√ Century of Experience Evidence Name of Reader / Listener / Reading Group Author of Text Title of Text Form of Text 1900-1945 'When Middleton Murry attacked George Moore in an editorial of the "Adelphi" in April 1924, he [Arnold Bennett] wrote a very strong letter of protest, and rightly: Murry'... Arnold Bennett John Middleton Murry Wrap me up in my Aubusson Carpet Print : Serial / periodical1900-1945 '...he continued to . . . reassess his first loves, such as Balzac, whom he begins to doubt: in May 1926 he finds him "thin and tedious", says he will try "Splendeurs et ... Arnold Bennett Balzac Print : Book1900-1945 '. . .he was annoyed with Capes for misquoting his enthusiasm for Joyce in an advertisement for "Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man"'. Arnold Bennett Print : Advertisement1900-1945 'He was annoyed by some of Priestley's comments in "The Mercury" (February 1924) as he notes in his journal . . .' Arnold Bennett J.B. Priestley Mercury, The Print : Serial / periodical1900-1945 'With autodidact diligence [Leslie Paul] closed in on the avant-garde. He read "Prufrock" and "The Waste Land", though not until the 1930s. He smuggled "Ulysses" and "Lad... Leslie Paul Thomas Stearns Eliot The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock Print : Book1900-1945 'With autodidact diligence [Leslie Paul] closed in on the avant-garde. He read "Prufrock" and "The Waste Land", though not until the 1930s. He smuggled "Ulysses" and "Lad... Leslie Paul Thomas Stearns Eliot The Waste Land Print : Book1900-1945 'With autodidact diligence [Leslie Paul] closed in on the avant-garde. He read "Prufrock" and "The Waste Land", though not until the 1930s. He smuggled "Ulysses" and "Lad... Leslie Paul David Herbert Lawrence Lady Chatterley's Lover Print : Book1900-1945 'With autodidact diligence [Leslie Paul] closed in on the avant-garde. He read "Prufrock" and "The Waste Land", though not until the 1930s. He smuggled "Ulysses" and "Lad... Leslie Paul James Joyce Ulysses Print : Book1900-1945 'With autodidact diligence [Leslie Paul] closed in on the avant-garde. He read "Prufrock" and "The Waste Land", though not until the 1930s. He smuggled "Ulysses" and "Lad... Leslie Paul [unknown] John O' London's Print : Serial / periodical1900-1945 'With autodidact diligence [Leslie Paul] closed in on the avant-garde. He read "Prufrock" and "The Waste Land", though not until the 1930s. He smuggled "Ulysses" and "Lad... Leslie Paul [n/a] The Nation Print : Serial / periodical1900-1945 Henry James to the Earl of Lovelace, 14 January 1906: 'I left home at Christmas for a few weeks' stay, which became a fortnight's absence, and, on my return a week ago, f... Henry James Ralph Gordon Noel King, second Earl of Lovelace Astarte Print : Book1900-1945 'With autodidact diligence [Leslie Paul] closed in on the avant-garde. He read "Prufrock" and "The Waste Land", though not until the 1930s. He smuggled "Ulysses" and "Lad... Leslie Paul William MacDougall Psychology Print : Book1900-1945 'With autodidact diligence [Leslie Paul] closed in on the avant-garde. He read "Prufrock" and "The Waste Land", though not until the 1930s. He smuggled "Ulysses" and "Lad... Leslie Paul F.A. Servante Psychology of the Boy Print : Book1900-1945 'Bernard Kops, the son of an immigrant leather worker, had a special understanding of the transition from from autodidact culture to Bohemia to youth culture, because he ... Bernard Kops William Shakespeare The Tempest Print : Book1900-1945 'Bernard Kops, the son of an immigrant leather worker, had a special understanding of the transition from from autodidact culture to Bohemia to youth culture, because he ... Bernard Kops Matthew Arnold The Forsaken Merman Print : Book1900-1945 'Bernard Kops, the son of an immigrant leather worker, had a special understanding of the transition from from autodidact culture to Bohemia to youth culture, because he ... Bernard Kops Rupert Brooke Grantchester Print : Book1900-1945 'Bernard Kops, the son of an immigrant leather worker, had a special understanding of the transition from from autodidact culture to Bohemia to youth culture, because he ... Bernard Kops Thomas Stearns Eliot The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock Print : Book1900-1945 'Bernard Kops, the son of an immigrant leather worker, had a special understanding of the transition from from autodidact culture to Bohemia to youth culture, because he ... Bernard Kops Thomas Stearns Eliot 'The Waste Land' Print : Book1900-1945 'After Stalingrad, [Bernard Kops] immersed himself in Russian literature. A GI dating his sister introduced him to Walt Whitman and Emily Dickinson'. Bernard Kops [unknown] [Russian literature] Print : Book1900-1945 'After Stalingrad, [Bernard Kops] immersed himself in Russian literature. A GI dating his sister introduced him to Walt Whitman and Emily Dickinson'. Bernard Kops Walt Whitman [unknown] Print : Book1900-1945 'After Stalingrad, [Bernard Kops] immersed himself in Russian literature. A GI dating his sister introduced him to Walt Whitman and Emily Dickinson'. Bernard Kops Emily Dickinson [unknown] 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 William Shakespeare Hamlet Print : Book1900-1945 '"Reflection: It is presumably a bad thing to look through articles, reviews, etc. to find one's own name. Yet I often do." And that same week, she is agonizing over "one... Virginia Woolf Times Literary Supplement, The Print : Newspaper, Serial / periodical1900-1945 'Beaverbrook vetted all the politics, finding only two or three small slips in the entire novel, which is a tribute to his briefing and to Bennett's attention.' Lord Beaverbrook Arnold Bennett Lord Raingo Print : Book1900-1945 'There Bennett worked on his novel, read Dreiser and Balzac, . . .' Arnold Bennett Theodore Dreiser 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 William Shakespeare Othello Print : Book1850-1899 '[letter to Mrs Ward from Mr Creighton] I have read "Miss Bretherton" with much interest. It was hardly fair on the book to know the plot beforehand, but I found myself c... Mr Creighton Charles Augustin de Sainte-Beuve Volupte Print : Book1900-1945 'Although Bennett had reservations about the book, he had enjoyed it, and had at once written to tell his friend so'. Arnold Bennett H.G. Wells The World of William Clissold Print : Book1900-1945 'D. H. Lawrence . . . reviewed the novel [The World of William Clissold by Wells] in the "Calendar" of October 1926, in a piece which Bennett says shows his "childish and... Arnold Bennett D.H. Lawrence [review of H.G. Wells's "The World of William Clis... Print : Serial / periodical1600-1699 "In 1617 the Countess [of Dorset, Pembroke, and Montgomery] noted recreational books that she was reading:
"'Began to have Mr. Sandy's book read to me about the Govern... Anne Clifford, Countess of Dorset, Pembroke, and Montgomery George Sandys A relation of a journey begun Anno Dom. 1610. Fou... Print : Book1600-1699 "In 1617 the Countess [of Dorset, Pembroke, and Montgomery] noted recreational books that she was reading:
"'Began to have Mr. Sandy's book read to me about the Govern... Michel de Montaigne Essays Print : Book1600-1699 "In 1617 the Countess [of Dorset, Pembroke, and Montgomery] noted recreational books that she was reading:
"'Began to have Mr. Sandy's book read to me about the Govern... Moll Neville Edmund Spenser The Faerie Queene Print : Book1600-1699 "In 1617 the Countess [of Dorset, Pembroke, and Montgomery] noted recreational books that she was reading:
"'Began to have Mr. Sandy's book read to me about the Govern... Anne Clifford, Countess of Dorset, Pembroke, and Montgomery George Sandys A Relation of a Journey begun Anno Dom. 1610 Print : Book1600-1699 "In 1617 the Countess [of Dorset, Pembroke, and Montgomery] noted recreational books that she was reading:
"'Began to have Mr. Sandy's book read to me about the Govern... Anne Clifford, Countess of Dorset, Pembroke, and Montgomery Geoffrey Chaucer Print : Book1600-1699 "In 1617 the Countess [of Dorset, Pembroke, and Montgomery] noted recreational books that she was reading:
"'The 12th and 13th I spent most of the time in playing Geck... Moll Neville Philip Sidney The Countess of Pembroke's Arcadia Unknown 1600-1699 "The journal [of Anne Clifford, Countess of Dorset, Pembroke, and Montgomery] ends in 1619 when she wrote:
"'My Coz. Maria read Ovid's Metamorphosis to me.
"'The 14... Maria Ovid Metamorphoses Print : Book1600-1699 "The journal [of Anne Clifford, Countess of Dorset, Pembroke, and Montgomery] ends in 1619 when she wrote:
"'My Coz. Maria read Ovid's Metamorphosis to me.
