√ 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 : Book1700-1799 'Faith Gray, dutiful member of a devout York evangelical family, self-accusingly notes in a review of the year 1768 a "strange mixture of Morality, History and Novels in ... Faith Gray [unknown] [unknown] Print : Unknown1700-1799 'the young Burney's paranoia about being detected in classical learning. When in 1769 she read Thucydides, she emphasised even in her private diary that she did not read ... Frances Burney Thucydides [unknown] Print : Book1700-1799 'Mr Rishton read "The Faerie Queene" to Frances Burney and her sisters, "in which he is extremely delicate, omitting whatever, to the poet's great disgrace, has crept in ... Edmund Spenser The Faerie Queene Print : Book1700-1799 'Burney haunted the Thrales' library at Streatham, hiding her book when a man appeared: "she instantly put away [her] book", in this instance a translation of Cicero, whe... Frances Burney Cicero [unknown] Print : Book1800-1849 'I cannot but urge on all those who are commencing their academic course, the natural study of his delightful work on natural Theology' [p.88] [And more references & comm... Adam Sedgwick William Paley Natural Theology Print : Book1800-1849 [This section is a strong attack on the utilitarian principles explained in Paley's work.] Adam Sedgwick William Paley Principles of Moral and Political Philosophy Print : Book1800-1849 [Sedgwick read the 'Essay' twice in 1811] Adam Sedgwick Thomas Malthus Essay on Population Print : Book1800-1849 [Sedgwick read the 'Essay' twice in 1811] Adam Sedgwick Xenophon [unknown] Unknown 1800-1849 [Sedgwick read the 'Essay' twice in 1811] Adam Sedgwick Tacitus [unknown] Unknown 1800-1849 [Sedgwick read the 'Essay' twice in 1811] Adam Sedgwick Virgil [unknown] Unknown 1800-1849 [Lloyd transcribed 16 lines from this 24 line Hymn onto the verso of a printed form with the title 'Duties Returned in Arrear Under Property Act ... 1815.'. The sheet is ... Edward Lloyd Isaac Watts Hymn 69: Christ Appearing to His Church Unknown 1800-1849 During my stay with the clergyman my mother again became a servant in the family and well do I remember reading by the kitchen fire, during the long winter nights. My fav... James Watson [A history of Europe] Print : Book1800-1849 'During my stay with the clergyman my mother again became a servant in the family and well do I remember reading by the kitchen fire, during the long winter nights. My fa... James Watson [A history of England] Print : Book1800-1849 'It was in the autumn of 1818 that I first becam acquainted with politics and theology. Passingalong Briggate one evening, I saw at the corner of Union Court a bill, whic... James Watson n/a [a 'bill' advertising a meeting]. Print : Advertisement, Handbill, Poster1800-1849 'During these twelve months [in prison] I read with deep interest and much profit Gibbon's "Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire", Hume's "History of England", and many o... James Watson Johann Lorenz von Mosheim An Ecclesiastical History, ancient and modern Print : Book1800-1849 'During these twelve months [inprison] I read with deep interest and much profit Gibbon's Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Hume's "History of England", and many othe... James Watson Edward Gibbon Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Print : Book1800-1849 'During these twelve months [in prison] I read with deep interest and much profit Gibbon's "Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire", Hume's "History of England", and many o... James Watson David Hume The History of England Print : Book1800-1849 'It was in the autumn of 1818 that I first becam acquainted with politics and theology. Passing along Briggate one evening, I saw at the corner of Union Court a bill, whi... Group of 'Radical Reformers', who regularly met in Leeds William Cobbett Political Register Print : Serial / periodical1800-1849 'It was in the autumn of 1818 that I first became acquainted with politics and theology. Passing along Briggate one evening, I saw at the corner of Union Court a bill, wh... Group of 'Radical Reformers', who regularly met in Leeds n/a The Black Dwarf Print : Newspaper, Serial / periodical1800-1849 'It was in the autumn of 1818 that I first becam acquainted with politics and theology. Passing along Briggate one evening, I saw at the corner of Union Court a bill, whi... Group of 'Radical Reformers', who regularly met in Leeds Richard Carlile Republican Print : Newspaper, Serial / periodical1800-1849 'To Caroline Lamb, Queen of the Drawing-Rooms, a very early copy of Childe Harold was lent by Samuel Rogers [...] Instantly Rogers was summoned to Melbourne House, where ... Lady Caroline Lamb George Gordon Lord Byron Childe Harold's Pilgrimage Print : Book1800-1849 'She [Anne Isabella Milbanke] read enormously [...] A list of her books makes the unregenerate blood run cold, though it did include some novels -- Miss Edgeworth's and B... Anne Isabella Milbanke Edmund Spenser The Faerie Queene Print : Book1800-1849 'She [Anne Isabella Milbanke] read enormously [...] A list of her books makes the unregenerate blood run cold, though it did include some novels -- Miss Edgeworth's and B... Anne Isabella Milbanke George Gordon Lord Byron Childe Harold's Pilgrimage Print : Book1800-1849 'I read in Bourchette's "British Provinces Now" in North America of the meteorlogical state of the two Canadas in the year 1820, monthly and yearly.' William Richard Grahame Joseph Bouchette The British Dominions in North America Print : Book1800-1849 'I have been reading Thompson's "History of the Late War in Britain"; Decrees