√ Century of Experience Evidence Name of Reader / Listener / Reading Group Author of Text Title of Text Form of Text 1850-1899 Henry James to Grace Norton, 4 January 1879: "I am afraid the ancient savagery of the New England clime has come back to you -- as I see nasty hints of it in the American... Henry James American newspaper telegrams Print : Newspaper1850-1899 Henry James to Mrs Henry James Sr., 18 January 1879: "I have just been reading ... [William James's] two articles -- the Brute and Human Intellect and the one in Mind ...... Henry James William James article on "Brute and Human Intellect" Print : Serial / periodical1850-1899 Henry James to Mrs Henry James Sr., 18 January 1879: "I have just been reading ... [William James's] two articles -- the Brute and Human Intellect and the one in Mind ...... Henry James William James article Print : Serial / periodical1850-1899 Henry James to Mrs F. H. Hill, 21 March 1879, on his characterisation of Lord Lambeth in Daisy Miller: "That he says 'I say' rather too many times is very probable (I tho... Henry James Henry James Daisy Miller Print : Book1850-1899 Henry James to W. D. Howells, 7 April 1879: "The amazingly poor little notice of your novel in the last (at least my last) Nation, makes me feel that I must no longer del... Henry James William Dean Howells The Lady of the Aroostook Print : Book1850-1899 Henry James to Mrs Henry James Sr., 8 April 1879: "I have received father's book from Trubner -- but really to read it I must lay it aside till the summer. I have howeve... Henry James Henry James Sr [book] Print : Book1850-1899 Henry James to Henry James Sr., 11 January 1880: "I know there are quite too many 'I's' in my Sainte-Beuve -- they shocked me very much when I saw it in print, and they w... Henry James Henry James review of Correspondence de C. A. Sainte-Beuve Print : Serial / periodical1850-1899 Henry James to William Dean Howells, 18 April 1880: "I read your current novel with pleasure, but I don't think the subject fruitful, and I suspect that much of the publi... Henry James Wiliam Dean Howells The Undiscovered Country Print : Unknown1900-1945 '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 Lord Byron Don Juan Print : Book1850-1899 Henry James to Mrs Henry James Sr., 20 July 1880: "This letter is of course addressed equally to father and you, but you must thank him none the less ... for the glowing ... Henry James unknown [extracted texts] Print : Unknown1850-1899 Henry James to Wiliam Dean Howells, 20 July 1880; "I am much obliged to you for the pretty volume of the Undiscovered, which I immediately read with greater comfort and c... Henry James William Dean Howells The Undiscovered Country Print : Book1850-1899 Henry James to Grace Norton, 26 July 1880: "One of my latest sensations was going one day to Lady Airlie's to hear Browning read his own poems ... He read them as if he h... Robert Browning Robert Browning poems Unknown 1850-1899 Henry James to Grace Norton, 26 July 1880: "I read in theTimes that you are roasting alive in the U.S.A. ..." Henry James The Times Print : Newspaper1700-1799 Robert Southey to Grosvenor Charles Bedford, 14-18 October 1793: 'I copied these four lines from the hospital at Reading
{Aye whose hours exempt from sorrow flow
{Beh... Robert Southey anon [lines at the Hospital in Reading] Print : Unknown1850-1899 Henry James to Mrs Henry James Sr., 16 March 1881: "I have of course read Grant Allen in the March Atlantic and think it seems prettily enough argued." Henry James Grant Allen article (?in response to work by William James) Print : Serial / periodical1850-1899 Henry James to William Dean Howells, 4 October 1881, on Howells's new story, Dr Breen's Practice: "I won't forego the pleasure of letting you know ... what satisfaction t... Henry James Wiliam Dean Howells Dr. Breen's Practice Print : Serial / periodical1850-1899 Leon Edel notes: "In the weeks after his mother's death H[enry]J[ames] converted 'Daisy Miler' into a play, and before sailing read it to Mrs. [Isabella Stewart]Gardner."... Henry James Henry James Daisy Miller Unknown 1850-1899 Henry James to William Dean Howells, 27 November 1882: "I see in the last Academy that you have never seen the magazine [containing Howells's praise of Henry James; not c... Henry James The Academy Print : Serial / periodical1850-1899 Henry James to William Dean Howells, 27 November 1882: "Of the articles in the Saturday Review and Punam's Monthly [apparently concerning James and Howells's controversia... Henry James The Saturday Review Print : Serial / periodical1850-1899 Henry James to William James, 1 January 1883, on having received William's farewell letter to their father too late for Henry James Sr to see it before he died: "I went o... Henry James William James letter to Henry James Sr Manuscript : Letter1850-1899 Henry James to G. W. Smalley, 21 February 1883: "I have just been reading in the Tribune your letter of Jan. 25, in which you devote a few lines to the silly article in t... Henry James G. W. Smalley article on American novels Print : Serial / periodical1850-1899 Henry James to George Pellew, 23 June 1883: 'I found your thin red book [on Jane Austen] on my table when I came in late last night. I read it this morning before I left... Henry James George Pellew dissertation on Jane Austen's novels Print : Book1700-1799 [Marginalia]: two ms notes, one opp. to: "Joannes Marshall scripsit hunc librum./ Incepi scribere hunc librum duodecimo die Aprilis 1729. Finivi librum nonodecimo die Jun... David Marshall Andrew Birnie of Saline A compend or abreviat of the most important ordina... Print : Book1800-1849 'The Dr [Brewster] stopped to tell me that he had got a paper on Chemistry written (in French) by Berzelius, professor of that science in Stockholm - which was to be publ... Thomas Carlyle Baron Jacob Berzelius Examination of some compounds which depend upon ve... Manuscript : Sheet1700-1799 'I was reading Derham's Astro, not his Astro, his Physico Theology; and can hardly help laughing when I see these simple Philosophers praising God Almighty for making the... Hester Lynch Thrale William Derham Physico-Theology, or, A Demonstration of the Being... Print : Book1700-1799 'Mr James brought me some pretty Verses about Melancholy written by a Boy; Mr James tasting Verses in praise of Melancholy seems odd enough, as he is a merry Mortal, and ... Hester Lynch Thrale 'To Melancholy' Manuscript : Unknown1700-1799 'Doctor Harrington told Seward, who told me; that Swift had taken his Tale of a Tub from Pallavicini upon Divorces, I always thought it was borrowed from "les trois Annea... Hester Lynch Thrale Jonathan Swift Tale of a Tub, A Print : Book1700-1799 'I must write out Johnson's Latin Version of the Messiah from Pope, I obtained the Copy of a Clergyman here, one Mr Graves, who wrote the Spiritual Quixote'. [the Latin v... Hester Lynch Thrale Samuel Johnson [translation into Latin of Pope's 'Messiah'] Manuscript : Unknown1700-1799 'At the corner of Hanging Bridge, near Old Churchyard, was a bookshop kept by one Swindells, a printer. In the spacious windows of this shop? were exhibited numerous song... Samuel Bamford anon Histories of Jack the Giant Killer Print : Book1700-1799 'At the corner of Hanging Bridge, near Old Churchyard, was a bookshop kept by one Swindells, a printer. In the spacious windows of this shop? were exhibited numerous song... Samuel Bamford anon Saint George and the Dragon Print : Book1700-1799 'At the corner of Hanging Bridge, near Old Churchyard, was a bookshop kept by one Swindells, a printer. In the spacious windows of this shop? were exhibited numerous song... Samuel Bamford anon Tom Hickathrift Print : Book1700-1799 'At the corner of Hanging Bridge, near Old Churchyard, was a bookshop kept by one Swindells, a printer. In the spacious windows of this shop? were exhibited numerous song... Samuel Bamford anon Jack and the Bean Stalk Print : Book1700-1799 'At the corner of Hanging Bridge, near Old Churchyard, was a bookshop kept by one Swindells, a printer. In the spacious windows of this shop? were exhibited numerous song... Samuel Bamford anon History of the Seven Champions Print : Book1700-1799 'At the corner of Hanging Bridge, near Old Churchyard, was a bookshop kept by one Swindells, a printer. In the spacious windows of this shop? were exhibited numerous song... Samuel Bamford anon Fair Rosamond Print : Book1700-1799 'At the corner of Hanging Bridge, near Old Churchyard, was a bookshop kept by one Swindells, a printer. In the spacious windows of this shop? were exhibited numerous song... Samuel Bamford anon History of Friar Bacon Print : Book1700-1799 'At the corner of Hanging Bridge, near Old Churchyard, was a bookshop kept by one Swindells, a printer. In the spacious windows of this shop? were exhibited numerous song... Samuel Bamford anon Account of the Lancashire witches Print : Book1700-1799 'At the corner of Hanging Bridge, near Old Churchyard, was a bookshop kept by one Swindells, a printer. In the spacious windows of this shop? were exhibited numerous song... Samuel Bamford anon The witches of the woodlands Print : Book1700-1799 'At the corner of Hanging Bridge, near Old Churchyard, was a bookshop kept by one Swindells, a printer. In the spacious windows of this shop? were exhibited numerous song... Samuel Bamford anon Robin Hood's Songs Print : Book, Broadsheet1700-1799 'At the corner of Hanging Bridge, near Old Churchyard, was a bookshop kept by one Swindells, a printer. In the spacious windows of this shop? were exhibited numerous song... Samuel Bamford anon The Ballad of Chevy Chase Print : Book, Broadsheet1700-1799 ?At length, "Robinson Crusoe" ? that ever-exciting day dream of boys ? fell in our way. I read it to him, as I had done the others, and for a long time both Sam?s ideas a... Samuel Bamford Daniel Defoe Robinson Crusoe Print : Book1800-1849 '...with the exception of Bible lessons at Sunday school, all my reading was done at home, after the daily task was finished. When not strongly tempted to play I was almo... Samuel Bamford John Wesley Journals Print : Book1800-1849 '? with the exception of Bible lessons at Sunday school, all my reading was done at home, after the daily task was finished. When not strongly tempted to play I was almos... Samuel Bamford [n/a] The Armenian Magazine Print : Serial / periodical1800-1849 '? with the exception of Bible lessons at Sunday school, all my reading was done at home, after the daily task was finished. When not strongly tempted to play I was almos... Samuel Bamford anon An account of the Inquisition in Spain Print : Book1800-1849 '? with the exception of Bible lessons at Sunday school, all my reading was done at home, after the daily task was finished. When not strongly tempted to play I was almos... Samuel Bamford anon The Drummer of Tedworth Print : Unknown1800-1849 '? with the exception of Bible lessons at Sunday school, all my reading was done at home, after the daily task was finished. When not strongly tempted to play I was almos... Samuel Bamford anon Some account of the disturbances at Glenluce Print : Unknown1800-1849 '? with the exception of Bible lessons at Sunday school, all my reading was done at home, after the daily task was finished. When not strongly tempted to play I was almos... Samuel Bamford anon An account of the Apparition of the Laird of Cool Print : Unknown1800-1849 '? with the exception of Bible lessons at Sunday school, all my reading was done at home, after the daily task was finished. When not strongly tempted to play I was almos... Samuel Bamford [unknown] The History of England Print : Book1800-1849 ?About this time I was delighted by the acquisition of two books, the existence of which, until then, had been unknown to me. One was the second volume of Homer?s "Iliad"... Samuel Bamford Homer Iliad Print : Book1800-1849 ?About this time I was delighted by the acquisition of two books, the existence of which, until then, had been unknown to me. One was