√ Century of Experience Evidence Name of Reader / Listener / Reading Group Author of Text Title of Text Form of Text 1600-1699 ... between sixteen and seventeen years of age, by the serious reading of the Book called _The Saints Everlasting Rest_, she was more throughly awakened, and brought to s... Elizabeth Baker Richard Baxter The Saints Everlasting Rest Print : Book1900-1945 'And Bennett had now become a man of influence, largely through his "New Age" pieces. These articles, which he had begun in 1908, were widely read and admired . . . Ford... Ford Madox Ford Arnold Bennett New Age Print : Serial / periodical1900-1945 'He did a good deal of research, reading up the "Victoria History of the Potteries" and various other documentary sources'. Arnold Bennett unknown Victoria History of the Potteries Print : Book1900-1945 "He would read acts of 'The Honeymoon' aloud to the two women, conscious that he did not read well, but considering it as a good test, to see if his lines could withstand... Arnold Bennett Arnold Bennett The Honeymoon Manuscript : Sheet1900-1945 '. . . her short stories, 'The Little Karoo', all set in the South Africa of her childhood, were widely admired and are still remembered. Bennett must have felt a justif... Arnold Bennett Pauline Smith The Little Karoo Print : Book1700-1799 Robert Southey to Grosvenor Charles Bedford, c.3 April 1792: '"A soul prepard needs no delays/
The summons come the Saint obey —/
Swift was his flight & short the road/... Robert Southey anon [memorial verse] Print : monument1900-1945 'Bennett had read "Ann Veronica", which Wells had sent him that October with an inscription "The Young Mistress's Tale, to Arnold B. with love from his nephew H.G.": he h... Arnold Bennett H. G. Wells Ann Veronica Print : Book1900-1945 '. . . his reading of that remarkable book, "When I was a Child, Recollections of an Old Potter"'. Arnold Bennett William Shaw When I was a Child, Recollections of an Old Potter Print : Book1850-1899 "Winnie Seerbohm, who left Newnham College, Cambridge in November 1885 after only one term's study, suffered from what seems retrospectively to have been nervous asthma c... Winnie Seerbohm John Ruskin The Stones of Venice Print : Book1850-1899 Ruskin on two American girls on train between Venice and Verona: "'...they had French novels, lemons, and lumps of sugar to beguile their state with; the novels hanging t... Female American travelling-companions French novels Print : Book1850-1899 'Ellice Hopkins ... writing about Nottingham, decribed the operation of the "Girls' Movement" there ... She claimed that the Recreative Evening Homes were an alternative ... stories Print : Unknown1850-1899 'To counteract [Sunday School pupils' imitating bad deeds of children in children's storybooks] ... [M. C.] Mondy read the same books "and gave the early part of the afte... M. C. Mondy stories Print : Book1850-1899 'Pupils at Queen's College remembered the puritanical standards imposed by Owen Breen, English and Elocution Professor there in the 1890s. L. V. Hodson notes that when r... English class, Queen's College Richard Brinsley Sheridan Print : Book1900-1945 ' ... E. Terry, at Newnham College, Cambridge in 1902, recalls being coached in Middle High German Lyrics by a Dr. Breul: they came to "a love-song that I thought particu... E. Terry anon Middle High German love-lyric Print : Book1900-1945 ' ... E. Terry, at Newnham College, Cambridge in 1902, recalls being coached in Middle High German Lyrics by a Dr. Breul: they came to "a love-song that I thought particu... anon Middle High German love-lyric Print : Book1900-1945 '... Vera Brittain, attending her aunt's school in Surrey shortly before the First World War, glossed her [the aunt's] practice of allowing them to read extracts [ie cutt... Female pupils at Surrey school anon The Times (extracts) Print : Newspaper1850-1899 'Reading aloud from "Cranford" one evening ... [Mary Crawford Fraser's] aunt [Elizabeth Sewell] came to a sudden full stop [on coming to episode unfit for children] ... s... Elizabeth Sewell Elizabeth Gaskell Cranford Print : Book1850-1899 'Mary Crawford Fraser recalled how a contemporary at the boarding-school run by her aunt, with a background in trade, was expelled for reading from unsuitable passages of... Rosie Elizabeth Gaskell Cranford Print : Book1900-1945 'Girls in the top forms [at Roedean] were allowed to read ... in a small school library ... but ... [Margaret Cole] forfeited that privilege when a sub-prefect reported h... Margaret Cole Thomas Babington Macaulay Essays Print : Book1850-1899 'Annabel Huth Jackson recalls the impact of a copy of Swinburne's "Poems and Ballads" at Cheltenham Ladies' College: "half the house went mad over it and we copied out mo... Pupils at Cheltenham Ladies' College Algernon Swinburne Poems and Ballads Print : Book1900-1945 '[In The Saturday Review, 19 November 1904], "A Mother" records the books consumed since July by her sixteen-year-old daughter ... [who is] on the point of going in for t... Walter Scott Old Mortality Print : Book1900-1945 '[In The Saturday Review, 19 November 1904], "A Mother" records the books consumed since July by her sixteen-year-old daughter ... [who is] on the point of going in for t... Ellen Thorneycroft Fowler The Farringdons Print : Book1900-1945 '[In The Saturday Review, 19 November 1904], "A Mother" records the books consumed since July by her sixteen-year-old daughter ... [who is] on the point of going in for t... L. T. Meade By Mutual Consent Print : Book1900-1945 '[In The Saturday Review, 19 November 1904], "A Mother" records the books consumed since July by her sixteen-year-old daughter ... [who