√ Century of Experience Evidence Name of Reader / Listener / Reading Group Author of Text Title of Text Form of Text 1600-1699 " ... the surviving volumes owned by the seventeenth-century yeoman-famer William Dowsing ... reveal a scrupulously methodical reader. Dowsing evidently began a book by ... William Dowsing books Print : Book1600-1699 " ... the surviving volumes owned by the seventeenth-century yeoman-famer William Dowsing ... reveal a scrupulously methodical reader. Dowsing evidently began a book by ... William Dowsing sermons Print : Unknown1500-1599 "According to [James] Johnstoun, his supplement [to Sidney's Countess of Pembroke's Arcadia] grew out of his affection for Sidney's romance. Having read the Arcadia over... James Johnstoun Sir Philip Sidney The Countess of Pembroke's Arcadia Unknown 1600-1699 "According to one contemporary anecdote, when a would-be lover borrowed from the Arcadia to woo a lady, she immediately saw through his deception: she 'was so well versed... anon Sir Philip Sidney The Countess of Pembroke's Arcadia Unknown 1500-1599 " ... [Sir John] Suckling, coming across what he called 'an imperfect Copy' of [Shakespeare's The Rape of] Lucrece, decided to compose his own 'Supplement.'" Sir John Suckling William Shakespeare The Rape of Lucrece Unknown 1600-1699 "Henry Wotton recalled coming across Milton's A Mask Presented at Ludlow Castle 'in the very close of the late R's Poems, Printed at Oxford' ..." Henry Wotton R Poems Print : Book1600-1699 "Henry Wotton recalled coming across Milton's A Mask Presented at Ludlow Castle 'in the very close of the late R's Poems, Printed at Oxford' ..." Henry Wotton John Milton A Mask Presented at Ludlow Castle Print : Book1600-1699 "One of the copies [of Paradise Regain'd ... Samson Agonistes] I examined at the British Library, London (shelfmark C14a12) ... contains handwritten corrections of both t... anon John Milton Paradise Regain'd/Samson Agonistes Print : Book1600-1699 " ... provocative omissions survive in ... [early modern manuscripts including] Lucy Hutchinson's ... translation of Lucretius' De rerum natura ..." Lucy Hutchinson Lucretius De rerum natura 1800-1849 Peter J. Manning, "Wordsworth in the Keepsake, 1829": "Charles Lamb, perusing the notices blazoning the annuals forthcoming in 1829, scoffed: 'Wordsworth I see has a good... Charles Lamb literary advertisements Print : Unknown1800-1849 Stephen Gill, "Copyright and the Publishing of Wordsworth, 1850-1900": "Many eminent Victorians -- George Eliot, Mill, Ruskin, and Tennyson ... read Wordsworth in the col... George Eliot William Wordsworth poetry Print : Book1800-1849 Stephen Gill, "Copyright and the Publishing of Wordsworth, 1850-1900": "Many eminent Victorians -- George Eliot, Mill, Ruskin, and Tennyson ... read Wordsworth in the col... John Stuart Mill William Wordsworth poetry Print : Book1800-1849 Stephen Gill, "Copyright and the Publishing of Wordsworth, 1850-1900": "Many eminent Victorians -- George Eliot, Mill, Ruskin, and Tennyson ... read Wordsworth in the col... John Ruskin William Wordsworth poetry Print : Book1800-1849 Stephen Gill, "Copyright and the Publishing of Wordsworth, 1850-1900": "Many eminent Victorians -- George Eliot, Mill, Ruskin, and Tennyson ... read Wordsworth in the col... Alfred Tennyson William Wordsworth poetry Print : Book1850-1899 Stephen Gill, "Copyright and the Publishing of Wordsworth, 1850-1900": "In 1870 Moxon decided to launch a new edition [of Wordsworth's poetry] ... prefaced by an essay fr... Wordsworth Family William Wordsworth poetry Print : Book1850-1899 Stephen Gill, "Copyright and the Publishing of Wordsworth, 1850-1900": "In 1870 Moxon decided to launch a new edition [of Wordsworth's poetry] ... prefaced by an essay fr... Wordsworth Family William Michael Rossetti Biographical essay on Wordsworth Print : Book1850-1899 Stephen Gill, "Copyright and the Publishing of Wordsworth, 1850-1900": "On a visit to the Quantocks... William Hale White, 'Mark Rutherford,' reread The Excursion, book 1... William Hale White William Wordsworth The Excursion Print : Book1850-1899 Jonathan Rose, "How Historians Study Reader Response: or, What did Jo Think of Bleak House?": "George Acorn recalled that, growing up in extreme poverty in London's East ... George Acorn Charles Dickens David Copperfield Print : Book1850-1899 Jonathan Rose, "How Historians Study Reader Response: or, What did Jo Think of Bleak House?": "Arthur Harding, a professional criminal who grew up in the East End slum kn... Arthur Harding Charles Dickens A Tale of Two Cities Print : Book1850-1899 Jonathan Rose, "How Historians Study Reader Response: or, What did Jo Think of Bleak House?": "Arthur Harding, a professional criminal who grew up in the East End slum kn... Arthur Harding Charles Dickens Dombey and Son Print : Book1900-1945 Jonathan Rose, "How Historians Study Reader Response: or, What did Jo Think of Bleak House?": " ... some of ... [Dickens's readers] found it difficult to share his anguis... Charles Dickens A Christmas Carol Print : Book1850-1899 Catherine A. Judd, "Male Pseudonyms and Female Authority in Victorian England": "In 1877 [Mary Ann] Evans wrote to her future sister-in-law Mary Findlay Cross that 'I rea... Mary Ann Evans Mary Finlay Cross story Unknown 1800-1849 Elizabeth Morrison, "Serial Fiction in Australian Colonial Newspapers": " ... the short novel A Woman's Friendship ... owes much to [Ada] Cambridge's reading of George El... Ada Cambridge George Eliot [unknown] Print : Unknown1800-1849 Elizabeth Morrison, "Serial Fiction in Australian Colonial Newspapers": " ... the short novel A Woman's Friendship ... owes much to [Ada] Cambridge's reading of George El... Ada Cambridge George Meredith [unknown] Print : Unknown1800-1849 Elizabeth Morrison, "Serial Fiction in Australian Colonial Newspapers": " ... the short novel A Woman's Friendship ... owes much to [Ada] Cambridge's reading of George El... Ada