"'The 14... Wat Conniston Josephus Print : Book1600-1699 " ... Lady Anne [Clifford] ... read Robert Parsons's Resolutions, Thomas Sorocold's Supplications of Saints, a 'lady's book of praise of a solitary life,' and a 'book of ... Lady Anne Clifford Robert Parson The first booke of the Christian exercise, apperta... Print : Book1600-1699 " ... Lady Anne [Clifford] ... read Robert Parsons's Resolutions, Thomas Sorocold's Supplications of Saints, a 'lady's book of praise of a solitary life,' and a 'book of ... Lady Anne Clifford Thomas Sorocold Supplications of Saints; A booke of prayers: ... W... Print : Book1600-1699 " ... Lady Anne [Clifford] ... read Robert Parsons's Resolutions, Thomas Sorocold's Supplications of Saints, a 'lady's book of praise of a solitary life,' and a 'book of ... Lady Anne Clifford "lady's book of praise of a solitary life" Print : Book1600-1699 " ... Lady Anne [Clifford] ... read Robert Parsons's Resolutions, Thomas Sorocold's Supplications of Saints, a 'lady's book of praise of a solitary life,' and a 'book of ... Lady Anne Clifford "book of the preaparation to the sarament" Print : Book1900-1945 'The programme on the works of J.M. Barrie was then considered, John Ridges reading a paper on the subject & Mrs Kaye Miss Marriage & WS Rowntree & P Kaye giving part rea... John Ridges John Ridges [paper on J.M. Barrie] Manuscript : Unknown1800-1849 Harriet, Countess Granville, to her brother the Duke of Devonshire, 15 November 1811:
'Do you wish to see us tonight, G[eorgiana]. with a veil and shawl, near the fire... Mr Canning Print : Unknown1800-1849 Harriet, Countess Granville, to her sister Lady Georgiana Morpeth, 24 September 1810:
'I am in the middle of [Rousseau's] "Emile." I think parts of it excellent, and t... Harriet Countess Granville Jean Jacques Rousseau Emile (vol. 1) Print : Book1600-1699 'reed of my bible, studeed my Lector, and so dined' Margaret Hoby [n/a] Bible Print : Book1700-1799 Henry Cooke, in evidence to the Commissioners on Education in Ireland in 1825 [regarding books available in Irish schools]:
"'I recollect reading a book, called the Se... Henry Cooke Richard Johnson The Seven Champions of Christendom and Destruction... Print : Book1700-1799 Henry Cooke, in evidence to the Commissioners on Education in Ireland in 1825 [regarding books available in Irish schools]:
"'I recollect reading a book, called the Se... Henry Cooke Hero and Leander Print : Book1700-1799 Henry Cooke, in evidence to the Commissioners on Education in Ireland in 1825 [regarding books available in Irish schools]:
"'I recollect reading a book, called the Se... Henry Cooke Gesta Romanorum Print : Book1700-1799 Henry Cooke, in evidence to the Commissioners on Education in Ireland in 1825 [regarding books available in Irish schools]:
"'I recollect reading a book, called the Se... Henry Cooke Seven wise masters Print : Book1700-1799 Henry Cooke, in evidence to the Commissioners on Education in Ireland in 1825 [regarding books available in Irish schools]:
"'I recollect reading a book, called the Se... Henry Cooke Chinese tales Print : Book1700-1799 Henry Cooke, in evidence to the Commissioners on Education in Ireland in 1825 [regarding books available in Irish schools]:
"'I recollect reading a book, called the Se... Henry Cooke Parismos and Parismenes Print : Book1700-1799 Henry Cooke, in evidence to the Commissioners on Education in Ireland in 1825 [regarding books available in Irish schools]:
"'I recollect reading a book, called the Se... Henry Cooke Richard Johnson The honour or chivalry; or, the famous history of ... Print : Book1700-1799 Henry Cooke, in evidence to the Commissioners on Education in Ireland in 1825 [regarding books available in Irish schools]:
"'I recollect reading a book, called the Se... Henry Cooke The History of Captain Freney Print : Book1800-1849 "William Carleton got the perusal of Gil Blas from a 'pedlar, who carried books about for sale, with a variety of other goods'." William Carleton Alain-Rene Le Sage Gil Blas Print : Book1800-1849 J. R. R. Adams quotes at length from William Carleton's account (in his autobiography) of first reading Amoranda, or the reformed coquette, when young, "'the first thing ... William Carleton Amoranda, or the reformed coquette Print : Pamphlet1800-1849 "In Holywood at the time of the peninsular war 'several would join to buy a number of the Belfast News-letter or of the Commercial Chronicle; or, through the kindness of ... people of Holywood, Ulster newspapers Print : Newspaper1850-1899 'my mother arrived in England with a great respect for culture, and eager to learn all she could. We find her struggling to read Browning and Tennyson and Shelley; batter... Maud du Puy Percy Bysshe Shelley Print : Unknown1850-1899 'my mother arrived in England with a great respect for culture, and eager to learn all she could. We find her struggling to read Browning and Tennyson and Shelley; batter... Maud du Puy Robert Browning Print : Unknown1850-1899 'my mother arrived in England with a great respect for culture, and eager to learn all she could. We find her struggling to read Browning and Tennyson and Shelley; batter... Maud du Puy Alfred Lord Tennyson Print : Unknown1850-1899 'my mother arrived in England with a great respect for culture, and eager to learn all she could. We find her struggling to read Browning and Tennyson and Shelley; batter... Maud du Puy George Sand La Petite Fadette Print : Unknown1850-1899 '[letter to Mrs Ward from Mr Creighton] I have read "Miss Bretherton" with much interest. It was hardly fair on the book to know the plot beforehand, but I found myself c... Mr Creighton Mary Augusta Ward Miss Bretherton Print : Book1800-1849 J. R. R. Aadams quotes from memoirs of Seamus MacManus (The Rocky Road to Dublin, 1939) on how MacManus (b. Donegal, c.1868) read the merchandise [mainly popular song and... Seamus MacManus popular chapbooks Print : Book1850-1899 'it was during this year [1884] that she began her translation of Amiel's "Journal".' Mary Augusta Ward Henri Frederic Amiel Journal Intime Print : Book1900-1945 'On 9 February he read in the paper news that turned his mind from the future to the past. His old friend George Sturt was dead.' Arnold Bennett Print : Newspaper1850-1899 'She complains in her letters that she cannot get through them [French and Spanish
books to review in 'The Times', the 'Pall Mall Gazaette' etc] quickly enough. "Three ... Mary Augusta Ward [French and Spanish books] Print : Book1900-1945 'it was many, many years before any of us was able to look with unprejudiced eyes at anything Scotch again. Always excepting Scott's novels, which we loved.' Gwen Raverat Walter Scott [novels] Print : Book1900-1945 'He travelled alone, by train, . . . reading "The Brothers Karamazov" for the fourth time'. Arnold Bennett Fyodor Dostoyevsky Brothers Karamazov, The Print : Book1900-1945 'Bennett had seen a placard announcing its publication in Cassell's "Storyteller" magazine on Victoria Station just before his departure for Sicily in April.' Arnold Bennett Print : Advertisement, Poster1900-1945 'Bennett, Dorothy, and the Board of Sloane Productions Ltd read all the notices the next day and found them satisfactory.' Arnold Bennett Print : Newspaper1850-1899 '[from a letter from Mary Ward to her father] the more I read and think over the New
Testament the more impossible it seems to me to accept what is ordinarily called th... Mary Augusta Ward New Testament Print : Book1900-1945 'There is a pleasant story of how [Aunt Cara] once set a Jebb niece to read "Paradise Lost" aloud to herself and her sister Aunt Polly, in order to improve Aunt Polly's m... [unknown] Jebb John Milton Paradise Lost Print : Book1900-1945 'There were some problems which I never solved in all my youth. For instance, there was Gloucester's Natural Son in King Lear. For if bad Edmund was a Natural Son, presum... Gwen Raverat William Shakespeare King Lear Print : Book1850-1899 'David Copperfield was puzzling, too. He was a 'posthumous child' and was born with a 'caul'. The French dictionary, the only one I had, gave posthumous; posthume, which ... Gwen Raverat Charles Dickens David Copperfield Print : Book1850-1899 'David Copperfield was puzzling, too. He was a 'posthumous child' and was born with a 'caul'. The French dictionary, the only one I had, gave posthumous; posthume, which ... Gwen Raverat William Makepeace Thackeray Henry Esmond Print : Book1900-1945 'Every time I re-read "Emma" I see more clearly that we must be somehow related to the Knightleys of Donwell Abbey; both dear Mr Knightley and Mr John Knightley seem so f... Gwen Raverat Jane Austen Emma Print : Book1850-1899 'Uncle Richard had adored Ruskin, and worshipped Morris, and had slept for years with a copy of "In Memoriam" under his pillow. He told me once how he and his friends use... Richard Litchfield John Ruskin Print : Book1850-1899 'Uncle Richard had adored Ruskin, and worshipped Morris, and had slept for years with a copy of "In Memoriam" under his pillow. He told me once how he and his friends use... Richard Litchfield William Morris Print : Book1850-1899 'Uncle Richard had adored Ruskin, and worshipped Morris, and had slept for years with a copy of "In Memoriam" under his pillow. He told me once how he and his friends use... Richard Litchfield Alfred Tennyson In Memoriam Print : Book1850-1899 'Uncle Richard had adored Ruskin, and worshipped Morris, and had slept for years with a copy of "In Memoriam" under his pillow. He told me once how he and his friends use... Richard Litchfield Robert Browning Print : Book1850-1899 'Uncle Richard had adored Ruskin, and worshipped Morris, and had slept for years with a copy of "In Memoriam" under his pillow. He told me once how he and his friends use... Richard Litchfield William Wordsworth Print : Book1850-1899 'Uncle Richard had adored Ruskin, and worshipped Morris, and had slept for years with a copy of "In Memoriam" under his pillow. He told me once how he and his friends use... Richard Litchfield Thomas Carlyle Print : Book1850-1899 'Uncle Richard had adored Ruskin, and worshipped Morris, and had slept for years with a copy of "In Memoriam" under his pillow. He told me once how he and his friends use... Richard Litchfield [classics in original languages] Print : Book1850-1899 'Uncle Richard had adored Ruskin, and worshipped Morris, and had slept for years with a copy of "In Memoriam" under his pillow. He told me once how he and his friends use... Richard Litchfield Sophocles Oedipus at Colonus Print : Book1850-1899 'It was here, at No. 31, that I discovered Bewick, one afternoon while Aunt Etty was having her rest. I remember lying on the sofa between the dining-room windows with th... Gwen Raverat Thomas Bewick Print : Book1850-1899 'One would be called upon to read aloud, say, Wordsworth's "Excursion" with her - Wordsworth was her religion - but one was never able to read more than two or three cons... Gwen Raverat William Wordsworth Excursion, The Print : Book1850-1899 'we first drew the curtains all round her four-post bed, so that it was quite dark inside; and then, having pulled them back again, we took off our shoes and all got into... Henrietta Litchfield Jean Ingelow Don John Print : Book1850-1899 'Lovely books she read to us...:"The Wide Wide World", with all the religion and deaths from consumption left out, and all the farm life and good country food left in; "M... Henrietta Litchfield Susan Warner The Wide Wide World Print : Book1850-1899 'Lovely books she read to us...:"The Wide Wide World", with all the religion and deaths from consumption left out, and all the farm life