress Print : Book1850-1899 '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 Alfred Lord Tennyson Print : Book1850-1899 '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 Henry Fielding Print : Book1850-1899 '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 Tobias Smollett Print : Book1850-1899 '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 Print : Book1850-1899 [due to the fact that books in working class communities were generally cheap out of copyright reprints, not new works] Welsh collier Joseph Keating was able to immerse h... Joseph Keating Jonathan Swift Print : Book1850-1899 [due to the fact that books in working class communities were generally cheap out of copyright reprints, not new works] Welsh collier Joseph Keating was able to immerse h... Joseph Keating Alexander Pope Print : Book1850-1899 [due to the fact that books in working class communities were generally cheap out of copyright reprints, not new works] Welsh collier Joseph Keating was able to immerse h... Joseph Keating Henry Fielding Print : Book1850-1899 [due to the fact that books in working class communities were generally cheap out of copyright reprints, not new works] Welsh collier Joseph Keating was able to immerse h... Joseph Keating Samuel Richardson Print : Book1850-1899 [due to the fact that books in working class communities were generally cheap out of copyright reprints, not new works] Welsh collier Joseph Keating was able to immerse h... Joseph Keating Tobias Smollett Print : Book1850-1899 [due to the fact that books in working class communities were generally cheap out of copyright reprints, not new works] Welsh collier Joseph Keating was able to immerse h... Joseph Keating Oliver Goldsmith Print : Book1800-1849 [due to the fact that books in working class communities were generally cheap out of copyright reprints, not new works] Welsh collier Joseph Keating was able to immerse h... Joseph Keating Richard Brinsley Sheridan Print : Book1850-1899 [due to the fact that books in working class communities were generally cheap out of copyright reprints, not new works] Welsh collier Joseph Keating was able to immerse h... Joseph Keating John Keats Print : Book1850-1899 [due to the fact that books in working class communities were generally cheap out of copyright reprints, not new works] 'Welsh collier Joseph Keating was able to immerse ... Joseph Keating George Gordon, Lord Byron Print : Book1850-1899 [due to the fact that books in working class communities were generally cheap out of copyright reprints, not new works] Welsh collier Joseph Keating was able to immerse h... Joseph Keating Percy Bysshe Shelley Print : Book1850-1899 [due to the fact that books in working class communities were generally cheap out of copyright reprints, not new works] Welsh collier Joseph Keating was able to immerse h... Joseph Keating Charles Dickens Print : Book1850-1899 [due to the fact that books in working class communities were generally cheap out of copyright reprints, not new works] Welsh collier Joseph Keating was able to immerse h... Joseph Keating [Greek philosophy] Print : Book1850-1899 [due to the fact that books in working class communities were generally cheap out of copyright reprints, not new works] Welsh collier Joseph Keating was able to immerse h... Joseph Keating William Makepeace Thackeray Vanity Fair Print : Serial / periodical1850-1899 '[Joseph Keating's] initiation into modern literature came when his brother introduced him to Jerome K. Jerome's Three Men in a Boat: "I had thought that only Smollett an... Joseph Keating Jerome K. Jerome Three Men in a Boat Print : Serial / periodical1850-1899 'Shakespeare provided a political script for J.R. Clynes, the son of an Irish farm labourer, who rose from the textile mills of Oldham to become deputy leader of the Hous... John Robert Clynes William Shakespeare Twelfth Night Print : Book1850-1899 'Shakespeare provided a political script for J.R. Clynes, the son of an Irish farm labourer, who rose from the textile mills of Oldham to become deputy leader of the Hous... John Robert Clynes William Shakespeare Julius Caesar Print : Book1900-1945 'Shakespeare provided a political script for J.R. Clynes, the son of an Irish farm labourer, who rose from the textile mills of Oldham to become deputy leader of the Hous... John Robert Clynes William Shakespeare A Midsummer Night's Dream Print : Book1850-1899 'orphanage boy Thomas Burke... devoured books until "my mind became a lumber room". Inevitably, "criticism was beyond me; the hungry man has no time for the fastidiousnes... Thomas Burke John Keats [a minor poem] Print : Unknown1850-1899 'orphanage boy Thomas Burke... devoured books until "my mind became a lumber room". Inevitably, "criticism was beyond me; the hungry man has no time for the fastidiousnes... Thomas Burke Alexander Pope Print : Unknown1850-1899 'orphanage boy Thomas Burke... devoured books until "my mind became a lumber room". Inevitably, "criticism was beyond me; the hungry man has no time for the fastidiousnes... Thomas Burke William Cowper Print : Unknown1850-1899 'orphanage boy Thomas Burke... devoured books until "my mind became a lumber room". Inevitably, "criticism was beyond me; the hungry man has no time for the fastidiousnes... Thomas Burke Kirke White Print : Unknown1850-1899 'orphanage boy Thomas Burke... devoured books until "my mind became a lumber room". Inevitably, "criticism was beyond me; the hungry man has no time for the fastidiousnes... Thomas Burke Felicia Hemans Print : Unknown1850-1899 'orphanage boy Thomas