√ Century of Experience Evidence Name of Reader / Listener / Reading Group Author of Text Title of Text Form of Text 'C.H. Rolph... picked up [a message that "well-trained impis could outwit upper-class English duffers"] from S. Clarke Hook's stories of Jack, Sam and Pete in the Boys' F... C.H. Rolph S. Clarke Hook [Jack, Sam and Pete stories] Print : Book1850-1899 'For a boy in a Lancashire mining village around 1880, where there were few books to read (other than twenty volumes of Methodist Conference minutes) W.H.G. Kingston's "D... William Lax W.H.G. Kingston Dick Onslow Among the Red Indians Print : Book1850-1899 'Especially effective [at transmitting conservative values to the working classes] were the pious
works of Hesba Stretton, Mrs O.F. Walton, and Amy Le Feuvre, stories ... children and mothers Hesba Stretton Jessica's First Prayer Print : Book1850-1899 'Especially effective [at transmitting conservative values to the working classes] were the pious works of Hesba Stretton, Mrs O.F. Walton, and Amy Le Feuvre, stories wi... children and mothers Mrs O.F. Walton Christie's Old Organ Print : Book1850-1899 'Especially effective [at transmitting conservative values to the working classes] were the pious works of Hesba Stretton, Mrs O.F. Walton, and Amy Le Feuvre, stories w... children and mothers Brenda New Froggy's Little Brother Print : Book1850-1899 'Especially effective [at transmitting conservative values to the working classes] were the pious works of Hesba Stretton, Mrs O.F. Walton, and Amy Le Feuvre, stories w... children and mothers Amy Le Feuvre [pious fiction] Print : Book1600-1699 'After praer I wrought and hard Mr Rhodes read' Richard Rhodes [unknown] [unknown] Print : Book1700-1799 [Transcript in Journal of Chapter One, in shorthand] John Byrom William Wollaston The Religion of Nature Delineated Print : Book1600-1699 'After I had praied I reed of the Testement and did eate: after, I walked and did medetate of that I had reed' Margaret Hoby [n/a] Bible Print : Book1600-1699 'then I dined: after, I talked with my neighbours of that we had hard, and Reed some thinge to them' Margaret Hoby [unknown] [unknown] Print : Book1600-1699 'hard Mr Rhodes read of a sermon book' Richard Rhodes [unknown] [Sermons] Print : Book1700-1799 'I called at Squire's [...] my advertisement was not in the Daily Courant. Went into St Dunstan's Church to hear Dr Lupton [is too late] went to the [Royal]Society, Sir I... John Byrom n/a The Daily Courant Print : Advertisement, Newspaper1700-1799 'To Richard's where I stayed all afternoon ... I met mr Graham of our college formerly, and he showed me some Verses about Lord Cateret that were made in Ireland, pretty ... John Byrom anon [Verse on Lord Cateret] Unknown 1900-1945 'Marjory Todd read [the books of Hesba Stretton, Mrs O.F. Walton and Amy le Feuvre but felt later that] "I would not now willingly expose a child of mine to the morbid re... Marjory Todd Amy Le Feuvre [pious novels] Print : Book1900-1945 'Marjory Todd read [the books of Hesba Stretton, Mrs O.F. Walton and Amy le Feuvre but felt later that] "I would not now willingly expose a child of mine to the morbid re... Marjory Todd Hesba Stretton [pious novels] Print : Book1900-1945 'Marjory Todd read [the books of Hesba Stretton, Mrs O.F. Walton and Amy le Feuvre but felt later that] "I would not now willingly expose a child of mine to the morbid re... Marjory Todd Mrs O.F. Walton [pious novels] Print : Book1700-1799 'I went to the Library; read Bramhall against Hobbes' John Byrom John Bramhall Castigation of Mr Hobbes [with the appendix]The Ca Print : Book1900-1945 'Marjory Todd read [the books of Hesba Stretton, Mrs O.F. Walton and Amy le Feuvre but felt later that] "I would not now willingly expose a child of mine to the morbid re... Marjory Todd Jane Austen Pride and Prejudice Print : Book1900-1945 'Marjory Todd read [the books of Hesba Stretton, Mrs O.F. Walton and Amy le Feuvre but felt later that] "I would not now willingly expose a child of mine to the morbid re... Marjory Todd Charlotte Bronte Jane Eyre Print : Book1900-1945 'Marjory Todd read [the books of Hesba Stretton, Mrs O.F. Walton and Amy le Feuvre but felt later that] "I would not now willingly expose a child of mine to the morbid re... Marjory Todd Lewis Carroll Alice in Wonderland Print : Book1900-1945 'Marjory Todd read [the books of Hesba Stretton, Mrs O.F. Walton and Amy le Feuvre but felt later that] "I would not now willingly expose a child of mine to the morbid re... Marjory Todd Frederick Marryat [unknown] Print : Book1900-1945 'Marjory Todd read [the books of Hesba Stretton, Mrs O.F. Walton and Amy le Feuvre but felt later that] "I would not now willingly expose a child of mine to the morbid re... Marjory Todd Kenneth Grahame [probably The Wind in the Willows etc] Print : Book1600-1699 'and, after, I did read of the bible, praied, and wrett in my sermon booke, and then went to dinner' Margaret Hoby [n/a] Bible Print : Book1900-1945 'Marjory Todd read [the books of Hesba Stretton, Mrs O.F. Walton and Amy le Feuvre but felt later that] "I would not now willingly expose a child of mine to the morbid re... Marjory Todd Edith Nesbit [unknown] Print : Book1700-1799 'I read a good deal of Shakespeares works. Item Ben Johnsons, & Return'd them to the library' John Henry Ott William Shakespereare [various] Print : Book1600-1699 'after ward I talked with Mr Gregorie, hard Mr Rhodes read, and, after, I went to priuat medetation and praier' Richard Rhodes [unknown] [unknown] Print : Book1700-1799 'I read the 2 Vol of the Tatler' John Henry Ott n/a Tatler Print : Serial / periodical1600-1699 'after I Came home I walked and reed, and then I went to priuat praier and examenation' Margaret Hoby [unknown] [unknown] Print : Book1600-1699 'so, when I had praied priuatly & reed a chapter of the testement, I went to bed' Margaret Hoby [n/a] Bible Print : Book1600-1699 'then I reed of the