√ Century of Experience Evidence Name of Reader / Listener / Reading Group Author of Text Title of Text Form of Text 1850-1899 ?I now read for the first time "The Tempest", "Measure for Measure", "Love?s Labour?s Lost", and many other of Shakespeare?s comedies, besides the supreme tragedies, amon... Thomas Burt William Shakespeare Hamlet Print : Book1850-1899 ?I now read for the first time "The Tempest", "Measure for Measure", "Love?s Labour?s Lost", and many other of Shakespeare?s comedies, besides the supreme tragedies, amon... Thomas Burt William Shakespeare Othello Print : Book1850-1899 ?I now read for the first time "The Tempest", "Measure for Measure", "Love?s Labour?s Lost", and many other of Shakespeare?s comedies, besides the supreme tragedies, amon... Thomas Burt William Shakespeare King Lear Print : Book1850-1899 ?In January 1860, appeared the Cornhill magazine, with Thackeray as its editor. The price was a shilling? As soon as I knew it was on sale, I walked to Beddington and cam... Thomas Burt [n/a] The Cornhill Magazine Print : Serial / periodical1850-1899 ?Macaulay, who had recently died, was greatly in vogue. I had read with enjoyment and advantage his "History of England" and some of his essays.? Thomas Burt Thomas Babbington Macaulay History of England Print : Book1800-1849 'When I had been in school about twelve months, he resolved that one of the boys should read a chapter from the New Testament every Sunday after the opening prayer. I was... Christopher Thomson [n/a] Bible Print : Book1800-1849 ?In one of my early schoolbooks, indeed, I had read "Lucy Gray" and "We are seven". The music of these simple lays had charmed my boyish fancy and lingered in my memory.? Thomas Burt William Wordsworth Lucy Gray Print : Book1800-1849 ?In one of my early schoolbooks, indeed, I had read "Lucy Gray" and "We are seven". The music of these simple lays had charmed my boyish fancy and lingered in my memory.? Thomas Burt William Wordsworth We are seven Print : Book1850-1899 ?Joe was never tired of expatiating on the beauties and grandeur of Wordsworth, and my lack of responsiveness must have occasionally surprised him. When he selected some ... Thomas Burt William Wordsworth The Daffodils Print : Book1850-1899 'Opening the "Newcastle Chronicle" one November morning of 1865, I observed a long letter signed "A Coalowner". From beginning to end the letter was a fierce diatribe aga... Thomas Burt [n/a] Newcastle Chronicle Print : Newspaper1700-1799 'In the even I read to my friend a sermon preached at the last Visitation held at Lewes, written by Mr Nicholl, Vicar of Westham in this county, and part of three discour... Thomas Turner John Nicholl The execrable practice of buying and selling livin... Print : Unknown1700-1799 'In the even I read to my friend a sermon preached at the last Visitation held at Lewes, written by Mr Nicholl, Vicar of Westham in this county, and part of three discour... Thomas Turner James Walder The ax laid to the root; or, a preservative agains... Print : Book1700-1799 'In the even, read some "Universal Magazines".' Thomas Turner Universal Magazine of Knowledge and Pleasure Print : Serial / periodical1700-1799 'In the afternoon and even read part of Burnet's "History of the Reformation" which I esteem a very impartial history, as the author has everywhere treated his subject wi... Thomas Turner Gilbert Burnet The history of the reformation of the Church of En... Print : Book1700-1799 'In the even read part of the "London Magazine" for July, in which I find a great many excellent pieces, more than I ever remember to have seen in any one magazine. Perha... Thomas Turner The London magazine; or, gentleman's monthly intel... Print : Serial / periodical1700-1799 'In the even read part of Homer's "Odyssey", translated by Alexander Pope, which I like very well, the language being vastly good and the turn of thought and expression b... Thomas Turner Homer Odyssey Print : Book1850-1899 Henry James to Thomas Seregant Perry, 25 November 1883: "Her [Louise-Florence d'Epinay's] Memoirs I read years ago ..." Henry James Louise-Florence d'Epinay Memoirs Print : Book1850-1899 Henry James to Thomas Seregant Perry, 25 November 1883: "I have just been reading the two last [sixth and seventh] volumes of Mme de Remusat, just out -- her corresponden... Henry James Countess Claire-Elisabeth de Remusat Correspondence (vols 6 and 7) Print : Book1850-1899 Henry James to Thomas Seregant Perry, 25 November 1883: "Yes, I have read Trollope's autobiography and regard it as one of the most curious and amazing books in all liter... Henry James Anthony Trollope Autobiography Print : Book1850-1899 Henry James to Thomas Seregant Perry, 25 November 1883: "I shall thank you for the Senilia -- though I have been reading them all in German ..." Henry James Ivan Turgenev Senilia Print : Book1850-1899 19 June 1884: Henry James writes (in French) to Alphonse Daudet about having read and enjoyed Daudet's Sapho. Henry James Alphonse Daudet Sapho Print : Book1850-1899 Henry James to Francis Parkman, 24 August 1884: " ... I cannot hold my hand from telling you ... with what high appreciation and genuine gratitude I have been reading you... Henry James Francis Parkman Montcalm and Wolfe Print : Book1700-1799 Robert Southey to Grosvenor Charles Bedford, 26-27 October 1793: 'You must not be surprized at nonsense for I have been reading the history of Philosophy — the ideas of P... Robert Southey Epicurus Print : Book1850-1899 Henry James to Violet Paget, 21 October 1884: "I have just been reading the new instalment (conclusion) of Froude's Carlyle ..." Henry James James Anthony Froude Life of Carlyle (concluding instalments) Print : Book1850-1899 Henry James to Violet Paget (Vernon Lee), 21 October 1884: "I have just been reading your Euphorion, and I find it such a prodigious young performance ... that dedication... Henry James Vernon Lee Euphorion Print : Book1850-1899 Henry James to Grace Norton, 3 November 1884: "I have read with enjoyment your various articles ..." Henry James Grace Norton [unidentified articles] Print : Serial / periodical1850-1899 Henry James to Robert Louis Stevenson, 5 December 1884: "I read only last night your paper in the December Longman's in genial rejoinder to my article in the same periodi... Henry James Robert Louis Stevenson article Print : Serial / periodical1850-1899 Henry James to Mrs Humphry Ward, 9 December 1884: "I read ... [Miss Bretherton] with great interest and pleasure ..." Henry James Mrs Humphry Ward Miss Bretherton Print : Book1850-1899 Henry James to William James, 2 January 1885: "Three days ago ... came the two copies of Father's (and your) book ... All I have had time to read as yet is the introducti... Henry James Henry James Sr and William James The Literary Remains of the Late Henry James Print : Book, Unknown1700-1799 Robert Southey to Grosvenor Charles Bedford, 26-27 October 1793: 'You must not be surprized at nonsense for I have been reading the history of Philosophy — the ideas of P... Robert Southey Zeno Print : Book1850-1899 Henry James to William James, 15 February 1885: "You don't tell me whether you had any rejoinder from Godkin to the letter you wrote about the [unfavourable] review [in T... Henry James E. L. Godkin review of The Literary Remains of the Late Henry J... Print : Serial / periodical1850-1899 Henry James to Violet Paget (Vernon Lee), 10 May 1885: "I read Miss B[rown]. with eagerness ... as soon as I received the volumes, and have lately read a large part of th... Henry James Vernon Lee Miss Brown Print : Book1850-1899 Henry James to Violet Paget (Vernon Lee), 10 May 1885: "I read Miss B[rown]. with eagerness ... as soon as I received the volumes, and have lately read a large part of th... Henry James Vernon Lee Miss Brown Print : Book1850-1899 Henry James to Theodore E. Child, 13 May 1885: " ... the only thing I have read from la-bas [ie France] is the wondrous, and I must say in some ways admirable, Germinal." Henry James Emile Zola Germinal Print : Book1850-1899 Henry James to Theodore E. Child, 30 May 1885: "I ought already to have thanked you for your friendly thought and delicate attention in sending me Maupassant's ineffable ... Henry James Guy de Maupassant Bel-Ami Print : Book1850-1899 Henry James to William James, 24 July 1885: "I read in the papers here of long and intense heat in the US ..." Henry James newspapers Print : Newspaper1850-1899 Henry James to Robert Louis Stevenson, 2 August 1886: "Since I saw you [on Sunday 1 August] I have finished Solomon and read half of 'She' ... It isn't nice that anything... Henry James H. Rider Haggard King Solomon's Mines Print : Book1850-1899 Henry James to Robert Louis Stevenson, 2 August 1886: "Since I saw you [on Sunday 1 August] I have finished Solomon and read half of 'She' ... It isn't nice that anything... Henry James H. Rider Haggard She Print : Book1850-1899 Henry James to Charles Eliot Norton, 6 December 1886: "I ought long ago to have thanked you for your very substantial present of Carlyle ... I read the two volumes with e... Henry James Thomas Carlyle The Early Letters of Carlyle Print : Book1850-1899 Henry James to Wiliam Dean Howells, 7 December 1886: "The last thing I did before leaving London three days and a half ago was to purchase 'Lemuel Barker' ... and though ... Henry James William Dean Howells The Minister's Charge Print : Book1850-1899 Henry James to George du Maurier, 2 March 1887: "I have guessed from one or two stray copies of Punch that have fallen under my eye, that you have been at Brighton ..." Henry James Punch Print : Serial / periodical1700-1799 Robert Southey to Grosvenor Charles Bedford, 26-27 October 1793: 'You must not be surprized at nonsense for I have been reading the history of Philosophy — the ideas of P... Robert Southey Antisthenes Print : Book1850-1899 Henry James to William James, 5 October 1887 (in letter begun 1 October 1887): "I hadn't seen ... [W. D. Howells's] 'tribute' in the September Harper, but I have just loo... Henry James William Dean Howells article Print : Serial / periodical1850-1899 Robert Louis Stevenson to Henry James, November-early December 1887: "I must break out with the news that I can't bear the Portrait of a Lady. I read it all, and I wept,... Robert Louis Stevenson Henry James Portrait of a Lady Print : Unknown1850-1899 23 February 1888: Henry James writes (in French) to Paul Bourget on having read and enjoyed Bourget's Mensonges. Henry James Paul Bourget Mensonges Print : Book1850-1899 Henry James to Robert Louis Stevenson, 31 July 1888: "The incorporated society of authors ... gave a dinner the other night to American literati to thank them for praying... Henry James The Times Print : Newspaper1850-1899 Henry James to Robert Louis Stevenson, 31 July 1888: "Edmund Gosse has sent me his clever little life of Congreve, just out, and I have read it ..." Henry James Edmund Gosse Life of Congreve Print : Book1850-1899 Henry James to Wiliam James, 29 November 1888: " ... I have had in my hands the earlier sheets of the Master of Ballantrae, the new novel ... [R. L. Stevenson] is about t... Henry James Robert Louis Stevenson The Master of Ballantrae Manuscript : Sheet1700-1799 'In Dodsley's "Miscellanies" there are two or three pretty pieces of Mr Mason. Bacon's "Life by Mr Mallet" perhaps you have seen. He is not near so good a Man, I fear, as... Samuel Richardson William Mason [items in Dodsley's Miscellanies] Print : Book1700-1799 'In Dodsley's "Miscellanies" there are two or three pretty pieces of Mr Mason. Bacon's "Life" by Mr Mallet perhaps you have seen. He is not near so good a Man, I fear, as... Samuel Richardson David Mallett [Life of Bacon] Print : Book1700-1799 'I have read the Passage in Dr Hartley which you pointed out to me. He is a good Man. One Day I hope to read him thro', tho' without Hopes of understanding the abstruser ... Samuel Richardson David Hartley [passages from] Observations on Man, his frame, hi... Print : Book1700-1799 'I have read the Passage in Dr Hartley which you pointed out to me. He is a good Man. One Day I hope to read him thro', tho' without Hopes of understanding the abstruser ... Lady Bradshaigh David Hartley Observations on Man, his frame, his duty, and his ... Print : Book1700-1799 'I am glad the Adventurers please your Ladiship. You think the Style of some of them