√ Century of Experience Evidence Name of Reader / Listener / Reading Group Author of Text Title of Text Form of Text 1800-1849 ?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 James Beattie [Essays] 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 James Beattie Essay on truth Print : Book1800-1849 ?As to reading, I had neither time not strength for more than a very little, yet I did something; as I looked through a translation of the works of that eminent divine, J... Thomas Carter James Arminius [works on theology and account of his life] Print : Book1800-1849 ?As to reading, I had neither time not strength for more than a very little, yet I did something; as I looked through a translation of the works of that eminent divine, J... Thomas Carter James Montgomery Lectures on poetry Print : Book1800-1849 ?Of him [lodger ? a Wesleyan minister] I had the loan of a work which I had indeed previously read; but of which I was not tired, nor I believe ever should be. This was t... Thomas Carter John Wesley Journal Print : Book1800-1849 ?Of him [lodger ? Wesleyan minister] I had the loan of a work which I had indeed previously read; but of which I was not tired, nor I believe ever should be. This was the... Thomas Carter John Wesley [works] Print : Book1800-1849 ?In my leisure hours during this year, and the years 1838 and 1839, I read the whole of Shakespeare?s dramatic works, Mr. Sharon Turner?s ?Sacred History of the Creation?... Thomas Carter William Shakespeare [plays] Print : Book1800-1849 ?In my leisure hours during this year, and the years 1838 and 1839, I read the whole of Shakespeare?s dramatic works, Mr. Sharon Turner?s ?Sacred History of the Creation?... Thomas Carter Sharon Turner Sacred history of the creation Print : Book1800-1849 ?In my leisure hours during this year, and the years 1838 and 1839, I read the whole of Shakespeare?s dramatic works, Mr. Sharon Turner?s ?Sacred History of the Creation?... Thomas Carter Samuel Drew Memoirs of Mr Samuel Drew Print : Book1800-1849 ?In my leisure hours during this year, and the years 1838 and 1839, I read the whole of Shakespeare?s dramatic works, Mr. Sharon Turner?s ?Sacred History of the Creation?... Thomas Carter Jung Stilling Theory of pneumatology Print : Book1800-1849 ?In my leisure hours during this year, and the years 1838 and 1839, I read the whole of Shakespeare?s dramatic works, Mr. Sharon Turner?s ?Sacred History of the Creation?... Thomas Carter [n/a] Edinburgh Review Print : Serial / periodical1800-1849 ?In my leisure hours during this year, and the years 1838 and 1839, I read the whole of Shakespeare?s dramatic works, Mr. Sharon Turner?s ?Sacred History of the Creation?... Thomas Carter [n/a] Quarterly Review Print : Serial / periodical1900-1945 Henry James to Hugh Walpole, 21 August 1913: 'I have been reading over Tolstoi's interminable "Peace and War" [sic] and am struck by the fact that I now protest as much a... Henry James Leo Tolstoy War and Peace Print : Book1900-1945 Henry James to H. G. Wells, 21 September 1913, thanking him for a copy of his new novel, "The Passionate Friends": 'I am too impatient to let you know [italics]how[end it... Henry James H. G. Wells The Passionate Friends Print : Book1900-1945 Henry James to Hugh Walpole, 14 October 1913: 'I have just been re-reading over Tolstoi'. Henry James Leo Tolstoy War and Peace Print : Book1900-1945 Henry James to Andre Raffalovich, 7 November 1913: 'I thank you very kindly indeed for the volume of [Aubrey] Beardsley's letters, by which I have been greatly touched [.... Henry James Aubrey Beardsley The Last Letters of Aubrey Beardsley Print : Book1900-1945 Henry James to Compton Mackenzie, 21 January 1914: 'When I wrote to [James B.] Pinker I had only read "S[inister].S[treet]"., but I have now taken "Carnival" in persisten... Henry James Compton Mackenzie Sinister Street (vol.1) Print : Book1900-1945 Henry James to Compton Mackenzie, 21 January 1914: 'When I wrote to [James B.] Pinker I had only read "S[inister].S[treet]"., but I have now taken "Carnival" in persisten... Henry James Compton Mackenzie Carnival Print : Book1900-1945 Henry James to William Roughead, 29 January 1914:'I devoured the tender Mary Blandy [subject of one of Roughead's chronicles of murder trials] in a single feast [...] You... Henry James William Roughead chronicle of trial of Mary Blandy Unknown 1900-1945 Henry James to Hugh Walpole, 5 February 1914: 'I have the volume [one by Walpole] (since last night), and shall attack it as soon as I finish Conrad's "Chance". I have so... Henry James Joseph Conrad Chance Print : Book1900-1945 Henry James to Rhoda Broughton, 10 August 1914: 'we walked, this strange Sunday afternoon (9th), my niece Peggy, her youngest brother and I [...] to see and have tea with... Lady Mathew Rhoda Broughton unknown Print : Book1900-1945 Henry James, in letter of 19 August 1914, thanks Edith Wharton for 'D'Annunzio's frenchified ode', which he has apparently read and admired. Henry James Gabriele D'Annunzio unknown Print : Book1900-1945 Henry James, in letter of 21 November 1914 to Hugh Walpole, writes of his bemusement at the second volume of Compton Mackenzie's "Sinister Street": 'I don't know what it ... Henry James Compton Mackenzie Sinister Street (vol 2) Print : Book1900-1945 Henry James to Hugh Walpole, 21 November 1914: '[H. G.] Wells has published a mere flat tiresomeness ("Sir Isaac Harman's Wife"); at least I had, for the first time with ... Henry James H. G. Wells Sir Isaac Harman's Wife Print : Book1900-1945 Henry James to James B. Pinker, 6 January 1915: 'be thanked [...] for your conveyance to me of Arnold Bennett's healthy article (which I had seen and much relished, thoug... Henry James H. G. Wells critique of George Bernard Shaw, Common Sense abou... Print : Serial / periodical1900-1945 Henry James to James B. Pinker, 6 January 1915: 'be thanked [...] for your conveyance to me of Arnold Bennett's healthy article (which I had seen and much relished, thoug... Henry James Arnold Bennett critique of George Bernard Shaw, Common Sense abou... Print : Serial / periodical1900-1945 Henry James to James B. Pinker, 6 January 1915: 'I have had to settle down [...] to looking at almost nothing but "The Times" and "The Morning Post"; the latter for its c... Henry James The Times Print : Newspaper1900-1945 Henry James to James B. Pinker, 6 January 1915: 'I have had to settle down [...] to looking at almost nothing but "The Times" and "The Morning Post"; the latter for its c... Henry James The Morning Post Print : Newspaper1850-1899 'At Wangaratta we got the daily papers, in the Argus there was a [?] advocating my being sent to report on the prisons of Europe & America & suggesting to the Government ... John Buckley Castieau [n/a] Argus Print : Newspaper1900-1945 'I have read the story. It's marvellous in a way but we must talk it over.' Joseph Conrad Norman Douglas unidentified Manuscript : Unknown1900-1945 Henry James to Edward Marsh, 28 March 1915: 'I take it very kindly indeed of you to have found thought and time to send me the publication with the five brave sonnets [by... Henry James Rupert Brooke sonnets Print : Unknown1900-1945 Henry James to Margot Asquith, 9 April 1915, thanking her for sending him her diary to read ('a few days ago'): 'I have absorbed every word of every page with the livelie... Henry James Margot Asquith Diary Manuscript : Codex1900-1945 Margot Asquith in footnote to letter to her from Henry James of 9 April 1915, in praise of her diary, in Margot Asquith: An Autobiography (1922), 70-73: 'Out of all my di... Margot Asquith Margot Asquith Diaries Manuscript : Codex1900-1945 Henry James to H. G. Wells, 6 July 1915: 'I was given yesterday at a club your volume "Boon, etc.", from a loose leaf in which I learn that you kindly sent it me [...] I ... Henry James H. G. Wells Boon, The Mind of the Race, The Wild Asses of the ... Print : Book1600-1699 [Marginalia]: brief ink additions to some 6 pp of the text e.g p.57 against XXXVIII is the note 'This act is ... to be payed from imported commodities ...'; p. 49 against... Johannes [ie John] Chrystie John Middleton The laws and acts of the first Parliament Print : Book1800-1849 'I have read Millar on the English government &c-' Thomas Carlyle John Millar Historical View of the English Government, An Print : Book1900-1945 'Long before I heard of Freud I was interested in reading accounts of first memories and impressions. My own experience had taught me that the roots of life were there bu... Molly V Hughes London Child of the Seventies, A Unknown 1900-1945 'Long before I heard of Freud I was interested in reading accounts of first memories and impressions. My own experience had taught me that the roots of life were there bu... Margaret Phillips Within the City Wall Unknown 1900-1945 'If I enjoy a book I often write to its author. It seems to me a matter of politeness between one artist and another. Having read A London Child I wrote to Molly [Hughes]... Molly V Hughes A London Child of the Seventies Print : Book1900-1945 'We belong to our time and the most we can achieve as a rule is to be a generation ahead of it; if we tear up our roots how many can exist merely on air? Yet if people wa... Molly V Hughes London Child of the Seventies, A Unknown 1800-1849 [Marginalia]: an additional printed page, printed by the Buchan Portable Press, titled "Letter from Princess Mary to Lord Buchan" has been inserted after p.196 and has th... David Steuart Erskine, Lord Buchan David Steuart Erskine, Lord Buchan Anonymous and fugitive essays of the Earl of Bucha... Print : Book1850-1899 ?I now read for the first time "The Tempest", "Measure for Measure", "Love?s Labour?s Lost", and many other of Shakespeare?s