Burke... devoured books until "my mind became a lumber room". Inevitably, "criticism was beyond me; the hungry man has no time for the fastidiousnes... Thomas Burke Samuel Rogers Print : Unknown1850-1899 '[the father of C.H. Rolph] read diligently through a list of the "Hundred Best Books" compiled in 1886 by Sir John Lubbock. "It included nearly all of the books that one... Aristotle Ethics Print : Book1850-1899 '[the father of C.H. Rolph] read diligently through a list of the "Hundred Best Books" compiled in 1886 by Sir John Lubbock. "It included nearly all of the books that one... Xenophon Memorabilia Print : Book1850-1899 '[the father of C.H. Rolph] read diligently through a list of the "Hundred Best Books" compiled in 1886 by Sir John Lubbock. "It included nearly all of the books that one... Koran Print : Book1850-1899 '[the father of C.H. Rolph] read diligently through a list of the "Hundred Best Books" compiled in 1886 by Sir John Lubbock. "It included nearly all of the books that one... The Niebelunglied Print : Book1850-1899 '[the father of C.H. Rolph] read diligently through a list of the "Hundred Best Books" compiled in 1886 by Sir John Lubbock. "It included nearly all of the books that one... Friedrich Schiller William Tell Print : Book1850-1899 '[the father of C.H. Rolph] read diligently through a list of the "Hundred Best Books" compiled in 1886 by Sir John Lubbock. "It included nearly all of the books that one... Charles Dickens The Pickwick Papers Print : Book1850-1899 '[the father of C.H. Rolph] read diligently through a list of the "Hundred Best Books" compiled in 1886 by Sir John Lubbock. "It included nearly all of the books that one... Charles Dickens David Copperfield Print : Book1850-1899 '[the father of C.H. Rolph] read diligently through a list of the "Hundred Best Books" compiled in 1886 by Sir John Lubbock. "It included nearly all of the books that one... Walter Scott [novels] Print : Book1850-1899 'As one participant recalled, "Many exceptional debates come back to mind on such subjects as Jane Austen, Charles Lamb, Victorian Novelists, George Eliot, Meredith, Pepy... Ladies' Edinburgh Debating Society Jane Austen unknown Print : Book1850-1899 'As one participant recalled, "Many exceptional debates come back to mind on such subjects as Jane Austen, Charles Lamb, Victorian Novelists, George Eliot, Meredith, Pepy... Ladies' Edinburgh Debating Society Charles Lamb unknown Print : Book1850-1899 'As one participant recalled, "Many exceptional debates come back to mind on such subjects as Jane Austen, Charles Lamb, Victorian Novelists, George Eliot, Meredith, Pepy... Ladies' Edinburgh Debating Society George Eliot unknown Print : Book1850-1899 'As one participant recalled, "Many exceptional debates come back to mind on such subjects as Jane Austen, Charles Lamb, Victorian Novelists, George Eliot, Meredith, Pepy... Ladies' Edinburgh Debating Society Meredith unknown Print : Book1900-1945 'As one participant recalled, "Many exceptional debates come back to mind on such subjects as Jane Austen, Charles Lamb, Victorian Novelists, George Eliot, Meredith, Pepy... Ladies' Edinburgh Debating Society Samuel Pepys unknown Print : Book1850-1899 'As one participant recalled, "Many exceptional debates come back to mind on such subjects as Jane Austen, Charles Lamb, Victorian Novelists, George Eliot, Meredith, Pepy... Ladies' Edinburgh Debating Society William Wordsworth unknown Print : Book1850-1899 'As one participant recalled, "Many exceptional debates come back to mind on such subjects as Jane Austen, Charles Lamb, Victorian Novelists, George Eliot, Meredith, Pepy... Ladies' Edinburgh Debating Society Percy Bysshe Shelley unknown Print : Book1850-1899 'Miss Hutchison Stirling is I believe about to submit to you a little story which I read at her request some time ago and in which I thought there was great promise espec... Margaret Oliphant Amelia Hutchison Stirling Monsieur le Comte Manuscript : Book in MS1850-1899 'Is it right to ask who was the author of a very short contribution called I think Tea at the farm, or some such name? ["Tea at the Mains", by Harriette Cheape] It was ex... Margaret Oliphant Harriette Cheape Tea at the Mains Print : Serial / periodical1850-1899 'I should like to say my mind about Louis Stevenson's Wrecker and the Naulakhka - both of which are striking instances of the evils of collaboration.' Margaret Oliphant Robert Louis Stevenson Wrecker Print : Book1850-1899 'I should like to say my mind about Louis Stevenson's Wrecker and the Naulakhka - both of which are striking instances of the evils of collaboration.' Margaret Oliphant Rudyard Kipling Naulakha Print : Book1850-1899 'May I say that the new story in the Magazine begins very well? - the incident is striking and I think quite original, though the name of the story might have been better... Margaret Oliphant Sarah Grand Singularly Deluded Print : Serial / periodical1850-1899 'I see a delightful account of the origin of Bon Gaultier's parody of Locksley Hall in last night's St James's' by Sir Theodore Martin.' Margaret Oliphant St James's Print : Newspaper, Serial / periodical1850-1899 'As for Mona Maclean I am afraid I could not say more than that it is a cleverish very youthful book, the author of which if she comes to anything will probably much regr... Margaret Oliphant Graham Travers Mona Maclean: Medical Student Print : Book, Serial / periodical1850-1899 'As for Mona Maclean I am afraid I could not say more than that it is a cleverish very youthful book, the author of which if she