testement, walked a whill, and went to supper' Margaret Hoby [n/a] Bible Print : Book1600-1699 'After priuat praers I wrett in my testement and reed' Margaret Hoby [n/a] Bible Print : Book1600-1699 'after, I went to work and then I went about the house, hard Mr Rhodes read' Richard Rhodes [unknown] [unknown] Print : Book1600-1699 'After priuat praier I reed and then went to church' Margaret Hoby [unknown] [unknown] Print : Book1900-1945 'Elinor herself spent much time reading the publications, especially Richard Ingalese's "The History and Power of Mind"; it seemed to fit in, in so many ways, with her ow... Elinor Glyn Richard Ingalese History and Power of Mind, The Unknown 1800-1849 'Robert Collyer grew up in a blacksmith's home with only a few books - "Pilgrim's Progress", "Robinson Crusoe", Goldsmith's histories of England and Rome - but their basi... Robert Collyer Daniel Defoe Robinson Crusoe Print : Book1800-1849 'Robert Collyer grew up in a blacksmith's home with only a few books - "Pilgrim's Progress", "Robinson Crusoe", Goldsmith's histories of England and Rome - but their basi... Robert Collyer John Bunyan Pilgrim's Progress Print : Book1800-1849 'Robert Collyer grew up in a blacksmith's home with only a few books - "Pilgrim's Progress", "Robinson Crusoe", Goldsmith's histories of England and Rome - but their basi... Robert Collyer Oliver Goldsmith History of England Print : Book1800-1849 'Robert Collyer grew up in a blacksmith's home with only a few books - "Pilgrim's Progress", "Robinson Crusoe", Goldsmith's histories of England and Rome - but their basi... Robert Collyer Oliver Goldsmith History of Rome Print : Book1700-1799 'Gifford had read only some ballads, the black-letter romance Parismus and Parismenus, some odd loose magazines of his mother's, the Bible (which he studied with his gran... William Gifford [anon] [ballads] Print : Unknown1700-1799 'Gifford had read only some ballads, the black-letter romance Parismus and Parismenus, some odd loose magazines of his mother's, the Bible (which he studied with his gran... William Gifford anon Parismus and Parismenus Print : Book1700-1799 'Gifford had read only some ballads, the black-letter romance Parismus and Parismenus, some odd loose magazines of his mother's, the Bible (which he studied with his gran... William Gifford [unknown] [magazines] Print : Serial / periodical1700-1799 'Gifford had read only some ballads, the black-letter romance Parismus and Parismenus, some odd loose magazines of his mother's, the Bible (which he studied with his gran... William Gifford [n/a] Bible Print : Book1700-1799 'Gifford had read only some ballads, the black-letter romance Parismus and Parismenus, some odd loose magazines of his mother's, the Bible (which he studied with his gran... William Gifford Thomas a Kempis The Imitation of Christ Print : Book1700-1799 'Gifford had read only some ballads, the black-letter romance Parismus and Parismenus, some odd loose magazines of his mother's, the Bible (which he studied with his gran... William Gifford Daniel Fenning Algebra Print : Book1900-1945 'Coachman's daughter Anne Tibble was enraged by "The Waste Land", which she read as a scholarship student at a redbrick university: "Eliot's neurosis of disillusion was h... Anne Tibble Thomas Stearns Eliot The Waste Land Print : Unknown1900-1945 'Coachman's daughter Anne Tibble was enraged by "The Waste Land", which she read as a scholarship student at a redbrick university: "Eliot's neurosis of disillusion was h... Anne Tibble John Clare [poetry] Print : Unknown1800-1849 [Mary Shelley's Reading List for 1816. The diary from May 1815-July 1816 is lost, so this list is our only record for Mary's reading in early 1816. Later in the year text... Mary Godwin George Gordon, Lord Byron The Siege of Corinth: a poem; Parisina: a poem Print : Book1800-1849 [Mary Shelley's Reading List for 1816. The diary from May 1815-July 1816 is lost, so this list is our only record for Mary's reading in early 1816. Later in the year text... Mary Godwin Pierre Jean Baptiste Legrand d' Aussy Fabliaux ou contes du XII et du XIII si?cle Print : Book1800-1849 [Mary Shelley's Reading List for 1816. The diary from May 1815-July 1816 is lost, so this list is our only record for Mary's reading in early 1816. Later in the year text... Mary Godwin Carl Philipp Moritz Reisen eines Deutschen in England im Jahr 1782 Print : Book1850-1899 [checkweighman Chester Armstrong wrote] "The fact of Ruskin's gallant and successful defence of Turner the great landscape painter, and his still more valiant stand again... Chester Armstrong John Ruskin The Stones of Venice Print : Book1850-1899 [checkweighman Chester Armstrong wrote] "The fact of Ruskin's gallant and successful defence of Turner the great landscape painter, and his still more valiant stand again... Chester Armstrong John Ruskin Modern Painters Print : Book1850-1899 [checkweighman Chester Armstrong wrote] "The fact of Ruskin's gallant and successful defence of Turner the great landscape painter, and his still more valiant stand again... Chester Armstrong John Ruskin The Seven Lamps of Architecture Print : Book1800-1849 H. J. Jackson discusses copy of John Clare, Poems Descriptive of Rural Life and Scenery (1820) annotated by Eliza Louisa Emmerson for Lord Radstock. Eliza Louisa Emmerson John Clare Poems Descriptive of Rural Life and Scenery Print : Book1850-1899 [checkweighman Chester Armstrong wrote] "The fact of Ruskin's gallant and successful defence of Turner the great landscape painter, and his still more valiant stand again... Chester Armstrong John Ruskin The Crown of Wild Olives Print : Book1700-1799 H. J. Jackson notes political and critical remarks added by Anna Seward to copy of William Cowper, The Task. Anna Seward William Cowper The Task Print : Book1800-1849 H. J. Jackson notes annotations in a copy of Middlemarch by a reader who, "initially repelled by the books, was gradually won