comedies, besides the supreme tragedies, amon... Thomas Burt William Shakespeare Macbeth Print : Book1850-1899 ?Macaulay, who had recently died, was greatly in vogue. I had read with enjoyment and advantage his "History of England" and some of his essays.' Thomas Burt Thomas Babbington Macaulay [essays] Print : Unknown1800-1849 'Above a month ago, I found Raynal's history of the E. and W. Indies, in a farmer's house of this neighbourhood. It were long to tell you fully my opinion of the work, w... Thomas Carlyle Abbe Raynal Philosophical and Political History of the Settlem... Print : Book1800-1849 'Above a month ago, I found Raynal's history of the E. and W. Indies, in a farmer's house of this neighbourhood. It were long to tell you fully my opinion of the work, w... Thomas Carlyle Eliza Draper Inscription to Raynal's 'History of the E. and W. ... Print : Book1800-1849 'After an interval of 5 hours, spent in reading the Edinr Review and excecuting various commissions, I resume my lucubrations. the unhappy carrier is not come.' Thomas Carlyle Various Edinburgh Review Print : Serial / periodical1800-1849 'Without reluctance, I push aside the massy quarto of Millar on the English government, to perform ther more pelasing duty of writing a few lines to you, by the conveyanc... Thomas Carlyle John Millar Historical View of the English Government, An Print : Book1850-1899 ?Joe was never tired of expatiating on the beauties and grandeur of Wordsworth, and my lack of responsiveness must have occasionally surprised him. When he selected some ... Thomas Burt William Wordsworth The Highland Girl Print : Book1850-1899 ?This period gave me unnumbered hours for reading, and I devoured everything that came in my way, novels, histories, travels, even "The lives of the Stoics". There was no... Thomas Catling [unknown] The lives of the Stoics Print : Book1850-1899 ?This period gave me unnumbered hours for reading, and I devoured everything that came in my way, novels, histories, travels, even "The lives of the Stoics". There was no... Thomas Catling [unknown] [unknown various titles] Print : Book1800-1849 'Before I forget again?have you looked into the "History of a Flirt"? [The History of a Flirt, related by Herself ? by the author of "The Manoeuvring Mother"] The name m... Elizabeth Barrett [author of "The Manoeuvering Mother"] anon History of a Flirt, The Print : Book1800-1849 'The title is, The Neighbours ? just a title for Miss Austen you see! ? And for Miss Austen, you shall praise her as much as you please. She is delightful exquisite in h... Elizabeth Barrett Mary Russell Mitford Our Village Print : Book1800-1849 'The title is, The Neighbours ? just a title for Miss Austen you see! ? And for Miss Austen, you shall praise her as much as you please. She is delightful exquisite in h... Elizabeth Barrett Mary Russell Mitford Belford Regis Print : Book1800-1849 'The title is, The Neighbours ? just a title for Miss Austen you see! ? And for Miss Austen, you shall praise her as much as you please. She is delightful exquisite in h... Elizabeth Barrett Jane Austen Persuasion Print : Book1800-1849 'Did you see ? what I am reading just too late (but we must be benighted sometimes) in the number before the last of the Edinburgh Review, a notice of Madme d?Arblay, ver... Elizabeth Barrett Thomas Babington Macaulay Diary and Letters of Madame d'Arblay Print : Serial / periodical1800-1849 'I confess my surprise at your considering Miss Edgeworth & Miss Austen mistresses in pathos ? when the fault of both those excellent writers appears to me (if indeed tha... Elizabeth Barrett Maria Edgeworth unknown Print : Book1800-1849 'Will you answer me one more question ?Is not the "Simple Story" more pathetic than "Persuasion"?' Elizabeth Barrett Elizabeth Inchbald Simple Story, A Print : Book1800-1849 'Mary Howitt?s last translation from Frederika Bremer?s Swedish "The Home" charms me even more than "The Neighbours" did. The Athenaeum compares these books to Miss Aust... Elizabeth Barrett Mary Howitt Home, The Print : Book1800-1849 'Mary Howitt?s last translation from Frederika Bremer?s Swedish "The Home" charms me even more than "The Neighbours" did. The Athenaeum compares these books to Miss Aust... Elizabeth Barrett various Athenaeum Print : Serial / periodical1800-1849 'It is a long argument ? but I have been reading quite lately & for your sake & for the third time, her two best works ? Persuasion & Mansfield Park: & really my impressi... Elizabeth Barrett Jane Austen Mansfield Park Print : Book1800-1849 'It is a long argument ? but I have been reading quite lately & for your sake & for the third time, her two best works ? Persuasion & Mansfield Park: & really my impressi... Elizabeth Barrett Jane Austen Persuasion Print : Book1800-1849 'It is a long argument ? but I have been reading quite lately & for your sake & for the third time, her two best works ? Persuasion & Mansfield Park: & really my impressi... Elizabeth Barrett Felicia Hemans [poems] Print : Book1800-1849 'Yes, I think that Pride & Prejudice is one of the very best of the Austen novels ? and yet I do not quite rank it with Mansfield Park, it seems to take the line just bel... Elizabeth Barrett Jane Austen Pride and Prejudice Print : Book1800-1849 'Yes, I think that Pride & Prejudice is one of the very best of the Austen novels ? and yet I do not quite rank it with Mansfield Park, it seems to take the line just bel... Elizabeth Barrett Jane Austen Sense and Sensibility Print : Book1800-1849 'I cannot help the oozing forth of my Io triumphe?although it is by no means my dearest friend, my turn for writing. Mr Kenyon came yesterday - & he had just been readin... Mr Kenyon Jane Austen Pride and Prejudice Print : Book1800-1849 'As to Miss Pickering, if there shd be anybody in the world who makes a Miss Austen of her, or a Scott of her, that body cannot be famous for his or her literary judgemen... Elizabeth Barrett [Miss] Pickering [novels] Print : Book1850-1899 'Repeated Longfellow?s Psalm of Life. Read three first chapters of Chaucer?s Prologue. I had been depressed and ill all the morning, a little intercourse with minds see... Lady Charlotte Schreiber Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Psalm of Life Print : Book1850-1899 'Repeated Longfellow?s Psalm of Life. Read three first chapters of Chaucer's Prologue. I had been depressed and ill all the morning, a little intercourse with minds see... Lady Charlotte Schreiber Geoffrey Chaucer Canterbury Tales Print : Book1850-1899 'During breakfast I read some of Mme. d'Arblay's Memoirs to dear Charley, who was much interested in her account of Dr. Johnson. He had not read it before, and I had not... Lady Charlotte Schreiber Frances Burney Memoirs Print : Book1850-1899 'In the evening we all went over to the Camerons. Several Pre-Raphaelite artists were there to meet Tennyson; Hunt and Rossetti and one or two whose names I did not gath... Alfred, Lord Tennyson Alfred, Lord Tennyson Morte d'Arthur Unknown 1900-1945 'You have given me a very invidious task.[...]. Well I have read all your copy. And the result of all my extreme fastidiousness is enclosed in the envelope. But my dear ... Joseph Conrad Stephen Reynolds How 'Twas: Short Stories and Small Travels. Manuscript : UnknownUnknown1900-1945 '5. The Club now considered the subject for the evening - Berkshire - & the opening paper was by H.M. Wallis who touched upon the History of the County in his inimitable ... Henry Marriage Wallis Henry Marriage Wallis [paper on History of Berkshire] Manuscript : Unknown1900-1945 'De Quincey was the subject before the paper & number of extracts [sic] & two papers, one read by Mrs Rawlings & one by Miss Cole, gave a very interesting introduction to... Ernest E. Unwin Thomas de Quincey Recollections of Charles Lamb Print : Book1900-1945 'Mins read & signed' Ernest E. Unwin Ernest E. Unwin [minutes of XII Book Club] Manuscript : book1900-1945 'The rest of the evening concerned Prehistoric Man & Woman. H.M. Wallis read a paper entitled 'The Piltdown Woman'. This was a learned & valuable paper upon the problems ... Henry Marriage Wallis Henry Marriage Wallis [paper on Piltdown Woman] Manuscript : Unknown1900-1945 'Mins of last meeting read & signed' Ernest E. Unwin Ernest E. Unwin [Minutes of XII Book Club] Manuscript : book1900-1945 'The subject of the meeting was 'Gardens' & all members were asked to bring contributions [...] The following is a list of the contributions.
C.E. Stansfield a reading f... Celia Cole Robert Browning 'Flower's Name, The' Print : Book1900-1945 'The subject of the meeting was 'Gardens' & all members were asked to bring contributions [...] The following is a list of the contributions.
C.E. Stansfield a reading f... Charles Stansfield Charles Stansfield [essay entitled 'Lost Art of Living - A Gardener's... Manuscript : Unknown1900-1945 'The subject of the meeting was 'Gardens' & all members were asked to bring contributions [...] The following is a list of the contributions.
C.E. Stansfield a reading f... Rosamund Wallis My Garden, a parody Unknown 1900-1945 'The subject of the meeting was 'Gardens' & all members were asked to bring contributions [...] The following is a list of the contributions.
C.E. Stansfield a reading f... Charles Evans Sidney Lanier Ballad of Trees and the Master, A Print : Book1900-1945 'The subject of the meeting was 'Gardens' & all members were asked to bring contributions [...] The following is a list of the contributions.
C.E. Stansfield a reading f... Charles Evans Thomas Edward Brown My Garden Print : Book1900-1945 'The subject of the meeting was 'Gardens' & all members were asked to bring contributions [...] The following is a list of the contributions.