Cambridge Henry James Print : Unknown1800-1849 Elizabeth Morrison, "Serial Fiction in Australian Colonial Newspapers": " ... the short novel A Woman's Friendship ... owes much to [Ada] Cambridge's reading of George El... Ada Cambridge William Dean Howells Print : Unknown1500-1599 " ... [John] Donne describes his 'poor Library, where to cast mine eye upon good Authors kindles or refreshes sometimes meditations not unfit to communicate to near frien... John Donne various texts Unknown 1850-1899 'George Acorn read George Eliot at age nine, but "solely for the story. I used to skip the parts that moralized, or painted verbal scenery, a practice at which I became v... George Acorn George Eliot [unknown] Print : Book1850-1899 'Bookbinder Frederick Rogers read Faust "through from beginning to end, not because I was able at sixteen to appreciate Goethe, but because I was interested in the Devil"... Frederick Rogers Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Faust Print : Book1850-1899 'Bookbinder Frederick Rogers read Faust "through from beginning to end, not because I was able at sixteen to appreciate Goethe, but because I was interested in the Devil"... Frederick Rogers Miguel de Cervantes Don Quixote Print : Book1900-1945 'Stella Davies's father would read to his children from the Bible, "Pilgrim's Progress", Walter Scott, Longfellow, Tennyson, Dickens, "The Cloister and the Hearth", and P... Stella Davies Bible, the Print : Book1900-1945 'Stella Davies's father would read to his children from the Bible, "Pilgrim's Progress", Walter Scott, Longfellow, Tennyson, Dickens, "The Cloister and the Hearth", and P... Stella Davies John Bunyan Pilgrim's Progress, The Print : Book1900-1945 'Stella Davies's father would read to his children from the Bible, "Pilgrim's Progress", Walter Scott, Longfellow, Tennyson, Dickens, "The Cloister and the Hearth", and P... Stella Davies Walter Scott Print : Book1900-1945 'Stella Davies's father would read to his children from the Bible, "Pilgrim's Progress", Walter Scott, Longfellow, Tennyson, Dickens, "The Cloister and the Hearth", and P... Stella Davies Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Print : Book1900-1945 'Stella Davies's father would read to his children from the Bible, "Pilgrim's Progress", Walter Scott, Longfellow, Tennyson, Dickens, "The Cloister and the Hearth", and P... Stella Davies Alfred, Lord Tennyson Print : Book1900-1945 'Stella Davies's father would read to his children from the Bible, "Pilgrim's Progress", Walter Scott, Longfellow, Tennyson, Dickens, "The Cloister and the Hearth", and P... Stella Davies Charles Dickens Print : Book1900-1945 'Stella Davies's father would read to his children from the Bible, "Pilgrim's Progress", Walter Scott, Longfellow, Tennyson, Dickens, "The Cloister and the Hearth", and P... Stella Davies Charles Reade Cloister and the Hearth, The Print : Book1900-1945 'Stella Davies's father would read to his children from the Bible, "Pilgrim's Progress", Walter Scott, Longfellow, Tennyson, Dickens, "The Cloister and the Hearth", and P... Stella Davies Homer Iliad, the Print : Book1900-1945 'There were few books at home when [Harry Burton] was a boy, but one of them was "Don Juan". He read it before he was eleven - through a prepubescent frame, of course. "I... Harry Burton George Gordon, Lord Byron Don Juan Print : Book1900-1945 'Growing up in Lyndhurst after the First World War, R.L. Wild regularly read aloud to his marginally literate grandmother and his completely illiterate grandfather - and ... R.L. Wild Henryk Sienkiewicz Quo Vadis Print : Book1900-1945 'Growing up in Lyndhurst after the First World War, R.L. Wild regularly read aloud to his marginally literate grandmother and his completely illiterate grandfather - and ... R.L. Wild Henry Rider Haggard She Print : Book1900-1945 'Growing up in Lyndhurst after the First World War, R.L. Wild regularly read aloud to his marginally literate grandmother and his completely illiterate grandfather - and ... R.L. Wild William Shakespeare Print : Book1900-1945 'Growing up in Lyndhurst after the First World War, R.L. Wild regularly read aloud to his marginally literate grandmother and his completely illiterate grandfather - and ... R.L. Wild David Herbert Lawrence Print : Book1900-1945 'Growing up in Lyndhurst after the First World War, R.L. Wild regularly read aloud to his marginally literate grandmother and his completely illiterate grandfather - and ... R.L. Wild Elinor Glyn Print : Book1900-1945 'Growing up in Lyndhurst after the First World War, R.L. Wild regularly read aloud to his marginally literate grandmother and his completely illiterate grandfather - and ... R.L. Wild Charles Lamb Essays of Elia Print : Book1900-1945 'It was agreed to purchase a second copy of the News Chronicle to meet the extra demand for examining the situations vacant adverts by unemployed.' Readers at Uxbridge Library News Chronicle Print : Newspaper1900-1945 'George Howell, bricklayer and trade unionist..."read promiscuously. How could it be otherwise? I had no real guide, was obliged to feel my way into light. Yet perhaps th... George Howell John Milton Print : Book1900-1945 'George Howell, bricklayer and trade unionist..."read promiscuously. How could it be otherwise? I had no real guide, was obliged to feel my way into light. Yet perhaps th... George Howell William Shakespeare Print : Book1900-1945 'George Howell, bricklayer and trade unionist..."read promiscuously. How could it be otherwise? I had no real guide, was obliged to feel my way into light. Yet perhaps th... George Howell Alexander Pope Print : Book1900-1945 'George Howell, bricklayer and trade unionist..."read promiscuously. How could it be otherwise? I had no real guide, was obliged to feel my way into light. Yet perhaps th... George Howell John Dryden Print : Book1900-1945 'George Howell, bricklayer and trade unionist..."read promiscuously. How could it be otherwise? I