Blockades.' William Richard Grahame David Thompson History of the Late War Between Great Britain and Print : Book1800-1849 'I did not go to Church but read the New Testament.' William Richard Grahame n/a New Testament Print : Book1800-1849 'Sunday I dined with Captain Castle and did not go to Church but read the Bible at home.' William Richard Grahame Bible Print : Book1800-1849 'I have been reading the Bible and Pope, and looking at prints of Paris. Cholera is reported in Philadelphia...' William Richard Grahame n/a Bible Print : Book1800-1849 'Yesterday and today I have been reading the Bible and Pope, and looking at prints of Paris. Cholera is reported in Philadelphia...' William Richard Grahame n/a Bible Print : Book1800-1849 'Yesterday and today I have been reading the Bible and Pope, and looking at prints of Paris. Cholera is reported in Philadelphia...' William Richard Grahame Alexander Pope [unknown] Print : Book1800-1849 'Yesterday... reading the Bible and Pope, and looking at prints of Paris. Cholera is reported in Philadelphia...' William Richard Grahame Alexander Pope [unknown] Print : Book1800-1849 Yesterday... reading the Bible and Pope, and looking at prints of Paris. Cholera is reported in Philadelphia... William Richard Grahame n/a [Newspaper] Print : Newspaper1800-1849 'In Ireland from an extract from the Dublin Evening Post that I read yesterday, it appears, as far as I can remember, that the disease had killed upwards of 3,000 people ... William Richard Grahame n/a Dublin Evening Post Print : Newspaper1800-1849 'I dined with Captain Castle yesterday; who lent me the Backwoodsman by Dunlop; which I have read through. After doing so [...] I am more than ever pleased with this coun... William Richard Grahame William Dunlop 'The Backwoodsman' or Statistical Sketches of Uppe Print : Newspaper1800-1849 'I drove into town ... with Miss Greaves and read the English papers which came [by ship]. Oh! the injustice shown the Irish by the House of Lords ... Oh! the injustice ... William Richard Grahame n/a The Morning Chronicle Print : Newspaper1800-1849 'Mr Dunn has Grainger's "Biographical History of England". A medallion of Cromwell is mentioned having Oliver's head engraved on one side, and on the reverse ... his head... William Richard Grahame James Granger A Biographical History of England ... Adapted to a Print : Book1800-1849 'All day I have been arranging prints for Grainger's Biography. There is a good story of Jerry White, Cromwell's Chaplain.' William Richard Grahame James Granger A Biographical History of England ... Adapted to a Print : Book1800-1849 'Continuing the arrangement of Plates for Grainger and have met with several anecdotes worth noting [on Elizabeth I, CharlesII, Nell Gwynne, and Arabella Churchill].' William Richard Grahame James Granger A Biographical History of England ... Adapted to a Print : Book1800-1849 'there is no news of the New York ship in yesterday's National Gazette of Philadelphia'. William Richard Grahame n/a National Gazette (Philadelphia) Print : Newspaper1800-1849 'I went to town with Miss Greaves and read the English papers to the 16 August, which had just arrived...' William Richard Grahame n/a ['The English Papers'] Print : Newspaper1800-1849 'I went to town with Miss Greaves and read the English papers to the 16 August, which had just arrived. I read Sir Jonah Barrington in the Monthly Review.' William Richard Grahame n/a The Monthly Review Print : Serial / periodical1800-1849 'At the Athenaeum I read the papers and ... Advice to a Young Man and Padre.' William Richard Grahame n/a ['the papers'] Print : Newspaper1800-1849 'I came home and read Hudibras and William Byrd ...' William Richard Grahame Samuel Butler Hudibras Print : Book1700-1799 Burney's reading group reading two books - "the last voyage of Captain Cook" and the "letters of Madame de Sevigne". She makes little progress with Cook because of her fa... Frances Burney James Cook Voyage to the Pacific Ocean Print : Book1700-1799 Burney's reading group reading two books - 'the last voyage of Captain Cook and the letters of Madame de Sevigne. She makes little progress with Cook because of her fasci... Frances Burney Marie de Sevigne letters Print : Book1700-1799 'Burney haunted the Thrales' library at Streatham, hiding her book when a man appeared: "she instantly put away [her] book", in this instance a translation of Cicero, whe... Frances Burney Samuel Johnson Life of Waller Print : Unknown1700-1799 [Burney was] 'not impressed by Samuel James Arnold's "The Creole", Lady Morgan's "The Missionary", Edgeworth's "Patronage", which she found "dull and heavy" or Hannah Mor... Frances Burney Hannah More Coelebs in search of a wife Print : Book1700-1799 '[Burney was] 'not impressed by Samuel James Arnold's "The Creole", Lady Morgan's "The Missionary", Edgeworth's "Patronage", which she found "dull and heavy" or Hannah Mo... Frances Burney Maria Edgeworth Patronage Print : Book1700-1799 '[Burney was] 'not impressed by Samuel James Arnold's "The Creole", Lady Morgan's "The Missionary", Edgeworth's "Patronage", which she found "dull and heavy" or Hannah Mo... Frances Burney Samuel James Arnold The Creole Print : Book1700-1799 '[Burney was] 'not impressed by Samuel James Arnold's "The Creole", Lady Morgan's "The Missionary", Edgeworth's "Patronage", which she found "dull and heavy" or Hannah Mo... Frances Burney Lady Morgan The Missionary Print : Book1700-1799 'she read some new novels, though not often with approval: she disliked the politics of Caleb Williams.' Frances Burney some new novels Print : Book1700-1799 'she read some new novels, though not often with approval: she