C.E. Stansfield a reading f... Charles Stansfield John Milton Paradise Lost Print : Book1850-1899 [editor's narrative] 'A visit to Dresden was richly rewarded by the acquisition of six valuable fans to add to Lady Charlotte's collection, but it was a regret to have re... Lady Charlotte Schreiber Horace Walpole unknown Print : Book1850-1899 [editor's narrative] 'A visit to Dresden was richly rewarded by the acquisition of six valuable fans to add to Lady Charlotte's collection, but it was a regret to have re... Lady Charlotte Schreiber Samuel Pepys Journal Print : Book1850-1899 November 19, 1880 [Paris] 'I have been reading with great interest Humphrey Clinker [sic], which I like much the best of Smollett's works. I read Peregrine Pickle some y... Lady Charlotte Schreiber Tobias Smollett Humphry Clinker Print : Book1850-1899 November 19, 1880 [Paris] 'I have been reading with great interest Humphrey Clinker [sic], which I like much the best of Smollett's works. I read Peregrine Pickle some y... Lady Charlotte Schreiber Laurence Sterne Sentimental Journey, A Print : Book1850-1899 November 19, 1880 [Paris] 'I have been reading with great interest Humphrey Clinker [sic], which I like much the best of Smollett's works. I read Peregrine Pickle some y... Lady Charlotte Schreiber Tobias Smollett Roderick Random Print : Book1850-1899 November 18, 1881 [Paris] 'This morning I laid in a stock of Tauchnitzes, and am beginning a pleasant sketch of Miss Thackeray's on Mme. de Sevigne. Apropos of books, I ... Lady Charlotte Schreiber Anne Isabella Thackeray Ritchie Madame de Sevigne Print : Book1850-1899 March 16, 1884 [Lisbon] 'I am now reading to C.S. [Charles Schreiber] that charming book Rob Roy. Scott never palls. In the steamer we amused ourselves with Barnaby Rud... Lady Charlotte Schreiber Walter Scott Rob Roy Print : Book1850-1899 March 16, 1884 [Lisbon] 'I am now reading to C.S. [Charles Schreiber] that charming book Rob Roy. Scott never palls. In the steamer we amused ourselves with Barnaby Rud... Lady Charlotte Schreiber Charles Dickens Barnaby Rudge Print : Book1850-1899 March 16, 1884 [Lisbon] 'I am now reading to C.S. [Charles Schreiber] that charming book Rob Roy. Scott never palls. In the steamer we amused ourselves with Barnaby Rud... Lady Charlotte Schreiber Charles Dickens Old Curiosity Shop, The Print : Book1850-1899 March 16, 1884 [Lisbon] 'I am now reading to C.S. [Charles Schreiber] that charming book Rob Roy. Scott never palls. In the steamer we amused ourselves with Barnaby Rud... Lady Charlotte Schreiber Charles Dickens Pickwick Papers, The Print : Book1800-1849 [Marginalia]: marginal marks (*) and dates throughout the guidebook, with v.2 more heavily marked than v.1.: eg. p.376-7 against the text line 'L'Eglise de St. Francois' ... Magdalene Erskine Mariano Vasi Itineraire instructif de Rome ancienne et moderne ... Print : Book1850-1899 'Read Ruy Blas aloud. Afterwards saw three acts'. George Eliot [pseud] Victor Hugo Ruy Blas Print : Book1700-1799 ?My father, as before stated, was a reader, and amongst other books which he now read, was Pain?s [sic] "Rights of Men". He also read Pain?s [sic] "Age of Reason", and hi... Daniel Bamford Thomas Paine Rights of Man Print : Book1700-1799 ?My father, as before stated, was a reader, and amongst other books which he now read, was Pain?s [sic] "Rights of Men". He also read Pain?s [sic] "Age of Reason", and hi... Daniel Bamford [unknown] [theological works] Print : Unknown1800-1849 [Marginalia]: marginal marks (++) throughout, one date (p. 68 'Feb, 18.19'), and very occasional comments; eg. longest example is p. 83 at the end of the section 'Tombeau... Mariano Vasi Itineraire instructif de Rome a Naples ou descript... 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 [unknown] [works on travel and antiquities] Print : Book1800-1849 [Marginalia]: a drawing on a blank page at end of text relates to the topic. It is an unflattering portrait of a cleric and titled 'Brother Carey' [ie William Carey orien... John Drummond Erskine Andrew Fuller An apology for the late Christian missions to Indi... Print : Book1850-1899 [Marginalia]: Each sermon has a ms date (or dates), possibly indicating use of material: e.g. p. 40 sermon on "Self-ignorance" has ms note 'Ex. F.G. [?] August 8th 1858/... John Caird Sermons Print : Book1700-1799 [Marginalia]: ms notes on some 12pp, some ink, some pencil, most in English, some in Arabic. All are notes on points of grammar or translation: e.g p.8 the text 'eight de... John Drummond Erskine John Richardson Grammar of the Arabick language in which the rules... Print : Book1800-1849 ?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] [penny bloods] Print : Serial / periodical1800-1849 '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 larg... Thomas Carter Patrick Colquhon Treatise on the Police of the metropolis Print : Book1800-1849 'In my hours of leisure I read the works of Mr Charles Lamb, Mr Holcroft's memoirs, and the "Life of General Washington".' Thomas Carter Charles Lamb [works] Print : Book1850-1899 'I wonder whether you have read that first book of Miss Eyre's ("Mary Eyre" of the Times) "A Lady's Walks in the South of France". What a disgusting book it is, - a beggi... Harriet Martineau Mary Grote A Lady's Walks in the South of France in 1863 Print : Book1800-1849 'In my hours of leisure I read the works of Mr Charles Lamb, Mr Holcroft's memoirs, and the "Life of General Washington".' Thomas Carter Thomas Holcroft The life of Thomas Holcroft Print : Book1800-1849 'In my hours of leisure I read the works of Mr Charles Lamb, Mr Holcroft's memoirs, and the "Life of General Washington".' Thomas Carter [unknown] Life of General Washington Print : Book1850-1899 'Fan lent me the "Cornhill", with Matt's bit of sauciness... I tell Fan (we are always as plainspoken as can be) that I hope it may do more good than harm; but that it wi... Harriet Martineau Matthew Arnold 'My Countrymen' (article in The Cornhill) Print : Serial / periodical1800-1849 'From that time [summer 1840] to the present [1845] I have not read much. I have, however, looked through Lord Byron's works, the "Memoirs of Mr William Hutton", and Dr S... Thomas Carter George Gordon, Lord Byron [works] Print : Book1800-1849 'From that time [summer 1840] to the present [1845] I have not read much. I have, however, looked through Lord Byron's works, the "Memoirs of Mr William Hutton", and Dr S... Thomas Carter William Hutton Memoirs Print : Book1800-1849 'From that time [summer 1840] to the present [1845] I have not read much. I have, however, looked through Lord Byron's works, the "Memoirs of Mr William Hutton", and Dr S... Thomas Carter Jung Stilling Autobiography Print : Book1800-1849 'From that time [summer 1840] to the present [1845] I have not read much. I have, however, looked through Lord Byron's works, the "Memoirs of Mr William Hutton", and Dr S... Thomas Carter Walter Scott [works] Print : Book1800-1849 'From that time [summer 1840] to the present [1845] I have not read much. I have, however, looked through Lord Byron's works, the "Memoirs of Mr William Hutton", and Dr S... Thomas Carter Robert Southey [works] Print : Book1800-1849 'From that time [summer 1840] to the present [1845] I have not read much. I have, however, looked through Lord Byron's works, the "Memoirs of Mr William Hutton", and Dr S... Thomas Carter Harriet Martineau [works] Print : Book1700-1799 'During the first half year I was at this school Mr Gibson got Moliere's plays for me in 10 vols., French and English, which I afterwards used to construe with Mr Suine. ... John Marsh Jean-Baptiste Poquelin [plays] Print : Book1700-1799 ?With this proposal I of course readily closed and accordingly the next day my father gave me the 1st vol of the "Universal History" (beginning with the life of Mohamed) ... John Marsh John Campbell The Universal History Print : Book1700-1799 ?With this proposal I of course readily closed and accordingly the next day my father gave me the 1st vol of the "Universal History" (beginning with the life of Mohamed) ... John Marsh Rapin de Thoyras History of England Print : Book1700-1799 ?With this proposal I of course readily closed and accordingly the next day my father gave me the 1st vol of the "Universal History" (beginning with the life of Mohamed) ... John Marsh John Dryden Virgil's husbandry; or, An essay on the Georgics Print : Book1700-1799 ?With this proposal I of course readily closed and accordingly the next day my father gave me the 1st vol of the "Universal History" (beginning with the life of Mohamed) ... John Marsh Voltaire Histoire de Charles XII Print : Book1700-1799 ?With this proposal I of course readily closed and accordingly the next day my father gave me the 1st vol of the "Universal History" (beginning with the life of Mohamed) ... John Marsh Francois Fenelan Les Aventures de Telemaque Print : Book1700-1799 ?With this proposal I of course readily closed and accordingly the next day my father gave me the 1st vol of the "Universal History" (beginning with the life of Mohamed) ... John Marsh Alain Rene le Sage Diable Boiteaux Print : Book1700-1799 ?With this proposal I of course readily closed and accordingly the next day my father gave me the 1st vol of the "Universal History" (beginning with the life of Mohamed) ... John Marsh Virgil Eneid Print : Book1700-1799 ?The day after this being the last of the year, I managed to finish reading Blackstone?s Commentaries and Goldsmith?s History of England, both for the 2d time over & in t... John Marsh William Blackstone Commentaries on the laws of England Print : Book1700-1799 ?The day after this being the last of the year, I managed to finish reading Blackstone?s Commentaries and Goldsmith?s History of England, both for the 2d time over & in t... John Marsh Oliver Goldsmith History of England from the earliest times to the ... Print : Book1700-1799 ?As during my confinement I amused myself with light reading, I now for the 1st time read the "Spiritual Quixote" (w?th which I was much entertain?d) & other books of the... John Marsh Richard Graves The spiritual Quixote: or the summer's ramble of M... Print : Book1700-1799 ?Being now became a constant attendant of the gent?n ringers once or twice a week, I ? began to aspire towards ringing a longer peal, for w?ch purpose I wrote the changes... John Marsh members of the Society of London Scholars, J.D. and C.M. Campanologia improved; or, the Art of ringing made... Print : Book1700-1799 ?On our coming home & Candles being brought in he took up a volume of "Clarissa Harlowe" (w?ch we happen?d then all to be reading) but having sat about 10 minutes without... John Marsh Samuel Richardson Clarissa Print : Book1700-1799 'On Tuesday the 10th. I began reading Burret's "Theory of the Earth", w'ch I found in my library, in w'ch I soon became so interested that I devoted the whole of every ev... John Marsh Thomas Burnett Theory of the Earth Print : Book1800-1849 'I was truly sorry and at the same time tickled to observe the abrupt conclusion of your letter. The thunder of Jack's snoring is not unknown to me; but poor fellow! yo... Thomas Carlyle Alexander Carlyle Letter (date unknown) Manuscript : Letter1800-1849 'I am glad you ha[ve] attacked Hume. Your remarks