over." anon George Eliot Middlemarch Print : Book1850-1899 H. J. Jackson notes how annotations made in 1871 by Francis Palgrave in his copy of Alfred Russel Wallace, Contributions to the Theory of Natural Selection (1870) show de... Francis Palgrave Alfred Russel Wallace Contributions to the Theory of Natural Selection Print : Book1800-1849 H. J. Jackson notes annotations by T. B. Macaulay in T. J. Mathias, Pursuits of Literature, including "'Bah!'" "'A contemptible heap of rant & twaddle'" and "'Noisome ped... Thomas Babington Macaulay T. J. Mathias Pursuits of Literature Print : Book1700-1799 H. J. Jackson notes annotations (including corrections and updatings to text and notes) by Francis Hargrave in copy of his own edition of Edward Coke's Commentary upon Li... Francis Hargrave Edward Coke The First Part of the Institutes of the Laws of En... Print : Book1900-1945 'W.J. Brown was introduced to literature by "Robinson Crusoe", "She", "The Last of the Mohicans", and "Around the World in Eighty Days", and he never moved far beyond tha... William John Brown Daniel Defoe Robinson Crusoe Print : Book1900-1945 'W.J. Brown was introduced to literature by "Robinson Crusoe", "She", "The Last of the Mohicans", and "Around the World in Eighty Days", and he never moved far beyond tha... William John Brown Henry Rider Haggard She Print : Book1900-1945 'W.J. Brown was introduced to literature by "Robinson Crusoe", "She", "The Last of the Mohicans", and "Around the World in Eighty Days", and he never moved far beyond tha... William John Brown James Fenimore Cooper The Last of the Mohicans Print : Book1900-1945 'W.J. Brown was introduced to literature by "Robinson Crusoe", "She", "The Last of the Mohicans", and "Around the World in Eighty Days", and he never moved far beyond tha... William John Brown Jules Verne Around the World in Eighty Days Print : Book1900-1945 'W.J. Brown was introduced to literature by "Robinson Crusoe", "She", "The Last of the Mohicans", and "Around the World in Eighty Days", and he never moved far beyond tha... William John Brown Fyodor Dostoevsky The Idiot Print : Book1900-1945 'W.J. Brown was introduced to literature by "Robinson Crusoe", "She", "The Last of the Mohicans", and "Around the World in Eighty Days", and he never moved far beyond tha... William John Brown Fyodor Dostoevsky The Brothers Karamazov Print : Book1900-1945 'after tea [W.J. Brown] would enjoy "five glorious hours of freedom" reading Darwin, Huxley and Tennyson's "In Memoriam" at the Battersea Public Library'. William John Brown Charles Darwin [unknown] Print : Book1900-1945 'after tea [W.J. Brown] would enjoy "five glorious hours of freedom" reading Darwin, Huxley and Tennyson's "In Memoriam" at the Battersea Public Library'. William John Brown Thomas Henry Huxley [unknown] Print : Book1900-1945 'after tea [W.J. Brown] would enjoy "five glorious hours of freedom" reading Darwin, Huxley and Tennyson's "In Memoriam" at the Battersea Public Library'. William John Brown Alfred, Lord Tennyson In Memoriam Print : Book1850-1899 "Benjamin Dockray ... acquired a copy of Godwin's Memoirs [of the Author of a Vindication of the Rights of Woman] secondhand in 1860 and settled down to read it for the f... Benjamin Dockray William Godwin Memoirs of the Author of A Vindication of the Righ... Print : Book1850-1899 [Entry from Commonplace Book]: 'Christianity, diffusion of, assisted by the general scepticism of the pagan world combined with the necessity of some belief in the vulgar... Edward Davy Harrop Edward Gibbon Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Print : Book1900-1945 'After a miserable Catholic school education...periodic unemployment allowed [Joseph Toole] to study in the Manchester Reference Library. There he discovered, Adam Smith,... Joseph Toole Adam Smith [unknown] Print : Book1850-1899 H. J. Jackson discusses Max Beerbohm's "doctored copy of Queen Victoria's More Leaves from the Journal of a Life in the Highlands", to which he added "playfully-intended ... Max Beerbohm Queen Victoria More Leaves from the Journal of a Life in the High... Print : Book1900-1945 'After a miserable Catholic school education...periodic unemployment allowed [Joseph Toole] to study in the Manchester Reference Library. There he discovered, Adam Smith,... Joseph Toole David Ricardo [unknown] Print : Book1900-1945 'After a miserable Catholic school education...periodic unemployment allowed [Joseph Toole] to study in the Manchester Reference Library. There he discovered, Adam Smith,... Joseph Toole Herbert Spencer [unknown] Print : Book1900-1945 'After a miserable Catholic school education...periodic unemployment allowed [Joseph Toole] to study in the Manchester Reference Library. There he discovered, Adam Smith,... Joseph Toole Thomas Henry Huxley [unknown] Print : Book1900-1945 'After a miserable Catholic school education...periodic unemployment allowed [Joseph Toole] to study in the Manchester Reference Library. There he discovered, Adam Smith,... Joseph Toole John Stuart Mill [unknown] Print : Book1850-1899 [Entry from Commonplace Book]: 'Mammon (figurative) description of, Paradise Lost, Book 1, line 680'. Edward Davy Harrop John Milton Paradise Lost Print : Book1900-1945 'After a miserable Catholic school education...periodic unemployment allowed [Joseph Toole] to study in the Manchester Reference Library. There he discovered, Adam Smith,... Joseph Toole Ralph Waldo Emerson [unknown] Print : Book1900-1945 'After a miserable Catholic school education...periodic unemployment allowed [Joseph Toole] to study in the Manchester Reference Library. There he discovered, Adam Smith,... Joseph Toole Charles Dickens [unknown] Print : Book1900-1945 'After a miserable Catholic school education...periodic unemployment allowed [Joseph Toole] to study in the Manchester Reference Library. There he discovered, Adam Smith,... Joseph Toole William Morris [unknown] Print : Book1900-1945 'After a miserable