comes to anything will probably much regr... Margaret Oliphant F Marion Crawford Print : Book, Serial / periodical1850-1899 'I see in the papers that that man Walter Scott is going to bring out shortly a collection of Anglicized versions of early Scotch poetry such as Dunbar, Henryson, &c.' Margaret Oliphant Print : Advertisement, Newspaper1850-1899 'Old Lady Cloncurry, who I suppose knows as much about Ireland as most people, was quite enthusiastic about that article on "Priest-ridden Ireland" in the last magazine" Lady Cloncurry Priest-Ridden Ireland Print : Serial / periodical1850-1899 '[...] how extremely sorry I am for your great loss in Mr. Henderson. I saw a mention of him [Mr. Henderson] in the Athenaeum last Saturday with the greatest regret'. Margaret Oliphant Print : Advertisement, Newspaper, Serial / periodical1850-1899 'The manager here Mr. Simpson hearing what I said of it [George Chesney's "The Battle of Dorking"] took a proof home at night and while he was still wrapt up in it was st... [?George] Simpson George T Chesney Battle of Dorking Manuscript : Sheet, Proofs of aricle1850-1899 'The manager here Mr. Simpson hearing what I said of it [George Chesney's "The Battle of Dorking"] took a proof home at night and while he was still wrapt up in it was st... Old Mrs Simpson George T Chesney Battle of Dorking Manuscript : Sheet, Proofs of article1850-1899 'I am much mistaken if the appearance of the article 'The Battle of Dorking' does not mark an epoch in the history of the Magazine. Nothing so good has appeared for year... G.C. Swayne George T Chesney Battle of Dorking Print : Serial / periodical1850-1899 'My dear Blackwood, I have just read the opening article of Maga, and I cannot go to sleep, or make an attempt thereat, till I write to tell you how deeply the article ha... R.H. Patterson George T Chesney Battle of Dorking Print : Serial / periodical1850-1899 'My dear Willie, I am glad the Pall Mall has noticed the article & I approve of the Advert... We dined at Mount Melville last night. Col. Moncrieff & his wife - He was r... Colonel Moncrieff George T Chesney Battle of Dorking Print : Serial / periodical1850-1899 'I went down & saw Old Gleig who was on the same subject [the success of the "Battle of Dorking"]. He said too he had been reading lately the Review of Lothair & did not... "Old" Gleig George T Chesney Battle of Dorking Print : Serial / periodical1850-1899 'I went down & saw Old Gleig who was on the same subject [the success of the "Battle of Dorking"]. He said too he had been reading lately the Review of Lothair & did not... "Old" Gleig Review of "Lothair" Print : Serial / periodical1850-1899 'My dear Sir, I have just read "The Battle of Dorking". It is undeniably clever - but mischievous. [...] Panic assays a great mistake [...]' Lord Brougham George T Chesney Battle of Dorking Print : Serial / periodical1850-1899 '"The Battle of Dorking" is written so well that I wd. gladly have written it, supposing that I had the knowledge. This I scarcely ever feel about anything I see in prin... Richard Doddridge Blackmore George T Chesney Battle of Dorking Print : Serial / periodical1850-1899 'My dear Blackwood [...] "The Private Secretary" picks itself up this month. I thought one or two of the recent numbers even scarcely up to mark." Theodore Martin George T Chesney The Private Secretary Print : Serial / periodical1850-1899 'Gentlemen.
I am the fourth generation of my family that have taken in Blackwood's Magazine; the back numbers bound form a handsome library of themselves.
I regret most... Francis Philips George T Chesney The Private Secretary Print : Serial / periodical1850-1899 'As for the Private Secretary, I can sympathize with both you & Chesney. As Editor, I should have [?] to print it as it is; as Author, - if I had written it, - I am shy ... Alex Innes Shand George T Chesney The Private Secretary Print : Serial / periodical1850-1899 We have been much interested all along in The Private Secretary. Emily Laszowska George T Chesney The Private Secretary Print : Serial / periodical1850-1899 'Rose Macaulay's inner life was fostered from the start by parents who made her earliest years rich with stories and make-believe. "read much aloud to the children", Grac... Grace Macaulay Maria Edgeworth 'The Purple Jar' in Every Child's Stories Print : Book1850-1899 'Rose Macaulay's inner life was fostered from the start by parents who made her earliest years rich with stories and make-believe. "read much aloud to the children", Grac... Grace Macaulay Ann Fraser Tytler Leila: or, The Island Print : Book1850-1899 'Rose Macaulay's inner life was fostered from the start by parents who made her earliest years rich with stories and make-believe. "read much aloud to the children", Grac... Grace Macaulay Catherine Sinclair Holiday House Print : Book1850-1899 'Rose Macaulay's inner life was fostered from the start by parents who made her earliest years rich with stories and make-believe. "read much aloud to the children", Grac... Grace Macaulay The Wave and the Battlefield Print : Book1850-1899 'Later in the month (30 November), Grace writes that she is "reading Henry V to M. and R. [Margaret and Rose] in the evenings".' Grace Macaulay William Shakespeare Henry V Print : Book1850-1899 'In September and October [Grace Macaulay] is reading aloud to Margaret (ill with scarlet fever) Mrs Molesworth's The Cuckoo Clock and Charlotte M. Yonge's Chaplet of Pea... Grace Macaulay Mary Louisa Molesworth The Cuckoo Clock Print : Book1850-1899 'In September and October [Grace Macaulay] is