had no real guide, was obliged to feel my way into light. Yet perhaps th... George Howell George Gordon, Lord Byron Print : Book1900-1945 'George Howell, bricklayer and trade unionist..."read promiscuously. How could it be otherwise? I had no real guide, was obliged to feel my way into light. Yet perhaps th... George Howell Percy Bysshe Shelley Print : Book1900-1945 'George Howell, bricklayer and trade unionist..."read promiscuously. How could it be otherwise? I had no real guide, was obliged to feel my way into light. Yet perhaps th... George Howell Robert Burns Print : Book1900-1945 'George Howell, bricklayer and trade unionist..."read promiscuously. How could it be otherwise? I had no real guide, was obliged to feel my way into light. Yet perhaps th... George Howell Walter Scott Print : Book1900-1945 'George Howell, bricklayer and trade unionist..."read promiscuously. How could it be otherwise? I had no real guide, was obliged to feel my way into light. Yet perhaps th... George Howell Samuel Taylor Coleridge Print : Book1900-1945 'George Howell, bricklayer and trade unionist..."read promiscuously. How could it be otherwise? I had no real guide, was obliged to feel my way into light. Yet perhaps th... George Howell William Wordsworth Print : Book1900-1945 'George Howell, bricklayer and trade unionist..."read promiscuously. How could it be otherwise? I had no real guide, was obliged to feel my way into light. Yet perhaps th... George Howell Robert Southey Print : Book1900-1945 'George Howell, bricklayer and trade unionist..."read promiscuously. How could it be otherwise? I had no real guide, was obliged to feel my way into light. Yet perhaps th... George Howell Edmund Spenser Print : Book1900-1945 'George Howell, bricklayer and trade unionist..."read promiscuously. How could it be otherwise? I had no real guide, was obliged to feel my way into light. Yet perhaps th... George Howell Geoffrey Chaucer Print : Book1900-1945 'George Howell, bricklayer and trade unionist..."read promiscuously. How could it be otherwise? I had no real guide, was obliged to feel my way into light. Yet perhaps th... George Howell Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Print : Book1900-1945 'George Howell, bricklayer and trade unionist..."read promiscuously. How could it be otherwise? I had no real guide, was obliged to feel my way into light. Yet perhaps th... George Howell William Cullen Bryant Print : Book1800-1849 [Mary Shelley's Reading List for 1815. Only those titles not mentioned in journal entries are given separate database entries. xs denote books also read by Percy Shelley ... Percy Bysshe Shelley William Beckford Vathek Print : Book1850-1899 'There was a lending library in town, but with no education or guidance in English literature, [Edwin Muir] wasted valuable reading time. Then there was opposition from h... Edwin Muir [study of David Hume] Print : Book1800-1849 [Mary Shelley's Reading List for 1815. Only those titles not mentioned in journal entries are given separate database entries. xs denote books also read by Percy Shelley ... Percy Bysshe Shelley [anon.] Memoirs of Lady Hamilton; With Illustrative Anecdo... Print : Book1800-1849 [Mary Shelley's Reading List for 1815. Only those titles not mentioned in journal entries are given separate database entries. xs denote books also read by Percy Shelley ... Percy Bysshe Shelley John Milton Paradise Lost Print : Book1800-1849 [Mary Shelley's Reading List for 1815. Only those titles not mentioned in journal entries are given separate database entries. xs denote books also read by Percy Shelley ... Percy Bysshe Shelley Robert Southey [anon.] Letters from England; by Don Manuel Alvarez Esprie... Print : Book1800-1849 [Mary Shelley's Reading List for 1815. Only those titles not mentioned in journal entries are given separate database entries. xs denote books also read by Percy Shelley ... Percy Bysshe Shelley Robert Paltock Life and Adventures of Peter Wilkins, a Cornish Ma... Print : Book1800-1849 [Mary Shelley's Reading List for 1815. Only those titles not mentioned in journal entries are given separate database entries. xs denote books also read by Percy Shelley ... Percy Bysshe Shelley Charles James Fox, Lord Holland A history of the early part of the reign of James ... Print : Book1850-1899 'There was a lending library in town, but with no education or guidance in English literature, [Edwin Muir] wasted valuable reading time. Then there was opposition from h... Edwin Muir Christopher Marlowe Print : Book1850-1899 'There was a lending library in town, but with no education or guidance in English literature, [Edwin Muir] wasted valuable reading time. Then there was opposition from h... Edwin Muir George Crabbe Print : Book1850-1899 '[Neville] Cardus read only boys' papers until quite suddenly, in adolescence, he dove into Dickens and Mark Twain. "Then, without scarcely a bridge-passage, I was deep i... Neville Cardus n/a [boys' papers] Print : Serial / periodical1900-1945 '[Neville] Cardus read only boys' papers until quite suddenly, in adolescence, he dove into Dickens and Mark Twain. "Then, without scarcely a bridge-passage, I was deep i... Neville Cardus Charles Dickens [unknown] Print : Book1900-1945 '[Neville] Cardus read only boys' papers until quite suddenly, in adolescence, he dove into Dickens and Mark Twain. "Then, without scarcely a bridge-passage, I was deep i... Neville Cardus Mark Twain [unknown] Print : Book1900-1945 '[Neville] Cardus read only boys' papers until quite suddenly, in adolescence, he dove into Dickens and Mark Twain. "Then, without scarcely a bridge-passage, I was deep i... Neville Cardus Henry Fielding [unknown] Print : Book1900-1945 '[Neville] Cardus read only boys' papers until quite suddenly, in adolescence, he dove into Dickens and Mark Twain. "Then, without scarcely a bridge-passage, I was deep i... Neville Cardus Robert Browning [unknown] Print : Book1900-1945 '[Neville] Cardus read only boys' papers until quite suddenly, in adolescence, he dove into Dickens and Mark Twain. "Then, without scarcely a bridge-passage, I was deep i... Neville Cardus Thomas Hardy [unknown] Print : Book1900-1945 '[Neville] Cardus read only boys' papers until quite suddenly, in adolescence, he dove into Dickens and Mark Twain. "Then, without scarcely a bridge-passage, I was deep i... Neville Cardus Leo Tolstoy [unknown] Print : Book1900-1945 '[Neville] Cardus read only boys' papers until quite suddenly, in adolescence, he dove into Dickens and Mark Twain. "Then, without scarcely a bridge-passage, I was deep i... Neville Cardus Henry James [unknown] Print : Book1900-1945 '"Reading for me then was haphazard, unguided, practically uncritical", recalled boilermaker's daughter Marjory Todd. "I slipped all too easily into those traps for the h... Marjory Todd n/a John O' London's Weekly Print : Serial / periodical1900-1945 '"Reading for me then was haphazard, unguided, practically uncritical", recalled boilermaker's daughter Marjory Todd. "I slipped all too easily into those traps for the h... Marjory Todd Herman Melville Moby Dick Print : Book1900-1945 '"Reading for me then was haphazard, unguided, practically uncritical", recalled boilermaker's daughter Marjory Todd. "I slipped all too easily into those traps for the h... Marjory Todd Joseph Conrad Lord Jim Print : Book1900-1945 '"Reading for me then was haphazard, unguided, practically uncritical", recalled boilermaker's daughter Marjory Todd. "I slipped all too easily into those traps for the h... Marjory Todd Fyodor Dostoevsky Crime and Punishment Print : Book1900-1945 '"Reading for me then was haphazard, unguided, practically uncritical", recalled boilermaker's daughter Marjory Todd. "I slipped all too easily into those traps for the h... Marjory Todd Emily Bronte Wuthering Heights Print : Book1900-1945 'Derek Davies could not recall that his mother had ever read a book. His father, a die-caster in an automobile factory, read only local and sports papers and two novels a... [unknown] [detective thrillers] Print : Book1900-1945 'Derek Davies could not recall that his mother had ever read a book. His father, a die-caster in an automobile factory, read only local and sports papers and two novels a... [unknown] [Western novels] Print : Book1900-1945 'Derek Davies could not recall that his mother had ever read a book. His father, a die-caster in an automobile factory, read only local and sports papers and two novels a... [n/a] [local and sports papers] Print : Newspaper1850-1899 'Headache. Read "Lucrezia Floriani". We are reading White's "History of Selborne" in the evening'. George Eliot [pseud] George Sand Lucrezia Floriani Print : Book1900-1945 'Derek Davies could not recall that his mother had ever read a book. His father, a die-caster in an automobile factory, read only local and sports papers and two novels a... Derek Davies [n/a] [local and sports papers] Print : Newspaper1900-1945 'Derek Davies could not recall that his mother had ever read a book. His father, a die-caster in an automobile factory, read only local and sports papers and two novels a... Derek Davies [unknown] [Western novels] Print : Book1900-1945 'Derek Davies could not recall that his mother had ever read a book. His father, a die-caster in an automobile factory, read only local and sports papers and two novels a... Derek Davies [unknown] [detective thrillers] Print : Book1900-1945 'Derek Davies could not recall that his mother had ever read a book. His father, a die-caster in an automobile factory, read only local and sports papers and two novels a... Derek Davies [unknown] [children's books] Print : Book1900-1945 'Derek Davies could not recall that his mother had ever read a book. His father, a die-caster in an automobile factory, read only local and sports papers and two novels a... Derek Davies [unknown] [travel books, including some on Tibet] Print : Book1900-1945 'Derek Davies could not recall that his mother had ever read a book. His father, a die-caster in an automobile factory, read only local and sports papers and two novels a... Derek Davies [n/a] The Wizard Print : Serial / periodical1900-1945 'Derek Davies could not recall that his mother had ever read a book. His father, a die-caster in an automobile factory, read only local and sports papers and two novels a... Derek Davies [n/a] The Hotspur Print : Serial / periodical1900-1945 'Derek Davies could not recall that his mother had ever read a book. His father, a die-caster in an automobile factory, read only local and sports papers and two novels a... Derek Davies [anon] The Illustrated News History of the 1914-18 War Print : Book1900-1945 'Derek Davies could not recall that his mother had ever read a book. His father, a die-caster in an automobile factory, read only local and sports papers and two novels a... Derek Davies [n/a] [books on model railways] Print : Book1900-1945 'Derek Davies could not recall that his mother had ever read a book. His father, a die-caster in an automobile factory, read only local and sports papers and two novels a... Derek Davies T.E. Lawrence The Seven Pillars of Wisdom Print : Book1900-1945 'Charlie Chaplin was a classic autodidact, always struggling to make up for a dismally inadequate education, groping haphazardly for what he called "intellectual manna"..... Charles Spencer Chaplin [n/a] [a Latin-English Dictionary] Print : Book1800-1849 'Wood's account of the Isle of Man details some laws for the regulation of servants [...] which prevailed till 1777, so absurd as scarcely to be credible if they had not ... Benjamin Newton George Woods An account of the past and present state of the Is... Print : Book1900-1945 'Charlie Chaplin was a classic autodidact, always struggling to make up for a dismally inadequate education, groping haphazardly for what he called "intellectual manna"..... Charles Spencer Chaplin Robert