are just as far as I can determine'. John A. Carlyle Hume unknown Print : Book1850-1899 'Heard Harry read, but was very bilious & unwell' Harry Castieau [unknown] [unknown] Print : Book1850-1899 'heard Harry & Sissy read' Harry Castieau [unknown] [unknown] Print : Book1850-1899 'heard Harry & Sissy read' Sissy Castieau [unknown] [unknown] Print : Book1850-1899 'I read a little Byron for my own amusement then a number of Aesop's Fables for the amusement of the youngsters. The evening seemed quite short in consequence of the empl... John Buckley Castieau Aesop Fables Print : Book1850-1899 'I read a little Byron for my own amusement then a number of Aesop's Fables for the amusement of the youngsters. The evening seemed quite short in consequence of the empl... John Buckley Castieau [unknown] [unknown] Print : Unknown1850-1899 'Did not go out but read a little Byron & then played Bezique with Polly till it was bed time' John Buckley Castieau George Gordon, Lord Byron [unknown] Print : Book1850-1899 'I read a little Byron for my own amusement then a number of Aesop's Fables for the amusement of the youngsters. The evening seemed quite short in consequence of the empl... John Buckley Castieau George Gordon, Lord Byron [unknown] Print : Book1850-1899 'With my scanty pocket-money, high-priced books were beyond my reach; but I was lucky enough, when hunting, as was my want, among the second-hand bookstalls in Newcastle ... Thomas Burt John Milton [various] Print : Book1850-1899 ?Two or three years my senior, Sam, like myself, was acquiring a taste for books. Our tastes were not wholly dissimilar. Both of us read and enjoyed poetry; but while Sam... Samuel Bailey [unknown] [various] Print : Book1850-1899 ?Two or three years my senior, Sam, like myself, was acquiring a taste for books. Our tastes were not wholly dissimilar. Both of us read and enjoyed poetry; but while Sam... Thomas Burt [unknown] [various] Print : Book1850-1899 ?Joe was never tired of expatiating on the beauties and grandeur of Wordsworth, and my lack of responsiveness must have occasionally surprised him. When he selected some ... Thomas Burt William Wordsworth The Solitary Reaper Print : Book1850-1899 ?For stories, anecdotes, for something lively and telling, I ransacked my father?s theological magazines, with but small success. Two books of his, however, I found great... Thomas Burt [unknown] [theological magazines] Print : Serial / periodical1850-1899 'As our roads home from school lay for a considerable distance in the same direction, Tommy Davies...and I generally walked home together, making numerous stoppages along... Thomas Wright [n/a] [playbill] Print : Broadsheet, Poster, playbill1850-1899 'As our roads home from school lay for a considerable distance in the same direction, Tommy Davies...and I generally walked home together, making numerous stoppages along... Tommy Davies [n/a] [playbill] Print : Broadsheet, Poster, playbill1700-1799 'On Tuesday the 30th. I began reading for the 1st time Anson's "Voyage round the World", w'th which I was much amused and interested.' John Marsh Richard Walter Anson's Voyage round the World Print : Book1700-1799 'The "Lounger" a new publication being a book now pretty much read, we at this time got it from Humphrey's library & Miss White and I began reading the diff't numbers of ... John Marsh [n/a] The Lounger Print : Book, Serial / periodical1700-1799 'The next morning I took a ride to Stoke where Lady Louisa show'd me a paragraph she had cut out of the "Star", reflecting on the Dean for refusing the cathedral for the ... John Marsh [n/a] Star, The Print : Newspaper1700-1799 'Paine's "Rights of Man, or Answer to Burke" being now lately come out & much talked of, we got it in our society and on Monday the 25th. I began reading it, but was much... John Marsh Thomas Paine Rights of Man Print : Book1700-1799 'Having been lately interested in astronomical studies & been reading Ferguson and Bonnycastle on that science; I on Monday the 15th began making a planetorium upon a st... John Marsh James Ferguson His Astronomy explained on Sir Isaac Newton's Prin... Print : Book1700-1799 'Having been lately interested in astronomical studies & been reading Ferguson and Bonnycastle on that science; I on Monday the 15th began making a planetorium upon a st... John Marsh John Bonnycastle An introduction to astronomy Print : Book1700-1799 'Tuesday the 4th being a very wet day we were obliged to keep pretty close to our miserably dull apartments the walls of w'ch were about a yard thick & the windows very s... John Marsh, Elizabeth Marsh and Miss White Charlotte Smith Celestina Print : Book1700-1799 'Tuesday the 4th being a very wet day we were obliged to keep pretty close to our miserably dull apartments the walls of w'ch were about a yard thick & the windows very s... John Marsh, Elizabeth Marsh and Miss White Tobias Smollett The expedition of Humphrey Clinker Print : Book1700-1799 'On the Sunday follow'g (9th) ... we first heard a rumour of the massacre of the prisoners on the 2d & 3d at Paris, the melancholic details of which we read in the next m... John Marsh [n/a] [newspaper] Print : Newspaper1700-1799 'In the afternoon, Mrs M & I walked to the quay hotel etc. where we met Mrs Hening of Chichester who was staying in lodgings at Littlehampton. We however found it so cold... Miss Pilkington Rosina Print : Book1800-1849 Fanny Kemble, 22 July 1831, following record of discussion with her aunt Dall in which the prospect was raised of her having to give up her career and personal wealth if ... Fanny Kemble Dante Alighieri The Divine Comedy (Purgatorio) Print : Book1800-1849 Fanny Kemble, 20 August 1832, on board ship to America: 'I have done more in the shape of work to-day, than any since the first two I spent on board; translated a German ... Fanny Kemble Dante Alighieri The Divine Comedy Print : Book1800-1849 Fanny Kemble, 20 August 1832, on board ship to America: 'I have done more in the shape of work to-day, than any since the first two I spent on board; translated a German ... Fanny Kemble unknown German fable Print : Book1800-1849 Fanny Kemble, 21 September 1832: 'The few critiques that I have seen upon our acting have been, upon the whole, laudatory. One was sent to me from a paper called the Mir... Fanny Kemble anon theatre reviews Print : Newspaper, Serial / periodical1800-1849 Fanny Kemble, 21 September 1832: 'The few critiques that I have seen upon our acting have been, upon the whole, laudatory. One was sent to me from a paper called the Mir... Fanny Kemble anon theatre review in The Mirror Print : Newspaper1800-1849 Fanny Kemble, 9 October 1832: 'I have begun Grahame's "History of America", and like it "mainly," as the old plays say'. Fanny Kemble Grahame History of America Print : Book1800-1849 'We certainly do not think it as a [italics] whole [end italics], equal to P. & P. - but it has many & great beauties. Fanny is a delightful Chracter! and Aunt Norris is... Francis William Austen Jane Austen Mansfield Park Print : Book1800-1849 'Not so clever as P.&P. - but pleased with it altogether. Liked the character of Fanny. Admired the Portsmouth Scene.' - Mr K. Edward Austen Knight Jane Austen Mansfield Park Print : Book1800-1849 Fanny Kemble, 3 December 1832: 'After breakfast [on board steamboat] returned to my crib. As I was removing "Contarini Fleming" [a novel by Disraeli], in order to lie do... Benjamin Disraeli Contarini Fleming (one of multiple volumes) Print : Book1800-1849 'Edward & George. - Not liked it near so well as P.& P. - Edward admired Fanny - George disliked her. - George interested by nobody but Mary Crawford. - Edward pleased wi... Edward Knight Jane Austen Mansfield Park Print : Book1800-1849 Fanny Kemble, 3 December 1832: 'After breakfast [on board steamboat] returned to my crib. As I was removing "Contarini Fleming" [a novel by Disraeli],in order to lie dow... Benjamin Disraeli Contarini Fleming (second volume) Print : Book1800-1849 'Edward & George. - Not liked it near so well as P.& P. - Edward admired Fanny - George disliked her. - George interested by nobody but Mary Crawford. - Edward pleased wi... George Knight Jane Austen Mansfield Park Print : Book1800-1849 Fanny Kemble, 3 December 1832: 'After breakfast [on board steamboat] returned to my crib. As I was removing "Contarini Fleming" [a novel by Disraeli],in order to lie dow... Fanny Kemble Benjamin Disraeli Contarini Fleming (one of multiple volumes) Print : Book1800-1849 'Fanny Knight. - Liked it, in many parts, very much indeed, delighted with Fanny; - but not satisfied with the end - wanting more Love between her & Edmund - & could not ... Fanny Knight Jane Austen Mansfield Park Print : Book1800-1849 Fanny Kemble, 3 December 1832: 'Arrived at Amboy [from New York], we disembarked [from steamboat] and bundled ourselves into our coach, ourselves, our namesake, and a pre... Fanny Kemble unknown unknown Print : Book1800-1849 'Anna liked it better than P.& P. - but not so well as S.&S. - could not bear Fanny. - Delighted with Mrs Norris, the scene at Portsmouth, & all the humourous [sic] parts... Anna Lefroy Jane Austen Mansfield Park Print : Book1800-1849 'Mrs James Austen, very much pleased. Enjoyed Mrs Norris particularly, & the scene at Portsmouth. Thought Henry Crawford's going off with Mrs Rushworth, very natural.' Anne Austen Jane Austen Mansfield Park Print : Book1800-1849 Fanny Kemble, 3 December 1832: 'Arrived at the Mansion House [in Philadelphia], which I was quite glad to gain [after coach and steamboat journey]. Installed myself in a... Fanny Kemble Benjamin Disraeli Contarini Fleming Print : Book1800-1849 'Miss Clewes's objections [to Mansfield Park] much the same as Fanny's [Fanny Knight]'. [Miss] Clewes Jane Austen Mansfield Park Print : Book1800-1849 'Miss Lloyd preferred it altogether to either of the others [Pride and Prejudice and Sense and Sensibility]. - Delighted with Fanny. - Hated Mrs Norris'. Martha Lloyd Jane Austen Mansfield Park Print : Book1800-1849 Fanny Kemble, 10 July 1833: 'Mr. [Edward Trelawny, writer and friend of Byron and Shelley] read Don Quixote to us [on board boat travelling up 'valley of the Mohawk']: he... Edward Trelawny Miguel de Cervantes Don Quixote Print : Book1800-1849 'My Mother - not liked it so well as P. & P. - Thought Fanny insipid. Enjoyed Mrs. Norris.' Cassandra Leigh Austen Jane Austen Mansfield Park Print : Book1800-1849 'Cassandra - thought it quite as clever, tho' not so brilliant as P. & P. - Fond of Fanny. - Delighted much in Mr Rushworth's stupidity.' Cassandra Elizabeth Austen Jane Austen Mansfield Park Print : Book1800-1849 'My Eldest Brother - a warm admirer of it in general. - Delighted with the Portsmouth scene.' James Austen Jane Austen Mansfield Park Print : Book1800-1849 'Edward - Much like his Father. - Objected to Mrs Rushworth's Elopement as unnatural'. James Edward Austen-Leigh Jane Austen Mansfield Park Print : Book1800-1849 Fanny Kemble, journal letter to Harriet St. Leger, 27 June 1835, listing 'the books just now lying on my table, all of which I have been reading lately':
'Alfieri's "L... Fanny Kemble Alfieri Life Print : Book1800-1849 Fanny Kemble, journal letter to Harriet St. Leger, 27 June 1835, listing 'the books just now lying on my table, all of which I have been reading lately':