uneasy and difficult. The principal Author has been thought an Imitator of Mr Johnso... Lady Bradshaigh John Hawkesworth The Adventurer Print : Serial / periodical1700-1799 'I am glad the Adventurers please your Ladiship. You think the Style of some of them uneasy and difficult. The principal Author has been thought an Imitator of Mr Johnso... Samuel Richardson John Hawkesworth [items in Cave's Magazine] Print : Serial / periodical1700-1799 'I am employing myself at present, in looking over & sorting, & classing my Correspondencies and other Papers. This, when done, will amuse me by reading over again, a ver... Samuel Richardson various authors correspondence and other papers Manuscript : Letter, letters and papers1700-1799 'With us, the "Centaur not fabulous" has met with a pretty good Reception; tho' some good People wish that it had less of the Enthusiasm of Poetry in it; less of Imaginat... Samuel Richardson Edward Young The Centaur not Fabulous; in Six Letters to a Frie... Manuscript : Unknown, printed by Richardson so presumably read in MS1700-1799 'I believe your Ladiship will be diverted with an Octavo book on the Writings and Genius of Pope; tho' you will not approve of everything in it. A little Vol. intitled, "... Samuel Richardson Joseph Warton An Essay on the Writings and Genius of Pope Print : Book1700-1799 I believe your Ladiship will be diverted with an Octavo book on the Writings and Genius of Pope; tho' you will not approve of everything in it. A little Vol. intitled, "C... Samuel Richardson Thomas Browne Christian Morals Print : Book1700-1799 I believe your Ladiship will be diverted with an Octavo book on the Writings and Genius of Pope; tho' you will not approve of everything in it. A little Vol. intitled, "C... Samuel Richardson Fulke Greville Maxims, Characters and Reflections Print : Book1700-1799 'I amuse myself as well as I can with reading. I have just gone through your two vols. of Letters. Have reperused them with great pleasure and found many new beauties in ... Samuel Richardson Sarah Fielding Familiar Letters Between the Principle Characters ... Print : Book1700-1799 'Who is this Yorick? you are pleased to ask me. You cannot, I imagine have looked into his books: execrable I cannot but call them; for I am told that the third and fourt... Samuel Richardson Laurence Sterne The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy Print : Book1900-1945 'Rudie inspired in all his children a love of literature, reading aloud to them from his own favourites, the great Victorians, particularly Dickens, and helping them to c... Rudolph Lehmann Charles Dickens Print : Book1900-1945 'Rudie inspired in all his children a love of literature, reading aloud to them from his own favourites, the great Victorians, particularly Dickens, and helping them to c... Rudolph Lehmann ['great Victorians' - presumably novelists] Print : Book1900-1945 'Rudie inspired in all his children a love of literature, reading aloud to them from his own favourites, the great Victorians, particularly Dickens, and helping them to c... Rosamond Lehmann Hans Andersen [fairy tales] Print : Book1900-1945 'Rudie inspired in all his children a love of literature, reading aloud to them from his own favourites, the great Victorians, particularly Dickens, and helping them to c... Rosamond Lehmann Edith Nesbit Print : Book1900-1945 'Rudie inspired in all his children a love of literature, reading aloud to them from his own favourites, the great Victorians, particularly Dickens, and helping them to c... Rosamond Lehmann Comtesse de Segur Les Petites Filles Mod?les Print : Book1900-1945 'Rudie inspired in all his children a love of literature, reading aloud to them from his own favourites, the great Victorians, particularly Dickens, and helping them to c... Rosamond Lehmann [adult novels] Print : Book1900-1945 'To her father she wrote about her term work, the poetry she was reading and with details about new publications. "Do", she urged him, "try to get hold of 'The London Mer... Rosamond Lehmann Thomas Hardy [poem in the London Mercury] Print : Serial / periodical1900-1945 'To her father she wrote about her term work, the poetry she was reading and with details about new publications. "Do", she urged him, "try to get hold of 'The London Mer... Rosamond Lehmann Rupert Brooke [poem(s) in the London Mercury] Print : Serial / periodical1900-1945 [Lehmann and her first husband, Leslie Runcimann] 'were great readers, particularly of modern novelists such as Huxley, Lawrence and Gerhardie.' Rosamond Lehmann Aldous Huxley Print : Book1900-1945 [Lehmann and her first husband, Leslie Runcimann] 'were great readers, particularly of modern novelists such as Huxley, Lawrence and Gerhardie.' Rosamond Lehmann David Herbert Lawrence Print : Book1900-1945 [Lehmann and her first husband, Leslie Runcimann] 'were great readers, particularly of modern novelists such as Huxley, Lawrence and Gerhardie.' Rosamond Lehmann William Alexander Gerhardi(e) Print : Book1900-1945 [Lehmann and her first husband, Leslie Runcimann] 'were great readers, particularly of modern novelists such as Huxley, Lawrence and Gerhardie.' Leslie Runcimann William Alexander Gerhardi(e) Print : Book1900-1945 [Lehmann and her first husband, Leslie Runcimann] 'were great readers, particularly of modern novelists such as Huxley, Lawrence and Gerhardie.' Leslie Runcimann Aldous Huxley Print : Book1900-1945 [Lehmann and her first husband, Leslie Runcimann] 'were great readers, particularly of modern novelists such as Huxley, Lawrence and Gerhardie.' Leslie Runcimann David Herbert Lawrence Print : Book1900-1945 'Steeped in the fiction of the last century ("I was singularly ill read in fiction published in the twentieth century", she admitted. "I thought of nineteenth century lit... Rosamond Lehmann [nineteenth century fiction by women] Print : Book1900-1945 [Lehmann's novel "Dusty Answer" has a structure] 'possibly derived from May Sinclair's bleak and brilliant portrait of misguided self sacrifice, "Life and Death of Harrie... Rosamond Lehmann May Sinclair Life and Death of Harriet Frean Print : Book1900-1945 [Virginia Woolf's] 'masterpiece, in Rosamond's opinion, was her biography of Roger Fry, although the novels were also revered - "To the Lighthouse" above all - even if so... Rosamond Lehmann Virginia Woolf Roger Fry: A Biography Print : Book1900-1945 [Virginia Woolf's] 'masterpiece, in Rosamond's opinion, was her biography of Roger Fry, although the novels were also revered - "To the Lighthouse" above all - even if so... Rosamond Lehmann Virginia Woolf To the Lighthouse Print : Book1900-1945 'Through her old friendship with Stephen Tennant, Rosamond became devoted to his lover, Siegfried Sassoon, whose work she much admired' Rosamond Lehmann Siegfried Sassoon Print : Book1900-1945 'her main intellectual interests were always literary, and as a novelist she was predominantly engaged in the business of reading and writing, with a keen critical intere... Rosamond Lehmann Thomas Stearns Eliot Print : Book1900-1945 'her main intellectual interests were always literary, and as a novelist she was predominantly engaged in the business of reading and writing, with a keen critical intere... Rosamond Lehmann Roy Fuller Print : Book1900-1945 'her main intellectual interests were always literary, and as a novelist she was predominantly engaged in the business of reading and writing, with a keen critical intere... Rosamond Lehmann Wystan Hugh Auden Print : Book1900-1945 'her main intellectual interests were always literary, and as a novelist she was predominantly engaged in the business of reading and writing, with a keen critical intere... Rosamond Lehmann Cecil Day Lewis Print : Book1900-1945 'her main intellectual interests were always literary, and as a novelist she was predominantly engaged in the business of reading and writing, with a keen critical intere... Rosamond Lehmann William Faulkner Print : Book1900-1945 'her main intellectual interests were always literary, and as a novelist she was predominantly engaged in the business of reading and writing, with a keen critical intere... Rosamond Lehmann Ford Madox Ford Print : Book1900-1945 'her main intellectual interests were always literary, and as a novelist she was predominantly engaged in the business of reading and writing, with a keen critical intere... Rosamond Lehmann Ivy Compton Burnett Print : Book1900-1945 'her main intellectual interests were always literary, and as a novelist she was predominantly engaged in the business of reading and writing, with a keen critical intere... Rosamond Lehmann Sylvia Townsend Warner Print : Book1900-1945 'her main intellectual interests were always literary, and as a novelist she was predominantly engaged in the business of reading and writing, with a keen critical intere... Rosamond Lehmann Elizabeth Bowen Print : Book1900-1945 'her main intellectual interests were always literary, and as a novelist she was predominantly engaged in the business of reading and writing, with a keen critical intere... Rosamond Lehmann Jean Rhys Voyage in the Dark Print : Book1900-1945 [Rosamond Lehmann wrote in her memoir, "Swan at Evening"] "I took down and re-read "The Four Quartets", the sublime, unhopeful, consoling cluster of poems; and discovered... Rosamond Lehmann Thomas Stearns Eliot The Four Quartets Print : Book1700-1799 [Marginalia]: some pencil marks and marginal ms notes throughout the text. Generally they highlight points of grammar or translation, mostly in English but at least one i... John Drummond Erskine William Jones Grammar of the Persian Language, A Print : Book1850-1899 ?When about fourteen years old a comrade lent me a few stray numbers of the "London Journal", a highly spiced periodical which I read with great gusto. It was full of adv... Thomas Burt [n/a] London Journal Print : Serial / periodical1700-1799 [Marginalia]: pen annotations on binding pages appear to be page references to a number of topics eg: "Jesseigne"; "Rajah Rannah". Occasional marks in the margins, usuall... John Drummond Erskine Francois Bernier History of the late revolution of the empire of th... Print : Book1800-1849 [Marginalia]: has pencil annotations, opposite the title page and inside front cover, relating to the history and purchase of the book "Mr Heber certifies to me, that t... Patrick Gordon Famous history of the renown'd and valiant prince,... Print : Book1850-1899 ?There were other books which I then read and studied with care, including Adam Smith?s "Wealth of Nations" and Mill?s "Political Economy". This was not a kind of literat... Thomas Burt Adam Smith Wealth of Nations Print : Book1850-1899 ?There were other books which I then read and studied with care, including Adam Smith?s "Wealth of Nations" and Mill?s "Political Economy". This was not a kind of literat... Thomas Burt John Stuart Mill Political Economy Print : Book1850-1899 ?The library of the Mechanics' Institute gave me the opportunity to read some books which were then new to me, among them being, I remember, "Adam Bede", and other of Geo... Thomas Burt George Eliot Adam Bede Print : Book1850-1899 ?The library of the Mechanics' Institute gave me the opportunity to read some books which were then new to me, among them being, I remember, "Adam Bede", and other of Geo... Thomas Burt John Ruskin Crown of Wild Olive: Three lectures on work, traff... Print : Book1850-1899 ?The library of the Mechanics' Institute gave me the opportunity to read some books which were then new to me, among them being, I remember, Adam Bede, and other of Georg... Thomas Burt John Ruskin Sesame and Lilies Print : Book1850-1899 ?The library of the Mechanics' Institute gave me the opportunity to read some books which were then new to me, among them being, I remember, "Adam Bede", and other of Geo... Thomas Burt John Ruskin Modern Painters Print : Book1850-1899 '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 [Spanish poems and chronicles] Print : Book1900-1945 'By the way the reviews of "Leonora" in Athenaeum, Sketch, & T.P.?s Weekly have much pleased me. The swine on the Chronicle hadn?t read the book, & refrained from saying... Arnold Bennett [reviews] Print : Newspaper, Serial / periodical1900-1945 'And another early serial of mine, which he [Tillotson] bought, is just beginning in La Sera, of Milan. I had the advertisement today.'