is] on the point of going in for t... Walter Besant To Call Her Mine Print : Book1900-1945 '[In The Saturday Review, 19 November 1904], "A Mother" records the books consumed since July by her sixteen-year-old daughter ... [who is] on the point of going in for t... Walter Besant Katherine Regina Print : Book1900-1945 '[In The Saturday Review, 19 November 1904], "A Mother" records the books consumed since July by her sixteen-year-old daughter ... [who is] on the point of going in for t... Walter Besant Self or Bearer Print : Book1900-1945 '[In The Saturday Review, 19 November 1904], "A Mother" records the books consumed since July by her sixteen-year-old daughter ... [who is] on the point of going in for t... Charles Dickens A Christmas Carol Print : Book1900-1945 '[In The Saturday Review, 19 November 1904], "A Mother" records the books consumed since July by her sixteen-year-old daughter ... [who is] on the point of going in for t... Charles Dickens The Cricket on the Hearth Print : Book1900-1945 '[In The Saturday Review, 19 November 1904], "A Mother" records the books consumed since July by her sixteen-year-old daughter ... [who is] on the point of going in for t... Charles Kingsley Hypatia Print : Book1900-1945 '[In The Saturday Review, 19 November 1904], "A Mother" records the books consumed since July by her sixteen-year-old daughter ... [who is] on the point of going in for t... Ellen Thorneycroft Fowler Concerning Isabel Carnaby Print : Book1900-1945 '[In The Saturday Review, 19 November 1904], "A Mother" records the books consumed since July by her sixteen-year-old daughter ... [who is] on the point of going in for t... William Makepeace Thackeray The Virginians Print : Book1900-1945 '[In The Saturday Review, 19 November 1904], "A Mother" records the books consumed since July by her sixteen-year-old daughter ... [who is] on the point of going in for t... Mark Twain The Adventures of Tom Sawyer Print : Book1900-1945 '[In The Saturday Review, 19 November 1904], "A Mother" records the books consumed since July by her sixteen-year-old daughter ... [who is] on the point of going in for t... Evelyn Everett-Green The Head of the House Print : Book1900-1945 '[In The Saturday Review, 19 November 1904], "A Mother" records the books consumed since July by her sixteen-year-old daughter ... [who is] on the point of going in for t... A Double Thread Print : Book1900-1945 '[In The Saturday Review, 19 November 1904], "A Mother" records the books consumed since July by her sixteen-year-old daughter ... [who is] on the point of going in for t... Margaret Oliphant The Heir-Presumptive and the Heir-Apparent Print : Book1900-1945 '[In The Saturday Review, 19 November 1904], "A Mother" records the books consumed since July by her sixteen-year-old daughter ... [who is] on the point of going in for t... John Ruskin Sesame and Lilies Print : Book1900-1945 '[In The Saturday Review, 19 November 1904], "A Mother" records the books consumed since July by her sixteen-year-old daughter ... [who is] on the point of going in for t... Charles Dickens A Tale of Two Cities Print : Book1850-1899 Sybil Lubbock remembers ... the reading which prefaced Christmas: as she and her sister embroidered their father's slippers, or prepared things for the Hospital Box, 'our... Ewing Print : Book1850-1899 Sybil Lubbock remembers ... the reading which prefaced Christmas: as she and her sister embroidered their father's slippers, or prepared things for the Hospital Box, 'our... Charlotte Yonge Print : Book1850-1899 Sybil Lubbock remembers ... the reading which prefaced Christmas: as she and her sister embroidered their father's slippers, or prepared things for the Hospital Box, 'our... Walter Scott The Talisman Print : Book1850-1899 Sybil Lubbock remembers ... the reading which prefaced Christmas: as she and her sister embroidered their father's slippers, or prepared things for the Hospital Box, 'our... Walter Scott Quentin Durward Print : Book1800-1849 Josephine Butler [nee Grey] remembered her mother's '[assembling] us daily for the reading aloud of some solid book ... by a kind of examination fllowing the reading alou... Grey Family Print : Book1850-1899 'One of the daughters of Florence Barclay, a writer of popular fiction ... recounts how her mother used, in the 1880s, to read aloud to them a great deal: Hans Andersen's... Florence Barclay Hans Christian Andersen Fairy Tales Print : Book1850-1899 'One of the daughters of Florence Barclay, a writer of popular fiction ... recounts how her mother used, in the 1880s, to read aloud to them a great deal: Hans Andersen's... Florence Barclay Frances Hodgson Burnett Little Lord Fauntleroy Print : Book1850-1899 'One of the daughters of Florence Barclay, a writer of popular fiction ... recounts how her mother used, in the 1880s, to read aloud to them a great deal: Hans Andersen's... Florence Barclay Charlotte Mary Yonge The Little Duke Print : Book1850-1899 'One of the daughters of Florence Barclay, a writer of popular fiction ... recounts how her mother used, in the 1880s, to read aloud to them a great deal: Hans Andersen's... Florence Barclay Walter Scott Print : Book1850-1899 'Lady Aberdeen [a child in London in the late 1850s] ... learnt to read from the under-butler, sitting with him in the front hall ... But when the discovery of her new-fo... Young Lady Aberdeen and under-butler Print : Unknown1850-1899 'Lady Aberdeen [a child in London in the late 1850s] ... learnt to read from the under-butler, sitting with him in the front hall ... But when the discovery of her new-fo... Young Lady Aberdeen and mother Mavor's spelling book Print : Book1800-1849 'Writing an addendum entitled "The Interruptions" to the copious journal which she kept in the early 1830s, Emily Shore gave a wry picture of the difficulties attendant o... Emily Shore and mother Joshua Reynolds Discourses on Art Print : Book1800-1849 'Frances Buss ...grew up in a houseful of younger brothers: she was forced to hide under a sofa on the second floor of the house lived in by her family [to read], in the ... Frances Mary Buss 1850-1899 'Zoe Proctor [sic] (b. 1867) describes how, during the 1870s, when her father was governor of