'Alfieri's "L... Fanny Kemble Washington Irving A Tour on the Prairies Print : Book1800-1849 'Mr B.L. - Highly pleased with Fanny Price - & a warm admirer of the Portsmouth Scene. - Angry with Edmund for not being in love with her, & hating Mrs Norris for teazin... Benjamin Lefroy Jane Austen Mansfield Park Print : Book1800-1849 Fanny Kemble, journal letter to Harriet St. Leger, 27 June 1835, listing 'the books just now lying on my table, all of which I have been reading lately':
'Alfieri's "L... Fanny Kemble Dr Combe Principles of Physiology Print : Book1800-1849 'Miss Burdett - Did not like it so well as P. & P.' [Miss] Burdett Jane Austen Mansfield Park Print : Book1800-1849 Fanny Kemble, journal letter to Harriet St. Leger, 27 June 1835, listing 'the books just now lying on my table, all of which I have been reading lately':
'Alfieri's "L... Fanny Kemble Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Faust Print : Book1800-1849 'Mrs James Tilson - Liked it [Mansfield Park] better than P. & P.' [Mrs James] Tilson Jane Austen Mansfield Park Print : Book1800-1849 Fanny Kemble, journal letter to Harriet St. Leger, 27 June 1835, listing 'the books just now lying on my table, all of which I have been reading lately':
'Alfieri's "L... Fanny Kemble Christopher Marlowe Doctor Faustus Print : Book1800-1849 'Fanny Cage - did not much like it - not to be compared to P. & P. - nothing interesting in the Characters - Language poor. - Characters natural & well supported - Improv... Fanny Cage Jane Austen Mansfield Park Print : Book1800-1849 'Mr & Mrs Cooke - very much pleased with it - particularly with the Manner in which the Clergy are treated. - Mr Cooke called it "the most sensible Novel he had ever read... [Mrs] Cooke Jane Austen Mansfield Park Print : Book1800-1849 'Mr & Mrs Cooke - very much pleased with it - particularly with the Manner in which the Clergy are treated. - Mr Cooke called it "the most sensible Novel he had ever read... [Mr] Cooke Jane Austen Mansfield Park Print : Book1800-1849 Fanny Kemble, journal letter to Harriet St. Leger, 27 June 1835, listing 'the books just now lying on my table, all of which I have been reading lately':
'Alfieri's "L... Fanny Kemble George Gordon Lord Byron unknown Print : Book1800-1849 Fanny Kemble, journal letter to Harriet St. Leger, 27 June 1835, listing 'the books just now lying on my table, all of which I have been reading lately':
'Alfieri's "L... Fanny Kemble Jeremy Taylor unknown Print : Book1800-1849 'Mary Cooke - quite as much pleased with it, as her Father & Mother; seemed to enter into Lady B.'s character, & enjoyed Mr Rushworth's folly. Admired Fanny in general, ... Mary Cooke Jane Austen Mansfield Park Print : Book1800-1849 Fanny Kemble, journal letter to Harriet St. Leger, 27 June 1835: 'I read my Bible diligently every day'. Fanny Kemble The Bible Print : Book1800-1849 'Miss Burrel - admired it very much - particularly Mrs Norris & Dr Grant.' [Miss] Burrel Jane Austen Mansfield Park Print : Book1800-1849 'Mrs Bramstone - much pleased with it; particularly with the character of Fanny, as being so very natural. Thought Lady Bertram like herself. Preferred it to either of ... [Mrs] Bramstone Jane Austen Mansfield Park Print : Book1800-1849 'Mrs Augusta Bramstone - owned that she thought S & S. - and P. & P. downright nonsense, but expected to like M.P. better, & having finished the 1st vol. - flattered hers... Augusta Bramstone Jane Austen Mansfield Park Print : Book1800-1849 Fanny Kemble to Harriet St. Leger, letter composed between 29 October-3 November 1838: 'I have just finished the play of which you read the beginning in England -- my "En... Harriet St. Leger Fanny Kemble English Tragedy Manuscript : Unknown1800-1849 'The families at Deane - all pleased with it. Mrs Anna Harwood delighted with Mrs Norris & the green curtain.' Anna Harwood Jane Austen Mansfield Park Print : Book1800-1849 'The Kintbury Family - very much pleased with it; - preferred it to either of the others.' Jane Austen Mansfield Park Print : Book1800-1849 Fanny Kemble to Harriet St. Leger, 14 July 1844: 'I read but very little. My leisure is principally given to my German, in which I am making some progress.' Fanny Kemble unknown German text/s Print : Unknown1700-1799 'On this day I began reading Darwin's "Zoonomia", w'ch I had lately proposed in the Book Society.' John Marsh Erasmus Darwin Zoonomia Print : Book1800-1849 'Mr Egerton the Publisher - praised it for it's [sic] Morality, & for being so equal a Composition. - No weak parts.' Thomas Egerton Jane Austen Mansfield Park Print : Book1800-1849 Fanny Kemble, 20 April 1846: 'My friend has given me a charming little Sicilian song, of which the following is a free translation. The pathetic and graceful idea is, ho... Fanny Kemble Anon [Sicilian song] Unknown 1700-1799 'On this day I finis'd Sullivan's "View of Nature" w'ch I had from the Library Society from w'ch & from the Book Society we were now finish'd with as many books as we co'... John Marsh Sir Richard Joseph Sullivan A View of nature, in Letters to a Traveller among ... Print : Book1800-1849 'Lady Rob: Kerr wrote - "You may be assured I read every line with the greatest interest & am more delighted with it than my humble pen can express. The excellent deline... Lady Robert Kerr Jane Austen Mansfield Park Print : Book1700-1799 'On the next day (Tuesday 31st) I went to Canterbury in the coach & on the same evening in the diligence to Dover where I amused myself with reading "Herman of Unna" (a t... John Marsh C B E Naubert Hermann of Unna Print : Book1800-1849 'Miss Sharpe - "I think it is excellent - & of it's [sic] good sense & moral Tendency there can be no doubt. - Your Characters are drawn to the Life - so [italics] very v... [Miss] Sharpe Jane Austen Mansfield Park Print : Book1800-1849 'Mrs Carrick. - "All who think deeply and feel much will give the Preference to Mansfield Park."' [Mrs] Carrick Jane Austen Mansfield Park Print : Book1800-1849 [Marginalia]: marginal marks (x, }, |) plus occasional comments, either single words or short notes eg: p. 74 after the text 'His wit seemed to be incorporated with his v... George Pitts James Hall Travels in Scotland, by an unusual route: with a t... Print : Book1700-1799 'To amuse ourselves at the inns on this road we brought with us Jackson's "30 Letters" & Moritz's "Travels in England" (both in our Society) but having finish'd the latte... John Marsh Ann Radcliffe A Sicilian Romance Print : Book1800-1849 'Mr J. Plumptre. - "I never read a novel which interested me so very much throughout, the characters are all so remarkably well kept up & so well drawn, & the plot is so ... J. Plumptre Jane Austen Mansfield Park Print : Book1800-1849 'Sir James Langham & Mr Sanford, having been told that it was much inferior to P.& P. - began it expecting to dislike it, but were very soon extremely pleased with it - &... Sir James Langham Jane Austen Mansfield Park Print : Book1800-1849 'Sir James Langham & Mr Sanford, having been told that it was much inferior to P.& P. - began it expecting to dislike it, but were very soon extremely pleased with it - &... [Mr] Sanford Jane Austen Mansfield Park Print : Book1800-1849 'Alethea Bigg. - "I have read M.P. & heard it very much talked of, very much praised. I like it myself & think it very good indeed, but as I never say what I do not thin... Alethea Bigg Jane Austen Mansfield Park Print : Book1800-1849 'Charles - did not like it near so well as P. & P. - thought it wanted Incident.' Charles Austen Jane Austen Mansfield Park Print : Book1700-1799 'To amuse ourselves at the inns on this road we brought with us Jackson's "30 Letters" & Moritz's "Travels in England" (both in our Society) but having finish'd the latte... Elizabeth Marsh William Jackson Thirty letters on various subjects Print : Book1800-1849 'Mrs Dickson. - "I have bought M.P. - but it is not equal to P. & P.' [Mrs] Dickson Jane Austen Mansfield Park Print : Book1700-1799 'To amuse ourselves at the inns on this road we brought with us Jackson's "30 Letters" & Moritz's "Travels in England" (both in our Society) but having finish'd the latte... John Marsh Carl Philipp Moritz Travels of a German through England in 1782 Print : Book1800-1849 'Mrs Lefroy - liked it, but thought it a mere Novel.' [Mrs] Lefroy Jane Austen Mansfield Park Print : Book1700-1799 'To amuse ourselves at the inns on this road we brought with us Jackson's "30 Letters" & Moritz's "Travels in England" (both in our Society) but having finish'd the latte... John Marsh Carl Philipp Moritz Travels of a German through England in 1782 Print : Book1800-1849 'Mrs Portal - admired it very much - objected cheifly [sic] to Edmund's not being brought more forward'. [Mrs] Portal Jane Austen Mansfield Park Print : Book1800-1849 'Lady Gordon wrote "In most novels you are amused for the time with a set of Ideal People whom you never think of afterwards or whom you in the least expect to meet in co... Lady Gordon Jane Austen Mansfield Park Print : Book1800-1849 'Mrs Pole wrote, "There is a particular satisfaction in reading all Miss A-s works - they are so evidently written by a Gentlewoman - most Novellists [sic] fail & betray ... [Mrs] Pole Jane Austen Mansfield Park Print : Book1800-1849 'Adml Foote - surprised that I had the power of drawing the Portsmouth-Scenes so well.' [Admiral] Foote Jane Austen Mansfield Park Print : Book1800-1849 'Mrs Creed - preferred S & S. and P & P. - to Mansfield Park.' [Mrs] Creed Jane Austen Mansfield Park Print : Book1850-1899 '[On Sunday] After breakfast I had taken up the "Weekly Examiner", and was intent upon a more than usually scurrilous and illogical leading article, when the paper was su... Thomas Wright [n/a] [Weekly Screamer] Print : Newspaper1900-1945 [Marginalia]: there are two annotators, one using blue ink and one red. All ms notes take the form of additional genealogical information ie pp. 4-7 added dates and peopl... Alistair and Henrietta Tayler (eds) Domestic papers of the Rose family Print : Book1700-1799 'At this time to amuse myself in my confinement I read the "Life of Pope Sixtus 5th." w'ch Miss Poole ... lent me. My son John Marsh showing and inclination to read this ... John Marsh [unknown] Life of Pope Sixtus V Print : Book1700-1799 'At this time to amuse myself in my confinement I read the "Life of Pope Sixtus 5th." w'ch Miss Poole ... lent me. My son John Marsh showing and inclination to read this ... John Marsh [unknown] Life of Pope Sixtus V Print : Book1700-1799 'As to Mrs M & I, we have been, ever since we lived at Nethersole, great readers, taking each always a book at breakfast & at tea when without company in the house & also... John Marsh [unknown] [various] Print : Book1700-1799 'As to Mrs M & I, we have been, ever since we lived at Nethersole, great readers, taking each always a book at breakfast & at tea when without company in the house & also... Elizabeth Marsh [unknown] [various] 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 [superstitious doctoring book] 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 Edward Cocker Cocker's Arithmetic, being a Plain and Easy Method... Print : Book1700-1799 'On the next day (Saturday 9th) I went to Canterbury in the