Arnold Bennett Print : Advertisement1900-1945 'I notice that Chatto is leaving "Hugo" out of his advertising list. . . . He has a permanent advertisement in today?s Tribune.'
Arnold Bennett Print : Advertisement, Book1900-1945 'It ["Hugo"] was also left out of his [Andrew Chatto's] advt in the Times on Friday. Perhaps you can ascertain the reason.'
Arnold Bennett Print : Advertisement, Newspaper1900-1945 'I have read through the 12 lessons of the Literary Correspondence College, & made a few corrections & suggestions, & I return them by parcel post. They are devilish goo... Arnold Bennett Print : Unknown1900-1945 'You will receive in a few days the typescript of the novel of your new client, Mrs Farley, 16 rue de la Paix. . . . I have read through the novel, and had it altered to... Arnold Bennett Agnes Farley Ashdod Manuscript : typescript1900-1945 'Conrad?s book, though of course very distinguished, is not as good as his last.'
Arnold Bennett Joseph Conrad Secret Agent, The Print : Book1900-1945 'Do you want Frank Harris? If so, I think I could bring him into the fold. . . . His last book "The Bomb" (which is a masterly thing) is published by Long (!) who gave ... Arnold Bennett Frank Harris Bomb, The Print : Book1900-1945 'He [Frank Harris] has two or three books unpublished; including one on Shakespeare which is probably the most penetrating book on Shakespeare ever written.'
Arnold Bennett Frank Harris Manuscript : Unknown1900-1945 'He [Waugh] told me he expected the book to keep on selling. You might give him to understand that the eyes of Europe are upon him at this crisis, and point out to him th... Arnold Bennett Print : Newspaper, Serial / periodical1900-1945 '[W.L. George] wrote a good little book on modern France. This is all I know of his work, except newspaper articles.'
Arnold Bennett W.L. George Print : Book1900-1945 'I have just read in The Bookman your preface to the American edition of ?An Old Wives? Tale.'
J.B. Pinker Arnold Bennett preface to The Old Wives' Tale Print : Serial / periodical1900-1945 'I have this day despatched to you in two book packets, a copy of "The Regent". You may take it positively from me that this book is all right. I have read nearly all o... Arnold Bennett Arnold Bennett Regent, The Manuscript : manuscript of new novel (typescript?)1850-1899 '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 [Latin and German writings about early Spanish lit... Print : Book1900-1945 'I have received your fourth and last article for Austin Harrison, and I have read it with a great deal of enjoyment.'
J.B. Pinker Arnold Bennett Artist and the Public, The Unknown 1800-1849 'We are reading Barretti's other book, & find him dreadfully abusive of poor Mr Sharpe.' Jane Austen Joseph Baretti Account of the Manners and Customs of Italy Print : Book1900-1945 'By the way, My Journal is now in its eighteenth volume, and almost the whole of it is yet in manuscript. Whenever I look at it it seems to me to be rather interesting, ... Arnold Bennett Arnold Bennett Journal Manuscript : Unknown1900-1945 'It ["The Price of Love"] and ?Sinister Street? were, he told me, the only works of fiction he [Henry James] had read since the War broke out.'
Henry James Arnold Bennett Price of Love, The Print : Book1900-1945 'I asked James if he had read Shaw?s Manifesto. He said "I have it here and have made several attempts, but his horrible flippancy revolts me".?
Henry James G. B. Shaw Common Sense about the War Print : Serial / periodical1900-1945 'I infinitely regret to say that having read the 2 vols of "Sinister Street", I don?t think it is permanent work; the beginning & the end are the best.'
Arnold Bennett Compton McKenzie Sinister Street Print : Book1900-1945
'I return the draft contract. It seems to me that the alteration in clause 3 practically abolishes the stock rights, and I should like you to consider this further. A... Arnold Bennett legal contract Print : draft legal contract1900-1945
The contract is not entirely in my favour, and neither you nor any other experienced manager would be so foolish as to sign a contract entirely in favour of the other... Arnold Bennett legal contract Print : draft legal contract1900-1945 '[Hugh] Walpole spent all Sunday afternoon at my house in reading Jacob Tonson?s "New Age" articles, which he had asked for. He said it would be ridiculous not to reissu... Hugh Walpole Arnold Bennett 'New Age' articles Print : Serial / periodical1850-1899 '[from a letter from Mary Arnold, later Ward, to her mother] I have indeed seen the
paragraphs about Papa. The L's showed them me on Saturday. You can imagine the
exc... Mary Augusta Ward [newspaper] Print : Newspaper1850-1899 '[from Mary Arnold, later Ward's diary] "Read Uncle Matt's [Matthew Arnold's] Essay
on Pagan and Medieval Religious Sentiment. Compares the religious feeling of
Pompe... Mary Augusta Ward Matthew Arnold Essays in Criticism Print : Book1800-1849 'We are reading Clarentine, & are surprised to find how foolish it is. I remember liking it much less on a 2d reading than at the 1st & it does not bear a 3d at all. It i... Jane Austen Sarah Harriet Burney Clarentine, A Novel Print : Book1900-1945 'If Machen?s onslaught is worse than Jimmy Douglas?s in the ?Star?, it will be a treat.'
Arnold Bennett James Douglas Print : Newspaper1850-1899 ?Another great book which I bought in those days was Gibbon?s "Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire" (Bohn?s edition in seven volumes). Relative to my means, the price wa... Thomas Burt Edward Gibbon Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Print : Book1850-1899 ?For stories, anecdotes, for something lively and telling, I ransacked my father?s theological magazines, with but small success. Two books of his, however, I found great... Thomas Burt Todd Student's Manual Print : Book1850-1899 ?For stories, anecdotes, for something lively and telling, I ransacked my father?s theological magazines, with but small success. Two books of his, however, I found great... Thomas Burt Channing [volume of essays eg. on Milton, Napoleon and Fene... Print : Book1800-1849 ?For reading aloud the one book used was the Bible, the Psalms being always selected. Directly the last Psalm was finished we turned back to the first, and began them ove... Thomas Catling [n/a] Psalms Print : Book1850-1899 ?This period gave me unnumbered hours for reading, and I devoured everything that came in my way, novels, histories, travels, even "The lives of the Stoics". There was no... Thomas Catling Charles Dickens Bleak House Print : Book1850-1899 ?There were no free libraries, so the younger hands joined with me in starting a "Literary Fund" of our own, towards which each paid three-halfpence a week. The papers an... Printers and compositors at Thomas Catling's place of work, Edward Lloyd's publishing house Charles Dickens [works] Print : Book, Serial / periodical, presumably Dickens's fiction and journals1850-1899 ?There were no free libraries, so the younger hands joined with me in starting a "Literary Fund" of our own, towards which each paid three-halfpence a week. The papers an... Printers and compositors at Thomas Catling's place of work, Edward Lloyd's publishing house [n/a] Cornhill Magazine Print : Serial / periodical1850-1899 ?There were no free libraries, so the younger hands joined with me in starting a "Literary Fund" of our own, towards which each paid three-halfpence a week. The papers an... Printers and compositors at Thomas Catling's place of work, Edward Lloyd's publishing house [n/a] Cassell's Magazine Print : Serial / periodical1850-1899 ?There were no free libraries, so the younger hands joined with me in starting a "Literary Fund" of our own, towards which each paid three-halfpence a week. The papers an... Printers and compositors at Thomas Catling's place of work, Edward Lloyd's publishing house [n/a] London Journal Print : Serial / periodical1700-1799 ?The first book which attracted my particular notice was "The Pilgrim?s Progress", with rude woodcuts; it excited my curiosity in an extraordinary degree. There was "Chri... Samuel Bamford John Bunyan Pilgrim's Progress Print : Book1700-1799 ?My father, as before stated, was a reader, and amongst other books which he now read, was Pain?s [sic] "Rights of Man". He also read Pain?s [sic] "Age of Reason", and hi... Daniel Bamford Thomas Paine Age of Reason Print : Book1700-1799 ??now, being able to read, I had almost continually the Testament in my hand. I had all the wondrous accounts in the Revelations, and my father, not a little pleased, wou... Samuel Bamford [n/a] New Testament Print : Book1900-1945 'I have received some copies of 'The Roll Call'. They are odious in a very high degree. I do not complain of the quality of the paper, but I object to there being two h... Arnold Bennett Arnold Bennett The Roll Call Manuscript : proofs1850-1899 '[letter from Mrs Ward to Gladstone] Thank you very much for the volume of "Gleanings" with its gracious inscription. I have read the article you point out to me with the... Mary Augusta Ward Henri Frederic Amiel Journal Intime Print : Book1700-1799 'While at Mitchelstown she brushed up on her French by reading Madame de Genlis's Letters on Education, Louis Sebastien Mercier's comedy "Mon Bonnet de Nuit", and the Bar... Mary Wollstonecraft Madame de Genlis Letters on Education Print : Book1700-1799 'While at Mitchelstown she brushed up on her French by reading Madame de Genlis's "Letters on Education", Louis Sebastien Mercier's comedy "Mon Bonnet de Nuit", and the B... Mary Wollstonecraft Louis Sebastien Mercier Mon Bonnet de Nuit Print : Book1700-1799 'While at Mitchelstown she brushed up on her French by reading Madame de Genlis's "Letters on Education", Louis Sebastien Mercier's comedy "Mon Bonnet de Nuit", and the B... Mary Wollstonecraft Baroness de Montoliere Caroline de Litchfield Print : Book1850-1899 '[letter from Mrs Ward to Gladstone] Thank you very much for the volume of "Gleanings" with its gracious inscription. I have read the article you point out to me with the... Mary Augusta Ward William Gladstone Gleanings Of Past Years Print : Book1700-1799 'In Dublin, she complained that she was not reading a great deal, but in the same breath remarked that books provided her only relaxation. She must have at least browsed ... Mary Wollstonecraft William Cowper Print : Book1700-1799 'In Dublin, she complained that she was not reading a great deal, but in the same breath remarked that books provided her only relaxation. She must have at least browsed ... Mary Wollstonecraft John Hewlett [sermons] Print : Book1700-1799 'In Dublin, she complained that she was not reading a great deal, but in the same breath remarked that books provided her only relaxation. She must have at least browsed ... Mary Wollstonecraft William Paley Principles of Moral and Political Philosophy Print : Book1700-1799 [Mary Wollstonecraft] 'told Everina that she had been reading Hugh Blair's "Letters on Rhetoric" and found them "an intellectual feast".' Mary Wollstonecraft Hugh Blair Letters on Rhetoric Print : Book1700-1799 'the book that prompted [Mary Wollstonecraft's] fullest comment was Rousseau's "Emile". It was bound to appeal to her; it was a treatise on education, a metaphysical essa... Mary Wollstonecraft Jean Jacques Rousseau Emile Print : Book1850-1899 In letter to Violet Paget (Vernon Lee) of 27 April 1890, Henry James thanks her for Hauntings, her book of ghost stories, which he has read and enjoyed: "I possess the em... Henry James Vernon Lee Hauntings Print : Book1700-1799 [compiling the anthology "The Female Reader", Mary Wollstonecraft spent] 'long hours reading, for the extracts included came from widely scattered sources and might consi... Mary Wollstonecraft [various] [various works] Print : Unknown1700-1799 'I am sorry for poor Hewlett - Betty Delane read his sermons with great pleasure...' Betty Delane John Hewlett [sermons] Print : Book1900-1945 'Swinnerton feels sure that C & W would be willing to publish a new edition of "How to become an Author". I gave him the book to read and he is enthusiastic about it.' ... Frank Swinnerton Arnold Bennett How to Become an Author Print : Book1850-1899 Henry James to William Dean Howells, from Milan, 17 May 1890: " ... I have been reading the Hazard of New Fortunes ... it has filled me with communicable rapture ... I re... Henry James William Dean Howells A Hazard of New Fortunes vol 1 Print : Book1850-1899 Henry James to William Dean Howells, from Milan, 17 May 1890: " ... I have been reading the Hazard of New Fortunes ... it has filled me with communicable rapture ... I re... Henry James William Dean Howells A Hazard of New Fortunes vol 2 Print : Book1700-1799 'I am now reading Rousseau's "Emile", and love his paradoxes. He chuses a common capacity to educate - and gives as a reason, that a genius will educate itself - however ... Mary Wollstonecraft Jean Jacques Rousseau Emile Print : Book1850-1899 Henry James to Henrietta Reubell, 7 July 1890: "I have read Notre Coeur but haven't looked at Bourget in the Figaro." Henry James Guy de Maupassant Notre Coeur Print : Unknown1900-1945 'I have just read the latter. ["The Lost Girl".] It is very remarkable indeed, and would be great if it had a real theme and some construction. This man is a genius, and ... Arnold Bennett D.H. Lawrence Lost Girl, The Print : Book1700-1799 'I had rather you would not read Dr Price's sermons, as they would lead you into controversial disputes, and your limited range of books would not afford you a clue - the... Mary Wollstonecraft Richard Price Sermons on the Christian Doctrine, as Received by ... Print : Book1700-1799 'I had rather you would not read Dr Price's sermons, as they would lead you into controversial disputes, and your limited range of books would not afford you a clue - the... Mary Wollstonecraft Richard Price Four Dissertations Print : Book1850-1899 In letter of 19 October 1890, Henry James writes (in French) to Urbain Mengin on having read Paul Bourget's new novel Coeur de Femme. Henry James Paul Bourget Coeur de Femme Print : Unknown1700-1799 'M. Necker, the late Minister...has written a book entitled "De l'Importance des opinions Religeuses", it pleases me and I want to know the character of the man in domest... Mary Wollstonecraft Jacques Necker De l'Importance des opinions Religeuses Print : Book1700-1799 'I am so fatigued with poring over a German book, I scarcely can collect my thoughts or even spell English words.' Mary Wollstonecraft [probably] Christian Gotthilf Salzmann [probably] Moralisches Elementarbuch Print : Book1850-1899 '[Mrs Ward's report of a conversation with Gladstone] 'I spoke of Pattison's autobiography as illustrating Newman's hold. He agreed, but said that Pattison's religious ph... Mary Augusta Ward Mark Pattison 'Confession of Faith' Manuscript : Unknown1850-1899 Henry James to Robert Louis Stevenson, 12 January 1891: "To-day what I am grateful for is your new ballad-book, which has just reached me by your command. I have had tim... Henry James Robert Louis Stevenson Ballads Print : Book1850-1899 Henry James to Robert Louis Stevenson, 12 January 1891: "I read with unrestrictive relish the first chapters of your prose volume (kindly vouchsafed me in the little copy... Henry James Robert Louis Stevenson The South Seas Print : Book1700-1799 'Whenever I read Milton's description of paradise - the happiness, which he so poetically describes fills me with benevolent satisfaction - yet, I cannot help viewing the... Mary Wollstonecraft John Milton Paradise Lost Print : Book1850-1899 Henry James to Robert Louis Stevenson, 13 January 1891 (in letter begun 12 January 1891): "Since yesterday I have ... read the ballad book -- with the admiration that I a... Henry James Robert Louis Stevenson Ballads Print : Book1700-1799 'Delighted with some of her husband's letters, [Mrs Barlow] has exultingly shewn them to me; and, though I took care not to let her see it, I was almost disgusted with th... Mary Wollstonecraft Mr Barlow [letters to his wife] Manuscript : Letter1900-1945 'I read the scenario of "The Old Wives" Tale.'
Arnold Bennett unknown Old Wives' Tale, The Manuscript : Sheet, typescript film scenario1850-1899 Henry James to William James, 6 February 1891: " ... I blush to say I haven't had freedom of mind or cerebral freshness ... to tackle -- more than dipping in here and the... Henry James William James Principles of Psychology Print : Book1700-1799 'I have just cast my eye over your sensible little pamphlet, and found fewer of the superlatives, exquisite, fascinating &c, all of the feminine gender, than I expected. ... Mary Wollstonecraft Mary Hays Cursory Remarks Manuscript : Unknown, MS version of pamphlet1850-1899 Henry James to Edmund Gosse, 28 April 1891: "I return the Ibsenite volume with many thanks -- especially for the opportunity to read your charming preface which is really... Henry James Edmund Gosse Preface to Vol 1 of Ibsen, Works Print : Book1700-1799 'I have sent you the "Gossip Story" to review, as you wish to read it, but I would thank you if you would do it immediately, because Johnson is in want of materials for t... Mary Wollstonecraft Jane West A Gossip's Story Print : BookManuscript : Unknown1850-1899 Henry James to Edmund Gosse, 28 April 1891: "I return the Ibsenite volume with many thanks -- especially for the opportunity to read your charming preface which is really... Henry James Henrik Ibsen Rosmersholm Print : Book1850-1899 Henry James to Edmund Gosse, 28 April 1891: "I return the Ibsenite volume with many thanks -- especially for the opportunity to read your charming preface which is really... Henry James Henrik Ibsen Ghosts Print : Book1700-1799 'Mrs Robinson... has read your novel, and was very much pleased with the main story; but did not like the conclusion. She thinks the death of Augustus the end of the stor... Mrs Robinson Mary Hays Memoirs of Emma Courtney Print : BookManuscript : Unknown1900-1945 'I congratulate you on ?Prohack?. It is brilliant and I have read it with intense admiration.'
Algernon Methuen Marshall Arnold Bennett Mr Prohack Print : Book1700-1799 ' I would advise you to read Mrs R's "Italian" in your own chamber, not to lose the picturesque images with which it abounds.' Mary Wollstonecraft Anne Radcliffe Italian, The Print : BookManuscript : Unknown1700-1799 ' I send you Addington's Letters. I find the melancholy ones the most interesting - There is a grossness in the raptures from which I turn...' Mary Wollstonecraft Addington [Letters] Print : BookManuscript : Unknown1900-1945 'On Saturday I saw for the first time an advertisement of this book, [Lilian] which I suppose has been out for quite a month.'