disliked the politics of Caleb Williams.' Frances Burney William Godwin Caleb Williams Print : Book1800-1849 '[Harriet Grove] enjoyed novels and plays: in 1809-10, she read with pleasure in a family group a number of popular bestsellers (which in the period means largely novels ... Harriet Grove Lady Morgan The Novice of Saint Dominick Print : Book1800-1849 '[Harriet Grove] enjoyed novels and plays: in 1809-10, she read with pleasure in a family group a number of popular bestsellers (which in the period means largely novels ... Harriet Grove Agnes Maria Bennett The Beggar Girl and her Benefactors Print : Book1800-1849 '[Harriet Grove] enjoyed novels and plays: in 1809-10, she read with pleasure in a family group a number of popular bestsellers (which in the period means largely novels ... Harriet Grove Maria Edgeworth Tales of a Fashionable Life Print : Book1800-1849 '[Harriet Grove] enjoyed novels and plays: in 1809-10, she read with pleasure in a family group a number of popular bestsellers (which in the period means largely novels ... Harriet Grove Regina Maria Roche The Children of the Abbey Print : Book1800-1849 '[Harriet Grove] enjoyed novels and plays: in 1809-10, she read with pleasure in a family group a number of popular bestsellers (which in the period means largely novels ... Harriet Grove Henry Fielding Joseph Andrews Print : Book1800-1849 '[Harriet Grove] enjoyed novels and plays: in 1809-10, she read with pleasure in a family group a number of popular bestsellers (which in the period means largely novels ... Harriet Grove Samuel Richardson Sir Charles Grandison Print : Book1800-1849 '[Harriet Grove] enjoyed novels and plays: in 1809-10, she read with pleasure in a family group a number of popular bestsellers (which in the period means largely novels ... Harriet Grove Lawrence Sterne A Sentimental Journey Print : Book1800-1849 'In December 1810 a box of books arrived and the family began to read a novel which they "liked very much". This book is "modern Philosophy", whose anti-heroine, "Miss Bi... Harriet Grove Elizabeth Hamilton Memoirs of Modern Philosophers Print : Book1800-1849 [Shelley encouraged her to read] 'some key Romantic texts (Coleridge, Scott, Southey, Volney's "Les ruines"), radical politics ("The Rights of Man" and "The Age of Reason... Harriet Westbrook Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1800-1849 [Shelley encouraged her to read] 'some key Romantic texts (Coleridge, Scott, Southey, Volney's "Les ruines"), radical politics ("The Rights of Man" and "The Age of Reason... Harriet Westbrook Walter Scott 1800-1849 [Shelley encouraged her to read] 'some key Romantic texts (Coleridge, Scott, Southey, Volney's "Les ruines"), radical politics ("The Rights of Man" and "The Age of Reason... Harriet Westbrook Robert Southey 1800-1849 [Shelley encouraged her to read] 'some key Romantic texts (Coleridge, Scott, Southey, Volney's "Les ruines"), radical politics ("The Rights of Man" and "The Age of Reason... Harriet Westbrook Constantin Volney Les ruines Print : Book1800-1849 [Shelley encouraged her to read] 'some key Romantic texts (Coleridge, Scott, Southey, Volney's "Les ruines"), radical politics ("The Rights of Man" and "The Age of Reason... Harriet Westbrook Thomas Paine The Rights of Man Print : Book1800-1849 [Shelley encouraged her to read] 'some key Romantic texts (Coleridge, Scott, Southey, Volney's "Les ruines"), radical politics ("The Rights of Man" and "The Age of Reason... Harriet Westbrook Thomas Paine The Age of Reason Print : Book1800-1849 [Shelley encouraged her to read] 'some key Romantic texts (Coleridge, Scott, Southey, Volney's "Les ruines"), radical politics ("The Rights of Man" and "The Age of Reason... Harriet Westbrook James Lawrence The Empire of the Nairs Print : Book1800-1849 [Shelley encouraged her to read] 'some key Romantic texts (Coleridge, Scott, Southey, Volney's "Les ruines"), radical politics ("The Rights of Man" and "The Age of Reason... Harriet Westbrook Mary Wollstonecraft Vindication of the Rights of Woman Print : Book1500-1599 [MARGINALIA]:'The discouerie of his mistress, a false diamant. His sicknes, & Jealosie did not help the matter, but did marre all. Woomen loue men: & care not for pore ha... Gabriel Harvey George Gascoigne The Posies Print : Book1700-1799 'In 1782 Hester Thrale read the Spectator to her daughters, who found hilariously improper the "Idea of a Lady saying her Stomach ach'd, or that something stuck between h... Hester Thrale Joseph Addison The spectator Print : Serial / periodical1700-1799 'Janet Schaw and her cousin, sailing from Scotland to the Caribbean, try to keep calm in a terrifying storm by reading Lord Kames ('like philosophers not Christians').' Janet Schaw Lord Kames Print : Book1700-1799 'At the age of five she was caught by her father reading Dryden: 'I dropt my Book and burst into Tears'. However, instead of the expected punishment, her father gave her ... Laetitia Pilkington John Dryden Print : Book1700-1799 'she read much Shakespeare.' Laetitia Pilkington William Shakespeare Print : Book1700-1799 '[opinion of William Mason's play, "Caractacus", entered in diary]: 'My soul melted into every pleasing sensation, the language charming! divine harmony, beams in every l... Anna Larpent William Mason Caractacus Print : Book1800-1849 Letter from Sedgwick to William Ainger dated 22/5/1815 says the former is reading Beasobre, and 'the task is a confounded dry one'. Adam Sedgwick Issac de Beasobre Introduction to the reading of the Holy Scriptures Print : Book1800-1849 'Ellinor, or the World as it is, by M.A.Hanway. 