diligence, during w'ch I amused myself with reading part of Voltaire's "Candide", w'ch having read a great man... John Marsh Voltaire Candide Print : Book1700-1799 'On the next day (Saturday 9th) I went to Canterbury in the diligence, during w'ch I amused myself with reading part of Voltaire's "Candide", w'ch having read a great man... John Marsh William Godwin Things as they are, or The Adventures of Caleb Wil... Print : Book1700-1799 '...immediately afterwards went in the diligence to Margate during which I finished the eccentric performance of "Caleb Williams".' John Marsh William Godwin Things as they are, or The Adventures of Caleb Wil... Print : Book1700-1799 'To amuse myself during this solitary journey I got Cumberland's "Henry" (then a new publication)... Wishing to reach Maidstone in good time on the follow'g day I ordered... John Marsh Richard Cumberland Henry Print : Book1700-1799 'To amuse myself during this journey I brought the life of the eccentric Benvenuto Cellini to read in the chaise etc. as we travelled.' John Marsh Benvenuto Cellini The life of Benvenuto Cellini Print : Book1700-1799 'The next day being wet, we staid [sic] within, when to amuse me I got the 2 last vols of the "Mysteries of Udolpho" (the 2 first of w'ch I had read before we left Chiche... John Marsh Ann Radcliffe The Mysteries of Udolpho Print : Book1700-1799 'The next day being wet, we staid [sic] within, when to amuse me I got the 2 last vols of the "Mysteries of Udolpho" (the 2 first of w'ch I had read before we left Chiche... John Marsh George Keate Sketches from nature, taken and coloured on a jour... Print : Book1700-1799 'On Monday the 30th we went in the coach with... Mr Norman, with whom we dined at the Bolt & Tun, where John & I spent the evening & slept, in the course of which evening... John Marsh Matthew Lewis The Monk Print : Book1700-1799 'I on Friday the 16th went up in the coach to consult Mess'rs Bridges, Blake & other friends upon the matter, taking with me to amuse myself in the coach etc. the new pop... John Marsh Agnes Maria Bennett The beggar girl and her benefactors Print : Book1700-1799 'I rode to Brighton on my way back, where I spent the evening and slept at the Old Ship, amusing myself besides my novel, with going on with some of the draught or rough ... John Marsh [unknown] [a novel] Print : Book1700-1799 'I spent the evening and slept at the Old Tree, a very poor inn in which I was forced to sleep in a double bedded room with a stranger. For my amusement during this journ... John Marsh Alain-Rene Le Sage The history of Vanillo Gonzales, surnamed the Merr... Print : Book1700-1799 'I on Tuesday the 8th went in the afternoon to Fareham by the telegraph, where I spent the evening & slept at the Red Lion, taking with me for my amusement there & in the... John Marsh [anon] Maria or The Vicarage Print : Book1800-1849 '... at the end of my fourth year I drew a small weekly salary one half of which my father allowed me for my own use... I bought books, and read as much as possible, and ... Charles Manby Smith [unknown] [various titles] Print : Book1800-1849 [Smith joins a reading group of seven with a view to self-improvement] 'We got a good room, with such attendance as we required, at the sum above named; and thus, for six... Charles Manby Smith [unknown] [various] Print : Book1800-1849 '"My books" - I have a few of my own - pick up a loom where it can be had; so of course my reading is without choice or system.' William Thom [unknown] [various] Print : Book1700-1799 'Having now occasion to go into Kent on business, I on Friday the 10th. went in the coach with Mr Chaldecott and 4 others to London where I quarter'd as usual (now my son... John Marsh Isaac d'Israeli Varien; or Sketches of the Times Print : Book1700-1799 'Having finish'd my business in this neighbourhood, I on the next day (Friday the 24th) return'd to London in the coach, in w'ch being alone great part of the way I finis... John Marsh Charlotte Smith The Young Philosopher Print : Book1700-1799 'Having finish'd my business in this neighbourhood, I on the next day (Friday the 24th) return'd to London in the coach, in w'ch being alone great part of the way I finis... John Marsh Jane West The History of Ned Evans Print : Book1700-1799 '. . . let me recommend to You, to borrow or get from the Circulating Library, "An Apology for the Life of Mr Colley Cibber"?This book has Chance thrown in my Way since I... Samuel Crisp Colley Cibber Apology for the Life of Mr Colley Cibber, Comedian Print : Book1700-1799 'I had, indeed been extremely anxious to hear of poor Pacchierotti, for the account of his Illness in the newspapers had alarmed me very much.' Frances Burney [newspaper] Print : Newspaper1850-1899 ?There were no free libraries, so the younger hands joined with me in starting a "Literary Fund" of our own, towards which each paid three-halfpence a week. The papers an... Printers and compositors at Thomas Catling's place of work, Edward Lloyd's publishing house Mary Elizabeth Braddon The Outcasts or Henry Dunbar Print : Serial / periodical1800-1849 ?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 Homer Odyssey 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 [writings] Print : Unknown1800-1849 ??we were soon in a free conversation on the subject of parliamentary reform. When objections were stated, they listened candidly to our replies, and a good-humoured disc... William Hone Political Litany Print : Pamphlet1800-1849 'Captain Austen. - liked it extremely, observing that though there might be more Wit in P & P - & an higher Morality in M P - yet altogether, on account of it's [sic] pec... Captain Frank Austen Jane Austen Emma Print : Book1800-1849 'Mrs F.A. - liked & admired it very much indeed, but must still prefer P & P.' [Mrs Francis] Austen Jane Austen Emma Print : Book1800-1849 'Mrs J. Bridges - preferred it to all the others.' [Mrs J.] Bridges Jane Austen Emma Print : Book1800-1849 'Miss Sharp - better than M.P. - but not so well as P. & P. - pleased with the Heroine for her Originality, delighted with Mr K - & called Mrs Elton beyond praise. - diss... [Miss] Sharp Jane Austen Emma Print : Book1800-1849 'Cassandra - better than P. & P. - but not so well as M.P.' Cassandra Elizabeth Austen Jane Austen Emma Print : Book1800-1849 'Fanny K. - not so well as either P & P or M P. - could not bear Emma herself. Mr Knightley delightful. Should like J.F. - if she knew more of her.' Fanny Knight Jane Austen Emma Print : Book1800-1849 'Mr & Mrs J. A. - did not like it so well as either of the 3 others. Language different from the others; not so easily read.' James Austen Jane Austen Emma Print : Book1800-1849 'Mr & Mrs J. A. - did not like it so well as either of the 3 others. Language different from the others; not so easily read.' [Mrs James] Austen Jane Austen Emma Print : Book1800-1849 'Edward - preferred it to M.P. - only. - Mr. K liked by every body.' James Edward Austen-Leigh Jane Austen Emma Print : Book1800-1849 'Miss Bigg - not equal to either P & P. - or M.P. - objected to the sameness of the subject (Match-making) all through. - Too much of Mr Elton & H. Smith. Language super... [Miss] Bigg Jane Austen Emma Print : Book1800-1849 'My Mother - thought it more entertaining than M.P. - but not so interesting as P.& P. - No characters in it equal to Ly Catherine & Mr Collins.' Cassandra Leigh Austen Jane Austen Emma Print : Book1800-1849 'Miss Lloyd - thought it as [italics] clever [end italics] as either of the others, but did not receive so much pleasure from it as from P. & P - & MP.' Martha Lloyd Jane Austen Emma Print : Book1800-1849 'Mrs & Miss Craven - liked it very much, but not so much as the others.' [Mrs] Craven Jane Austen Emma Print : Book1800-1849 'Mrs & Miss Craven - liked it very much, but not so much as the others.' [Miss] Craven Jane Austen Emma Print : Book1800-1849 'Fanny Cage - liked it very much indeed & classed it between P & P & M.P.' Fanny Cage Jane Austen Emma Print : Book1800-1849 'Mr Sherer - did not think it equal to either M P - (which he liked the best of all) or P & P. - Displeased with my pictures of Clergymen.' [Mr] Sherer Jane Austen Emma Print : Book1800-1849 'Miss Bigg - on reading it a second time, liked Miss Bates much better than at first, & expressed herself as liking all the people of Highbury in general, except Harriet ... Miss Bigg Jane Austen Emma Print : Book1800-1849 'The family at Upton Gray - all very amused with it. - Miss Bates a great favourite with Mrs Beaufoy.' [Mrs] Beaufoy Jane Austen Emma Print : Book1800-1849 'Mr and Mrs Leigh Perrot - saw many beauties in it, but could not think it equal to P & P. - Darcy & Elizabeth had spoilt them for anything else. - Mr. K. however, an ex... [Mrs] Leigh-Perrot Jane Austen Emma Print : Book1800-1849 'Mr and Mrs Leigh Perrot - saw many beauties in it, but could not think it equal to P & P. - Darcy & Elizabeth had spoilt them for anything else. - Mr. K. however, an ex... [Mr] Leigh-Perrot Jane Austen Emma Print : Book1800-1849 'Countess Craven - admired it very much, but did not think it equal to P & P. - which she ranked as the very first of it's [sic] sort.' [Countess] Craven Jane Austen Emma Print : Book1800-1849 'Mrs Guiton - thought it too natural to be interesting.' [Mrs] Guiton Jane Austen Emma Print : Book1800-1849 'Mrs Digweed - did not like it so well as the others, in fact if she had not known the Author, could hardly have got through it.' [Mrs] Digweed Jane Austen Emma Print : Book1800-1849 'Miss Terry - admired it very much, particularly Mrs Elton.' [Miss] Terry Jane Austen Emma Print : Book1800-1849 'Henry Sanford - very much pleased with it - delighted with Miss Bates, but thought Mrs Elton the best-drawn Character in the Book. - Mansfield Park however, still his fa... Henry Sanford Jane Austen Emma Print : Book1800-1849 'Mr Haden - [italics] quite [end italics] delighted with it. Admired the Character of Emma.' [Mr] Haden Jane Austen Emma Print : Book1800-1849 'Miss Isabella Herries - did not like it - objected to my exposing the sex in the character of the Heroine - convinced I had meant Mrs & Miss Bates for some acquaintance ... Isabella Herries Jane Austen Emma Print : Book1800-1849 'Miss Harriet Moore - admired it very much, but M.P. still her favourite of all.' Harriet Moore Jane Austen Emma Print : Book1800-1849 'Countess Morley - delighted with it.' [Countess] Morley Jane Austen Emma Print : Book1800-1849 'Mr Cockerelle - liked it so little, that Fanny would not send me his opinion.' [Mr] Cockerelle Jane Austen Emma Print : Book1800-1849 'Mrs Dickson - did not much like it - thought it [italics] very [end italics] inferior to P & P. - Liked it the less, from there being a Mr & Mrs Dixon in it.' [Mrs] Dickson Jane Austen Emma Print : Book1800-1849 'Mrs Brandreth - thought the 3d vol: superior to anything I had ever written - quite beautiful!' [Mrs] Brandreth Jane Austen Emma Print : Book1800-1849 'Mr B. Lefroy - thought that if there had been more Incident, it would be equal to any of the others. -The Characters quite as well drawn & supported as in any, & from b... Benjamin Lefroy Jane Austen Emma Print : Book1800-1849 'Mrs Lefroy - preferred it to M.P. - but like[?]d M.P. the least of all.' [Mrs] Lefroy Jane Austen Emma Print : Book1800-1849 'Mr Fowle - read only the first & last Chapters, because he had heard it was not interesting.' [Mr] Fowle Jane Austen Emma Print : Book1800-1849 'Mrs Lutley Sclater - liked it very much, better than MP - & thought I had "brought it all about very cleverly in the last volume."' [Mrs] Lutley Sclater Jane Austen Emma Print : Book1800-1849 'Mrs C. Cage wrote thus to Fanny - "A great many thanks for the loan of "Emma," which I am delighted with. I like it better than any. Every character is thoroughly kept ... [Mrs C.] Cage Jane Austen Emma Print : Book1800-1849 'Mrs Wroughton - did not like it so well as P & P. - Thought the Authoress wrong, in such times as these, to draw such Clergymen as Mr Collins & Mr Elton.' [Mrs] Wroughton Jane Austen Emma Print : Book1800-1849 'Sir J. Langham - thought it much inferior to the others.' Sir J. Langham Jane Austen Emma Print : Book1800-1849 'Mr Jeffery (of the Edinburgh Review) was kept up by it three nights.' Francis Jeffrey Jane Austen Emma Print : Book1800-1849 'Miss Murden - certainly inferior to all the others.' [Miss] Murden Jane Austen Emma Print : Book1800-1849 'Capt C. Austen wrote - "Emma arrived in time to a moment. I am delighted with her, more so I think than even with my favourite Pride & Prejudice, & have read it three t... Charles Austen Jane Austen Emma Print : Book1800-1849 'Mrs D. Dundas - thought it very clever, but did not like it so well as either of the