reading aloud to Margaret (ill with scarlet fever) Mrs Molesworth's The Cuckoo Clock and Charlotte M. Yonge's Chaplet of Pea... Grace Macaulay Charlotte M. Yonge The Chaplet of Pearls Print : Book1850-1899 'In September and October [Grace Macaulay] is reading aloud to Margaret (ill with scarlet fever) Mrs Molesworth's The Cuckoo Clock and Charlotte M. Yonge's Chaplet of Pea... Grace Macaulay Charlotte M. Yonge The Heir of Redclyffe Print : Book1850-1899 '[Grace Macaulay's diary] entry for 2 March 1890 records that she "read the boys parts of Settlers at Home and Otto Spectere (sic), all of which Will as well as Aulay muc... Grace Macaulay Frederick Marryat The Settlers in Canada Print : Book1850-1899 '[Grace Macaulay's diary] entry for 2 March 1890 records that she "read the boys parts of Settlers at Home and Otto Spectere (sic), all of which Will as well as Aulay muc... Grace Macaulay Wilhelm Hey Funfzig Fabeln or Noch Funfzig Fabeln Print : Book1850-1899 'On 12 May [1890 Grace Macaulay] recalls that she "read part of Mill on Floss to children in aft, to their delight".' Grace Macaulay George Eliot The Mill on the Floss Print : Book1850-1899 'Rose... remembers her father reading to them - Dickens, Scott, Robinson Crusoe, Shakespeare, Jane Austen, Meredith, Tom Jones, The Three Musketeers, Don Quixote, and, cu... George Macaulay Charles Dickens Print : Book1850-1899 'Rose... remembers her father reading to them - Dickens, Scott, Robinson Crusoe, Shakespeare, Jane Austen, Meredith, Tom Jones, The Three Musketeers, Don Quixote, and, cu... George Macaulay Walter Scott Print : Book1850-1899 'Rose... remembers her father reading to them - Dickens, Scott, Robinson Crusoe, Shakespeare, Jane Austen, Meredith, Tom Jones, The Three Musketeers, Don Quixote, and, cu... George Macaulay Daniel Defoe Robinson Crusoe Print : Book1850-1899 'Rose... remembers her father reading to them - Dickens, Scott, Robinson Crusoe, Shakespeare, Jane Austen, Meredith, Tom Jones, The Three Musketeers, Don Quixote, and, cu... George Macaulay William Shakespeare Print : Book1850-1899 'Rose... remembers her father reading to them - Dickens, Scott, Robinson Crusoe, Shakespeare, Jane Austen, Meredith, Tom Jones, The Three Musketeers, Don Quixote, and, cu... George Macaulay Jane Austen Print : Book1850-1899 'Rose... remembers her father reading to them - Dickens, Scott, Robinson Crusoe, Shakespeare, Jane Austen, Meredith, Tom Jones, The Three Musketeers, Don Quixote, and, cu... George Macaulay George Meredith Print : Book1850-1899 'Rose... remembers her father reading to them - Dickens, Scott, Robinson Crusoe, Shakespeare, Jane Austen, Meredith, Tom Jones, The Three Musketeers, Don Quixote, and, cu... George Macaulay Henry Fielding Tom Jones Print : Book1850-1899 'Rose... remembers her father reading to them - Dickens, Scott, Robinson Crusoe, Shakespeare, Jane Austen, Meredith, Tom Jones, The Three Musketeers, Don Quixote, and, cu... George Macaulay Miguel de Cervantes Don Quixote Print : Book1850-1899 'Rose... remembers her father reading to them - Dickens, Scott, Robinson Crusoe, Shakespeare, Jane Austen, Meredith, Tom Jones, The Three Musketeers, Don Quixote, and, cu... George Macaulay Alexandre Dumas (pere) The Three Musketeers Print : Book'Rose... remembers her father reading to them - Dickens, Scott, Robinson Crusoe, Shakespeare, Jane Austen, Meredith, Tom Jones, The Three Musketeers, Don Quixote, and, cu... George Macaulay Charles Darwin The Origin of Species Print : Book1850-1899 'When old enough to read for herself, Rose Macaulay entered into other realms of fictitious brave adventure. She devoured Masterman Ready, Ivanhoe, The Talisman, Coral Is... Rose Macaulay Frederick Marryat Masterman Ready Print : Book1850-1899 'When old enough to read for herself, Rose Macaulay entered into other realms of fictitious brave adventure. She devoured Masterman Ready, Ivanhoe, The Talisman, Coral Is... Rose Macaulay Walter Scott Ivanhoe Print : Book1850-1899 'When old enough to read for herself, Rose Macaulay entered into other realms of fictitious brave adventure. She devoured Masterman Ready, Ivanhoe, The Talisman, Coral Is... Rose Macaulay Walter Scott The Talisman Print : Book1850-1899 'When old enough to read for herself, Rose Macaulay entered into other realms of fictitious brave adventure. She devoured Masterman Ready, Ivanhoe, The Talisman, Coral Is... Rose Macaulay Robert Michael Ballantyne Coral Island Print : Book1850-1899 'When old enough to read for herself, Rose Macaulay entered into other realms of fictitious brave adventure. She devoured Masterman Ready, Ivanhoe, The Talisman, Coral Is... Rose Macaulay Robert Louis Stevenson Treasure Island Print : Book1850-1899 'When old enough to read for herself, Rose Macaulay entered into other realms of fictitious brave adventure. She devoured Masterman Ready, Ivanhoe, The Talisman, Coral Is... Rose Macaulay Charles Dickens A Tale of Two Cities Print : Book1850-1899 'When old enough to read for herself, Rose Macaulay entered into other realms of fictitious brave adventure. She devoured Masterman Ready, Ivanhoe, The Talisman, Coral Is... Rose Macaulay Edgar Allan Poe The Murders in the Rue Morgue Print : Book1850-1899 'When old enough to read for herself, Rose Macaulay entered into other realms of fictitious brave adventure. She devoured Masterman Ready, Ivanhoe, The Talisman, Coral Is... Rose Macaulay Charlotte Mary Yonge The Prince and the Page Print : Book1850-1899 '[Rose Macaulay] relished such island shipwreck stories as Swiss Family Robinson' Rose Macaulay