Catholic school education...periodic unemployment allowed [Joseph Toole] to study in the Manchester Reference Library. There he discovered, Adam Smith,... Joseph Toole Robert Peel Glanville Blatchford [unknown] Print : Book1900-1945 'After a miserable Catholic school education...periodic unemployment allowed [Joseph Toole] to study in the Manchester Reference Library. There he discovered, Adam Smith,... Joseph Toole George Bernard Shaw [unknown] Print : Book1900-1945 'After a miserable Catholic school education...periodic unemployment allowed [Joseph Toole] to study in the Manchester Reference Library. There he discovered, Adam Smith,... Joseph Toole Herbert George Wells [unknown] Print : Book1900-1945 'After a miserable Catholic school education...periodic unemployment allowed [Joseph Toole] to study in the Manchester Reference Library. There he discovered, Adam Smith,... Joseph Toole John Ruskin [unknown] Print : Book1700-1799 H. J. Jackson discusses "sarcastic" marginal remarks by Samuel Parr in his copy of Poems by Mrs Pickering (1794), a volume including poems by John Morfitt and Joseph West... Samuel Parr John Morfitt poems in poems including Lines on Hatton Print : Book1700-1799 H. J. Jackson discusses "sarcastic" marginal remarks by Samuel Parr in his copy of Poems by Mrs Pickering (1794), a volume including poems by John Morfitt and Joseph West... Samuel Parr Joseph Weston poems including Written on Returning from Lichfiel... Print : Book1800-1849 H. J. Jackson discusses copy of Paradise Lost annotated by John Keats for Mrs Dilke, in which passages highlighted and critical commentary added. John Keats John Milton Paradise Lost Print : Book1700-1799 H. J. Jackson notes Jeremy Bentham's annotations (including highlightings and marginal comments) to eight pamphlets by Edmund Burke. Jeremy Bentham Edmund Burke pamphlets including Observations on a late State o... Print : Pamphlet1900-1945 '[Patrick McGill] read virtually nothing, not even the daily papers until, working on the rail line, he happened to pick up some poetry written on a page from an exercise... Patrick McGill anon [poem] Manuscript : Sheet, sheet from an exercise book1700-1799 H. J. Jackson discusses expansive annotations made in ink by Edward Gibbon in copy of Herodotus, including corrections as well as lively critical commentary. Edward Gibbon Herodotus Herodoti Halicarnassei Historiarum Libri IX Print : Book1900-1945 '[Patrick McGill] read virtually nothing, not even the daily papers until, working on the rail line, he happened to pick up some poetry written on a page from an exercise... Patrick McGill Thomas Carlyle Sartor Resartus Print : Book1900-1945 '[Patrick McGill] read virtually nothing, not even the daily papers until, working on the rail line, he happened to pick up some poetry written on a page from an exercise... Patrick McGill John Ruskin Sesame and Lilies Print : Book1900-1945 '[Patrick McGill] read virtually nothing, not even the daily papers until, working on the rail line, he happened to pick up some poetry written on a page from an exercise... Patrick McGill Victor Hugo Les Miserables Print : Book1900-1945 '[Patrick McGill] read virtually nothing, not even the daily papers until, working on the rail line, he happened to pick up some poetry written on a page from an exercise... Patrick McGill Karl Marx Das Kapital Print : Book1700-1799 H. J. Jackson discusses Granville Sharp's "tenacious, rigorous, and expansive" argumentative annotations in anonymous 1772 pro-slavery pamphlet (by "a West Indian plantat... Granville Sharp Samuel Estwick Considerations on the Negroe Cause, Commonly So Ca... Print : Pamphlet1700-1799 H. J. Jackson notes observations by Leigh Hunt written into back of a copy of William Wycherley's Plays originally belonging to Charles Lamb, as well as other annotations... James Leigh Hunt William Wycherley Plays Print : Book1700-1799 H. J. Jackson notes observations by Leigh Hunt written into back of a copy of William Wycherley's Plays originally belonging to Charles Lamb, as well as other annotations... Charles Lamb William Wycherley Plays Print : Book1800-1849 H. J. Jackson notes exception to William Beckford's usual practice of "only occasionally" adding comments to his books: "His copy of an 1816 edition of Samuel Johnson's D... William Beckford Samuel Johnson Diary of a Journey into North Wales Print : Book1700-1799 H. J. Jackson notes Edmund Ferrars's annotations to his copy of Laurence Sterne, A Sentimental Journey: "A note on the title page indicates that Ferrars acquired this two... Edmund Ferrars Laurence Sterne A Sentimental Journey through France and Italy. B... Print : Book1800-1849 H. J. Jackson notes annotations made by John James Raven over period of around 40-50 years in copy of Macaulay's Lays of Ancient Rome given to him in 1848, "when Raven wa... John James Raven Thomas Babington Macaulay Lays of Ancient Rome: with "Ivry" and "The Armada" Print : Book1800-1849 "Horatio Nelson's copy of Helen Maria Williams's Sketches of the State of Manners and Opinions in the French Republic Towards the Close of the Eighteenth Century (1801) .... Horatio Nelson Helen Maria Williams Sketches of the State of Manners and Opinions in t... Print : Book1850-1899 " ... Henry Shorthouse ... acquired ... [John Keble, The Christian Year] as a present fom his wife in September 1874 and proceeded to record readings and rereadings to th... Henry Shorthouse John Keble The Christian Year Print : Book1850-1899 " ... Henry Shorthouse ... acquired ... [John Keble, The Christian Year] as a present fom his wife in September 1874 and proceeded to record readings and rereadings to th... Henry Shorthouse John Keble The Christian Year Print : Book1850-1899 " ... Henry Shorthouse ... acquired ... [John Keble, The Christian Year] as a present fom his wife in September 1874 and proceeded to record readings and rereadings to th... Henry Shorthouse John Keble The