the second volume of Homer?s "Iliad"... Samuel Bamford John Milton [miscellaneous poems] Print : Book1800-1849 ?Whilst in Mr W?s employ, I combined my poetic readings at all leisure moments. I procured and read speedily a complete "Iliad" in English. Some of Shakespeare?s works ha... Samuel Bamford Homer Iliad Print : Book1800-1849 ?Whilst in Mr W?s employ, I combined my poetic readings at all leisure moments. I procured and read speedily a complete "Iliad" in English. Some of Shakespeare?s works ha... Samuel Bamford William Shakespeare [works] Print : Book1800-1849 ?Milton?s miscellaneous works were still my favourites. I copied many of his poems into a writing book, and this I did, not only an account of the pleasure which I felt i... Samuel Bamford John Milton [miscellaneous works] Print : Book1800-1849 ?Milton?s miscellaneous works were still my favourites. I copied many of his poems into a writing book, and this I did, not only an account of the pleasure which I felt i... Samuel Bamford Virgil Aeneid Print : Book1800-1849 'With respect to my occupations at this period; they are not of the most important nature. Berzelius' paper is printed - I was this day correcting the proof-sheet-. The... Thomas Carlyle Baron Jacob Berzelius Examination of some compounds which depend upon ve... Print : Proof-sheet1800-1849 'At present, I am reading a stupid play of Kotzebue's - but to-night I am to have the history of Frederick the Great from Irving. I will make an affu' struggle to read a... Thomas Carlyle August Friedrich Ferdinand von Kotzebue Unknown Print : Book1700-1799 'I was reading to the Girls to day More's Acct of The King of Prussia's Severity to his favourite Valet who unable to endure it, shot himself' [there follows a long accou... Hester Lynch Thrale John Moore View of Society and Manners in France, Switzerland... Print : Book1800-1849 'I am rather afraid that I have not been quite regular in reading that best of books which you recommended to me. However last night I was reading upon my favourite Job;... Thomas Carlyle Book of Job Print : BookManuscript : Letter1800-1849 'You are not to think that I am fretful. I have long accustomed my mind to look upon the future with a sedate aspect; and at any rate, my hopes have never yet failed me.... Thomas Carlyle Jean le Rond D'Alembert Unknown Print : Unknown1850-1899 'In reference to 'N.A.'s' notes on young Rob Roy, I should like to ask the writer if he will kindly inform us what authority he has for understanding so much in his notes... Robert Louis Stevenson N. A. 'Young Rob Roy' in Stirling Observer Print : Newspaper1700-1799 'I walked into Robson's Shop the other day, and seeing a very fine Virgil was tempted to open it with something of Superstitious Intention by way of trying the "Sortes Vi... Hester Lynch Thrale Virgil Aeneid Print : Book1800-1849 ?As spring and autumn were our only really busy seasons, I had occasionally , during other parts of the year, considerable leisure, which, if I could procure a book that ... Samuel Bamford William Robertson History of Scotland Print : Book1800-1849 ?As spring and autumn were our only really busy seasons, I had occasionally , during other parts of the year, considerable leisure, which, if I could procure a book that ... Samuel Bamford Oliver Goldsmith History of England Print : Book1800-1849 ?As spring and autumn were our only really busy seasons, I had occasionally , during other parts of the year, considerable leisure, which, if I could procure a book that ... Samuel Bamford Charles Rollin Ancient history Print : Book1800-1849 ?As spring and autumn were our only really busy seasons, I had occasionally , during other parts of the year, considerable leisure, which, if I could procure a book that ... Samuel Bamford David Hume Decline and fall of the Roman empire Print : Book1800-1849 ?As spring and autumn were our only really busy seasons, I had occasionally , during other parts of the year, considerable leisure, which, if I could procure a book that ... Samuel Bamford Anachaises Travels in Greece Print : Book1800-1849 '... I also enlarged my acquaintance with English literature, read Johnson's "Lives of the Poets", and, as a consequence, many of their productions also. Macpherson's "Os... Samuel Bamford Samuel Johnson Lives of the poets Print : Book1800-1849 '... I also enlarged my acquaintance with English literature, read Johnson's "Lives of the Poets", and, as a consequence, many of their productions also. Macpherson's "Os... Samuel Bamford James Macpherson Ossian Print : Book1800-1849 '... I also enlarged my acquaintance with English literature, read Johnson's "Lives of the Poets", and, as a consequence, many of their productions also. Macpherson's "Os... Samuel Bamford Lindley Murray Murray's Grammar Print : Book1800-1849 ?A publication of a different description also fell in my way. Mr Hale was a reader of "Cobbett?s Weekly Register", and as I constantly saw the tract lying on the desk at... Samuel Bamford William Cobbett Cobbett's Weekly Register Print : Newspaper, Serial / periodical1700-1799 [Marginalia]: Three entries (Perth, Haddington and Fife & Kinross) have been annotated with some extra information ex. from the Perth entry 'At a small village calld [sic... Francis Wemyss Mostyn John Armstrong Scotch Atlas; or description of the kingdom of Sco... Print : Book1800-1849 'I know not if there be a Goddess of Sloth - tho' considering that this of all our passions is the least turbulent and most victorious, it could not without partiality be... Thomas Carlyle Lady Sidney Owenson Morgan France Print : Book1800-1849 [Adams's grandmother?s nephew sent newspapers to her on weekly basis, first the Weekly Dispatch; this was in time replaced with The Examiner.]
?The substitution of the... William Edwin Adams [n/a] Weekly Dispatch Print : Newspaper1800-1849 [Adams's grandmother?s nephew sent newspapers to her on weekly basis, first the 'Weekly Dispatch'; this was in time replaced with 'The Examiner'.]
?The substitution of... William Edwin Adams [n/a] The Examiner Print : Newspaper1800-1849 ?There was and is so judicious a blending of light and heavy literature in "Chambers?s Journal" that their periodical has helped to educate, inform and entertain many gen... William Edwin Adams [n/a] Chambers's Journal Print : Serial / periodical1800-1849 ?There was and is so judicious a blending of light and heavy literature in "Chambers?s Journal" that their periodical has helped to educate, inform and entertain many gen... William Edwin Adams Charles Knight Penny Magazine Print : Serial / periodical1800-1849 ?There was and is so judicious a blending of light and heavy literature in "Chambers?s Journal" that their periodical has helped to educate, inform and entertain many gen... William Edwin Adams [n/a] Family Herald Print : Serial / periodical1800-1849 ?There was and is so judicious a blending of light and heavy literature in "Chambers?s Journal" that their periodical has helped to educate, inform and entertain many gen... William Edwin Adams G.W.M. Reynolds Reynolds's Miscellany Print : Serial / periodical1800-1849 ?Excepting "Pilgrim?s Progress", "Gulliver?s Travels" and the "Arabian Nights", I saw and read none of the books which entrance young minds. The religious meaning of the ... William Edwin Adams John Bunyan Pilgrim's Progress Print : Book1800-1849 ?Excepting "Pilgrim?s Progress", "Gulliver?s Travels" and the "Arabian Nights", I saw and read none of the books which entrance young minds. The religious meaning of the ... William Edwin Adams Jonathan Swift Gulliver's Travels Print : Book1800-1849 ?Excepting "Pilgrim?s Progress", "Gulliver?s Travels" and the "Arabian Nights", I saw and read none of the books which entrance young minds. The religious meaning of the ... William Edwin Adams anon Arabian Nights Print : Book1800-1849 ?Great was our delight, too, when chance opportunities came in the way of such of us as could read. An opportunity of this kind arrived when a firm of printers in London... William Edwin Adams William Shakespeare [plays] Print : Book1800-1849 ?A situation as an errand boy at a bookseller?s was then found for me. A circulating library was attached to the business. My duties were to clean books and knives and br... William Edwin Adams Eliot Warburton Crescent and the Cross Print : Book1800-1849 ?A situation as an errand boy at a bookseller?s was then found for me. A circulating library was attached to the business. My duties were to clean books and knives and br... William Edwin Adams Alfred, Lord Tennyson [poems] Print : Book1800-1849 ?One Sunday afternoon, the usual call was made for our ramble in the fields. Word was sent to the callers that their old companion was not going to join them. I heard fro... William Edwin Adams Edward Young The Complaint: or night thoughts Print : Book1800-1849 ?If I did not at that time educate myself, I at least did the next best thing. I tried to. English was picked up from Cobbett; the lessons in Cassell?s "Popular Educator"... William Edwin Adams John Cobbett Cobbett's Grammar Print : Book1800-1849 ?If I did not at that time educate myself, I at least did the next best thing. I tried to. English was picked up from Cobbett; the lessons in Cassell?s "Popular Educator"... William Edwin Adams John Cassell Popular Educator Print : Newspaper1800-1849 ?? the shining events in Paris and the newer literature that began to be issued saw the young men of my age wild with excitement and enthusiasm. I had previously read the... William Edwin Adams Thomas Paine The Rights of Man Print : Book1800-1849 'Another Sunday recollection is that of a Sunday morning gathering in a humble
kitchen. Larry [a crippled shoemaker] made his appearance every Sunday morning,
as regu... [n/a] Northern Star Print : Newspaper1800-1849 ?His [James Watson?s] mother, who was left a widow soon after he was born, obtained a situation at the parsonage, where she read Cobbett?s "Register" and "saw nothing bad... James Watson William Cobbett Political Register Print : Serial / periodical1800-1849 ?His [James Watson?s] mother, who was left a widow soon after he was born, obtained a situation at the parsonage, where she read Cobbett?s "Register" and "saw nothing bad... James Watson Thomas Jonathan Wooler Black Dwarf Print : Serial / periodical1800-1849 ?[James Watson?s] mother, who was left a widow soon after he was born, obtained a situation at the parsonage, where she read Cobbett?s "Register" and "saw nothing bad in ... James Watson Richard Carlile Republican Print : Newspaper, Serial / periodical1800-1849 ?[James Watson?s] mother, who was left a widow soon after he was born, obtained a situation at the parsonage, where she read Cobbett?s "Register" and "saw nothing bad in ... Mrs Watson William Cobbett Political Register Print : Newspaper, Serial / periodical1850-1899 ?The "Morning Star" was at that time the leading Radical daily in London ? almost the only Radical daily, indeed. It was my custom every morning (Sundays excepted, of cou... William Edwin Adams [n/a] Morning Star Print : Newspaper1850-1899 ?We even formed a magazine club ? purchasing periodicals, reading them in turn, and then distributing them among the members. Thackeray?s "Virginians" and Dickens?s "Litt... William Adams and colleagues at the office of the 'Illustrated Times' William Thackeray Virginians Print : Serial / periodical1850-1899 ?We even formed a magazine club ? purchasing periodicals, reading them in turn, and then distributing them among the members. Thackeray?s "Virginians" and Dickens?s "Litt... William Adams and colleagues at the office of the 'Illustrated Times' Charles Dickens Little Dorritt Print : Serial / periodical1700-1799 'I cannot remember learning the Alphabet but when I was four years of age or there about my Godmother presented me with a new book it was the reading made easy it had/man... Joseph Mayett anon Reading made easy in a variety of useful lessons Print : Book1700-1799 ?My Godmother sone [sic] provided me a testament but my mother not being able to Read the first Chapter of St Matthews Gospel I began the second and read it through as we... Joseph Mayett [n/a] Bible Print : Book1700-1799 ?I made very little progress in learning until the year 1794 only my mother borrowed the pilgrim?s progress and Doctor Watts hymns for me and told me the meaning of them ... Joseph Mayett John Bunyan Pilgrim's Progress Print : Book1700-1799 ?I made very little progress in learning until the year 1794 only my mother borrowed the pilgrim?s progress and Doctor Watts hymns for me and told me the meaning of them ... Joseph Mayett Dr Watts Hymns Print : Book1700-1799 ?during this winter I practised rather more than I had done before for the last two years for my master used to Read himself and make all as Could in the family on a Saba... Joseph Mayett [unknown] [religious books] Print : Book1700-1799 ?