the County Gaol at Bury St Edmunds, she "could not gain sufficient solitud... Zoe Procter [Anon] [Anon] story books Print : Book1850-1899 'Margaret Cole read early volumes of "The Girl's Own Paper" belonging to her mother (and found them dated and over-moralistic).' Margaret Cole The Girl's Own Paper Print : Serial / periodical1850-1899 'Amy Barlow, writing of the late 1890s, recalls how her mother seemed to have a vivid memory of her childhood reading, and would recommend enthusiastically to her daughte... Amy Barlow Elizabeth Wetherell The Old Helmet Print : Book1800-1849 Elizabeth Sewell ... remembered her mother in the 1820s reading aloud Anson's "Voyages", Lempriere's "Tour to Morocco", and "the History of Montezuma".' George Anson Voyage Round the World Print : Book1800-1849 'Elizabeth Sewell ... remembered her mother in the 1820s reading aloud Anson's "Voyages", Lempriere's "Tour to Morocco", and "the History of Montezuma".' William Lempriere Tour to Morocco Print : Book1800-1849 'Elizabeth Sewell ... remembered her mother in the 1820s reading aloud Anson's "Voyages", Lempriere's "Tour to Morocco", and "the History of Montezuma"'. History of Montezuma Print : Book1850-1899 'Lillian Faithfull (b. c.1860) recalls her mother reading widely and thoroughly, making careful annotations, no day being considered satisfactory without its quota of wha... Lillian Faithfull and mother William B Carpenter Principles of Mental Physiology Print : Book1850-1899 'Lillian Faithfull (b. c.1860) recalls her mother reading widely and thoroughly, making careful annotations, no day being considered satisfactory without its quota of wha... Lillian Faithfull and mother H. T. Buckle History of Civilisation Print : Book1850-1899 'Lillian Faithfull (b. c.1860) recalls her mother reading widely and thoroughly, making careful annotations, no day being considered satisfactory without its quota of wha... Lillian Faithfull and mother John Seeley Ecce Homo Print : Book1850-1899 '[Mary Cholmondeley's mother] " ... read and was deeply interested in books on hydraulics, astronomy, anything that had a law behind it ..."' books on hydraulics Print : Book1850-1899 '[Mary Cholmondeley's mother] " ... read and was deeply interested in books on hydraulics, astronomy, anything that had a law behind it ..."' books on astronomy Print : Book1900-1945 Enid Starkie, in "A Lady's Child" (1941) p.5: '[following childhood deprived of maternal affection] ... when I began to read French stories, those to which I returned mos... Enid Starkie French fiction Print : Book1900-1945 "Jeremy would always have fond memories of the Grange during the war years - throwing wet mud at cloth-caped gardener Tom Houghton; sneaking into the kitchen to spirit aw... Ellen Clifford Print : Book1900-1945 At first it was thought that Jeremy was deaf - but tests showed that his hearing was perfect. When the condition [dyslexia] was finally diagnosed his mother read to him ... Elizabeth Edith Huggins Print : Unknown1850-1899 ' ... [Dora Montefiore (b. 1851)] recalls her father's ... practice of looking up Shakespeare's views on any topic which came up in conversation in a Concordance ...' Concordance to Shakespeare Print : Book1850-1899 In "Yesterday's Child 1890-1909" (1937), Beryl Lee Booker remembered 'trying "Tom Jones", but abandoning it for "What Katy Did"' whilst a child (p.31). Beryl Lee Booker Henry Fielding Tom Jones Print : Book1850-1899 In "Yesterday's Child 1890-1909" (1937), Beryl Lee Booker remembered 'trying "Tom Jones", but abandoning it for "What Katy Did"' whilst a child (p.31). Beryl Lee Booker Susan Coolidge What Katy Did Print : Book1850-1899 'When she was thirteen or fourteen, [Constance] Maynard's businessman father used to read Monier Williams on the religions of the East, William Law, and Jacob Boehme alou... Henry Maynard Monier Williams work/s on Eastern religions Print : Book1850-1899 'When she was thirteen or fourteen, [Constance] Maynard's businessman father used to read Monier Williams on the religions of the East, William Law, and Jacob Boehme alou... Henry Maynard William Law Print : Book1850-1899 'When she was thirteen or fourteen, [Constance] Maynard's businessman father used to read Monier Williams on the religions of the East, William Law, and Jacob Boehme alou... Henry Maynard Jacob Boehme Print : Book1850-1899 ' ... [13-to-14-year-old Constance Maynard's] most intimate contact with reading .. took place ... in a secluded corner of the garden, where she haphazardly consumed Milt... Constance Maynard John Milton Sonnets Print : Book1850-1899 ' ... [13-to-14-year-old Constance Maynard's] most intimate contact with reading .. took place ... in a secluded corner of the garden, where she haphazardly consumed Milt... Constance Maynard William Cowper poetry Print : Book1850-1899 ' ... [13-to-14-year-old Constance Maynard's] most intimate contact with reading .. took place ... in a secluded corner of the garden, where she haphazardly consumed Milt... Constance Maynard Washington Irving Orations Print : Book1850-1899 ' ... [13-to-14-year-old Constance Maynard's] most intimate contact with reading .. took place ... in a