others.' Janet Whitley-Deans-Dundas Jane Austen Emma Print : Book1800-1849 'I sat up till two, as I did last night, to finish "Pride and Prejudice". This novel I consider as one of the most excellent of the works of our female novelists. Its me... Henry Crabb Robinson Jane Austen Pride and Prejudice Print : Book1800-1849 'In the evening read the last volume of "Emma", a novel evincing great good sense, and an acute observation of human life, but it is not interesting. One cares little fo... Henry Crabb Robinson Jane Austen Emma Print : Book1800-1849 'I was reading to-day and I have since finished Miss Martineau's "Deerbrook", a capital novel though it is too full of preaching. It is inferior in execution to Miss Aus... Henry Crabb Robinson Harriet Martineau Deerbrook Print : Book1800-1849 'I was reading yesterday and to-day "Sense and Sensibility", which I resumed at the second volume. The last volume greatly improves on the first, but I still think it one... Henry Crabb Robinson Jane Austen Sense and Sensibility Print : Book1800-1849 'I went on with "Persuasion", finished it, began "Northanger Abbey", which I have now finished. These two novels have sadly reduced my estimation of Miss Austen. They a... Henry Crabb Robinson Jane Austen Persuasion Print : Book1800-1849 'I went on with "Persuasion", finished it, began "Northanger Abbey", which I have now finished. These two novels have sadly reduced my estimation of Miss Austen. They a... Henry Crabb Robinson Jane Austen Northanger Abbey Print : Book1800-1849 'By the way did you know Miss Austen Authoress of some novels which have a great deal of nature in them - nature in ordinary and middle life to be sure but valuable from ... Sir Walter Scott Jane Austen [novels] Print : Book1800-1849 'Also read again and for the third time at least Miss Austen's very finely written novel of "Pride and Prejudice". That young lady had a talent for describing the involv... Sir Walter Scott Jane Austen Pride and Prejudice Print : Book1800-1849 'The women do this better - Edgeworth, Ferrier, Austen have all had their portraits of real society, far superior to any thing Man, vain Man, has produced of the like nat... Sir Walter Scott Maria Edgeworth [novels] Print : Book1800-1849 'The women do this better - Edgeworth, Ferrier, Austen have all had their portraits of real society, far superior to any thing Man, vain Man, has produced of the like nat... Sir Walter Scott Susan Ferrier [novels] Print : Book1800-1849 'There is no book which that word ["vulgaire"] would suit so little... Every village could furnish matter for a novel to Jane Austen. She did not need the common material... Sir James Mackintosh Jane Austen unknown Print : Book1800-1849 'You mention Miss Austen; her novels are more true to nature, and have (for my sympathies) passages of finer feeling than any others of this age.' Robert Southey Jane Austen unknown Print : Book1800-1849 'You surprise me greatly by what you say of "Emma" and the other books. They enjoy the highest reputation, and I own, for my part, I was delighted with them. I fear the... Edward Bulwer Lytton Jane Austen Emma Print : Book1800-1849 '...Jane Austen, who, if not the greatest, is surely the most faultless of female novelists. My uncle Southey and my father had an equally high opinion of her merits, bu... Samuel Taylor Coleridge Jane Austen unknown Print : Book1800-1849 '...Jane Austen, who, if not the greatest, is surely the most faultless of female novelists. My uncle Southey and my father had an equally high opinion of her merits, bu... William Wordsworth Jane Austen unknown Print : Book1800-1849 'I have been reading "Emma". Everything Miss Austen writes is clever, but I desiderate something. There is a want of [italics] body [close italics] to the story. The a... John Henry Newman Jane Austen Emma Print : Book1800-1849 'I am amusing myself with Miss Austin's [sic] novels. She has great power and discrimination in delineating common-place people; and her writings are a capital picture o... Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Jane Austen [novels] Print : Book1800-1849 'I am amusing myself with Miss Austin's [sic] novels. She has great power and discrimination in delineating common-place people; and her writings are a capital picture o... Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Laplace Mecanique Celeste Print : Book1800-1849 'Finished Miss Austen's "Emma", which amused me very much, impressing me with a high opinion of her powers of drawing and sustaining character, though not satisfying me a... William Charles Macready Jane Austen Emma Print : Book1800-1849 'After dinner read a part of "Northanger Abbey", which I do not much like. Heavy, and too long a strain of irony on one topic.' William Charles Macready Jane Austen Northanger Abbey Print : Book1800-1849 'Lay down on the sofa, reading Miss Austen's "Mansfield Park"... The novel, I think, has the prevailing fault of the pleasant authoress's books; it deals too much in desc... William Charles Macready Jane Austen Mansfield Park Print : Book1800-1849 'Finished "Mansfield Park", which hurried with a very inartificial [sic] and disagreeable rapidity to its conclusion, leaving some opportunities for most interesting and ... William Charles Macready Jane Austen Mansfield Park Print : Book1700-1799 'Sunday [2 Apr.] We went to St. James?s Church?heard a very indifferent Preacher, & returned to read better sermons of our own chusing.' Frances Burney unknown [sermons] Print : Book1800-1849 'Why do you like Miss Austen so very much? I am puzzled on that point. What induced you to say that you would have rather written "Pride and Prejudice" or "Tom Jones", t... Charlotte Bronte Jane Austen Pride and Prejudice Print : Book1800-1849 'Now I can understand admiration of George Sand; for though I never saw any of her works which I admired throughout (even "Consuelo", which is the best, of the best that ... Charlotte Bronte George Sand Consuelo Print : Book1800-1849 'I have likewise read one of Miss Austen's works "Emma" - read it with interest and with just the degree of admiration which Miss Austen herself would have thought sensib... Charlotte Bronte Jane Austen Emma Print : Book1700-1799 'When we were speaking of Dr. Moore?s Travels, I told her that the Character of Mr. C.?reminded me of our friend Mr. Seward . . .' Frances Burney John Moore View of Society and Manners in France, Switzerland... Print : Book1800-1849 'I haven't any right to criticise books and I don't often do it except when I hate them. I often want to criticise Jane Austen, but her books madden me so that I can't c... Samuel Langhorne Clemens Jane Austen Pride and Prejudice Print : Book1700-1799 'During my late visit to the Hammonds, they had acquainted me with the names of the principal characters amongst our former neighbours in East Kent, pointed at in Mr E Br... John Marsh Sir Samuel Egerton Brydges Arthur Fitz-Albani Print : Book1800-1849 'Having heard much of Miss Hamilton's celebrated novel of the "Modern Philosopher" we on Wed'y the 14th got it from Humphrey's Library w'ch Edw'd & I afterw'ds read out o... Marsh family Elizabeth Hamilton Memoirs of modern philosophers Print : Book1800-1849 'On Wed'y the 24th I finish'd reading the new & popular novel of the "Irish Excursion", w'ch Mr Hayley had recommended to us...' John Marsh [Anon] The Irish Excursion, or I fear to tell you Print : Book1800-1849 '... my usual headache on the first day of travelling having come on before I got to Town, I felt by that time very little inclination to unpack or dress myself, but seei... John Marsh [n/a] [local newspaper] Print : Advertisement, Newspaper1800-1849 'For some time before this I had found my eyes not so good as they had been, being now oblig'd to hold a book, when reading, farther from my eyes & finding some difficult... John Marsh [n/a] [newspaper] Print : Newspaper1800-1849 '... April when we marched to Mansfield here I met with a man who was a member of Johannah Southcott Society and he lent me some of his books and told me many straing thi... Joseph Mayett [unknown] [religious books] Print : Book1800-1849 'in the Course of this summer one day I took the Bible to read and happened on the 54th Chapt of Isaiah a chapt I had never noticed before and as I read it I had such a g... Joseph Mayett [n/a] Book of Isaiah Print : Book1800-1849 'I went home and told my wife and took my Bible and opened it upon the 37th Psalm I read it and found much Comfort from it and made it a matter of prayer and the Lord ena... Joseph Mayett [n/a] Bible Print : Book1800-1849 'at this time there was a great many tracks Come out and their Contents were Chiefly to perswade poor people to be satisfied in their situation and not to murmur at the d... Joseph Mayett Hannah More Shepherd of Salisbury Plain Print : Book, Pamphlet, chapbooks1800-1849 'at this time there was a great many tracks Come out and their Contents were Chiefly to perswade poor people to be satisfied in their situation and not to murmur at the d... Joseph Mayett Hannah More Farmer's fireside Print : Book, Pamphlet, chapbook1800-1849 'at this time there was a great many tracks Come out and their Contents were Chiefly to perswade poor people to be satisfied in their situation and not to murmur at the d... Joseph Mayett Hannah More Discontented pendulum Print : Book, Pamphlet, chapbook1800-1849 'During this winter I fell into Company with some men in my journeys to and from my work that were of a Deistical principle these men had got several books that were writ... Joseph Mayett William Cobbett [various titles] Print : Book1800-1849 'During this winter I fell into Company with some men in my journeys to and from my work that were of a Deistical principle these men had got several books that were writ... Joseph Mayett Thomas Wooler [various