Arnold Bennett Print : Advertisement1850-1899 'When we came home I read some of L.'s M.S. aloud.' George Eliot [pseud] 'L.' - prob George Henry Lewes Manuscript : Unknown1850-1899 'We read, wrote and walked a little before dinner. After, I read Sainte Beuve aloud.' George Eliot [pseud] Charles Augustin Sainte Beuve [unknown] Print : Book1850-1899 'When the cigars came, Hoffmann was requested to read some of his poetry, and he gave us a bacchanalian poem with great spirit... little rain sent us into the house, and ... George Eliot (pseud) August Heinrich Hoffmann von Fallersleben [a bacchanalian poem] Manuscript : Unknown, own poem1850-1899 'When the cigars came, Hoffmann was requested to read some of his poetry, and he gave us a bacchanalian poem with great spirit... little rain sent us into the house, and ... George Eliot (pseud) [a french artist] [his own poems] Manuscript : Unknown1850-1899 'I read the Kestner letters at Ilmenau.' George Eliot (pseud) unknown 'Kestner letters' Print : Unknown1900-1945 'Read "Letters of People in Love". Quite good.' Hilary Spalding Donagh McDonagh Letters of People in Love Print : Book1900-1945 'Have become exceedingly interested in ants and bees, after today's Zoo lesson, and am reading up about them. They are really amazing things.' Hilary Spalding unknown unknown Print : Book1900-1945 'Read "Henry Brocken" all evening, as had finished prep. It's enchanting.' Hilary Spalding Walter de la Mare Henry Brocken Print : Book1900-1945 'Spent evening dancing, and reading Maeterlinck's "Life of the Bee".' Hilary Spalding Maurice Maeterlinck Life of the Bee, The Print : Book1900-1945 'I'm reading Quiller Couch's "Art of Writing", & am more & more convinced that he should be read by everyone compulsorily. He hits the nail on the head. Also "Screwtape... Hilary Spalding Arthur Quiller Couch Art of Writing, The Print : Book1900-1945 'I'm reading Quiller Couch's "Art of Writing", & am more & more convinced that he should be read by everyone compulsorily. He hits the nail on the head. Also "Screwtape... Hilary Spalding C.S. Lewis Screwtape Letters, The Print : Book1900-1945 'We read "Paradise Lost" in Gen. English & I tried to look enthusiastic, but I really can't appreciate Milton. He's so unreal and unalive. I must try to read a lot of h... Hilary Spalding John Milton Paradise Lost Print : Book1900-1945 'Finished all my prep so indulged in a little fiction reading - "The Headmistress" - very light & witty.' Hilary Spalding Angela Thirkell Headmistress, The Print : Book1900-1945 'Today I again indulged in reading & finished "the H.M" & "People's Gov".' Hilary Spalding Angela Thirkell Headmistress, The Print : Book1900-1945 'Today I again indulged in reading & finished "the H.M" & "People's Gov".' Hilary Spalding unknown People's Government, The Print : Book1900-1945 '[while in the sickroom with a bug] Today I felt heaps better, no temp, no aches, & felt less jellyish. I read a lot, but only silly school stories, except one book, "Th... Hilary Spalding unknown ["silly school stories"] Print : Book1900-1945 '[while in the sickroom with a bug] Today I felt heaps better, no temp, no aches, &
felt less jellyish. I read a lot, but only silly school stories, except one book, "... Hilary Spalding Florence Converse The House of Prayer Print : Book1850-1899 'We set off for Ilmenau by railway. I read Liszt's account of "Der Fliegende Holander" by the way.' George Eliot (pseud) Franz Liszt [account of Der Fliegende Hollander - The Flying D... Print : Unknown1850-1899 'In the morning I partly condensed Liszt's article on Meyerbeer for the Vivian paper. In the evening walked and read aloud the Wahlverwandtschaften.' George Eliot (pseud) Franz Liszt [article on Meyerbeer] Manuscript : Unknown1850-1899 'In the morning I partly condensed Liszt's article on Meyerbeer for the Vivian paper. In the evening walked and read aloud the Wahlverwandtschaften.' George Eliot (pseud) Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Die Wahlverwandtschaften Print : BookManuscript : Unknown1900-1945 'I read Bradley on "Hamlet" all day, and am in a greater muddle over it than I am over "Antony and Cleo", if that is possible!' Hilary Spalding A.C. Bradley Shakespearean Tragedy Print : Book1900-1945 'Spent half an hour reading Flecker - he's wonderful'. Hilary Spalding James Elroy Flecker [poetry] Print : Book1850-1899 'G. dined at the Marquis de Ferriere's and I read Rameau's Neffe.' George Eliot (pseud) Denis Diderot Le Nevue de Rameau Print : BookManuscript : Unknown1900-1945 'I felt incapable of doing any Zoo [zoology preparation for mid-school exams] so read Flecker's poetry all night! Felt immensely cheered up by it, but very wicked!' Hilary Spalding James Elroy Flecker [poetry] Print : Book1850-1899 'Began to read Egmont after dinner, then "The Hoggarty Diamond".' George Eliot (pseud) Johann Wolfgang von Goethe [probably] Egmont Print : BookManuscript : Unknown1850-1899 'Began to read Egmont after dinner, then "The Hoggarty Diamond".' George Eliot [pseud] William Makepeace Thackeray The Great Hoggarty Diamond Print : BookManuscript : Unknown1900-1945 'I read "Hangman's Holiday" with great enjoyment.' Hilary Spalding Dorothy Sayers Hangman's Holiday Print : Book1850-1899 'Bad headache all day. Gross Cophta in the evening. Looked through Moore's Life of Sheridan in the morning - a first rate specimen of bad biographical writing' George Eliot [pseud] Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Gross Cophta Print : BookManuscript : Unknown1900-1945 'I read "Strong Poison" all day and enjoyed it thoroughly.' Hilary Spalding Dorothy Sayers Strong Poison Print : Book1850-1899 'Bad headache all day. Gross Cophta in the evening. Looked through Moore's Life of Sheridan in the morning - a firstrate specimen of bad biographical writing' George Eliot [pseud] Thomas Moore Memoirs of the Life of Sheridan Print : BookManuscript : Unknown1900-1945 [In bed recovering from gastro-enteritis] 'I read "Crowthers" all day, and loved it.' Hilary Spalding Thomas Armstrong Crowthers of Bankdam Print : Book1850-1899 'I read Gotz in the morning. In the afternoon, Liszt, the Marquis de Ferriere and Mr Marshall sat with us. Walked, read the "Burgergeneral", and chatted with Mr M. again ... George Eliot [pseud] possibly Johann Nikolaus Gotz [if this Gotz, then poetry] Print : BookManuscript : Unknown1850-1899 'I read Gotz in the morning. In the afternoon, Liszt, the Marquis de Ferriere and Mr Marshall sat with us. Walked, read the "Burgergeneral", and chatted with Mr M. again ... George Eliot [pseud] Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Der Burgergeneral Print : BookManuscript : Unknown1900-1945 'I read quite a lot of the "Antiquary" and felt quite virtuous.' Hilary Spalding Walter Scott Antiquary, The Print : Book1900-1945 'Spent most of the morning in bed reading Ibsen's "Ghosts", which is a masterpiece, I think.' Hilary Spalding Henrik Ibsen Ghosts Print : Book1900-1945 'I stayed up late reading "The Gay Galliard" by Margaret Irwin, which is a lovely book.' Hilary Spalding Margaret Irwin Gay Galliard, The Print : Book1900-1945 'I started doing some easy Ovid and loved it. He writes beautiful poety - [underline] when [end underline] I can understand it!' Hilary Spalding Ovid [poetry] Print : Book1900-1945 [Three days after V.E. day] 'I finished the "Antiquary" at last. It's pretty awful, though quite exciting in patches.' Hilary Spalding Walter Scott Antiquary, The Print : Book1900-1945 'I did "The Knightes Tale" all my prep. time and like it'. Hilary Spalding Geoffrey Chaucer Knight's Tale, The Print : Book1900-1945 'Finished "The Knightes Tale" and am now embarking on "Luria" - it's pretty awful." Hilary Spalding Geoffrey Chaucer Knight's Tale, The Print : Book1900-1945 'Finished "The Knightes Tale" and am now embarking on "Luria" - it's pretty awful." Hilary Spalding Robert Browning Luria Print : Book1900-1945 'Today I spent ages trying to find a poem for Elocution [Grade 6 exam] in my special choice part. At last I chose "The Old Ships" by Flecker, which I think is one of the... Hilary Spalding James Elroy Flecker Old Ships, The Print : Book1900-1945 'I have been reading Tennyson's "Summer Evening", which is a lovely poem, full of pictures.' Hilary Spalding Alfred, Lord Tennyson Summer Evening Print : Book1900-1945 [Sunday, on a bike picnic] 'It began to pour down just as B [unidentified] and I reached a barn... so we stayed there to eat, and curled up on rugs on mouldy straw, and I... Hilary Spalding Edwyn Robert Bevan Jerusalem under the High Priests: five lectures on... Print : Book1850-1899 'Began translating Spinoza's Ethics... Read Wilhelm Meister aloud in the evening' George Eliot [pseud] Benedictus de Spinoza Ethics Print : BookManuscript : Unknown1900-1945 [Sunday, on a bike picnic] 'It began to pour down just as B [unidentified] and I reached a barn... so we stayed there to eat, and curled up on rugs on mouldy straw, and I... Hilary Spalding William Shakespeare Sonnets Print : Book1850-1899 'Began translating Spinoza's Ethics... Read Wilhelm Meister aloud in the evening' George Eliot [pseud] Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship Print : BookManuscript : Unknown1900-1945 'I finished reading "The Rivals", and have embarked on Bradley's "Shakespearean Tragedy"'. Hilary Spalding Richard Brinsley Sheridan Rivals, The Print : Book1900-1945 'I finished reading "The Rivals", and have embarked on Bradley's "Shakespearean Tragedy"'. Hilary Spalding A.C. Bradley Shakespearean Tragedy Print : Book1850-1899 'Read Vehse's Weimar in the evening'. George Eliot [pseud] Carl Eduard Vehse Der Hof zu Weimar Print : BookManuscript : Unknown1900-1945 'I revised "Pericles" [for Elocution exam] and wrote notes on it. It's a horrid play, completely unlikely but quite fast moving.' Hilary Spalding William Shakespeare Pericles Print : Book1900-1945 'I did a lot of "The Rivals", which I don't like a bit. It has momentary flashes of wit, but otherwise it's awful.' Hilary Spalding Richard Brinsley Sheridan Rivals, The Print : Book1850-1899 'Fraulein Assing, Varnhagen's niece, lent me a volume of Heine's poems. I read aloud "Donna Clara" and then Wilhelm Meister till 10'. George Eliot [pseud] Heinrich Heine "Donna Clara" Print : BookManuscript : Unknown1900-1945 'I read Flecker most of evening and am more and more convinced that his poetry is wonderful'. Hilary Spalding James Elroy Flecker [poetry] Print : Book1900-1945 'As it was very hot I decided to pretend I had finished HSC [Higher School Certificate], and read Joad's book on Post War World, while drying my hair in the garden.' Hilary Spalding C.E.M. Joad Adventures of a Young Soldier in Search of a Bette... Print : Book1900-1945 'I read "Nine Tailors" all pm although I'd promised myself I'd work at night. But it was a lovely evening and I lay in a secluded corner of the garden on my rug and alth... Hilary Spalding Dorothy Sayers Nine Tailors, The Print : Book1900-1945 '"Nine Tailors" all evening.' Hilary Spalding Dorothy Sayers Nine Tailors, The Print : Book1900-1945 'I finished "The Conquered", and wrote to Uncle John, who sent me a really wizard book - 10/ - called "People and Places"'. Hilary Spalding Naomi Michison Conquered, The Print : Book1900-1945 'I finished "The Conquered", and wrote to Uncle John, who sent me a