Ingersoll [speeches on agnosticism] Print : Book1800-1849 'Read Lord Chesterfield's letters to his gidson in which I see nothing to admire but the gentle-manly style, but his lax morality is shocking to every serious thinking ma... Benjamin Newton Philip Dorner Stanhope, Lord Chesterfield Lord Chesterfield's letters to his son Print : Book1900-1945 'Charlie Chaplin was a classic autodidact, always struggling to make up for a dismally inadequate education, groping haphazardly for what he called "intellectual manna"..... Charles Spencer Chaplin Ralph Waldo Emerson Self Reliance Print : Book1900-1945 'Charlie Chaplin was a classic autodidact, always struggling to make up for a dismally inadequate education, groping haphazardly for what he called "intellectual manna"..... Charles Spencer Chaplin Washington Irving [unknown] Print : Book1800-1849 '[Attended] the Agricultural Committee in Ripon. Read Clarke, the first volume, and Burder's Illustration of Scripture, one volume'. Benjamin Newton Samuel Clarke A demonstration of the being attributes of God Print : Book1900-1945 'Charlie Chaplin was a classic autodidact, always struggling to make up for a dismally inadequate education, groping haphazardly for what he called "intellectual manna"..... Charles Spencer Chaplin Nathaniel Hawthorne [unknown] Print : Book1800-1849 'Finished second volume of Burder. Began Gibbon's account of his own life.' Benjamin Newton Samuel Burder Oriental Customs:or an illustration of the sacred Print : Book1900-1945 'Charlie Chaplin was a classic autodidact, always struggling to make up for a dismally inadequate education, groping haphazardly for what he called "intellectual manna"..... Charles Spencer Chaplin Edgar Allan Poe [unknown] Print : Book1900-1945 'Charlie Chaplin was a classic autodidact, always struggling to make up for a dismally inadequate education, groping haphazardly for what he called "intellectual manna"..... Charles Spencer Chaplin Walt Whitman [unknown] Print : Book1900-1945 'Charlie Chaplin was a classic autodidact, always struggling to make up for a dismally inadequate education, groping haphazardly for what he called "intellectual manna"..... Charles Spencer Chaplin Mark Twain [unknown] Print : Book1900-1945 'Charlie Chaplin was a classic autodidact, always struggling to make up for a dismally inadequate education, groping haphazardly for what he called "intellectual manna"..... Charles Spencer Chaplin William Hazlitt [unknown] Print : Book1800-1849 'Account in paper of persons sent to tower for high treason.' Benjamin Newton n/a [newspaper] Print : Newspaper1900-1945 'Charlie Chaplin was a classic autodidact, always struggling to make up for a dismally inadequate education, groping haphazardly for what he called "intellectual manna"..... Charles Spencer Chaplin Plutarch Lives Print : Book1900-1945 'Charlie Chaplin was a classic autodidact, always struggling to make up for a dismally inadequate education, groping haphazardly for what he called "intellectual manna"..... Charles Spencer Chaplin Plato [unknown] Print : Book1900-1945 'Charlie Chaplin was a classic autodidact, always struggling to make up for a dismally inadequate education, groping haphazardly for what he called "intellectual manna"..... Charles Spencer Chaplin John Locke [unknown] Print : Book1900-1945 'Charlie Chaplin was a classic autodidact, always struggling to make up for a dismally inadequate education, groping haphazardly for what he called "intellectual manna"..... Charles Spencer Chaplin Immanuel Kant [unknown] Print : Book1900-1945 'Charlie Chaplin was a classic autodidact, always struggling to make up for a dismally inadequate education, groping haphazardly for what he called "intellectual manna"..... Charles Spencer Chaplin Sigmund Freud Psychoneurosis Print : Book1800-1849 'Read the report of the secret committee setting forth the treasonable attempts to overthrow the government and divide all the property.' Benjamin Newton n/a [newspaper] Print : Newspaper1800-1849 '[Attended] the Agricultural Committee in Ripon. Read Clarke, the first volume, and Burders Illustration of Scripture, one volume.' Benjamin Newton Samuel Burder Oriental Customs: or an illustration of the sacred Print : Book1800-1849 'Began Gibbon's account of his life; I think he is but a bad biographer having given little amiability to his own character, which is not increased by his noble commentat... Benjamin Newton Edward Gibbon Miscellaneous works...with memoirs of his life Print : Book1800-1849 'I have now finished the morceau so highly reccomended by my nephew, the account of Gibbon's life and writings by himself and confess myself greatly disappointed, not ind... Benjamin Newton Edward Gibbon Miscellaneous works...with memoirs of his life Print : Book1800-1849 'An account of a Bill having past for the suspension of the habeas Corpus Act [...] I cannot refrain from quoting from one of Gibbons letters to Lord Sheffield in 1792 [q... Benjamin Newton Edward Gibbon Miscellaneous works...with memoirs of his life Print : Book1800-1849 'In reading Franklin's correspondence, it is impossible not to be entertained by his lively style and I think not to be convinced that he did all in his power to prevent ... Benjamin Newton Benjamin Franklen The private correspondence Print : Book1800-1849 'Read Clarke and Madame La Roche Jaqueline'. Benjamin Newton Samuel Clarke [unknown] Print : Book1800-1849 'Read Buonaparte's Memorial to Sir Hudson Lowe, a poor performance and utterly unworthy his fallen greatness'. Benjamin Newton Charles Montholon Bonaparte's memorial in a letter Print : Book1800-1849 'I once parodied Gray's Bard without intending the least disrespect for that fine ode.' Benjamin Newton Thomas Gray The Bard: A pindaric ode Unknown 1800-1849 'Ripon Ball [...] The papers full of the trial of and acquital of Hone who defended himself very ingeniously on his being indicted ex officio by the Atorney General for