[my master] also was a good scholar and took great pains to teach me in reading and here I made a Considerable progress in reading for although I had heedlessly neglecte... Joseph Mayett [unknown] [various] Print : Book1700-1799 ?on the Thursday evening following I went to my fathers to the meeting with an intention to stay out all night with a person that was not of very good Character so I went... Joseph Mayett John Rippon A Selection of Hymns from the Best Authors Includi... Print : Book1800-1849 'I left off swearing and prodigality and took to reading my Bible and attending divine workship and in doing this I laid hold of some of the promises of the gospel and ap... Joseph Mayett [n/a] Bible Print : Book1800-1849 ?here I was stationed in a half Room that is half the men of our Company, and half of another Company and there was a man whose name was Samuel winwright a man of the oth... Joseph Mayett [unknown] [unknown] Print : Unknown1700-1799 ?I Remembered when I was about 8 or 9 years of age my mother had been Correcting me for something I had done wrong and I thought I would be revenged on her I had been rea... Joseph Mayett [n/a] Bible Print : Book1700-1799 'She [his aunt] did not allow me to be idle, but alternately employed me in helping to knit stockings and in reading. While I was unemployed I found a never-failing sourc... Thomas Carter [n/a] Bible Print : Book1700-1799 'Here I also met with some books of a higher order, but which were then far beyond any comprehension. Among these were Hervey's "Meditations", "The Pilgrim's Progress", a... Thomas Carter [n/a] Bible Print : Book1700-1799 'Here I also met with some books of a higher order, but which were then far beyond any comprehension. Among these were Hervey's "Meditations", "The Pilgrim's Progress", a... Thomas Carter John Bunyan Pilgrim's Progress Print : Book1700-1799 'Here I also met with some books of a higher order, but which were then far beyond any comprehension. Among these were Hervey's "Meditations", "The Pilgrim's Progress", a... Thomas Carter James Hervey Meditations among the tombs; in a letter to a lady Print : Book1700-1799 'About this time I also gained the good-will of an aged woman who sold cakes, sweetmeals, and fruit, and was moreover a dealer in little books...I had even then a taste f... Thomas Carter [unknown] [stories] Print : Book1700-1799 'In this way I beguiled many a tedious hour at the time I am now referring to, and also during several years following, towards the close of which I thus contrived to rea... Thomas Carter Daniel Defoe Robinson Crusoe Print : Book1700-1799 'In this way I beguiled many a tedious hour at the time I am now referring to, and also during several years following, towards the close of which I thus contrived to rea... Thomas Carter [unknown] History of England Print : Book1800-1849 'What I thus learned was, I think, much enforced by the perusal of that well-known little book, Watt's "Divine and Moral Songs", which I read with so much interest as to ... Thomas Carter Isaac Watts Divine and Moral Songs Print : Book1700-1799 'Among these books was a brief abstract of that amusing story "Robinson Crusoe", which I read with much eagerness and satisfaction. I only regretted its brevity, for I be... Thomas Carter Daniel Defoe Robinson Crusoe Print : Book1700-1799 'Another book which thus came in my way was Mrs Barbauld's "Hymns for Children" which I soon perceived to be exactly suited both to my taste and my capacity. Here I met w... Thomas Carter Anna Letitia Barbauld Hymns in Prose for Children Print : Book1700-1799 'It was about this time that I first met with Milton's "Paradise Lost", in a thick volume with engravings and copious notes, probably a copy of Bishop Newton's edition of... Thomas Carter John Milton Paradise Lost Print : Book1800-1849 Carter describes exam he was forced to undertake to be admitted to the school which was supported by a congregation of Protestant Dissenters: 'it was required of the appl... Thomas Carter [n/a] New Testament Print : Book1800-1849 'A little before this time I had been reading that entertaining little volume, Miss Taylor's "Original Poems for Children", one of which, "The Truant Boys", had particula... Thomas Carter Anne Taylor Original Poems for Infant Minds Print : Book1800-1849 'Once in each week we were required to commit to memory a rather large portion of "The Assembly's Catechism": this for a time gave me some trouble, which put me upon maki... Thomas Carter [unknown] The Assembly's Catechism Print : Book1800-1849 'On my asking him he [the schoolmaster] readily granted my request, nor did he ever revoke his grant: the books were chiefly old and odd volumes of the "Arminian" and the... Thomas Carter [n/a] Arminian Magazine Print : Serial / periodical1800-1849 'On my asking him he [the schoolmaster] readily granted my request, nor did he ever revoke his grant: the books were chiefly old and odd volumes of the "Arminian" and the... Thomas Carter [n/a] Gentleman's Magazine Print : Serial / periodical1800-1849 'Of grammar neither myself nor my schoolfellows were taught aything, except to repeat by rote the brief grammatical exercises contained in the "Universal Spelling Book", ... Thomas Carter Daniel Fenning The Universal Spelling Book Print : Book1800-1849 'I had been made the more anxious to get some spare time, because several books which I had not before seen now fell in my way. This was through the courtesy of my young ... Thomas Carter William Enfield The Speaker Print : Book1800-1849 'I had been made the more anxious to get some spare time, because several books which I had not before seen now fall in my way. This was through the courtesy of my young ... Thomas Carter Sir Richard Phillips Geography Print : Book1800-1849 'I had been made the more anxious to get some spare time, because several books which I had not before seen now fall in my way. This was through the courtesy of my young ... Thomas Carter [unknown] History of England Print : Book1800-1849 'I had been made the more anxious to get some spare time, because several books which I had not before seen now fell in my way. This was through the courtesy of my young ... Thomas Carter [unknown] History of Rome Print : Book1800-1849 'I had been made the more anxious to get some spare time, because several books which I had not before seen now fell in my way. This was through the courtesy of my young ... Thomas Carter James Thomson The Seasons Print : Book1800-1849 'I had been made the more anxious to get some spare time, because several books which I had not before seen now fell in my way. This was through the courtesy of my young ... Thomas Carter Oliver Goldsmith Citizen of the World, The Print : Book1800-1849 'I had been made the more anxious to get some spare time, because several books which I had not before seen now fell in my way. This was through the courtesy of my young ... Thomas Carter Oliver Goldsmith Vicar of Wakefield, The Print : Book1800-1849 'I pursued each of them with much interest, but especially the "Seasons". I found this to be just the book I had wanted. It commended itself to my warmest approbation, im... Thomas Carter James Thomson Seasons, The Print : Book1800-1849 'I must now mention some other books which about this time fell in my way. Among these an odd volume of the "Spectator" deserves particular notice. Where it came from or ... Thomas Carter [n/a] Spectator, The Print : Serial / periodical1800-1849 'My master - in conjunction with some friends - began to take in a newspaper, called, if I remember rightly, "Lloyd's Evening Post", and at this I sometimes got a hasty p... Thomas Carter [n/a] Lloyd's Evening Post Print : Serial / periodical1800-1849 'Somewhere about this time I met with a volume to which I am much indebted. This was a copy of Simpson's "Plea for Religion and the Sacred Writings" - concerning which I ... Thomas Carter David Simpson A Plea for Religion and the Sacred Writings Print : Book1800-1849 'Nor must I omit to mention the obligations I owe to some essays written by the late Rev. Thomas Scott and which were given me by my master. I do not remember their exact... Thomas Carter Rev. Thomas Scott [various essays] Print : Book1850-1899 'Headache. Read Lucrezia Floriani. We are reading White's History of Selborne in the evening'. George Eliot and G.H. Lewes Gilbert White The Natural History of Selborne Print : Book1850-1899 'We are reading Wallenstein and Schwann in the evenings'. George Eliot and G.H. Lewes Theodor (?) Schwann unknown Print : Book1850-1899 'We are reading Wallenstein and Schwann in the evenings'. George Eliot and G.H. Lewes S.T. Coleridge Wallenstein Print : Book1850-1899 'We are reading Gall's Anatomie et Physiologie du Cerveau in the evening, with, occasionally, Carpenter's Comparative Physiology. The Newcomes as light fare after dinner'... George Eliot and G.H. Lewes Franz Joseph Gall Anatomie et Physiologie du Cerveau Print : Book1850-1899 'We are reading Gall's Anatomie et Physiologie du Cerveau in the evening, with, occasionally, Carpenter's Comparative Physiology. The Newcomes as light fare after dinner' George Eliot and G.H. Lewes William Benjamin Carpenter Principles of General and Comparative Physiology Print : Book1850-1899 'We are reading Gall's Anatomie et Physiologie du Cerveau in the evening, with, occasionally, Carpenter's Comparative Physiology. The Newcomes as light fare after dinner'... George Eliot and G.H. Lewes William Makepeace Thackeray The Newcomes Print : Book1850-1899 'We have been reading Longfellow's Hiawatha'. George Eliot and G.H. Lewes Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Hiawatha Print : Book1850-1899 'Began the Antigone, read Von Bohlen on Genesis, and Swedenborg'. George Eliot [pseud.] Sophocles Antigone Print : Book1850-1899 'Began the Antigone, read Von Bohlen on Genesis, and Swedenborg'. George Eliot [pseud.] P. von Bohlen Genesis Print : Book1850-1899 'Began the Antigone, read Von Bohlen on Genesis, and Swedenborg'. George Eliot [pseud.] Emanuel Swedenborg unknown Print : Book1850-1899 'Read the Shaving of Shagpat'. George Eliot [pseud.] George Meredith The Shaving of Shagpat: An Arabian Entertainment Print : Book1850-1899 'Read Kingsley's Greek Heroes'. George Eliot [pseud.] Charles Kingsley The Greek Heroes Print : Book1850-1899 'finished Kahnis' History of German Protestantism'. George Eliot [pseud.] Karl Friedrich August Kahnis [history of German Protestantism - title unclear] Print : Book1850-1899 'Began to read Riehl, on which I am to write an article for the Westminster'. George Eliot [pseud.] William Heinrich (?) Riehl unknown Print : Book1850-1899 'In the evenings I have been reading Masson's Essays - "The Three Devils" and Chatterton's Life - and this evening I have read some of Trench's Calderon'. George Eliot [pseud.] David Masson [essay on the Life of Chatterton] Print : Unknown1850-1899 'In the evenings I have been reading Masson's Essays - "The Three Devils" and Chatterton's Life - and this evening I have read some of Trench's Calderon'. George Eliot [pseud] David Masson 'The Three Devils' Print : Unknown, probably