Christian Year Print : Book1700-1799 "Thomas Gray's copy of William Verral's Complete System of Cookery contains several marks and additions, allegedly in Gray's hand [including records of success or failure... Thomas Gray William Verral A Complete System of Cookery Print : Book1900-1945 H. J. Jackson notes handwritten insertion of names of persons identified only by initials in H. Giles's copy of B. L. Putnam Weale, Indiscreet Letters from Peking (an "a... H. Giles B. L. Putnam Weale Indiscreet Letters from Peking Print : Book1800-1849 H. J. Jackson notes Hester Lynch Piozzi's extensive 1819-20 annotations to The Imperial Family Bible, lent to her by its owner, Mrs Susanna Rudd. Hester Lynch Piozzi The Imperial Family Bible Print : Book1800-1849 H. J. Jackson notes Hester Lynch Piozzi's notes to Pettit's Anecdotes (borrowed from her friend Edward Mangin in 1817), written by her onto separate sheets of paper, whic... Hester Lynch Piozzi James Andrew Pettit Anecdotes, &c Ancient and Modern Print : Book1800-1849 H. J. Jackson notes that Coleridge wrote "an extraordinary set of notes ... designed to help [Robert] Southey with a review" into a copy of James Sedgwick, Hints to the P... Samuel Taylor Coleridge James Sedgwick Hints to the Public and Legislature, on the Nature... Print : Book1600-1699 "In Part I of the Religio [Medici] (i:30), [Thomas] Browne confesses himself a writer of marginalia, quoting a passage of Paracelsus that he declare 'I never could pass .... Thomas Browne Paracelsus Print : Book1800-1849 H. J. Jackson notes Coleridge's 1811 annotation of Charles Lamb's copy of Donne's Poems, in which he wrote "'N.B. Spite of Appearances, this Copy is better for the Mss. N... Samuel Taylor Coleridge John Donne Poems Print : Book1800-1849 H. J. Jackson notes 1818 letter from S. T. Coleridge to Joseph Henry Green in which, "having mentioned Novalis's Heinrich von Ofterdingen, [Coleridge] says, '(Your short ... Joseph Henry Green Novalis Heinrich von Ofterdingen (vol 2) Print : Book1700-1799 H. J. Jackson notes John Horseman's annotation (including literary quotations and cross-references) of his copy of Maria Edgeworth, Letters for Literary Ladies (1799). John Horseman Maria Edgeworth Letters for Literary Ladies Print : Book1850-1899 'Lancashire journalist Allen Clarke (b.1863), the son of a Bolton textile worker, avidly read his father's paperback editions of Shakespeare and ploughed through the lite... Allen Clarke William Shakespeare [works] Print : Book1850-1899 'Lancashire journalist Allen Clarke (b.1863), the son of a Bolton textile worker, avidly read his father's paperback editions of Shakespeare and ploughed through the lite... Allen Clarke Geoffrey Chaucer [unknown] Print : Book1850-1899 'Lancashire journalist Allen Clarke (b.1863), the son of a Bolton textile worker, avidly read his father's paperback editions of Shakespeare and ploughed through the lite... Allen Clarke Christopher Marlowe [unknown] Print : Book1850-1899 'Lancashire journalist Allen Clarke (b.1863), the son of a Bolton textile worker, avidly read his father's paperback editions of Shakespeare and ploughed through the lite... Allen Clarke Ben Jonson [unknown] Print : Book1850-1899 'Lancashire journalist Allen Clarke (b.1863), the son of a Bolton textile worker, avidly read his father's paperback editions of Shakespeare and ploughed through the lite... Allen Clarke John Milton [unknown] Print : Book1850-1899 'Lancashire journalist Allen Clarke (b.1863), the son of a Bolton textile worker, avidly read his father's paperback editions of Shakespeare and ploughed through the lite... Allen Clarke Alexander Pope [unknown] Print : Book1850-1899 'Lancashire journalist Allen Clarke (b.1863), the son of a Bolton textile worker, avidly read his father's paperback editions of Shakespeare and ploughed through the lite... Allen Clarke Thomas Chatterton [unknown] Print : Book1850-1899 'Lancashire journalist Allen Clarke (b.1863), the son of a Bolton textile worker, avidly read his father's paperback editions of Shakespeare and ploughed through the lite... Allen Clarke Oliver Goldsmith [unknown] Print : Book1850-1899 'Lancashire journalist Allen Clarke (b.1863), the son of a Bolton textile worker, avidly read his father's paperback editions of Shakespeare and ploughed through the lite... Allen Clarke George Gordon, Lord Byron [unknown] Print : Book1850-1899 'Lancashire journalist Allen Clarke (b.1863), the son of a Bolton textile worker, avidly read his father's paperback editions of Shakespeare and ploughed through the lite... Allen Clarke Percy Bysshe Shelley [unknown] Print : Book1850-1899 'Lancashire journalist Allen Clarke (b.1863), the son of a Bolton textile worker, avidly read his father's paperback editions of Shakespeare and ploughed through the lite... Allen Clarke Robert Burns [unknown] Print : Book1850-1899 'Lancashire journalist Allen Clarke (b.1863), the son of a Bolton textile worker, avidly read his father's paperback editions of Shakespeare and ploughed through the lite... Allen Clarke William Wordsworth [unknown] Print : Book1850-1899 'Lancashire journalist Allen Clarke (b.1863), the son of a Bolton textile worker, avidly read his father's paperback editions of Shakespeare and ploughed through the lite... Allen Clarke Leigh Hunt [unknown] Print : Book1850-1899 'Lancashire journalist Allen Clarke (b.1863), the son of a Bolton textile worker, avidly read his father's paperback editions of Shakespeare and ploughed through the lite... Allen Clarke John Fletcher [unknown] Print : Book1850-1899 'Lancashire journalist Allen Clarke (b.1863), the son of a Bolton textile worker, avidly read his father's paperback editions of Shakespeare and ploughed through the lite... Allen Clarke Francis Beaumont [unknown] Print : Book1850-1899 'A.E. Coppard, a laundrywoman's son who grew up in dire poverty, left school at nine, ascended the ranks of clerkdom and became (at age forty) a professional