4 vols. An entertaining production written in a light, easy style [editor does not reproduce all of Weeton's comments] [Th... Ellen Weeton Mary Ann Hanway Ellinor, or the World as it is (A Novel in Four Vo... Print : Book1800-1849 'The Royal Sufferers, or Intrigues at the Close of the 18th Century. by J.Agg. 3 vols.' [no commentary on the text: part of list of texts read] Ellen Weeton John Agg The Royal Sufferer; or, Intrigues at the close of Print : Book1800-1849 'Finished the last "Tales of My Landlord" of which the fourth volume is the worst. I think Walter Scott has the peculiar art of growing worse and worse yet preserving his... Benjamin Newton Walter Scott Tales of my Landlord or Black Dwarf and old Mortal Print : Book1800-1849 'Saw the death of Sir S. Romilly by his own hand in a feverish frenzy in the "St James' Chronicle" this morning, in consequence of the loss of his wife.' Benjamin Newton n/a St James' Chronicle Print : Newspaper1800-1849 'Read Tuckey's Voyage to the Congo or Zaire, seems to have brought on the mortality that precailed in his crew by sleeping too much in the open air, by the quantity of wo... Benjamin Newton James Hingston Tuckey Narrative of an expedition to explore the river Za Print : Book1800-1849 'The thermometer never being above 80 or under 69 and the "St James' Chronicle" says today that while British troops were storming a fort in the E Indies the thermometer ... Rev Benjamin Newton n/a St. James' Chronicle Print : Newspaper1800-1849 'the papers announce the death of the King of Wurtemberg'. Benjamin Newton n/a [newspapers] Print : Newspaper1800-1849 'Afternoon reading some History of the Devil'. Adam Mackie Daniel Defoe History of the Devil or The Political History of t Print : Book1800-1849 'Spent the evening reading History of the Devil, a shallow subject.' Adam Mackie Daniel Defoe The Political History of the Devil Print : Book1800-1849 'E- being called out for a few hours in the morning I attempted to amuse myself with Marmontel's Tales- it was but an attempt. For I hurried thro' them 'quite upon thorns... William Upcott Jean Francois Marmontel Moral Tales Print : Book1800-1849 'Seeing the Bible on the table, I took it up & by his desire, read the whole history of Joseph. In parts of it he pointed out several fine subjects for pictures.' William Upcott n/a Bible Print : Book1800-1849 'Abt 4 - I returned - and the time until 7 was taken up in reading "Gregory's Legacy"- He is one of my favorite authors- there is something so sincere & so pleasing witha... William Upcott John Gregory A Father's Legacy to His Daughters Print : Book1800-1849 'finished the day in reading a few chapters of the New Testament.' William Upcott n/a Bible Print : Book1800-1849 'The evening was devoted to the perusal of the life of the most extraordinary genius this country has produced- need I say, Chatterton.' William Upcott George Gregory The Life of T. Chatterton or The Works of T. Chatt Print : Book1800-1849 'The evening until one was [frittered?] away in reading the 'Monk' for the fourth time at least.... In the second volume are some beautiful lines that often delights one ... William Upcott Matthew G. Lewis The Monk Print : Book1800-1849 'In the evening I read the whole of "Love and Madness"- not on account of the amorous epistles of Hackman, but with a view to make myself more acquainted with the fate of... William Upcott James Hackman Love and Madness; a Story Too True in a Series of.... Print : Book1800-1849 'From 9 till 11 was idly spent in looking thro a Volume of the British Critic.' William Upcott n/a The British Critic Print : Serial / periodical1800-1849 'I took from my pocket the volume of "Love and Madness" which I had amused myself with a few evenings since- ...I read with great pleasure the whole of the History of Poo... William Upcott James Hackman Love and Madness Print : Book1800-1849 '[Returns after afternoon reading session] to renew the subject from a more enlarged account of this wonder of the 18th Century [Chatterton] lately published by Southey .... William Upcott Robert Southey The Works of Thomas Chatterton, Containing his Lif... Print : Book1800-1849 'the rest of the evening when I returned home was devoted to the Bible.' William Upcott n/a Bible Print : Book1800-1849 'Before I arose- read 10 chapters of St. Matthew- still laboured at my new task [studying heraldry] but made less progress than on Thursday.' William Upcott n/a Bible Print : Book1800-1849 'Went to bed at 11- but previous to it, read 10 more chapters of St. Matthew.' William Upcott n/a Bible Print : Book1800-1849 'Previous to leaving my chamber, I read several Chapters of St. Mark.' William Upcott n/a Bible Print : Book1800-1849 'I took up my little volume of Heraldry- and already can take up a pep from a chevron.' William Upcott n/a [volume on Heraldry] Print : Book1800-1849 'My time was occupied till 6 with the Bible.' William Upcott n/a Bible Print : Book1800-1849 'I devoted the rest of the night to the Bible- so upon the whole I think, a sabbath has been more unprofitably spent...' William Upcott n/a Bible Print : Book1800-1849 'I got thro 6 chapters of Count Fathom- about an hours undertaking- and this has been the way thro my whole readings- a chapter at one hour - the volume thrown aside for ... William Upcott Tobias George Smollett The Adventures of Ferdinand Count Fathom Print : Book1800-1849 'Rose at seven, purposely to proceed in Gibbon's Miscell. Works- which I began yesterday. - read the whole of his own memoirs- 185 pages.' William Upcott Edward Gibbon Miscellaneous Works ... With Memoirs of His Life Print : Book1800-1849 'The finishing of the first volume of Gibbon is all I have been able to accomplish comfortably