and good country food left in; "M... Henrietta Litchfield Frederick Marryat Masterman Ready Print : Book1850-1899 'Lovely books she read to us...:"The Wide Wide World", with all the religion and deaths from consumption left out, and all the farm life and good country food left in; "M... Henrietta Litchfield Charlotte Mary Yonge The Little Duke Print : Book1850-1899 'Lovely books she read to us...:"The Wide Wide World", with all the religion and deaths from consumption left out, and all the farm life and good country food left in; "M... Henrietta Litchfield Harriet Martineau Settlers at Home Print : Book1850-1899 'Lovely books she read to us...:"The Wide Wide World", with all the religion and deaths from consumption left out, and all the farm life and good country food left in; "M... Henrietta Litchfield Frederick Marryat The Children of the New Forest Print : Book1850-1899 'Lovely books she read to us...:"The Wide Wide World", with all the religion and deaths from consumption left out, and all the farm life and good country food left in; "M... Henrietta Litchfield Elizabeth Anna Hart The Runaway Print : Book1850-1899 'Lovely books she read to us...:"The Wide Wide World", with all the religion and deaths from consumption left out, and all the farm life and good country food left in; "M... Henrietta Litchfield George Macdonald The Princess and the Goblin Print : Book1700-1799 'Mary Martin came to live with me at 30s per year. Read "The Conscious Lovers" in the even.' Thomas Turner Richard Steele The Conscious Lovers Print : Book1700-1799 'This day made an end of instructing Miss Day. Read part of "The Spectator"; prodigiously admire the beauties pointed out in the eighth book of Milton's "Paradise Lost" b... Thomas Turner The Spectator Print : Serial / periodical1700-1799 'I at home all day. Read part of Hervey's "Meditations".' Thomas Turner James Hervey Meditations among the tombs: in a letter to a lady Print : Book1850-1899 'We are reading the "Seven Lamps of Architecture", some part very pretty, other by writing fine [though] very nonsensical, other very powerful, and the beginnings of chap... Charlotte Mary Yonge John Ruskin Seven Lamps of Architecture Print : Book1700-1799 'At home all day a-writing. In the even read "The Universal Magazine" for December; think the following observations worth notice: [lists several observations from the ma... Thomas Turner The Universal Magazine of Knowledge and Pleasure Print : Serial / periodical1700-1799 'At home all day. In the even read the 9th book of "Paradise Lost".' Thomas Turner John Milton Paradise Lost Print : Book1700-1799 'Read the 10th book of "Paradise Lost" in the even.' Thomas Turner John Milton Paradise Lost Print : Book1700-1799 'At home all day. In the even read the 11th and 12th books of "Paradise Regained", which I think is much inferior for the sublimity of style to "Paradise Lost".' Thomas Turner John Milton Paradise Regained Print : Book1700-1799 'In the even began Tournefort's "Voyage into the Levant". Read his "Life" and the "Eulogium" on it by M. Fountenelle. Memorandums on his life: [describes life of Tournefo... Thomas Turner Joseph Pitton de Tournefort Voyage into the Levant Print : Book1700-1799 'After supper read part of Tournefort's "Voyage into the Levant".' Thomas Turner Joseph Pitton de Tournefort Voyage into the Levant Print : Book1700-1799 'After supper finished "The Tragedy of Cato".' Thomas Turner Joseph Addison Cato, A Tragedy Print : Book1700-1799 'After supper read part of Tournefort's "Voyage into the Levant".' Thomas Turner Joseph Pitton de Tournefort Voyage into the Levant Print : Book1700-1799 'After supper read the "Tragedy of Macbeth", which I like very well.' Thomas Turner William Shakespeare Macbeth Print : Book1900-1945 'He even found time to be as courteous and helpful as ever to old friends, reading through, for instance, William Rothenstein's 'Men and Memories in typescript, with many... Arnold Bennett William Rothenstein Men and Memories Manuscript : typescript1900-1945 'He returned to London to . . . Somerset Maugham's "Cakes and Ale", which he admired . . .' Arnold Bennett W Somerset Maugham Cakes and Ale Print : Book1900-1945 'He returned to London to . . . Lawrence's "Virgin and the Gipsy", which he admired even more [than "Cakes and Ale"].' Arnold Bennett D.H. Lawrence Virgin and the Gipsy, The Print : Book1900-1945 'He had been reading, she said, J.W. Dunne's "Experiment with Time" - also Einstein and Addington.' Arnold Bennett J.W. Dunne Experiment with Time, An Print : Book1800-1849 'You will readily believe that I have not read much since I wrote to you. Roscoe's life of Lorenzo di'Medici - a work concerning which I shall only observe, in the words... Thomas Carlyle William Roscoe Life of Lorenzo Di Medici, 2 vols Print : Book1700-1799 'In the even read part of a simple thing called "The West Country Clothier" and, notwithstanding the meanness of the language, I think the character of the midwife and go... Thomas Turner anon The West County Clothier Print : Unknown1700-1799 'In reading "The History of England" I find that England first took that name under Egbert the 1st monarch of England after the Saxon Heptarchy, anno 801.' Thomas Turner anon The History of England Print : Book1700-1799 'Found in "The History of England" that England was first divided into counties, parishes, etc. in King Alfred's reign, about the year 890...' Thomas Turner anon The History of England Print : Book1700-1799 'At home all day. Not at church all day. Read part of Boyle's lectures and Smart's poem on eternity and immensity.' Thomas Turner William Derham Physico-Theology Print : Book1700-1799 'At home all day. Not at church all day. Read part of Boyle's lectures and Smart's poem on eternity and immensity.' Thomas Turner Christopher Smart On the eternity of the Supreme Being: a poetical e... Print : Book1700-1799 'Not at church all day, neither looked in any book all day except "The Tatler".' Thomas Turner The Tatler Print : Serial / periodical1700-1799 'In the even read part of the 4th volume of "The Tatler", in which I find some very agreeable stories, in particular one wherein a beautiful and virtuous young lady is ru... Thomas Turner The Tatler Print : Serial / periodical1700-1799 'In the even read part of the 4th volume of "The Tatler", which I think the oftener I read the better I like it. I think I never found the vice of drinking so well explod... Thomas Turner The Tatler Print : Serial / periodical1700-1799 'Came home about 7 o'clock; read several numbers in the 4th volume of "The Tatler".' Thomas Turner The Tatler Print : Serial / periodical1700-1799 'In the even read Derham's "Sermons at Boyle's Lectures", wherein I find a man evacuates as much in one day by insensible perspiration as in 14 by stool.' Thomas Turner William Derham Physico-Theology Print : Book1700-1799 'My wife read the 20th and 21st numbers of "The Guardian" to me, which I think extremely good, the first of which shows how indispensable a duty forgiveness is and the la... Peggy Turner The Guardian Print : Serial / periodical1700-1799 'A novel by Thomas Holcroft, "Anna St Ives", dismissed as "sad stuff I cannot read on".' Anna Larpent Thomas Holcroft Anna St Ives Print : Book1700-1799 [in April 1792 Larpent read] 'Smellie's "Philosophy of Nature" [sic] which she considered poorly organized but of sufficient value to transcribe extracts for her children... Anna Larpent William Smellie Philosophy of Natural History Print : Book1700-1799 'Anna Larpent's diary mentions over 440 titles, including forty-six English novels (She preferred those by women or works of sentimental fiction); twenty-two French works... Anna Larpent various various Print : Book1700-1799 'The story of Percy is simple, pathetic, distressing, this worked up to the most moving height of distress; the power of virtue on the mind is well contrasted with the ma... Anna Larpent Hannah More Percy Print : Book1700-1799 'With a fine imagination and command of Language Charlotte Smith cannot write without Interest [.] this is an odd work. She introduces in a prettily wrought novel the mor... Anna Larpent Charlotte Smith Desmond Print : Book1600-1699 'reasons out of Aristotle Mechanicks which I had very lately read' [explain a vision]. Henry More Aristotle Mechanicks Print : Book1700-1799 [Anna Seward on Thomas Gisborne's conduct books]: 'too strict'; they 'might have been more generally useful upon a less rigid plan of admonition, especially the volume de... Anna Seward Thomas Gisborne [conduct books] Print : Book1700-1799 'In the even T Davy brought a p[ai]r Shoes for my nephew and stayed and Supp'd w[i]th us and I read him the 4th of Tillotson's Sermons.' Thomas Turner John Tillotson Sermons Print : Unknown1700-1799 'in the even I wrote my London letters... also read the News paper... as I was a writing all the even my wife read "Clarissa Harlowe" to me.' Peggy Turner Samuel Richardson Clarissa Print : Unknown1700-1799 'In the evening read Tournefort's "Voyage into the Levant", where I find the Turks think the dead are relieved by prayer.' Thomas Turner Joseph Pitton de Tournefort Voyage into the Levant Print : Book1700-1799 'My wife read part of "Clarissa Harlowe" to me in the even as I sat a-posting my book.' Peggy Turner Samuel Richardson Clarissa Print : Book1700-1799 'At home all day. On reading Derham's notes on Boyle's lectures I find he says that Mr Boyle demonstrates that so slender a wire may be drawn from gold that from once oun... Thomas Turner William Derham Physico-Theology Print : Book1700-1799 'At home all day. On reading Derham's notes on Boyle's lectures I find he says that Mr Boyle demonstrates that so slender a wire may be drawn from gold that from once oun... Thomas Turner Christopher Smart On the immensity of the Supreme Being: a poetical ... Print : Book1700-1799 'Maria Josepha Holroyd in her teens was "enchanted" with the "all for Love" of de Stael's "Delphine", which in mature years she viewed more critically (if still with enjo... Maria Josepha Holroyd Germaine de Stael Delphine Print : Book1700-1799 'Mary Delaney frequently discussed her reading of plays.' Mary Delany plays Print : Unknown1800-1849 'In 1816, left alone in Bath by her husband, Mary Shelley records reading "The Solitary Wanderer", Charlotte Smith's "Letters of a Solitary Wanderer" (1799), a collection... Mary Shelley Charlotte Smith Letters of a Solitary Wanderer Print : Book1700-1799 'Even conservative Elizabeth Montagu read "Bankes' voyage", and although she disapproved his religious scepticism she also criticised the "prudery of the Ladies", who are... Elizabeth Montagu John Hawkesworth An account of voyages... Print : Book1700-1799 'as with history, women use their reading of travels to interrogate an androcentric concept of heroism. Elizabeth Montagu felt "surfeited" with what she thought the point... Elizabeth Montagu James Bruce Travels to discover the source of the Nile, in the... Print : Book1700-1799 'Mrs Keith of Ravelstone remembered, as a girl in London perhaps in the 1760s, hearing Aphra Behn's fiction "read aloud for the amusement of large circles of the first an... Mrs ? Keith (of Ravelstone) Aphra Benn Delphine Print : Unknown1850-1899 'And so she plunged into early Spanish literature and history, working at it in the
Bodeleian with the fervour that comes from knowing that your subject is your very