a... Benjamin Newton n/a 'The newspapers' Print : Newspaper1900-1945 'Charlie Chaplin was a classic autodidact, always struggling to make up for a dismally inadequate education, groping haphazardly for what he called "intellectual manna"..... Charles Spencer Chaplin Lafcadio Hearn Life and Literature Print : Book1800-1849 'After reading Junius identified with a living character I am pretty well satisfied that Sir P. Francis was the man.' Benjamin Newton John Taylor Junius identified or the identity of Junius Print : Book1800-1849 'After having read the accounts of the trial of the Glasgow Moters as managed by the Lord Advocate [...] I think a more disgraceful satin was never affixed to the charact... Benjamin Newton n/a [newspaper] Print : Newspaper1900-1945 'Charlie Chaplin was a classic autodidact, always struggling to make up for a dismally inadequate education, groping haphazardly for what he called "intellectual manna"..... Charles Spencer Chaplin Henri Bergson Laughter: An Essay on the Meaning of the Comic Print : Book1900-1945 'Charlie Chaplin was a classic autodidact, always struggling to make up for a dismally inadequate education, groping haphazardly for what he called "intellectual manna"..... Charles Spencer Chaplin Arthur Schopenhauer The World as Will and Idea Print : Book1800-1849 'Too hoarse to do duty [at church] Read Paley's Evidences'. Benjamin Newton William Paley Evidences of Christianity Print : Book1800-1849 'Read Walpole's Turkey and M'Cleod's Voyage of the Alceste to China'. Benjamin Newton Robert Walpole Memoirs relating to European and Asiatic Turkey Print : Book1800-1849 'Bedale Club, dined - ordered M'cleod's journal of the Alceste. Dispute at club as to spelling of experience. No one but Mr Monson and I supported the above mode but bot... Benjamin Newton bible Print : Book1800-1849 'Having read Hutton's life of himself which afforded me much amusement I mean to get a book and attempt something of the kind though aware I have not his memory, industry... Benjamin Newton William Hutton The life of William Hutton Print : Book1800-1849 'Read Walpoe's Turkey amd M'Cleod's Voyage of the Alceste to China.' Benjamin Newton John Macleod Narrative of a voyage in his majesty's late ship A Unknown 1800-1849 'Having lately read Chalmers Sermons on Astronomy in which he has expressed the highest admiration and respect for I. Newton's modest and firm faith in christianity.' Benjamin Newton Thomas Chalmers A series of discourses on the Christian recelation Unknown 1800-1849 'Read M'cleod's Voyage of the Alceste, his account of the Island of Lewchew is an account of the most amiable pagans I ever read of N.B. little or nothing is said of the ... Benjamin Newton John Macleod Voyage of the Alceste Unknown 1800-1849 'Transcribed and altered a sermon of my grandfather's on the text "And if I be lifted up will draw all men to me" [...]' Benjamin Newton grandfather of Benjamin Newton [sermon] Manuscript : Sheet1800-1849 'Read Golownins captivity in Japan, well told but he was a silly man, suspicious yet not cautious. Read Rob Roy.' Benjamin Newton Vasily Golovnin Narrative of my captivity in Japan Print : Book1800-1849 'Read Golownins Captivity in Japan, well told but he was a silly man, suspicious yet not cautious. Read Rob Roy.' Benjamin Newton Walter Scott Rob Roy: By the author of Waverley Print : Book1800-1849 'Snow and rain all day. Read Pegge on the English language, Sir J.Sinclair's Code of Agriculture, proceeded with notes on Bede. Mr Cline in his paper on breeding is quite... Benjamin Newton Samuel Pegge Anecdotes of the English language Print : Book1800-1849 'Snow and rain all day. Read Pegge on the English language, Sir J. Sinclair's Code of Agriculture, proceeded with notes on Bede. Mr Cline in his paper on breeding is quit... Benjamin Newton Sir John Sinclair The Code of Agriculture Print : Book1800-1849 'Snow and rain all day. Read Pegge on the English language, Sir J. Sinclair's Code of Agriculture, proceeded with notes on Bede. Mr Cline in his paper on breeding is quit... Benjamin Newton Bede [The Ecclesiastical History] Print : Book1800-1849 'Read Vth and VIth vol. of Clarke, admired his account of pyramids, catacombs and hatching of chickens [...]His supposition [...] that the Soros in the Chamber of the Gre... Benjamin Newton Samuel Clarke [unknown] Print : Book1800-1849 'Finished Curwen's letters, I have recorded my opinion of the style, the commonplace of the abuse of tithes pervades the work tho' he fails more than most of the advocate... Benjamin Newton John Curwen Observations on the State of Ireland Print : Book1800-1849 'Wrote part of a sermon from Gisborne's Natural Theology' Benjamin Newton Thomas Gisborne The Testimony of Natural Theology Print : Book1800-1849 'I have also read Gisbourne's natural theology. The design and matter of the work are excellent but it is exceedingly deficient in that plainess and persipicuity in which... Benjamin Newton Thomas Gisborne The Testimony of Natural Theology Print : Book1800-1849 'Began reading a Tour in Denmarkby Von Buch translated by Black with geological and mineralogical notes by Professor Jamieson [comments on contents]' Benjamin Newton [Von Buch] [a tour in Denmark] Print : Book1800-1849 'Bedale club. Sat next to Dr Scott who told wonderful stories of the effect which Bell's Mode of Education had caused at the charterhouse. [...] Some of Watson's life whi... Benjamin Newton Richard Watson Anecdotes of the life of Richard Watson [...] writ Print : Book1800-1849 'Read Armata, said to be Lord Erskine's, very unworthy of his name 'tho his politics are displayed which are pretty nearly my opinions and I should therefore be more incl... Benjamin Newton [Erskine or T.E.] Armata, a Fragment Print : Book1800-1849 'Another of Von Buch's Miraculous Tales. On the coast of Norway are many rocks [...] This is the nineteenth hot day without any rain voila Mr Buch once more. At Skey