from my last memoranda. Every morning this week has been taken up in copyin... William Upcott Edward Gibbon Miscellaneous Works ... With Memoirs of His Life Print : Book1850-1899 'Herman Melville's "The Green Hand" he had read but it "was not much use to me" - a phrase which suggests that already he was reading as a writer reads, with a view to us... John Masefield Herman Melville The Green Hand Print : Book1850-1899 'Herman Melville's "The Green Hand" he had read but it "was not much use to me" - a phrase which suggests that already he was reading as a writer reads, with a view to us... John Masefield Herman Melville Moby Dick Print : Book1850-1899 'One book... stimulated the poet beyond all others; it became, in a way, a key to the rest of his reading for some time to come. This was George du Maurier's "Trilby". It... John Masefield George du Maurier Trilby Print : Book1850-1899 'One book... stimulated the poet beyond all others; it became, in a way, a key to the rest of his reading for some time to come. This was George du Maurier's "Trilby". It... John Masefield Alexandre Dumas (pere) The Three Musketeers Print : Book1850-1899 'One book... stimulated the poet beyond all others; it became, in a way, a key to the rest of his reading for some time to come. This was George du Maurier's "Trilby". It... John Masefield Laurence Sterne A Sentimental Journey Print : Book1850-1899 'One book... stimulated the poet beyond all others; it became, in a way, a key to the rest of his reading for some time to come. This was George du Maurier's "Trilby". It... John Masefield Charles Darwin The Origin of Species Print : Book1850-1899 'After "Trilby" came the effect of "Peter Ibbetson". "It came to me", writes the poet of this book, "just when I needed an inner life". From "Peter Ibbetson" he learned o... John Masefield George du Maurier Peter Ibbetson Print : Book1850-1899 'After "Trilby" came the effect of "Peter Ibbetson". "It came to me", writes the poet of this book, "just when I needed an inner life". From "Peter Ibbetson" he learned o... John Masefield Francois Villon Print : Book1850-1899 'After "Trilby" came the effect of "Peter Ibbetson". "It came to me", writes the poet of this book, "just when I needed an inner life". From "Peter Ibbetson" he learned o... John Masefield Alfred Louis Charles de Musset Print : Book1850-1899 'the young poet began to wonder "who was this de Quincey, and what sort of a pen had he?'" From "The Confessions of an Opium Eater" he discovered Wordsworth'. John Masefield Thomas de Quincey Confessions of an English Opium Eater Print : Book1850-1899 'The essays of Steele and Addison, whose prose has so greatly influenced his own, seem to have impressed but, at this time, not moved him. Likewise, Pope, whose translati... John Masefield Richard Steele [essays] Print : Book1850-1899 'The essays of Steele and Addison, whose prose has so greatly influenced his own, seem to have impressed but, at this time, not moved him. Likewise, Pope, whose translati... John Masefield Joseph Addison [essays] Print : Book1850-1899 'The essays of Steele and Addison, whose prose has so greatly influenced his own, seem to have impressed but, at this time, not moved him. Likewise, Pope, whose translati... John Masefield Homer Odyssey Print : Book1850-1899 "'On first reading Shelley", he writes, "I told myself that this was a new kind of verse, such as I had not known existed." Now it was the VERSE, not the argument, which ... John Masefield Percy Bysshe Shelley The Revolt of Islam Print : Book1850-1899 ''"My masters... in poetry, were Swinburne and Meredith among the living, Rossetti, Matthew Arnold and Robert Browning among the lately dead. To these I would add Edward ... John Masefield Edward Fitzgerald Print : Book1850-1899 ''"My masters... in poetry, were Swinburne and Meredith among the living, Rossetti, Matthew Arnold and Robert Browning among the lately dead. To these I would add Edward ... John Masefield George Meredith Print : Book1850-1899 ''"My masters... in poetry, were Swinburne and Meredith among the living, Rossetti, Matthew Arnold and Robert Browning among the lately dead. To these I would add Edward ... John Masefield Dante Gabriel Rossetti Print : Book1850-1899 ''"My masters... in poetry, were Swinburne and Meredith among the living, Rossetti, Matthew Arnold and Robert Browning among the lately dead. To these I would add Edward ... John Masefield Matthew Arnold Print : Book1850-1899 ''"My masters... in poetry, were Swinburne and Meredith among the living, Rossetti, Matthew Arnold and Robert Browning among the lately dead. To these I would add Edward ... John Masefield Robert Browning Print : Book1850-1899 ''"My masters... in poetry, were Swinburne and Meredith among the living, Rossetti, Matthew Arnold and Robert Browning among the lately dead. To these I would add Edward ... John Masefield Marie-Henri Beyle (Stendhal) Print : Book1850-1899 ''"My masters... in poetry, were Swinburne and Meredith among the living, Rossetti, Matthew Arnold and Robert Browning among the lately dead. To these I would add Edward ... John Masefield Gustave Flaubert Print : Book1850-1899 ''"My masters... in poetry, were Swinburne and Meredith among the living, Rossetti, Matthew Arnold and Robert Browning among the lately dead. To these I would add Edward ... John Masefield Jean-Marie-Mathias-Philippe-Auguste comte de Villiers de l'Isle-Adam Print : Book1850-1899 ''"My masters... in poetry, were Swinburne and Meredith among the living, Rossetti, Matthew Arnold and Robert Browning among the lately dead. To these I would add Edward ... John Masefield Guy de Maupassant Print : Book1850-1899 ''"My