secluded corner of the garden, where she haphazardly consumed Milt... Constance Maynard Alfred Tennyson poetry Print : Book1800-1849 In her edition of Mary Gladstone's "Diaries and Letters", Lucy Masterman would suggest that it was under her father's influence that Mary read Butler's "Analogy". Mary Gladstone Joseph Butler The Analogy of Religion Print : Book1800-1849 Elizabeth Sewell's brother William, seeing her reading Butler's "Analogy", exclaimed 'You can't understand that', which made her reticent for years about the comfort and ... Elizabeth Sewell Joseph Butler The Analogy of Religion Print : Book1850-1899 ' ... when ... [Amy Barlow's] brother-in-law caught her sniffing over ... [Ethel Voynich, "The Gadfly" (1897)], he began to weep in [mock] sympathy.' Amy Barlow Ethel Voynich The Gadfly Print : Book1800-1849 Octavia Hill found "Tom Brown's Schooldays" 'one of the noblest works I have read' ... Octavia Hill Thomas Hughes Tom Brown's Schooldays Print : Book1850-1899 '["In A Nursery in the Nineties" (1935)] Eleanor Farjeon (b.1881) ... recreates her identificatory enthusiam as she read "The Three Musketeers", which enabled her to step... Eleanor Farjeon Alexandre Dumas The Three Musketeers Print : Book1850-1899 'Margaret Cole shared with her brothers copies of "Puck", "Sexton Blake" and "the Magnet", as well as boys' school stories ...' Margaret Cole and brothers Rudyard Kipling Puck of Pook's Hill Print : Serial / periodical1850-1899 'Margaret Cole shared with her brothers copies of "Puck", "Sexton Blake" and the "Magnet", as well as boys' school stories ...' Margaret Cole and brothers Sexton Blake Print : Unknown1850-1899 'Margaret Cole shared with her brothers copies of Puck, Sexton Blake and the Magnet, as well as boys' school stories ...' Margaret Cole and brothers The Magnet Print : Serial / periodical1850-1899 'Margaret Cole shared with her brothers copies of Puck, Sexton Blake and the Magnet, as well as boys' school stories ...' Margaret Cole and brothers boys' school stories Print : Book, Serial / periodical, Unknown1800-1849 Phyllis Browne, "What Girls Can Do" (1880): 'When I was a girl I was passionately fond of reading ... I went to stay with a friend in the country, who had by some means o... Phyllis Browne miscellaneous novels Print : Book1800-1849 Phyllis Browne, "What Girls Can Do" (1880): '[Having agreed with her father that she would read only books approved by him] I begged him to give me something to read. He... Thomas Dick Christian Philosopher Print : Book1800-1849 Phyllis Browne, "What Girls Can Do" (1880): '[Having agreed with her father that she would read only books approved by him] I begged him to give me something to read. He... Phyllis Browne Thomas Dick Christian Philosopher Print : Book1800-1849 '... [Dorothea Beale] learnt to love Shakespeare through her father reading it aloud ...' Miles Beale William Shakespeare Print : Book1800-1849 '... [Dorothea Beale] read history and general literature with her mother ... ' Dorothea Beale and mother history Print : Book1800-1849 '... [Dorothea Beale] read history and general literature with her mother ... ' Dorothea Beale and mother general literature Print : Unknown1800-1849 After leaving school aged thirteen, '... [Dorothea Beale] read far more history than fiction, plus the major reviews of the time [1840s] -- "The Edinburgh", "Quarterly", ... Dorothea Beale history Print : Book1800-1849 After leaving school aged thirteen, '... [Dorothea Beale] read far more history than fiction, plus the major reviews of the time [1840s] -- "The Edinburgh", "Quarterly", ... Dorothea Beale The Edinburgh Review Print : Serial / periodical1800-1849 After leaving school aged thirteen, '... [Dorothea Beale] read far more history than fiction, plus the major reviews of the time [1840s] -- "The Edinburgh", "Quarterly", ... Dorothea Beale The Quarterly Review Print : Serial / periodical1800-1849 After leaving school aged thirteen, '... [Dorothea Beale] read far more history than fiction, plus the major reviews of the time [1840s] -- "The Edinburgh", "Quarterly", ... Dorothea Beale Blackwood's Magazine Print : Serial / periodical1800-1849 In ... [a] letter to Maria Lewis, of September 1840 ... [George Eliot] enthusiastically advised her to 'recommend to all your married friends "Woman's Mission" a 3/6d boo... George Eliot [pseud] Sarah Lewis Woman's Mission Print : Book1850-1899 'As a child in the late 1860s and 1870s, the books ... [Florence White] used to read were "The Wide, Wide World", "Queechy", and "Ministering Children" ...' Florence White Susan Warner The Wide, Wide World Print : Book1850-1899 'As a child in the late 1860s and 1870s, the books ... [Florence White] used to read were "The Wide, Wide World", "Queechy", and "Ministering Children" ...' Florence White Susan Warner Queechy Print : Book1850-1899 'As a child in the late 1860s and 1870s, the books ... [Florence White] used to read were "The Wide, Wide World", "Queechy", and "Ministering Children" ...' Florence White Maria Charlesworth Ministering Children Print : Book1850-1899 'Lucy Lyttelton ... continued reading as avidly as ever after her marriage to Lord Frederick Cavendish, although she seems to have been happy that he should choose the bo... Lord and Lady Cavendish Charles Kingsley Westward Ho! Print : Book1800-1849 'Lucy Cavendish's diary, kept both before and after her marriage, provides one of the fullest accounts we have of the day-to-day reading of a Victorian girl and woman. I... Lucy Lyttelton gift books Print : Book1800-1849 'Lucy Cavendish's diary, kept both before and after her marriage, provides one of the fullest accounts we have of the day-to-day