author. At f... Alfred Edgar Coppard anon [Deadeye Dick stories] Print : Serial / periodical1850-1899 'A.E. Coppard, a laundrywoman's son who grew up in dire poverty, left school at nine, ascended the ranks of clerkdom and became (at age forty) a professional author. At f... Alfred Edgar Coppard Henry James [unknown] Print : Book1850-1899 'A.E. Coppard, a laundrywoman's son who grew up in dire poverty, left school at nine, ascended the ranks of clerkdom and became (at age forty) a professional author. At f... A.E. Coppard Thomas Hardy [unknown] Print : Book1850-1899 'A.E. Coppard, a laundrywoman's son who grew up in dire poverty, left school at nine, ascended the ranks of clerkdom and became (at age forty) a professional author. At f... Alfred Edgar Coppard William Shakespeare [works] Print : Book1850-1899 'A.E. Coppard, a laundrywoman's son who grew up in dire poverty, left school at nine, ascended the ranks of clerkdom and became (at age forty) a professional author. At f... Alfred Edgar Coppard Homer Odyssey Print : Book1850-1899 'A.E. Coppard, a laundrywoman's son who grew up in dire poverty, left school at nine, ascended the ranks of clerkdom and became (at age forty) a professional author. At f... Alfred Edgar Coppard William Morris The Earthly Paradise Print : Book1850-1899 'A.E. Coppard, a laundrywoman's son who grew up in dire poverty, left school at nine, ascended the ranks of clerkdom and became (at age forty) a professional author. At f... Alfred Edgar Coppard Thomas Hardy Jude the Obscure Print : Book1900-1945 'As a ?1-a-week warehouse clerk in the early 1920s, H.E. Bates spent most of the workday with Conrad, Hardy, Wells, Bennett, Galsworthy, Edith Wharton and Willa Cather'. Herbert Ernest Bates Thomas Hardy [unknown] Print : Book1900-1945 'As a ?1-a-week warehouse clerk in the early 1920s, H.E. Bates spent most of the workday with Conrad, Hardy, Wells, Bennett, Galsworthy, Edith Wharton and Willa Cather'. Herbert Ernest Bates Joseph Conrad [unknown] Print : Book1900-1945 'As a ?1-a-week warehouse clerk in the early 1920s, H.E. Bates spent most of the workday with Conrad, Hardy, Wells, Bennett, Galsworthy, Edith Wharton and Willa Cather'. Herbert Ernest Bates Herbert George Wells [unknown] Print : Book1900-1945 'As a ?1-a-week warehouse clerk in the early 1920s, H.E. Bates spent most of the workday with Conrad, Hardy, Wells, Bennett, Galsworthy, Edith Wharton and Willa Cather'. Herbert Ernest Bates Arnold Bennett [unknown] Print : Book1900-1945 'As a ?1-a-week warehouse clerk in the early 1920s, H.E. Bates spent most of the workday with Conrad, Hardy, Wells, Bennett, Galsworthy, Edith Wharton and Willa Cather'. Herbert Ernest Bates John Galsworthy [unknown] Print : Book1900-1945 'As a ?1-a-week warehouse clerk in the early 1920s, H.E. Bates spent most of the workday with Conrad, Hardy, Wells, Bennett, Galsworthy, Edith Wharton and Willa Cather'. Herbert Ernest Bates Edith Wharton [unknown] Print : Book1900-1945 'As a ?1-a-week warehouse clerk in the early 1920s, H.E. Bates spent most of the workday with Conrad, Hardy, Wells, Bennett, Galsworthy, Edith Wharton and Willa Cather'. Herbert Ernest Bates Willa Cather [unknown] Print : Book1850-1899 'Masefield's early experience of literature came with the stories told or read to him by his nurse. The fare was what would be expected in a middle class Victorian home; ... John Masefield anon Dick Whittington and his Cat Print : Book1850-1899 'Masefield's early experience of literature came with the stories told or read to him by his nurse. The fare was what would be expected in a middle class Victorian home; ... John Masefield Alfred, Lord Tennyson The Dying Swan Print : Book1850-1899 'Masefield's early experience of literature came with the stories told or read to him by his nurse. The fare was what would be expected in a middle class Victorian home; ... John Masefield Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Evangeline Print : Book1850-1899 'Masefield's early experience of literature came with the stories told or read to him by his nurse. The fare was what would be expected in a middle class Victorian home; ... John Masefield Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Hiawatha Print : Book1850-1899 'Masefield obtained his first copy of Robert Louis Stevenson's "Treasure Island" on the Conway and was soon enraptured by the possibility that such South Sea adventures m... John Masefield Robert Louis Stevenson Treasure Island Print : Book1850-1899 'When the seventeen-year-old seaman entered Mr Pratt's bookstore on Sixth Avenue near Greenwich Avenue, he bought his first volume of Sir Thomas Malory's Morete d'Arthur;... John Masefield Thomas Malory Morte d'Arthur Print : Book1850-1899 'Masefield habitually purchased a book each Friday evening and read it over the weekend. Among the first purchases was a seventy-five cent copy of Chaucer; and that eveni... John Masefield Geoffrey Chaucer The Parliament of Fowls Print : Book1850-1899 'Masefield habitually purchased a book each Friday evening and read it over the weekend. Among the first purchases was a seventy-five cent copy of Chaucer; and that eveni... John Masefield John Milton [unknown] Print : Book1850-1899 'Masefield habitually purchased a book each Friday evening and read it over the weekend. Among the first purchases was a seventy-five cent copy of Chaucer; and that eveni... John Masefield Percy Bysshe Shelley [unknown] Print : Book1850-1899 'Masefield habitually purchased a book each Friday evening and read it over the weekend. Among the first purchases was a seventy-five cent copy of Chaucer; and that eveni... John Masefield John Keats [unknown] Print : Book1700-1799 H. J. Jackson discusses highly "adversarial" annotations made by anonymous reader in copy of Richard Watson, Bishop of Llandaff, "A Letter to His Grace the Archbishop of ... Richard Watson A Letter to His Grace the Archbishop of Canterbury Print : Book1700-1799 "One of the interleaved British Library copies of the 1691 edition [of Gerard Langbaine's Account of the English Dramatic Poets] graphically represents the circulation of... Richard Wright Gerard Langbaine An Account of the English Dramatic Poets Print : Book1700-1799 "One of the interleaved British Library copies of the 1691 edition [of Gerard Langbaine's Account of the English Dramatic Poets] graphically represents the circulation of... George Steevens William Oldys annotations in Gerard Langbaine, An Account of the... 1700-1799 "One of the interleaved British Library copies of the 1691 edition [of Gerard Langbaine's Account of the English Dramatic Poets] graphically represents the circulation of... Thomas Percy Gerard Langbaine An Account of the English Dramatic Poets (Oxford, ... Print : Book1700-1799 "One of the interleaved British Library copies of the 1691 edition [of Gerard Langbaine's Account of the English Dramatic Poets] graphically represents the circulation of... William Oldys Gerard Langbaine An Account of the English Dramatic Poets (Oxford, ... Print : Book1700-1799 "When John Brand had a copy of his Observations on Popular Antiquities (1777) interleaved to take materials for a revised edition, he drafted a paragraph of acknowledgeme... Francis Douce John Brand Observations on Popular Antiquities Print : Book1700-1799 H. J. Jackson notes Francis Douce's reading and annotation of James Granger, Biographical History (1779). Francis Douce James Granger Biographical History Print : Book1800-1849 H. J. Jackson notes Francis Douce's reading and annotations (which are "not generous") of copies of John Whitaker, The Ancient Cathedral of Cornwall Historically Surveyed... Francis Douce John Whitaker The Ancient Cathedral of Cornwall Historically Sur... Print : Book1700-1799 H. J. Jackson notes Francis Douce's reading and annotations (which are "not generous") of copies of John Whitaker, The Ancient Cathedral of Cornwall Historically Surveyed... Francis Douce John Whitaker The History of Manchester Print : Book1700-1799 H. J. Jackson notes pencilled parodic completions by unknown (apparently male) reader of verses in The New School of Love, "a tiny Scottish chapbook of the kind sold by i... anon The New School of Love Print : Book1850-1899 "A Victorian edition of a legal classic, the Institutes of Justinian, shows signs of careful and laborious study, with an elaborate system of marking (underlining ... lin... anon Justinian The Institutes of Justinian; with English Introduc... Print : Book1700-1799 H. J. Jackson discusses copious annotations made in 2-volume first-edition (1791) copy of James Boswell's Life of Samuel Johnson, which signed "Scriblerus" (who Jackson i... Fulke Greville James Boswell The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D Print : Book1700-1799 H. J. Jackson discusses copious annotations made in 2-volume first-edition (1791) copy of James Boswell's Life of Samuel Johnson, which signed "Scriblerus" (who Jackson i... Fulke Greville James Boswell The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D Print : Book1700-1799 H. J. Jackson discusses copious annotations made in 2-volume first-edition (1791) copy of James Boswell's Life of Samuel Johnson, which signed "Scriblerus" (who Jackson i... Fulke Greville James Boswell The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D Print : Book1500-1599 Anthony Grafton, "Discitur ut agatur: How Gabriel Harvey Read His Livy": "[Gabriel] Harvey and Thomas Smith, Jr., read through the third decade [of Livy's Romanae histori... Gabriel Harvey and Thomas Smith, Jr. Livy Romanae historiae principis, Decades tres cum dimi... Print : Book1500-1599 Anthony Grafton, "Discitur ut agatur: How Gabriel Harvey Read His Livy": "[Gabriel] Harvey and Thomas Smith, Jr., read through the third decade [of Livy's Romanae histori... Gabriel Harvey and Thomas Smith, Jr. Vegetius De Re Militari (Epitoma rei militaris) Print : Book1500-1599 Anthony Grafton, "Discitur ut agatur: How Gabriel Harvey Read His Livy": "[Gabriel] Harvey and Thomas Smith, Jr., read through the third decade [of Livy's Romanae histori... Gabriel Harvey and Thomas Smith, Jr. Frontinus Print : Book1500-1599 Anthony Grafton, "Discitur ut agatur: How Gabriel Harvey Read His Livy": "In 1576-77, just before Philip Sidney went on his mission to the Emperor Rudolph II in Prague, h... Gabriel Harvey and Philip Sidney T. Livii Patavini Romanae historiae principis Decades tres cum dimid... Print : Book1500-1599 Anthony Grafton, "Discitur ut agatur: How Gabriel Harvey Read His Livy": "In 1584 ... in Cambridge, Harvey read Livy ... with Thomas Preston, master of Trinity Hall. The... Gabriel Harvey and Thomas Preston T. Livii Patavini Romanae historiae principis Decades tres cum dimid... Print : Book1500-1599 Anthony Grafton, "Discitur ut agatur: How Gabriel Harvey Read His Livy": "In 1584 ... in Cambridge, Harvey read Livy ... with Thomas Preston, master of Trinity Hall. The... Gabriel Harvey and Thomas Preston Niccolo Machiavelli Discorsi sopra la prima deca di Tito Livio Print : Book1500-1599 Anthony Grafton, "Discitur ut agatur: How Gabriel Harvey Read His Livy": "In 1584 ... in Cambridge, Harvey read Livy ... with Thomas Preston, master of Trinity Hall. The... Gabriel Harvey and Thomas Preston Jean Bodin Methodus ad facilem historiarum cognitionem Print : Book1500-1599 Anthony Grafton, "Discitur ut agatur: How Gabriel Harvey Read His Livy": "In 1584 ... in Cambridge, Harvey read Livy ... with Thomas Preston, master of Trinity Hall. The... Gabriel Harvey and Thomas Preston Jean Bodin Republic Print : Book1500-1599 Anthony Grafton, in "Discitur ut agatur: How Gabriel Harvey Read His Livy," notes that in 1590 Gabriel Harvey read Livy's Romanae historiae with reference to passages on ... Gabriel Harvey T. Livii Patavini Romanae historiae principis, Decades tres cum dimi... Print : Book1500-1599 Anthony Grafton, in "Discitur