masters... in poetry, were Swinburne and Meredith among the living, Rossetti, Matthew Arnold and Robert Browning among the lately dead. To these I would add Edward ... John Masefield Prosper Merimee Print : Book1850-1899 ''"My masters... in poetry, were Swinburne and Meredith among the living, Rossetti, Matthew Arnold and Robert Browning among the lately dead. To these I would add Edward ... John Masefield Walter Pater Print : Book1850-1899 'Before his departure for his native land he had read some of Dickens and Stevenson... and William Morris. John Masefield's debt to William Morris as a constructive think... John Masefield Charles Dickens Print : Book1850-1899 'Before his departure for his native land he had read some of Dickens and Stevenson... and William Morris. John Masefield's debt to William Morris as a constructive think... John Masefield Robert Louis Stevenson Print : Book1850-1899 'Before his departure for his native land he had read some of Dickens and Stevenson... and William Morris. John Masefield's debt to William Morris as a constructive think... John Masefield William Morris Print : Book1850-1899 'Fine writing and realism were what John Masefield was after in prose. In poetry, it was the upsurge of feeling and rhythm first released by Swinburne. Masefield wrote in... John Masefield Algernon Charles Swinburne Chastelard Print : Book1850-1899 'Fine writing and realism were what John Masefield was after in prose. In poetry, it was the upsurge of feeling and rhythm first released by Swinburne. Masefield wrote in... John Masefield Algernon Charles Swinburne [poem on the death of Baudelaire] Print : Book1700-1799 [opinion of Thomson's Edward and Elinora, entered in diary]: 'A most affecting tale, pleasingly tender - fraught with virtuous sentiments.' Anna Larpent James Thomson Edward and Elinora Unknown 1850-1899 'Masefield was already a well-read man when, at the age of twenty-one, he came across the works of Yeats, whose disciple he became, and whom he shortly met' John Masefield Wiliam Butler Yeats [unknown] Print : Book1700-1799 'I returned home and read four chapters of Winn's abridgement of Lock[e] on the human understanding. The transition from such a dissipate scene [a party she has left] to ... Anna Larpent John Locke Essay on human understanding Print : Book1850-1899 '[Howard] Spring was the son of a Cardiff gardener who bought his children secondhand copies of "Tom Jones" and "Swiss Family Robinson", and read aloud from "Pilgrim's Pr... John Bunyan Pilgrim's Progress Print : Book1850-1899 '[Howard] Spring was the son of a Cardiff gardener who bought his children secondhand copies of "Tom Jones" and "Swiss Family Robinson", and read aloud from "Pilgrim's Pr... Daniel Defoe Robinson Crusoe Print : Book1850-1899 '[Howard] Spring was the son of a Cardiff gardener who bought his children secondhand copies of "Tom Jones" and "Swiss Family Robinson", and read aloud from "Pilgrim's Pr... Charles Dickens [unknown] Print : Book1700-1799 [note in diary upon finishing Mackintosh's "Vindiciae Gallicae"]: 'As far as I am a Judge I think this work very well understood. The author is master on his subject & ha... Anna Larpent James Mackintosh Vindiciae Galliciae Print : Book1850-1899 '[Aneurin Bevan] burrowed through the Tredegar Workmen's Institute Library, and acquired his characteristically grandiose vocabulary through close study of Roget's Thesau... Aneurin (Nye) Bevan [n/a] Roget's Thesaurus Print : Book1850-1899 '[Aneurin Bevan] burrowed through the Tredegar Workmen's Institute Library, and acquired his characteristically grandiose vocabulary through close study of Roget's Thesau... Aneurin (Nye) Bevan Friedrich Nietzsche [unknown] Print : Book1850-1899 '[Aneurin Bevan] burrowed through the Tredegar Workmen's Institute Library, and acquired his characteristically grandiose vocabulary through close study of Roget's Thesau... Aneurin (Nye) Bevan F.H. Bradley Appearance and Reality Print : Book1700-1799 'I went through that extraordinary work of Lord Monboddo on the "Origin of Language". I was entertained and instructed from the singularity of the system, the many errone... Anna Larpent Lord Monboddo Of the origin and progress of language Print : Book1850-1899 '[Aneurin Bevan] burrowed through the Tredegar Workmen's Institute Library, and acquired his characteristically grandiose vocabulary through close study of Roget's Thesau... Aneurin (Nye) Bevan Immanuel Kant Groundwork of the Metaphysic of Morals Print : Book1850-1899 '[Aneurin Bevan] burrowed through the Tredegar Workmen's Institute Library, and acquired his characteristically grandiose vocabulary through close study of Roget's Thesau... Aneurin (Nye) Bevan Thorstein Veblen The Theory of the Leisure Class Print : Book1700-1799 'Staying at a house in Kings Thorpe, Northamptonshire in 1780, Anna began reading "Les milles et une nuits" after a conversation about imaginative literature with the Bis... Anna Larpent Les mille et une nuits Print : Book1900-1945 [the 'intellectual' clique within the Clarion Scouts, including Edwin Muir] "followed the literary and intellectual development of the time, discovering such writers as B... Edwin Muir Henri Bergson Print : Book1900-1945 [the 'intellectual' clique within the Clarion Scouts, including Edwin Muir] "followed the literary and intellectual development of the time, discovering such writers as B... Edwin Muir [probably] Georges-Eugene Sorel Print : Book1900-1945 [the 'intellectual' clique within the Clarion Scouts, including Edwin Muir] "followed the literary and intellectual development of the time, discovering such writers as B... Edwin Muir Havelock Ellis Print : Book1900-1945 [the 'intellectual' clique within the Clarion Scouts, including Edwin Muir] "followed the literary and intellectual development of the time, discovering such writers as B... Edwin Muir John Galsworthy Print : Book1900-1945 [the 'intellectual' clique within the Clarion Scouts, including Edwin Muir] "followed the literary and intellectual development of the time, discovering such writers as B... Edwin Muir Joseph Conrad Print : Book1900-1945 [the 'intellectual' clique within the Clarion Scouts, including Edwin Muir] "followed the literary and intellectual development of the time, discovering such writers as B... Edwin Muir Edward Morgan Forster Print : Book1900-1945 [the 'intellectual' clique within the Clarion Scouts, including Edwin Muir] "followed the literary and intellectual development of the time, discovering such writers as B... Edwin Muir James Joyce Print : Book1900-1945 [the 'intellectual' clique within the Clarion Scouts, including Edwin Muir] "followed the literary and intellectual development of the time, discovering such writers as B... Edwin Muir David Herbert Lawrence Print : Book1900-1945 [the 'intellectual' clique within the Clarion Scouts, including Edwin Muir] "followed the literary and intellectual development of the time, discovering such writers as B... Edwin Muir Ezra Pound article in The New Age Print : Serial / periodical1900-1945 [Muir undertook 'intense study of Nietzsche'] "I tried, when I came to Nietzsche's last works, 'The Twilight of the Idols' and 'Ecce Homo', to ignore the fact that they w... Edwin Muir Friedrich Nietzsche The Twilight of the Idols Print : Book1900-1945 [Muir undertook 'intense study of Nietzsche'] "I tried, when I came to Nietzsche's last works, 'The Twilight of the Idols' and 'Ecce Homo', to ignore the fact that they w... Edwin Muir Friedrich Nietzsche Ecce Homo Print : Book1700-1799 'Though Anna studied pious works almost constantly, she almost never commented in her diary on her religious reading ... Anna's daily examination of the scriptures or of ... Anna Larpent [sermons] Print : Book1700-1799 'She used passages from Defoe's "Tour through the whole island of Great Britain" to prepare her two boys for a visit to Windsor Castle in 1792: "I did it", she wrote, "th... Anna Larpent Daniel Defoe Tour through the whole island of Great Britain Print : Book1700-1799 [We then read aloud a dialogue on taste by Mr Ramsay, a lively original book with some entertaining and instructive remarks on the progress of those arts that seem partic... Anna Larpent Ramsay a dialogue on taste Print : Book1700-1799 'At the house party where Anna met the Bishop of Llandaff, guests took it in turns to read to one another. On 1 July 1780, for instance, after hearing her sister Clara re... Clara Rollin Histoire ancienne Print : Book1700-1799 'On 9 April 1792 Anna Margaretta Larpent rose at 7.30, a little earlier than her usual, "spent some time", as she described it, '"n self examination", and then read two c... Anna Larpent Thomas Paine Rights of man Print : Book1700-1799 'In October 1792... the Larpents were reading Joseph Priestley on "The origin of government" "rather to lead conversation and observation than as a followed reading".' Anna Larpent Joseph Priestley On the origin of government Print : Book1700-1799 'In October 1792... the Larpents were reading Joseph Priestley on The Origin of government 'rather to lead conversation and observation than as a followed reading.' John Larpent Joseph Priestley On the origin of government Print : Book1700-1799 'In a ritual that was to be repeated throughout the holidays, Anna and John [her son] read passages from an instructive and improving work, Sarah Trimmer's sacred history... John Larpent Sarah Trimmer Sacred history Print : Book1700-1799 'In a ritual that was to be repeated throughout the holidays, Anna and John [her son] read passages from an instructive and improving work, Sarah Trimmer's sacred history... Anna Larpent Sarah Trimmer Sacred history Print : Book1700-1799 'Larpent listened while her husband and stepson read aloud to her from the newspapers and Sutherland's "Tour of Constantinople".' stepson of Anna Larpent Sutherland Tour of Constantinople Print : Book1700-1799 'Larpent listened while her husband and stepson read aloud to her from the newspapers and Sutherland's "Tour of Constantinople".' Anna Larpent Sutherland Tour of Constantinople Print : Book1700-1799 'While her friends were engaged in different sorts of women's work... she read them a great favourite, the sentimental novel "Marienne" by Pierre Marivaux.' Anna Larpent Pierre Marivaux Marienne Print : Book1700-1799 'In the month of April 1792... Anna read Richardson's "Clarissa" for the second time - "the style is prolix, the manners obsolete, & I felt fidgeted at the repetitions no... Anna Larpent Samuel Richardson Clarissa Print : Book1900-1945 'The poet Clare Cameron, born Winifred Wells to a London blacksmith, was a 15s a week clerk given to artistic ectsasies... She ate cheap lunches at Lyons to save money fo... Clare Cameron Leo Tolstoy [unknown] Print : Book1900-1945 'The poet Clare Cameron, born Winifred Wells to a London blacksmith, was a 15s a week clerk given to artistic ecstasies... She ate cheap lunches at Lyons to save money fo... Clare Cameron George Bernard Shaw [unknown] Print : Book1900-1945 'The poet Clare Cameron, born Winifred Wells to a London blacksmith, was a 15s a week clerk given to artistic ecstasies... She ate cheap lunches at Lyons to save money fo... Clare Cameron Henrik Ibsen [unknown] Print : Book1900-1945 'The poet Clare Cameron, born Winifred Wells to a London blacksmith, was a 15s