reading of a Victorian girl and woman. I... Lucy Lyttelton William Shakespeare Print : Unknown1800-1849 'Lucy Cavendish's diary, kept both before and after her marriage, provides one of the fullest accounts we have of the day-to-day reading of a Victorian girl and woman. I... Lucy Lyttelton Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Print : Unknown1800-1849 'Lucy Cavendish's diary, kept both before and after her marriage, provides one of the fullest accounts we have of the day-to-day reading of a Victorian girl and woman. I... Lucy Lyttelton Walter Scott Print : Unknown1800-1849 'Lucy Cavendish's diary, kept both before and after her marriage, provides one of the fullest accounts we have of the day-to-day reading of a Victorian girl and woman. I... Lucy Lyttelton texts on religion Print : Unknown1800-1849 'Lucy Cavendish's diary, kept both before and after her marriage, provides one of the fullest accounts we have of the day-to-day reading of a Victorian girl and woman. I... Lucy Lyttelton historical studies Print : Unknown1800-1849 'Lucy Cavendish's diary, kept both before and after her marriage, provides one of the fullest accounts we have of the day-to-day reading of a Victorian girl and woman. I... Lucy Lyttelton modern novels Print : Unknown1800-1849 'Mrs Benson, wife of the Headmaster of Wellington College, [scandalized] his friends by letting her children read George Eliot ...' Benson family George Eliot Print : Book1800-1849 ' ... Jean Curtis Brown and her friend Lucy [consumed] the forbidden magazine "Home Chat", borrowed from the kitchen on the cook's night out.' Jean Curtis Brown and friend Home Chat Print : Serial / periodical1850-1899 Joan Evans, "Prelude and Fugue: An Autobiography" (1964): 'One of my few conscious naughtinesses after I had attained the age of perception was to steal into the drawing-... Joan Evans Alfred Tennyson poetry Print : Book1850-1899 Joan Evans, "Prelude and Fugue: An Autobiography" (1964): 'One of my few conscious naughtinesses after I had attained the age of perception was to steal into the drawing-... Joan Evans Matthew Arnold poetry Print : Book1850-1899 '[Mary St Leger Harrison] ... had the run of [Charles] Kingsley [her father]'s library, where she read history, philosophy, and the poets ...' Mary St Leger Harrison philosophical texts Print : Book1850-1899 '[Mary St Leger Harrison] ... had the run of [Charles] Kingsley [her father]'s library, where she read history, philosophy, and the poets ...' Mary St Leger Harrison poetry Print : Book1850-1899 'Mary Paley Marshall ... one of Newnham's first students, recalls her father in the 1860s reading aloud "The Arabian Nights", "Gulliver's Travels", the "Iliad" and "Odyss... Thomas Paley The Arabian Nights Print : Book1850-1899 'Mary Paley Marshall ... one of Newnham's first students, recalls her father in the 1860s reading aloud "The Arabian Nights", "Gulliver's Travels", the "Iliad" and "Odyss... Thomas Paley Jonathan Swift Gulliver's Travels Print : Book1850-1899 'Mary Paley Marshall ... one of Newnham's first students, recalls her father in the 1860s reading aloud "The Arabian Nights", "Gulliver's Travels", the "Iliad" and "Odyss... Thomas Paley Homer The Iliad Print : Book1850-1899 'Mary Paley Marshall ... one of Newnham's first students, recalls her father in the 1860s reading aloud "The Arabian Nights", "Gulliver's Travels", the "Iliad" and "Odyss... Thomas Paley Homer The Odyssey Print : Book1850-1899 'Mary Paley Marshall ... one of Newnham's first students, recalls her father in the 1860s reading aloud "The Arabian Nights", "Gulliver's Travels", the "Iliad" and "Odyss... Thomas Paley William Shakespeare Print : Book1850-1899 'Mary Paley Marshall ... one of Newnham's first students, recalls her father in the 1860s reading aloud "The Arabian Nights", "Gulliver's Travels", the "Iliad" and "Odyss... Thomas Paley Walter Scott novels Print : Book1850-1899 Mary Paley Marshall, "What I Remember" (1947), on family ban on Dickens: 'I was grown up before I read "David Copperfield" and then it had to be in secret' (p.7).' Mary Paley Marshall Charles Dickens David Copperfield Print : Book1800-1849 '[On grounds of propriety] Lucy Caroline Lyttelton's grandmother ... left out one chapter of ... [Adam Bede] ... when she was reading it aloud to her grandchildren ...' George Eliot Adam Bede Print : Book1850-1899 ' ... as late as the 1890s, Harriet Shaw Weaver's mother was shocked when she came upon her adolescent daughter reading "Adam Bede" ... the local vicar was asked to call ... Harriet Shaw Weaver George Eliot Adam Bede Print : Book1850-1899 'Yeats forbade his sisters to read George Moore's "A Mummer's Wife": a proscription which led Susan Mitchell, who lived with the family, to "gulp ... guilty pages of it" ... Susan Mitchell George Moore A Mummer's Wife Print : Book1850-1899 'A letter from Elizabeth Barrett Browning to Arabel Barrett tells of a sixty-year-old woman who believed that her morals had been injured by reading "Aurora Leigh" ...' Elizabeth Barrett Browning Aurora Leigh Print : Book1800-1849 '[Lady Frances Balfour's] father and mother both read poetry aloud ...' George Douglas Campbell poetry 1800-1849 '[Lady Frances Balfour's] father and mother both read poetry aloud ...' Elizabeth Georgiana Leveson-Gower poetry 1850-1899 ' ... at home [Lady Frances Balfour] listened to Gladstone reading Latin and Italian.' William Ewart Gladstone Latin texts Print : Book1850-1899 ' ... at home [Lady Frances Balfour] listened to Gladstone reading Latin and Italian.' William Ewart Gladstone Italian texts Print : Book1850-1899 ' ...