inbook publ. 18561850-1899 'In the evenings I have been reading Masson's Essays - "The Three Devils" and Chatterton's Life - and this evening I have read some of Trench's Calderon'. George Eliot [pseud.] Richard Chenevix Trench An essay on the life and genius of Calder?n,: With... Print : Book1850-1899 'I am reading in the evenings the Memoirs of Beaumarchais and Milne Edwards's Zoology'. George Eliot [pseud] Pierre Beaumarchais M?moires contre Goezman Print : Book1850-1899 'I am reading in the evenings the Memoirs of Beaumarchais and Milne Edwards's Zoology'. George Eliot [pseud] Henri Milne-Edwards [work on Zoology] Print : Book1800-1849 [Marginalia]|: 7pp (6 ink, 1 pencil) of ms notes of journeys (all in south of England or Wales) in the blank pages following the end of the text, in a standard format eg:... John Cary Cary's New itinerary: or an accurate delineation o... Print : Book1850-1899 'I have continued reading Milne-Edwards aloud, and have also read Harriet Martineau's article on Missions in the "Westminster", and one or two articles in the "National".... George Eliot (pseud) Henri Milne-Edwards [work on Zoology] Print : Book1850-1899 'I have continued reading Milne-Edwards aloud, and have also read Harriet Martineau's article on Missions in the "Westminster", and one or two articles in the "National".... George Eliot (pseud) Harriet Martineau [article on Missions in the Westminster Review] Print : Serial / periodical1850-1899 'I have continued reading Milne-Edwards aloud, and have also read Harriet Martineau's article on Missions in the "Westminster", and one or two articles in the "National".... George Eliot (pseud) various [articles in the National] Print : Serial / periodical1850-1899 'I have continued reading Milne-Edwards aloud, and have also read Harriet Martineau's article on Missions in the "Westminster", and one or two articles in the "National".... George Eliot (pseud) W.H. Harvey The Sea-side Book Print : Book1850-1899 'I have continued reading Milne-Edwards aloud, and have also read Harriet Martineau's article on Missions in the "Westminster", and one or two articles in the "National".... George Eliot (pseud) unknown The Lover's Seat Print : Book1850-1899 'have now taken up Quatrefages again.' George Eliot (pseud) Jean Louis Armand de Quatrefages de Breau [zoology] Print : Book1850-1899 'Finished Cesar Birotteau aloud.' George Eliot (pseud) Honore de Balzac The Rise and Fall of Cesar Birotteau Print : Book1850-1899 'Began the "Ajax" of Sophocles. Also Miss Martineau's "History of the Peace."' George Eliot [pseud] Sophocles Ajax Print : Book1850-1899 'Began the Ajax of Sophocles. Also Miss Martineau's History of the Peace' George Eliot [pseud] Harriet Martineau History of the Peace: Being a History of England f... Print : Book1900-1945 '[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 Walter Raleigh Wordsworth Print : Book1850-1899 'Reading Burke's "Reflections on French Revolution" and "Mansfield Park" in the evenings.' George Eliot [pseud] Edmund Burke Reflections on the Revolution in France Print : Book1850-1899 'Reading Burke's "Reflections on French Revolution" and "Mansfield Park" in the evenings.' George Eliot [pseud] Jane Austen Mansfield Park Print : Book1850-1899 'I wrote to Sara, also, this morning telling her my impressions from her book just published - "Christianity and Infidelity".' George Eliot (pseud) Sara Hennell Christianity and Infidelity Print : Book1850-1899 'we spent the evening pleasantly, in spite of ailing bodies, reading Mrs Gaskell's pretty "Cranford".' George Eliot and G.H. Lewes Elizabeth Gaskell Cranford Print : Book1850-1899 'Reading, in the evening, "Poor Peter".' George Eliot and G.H. Lewes Elizabeth Gaskell Cranford - 'Poor Peter' section Print : Book1850-1899 'Began "The Scarlet Letter".' George Eliot and G.H. Lewes Nathaniel Hawthorne The Scarlet Letter Print : Book1850-1899 'I began to read Miss Catlow's "Botany".' George Eliot (pseud) Agnes Catlow Popular Field Botany Print : Book1850-1899 'We are reading Carlyle's "Cromwell" and "Aurora Leigh" again in the evenings. I am still in the "Oedipus Tyrannus", with Shelley's Poems and snatches of "Natural History... George Eliot and G.H. Lewes Elizabeth Barrett Browning Aurora Leigh Print : Book1850-1899 'We are reading Carlyle's "Cromwell" and "Aurora Leigh" again in the evenings. I am still in the "Oedipus Tyrannus", with Shelley's Poems and snatches of "Natural History... George Eliot and G.H. Lewes Thomas Carlyle Cromwell Print : Book1850-1899 'We are reading Carlyle's "Cromwell" and "Aurora Leigh" again in the evenings. I am still in the "Oedipus Tyrannus", with Shelley's Poems and snatches of "Natural History... George Eliot (pseud) Sophocles Oedipus Rex Print : Book1850-1899 'We are reading Carlyle's "Cromwell" and "Aurora Leigh" again in the evenings. I am still in the "Oedipus Tyrannus", with Shelley's Poems and snatches of "Natural History... George Eliot (pseud) Percy Bysshe Shelley [Poems] Print : Book1850-1899 'In the evening I began the "Life of Charlotte Bronte" aloud. Deeply interesting.' George Eliot (pseud) Elizabeth Gaskell Life of Charlotte Bronte Print : Book1850-1899 'I have begun Draper's "Physiology", too but rarely have spirit and clearness of brain for it'. George Eliot (pseud) John William Draper Human Physiology Print : Book1850-1899 'read "Emma" in the evening.' George Eliot (pseud) Jane Austen Emma Print : Book1800-1849 '[The Comtesse] has a [italics] library [end italics] of novels - literally; so that I wonder she has not, by filling her head with such a mass of trash, committed half a... Lady [-] unknown [novels] Print : Book1850-1899 'read G. the three first chapters of "Janet's Repentance".' George Eliot (pseud) George Eliot (pseud) Janet's Repentance Manuscript : MS of own work1800-1849 'Now, however, they [workmen] clubbed their pence to pay for a newspaper, and selected the "Weekly Political Register" of that clever man the late William Cobbett. This j... Thomas Carter, tailors, journeymen and apprentices at workshop n/a Courier Print : Newspaper1800-1849 'I have become acquainted with a Mr Cumberland, who must be agreeable, for he has an hereditary right to it. I have been reading his father's life. It explains the story ... Richard Cumberland Memoirs of Richard Cumberland: written by Himself Print : Book1800-1849 'I have become acquainted with a Mr Cumberland, who must be agreeable, for he has an hereditary right to it. I have been reading his father's life. It explains the story ... Richard Cumberland Observer, The: Being a Collection of Moral, Litera... Print : Book1800-1849 'Southey's long epic poem, called "Roderick the Last of the Goths", is the new work. Every one is busy reading it, or sleeping over it'. Robert Southey Roderick: The Last of the Goths Print : Book1800-1849 'Sir H. Davy is going to publish a volume of poetry. I saw one of the poems; it is very abstruse, and metaphysical, on the nature and essence of man, beginning with him a... Humphry Davy unknown Manuscript : Unknown1800-1849 'It was in this state of feeling that I first got hold of a little volume called "The Wreath", containing a collection of poems by various authors. Among these pieces was... Thomas Carter [unknown] The Grave Print : Book1800-1849 [Marginalia]; Several pp of ms notes copied from another related work laid into v.1. Notes are entitled 'Extract from the 1st volume of Voyages et Recherches dans la Grec... John Drummond Erskine Bernard de Montfaucon Antiquity explained, and represented in sculptures... Print : Book1800-1849 [Marginalia]: very brief annotations, bookmarks and marginal marks, indicating active use when on visit to Paris. Also has several tiny samples of fabric pinned into insi... Magdalene Erskine Bernard de Montfaucon Antiquity explained, and represented in sculptures... Print : Book1800-1849 'I have done, as usual, almost nothing since we parted- Some one asked me with a smile, of which I knew not the meaning, if I would read that book, putting into my hands ... Thomas Carlyle Jean-Jacques Rousseau Confessions Print : Book1800-1849 'It was at this time that I read the remaining seven volumes of the "Spectator"; to which I added the "Rambler", the "Tatler", and some others of the "British Essayists".... Thomas Carter [n/a] The Tatler Print : Serial / periodical1800-1849 'It was at this time that I read the remaining seven volumes of the "Spectator"; to which I added the "Rambler", the "Tatler", and some others of the "British Essayists".... Thomas Carter [unknown] [volumes by the British Essayists] Print : Book, Serial / periodical1800-1849 'It was at this time that I read the remaining seven volumes of the "Spectator"; to which I added the "Rambler", the "Tatler", and some others of the "British Essayists".... Thomas Carter John Milton [poems] Print : Book1800-1849 'It was at this time that I read the remaining seven volumes of the "Spectator"; to which I added the "Rambler", the "Tatler", and some others of the "British Essayists".... Thomas Carter Joseph Addison [poems] Print : Book1850-1899 'We have been reading the last two evenings, the Christmas number of "Household Words" - "Perils of Certain English Prisoners" - by Wilkie Collins and Dickens. I am readi... George Eliot (pseud) Wilhelm Heinrich Riehl Die Familie Print : Book1850-1899 'We have been reading the last two evenings, the Christmas number of "Household Words" - "Perils of Certain English Prisoners" - by Wilkie Collins and Dickens. I am readi... George Eliot (pseud) Wilhelm Heinrich Riehl Land Und Volk Print : Book1850-1899 'We have been reading the last two evenings, the Christmas number of "Household Words" - "Perils of Certain English Prisoners" - by Wilkie Collins and Dickens. I am readi... George Eliot (pseud) Wilhelm Heinrich Riehl Die Burgerliche Gesellschaft Print : Book1850-1899 'Read my new story to G. this evening as far as the end of the third chapter. He praised it highly... I am in the Choephorae now. In the evenings we are reading "History ... George Eliot (pseud) George Eliot (pseud.) Adam Bede Manuscript : MS of own novel1800-1849 'In the course of my very desultory readings, I perused "Boswell's Life of Dr Johnson"; which I still consider to be a very amusing and very instructive piece of biograph... Thomas Carter James Boswell The Life of Samuel Johnson Print : Book1800-1849 Mary Berry to Anne Damer, from Nice, January 1803: 'In spite of my headaches yesterday, I contrived to read nearly three volumes of Madame de Stael's Delphine [...] It is... Mary Berry Germaine De Stael Delphine (three volumes) Print : Book1850-1899 'Read my new story to G. this evening as far as the end of the third chapter. He praised it highly... I am in the Choephorae now. In the evenings we are reading "History ... George Eliot (pseud) Aeschlyus Choephorae Print : Book1850-1899 'Read my new story to G. this evening as far as the end of the third chapter. He praised it highly... I am in the Choephorae now. In the evenings we are reading "History ... George Eliot and G.H. Lewes Pierre Jean de Beranger Print : Book1850-1899 'G. returned from Vernon Hill, and I read to him, after the review of my book in the "Times", the delicious scenes at Tetterby's with the "Moloch of a baby" in "the Haunt... George Eliot (pseud) anon. [review of Eliot's book, in "The Times"] Print : Newspaper1850-1899 'G. returned from Vernon Hill, and I read to him, after the review of my book in the "Times", the delicious scenes at Tetterby's with the "Moloch of a baby" in "the Haunt... George Eliot (pseud) Charles Dickens The Haunted Man Print : Unknown, could have been book or serial1850-1899 'I have begun the Eumenides, having finished the Choephorae. We are reading Wordsworth in the evenings - at least G. is reading him to me'. George Eliot (pseud) Aeschlyus Eumenides Print : Book1850-1899 'I have begun the Eumenides, having finished the Choephorae. We are reading Wordsworth in the evenings - at least G. is reading him to me'. George