Johann David Wyss Swiss Family Robinson Print : Book1850-1899 'Daughter of the editor father, [Rose Macaulay] was given a copy of the complete works of Tennyson when she was eight and remembers knowing it "practically by heart"... S... Rose Macaulay Alfred Lord Tennyson Print : Book1850-1899 'Daughter of the editor father, [Rose Macaulay] was given a copy of the complete works of Tennyson when she was eight and remembers knowing it "practically by heart"... S... Rose Macaulay Percy Bysshe Shelley Prometheus Unbound Print : Book1850-1899 'Your biography will always be a model work, & one of wh. the Interest is perpetual' Caroline Clive Elizabeth Gaskell Life of Charlotte Bronte Print : Book1850-1899 [Thackeray] 'Cd not endure Bulwer - no nature - nor Dickens - yet mentioned with greatest praise the Chap: before death of little Dombey.' William Makepeace Thackeray Charles Dickens Dombey and Son Print : Book1850-1899 [Thackeray] 'Cd not endure Bulwer - no nature - nor Dickens - yet mentioned with greatest praise the Chap: before death of little Dombey.' William Makepeace Thackeray Edward Bulwer Lytton Print : Book1850-1899 'I breakfasted with Lord Lansdowne a few days ago, & we talked much about you. He recollected having met you at our house & said that he shd be very glad to do so again.... Lord Lansdowne Caroline Clive Paul Ferroll Print : Book1850-1899 'I breakfasted with Lord Lansdowne a few days ago, & we talked much about you. He recollected having met you at our house & said that he shd be very glad to do so again.... Lord Lansdowne Caroline Clive poems (unspecified) Print : Book1850-1899 Rose Macaulay had a 'craze' 'for the ascetic Thomas a Kempis's meditations and rule of conduct, On The Imitation of Christ, which her godmother gave her when she was 13'. Rose Macaulay Thomas a Kempis On The Imitation of Christ Print : Book1850-1899 'She read Renan's Life of Jesus, which had proved so critical to George Eliot's subsitution of Duty for God. As a corollary text, Rose discovered the rousing, hopeful wor... Rose Macaulay John Stuart Mill probably 'On Liberty' Print : Book1850-1899 'She read Renan's Life of Jesus, which had proved so critical to George Eliot's subsitution of Duty for God. As a corollary text, Rose discovered the rousing, hopeful wor... Rose Macaulay Ernest Renan Life of Jesus Print : Book1850-1899 '[T.A.] Jackson's tastes had been formed by the old books in his parents' home: "A fine set of Pope, an odd volume or two of the Spectator, a Robinson Crusoe, Pope's tran... Thomas A. Jackson Alexander Pope Print : Book1850-1899 '[J.M. Dent's] reading was marked by the autodidact's characteristic enthusiasm and spottiness. He knew Pilgrim's Progress, Milton, Cowper, Thomson's Seasons and Young's ... Joseph Malaby Dent John Bunyan Pilgrim's Progress Print : Book1850-1899 '[J.M. Dent's] reading was marked by the autodidact's characteristic enthusiasm and spottiness. He knew Pilgrim's Progress, Milton, Cowper, Thomson's Seasons and Young's ... Joseph Malaby Dent John Milton Print : Book1850-1899 '[J.M. Dent's] reading was marked by the autodidact's characteristic enthusiasm and spottiness. He knew Pilgrim's Progress, Milton, Cowper, Thomson's Seasons and Young's ... Joseph Malaby Dent William Cowper Print : Book1850-1899 '[J.M. Dent's] reading was marked by the autodidact's characteristic enthusiasm and spottiness. He knew Pilgrim's Progress, Milton, Cowper, Thomson's Seasons and Young's ... Joseph Malaby Dent James Thomson The Seasons Print : Book1850-1899 '[J.M. Dent's] reading was marked by the autodidact's characteristic enthusiasm and spottiness. He knew Pilgrim's Progress, Milton, Cowper, Thomson's Seasons and Young's ... Joseph Malaby Dent Edward Young Night Thoughts Print : Book1850-1899 '[J.M. Dent's] reading was marked by the autodidact's characteristic enthusiasm and spottiness. He knew Pilgrim's Progress, Milton, Cowper, Thomson's Seasons and Young's ... Joseph Malaby Dent William Shakespeare Print : Book1850-1899 '[J.M. Dent's] cultural contacts broadened when he became an apprentice bookbinder in London, discovering the work of William Morris, Cobden-Sanderson and the Arts and Cr... Joseph Malaby Dent William Morris Print : Book1850-1899 '[Philip Ballard] had no exposure to contemporary writers until the 1890s: "I gained a nodding acquaintance with the life and letters of Ancient Greece and Rome, and... I... Philip Ballard Charles Dickens Print : Book1850-1899 '[Philip Ballard] had no exposure to contemporary writers until the 1890s: "I gained a nodding acquaintance with the life and letters of Ancient Greece and Rome, and... I... Philip Ballard William Makepeace Thackeray Print : Book1850-1899 '[Philip Ballard] had no exposure to contemporary writers until the 1890s: "I gained a nodding acquaintance with the life and letters of Ancient Greece and Rome, and... I... Philip Ballard [lives and letters of Ancient Greece and Rome] Print : Book1850-1899 '[Philip Ballard] had no exposure to contemporary writers until the 1890s: "I gained a nodding acquaintance with the life and letters of Ancient Greece and Rome, and... I... Philip Ballard Walter Scott Print : Book1850-1899 'H.M. Tomlinson, a successful author and dockworker's son, credited his East End Board school with encouraging free expression in composition classes and giving him a sol... H.M. Tomlinson Bible Print : Book1850-1899 'H.M. Tomlinson, a successful author and dockworker's son, credited his East End Board school with encouraging free expression in composition classes and giving him a sol... H.M. Tomlinson