[Lady Frances Balfour] was forbidden to read the second volume of ... [Uncle Tom's Cabin] "but human nature cannot be denied, and of course I read it" ...' Lady Frances Balfour Harriet Beecher Stowe Uncle Tom's Cabin Print : Book1850-1899 'H. M. Swanwick, in the late 1870s, absorbed what she could from any available scientific books and medical journals, and puzzled over the Bible, Shakespeare, Chaucer, La... Helen Maria Lucy Swanwick science books Print : Book1850-1899 'H. M. Swanwick, in the late 1870s, absorbed what she could from any available scientific books and medical journals, and puzzled over the Bible, Shakespeare, Chaucer, La... Helena Maria Lucy Swanwick medical journals Print : Serial / periodical1850-1899 'H. M. Swanwick, in the late 1870s, absorbed what she could from any available scientific books and medical journals, and puzzled over the Bible, Shakespeare, Chaucer, La... Helena Maria Lucy Swanwick The Bible Print : Book1850-1899 'H. M. Swanwick, in the late 1870s, absorbed what she could from any available scientific books and medical journals, and puzzled over the Bible, Shakespeare, Chaucer, La... Helena Maria Lucy Swanwick William Shakespeare Print : Book1850-1899 "H. M. Swanwick, in the late 1870s, absorbed what she could from any available scientific books and medical journals, and puzzled over the Bible, Shakespeare, Chaucer, La... H. M. Swanwick Geoffrey Chaucer Print : Book1850-1899 "H. M. Swanwick, in the late 1870s, absorbed what she could from any available scientific books and medical journals, and puzzled over the Bible, Shakespeare, Chaucer, La... H. M. Swanwick La Fontaine Print : Book1850-1899 "Forbidden David Copperfield, Bleak House, The Heart of Midlothian, and The Vicar of Wakefield ... [H. M. Swanwick] read them none the less ... When she was lent Dante Ga... H. M. Swanwick Charles Dickens David Copperfield Print : Unknown1850-1899 "Forbidden David Copperfield, Bleak House, The Heart of Midlothian, and The Vicar of Wakefield ... [H. M. Swanwick] read them none the less ... When she was lent Dante Ga... H. M. Swanwick Charles Dickens Bleak House Print : Unknown1850-1899 "Forbidden David Copperfield, Bleak House, The Heart of Midlothian, and The Vicar of Wakefield ... [H. M. Swanwick] read them none the less ... When she was lent Dante Ga... H. M. Swanwick Walter Scott The Heart of Midlothian Print : Book1850-1899 "Forbidden David Copperfield, Bleak House, The Heart of Midlothian, and The Vicar of Wakefield ... [H. M. Swanwick] read them none the less ... When she was lent Dante Ga... H. M. Swanwick Oliver Goldsmith The Vicar of Wakefield Print : Book1850-1899 "Forbidden David Copperfield, Bleak House, The Heart of Midlothian, and The Vicar of Wakefield ... [H. M. Swanwick] read them none the less ... When she was lent Dante Ga... H. M. Swanwick Dante Gabriel Rossetti poems including Jenny Print : Book1850-1899 "Mary Stocks (b. 1891) recorded how her Aunt Tiddy made great efforts to preserve her and her siblings from 'indelicacy' [quotes from Stocks's account of how one of the p... Tiddy Alfred Tennyson poems including The Revenge Print : Book1850-1899 "Mary Stocks (b. 1891) recorded how her Aunt Tiddy made great efforts to preserve her and her siblings from 'indelicacy' [quotes from Stocks's account of how one of the p... Mary Stocks and siblings Alfred Tennyson poems including The Revenge Print : Book1850-1899 "Prior to ... [her] marriage [in 1911], [Marie Stopes's] only sexual knowledge came from reading Browning, Swinburne, and -- ignoring her mother's advice -- Shakespeare's... Marie Stopes Robert Browning Print : Book1850-1899 "Prior to ... [her] marriage [in 1911], [Marie Stopes's] only sexual knowledge came from reading Browning, Swinburne, and -- ignoring her mother's advice -- Shakespeare's... Marie Stopes Algernon Swinburne Print : Book1850-1899 "Prior to ... [her] marriage [in 1911], [Marie Stopes's] only sexual knowledge came from reading Browning, Swinburne, and -- ignoring her mother's advice -- Shakespeare's... Marie Stopes William Shakespeare Sonnets Print : Book1850-1899 "Prior to ... [her] marriage [in 1911], [Marie Stopes's] only sexual knowledge came from reading Browning, Swinburne, and -- ignoring her mother's advice -- Shakespeare's... Marie Stopes William Shakespeare Venus and Adonis Print : Book1850-1899 "Prior to ... [her] marriage [in 1911], [Marie Stopes's] only sexual knowledge came from reading Browning, Swinburne, and -- ignoring her mother's advice -- Shakespeare's... Marie Stopes Edward Carpenter Love's Coming of Age Print : Book1850-1899 "Vera Brittain's far from bookish home contained, in addition to the yellow-back novels which formed the main staple of her early reading, a volume entitled Household Med... Vera Brittain popular novels Print : Book1850-1899 "Vera Brittain's far from bookish home contained, in addition to the yellow-back novels which formed the main staple of her early reading, a volume entitled Household Med... Vera Brittain Household Medicine Print : Book1850-1899 "Vera Brittain's far from bookish home contained, in addition to the yellow-back novels which formed the main staple of her early reading, a volume entitled Household Med... Vera Brittain The Bible Print : Book1850-1899 "Vera Brittain's far from bookish home contained, in addition to the yellow-back novels which formed the main staple of her early reading, a volume entitled Household Med... Vera Brittain Charles Dickens David Copperfield Print : Book1850-1899 "Vera Brittain's far from bookish home contained, in addition to the yellow-back novels which formed the main staple of her early reading, a volume entitled Household Med... Vera Brittain George Eliot Adam Bede Print : Book1850-1899 "... [the