... Mary Augusta Ward El Cantar de Mio Cid Print : Book1700-1799 '. . . You must, doubtless, have seen in the Gazette the account of 2 ships appearing in the north of Russia which are presumed to have been those of Captn Cooke & Capt. ... Frances Burney Print : Newspaper1700-1799 '. . . the Morning Post had yesterday this Paragraph?We hear Lieutenant Burney has succeeded to the command of Capt. Clerke?s ship.' Frances Burney Print : Newspaper1700-1799 [Marginalia]: 4 lines of ms notes on the binding page are now rubbed and difficult to decipher but appear to be notes of references to specific pages eg ;'joys 96, 95-6 t... George Burder Early piety: or, memoirs of children eminently ser... Print : Book1800-1849 [Marginalia]: 3 pages of ms notes (pencil) on binding pages in form of references giving Book, chapter /verse and a short note on content eg 'Exodus ... 14 ... bees'. The... The Holy Bible, containing the Old Testament and t... Print : Book1700-1799 [Marginalia]: a few pencil marginal marks (in form of bracketed lines of text eg p 79 has lines 203-7 bracketed), plus some ms notes in ink on binding page. The ink note... James Thomson Seasons, The Print : Book1700-1799 'On Christmas day of 1756 he read seven of Tillotson's Sermons during the day and evening.' Thomas Turner John Tillotson Sermons Unknown 1700-1799 [while he was doing his accounts Turner's wife read aloud to him] 'the moving Scene of the Funeral of Miss Clarissa Harlowe' - "Oh: may the Supreme Being give me Grace to... Peggy Turner Samuel Richardson Clarissa Print : Book1700-1799 'in the Even my Wife and I read part of the Sermon preach'd... at the opening of St Peters Cornhill 1681.' Peggy Turner unknown sermon Unknown 1700-1799 'in the Even my Wife and I read part of the Sermon preach'd... at the opening of St Peters Cornhill 1681.' Thomas Turner unknown sermon Unknown 1700-1799 'In reading the "Odyssey" last night among many curious passages these two lines I think applicable to the present times, Viz, "why cease ye then ye wreath of Heaven to s... Thomas Turner Homer Odyssey Print : Book1700-1799 'My wife read to me in the Even 4 No. of the Freeholder.' Peggy Turner The Freeholder Print : Serial / periodical1700-1799 'Mr Elles and I read 3 of Tillotson's sermons.' Thomas Turner John Tillotson Sermons Unknown 1700-1799 Adrian Johns notes "the extensive record of John Byrom's days in the 1720s spent 'reading in a pamphlet shop,' 'reading at a bookseller's stall,' staying at Vaillant's sh... John Byrom Print : Pamphlet, Unknown1700-1799 Adrian Johns notes "the extensive record of John Byrom's days in the 1720s spent 'reading in a pamphlet shop,' 'reading at a bookseller's stall,' staying at Vaillant's sh... John Byrom Print : Book1700-1799 Adrian Johns notes "the extensive record of John Byrom's days in the 1720s spent 'reading in a pamphlet shop,' 'reading at a bookseller's stall,' staying at Vaillant's sh... John Byrom books Print : Book1700-1799 Adrian Johns notes "the extensive record of John Byrom's days in the 1720s spent 'reading in a pamphlet shop,' 'reading at a bookseller's stall,' staying at Vaillant's sh... John Byrom Print : Unknown1600-1699 "... [during the 1660s] eminent Stationer Benjamin Tooke said he had seen 'several quires' of a seditious work lying visible in Benjamin Harris's shop, and could be sure ... Benjamin Tooke seditious book Print : unbound printed sheets1700-1799 'Joseph Fuller Jun. And Tho. Durrant drank some Coffee with me... to whom I read One of Tillotson's Sermons.' Thomas Turner John Tillotson Sermons Unknown 1700-1799 'in the Even Tho. Davy at our House to whom I read the 4th Book of Milton's "Paradise Lost".' Thomas Turner John Milton Paradise Lost Print : Book1600-1699 "In 1630 [William] Prynne saracastically claimed [in Lame Giles his Haltings 2-3] that he had 'repaired to the Printing House' to examine the sheets of Giles Widdowes's L... William Prynne Giles Widdowes Lawlesse Kneelesse Schismaticall Puritan Print : Book1600-1699 "In 1630 [William] Prynne saracastically claimed [in Lame Giles his Haltings 2-3] that he had 'repaired to the Printing House' to examine the sheets of Giles Widdowes's L... Giles Widdowes Lawlesse Kneelesse Schismaticall Puritan Print : Book1600-1699 "In 1630 [William] Prynne saracastically claimed [in Lame Giles his Haltings 2-3] that he had 'repaired to the Printing House' to examine the sheets of Giles Widdowes's L... anon ("others") Giles Widdowes Lawlesse Kneelesse Schismaticall Puritan Print : Book, proof copy1700-1799 'Tho. Davy Spent the Even and Supp'd at our house and read 2 of Tillotsons sermons to us.' Tho Davy John Tillotson Sermons Unknown 1600-1699 Adrian Johns notes 17th-century bookseller Thomas Bennett (d. 1706)'s practice of reading "'Useful Discourses'" to his servants every Sunday. Thomas Bennett "useful Discourses" Print : Unknown1600-1699 Reading James Harrington, The Common-Wealth of Oceana, Henry Oldenburg "took notes only from the 'Preliminaries'." Henry Oldenburg James Harrington The Common-Wealth of Oceana Print : Book1600-1699 Adrian Johns notes Samuel Pepys's use of printed lawbooks "to inform himself of 'law-notions'" Samuel Pepys books on laws and statutes Print : Book1600-1699 Adrian Johns notes how the school-aged Robert Boyle was advised to read romances [incuding "'the stale Adventures [of] Amadis de Gaule'"] as remedy for a "melancholic sta... Robert Boyle romances including Amadis de Gaulle Print : Book1600-1699 "What originally made [Robert] Boyle so 'passionate a Friend to Reading,' he was wont to say, 'was the accidentall Perusall of Quintus Curtius.' This ancient romance of ... Robert Boyle Quintus Curtius Print : Book1600-1699 "In Geneva on the Grand Tour ... [Robert] Boyle would continue to pursue 'above all the Reading of Romances,' and would become fluent in French from doing so." Robert Boyle French romances Print : Book1600-1699 Adrian Johns notes how, long after enjoying the romance of Quintus Curtius when young, "[Robert] Boyle ... found himself suffering 'violent pains' in an inn; reading an o... Robert Boyle Quintus Curtius Print : Book1600-1699 Adrian Johns notes that "It was [Robert] Hooke who, during his employ with [Robert] Boyle, conducted him through most of Descartes's works; before that Boyle had ... read... Robert Boyle Rene Descartes Print : Book1600-1699 Adrian Johns notes that "It was [Robert] Hooke who, during his employ with [Robert] Boyle, conducted him through most of Descartes's works; before that Boyle had ... read... Robert Boyle Rene Descartes Passions Print : Book1600-1699 " ... Abraham Cowley ... found that reading Spenser in his mother's parlor 'made [him] a Poet as immediately as a Child is made an Eunuch.'" Abraham Cowley Edmund Spenser Print : Book1600-1699 " ... the crypto-Jacobite virtuoso John Byrom used laudanum to treat his sister, Ellen, after noting that she had been 'disturbed' by reading Clarendon. The treatment pr... Ellen Clarendon Print : Book1600-1699 "The young [John] Rogers had 'read every day,' he recalled ... He learned his catechism by heart ... wrote down the sermons and learned those too ... memorized morning an... John Rogers transcribed sermons Manuscript : Unknown1600-1699 "The young [John] Rogers had 'read every day,' he recalled ... He learned his catechism by heart ... wrote down the sermons and learned those too ... memorized morning an... John Rogers morning and evening prayers Print : Book1600-1699 "The young [John] Rogers had 'read every day,' he recalled ... He learned his catechism by heart ... wrote down the sermons and learned those too ... memorized morning an... John Rogers The Bible Print : Book1600-1699 "Francis Bishop [a member of the preacher John Rogers's Dublin congregation in the early 1650s], condemned to be shot, 'turned open the Bible' and read a passage enjoinin... Francis Bishop The Bible Print : Book1600-1699 "Hugh Leeson [a member of the preacher John Rogers's Dublin congregation in the early 1650s] ... was first 'wrought upon' by his wife, 'whom God made the first Instrument... anon The Bible Print : Book1600-1699 Adrian Johns recounts how, in a dream "at around the time of the outbreak of the Civil War," Henry More saw "a series of huge figures in the sky," including "that of an o... Henry More Aristotle Mechanics Print : Book1600-1699 Adrian Johns recounts how, in a dream "at around the time of the outbreak of the Civil War," Henry More saw "a series of huge figures in the sky," including "that of an o... Henry More Ptolemy Geographia Print : Book1600-1699 "[Meric Casaubon] described an encounter with a work on Etruscan antiquities which he had come across in a Stationer's shop in London ...Casaubon had found its engravings... Meric Casaubon bogus work on Etruscan antiquities Print : Book1600-1699 "[Meric Casaubon] described an encounter with a work on Etruscan antiquities which he had come across in a Stationer's shop in London ...Casaubon had found its engravings... Meric Casaubon bogus work on Etruscan antiquities Print : Book1600-1699 "[Robert] Hooke had been able to read letters in what would otherwise be reckoned darkness, thanks to one of his artificial organs contrived from 'an ordinary double Conv... Robert Hooke letters Unknown 1700-1799 'Read "The Merry Wives of Windsor" wherein I think the genius of the author shows itself in a very conspicuous manner as to humour. But I cannot find in my heart to say I... Thomas Turner William Shakespeare The Merry Wives of Windsor Print : Book1700-1799 'After supper read part of Tournefort's "Voyage into the Levant" wherein I find the following remark: They breed (says he) the finest goats in the world in the Champaign ... Thomas Turner Joseph Pitton de Tournefort Voyage into the Levant Print : Book1700-1799 'In the even read 2 books of Homer's "Odyssey", translated by Pope.' Thomas Turner Homer Odyssey Print : Book1700-1799 'In the even my wife finished reading of "Clarissa Harlowe", which I look upon as a very well-wrote thing though it must be allowed it is too prolix. I think the author k... Peggy Turner Samuel Richardson Clarissa Print : Book1700-1799 'Came home about 8.10. Read part of Homer's "Odyssey".' Thomas Turner Homer Odyssey Print : Book1700-1799 'In the even read the writings of a farm called Chillys in Mayfield, which was entailed to Mrs Virgoe's father and his heirs forever, but he cut the said entailment off a... Thomas Turner Manuscript : Unknown1700-1799 'After supper read the 13th book of Homer's "Odyssey", wherein I think the soliloquy which Ulysses makes when he finds the Phaeacians have, in his sleep, left him on shor... Thomas Turner Homer Odyssey Print : Book1700-1799 [Marginalia]: ms note in Latin on inside front cover may or may not be connected with the text as the book has evidence of its young owner using the blank spaces to play ... William Erskine Virgil Works Print : Book1800-1849 [Marginalia]: one ms note at the end of the text: 'You are a story [?] teller I ... said Mr Joseph Emin'. Some of the page is missing. John Drummond Erskine Joseph Emin The life and adventures of Joseph Emin, an Armenia... Print : Book1700-1799 'Carter and Talbot read fiction and corresponded about it, including "Roderick Random", the novels of Eliza Haywood, French romances, and Charlotte Lennox's "Henrietta", ... Catherine Talbot [French romances] Print : Book1700-1799 'Carter and Talbot read fiction and corresponded about it, including "Roderick Random", the novels of Eliza Haywood, French romances, and Charlotte Lennox's "Henrietta", ... Catherine Talbot Tobias Smollett Roderick Random Print : Book1700-1799 'Carter and Talbot read fiction and corresponded about it, including "Roderick Random", the novels of Eliza Haywood, French romances, and Charlotte Lennox's "Henrietta", ... Catherine Talbot Eliza Haywood various novels Print : Book1700-1799 'Carter and Talbot read fiction