ut agatur: How Gabriel Harvey Read His Livy," notes that in 1590 Gabriel Harvey read Livy's Romanae historiae with reference to passages on ... Gabriel Harvey St Augustine De Civitate Dei Print : Book1500-1599 Anthony Grafton, in "Discitur ut agatur: How Gabriel Harvey Read His Livy," notes that in 1590 Gabriel Harvey read Livy's Romanae historiae with reference to passages on ... Gabriel Harvey Juan Luis Vives Commentary to St Augustine, De Civitate Dei Print : Book1500-1599 Anthony Grafton, "Discitur ut agatur: How Gabriel Harvey Read His Livy": " ... when ... [Harvey] and [Philip] Sidney went through books 1-3 [of Livy's Romanae historiae],... Gabriel Harvey and Philip Sidney T. Livii Patavini Romanae historiae principis, Decades tres cum dimi... Print : Book1500-1599 Anthony Grafton, "Discitur ut agatur: How Gabriel Harvey Read His Livy": " ... when ... [Harvey] and [Philip] Sidney went through books 1-3 [of Livy's Romanae historiae],... Gabriel Harvey and Philip Sidney Frontinus Stratagems Print : Book1500-1599 Anthony Grafton, in "Discitur ut agatur: How Gabriel Harvey Read His Livy," notes Harvey's reading of Lambert Daneau's Silva "of political aphorisms" (1583), "a now forgo... Gabriel Harvey Lambert Daneau Politicorum aphorismorum silva Print : Book1500-1599 Anthony Grafton, in "Discitur ut agatur: How Gabriel Harvey Read His Livy," notes Harvey's reading, and light annotation, of Niccolo Machiavelli, The Art of War. Gabriel Harvey Niccolo Machiavelli The Art of War Print : Book1900-1945 'He had recommended T.S. Eliot to the War Office in 1918, and continued to praise his poetry and his periodical, the "Criterion"'. Arnold Bennett T. S. Eliot Criterion, The Print : Serial / periodical1850-1899 '[from a letter from Mary Ward to her father] I have been reading Joubert's "Pensees" and "Correspondance" lately, with a view to the Amiel introduction. You would be cha... Mary Ward Joseph Joubert Correspondance Print : Book1900-1945 'He read "The Lost Girl" at the end of November just when he was himself most deeply engaged in trivia, and immediately recognizes it as "the work of a genius", Lawrence ... Arnold Bennett D.H. Lawrence Lost Girl, The Print : Book1900-1945 'The conception of this particular novel ["Riceyman Steps"] was probably sparked off by the discovery, in an old Southampton bookshop, T. James and Co., of 34 Bernard Str... Arnold Bennett F. Sommer Merryweather Lives and Anecdotes of Misers Print : Book1850-1899 '[from a letter from Mary Ward to her father] I have been reading Joubert's "Pensees" and "Correspondance" lately, with a view to the Amiel introduction. You would be cha... Mary Ward Joseph Joubert Pensees Print : Book1900-1945 '...he read widely about working-class life in the district.' Arnold Bennett unknown Print : Book1900-1945 'Intellectually, he seems to have been most concerned with the affairs of Middleton Murry's new periodical, the "Adelphi". . . . doesn't like Murry's layout and advertis... Arnold Bennett Mioddleton Murry Adelphi, The Print : Serial / periodical1900-1945 'While she was on board the yacht in August, the proofs of "Riceyman Steps" arrived; She read them tucked up under rugs in the deck house on a "wild grey day", and they m... Pauline Smith Arnold Bennett Riceyman Steps Print : Book, proofs1700-1799 'She was "surprised into tears" by "The Vicar of Wakefield", although she did not much like it.' Frances Burney Oliver Goldsmith The Vicar of Wakefield Print : Book1700-1799 '[Mary Wortley] Montagu's Letters and accounts of the sexual freedom of Tahitian women were popular: Elizabeth Montagu and Anna Seward for instance, read both.' Anna Seward Mary Wortley Montagu Letters Print : Book1700-1799 '[Mary Wortley] Montagu's Letters and accounts of the sexual freedom of Tahitian women were popular: Elizabeth Montagu and Anna Seward for instance, read both.' Elizabeth Montagu Mary Wortley Montagu Letters Print : Book1700-1799 'Anne Grant loved books, but felt guilty about literary pleasure: she enjoyed Byron's poems but worried about their morality, and was "fully convinced of the bad tendency... Anne Grant [nee MacVicar] George Gordon, Lord Byron [poems] Print : Book1700-1799 'Anne Grant loved books, but felt guilty about literary pleasure: she enjoyed Byron's poems but worried about their morality, and was "fully convinced of the bad tendency... Anne Grant [nee MacVicar] Peter Pindar [unknown] Print : Unknown1700-1799 'But my dear, what a book! I am ashamed of it! I have read it right through and because I would not conceal from you the worse actions of my life, I send it to you, to sh... Frances Boscawen Denis Diderot Les bijous indiscrets Print : Book1600-1699 'Robert Boyle being made to "read the state adventures of Amadis de Gaulle and other fabulous stories" which met a "restless fancy, then made more susceptible of any impr... Robert Boyle Garci Rodriguez de Montalvo Amadis de Gaule Print : Unknown1700-1799 'Catharine MacAulay's daughter shared her mother's republican views, and read Shakespeare for her own purposes, confessing that far from being delighted by King John, she... William Shakespeare [plays] Print : Book, Unknown1700-1799 'She rejects even "good" books if she finds them tedious or ling-winded, finding unreadable Hooker's "extremely good" Laws of ecclesiastical polity and the "very profound... Elizabeth Carter Dr Shuckford Dr Shuckford's Connection Print : Book1700-1799 'She rejects even "good" books if she finds them tedious or ling-winded, finding unreadable Hooker's "extremely good" Laws of ecclesiastical polity and the "very profound... Elizabeth Carter Hooker Laws of ecclesiastical polity Print : Book1700-1799 'She claims, for instance, a "charity to all kinds of books" which allows her to read sympathetically even the scandalous memoirs of Teresia Constantia Phillips.' Elizabeth Carter Teresia Constantia Phillips An apology for the conduct of Mrs Teresia Constant... Print : Book