young Cicely Hamilton] found a dusty copy of Eugene Sue's Juif Errant in a cupboard and with the aid of a dictionary, read it from cover to cover. The fact tha... Cicely Hammill Eugene Sue Juif Errant Print : Book1850-1899 "... [the young Cicely Hamilton] found a dusty copy of Eugene Sue's Juif Errant in a cupboard and with the aid of a dictionary, read it from cover to cover. The fact tha... Cicely Hammill French dictionary Print : Book1850-1899 "Laura Knight, in 1899, was mystified by being forbidden Foxe's Books of Martyrs ... having been used to enjoying Edgar Allen Poe, the more gruesome parts of the Ingoldsb... Laura Knight Edgar Allen Poe Print : Book1850-1899 "Laura Knight, in 1899, was mystified by being forbidden Foxe's Books of Martyrs ... having been used to enjoying Edgar Allen Poe, the more gruesome parts of the Ingoldsb... Laura Knight The Ingoldsby Legends Print : Book1850-1899 "Laura Knight, in 1899, was mystified by being forbidden Foxe's Books of Martyrs ... having been used to enjoying Edgar Allen Poe, the more gruesome parts of the Ingoldsb... Laura Knight The Boy's Own Paper Print : Serial / periodical1850-1899 "Angela Brazil ... was considerably disturbed by the pictures in [Foxe's Book of Martyrs]..." Angela Brazil John Foxe Book of Martyrs 1900-1945 'In January he had read Wells's 'The New Machieavelli' . . .[sic]' Arnold Bennett H. G. Wells New Machiavelli, The Print : Book1900-1945 'The play was finished after a long summer of hard work on 24 August: they sat in an arbour to read it with an audience of Marguerite Sheldon and Knoblock's agent Miss Ka... Arnold Bennett Arnold Bennett Milestones Manuscript : Unknown1900-1945 'When it rained, Bennett stayed in the cabin and read Dostoevsky.' Arnold Bennett Fyodor Dostoyevsky unknown Print : Book1850-1899 "Cicely Hamilton, who had read all of Scott by the time she was eleven, wrote that one of his short stories, 'The Tapestry Chamber': 'was a disturber of my rest for years... Cicely Hamilton Walter Scott Works including The Tapestry Chamber Print : Book1850-1899 "Cicely Hamilton, who had read all of Scott by the time she was eleven, wrote that one of his short stories, 'The Tapestry Chamber': 'was a disturber of my rest for years... Cicely Hamilton The Ingoldsby Legends Print : Book1850-1899 Deborah Epstein Nord, The Apprenticeship of Beatrice Webb (1985) noted as "especially interesting ... in its discussion of Webb's ... reading of autobiographies (such as ... Beatrice Webb John Stuart Mill Autobiography Print : Book1850-1899 Deborah Epstein Nord, The Apprenticeship of Beatrice Webb (1985) noted as "especially interesting ... in its discussion of Webb's ... reading of autobiographies (such as ... Beatrice Webb Harriet Martineau Autobiography Print : Book1850-1899 Deborah Epstein Nord, The Apprenticeship of Beatrice Webb (1985) noted as "especially interesting ... in its discussion of Webb's ... reading of autobiographies (such as ... Beatrice Webb George Sand Histoire de ma vie Print : Book1850-1899 Deborah Epstein Nord, The Apprenticeship of Beatrice Webb (1985) noted as "especially interesting ... in its discussion of Webb's ... reading of autobiographies (such as ... Beatrice Webb William Wordsworth The Prelude Print : Book1900-1945 "Christine Longford, having read The Wide, Wide World in the first decade of the twentieth century, recalled that she had been especially impressed by the passage in whic... Christine Longford Susan Warner The Wide, Wide World Print : Book1800-1849 " ... it was whilst at a frivolous, rote-learning girls' school that ... [Frances Power Cobbe] developed her determined, methodical aproach [to reading] ... She read all ... Frances Power Cobbe Edmund Spenser The Faerie Queene Print : Book1800-1849 " ... it was whilst at a frivolous, rote-learning girls' school that ... [Frances Power Cobbe] developed her determined, methodical aproach [to reading] ... She read all ... Frances Power Cobbe John Milton Complete poetry Print : Book1800-1849 " ... it was whilst at a frivolous, rote-learning girls' school that ... [Frances Power Cobbe] developed her determined, methodical aproach [to reading] ... She read all ... Frances Power Cobbe Dante Alighieri Divina Commedia Print : Book1800-1849 " ... it was whilst at a frivolous, rote-learning girls' school that ... [Frances Power Cobbe] developed her determined, methodical aproach [to reading] ... She read all ... Frances Power Cobbe Torquato Tasso Gerusalemme Liberata Print : Book1800-1849 " ... it was whilst at a frivolous, rote-learning girls' school that ... [Frances Power Cobbe] developed her determined, methodical aproach [to reading] ... She read all ... Frances Power Cobbe Homer The Iliad Print : Book1800-1849 " ... it was whilst at a frivolous, rote-learning girls' school that ... [Frances Power Cobbe] developed her determined, methodical aproach [to reading] ... She read all ... Frances Power Cobbe Homer The Odyssey Print : Book1800-1849 " ... it was whilst at a frivolous, rote-learning girls' school that ... [Frances Power Cobbe] developed her determined, methodical aproach [to reading] ... She read all ... Frances Power Cobbe Virgil The Aeneid Print : Book1800-1849 " ... it was whilst at a frivolous, rote-learning girls' school that ... [Frances Power Cobbe] developed her determined, methodical aproach [to reading] ... She read all ... Frances Power Cobbe Lucan Pharsalia Print : Book1800-1849 " ... it was whilst at a frivolous, rote-learning girls' school that ... [Frances Power Cobbe] developed her determined, methodical aproach [to reading] ... She read all ... Frances Power Cobbe Aeschylus Print : Book1800-1849 " ... it was whilst at a