and corresponded about it, including "Roderick Random", the novels of Eliza Haywood, French romances, and Charlotte Lennox's "Henrietta", ... Catherine Talbot Sarah Fielding various works Print : Book1700-1799 'Carter and Talbot read fiction and corresponded about it, including "Roderick Random", the novels of Eliza Haywood, French romances, and Charlotte Lennox's "Henrietta", ... Catherine Talbot French romances Print : Book1700-1799 '[Elizabeth Carter and Catherine Talbot] read and admired the work of Elizabeth Rowe, and questioned each other excitedly about an almost forgotten Katherine Phillips, "t... Catherine Talbot Katherine Phillips works Print : Book1700-1799 '[Elizabeth Carter and Catherine Talbot] read and admired the work of Elizabeth Rowe, and questioned each other excitedly about an almost forgotten Katherine Phillips, "t... Catherine Talbot Elizabeth Rowe works Print : Book1700-1799 '[Carter] read "a system of false philosophy" by Madame de Chatelet "for no other reason than because it was wrote by a lady".' Elizabeth Carter Emilie de Chatelet Print : Book1700-1799 '[Carter] is sympathetic to women of different views, like Charlotte Smith or Helen Maria Williams whose books she finds "too democratical" but praises as "exprest with d... Elizabeth Carter Helen Maria Williams various books Print : Book1700-1799 'Having heard the work of another virtuous woman writer, Catherine Trotter Cockburn, was to be published, [Elizabeth Carter and Catherine Talbot] displayed great interest... Elizabeth Carter Charlotte Trotter Cockburn works Print : Book1800-1849 'Even during their elopement in Switzerland and Germany in 1814, Shelley read to her: "the siege of Jerusalem" from Tacitus is read by Lake Lucerne, and as they sail to M... Percy Bysshe Shelley Tacitus Siege of Jerusalem, The Print : Book1800-1849 'Even during their elopement in Switzerland and Germany in 1814, Shelley read to her: "The Siege of Jerusalem" from Tacitus is read by Lake Lucerne, and as they sail to M... Percy Bysshe Shelley Mary Wollstonecraft Letters written during a short residence in Sweden... Print : Book1700-1799 'Sarah Harriet Burney read Ariosto with "delight", but "Here and there he is a bad boy, and as the book is my own, & I do not like indecency, I cut out whole pages that a... Sarah Harriet Burney Ariosto Print : Book1700-1799 [Marginalia]: form of marks in text with marginal note e.g. p.82 the word 'abita' in the text is underlined with 'abdita' in the margin; p. 479 the text 'Quin etiam blan... John Drummond Erskine Ovid Metamorphoses, in fifteen books, with the argument... Print : Book1700-1799 'Tho. Davy came in after supper and stayed with us about 2 1/2 hours. He and I looked over Gordon's "Geographical Grammar", and in particular the religions of all nations... Thomas Turner Patrick Gordon Geography anatomized: or a compleat geographical g... Print : Book1700-1799 'In the even read several numbers of the "Freeholder" which I think is a proper book for anyone to look into at this critical juncture of affairs.' Thomas Turner The Monitor; or the British Freeholder Print : Serial / periodical1700-1799 'At home all day... In reading Homer's "Odyssey", I think the character which Menelaus gives Telemachus of Ulysses, when he is a-speaking of his war-like virtues in the 4... Thomas Turner Homer Odyssey Print : Book1700-1799 'Saw in the Lewes newspaper of this day that on Saturday last there was several explosions heard in the bowels of the earth like an earthquake in the parishes of Waldron ... Thomas Turner Sussex Weekly Advertiser, or Lewes Journal Print : Newspaper1700-1799 'Read some of "The History of England".' Thomas Turner The History of England Print : Book1700-1799 'Read part of Hervey's "Theron and Aspasio".' Thomas Turner James Hervey Theron and Aspasio: or, a series of dialogues and ... Print : Book1700-1799 'This afternoon very bad with tooth-ache. Read the newspaper wherein I find the nation is all in a ferment upon the account of losing dear Minorca.' Thomas Turner [newspaper] Print : Newspaper1700-1799 'In the evening read 3 of Tillotson's sermons.' Thomas Turner John Tillotson Sermons Print : Book1700-1799 'In the even read one of Tillotson's sermons and which I think a very good one.' Thomas Turner John Tillotson Sermons Print : Book1700-1799 'In the even read to Tho. Davy an appeal to the public on behalf of Admiral Byng wherein he is clearly proved to be no ways guilty of what has been laid to his charge, na... Thomas Turner [Byng] An appeal to the people: containing the genuine an... Print : Pamphlet1700-1799 'In the even read to Tho. Davy an appeal to the public in behalf of Admiral Byng ...I also read Bally's poem on the wisdom of the Supreme Being, which I think is a very s... Thomas Turner George Bally The Wisdom of the Supreme Being Print : Book1700-1799 'Read part of Locke's "Essay on Human Understanding", which I find to be a very abstruse book.' Thomas Turner John Locke An essay concerning human understanding Print : Book1700-1799 'In the even read 4 of Tillotson's sermons.' Thomas Turner John Tillotson Sermons Print : Book1700-1799 'In the even Tho. Davy sat with us about 3 hours and to whom and in the day I read 7 of Tillotson's sermons.' Thomas Turner John Tillotson Sermons Print : Book1700-1799 'In the even in reading the "Lewes Journal" I found the following remarkable character, which I admire not for the diction, but for the justness of it and for imitation: ... Thomas Turner Lewes Journal Print : Newspaper1700-1799 'In the even read a sermon preached at this church on the 1st of August 1716 by the Rev. Mr Richard Haworth on the wonders of providence in the defence of the reformation... Thomas Turner Richard Haworth [Sermon] Print : Unknown1700-1799 'Read in the day part of Burkitt's "Poor Man's Help or Young Man's Guide", which I think the best book I ever read of the size.' Thomas Turner William Burkitt The poor man's help and the young man's guide Print : Book1700-1799 'In perusing an abridgment of the "Life of Madame de Maintenon" in "The Universal Magazine" for March, I find the following, being the advice given her by her mother Mada... Thomas Turner The Universal magazine of knowledge and pleasure Print : Serial / periodical1700-1799 'This day read in the "Gazette" of the 20th instant that the King of Prussia had on the 6th instant gained a complete victory over the whole combined forces of Austria (n... Thomas Turner The London Gazette Print : Newspaper1700-1799 'Today in reading "The London Magazine" for May, I find the following description of a comet that is shortly expected to appear, viz., that it has appeared 6 times alread... Thomas Turner The London Magazine Print : Serial / periodical1700-1799 'Read part of "The Universal Magazine" for June wherein I find the following receipt recommended (in an extract from Dr Lind's essay on the most effectual means of preser... Thomas Turner The Universal Magazine of Knowledge and Pleasure Print : Serial / periodical1700-1799 'In reading Josephus's "Jewish Antiques" I find his opinion was (or at least it was a prevailing notion in his time) that the earth was the centre of the planetary system... Thomas Turner Flavius Josephus The antiques of the Jews Print : Book1700-1799 'In the evening read one of Tillotson's sermons.' Thomas Turner John Tillotson Sermons Print : Book1700-1799 'In the even Tho. Davy to our house, to whom I read a sermon preached by the Rev. Mr James Hervey, A.M., rector of Weston-Favell in Northamptonshire, being preached on so... Thomas Turner James Hervey The time of danger, and the means of safety; to wh... Print : Book1850-1899 'One day Maud stood in front of Grandfather's bookshelves in the parlour and made up her mind that she would read every book on them. There weren't all that many, even th... Lucy Maud Montgomery Bible, the Print : Book1850-1899 'One day Maud stood in front of Grandfather's bookshelves in the parlour and made up her mind that she would read every book on them. There weren't all that many, even th... Lucy Maud Montgomery John Bunyan Pilgrim's Progress, The Print : Book1850-1899 'One day Maud stood in front of Grandfather's bookshelves in the parlour and made up her mind that she would read every book on them. There weren't all that many, even th... Lucy Maud Montgomery Godey's Lady's Book Print : Serial / periodical1850-1899 'One day Maud stood in front of Grandfather's bookshelves in the parlour and made up her mind that she would read every book on them. There weren't all that many, even th... Lucy Maud Montgomery anon Little Katey and Jolly Jim Print : Book1850-1899 'One day Maud stood in front of Grandfather's bookshelves in the parlour and made up her mind that she would read every book on them. There weren't all that many, even th... Lucy Maud Montgomery [novels for adults] Print : Book1850-1899 'One day Maud stood in front of Grandfather's bookshelves in the parlour and made up her mind that she would read every book on them. There weren't all that many, even th... Lucy Maud Montgomery History of the World Print : Book1850-1899 'One day Maud stood in front of Grandfather's bookshelves in the parlour and made up her mind that she would read every book on them. There weren't all that many, even th... Lucy Maud Montgomery [Christian books and missionary tracts] Print : Book, religious tracts1850-1899 'One day Maud stood in front of Grandfather's bookshelves in the parlour and made up her mind that she would read every book on them. There weren't all that many, even th... Alexander Macneill Bible Print : Book1850-1899 'One day Maud stood in front of Grandfather's bookshelves in the parlour and made up her mind that she would read every book on them. There weren't all that many, even th... Alexander Macneill [newspaper from Charlottetown] Print : Newspaper, Daily1850-1899 [Maud Montgomery and her foster brothers] 'read the "Wide Awake" magazines the boys' aunt sent them for a while - the last instalment of a serial Maud was reading was due... Lucy Maud Montgomery Wide Awake magazine - serialised story Print : Serial / periodical1850-1899 [Maud Montgomery and her foster brothers] 'read the "Wide Awake" magazines the boys' aunt sent them for a while - the last instalment of a serial Maud was reading was due... Lucy Maud Montgomery Hans Christian Andersen Fairy Tales Print : Book1850-1899 [Maud Montgomery and her foster brothers] 'read the "Wide Awake" magazines the boys' aunt sent them for a while - the last instalment of a serial Maud was reading was due... Lucy Maud Montgomery unknown The Honey Stew of the Countess Bertha Print : Book1850-1899 'Maud began [her diary] right after she had read a book called "A Bad Boy's Diry" [sic], a story a teacher had left behind at the house after boarding there for a year. I... Lucy Maud Montgomery A Bad Boy's Diry Print : Book1700-1799 'In the even read part of the 5th volume of "Medical Essays and Observations", published at Edinburgh by a society of physicians.' Thomas Turner anon Medical Essays and Observations, revised and publi... Print : Book1850-1899 [Marginalia]: p. 465 has a bookmark and marginal mark against item 'Regimen'; opposite the half-title there is reference to another medical work 'An Essay on The Action o... Magdalene Sharpe Erskine Alexander Macaulay A dictionary of medicine, designed for popular use Print : Book1700-1799 'Tho. Davy at our house in the even, to whom, and in the day, I read 6 of Tillotson's sermons.' Thomas Turner John Tillotson Sermons Print : Book1850-1899 [Maud wrote] 'pious tales inspired by a book she read on Sundays when she was only allowed to read religious