eagl... Benjamin Newton [Von Buch] [A Tour in Denmark] Print : Book1800-1849 'Von Buch says that it is only lately that the Holy Sacrament has been better understood by the Laplanders [...]' Benjamin Newton [Von Buch] [A Tour in Denmark] Print : Book1800-1849 'Proceeded with Denham's "Physico-Theology". Read Hurd's sermon on "Every soul shall be salted with fire", an odd mode of preaching, he seems to give two guesses at the m... Benjamin Newton William Derham Physio Theology or a Demonstartion of the being Print : Book1800-1849 'Saw the names of three old acquaintances written with a diamond on the window of our sitting room, viz, Mrs Rewe, Mrs Price, Miss S.Hatton, Sep.1793' Benjamin Newton n/a n/a Manuscript : Graffito1900-1945 'As a railway clerk's daughter, Muriel Box enjoyed borrowing her brother's "Magnet", "Gem" and "Boy's Own Paper": she later became a leading feminist activist and pioneer... Muriel Box n/a The Magnet Print : Serial / periodical1900-1945 'As a railway clerk's daughter, Muriel Box enjoyed borrowing her brother's "Magnet", "Gem" and "Boy's Own Paper": she later became a leading feminist activist and pioneer... Muriel Box n/a The Gem Print : Serial / periodical1900-1945 'As a railway clerk's daughter, Muriel Box enjoyed borrowing her brother's "Magnet", "Gem" and "Boy's Own Paper": she later became a leading feminist activist and pioneer... Muriel Box n/a The Boy's Own Paper Print : Serial / periodical1900-1945 'Domestic servant Dorothy Burnham never read girls' stories ("I found them insipid and meaningless") but she and her older sister were fixated on the "Magnet" to the poin... Dorothy Burnham n/a The Magnet Print : Serial / periodical1900-1945 [imaginative role play] 'One chauffeur's daughter alternated effortlessly between heroes and heroines: "I have plotted against pirates along with Jim Hawkins and I have t... Margaret Wharton Robert Louis Stevenson Treasure Island Print : Book1900-1945 [imaginative role play] 'One chauffeur's daughter alternated effortlessly between heroes and heroines: "I have plotted against pirates along with Jim Hawkins and I have t... Margaret Wharton Charlotte Bronte Jane Eyre Print : Book1900-1945 [imaginative role play] 'One chauffeur's daughter alternated effortlessly between heroes and heroines: "I have plotted against pirates along with Jim Hawkins and I have t... Margaret Wharton Frederick Marryat Masterman Ready, or the Wreck in the Pacific Print : Book1900-1945 [imaginative role play] 'One chauffeur's daughter alternated effortlessly between heroes and heroines: "I have plotted against pirates along with Jim Hawkins and I have t... Margaret Wharton [unknown] [account of Bounty mutiny] Print : Book1900-1945 [imaginative role play] 'One chauffeur's daughter alternated effortlessly between heroes and heroines: "I have plotted against pirates along with Jim Hawkins and I have t... Margaret Wharton Arthur Conan Doyle Sir Nigel Print : Book1900-1945 [imaginative role play] 'One chauffeur's daughter alternated effortlessly between heroes and heroines: "I have plotted against pirates along with Jim Hawkins and I have t... Margaret Wharton Richard Doddridge Blackmore Lorna Doone Print : Book1800-1849 [Annotations] Written on Fol 1 recto, "Mechanics Institute Jan 1839" and on Fol 2 recto, in the same hand, "H.J.Batt Esq, Uxbridge" H.J. Batt Uxbridge & HIllingdon Literary & Mechanics Institu... Print : Advertisement, Pamphlet1800-1849 "To the Editors of the Attempt,
Gentlemen,
If I recollect rightly you give notice to the effect, that communication cannot be received after the twentieth of the month.... anon The Attempt Print : Serial / periodical1900-1945 "To the Editor,
Dear Sir,
I have just been looking through some Gazettes intending them for salvage, & came across a note about John Bedford Leno. I am sending to you ... Uxbridge Gazette Print : Newspaper1800-1849 "Florence Nightingale's copy of Mrs. Trimmer's New and Comprehensive Lessons, Containing a General Outline of the Roman History (1818) has Nightingale's autograph in penc... Florence Nightingale Mrs Trimmer New and Comprehensive Lessons, Containing a Genera... Print : Book1700-1799 " ... an irritated reader of Jonathan Edwards's Dissertation Concerning Liberty and Necessity (1797) provides an epigraph from Milton on the title page, right after the a... anon Jonathan Edwards Dissertation Concerning Liberty and Necessity Print : Book1900-1945 "Sir Arthur Conan Doyle endorses many of the volumes in his collection of books about spiritualism and parapsychological experience with a signed note on the title page: ... Sir Arthur Conan Doyle L. Margery Bazett After-Death Communications Print : Book1800-1849 " ... [S. T. Coleridge] in a copy of Gerhard Voss's Poeticarum institutionum, libri tres (1647): 'I have looked thro' this book with some attention, April 21, 1803 --, an... Samuel Taylor Coleridge Gerhard Voss Poeticarum Institutionum, libri tres Print : Book1800-1849 "And how fared the growth of this child's mind the while? Thanks to the care of his mother, who had sent him to the penny school, he had learnt to read, and the desire to... Gerald Massey Bible Print : Book1800-1849 "And how fared the growth of this child's mind the while? Thanks to the care of his mother, who had sent him to the penny school, he had learnt to read, and the desire to... Gerald Massey John Bunyan Pilgrim's Progress Print : Book1800-1849 "And how fared the growth of this child's mind the while? Thanks to the care of his mother, who had sent him to the penny school, he had learnt to read, and the desire to... Gerald Massey Daniel Defoe Robinson Crusoe Print : Book1800-1849 " ... a large part of the manuscript for William Godwin's play Abbas, with Coleridge's commentary dating from 1801, has recently come to light ... there he ... adopted a ... Samuel Taylor Coleridge William Godwin Abbas Manuscript : Unknown1800-1849 "And how fared the growth of this child's mind the while? Thanks to the care of his mother, who had sent him to the penny school, he had learnt to read, and the desire to... Gerald Massey [Wesleyan magazines] Print : Serial / periodical1800-1849 " ... a large part of the manuscript for William Godwin's play Abbas, with Coleridge's commentary dating from 1801, has recently come to light ... there he ... adopted a ... Samuel Taylor Coleridge Robert Southey Joan of Arc Unknown 1800-1849 "And how fared the growth of this child's mind the while? Thanks to the care of his mother, who had sent him to the penny school, he had learnt to read, and the desire to... Gerald Massey [battle histories] Print : Book1800-1849 " ... within a few pages [of his copy of Philip Nichols's Sir Francis Drake Revived (1626)], [John Ruskin] writes, 'very obscure' (p. 27) ... 