Henry Lewes William Wordsworth Print : Book1800-1849 'About this time I read also the narratives of some eminent navigators and travellers; among the former were those of Cook, P?rouse and Bougainville; of the latter I chie... Thomas Carter James Cook [narratives of voyages] Print : Book1800-1849 'About this time I read also the narratives of some eminent navigators and travellers; among the former were those of Cook, P?rouse and Bougainville; of the latter I chie... Thomas Carter Jean Fran?ois de Galaup La P?rouse [narratives of voyages] Print : Book[Marginalia]: 8 leaves of ms notes, in ink, in French, have been bound in at the beginning of the volume. They consist of an introduction praising those who protect and e... Jeanne-Antoinette Poisson marquise de Pompadour Suite d'estampes gravees par Madame la marquise de... Print : Book1800-1849 'About this time I read also the narratives of some eminent navigators and travellers; among the former were those of Cook, P?rouse and Bougainville; of the latter I chie... Thomas Carter Louis Antoine de Bougainville [narratives of voyages] Print : Book1800-1849 'About this time I read also the narratives of some eminent navigators and travellers; among the former were those of Cook, P?rouse and Bougainville; of the latter I chie... Thomas Carter James Bruce [narratives of travels] Print : Book1700-1799 [Marginalia]: a page of ms notes on the first binding page gives nautical instructions 'The course by the Compass From Buchaness to Fair Isle is NNE or .... Dist. 32 leag... William Ferguson Anon General treatise of naval trade and commerce, as f... Print : Book1800-1849 'About this time I read also the narratives of some eminent navigators and travellers; among the former were those of Cook, P?rouse and Bougainville; of the latter I chie... Thomas Carter Fran?ois Le Vaillant [narratives of travels] Print : Book1800-1849 'About this time I read also the narratives of some eminent navigators and travellers; among the former were those of Cook, P?rouse and Bougainville; of the latter I chie... Thomas Carter Isaac Weld [narratives of travels] Print : Book1800-1849 'While walking to Hampstead, I strayed into a copse not far from my road, where I seated myself upon the trunk of a tree, and read, with no small pleasure, several of the... Thomas Carter Christoph Christian Sturm Reflections on the Works of God and of His Provide... Print : Book1700-1799 [Marginalia]: Some blanks, left by printer, have been completed in either ink or pencil. The data entered covers numbers of crew, dates and costings. There are also copio... Anon Prospectus of a plan for the building and equipmen... Print : Book1850-1899 'Gave up Miss Martineau's "History" last night after reading some hundred pages in the second volume. She has a sentimental, rhetorical style in this history which is fat... George Eliot (pseud) Harriet Martineau History of the Thirty Years Peace Print : Book1850-1899 'G. has finished "the Excursion", which repaid us for going to the end by an occasional fine passage even to the last.' George Henry Lewes William Wordsworth Excursion, The Print : Book1850-1899 'The "Prometheus" in the morning'. George Eliot (pseud) Aeschlyus [?] Prometheus Print : Book1850-1899 'I finished this morning Horace's "Epistle to the Pisos", which I have been reading at intervals.' George Eliot (pseud) Horace The Art of Poetry an Epistle to the Pisos Print : Book1850-1899 'I have begun Carlyle's "Life of Frederic the Great".' George Eliot (pseud) Thomas Carlyle Frederick the Great Print : Book1850-1899 'We are reading Scott's Life in the evenings with much enjoyment.' George Eliot (pseud) and G.H. Lewes J.G. Lockhart (probably) Life of Scott Print : Book1700-1799 Robert Southey to Grosvenor Charles Bedford, 14-18 October 1793: 'In the interim you shall have the remarks that occurrd upon reading Sir Launcelot Greaves on the road. B... Robert Southey Tobias Smollett The Adventures of Humphry Clinker Print : Book1850-1899 'Coming home we saw Erasmus Wilson who had been reading "Hunger and Thirst" and expressed great value for it.' Erasmus Wilson unknown Hunger and Thirst Print : Book1850-1899 'Read the article in yesterday's "Times" on George's Sea-side Studies - highly gratifying... G. is reading to me Michelet's book "De l'Amour".' George Eliot (pseud) unknown [review in Times of G.H. Lewes' "Sea-side Studies"... Print : Newspaper1900-1945 '[Barrett Wendell] has [...] sent me his new book on Shakespeare, in which I have been (I had read some laudatory notice of it) much disappointed. Besides being critical... Henry James unknown review of Barrett Wendell's critical study of Shak... Print : Serial / periodical1850-1899 '[Barrett Wendell] has [...] sent me his new book on Shakespeare, in which I have been (I had read some laudatory notice of it) much disappointed. Besides being critical... Henry James Barrett Wendell critical study of Shakespeare Print : Book1850-1899 Henry James to Francis Boott, 11 October 1895: 'This is but a p.s. of three lines to the letter I posted to you yesterday; after doing which I became aware that I hadn't ... Henry James The Times Print : Newspaper1850-1899 Henry James to Edward Holton James, 15 February 1896: 'For the two stories in the "Harvard Magazine" I am [...] gratefully indebted to you. I have read them with a searc... Henry James Edward Holton James two stories Print : Serial / periodical1850-1899 Henry James, in 25 July 1896 letter to Edmund Gosse, praises Pierre Louys' novel "Aphrodite: moeurs antiques", which he has read in a copy apparently borrowed from Gosse. Henry James Pierre Louys Aphrodite: moeurs antiques Print : Book1850-1899 Henry James to Edmund Gosse, 25 July 1896: '"Rome" is of a [italics] lourdeur [end italics] -- as I read it here at the rate of ten pages a day -- under which even my li... Henry James Emile Zola Rome Print : Book1850-1899 Henry James to Edmund Gosse, 28 August 1896: 'The only thing that befell me [on recent week in London, from 15 August] was that I dined one night at the Savoy with F. Ort... Henry James Alphonse Daudet article on death of Edmond de Goncourt Print : Serial / periodical1850-1899 Henry James writes (in French) to Maurice Barres, in praise of "Du Sang, de la Volupte et de la Mort", a copy of which had been sent to him, 7 September 1896. Henry James Maurice Barres Du Sang, de la Volupte et de la Mort Print : Book1850-1899 In postscript to his letter of 3 July 1897 to Ellen Temple Hunter, Henry James tells anecdote about 'yesterday afternoon', in which, after having been 'reading the deligh... Henry James Edward Fitzgerald Letters Print : Book1850-1899 Henry James thanks Arthur Christopher Benson for letting him borrow and read his 'Diary', in letter of 1 October 1897: 'I have read, of course, every word -- and I think ... Henry James Arthur Christopher Benson Diary Unknown 1800-1849 Related ms notes laid into book - two small notes about distances, properties, owners, and other features either on specific local journeys e.g. Cupar to Perth, dated '1... Agnes Halkerston James Duncan Scotch itinerary, containing the roads through Sco... Print : Book1850-1899 Henry James to William James, 20 April 1898: 'I scarcely know what the newpapers say [about the Spanish-American war] -- beyond the "Times", which I look at all for [Geor... Henry James The Times Print : Newspaper1850-1899 Henry James to Antonio de Navarro, 15 June 1898: 'Well, my dear Tony, I have read your ms. [...] It is Hans Andersenesque -- but no editor of an actual London magazine wo... Henry James Antonio de Navarro MS story Manuscript : Unknown1800-1849 'Now, however, they [workmen] clubbed their pence to pay for a newspaper, and selected the "Weekly Political Register" of that clever man the late William Cobbett. This j... Thomas Carter, tailors, journeymen and apprentices at workshop William Cobbett Weekly Political Register Print : Newspaper, Serial / periodical1800-1849 'Now, however, they [workmen] clubbed their pence to pay for a newspaper, and selected the "Weekly Political Register" of that clever man the late William Cobbett. This j... Thomas Carter, tailors, journeymen and apprentices at workshop n/a The Independent Whig Print : Newspaper1800-1849 'Now, however, they [workmen] clubbed their pence to pay for a newspaper, and selected the "Weekly Political Register" of that clever man the late William Cobbett. This j... Thomas Carter n/a The Independent Whig Print : Newspaper1800-1849 'Now, however, they [workmen] clubbed their pence to pay for a newspaper, and selected the "Weekly Political Register" of that clever man the late William Cobbett. This j... Thomas Carter William Cobbett Weekly Political Register Print : Newspaper, Serial / periodical1800-1849 'You have to answer for the sin of keeping me almost two hours from "Planta's history of the Helvetic confederacy" - which is a small [/] sin it must be owned, the said P... Thomas Carlyle Joseph Planta History of the Helvetic Confederacy Print : Book1800-1849 'It is the rainy evening of a dull day which I have spent in reading a little of Klopstock's Messiah (for the man Jardine, who broke his engagement); and in looking over ... Thomas Carlyle Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock Messiah Print : Book1800-1849 'It is the rainy evening of a dull day which I have spent in reading a little of Klopstock's Messiah (for the man Jardine, who broke his engagement); and in looking over ... Thomas Carlyle John Bristed America and her Resources Print : Book1850-1899 '"Bowman" I see by this Evening's paper is to be Deputy Judge while Judge Hackett is doing the work of Judges Cope & Nolan.' John Buckley Castieau [n/a] Evening Herald Print : Newspaper1850-1899 'Seven or eight numbers of the Ovens & Murray Advertiser came to hand to-day. In one of them I was sorry to read an account of Mrs Slater having had an accident & broken ... John Buckley Castieau [n/a] Ovens and Murray Advertiser Print : Newspaper1800-1849 'I know not if there be a Goddess of Sloth - tho' considering that this of all our passions is the least turbulent and most victorious, it could not without partiality be... Thomas Carlyle Barthelemy Faujais de Saint-Frond Voyage en Angleterre, en Ecosse et aux Iles Hebrid... Print : Book1800-1849 'I know not if there be a Goddess of Sloth - tho' considering that this of all our passions is the least turbulent and most victorious, it could not without partiality be... Thomas Carlyle Lady Sidney Morgan Roderick, the Last of the Goths Print : Book1850-1899 'Despite his grandmother's strictures on reading, Davies read widely. His first attraction was to the penny dreadfuls of his day, which he read in secret... The school bo... William Henry Davies unknown [Penny Dreadfuls] Print : Book1850-1899 'Despite his grandmother's strictures on reading, Davies read widely. His first attraction was to the penny dreadfuls of his day, which he read in secret... The school bo... William Henry Davies Walter Scott [from 'The Lady of the Lake'] Print : Book1850-1899 'Despite his grandmother's strictures on reading, Davies read widely. His first attraction was to the penny dreadfuls of his day, which he read in secret... The school bo... William Henry Davies unknown 'The Soldier of the Legion lay dying in Algiers Print : Book1850-1899 'Despite his grandmother's strictures on reading, Davies read widely. His first attraction was to the penny dreadfuls of his day, which he read in secret... The school bo... William Henry Davies William Shakespeare [extracts in school textbook] Print : Book1850-1899 'Despite his grandmother's strictures on reading, Davies read widely. His first attraction was to the penny dreadfuls of his day, which he read in secret... The school bo... William Henry Davies unknown [didactic poems] Print : Book1850-1899 'In the [italics]Autobiography[end italics] he tells us of the impact of Byron on him and his friend Dave: "His influence on Dave was so great that it was publicly shown ... William Henry Davies