titles] Print : Book1800-1849 'During this winter I fell into Company with some men in my journeys to and from my work that were of a Deistical principle these men had got several books that were writ... Joseph Mayett Richard Carlisle [various titles] Print : Book1800-1849 'the whole of the Church concerned with us in sentiment except my Brother and his wife and they stedfastly opposed us but this we did not mind for we gave up ourselves up... Joseph Mayett [n/a] Bible Print : Book1800-1849 'We certainly do not think it ["Mansfield Park"] as a whole equal to P & P - but it has many & great beauties...' Francis William Austen Jane Austen Pride and Prejudice Print : Book1800-1849 ["Mansfield Park" is] 'Not so clever as P & P - but pleased with it altogether' - Mr K. Edward Austen Knight Jane Austen Pride and Prejudice Print : Book1800-1849 'Edward & George. - Not liked it ["Mansfield Park"] near so well as P. & P.' Edward Knight Jane Austen Pride and Prejudice Print : Book1800-1849 'Edward & George. - Not liked it ["Mansfield Park"] near so well as P. & P.' George Knight Jane Austen Pride and Prejudice Print : Book1800-1849 'Anna liked it ["Mansfield Park"] better than P & P - but not so well as S & S - could not bear Fanny.' Anna Austen Jane Austen Pride and Prejudice Print : Book1800-1849 'Anna liked it ["Mansfield Park"] better than P & P - but not so well as S & S - could not bear Fanny' Anna Austen Jane Austen Sense and Sensibility Print : Book1800-1849 'Miss Lloyd preferred it ["Mansfield Park"] altogether to either of the others'. ["Pride and Prejudice" and "Sense and Sensibility"] Martha Lloyd Jane Austen Sense and Sensibility Print : Book1800-1849 'Miss Lloyd preferred it ["Mansfield Park"] altogether to either of the others'. ["Pride and Prejudice" and "Sense and Sensibility"] Martha Lloyd Jane Austen Pride and Prejudice Print : Book1800-1849 'My Mother - not liked it "[Mansfield Park"] so well as P. & P.' Cassandra Leigh Austen Jane Austen Pride and Prejudice Print : Book1800-1849 'Cassandra - thought it quite as clever, tho' not so brilliant as P. & P.' Cassandra Elizabeth Austen Jane Austen Pride and Prejudice Print : Book1800-1849 'Miss Burdett - Did not like it ["Mansfield Park"] so well as P. & P.' [Miss] Burdett Jane Austen Pride and Prejudice Print : Book1800-1849 'Mrs James Tilson - Liked it ["Mansfield Park"] better than P. & P.' [Mrs James] Tilson Jane Austen Pride and Prejudice Print : Book1800-1849 'Fanny Cage - did not much like it ["Mansfield Park"] - not to be compared with P. & P.' Fanny Cage Jane Austen Pride and Prejudice Print : Book1800-1849 'Mrs Augusta Bramstone - owned that she thought S & S. - and P. & P. downright nonsense.' [Mrs] Augusta Bramstone Jane Austen Pride and Prejudice Print : Book1800-1849 'Mrs Augusta Bramstone - owned that she thought S & S. - and P. & P. downright nonsense.' [Mrs] Augusta Bramstone Jane Austen Sense and Sensibility Print : Book1800-1849 'The Kintbury Family - very much pleased with it ["Mansfield Park"]; preferred it to either of the others.' Jane Austen Sense and Sensibility Print : Book1800-1849 'The Kintbury Family - very much pleased with it ["Mansfield Park"]; preferred it to either of the others.' Jane Austen Pride and Prejudice Print : Book1800-1849 'Miss Sharpe - "I think it "Mansfield Park"] excellent... but since you beg me to be perfectly honest, I must confess I prefer P & P.' [Miss] Sharpe Jane Austen Pride and Prejudice Print : Book1800-1849 'I have read M P["Mansfield Park"]... I will add that although it is superior in a great many points in my opinions to the other two Works, I think it has not the Spirit ... Alethea Bigg Jane Austen Pride and Prejudice Print : Book1800-1849 'I have read M P ["Mansfield Park"]... I will add that although it is superior in a great many points in my opinions to the other two Works, I think it has not the Spirit... Alethea Bigg Jane Austen Sense and Sensibility Print : Book1800-1849 'Charles - did not like it ["Mansfield Park"] near so well as P. & P. - thought it wanted Incident.' Charles Austen Jane Austen Pride and Prejudice Print : Book1800-1849 'Mrs Dickson. - "I have bought M P. - but it is not equal to P. & P.' [Mrs] Dickson Jane Austen Pride and Prejudice Print : Book1800-1849 'Mrs Creed - preferred S & S and P & P. - to Mansfield Park.' [Mrs] Creed Jane Austen Pride and Prejudice Print : Book1800-1849 'Mr Sherer - did not think it ["Emma"] equal to either M P - which he liked the best of all - or P & P.' [Mr] Sherer Jane Austen Mansfield Park Print : Book1800-1849 'Mr Sherer - did not think it ["Emma"] equal to either M P - which he liked the best of all - or P & P.' [Mr] Sherer Jane Austen Pride and Prejudice Print : Book1800-1849 'Mr and Mrs Leigh Perrot - saw many beauties in it ["Emma"], but could not think it equal to P. & P. - Darcy & Elizabeth had spoilt them for anything else.' [Mr] Leigh Perrot Jane Austen Pride and Prejudice Print : Book1800-1849 'Mr and Mrs Leigh Perrot - saw many beauties in it ["Emma"], but could not think it equal to P. & P. - Darcy & Elizabeth had spoilt them for anything else.' [Mrs] Leigh Perrot Jane Austen Pride and Prejudice Print : Book1800-1849 'Countess Craven - admired it ["Emma"] very much, but did not think it equal to P & P. - which she rqanked as the very first of it's [sic] sort.' [Countess] Craven Jane Austen Pride and Prejudice Print : Book1800-1849 'Mrs Digweed - did not like it ["Emma"] so well as the others...' [Mrs] Digweed Jane Austen Pride and Prejudice Print : Book1800-1849 'Mrs Digweed - did not like it ["Emma"] so well as the others...' [Mrs] Digweed Jane Austen Mansfield Park Print : Book1800-1849 'Mrs Digweed - did not like it ["Emma"] so well as the others...' [Mrs] Digweed Jane Austen Sense and Sensibility Print : Book1800-1849 'Miss Harriet Moore - admired it ["Emma"] very much, but M.P. still her favourite of all'. Harriet Moore Jane Austen Mansfield Park Print : Book1800-1849 'Mrs Brandreth - thought the 3d vol: [of "Mansfield Park"] superior to anything I had ever written - quite beautiful!' [Mrs] Brandreth Jane Austen Mansfield Park Print : Book1800-1849 'Mrs Brandreth - thought the 3d vol: [of "Mansfield Park"] superior to anything I had ever written - quite beautiful!' [Mrs] Brandreth Jane Austen Sense and Sensibility Print : Book1800-1849 'Mrs Brandreth - thought the 3d vol: [of "Mansfield Park"] superior to anything I had ever written - quite beautiful!' [Mrs] Brandreth Jane Austen Pride and Prejudice Print : Book1800-1849 'Mrs Lefroy - preferred it ["Emma"] to M.P - but like[d] M.P. least of all.' [Mrs] Lefroy Jane Austen Mansfield Park Print : Book1800-1849 'Mrs Lutley Sclater - liked it ["Emma"] very much, better than M.P.' [Mrs] Lutley Sclater Jane Austen Mansfield Park Print : Book1800-1849 'Mrs Wroughton - did not like it so well as P. & P.' [Mrs] Wroughton Jane Austen Pride and Prejudice Print : Book1900-1945 [List of favourite things of 1945]:
'My favourite Books: The Keys of the Kingdom. The Good Companions
Authors: Daphne du Maurier
Poems: Squinency Wort. The Hound of ... Hilary Spalding Daphne du Maurier unknown Print : Book1900-1945 [List of favourite things of 1945]:
'My favourite Books: The Keys of the Kingdom. The Good Companions
Authors: Daphne du Maurier
Poems: Squinency Wort. The Hound of ... Hilary Spalding A.J. Cronin Keys of the Kingdom, The Print : Book1900-1945 [List of favourite things of 1945]:
'My favourite Books: The Keys of the Kingdom. The Good Companions
Authors: Daphne du Maurier
Poems: Squinency Wort. The Hound of ... Hilary Spalding J.B. Priestley Good Companions, The Print : Book1900-1945 [List of favourite things of 1945]:
'My favourite Books: The Keys of the Kingdom. The Good Companions
Authors: Daphne du Maurier
Poems: Squinency Wort. The Hound of ... Hilary Spalding Francis Thompson Hound of Heaven, The Print : Book1900-1945 [List of favourite things of 1945]:
'My favourite Books: The Keys of the Kingdom. The Good Companions
Authors: Daphne du Maurier
Poems: Squinency Wort. The Hound of ... Hilary Spalding unknown Squinency Wort Print : Book1900-1945 [List of books read in 1945]:
'For Whom the Bell Tolls; Henry Brocken; Doctor Faustus; Life of the Bee; The Screwtape Letters; Modern Short Stories; Letters of People in... Hilary Spalding Ernest Hemingway For Whom the Bell Tolls Print : Book1900-1945 [List of books read in 1945]:
'For Whom the Bell Tolls; Henry Brocken; Doctor Faustus; Life of the Bee; The Screwtape Letters; Modern Short Stories; Letters of People in... Hilary Spalding Christopher Marlowe Dr Faustus Print : Book1900-1945 [List of books read in 1945]:
'For Whom the Bell Tolls; Henry Brocken; Doctor Faustus; Life of the Bee; The Screwtape Letters; Modern Short Stories; Letters of People in... Hilary Spalding Various Modern Short Stories Print : Book1900-1945 [List of books read in 1945]:
'For Whom the Bell Tolls; Henry Brocken; Doctor Faustus; Life of the Bee; The Screwtape Letters; Modern Short Stories; Letters of People in... Hilary Spalding Robert Browning Men and Women Print : Book1900-1945 [List of books read in 1945]:
'For Whom the Bell Tolls; Henry Brocken; Doctor Faustus; Life of the Bee; The Screwtape Letters; Modern Short Stories; Letters of People in... Hilary Spalding Wilton Cole Speech and Sound Print : Book1900-1945 [List of books read in 1945]:
'For Whom the Bell Tolls; Henry Brocken; Doctor Faustus; Life of the Bee; The Screwtape Letters; Modern Short Stories; Letters of People in... Hilary Spalding Unknown Background to the Life of Christ Print : Book1900-1945 [List of books read in 1945]:
'For Whom the Bell Tolls; Henry Brocken; Doctor Faustus; Life of the Bee; The Screwtape Letters; Modern Short Stories; Letters of People in... Hilary Spalding Winifred Darch Eleanor in the Fifth Print : Book1900-1945 [List of books read in 1945]:
'For Whom the Bell Tolls; Henry Brocken; Doctor Faustus; Life of the Bee; The Screwtape Letters; Modern Short Stories; Letters of People in... Hilary Spalding J. Patterson Milne Adventures of Jig and Co Print : Book1900-1945 [List of books read in 1945]:
'For Whom the Bell Tolls; Henry Brocken; Doctor Faustus; Life of the Bee; The Screwtape Letters; Modern Short Stories; Letters of People in... Hilary Spalding Norbert Davis Rendezvous with Fear Print : Book1900-1945 [List of books read in 1945]:
'For Whom the Bell Tolls; Henry Brocken; Doctor Faustus; Life of the Bee; The Screwtape Letters; Modern Short Stories; Letters of People in... Hilary Spalding William Shakespeare Antony and Cleopatra Print : Book1900-1945 [List of books read in 1945]:
'For Whom the Bell Tolls; Henry Brocken; Doctor Faustus; Life of the Bee; The Screwtape Letters; Modern Short Stories; Letters of People in... Hilary Spalding William Shakespeare Hamlet Print : Book1900-1945 [List of books read in 1945]:
'For Whom the Bell Tolls; Henry Brocken; Doctor Faustus; Life of the Bee; The Screwtape Letters; Modern Short Stories; Letters of People in... Hilary Spalding James Elroy Flecker Poetry of James Elroy Flecker Print : Book1900-1945 [List of books read in 1945]:
'For Whom the Bell Tolls; Henry Brocken; Doctor Faustus; Life of the Bee; The Screwtape Letters; Modern Short Stories; Letters of People in... Hilary Spalding John Galsworthy Escape Print : Book