really wizard book - 10/ - called "People and Places"'. Hilary Spalding unknown People and Places Print : Book1850-1899 'I read Wilhelm Meister aloud, and then G. read part of the Merchant of Venice' George Henry Lewes William Shakespeare The Merchant of Venice Print : BookManuscript : Unknown1850-1899 'I read Heine's poems; wrote a few recollections of Weimar and translated Genealogical Tables of the Goethe family'. George Eliot [pseud] Heinrich Heine poems Print : BookManuscript : Unknown1850-1899 'Read Laocoon'. George Eliot [pseud] Gotthold Ephraim Lessing Laocoon: An Essay on the Limits of Painting and Po... Print : BookManuscript : Unknown1850-1899 'In the evening we went to Spargnapini's, and had some chocolate and read the papers. G. finished reading allowed (sic) the Merchant of Venice, and I the first vol. of Wi... George Eliot [pseud] Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship Print : BookManuscript : Unknown1850-1899 'In the evening we went to Spargnapini's, and had some chocolate and read the papers. G. finished reading allowed (sic) the Merchant of Venice, and I the first vol. of Wi... George Eliot and G.H. Lewes newspapers Print : NewspaperManuscript : Unknown1850-1899 'Finished Lessing's Laocoon - the most un-German of all German books that I have ever read.The style is strong clear and lively, the thoughts acute and pregnant. It is we... George Eliot [pseud] Gotthold Ephraim Lessing Laocoon: An Essay on the Limits of Painting and Po... Print : BookManuscript : Unknown1850-1899 'Ill all day and unable to go out. G. finished Romeo and Juliet'. George Henry Lewes William Shakespeare Romeo and Juliet Print : BookManuscript : Unknown1900-1945 'Have begun "Peter Abelard" again. I do love it, & can never leave it once I've begun.' Hilary Spalding Helen Waddell Peter Abelard Print : Book1850-1899 'The weather continues disagreeable and the streets dirty. Read Jacobi's Briefe uber Spinoza.' George Eliot [pseud] Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi Briefe Uber Spinoza Print : BookManuscript : Unknown1900-1945 [on bike, visiting friends] 'Learnt "Jabberwocky" on the way! Passers by must have thought me mad, book in one hand, bike handle in other, sailing down hill saying in lou... Hilary Spalding Lewis Carroll Jabberwocky Print : Book1850-1899 'Home for half an hour and read Nathan der Weise'. George Eliot [pseud] Gotthold Ephraim Lessing Nathan der Weise Print : BookManuscript : Unknown1900-1945 'I read "The Sun is My Undoing" - fast and very meaty. Intensely interesting - till 12 pm'. Hilary Spalding Marguerite Steen Sun is my Undoing, The Print : Book1850-1899 'G. read Julius Caesar aloud, as far as Caesar's appearance in the senate house. Very much struck with the masculine style of this play and its vigorous moderation compar... George Henry Lewes William Shakespeare Julius Caesar Print : BookManuscript : Unknown1850-1899 ''Finished Minna von Barnhelm... G. began Antony and Cleopatra'. George Henry Lewes William Shakespeare Antony and Cleopatra Print : BookManuscript : Unknown1900-1945 'Spent a very sleepy afternoon nodding over "Midas"'. Hilary Spalding John Lyly Midas Print : Book1850-1899 ''Finished Minna von Barnhelm... G. began Antony and Cleopatra'. George Eliot [pseud] Gotthold Ephraim Lessing Minna von Barnhelm Print : BookManuscript : Unknown1850-1899 'Began the Italianische Reise.' George Eliot [pseud] Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Italianische Reise Print : BookManuscript : Unknown1850-1899 'Not well in the morning. Finished Fanny Lewald's Wandlungen'. George Eliot [pseud] Fanny Lewald Wandlungen Print : BookManuscript : Unknown1900-1945 'Spent afternoon reading "Twelfth Night"... read more of "England their England" which is a scream.' Hilary Spalding William Shakespeare Twelfth Night Print : Book1850-1899 'Read Italianische Reise - Residence in Naples. Pretty passage about a star seen through a chink in the ceiling as he lay in bed. G. read Henry IV' George Eliot [pseud] Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Italianische Reise Print : BookManuscript : Unknown1900-1945 'Spent afternoon reading "Twelfth Night"... read more of "England their England" which is a scream.' Hilary Spalding A.G. Macdonell England their England Print : Book1850-1899 'Read Italianische Reise - Residence in Naples. Pretty passage about a star seen through a chink in the ceiling as he lay in bed. G. read Henry IV' George Henry Lewes William Shakespeare Henry IV Print : BookManuscript : Unknown1900-1945 'Reading "The Jew of Malta", which in spite of critics is the most interesting of the plays I've read.' Hilary Spalding Christopher Marlowe Jew of Malta, The Print : Book1850-1899 'I have begun Scherr's Geschichte Deutschen Cultur und Sitte'. George Eliot [pseud] Johannes Scherr Geschichte Deutschen Cultur und Sitte' Print : BookManuscript : Unknown1900-1945 'Am reading "By Greta Bridge" instead of the Milton I ought to be reading! But it is lovely, & very cleverly written & interesting.' Hilary Spalding Louis Goodrich Jew of Malta, The Print : Book1900-1945 'Slept all morning, then read quite a lot of "Utopia" in afternoon, & really it is very interesting (once you get over the spelling), & he had some very advanced ideas.' Hilary Spalding Thomas More Utopia Print : Book1900-1945 'Settled down to 3 hours solid slogging at "Utopia", & got it read & notes begun. Spent evening finishing "England their England", which I loved - it's most clever & int... Hilary Spalding Thomas More Utopia Print : Book1900-1945 'Settled down to 3 hours solid slogging at "Utopia", & got it read & notes begun. Spent evening finishing "England their England", which I loved - it's most clever & int... Hilary Spalding A.G. Macdonell England their England Print : Book1900-1945 'Read "Dog Beneath the Skin", a most peculiar play.' Hilary Spalding W.H. Auden Dog Beneath the Skin, The Print : Book1900-1945 'Had a really wizard lecture from [Prof.] Renwick on Milton, in which he read a good lot of Milton and Shakespeare to us, and he certainly can read.' Hilary Spalding John Milton unknown Print : Book1900-1945 'Had a really wizard lecture from [Prof.] Renwick on Milton, in which he read a good lot of Milton and Shakespeare to us, and he certainly can read.' Hilary Spalding William Shakespeare unknown Print : Book1850-1899 Henry James to Robert Louis Stevenson, 15 April 1892: "I send you by this post the magnificent Memoires de Marbot, which should have gone to you sooner by my hand if I ha... Henry James Marcelin Marbot Memoires Print : Book1850-1899 Henry James to Robert Louis Stevenson, 15 April 1892: "... I have just read the last page of the sweet collection of some of your happiest lucubrations put forth by the c... Henry James Robert Louis Stevenson Across the Plains Print : Book1850-1899 Henry James to Charles Eliot Norton, 4 July 1892: "Have you read any of ... [Paul Bourget's] novels? If you haven't, don't ... Make an exception, however, for Terre Prom... Henry James Paul Bourget La Terre promise Manuscript : Sheet, proofs1700-1799 Robert Southey to Grosvenor Charles Bedford, 26-27 October 1793: 'You must not be surprized at nonsense for I have been reading the history of Philosophy — the ideas of P... Robert Southey Pythagoras Print : Book1850-1899 Henry James to Robert Louis Stevenson, 8 June 1893: "It was only when I came back [from travels abroad] the other day that I could put my hand on the Island Nights, which... Henry James Robert Louis Stevenson Island Nights Print : Book1700-1799 Robert Southey to Grosvenor Charles Bedford, 26-27 October 1793: 'You must not be surprized at nonsense for I have been reading the history of Philosophy — the ideas of P... Robert Southey Aristotle on Logic Print : Book1850-1899 Henry James to Charles Eliot Norton, 15 November 1893: "The two beautiful volumes of dear J[ames] R[ussell] L[owell] constitute a gift for the substantial grace of which ... Henry James James Russell Lowell Letters of James Russell Lowell Print : Book1850-1899 Henry James, in 28 January 1894 letter to John Hay, explains how he learned of the manner of the death of Constance Fenimore Woolson in Venice: " ... coming in -- from Co... Henry James cutting from Venetian newspaper Print : Newspaper1800-1849 'The other afternoon, as I was lying dozing in a brown study after dinner, a lord's lackey knocked at the door and delivered me a little blue parcel, requiring for it a n... Thomas Carlyle Johann Wolfgang von Goethe private letter Manuscript : Letter1850-1899 Henry James, in letters to his brother, and sister-in-law, Mr and Mrs William James (25 May 1894; 28 May 1894) discusses his reading of his copy of his sister Alice James... Henry James Alice James The Diary of Alice James Print : Book1850-1899 Henry James to Edmund Gosse, 22 August 1894: " ... I have vowed not to open Lourdes [by Zola] till I shall have closed with a furious bang the unspeakable Lord Ormont, wh... Henry James George Meredith Lord Ormont and His Aminta Print : Book1850-1899 Henry James, in letter of 13 December 1894 to Edmund Gosse, returns, and discusses reading (with enthusiasm) Gosse's article on Pater. Henry James Edmund Gosse "paper on Pater" Unknown 1850-1899 Henry James to Edmund Gosse, 27 December 1894: "I have been reading with the liveliest -- and almost painful -- interest the two volumes on the extraordinary Symonds." Henry James Horatio Brown Memoir of John Addington Symonds Print : Book1850-1899 Henry James writes (in French) on 12 February 1895 to Alphonse Daudet, on having read and enjoyed Daudet's new novel [Petite Paroisse], sent to him by Daudet, and re-read... Henry James Alphonse Daudet Petite Paroisse Print : Book1850-1899 Henry James writes (in French) on 12 February 1895 to Alphonse Daudet, on having read and enjoyed Daudet's new novel [Petite Paroisse], sent to him by Daudet, and re-read... Henry James Alphonse Daudet Sapho Print : Book1850-1899 Henry James writes (in French) on 12 February 1895 to Alphonse Daudet, on having read and enjoyed Daudet's new novel [Petite Paroisse], sent to him by Daudet, and re-read... Henry James Alphonse Daudet L'Immortel Print : Book1850-1899 Henry James to Henry James Sr., from Paris, 20 December 1875: "I find the political situation here very interesting and devour the newspapers." Henry James newspapers Print : Newspaper1850-1899 Henry James to Henry James Sr., from Paris, 20 December 1875: "I see both the Debats and the Temps every day ..." Henry James Debats Print : Newspaper1850-1899 Henry James to Henry James Sr., from Paris, 20 December 1875: "I see both the Debats and the Temps every day ..." Henry James Temps Print : Newspaper1850-1899 Henry James to William Dean Howells, 3 February 1876: "Why won't you tell me the name of the author of the very charming notice of Roderick Hudson in the last Atlantic, w... Henry James anon Review of Henry James, Roderick Hudson Print : Serial / periodical1850-1899 Henry James to Alice James, 22 February, 1876: "Of course you have read Daniel Deronda, and I hope you have enjoyed it a tenth as much as I. It was disappointing, and it... Henry James George Eliot Daniel Deronda Print : Book1850-1899 Henry James to Mrs. Henry James Sr., 8 May 1876: "The other day I was at the house of a dreadful old lion huntress, Mme. Blaze de Bury -- an Englishwoman with a French