George Gordon, Lord Byron Print : Book1850-1899 'In the [italics]Autobiography[end italics] he tells us of the impact of Byron on him and his friend Dave: "His influence on Dave was so great that it was publicly shown ... William Henry Davies Percy Bysshe Shelley Print : Book1850-1899 'In the [italics]Autobiography[end italics] he tells us of the impact of Byron on him and his friend Dave: "His influence on Dave was so great that it was publicly shown ... William Henry Davies Christopher Marlowe Print : Book1850-1899 'In the [italics]Autobiography[end italics] he tells us of the impact of Byron on him and his friend Dave: "His influence on Dave was so great that it was publicly shown ... William Henry Davies William Shakespeare [works not reproduced in schoolbooks] Print : Book1850-1899 'In the [italics]Autobiography[end italics] he tells us of the impact of Byron on him and his friend Dave: "His influence on Dave was so great that it was publicly shown ... William Henry Davies William Wordsworth Print : Book1850-1899 'In the [italics]Autobiography[end italics] he tells us of the impact of Byron on him and his friend Dave: "His influence on Dave was so great that it was publicly shown ... [Dave, friend of W.H. Davies] anon George Gordon, Lord Byron Print : Book1850-1899 [When in hospital in Renfrew, Canada, W.H. Davies] 'commented on the inappropriateness of some of the reading matter supplied him - "Freddie's Friend", "Little Billie's B... William Henry Davies unknown Freddie's Friend Print : Book1850-1899 [When in hospital in Renfrew, Canada, W.H. Davies] 'commented on the inappropriateness of some of the reading matter supplied him - "Freddie's Friend", "Little Billie's B... William Henry Davies unknown Little Billie's Button Print : Book1850-1899 [When in hospital in Renfrew, Canada, W.H. Davies] 'commented on the inappropriateness of some of the reading matter supplied him - "Freddie's Friend", "Little Billie's B... William Henry Davies unknown Sally's Sacrifice Print : Book1850-1899 'Spent the morning in Bale, chiefly under the chestnut trees near the Cathedral, I reading aloud Flouren's sketch of Cuvier's labours.' George Eliot (pseud) Flouren [probably Eloge Historique de Baron Cuvier] Print : Book1850-1899 Henry James writes (in French) in letter of 26 September 1898 to Paul Bourget of reading Pierre Louys' novel "La Femme et le Pantin", at Bourget's recommendation. Henry James Pierre Louys La Femme et le Pantin Print : Book1850-1899 Henry James writes (in French) in letter of 26 September 1898 to Paul Bourget of having read and admired a novel by Matilda Serao, in a copy apparently sent to him by Bou... Henry James Matilda Serao [unidentified novel] Print : Book1850-1899 Henry James to Minnie Bourget, 8 April 1899: 'I have been reading "Jean d'Agreve" with a mixture of recognitions and reserves'. Henry James E.M. De Vogüé Jean d'Agreve Print : Book1850-1899 Henry James to Charles Eliot Norton, 28 November 1899 (in letter begun 24 November 1899): 'I gather [...] that you have read Mackail's Morris [...] I felt much moved, aft... Henry James J. W. Mackail The Life of William Morris Print : Book1700-1799 Robert Southey to Grosvenor Charles Bedford, 14-18 October 1793: 'In the interim you shall have the remarks that occurrd upon reading Sir Launcelot Greaves on the road. B... Robert Southey Tobias Smollett The Adventures of Sir Lancelot Greaves Print : Book1850-1899 Henry James to Mrs Everard Cotes, 26 January 1900, on (published) novel she has written and sent to him: 'Your book is extraordinarily keen and delicate and able [...] On... Henry James Mrs Everard Cotes His Honour and a Lady Print : Book1850-1899 Henry James to H. G. Wells, 29 January 1900: 'It was very graceful of you to send me your book -- I mean the particular masterpiece entitled "The Time Machine", after I h... Henry James H. G. Wells The Time Machine Print : Book1850-1899 Henry James to Katherine Prescott Wormeley, 8 February 1900, thanking her for sending him a proof copy of her preface to her translation [of Balzac's Letters], and accomp... Henry James Katherine Prescott Wormeley MS notes to Balzac's Letters Manuscript : Unknown1850-1899 Henry James to Katherine Prescott Wormeley, 8 February 1900, thanking her for sending him a proof copy of her preface to her translation [of Balzac's Letters], and accomp... Henry James Katherine Prescott Wormeley Preface [on Balzac] Print : proof1850-1899 Henry James to Katherine Prescott Wormeley, 8 February 1900, thanking her for sending him a proof copy of her preface to her translation [of Balzac's Letters], and accomp... Henry James Honore de Balzac Un Roman d'Amour Print : Book1850-1899 Henry James to Katherine Prescott Wormeley, 8 February 1900, thanking her for sending him a proof copy of her preface to her translation [of Balzac's Letters], and accomp... Henry James Honore de Balzac Lettres a l'Etrangere Print : Book1900-1945 Henry James to Paul Bourget, 15 May 1900, thanking him for copy of his collection of tales, Drames de Famille: 'I have read the whole thing with the intensity [italics] q... Henry James Paul Bourget Drames de Famille Print : Book1900-1945 Henry James to Mrs William James, 22 May 1900: 'Thank you [...] for telling me of Santayana's book (P. and R.) which has come and which I find of an irresistible distract... Henry James George Santayana Interpretations of Poetry and Religion Print : Book1900-1945 Henry James to Ford Madox Hueffer, 23 May 1900, thanking him for copy of his newly published volume of verse: 'I think your doubt about the verses misplaced and unjustifi... Henry James Ford Madox Hueffer Poems for Pictures Print : Book1900-1945 Henry James to William Dean Howells, 29 June 1900: '[...] I've been, of late, reading you again as continuously as possible [...] the result of "Ragged Lady", the "Silver... Henry James William Dean Howells Ragged Lady Print : Book1900-1945 Henry James to William Dean Howells, 29 June 1900: '[...] I've been, of late, reading you again as continuously as possible [...] the result of "Ragged Lady", the "Silver... Henry James William Dean Howells Their Silver Wedding Journey Print : Book1900-1945 Henry James to William Dean Howells, 29 June 1900: '[...] I've been, of late, reading you again as continuously as possible [...] the result of "Ragged Lady", the "Silver... Henry James William Dean Howells 'Pursuit of the Piano' (short story) Print : Unknown1900-1945 Henry James to W. Morton Fullerton, 9 August 1901: 'You speak of your "Cornhill" article as one always speaks and feels about one's potboilers; but that doesn't prevent m... Henry James W. Morton Fullerton article Print : Serial / periodical1900-1945 Henry James to William Dean Howells, 10 August 1901: 'Ever since receiving and reading your elegant volume of short tales ["A Pair of Patient Lovers"]-- the arrival of wh... Henry James William Dean Howells A Pair of Patient Lovers Print : Book1900-1945 Henry James to Sarah Orne Jewett, 5 October 1901: 'Let me not [...] delay to thank you for your charming and generous present of "The Tory Lover" [her historical novel]. ... Henry James Sarah Orne Jewett The Tory Lover Print : Book1900-1945 Henry James to Rudyard Kipling, 30 October 1901: 'I can't lay down "Kim" without wanting much to write to you [...] I overflow, I beg you to believe, with "Kim", and I re... Henry James Rudyard Kipling Kim Print : Book1900-1945 'I forgot in my last letter to say that I found Beer’s book very good, certainly useful to me. [Clifford Beer, "A Mind That Found Itself"]. . . . By the way, have you r... Arnold Bennett Clifford Beer A Mind That Found Itself Print : Book1900-1945 Henry James to Graham Balfour, 15 November 1901: 'Into my rural backwater books float a bit slowly and circuitously, so that it is only this evening that I have, after de... Henry James Graham Balfour Life of Robert Louis Stevenson Print : Book1900-1945 Henry James to Owen Wister, 7 August 1902: 'I have been reading "The Virginian" and I am moved to write to you. You didn't send him to me -- you never send me anything; ... Henry James Owen Wister The Virginian Print : Book1900-1945 Henry James, in letter to Edith Wharton of 17 August 1902, writes to her of 'lately having read "The Valley of Decision", read it with such high appreciation and received... Henry James Edith Wharton The Valley of Decision Print : Book1900-1945 Henry James to W. Morton Fullerton, 7 November 1902: 'Your two little periodicals have just come in [...] I immediately read the Zola in it [sic] [...] because I promised... Henry James unknown article on Zola Print : Serial / periodical1800-1849 'After all my contrivances I found but little convenience for reading, except on the Sunday. I always kept a book in my pocket, that it might be at hand in case I should ... Thomas Carter [unknown] [various] Print : Book1850-1899 Henry James to Sarah Butler Wister, 21 December 1902: ' [...] as for the "Morgesons" and "Two Men," I read them long years ago (the first in queer green paper covers) whe... Henry James Elizabeth Drew Stoddard The Morgesons Print : Unknown1850-1899 Henry James to Sarah Butler Wister, 21 December 1902: ' [...] as for the "Morgesons" and "Two Men," I read them long years ago (the first in queer green paper covers) whe... Henry James Elizabeth Drew Stoddard Two Men Print : Unknown1900-1945 Henry James to Urbain Mengin, 1 January 1903: 'Your great handsome wide-margined large-printed, yellow-covered "Italie des Romantiques" came to me safely more months ago ... Henry James Urbain Mengin Italie des Romantiques Print : Book1900-1945 Henry James to Howard Sturgis, 8 November 1903: 'I send you back the blooming proofs [of Sturgis's novel "Belchamber"] with many thanks and with no marks or comments at a... Henry James Howard Sturgis Belchamber Print : In proof1900-1945 Henry James to Howard Sturgis, 8 November 1903: 'I send you back the blooming proofs [of Sturgis's novel "Belchamber"] with many thanks and with no marks or comments at a... Henry James Howard Sturgis A Sketch from Memory Print : Serial / periodical1800-1849 'When at home I usually retired to my garret, where I employed myself in either reading or working... In reading I usually sat in the Oriental, or, to use a less pompous ... Thomas Carter David Ramsay History of the American Revolution, The Print : Book1800-1849 'When at home I usually retired to my garret, where I employed myself in either reading or working... In reading I usually sat in the Oriental, or, to use a less pompous ... Thomas Carter John Smith Travels in Canada and the United States Print : Book1800-1849 'When at home I usually retired to my garret, where I employed myself in either reading or working... In reading I usually sat in the Oriental, or, to use a less pompous ... Thomas Carter Edward Parkinson Travels in North America Print : Book1800-1849 'For breakfast I had a penny roll and half a pint of porter. This I took at a public house - for two reasons: first, that I might have an opportunity of looking at the mo... Thomas Carter [n/a] [morning newspaper] Print : Advertisement, Newspaper1850-1899 'We have just finished reading aloud "Pere Goriot" - a hateful book... I have been reading lately and have nearly finished Comte's "Catechism". We have also read aloud "T... George Eliot (pseud) and G.H. Lewes Honore de Balzac Le Pere Goriot Print : Book1850-1899 'We have just finished reading aloud "Pere Goriot" - a hateful book... I have been reading lately and have nearly finished Comte's "Catechism". We have also read aloud "T... George Eliot (pseud) and G.H. Lewes Thomas Hughes Tom Brown's School Days Print : Book1850-1899 'We have just finished reading aloud "Pere Goriot" - a hateful book... I have been reading lately and have nearly finished Comte's "Catechism". We have also read aloud "T... George Eliot (pseud) Auguste Comte Catechism Of Positive Religion, The Print : Book1850-1899 'I am reading Thomas a Kempis.' George Eliot (pseud) Thomas a Kempis Imitation of Christ, The (?) Print : Book1850-1899 'We are reading aloud Huber's "History of Bees", and the "Life of Charlotte Bronte" for the second time.' George Eliot (pseud) and G.H. Lewes Elizabeth Gaskell Life of Charlotte Bronte Print : Book1850-1899 'We are reading aloud Huber's "History of Bees", and the "Life of Charlotte Bronte" for the second time.' George Eliot (pseud) and G.H. Lewes Francois Huber New Observations on the Natural History of Bees Print : Book1900-1945 '[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 Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve Print : Book1850-1899 'We began Darwin's work on "The Origin of Species" tonight. It seems not to be well written: though full of interesting matter, it is not impressive, for want of luminous... George Eliot (pseud) and G.H. Lewes Charles Darwin Origin of Species, The Print : Book1850-1899 'music, "Arabian Nights", and Darwin.' George Eliot and G.H. Lewes anon. Arabian Nights, The Print : Book1850-1899 'I am reading old Bunyan again after the long lapse of years, and am profoundly struck with the true genius manifested in the simple, vigorous, rhythmic style.' George Eliot (pseud) John Bunyan unknown Print : Book1800-1849 'At one of these sales I bought a copy of "Bloomfield's Poems", but not so cheaply as to encourage me to combine my biddings. I read Bloomfield with much interest, as I a... Thomas Carter Robert Bloomfield [Poems] Print : Book1850-1899 'A dense fog and a sense of ailing kept me indoors. I read the life of Francois de Sales.' George Eliot (pseud) unknown [Life of Francois de Sales] Print : Book1800-1849 'At one of these sales I bought a copy of "Bloomfield's Poems", but not so cheaply as to encourage me to combine my biddings. I read Bloomfield with much interest, as I a... Thomas Carter James Montgomery Wanderer in Switzerland, and other Poems Print : Book1900-1945 Henry James to Viscount Garnet Wolseley, 7 December 1903: 'I feel I must absolutely not have passed these several last evenings in your so interesting and vivid society w... Henry James Viscount Garnet Wolseley The Story of a Soldier's Life Print : Book1850-1899 Henry James to Grace Norton, 13 December 1903: 'Lowes Dickinson, whom you [...] mention [in her most recent letter to James], I don't know [...] But I've read a charming ... Henry James Goldsworthy Lowes Dickinson [book on Greek history] Print : Book1900-1945 Henry James to H. G. Wells, 24 January 1904: 'I've [italics] wanted [end italics], day after day, to write -- wanted to quite intensely from the day I read your two munif... Henry James H. G. Wells Mankind in the Making Print : Book1900-1945 Henry James to H. G. Wells, 24 January 1904: 'I've [italics] wanted [end italics], day after day, to write -- wanted to quite intensely from the day I read your two munif... Henry James H. G. Wells Twelve Stories and a Dream Print : Book1900-1945 Henry James to Edith Wharton, 8 February 1905: '[...] your good letter has found me on the very point of writing to you [...] For I have read the February morsel of "The ... Henry James Edith Wharton The House of Mirth (second instalment) Print : Serial / periodical1900-1945 Henry James to Edith Wharton, 8 November 1905, in praise of the conclusion to "The House of Mirth": 'Half an hour ago, or less, I laid down the November "Scribner" [...] ... Henry James Edith Wharton The House of Mirth (final instalment) Print : Serial / periodical1900-1945 Henry James to H. G. Wells, 19 November 1905, in praise of two works recently sent by Wells: 'I found your first munificence here on returning [from tour of USA] [...] to... Henry James H. G. Wells A Modern Utopia Print : Book1900-1945 Henry James to H. G. Wells, 19 November 1905, in praise of two works recently sent by Wells: 'I found your first munificence here on returning [from tour of USA] [...] to... Henry James H. G. Wells Kipps Print : Book1900-1945 Henry James to William James, 23 November 1905: 'I can read [italics]you[end italics] with rapture -- having three weeks ago spent three or four days with Manton Marble a... Henry James William James [Unidentified recently published writings] Print : Unknown1900-1945 Henry James to Paul Bourget 21 December 1905, thanking him for copy of "Les Deux Soeurs": 'This volume I read with immediate attention and with the highest appreciation'. Henry James Paul Bourget Les Deux Soeurs Print : Book1850-1899 Henry James to the Earl of Lovelace, 14 January 1906, thanking him for a copy of "Astarte", Lovelace's account of his grandparents Lord and Lady Byron's marriage: 'I am g... Henry James various Byron family papers Manuscript : Unknown1800-1849 'These men, with several others whose curiosity began to be awakened by the tenor of our political gossip, united with myself in subscribing for a weekly newspaper. We wo... Thomas Carter and workmates at the tailors workshop [n/a] The News Print : Newspaper1800-1849 'I found a good deal of amusement in looking over the engravings in a Spanish volume, called, I think, "The Visions of Don Quevedo". It was, of course, a book from which ... Thomas Carter Francisco de Quevedo The Visions of Don Quevedo Print : Book1800-1849 'My friend had a good deal to do in order to be prepared for his approaching voyage. While he was attending to these matters, I usually remained at home and read in such ... Thomas Carter Torquato Tasso Jerusalem Delivered Print : Book1800-1849 'At the request of our landlady, I looked over a volume of Sermons by the eminent Unitarian minister, Dr. Price. I did this, however, out of mere courtesy: for although I... Thomas Carter Richard Price [volume of sermons] Print : Book1800-1849 'Thus I became their [workmates] news-purveyor, ie. I every morning gave them an account of what I had just been reading in the yesterday's newspaper. I read this at a co... Thomas Carter [n/a] British Press Print : Newspaper1800-1849 'Thus I became their [workmates] news-purveyor, ie. I every morning gave them an account of what I had just been reading in the yesterday's newspaper. I read this at a co... Thomas Carter [n/a] Morning Chronicle Print : Newspaper1800-1849 'Thus I became their [workmates] news-purveyor, ie. I every morning gave them an account of what I had just been reading in the yesterday's newspaper. I read this at a co... Thomas Carter [n/a] The Statesman Print : Newspaper1800-1849 'Thus I became their [workmates] news-purveyor, ie. I every morning gave them an account of what I had just been reading in the yesterday's newspaper. I read this at a co... Thomas Carter William Cobbett Political Register Print : Newspaper, Serial / periodical1800-1849 'At home I acquired increased facilities for reading, by means of a small book-club,
consisting of my landlord and a few of his friends. Of this I became a member; and ... Charles Rollin The Ancient History of the Egyptians, Carthagians,... Print : Book1900-1945 Henry James writes to Paul Bourget (in French) in a letter of 19 December 1906, of having enjoyed his "Etudes et Portraits", in an inscribed copy sent to him a few weeks ... Henry James Paul Bourget Etudes et portraits Print : Book1900-1945 Henry James writes to Paul Bourget (in French) in a letter of 19 December 1906, of having read his article on Ferdinand Brunetiere in "Temps"a few days beforehand. Henry James Paul Bourget article on Ferdinand Brunetiere Print : Serial / periodical1900-1945 Henry James to Elizabeth Jordan, 3 May 1907: 'you sent me Mrs. Phelps Ward's contribution to the "Whole Family" -- which I began to read the other day, but which immediat... Henry James Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward The Whole Family (chapter) Unknown 1800-1849 Henry James to Elizabeth Jordan, 3 May 1907, in response to her question about his favourite fairy stories when a child (part of research for her 1907 book on the favouri... Henry James various [unidentified book of fairy stories] Print : Book1900-1945 Henry James to Clare Benedict, 13 September 1907: 'Returning to this place [Lamb House, Rye] early in July after a long absence abroad [...] I found the March "Atlantic" ... Henry James Clare Benedict "Roderick Eaton's Children" Print : Serial / periodical1850-1899 Leon Edel notes, regarding Henry James's letter to James B. Pinker of 14 October 1907: 'The eminent actor Johnston Forbes-Robertson read H[enry]J[ames]'s story "Covering... Johnston Forbes-Robertson Henry James "Covering End" Print : Book1900-1945 Henry James to William James, 17 October 1907: 'Why the devil I didn't write to you after reading your "Pragmatism" [...] I can't now explain save by the very fact of the... Henry James William James Pragmatism: A New Name for Some Old Ways of Thinki... Print : Book1900-1945 Henry James to William James, 17 October 1907: 'Why the devil I didn't write to you after reading your "Pragmatism" [...] I can't now explain save by the very fact of the... Henry James William James journal articles on psychology Print : Serial / periodical1900-1945 Henry James to Edith Wharton, 24 November 1907: 'I have read "The Fruit [of the Tree", in copy sent by Wharton][...] with acute appreciation -- the liveliest admiration a... Henry James Edith Wharton The Fruit of the Tree Print : Book1900-1945 Leon Edel quotes John Buchan, in "Memory Hold-the-Door" (1940), pp.151-52:
'an aunt of my wife's [Lady Lovelace], who was the widow of Byron's grandson, asked Henry J... Henry James and John Buchan unknown Byron family papers Unknown 1900-1945 Leon Edel quotes John Buchan, in "Memory Hold-the-Door" (1940), pp.151-52:
'an aunt of my wife's [Lady Lovelace], who was the widow of Byron's grandson, asked Henry J... Henry James and John Buchan George Gordon, Lord Byron letters to Lady Melbourne (copies) Manuscript : Letter1900-1945 Henry James to Hugh Walpole, 13 May 1910: 'I "read," in a manner, "Maradick" -- [...] Your book has a great sense and love of life -- but seems to me very nearly as irref... Henry James Hugh Walpole Maradick at Forty Print : Book1900-1945 Henry James to Hugh Walpole, 15 April 1911: 'I congratulate you ever so gladly on Mr. Perrin -- I think the book represents a very marked advance upon its predecessors [.... Henry James Hugh Walpole Mr. Perrin and Mr. Traill Print : Book1900-1945 Henry James to Professor Josiah Royce, 30 June 1911: 'I snatch too hurried a moment to express to you my great appreciation of your so generous and luminous treatment of ... Henry James Josiah Royce Phi Beta address on the work and influence of Will... Print : Unknown1900-1945 Henry James to Hugh Walpole, 13 October 1911: 'I have just been reading the "Standard" [containing Walpole's review of James's "The Outcry"] at breakfast, and I am touche... Henry James Hugh Walpole review of Henry James, The Outcry Print : Newspaper1900-1945 Henry James to Mrs W. K. Clifford, 18 May 1912: 'I am reading the Green Book in bits -- as it were -- the only way in which I [italics]can[end italics] read (or at least ... Henry James unknown "the Green Book" Print : Book1900-1945 Henry James to Mrs W. K. Clifford, 18 May 1912: 'I find G. W. [Mrs Clifford's recent novel] very brisk and alive, but I [italics]have[end italics] to take it in pieces, a... Henry James Mrs W. K. Clifford The Getting Well of Dorothy Print : Book1900-1945 Henry James to Hugh Walpole, 19 May 1912: 'A. Benett [sic] I've never to this day beheld -- and certain [italics]American[end italics] papers of his in "Harper", of an in... Henry James Arnold Bennett articles Print : Serial / periodical1900-1945 Henry James to Edmund Gosse, whilst suffering from illness, 10 October 1912: 'I receive with pleasure the small Swinburne [biographical essay by Gosse, originally intende... Henry James Edmund Gosse life of Swinburne Print : Book1900-1945 Henry James to Edmund Gosse, 10 October 1912:
'I have received within a day or two dear old George Meredith's "Letters"; and, though I haven't been able yet very much... Henry James George Meredith Letters Print : Book1900-1945 Henry James to Edmund Gosse, 10 October 1912:
'I have received within a day or two dear old George Meredith's "Letters"; and, though I haven't been able yet very much... Henry James H. G. Wells Marriage Print : Book1900-1945 Henry James to H. G. Wells, 18 October 1912, whilst suffering from shingles: 'you may not have forgotten that you kindly sent me "Marriage" [...] which I've been able to ... Henry James H. G. Wells Marriage Print : Book1900-1945 Henry James to Edmund Gosse, 9 November 1912: 'I received longer ago than I quite lke to give chapter and verse for your so-vividly interesting volume of literary "Portra... Henry James Edmund Gosse Portraits and Sketches Print : Book1900-1945 Henry James, in letter to Edmund Gosse, 9 November 1912, mentions 'having recently read [...] [Andrew Lang's] (in two or three respects so able) Joan of Arc, or Maid of F... Henry James Andrew Lang The Maid of France, being the Story of the Life an... Print : Book1900-1945 Henry James, in letter to Edmund Gosse, 9 November 1912, mentions 'having recently read [...] [Andrew Lang's] (in two or three respects so able) Joan of Arc, or Maid of F... Henry James Andrew Lang compendium of English literature Print : Book1900-1945 Henry James to Edith Wharton, 4 December 1912, whilst suffering from shingles: 'Your beautiful Book ["The Reef: A Novel"] has been my portion these several days [...] it ... Henry James Edith Wharton The Reef: A Novel Print : Book1800-1849 'I also had some good opportunities for borrowing books; and thus read that very interesting quarto volume, Mr. Park's "Travels in Africa". I also read Mr. Colquhoun's la... Thomas Carter Mungo Park Travels in the Interior Districts of Africa Print : Book1800-1849 'For my private and sole use, seeing that my friends had no taste for poetry, I bought Mr. Pye's translation of Horace, and was well pleased with my purchase; for I found... Thomas Carter Quintus Horace [poems] Print : Book1800-1849 'For my private and sole use, seeing that my friends had no taste for poetry, I bought Mr. Pye's translation of Horace, and was well pleased with my purchase; for I found... Thomas Carter Henry Kirk White Remains Print : Book1800-1849 '... I did this [looking over the newspaper], as usual, while I took my breakfast, which meal I now procured at a coffee shop in Bear-Street, Leicester-Square. Here I fou... Thomas Carter [n/a] Edinburgh Review Print : Serial / periodical1800-1849 '... I did this [looking over the newspaper], as usual, while I took my breakfast, which meal I now procured at a coffee shop in Bear-Street, Leicester-Square. Here I fou... Thomas Carter [n/a] Monthly Review Print : Serial / periodical1800-1849 '... I did this [looking over the newspaper], as usual, while I took my breakfast, which meal I now procured at a coffee shop in Bear-Street, Leicester-Square. Here I fou... Thomas Carter [n/a] Edinburgh Magazine Print : Serial / periodical1800-1849 '... I did this [looking over the newspaper], as usual, while I took my breakfast, which meal I now procured at a coffee shop in Bear-Street, Leicester-Square. Here I fou... Thomas Carter [n/a] European Magazine Print : Serial / periodical1800-1849 '... I did this [looking over the newspaper], as usual, while I took my breakfast, which meal I now procured at a coffee shop in Bear-Street, Leicester-Square. Here I fou... Thomas Carter [n/a] Monthly Magazine Print : Serial / periodical1800-1849 '... I did this [looking over the newspaper], as usual, while I took my breakfast, which meal I now procured at a coffee shop in Bear-Street, Leicester-Square. Here I fou... Thomas Carter [n/a] Examiner Print : Newspaper1800-1849 '... I did this [looking over the newspaper], as usual, while I took my breakfast, which meal I now procured at a coffee shop in Bear-Street, Leicester-Square. Here I fou... Thomas Carter [n/a] Black Dwarf Print : Newspaper, Pamphlet1800-1849 'It was about this time that I first read that very beautiful poem, "The Pleasures of Hope". I also repersued a large portion of Cowper's Poems; and, in spite of the unfa... Thomas Carter Thomas Campbell The Pleasures of Hope Print : Book1800-1849 'It was about this time that I first read that very beautiful poem, "The Pleasures of Hope". I also repersued a large portion of Cowper's Poems; and, in spite of the unfa... Thomas Carter William Cowper [Poems] Print : Book1800-1849 'It was about this time that I first read that very beautiful poem, "The Pleasures of Hope". I also repersued a large portion of Cowper's Poems; and, in spite of the unfa... Thomas Carter James Thomson Liberty, a Poem Print : Book1800-1849 [On hot summer afternoons Carter took shelter in the shaded parts of Hyde Park or Kensington Gardens] 'In the latter I remember to have passed one afternoon in a very ple... Thomas Carter James Beattie The Minstrel, or the Progress of Genius Print : Book1800-1849 'I read a volume which was called "The Guide to Domestic Happiness", but found that it had no direct bearing upon the case of a working man - all its reasonings, counsels... Thomas Carter William Giles Guide to Domestic Happiness, The Print : Book1800-1849 'I read a volume which was called "The Guide to Domestic Happiness", but found that it had no direct bearing upon the case of a working man - all its reasonings, counsels... Thomas Carter [unknown] Letters on the Marriage State Print : Book1800-1849 'By courtesy of a friend I had the loan of Mr. Pope's poetical works together with his translations of Homer's "Iliad" and "Odyssey". I also read Mr. Hervey's "Theron and... Thomas Carter Alexander Pope [poems] Print : Book1800-1849 'By courtesy of a friend I had the loan of Mr. Pope's poetical works together with his translations of Homer's "Iliad" and "Odyssey". I also read Mr. Hervey's "Theron and... Thomas Carter Homer Iliad Print : Book1800-1849 'By courtesy of a friend I had the loan of Mr. Pope's poetical works together with his translations of Homer's "Iliad" and "Odyssey". I also read Mr. Hervey's "Theron and... Thomas Carter Homer Odyssey Print : Book1800-1849 'By courtesy of a friend I had the loan of Mr. Pope's poetical works together with his translations of Homer's "Iliad" and "Odyssey". I also read Mr. Hervey's "Theron and... Thomas Carter James Hervey Theron and Aspasia Print : Book1800-1849 'When [winter] was over, I began to steal a few moments occasionally for the purpose of looking upon the fair and sweet face of nature. It was at this time, I think, that... Thomas Carter Samuel Rogers Human Life, a Poem Print : Book1900-1945 Henry James to Hugh Walpole, 11 April 1913: 'I have [...] read -- with difficulty -- another Young Fiction of the day [...] Gilbert Cannan's "Round the Corner".' Henry James Gilbert Cannan Round the Corner Print : Book1800-1849 'When [winter] was over, I began to steal a few moments occasionally for the purpose of looking upon the fair and sweet face of nature. It was at this time, I think, that... Thomas Carter [unknown] [History of the recent wars] Print : Book1800-1849 'I was unable to work for a fortnight through lameness... While laid by from work, I read Mr. MacKenzie's "Man of Feeling" and other tales. I thought them a little too hi... Thomas Carter Henry Mackenzie Man of Feeling and other tales Print : Book1800-1849 'In the course of the ensuing spring (1821), I read Mr. Washington Irving's "Sketch-Book". I thought it very beautiful, and only wished that he had more fully carried his... Thomas Carter Washington Irving Sketch-Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent Print : Book1700-1799 'In the course of the ensuing spring (1821), I read Mr. Washington Irving's "Sketch-Book". I thought it very beautiful, and only wished that he had more fully carried his... Thomas Carter Mark Akenside Pleasures of the Imagination, The Print : Book1800-1849 'In the course of the ensuing spring (1821), I read Mr. Washington Irving's "Sketch-Book". I thought it very beautiful, and only wished that he had more fully carried his... Thomas Carter [n/a] London Magazine Print : Serial / periodical1800-1849 'He also again freely supplied me with the loan of books. At this time he lent me several volumes of the "New Monthly Magazine", among the very many interesting articles ... Thomas Carter [n/a] New Monthly Magazine Print : Serial / periodical1800-1849 'I am going to begin Strauss, and see what I can make of him. - Have you seen the Opium-Eater's papers on the Lakers in Tait? They are very interesting , but, it seems to... Harriet Martineau David Friedrich Strauss Das Leben Jesu Print : Book1800-1849 'During this year I read an odd volume of that curious publication, the "Anti-Jacobin-Review", from which I gathered a little that pleased me. Among other things I met wi... Thomas Carter [n/a] Anti-Jacobin Review Print : Serial / periodical1800-1849 'During this year I read an odd volume of that curious publication, the "Anti-Jacobin-Review", from which I gathered a little that pleased me. Among other things I met wi... Thomas Carter Barry Edward O'Meara Napoleon in Exile, or a Voice from St Helena Print : Book1800-1849 'During this year I read an odd volume of that curious publication, the "Anti-Jacobin-Review", from which I gathered a little that pleased me. Among other things I met wi... Thomas Carter Ebenezer Henderson Iceland, or the Journal of a Residence in that Isl... Print : Book1800-1849 'During this year I read an odd volume of that curious publication, the "Anti-Jacobin-Review", from which I gathered a little that pleased me. Among other things I met wi... Thomas Carter William Edward Parry Journal of a Voyage to discover a North-West Passa... Print : Book1800-1849 'It must have been during this year [1823] that I began to read a work which gave me much and unalloyed pleasure: this was "The Modern Traveller", edited by Mr. Conder. I... Thomas Carter Josiah Conder The Modern Traveller, a Description of the Various... Print : Book1800-1849 'By favour of my friendly draper I also had the satisfaction of looking over the elegantly written and very entertaining "Letters" of Mr. Gray together with M. Sismondi's... Thomas Carter Gray Letters Print : Book1800-1849 ' I find I like reading stories far better than writing them. I have been reading a very sad one recently, - Capn' Grey's discoveries in Australlia. There is an anecdote ... Harriet Martineau George Grey Journals of Two Expeditions of Discovery in Northw... Print : Book1800-1849 'By favour of my friendly draper I also had the satisfaction of looking over the elegantly written and very entertaining "Letters" of Mr. Gray together with M. Sismondi's... Thomas Carter J.-C.-L. Simonde de Sismondi Historical View of the Literature of the South of ... Print : Book1800-1849 'In the course of the winter I read some of Mr. Dugald Stewart's "Essays on the Human Mind", together with a part of Dr. Reid's on the same subject. I also read Mr. Cary'... Thomas Carter Dugald Stewart Elements of the Philosophy of the Human Mind Print : Book1800-1849 'In the course of the winter I read some of Mr. Dugald Stewart's "Essays on the Human Mind", together with a part of Dr. Reid's on the same subject. I also read Mr. Cary'... Thomas Carter Thomas Reid Essays on the Powers of the Human Mind Print : Book1800-1849 'In the course of the winter I read some of Mr. Dugald Stewart's "Essays on the Human Mind", together with a part of Dr. Reid's on the same subject. I also read Mr. Cary'... Thomas Carter Dante Alighieri The Vision, or Hell, Purgatory, and Paradise Print : Book1800-1849 'In the course of the winter I read some of Mr. Dugald Stewart's "Essays on the Human Mind", together with a part of Dr. Reid's on the same subject. I also read Mr. Cary'... Thomas Carter William Jowett Christian Researches in the Mediterranean, from MD... Print : Book1800-1849 ?While in this state I read the "Letters" of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, and some of Dr Beattie?s and Mr Hume?s ?Essays?, together with part of Dr Beattie?s ?Essay on Trut... Thomas Carter Mary Wortley, Lady Montagu Letters Print : Book