frivolous, rote-learning girls' school that ... [Frances Power Cobbe] developed her determined, methodical aproach [to reading] ... She read all ... Frances Power Cobbe Sophocles Print : Book1800-1849 " ... it was whilst at a frivolous, rote-learning girls' school that ... [Frances Power Cobbe] developed her determined, methodical aproach [to reading] ... She read all ... Frances Power Cobbe Euripedes Print : Book1800-1849 " ... it was whilst at a frivolous, rote-learning girls' school that ... [Frances Power Cobbe] developed her determined, methodical aproach [to reading] ... She read all ... Frances Power Cobbe Ovid Print : Book1800-1849 " ... it was whilst at a frivolous, rote-learning girls' school that ... [Frances Power Cobbe] developed her determined, methodical aproach [to reading] ... She read all ... Frances Power Cobbe Tacitus Print : Book1800-1849 " ... it was whilst at a frivolous, rote-learning girls' school that ... [Frances Power Cobbe] developed her determined, methodical aproach [to reading] ... She read all ... Frances Power Cobbe Xenophon Print : Book1800-1849 " ... it was whilst at a frivolous, rote-learning girls' school that ... [Frances Power Cobbe] developed her determined, methodical aproach [to reading] ... She read all ... Frances Power Cobbe Herodotus Print : Book1800-1849 " ... it was whilst at a frivolous, rote-learning girls' school that ... [Frances Power Cobbe] developed her determined, methodical aproach [to reading] ... She read all ... Frances Power Cobbe Thucydides Print : Book1800-1849 "... [the young Frances Power Cobbe] ... read, in what translations were ... accessible, in Eastern sacred philosophy, such as Anquetil du Perron's Zend Avesta, and Sir W... Frances Power Cobbe Anquetil du Perron Zend Avesta Print : Book1800-1849 "... [the young Frances Power Cobbe] ... read, in what translations were ... accessible, in Eastern sacred philosophy, such as Anquetil du Perron's Zend Avesta, and Sir W... Frances Power Cobbe Sir William Jones Institutes of Menu Print : Book1800-1849 "... [the young Frances Power Cobbe] ... read, in what translations were ... accessible, in Eastern sacred philosophy, such as Anquetil du Perron's Zend Avesta, and Sir W... Frances Power Cobbe Diogenes Laertius Print : Book1800-1849 "... [the young Frances Power Cobbe] ... read, in what translations were ... accessible, in Eastern sacred philosophy, such as Anquetil du Perron's Zend Avesta, and Sir W... Frances Power Cobbe translated ancient philosophical texts Print : Book1800-1849 "... [the young Frances Power Cobbe] ... read, in what translations were ... accessible, in Eastern sacred philosophy, such as Anquetil du Perron's Zend Avesta, and Sir W... Frances Power Cobbe Biographical Dictionary Print : Book1800-1849 "When she was seven ... [Frances Power Cobbe's] interest in religious subjects had been activated by hearing Bunyan read aloud to her brothers." Frances Power Cobbe John Bunyan Print : Book1800-1849 "Deist" and "heathen" authors studied by the young Frances Power Cobbe: "Gibbon, Hume, Tindal, Collins, and Voltaire ... Marcus Aurelius, Seneca, Epictetus, Plutarch's Mo... Frances Power Cobbe Edward Gibbon Print : Book1800-1849 "Deist" and "heathen" authors studied by the young Frances Power Cobbe: "Gibbon, Hume, Tindal, Collins, and Voltaire ... Marcus Aurelius, Seneca, Epictetus, Plutarch's Mo... Frances Power Cobbe David Hume Print : Book1800-1849 "Deist" and "heathen" authors studied by the young Frances Power Cobbe: "Gibbon, Hume, Tindal, Collins, and Voltaire ... Marcus Aurelius, Seneca, Epictetus, Plutarch's Mo... Frances Power Cobbe Tindal Print : Book1800-1849 "Deist" and "heathen" authors studied by the young Frances Power Cobbe: "Gibbon, Hume, Tindal, Collins, and Voltaire ... Marcus Aurelius, Seneca, Epictetus, Plutarch's Mo... Frances Power Cobbe Collins Print : Book1800-1849 "Deist" and "heathen" authors studied by the young Frances Power Cobbe: "Gibbon, Hume, Tindal, Collins, and Voltaire ... Marcus Aurelius, Seneca, Epictetus, Plutarch's Mo... Frances Power Cobbe Voltaire Print : Book1800-1849 "Deist" and "heathen" authors studied by the young Frances Power Cobbe: "Gibbon, Hume, Tindal, Collins, and Voltaire ... Marcus Aurelius, Seneca, Epictetus, Plutarch's Mo... Frances Power Cobbe Marcus Aurelius Print : Book1800-1849 "Deist" and "heathen" authors studied by the young Frances Power Cobbe: "Gibbon, Hume, Tindal, Collins, and Voltaire ... Marcus Aurelius, Seneca, Epictetus, Plutarch's Mo... Frances Power Cobbe Seneca Print : Book1800-1849 "Deist" and "heathen" authors studied by the young Frances Power Cobbe: "Gibbon, Hume, Tindal, Collins, and Voltaire ... Marcus Aurelius, Seneca, Epictetus, Plutarch's Mo... Frances Power Cobbe Epictetus Print : Book1800-1849 "Deist" and "heathen" authors studied by the young Frances Power Cobbe: "Gibbon, Hume, Tindal, Collins, and Voltaire ... Marcus Aurelius, Seneca, Epictetus, Plutarch's Mo... Frances Power Cobbe Plutarch Moralia Print : Book1800-1849 "Deist" and "heathen" authors studied by the young Frances Power Cobbe: "Gibbon, Hume, Tindal, Collins, and Voltaire ... Marcus Aurelius, Seneca, Epictetus, Plutarch's Mo... Frances Power Cobbe Xenophon Memorabilia Print : Book1800-1849 "Deist" and "heathen" authors studied by the young Frances Power Cobbe: "Gibbon, Hume, Tindal, Collins, and Voltaire ... Marcus Aurelius, Seneca, Epictetus, Plutarch's Mo... Frances Power Cobbe Plato Print : Book1800-1849 "... by August [1840] ... [Anne Jemima Clough admits in journal] doing 'one bad thing' (which turns out to be reading Byron's 'The Corsair') ..." Anne Jemima Clough George Gordon Lord Byron The Corsair Print : Book