William Shakespeare Print : Book1850-1899 'H.M. Tomlinson, a successful author and dockworker's son, credited his East End Board school with encouraging free expression in composition classes and giving him a sol... H.M. Tomlinson Walter Scott Print : Book1850-1899 '"In my childhood, I never met another who could not read", [H.M. Tomlinson] recalled. "Some of them could be so excited by the printed page that they passed on the fun t... H.M. Tomlinson William Harrison Ainsworth Rookwood Print : Book1850-1899 '"In my childhood, I never met another who could not read", [H.M. Tomlinson] recalled. "Some of them could be so excited by the printed page that they passed on the fun t... H.M. Tomlinson Thomas Mayne Reid "The Headless Horseman" Print : Book1900-1945 '[Edgar Wallace recalled] the teacher read aloud "The Arabian Nights". "The colour and beauty of the East stole through the foggy windows of Reddin's Road School. Here wa... Edward Wallace Anon Arabian Nights Print : Book1850-1899 'T.A. Jackson credited his Board school teachers with starting him on his career as a Marxist philosopher. They introduced him to Greek mythology, "which in time brought ... Thomas A. Jackson James George Frazer "The Golden Bough" Print : Book1850-1899 'T.A. Jackson credited his Board school teachers with starting him on his career as a Marxist philosopher. They introduced him to Greek mythology, "which in time brought ... Thomas A. Jackson [Greek myths] Print : Book1850-1899 'The son of a barely literate Derbyshire collier recalled a sister, a worker in a hosiery factory, who was steeped in the poetry of Byron, Shelley, Keats and D.H. Lawrenc... Leo Tolstoy [unknown] Print : Book1850-1899 'The son of a barely literate Derbyshire collier recalled a sister, a worker in a hosiery factory, who was steeped in the poetry of Byron, Shelley, Keats and D.H. Lawrenc... Fyodor Dostoevsky [unknown] Print : Book1850-1899 'The son of a barely literate Derbyshire collier recalled a sister, a worker in a hosiery factory, who was steeped in the poetry of Byron, Shelley, Keats and D.H. Lawrenc... Ivan Turgenev [unknown] Print : Book1850-1899 'The son of a barely literate Derbyshire collier recalled a sister, a worker in a hosiery factory, who was steeped in the poetry of Byron, Shelley, Keats and D.H. Lawrenc... Alexandre Dumas (pere) [unknown] Print : Book1850-1899 'The son of a barely literate Derbyshire collier recalled a sister, a worker in a hosiery factory, who was steeped in the poetry of Byron, Shelley, Keats and D.H. Lawrenc... Victor-Marie Hugo [unknown] Print : Book1850-1899 'The son of a barely literate Derbyshire collier recalled a sister, a worker in a hosiery factory, who was steeped in the poetry of Byron, Shelley, Keats and D.H. Lawrenc... William Makepeace Thackeray [unknown] Print : Book1850-1899 'The son of a barely literate Derbyshire collier recalled a sister, a worker in a hosiery factory, who was steeped in the poetry of Byron, Shelley, Keats and D.H. Lawrenc... George Meredith [unknown] Print : Book1850-1899 'The son of a barely literate Derbyshire collier recalled a sister, a worker in a hosiery factory, who was steeped in the poetry of Byron, Shelley, Keats and D.H. Lawrenc... Walter Scott [unknown] Print : Book1850-1899 'The son of a barely literate Derbyshire collier recalled a sister, a worker in a hosiery factory, who was steeped in the poetry of Byron, Shelley, Keats and D.H. Lawrenc... Charles Dickens [unknown] Print : Book1850-1899 'For Tom Barclay, son of a Catholic rag-and-bone collector, the erotic episodes in the Douay Bible "aroused my curiosity as to sexual matters". He found some answers in s... Tom Barclay n/a Bible Print : Book1850-1899 'For Tom Barclay, son of a Catholic rag-and-bone collector, the erotic episodes in the Douay Bible "aroused my curiosity as to sexual matters". He found some answers in s... Tom Barclay Ovid [unknown] Print : Book1850-1899 'For Tom Barclay, son of a Catholic rag-and-bone collector, the erotic episodes in the Douay Bible "aroused my curiosity as to sexual matters". He found some answers in s... Tom Barclay Juvenal [unknown] Print : Book1850-1899 'For Tom Barclay, son of a Catholic rag-and-bone collector, the erotic episodes in the Douay Bible "aroused my curiosity as to sexual matters". He found some answers in s... Tom Barclay Catullus [unknown] Print : Book1850-1899 'Allen Clark, the son of Bolton textile workers, found physiology books in the public library incomprehensible. A newspaper reference to Rabelais motivated him to borrow ... Allen Clark [unknown] [physiology textbooks] Print : Book1850-1899 'Allen Clark, the son of Bolton textile workers, found physiology books in the public library incomprehensible. A newspaper reference to Rabelais motivated him to borrow ... Allen Clarke Francois Rabelais Gargantua and Pantagruel Print : Book1850-1899 'Just a little note of this night. I had been working very hard and came to my room very late and tired, but took up a book, the "Fortunes of Nigel" and read on and on t... Margaret Oliphant Walter Scott Fortunes of Nigel Print : Book1900-1945 'At sixteen I discovered the work of Edgar Allan Poe. I happened to read first his biography, and the sadness of his life made a great impression on me. I felt an enormou... Alfred Hitchcock Edgar Allan Poe Print : Book1900-1945 'Yesterday my Elizabeth and I went to the most remarkable poets' Reading I have ever attended. It was held at Lord Byron's beautiful house in Piccadilly... I was moved by... Hilaire Belloc Hilaire Belloc 'The Dons', 'The Poor of