'don't understand at all' (p... John Ruskin Philip Nichols Sir Francis Drake Revived Print : Book1700-1799 H. J. Jackson notes, partially reproduces, and discusses lengthy annotations, including mock completion of title and close, argumentative marginal responses to text, made... anon Richard Watson A Letter to His Grace the Archbishop of Canterbury Print : Unknown1850-1899 " ... to the coda of his copy of the Meditations of Marcus Aurelius Antoninus, 'depart, therefore, contented and in good humour ...' [Leigh] Hunt courteously adds, 'Thank... James Henry Leigh Hunt Marcus Aurelius Antoninus Meditations Print : Book1800-1849 " ... [William Beckford's] copy of ... Stewarton's Revolutionary Plutarch (1806) has notes in only the first of three volumes ... [they] fill half a page, as follows:
"'... William Beckford Stewarton Revolutionary Plutarch Print : Book1800-1849 "The [Pierpont] Morgan [Library] copy [of Southey, A Vision of Judgement (1821)] once belonged to Byron. It contains a transcription, in ink, not necessarily made in Byr... anon William Beckford Annotations to Robert Southey, A Vision of Judgeme... Manuscript : annotations in printed text1700-1799 H. J. Jackson describes and discusses ninth edition copy (1754) of Thomas Gray, Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard annotated (with 'reflective remarks') by owner, Gene... General James Wolfe Thomas Gray Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard Print : Pamphlet1700-1799 " ... [Alexander Pope's surviving books] allow us to be confident about his having read certain works, such as the essays of Montaigne." Alexander Pope Michel de Montaigne essays Print : Book1700-1799 "The books in which Pope's annotations, though scanty, are undoubtedly authentic include a copy of the racy poems of the Earl of Rochester in which Pope filled in some of... Alexander Pope John Wilmot Earl of Rochester poems Print : Book1700-1799 "Pope collected copies of attacks on his own work, and the notes in these tend understandably to the defensive, as in the occasional sarcastic comment in pamphlets by Joh... Alexander Pope John Dennis pamphlet attacking Pope's poetry Print : Pamphlet1700-1799 In his copy of John Whitaker, The History of Manchester, Francis Douce "[backed] up a sarcastic note (I: vii) about the defects of the author's style and his overreliance... Francis Douce John Whitaker History of Manchester Print : Book1700-1799 "Mary Astell returned a borrowed copy of Pierre Bayle's Pensees diverses (4th ed., 1704) to the owner, Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, with the first volume profusely annotate... Mary Astell Pierre Bayle Pensees diverses vol 1 Print : Book1700-1799 "When Samuel Richardson asked his friend Lady Bradshaigh for her opinion of his novels Pamela and Clarissa, she sent him her annotated copies -- and he 'devoted some of h... Samuel Richardson Lady Bradshaigh annotations to Samuel Richardson, Pamela 1700-1799 "When Samuel Richardson asked his friend Lady Bradshaigh for her opinion of his novels Pamela and Clarissa, she sent him her annotated copies -- and he 'devoted some of h... Samuel Richardson Lady Bradshaigh annotations to Samuel Richardson, Clarissa Manuscript : annotations in printed text1700-1799 "Samuel Johnson ... annotated a copy of a religious work in 1755 so he could exchange views with a woman he loved, Hill Boothby." Samuel Johnson religious work Print : Unknown1800-1849 H. J. Jackson discusses copious annotations and commentary by unidentified, contemporary male reader in copy of William Mudford, Nubilia in Search of a Husband (1809); an... anon William Mudford Nubilia in Search of a Husband Print : Book1800-1849 "Walter Savage Landor's copy of Conversations of Lord Byron with the Countess of Blessington takes issue with Byron's declaration that if they were married, he and the Co... Walter Savage Landor Conversations of Lord Byron with the Countess of B... Print : Book1800-1849 "An Irish nationalist annotating the autobiographical Life of Theobald Wolfe Tone, the Founder of the 'United Irishmen' (1845) identifies the pseudonymous author of the '... anon LIfe of Theobald Wolfe Tone, the Founder of the 'U... Print : Book"An Irish nationalist annotating the autobiographical Life of Theobald Wolfe Tone, the Founder of the 'United Irishmen' (1845) identifies the pseudonymous author of the '... annotations in Life of Theobald Wolfe Tone, the Fo... Manuscript : annotations in printed text1800-1849 " ... Macaulay ... did not annotate his copies of Jane Austen except to record the dates of reading and to correct a very small number of typographical errors." Thomas Babington Macaulay Jane Austen novels Print : Book1800-1849 'Read Marco Polo's Travels which are amusing enough though containing a pretty large collection of absurdities [...]' Benjamin Newton Marco Polo The Travels of Marco Polo Print : Book1800-1849 'Finished Marco Polo, a very curious book for the time in which it was written, wonderfully accurate in the account of the people bating his miracles [...] which was the ... Benjamin Newton Marco Polo The Travels of Marco Polo Print : Book