a week clerk given to artistic ecstasies... She ate cheap lunches at Lyons to save money fo... Clare Cameron Friedrich Nietzsche [unknown] Print : Book1900-1945 'The poet Clare Cameron, born Winifred Wells to a London blacksmith, was a 15s a week clerk given to artistic ecstasies... She ate cheap lunches at Lyons to save money fo... Clare Cameron Karl Marx [unknown] Print : Book1900-1945 'The poet Clare Cameron, born Winifred Wells to a London blacksmith, was a 15s a week clerk given to artistic ecstasies... She ate cheap lunches at Lyons to save money fo... Clare Cameron Henri Murger Scenes de la Boheme Print : Book1900-1945 '[Charlie] Lahr lent [Bonar] Thompson Andre Gide and "A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man". "It was wonderful for me to feel that I belonged to the elect who had read... Bonar Thompson James Joyce A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man Print : Book1900-1945 '[Charlie] Lahr lent [Bonar] Thompson Andre Gide and "A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man". "It was wonderful for me to feel that I belonged to the elect who had read... Bonar Thompson Andre Gide [unknown] Print : Book1900-1945 '[Ethel] Mannin was firmly rooted in the autodidact tradition. In her father's library she enjoyed Gissing and Wells, "Adam Bede" and "The Cloister and the Hearth". A Cla... Ethel Mannin George Gissing [unknown] Print : Book1900-1945 '[Ethel] Mannin was firmly rooted in the autodidact tradition. In her father's library she enjoyed Gissing and Wells, "Adam Bede" and "The Cloister and the Hearth". A Cla... Ethel Mannin Herbert George Wells [unknown Print : Book1900-1945 '[Ethel] Mannin was firmly rooted in the autodidact tradition. In her father's library she enjoyed Gissing and Wells, "Adam Bede" and "The Cloister and the Hearth". A Cla... Ethel Mannin George Eliot Adam Bede Print : Book1900-1945 Henry James, in 1 November 1906 letter to Joseph Conrad, writes of having just read and admired "The Mirror of the Sea". Henry James Joseph Conrad The Mirror of the Sea Print : Book1900-1945 '[Ethel] Mannin was firmly rooted in the autodidact tradition. In her father's library she enjoyed Gissing and Wells, "Adam Bede" and "The Cloister and the Hearth". A Cla... Ethel Mannin Charles Reade The Cloister and the Hearth Print : Book1900-1945 '[Ethel] Mannin was firmly rooted in the autodidact tradition. In her father's library she enjoyed Gissing and Wells, "Adam Bede" and "The Cloister and the Hearth". A Cla... Ethel Mannin Virginia Woolf Orlando Print : Book1900-1945 '[Ethel] Mannin was firmly rooted in the autodidact tradition. In her father's library she enjoyed Gissing and Wells, "Adam Bede" and "The Cloister and the Hearth". A Cla... Ethel Mannin James Joyce Ulysses Print : Book1900-1945 Henry James to H. G. Wells, 8 November 1906: 'I came back last night from five days in London to find your so generously-given "America," and I have done nothing today bu... Henry James H. G. Wells The Future in America Print : Book1900-1945 '[Ethel] Mannin was firmly rooted in the autodidact tradition. In her father's library she enjoyed Gissing and Wells, "Adam Bede" and "The Cloister and the Hearth". A Cla... Ethel Mannin Gertrude Stein [unknown] 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 Godwin The Lives of Edward and John Philips, nephews and ... Print : Book1900-1945 'Soon Pritchett was reading Penny Poets editions of "Paradise Regained", Wordsworth's "Prelude", Cowper, and Coleridge. He formulated plans to become Poet Laureate by age... Victor Sawdon Pritchett John Milton Paradise Regained Print : Book1900-1945 'Soon Pritchett was reading Penny Poets editions of "Paradise Regained", Wordsworth's "Prelude", Cowper, and Coleridge. He formulated plans to become Poet Laureate by age... Victor Sawdon Pritchett William Wordsworth Prelude, The Print : Book1900-1945 'Soon Pritchett was reading Penny Poets editions of "Paradise Regained", Wordsworth's "Prelude", Cowper, and Coleridge. He formulated plans to become Poet Laureate by age... Victor Sawdon Pritchett William Cowper Print : Book1900-1945 'Soon Pritchett was reading Penny Poets editions of "Paradise Regained", Wordsworth's "Prelude", Cowper, and Coleridge. He formulated plans to become Poet Laureate by age... Victor Sawdon Pritchett Samuel Taylor Coleridge Print : Book1900-1945 '[Pritchett] was... unprepared for the intimidating greatness of Ruskin's "Modern Painters"... "There was too much to know. I discovered that Ruskin was not so very many ... Victor Sawdon Pritchett John Ruskin Modern Painters Print : Book1900-1945 'as an office boy, Pritchett tried to read widely and dreamt of an escape to Bohemia. But his knowledge of the Latin Quarter was gleaned not from Flaubert, only from thir... Victor Sawdon Pritchett George du Maurier [unknown] Print : Book1900-1945 'as an office boy, Pritchett tried to read widely and dreamt of an escape to Bohemia. But his knowledge of the Latin Quarter was gleaned not from Flaubert, only from thir... Victor Sawdon Pritchett W.J. Locke [unknown] Print : Book1900-1945 'as an office boy, Pritchett tried to read widely and dreamt of an escape to Bohemia. But his knowledge of the Latin Quarter was gleaned not from Flaubert, only from thir... Victor Sawdon Pritchett Hilaire Belloc [unknown] Print : Book1900-1945 'Riceyman Steps' had brought him new prestige; it was read by lords and barbers, and Conrad was reported to say that it showed 'Bennett victorious'. Joseph Conrad Arnold Bennett Riceyman Steps Print : Book1900-1945 '...he confessed that he could not understand a word of Gertrude Stein.' Arnold Bennett Gertrude Stein unknown Print : Book