London' Unknown 1900-1945 'Yesterday my Elizabeth and I went to the most remarkable poets' Reading I have ever attended. It was held at Lord Byron's beautiful house in Piccadilly... I was moved by... Walter de la Mare Walter de la Mare [five poems] Unknown 1900-1945 'Yesterday my Elizabeth and I went to the most remarkable poets' Reading I have ever attended. It was held at Lord Byron's beautiful house in Piccadilly... I was moved by... William Henry Davies William Henry Davies 'Love's Silent Hour' and three other poems Unknown 1900-1945 'Communication between these poets and myself was instantaneous. I saw with delighted amazement that all poetry had been written specially for me. Although I spoke - in m... Dorothy Burnham Keats 'La Belle Dame Sans Merci' Print : Unknown'Communication between these poets and myself was instantaneous. I saw with delighted amazement that all poetry had been written specially for me. Although I spoke - in m... Dorothy Burnham Alfred Tennyson More d'Arthur Print : Unknown1900-1945 'When I came home from the office where I worked, I went straight to my room, took out the cheap edition of "Tales Grotesque and Arabesque", and began to read.' Alfred Hitchcock Edgar Allan Poe Tales Arabesque and Grotesque Print : Book1900-1945 'I still remember my feelings when I finished "The Murders in the Rue Morgue". I was afraid, but this fear made me discover something I've never forgotten since: fear, yo... Alfred Hitchcock Edgar Allan Poe The Murders in the Rue Morgue Print : Book1900-1945 'There used to be a bookshop just off Leicester Square, near the Leicester Galleries, and upstairs they had all kinds of American trade magazines...' Alfred Hitchcock Motion Picture Daily Print : Serial / periodical1900-1945 'There used to be a bookshop just off Leicester Square, near the Leicester Galleries, and upstairs they had all kinds of American trade magazines...' Alfred Hitchcock Motion Picture Herald Print : Serial / periodical1900-1945 'There used to be a bookshop just off Leicester Square, near the Leicester Galleries, and upstairs they had all kinds of American trade magazines...' Alfred Hitchcock Cinematograph Lantern Weekly Print : Serial / periodical1900-1945 'There used to be a bookshop just off Leicester Square, near the Leicester Galleries, and upstairs they had all kinds of American trade magazines...' Alfred Hitchcock The Bioscope Print : Serial / periodical1900-1945 [Spoto states that Hitchcock read Flaubert when he was around 15 or 16 and] 'He afterwards admitted that his favourite character in fiction was Emma Bovary.' Alfred Hitchcock Gustav Flaubert Madame Bovary Print : Book1900-1945 [Spoto states that Hitchcock read Marie Corelli's "The Sorrows of Satan" in 1920/21 in preparation for helping to make a film of it which was afterwards abandoned.] Alfred Hitchcock Marie Corelli The Sorrows of Satan Print : Book1900-1945 'It was filled with a high but vague nonconformity, and tried to combine the ideals of revivalist Christianity and great literature. There were articles on 'aspects' of R... Edwin Muir Great Thoughts Print : Serial / periodical1900-1945 'In 1926 [Catherine McMullen] was herself a workhouse laundress, struggling to improve her mind by reading T.P. and Cassell's Weekly. The magazine was full of literary go... Catherine McMullen Philip Stanhope, 4th Lord Chesterfield Letters of Lord Chesterfield to his Son Print : Book1900-1945 'In 1926 [Catherine McMullen] was herself a workhouse laundress, struggling to improve her mind by reading T.P. and Cassell's Weekly. The magazine was full of literary go... Catherine McMullen T.P. and Cassell's Weekly Print : Serial / periodical1900-1945 'In 1926 [Catherine McMullen] was herself a workhouse laundress, struggling to improve her mind by reading T.P. and Cassell's Weekly. The magazine was full of literary go... Catherine McMullen Elinor Glyn The Career of Catherine Bush Print : Book1900-1945 'In 1926 [Catherine McMullen] was herself a workhouse laundress, struggling to improve her mind by reading T.P. and Cassell's Weekly. The magazine was full of literary go... Catherine McMullen Geoffrey Chaucer Print : Book1900-1945 'In 1926 [Catherine McMullen] was herself a workhouse laundress, struggling to improve her mind by reading T.P. and Cassell's Weekly. The magazine was full of literary go... Catherine McMullen John Donne Print : Book1900-1945 'In 1926 [Catherine McMullen] was herself a workhouse laundress, struggling to improve her mind by reading T.P. and Cassell's Weekly. The magazine was full of literary go... Catherine McMullen Desiderius Erasmus Rotterdamus Print : Book1900-1945 'In 1926 [Catherine McMullen] was herself a workhouse laundress, struggling to improve her mind by reading T.P. and Cassell's Weekly. The magazine was full of literary go... Catherine McMullen Edward Gibbon The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman E... Print : Book1900-1945 'In 1926 [Catherine McMullen] was herself a workhouse laundress, struggling to improve her mind by reading T.P. and Cassell's Weekly. The magazine was full of literary go... Catherine McMullen James Joyce Finnegan's Wake Print : Book1900-1945 'Despising his job in a Birmingham factory, V.W. Garratt surrounded his workbench with a barricade of boxes, set up a small mirror to provide early warning of the foreman... V.W. Garratt Thomas Carlyle Sartor Resartus Print : Book1900-1945 'Garratt escaped [from factory life] to an evening course in English literature, where he felt "like a child that becomes ecstatic with a fireworks