hu... Mme. Blaze de Bury Henry James stories Print : Serial / periodical1850-1899 Henry James to Mrs. Henry James Sr., 8 May 1876: "I have been reading Macaulay's Life with extreme interest and entertainment, and admiration of the intellectual robustne... Henry James Thomas Babington Macaulay Life Print : Book1850-1899 Henry James to Mrs. Henry James Sr., 8 May 1876: "... [Daniel Deronda] disappoints me as it goes on -- the analysing and the sapience -- to say nothing of the tortuosity ... Henry James George Eliot Daniel Deronda Print : Unknown1700-1799 Robert Southey to Grosvenor Charles Bedford, 26-27 October 1793: 'You must not be surprized at nonsense for I have been reading the history of Philosophy — the ideas of P... Robert Southey Plato Republic Print : Book1850-1899 Henry James to Henry James Sr., 13 February 1877: "I am writing this in the beautiful great library of the Athenaeum Club ... a little way off is the portly Archbishop of... unknown unknown Print : Book1850-1899 Henry James to Wiliam James, 28 February 1877: " ... [Henry Sidgwick] has read Roderick Hudson (!) and asked me to stop with him at Cambridge." Henry Sidgwick Henry James Roderick Hudson Print : Unknown1850-1899 Henry James to Alice James, 2 March 1877: "It is very late at night and I am in the delightful great drawingroom of the Athenaeum Club where I have been reading all the m... Henry James magazines Print : Serial / periodical1850-1899 Henry James to Mrs John Rollin Tilton, 3 April 1878: " ... even in Rome I could not have done more than piangere over the King [Victor Emmanuel II]'s death, and that I di... Henry James The Times Print : Newspaper1850-1899 Henry James to Henry James Sr., 19 April 1878: "Two days since I dined with Frederick Macmillan to meet Mr Grove, the editor of their magazine, who had just been reading ... Archibald Grove Henry James The American Print : Unknown1850-1899 Henry James to Henry James Sr., 29 May 1878: " ... Sir Charles Dilke ... appears to have found time ... to read and be 'struck' by my French essays." Sir Charles Dilke Henry James "French essays" Print : Unknown1850-1899 Henry James to Elizabeth Boott 30 October 1878, on lunch that day with Tennyson at his home, : "He read out 'Locksley Hall' to me, in a kind of solemn, sonorous chant, an... Alfred Tennyson Alfred Tennyson Locksley Hall Unknown 1850-1899 Henry James to Charles Eliot Norton, 17 November 1878: "I have lately been reading Burkhardt's Renaissance and feeling all that very strongly." Henry James Jacob Burkhardt The Civilisation of the Renaissance in Italy Print : Book1900-1945 'Byron was a great genius. 'Don' Juan is a terrific work. But there is scarcely a page of it which does not show that an artistic conscience was not Byron’s strong poin... Arnold Bennett Sir Walter Scott Quentin Durward Print : Book1850-1899 'G went at 8 and I spent the evening alone for the first time since we have been at Berlin. I read G's Farce - Robson's adventure with a Russian Princess'. George Eliot [pseud] George Henry Lewes [a farce] Manuscript : UnknownUnknown1850-1899 'went to dine at the Hotel de l'Europe. I took Iphigenia to read. Italianische Reise until Dessoir came. He read us the opening of Richard the 3rd and the scene with Lady... William Shakespeare Richard III Print : BookManuscript : Unknown1850-1899 'went to dine at the Hotel de l'Europe. I took Iphigenia to read. Italianische Reise until Dessoir came. He read us the opening of Richard the 3rd and the scene with Lady... George Henry Lewes William Shakespeare The Merchant of Venice Print : BookManuscript : Unknown1700-1799 [Marginalia]: 2 small ms notes laid into v.3 have references to items of interest eg.(1) 'Rupert's drops'; (2) 'From Mental improvement Vol 1st ... Of artificial coral [... Priscilla Wakefield Mental improvement: or the beauties and wonders of... Print : Book1850-1899 'Read Hermann and Dorothea - 4 first books. G read 2nd Part of Henry IV'. George Henry Lewes William Shakespeare Henry IV, Part II Print : BookManuscript : Unknown1850-1899 'Read Hermann and Dorothea - 4 first books. G read 2nd Part of Henry IV'. George Eliot [pseud] Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Hermann and Dorothea Print : BookManuscript : Unknown1850-1899 'Bad headache. A regularly wet morning. Read the Athenaeum and Leader and finished Iphigenia'. George Eliot [pseud] various The Leader Print : Serial / periodicalManuscript : Unknown1850-1899 'Bad headache. A regularly wet morning. Read the Athenaeum and Leader and finished Iphigenia'. George Eliot [pseud] various Athenaeum Print : Serial / periodicalManuscript : Unknown1850-1899 'Began Tasso aloud. G. read two acts of As You Like It'. George Eliot [pseud] Torquato Tasso unknown Print : BookManuscript : Unknown1850-1899 'Began Tasso aloud. G. read two acts of As You Like It'. George Henry Lewes William Shakespeare As You Like It Print : BookManuscript : Unknown1850-1899 'Gruppe read us a translation of one of the Homeric Hymns - Aphrodite - which is really beautiful. It is a sort of Gegenstuck to "Der Gott und die Bayadere". He has struc... [Professor] Gruppe Homer [hymn to Aphrodite] Manuscript : Unknown1850-1899 'I also read again Silvio Pellico's "Prisons". I read it once at Granton- a lovely book (same edition) and "Adam Bede" and a French Novel and other new works. I like all ... Sir Walter Raleigh Silvio Pellico Prisons Print : Book1850-1899 'I also read again Silvio Pellico's "Prisons". I read it once at Granton- a lovely book (same edition) and "Adam Bede" and a French Novel and other new works. I like all ... Sir Walter Raleigh George Eliot Adam Bede Print : Book1850-1899 'I also read again Silvio Pellico's "Prisons". I read it once at Granton- a lovely book (same edition) and "Adam Bede" and a French Novel and other new works. I like all ... Sir Walter Raleigh [unknown] [French novel] Print : Book1850-1899 'I began to read aloud the Wanderjahre'. George Eliot [pseud] Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Wilhelm Meister's Wanderjahre Print : BookManuscript : Unknown1850-1899 'Read aloud Heine's "Gotter im Exil" and some of his poems. G. read aloud Lear'. George Eliot [pseud] Heinrich Heine Die Gotter im Exil Print : BookManuscript : Unknown1850-1899 'Read aloud Heine's "Gotter im Exil" and some of his poems. G. read aloud Lear'. George Eliot [pseud] Heinrich Heine [poems] Print : BookManuscript : Unknown1850-1899 'Read aloud Heine's "Gotter im Exil" and some of his poems. G. read aloud Lear'. George Henry Lewes William Shakespeare King Lear Print : BookManuscript : Unknown1850-1899 'Came home and copied Goethe's discourse on Shakespeare. Read, at dinner, his wonderful observations on Spinoza. Particularly struck with the beautiful modesty of the pas... George Eliot [pseud] Johann Wolfgang von Goethe [discourse on Shakespeare] Print : BookManuscript : Unknown1850-1899 'Came home and copied Goethe's discourse on Shakespeare. Read, at dinner, his wonderful observations on Spinoza. Particularly struck with the beautiful modesty of the pas... George Eliot [pseud] Johann Wolfgang von Goethe [on Spinoza] Print : BookManuscript : Unknown1850-1899 'Came home and copied Goethe's discourse on Shakespeare. Read, at dinner, his wonderful observations on Spinoza. Particularly struck with the beautiful modesty of the pas... George Eliot [pseud] George Henry Lewes [draft of Life of Goethe] Manuscript : Unknown, MS of Lewes' book1850-1899 'Christmas day. Miserably wet... Taming of the Shrew'. George Eliot [pseud] William Shakespeare The Taming of the Shrew Print : BookManuscript : Unknown1850-1899 'read Heine's "Allemagne" in the German edition'. George Eliot [pseud] Heinrich Heine De l'Allemagne Print : BookManuscript : Unknown1850-1899 'Read at dinner Goethe's account of his relations with Herder at Strasburg in Dichtung und Warheit. Continued aloud Heine's Salon. G. read Knight's studies of Shakspeare.... George Eliot [pseud] Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Dichtung und Wahrheit Print : BookManuscript : Unknown1850-1899 'Read at dinner Goethe's account of his relations with Herder at Strasburg in Dichtung und Warheit. Continued aloud Heine's Salon. G. read Knight's studies of Shakspeare.... George Eliot [pseud] Heinrich Heine Der Salon Print : BookManuscript : Unknown1850-1899 'Read at dinner Goethe's account of his relations with Herder at Strasburg in "Dichtung und Warheit". Continued aloud Heine's "Salon". G. read Knight's studies of Shakspe... George Henry Lewes Thomas [?] Knight [studies of Shakespeare] Print : BookManuscript : Unknown1850-1899 'Began Stahr's "Torso"... G read "Coriolanus". I read some of "Stahr" to him, but we found it too long wided a style for reading aloud' George Henry Lewes William Shakespeare Coriolanus Print : BookManuscript : Unknown1850-1899 'Began Stahr's "Torso"... G read "Coriolanus". I read some of "Stahr" to him, but we found it too long wided a style for reading aloud' George Eliot [pseud] Adolf Stahr Torso: Kunst, K?nstler, und Kunstwerken der Alten Print : BookManuscript : Unknown1850-1899 'Read Heine in the evening - on German Philosophy' George Eliot [pseud] Heinrich Heine [on German philosophy] Print : BookManuscript : Unknown1850-1899 'G. read some of "Twelfth Night", but his head got bad and he was obliged to leave off' George Henry Lewes William Shakespeare Twelfth Night Print : BookManuscript : Unknown1850-1899 'Read Goethe's "Maxims in the Wanderjahre". Then we compared several scenes of "Hamlet" in Schlegel's translation with the original. It is generally very close and often ... George Eliot [pseud] Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Maxims, in Wilhelm Meisters Wanderjahre Print : BookManuscript : Unknown1850-1899 'Read Goethe's "Maxims in the Wanderjahre". Then we compared several scenes of "Hamlet" in Schlegel's translation with the original. It is generally very close and often ... George Eliot [pseud] William Shakespeare Hamlet Print : BookManuscript : Unknown1850-1899 'Read Goethe's Maxims in the Wanderjahre. Then we compared several scenes of Hamlet in Schlegel's translation with the original. It is generally very close and often admi... George Eliot [pseud] William Shakespeare Hamlet, translated into German by Schlegel Print : BookManuscript : Unknown1850-1899 'Read Dr Fischer's pamphlet'. George Eliot [pseud] [Dr] Fischer [a pamphlet] Print : PamphletManuscript : Unknown1800-1849 [Marginalia]: substantial annotations on several pages, usually associated with marked passages in the text: eg p. 8 para beginning 'I admit that the existing stock of sp... John Drummond Erskine John Wheatley Remarks on currency and commerce Print : Book1850-1899 'We went in the evening to Gruppe's. He read to us parts of a poem "Ferdusi" still in M.S. which is to be read to the King.' [Prof] Gruppe [Prof.] Gruppe [poem in MS] Manuscript : Sheet1850-1899 'Staid at home this evening and read G's M.S. Book 3. Took a little walk under the Linden and afterwards read Twelfth Night'. George Eliot [pseud] George Henry Lewes book in MS, perhaps his Life of Goethe Manuscript : Unknown, book M.S.1850-1899 'Staid at home this evening and read G's M.S. Book 3. Took a little walk under the Linden and afterwards read Twelfth Night'. George Eliot [pseud] William Shakespeare Twelfth Night Print : BookManuscript : Unknown1850-1899 