works. She loved that book. It was called "The Memoir of Anzo... Lucy Maud Montgomery unknown The Memoir of Anzonetta Peters Print : Book1850-1899 [Maud Montgomery] 'wrote her first poem after reading "Seasons", a book of poems by James Thomson, written in blank verse. Maud was so enraptured by them that she had to ... Lucy Maud Montgomery James Thomson Seasons, The Print : Book1850-1899 'That fall [Maud Montgomery] was enthralled by a book called "Zanoni", an occult love story written by an English nobleman named Edward Bulwer-Lytton. She read and re-rea... Lucy Maud Montgomery Edward Bulwer Lytton Zanoni Print : Book1850-1899 'Along with her old school books [Maud Montgomery] read whatever she could find both for pleasure and to learn from their authors how to improve her own writing: religiou... Lucy Maud Montgomery Charles Dickens Pickwick Papers, The Print : Book1850-1899 'Along with her old school books [Maud Montgomery] read whatever she could find both for pleasure and to learn from their authors how to improve her own writing: religiou... Lucy Maud Montgomery Walter Scott [novels] Print : Book1850-1899 'Along with her old school books [Maud Montgomery] read whatever she could find both for pleasure and to learn from their authors how to improve her own writing: religiou... Lucy Maud Montgomery Nathaniel Hawthorne The House of the Seven Gables Print : Book1850-1899 'Along with her old school books [Maud Montgomery] read whatever she could find both for pleasure and to learn from their authors how to improve her own writing: religiou... Lucy Maud Montgomery Washington Irving The Sketchbook of Geoffrey Crayon Print : Book1850-1899 'Along with her old school books [Maud Montgomery] read whatever she could find both for pleasure and to learn from their authors how to improve her own writing: religiou... Lucy Maud Montgomery Ralph Waldo Emerson [Essays] Print : Book1900-1945 [L.M. Montgomery] 'read a great deal; she mentions fifty different authors in her journal which covers the years 1910 to 1921. Titles range from Gibbon's "Decline and Fal... Lucy Maud Montgomery Edward Gibbon The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Print : Book1900-1945 [L.M. Montgomery] 'read a great deal; she mentions fifty different authors in her journal which covers the years 1910 to 1921. Titles range from Gibbon's "Decline and Fal... Lucy Maud Montgomery Beatrix Potter Peter Rabbit Print : Book1900-1945 [L.M. Montgomery] 'read a great deal; she mentions fifty different authors in her journal which covers the years 1910 to 1921. Titles range from Gibbon's "Decline and Fal... Lucy Maud Montgomery William Makepeace Thackeray Vanity Fair Print : Book1900-1945 [L.M. Montgomery] 'read a great deal; she mentions fifty different authors in her journal which covers the years 1910 to 1921. Titles range from Gibbon's "Decline and Fal... Lucy Maud Montgomery George Eliot Print : Book1900-1945 [L.M. Montgomery] 'read a great deal; she mentions fifty different authors in her journal which covers the years 1910 to 1921. Titles range from Gibbon's "Decline and Fal... Lucy Maud Montgomery Charlotte Bronte Print : Book1900-1945 [L.M. Montgomery] 'read a great deal; she mentions fifty different authors in her journal which covers the years 1910 to 1921. Titles range from Gibbon's "Decline and Fal... Lucy Maud Montgomery Edith Wharton Print : Book1900-1945 [L.M. Montgomery] 'read a great deal; she mentions fifty different authors in her journal which covers the years 1910 to 1921. Titles range from Gibbon's "Decline and Fal... Lucy Maud Montgomery Olive Schreiner Print : Book1700-1799 'In the even read the play of "Tamerlane", wrote by Rowe, which I think a very good play; the character of Tamerlane is such as I think should be the character of all man... Thomas Turner Nicholas Rowe Tamerlane Print : Unknown1700-1799 'About 5.40 I set out to the house from which John Carter was this day buried in order to read the will of the deceased (by desire of Mr Burges) to his relations, they be... Thomas Turner John Carter [will] Manuscript : Sheet1700-1799 'In reading "The Gazette" for the 22nd instant I find the King of Prussia, with about 20,000, has beat the combined forces of the empire and France, which were about 60,0... Thomas Turner The London Gazette Print : Newspaper1700-1799 'In the day read part of several new almanacs which came down today, and I doubt but few will be sold by reason of the additional duty of one penny on the sheets, and two... Thomas Turner [almanacs] Print : Broadsheet, Pamphlet, almanac1700-1799 'In the even and the day read 2 of Tillotson's sermons and part of Sherlock upon death. I this day completed reading of Tillotson's sermons over the second time, and so f... Thomas Turner John Tillotson Sermons Print : Book1700-1799 'In the even and the day read 2 of Tillotson's sermons and part of Sherlock upon death. I this day completed reading of Tillotson's sermons over the second time, and so f... Thomas Turner William Sherlock A practical discourse concerning death Print : Book1700-1799 '...in the even read part of Sherlock upon death.' Thomas Turner William Sherlock A practical discourse concerning death Print : Book1700-1799 [Marginalia]: ms note on binding page appears to refer both to the battle of Flodden and to poems about it: '... The battle of Flodden Field which was fought between the... Robert Lambe An exact and circumstantial history of the battle ... Print : Book1700-1799 [Marginalia]: ms note at foot of p.8 of Appendix: 'J. Claver ...[ J. Clavering is the first signatory of the letter on this page] We condemn the political mistakes of the... N.S. Cornith Joseph Price Letter to Edmund Burke, Esq; on the latter part of... Print : Book1600-1699 "In late 1686 [Edmond] Halley ... sent [John] Wallis the original Royal Society minutes -- 'I have no Copy of the Inclosed minutes, which are as they were read before the... Royal Society Society minutes Manuscript : Unknown1600-1699 " ... in the [Royal] Society ... date of publication could override date of registration. Walter Needham made this explicit in reporting his perusal [as part of Royal So... Walter Needham Reginald de Graaf Print : Book1600-1699 " ... [Edmond] Halley's paper on the causes of the Noachian deluge was finally printed in the Philosophical Transactions some thirty years after being read at the [Royal]... Royal Society Edmond Halley paper on the causes of the Noachian deluge Unknown 1600-1699 "[John] Martyn revealed sheets of the [Philosophical] Transactions [containing Henry Oldenburg's remarks on Robert Hooke's Description of Helioscopes] to Hooke as they we... Robert Hooke Henry Oldenburg review of Robert Hooke, Description of Helioscopes Print : Serial / periodical, newly printed sheets1600-1699 Adrian Johns discusses John Flamsteed's (disapproving) reading of Edmond Halley, Catalogus Stellarum Australium. John Flamsteed Edmond Halley Catalogus Stellarum Australium, sive Supplementum ... Print : Book1600-1699 "Foremost among ... [John Flamsteed's] critics was ... [Robert] Hooke, whose Cometa Flamsteed read with disdain ... [suggesting] that Hooke's prescriptions for astronomic... John Flamsteed Robert Hooke Cometa Print : Book1600-1699 "[Isaac] Newton had gained international renown following the publication of his Principia in 1679 ... [attaining] something of the status of a demi-god. 'Does he eat an... anon Isaac Newton Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica Print : Book1600-1699 "When [Isaac] Newton arrived at Greenwich in September 1694, the astronomer [John Flamsteed] showed him 157 lunar positions calculated at the observatory ... Newton asked... Isaac Newton John Flamsteed astronomical calculations (lunar positions) Manuscript : Unknown1700-1799 Adrian Johns discusses John Flamsteed's reading of sheets 1 and 3 of his star catalogue (submitted for printing without his authorisation, and much added to), apparently ... John Flamsteed John Flamsteed sections of catalogue of stars Print : sheets1700-1799 Adrian Johns describes how "[Edmond] Halley ... [took] to 'correcting' the copy [of John Flamsteed's star catalogue] in Child's coffeehouse, and pointing out to his 'impi... Edmond Halley John Flamsteed catalogue of stars Print : Pamphlet1700-1799 "As late as 1782 ... [Caroline Herschel] would employ a telescope to 'sweep' the sky for comets, with her brother William seated beside her. William helped her attain th... Caroline and William Herschel John Flamsteed Atlas Coelestis Print : Book1800-1849 " ... when he (and all other readers) had failed to decipher the shorthand of [John] Flamsteed's most informed correspondent, Abraham Sharp, [Francis] Baily turned to Cha... Charles Babbage Abraham Sharp shorthand writings Manuscript : Unknown1800-1849 [Marginalia]: ms note, in pencil, in French, on verso of half-title, may relate to text or may refer to works by authors eg ' ...Esprit...,... La Fontaine...,... Rochefo... Anon Frederic le Grand Print : Book1600-1699 [Marginalia]: 5 pp of ms notes on the original binding pages, some difficult to decipher. Appear to be recipes eg 'Take a reed ..orke[?], plurke him quirk then/ slitt him... Andrew Greirson Nicholas Culpeper Pharmacopoeia Londinensis Print : Book1700-1799 'Though I have constantly been a purchaser of the Ramblers from the first five that you were so kind as to present me with, yet I have not had time to read any farther th... Samuel Richardson Samuel Johnson Rambler, The Print : Serial / periodical1800-1849 [Marginalia]: marginal pencil annotations throughout the book, either English or Persian, mainly appear to comment or disagree with translations eg. p.35 one line of text... John Drummond Erskine Stephen Weston A specimen of the conformity of the European langu... Print : Book1700-1799 'This day completed the reading of Sherlock on death and which I esteem a very plain, good book, proper for every Christain to read; that is, rich and poor, men and women... Thomas Turner William Sherlock A practical discourse concerning death Print : Book1850-1899 [Aunt Bessy] 'used to read "Little Lord Fauntleroy" over and over again to the old women [in the Cambridge workhouse], because they never wanted any other book' Elizabeth Darwin Frances Hodgson Burnett Little Lord Fauntleroy Print : Book1700-1799 'In the day read part of some "Monitors" lent me by Mr Calverley, but which paper the author endeavours to point out the only way to restore this nation to its former str... Thomas Turner The Monitor; or the British Freeholder Print : Serial / periodical1850-1899 'I have only now realised that the reason Blind Pew in "Treasure Island" frightened me so extremely was that I gave him the face of our own Blind Man' [seen regularly in ... Gwen Raverat Robert Louis Stevenson Treasure Island Print : Book1800-1849 [Marginalia]: some very brief marginal marks/notes eg p. 72/3 is bookmarked and has text '11. Calcium. - This metal is a component of part of all animals' marked by three... Jonathan Pereira Treatise on food and diet, A Print : Book1700-1799 'Tho. Davy to our house in the evening to whom I read two nights of "The Complaint", one of which was the Christian triumph against the fear of death, which must be allow... Thomas Turner Edward Young The Complaint: or night thoughts Print : Book1850-1899 '[Uncle William] read everything: all the classic works in all the languages he had ever known, or not quite forgotten: Latin, Greek, French, German, Italian; a bit of ea... William Darwin Homer Print : Book1850-1899 '[Uncle William] read everything: all the classic works in all the languages he had ever known, or not quite forgotten: Latin, Greek, French, German, Italian; a bit of ea... William Darwin Johannn Wolfgang von Goethe Print : Book1850-1899 '[Uncle William] read everything: all the classic works in all the languages he had ever known, or not quite forgotten: Latin, Greek, French, German, Italian; a bit of ea... William Darwin [works in Greek, Latin, French, German, Italian] Print : Book1700-1799 'Tho. Davy at our house in the latter part of the even to whom I read the last of "The Complaint" and part of Sherlock on death. I now having read "The Complaint" through... Thomas Turner Edward Young The Complaint: or night thoughts Print : Book1700-1799 'Tho. Davy at our house in the latter part of the even to whom I read the last of "The Complaint" and part of Sherlock on death. I now having read "The Complaint" through... Thomas Turner William Sherlock A practical discourse concerning death Print : Book1850-1899 'The books [Uncle George] read to us were all in the romantic vein: Shakespeare's "Histories", Chaucer, Percy's "Reliques", Scott's novels'. George Darwin William Shakespeare [Histories] Print : Book1850-1899 'The books [Uncle George] read to us were all in the romantic vein: Shakespeare's "Histories", Chaucer, Percy's "Reliques", Scott's novels'. George Darwin Geoffrey Chaucer Print : Book1850-1899 'The books [Uncle George] read to us were all in the romantic vein: Shakespeare's "Histories", Chaucer, Percy's "Reliques", Scott's novels'. George Darwin Walter Scott [novels] Print : Book1850-1899 'The books [Uncle George] read to us were all in the romantic vein: Shakespeare's "Histories", Chaucer, Percy's "Reliques", Scott's novels'. George Darwin (ed.) Thomas Percy Reliques of Ancient English Poetry Print : Book1700-1799 'In the even finished reading of Horneck's "Great Law of Consideration", which I think a very good subject, and I am thoroughly persuaded that the only motive the author ... Thomas Turner Anthony Horneck The great law of consideration; or, a discourse, w... Print : Book1850-1899 '[Gwen Raverat's father] was disgusted by Stendhal's "Le Rouge et le Noir" when I lent it to him; though I am still surprised that he did not appreciate the romantic fire... George Darwin Stendhal (pseud -Marie-Henri Beyle) Le Rouge et le Noir Print : Book1850-1899 'Aunt Ellen and her friends seemed to me wonderfully up-to-date and literary. She used to read Stevenson and Henley to us, which was the height of modernity then'. Ellen Crofts Robert Louis Stevenson Print : Book1700-1799 'In the day read part of "The Universal Magazine" for December, and in the evening read a pamphlet entitled "Primitive Christianity propounded or an Essay To revive the A... Thomas Turner Daniel Dobel Primitive Christianity propounded; or an essay to ... Print : Pamphlet1850-1899 'Aunt Ellen and her friends seemed to me wonderfully up-to-date and literary. She used to read Stevenson and Henley to us, which was the height of modernity then'. Ellen Crofts (probably) William Ernest Henley Print : Book1700-1799 'In the day read part of "The Universal Magazine" for December, and in the evening read a pamphlet entitled "Primitive Christianity propounded or an Essay To revive the A... Thomas Turner The Universal Magazine of knowledge and pleasure Print : Serial / periodical1850-1899 'Mildred was a fanatical teetotaller; and took in, believe it or not, a periodical called "The Journal of Inebriety"'. Mildred Massingberd The Journal of Inebriety Print : Serial / periodical1700-1799 'We dined on the remains of Wednesday and yesterday's dinners with the addition of a cheap kind of soup, the receipt for making of which I took out of "The Universal Maga... Thomas Turner The Universal Magazine of knowledge and pleasure Print : Serial / periodical1700-1799 'In the even read part of the "New Whole Duty of Man".' Thomas Turner Richard Allestree The new whole duty of man, containing the faith as... Print : Book1850-1899 'I could read "The Daisy Chain" or "The Wide Wide World", and just take the religion as the queer habits of those sorts of people, exactly as if I were reading a story ab... Gwen Raverat Charlotte Mary Yonge The Daisy Chain Print : Book1850-1899 'I could read "The Daisy Chain" or "The Wide Wide World", and just take the religion as the queer habits of those sorts of people, exactly as if I were reading a story ab... Gwen Raverat Susan Warner The Wide Wide World Print : Book1700-1799 'In the day read part of Burn's "Justice".' Thomas Turner Richard Burn The Justice of the Peace and Parish Officer Print : Book1900-1945 'I learnt with interest all about David and read Browning's "Saul" with "an intelligent scripture mistess".' Gwen Raverat Robert Browning Saul Print : Book1700-1799 'In the even read part of Leadbetter's "General Gauger".' Thomas Turner Charles Leadbetter The royal gauger; or gauging made perfectly easy Print : Book1900-1945 'I learnt with interest all about David and read Browning's "Saul" with "an intelligent scripture mistess".' Gwen Raverat Bible, The Print : Book1700-1799 'In the day read part of the "New Whole Duty of Man". And in the even Tho. Davy at our house to whom I read part of Sherlock on death.' Thomas Turner Richard Allestree The whole new duty of man, containing the faith as... Print : Book1700-1799 'In the day read part of the "New Whole Duty of Man". And in the even Tho. Davy at our house to whom I read part of Sherlock on death.' Thomas Turner William Sherlock A practical discourse concerning death Print : Book1900-1945 'Aunty Etty wrote of E.M. Forster, "His novel is really NOT good; and it's too unpleasant for the girls to read. I very much hope he will turn to something else".' Henrietta Darwin Edward Morgan Forster Print : Book1700-1799 'Read part of "The London Magazine" for February.' Thomas Turner The London Magazine Print : Serial / periodical1700-1799 'In the even read part of Collins's "Peerage of England".' Thomas Turner Arthur Collins The peerage of England Print : Book1700-1799 'In the day read part of the 1st volume of "The Peerage of England".' Thomas Turner Arthur Collins The peerage of England Print : Book1700-1799 'Read part of "The Peerage of England".' Thomas Turner Arthur Collins The peerage of England Print : Book1700-1799 'In the even finished reading Wake's "Catechism", which I think is a very good book and proper for all families, there being good instructions in it and also something wh... Thomas Turner William Wake The principles of the Christain religion explained... Print : Book1700-1799 'In the even read the 6th book of Milton's "Paradise Lost".' Thomas Turner John Milton Paradise Lost Print : Book1700-1799 'In the even read the 12th and last book of Milton's "Paradise Lost", which I have now read twice through and in my opinion it exceeds anything I ever read for sublimity ... Thomas Turner John Milton Paradise Lost Print : Book1700-1799 'This day I saw in the "Lewes Journal", which was an extract from "The Gazette", that our troops under the command of the Duke of Marlborough had landed at St Malo in the... Thomas Turner Sussex Weekly Advertiser, or Lewes Journal Print : Newspaper1700-1799 'I completed the reading of Gay's "Fables", which I think contains a very good lesson of morality; and I think the language very healthy, being very natural.' Thomas Turner John Gay Fables Print : Book1700-1799 'Read part of Salmon "On Marriage".' Thomas Turner Thomas Salmon A critical essay concerning marriage Print : Book1700-1799 'In the even finished reading Salmon "On Marriage", which I think to be a very indifferent thing, for the author appears to me to be a very bad logician.' Thomas Turner Thomas Salmon A critical essay concerning marriage Print : Book1850-1899 Leon Edel, introducing vol 1 of Henry James's Letters: " ... [By the end of his life Henry James] had read Flaubert's general correspondence with the close attention of a... Henry James Gustave Flaubert correspondence Print : Book1850-1899 Leon Edel, introducing vol 1 of Henry James's Letters: "[Edmund Gosse] had written biographies which James had criticized but read with lively interest." Henry James Edmund Gosse biographies Print : Book1850-1899 Leon Edel, introducing vol 1 of Henry James's Letters, on James's feelings regarding publication of letters: "He opposed truncation. 'One has the vague sense of omission... Henry James Robert Louis Stevenson Letters Print : Book1850-1899 Noted by Leon Edel in "Brief Chronology" of Henry James: "1860: Returns to Newport ... Reads Balzac and Merimee." Henry James Honore de Balzac unknown Print : Book1850-1899 Noted by Leon Edel in "Brief Chronology" of Henry James: "1860: Returns to Newport ... Reads Balzac and Merimee." Henry James Prosper Merimee unknown Print : Unknown1850-1899 Henry James to Thomas Sergeant Perry, from school in Geneva, 26 January 1860: 'I fully intended to study Greek when I came here, but have not now the time ... I needn't b... Henry James unknown unknown Print : Unknown1500-1599 'after, I reed of the bible, and walked alone' Margaret Hoby [n/a] Bible Print : Book1500-1599 'and then, walkinge a litle and readinge of the bible in my Chamber, went to supper' Margaret Hoby [n/a] Bible Print : Book1850-1899 Henry James to Thomas Sergeant Perry, 27 March 1860: 'You asked me in one of your letters whether there were many English books in Geneva ... I have read very few. The re... Henry James magazines and newspapers Print : Newspaper, Serial / periodical1850-1899 Henry James to Thomas Sergeant Perry, 27 March 1860: "You asked me in one of your letters whether there were many English books in Geneva ... I have read very few. The re... Henry James Cornhill Magazine Print : Serial / periodical1850-1899 Henry James to Thomas Sergeant Perry, 27 March 1860: "Have you ever read 'Eothen' a book of Eastern travels. I have just been reading it." Henry James A. W. Kinglake Eothen Print : Book1850-1899 Henry James to Thomas Sergeant Perry, from home of host family in Bonn, Sunday 5 August 1860: "[on Wednesday morning] I sat down to read [in the study] till our room shou... Henry James The British Chronicle Print : Serial / periodical1850-1899 Henry James to Thomas Sergeant Perry, from home of host family in Bonn, Sunday 5 August 1860: "[on Wednesday morning] I sat down to read [in the study] till our room shou... Henry James bound weekly newspapers Print : Newspaper1850-1899 Henry James to Thomas Sergeant Perry, from home of host family in Bonn, Sunday 5 August 1860: "[on Wednesday morning] I sat down to read [in the study] till our room shou... Henry James Lady Mary Wortley Montagu Letters Print : Book1850-1899 Henry James to Thomas Sergeant Perry, from home of host family in Bonn, Sunday 5 August 1860: "[on Wednesday morning] We [himself and his brother William] ... commenced s... Henry James Friedrich von Schiller Maria Stuart Print : Book[Marginalia]: ms annotations in form of numbers in margin from p.27- p.655 - as if reference system (they are in numerical order); there are also a few marginal notes in ... Henry Fox William Camden The history of the most renowned and victorious pr... Print : Book1850-1899 Henry James to Thomas Sergeant Perry, 18 April 1864: "I got Browning's plays from J[ohn].'s [La Farge] and have been reading them with deep interest." Henry James Robert Browning plays Print : Book1850-1899 Henry James to Charles Eliot Norton of the North American Review, offering book review, 9 August 1864: "I have just been reading with great interest the Journals and Lett... Henry James Maurice de Guerin Journals/Letters Print : Book1850-1899 Henry James to Charles Eliot Norton of the North American Review, offering book review, 9 August 1864: "I have just been reading with great interest the Journals and Lett... Henry James Eugenie de Guerin Journals and Letters Print : Book1850-1899 Henry James to Thomas Sergeant Perry, 28 October 1864: "What are you reading? I have just read Vaughan's Eng. Revolutions in Religion. Interesting subject but middling ... Henry James Vaughan English Revolutions in Religion Print : Unknown1850-1899 Leon Edel notes re Henry James's unsigned review of Matthew Arnold, Essays in Criticism, in North American Review (July 1865): "Arnold read this review and praised it to ... Matthew Arnold Henry James Review of Matthew Arnold, Essays in Criticism Print : Serial / periodical1850-1899 Henry James to Charles Eliot Norton, 28 February 1866: " ... allow me to retract my proposal to deal critically with Mrs. Stowe, in the N[orth]. A[merican]. R[eview]. I ... Henry James Harriet Beecher Stowe [two or three works] Print : Book1850-1899 Henry James to Thomas Sergeant Perry, from Cambridge, Mass., 15 August 1867: "Here I have been ... all summer and here I expect to stay. You may imagine that existence h... Henry James unknown unknown Print : Unknown1850-1899 Henry James to Thomas Sergeant Perry, from Cambridge, Mass., 20 September 1867: "I had just been reading, when your letter came, Taine's Graindorge, of which you speak ..... Henry James Hippolyte Taine Notes sur Paris, Vie et opinions de M. Frederic-Th... Print : Book1850-1899 Henry James to Thomas Sergeant Perry, from Cambridge, Mass., 20 September 1867: "I had just been reading, when your letter came, Taine's Graindorge, of which you speak ..... Henry James Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve Nouveaux lundis Print : Book1850-1899 Henry James to Thomas Sergeant Perry, from Cambridge, Mass., 20 September 1867: "I read recently, by the way ... [George Sand's] Memoirs a compact little work in ten volu... Henry James George Sand Memoirs Print : Book1850-1899 Henry James to Thomas Sergeant Perry, from Cambridge, Mass., 20 September 1867: "In English I have read nothing new, except M. Arnold's New Poems, which of course you wil... Henry James Matthew Arnold New Poems Print : Book1850-1899 Henry James to William James, 22 November 1867: "I recd. about a fortnight ago -- your letter with the review of Grimm's novel ... I liked your article very much ... It s... Henry James William James Review of Herman Grimm, Unuberwundliche Machte Manuscript : Letter1850-1899 Henry James to Thomas Sergeant Perry, 27 March 1868: "I read more or less, of course, but nothing noteworthy. A good deal of French, of which, at times, I get pretty sic... Henry James unknown French texts Print : Book1850-1899 Leon Edel, introducing Henry James's letters from 1869-70: " [James] traveled in 1869, reading Goethe, Stendhal, the President de Brosses and Hawthorne." Henry James Johann Wolfgang von Goethe unknown Print : Book1850-1899 Leon Edel, introducing Henry James's letters from 1869-70: " [James] traveled in 1869, reading Goethe, Stendhal, the President de Brosses and Hawthorne." Henry James Stendhal unknown Print : Book1850-1899 Leon Edel, introducing Henry James's letters from 1869-70: " [James] traveled in 1869, reading Goethe, Stendhal, the President de Brosses and Hawthorne." Henry James Charles de Brosses unknown Print : Book1850-1899 Leon Edel, introducing Henry James's letters from 1869-70: " [James] traveled in 1869, reading Goethe, Stendhal, the President de Brosses and Hawthorne." Henry James Nathaniel Hawthorne unknown Print : Book1850-1899 Henry James to Alice James, in letter begun 10 March 1869 (continued on 12 March), on evening spent at home of William Morris: "After dinner (we stayed to dinner, Miss Gr... William Morris William Morris The Earthly Paradise Unknown 1500-1599 'After priuat prairs I went about the house and read of the bible and wrought tell dinner time' Margaret Hoby [n/a] Bible Print : Book1700-1799 'After the breakdown of her marriage in 1752, Sarah Scott read voraciously and eclectically, the "history of Florence" and Lord Bacon's essays, and the Old Plays, Christi... Sarah Scott Francis Lord Bacon essays Print : Book1700-1799 'After the breakdown of her marriage in 1752, Sarah Scott read voraciously and eclectically, the History of Florence and Lord Bacon's essays, and the Old Plays, Christian... Sarah Scott Sarah Fielding David Simple Print : Book1700-1799 'After the breakdown of her marriage in 1752, Sarah Scott read voraciously and eclectically, the "History of Florence" and Lord Bacon's essays, and the Old Plays, Christi... Sarah Scott Michel de Montaigne Essays Print : Book1700-1799 'After the breakdown of her marriage in 1752, Sarah Scott read voraciously and eclectically, the "History of Florence" and Lord Bacon's essays, and the Old Plays, Christi... Sarah Scott Niccolo Machiavelli History of Florence Print : Book1700-1799 'After the breakdown of her marriage in 1752, Sarah Scott read voraciously and eclectically, the "History of Florence" and Lord Bacon's essays, and the Old Plays, Christi... Sarah Scott an account of the government in Venice Print : Book1700-1799 'After the breakdown of her marriage in 1752, Sarah Scott read voraciously and eclectically, the "History of Florence" and Lord Bacon's essays, and the Old Plays, Christi... Sarah Scott Thomas Randolph his answer to Christianity not founded on argument Print : Book1700-1799 '[Elizabeth Carter and Catherine Talbot] read and admired the work of Elizabeth Rowe, and questioned each other excitedly about the almost forgotten Katherine Philips, th... Elizabeth Carter Elizabeth Rowe works Print : Book1700-1799 '[Elizabeth Carter and Catherine Talbot] read and admired the work of Elizabeth Rowe, and questioned each other excitedly about the almost forgotten Katherine Philips, th... Elizabeth Carter Katherine Philips works Print : Book1700-1799 'She began Candide but "threw it aside, and nothing, I believe, will tempt me ever to look into it again."' Elizabeth Carter Francois-Marie Voltaire Candide Print : Book1700-1799 'she thinks Rousseau "the most dangerous writer I ever read", his work "of so bad tendency that, after a few trials, I have determined never to look into any thing he sho... Elizabeth Carter Jean Jacques Rousseau works Print : Book1700-1799 'Carter and Talbot read fiction and corresponded about it, including "Roderick Random", the novels of Eliza Haywood, French romances, and Charlotte Lennox's "Henrietta", ... Elizabeth Carter Tobias Smollet Roderick Random Print : Book1700-1799 'Carter and Talbot read fiction and corresponded about it, including "Roderick Random", the novels of Eliza Haywood, French romances, and Charlotte Lennox's "Henrietta", ... Elizabeth Carter Eliza Haywood various novels Print : Book1700-1799 'Carter and Talbot read fiction and corresponded about it, including "Roderick Random", the novels of Eliza Haywood, French romances, and Charlotte Lennox's "Henrietta", ... Elizabeth Carter Charlotte Lennox Henrietta Print : Book1700-1799 'Carter and Talbot read fiction and corresponded about it, including "Roderick Random", the novels of Eliza Haywood, French romances, and Charlotte Lennox's "Henrietta", ... Elizabeth Carter Sarah Fielding many works Print : Book1700-1799 'Carter and Talbot read fiction and corresponded about it, including "Roderick Random", the novels of Eliza Haywood, French romances, and Charlotte Lennox's "Henrietta", ... Elizabeth Carter French romances Print : Book1700-1799 'Even conservative Elizabeth Montagu read "Bankes's Voyage", and although she disapproved his religious scepticism she also criticised the "prudery of the Ladies, who are... Elizabeth Montagu John Hawkesworth An account of voyages undertaken... for making dis... 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 : Book1900-1945 'Do not fail to get the Literary Supplement to the New York Times for Oct 4th & see W.L. Alden?s extraordinary appreciation of "Anna". He says it is the best novel of th... Arnold Bennett W.L. Alden article/review of "Anna of the Five Towns" Print : Newspaper, Literary Supplement1700-1799 'While I was writing the two volumes [of Pamela], my worthy-hearted wife, and the young lady who is with us, when I had read them some part of the story, which I had begu... Samuel Richardson Samuel Richardson Pamela Manuscript : Unknown, manuscript of his novel1700-1799 'Methinks, Sir, Mr Pope might employ his Time, and his admirable Genius better than in exposing Insects of a Day: For if these Authors would live longer, they should not... Samuel Richardson Alexander Pope Dunciad Print : BookManuscript : Unknown1700-1799 'what a charming instance have you given me, good sir, of the Restoration of [your health], if I may be permitted to infer it from the noble strength and Vigor of your ve... Samuel Richardson Aaron Hill Fanciad Manuscript : Unknown, Richardson is about to print the manuscript1700-1799 '[I am] pleased with Mr Whitehead's Essay on Ridicule, a Piece which shews the Goodness of the Author's Heart, so much preferable to that of the Head alone' Samuel Richardson William Whitehead Essay on Ridicule Print : UnknownManuscript : Unknown1700-1799 'I have bought Mr Pope over so often, and his "Dunciad" before his last new-vampt one, that I am tired of the Extravagance; and wonder every Body else is not. Especially... Samuel Richardson Alexander Pope Dunciad Print : BookManuscript : Unknown1700-1799 'The Persons who have seen [the manuscript of "Clarissa"], and whom I could not deny, are Dr Heylin, and his Lady, both excellent Judges and fond of Writings of Amusement... John Heylin Samuel Richardson Clarissa Manuscript : Unknown, early MS version1700-1799 'The Persons who have seen [the manuscript of "Clarissa"], and whom I could not deny, are Dr Heylin, and his Lady, both excellent Judges and fond of Writings of Amusement... Mrs Heylin Samuel Richardson Clarissa Manuscript : Unknown, early MS version1700-1799 'The Persons who have seen [the manuscript of "Clarissa"], and whom I could not deny, are Dr Heylin, and his Lady, both excellent Judges and fond of Writings of Amusement... Miss Cheyne Samuel Richardson Clarissa Manuscript : Unknown, early MS version1700-1799 'The Persons who have seen [the manuscript of "Clarissa"], and whom I could not deny, are Dr Heylin, and his Lady, both excellent Judges and fond of Writings of Amusement... John Freke Samuel Richardson Clarissa Manuscript : Unknown, early MS version1700-1799 'The Persons who have seen [the manuscript of "Clarissa"], and whom I could not deny, are Dr Heylin, and his Lady, both excellent Judges and fond of Writings of Amusement... Edward Young Samuel Richardson Clarissa Manuscript : Unknown, early MS version1700-1799 'The Persons who have seen [the manuscript of "Clarissa"], and whom I could not deny, are Dr Heylin, and his Lady, both excellent Judges and fond of Writings of Amusement... Colley Cibber Samuel Richardson Clarissa Manuscript : Unknown, early MS version1700-1799 'While I read [your letter], I have you before me in person: I converse with you and your dear Anna, as arm in arm you traverse the happy terrace...' Samuel Richardson Sophia Westcomb [letter] Manuscript : Letter, Unknown1700-1799 'There was no need to bespeak my Patience, nor anything but my Gratitude, on reading such a Letter as you have favoured me with. Indeed I admire it; and have reason to pl... Samuel Richardson Lady Bradshaigh [letter] Manuscript : Letter1900-1945 '[Mrs Ward's average day at Stocks began] at 5.30 a.m, with the reading of Greek, or writing of letters, or much reading, for the reading of many books was still her grea... Mary Augusta Ward Euripides Print : Book