display". Keats, Shell... V.W. Garratt John Keats Print : Book1900-1945 'Garratt escaped [from factory life] to an evening course in English literature, where he felt "like a child that becomes ecstatic with a fireworks display". Keats, Shell... V.W. Garratt Percy Bysshe Shelley Print : Book1900-1945 'Garratt escaped [from factory life] to an evening course in English literature, where he felt "like a child that becomes ecstatic with a fireworks display". Keats, Shell... V.W. Garratt Alfred Lord Tennyson Print : Book1900-1945 '[Garratt] spent his free evenings in Birmingham's Central Free Library reading Homer, Epitectus, Longius and Plato's Dialogues, a classical education which further under... V.W. Garratt Homer Print : Book1900-1945 '[Garratt] spent his free evenings in Birmingham's Central Free Library reading Homer, Epitectus, Longius and Plato's Dialogues, a classical education which further undem... V.W. Garratt Epictetus Print : Book1900-1945 '[Garratt] spent his free evenings in Birmingham's Central Free Library reading Homer, Epitectus, Longius and Plato's Dialogues, a classical education which further undem... V.W. Garratt Longinus Print : Book1900-1945 '[Garratt] spent his free evenings in Birmingham's Central Free Library reading Homer, Epitectus, Longius and Plato's Dialogues, a classical education which further undem... V.W. Garratt Plato Dialogues Print : Book1900-1945 '[Garratt] spent his free evenings in Birmingham's Central Free Library reading Homer, Epitectus, Longius and Plato's Dialogues, a classical education which further undem... V.W. Garratt Francis Turner Palgrave (ed.) The Golden Treasury Print : Book1900-1945 '[Muir's] account of his reading material as a young man in Glasgow points to an involvement with poems of the Romantic and post-Romantic periods which were concerned bot... Edwin Muir John Keats 'Ode to a Nightingale' Print : Unknown1900-1945 '[Muir's] account of his reading material as a young man in Glasgow points to an involvement with poems of the Romantic and post-Romantic periods which were concerned bot... Edwin Muir Alfred Lord Tennyson 'The Lotus Eaters' Print : Unknown1900-1945 '[Muir's] account of his reading material as a young man in Glasgow points to an involvement with poems of the Romantic and post-Romantic periods which were concerned bot... Edwin Muir Percy Bysshe Shelley 'Ode to the West Wind' Print : Unknown1900-1945 '[Muir's] account of his reading material as a young man in Glasgow points to an involvement with poems of the Romantic and post-Romantic periods which were concerned bot... Edwin Muir Algernon Charles Swinburne 'Atalanta in Calydon' Print : Unknown1900-1945 '[Muir's] account of his reading material as a young man in Glasgow points to an involvement with poems of the Romantic and post-Romantic periods which were concerned bot... Edwin Muir Wiliam Wordsworth 'The Solitary Reaper' Print : Unknown1900-1945 '[Muir] wrote to Stephen Spender in the summer of 1944 that Bowra's book had made him realise that he had been writing symbolist poetry himself for years without realisin... Edwin Muir C. Maurice Bowra The Heritage of Symbolism Print : Book1900-1945 'Philip Inman conveyed a ... specific sense of the uses of literacy for an early Labour MP. The son of a widowed charwoman, he bought up all the cheap reprints he could a... Philip Inman Ralph Waldo Emerson [Essays] Print : Book1900-1945 'Philip Inman conveyed a ... specific sense of the uses of literacy for an early Labour MP. The son of a widowed charwoman, he bought up all the cheap reprints he could a... Philip Inman John Ruskin Sesame and Lilies Print : Book1900-1945 'Philip Inman conveyed a ... specific sense of the uses of literacy for an early Labour MP. The son of a widowed charwoman, he bought up all the cheap reprints he could a... Philip Inman Oliver Wendell Holmes Autocrat of the Breakfast Table Print : Book1900-1945 'Philip Inman conveyed a ... specific sense of the uses of literacy for an early Labour MP. The son of a widowed charwoman, he bought up all the cheap reprints he could a... Philip Inman Charles Lamb Essays of Elia Print : Book1900-1945 'Philip Inman conveyed a ... specific sense of the uses of literacy for an early Labour MP. The son of a widowed charwoman, he bought up all the cheap reprints he could a... Philip Inman James Boswell Life of Johnson Print : Book1900-1945 'Philip Inman conveyed a ... specific sense of the uses of literacy for an early Labour MP. The son of a widowed charwoman, he bought up all the cheap reprints he could a... Philip Inman John Gibson Lockhart The Life of Scott Print : Book1900-1945 'Philip Inman conveyed a ... specific sense of the uses of literacy for an early Labour MP. The son of a widowed charwoman, he bought up all the cheap reprints he could a... Philip Inman Thomas Carlyle The Life of John Sterling Print : Book1900-1945 'Philip Inman conveyed a ... specific sense of the uses of literacy for an early Labour MP. The son of a widowed charwoman, he bought up all the cheap reprints he could a... Philip Inman Emily Bronte Wuthering Heights Print : Book1900-1945 'Philip Inman conveyed a ... specific sense of the uses of literacy for an early Labour MP. The son of a widowed charwoman, he bought up all the cheap reprints he could a... Philip Inman Miguel de Cervantes Don Quixote Print : Book1900-1945 'Philip Inman conveyed a ... specific sense of the uses of literacy for an early Labour MP. The son of a widowed charwoman, he bought up all the cheap reprints he could a... Philip Inman Daniel Defoe Robinson Crusoe Print : Book