'Read Hamburgische Briefe at dinner about Voltaire's Merope. Read G's MS. Measure for Measure'. George Eliot [pseud] William Shakespeare Measure for Measure Print : BookManuscript : Unknown1850-1899 'Read Hamburgische Briefe at dinner about Voltaire's Merope. Read G's MS. Measure for Measure'. George Eliot [pseud] unknown Hamburgische Briefe Print : UnknownManuscript : Unknown1850-1899 'Finished the poetry of the West-Ostliche Divan'. George Eliot [pseud] Johann Wolfgang von Goethe West-Ostliche Divan Print : BookManuscript : Unknown1850-1899 'Not well. G began Midsummer Night's Dream. I went to bed early.' George Henry Lewes William Shakespeare A Midsummer Night's Dream Print : BookManuscript : Unknown1850-1899 'Tried reading the 2nd part of Faust aloud, but gave it up, as it was too difficult for G. to follow it rapidly enough. Read a little of Gervinus on Shakespeare, but foun... George Eliot [pseud] Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Faust Print : BookManuscript : Unknown1850-1899 'Tried reading the 2nd part of Faust aloud, but gave it up, as it was too difficult for G. to follow it rapidly enough. Read a little of Gervinus on Shakespeare, but foun... George Eliot [pseud] Adolf Stahr Ein Jahr in Italien Print : BookManuscript : Unknown1850-1899 'Tried reading the 2nd part of Faust aloud, but gave it up, as it was too difficult for G. to follow it rapidly enough. Read a little of Gervinus on Shakespeare, but foun... George Eliot [pseud] Georg Gottfried Gervinus [on Shakespeare] Print : BookManuscript : Unknown1850-1899 'Read the wondrously beautiful "Romische Elegien" again and some of the Venetian epigrams. G. began Winter's Tale'. George Eliot [pseud] Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Romische Elegien Print : BookManuscript : Unknown1850-1899 'Read the wondrously beautiful "Romische Elegien" again and some of the Venetian epigrams. G. began Winter's Tale'. George Eliot [pseud] Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Venetian Epigrams Print : BookManuscript : Unknown1850-1899 'Read the wondrously beautiful "Romische Elegien" again and some of the Venetian epigrams. G. began Winter's Tale'. George Henry Lewes William Shakespeare A Winter's Tale Print : BookManuscript : Unknown1850-1899 'In the evening... read the "Zueignung" to the "Gedichte" and several of the Ballads'. George Eliot [pseud] Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "Zuegnung", "Gedichte", Ballads Print : BookManuscript : Unknown1850-1899 'Read... two first vols. of Vehse. Called at Vehse's for the other volumes'. George Eliot [pseud] Karl Eduard Vehse probably Geschichte der deutschen H?fe seit der Re... Print : BookManuscript : Unknown1850-1899 'I spent the morning reading dramatists, to qualify myself to teach English Literature [...] while in the evening I read Walt Whitman's last book aloud to Alice, thus est... Sir Walter Raleigh [unknown] [dramatists' works] Print : Book1850-1899 'we went to hear the reading of Gruppe's Ferdusi. But the reading was bad and the room insufferably hot. So we came away and read Shakspeare (sic) at home'. George Eliot [Prof] Gruppe Ferdusi Manuscript : UnknownUnknown1850-1899 'we went to hear the reading of Gruppe's Ferdusi. But the reading was bad and the room insufferably hot. So we came away and read Shakspeare (sic) at home'. George Eliot and G.H. Lewes William Shakespeare unknown Print : BookManuscript : Unknown1850-1899 'G. read Richard III'. George Henry Lewes William Shakespeare Richard III Print : BookManuscript : Unknown1850-1899 'In the evening began Macaulay's History of England. Richard III and G's M.S. on Goethe's scientific labours'. George Eliot [pseud] Thomas Babington Macaulay History of England Print : BookManuscript : Unknown1850-1899 'In the evening began Macaulay's History of England. Richard III and G's M.S. on Goethe's scientific labours'. George Eliot [pseud] George Henry Lewes part of the MS of his Life of Goethe Manuscript : Unknown, MS of book1850-1899 'I have read a good many things, a life of Scott, the "Pleasures of Memory" by S. Rogers, Roman History and other things.' Sir Walter Raleigh [unknown] [Roman History] Print : Book1850-1899 'Last night I spent with Charles Strachey; we each had an arm chair with a chair between us to hold books as we passed judgment on them. I am sending you Stevenson's last... Sir Walter Raleigh [unknown] [unknown] Print : Book1900-1945 [Communist activists often displayed hostility to literature, including Willie Gallacher. However his 'hostility to literature abated' in later years and in his later mem... William Gallacher Emily Bronte [unknown] Print : Book1900-1945 [Communist activists often displayed hostility to literature, including Willie Gallacher. However his 'hostility to literature abated' in later years and in his later mem... William Gallacher Anne Bronte [Unknown] Print : Book1850-1899 'Looked through Wraxall's Memoirs'. George Eliot [pseud] Nathaniel Wraxall Historical Memoirs Print : BookManuscript : Unknown1850-1899 'Read G.'s MS. of Friendship between Schiller and Goethe'. George Eliot [pseud] George Henry Lewes MS of his Life of Goethe Manuscript : Unknown, MS of book1850-1899 'In the evening Dessoir came and read Hamlet'. [M.] Dessoir William Shakespeare Hamlet Print : BookManuscript : Unknown1850-1899 'read... Shakspeare's (sic) Venus and Adonis'. George Eliot [pseud] William Shakespeare Venus and Adonis Print : BookManuscript : Unknown1850-1899 'I read Shakspeare's (sic) "Passionate Pilgrim" at breakfast and found a sonnet in which he expresses admiration of Spenser (Sonnet VIII)... I must send word of this to G... George Eliot [pseud] William Shakespeare (and others) The Passionate Pilgrim Print : BookManuscript : Unknown1850-1899 'After dinner read "Two Gentlemen of Verona" and some of the "Sonnets". That play disgusted me more than ever in the final scene where Valentine on Proteus' mere begging ... George Eliot [pseud] William Shakespeare Two Gentlemen of Verona Print : BookManuscript : Unknown1850-1899 'After dinner read "Two Gentlemen of Verona" and some of the "Sonnets". That play disgusted me more than ever in the final scene where Valentine on Proteus' mere begging ... George Eliot [pseud] William Shakespeare Sonnets Print : BookManuscript : Unknown1850-1899 'Read Shakspeare's (sic) Sonnets and part of "Tempest"' George Eliot [pseud] William Shakespeare The Tempest Print : BookManuscript : Unknown1850-1899 'Read "Romeo and Juliet"' George Eliot [pseud] William Shakespeare Romeo and Juliet Print : BookManuscript : Unknown1850-1899 'Read the "Leader" and the "Nibelungen Lied"' George Eliot [pseud] anon Nibelungen Lied Print : BookManuscript : Unknown1850-1899 'Read "Athenaeum"' George Eliot [pseud] [n/a] The Athenaeum Print : Serial / periodicalManuscript : Unknown1850-1899 'Read article on Dryden in W.R. and looked through the "Contemporary Literature"' George Eliot [pseud] [n/a] The Contemporary Literature Print : UnknownManuscript : Unknown1850-1899 'Read article on Dryden in W.R. and looked through the "Contemporary Literature"' George Eliot [pseud] unknown [article on Dryden in W.R. - a periodical?] Print : UnknownManuscript : Unknown1850-1899 'Read Scherr on the Ritterlich-romantische Literatur' George Eliot [pseud] Johannes Scherr [perhaps] Geschichte der englischen Literatur? Print : BookManuscript : Unknown1850-1899 'Began "Reineke Fuchs"' George Eliot [pseud] Johan Wolfgang von Goethe Reineke Fuchs Print : BookManuscript : Unknown1850-1899 'Began Schrader's German Mythology' George Eliot [pseud] Eberhard Schrader [German Mythology] Print : BookManuscript : Unknown1800-1849 [Marginalia]: substantially annotated throughout usually in the form of marks (| or *) in the text, to highlight points or sections of interest - usually points of trans... John Drummond Erskine William Jones Poeseos Asiaticae commentariorum libri sex, cum ap... Print : Book1850-1899 'Read Schrader. Spinoza. Leader and Athenaeum. "Genesis of Science". Gibbon.' George Eliot [pseud.] Herbert Spencer The Genesis of Science Print : BookManuscript : Unknown1850-1899 'Read Henry V and Henry VIII'. George Eliot [pseud.] William Shakespeare Henry V Print : BookManuscript : Unknown1850-1899 'Read Henry V and Henry VIII'. George Eliot [pseud.] William Shakespeare Henry VIII Print : BookManuscript : Unknown1850-1899 'Still feverish and unable to fix my mind steadily on reading or writing. Read the 1st, 2nd and 3rd parts of Henry VI, and began Richard II'. George Eliot [pseud.] William Shakespeare Henry VI, parts 1, 2 and 3 Print : BookManuscript : Unknown1850-1899 'Still feverish and unable to fix my mind steadily on reading or writing. Read the 1st, 2nd and 3rd parts of Henry VI, and began Richard II'. George Eliot [pseud.] William Shakespeare Richard II Print : BookManuscript : Unknown1850-1899 'Began... to read Cumming for article in Westminster'. George Eliot [pseud.] Cumming unknown Print : BookManuscript : Unknown1850-1899 'We are reading in the evenings now, Sydney Smith's letters, Boswell, Whewell's History of Inductive Sciences, the Odyssey and occasionally Heine's Reisebilder. I began t... George Eliot and G.H. Lewes Sydney Smith [Letters] Print : BookManuscript : Unknown1850-1899 'We are reading in the evenings now, Sydney Smith's letters, Boswell, Whewell's History of Inductive Sciences, the Odyssey and occasionally Heine's Reisebilder. I began t... George Eliot and G.H. Lewes James Boswell probably Life of Johnson Print : BookManuscript : Unknown1850-1899 'We are reading in the evenings now, Sydney Smith's letters, Boswell, Whewell's History of Inductive Sciences, the Odyssey and occasionally Heine's Reisebilder. I began t... George Eliot and G.H. Lewes William Whewell History of the Inductive Sciences Print : BookManuscript : Unknown1850-1899 'We are reading in the evenings now, Sydney Smith's letters, Boswell, Whewell's History of Inductive Sciences, the Odyssey and occasionally Heine's Reisebilder. I began t... George Eliot and G.H. Lewes Homer Odyssey Print : BookManuscript : Unknown1850-1899 'We are reading in the evenings now, Sydney Smith's letters, Boswell, Whewell's History of Inductive Sciences, the Odyssey and occasionally Heine's Reisebilder. I began t... George Eliot and G.H. Lewes Heinrich Heine Reisebilder Print : BookManuscript : Unknown1700-1799 [Marginalia]: has a ms annotation (of 4 lines) on each inside cover, one in Latin and one possibly in Persian. These may or may not be related to the text. On various p... John Drummond Erskine Horace Quinti Horatii Flacci opera. Interpretatione et no... Print : Book1850-1899 'We are reading in the evenings now, Sydney Smith's letters, Boswell, Whewell's "History of Inductive Sciences", "the Odyssey" and occasionally Heine's "Reisebilder". I b... George Eliot [pseud] Homer Iliad, book II Print : BookManuscript : Unknown1850-1899 Henry James to Henry James Sr.,11 October 1879: "I sent Alice the other day, unread, a novel (Jacques Vingtras by Jules Valles, the Communist) because Turgenieff has high... Henry James Jules Valles Jacques Vingtras Print : Book1850-1899 Henry James to Grace Norton, 4 January 1879: "Half the human race, certainly every one that one has ever heard of, appears sooner or later to have staid at Fryston (I saw... Henry James Visitors' books Manuscript : Unknown
